In a fine looking bar located within Konoha, we see only one patron sitting at a back table, eating a pizza slice by slice, and at the same, writing on a laptop between bites. The patron stops his typing, and turns toward the audience, revealing Baron von Nobody, his mask half on his face for consumption of the Pizza.
"Well… I did not expect to see you all here…" He finishes off his last slice, gulping it down in one bite, and then adjusts his mask over his face, completely covering it. "Well… since you are all here… pull up a chair as I regale you with a tale of life, adventure, horror, and romance…" Suddenly turns his Laptop toward the audience, making the screen visible. "I must admit… I'm not really finished yet… so may be left with cliffhangers here and there… and of course, it is a Naruto story…
"Anyway… This particular tale is about Naruto after the 4th great Shinobi war... Now… Have you ever had a nightmare where you almost died? Some say that if you die in a nightmare, you die for real… In this tale, Naruto is haunted by ghastly nightmares that frighten even him, and is forced to endure his own private hell session, or die in the process… Meanwhile, he is visited by a woman who could literately be the woman of dreams… The question is, will Naruto be able escape this nightmare, or will his efforts amount to nothing… You'll have to wait and see… now… on with the show!"
-PRoLoGue-
FiRST PuZZLe
Naruto awoke with a start. Opening his eyes, he looked to see himself in a dreary looking hallway, the walls a putrid color of green and reddish-pink along with white in some areas.
"What the…? How did I get here?" He stated, looking around. He looked up and saw a black abyss that went on forever, yet seemed like a black ceiling, nothing in sight to prove otherwise.
"What is this place?" He asked. He then checked himself to see if he was still alive, only to be shocked that on the top of his head were two fox-like ears. To add to his panic, he felt something moving behind him, and looked to see a set of nine tails swaying back and forth in different directions. Also, the fact that he was dressed in his pajamas, his night cap on top of his head with the fox ears poking out, also threw him off.
"Eh? What the..? Why do I have… don't tell me… does Kurama have something to do with this?"
"My… how very interesting... we haven't had a Jinchuuriki come into here for quite a while…" an echoic voice rang out.
"Huh? Who said that? Who's out there?" Naruto cried out.
"Let's see if you can make it tonight… try and stay alive, little Kitsune… Heheheh"
"What the…? What's that all about?" Naruto asked, looking around.
"Hey fox!" a voice cried out.
"Huh?"
"Not that it's my concern, but you're standing there like a dumbass… if you want to live then get moving…" drawled a lazy toned voice.
"Huh? What do you mean if I want to live?" Naruto yelled out.
"We're in a maze right now… as we speak, the outer part of this maze is disappearing. The only way out of the maze is to either fall to your death when the maze vanishes, or reach the exit in the center of the maze… that is, if you are interested in living … otherwise, go ahead stand there like an idiot…" the voice explained.
"Wait… Fall to my death?" Naruto cried out.
"I am not going to get myself killed playing 20 questions with you… look, if you make it, I'll explain more to you later…" the voice stated, the sound of someone running following after.
"Hey! Wait up!" Naruto cried, following after the voice, hoping to out run whatever was coming. He ran down the hallway until he came upon a turn on his right. Seeing as the other side of the wall was where the voice had come from, Naruto decided to take this turn. As he looked around, he saw another hallway that looked just as creepy and disgusting as the last one. Not seeing the voice from earlier, he took a closer look at the wall, finding it to be sort of fleshy looking. Out of curiosity, Naruto decided to touch it, and much to his shock, the wall was like flesh.
"Okay, that is just plain creepy…" Naruto stated, deciding to continue forward. What he didn't notice though was the spot where he touched the wall suddenly began to shift and move, and soon a bulge formed in the wall, forming a face soon followed by hands, and to finish it off, legs. Out of the wall crawled out a body that was completely nude, but genderless. The thing's eye lids and mouth were sealed shut, along with any other orifice on the body, but that was soon not the case as the creature began to try and force its mouth open, the sound of flesh ripping as it finally succeeded, gasping in a huge breath, its breathing raspy. This was soon followed by the eyes next, forcing the fleshy lids to tear apart and open fully, revealing red glowing eyes. The head and face began to re-shift and reshape into something more or less human looking. Behind this creature, another one came out of the wall as well, followed by one next to it, and soon, more began to drag themselves out of the wall on both sides.
Naruto continued to walk, when he suddenly began to hear something from behind him. At first, it sounded like whispers and mumbles, but then he began to make out the words being spoken as it got closer.
"Kyuuuubi Braaaaaaaat…" "Deeeemooooon…" "Mooooonsssteeeerrrr…"
He turned around, and to his shock, he saw hobbling to him these creatures that were nude and thin looking, with skin tones similar to the walls. However, what really got him were the faces of the creatures moving toward him, as they resembled the villagers who used to give him a hard time before he became the Hero of Konoha.
"What in the Hell?" He cried out, wondering what he was looking. He didn't know what they wanted, but by their appearance, and their words, he would assume they were definitely not friendly. He attempted to count how many there were in that hallway and he managed to count up to 30 before losing count, and decided to settle with their being a lot of them in the hall. "Alright then… let's see how you like this… Shadow Clone Jutsu!" He yelled out, as he put his hands in the Ram hand sign. To his surprise, nothing happened.
"Eh? What the…? Shadow Clone Jutsu!" He attempted again, only for the same results to happen, except the creatures were even closer than before. "Ah crap! Shadow Clone Jutsu! Shadow Clone Jutsu! Shadow Clone Jutsu!" He chanted in a panic, rapidly forming the hand sign over and over again. "Oh crap! Oh crap! Oh CRAP!" At this point, the creatures were near about upon him, and in his shock and surprise, he ended up stumbling backwards.
"Deeeemooooonnnn!" They were a mere few feet away, and Naruto was in shock, his hands still trying to perform a Jutsu, any Jutsu, that could work, but had no success.
Just before the zombie like creatures could reach Naruto, he suddenly felt something grab him by his tail, and pull him up.
"Look man, not that it is any of my concern, but I really wouldn't want to get caught by these things if I were you…" the lazy voice from before said, Naruto now being dragged along by the tail, unable to see his rescuer from behind him.
"It's you, the guy from before! What is going on?" Naruto yelled out.
"No time to talk, I'll explain if we can make it to a place less populated by Undead…" The voice stated, letting Naruto's tail go. Taking that as his cue, Naruto got to his feet, spun around, and blindly followed behind the stranger, adrenaline from the moment causing him to not bother seeing his face.
Naruto saw that they ran out of the hallway, and turned down another corridor, the zombies hot on their tail, so to speak. Suddenly, the whole place began to shake.
"Crap, we got to hurry to the next section! We're almost there!" The stranger stated. They both saw another pass, this one with an archway, and quickly jumped for it. No sooner had they jumped for did the shaking stop, and suddenly, the corridor they were both in suddenly fall apart, dropping the Zombies behind them into the abyss, Naruto's eyes watching in surprise. "Phew… that was close…" the stranger stated, whipping his brow.
"Yeah… thanks for the assist… I owe you… what?" Naruto said, as he finally gotten a good look at his ally. It was what looked like a red-eyed Sheep, only with black arms and black legs, his limbs covered with ancient mythical creature tattoos, a phoenix and a tiger on his arms, and a dragon and a turtle on his legs. He also had giant goat like horns on his head and had a dark colored fleece of wool on his body. "Whoa… what are you, a sheep summon?" Naruto asked.
"Sheep summon? Aside from the horns on my head, I'm just a normal looking man, it is everyone else that looks like sheep… though I have to admit, you're the first fox I've seen in here…" the tattooed sheep stated, taking out a cigarette and lighting it soon after. He then got back up, and began to continue to walk, moving down the new corridor.
'O-kay… a delusional sheep… I can deal with that…' Naruto thought to himself. "Hey wait up… where are we? What is going on? And how did we get here?" Naruto asked.
The sheep sighed out a puff of smoke, keeping his face forward. "I'll answer one question, but then we got to keep moving before this section falls off. Where we are, well, we're kind of dreaming a shared nightmare…"
"Eh? So I'm just dreaming? That's a relief… so it won't matter if I die, I'll just wake up…" Naruto commented, wiping his brow in relief.
"Oh yeah, it's quite a relief… besides the fact that if you die in this nightmare, you die for real… but if you want to test that theory out for yourself, be my guest…" The tattooed sheep stated, breathing out another puff of smoke.
At that mention, Naruto got up and ran up beside the Sheep. "What do mean I'll die for real?"
"Sigh… think of it like Genjutsu… if your mind thinks you're dead, you're dead for real… simple as that… or at least, I think it is, never experienced it myself, nor do I want to…" The sheep stated.
"Damn it, I'm no good with Genjutsu…"Naruto commented.
The two then pass under an archway, and then the tattooed sheep goes into a full sprint run. "No time to talk, time to get moving… I'm not going to stick around and hold your hand and risk getting myself killed… from here to the center platform, you're on your own!"
"Wait! I'm not done asking questions!" Naruto yelled.
"Survive, and I might fill you in!" The sheep finished, turning another corner.
"But where do I find the center platform?" Naruto yelled back, but got no response. "Damn it… alright; better get moving I guess…" he walks out of the archway, and suddenly gets an idea. "Hey… maybe I should try to climb these walls…" Naruto moved to one of the walls, attempting to grab the fleshy wall and scale it. The moment he did though, an arm reached out for him, causing him to fall back on his rear. The arm reached for him for a moment, before trying push off the wall, something climbing out.
"Gah!" Naruto almost panicked, but steeled himself, got to his feet, and began to run, multiple arms reaching for him on both sides of the wall. Naruto managed to turn another corner, finding a forked corridor. He went to go left, but as he did, he found that direction of the hallway filled with the zombie like creatures, only some of them were carrying broken Sake bottles.
"What the? Where the hell did they get those! Oh wait, nightmare, right…" Naruto muttered, and began running down the other way, hands popping out and reaching for him down this hall. At some points, he had to avoid being stabbed or shanked by the broken bottles being wielded by the hands on the walls. Putting his all into his legs, Naruto ran as fast as someone without chakra could, hearing the zombies repeating the same words over and over again.
"Kyuuuubi Braaaaaaaat…" "Deeeemooooon…" "Mooooonsssteeeerrrr…" Naruto went to turn a corner, when suddenly…
*Thud*
Naruto suddenly bumped into someone. He looked up in time to see another man-like-sheep, this one wearing a yellow merchant's vest, and had a lighter fleece of wool.
"Hey buddy, watch where you're going!" The Merchant like sheep yelled, and pushed past Naruto, turning the corner Naruto just came from.
"Hey Wait! Don't go that way!" Naruto yelled out to him, but it was too late, as suddenly…
"AHHH!" There was a scream, followed by a squelching sound, and a small puddle of blood pooling on the ground. Taking this as a cue, Naruto high tailed it, not bothering to look to see the fate of the unfortunate soul who ran to his death. Unfortunately, as Naruto went to turn another corner, he found out why the merchant sheep was running in the opposite direction, as he almost ran into another horde of civilian like zombies, some of them also wielding broken bottles, but also wielding club like sticks and sharp rocks.
"Oh shit…" Naruto muttered, remembering how easily the sheep was torn apart by these things. He went to turn to run, but found all visible exits to be blocked off by the civilian zombies. He backed into the wall, sweat coming down his face.
"Kyuuuubi Braaaaaaaat…" "Deeeemooooon…" "Mooooonsssteeeerrrr…"
"If only I had my chakra… grr…" Naruto was about to get ready to fight, when he suddenly heard a click sound, and he suddenly fell through the wall behind him. Naruto rolled head over heels for a bit, but quickly recovered, landing on his feet. He saw that the passageway was accessible and open for the zombie like creatures, and so, didn't choose to stand and ponder, but instead choose to run and ponder, running down a cleared corridor. 'I can't believe this… you mean to tell me there were hidden passages in this place, and I never bothered to notice it… damn it, I am a sucky Ninja! I could have used that information a while back!' Naruto berated himself. "No time to beat yourself up! Got to keep moving to stay alive!"
"Kyuuuubi Braaaaaaaat…" "Deeeemooooon…" "Mooooonsssteeeerrrr…"
The moaning jeer was starting to get to him, more on the pissing him off getting to him then the saddening him type of getting to him. It was as if these things had nothing better to say then insults that would have stung him way back when he was a child, but now that he was full grown adult, only annoyed him. In fact, now that he got a good look at them, the zombie civilians would probably be what the civilians of Konoha would look like if they had ever decided to gather together to form a mob, and also if they were repulsive nude corpses. These things were obviously trying to target him mentally as well as physically, for as a child, one of his greater fears was if the civilians ever had decided to lash out at him and attack him. Fortunately, that never had happened, and the civilians had settled for ignoring him or giving him glares, over pricing him at markets, or subtly sabotaging him.
Suddenly, the ground began to shake just like when the maze had fallen last time. Finding no sign of any of the archways that signified the split in the mazes, Naruto began to realize that he had wasted too much time, and if he didn't do something, he was going to fall with this maze into that black abyss he saw earlier.
"Damn it all! I have no time to solve this puzzle shit!" Naruto then suddenly turned around, and ran straight toward one of the Zombie Civilians, and punched it right in the face. Despite not having chakra, Naruto still had a good left hook. As the Zombie was falling backwards, Naruto run up its body, stepping down on its face, and then jumped to another zombie's head. He continued to do this rapidly, avoiding any that were wielding a weapon, and stepped stoned on their heads until he reached the top edge of the wall. Using the wall as a vantage point, he over looked the entire maze, which was huge, and saw the center platform that was mentioned, many red carpeted stairs adorning its entrances. Smiling, he quickly ran along the wall, taking the quickest routes toward the center, jumping when needed.
"This is more like it… this solving stuff crap is more Shikamaru's stuff. Simple and plain is fine for me…" Naruto commented, hurrying his pace toward the red carpeted stairs. He quickly jumped for the stairs, and just as he touched the stone floor, the entire maze that surrounded the center platform crumbled and fell into the abyss, what looked like other sheep falling down as well. Naruto sighed in relief, grateful to have survived, even if this was just a dream, if a very vivid one. He turned toward the center platform, and took his first step onto the red carpeted incline; he could suddenly feel his body being empowered again, his chakra slowly returning.
"Ah man, this is much better… Yeah!" Naruto stated, throwing some punches in the air as if to test it out. All his chakra didn't return all at once, but it was a potential amount, and slowly growing. Now he could at least focus chakra into his body or perform a transformation if he needed to.
"Hmm... I wonder if I can access Kurama's chakra…" Naruto then began to focus, looking inside himself for any sign of the 9-tailed Kitsune inside of him. To his shock, there was no sign of the Kyuubi anywhere inside of him. "Huh? What the…?" He then remembered the fox like features on his body, mainly the tails and ears. "I wonder if the way I look has something to do with the fox's absence…" He shook his head. "No time to think about that now… got to get out of here first!" He then began to ascend the red carpeted stairs, his chakra slowly returning to his body, strengthening him.
When he made it to the top of the stairs, he saw that the entire platform was covered by the red carpet, and that the only one there was the tattooed sheep from earlier.
"Well, what you know… you're alive… hooray for you… you're not as dumb as you look…" The sheep stated in a lazy drawled tone.
"Alright, time to explain… what is going on?" Naruto yelled.
"As I mentioned earlier… we are in a dream… think of this as some sort of test I guess…" the sheep answered.
"What for?" Naruto asked.
"The hell I know… I know very little about what is going on as well… all I know is that this is a dream, and whatever happens, if we die in here, we die for real…" The sheep mentioned.
*Dong!* *Dong!* *Dong!*
A loud dinging of a large bell rang throughout the abyss, like the bell of a monastery.
"Oh my… only two made it tonight? Oh unfortunate for the others… oh well…" The echoic voice from before rang out through the abyss.
"Who the hell are you? Are you the one responsible for us being here?" Naruto yelled out.
"I'm afraid you're going to have to wait for that answer until later… if you live that long… for now, it is almost time to wake up… let's see if you two can last that long… good luck!"
Suddenly, a giant ornate clock appeared over their heads, the picture of a moon on the bottom half of the clock, the top half a picture resembling the sun, a digital clock in the center of the hands. The hands on the clock began moving counterclockwise, and the digital clock began to count down from 10:00:00.
*Dong!*
9:59:29
Suddenly, a moaning sound was heard, and Naruto turned to see that from the stairways, the civilian Zombies were climbing up the steps, brandishing their broken bottles, sharp rocks, and clubs.
"Oh crap… these guys again?" Naruto yelled.
"And there is more of them than last time… whoop de doo… " The sheep sarcastically cheered with little enthusiasm.
"Just try and clear this area before waking up… I dare you…" The voice taunted.
"Ah man… there is so many of them… alright… let's hope I got enough of my chakra back to do this… Shadow Clone Jutsu!" Suddenly, in a large puff of smoke, a ring of 10 Naruto's appeared, surrounding both Naruto and the tattooed sheep, covering them both from all sides.
"Huh… nice to know you're not completely useless…" the sheep stated. Suddenly, the sheep brought up his arm that had the tiger tattoo on it, slammed it into the ground, and when he brought it back up, he had a gauntlet made of rock with three stone blades attached, giving it a claw like look.
The Naruto clones charged forward, the only real strategy was to take as many of the zombie civilians down before going poof, or to protect the original Naruto. As one, they charged forward, their hands their only weapon. One clone gave a good hard punch to one zombie's face, and then followed up with sweep kicking down and then grabbing it by the ankles and swings it around like a fleshy club, taking out 3 more Zombies. He then proceeds to take the one in his grasp, and bash its head against the red floor, popping it open like a pumpkin.
The tattooed sheep didn't hide behind the Naruto clones, and jumped over the meager defense, charging for one Zombie in the back ground. With ease, his stone clawed hand decapitated the head of three zombies in his passing, and then twisting around, he gouged the bladed stone into the chest of another one behind him. He lifted it off the ground, the zombie still trying to attack him with a sharp rock, and then tossed it into the head of another zombie approaching him, slamming their skulls together.
As for one of the Naruto clones, he jumped into the air of another zombie, avoiding getting shank by a broken bottle, and grabbed the zombies head during his fall, and slammed it into the ground, crushing it with ease.
One zombie broke through the Naruto clone defense, running for the real Naruto with a sharp rock, when Naruto caught the hand holding the rock, and then kicked the zombie into the air, the sharp rock falling out of its hands. The zombie floated in the air for a bit, but soon, a bunch of Naruto clones jumped into it, and finally slammed it into the ground. The real Naruto then picked up the sharp rock, and decided to use it as a makeshift Kunai, and to help out, he performed another Shadow Clone Jutsu summoning 5 of him this time, each with a Sharp rock to use. They all charged forward, slashing at any zombie that was in their way.
3:15:13
For almost five minutes did the Zombie horde last against the combined efforts of Naruto and the tattooed sheep. All around the two combatants, 1000s of zombie corpses lined the area. Naruto, having only half his chakra fully return, was almost disappointed that the zombie like creatures didn't last for as long as the timer. Okay, sure, they were persistent to the point of annoying due to being able to take a few hits without dying, able to feel no pain, and were able to keep moving when limbs were decapitated. The only easy part of it was the fact they had no sense of self preservation, and they had the strength of a very strong civilian, not really making them a threat.
"Man… that was pathetic… these guys aren't as scary when you got your chakra back!" Naruto boasted.
"Don't get to cocky yet… this is a survival challenge… and we still have only 3 minutes to go… I'm guessing their going to send something else out now…" The sheep stated.
What neither of them noticed was that the zombie parts were starting to move, and were slowly putting themselves together…
"Hee… Man, with our combined strength, we'll be able to take on anything sent our wa…!"
*Crash**Squelch*
Suddenly, a giant bleeding skinless hand appeared and dropped down right on top of Naruto, effectively squashing him. The giant hand raised off the ground, revealing Naruto, his body covered in blood and flat to the ground, his bones crumbled or sticking out of his flesh, and his eyes were hollow and his expression shocked, showing signs that Naruto was dead.
Suddenly, one of Naruto's 9 tails disintegrated, and when it was completely gone, the hand came back down on Naruto, as if in reverse, and then when it lifted back up, it showed Naruto completely unharmed and with one less tail on his person. When time stopped rewinding, Naruto's eyes quickly flashed with realization, and he quickly jumped out of the way of the incoming giant bloody hand, avoiding getting crushed.
"What the, did… did I just…" Naruto questioned.
"Die? Yes… in fact, you were a bloody mess… and then your tail disappeared, and everything went backwards, and you came out all peaches and sunshine… not a bad trick you got there…" The sheep lazily intoned. "By the way… not that it's my concern, but you're missing a tail… and there is the matter of the thing that now killed you…"
Naruto would have taken noticed to his tail, but he quickly turned his attention to the other thing currently occupying the area. It was huge; it looked like the upper half of a human put through a shredder and survived. Upon a closer look and observation, one could see it was actually made up of a bunch of the zombie's body parts linked together to form one big bloody looking body, some of the pieces falling off from time to time.
Amalgamation Beast, Nightmare Monster of the First Puzzle…
"You two survived the army, but now you have to survive the nightmare… good luck…" The voice stated sarcastically.
2:48:09
The beast roared, blood and miscellaneous body parts flying from its mouth toward the two. To avoid getting seriously injured, the two jumped out of the way of the body part blast, avoiding getting hit.
"Alright ugly, let's see how you like this! Multi Shadow Clone Jutsu!"
In multiple puffs of smoke, a whole horde of Naruto's appeared, all of them wielding the sharps stones, ready to retaliate against the beast. The amalgamation roared out at the large crowd, and began to swipe its gigantic claws at the clones, destroying them upon impact.
The tattooed sheep jumped into the air, and brought the arm with the phoenix tattoo forward. Suddenly, a ball of flame began to gather in his hand from the very tattoo on his arm, and when it was sizable enough, he aimed it toward the large beast and unleashed a stream of fire upon the creature, striking it at its face. The creature roared as it was engulfed in the flames, but then suddenly, a giant burnt decaying arm reached out from the inferno, and grasped the tattooed sheep, halting the flames.
"Gah!" The sheep gasped in pain, as he felt his body begin to get crushed under the force of the beast's grip. Suddenly, a bunch of Naruto's jumped up onto the arm, and began to hack at the fingers in the hopes to save the sheep.
"YAH!" The Naruto's yelled. They stabbed and slashed at the limb, but soon came to realize it wasn't one being, but a multiple of zombie parts put together, and thus, they couldn't get it the giant arm to let go. "Damn it… if only I had my proper gear!" He looked to the sheep, who was greatly struggling. Suddenly, there was the sound of a blade, and then it was followed by three stone blades sticking out of the hand, which then moved with great speed, severing all the fingers that were holding the sheep in place, revealing that the sheep had used the stone claws again. Suddenly, the sheep dropped to one knee, heavily breathing.
"*Huff* well, that was close, I guess… but damn, that used a lot of chakra…" The sheep stated. Before he could do anything else though, the remains of the large hand were about to drop down on top of him, but he was suddenly pushed aside by one of Naruto's clones. "Huh… thanks … guess that makes us even…" The sheep stated in a bored tone.
"This thing just won't go down. Every time we hit it, it rejuvenates. We need to hit it with something hard!" Naruto yelled.
"Do you happen to have anything like that?" The sheep asked.
"I do, but I don't have enough chakra to use it…" Naruto said.
"Well, in that case… do you think you can have your clones try and disorient it, or at least knock it off balance?" Asked the sheep.
The Naruto's then stared at the amalgamation, and then gave a smirk. "Not a problem… distraction is my specialty… CHARGE!" one of the Naruto yelled, and all at once, the army charged for the beast, the nightmare thrashing about at the clones, dispelling many of them, but the rest jumping and clinging to what could considered its multiple body parts, being swung around but not letting go.
As the clones held firm to this beast, the tattooed sheep lifted his leg with the tortoise tattoo up, and suddenly kicked it up, aiming it toward the beast, keeping balanced to not fall. He then began to focus his energy, a slight strain appearing on his sheep like face. When his red eyes opened, they focused solely not on the creature before him, or even the clones being battered around, but focused past them, and beyond them, as if looking at something on a mental level. He then dropped his leg down, and the moment he did, red liquid began to spurt out of the ground, and widened until it was a wave.
"The ground is covered in blood… guess it's time to wash it away. HEY KID… IF YOU'RE IN THAT HUGE GROUP, I'D CONSIDER MOVING! Unless you want to drown in blood, then go ahead and stay where you're at!" The sheep yelled out, and then launched the wave forward, the tide growing larger as it progressed toward the beast and clones. Instantly, the other Naruto's reacted, jumping clear of the bloody water's path. The red wave rammed right into the beast, pushing it back to the edge, but the creature held its ground, staying on the platform, and even began to try and retaliate against the water.
"Go down already you bastard!" cried Naruto, who was jumping toward the beast's head, a clone flanking his right, a Rasengan formed in his hand. He thrusted the swirling ball into the beast's head, and the effect was immediate as a concussive spiral force slammed into the amalgamations' head, sending the random body parts flying, and the whole beast to be sent over the edge, only a claw hanging on saving it from the abyss down below.
00:00:01
*Dong!* *Dong!* *Dong!*
"What the…?" Naruto inquiries.
Suddenly, an intricately decorated double door appears in the center of the platform, bright light shining down upon it.
"Okay… that's our cue to leave… if you want, be my guest… but as for… I'm gone…" The sheep stated, as he began to run for the door, leaving Naruto standing there.
"Huh?" Naruto would have asked, but then he felt the platform shake, and he looked back and saw the creature begin to climb back up again. Now relying on instinct, Naruto also began to run to the door, not even bothering to look back on the creature as it began to crawl after him, its head beginning to partially regenerate. Naruto watched as the Sheep made it to the door, and easily walked inside, closing the door behind him. The creature behind Naruto seemed to have built up speed, starting to get closer and closer to Naruto's retreating form. "Crap Crap Crap Crap Crap Crap Crap CRAP!" Naruto lunged forward for the door, his hand barely making it to the door handle. "Success!"
Not bothering to hesitate, Naruto opened the door, a light shining on the other side. As he went to walk inside, the Beast roared out at him, catching his attention.
"Shit! Leave me alone!" Naruto yelled, and suddenly, light poured in from the door, striking at the Beast, causing to roar in agonizing pain until it exploded into particles, scattered into the abyss. Naruto blinked in surprise, and then he began to hear the sounds of Singing, like a heavenly choir singing for his victory.
"Congratulations! You made it through the first night… See you tomorrow!" the ominous voice stated, as suddenly Naruto was pushed from this realm and through the door.
23:32:46:34:58:29:23:49:01:32:46:34:58:29:23:49:12:46:34:58:29:23:49:00: 58:29:23:49:12:46:34:58:29
6:45:34 AM
His eyes opened with a start, and sprung from his bed, breathing heavily from the experience.
"Man… what a crazy dream… no, more like a nightmare… I guess Kakashi is right, I shouldn't eat Chili Lime flavored instant ramen just before bed…" Looks at the container on the counter. "Especially when it is passed the expiration date…"
Naruto Uzumaki:
Jonin of Konohagakure (Village Hidden in the Leaves)
Age: 25
Goal: Become the Hokage of his village.
Current Relationships: Is Double Dating Sakura and Hinata… both know this, and so, it isn't two timing.
Naruto stretched his back, and scowled when he felt something wet below, coming to a realization that for the first time since he was four years old, he wet the bed. It was a scary nightmare indeed… only now; Naruto can't seem to recall what happened in it… all he could remember was he was being chased by something.
He growled and grumbled, taking his sheets off the bed, and setting them in the Laundry for later. He then set himself to take a shower, and put on a cleaner pair of underwear, but just as he was about to jump in, he looked at his reflection, and he saw that… he looked completely normal. He had no clue why he had to check that, but for some reason, he felt glad he did.
For a long while now, Naruto had worked something out with Sakura and Hinata. Because of the neglect most of his life, he was pretty unsure of love, so he convinced both Sakura and Hinata to let him try to date both of them for a trial period, seeing who he might like to spend the rest of his life with. He has to admit, he has loved his time with both of them, and always looks forward to going on a date with them… separate dates of course, and always brought to the notice of the other girl before making major plans.
However… nowadays, it seemed like both girls were getting tired of waiting, and it also seemed like neither of them wanted to be second fiddle to the other. Lately, Naruto has been worried that he may have to choose between the two of them, which he couldn't bring himself to do. After spending time with both of them, the girl that has always had a secret crush on him, and the girl that has always been his love interest at first sight, he didn't want to lose either of them to heartbreak.
After his shower, he got dressed, prepared for the day, forgetting completely about the nightmare. However, Naruto was completely unaware of the threat that now loomed in his sleep.
To be continued…
Nobody: I know what you all are thinking… I need to finish my other works… problem is, my mind is loaded with stuff, and I have throw it out there before I lose interest in it… well, I hope you readers enjoy this new fic… I am certainly hoping to… Please Review.
Signed,
Mr. Nobody