Hey everyone 3headed-dragon here to bring you chapter 2 of Naruto: The Crimson Puppet Master. I have to say I did not expect this amount of approval for this story but I'm glad so many like the story already. Also I would like to say that just because the story has a large harem does not mean it just sex all the time, don't get me wrong as there will be sex but it won't be. "Hey you're handsome and strong, I love you lets have sex." there will be build up.
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Chapter 2: Puppets in Wave Pt 1
Walking down the dirt road Naruto stayed on guard while taking in the area around him. Sasuke seemed to be ignoring everything around him in order to brood, Sakura was asking Tazuna about his village, and Kakashi was in his book. Naruto could tell that Kakashi was paying attention though since he hadn't turn the page in his book yet. After a couple more minutes of walking Naruto noticed a puddle in the middle of the road and immediately felt like smacking the shit out of the person or people disguised as the puddle, it hadn't rained in weeks so there was no reason for there to be a puddle. Glancing at his team it seemed that Sasuke and Sakura hadn't noticed the puddle yet but Kakashi had so Naruto made sure to keep his puppets at the ready.
Once they walked passed the puddle two figures came out of it. They looked pretty much the same with pale skin, dark eyes, and long wild dark brown hair. They wore camouflage suits with dark capes, one claw gauntlet each that were connected to each other by a shuriken chain, dark boots, and a rebreather covering the lower half of their faces. The only real difference between them was that one had a single horn on his Kiri headband and the other had two. These two are the Demon Brothers Gozu and Meizu, formerly of Kiri. Moving quickly they wrapped their chain around Kakashi and pulled with enough force to shred him apart.
"KAKASHI-SENSEI!" screamed Sakura in fear at seeing her sensei killed so quickly.
"One down." said Gozu.
"Four to go." said Meizu as they moved to attack the Genin and the bridge builder.
Naruto quickly stood in front of Sakura and Tazuna with his hands in his pockets so no one could see his fingers twitching. Sasuke quickly threw a kunai at the chain and pinned it to a tree behind the brothers, forcing them to detach the chain from their gauntlets. Sasuke got ready to fight as the Demon Brothers charged at him but before anything else could happen four blades exploded out of Meizu's chest, killing him instantly. Behind Meizu was a humanoid figure that appeared to be made of wood with three eyes in a triangle formation, shaggy crimson red hair (All of Naruto's puppets will have either crimson hair or crimson clothing), four arms with each arm having a blade coming out of the palm of its hand, and was wearing a tattered dark brown cloak. This is Battle Puppet Crow.
"MEIZU!" yelled Gozu in distress at seeing what happened to his brother. He didn't notice a figure behind him as well. The figure opened its chest and released ninja wire that wrapped around Gozu and pulled him into its chest.
Coming out of the forest the figure revealed itself to be another wooden contraption but this one has a bucket like head with a barrel like body, three eyes in triangle formation, crimson red shaggy hair, red horns, six arms, and was wearing a dark brown tattered cloak. This is Battle Puppet Black Ant. Noticing how Sasuke was still tense Naruto decided to ease the situation.
"Calm down Sasuke they're with me." said Naruto as he walked up to Black Ant.
"Well done team, you all did very well in keeping the client safe." said Kakashi as he walked out of the forest.
"Kakashi-sensei, you're alive!" said Sakura.
"Of course he is, he used the Substitution Jutsu just before they could shred him." said Naruto without looking at them. Hearing this Sasuke and Sakura looked to where Kakashi had been standing before only to see a cut up log.
"An excellent observation Naruto and I have to say that I'm surprised that you're a puppeteer, you don't usually see those outside of Suna." said Kakashi.
"He's a what?" asked Sakura in confusion.
"I'll explain later, right now there's work to do." said Naruto as he opened up Black Ant showing Gozu tied up in ninja wire.
"YOU FUCKING BASTARD! I'LL KILL YOU FOR WHAT YOU DID!" Gozu as he was pissed that his brother was killed.
"Yeah I'm sure you will. Tell me who hired you to attack the bridge builder." said Naruto as he stared at Gozu. "These two are the Demon Brothers of Kiri. They're Chunin at best and the only thing really noteworthy about them is their teamwork, there is no point in making them into my first true Human Puppets." Naruto thought to himself.
"Fuck you!" said Gozu.
"Sorry but I'm straight and I'm way out of your league." said Naruto as one of his fingers twitched and the wires around Gozu started to tighten. They tightened until they started to cut into Gozu's skin, Gozu gritted his teeth in pain as wires started to cut into his muscles as they slowly made their way towards his bones. "Sure you don't want to talk?" asked Naruto with a blank face.
"I've got nothing for you." said Gozu through gritted teeth.
"Well that's too bad, in that case you have no value to me so I'll send you to meet your brother now." said Naruto as he was about to have Gozu shredded alive by his wires.
"Now hold on Naruto there is no need to go that far, just let me have a shot at him." said Kakashi.
"Alright, but first let me make sure he doesn't try anything." said Naruto as he had Crow stab Gozu in his arms and legs. "Crow's blades are covered in a special three step poison. Step one paralyzes the infected area, once the poison has enough time to spread throughout the bloodstream step two will step in and the poison will then attack all the pain receptors in the body thus causing the victim to experience an extreme amount of pain for about an hour, and finally after that hour step three kicks in where the poison will start making all of the victim's organs shut down." said Naruto.
Everyone paled as Naruto explained the poison as it sounded like a horrible way to die. None paled more than Gozu since he was just infected with said poison, sure he hated Naruto for killing his brother but at least Meizu went quickly but if he didn't get an antidote then his death would be long and agonizing. Kakashi was the first to come out of his stupor as he took Gozu away in order to get answers out of him.
"Naruto…...why did you kill that guy?" asked a green in the face Sakura. After everything had calmed down she finally had time to acknowledge that there was a dead body on the ground.
Naruto sighed at her question but understood why she asked. The Academy in Konoha never taught its students that they had to kill in this line of work. "I killed him because he was a threat to our client Sakura. I know the Academy never taught you this but you have to understand you are expected to kill in this line of work. If you wish to continue to be a ninja Sakura then you will have to eventually get used to killing, you don't have to enjoy it but you'll have to at least numb yourself to it." said Naruto.
"Naruto is right Sakura." said Kakashi as he walked back to the group. "No matter what your specific job is as a ninja you'll have to kill sooner or later, it's best to get used to it as soon as possible so that you aren't always getting sick or freezing up during battle." said Kakashi.
"What information did you get Kakashi-sensei?" asked Naruto.
"They're the Demon Brothers and they were hired by a man named Gato who has taken over Wave Country and is sucking the life out of it. He and his brother are working with Zabuza Momochi and his apprentice, who they are unsure whether they are a boy or girl. He and his brother's sexual fantasies are…" Kakashi couldn't finish as Sakura quickly stepped in.
"Okay I don't think we need to know all that! Why'd he tell you that much anyway?" asked Sakura.
"He was hoping that if he told me everything that I would convince Naruto to give him the antidote to the poison." said Kakashi. Every looked at Naruto who unsealed a syringe filled with a blue liquid before he handed it to Kakashi.
"That's the antidote for my poison but the catch is that it will only work once step 2 takes effect, you give it to him before step 2 takes effect he'll die instantly." said Naruto in a serious voice while Kakashi nodded at the seriousness of the situation as he took the syringe.
"Now Tazuna, while I can understand why you lied about the mission you need to understand that you could have greatly put my team in danger." said Kakashi in a hard voice.
"I know and I'm sorry but Wave is on its last leg, if I don't finish this bridge then Wave will finally collapse on itself." said Tazuna.
"Well normally we would turn around and consult with the Hokage about this and a better team would be sent to help you while we came up with a payment plan. But since this is my team's first time out of the village I'll put it to a vote on what we do." said Kakashi as he looked to his students.
"Hn, I say we keep going." said Sasuke hoping to really test his skills on this mission.
"I say we send a message to the Hokage requesting for back up before we keep going, we're about an hour or two from the village so it shouldn't take too long for them to show up." said Naruto as he cleaned out Black Ant. Sakura was nervous and wanted to return to the village but since Sasuke and Naruto were so calm about it and she didn't want to drag her crush down so she agreed to keep going. With that decided Kakashi summoned a small dog and gave it a message for the Hokage explaining the situation and requesting back up.
"Thank you so much for doing this!" said Tazuna.
"Don't thank us yet, we still have to complete the mission." said Naruto.
AN HOUR LATER
While waiting for a response to their message Kakashi, Sakura, and Sasuke kept glancing over at Naruto who was working on Crow and Black Ant. Then they heard movement headed their way and found that it was Team 8 lead by Kurenai Yuhi.
Kurenai was a beautiful woman with smooth fair skin, lucious wild black hair, exotic wine red eyes with a black ring in them, an amazing figure with perky D-cup breasts, a narrow waist, wide hips, toned legs, and a round ass. Her outfit was a white battle dress that looked to be made of bandages with one long red sleeve on the right and black rose thorn like designs on it. She wore blue Shinobi sandals, her headband was on her forehead, bandages wrapped around her hands and thighs, and she only wore a little makeup which consisted of purple eyeshadow and red lipstick. Her team consisted of Hinata Hyuga, Kiba Inuzuka with his huge dog Akamaru, and Shino Aburame.
"Kakashi, Team 8 reporting as backup, Hokage-sama wishes us luck on this mission." said Kurenai.
"Thanks for coming Kurenai and now that you're here we can continue with the mission." said Kakashi as they all got ready to leave.
"What's with the giant dolls?" asked Kiba. Naruto got a tick mark on his head when he heard Kiba call his puppets dolls, he gain another tick mark when he saw Sasuke smirking at Kiba's comment.
"Yeah and you never did explain what a Puppeteer was Naruto." said Sakura.
Naruto sighed at this but decided to answer anyway. "We really don't have time for this so I'll give you the quick explanation. A Puppeteer is a ninja that usually use puppets in battle, they are usually found in Suna but as you can see with me it is possible for others to learn it. And they're not dolls Kiba, they're dangerous weapons that will kill you if you let your guard down." said Naruto.
"I think you left out some things Naruto." said Kakashi.
"Of course I did, we don't have time to stand here talking about me and it is unwise to simply give away all of my secrets for no reason. Now let's go as we have a country to save." said Naruto as he started to walk off with his puppets and Tazuna following him.
"Wow, Naruto-kun is sooo cool!" said Inner Sakura.
"SHUT UP, Sasuke-kun is way cooler!" thought Sakura
The others quickly followed after him, his team was a little taken back by his attitude, Hinata knew this was how he really was due to him being her friend, Kiba scoffed thinking that Naruto was trying to be cool, Shino had no visible reaction, and Kurenai looked at Naruto intently. "In order to be a puppeteer one needs a great deal of chakra control and from what I know in order to use two puppets at once one needs great skill in multi tasking. I wonder just how skilled you are Naruto Uzumaki." Kurenai thought to herself.
After walking for a while they finally found Tazuna's friend who would take them across the water. A problem that showed up though was that the boat wasn't big enough to carry all of them so Hinata, Kiba, Shino, Sasuke, and Tazuna sat in the boat while Kakashi and Kurenai tried to figure out how to get the last two Genin across until they decided that they would water walk while Kurenai carries Sakura and Kakashi carries Naruto. Kurenai put Sakura on her back piggy back style and Kakashi moved to do the same with Naruto but Naruto stopped him.
"That won't be necessary Kakashi-sensei, I am capable of water walking." said Naruto not wanting to be carried by his sensei, there was something about being carried around by another guy that just made Naruto uncomfortable. Kakashi was surprised to hear this but nodded anyway, though in his head he noted that Naruto really needed to reintroduce himself to his team since he was apparently keeping so much from them. Kurenai wasn't surprised and this information just confirmed that Naruto had great chakra control.
As they walked across the water they walked into a mist. When they came across the bridge Tazuna was building the Genin were awed by the sheer size of it. And though awed by the bridge Sakura kept taking glances at Naruto. "How is it Naruto knows how to do that?" Sakura asked herself in thought from her spot on Kurenai's back.
"Who cares, what I want to know is why couldn't Naruto-kun have carried us across? I bet we would feel so safe in those strong arms of his." said Inner Sakura. Sakura blushed a bit as she did notice that Naruto's shirt did strain a bit against his muscles, they weren't huge and bulky but they were built for power without losing speed. "Plus if he held us like Kurenai-sensei is then his hands would be all over our ass and he could squeeze it just he did that Tenten girl." said Inner Sakura.
"WILL YOU SHUT UP AND STOP BEING A PERVERT! Besides the only boy allowed to touch me like that is Sasuke-kun." thought Sakura.
Once they were across the water they continued to walk to their destination though Naruto noticed that the farther they went the thicker the mist around them became. They stopped moving though when Sasuke suddenly threw a kunnai into a nearby bush. Hinata went to see what he was attack and came out of the bush with a scared white rabbit.
"Why is that rabbit's fur white when it should be brown this time of year?" Naruto asked himself in thought. It was then that Naruto heightened sense of hearing, thanks to Kyoko, picked up the sound of something flying through the air at high speed headed straight for them. "GET DOWN!" yelled Naruto as he threw himself to the ground.
Hinata and Shino did as Naruto said but the rest of the Genin didn't move to do anything. The Jonin however pretty much came to the same conclusion as Naruto and quickly grabbed their students and Tazuna and fell to the ground just as a large sword flew over their head and embedded itself into a tree. Then appearing on the long handle of the sword was a tall man with fair skin, black eyes, messy black hair, and a muscular build. He had a slanted Kiri headband on his forehead with a slash through it, bandages wrapped around the lower half of his face, cow print arm warmers, no shirt but there was a brown leather strap around his chest, blue vertical striped pants, and cow print leg warmers that merged with his sandals.
"Zabuza Momochi, I was wondering when we'd run into you." said Kakashi as he stood up along with everyone else.
"Kakashi of the Sharingan and Kurenai Yuhi the Genjutsu Mistress, no wonder the Demon Brothers failed and you knew I was coming. No matter just hand over the bridge builder and I just might let you and the ninja wannabes live." said Zabuza. When he said that the Genin quickly moved to surround Tazuna, though all of them were curious about what he meant about the Sharingan expect for Naruto since he had done his research on Kakashi.
"Not a chance Zabuza." said Kurenai.
"Very well then I guess we'll have to do this the hard way." said Zabuza as the mist got even thicker to the point that Zabuza disappeared. Suddenly the area was flooded with killing intent as Zabuza started to list all the points in the body that could cause instant death. The Jonin and even Naruto were just fine but Tazuna and the rest of the Genin weren't doing to well, but Naruto did notice that Team 8 were doing better at handling the killing intent than his own team.
"Kurenai-sensei must have exposed to them to killing intent before but not at this level." Naruto thought to himself. The only reason he was fine was because he regularly had Kyoko expose him to her killing intent so that the killing intent of others wouldn't affect him in battle, no one's killing intent could match that of Kyoko's. Naruto then noticed Sakura looking like she was about to break down and Sasuke was raising up a kunai in order to kill himself. "Sasuke, Sakura, calm down now! I know this is bad for you but just breathe, everything will be fine." said Naruto with nothing but confidence in his voice and his arms crossed.
This had the effect Naruto wanted as Sakura and Sasuke calmed down. "Don't be so sure about that Brat." said Zabuza as he appeared in their circle and was about to cleve Tazuna in half. Naruto didn't even turn around as his fingers twitched and Zabuza was stabbed from both sides by Crow and Black Ant, though Zabuza then turned into a puddle of water.
"You'll have to do better than Water Clones Zabuza." said Naruto calmly. Zabuza then appeared in front of Naruto only for Crow to open its mouth and fire three Kunai into Zabuza's chest, that Zabuza then turned into a puddle of water as well.
"Well, well it seems one of you brats actually has some skill but you still have to die." said Zabuza as he finally attack Naruto directly. Knowing that this was the real Zabuza Naruto prepared to counter but before anything could happen Kakashi blocked Zabuza's sword with a Kunai.
"That's enough of that, your fight is with me and Kurenai." said Kakashi with the Sharingan in his left eye revealed. Zabuza was then kicked away by Kurenai. With that Naruto and the others watched as Zabuza fought with Kakashi and Kurenai, Zabuza used Water Clones in order to keep Kurenai from using her Genjutsus. The Genins were awed by the skill being shown by the three Jonin level ninja and how their senseis were able to push Zabuza back. That is until they made the mistake of stepping onto the water along with Zabuza, Zabuza then used a Water Clone in other to trap Kakashi in a Water Prison then he cut Kurenai across the chest with his sword.
Seeing this Naruto acted quickly and had Black Ant dash forward where it scooped up Kurenai and placed her inside of its body before it moved back to Naruto. Normally being inside of Black Ant was a death sentence but for an injured Kurenai in the middle of a battle it was the safest place she could be.
"Now that the Jonin are taken care of I only have to deal with you brats." said Zabuza.
"Take Kurenai and run! Water Clones can't be too far from the original before they become unstable and burst!" said Kakashi from inside the Water Prison. Naruto completely ignored what Kakashi had said as it was very stupid, there was nothing stopping Zabuza from simply killing Kakashi and then coming after them and with Kurenai hurt they wouldn't last too long.
Naruto's mind was working fast on coming up with a plan but his thought process was interrupted by Sasuke. "No way are we running away now, I'm not backing down from this fight." said Sasuke with an arrogant smirk on his face.
"Yeah we can totally take this guy." said Kiba before he, Akamaru, and Sasuke charged at Zabuza.
"Sasuke, Kiba wait! You can't just-SAKURA YOU STAY FUCKING PUT!" yelled Naruto when he saw that Sakura was about to go and help Sasuke. He watched as Sakura froze in place before putting his sights back on Sasuke and Kiba. Naruto watched as they were batted away as if they were nothing and to tell you the truth he wasn't surprised at all by that. Zabuza was playing with them as it was obvious he didn't see them as a threat. "Alright here's the plan Hinata I'm going to open up Black Ant and I want you to tend to Kurenai-sensei, Shino I want you to quietly send your bugs over to Zabuza's Water Clone and drain it dry in order to free Kakashi-sensei, and Sakura I want you to stay with Tazuna and protect him." said Naruto as he started to move forward while opening Black Ant.
Once Black Ant was opened Hinata quickly went to work on tending to Kurenai, Shino sent his bugs after the clone, and Sakura hesitantly stepped in front of Tazuna. "What are you gonna do Naruto?" asked Sakura.
"I'm gonna fight Zabuza and buy us some time." said Naruto as he cut his chakra strings from Crow and Black Ant.
"WHAT!? But you just tried to stop Sasuke-kun and Kiba from doing that!" said Sakura.
"This is different Sakura, they thought they could actually win against Zabuza while I'm just trying to buy us some time. I'm not really trying to win but I won't lose, because if I lose he'll hurt my friends and I won't allow that to happen." said Naruto with nothing but confidence in his voice as he rolled up his right arm sleeve.
Sakura blushed a little at this as she had never heard Naruto talk like this before and the fact that he had basically just said that he would protect her. "When did Naruto get so cool?" Sakura asked herself in thought.
"Cool, COOL!? That wasn't cool that was fucking HOT. I swear we just got a little wet just now." said Inner Sakura.
"NO WE DIDN'T!" Sakura yelled in thought while ignoring that her panties were a little damp.
"Well kid is it your turn to get beat down?" asked Zabuza.
"No, it's my turn to show you why you should fear the PUPPET MASTER!" said Naruto as his right arm suddenly became covered in a large black tribal tattoo that stretched from his forearm to his shoulder, this however wasn't really a tattoo but a large storage seal that Naruto used to store his puppets. Pumping chakra into the seal a scroll came out in a puff of smoke with the kanji for 5 on it. "Feel honored Zabuza as you'll be first person I've used this puppet on in battle, of the puppets I have made this is the fifth!" said Naruto as he unrolled the scroll and pumped chakra into it.
A large cloud of smoke formed around Naruto keeping him and the new puppet from view before the smoke started to disperse and revealed…..
Well everyone That's chapter 2 I hope you liked it. Yes I left out what Naruto's puppet is on purpose because I have a little game for my readers! I want you guys to guess what or who Naruto's puppet is. The first person to guess the puppet correctly before I post chapter 3 will win the prize of being able to pick any girl of your choosing to add to the harem( as long as it's not Hinata or they're already in the harem) and I will make it happen it doesn't matter if they are alive, dead, or part of another Anime. Part two of the prize is You will get to come up with a custom puppet for Naruto to use meaning that if you want Naruto to use a two headed lion with giant bat wings, a scorpion tail, and shoulder mounted chakra cannons then I will make it happen. Anyway let the game begin Good Luck Everyone, though I sure some of you have already figured out the clue I left for you.
Harem
Tenten, Temari, Karui, Samui, Mebuki, Fubuki, Fu, Shizune, Shion, Shizuka, Tsunami, Kurenai, Anko, Ino, Fem Kurama, Sakura (Later), Karin, Kin, Hana.
Puppets
Crow, Black Ant, Custom #1(?), Custom #2 (?), Custom #3(?), Custom #4(?), Custom #5(?)
Well that's it for now everyone remember to Fav., Follow, and Review and as always Listen for when the Dragon Roars!