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Strike Ninja
Chapter 1: The knight in red armour
Have you ever heard the story of Iron Man? No? Well here it is. The story goes that in human kind's time of need a young boy rose from a hidden region in the world. He had this suit of armour and strangely advanced guns. Outside the armour, he looked normal, just an ordinary young man in good physical condition. But in the armour, he looked like a giant of man. Towering 8 feet tall. And he was built like a man of iron.
Nobody ever knew where the armour came from, he claimed it was given to him by the Daimyo of Yuki no Kuni after his mission there when he was a genin. Well. I'm that Iron Man. And this is my story.
10 years ago—Konoha
Naruto was laying on his bed, stewing in outrage. Ever since he brought Sasuke back, everything's gone to shit. Sakura dropped their engagement for Sasuke. Tsunade was forced to make Sasuke the next Hokage. And when Tsunade had tried to salvage something for Naruto, namely his inheritance. They denied him and sign it all over to Sasuke. UGH it never ends.
Naruto tried and tried and tried and he gave everything he had to serve this mission. His blood sweat and tears. And what did he get? His former crush, crushed him, his former brother took away his dream and everything Naruto's parents left him. They were even trying to take away his Iron Man armour, a gift from Princess Yuki. They wanted to give it to Sasuke.
Hell no. Naruto clenched his fist. The armour was sealed inside a mark on his chest shaped like a shield with crossed swords over it. Naruto had made numerous weapons to be used with the armour and he had upgraded it as much as he could. He added thrusters and beam weaponry to feed off his limitless chakra. He was exactly as the name suggested. He was an Iron Man. His armour was built to make him invincible.
Naruto didn't stop there though, he made upgrades to increase his strength and speed too. He looked like a giant by now and his high and size was intimidating when he was wearing the armour, but when he was out of it, it looked like any ordinary 18 year old. No monstrous high or size, no super human muscle. Just an teenager with a white strange 'tattoo' on his chest.
Naruto looked outside and saw shadows outside. ANBU had come to take Naruto's armour and weapons from him.
Naruto smiled. Well at least he gets some payback. Still Naruto had had enough of this crap.
"Fuck this, I'm not putting up with them any more. Time to get the hell out of dodge. Not just to leave the village, all hidden villages would be after my armour, they'd never stop hunting me, I need to leave entirely." Naruto thought as he got up off the bed and activated his armour.
Outside
"Alright, you all know the plan, we get in, knock him out and extract the armour from the seal." Kakashi ordered.
Shikamaru, Kiba, Neji, and Ino didn't answer, they didn't want in on this, the other ANBU however quickly acknowledged.
But before anyone could move, the wall of Naruto's apartment exploded outwards and explosive kunai began firing at them.
The ANBU scattered at the building they were on was destroyed. All ANBU looked towards the whole to see Naruto coming out in his red and gold armour with both of the eye pieces on his helmet glowing neon red.
He had that glowing blue triangle on his chest. He had a glowing beam ports on each palm.
((My original war machine story flunked but I settled for Iron Man given the chakra to fuel the weapons and systems and got rid of the tron, too confusing even for me.))
Naruto glared at them.
"Haven't we done this before Kakashi? You aren't getting my armour and now I won't answer to Sasuke either." Naruto growled as he stared at the cyclops.
"Naruto, by order of your Hokage, you will hand over that armour to the Uchiha clan immediately." Kakashi ordered.
"The Hokage can kiss my ass. This armour was given to me by Princess Yuki, This helmet is my face and I will not answer to your Hokage." Naruto replied as aimed his hand at them, preparing to fire a chakra pulse laser.
"This is your last...warning?" Kakashi replied in shock as Naruto jumped into the air high...very high above Kakashi's building.
"Give a warning to this!" Naruto yelled as he brought his fist down and smashed onto the building, levelling it and bringing Kakashi down with the structure.
Kakashi got up only to find a glowing hand in his face.
"Too slow." Naruto said as fired a beam into Kakashi's head, killing him.
Naruto then walked out of the rubble and saw the ANBU looking at him in shock.
"Back down, or die by my hand. One way or another, I'm leaving this cesspool." Naruto said maliciously.
"Naruto, I don't know where you'll go, but make it count, we'll cover your escape." Kiba said as he lashed out at a fellow ANBU.
"Go Naruto! You deserve better than this!" Ino yelled as she did the same.
"You're on your own Naruto. Nara out." Shikamaru said as he followed his comrades.
"It's been an honour, you three, I won't forget this." Naruto said as he ran towards the gate before smashing through it and activating his chakra pulse boots and flying into the air.
Naruto for the first time in a few years cried. Behind him, his friends had died to see him escape. So that he could live better off than in Konoha. He couldn't let their deaths be in vein.
Naruto shot across the sky at sub sonic speeds as he approached the veil.
"Now or never." Naruto grunted as he shot into the clouds.
All around his lightning storms and tornadoes, cyclones and and maelstroms of all kinds raged. The area was wracked by chaotic storms. Down on the ground, Naruto could see various air ships and in the water shipwrecks of past attempts. No one had tried with a small suit of armour, or anything small. People assume that bigger vessels will get through but they are torn apart. You need something small and easy to use.
Naruto saw the clouds ahead and shot through them.
Once out of the Veil, he tapped into the signal network to find the nearest civilization but instead found a distress call. "Ma-day Ma-day, this is the SS Akagi! We are carrying precious cargo and are under attack by a Neuroi, requesting immediate assistance from any strike witch forces over. Any strike witch forces, this is a priority one distress call."
"Look like I know where to go." Naruto thought as he tapped into his radar and tracked where the signal had come from before flying in that direction with a sonic boom.
With the Akagi
The current strike witch was already running towards the hanger for her striker unit after she alerted the carrier to an enemy attack, a Neuroi, she had just finished telling a possible recruit to find shelter in the sick bay and shortly afterwards helping her deal with her fear along with giving her an intercom.
The Neuroi for some reason was attacking the ships one at a time as well. It was almost as if the Neuroi some how knew something was coming, it wanted to draw the battle out.
The Strike Witch then stepped into her Striker Unit and the locked released. The Launch platform raised to the deck and brought the witch up and ready for battle, type 99 aircraft cannon in hand and magic katana sheathed on her back. The Strike witch, then fired up her Striker Unit, magic propellers igniting on the tips.
"Major Mio Sakamoto, taking off!" The Strike Witch now named Mio Sakamoto yelled.
With that, Mio shot off the carrier into the sky followed by all the zero fighters on the carrier. The battle against the Neuroi was underway.
The Neuroi opened fire once again on the fleet before turning it's attention to the incoming Strike Witch and Zeroes.
"The Only way to destroy a Neuroi is to destroy it's core. All fighters, disrupt it's attacks while searching for the core." Mio ordered as she and the Zeros flew towards the enemy.
"I'm going to circle above it." Mio said.
"Roger." The pilots acknowledged.
The Neuroi opened fire on Mio, all it's shots hitting the water and causing splashes on all sides of her, Mio then shot up into the air towards the Neuroi.
"Nothing up top." Mio said.
Mio then tried , lifting up her eye patch, revealing a slit pupil violet eye before she was forced to throw up a barrier to block off beams that the Neuroi bombarded her with.
"It's almost like a hedgehog." Mio grunted.
"It's gonna be difficult looking for the core like this." Mio said calmly.
Just then a message came in over the comm link.
"Message from Britannia! 501st Joint Fighter Wing has launch and are on their way. ETA 20 minutes"
"We're almost to Britannia, we must hold on!" The Captain ordered.
"Ms. Sakamoto, Are you okay, I'm here to help." a voice said over the intercom.
Mio looked down on the carrier with her violet eye and saw the source of the voice.
"What are you doing out here Miyafuji? I told you to stay in the sickbay, get back inside!" Mio ordered.
"Ms. Sakamoto, you're alright, thank heaven." Miyafuji replied.
"Miyafuji, do you hear me, get back inside now!" Mio ordered.
Mio opened fire on the Neuroi with her aircraft cannon.
"You don't belong on the deck, you'll just get in the way." Mio said.
"Ms. Sakamoto, I want to help any way I can too." Miyafuji replied.
"There's nothing you can do right now, go back inside!" Mio yelled as she continued to fire at the Neuroi.
"Jeez, what a reckless little girl, she's got guts, that's for certain. I can't give up." Mio thought.
Mio continued to open fire at the Neuroi as it sank yet another ship when she ran out of ammo. Mio then drew her sword.
"Your fight is with me!" Mio yelled as she flew at the Neuroi from above.
Mio clashed with the Neuroi, the blade on the Neuroi's hull giving off a bright flash.
Before everyone's eyes, Mio had sliced off the right wing of the Neuroi.
"Wow, that's how a Strike Witch fights?" Miyafuji thought.
Then to the fleets dismay, the wing regenerated.
Mio lifted her eye patch and looked at the Neuroi, she saw a faint glow in the center of the Neuroi's tail just at the edge of the hull.
"Found it." Mio whispered.
The Neuroi then opened fire on Mio, forcing her to block the beams with her barrier.
Mio panted, she couldn't take much more, exhausted and out of ideas.
"Major, We'll buy you some time." A pilot said as the two remaining zeroes flanked Mio.
"Take out the core while, we keep it busy." The pilot said.
"Confirmed, I'm counting on you." Mio replied.
Mio lifted her eye patch and saw the core again among all the data streaming throughout the Neuroi.
Then without warning, the Neuroi loosed a volley of beams, obliterating the two zeroes and forcing Mio to form another barrier.
"God dammit!" Mio yelled in frustration.
"You're gonna have to do better than that." Mio taunted.
Pissed off, the Neuroi combined it's beams and even added more to the ones already being fired into a single concentrated beam.
Over the radio, Mio heard the bridge officer.
"All fighters destroyed, only Major Sakamoto remain."
"Dammit, where are the reinforcements, where are the Strike Witches from Britannia? The Captain asked desperately.
Just then a beam hit beside the carrier.
"Almost hit. The ship will be crippled is we don't do something." The officer said.
"Just keep us intact until back up arrives." The captain said gravely.
The Neuroi then fired again at the Akagi, this time, it was a direct hit.
Mio heard Miyafuji's scream over the intercom.
"No! Miyafuji! Miyafuji! Answer me! Can you hear me? Miyafuji! Miyafuji! If you hearing, answer me!" Mio yelled over the intercom.
Down under the deck, Miyafuji had been knocked unconscious from the blast.
"All hands, abandon ship! Abandon ship!" The captain ordered.
"Captain, unidentified object approaching. Signal matched neither Strike Witch or Neuroi." The Bridge Officer yelled.
"What now?" The Captain growled as a loud wail of a scream sounded through the air as the object approached at high speed.
Then a voice sounded over the intercom.
"Figured you could use a hand, I'll take it from here." A voice said over the intercom.
Suddenly a red and gold armoured man flew by and flew up to the Neuroi with a shrill scream in it's wake as the man broke the sound barrier.
"Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze, engaging the enemy." The man said.
The Neuroi fired at Naruto only for him to dodge the beams.
The man then fired pulse lasers from his hands at the Neuroi, damaging it.
He then began scanning with the armour systems to find a weak point and found the core. Flying up above the Neuroi, Naruto hovered above it and then dive bombed down on the Neuroi, both hands aimed towards the Neuroi as a pair of glowing balls forms in each hand.
Naruto then pushed his hands together to form a launcher single ball. He began spinning as the ball formed into a blade of energy that was spinning along with the man until the energy covered him.
With the force of an armour piercing bullet, he tore through the Neuroi core and destroyed the Neuroi causing it to disintegrate.
Naruto then looked at Mio and opened his face plate revealing a tanned blond haired young man around 18 years of age with blue eyes and whisker marks on his cheeks.
"I must thank you for your assistance. You certainly saved allot of lives today." Mio said thankfully.
"No enough. I took too long to get here after I picked up the signal." Naruto said disappointed.
"They'll be remembered, though I am curious as to whom you are and what country you hail from, the weapons you use are far more advanced than anything I've seen." Mio replied.
"Right, well the country that I come from, you haven't heard of it, it's isolated from the rest of the world, I imagine if there is way to get to it, a...Strike Witch, that's what they're called? Any way, they're the only ones that can probobly get there." Naruto replied.
"I see, and you?" Mio replied unsure.
"I left willingly, half of my reasons, to clean up a traitor's mess, the other half, grew tired of being expendable. Not entirely sure if I can go back and quite frankly I wouldn't want to anyway." The Soldier replied.
"Okay, and your name?" Mio asked.
"It's common a courtesy to give ones name before asking." Naruto replied smirking.
"Very well, my name is Mio Sakamoto, I hold the rank of Major." Mio answered.
"Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze, I hold the rank of...genin." Naruto replied hesitantly.
"You hesitated." Mio replied bluntly.
"Genin is the lowest rank given around 12 years of age." Naruto admitted shamefully.
"You look around 19 now, now are you still the lowest rank?" Mio asked, partly wondering why the lack of rank.
"No point giving promotions to someone whom is guaranteed to be killed on mission." Naruto darkly.
"A bit morbid to say your gonna die." Mio admitted
"Perhaps the enemy doesn't have to kill me, my team will do it for them." Naruto admitted knowingly
Mio got the hint from that, his own people were trying to kill him off so he left them.
Miyafuji whom had regained consciousness, wearing a striker unit as she watched the red and gold man land on the flight deck, crewmen running to him to thank him while Major Mio Sakamoto landed and began to approach the man.
"Okay next question, what do you intend to do next?" Mio asked.
"I will do as all Jinchuriki do, serve human kind, these Neuroi are a threat to human kind and so they are my enemy." Naruto said.
"Jinchur whata?" Miyafuji asked as she came up to them.
"Jinchuriki, it means power of human sacrifice, actual demons are sealed into newborn babies to turn the infants into super weapons, I however was not meant to be a weapon but rather to stop a demon's rampage." Naruto answered.
"Well, I'll talk this over with my commanding officer when we arrive at Britannia. If all goes well, welcome to the 501st, we could use you among our squad." Mio said saluting Naruto.
"If all goes well, then I'd be honoured to join your fight against the Neuroi, it'd be a bit ineffective to fight alone." Naruto replied saluting Mio.
There you have it, Strike Ninja has been redone. I find the Iron Man concept fits more with chakra and it's easier to understand than having Naruto be a Black Guard, Originally, Naruto was suppose to be with Mio and Minna but given a review on the previous version, Naruto fits more with Sanya given her personality and she connects fits with him rather nicely. This needless to say will cause issues with Eila given how she is.