Hearts of Black Powder
Chapter One:Lost Heroes.
Disclaimer: I do not own the rights to Naruto nor do I own the rights to Call of Duty: World at War. I make no claims to ownership and never will.
Author's Notes: During the events of Shi No Numa in the Nazi Zombie mode, Japan and Germany were completely destroyed by nukes burning everything to ash, something strange happened though, three of the heroes were pulled into an alternate universe's version of Japan. Marine Sergeant Tank Dempsey, Major General Richtofen of the third reich and Captain Takeo Masaki of the Japanese empire will have to somehow survive in this new world, and what happens when these three hardened soldiers run across a crying and beaten six year old Naruto in the forest. Let the story unfold.
Extra notes: I made Richtofen a lot more sane then in the game. He still loves torture but to a lesser degree and is not as evil as before. The way I made it is that there is still some sanity left in his warped mind. And after awhile he got to the point where he can stand Dempsey's presence and sometimes even welcomes it. I know Takeo didn't get any lines but he will later, hes a reserved character that doesn't speak much even in game so I decided to keep it that way.
BOLD=English.
Itallic= German.
Normal=Japanese.
Three men where unconscious in the forest outside Konoha, these three men would go on to become legends among the people of the ninja world, the first man was named Tank Dempsey, he was a strong American soldier with a penchant for being far rougher then necessary. Beside him on the forest floor was his trusty Thompson submachine gun. On his waist was a bowie knife in a thick leather sheath and a 1911 45. pistol.
Rank:Sergeant
Affiliation: U.S.A
The next man was Doctor Edward Richtofen, a man who took the utmost pleasure in the suffering of his victims, his dress uniform was covered in medals and beside him was an MP34 submachine gun, he had a Walther p38 9mm pistol strapped to his side.
Rank:Major General
Affiliation:Nazi Germany
The final man was Takeo Masaki, a man who prided himself on his honor, captain in the Japanese army and many victories under his belt, his Katana was resting dutifully at his side and his Type 100 8mm Submachine gun was strapped to his shoulder.
Rank: Captain
Affiliation: Japan
Dempsey was the first to awaken from a deep sleep he wasn't even aware of, he knew one thing off the bat though. He had to take a wicked piss. He sighed lightly and walked up to the nearest tree in the bright and cheery forest and unzipped his pants, he sighed in relief after he was done and zipped his fly back up. Tank carefully checked all his pockets and his shoulder strap and sighed in relief noticing his Thompson 45. Submachine gun was still strapped to his shoulder and looked, quite frankly, in better condition then himself. He sighed in relief when he didn't hear the groaning of zombie or the BANZAI! Of Japanese soldiers, he knew safety was only an illusion at this point but blast it all to hell if he wasn't going to enjoy what peace he got.
Richtofen awoke to the smell of tobacco and quickly pulled his walther P38 9mm pistol out of it's holster and pointed it around while checking out his surroundings. Dempsey was sitting under a large tree next to him smoking a cigaret and field stripping his Thompson.
"Morning sicko, relax were safe for now.. I think. Looks like the Gook is still out cold though."
"Where are we?" Richtofen asked in his thick German accent.
"Hell if I know, all I know is there are no zombies. I can deal with real soldiers better but those zombie meat sacks piss me the hell off." Dempsey offered Richtofen a cigaret.
"No thank you." Richtofen sighed as he studied the surroundings closer.
"Those trees. Not normal maple, looks like we are still in Japan.." Dempsy shrugged, he never learned German despite all the hounding the brass pulled on him to open up a text book once in a while. He couldn't understand Takeo at all either except when they spoke English.
"Sorry, I forgot you can't speak German. I have deduced that we are still in Japan. But something seems different, the air is cleaner." Richtofen squinted his eyes as he watched bugs scatter about under his shiny leather boots.
"Whatever, should we get the Gook up?" Richtofen nodded.
"I will be back very shortly." Richtofen said as he walked off into the forest a bit, Dempsey couldn't help but laugh as he heard Richtofen sigh in relief. Dempsey walked up to Takeo and poured a bit of his canteen onto his face waking the captain up, Takeo coughed as some of the eater went down his throat the wrong way.
"Mornin sunshine, get your ass up. No zombies so far and we are still in Japan."
"What in the name of the emperor?" Takeo studied the surroundings carefully.
"Just get up man, it seems safe for the moment. Better to have three sets of eyes and ears then two." Dempsey sighed as he stood back up after putting his Thompson back together, it was a bit dirtier then he had hoped.
"I'll scout ahead, gotta see if we are really in safe territory. You guys make camp, I'll be back in an hour if things go well."
Dempsey was happy to finally get some time alone without having zombies or worse, hell hounds flinging themselves at him only to get shredded. Dempsey stiffened when her heard a sniffling sound, he drew bis bowie knife from his boot holster and slowly and quietly stalked towards the sound. He wasn't prepared for what he saw, a kid, blonde haired but with Asian skin wearing a black shirt and green pants cradling himself and crying in a bush. Dempsey looked around to make sure they were alone and sheathed his knife audibly. The kid looked up alarmed noticing the huge blonde man in a strange uniform.
"Who are you, are you going to hurt me just like them?" Naruto scooted back some.
"Can't understand ya kid." Dempsey sighed. He crouched down and looked closely at the boy. The boy had cuts on his arms and legs, one of his arms was out of its socket and useless.
"Kid, this is going to hurt like hell for a second." The boy looked confused as Dempsey grabbed his unsocketed arm and roughly shoved it back in making him scream and fall unconscious. Dempsey sighed.
"Since when was I this fucking soft?" Dempsey carefully grabbed the kid and went back to what should by now be camp.
"Hey sicko! I need your help!" Dempsey yelled as he came into the camp, he was pleased when he saw a makeshift shelter and fire pit already built and roaring.
"Damn you guys work fast, I wasn't even gone for an hour." Richtofen came out of the makeshift shelter with a skinned and gutted squirrel on a stick.
"A child, looks mixed. And hurt, please tell me this isn't what you wanted help with." Richtofen sighed.
"Lay him down, I'll look at him in a moment while my squirrel is cooking." Richtofen put the stick in the ground over the fire and ducked into the shelter to grab some bandages. He came out quickly and appraised the young boy after stripping his shirt off.
"The wounds are shallow but still in danger of infection. Dempsey, I know you wont like this but I need some of that liquor you keep in your canteen." Dempsey sighed and tossed him the half full canteen. Richtofen poured some of the liquor on the bandages and applied them. Richtofen sighed as he looked at the boy.
"So sad,blonde hair and blue eyes on a Asian." Richtofen tied the bandages on and smiled.
"The boy will be fine. He should be in perfect health in a few days, and able to go home when he wakes up." Richtofen put the top back on Dempsey's canteen and tossed it back.
"I wonder why I bothered to bring him here?" Dempsey asked himself while pulling the top off his canteen and downing what little was left in there.
"Maybe the American hero Tank Dempsey isn't as big and bad as he would like everyone to think." Richtofen laughed as he packed up the extra bandages.
"I could still beat you to a bloody pulp and make you regret you were ever born!" Dempsey growled.
"You two bicker too much! We need to find out where we are and if possible find a village or city of some kind." Takeo said.
"Maybe the boy can help us when he wakes up. Till then I'll go kill us some food." Dempsey stood up and dusted off his faded army uniform.
"Good luck Dempsey." Takeo said as Dempsey left.
Dempsey carefully took aim with his 1911 and fired a single round dropping a fox.
"Better then fucking squirrels I guess." Dempsey snatched the fox up by the tail, he had dead squirrels poking out of his pockets at various angles. Feeding three adult men and a wounded kid would take more then a fox. Dempsey ejected the empty magazine and put it in his empty pocket.
Richtofen and Takeo stared at the fire off in their own worlds. The events that happened these last few day had done a great deal of damage to their already damaged minds, the death of Nikolai was the first thing that came to mind, he went off to take a piss in the swamp and didn't notice three zombies until it was too late, Nikolai was ripped to shreds. Richtofen, Dempsey and Takeo had went to check up on him when they heard him scream, they hurried just in time to see him getting ripped in half and his organs being eaten by the zombies. Dempsey yelled in anger and mowed them down with his Thompson and quickly rushed up to Nikolai, Nikolai died like they always knew he would, with a canteen filled with vodka and a gun in his hand. That night they all had trouble sleeping, Dempsey was glad he was on watch, he may not have agreed with Nikolai, hell he outright despised him but they each owed each other life debts. Even with general dislike towards each other a strong bond was made between the four men when the dead started rising. All that was certain in that sick world was that they needed each other to survive. Without Nikolai their watch shifts would be longer and there would be one less soldier in their group.
"Hey fuckers, I'm back. Is the squirt up yet?" Dempsey tossed the fox and emptied his pockets of squirrels in a pile.
"He has stirred some but he is still asleep. Maybe the smell of cooking would wake him." Richtofen said as he went about skinning the squirrels. Takeo was cutting thin limbs off of the trees with his Katana.
"Right.. I'm eager to hit a town and find me a whore and some booze." Dempsey said with a frown, Takeo and Richtofen couldn't help but nod in agreement as they put they skewered the animals and started cooking them. The sun was slowly setting giving the sky a warm look.
"What surprises me is how I'm not surprised. When the nuke fell we should have died, instead we find ourselves alive and well in a forest. Somehow, somehow I'm not surprised." Richtofen shook his head and took off his uniform hat. His black gloves were stained with blood and his uniform was still somehow in near pristine condition. He pulled the Nazi armband off and tossed it in the fire which surprised both Takeo and Dempsey.
"Thought you were proud to be a Nazi bastard." Dempsey said.
"Indeed, but I never liked the sign. My iron cross still adorns my neck, so what does it matter?" Richtofen shrugged.
"All I got left is my medal of honor and sergeant badge on my shoulder." Dempsey laughed as he sat down under a tree and pulled out another cigaret. Takeo was sitting in a meditative trance completely ignoring Richtofen and Dempsey.
"By the way, the kid said something gookish when I met him. What's "Who are you, are you going to hurt me just like them?" Mean?" Dempsey asked Richtofen.
"Well, that's good news, it means we are in Japan for sure." Richtofen said.
"Yeah but whats it mean?" Dempsey asked again.
"It meant, who are you, are you going to hurt me just like them?" Richotfen said.
"You think you could teach me Jap speak? I don't want to have to have you or Takeo to translate for me."
"It would be rather annoying to have to do that. Fine, I will help you." Richtofen sighed.
The kid coughed loudly as he woke up to the smell of cooking squirrels and fox, he carefully looked out of the makeshift shelter and noticed he was bandaged up. He saw the three men eating the squirrels on a stick and his stomach growled loudly.
"Ah, the patient is awake!" Richtofen said with a uncharacteristic smile.
"Good afternoon child, did you sleep well?" Richtofen asked in crude yet understandable Japanese. The young boy nodded.
"Come child, eat. Those wounds won't heal if you don't have nourishment." Richtofen patted the spot between himself and Dempsey. The boy looked confused as he slowly came up and sat down. Dempsey
handed him a fox leg and watched as the boy tore into it and devoured all but the bones in seconds.
"What is your name child?" Richtofen asked.
"Naruto." Naruto looked around anxiously again.
"Relax Naruto, no one will cause you harm here." Richtofen said as he handed Naruto a cooked squirrel. Naruto took it and ate it much more slowly then the fox leg.
"Who are you people?" Naruto asked.
"I am Doctor Richtofen, the one of your race is Takeo Masaki. And the one that found you and fixed your arm is Tank Dempsey, Dempsey can't understand your language yet but is being taught." Richtofen said and then took a bite of squirrel.
"Why did you help me? Everyone calls me a demon and beats me, why did you help me?" Naruto asked with sadness in his eyes.
"Demon? Then relax for you are among your own kind." Richtofen chuckled. Takeo nodded sullenly.
"You are demons as well?" Naruto asked.
"All men have done something horrid in their lives, we are no different. But also we need you, we don't know where any settlements are, we don't wish to live out in the forest."
"Konoha isn't far from here, I could show you were it is.. But then they will just beat me again. They always do." Richtofen's mind flashed back to when he was a child, his dad would come home smelling of cheap booze, he would take his belt off and beat him with it several times a day for "Ruining his life." blood would pour from a young Richtofen's mouth. Then one day the story of Doctor Richtofen began. Richtofen had knocked his father unconscious and tied him up in the basement under their house. Richtofen despite being young had already learned a great deal about the human anatomy and that day, he would have his revenge. He tortured the bastard and enjoyed every second of it, from the shock treatment to the cutting off fingers and burning them with an iron to keep it from bleeding. He couldn't help but smile as he wrote the words "Beware the Doc" in his father's blood on the walls.
"Tomorrow, for now let us rest and eat our fill. And do not worry, they will not touch a hair on your head while we are near." Richtofen declared.
"Doc, what are we going to do?" Dempsey asked.
"Apparently there is a village nearby, he will escort us to it tomorrow, but the villagers will probably not receive us too easily, you see apparently he is hated in the village, he is beaten to near death often." Richtofen sighed, it reminded him of his father.
"They beat a kid? Fuckers better not touch the runt when I'm with em." Dempsey spat to his side.
"What are you his daddy now?" Richtofen chuckled.
"Nope, but runts don't deserve that kinda shit." Dempsey said as he laid down.
"You may be crude but even I can agree to that." Richtofen mumbled and laid down as well. Takeo was already asleep and propped up on a tree snoring peacefully.
Edward.. Ed.. I will find you, I'll get revenge for daddy and fluffy, one day when you come to visit me in hell. I'll make every second of it really fun.
The voice vanished as Richtofen woke up in a cold sweat.
"Samantha, I'm sorry, I'm sorry..." Richtofen mumbled as he stared at the dying embers. He had long since grown used to Dempsey and Takeo, and the voices had been all but silenced these last few days.
"Get it together Edward. She can't hurt you now.. Not yet.. I will never let her touch me." Richtofen stared at the sinking moon and noticed the sky was slowly getting lighter.
"All that I've done can never be erased. When the time comes hell will be mine as well! I will see the glorious fires of hell will belong to me." Richtofen chuckled.
"Talking to the voices again Doc?"Dempsey asked tiredly.
"How did you know?"
"I once heard you ranting and you slipped into English when talking with them, you really are a scary man. I'm glad were allies at the moment."
"I see.." Richtofen chuckled darkly.
"We really are demons aren't we Tank?"
"You got that right Edward."
"I still can't stand your ugly voice." Richtofen said with a grin.
"Don't care." Dempsey laid back down.
"Edward, don't let the voices control you. The voices left me alone a long time ago, and I couldn't be happier unless I had a good woman naked and ready for me." Dempsey grunted, scratched his balls and fell asleep without another word.
"How many of my thoughts really belong to me?" Richtofen laid back down and closed his eyes awaiting sleep that wouldn't come.
Naruto woke up before Dempsey of Takeo and crawled out of the shelter before rubbing the crust on his eyes away.
"Good morning Naruto, will you take us to Konoha when Dempsey and Takeo wake up?" Naruto nodded.
"Richtofen-San, why do you look so sad?"
"Do not worry about me child I will be fine." Richtofen pulled off his cap and ran his gloved fingers through his graying hair.
"Okay.. I'm sorry if it's my fault."
"This is my own fault young one. It always will be." Richtofen put his cap back on tightly and brushed the dust off his Whermacht dress uniform.
"Thank you for helping me." Naruto said as he sat down next to Richtofen.
"I deserve no thanks, when Dempsey wakes up thank him. He found you and put your arm back in it's socket. All I did was disinfect the wounds. Now look, I'm all cheered up.. See?" Richtofen forced a smile.
"If you say so. But why are you all so nice to me?"
"Why shouldn't we be?" Richtofen asked with a genuine smile.
Dempsey woke up with a heavy yawn and sat up.
"Morning Doc, morning brat." Dempsey scratched his ass, stood up and looked around the camp. Takeo was up and meditating and Richtofen was talking with the brat.
"When we heading out?" Dempsey asked.
"Shortly." Richtofen said, Takeo grimaced as he stood up.
"Something wrong Takeo?" Dempsey asked with no real interest. Takeo ignored him and went off into the bushes.
"Ah, well.. Hows the brat doing?" Dempsey asked.
"Hes fine, when Takeo gets done we will be on our way." Richtofen stood up and dusted off his uniform once more.
Ending notes: I am pleased with my first chapter, I only hope any of you enjoy reading it one fifth as much as I enjoyed writing it. Reviews are GREATLY appreciated and not to mention fuel to keep me chugging along. Yes there are guns in this story I know it doesn't fit but these are humans that aren't crazy ninjas need some way to keep from being completely outmatched by anything older then six years old.