A friend in Death
"Zorc, you should know better than to backstab me!" Janus roared.
They leapt at each other and caused a massive shockwave that caused a ten foot radial crater where they met.
Their fight tore through the buildings of Konoha, much to villager's dismay.
"Mother always loved me more!" Zorc roared as he struck his brightly glowing sword towards Janus.
"You selfishness and arrogance is what made father turn you into a demon!" Janus roared back, landing a blow on Zorc's left side.
Their fight didn't last as long due to the damage being done to the terrain.
In mid leap, half of a house fell upon Janus, disrupting his charge.
Zorc saw the opportunity and took it, driving his blade into Janus'chest.
"NNNNOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!" Zaher yelled, finding strength from some unknown source and running up to Zorc.
Zorc kicked him square in the chest, sending him flying back into the wall.
He stared into Janus' eyes, a fanged smile wide as a banana on his face.
"Goodbye brother, your presence has been most unwelcome in my life. I am ecstatic to snuff it out."
He gave his sword a firm twist to the right, and Janus' body became limp.
"DDDAAAAADDDDD!!!!!!!!!!!" Zaher screamed as his father's body fell to the ground.
With the bright red blood of a god still on his sword, Zorc tore open an oily portal and jumped in. Before the portal closed, he turned and locked his eyes on Zaher's. He took his sword, and licked some of the blood off and smiled at Zaher.
Zaher jumped up and ran at the portal, but it disappeared and he stopped where it once stood.
Consumed with rage, his eyes soon fell upon the crumpled heap that was his father.
He slowly approached his body, tears streaming down his face.
Sasuke and Naruto both exchanged looks and, along with Sakura, started to slowly approach him.
He sensed them coming and lashed his sword out at them.
"STAY AWAY!!" he yelled with a face full of tears.
"Hey, it's alright. We're not here to hurt you." Sakura said softly with a small smile.
It started to rain.
"No you don't." he whispered.
"Having the people you love torn away by someone you thought was family. Yeah. I know how that feels." Sasuke replied with clenched fists.
"How would you know mortal?" Zaher spat.
"My older brother Itachi, who I idolized as a kid, slaughtered my entire family and clan." Sasuke said with an active Sharingan. "Since then, all i've ever wanted to do was find him and annihilate him for it."
"Come on, we'll help you." Sakura offered.
"There's nothing you can help me with. Zorc is the God of two planes now that he has killed my father." Zaher stated.
"Well we can still try!" Naruto yelled.
"How, when even my father couldn't stop him?" Zaher asked in despair.
cue Naruto Theme song(I swear this is getting too corny even for me, and I'm writing it!)
"Don't worry, we can beat him if we all work together!" Naruto stated confidently. "When we work as a team there's no opponent we can't beat!"
"As corny as Naruto's speech is, he's right. Are there other gods who can help us out?" Kakashi asked.
"There are as many as 45 gods, as well as the Universal One." Zaher stated.
"Let's get you inside and talk about what we need to do." Tsunade said.
"No. I can't leave my father."
"Don't worry, we'll clean him up and give him a proper burial." Tsunade reassured him with a smile.
They showed Zaher to a room where he could dry off.
He removed all his armor and had only black skin tight pants on.
Sakura and Ino knocked on the door four times.
"Come in."
They both entered the room and were a bit speechless at his perfectly toned body. (purrrr)
"Sorry about my arrogance towards you all today." he apologized and snapped them back to reality.
"With a body like that who cares." Ino said.
"What?" he asked.
Sakura quickly put a hand on Ino's mouth and said "What she meant to say was that it's all right and stay as long as you want."
"Thank you. I am very grateful towards your hospitality."
Sakura and Ino weren't listening. Their eyes were still going over his perfect body and trying to picture what was beneath those black tights.
"Hey, what are you two doing here?" Kakashi asked appearing behind them.
They snapped back to reality in an instant.
"Oh, we were just checking him out... I mean checking up on him." Sakura said bashfully.
"I'm sure you were. Now run along you two, we have business to discuss."
"Come on Kakashi! I wanna know too!" Naruto said from behind him.
"For the last time Naruto no!" Jiraiya said.
"Come on!"
"No!"
"Come on!"
"NO!"
"PPPPPPPPPLLLLLLLLLLLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"
"You can't keep that up."
"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE yes I can EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"
"All right!"
"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE all right! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"
"You can stop now Naruto."
"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE I wish I could but I'm stuck EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"
"So, who is this Universal One?" Tsuande asked.
"Well, I've never seen his face, but my father spoke of him. He said that he was the god of all gods, the top of the food chain. He said that no matter how powerful any other god became, they still couldn't take on the Universal One because he controlled everything. My", with great pain, "uncle, Zorc, thought that the story was full of shit, and decided to grow strong enough to take him out."
"Do you know where there are any other gods who could aid us?" Jiraiya asked again.
"Only one, but I don't think you'd want to meet her."
"Why?" Kakashi asked.
"She's the goddess of insanity, and...my godmother, not literally, more like the one who would take care of me if my parents ever died."
"When can she be here?" Tsunade asked.
"No doubt she's already caught wind of my father's death, so tomorrow at the least."
"And at the most?"
"Tomorrow...evening? She is a god. Are you sure you want to meet her?"
"What could be so bad?" Sasuke asked.
"If only you knew. But you'll find out tomorrow."
"Then tomorrow it is." Tsunade said.
Everyone but Sasuke, Naruto, Sakura and Ino exited the room.
Sasuke, Sakura, Naruto and Ino seeing the distant look in his eyes.
"Are you feeling better?" Sakura asked tentatively.
He gave a short laugh that sounded faked. "yetah."
"You don't have to lie to us." Naruto joked.
"I'm not lying."
"You just lost your father and from the sound of it your family. I doubt you're even thinking straight." Sasuke said.
Zaher gave a deep sigh.
"I just know I came home to see him holding his sword to my mother's throat. He killed her right in front of my eyes. Even my younger sister didn't escape his madness. I just...lost control and charged at him. I didn't care whether or not he chopped me up in one swing. I just wanted to make him suffer. Eventually the fight came here. I am sorry. I didn't mean to obliterate half of your town."
"Don't worry. You aren't the first." Ino said trying to lighten the mood. It failed.
"Well if you ever need someone to hang around with for a good time, I'm your man!" Naruto declared pointing at himself.
Zaher gave a small chuckle, "You have a lot of energy for one so young."
"How old are you?" Sakura asked.
"In the language of your realm...16."
Oh, young and studdish. We've hit the jackpot! Ino and Sakura thought secretly.