Ch. 2 The Red Eye
At the Beach
Garnet, Pearl, Amethyst, and Steven were all standing on the beach in a row with Naruto directly in front of them. "Now then seeing as how a couple of Gems have decided to slack off on their training I'm going to assume that the you two either have not been trained properly or have not even been trained so I'm going to have to see just where everyone stands by having you all come at me with the intent to poof me if you do not I will poof you am I understood!" Naruto yelled the last part.
"Yes." Was Pearls reply
"Understood." Garnet.
"This is going to be fun." Amethyst.
"Umm what do you mean with the intent to poof you?" Steven asked.
Naruto looked to the other three gems, "Have you honestly not taught him anything about anything related to us?!" Naruto asked incredulously at the lack of response Naruto shook his head. "Ok well in that case Steven I want you to sit this out and just watch us and try to learn a thing or two from this spar." Naruto said as Steven went to go sit down a little sad that he wouldn't get to do anything, but excited to see this spar. "Alright if everyone is ready then begin." And like that the battle was on Amethyst being the first to move as she pulled out her weapon and charged at Naruto who simply side stepped out of the way before having the sand restrain her. "That was far too obvious I could tell what you were doing the moment that you pulled out your weapon." Naruto said. Pearl was the next one to try and take him down as she pulled out her spear and rushed him hoping her technique would be enough to at least give Garnet an opening to work with, Naruto formed his Katana and parried Pearls attacks before he decided to end it by simply overpowering her and forcing her to her knees he then grabbed her arm and threw her next to Amethyst using the sand to keep her in place as well. "Good technique but you put no strength into it." He then used his katana to block a strike from behind him courtesy of Garnet. "Oh look here it's my favorite duo the perfect combination of brains and brawn, but you should know better than to attack me like that." He said before he dispersed his weapon with and grabbed her gauntlet, "Now tell me is my next attack going to be a punch to the gut, a flip, or am I just going to use my sand to restrain you right now." He said shifting the sand under her feet, "The answer is D none of the above he stated as he headbutted her and knocked her over to the rest of the gems. You rely too much on that third eye of yours Garnet just because you can see possible outcomes doesn't mean that the most likely one is always going to happen." Naruto finished with the last of the gems "Well I believe I understand what I need to focus on with all of you first let's start with you Garnet, you and me are going to spend some time away from the other gems to do some special training to increase you reaction time, now then Pearl I want you to start focusing on putting some power into those techniques of yours go to the arena and practice on your holo Pearls until you can break holo Pearl's sword, now then Amethyst and Steven you two need the most work and while yes Amethyst you can already fight and do many cool gem things you have yet to discover your other abilities and so I will be working with you and Steven on that unlocking all of your potential abilities so for now Garnet go and meditate and think on what I've said, Pearl go to the arena and Steven and Amethyst you two stay here." Naruto said finishing his assessment and after Garnet and Pearl had left he looked over to Steven and Amethyst, "Alright you two now then let's start unlocking your powers Steven I'm going to start with you summoning your shield if your powers work how I think they work then it shouldn't be too hard now then tell me when your gem first glowed a couple hours ago what was it that you were feeling."
"Well at first I was feeling really happy about having cookie cats then when I took a bite of one I felt really calm and I think the word would be at peace." Steven said not 100% sure how to describe how he felt.
"Ok good I want you to try and go back to being that calm that peaceful don't focus on anything and just think about those feelings." Naruto said to test his hypothesis, and his hypothesis proved to be very accurate as within just a minute Steven's gem glowed and a shield was produced when Steven opened his eyes he started to get really excited until Naruto told him to remain calm, "Now what I want you to do is to start practicing on bringing it out faster and faster each time." Naruto said and when Steven nodded Naruto turned to look at Amethyst, "Alright Amethyst now tell me do you know anything unique about what you can do?"
"Not really I can just do basic gem stuff and summon my whip." Amethyst said.
"Ok now then while I can tell you were a little overcooked so to speak you are still a type of quartz a gem born for battle its where all that energy of yours comes from but you having been made the way you are is actually a blessing in disguise you see your physical form is much more dense and will allow you to traverse into areas the other gems cannot such as the bottom of the ocean in fact if you were to train I'm sure that you would be able to go to areas even Garnet would have trouble handling, but all that aside you need to understand that every gem has a unique ability about them Garnet has her future vision, Pearl her holo Pearls and Steven will eventually get the abilities his mom had granted slightly varied in how they work you have yet to discover yours but your to have an unique ability now I want you to think on it and question what is unique about you what is unique about Amethyst." He said as Amethyst closed her eyes and began to concentrate until about five minutes had passed and nothing happened.
"Ugh this is pointless, there's nothing unique about me I'm just plain old Amethyst." Amethyst said sadly.
"Nope I don't believe that come here I'm going to try something that I did once before with Rose to help her discover a few abilities." He said and Amethyst came up to him when suddenly he tapped her chest and she started to glow and her form changed until when the glow finally died down and she had changed now she was about as tall as Naruto, who was about as tall as Garnet by the way, she was just as stocky but she felt more powerful.
"W-what did you do." The new Amethyst asked shocked at her new appearance.
"I simply used my healing abilities to heal your mind because while your gem was never cracked from what I could see your ego and unwillingness to let go of the past is what kept you from reaching your full potential now then I want you to try something I want you to summon your whip." Naruto stated without blinking.
"O-ok." Amethyst said confused as she pulled out her whip.
"Now then I want you to try and make it something else like a club or a sword." Naruto said.
"How?" Amethyst asked feeling very confused.
"Just think of it being something else." Naruto told her and so she tried to imagine her whip being a sword like Naruto's when suddenly it started to glow and change into a katana.
"W-whoa that's awesome how did you know that would work."
"I didn't I just took a guess that with you being a quartz and being cooked for as long as you were that the planet probably didn't honestly know what weapon you should have and so it never really did meaning that whatever you pull from your gem if whatever you want to pull from your gem or your gem just absorbed so many nutrients from the ground that your ability became being able to form a weapon for any occasion." Naruto said with a shrug not honestly understanding how it works since he was just going off of a hunch. Alright well that's enough for today we'll continue training every day this week with the mornings starting off with a light spar and then the rest of the day going over new ways to improve."
One week later at sunset
Steven and Amethyst were currently getting fry bits from Frybo's when they noticed the giant sphere in the sky and after meeting up with the gems and talking for a little bit Steven ran off to go see if his dad had the light canon.
"Oh why did Naruto have to leave for a mission today of all days." Pearl complained.
After a few minutes Steven and his dad returned with the light canon and after lighting it up and firing it at the giant red eye and blowing it to smithereens they all celebrated and went back inside the temple.
End so what did you guys think of chapter 2 I know I kinda glossed over the whole red eye thing but meh I just didn't feel like writing to much in it anyway where did Naruto go when will he be back good questions I still need to decide on that as I haven't really thought about it but that's beside the point anyway I have a poll for you guys ok so what should Naruto's instrument be I was thinking electric guitar but am open for suggestions also the last chapter go a complaint about Naruto being OP well allow me to explain something I don't care because well he won't be getting involved in many of the fights anyway only the really big ones and he only seems OP because of his control over things but there are limits to all of his power one hint I will give is that he is not impossible to poof he just hasn't been hit hard enough to be poofed yet so it's more of a as far as he and anyone else knows he cannot be poofed but that's not 100% accurate. Anyway Ja Ne.
