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HERE'S PART TWO OF CHAPTER ONE!!!

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Raijeen smirked as the man swung the chain, narrowly missing him. The man's heart was no longer in the fight, so Raijeen was beginning to grow bored. Raijeen advanced, his arms loose at his sides. His spiky deep blond, almost orange, hair bobbed slightly in his stride. The man gritted his teeth and swung the chain at Raijeen's throat, aiming to choke him out. It wrapped around his throat, but since he was moving, slack rapidly grew in the chain. He headbutted the man, then relieved him of the chain. He wrapped the chain twice around the man's throat after unwrapping it from his own. He gripped the ends and slingshotted him into the side of the cage with tremendous force. He unsheathed the knives, each of which were eight inches in length on the blades, from his hips. With twin quick slashes, the man's head rolled, detached from the torso. The man's body, which had been just rising from the knees with the chain loosely held, slumped over as blood poured from the stump of his neck.
Raijeen yawned, unimpressed. "If that's the best China's underworld can offer, then I need a real challenge," he sighed. He crossed his arms, resheathing the knives. His forearms began to tingle, a sign that something wasn't right. The dragon tattoos on his forearms had almost always warned him when things were about to go wrong. A faint crimson glow came from the Chinese style dragons that curled like a corkscrew up his forearms. Both were black and silver, identical. He suddenly felt a sensation that he'd been shoved. His body hadn't moved an inch. He felt himself turn towards his uncle, a broad shouldered balding man, whose pale gray gaze was fixed on him. He tried to say something was wrong, but no words came from his mouth. He felt himself charge, slamming a brutal punch into his uncle's mouth as the cage door swung open. The man who ran nearly the entire Colombian cocaine cartel staggered, his teeth sent down his throat. Blood poured from his mouth as he hit the floor. Raijeen tried to slow, to stop, but his body didn't even slow; if anything, it accelerated. He charged down the hall, which had oriental paintings on the walls to his left, windows overlooking a steep cliff to his right. He realized that the passageway he was speeding down had a massive plate glass barrier. It was a dead end. A faint panting sounded inside his mind. Who are you? he thought.
A feral growl sounded as a reply. It suddenly felt as if his veins were frozen and burning at the same time. I am Houkou no Ikucho, a deep voice answered after a few minutes.

PART ONE OF CHAPTER TWO...

TenTen jogged fluidly around the lake under the eye of Might Lee and Hayate Kakashi. The teams had teamed up for this A-Rated mission and were doing a little training to warm up. A flicker of light on the surface of the water caught her attention. She stopped in surprise, her deep brown eyes widening. Her black hair whipped around her neck for a second, then settled. She noticed that Sakura and Naruto had stopped as well. Her eyes narrowed as she focused on the glint.
Sakura Haruno noticed the glint out of the corner of her eye and slowed. She paused as Naruto dashed out, skimming the surface of the water. She grabbed his jacket's neck and the shirt collar underneath, stopping him cold. His feet shot out from under him and he dropped, landing in two feet of water with a splash. Kakashi stood under a tree, reading, as usual. Maito Gai had a hand over his eyes, watching them.

PART THREE OF CHAPTER TWO!!
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Raijeen's eyes opened slowly. His whole body felt like it'd been put through a oven, then a washer. He groaned as he sat up. "Who are you?" the pink haired girl beside him asked. He glanced at her twice to be sure; her hair was indeed bright pink. "Raijeen," he growled.
Sakura blinked at his wary tone. "You don't look very comfortable, or dry," she observed calmly. TenTen chuckled under her breath, then narrowed her eyes as Raijeen glared at her. "Nobody laughs at me," he said shortly. Pale blue chakra gathered around him as he slowly stood. His visible wounds slowly closed as he stretched. The dragon tattoos on his forearms flickered slightly in the sunlight as his arms lowered. TenTen realized she was staring open-mouthed. She closed it as he glanced back at everyone.
Raijeen let a flicker of cool interest flicker in his eyes for a second, then his gaze was flat, unamused. "We'll take you to Konoha with us," Kakashi said quietly. He stood a few yards from Raijeen, his one visible dark blue eye on the otherworlder. A pair of daggerlike kunais shot at his back, a test from Kakashi's clone. Raijeen spun, knocking both kunais out of the air with a airborne heel kick, then snagged one out of midair and tossed it at the clone, who dodged it with a backflip. The young man smirked, which, under his circumstances, interested Kakashi. He vanished out of sight an instant later, then reappeared, landing a uppercut blow that upended the clone several feet straight up. Raijeen then grabbed the clone by the thighs and powerbombed him into the ground with enough force to crack the ground underneath.

Sakura Haruno's eyes widened. His body under her hands had begun to bleed from unknown sources, soaking the fabric as a extremely faint but visible blue-violet enshrouded him. "We have to get him to Konoha as quickly as possible!!" she said urgently to Kakashi and Maito Gai, who nodded. To her shock, Raijeen managed to rise to his knees, his face and body trembling violently. His gaze, though, was calm even in so much pain. The glow faded as the muscles and bones settled. The glow intensified as he passed out, unconscious. TenTen managed to catch him before he hit the ground, but his weight took her to her knees.The rapidly muted glow around his body turned a earthy green as healing chakra surged around him. He opened his eyes and jumped straight up, vanishing in midair. "Slow-mo," his voice said as he materialized behind Kakashi. Sakura blinked. He'd moved so fast, she hadn't sensed his surge of energy.

The shurikens hit the tree with a thud, as Neji and Kakashi dropped out of the tree. "Good reaction time," Kakashi remarked, his right eye on Raijeen. Raijeen smirked, then collapsed. Maito Gai lifted him from the ground. "We should be getting back," he said. Tenten nodded. It'll be good to get back, she thought.
Raijeen's eyes slowly opened blearily. s**t, he thought. I feel like somebody ran me over a few times with a semi, he thought. Houkou snickered in his head. This is only the beginning, cub, he remarked. This is gonna be very unpleasant for you, since you'll have to let out unneeded things, while your body adjusts, the demon continued. Bring it on, b***h, Raijeen replied. Houkou's deep chuckle shivered through his body, making him shiver slightly.

Raijeen glanced at the girl for a moment before putting the mirror aside. She injected him with an innoculation as he held his arm up. "I'm Haruno Sakura," she said quietly. "A kunoichi," he muttered. She nodded slightly. "Medic-nin, obviously," he continued. She nodded again. "I have an ability that is unusual," he revealed. Her head tilted slightly to the right as a slight smile crossed her lips. "What kind of ability is that?" she asked. The door opened, revealing a tall black haired woman with dark brown eyes. "Shizune-chan, he's awake and seems to be okay," Sakura said, making Raijeen chuckle slightly. Faint blue flickers of energy began to play around his hands, appearing to be blue flames. Shizune looked surprised. "Impressive chakra control," she remarked. Sakura looked at his hands. "It isn't chakra, which I'm pretty sure is within the body. This is aura, or outer energy which engulfs the body. I learned I could manipulate it when I was ten, four years ago, now," he revealed as the energy condensed into a small orb in his right hand. He was just a few days older than his fourteenth birthday, which made his skills interesting.
Shizune was surprised that the energy the young man was controlling wasn't chakra, but some energy called Aura. Her eyes widened slightly while Sakura's went wide as the orb turned a deep gold and tripled in size to the diameter of a large kunai. "Mixing Aura and chakra does this," the young man said. She looked at the chart, reading the situation. She was surprised he was even consious, given the amount of blood loss he sustained. Maito Gai and Sakura both had said he'd been bleeding the entire way from the location of the lake a few dozen miles southeast of Konohagakure. She was curious about this young man, who could manipulate chakra so well. He snuffed the sphere of energy out by clenching his fist. He then swung his legs out of the bed and went to stand, until Sakura shoved him back onto the bed. "You're in no condition to be on your feet," she said.
Raijeen smirked, then his form faded. "Astral clone," he said, leaning against the wall. "Always expect the unexpected when I'm around," he said softly. Shizune looked amused, while Sakura looked annoyed.