Harmonixer of Konoha: The Rewrite

Chapter 2

Cave of Horrors Part 1

An: Hello all not much to say this time around but here's the second chapter of Harmonixer of Konoha.

" Normal speech. "

' Normal thoughts. "

" Demon/Boss summon/Naruto in fusion form speech."

' Demon/Boss summon/Naruto in fusion form thought.'

"Yuri talking."

" Jutsu/Crest magic!"

"YELLING!"

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or Shadow hearts series.

Naruto was still standing in the clearing with the dead body of the Kusa Gennin, he had been standing in same spot for about the last 20 minutes trying to figure out what the hell just happened.

First his team had been attacked by the ambiguous asshole that had slammed a seal on him screwing with his chakra control so he couldn't even make a Kage bunshin(Shadow clone), he then found himself in his mind-scape where he met his ancestor who told him of his kickass bloodline that only he had.

After that was when it got freaky he met a white wolf whom he named Blanca after Yuri's old traveling companion, following the wolf's lead the two came to a clearing that just felt wrong. It was here that the duo was attacked by what looked like a walking corpse, after beating the thing down it dissolved into light and an orb of purple was drawn into him.

'I miss the old days when all I had to worry about was psychos and other people trying to kill me, heh what a simple time.' thought Naruto as he crouched over wondering why the weird stuff happened to him.

Blanca was laying next to him with his head on his paws waiting for Naruto to decide what to do next.

The thing was that Naruto had no idea what to do, the only thing he could think of was to find his team but he had no clue where the hell they were. He didn't feel like getting lost looking for them in this forest and he would more then likely run into another team he really didn't feel like fighting someone with his chakra this messed up.

The blond then looked into the cave that had was in the small hill inside the clearing, the feeling hate and dread was still exuding from it. An idea popped into his head that would make many question his survival instincts if he followed it, he had them but he just didn't listen to them all the time.

Standing up Naruto grabbed the sword from where he dropped it slinging the belt over his shoulder and across his chest with the sword on his back, he then took out the two sealing scrolls that he taken from the dead dead Gennin out looking them over.

Both of the scroll looked to be just the basic type that ninja around the world used meaning that the contents could be unsealed by anyone, hoping that the person had left a few things behind that he could use.

Thankfully a person didn't need good chakra control to work a storage seal so Naruto touched the seal and tried to channel a bit of chakra into it, sadly with Naruto's worse then usual control the seal had to compensate for the extra power by expelling a large amount of white smoke that was enough to cover Naruto.

Coughing from the surprise of the smoke Naruto waits until the white cloud clears, when the smoke finally did clear the teen saw several items arrayed before him.

The first item was a pair of black pants that looked to be fairly standard, they were almost the same as the ones Chunin wore. Holding up the pants Naruto noticed that they were about his size and in much better condition then his own, looking down at said article of clothing to see that it wouldn't last much longer given it's present condition.

The next item was a brown leather belt that had two pouches on the back, the pouches were positioned so not to interfere with the wearers movements. Deciding that since his pants wouldn't last much longer and these pouches were nicer then his own Naruto decided to wear these instead.

The rest of the things that came out of the scroll weren't too special just normal things like tools or extra weapons, but it was the last of the items that Naruto was glad he found. In the scroll was four stack of bills that were quite thick, the four stacks added to around 2000 Ryo (1 Ryo = 1 dollar), he didn't know where the foreign Gennin had gotten that much money but he really didn't care.

After sealing the rest of the stuff back into the scroll Naruto turned to the entrance to the cave.

"Well buddy I guess this is decision time I'm going into the cave you don't have to come with, I won't hold it against you if you don't." normally he would have felt foolish talking to a animal but not Blanca since he could tell that the canine understood him.

Blanca's abnormally intelligent golden eyes stared back into Naruto's red eyes, with out any hesitation the wolf gives the blond a sharp nod as he moves towards the cave.

"Heh at least I got one person that will watch my back no matter what." muttered Naruto as he walked with his white furred friend towards the cave with a smile on his face.

With the rest of team 7.

Sakura Hanaro fidgeted as she sat next to a groaning Sasuke Uchiha while he was wreathing in pain, the two of them were under a tree that's roots had been hollowed out making a cave.

It had been several hours since the two had escaped from the Kusa ninja that had given Sasuke that mark on his neck, during that time Sasuke had gained a temperature along with convolutions and what seemed to be massive pain that came and went.

As she changed the wet cloth on the last Uchiha's brow Sakura's mind was a whirl with thought that had plagued her since they had lost their third teammate 'I couldn't have done anything to save I had to make sure Sasuke-kun was safe plus it's just Naruto-baka not like anybody will miss him too much.' as she convinced herself of this her perceptions changed, she had to make sure that Sasuke was okay and that the forest was a dangerous place so she could giving a convincing story of how Naruto died all she had to do was get Sasuke to go along with it.

Unnoticed by the worrying pinkette was three hidden gazes that were watching and waiting for an opening.

Back with Naruto.

Naruto and Blanca were walking down a tunnel of the cave system, the tunnel he had passed through so were lit with a combination of glow crystals and luminescent moss.

So far the duo hadn't come into contact with anything so far but as they walked along the feeling they had felt outside only increased as they went, not long after the two came to a intersection that had three tunnel leading off in other directions.

"Hm." said Naruto as he examined each tunnel " I've got no clue what you Blanca?" the wolf just shook his head.

"Well then it's the old standing by then, eni-" started Naruto before he was interrupted.

"Grrrrrrr."

Glancing down to see a growling Blanca giving him a look that said 'If you are doing what I think you about to do I will bite you!'.

Groaning while he muttered about picky wolves "Fine fine I'll use the other way." taking out a kunai from a pouch tossed it up into the air spinning around until it hit the stone floor with the blade pointing at the left most corridor.

Looking up at the blond teen Blanca stood there with his jaw slack and a look of 'Are you serious?!'.

"What it's not like there any better ways to tell which is best." said a shrugging Naruto as moved towards the tunnel.

Walking along the rock corridor Naruto started to notice things about it, for one the tunnels weren't made by human hands it was to rough and uneven for that, but the cave system wasn't natural either since he could see marks on the walls like an animal made it but what sort of creature could make a tunnel this big?

The passageway was fairly long so it took around 20 or so minutes to get to the end of it, the tunnel opened up to a chamber that has a circular shape around 20 feet in circumference.

The room didn't look very special at all that is until the sound of stone on stone reached the ears of the human and wolf.

Naruto reacted instinctively leaping away from the sound as a brown blur barreled through the air where he was not a moment ago, Blanca was at his side in a instant fangs bared in a snarl.

The thing landed a few feet away from them were Naruto got a clear look, the thing was a rusty brown and looked to be covered by plates of organic armor. It was at least three to four feet in length, the beast resembled a snake at least some what, the upper part of the creature was raised into the air making it's body L shaped. The thing had a oddly shaped head with a gaping maw filled with razor sharp teeth.

Looking at the … what he could only call a thing he was concerned since it was not at all friendly "Ya know buddy I'm starting to think that somebody up stairs has it out for us." Blanca could only agree as the creature let out a raspy hiss.

This noise wasn't for nothing as another of the monsters burrowed out of the ground a foot away from the first along with four of the walking corpses they had encountered before.

"Yup someone has it out for us." quipped Naruto before the monsters sprung into action.

The corpses rushed the two with a shambling run that put them ahead of the snake like monsters, reacting immediately Naruto used a running thrust kick to the lead corpses chest sending the thing skidding back, Blanca had taken the next one by leaping at the thing landing on it's chest with all his paws then kicking off the thing knocking it backwards. The white wolf did a back flip in mid air to land next where Naruto was.

Naruto dodged the wide swipe of one of the zombies retaliating with a spinning elbow to it's side staggering the thing only barely dodging a brown missile that nearly took off his right leg.

Sparing a glance at where it landed the new harmonixer saw one of the snake like monsters, then it hit Naruto like a ton of bricks, the walking corpses were a distraction since on the their own they weren't dangerous to a trained Shinobi.

The snakes were slower then the zombies but they had the ability to launch themselves at the enemy at higher speeds but only in a single lunge, so they used the zombies to distract their opponents so they could make the killing, or at least a crippling, blow. That was a pretty good strategy for a monster.

Giving a sharp whistle to get Blanca's attention "Oi Blanca take out the snake things first!" yelled Naruto at his friend who gave a nod in conformation.

Delivering a quick one two combo to the nearest zombie followed by a standing stomp to the things chest sending the thing sailing away, this allowed one the other zombies to get in a hit by slashing him on the bicep opening a four gashes on his arm.

He rewarded the thing by aiming a kick at it's knee, he was met by the sound of cracking bone as his kick crushed the corpses knee making the thing fall to it's knees where Naruto slammed his elbow into the base of it's skull with as much force as he could muster sending the monster careening away from him.

This apparently looked like an opportunity to the snake like thing as it coiled it's body up like a spring launching itself at Naruto in blur, catching this out the corner of his eye Naruto immediately dropped to his back dodging the flying attack.

As soon as the monster was over him Naruto lashed out with both of his feet hitting the being in the middle of it's body sending it blasting towards the ceiling where the armored snaked impacted the rock.

Flipping to his feet Naruto drew a kunai from one of the pouches at his waist waiting until the monster returned to the ground where drove the kunai in between the plates, hopefully somewhere vital, with all the power he had. The thing gave quite death rasp before it turned into a bunch of red light and a purple orb like the one from the time he and Blanca killed the first monster outside the cave was adsorbed into his chest once more.

Hearing something scrape on the stone floor the red eyed youth whipped around throwing the kunai in his hand, five feet away the was the zombie whose knee he had crushed was hobbling towards him while dragging it's useless leg along with it. The kunai struck the walking corpse in the center of the forehead with enough force to be buried up to the ring, the zombie seemed to breakdown into pieces but before the bones could hit the ground they disintegrated into red light leaving the knife to clatter on the floor.

Just as earlier an orb of purple was all that was left of the thing which went into his chest just like the others, he was beginning to except this but an explanation would still be appreciated.

A twinge in his arm reminded him that his victory hadn't been perfect, looking down at his even more tattered top's sleeve Naruto just sighed as he ripped the piece of cloth off. On the middle of his bicep were four wounds from the attack that were bleeding slightly, just as he was going to use his now ruined sleeve for a bandage the wounds started to visibility heal before his eyes.

"I never healed this fast before." muttered the blond staring at where the wound had been, normally a wound a like that would have taken upwards up ten minutes to heal.

Naruto didn't have time to ponder this as he felt a pair of fleshless hands wrap around his throat from behind choking the air of him, turning his head as much as he could the teen saw the skeleton he had kicked away standing behind him.

'Shit I forget about him.' Naruto was mentally cursing himself for this.

Griping the thing's wrist Naruto attempted to pull them off his throat but the grips was stronger then it seemed, not wanting to go down easily leapt up while lashing out with his legs to strike the monster in the chest.

Kicking off the monsters chest Naruto went sailing forward landing to roll to his feet, when he stood up from his roll Naruto felt he was still holding something. Looking to his hands Naruto saw that he was holding the dismembered arms of the creature, immediately dropping the appendages Naruto started shaking his hands as if to get the germs off.

"Ewwww that is so wrong." grumbled Naruto as he remembered a distinct ripping sound when he used the thing as a launching pad.

A scraping sound drew Naruto's attention back to the monster that was getting back up sans it's arms making the thing less dangerous, knowing that now was the time for finishing the thing off.

Naruto's inner show boat came out as he did a flying leap at the zombie bringing his right leg up parallel with his body showing a good deal of flexibility,Naruto brought down his leg with the heel impacting the top of the corpses head in a crushing ax kick sending the things face careening into the stone floor.

The monster did the disintegration thing and the purple orb went to him, with all his enemies gone Naruto wondered how Blanca fared with his own.

With Blanca.

Blanca was facing off against the other three enemies, having broken off from Naruto so he could have more room to fight.

Blanca ducked under the corpses strike surging forward to bite the thing's right ankle, clamping down on the appendage hard enough to crush it Blanca used his greater then normal strength to fling the monster into the path of the worm's lunge destroying the zombie on contact.

Immediately the white wolf jumped to the side as the other zombie swiped t him with it's hand, Blanca countered the attack with a shoulder ram knocking the thing on to it's back. The canine was on the thing as soon as it hit the ground clamping his jaws around the corpses head using his powerful jaws to utterly destroy the monsters head killing it, Blanca had seen when Naruto had killed his opponent with the kunai to the head knowing the head was a weak point.

Blanca watched as the thing broke down into the red light and the purple orb went off towards Naruto like all the others, the wolf's ears perked up at the sound of something rough scrape against stone.

Reacting to threat that he knew was coming Blanca dodged to the side up on the wall two feet away only to push off of it straight into the worm's side sending the thing crashing into the ground. As the two rolled on floor trying to come out on top until Blanca was standing on top of the creature, the monster was on it's belly struggling to get Blanca off.

Blanca sunk his fangs into the worms flesh right below the thing's skull, the white canine gave a sharp twist to the neck making the creature give off a sickening crack as it went limp with a broken neck.

As it broke down along with the blood in Blanca's jaws the wolf heard clapping from his side, standing slightly away from the wolf was Naruto clapping with a smile on his face.

"Nice job buddy." congratulated Naruto.

Since there was nothing else in the chamber the two went back to the intersection where the four tunnels meet, Naruto and Blanca decided to take the middle tunnel to see where it lead's them.

This tunnel wasn't nearly as long as the first one taking only took around 5 minutes to reach the end, the end of the tunnel was a dead end with a wall of what looked like granite blocking the way.

The only thing in the tunnel was what looked to be a rusted metal chest, the chest wasn't very big only being about a foot in height and two in width. Bending on to a knee Naruto examined the object a little closer, the metal box didn't appear to be trapped in anyway that sent up red flags.

"Ugh!" grunted Naruto as he grasp the lid of the chest trying to pull it open, the chest seemed to be rusted shut as Naruto pulled with a good deal of force but the lid did not budge.

Losing what little patience he had Naruto took out one his kunai and jammed the tip of the knife under the lid, using the kunai as improvised crowbar Naruto pried the lid of the container up with horrible screeching sound that made Blanca cover his ears.

When he finally was able to see into the chest Naruto was slightly disappointed to find a square piece of metal with what looked like seal on it, he had hoped there would be something worth something in it that he could sell but there was no use in whining about.

Picking up the metal square that was around 2 inches in size, the seal on the item was fairly simple, with black drawings in the middle surrounded by two circles. In between the circles was six letters that spelled out a word.

Picking up the sheet of metal he brings it up close to his face studying it "Furfur huh? Well at least it'll make a nice souvenir." said the teen, the moment he said that the piece of metal in his hand seemed to fade from view right before his eyes.

The next second the drawing that had been on the metal sheet appeared floating over the back of his hand made out of white light, the symbol only lasted for a brief second before it disappeared from sight.

Naruto and Blanca stared at where the symbol that had been only to shake their heads in confusion.

Rubbing his temples in hopes that it would stop the headache that already forming "How much weird crap can happen to one person in a day?" he asked looking skyward as if looking for an answer, at his side Blanca gave him a confused look.

Scene Break

After finding the chest and the odd metal square the duo of Naruto and Blanca were walking along the last of the tunnels, as they walked Naruto noticed that the walls of the tunnel looked to newer then the previous ones meaning that whatever made them was close, because the tunnel seemed to be only a couple of weeks old.

They had been walking for quite while down this passageway and the two's danger senses were telling them that there was something ahead in the tunnel that was exuding an aura of malice.

Normally this is where people would turn back to avoid the possibility of danger but for Naruto and Blanca that wasn't an option since turning back just meant being as lost as before.

After a few minutes the tunnel opened up to a large cave that was a rough dome in it's shape with 30 feet in diameter, the ceiling was about 30 feet high.

Looking around the cave Naruto could tell it was natural unlike the tunnels that they had just come through, spotting another tunnel across the room the two companions started to make there way over to the opening until a familiar tingle raced up his spine making the hairs on the back of his neck stand on end.

Acting on instinct Naruto rolled to the side as Blanca leaped the other way as a shadow crashed into where the two had been standing crushing the rock beneath it's massive fist making a large crater and sending chips of jagged stone flying.

As soon as he was clear of the impact zone Naruto rolled into a crouched position ready for a fight but when he lay eyes on what had attacked he could no help but think that a higher, or maybe a lower, power had it out for him.

Standing there with it's fist in a crater that it had made in solid stone was something that shouldn't exist in nature, the creature was easily over ten feet tall even with it's back in slight hunch. The monster had over sized upper body much like an ape's with it's knuckles almost dragging on the floor, the lower body was stark contrast to the upper with stubby little legs and a tail. The thing's face was black with white eyes that had a large scar running down the across it, upon the back of the beast was a pair of blood red wings that seemed to have no real way to be useful as they were too small for the body.

The coloring of the creature was strange as well with it's arms and upper body being a molted purple with some sections being a dark blue, the lower body was a pale purple, the last odd feature of the monster was that it had two different hands. The left was a five fingered hand with the tips of the fingers having claws on the tips, the right had only two finger that seemed to have been partially fused together that looked more like a club then a hand.

Naruto groaned out loud from his crouch already knowing this fight wouldn't be fast or easy.

The monster noticing that it's prey had not been crushed in it's initial attack turned towards Naruto and let out roar that shook the cave around them knocking several pieces of loose rock from the ceiling.

Naruto leaped back to avoid a diagonal swipe from the club like right hand of the monster which was faster then it looked, during the leap Naruto rolled into a back flip. When Naruto landed he let loose with a barrage of kunai at the creature only for the steel knives to bounce off harmlessly of the thick hide it has.

As the knives clattered to the ground Naruto was internally cursing his luck ' Shit! This is fucked beyond belief, kunai just bounce off the thing and I can't even use any jutsu because the long tongued freaks seal messes with my chakra!' in his current state there wasn't much Naruto could do since he would normally swamp an enemy with shadow clones, Naruto couldn't even use explosive seal wrapped kunai since he didn't want to collapse the roof.

The monster had charged when Naruto was distracted with it's right hand raised over it head poised to crush him, just as the thing was about to lower the boom on him it roared out in pain.

"RAAAAH!"

Taking a quick glance down at the monsters legs Naruto saw that Blanca had leapt into save him by biting the creature on the right leg near the knee, this was actually hurting the thing enough to stop it attacking.

Not wanting the chance that Blanca gave him to go to waste Naruto immediately used the things other arm as a spring board allowing him to land a round house kick to it's face making the beast stagger back.

When the purple monster staggered back Blanca had let go of the thing joining up with Naruto, the two had just learned a very important lesson about their enemy. While most of it's body was tough and resistant to most forms of attack they had at the moment it had a weakness in the form of it's legs and face.

Not even needing to verbalize anything the duo of wolf and Shinobi rushed at the creature as fast as they could, Blanca used his speed and agility to harass his enemy by biting the limbs and ripping out a bit of flesh only to dart out the thing's range before it could counter attack.

This allowed Naruto to hit the monster while it was distracted mainly in the head and legs, he did try to hit it's body but he nearly broke his hand doing, it the fricken thing was like stone.

Sadly the damage they were doing wasn't affecting the thing as much as they hoped, the wounds that they had given it were healing quickly enough to notice. It seemed that they need something with a bit more oomph to it for it to really feel it.

Naruto was racking his brain for anything to help take this thing out but was coming up blank.

Leaning back to dodge a swipe from the clawed only to stumble slightly thanks to a bit of loose rock underneath his foot letting the monster to smack him with it's right club-like hand.

The blow sent the blond crashing into the wall only ten feet away, Naruto had felt the bones of his chest groan from raw power of the attack and could already feel the large bruise spreading along his left arm where the monster had hit him.

Raising to a kneeling position Naruto felt a twinge of rather intense pain from just below his chest 'Hope their just bruised.' he had defiantly hurt his ribs from the impact to what extent he didn't know yet.

Jerking his head to look towards the monster who had just batted him away let out a roar as he charged Naruto while hitting Blanca away with it's tail.

The thing was fast for it's size and stubby legs so it would reach Naruto before he could recover and dodge the attack, the purple beast raised both hands to crush the former blue eyed teen.

On pure instinct and will to live Naruto threw up his right hand as if hoping to ward off the blow some how, the moment he did this a burning feeling spread through out him then focused into his right hand.

The next moment a blue/white glowing projection appeared over the back of his right hand, taking the time he noticed the projection was of the drawing on the piece of metal he had found earlier.

Before the monster could react a fierce wind swirled around it's feet only to evolve into a whirlwind bigger then the creature was, the force of the wind picked the amalgam being up off it's feet and held it off the ground by at least five feet.

As the beast was suspended in the air Naruto could see a multitude of cuts being opened up by barely visible blades of wind, the self contained twister lasted for only 20 seconds before dissipated throwing the purple monster over a dozen feet away where it landed with a crash.

Having become somewhat used to the crazy things that had been happening to him today Naruto shook off the feeling confusion quickly as he got to his feet while he filed this into his 'Figure out later' pile of things.

He winced slightly as he got up as a twinge of pain went through his ribs again but not as intense as before meaning his healing factor had probably at least mended his ribs enough for him to fight.

Assuming his fighting stance Naruto watched the purple abomination pick it's self up from the floor noticing that the thing's wounds from the wind blades weren't closing as fast as the other wounds he gave the thing.

Knowing that his normal attacks wouldn't effect the monster all that much Naruto drew the katana from his back, while Naruto had never really wielded a sword before but had seen a person from a wealthy civilian family be taught kendo so he at least knew the basics.

Gripping the sword in both hands he put his right foot out in front of him while his left back, positioning his sword before him with his elbows bent letting the tip of the blade lead forward a bit assuming a standard kendo stance.

The thing regained it's feet and charged at him with it's full speed, upon getting into striking range the beast lashed out with it's clawed hand. Naruto reacted by rolling under the left to right slash he stopped on one bent knee slashing at the exposed torso of the monster.

The blade of the sword bit into the stomach of the brute leaving a slightly ragged cut on the mid section of the creature, the cut wasn't very deep just enough so a bit of gray blood began to leak out of it.

Rolling out of the way as the other hand slammed down right where he had been not a second before making another crater in the stone floor, Naruto came to a stop right next to Blanca flipping to his feet assumed a ready stance with the sword held vertically next his head with the edge pointing upwards towards the ceiling.

Naruto smiled at the wound on the creatures side now he knew that he could at least injure the thing and that meant he could have a chance to win.

Acting on some sort of unheard signal both Naruto and Blanca shot forward towards the monster, as they closed in on the beast the miss-mash monster swung at Naruto's lower body making the blond Shinobi flip over the attack making it miss him by a scant few inches.

When he landed the beast roared in pain, the source of the sudden change was revealed to be Blanca hanging off the thing's left elbow with his teeth buried into the flesh.

As the purple monstrosity was doing it's best to dislodge the white wolf by shaking the limb as hard as it could, seeing his chance Naruto rushed at the side of the abomination and thrust the sword as hard as he could into it putting all his strength and weight behind blow.

The extra oomph that was powering the thrust made the steel sword imbed it's self half way up to the hilt, the over foot and a half of steel lodged in gut made the creature bellow out in pain and anger loud enough for the walls of the cave to shake from it.

This was enough to allow the monster to shake free Blanca from it's arm sending the wolf rolling away to the other side of the cave, the bellow had also surprised Naruto loosing his grip on the hilt of the katana allowing the right hand of the beast to smack him right in the chest with it's forearm sending Naruto flying into the far wall with enough force to crack the stone wall.

Sliding down the wall Naruto internally cursed as he tried to clear his head of the cobwebs trying to stand up so he can get ready for the next attack from his opponent, sadly for Naruto he wouldn't have time to clear his head as the creature, regardless of the sword sticking out of it, charged at the blond full tilt and would reach the young Harmonixer before he could recover.

As Naruto watched the monster run at him things began to slow down until they came to a full stop then the world went pitch black, when the blackness faded Naruto found himself leaning up against the black tree inside his graveyard.

Whipping his head around frantically Naruto wondered aloud "What the hell am I doing back here?" asked the blond.

"It's pretty simple kid." said a familiar voice from the side.

Standing to the side leaning on one of the doors was Yuri with his arms crossed over his chest with a serious look in his eyes.

"It's time for you to earn your title as a Harmonixer."

Chapter 2 end.

An:Yes I know I'm an evil bastard with the cliff hanger but I have a reason for it.

I wanted to get a chapter out sooner but my creativity was sputtering along for a while, the thing is I can only write when inspired and that can happen every once in a while or when I've had over a liter of soda.

I've also been working at a job that is insanely boring and draining but it pays the bills.

But enough complaining, so Naruto's fought some monsters and discovered crest magic and now moves on to the next challenge as a harmonixer. What that is you'll have to read the next chapter to find out!