Fear the new age
By Isee
Naru is the last blood descendant of the infamous nura clan. In a world that no longer fears demons and has hunted them to the brink of extinction Naru with the power of fear passed down through her ancestors and with a slowly growing horde of demons at her side. Can Naru become the next lady of pandemonium? Naruto/nura crossover eventual semi dark femnaru.
Ok so this is the second story I'll probably be posting fear not I will get back to the other one and improve it in time! (If people care about it) But in the meantime I could not help but want to write this sooooooo… here I go!
NOTE: there may be some spoilers up to the current (at the time of typing this) chapter of Nuraihyon I don't give much away (I think personally) but if you really hate spoilers for this stuff go ahead and read it and then come back….you done yet? Good now onto the disclaimer!
I do NOT, NOT, NOT own Nuraihyon or Naruto any ramblings inside that say otherwise are to be ignored by lawyers! This precedes everything else and is true I do not own Nuraihyon or Naruto so stop saying I do! Anything that those two fine writers did not come up with that you see in this story or that does not belong to someone else however is mine! Those properties that are not mine belong to their respective owners.
There I think I have most of my bases covered with that now…. onwards!
Fear the new age
Chapter 1-0 death is not the end.
An 8 year old Naru was lying down on a rainy street corner resting her back against a nearby lamp post. Lightning struck off in the distance casting light on the fallen form of the young girl for but a brief flash. She was skinny wearing what appeared to be very old torn up rags that exposed her stomach for the world to see. That is if someone wanted to see such a sad sight.
The girl's ribs were exposed as you could see that the girl had been horribly malnourished throughout her life. She had various cuts and bruises all along her body that were, miraculously healing and leaving no trace that they had ever been there in the first place. But no those were not the worst of her injuries for that one would have to look towards a spot right above the girl's liver. There was a gaping hole through her chest were there should have been flesh and muscle one could instead see the bones exposed and if looked at from the right angle one could see directly on to the other side of the street. Blood poured from her wounds mixing with the rain and following the waters carefree path into a nearby storm drain.
Her face was marred with grime, dirt and blood but otherwise kept mostly unscathed whoever had attacked the young girl had gone for something else. Her eyes well usually vibrant and full of life were now dull and empty. She had short red hair that appeared to have been cut with a knife as the jagged ends surrounded her face pointed out.
This was a somewhat familiar scene to the citizens of Konoha as this or rather something like this happened annually for today was a day of celebrations in Konoha today was October 10 the day of the momentous defeat of the Kyuubi no Kitsune, today was also the traditional day for the "fox hunt" as the villagers called it were they took out there revenge for all the atrocities committed by the demon. Namely by attacking whatever vaguely reminded them of a fox.
That was not good for Naru. Although one would expect (if they knew what she carried) fox like features to adorn her face she looked perfectly normal much to the surprise of the sandaime when he found the girl. But still thanks to gossiping council members and over all "demon haters" especially on the civilian side of the council that ruled over Konohagakure along with the hokage. Information about Naru's "tenant" was leaked to the masses and so this scene was repeated more or less year after year. But today was the worst, never had they come so close to actually killing her out of fear of the so called "demon lovers" and the hokages very own law about the girls status never being revealed and the punishments for harming her. Today was another horrible day in the life of Uzumaki Naru.
Today was Naru's 8th birthday.
Today the world unknowingly witnessed the birth of a new age.
The age of the youkai.
As Naru was about to pass out from blood loss however something happened that nobody would have expected. Not the villagers, not the council, not the sandaime, and most definitely not the girl's own ancestors. She was saved…. And her savior was a fox.
"Stupid brat do I have to do everything for you?" an ominous voice rumbled causing Naru to look around frantically looking for her next potential attacker.
"What who's…-uh…-who's there?" Naru gasped out on the verge of unconsciousness from the pain and blood loss.
"I am your enemy, I am your curse but today…" The voice paused as if to gather up the words.
"…Today I am your savior." the voice finished its sentence and with that Naru passed out barely noticing the two blurs that dropped down from the roof shouting one word.
"Mistress!"
The next time Naru opened her eyes… well she was shocked to say the least.
She was sitting perfectly fine and healthy on a branch of a sakura tree staring out at the bright and sunny world. As if everything was perfect in this veritable Eden. Beneath her was a pond with various petals from the trees skimming the surface of the pond creating ripples in the small source of water.
"Huh were, were am I?" Realization dawned on the young girl and she stated almost sadly.
"I…-I must be dead then?" That's when the voice from before chimed in.
"Close but not quite young one follow my voice" the voice seemed to drift with the wind as if leading her somewhere. Naru seeing no other option followed it.
She realized she was in an estate like a clan home kinda like the Hyuugas from what Naru saw of it on her way in during one of her infamous "prank sprees" she grinned remembering the good times.
"Oh yes I remember that one you won some points over with me for doing that Hahahahaha" the voice chuckled serving only to confuse Naru more as she followed it. 'How does it know I did that no one ever saw me!' Naru thought.
"Kit I see everything you do and hear everything you think after all were stuck together" Confusing Naru more (if that were possible) she just shrugged it off to go find answers after all what else could he do?
'Brats smarter than I thought' the voice thought. (Redundant much?)
Naru continued through various corridors noticing one symbol was plastered just about everywhere she could see on the walls, lanterns, and doors was one kanji "Fear" deciding to figure it out later Naru continued down the path until she found a door that seemed oddly out of place the door that should have led to the clan heads room was in front of her but instead of the usual door there stood a massive door leading into an even more massive room. Behind which there was a room with kanji's scattered all over only instead of the usual "fear" written over the rest of the estate this was the kanji for "seal" and in the center of the room there stood something Naru was not expecting. A woman (if it could be called that) towering a full foot over her with long black hair that reached down to her back. Her eyes seemed soulless as if you were just staring into an abyss. She wore a plain tannish kimono and had this strange kind of smile on her face as she looked at the girl in front of her as if finding this whole situation oddly hilarious. To complete this strange figure nine fox tails sprouted from her back and flowed freely as if they had a mind of their own.
"Hello" she said simply as if greeting her for the first time "my name is Hagoromo Gitsune I can't say it's a pleasure to meet you 13th heir."
Naru couldn't even process what she was talking about right now "13th heir what? And why am I here? And where is here!" she shouted out her voice getting more and more agitated at the whole situation.
"Well someone is impatient" Hagoromo muttered under her breath honestly how she was ever beaten by this family she would never truly understand maybe seeing it from there perspective might change that.
"Now to answer your questions that you could have put a lot more politely we are in your mind-" Naru cut her off there.
"Wait no this isn't my mind my mind would be more like I don't know maybe a sewer or something." She said sounding embarrassed. "And I've never seen a place like this before so how could it be my mind?" She added on to her earlier question.
"Well to be honest I'm glad it's not a sewer that would be horrible could you imagine a being like me living in a sewer? But to answer your other question with a question you don't remember this place do you?" she said sounding slightly amused. "This was the first place you ever saw this is where you were born."
Naru interrupted her yet again there "wait you know I was born here which means you must know who my parents were!" she shouted out.
"Indeed I do 13th heir but we will get to that in time. Now to answer your previous questions you are here because I needed to talk to you in a peaceful setting…"
"Wait if this is my mind why are you here?" she cut in.
"Would you quit interrupting me you stupid brat!" Hagoromo shouted out finally having enough of this kid's behavior her ancestors were better than this! Just what happened to their family well she was away in hell?
"Now no more interruptions got it?" she asked regaining some of her composure.
Naru just nodded her head.
"Good now I am here because I am the great and mislabeled 'Kyuubi' all those humans in that pathetic excuse for a village you call home. Seriously that village is far too stupid to see me for my true beauty now I just recently got out of hell 8 years ago for reasons I'd rather not talk about. Needless to say I was enraged went on a rampage and ended up here in the one place no one would expect doing the one thing no one would expect me to do."
"And what is that?" Naru asked
"Why talking to you politely of course 13th heir" she seemed to spit those last words out like venom.
"Wait what is with this 13th heir crap?" Naru asked again.
"Like I said before no more interruptions!" She shouted out angrily.
Naru just nodded stupidly again.
"Now then long story short I hate your guts which sucks when I am literally living inside them. You see there is a lot of bad blood between me and your family. You could say we disagree at every turn. Your family and clan wanted to protect humans and I wanted to eat there livers yadda, yadda, yadda etc., etc. your great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandpa killed me then I came back. Some more stuff happened and I got sent back to hell then I got back out like I told you earlier and then that horribly painful sealing process and now I'm stuck here." She said waving her hands frantically at her surroundings.
Naru really didn't know what to do at this point so she just nodded yet again wondering why kami decided she should have what appeared to be a rampaging hormonal fox running around in her head.
"Now for the important bit" she had stopped waving her hands in frustration and had calmed down a little "You see kid you are the descendant of my enemy the 13th in fact making you heir to his clan... or what's left of it but still you can rebuild it and seeing as how I'm both sorry for how pitiful a yokai you are and I wish for a better host."
She started mumbling about how much better and nicer her previous host were but Naru really couldn't make out much more than that. Feeling a little insulted at the creature in front of her calling her weak she decided to speak up about that. "What do you mean weak?" Naru shouted out "I can already outrun most ANBU in the village!"
The being in front of her looked amused at that before deciding to try and explain to the young child in front of her.
"Tell me child do you know why the word fear is posted all throughout your mind?" Hagoromo asked.
"I suppose you're going to tell me then?" Naru retorted. Truthfully she was curious about it and wanted to know more but then suddenly the being waved it off.
"You know what I like that look of curiosity on your face and no you can't hide it from me we have been the same being for 8 years now remember? So you know what I'll just hold off on telling you about it you're not ready for it yet anyway."
Naru again felt slightly insulted but just let it go this time and Hagoromo continued from where she left off earlier.
"I'll be honest with you I hate your family and therefore I simply don't like you but I am more angry at the state of the world and more specifically the lack of fear of youkai in it we are gods compared to those puny mortals and they need to be taught again why they once feared us. So I'm going to help you bring the youkai back one by one until this world fears youkai again. After that will see what happens but until then I'm with you." She paused to let her soak in the information before continuing.
"Now I can teach you how to recreate youkai seeing as how most have gone extinct and create new forms of youkai." She was about to interrupt her but she continued on as if sensing her question.
"Youkai were originally created by the gods but they only used extremely advanced alchemy to do it meaning it's possible for the likes of me and by extension you. Now the youkai originally were to be the yin and the humans the yang we would balance each other out as the gods intended but overtime that balance has been lost and now must be restored. Now I know how to create more youkai and I can help you and teach you how to do so and don't ask how I know this because it's complicated."
"So let me get this straight" Naru asked "You're a millennia old demon who despite being an old enemy of my family decided to help me from some pity and demonic sense of pride and you will help me restore my clan that I just found out about." She asked incredulously.
"Hell kid I even reawakened your demonic blood that's been thinning out over the generations and no matter what you are now 3 quarters demon. Consider it a down payment if you will."
Suddenly Narus eyes flashed amber for a split second. As if excited about this news.
"All you need to do is sign this contract I already sent a strong yokai pulse out as there are a few members of your clan still alive and looking for you although they are not related to you they will follow you without question as you are there new sotaichou or supreme commander. When you are awake you will be able to switch between your human and far superior yokai form at will."
This was more than Naru could have ever dreamed of for her it was an amazing opportunity to gain back the family she had lost and gain respect through fear (if necessary) at that moment Naru could only say one thing.
"Where do I sign?"
Hagoromo grinned evilly.
Both had similar thoughts running through their heads.
'This was going to be fun.'
Fear the new age
Chapter 1-1 Resurrection
Naru awoke much like she usually did in the mornings after a severe beating.
But this was not meant to be an ordinary day in the life of Naru 'Nuraihyon' Uzumaki.
Instead of the rain filled street corner of some kami-forsaken alley that she had collapsed on she had woken up somewhere different….to say the least.
She was in a room lying on a mat and had bandages wrapped all around her.
'Now that's strange' she thought until she remembered her time that she had spent in her head. 'So that was real after all' she thought before sitting up a little stiff but otherwise fully recovered despite her injuries last night. Naru decided to take a look around at her surroundings.
The best way to describe the room she was in was rundown the walls, ceiling, and floor had cracks and holes in them with some severe water damage and plants growing through the floorboards. The place looked as though it had been sacked as the only piece of furniture in here was the mat she was lying on. Suddenly Naru heard footsteps and looked over at the entryway that was missing its door. And soon a 'woman' walked into the room.
"Oh your up that's good you had us worried there for a while mistress." An elegant yet wise feminine voice said. Naru took a second to examine the source of the voice and saw what looked to be 28 year old woman wearing a black cloak with the hood down exposing her face she had long silver hair flowing freely to her back that made one wonder how she wore that cloak successfully. She had green eyes that seemed to glow oddly but other than that she looked like an ordinary human. Naru could tell that she wasn't however due to a kind of sixth sense that was telling her that well the person in front of her wasn't human neither was she a threat.
Soon a 'man' walked in behind her "ah so she's awake" a gruff sounding voice said Naru took the time to look at him as well he had short brown hair and brown eyes and a slim body wearing black cargo pants and a black vest over a white t shirt, although looking rather strong for someone of his size he looked perfectly human. However like the woman before Naru could simply tell that he wasn't it was hard to explain but the minute she looked at them she could instantly tell that they were not human and were not a threat. Chalking it up to her yokai blood kicking in Naru thought about how well she was taking this entire situation although most might have been overwhelmed Naru was calm and understanding as if deep down she had known this day would eventually come.
"We have been looking for you for quite some time 13th heir. We had almost given up when you unleashed that strong yokai presence we knew it had to be you and so we brought you here to heal you although it looks like you took care of that yourself." The silver haired woman spoke up she stopped before adding "oh wait where are my manners please forgive me mistress my name is Shuruki and this baka behind me is Mazuki."
Mazuki seemed to get flustered at this and started to shout back at Shuruki and they argued as if lost in their own little world for a good 10 minutes before Naru interrupted them.
"Uh guys I'm still here" Naru said nervous about interrupting there fight.
"Oh sorry mistress got a little carried away there…" Shuruki laughed nervously causing Naru to sweat drop that whole argument was just odd so odd in fact that it would never be written down by anyone ever telling this tale ever.
"Anyway…" Mazuki trailed off gathering his thoughts after he spoke. He was about to speak again before Shuruki interrupted him.
"What he wants to say is that were glad we found you 13th heir we have been searching for you for a long time. And well were kind of curious since we came in here you have not even asked a single question about who we are and what we're doing here you haven't even asked where we are yet! Were both just wondering why?"
Naru quickly decided that it probably wouldn't be best to tell them that there supposed enemy had been helping her out as she had no idea how they would take it so she made up a lie using the first words that came to mind. "Well I guess you could say…. I kinda just know…. as soon as I got here… I understood everything like I already knew it… I already knew about me being a clan heir… and part demon… and who you guys were" Naru was confident this would hold up because it was at least somewhat true. "But I would like to know where we are though." She added in at the last second.
Shuruki just stared at her oddly before saying "were about 20 miles west out of Konoha in the old Nura clan home it's a little run down but with you back maybe well be able to return it to its former glory."
Naru looked around more it did look a bit like that place she had seen in her mind and looking around she could see a few worn out kanji for "fear" on the walls. Deciding to get up and take a better look around Naru tried standing up and before she could even get halfway Mazuki and Shuruki where there to help her.
"We weren't able to stop this from happening but the least we could do for now is to help you around and make sure this doesn't happen again Mistress please let us help we've failed you enough as it is we won't do so again." Shuruki apologized sadly.
"It's all right I can get around on my own I just want to take a look around." Naru responded getting stronger after her short recovery time. Once she was up she left out the entryway into the courtyard Shuruki and Mazuki following her the whole way.
In one word you could sum up the entire state of the current nura compound.
Trashed.
The pond was dried up the walkways were ruined, the wood was termite infested most of the doors were either ripped open or completely missing and the sakura tree had withered and died leaving various dried up petals on the ground it seemed as though the tree had held up as hard as it could but had finally died just a few days before she came here.
Naru knew it would take a lot of money and work to restore the once great clan home of the youkai. And Even then it would be years before she could restore it completely especially if they wanted to be under the radar as suddenly broadcasting the fact that they were rebuilding the still infamous nura clan was like posting a sign that read 'demons were here come kill us already.' Naru looked up at the sky and watched the sunset before deciding to get some rest tomorrow was going to be a long day after all.
Deciding there wasn't anywhere better Naru jumped up into the branches of the dead sakura tree and laid down against its trunk before falling asleep staring out at the world. Soon she felt a familiar pull and embraced it falling into the landscape that was her mind.
Naru woke up in her mind where she left the world with a few alterations of course, and Naru felt glad to see the clan home once more in the way it should have been. Spending a few more minutes than were necessary watching the sakura petals float around soaring to the far reaches of this world. She sat there for a while until she heard a familiar voice that sounded slightly annoyed.
"You and your family's obsession with sakura trees I'll never understand it." Naru looked over from her perch to see Hagoromo standing a few feet away from its base dressed as she was before but wearing a bracelet on her right wrist with the kanji for "seal" on it.
"I don't quite get it either" Naru admitted "but something about this tree just calls out to me… can't you here it?" Hagoromo just stared at her as if she had just admitted that she was her long lost mother.
In other words strangely.
"Never mind about the stupid tree I need to talk to you." Hagoromo stated disregarding the previous question.
"About what?" Naru asked.
"Why resurrecting the youkai and your clan with them… has inhaling some of those sakura petals from that tree made you an idiot?" Hagoromo asked in a way that one couldn't tell whether she was joking or not.
"And what do I need to do to bring back demons anyway?" Naru asked curious.
"Well you might simply be able to call back lesser Youkai back from purgatory were they have been waiting a long time for reincarnation I'm sure they would be grateful to you for it. But for the stronger willed more powerful youkai you will need to capture physical bodies that relate to that demon with the soul of the human still inside of them then you perform a rite and it's like the youkai simply wakes up the two souls become one and will be extremely loyal to you. If we come across people like this I will alert you so you can prepare, these youkai will be strong and will become your generals you cannot let even one of these people get away or you would be taking a huge blow to your military strength. But those tasks are still far off for now you need to train and get stronger and once your 13 we can begin rebuilding the ranks of youkai seriously until then lesser youkai will work just fine and those other two that found you will do nicely as well." Hagoromo paused and thought for a second before adding.
"So for the next 5 years you will train with me and those other two in becoming a proper youkai and we will rebuild some of the clan home if we can after all what's the fun of having ultimate power if you can't live in a pretty castle?" Naru just blinked at her before shrugging and looking off at the moon the breeze blowing various sakura petals in front of her vision as she stared at the moon.
It was going to be a long 5 years.
But in the end it was going to be worth it.
Fear the new age
Chapter 1-2 Shadows in the leaf
.f…e…a…r is something that all youkai possess…..you however.
….you and those with your bloodline are fear itself….
….You have the power to both dispel fear as well as bring it upon others….
….once that happens however you become invisible in all ways to your enemy…..
This is a great power use it wisely through using fear you can never lose through using fear you can control all.
….The world has long since stopped teaching their descendants how to fight fear an enemy who knows how to beat you will be few and far between to them….. You will be a god.
5 years later….
13 is the age of adulthood for all youkai it is said that when a youkai reaches 13 they reach the peak of their power. Well that wasn't exactly true they could still get stronger but in terms of raw power 13 year old and above youkai had reached their max.
Now it was just a matter of tapping into that power….
A 13 year old Naru walked through the somewhat refurbished clan home of the Nura. Looking at the small youkai that scattered at her presence before bowing ceremoniously at their mistress.
The one that pretty much brings you back from the dead is the one you really don't want to mess with.
The halls and walkways of the clan home had been restored along with most of the doors. The sakura tree however the one thing Naru wanted to restore most however was a bit more problematic.
Who knew it was so hard to buy one of those? Naru thought let alone dig one up it's next to impossible! It was about then that the little chibi Naru inside her head started to throw a fit and cry little anime tears. Causing Hagoromo to cringe and turn away muttering something about "burning down that stupid tree."
Speaking of Naru the clan home was not the only thing to go through a "restoration." She herself had grown an extra foot putting her at around 5 feet tall and when she was in her youkai form she spurted up to about 5'5 in her human form she still had her red hair (although a little longer and she had small short streaks of black running through it which in her youkai form became more defined with trace amounts of silver in it as well as sticking out to the side at what should have been an impossible angle. She wore a black kimono with blue etchings of sakura petals along it and a white sash tied around it. And usually wore with it a blue outer coat with the kanji for "13" on the back of it. Her eyes would be amber in her youkai form and blue in her human form (that she was using less and less by day.)
Naru reached her destination and opened the doors watching as more of the smaller youkai in the kitchen immediately dropped whatever they were doing….Even if it was the plates…Maybe I should tone down the fear just a bit. Naru thought and then looked at their shocked expressions as they realized what happened. Nah was the next thought through her head after that.
"I just came by to tell you to make a huge feast tonight were celebrating." Naru said ignoring the damage to the room caused by their lack of concentration.
"Uh…yes of course-se mistress" the head chef stuttered out who was a large burly man with a chef's apron that had "kiss the cook" written on it he had a weird mustache that curved off his face and large eyebrows. One would just think he was just human if it wasn't for the four massive arms he had, a kitchen knife in each. "But may I ask what we're celebrating?"
"Ah yes well that party I sent out 2 years ago has finally returned." Naru answered back.
This was big news as it was the first mission that their mistress had ever ordered them to do and to see it successful was a sign of good luck and victory in ones future.
"That's great mistress will get right on it!" the head chef shouted enthusiastically as Naru left through the door she entered.
"Tell Shuruki when she comes by that I'm headed to Konoha for some business." Was all she said looking back before she left and didn't even walk five steps before disappearing and dissolving into shadow before scattering with the wind.
"Don't you hate it when she does that?" one of the smaller youkai in the room asked "always showing off." Another added the head chef then interrupted them.
"Get back to work! And don't disrespect Naru-sama like that she brought you all here and she can send you back with just one blow!"
"Hai" they all said in unison.
Naru walked down the main street of Konoha seeing but being unseen walking at a normal pace with not a soul around her even taking notice. She flashed ahead bypassing the large crowds on their way to buy from the various stalls. Various ANBU and ninja Jounins on duty didn't even notice a thing. She recognized some faces, some from the horrendous beatings she had endured as a child she had to hold herself back from slaughtering them on the spot. Calming herself with the mantra the night will come, the night will come. Other faceshowever brought with them good memories those that had showed her kindness and even respect on some occasions (although she didn't know why at the time.) The Ichirakus the owners of the ramen stand she visited as a child were they let her eat for free. Curiously however a few months ago they received a large sum of yen from a mysterious donor a large enough donation to expand their stand to a small restaurant. There was Iruka who had showed her kindness by convincing the elders to let her enroll in a ninja school (not that she ever did.)
But those two were it.
No one else had openly supported the "demon child" oh how right they were Naru thought she would make them pay it may take time but one day those that had wronged her would get back there beatings a hundred fold!, Believe it!
"Naru my dear please never say that again" Hagoromo spoke from within her head.
"Ok then how about….uh…Dattebayo then" Naru responded.
"Better but you could still work on it" Hagoromo stated before falling asleep again as if the sole reason she had gotten up was to prevent a potential disaster in the making.
Naru continued on to her destination without any further ponderings or interruptions and soon she was in front of her goal.
The hokage tower.
Getting into the hokages office wasn't hard when no one can see you. The real problem however was what she saw when she got there.
In the center of the room standing behind the hokages desk were two people. One of course being the sandaime hokage the other however being none other than the famed copycat ninja Hatake Kakashi. Kakashi was staring over the shoulder of the sandaime with a slight blush and a nosebleed (underneath his mask of course.) And old Sarutobi was also looking down enthralled with the book in his hands also sporting a nosebleed and a blush. What caught Narus attention the most however was the orange color of the book and the title reading ichi, ichi paradise volume 47. The two perverted men none the wiser that an invisible and powerful part human female youkai (as she was much more demon than human now) was about to do her part to strengthen the female's legendary brute power and worse than killer instincts when under the trance known and feared by all men as "righteous feminine fury."
Hagoromo herself was pissed at the two sooooooo it was not going to be a good day to be a man caught with one of those books.
Naru 'decloaked' and coughed somewhat obviously to get their attention.
Now Kakashi didn't get his rank as an ANBU captain in one of the most powerful ninja villages in the world by being weak but he definitely had a few weaknesses. Laziness being one the other well that was his perverseness And suddenly seeing what appeared to be a 24 year old woman just appear in the hokages office he took that as a sign but most definitely mistook it for the wrong one.
The god of perverts is smiling down upon me today! He thought before hearing a shout of "HEEEEENTTTTTTAAAAIIIII!" and then being punched in the face and sent back into and through the bookcase passing through the hokages secret vault of powerful scrolls (which also happened to contain a few more hidden Ichi, Ichis tucked away.) before hitting a 40 inch steeled plate that stopped him barely. The carnage would put Tsunades legendary pervert tosses to shame.
Now the sandaime may be a pervert but he wasn't that much of a pervert and although he knew and had experienced tales of righteous feminine fury before he knew that those powers did not include being able to materialize out of thin air. (At least he hoped.) So he took this threat seriously and called in his ANBU Kakashi recovering quickly (because the god of perverts did in fact feel sorry for him) Hagoromo made a mental note to kill that god whenever she got free.
All eyes were on the mysterious strangers sudden appearance the ANBU convinced they could take her if need be… Well that was until things got out of control. One rookie ANBU mistook a hand signal for attack and doomed most of the lives in the room to being crippled with his stupidity. Only a few were exempt from this the Hokage, Kakashi (because he had already pretty much been demoted to not a threat after his flight.) And the few female ANBU in the room who decided not to attack the stranger because of what she did to Kakashi… smart move.
The ANBU rookie charged in raising his sword to deliver a vertical slice which Naru easily sidestepped and caught with her hand before kicking him back and twisting the blade out of his hand. He staggered back before collapsing to the floor the kick was a bit more powerful then it looked apparently.
Another was prepared to engage in taijustsu and charged her when she just disappeared leaving no trace and confusing the other occupants of the room as they knew that was not a normal shunshin before reappearing behind the guy and throwing him out the window of the office. Somehow he lived albeit paralyzed.
The Last ANBU to attack activated his byakugan and then simply went comatose. Whatever he saw would only partially be explained to the nurses who cared for him as he shouted out as if in a nightmare about demons and the like.
"Now then" the mysterious and now revealed to be powerful stranger asked. "Do I have to attack anybody else in self-defense? Or can we talk like were civilized for a few minutes? I swear this village is full of hypocrites and fools."
"How dare you insult this village!" one of the female ANBU spoke up she had long hair and compared to the rest of the ANBU in the room you could easily tell she was a woman, despite the voice modulating seal on the mask. "We could crush you beneath are feet if we wished!" she yelled out not taking any more of this strangers attitude as she made a hand sign and her hair grew out and formed needle like spikes. (One of the few truly offensive jutsus she knew.) The rest of the room stared at them expecting another fight…but then something strange happened.
The stranger just cocked her head at her as if wondering something before grinning in a way that scared most of those in the room. "I like her…..can I keep her?" she asked in a sickly sweet tone "in fact now that I think about it that's the only way any of you are going to leave this room alive and no matter what….she" she said glaring at the ANBU "…is coming with me."
This caused another of the ANBU with a snake mask to take a step forward out of anger "How dare you demand things of the Hokage especially another human who do you think you are!"
This caused the stranger to start laughing well manically "hahahahahahahahaha! Oh I've been waiting for one of you to ask that question this whole time let me introduce myself." She paused as if part of the rulebook that you had to build up dramatic tension for the big reveal (seriously who's writing this?) The Hokage just watched curious about what could potentially be a great threat.
"My name is Naru Nuraihyon Uzumaki 13th heir of the Nura clan and the next lady of pandemonium." The hokage and most of the others just stared at her wide eyed this was little Naru the Naru who had supposedly died when she was 8 and no body was found?
"Unfortunately I know for a fact your lying" the hokage stated which made Naru curious "Naru Uzumaki died at that age of eight and you are much older then what she would be now. And I know for a fact she was no demon." Although they no longer feared them people still passed down the stories of the old youkai clans as mere fables to children these days.
The supposed Naru just had that creepy smile on her face again. "Really was a body ever found?" she asked curious.
"Well no…-" the hokage started.
"And did you know the only way to truly contain a powerful demon was to be one yourself if you weren't only madness can be born of it."
"Which you obviously are" the snake masked ANBU stated still protective of her friend.
The look in Naru's eyes would have killed a lesser person but the snake masked ANBU was used to things like that.
"And that a demon when they reach 13 has reached their full maturity?" Naru asked.
"Oh great she's stuck like this" the snake masked ANBU joked earning another glare. Naru continued as if the interruptions never happened.
"So do you have any counterpoints to these?" Naru asked curious to see if the hokage could think of more.
"Well no but that does not automatically make you her…-" Naru interrupted him.
"Honestly I don't care if you think I'm your great uncle however one thing you should learn and learn quickly is to fear me. You do not want me as your enemy now I came here for other matters but that can be discussed at a later time right now I will simply leave if you give me Kurenai over there."
"How do you know my name!" Kurenai shouted out.
"Why you just told me… I simply guessed from what I knew about you and having Anko there to protect you… there's few others she would stand up for."
Naru actually had small youkai running around the city gathering information and to be honest there wasn't much she didn't know about Konoha.
The two woman just growled at her seeing through their masks that had helped them detach themselves from who they really were saying their names was like breaking the enchantment. They couldn't go back.
"So then Sandaime you have my ultimatum either give me Kurenai over there or I kill everyone and take her with me anyway it's your choice" she said with a smug smile "I'll give you until nightfall to send her here," she said as she drew a point on a map she had seemingly got out of nowhere. She paused as if to give him time to understand "if you don't do this the consequences are simple."
"I will destroy Konoha."
And with that Naru dissolved into darkness and scattered across the winds.
Fear the new age
Chapter 1-3 Ultimatum
6 hours later….
Kurenai paced somewhat nervously across the forest floor in a clearing about 5 miles outside of Konoha thinking back to the encounter with the one that called herself 'the lady of pandemonium Naru Nuraihyon Uzumaki.' Kurenai could have sworn she knew that name and for some reason distinctly remembered a little 6 year old girls face but pushed that aside for the moment. And then of course there was that ridiculous request of the sandaime.
It had been a few minutes of silence after Naru left before the sandaime finally spoke up.
"Kurenai I need you to get to the point marked on this map"
"W-what?" Both Kurenai and Anko stammered out before their minds caught up with them. "You're actually going through with that things request?" Both of them could tell through what you might call a gut instinct that told them that Naru was more than just some 20 year old woman on a power trip. They didn't know what it was but something disturbed them when they were around her and when she left they had started to recover. It was almost like some chilling fear had gripped them.
"Don't get me wrong" the sandaime retorted. "I'm not sending you over there as some sort of sacrificial lamb you're going undercover." He paused to take a puff of his pipe. "We need to know more about these 'people' and if there is another rogue clan wandering about that's gutsy enough to take on that name then we should tread carefully." The two ANBU nodded before the sandaime continued "Therefore Kurenai I'm sending you on a double S class mission you are to infiltrate their base of operations and to send back weekly reports on their numbers, strength and anything else that might be important. As a safe word in your letters simply add in 'sparrow' we shall come and extract you as soon as possible." Kurenai nodded understanding her mission before Anko and she were dismissed. After that Kurenai had packed up taking anything she thought might be useful. And Anko met her at the gate for a short goodbye on what could have been her most difficult mission yet.
Than just like that Kurenai left nobody truly knowing if she'd ever be back.
Well one person knew.
So here she was shuffling nervously as she waited for whoever they were sending to arrive wondering why they couldn't have set a more specific time then nightfall. Then finally someone or more accurately something appeared on the edge of the clearing.
There standing in front of Kurenai was a woman in a black robe with her hood up masking everything about her face except a shimmer of silver and her eyes.
That were glowing green.
Kurenai was a little unnerved now as a kid growing up she had heard stories of youkai and how you could always know when you were around one just by the air. Sure the woman that had broken into the hokages office had basically called herself a demon and shown some weird powers but Anko and she had thought it was just an act.
Now however Kurenai wasn't so sure.
"Hello" an elegant voice called out from the stranger. "My name is Shuruki and I am here to guide you to the current residence of the Nura clan." She stated as if this was all business before adding "please follow me." With that Shuruki took off at a relatively fast speed supposedly so Kurenai could follow easier. Kurenai had a moment's hesitation before taking off to follow.
Nobody noticed the fallen bodies of the ANBU that were asked to trail them.
It was another 4 hours before they reached the Nura compound whether it was just that far away or because they had looped around Kurenai didn't know. The clan home of the Nura looked like most other clan homes Kurenai had ever seen and despite a few aesthetic differences it looked about the same as the Namikaze clan home back in Konoha.
Shuruki stopped at the gate before cutting herself and smearing blood along it. There was a shimmer in the air just then before Shuruki motioned her to follow. What Kurenai saw next she would never forget.
Standing right in front of her as if it was perfectly normal of them was a large group of what could best be described as something out of Kutenai's childhood nightmares. Although they weren't doing the normal things her dreams conjured up, as they were just sitting around talking to each other about the weather and normal things like that, and how they were excited for this big party coming up for some sort of "accomplishment" by some group of them. Oddly enough staring at them Kurenai felt some odd sort of nostalgia as if she had seen this all before, which she was sure she hasn't. But no matter what Kurenai couldn't shake that feeling and now that she looked at them more closely she could tell that somehow her nightmares had been spot on.
Pushing aside that odd fact Kurenai continued to follow Shuruki passing a nearby wilted sakura tree that Kurenai felt almost sorry for.
On closer inspection of the tree she noticed that someone or thing was sitting on top of one of the sturdier looking branches looking out at the nearby forest. The person seemed to sense their presence as she (as Kurenai could now tell) nodded to Shuruki who simply bowed and walked off towards her room. The woman slowly (as if grudgingly) got off the tree, Kurenai then saw that it was the woman who had broken into the hokages office earlier that day.
"So the sandaime took up my proposal out of the goodness of his heart for the village no?" Naru asked in a sarcastic tone, Kurenai prepared to speak up before Naru beat her to it. "Don't try to fool me I know he would have sent you here on the basis of getting information, unfortunately that's not going to happen." She stated in a manner of fact tone.
"Really and what makes you think all that?" Kurenai stated calmly as if she hadn't just been charged with espionage, inside however Kurenai was sweating bullets.
"Well no matter what if you were coming here he would want you to gather as much information as possible no one could be thick enough not to see that." Kurenai just stared at her blankly not saying a word. "Then there's the matter that the hokage is too soft hearted for his own good he wouldn't just send people to the enemy if he could avoid it." Naru continued.
"But don't worry I have no intention of stopping you from sending out as many letters as you want it really doesn't bother me and if you could arrange a date for me to meet with the hokage again that would save me some time."
Kurenai just stared blankly at her yet again completely stumped here this person wanted to be spied on? That just wasn't right but Kurenai knew she wasn't going to get more answers so she said nothing.
Naru turned her back to her before saying "Your room will be the last one on the right next to the dojo you can rest up and I would be delighted if you would come to a clan dinner tonight were having a bit of a celebration the more the merrier." With that Naru scattered to the winds in her usual fashion leaving Kurenai and the various youkai about all thinking the same thing simultaneously.
"Damn! I want to know how she does that."
Naru woke up 20 minutes before the "celebrations" started and cleaned herself up and pulling on her new robes. They were remarkably similar to the old ones and the only difference between them being the main fabric as the old robes were black this was a sort of divine silver (if Naru had to name the color) Just to scare Kurenai a bit Naru decided to transform into a human. Temporarily of course after she had spoken to Kurenai she would give her the shock of her life. (Hey she did have a fox inside her and the original lord or lady just saying of pandemonium right?) Hagoromo mentally agreed with her host even through all the extenuating circumstances a prank was a prank you couldn't pass it up.
Naru entered the dining room and quite a few heads turned towards her most wondering why she was in her human form at a time like this. Kurenai who had been sitting quietly up until that point chose then to speak up.
"Okay this is ridiculous you're letting a 12 year old run around here?" Kurenai asked angrily ready to protect the kid if necessary.
"13 actually" the girl said in a surprisingly mature tone.
"Oh sorry that one year makes all the difference does it?" Kurenai asked again in a mocking tone.
"Yes it does" The girl said before a swirl of pure darkness surrounded her flowing like a small hurricane before a fully youkaized Naru emerged. "You'd be surprised how much of a difference one year could make."
Kurenai just stared in shock; that little girl was actually Naru?
Naru stepped forward and apologized for her lateness before sitting at the head of the table and taking a sip from a large bowl of sake before passing it along to Mazuki who then passed it down to Shuruki and so on until it finally came to Kurenai. Naru spoke up.
"I would be honored if you drank from that bowl of course you don't have to but you will eventually I'll be honest with you it's a way to signify rank around the table and is currently at about 80:20 my way in other words all those that drink from it signify their loyalty to me and the Nura clan."
Kurenai stared at the bowl for a split second wondering what to do should she just pass it on? Or should she try to gain there trust by drinking from it. When it came down to it, it was simply a choice between keeping her pride or keeping with the mission no doubt Naru knew that however this was some sort of test to see Kurenai's behavior.
In the end Kurenai decided that trying to fit in better to a group of demons was the better choice over her pride in this case and drank from the bowl.
So she wants to be accepted more than keeping her reputation? Naru thought that's interesting. She stored that information for a later time and watched as the bowl was passed down to the last few at the table who happened to be the reconnaissance party.
They all wore grey cloaks similar to Shuruki's but the inside of their hoods were pitch black and if one were to remove the hood they would be sucked into oblivion from staring at vast emptiness. These were the headless priests of Maknor. A minor somewhat grey deity who created a surprisingly effective fighting force of well headless monks. After the last one had finished his drink the party leader started talking as if he wasn't missing his head.
"Mistress it has been too long" it said in a gravelly voice.
"That is understandable as I know the object I asked you to track down was well hidden Fuzaki." Naru responded in voice and tone that would have many politicians waiting on her every word.
Kurenai paid attention to this as this seemed to be extremely important.
Oh how right she was.
"Yes mistress the sword you asked for is right here." He patted on a vaguely sword shaped brown cloth covered object.
"May I see it?" Naru asked.
"Of course" he grabbed the cloth and began to walk to Narus position at the head of the table. When he was a step away from her however… well things took a turn for the worse.
For one of them anyway.
Suddenly Fuzaki had unwrapped the blade and swung it at Narus head.
"It will be the last thing you ever see!"
In the brief instance the sword was out Kurenai got a good look at it. The blade was pure black like the color of obsidian but had golden markings running along the length of what appeared to be a nodachi the hilt was a simple one looking ordinary and also black in color. Simply put the nodachi was an elegantly simple sword with style.
Unfortunately that was all the time Kurenai had to see it as it came down on the position where Naru should have been.
Care to guess what was wrong with that last sentence?
The blade sliced through nothing but air leaving a confused Fuzaki behind it.
Missing his arms.
"Like I said before to Kurenai-san" Naru said her voice ringing out from nowhere until she rematerialized behind the now armless corpse of Fuzaki. She was speaking as if this was the most annoying thing in the world. "You'd be surprised how much of a difference one year could make."
Naru threw away the blade she had grabbed from some random youkai at the table and picked up the one Fuzaki had tried to behead her with.
(Hey maybe he just wanted someone to talk to about his lot in life?)
She examined the blade as dark shadows like the ones that swarmed around Naru (like when she disappeared) flew across it as if reacting to her and accepting her powers as an equal match for its own.
Naru sheathed her new sword in a holster slung sideways across her back before turning back to the rest of the youkai (and Kurenai) that were assembled. "Sooooooo" she drawled out in a childish tone that definitely did not fit that of one who had just killed someone. "Anybody else want to try that?"
The rest of the Youkai stepped back in fear before managing to stumble out "no mistress!" Naru simply smirked in then looked over in Kurenais direction her face changing into an impassive wall, her eyes becoming steeled over with confidence in her ability to kill and kill again. Naru spoke again in a tone that left no room to dodge around the question.
"And what will you do Kurenai?"
Kurenai was shocked this girl…..no this demon had just killed someone even if it was a demon... sure she had already seen her harm others but not kill even if it was in self-defense it was too quick too clean she had been prepared for it. And those eyes left no room to say she wouldn't do it again.
Kurenai was suddenly overcome with fear she needed to get out of here but before she could take a single step she was enveloped in blackness and like that Kurenai was out like a light.
Naru looked down at the unconscious form of Kurenai she had seen the decision in Kurenais eyes and moved to stop her she couldn't let her get away. She asked one of her lieutenants still seated "How much longer until the room is prepared?"
"It should be done by tonight my lady."
"Good and let that" she said pointing to the corpse of Fuzaki "be a lesson to all who even think to go against me."
They all looked at the corpse of Fuzaki staring at the once semi-dead team leader, who was now fully dead. "Yes mistress!" they all said in unison no one wanting to upset her currently especially now that she had that sword. She nodded and they all left taking that as a sign of dismissal. A smaller Youkai obviously built for lifting walked in and grabbed Kurenai taking her to her room not daring to meet eyes with his leader.
Naru took one last glance at the body of Fuzaki before turning away and walking in the general direction of a tree that was very important to her. Her mind truly not knowing what she was doing just that her feet wanted to take her there.
She reached the Sakura tree noticing that some of its previous color from her mind had been restored. Shaking it off as her imagination Naru settled into the branches.
There would be no talks with Hagoromo that night nor nightmares or dreams of her past.
Just the one thing Naru needed.
Simple pure sleep.
Fear the new age
Chapter 1 End
So what did you think? From now on I'm doing 10k chapters that includes my previous fic that all probably revise if people want to read it. Please review I want to know if people are actually reading this garbage and do give me some help on what I'm doing wrong. How else can I make a kick A$~ fic that the community wants to read if you won't help me build it? As you can tell I like humor and so even the darkest of scenes in my stories will have some humor in them. And honestly in this case both Nura and Naruto are very humorous at times so combining them is like making a blender with the power of a hurricane. (Especially to my insane mind)
Do you like the way the story is laid out? What parts did you like most? If any? Are you magic? If so I demand you make a bunny appear in my room! Do you like the personality I gave Naru? Can you even tell what kind of personality she has?
As you (hopefully) can tell I'm sort of going for a begrudging and sometimes non-working semi mentor student thing between enemies that are Naru and Hagoromo sort of like a enemies turned ally's situation. And Naru will be strong but not always god like she will be more like a patient strategist who waits to make her move.
Also if there looks to be text errors on the page I'm not sure why but sometimes it just happens if it seems like sections are missing or just plain messed up please tell me.
With regards Isee.
p.s. I'm still waiting for my rabbit.