Disclaimer: I don't own any elements of Naruto of Kill la Kill. The original AU plot for this work of fiction belongs to Fanfictionking1, who I adopted it from.
AN: I have heavily edited the source material for the first chapter or so and have changed slightly how Senketsu's powers will function for Naruto. I also changed the POV for the first parts to third person.
Ch 1: Melancholy of a Kamui
Senketsu could feel himself being torn -rended apart thread by thread- by the blistering heat of atmospheric flames, as he and Ryuko plummeted down towards Earth in a fiery blaze. To think, after all that work -all the literal blood, sweat, and tears he and Ryuko had been forced to shed together in the name of saving Humanity and avenging Ryuko's murdered father, that after all that they would still end up dying in the end.
Then Senketsu remembered how Ryuko was a perfect Life Fiber Hybrid -now the last of her near immortal kind, and he realized that she would live. Senketsu was not being worn by Ryuko currently -was shielding her from the heat- and didn't have access to her blood. He would not survive...
His somber, internal musings were interrupted by Ryuko's shouting. "Don't push yourself, Senketsu!"
Senketsu let out a wry chuckle. "It's a bit too late to be saying that after all we've been through..."
"Senketsu!" Ryuko yelled in alarm.
"...but this is for the best. I'm sure your father can rest in peace now." The ebony sailor suit's eyes squinted in pain, as his sleeves began disintegrating under the strain. "I'm glad I met you; it was fun..."
"You idiot! I don't want your farewells!" the girl yelled, eyes watering at the realization that her partner was at Death's door.
"D-don't cry, Ryuko. Sailor suits are made to be grown out of. From now on, you're free to wear what you want: clothes that are far cuter than I could ever be!" Senketsu chuckled. "Don't worry; I won't judge your tastes."
"F-fine! Just fine then!" Ryuko screamed. "I'll wear clothes that'll dye you green with envy!"
If the Kamui was capable of grinning, he would have done so faintly. As it was, his eyes softened proudly. "You've grown, Ryuko... You do just that..."
Ryuko could only watch, as Senketsu flared out above her one last time and disappeared in a shower of orange embers. The girl's tears were released into free fall, as she screamed, "SENKETSU!" That was the last thing the Kamui heard before he knew no more...
Senketsu could feel himself floating -drifting more like it. 'Is this Sanzu no Kawa?' he asked himself. The Kamui then realized he was miraculously whole again and could see, both in his left eye and now repaired right one.
He could see a large, oriental bridge with a bare cherry tree beside it. The water -that Senketsu currently floated on the surface of- surrounding it was murky, though when he looked closer, Senketsu was shocked to see the ghoulish faces of and pale outlines of people in the water. He flinched away, as the souls tried to snare him with their sickly limbs. it was with no small amount of relief on Senketsu's part that each failed.
The water steadily began to pick up speed, and soon he just about to pass under the bridge -the one now casting an inky, black wall from the underside of its' midsection. The Kamui didn't know how he knew, but he suddenly knew if he crossed the line it would all be over.
The water slowed to a trickle, as if it was taunting him -somehow sensing and wishing to enhance his despair and terror- while it inched towards the nothingness. Hoping against hope, Senketsu's sleeves waded at the weak current, as he began to fight against his impending fate. But all his efforts were futile; it was as though he was glued in place to the water itself.
A sense of hopelessness encroached upon the sailor suit's Life Fibers, as he inched ever closer to his most assured demise. He was beginning to gave up when... 'Don't give up, you idiotic bastard!'
The mental whisper was like a shout, as it echoed in the dead silence of nothing. Even the senseless whispers of the tortured souls beneath him stopped as well as the water's flow -as if stunned into inaction by the call across life and death.
For Senketsu, however, it had the opposite effect. "What am I doing?" he whispered to himself. As if suddenly broaching a foreign subject, he asked again much louder, "What am I doing?!" His eyes widened. What the hell was happening here?! "RYUKO, WHAT AM I DOING?!" he roared. "What the hell is this?!"
'You're fighting!' came the desperate, encouraging whisper of his partner.
The was all Senketsu needed to hear, before he then put his all into fighting the flow of the water. He began to fight, knowing it was just what Ryuko would have done.
Slowly, but surely, and ever so painfully, Senketsu struggled his way away from the black wall of death. When he was thirty agonizing feet from the bridge, the Kamui a last, seemingly desperate tug from the water and swam harder and faster, refusing to allow himself to be pulled back.
Senketsu felt the tug again but realized with a start, that it was suddenly helping him. A second later, he was harshly and rapidly yanked away from the bridge.
A soothing, silky, feminine voice, sounding of comfort, reached his nonexistent ears. "It is not your time... Senketsu!" Once more, it was the last the Kamui heard before he blacked out.
Ryuko could hardly bring herself to believe it, as she watched her best friend (besides Mako) be slowly torn apart. She watched him turn to dust and couldn't do a single damn thing about it. The girl couldn't help could scream out his name once more, as the last bits of his form floated out of her arms. Everything faded to black.
When she came to, everything was hazy, and she could see Senketsu whole, drifting in a current of souls. The last Life Fiber Hybrid wanted to call out to him but was interrupted by a feminine voice.
"Don't! This is a test of his will," the voice spoke.
"Like hell I care! I lost him once; I won't lose him again!" Ryuko exclaimed angrily to the voice.
"If you interrupt too soon you will lose him; for good this time!"
Ryuko could only answer such an argument with pained silence. Her reply came slow and desperate. "So... just what the hell am I supposed to do then -just let him drift away?"
Annoyingly, she could almost feel the voice smirk at her. "I told you not to interrupt too soon; I never said anything about not helping him. Your partner, Senketsu, may be powerful, but even the most powerful need help sometimes." The voice spoke with hints of mirth in its' tone.
Ryuko returned her full attention to her friend and saw the listless Kamui was under the bridge and about to touch a depthless, black wall. When Ryuko saw this, there was no hesitation in her warning shout. "Don't give up, you idiotic bastard!"
The water seemed to stop, and all was silent when Senketsu whispered to himself, "What am I doing." The moment he said this, Ryuko's vision began to get blurry. "What am I doing?!" He practically yelled this, even as Ryuko's blurry vision faded to near nothingness. "RYUKO, WHAT AM I DOING?!" he roared. By now, the girl's sight was gone, but she could very clearly hear is cries. "What the hell is this?!"
"You're fighting!" Ryuko announced. It was all she managed to say before blacking out yet again.
Lights danced across her vision, and the feeling of falling returned. Once more, she was plummeting thousands of feet to the ground.
"...in there!" a familiar voice pierced the darkness.
'It sounds like Satsuki,' Ryuko idly noted.
"Hang in there!" the voice cam again, as she came closer to the ground. "Ryuko!" Ryuko's eyes snapped open with a start, as she finally came to consciousness and comprehended her situation. "Ryuko!" Satsuki called out again, digging her bare feet into the pavement of the annihilated Honnouji Academy courtyard, as she prepared herself.
Ryoko impacted her sister's chest at meteoritic speeds, cratering the ground further and tearing up the ground in a line of destruction. Mako and Satsuki's Elite Four leaped to the rescue, bracing themselves against Satsuki's back but barely halting Ryuko's momentum.
More and more of Honnouji Academy's survivors piled themselves against them, until they finally stopped Ryuko with the entirety of the school in a jumbled mass of tangled limbs.
Satsuki looked down at Ryuko and gave a -now not so rare- warm smile. "Welcome back."
Ryuko sighed happily. "I'm home, Sis'."
At that, there were whoops, laughter, and cheers of joy. Ragyo and the Life Fibers were defeated and gone. The war was finally over, and peace was at hand.
Senketsu awoke to the uncomfortable sensation of being prodded. His yellow and orange, ringed eyes snapped open and locked onto the figure of a strange, blonde boy, wearing a blindingly orange, kill-me-now jumpsuit, poking him with a stick.
Honestly though at that moment, Senketsu wouldn't have cared if the brat was fucking Ragyo herself (okay maybe he would have); he had only one conceivable thought in mind! "HUNGRY!" And with that, he lunged at the boy.
AN: So yeah... hope you guys like the revised version I've done. If Fanfictionking1 happens to read this, I hope you tell me what you think!
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