The Beast Inside (A Naruto Fanfiction) #Wattys2016

Climbing silver

As we are jumping from tree to tree, I talk Isobu and Matatabi.

'Do you think that we are making our move?'

'No, maybe, can't be. They are probably out for bounties, knowing Kakuzu he wants the money. Knowing Hidan, he is probably complaining about it.' Isobu said.

'How much longer am I going to be on this stupid assignment?'

'You are on it for a year, it has only been about 2 months.'

'Ugh.'

I look down at my arm and red spiked scales are slowly creeping down my wrist and on my hand.

"What the heck?" I ask quietly to myself.

"What is it?" Asuma asks as he jumps closer to me.

I outstretched my arm.

"What does it mean?" Asuma asks.

"It is probably a warning." Shikamaru suggests as he also catches up.

"Why do you think that?"

"Red is a warning color, spikes mean "Warning, don't touch me!". Can you control it?" He says which makes sense.

"No, I can't." I say as I try to move the scales back but failed.

"Wrap it up for now. Don't want the enemies to see that." I nod my head and wrapped up my whole right and left arm.

"I wont be able to do much with my arms wrapped up like this. If we get into a battle, I want to stay back as a secret weapon. If I have to I will unwrap my arms though." I say and he nods and we continue jumping faster and faster.

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"What's this all about?" Shikamaru asks as we stand on a stair case leading to the temple.

"You've come from the leaf village, correct?" A young monk asks as he see's us.

"Yes." Asuma replied.

"I see, we've been in contact with the monk who has been in your care." He says as we all walk up the stairs to the monks.

"Greetings to you all, I am the head monk in charge of the fire temple. I have been away from the temple for quite some time, but when I heard what happened, I rushed back as quickly as I could." He started walking away so we followed.

"It was a terrible sight indeed. We asked neighboring temples for help recovering the remains." He said as we walked up to a bunch of coffins.

"This is what it looked like in my vision. How awful."

"Excuse me sir. Where's Chiriku?"

"Well, actually we have been able to recover lord Chiriku's remains."

"Well Captain Asuma, as much I hate to bring this up. Chiriku still has the 30 million rio bounty on his head on the black market."

"30 million rio, that's quite a large bounty. If the Akatsuki knew. That means they would try to collect. They are probably carrying his body along with them."

"There is a collection nearby. Also 4 others. We should sent the other teams word." That is what we did. We sent birds with messages to the other teams.

"Alright let's move it!"

"Please wait Lord Asuma Sarutobi. For those who are about to enter a fight, allow me a moment to offer you a prayer. Please."

"It would be an honor."

The old monk put his hands together and started praying. (I was going to write what I though he was saying but I found that almost impossible)