Chapter 2: Ride the Wave!
In the last chapter, names were in the Japanese, last name first form, but I changed it in this one. It just got to tedious for me.
Also, I might make up some cards, not anything major, just small ones.
Disclaimer: I o]]don't own Naruto or the Yu-gi-oh! franchise.
Somewhere in Mizu no Kuni, six years later.
A sixteen year old Naruto was lying down on his sleeping bag, staring up at the roof of his tent, he hadn't changed much over the years, his hair has grown out to reach his mid-back and he had a muscular form that could make hardcore Sasuke fangirls weak at the knees, he had also grown to a tall height of 6'2" making him taller than demn near anyone in his age group. He started thinking about all that had happened over the years. He had began his training with Kurama and Yubel a few days after leaving, his monsters had also taught him how to use a sword, his go-to weapon was Celestial Sword - Eatos, and after these six years, he was easily chunin level, and when he strained himself, he was a match for a jounin, as were his two companions in a pinch.
"Naru-kun, breakfast is ready. Come get some!" Cried a soft female voice from outside.
"In a minute!" Naruto called back. "Now then, why are you in my sleeping bag Aki-chan?" He asked the beautiful girl who was half on him and laying her head on his chest.
"I just wanted to be close to you Naru-koi, and now that you're awake, I want to be even closer..." Akiza said lowly as she slid up and kissed him, Naruto responded by wrapping his arms around her waist and kissing back. Naruto could do this because his three other girlfriends back in Konoha had given him the okay, yes, as in plural, he had sent his friend winged kuriboh to give the girls each a card after about a year on the road so that they could communicate through them. After a lot of talking, the girls had decided that they wanted to date Naruto for real, and even though he hadn't seen them for years, Naruto loved them as if they were right there with him. They had also told him that if he came across any other girls that he truly loved, then they would love to have more sisters. Of course, they wanted to meet the other girls, but that would be a little complicated right then. But Naruto knew that the two groups would get along well. He was pulled out of his musings by Akiza putting a little more passion into the kiss and slipping her tongue into his mouth, and he responded in kind.
"Will you wake up already!" Said the voice from before as a cute sky blue haired girl poked her head through the tent flap. Before she gained an atomic blush on her face. "Akiza! Stop that, it's way to early for your weird shenanigans!" She scolded.
Akiza broke the kiss and said. "Fine, you can be such a killjoy Luna." Said Akiza as she got up and started getting ready, showing Naruto that she was only wearing her black lace bra and panty set.
Naruto got up as well and put his armor on. "Do you have to do that every morning Aki-chan?" He asked.
"Of course I do." Akiza said with a smirk as she left the tent. Naruto started thinking about when he met the slightly psychotic beauty.
Flashback.
Four years ago, small village in Tetsu no Kuni
Naruto had just got his new armor put on, and boy was it awesome, it was a bit like the original Supreme king's armor. It had the same lower body look, with a few modifications,the knee spikes were gone, and the cloth flaps around the waist were gone, plus his six decks were placed on his belt, three on each side, while the special metal case was in the seal on his necklace, which was tucked into his shirt. The upper body was more modified however, the shoulder pads and sleeves were gone, the gauntlets had been made fingerless, all of the armor was thinner and more conforming, and last but not least, the red cape was gone, and had been replaced by a red piece of cloth attached to either side of his waist and the back, hanging down behind him to his knees, with a face mask attached to hide his whisker marks. He had been working for a famous armor smith for the last few weeks to get it, the man had wanted to know why Naruto's parents weren't with him, and Naruto couldn't come up with a story that the man believed, so he told the man the truth, and then he told Naruto that if he worked in the shop for a few weeks, then he would make Naruto some armor free off charge, so Naruto took it.
Now back to the plot! Naruto was walking along when he felt something strange, he had discovered his sensing ability a few months ago, and decided to find out what it was, if felt familiar, but he just couldn't place it. And as he followed it, he came upon...
A mental hospital?
"This will be an interesting experience." Yubel spoke up from the necklace.
Sitting in a dark windowless room was a girl of about twelve years old, sitting on a bed, with long maroon hair that covered most of her face, coffee brown eyes, and was wearing a hospital gown, she had a defeated look that should never be seen on a child's face.
Akiza didn't know what to do, her powers were getting harder to control by the day, and the accommodations didn't help. She hated the hospital, and she hated her mother with a passion, she had put Akiza in the town orphanage, because she was ashamed. When Akiza was young, she had learned the truth that her mother never wanted her. Akiza was an accident created from a drunken depressed mistake, when her mother had dropped Akiza off at the orphanage and told her that she would be back to get her in a little bit, Akiza had been naive enough to believe her. But she waited like a good little girl.
That was five years ago.
Then, her powers came, she had killed an older boy that had tried to rape her, she didn't mean to, she just wanted him to go away! But then the vines stabbed him so fast, Akiza didn't know what to do!
The matron decided to lock her away, the doctors still came to try and talk to her, but she never talked to them, the only reason that she hadn't gone insane was because of the little white and blue talking slugs that would visit her. They couldn't stay for long though, because their summoner wouldn't like them being there. She used to pray for her mother to come get her, now... Akiza wanted out so she could hunt the bitch down. She had at first thought that her mother had come for her, but didn't know where to find her, but then she realized that the hospital was only a few blocks down from the orphanage, an her mother could easily get the location out of the matron. Some part of her still loved her mother, but there was only so much a person could take before they snapped.
Akiza was dangerously close to that line.
She was starting to think about just giving up, and trying to kill herself, until he came.
"You look like you could use a friend." Naruto stated as he got rid of his shadow cover, sneaking through the facility had been ridiculously easy, but he was surprised that this girl was the source of that power.
"Wh-who are you! Go away!" Akiza yelled, scared. Naruto started walking closer. "No! Stay away from me! Leave me alone!" As Akiza yelled this, black vines crashed through the wall from the outside and nearly impaled Naruto, but he was faster. Akiza started crying and got ready for the end, she was scared out of her mind, he was obviously a ninja, so maybe he was here to kill the witch, or take her to his village as a weapon, or worse. That is, until a gentle hand caressed her cheek and wiped her tears away. She looked up and saw that he wasn't looking at her with fear and hate like everyone else, he looked at her with compassion and warmth.
"Now tell me, why is a beautiful girl like you crying in a place like this?" She didn't know why, but she felt safe with him, so she let it all go, she dove into his chest and cried her heart out while telling him everything, until she fell asleep in his arms.
Naruto for his part was pissed, not at the girl, but at her mother, Akiza didn't deserve this, nobody did. Naruto decided that he was going to help her, so he scooped her up into his arms princess style and walked out of the hospital, of course doctors and nurses tried to stop him, but he just blasted then away with his power.
As he walked out of the hospital and back to the inn, he noticed something that nearly made him drop Akiza. On her arm was a pair of dull, red claw marks, like his head mark.
"She's a signer?" he whispered to himself.
"Well that's interesting."Yubel said from her card.
"What?"
"It used to be that there were two claw marks, she has one mark with both claws. That means that either there's a new signer symbol, or that there are only four signers now."
"No use thinking about it, just focus on getting the girl some help."
With that, Naruto kept going on his path, his mind plagued with thoughts about the signers and the future.
Another thing that was on Naruto's mind was Akiza's mother, he thought he knew who she was, even though Akiza hadn't mentioned her name. A Konoha ninja had been absent for eight years, starting a bit before the Kyuubi attack, and if the time frame was correct, along with what Akiza told Naruto about her, and the plant abilities, there was only one woman who it could be.
Tsunade Senju.
Flashback End.
Naruto had taken Akiza to an actual shrink to help her, and after convincing her that the doctor wouldn't hurt her, Naruto got Akiza to open up to him. As it turned out, Akiza wasn't obsessed with him because of hero-worship, like Naruto had thought. She instead saw him as a kindred spirit, and the one person who could understand her. After a few months, she had gotten less clingy and started showing more of her real self, and Naruto had actually started to fall for her, plus the girls in Konoha had approved of her after hearing her story. Naruto had also given Akiza a very special card, so that they could have a mental link.
Naruto and Akiza left the tent and went out to sit by the fire with Luna, speaking of Luna, the two had met her about a year into their trip. She had been born with incredible psychic powers. Her parents were nobles who wanted to use Luna's power to control everyone with blackmail stolen from their own minds. She had refused, so they had abandoned the thirteen year old Luna to an orphanage, taking her twin brother with them, and disowned her.
Naruto and Akiza had met her when they were passing by, they saw her sitting alone, the other kids were laughing at her and calling her a freak, so the two beat all of them into the ground and took Luna to get something to eat. After hearing her story, then they had asked her if she wanted to go with them, what happened next was very interesting.
Flashback... Again!
Sitting in a booth at a small cafe were three teenagers, Naruto, Akiza, and a new addition, a girl with sky blue hair, olive green eyes, and a pale complexion.
"So, how about it?" Naruto asked while Akiza was looking at Luna with a small smile, Akiza had gotten better, but was still learning to interact with people. "Want to come along with us?"
"I-I don't know... Could you give me a second to think about it?" Luna asked quietly.
Naruto simply smiled and said, "Of course." Then through the link to Akiza with their cards. "Akiza don't be alarmed, but she's going to read our minds, probably to see if we're tricking her, just let her in, it's alright, we three are all the same." Akiza was understandably scared, but Naruto's assurance helped her calm down.
Then they felt it, Luna was ghosting her way through their minds, Naruto thought that she was almost as good as Yubel, he had heard that the best Yamanaka couldn't make themselves this stealthy, that's why the target had to be restrained, because someone would know that they were in. But Luna, Naruto had amazing mental defenses from his training, but he could barely feel her slip by, granted he was letting her, but it was still impressive.
"Damn, she's good at this." Kurama said from the mindscape.
After a few minutes, Luna stopped, and for whatever reason, she had a huge blush on her face, then she spoke in a quiet voice. "I'm sorry about what happened to you, I'm sorry for reading your minds, and if the offer is still open, then I would love to go with you." She had a pleading look in her eyes.
Naruto was going to say something, but Akiza beat him to it. "Welcome to the family!"
It was then that the three noticed something, their forearms were glowing red. They each brought their arms up to see that Naruto's head mark was glowing, Akiza's claw marks were too, and a mark on Luna was too!
She had a mark in the form of a U-shape, with a line inside it every few inches, one end was flat, while the other was pointed.
"What is this!" Luna said with some fear in her voice.
Naruto took a moment to explain the signers to her, and she calmed down a bit.
"Well, there is a new mark. It looks like the dragon's body, must have been made to add a sense of completeness and balance to the dragon, or to give it a more solid form."
Flashback End.
Whatever Luna had seen in the two's heads, she had gained a small crush on the Supreme King, which had only grown after the three had started traveling, and the Konoha girls were okay with Luna too!
The two girls had definitely grown up during their trip. Akiza now had a curvy figure that would make a supermodel green with envy, she wore a drill-like hair clip to keep the hair out of her eyes, and it also helped to keep her chakra suppressed, she had great control over her mokuton now, the suppression was mostly to travel unnoticed and have a trump card when it was taken off, she was wearing an outfit that looked amazing on her, and fit her to a T (Her everyday 5ds outfit). Luna had her hair longer, almost down to the small of her back, and wore a new outfit. She wore a pink shirt with a few buttons on top, elbow length sleeves, and was longer in the back than the front. White short shorts with a black leather belt, White, knee length ninja sandals, a medical pouch on the back of her waist, and white elbow-length fingerless gloves.
"They still don't have shit on me." Yubel commented.
The three companions say down to breakfast and once more went over their choice, they had decided to become Kiri ninja. They had heard that the rebels had won the war and that the new Mizukage was a kind woman who would lay her life down for her men, they hoped that she would accept them.
On the road to Kirigakure
The three ninja hopefuls were on their way to Kiri, well at least they would be, if they hadn't run into three ex-Kiri ninja.
Let's call them dumbasses #1,2, and 3 shall we?
1, who was the leader, looked at them and said, "I'm going to go out on limb and say that you three are bloodline users who're trying to get into Kiri, well that's not going to happen."
At this, 3 spoke up. "Even if they're not, we could just kill the boy and take the girls." He said with a lecherous grin.
"I like that idea." 2 agreed.
This was going to be brutal.
One brutal minute later
"That was pathetic." Naruto said as Akiza was spouting off obscenities at the dead ninja while kicking them.
"Maybe they were flunkies?" Luna said while secretly wanting to join Akiza.
The three were used to death now, they had killed bandits that had tried to rob them, or other things. They had problems with it at first, but now they knew that it was a necessary evil.
"Well, that was fun to watch." Said a new voice from the mist said as someone stepped into the kids' view. It was a short woman with long red hair, and two parts sticking up with a Kiri headband on her forehead. With a baggy green pinstripe shirt, white obi, black baggy hakama-like pants, ninja sandals with blue leg warmers, and, two unique swords on her back.
"Ringo Ameyuri!" Luna called with considerable fear in her voice, after all, she had read the bingo book, she knew what this woman was capable of.
"So you know who I am, well then, what are you kiddies doing here?" She asked while giving them a bloodthirsty smirk.
"We're here to become Kiri ninja, got a problem bitch?" Leave it to Akiza.
Rings only smirked and said, "I like you! And judging by how you took apart those flunkies, you seem strong enough, so let me burn these piles of shit and I'll take you to see Mizukage-sama."
"That's it?" Naruto seemed confused.
"We just got done with a war, we need new blood. Now follow me new meat." Ringo explained as she started walking away from the now burning corpses.
The three looked at each other and decided to follow. After all, they wanted to be ninja, and one of the Seven Ninja Swordsman talking to the Mizukage on their behalf was a big deal.
Mizukage Tower
"Of course you can join!" The ever-bubbly Kage said with a closed eye expression.
"Seriously? Just like that? No probationary period? No background?" Luna asked the busty kunoichi.
"Oh, I already know all about you." She said with a smile.
"What!? How?" Naruto asked alarmed.
"The Sandaime Hokage called in a favor to the fire daimyo who called in a favor to the water daimyo who called in a favor to me, and I had ninja who couldn't fight keep an eye on you sometimes." The Mizukage explained with a wink.
"Jiji..." Naruto groaned lowly with a deadpan expression.
"Well, anyway, you kids can take these..." The Mizukage said as she tossed them some Kiri headbands. Naruto tied his onto his waist, Akiza put it on over her choker, and Luna put her's on her arm. "I'll show you around the village later, in the meantime, Rin-chan can get you settled, you can stay with me until you earn enough money to get a place of your own."
She game them a caring smile. "I promise, you three have a home here."
One week later, Kirigakure
Naruto, Luna, and Akiza had been in the village for a week and they were already feeling at home. One thing though the Mizukage, or Mei, as she liked to be called, didn't mention to them was that she only had one other bedroom set up, and it only had a king-sized bed. Naruto didn't complain, neither did Luna, and Akiza nearly squeezed the life out of Mei with a hug.
Another thing was that the three were now a gennin team with Ringo as their sensei. Speaking of Ringo, she and Akiza got along a little too well, Naruto had picked up some useful sword skills from her, and a few on dual-wielding, Luna had learned how to be more effective in a fight and keep cool under pressure.
And as it stands, the four were standing in the Mizukage's office, ready to receive their first mission.
"Alright you four, it's time for your first mission." She said.
"Finally some damn action!" Kurama raged from the seal.
"Hush you." Yubel commented.
"What's our mission boss-lady?" Ringo asked her best friend.
At this, Mei took on a more serious face, something that the team did as well. "We have recently learned that Nami no Kuni has been taken over by a tyrant named Gato. A resident of wave came to us with this information, and you are to protect her and her family, as well as assassinating Gato of given the chance. She has told me that her father is building a bridge that will break Nami free from Gato's control, make sure that this bridge is completed. This is an A-rank mission, do you accept?"
"Hai, Mizukage-sama!"
Mei smiled. "Good, Ao! Bring in the client!
In walked a pretty dark-haired woman and a small boy. "Hello, my name is Tsunami, and this is my son, Inari. My father went to buy some more supplies, so I decided to hire some protection."
Then, Inari spoke up. "They're just going to die... They can't beat Gato."
The team could see that the kid was hurt pretty bad, probably lost someone to Gato.
Mei then spoke up. "I don't know... They might surprise you~. "
And so they left for Nami, with the newly christened 'Team Black Garden' left with Tsunami and Inari in tow. The ninja were busy telling Inari about feats they accomplished, and he was starting to perk up more and more.
Nami no Kuni, Tsunami's house
After a few days of traveling, the group had arrived at Tsunami's house. On the way, Tsunami had told them about what happened to Kaiza, and why Inari was so disillusioned when it came to heroes until he met them. They had arrived and found that Tsunami's house was actually an old inn.
Anyway, Naruto had just finished setting a few Sinister Serpents around outside to keep watch. And he didn't know why, but he had a bad feeling about this mission.
About a mile away
Anko Mitarashi was having a bad day, first, her team, team 8 consisting of Sakura, Ino, and Hinata (shippuden outfits) had been give their first C-rank after graduating the academy, they just had to protect a bridge builder! But then it all went downhill from there, first they had ran into the demon brothers, then, she sent for backup, then they had been attacked by Zabuza Momochi, then she had been trapped by said ninja.
Thank Kami that Kushina and the triplets, team 11, had shown up, then Zabuza had been killed by a hunter-nin.
Kushina was wearing her regular jounin attire, Menma still looked like a mini-Minato, he had on a green t-shirt, a white hoodie, his headband on his forehead, and black ninja sandals and ANBU pants, with a katana on his back. Nozomi had her red hair in a high ponytail, half lidded blue eyes, she was wearing a red kimono with bare shoulders and biker shorts, with a ninjato on her back, and black high-heeled sandals. Natsumi was wearing a blue belly shirt, a white jacket that came down to just below her bust, a black short skirt with biker shorts underneath, a tanto on her hip, blue sandals, with her blonde, slightly spiky hair going down to her thighs and violet eyes sparkling.
Back to Anko, now she was nearly passed out and being supported by Sakura and Ino, while Tazuna was showing them the way to his house, Sakura and Ino were arguing over Sasuke again, Hinata was being shy as Menma tried to be suave with her, Kushina was talking to Tazuna , and the triplets were in a triangle formation around them all.
Anko sometimes cursed getting this team, she had been stuck with the three girls because the Hokage thought that having two confident girls with Hinata would break the girl out of her shell, and that being away from Sasuke would help Sakura and Ino. Plus having a competent Kunoichi as their sensei would motivate them. Kurenai had been pissed that she didn't get the team she wanted, and Anko didn't want to be a sensei, so they had tried getting the team moved to Kurenai, but the Hokage wouldn't have it. It wasn't Anko's fault she was stronger than her besty!
She just couldn't shake the feeling that this mission was going to be even more trouble.
Tazuna's house.
Tsunami opened the door to see her father, and a group of Konoha ninja, great. "Oh, hi dad, you hired ninja, I thought that you were just getting supplies."
Tazuna Got a sheepish grin and said. "Well, I didn't want you to worry, why? Is it a problem."
"Well, it might be, you see... I hired ninja too..."
The Konoha teams stopped and stood there.
Finally Kushina asked. "From where?"
Tsunami responded with. "Kiri, I thought that since the war was over, then they could send us some help..."
Anko sighed. "Well, we might as well meet them, I mean, we're going to have to work together."
"Well, well, well..." Ringo said stepping into view. "If it ain't the red bitch and her litter!"
"Oh, great! As if Zabuza wasn't bad enough!" Kushina moaned.
"Zabu-chan's here too?" Ringo's grin only widened. "Great, now I can drag his dumb ass back after the bridge is done, now come on in and meet some real gennin." She said as she turned and walked back to the living room.
So they all went in and met Ringo's team, a bit miffed at her comment.
And what they saw surprised them.
"So you can seriously pull out a man's pancreas through his tear duct?!" Akiza asked Luna.
"Yep, it'd be difficult, but it's possible." Luna responded.
Two seriously beautiful girls.
Then they noticed the new arrivals, and Luna had to mentally restrain Akiza from attacking four of them. Naruto was currently upstairs placing cards around the house, but he had surely sensed them by now. And after doing the introductions, they were all sitting around the living/dining room, Luna and Akiza were sitting on a couch while everyone else was at the table.
Meanwhile, Menma was trying to come up with a way to suavely hit on the two girls. After all, he needed to take multiple wives to restore his clans, they all could feel the power on the girls.
Menma decided to try something simple. "So, how would you two like to-"
"I'm sorry, we're not interested." Luna cut him off.
"Buzz off pretty boy." Two guesses who that was. Nozomi and Natsumi would have defended their brother, but after seeing so many fangirls at the academy and around the village, it was nice to see fellow kunoichi.
Kushina, not so much.
"And what the hell is wrong with my son!"
Akiza responded with. "How about the fact that he looks I should be squealing in joy at his mere presence."
Ringo was watching like her favorite show was on.
Kushina was about ready to pounce, "Why you little..."
"Now, now, let's all at least try to get along." Said the black armored gennin as he descended the steps. He then looked over to the Konoha girls, "Hello there..." He said as he glided his way toward them, Nozomi and Natsumi were preparing for the crappy pick-up lines that they had heard countless times before, that is until he walked straight past them without even looking at them. The Konoha teams all looked with wide eyes as he took Sakura's, Ino's, and Hinata's hands and kissed them one by one through the mask. "My name is Haou Moto, and what are your names... My dears?"
The girls couldn't believe it, Naruto-kun was here, they just watched as he walked towards them, and secretly took pleasure in seeing the Namikaze bitches' faces. Then when he got to them and talked to them!
'I think I just lost my virginity!" Sakura said in her mind, after hearing his voice and seeing him in person after years, she was barely able to stand! Then she remembered that they were supposed to act like they didn't know each other. "Um, hi, I'm S-Sakura Haruno." She said with a blush.
"So hot! Must. Not. Jump." Ino thought with a considerable amount of strain, "Hello~, Ino Yamanaka at your service!"
"Don't faint, please don't faint!" Hinata pleaded with an atomic blush on her face, "N-n-nice to m-meet y-y-you. I'm H-h-hinata H-hyuga." This was the first time in years that Hinata's stutter was completely real.
The Konoha ninja couldn't believe what they were seeing, not only had someone not hit on Nozomi or Natsumi, but the girls seemed flustered by him!
Menma was pissed! He had been trying to get that close to Hinata for years, he had a crush on her ever since he saw her at the first day of the academy! Now this guy came in and got that close to her without being hit by one of her reflex juken strikes!
Yes, Menma. It's totally a reflex.
Not to mention that he had two hardcore Sasuke fangirls blushing and flustered.
This was a sign of the apocalypse!
"I hope that we can all get along until the mission is over." Naruto said as he walked over to the couch that his teammates were sitting on and plopped down in between them as they cuddled up to his sides, something that earned everyone's attention, but nobody commented.
"Speaking of Zabu-chan, how's he doing?"Ringo decided to ask.
"He's dead." Menma said, looking like he had done it himself.
Ringo looked surprised at this. "Seriously? How'd he die?"
"A hunter-nin got him with a couple of senbon to the neck, then took the body away." Sakura said, while hoping to Kami that this would get her damn teammates to start thinking more, pretending to be a fangirl was getting harder and harder with how the triplets thought they were Kami's gifts to the nations, not so much the girls, but Menma was insufferable, and his mother doing nothing to stop it.
"He's alive./Alive./Totally alive./ What do they teach at the Konoha academy, everything but how to be a ninja?" In order; Luna, Ringo, Naruto, and Akiza.
"What do you mean?" Nozomi asked, already not liking Akiza, and still miffed about what Naruto did. (When I address him, it'll be Naruto, but when anyone who doesn't know his real name does, they'll call him Haou.)
"Senbon are used for hitting pressure points, it's more likely that the hunter-nin was a fake working for Zabuza, and just put him into a death-like state to take him away, you did know something was up when the hunter took the body away instead of burning it, right?" Luna told them, while thinking that Konoha had really gone downhill in the past few years.
They're silence was her answer.
"Well, then!" Ringo seemed like she had a devious idea. "We should establish which team gets to assume command of this joint mission, I propose a little fight..."
"Hah! Our sensei will kick your ass!" Natsumi claimed enthusiastically.
"Oh, no, not between us..." Ringo's grin only got wider. "I say our gennin decide it. Three one on one matches, I'll even let you shoes who fights who! Not that it'll matter."
"Hell yeah! Bring it on!" Natsumi accepted for them.
"Why not? Could be fun!" Anko consented. Kushina meanwhile was thinking about how fun seeing Ringo's defeated face would be when her kids destroyed her gennin.
Tazuna ust took out a new bottle of Saki, "I think I'll need this now."
Tsunami however smacked him with a frying pan and said, "Not today Tou-san, this is your punishment for lying to me about where you were going."
Inari only leaned over to Naruto, "Kaa-chan can be scary when she wants to be."
Anko walked up to the father-daughter duo, "Can I have it?"
Later, out in the forest.
"The first match will be Luna vs Natsumi!" Ino said acting as the referee. "Are both fighters ready?" She asked receiving a nod from both girls. "Hajime!"
Natsumi started off by rushing Luna at average speed, thinking that she would win easily. Then she started to slow down. 'Where did this headache come from?' She wondered as the splitting pain made her stop and hold her head. Meanwhile Luna was thinking about her opponent. 'No mental defenses at all, that's just idiotic! They must think that nobody but their Yamanaka clan can use mental techniques. Wow, looks like Konoha has started getting arrogant.' She then realized that her opponent was passed out. 'Again, wow.'
With the spectators.
"What the fuck just happened!?" Menma so eloquently put it.
"Well, looks like you don't even bother training your gennin's mental defenses. How sad." Ringo taunted with a smirk.
'Mental defense?' The rest of the Konoha group thought.
Field.
Nozomi stepped into the ring with Akiza, both with smirks on their faces,
Ino then asked. "Are both fighters ready?" Again receiving a pair of nods. "Hajime!"
Akiza decided to start off by pointing two of her fingers at the ground beneath Nozomi and bringing them up to point at her. Then, a thin pillar of rock shot up and nailed Nozomi right in the chin.
As Nozomi was in the air, she regained her bearings and went through a few handsigns, "Water style: Gunshot Jutsu! She called out and shot a large ball of water at Akiza, who merely stomped her foot and watched as a wall of earth came up to block the water. As the wall receded, Akiza saw that Nozomi was clinging to the side of a tree with chakra and smirked devilishly. "Wood Style: Binding Tree Jutsu!" Akiza called out as the tree came to life and bound Nozomi to its trunk.
'Mokuton! It can't be!' Nozomi thought before another branch smacked her in the side of her head and knocked her out.
Spectators
"Well, look at that, two down." Ringo said, not sounding surprised in the least. "And that means that we have command."
"How in the FUCK, does that girl have MOKUTON?!" A shocked Kushina yelled as she tried to pick up her jaw from the ground.
Not just from the mokuton, but also that two of Konoha's supposed 'Miracle Three' had been curb stomped.
Ringo gave her a deadpan look, "Oh sure, let me explain my student's techniques to you in great detail." She said with a voice soaked in sarcasm.
Kushina only stormed off while Anko was struggling to hold her laughter in.
The next day.
The three ninja teams were currently having breakfast. The girls, minus Nozomi, Natsumi, and Kushina, were talking animatedly amongst themselves,with Naruto joining in here and there, but he was mostly talking to Tazuna. One thing that confused team 11 and Anko was the Sakura and Ino hadn't mentioned one thing about Sasuke, and Hinata was much more outgoing than usual.
After everyone had finished, Ringo decided to speak, "Okay! Time to get everything squared away. We need someone to guard the old man, who volunteers?"
Kushina spoke up, "We will."
"Fine." Ringo didn't have a problem with that, it would give her more time to hunt down Zabu-chan.
On a street in the Village.
The girls of teams 8 and black garden were currently accompanying Tsunami and Inari to the market to buy some groceries. team 11 plus Naruto was guarding the bridge, though Naruto was accompanying Tazuna to a store to get supplies, and lastly, Ringo and Anko were scouting around for Zabuza's or Gato's bases. The girls had stayed outside the store to keep watch and talk.
"So..." Ino asked as she leaned in to Akiza and Luna, "Either of you know what Naruto looks like under that armor?"
Akiza gave a smirk, "Hard six pack abs, thin wiry muscles, a face that looks like it was carved from stone, and based on what I've felt in the mornings when I sneak into his sleeping bag, he's huge."
The girls took a minute to digest that, Luna was blushing, while team 8 had to restrain themselves from drooling.
Tsunami and Inari came out and they were about to leave before they heard a commotion coming from a few streets away, Tsunami had decided to check it out, so the rest went with her.
When they arrived, they saw Tazuna staring at something while throwing his saki bottle away, a humongous buffet that people were flocking to, and of course, Naruto playing with some little kids while a bunch of small adorable monsters played with them too.
A few minutes earlier, with Naruto and Tazuna.
Naruto and Tazuna had been looking around for an hour before they found a store that still had the supplies they wanted. Naruto felt someone trying to take one of his card cases, he whipped around and saw...
A small girl with a scared look in her eyes.
Naruto looked around and saw a bunch of other kids watching from hiding places, he knelt down and placed his hand on the girl's head. She flinched as if expecting him to hurt her, but Naruto only gave her a smile and took out a card from one of his cases. It had a cartoonish picture of a huge buffet in a castle hall.
"You look hungry. How would you and your friends like to have all you can eat?" The girl looked up at him with confusion.
Naruto only held up the card and said, "Spell: Royal Banquet."
The card glowed and exploded in light, when it cleared, there was a massive buffet table in the center of the street, there was enough food to feed an army!
Naruto was smiling as everyone ran to get their fill, and on a darker note, he was silently waiting for his chance to make Gato suffer for this.
Naruto blinked as that entered his head, a side effect of his power was that he sometimes had dark impulses go through his head. Every element had personality traits attached, and darkness had violence and anger. He usually pushed them aside, but there were some that were like a screaming voice in his head. Darkness was dangerous, even to it's king.
He also thought about his card abilities, he could play a spell one of two ways; he could either only activate their effects, or he could summon what was on the card. Like he'd done with the banquet.
Speaking of summoning, he saw that the kids were happily eating their fill, he thought that they would need something else to cheer them up. So, he took out some more cards and said, "Summon: Kuriboh, Kuribon, Winged Kuriboh, Hanewata." He then watched as the four small monsters popped out of their cards and waddled over to the kids. They were a little afraid at first, until Kuriboh tripped on his own feet, after the kids had a good laugh, they started playing with the monsters.
It was a few minutes later that Naruto found himself telling stories to the kids, and some older people too, he decided to tell them Yugi's story, he had just gotten done with duelist kingdom when he saw the girls walk around the corner and spot him.
He waved to them and eventually everything turned into a big festival.
A few hours later.
Naruto stood off to the side as the last of the buffet was finished off, everyone in Wave had turned up! Plus team 11 along with Ringo and Anko, who were currently passed out on the floor. Thankfully Naruto had more than enough chakra to replenish the table many times, it was then that he heard an upbeat and bubbly voice speak up beside him, "That was a nice thing you did Naru-chan!"
Naruto nearly jumped out of his skin as he turned to look at the blue and pink clad spirit, "When did you pop up Mana-chan?"
The once most famous female in duel monsters merely giggled and stuck her tongue out at him, "You know that I never reveal my secrets."
Naruto sighed at the Dark Magician Girl's antics, they had met when Naruto was going through his cards, they had become fast friends. She had decided to go by Mana since Dark Magician Girl was a lot to say, she had said that the pharaoh's childhood friend was named that, and she and DMG looked scarily alike.
"You know... For the king of all things shadow and darkness, you're a really nice guy Naru-chan." Mana commented with a finger on her chin as she started to float up.
Naruto only gave her a look and said, "I may be the king of darkness, but I'm not evil... or unfeeling. These people have had their lives turned upside down, I wanted to cheer them up. So sue me."
Mana just started to go back to her card, but before she did, she gave Naruto a kiss on the cheek and said, "Naruto, you're destined for great things, and I want you to know that I and my fellow spirits will stand by you to the end. By the way, is it just me, or would your bluenette friend become insta-besties with Kisara?" With that, Mana was back in her card.
Naruto stood there looking at the ground for a minute before shaking his head, "With that thought, time to head back to the house."
Naruto was walking down the street before he heard someone jogging up beside him, he had to restrain himself from giving in to the dark impulses and hurting her.
"Mind if I walk back with you Moto-san?" The kimono clad Namikaze sister asked with a small smile.
Naruto had pushed his impulses back and thought about it. She might have been horrible to him when they were kids, but he wasn't going to kill her for it, "Not at all."
They were walking for a few minutes before Nozomi spoke up, "I don't understand you..."
Naruto raised an eyebrow, "What about me confuses you?" She seemed... different... from the last time he saw her.
"You have an air of darkness and foreboding around you, but people seem naturally drawn to you. You put on that huge buffet for no reason, and you have abilities like nothing I've ever seen. Lastly, you seem... familiar to me in some way..."
"I didn't put on that buffet for no reason. Those people needed help, should I have had any other reason?
Nozomi gained a sad smile on her face, "I wish I was that compassionate... Maybe if I was... he would still..."
Naruto only looked at her, "Something on your mind?"
Nozomi snapped out of her mood as they made it back to the house, "It's nothing, sorry to bother you." She said as she walked up to the room she shared with her sister, mother, and brother.
Naruto stood in the dining room and stared at the top of the stairs, "Could she have been talking about me? Not likely..." he thought as he walked up to his team's own room.
Before he got to sleep, he heard the door open and saw Akiza and Luna come in, Akiza spoke first, "We saw her go after you... Are you okay Naru-koi?"
Luna followed up as she started getting ready for bed, "Did she say anything?"
Naruto turned his back to give them some privacy, "Nothing to set me off... I think she noticed that I was gone though."
Akiza seemed surprised, "Really? Didn't you say that she was a major bitch when you were kids?"
"Yeah, she was... That's what confuses me."
Luna gave him a peck on the cheek and said, "It's okay, we're right here."
Team 11's room, later that night.
Nozomi lye awake in her room as her sibling slept away, they had come back a while before. She was thinking about what had happened at home a few years before... when she and her sister had discovered that their brother was gone.
Flashback - a month after Naruto left Konoha.
Nozomi and Natsumi were worried, they hadn't even seen their Nii-sama in an entire month! They acted like they didn't care about him, but they loved him just as much as the rest of the family. They had thought that by being mean to him that they could motivate him to show their parents how awesome he was! He had always been the best at their games until they had started using their training, yet another plan to get him motivated. Though Menma was just doing it to be mean. It was nowhere near perfect, but they were five when they started! They couldn't think of anything else!
Anyway, the two were standing outside his room in the house, they were about to knock on his door and ask how he was. The two were worried that he as all alone in there and they had decided to drop their stupid plan and give their Nii-sama the love he deserved.
Sorry girls, too late.
They knocked on his door and waited for an answer, when they didn't get one, they knocked again and Natsumi called out, "Nii-sama?"
They looked at each other and decided to go in, so they pushed the door open and walked into darkness.
As their eyes adjusted, they looked around and saw that the windows were blocked with blackout curtains. It was nearly pitch black, the only light was coming from the sunlight streaming in from the open door. They scoured every inch that they could see for the blonde, but they never found him. So they ran out into the back yard screaming, "NII-SAMA'S GONE!"
When they reached the yard, their parents were looking at them in confusion, and their brother just gave a huff, their father said, "What are you two talking about? Menma-chan's right here."
Kushina gave an amused smile and the three walked past the girls toward the kitchen, "Come on you two, it's time for lunch!"
The girls shared a confused look as Natsumi spoke up, "Tou-chan and Kaa-chan didn't forget about Nii-san did they?"
Nozomi just got more downtrodden, "I guess they did..."
They shared a moment in silence before looking into each other's eyes and proclaiming in sync, "We'll just find him and bring him home!" Before they went back into the house, they didn't tell their parents because they knew that Naruto wouldn't want them to, so they vowed to find their Nii-sama and make up for their horrible mistakes.
Flashback - end.
Nozomi sighed as she replayed that day in her head for what felt like the thousandth time, she looked over at her sister to find Natsumi staring at her.
Natsumi said, "Thinking about that day again?"
Nozomi nodded her head and asked, "Do you think that we'll ever find him?"
They looked at each other and said with the synchronicity that they were known for, "Definitely..."
So the sisters went back to sleep, not knowing that their mother had heard everything, and that the wheels in her head were turning, she thought that they meant an old friend, but she couldn't shake the feeling that she was about to get a rude wakening that would turn her world upside down.
The next day.
Naruto sighed as he walked through the woods around the village, he had nothing to do today. He had set some serpents around the inn, team 11 was watching Tazuna and the bridge, and Ringo, Anko and the girls were off scouting for Gato's base and gathering information.
Naruto walked into a clearing and saw that he wasn't alone in the woods, there was also a girl there. She had long black hair, pale skin, brown eyes, and was wearing a pink sleeveless yukata, she noticed him and gave him a smile, though Naruto noticed that her eyes widened a fraction at the sight of his headband, "Hello there."
Naruto responded in kind, "Hello, I'm sorry, I didn't know anyone was here. I'll leave you be."
"Oh, you don't have to do that, I'm just gathering herbs."
Naruto knelt down, "Would you like some help?"
Sha gave another smile, "Thank you, I would appreciate it."
They gathered the herbs in silence, and when they were done, the sun had started to set, "Well, it was nice to meet you, my name is Haou Moto by the way." Naruto said as he extended his hand.
She smiled and shook his hand, "Haku, no surname."
Naruto smiled under his mask as he started to walk away, "I hope to see you again sometime Haku-san."
She stood for a minute before speaking, "Haou-san, why do you fight?"
Naruto stopped, thought about it, and turned to look at her, "I used to fight to prove my strength, but now... I fight to ensure that those I care about are safe."
Haku looked him in the eye, "I believe that when someone has something to protect, then they become truly strong... What do you think Haou-san?"
Naruto matched her look with his own, "I believe that you have the right idea Haku-chan." He said as he walked away.
Haku blushed at the affectionate suffix before hurrying back to Zabuza.
A few days later, the bridge.
The week had passed much the same as it had that day, team 11 watched Tazuna, The girls scouted, and Naruto wandered. He had ran into Haku a few more times, and he had become very good friends with her, they had very much in common, like being very calm, cold to a point, and their similar views.
Right now, everyone was on the bridge waiting for Zabuza to show up, and show up he did as a mist rolled over the bridge and his deep menacing voice echoed out of the mist, "Well, well, some more little-"
"Kai." Ringo said with a deadpan look.
The mist cleared to show a baffled Zabuza and a masked hunter nin with a sweatdrop on her face. It was then that he noticed his old comrade, "Ringo! What the hell are you doing here?! Shouldn't you be fighting!?"
Ringo still had the deadpan look, "The war is over."
Zabuza and his apprentice stopped, "What..." The swordsman squeaked out.
Ringo shook her head and said, "The war is over dumbass! Mei is Mizukage, Yagura's dead, and it's time for you to come back!"
Zabuza stood frozen for a minute before... "ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME!? I SPENT YEARS TRYING TO RAISE MONEY FOR THE REBELLION ONLY TO FIND OUT THAT IT WAS OVER BEFORE I GOT BACK!?" He then proceeded to yell for about 10 minutes until he calmed down, "...WITH A GODDAMN PIG!"
Ringo walked up to him and asked, "Get that out of your system?"
"Yeah..."
"Then let's just wait for Gato to show up, he's probably on his way here with an army of thugs."
So they waited.
And waited.
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"HOW LONG IS THIS GOING TO TAKE!" Menma yelled in frustration.
"SHUT THE HELL UP!" Anko yelled as she threw her saki bottle at him.
The hunter-nin had walked over to the gennin and stood by them.
"Hello Haku." Naruto said as everyone looked at him in confusion.
Haku took off her mask and looked at him, "How did you know it was me?"
"I have very strong sensing abilities, it was easy to recognize your chakra.
Menma, at that moment decided to introduce himself, "Hello there, how would you like to go out on the town so I can-"
"No." Haku said while giving Menma a literal cold shoulder.
Natsumi whistled in appreciation, "Wow, that was cold."
About a half-hour later.
"They're here." Naruto said as he stood up, everyone else quit what they were doing and got ready. Gato finally showed his face as he gloated, "Well, well, well. looks like you couldn't get the job done after all." He was going to continue before he noticed that they were all perfectly fine and glaring at him.
Zabuza hefted his sword onto his shoulder and said, "There's been a change in plans Gato. Get ready for hell..."
Gato didn't lose any of his smug attitude, "Kill them all, but leave the girls, we could use them." He said with a lecherous look on his face.
That did it, the ninja charged while Naruto pulled out a card, gunning straight for Gato.
Akiza started making handsigns as black trees sprouted out of the water and swept across the bridge, stabbing and killing any that got caught in their branches. Luna took a smaller aproach, picking out ones in the crowd that were getting too close to someone, and crushing their minds, or using a well-placed senbon to a kill spot.
The triplets ran around slicing thugs with their blades and throwing jutsu around. Kushina was using her sword and chains to kill any thugs that got near her, while Ringo and Zabuza were using their skills and uniwue weapons to completely destroy anyone in their way.
Naruto was still headed for the cause of all this suffering, "This time, I'll give in to my impulses."
-Play: Fairy tail Fire Dragon vs Flame God.-
He held up the card, "Spirit Call: Sillva, Warlord of Dark World." As a dark figure that looked like it was out of a nightmare appeared over him, Naruto pulled out another, "Spell: Celestial Sword - Eatos." This time, a sword nearly as long as his body appeared in his right hand, he turned it into a reverse grip as a silver blade appeared in a reverse grip in his other hand, the same as Sillva's.
Naruto ran at the poor fools who were in the way of his target, slicing through all the thugs that got in his way, never breaking eye contact with Gato. The tyrant got scared and tried to run , but Naruto stopped him with a tendril of shadow, Naruto's other blade disappeared as he grabbed Gato by his throat.
"W-wait! I can give you anything! Money? Power? Anything!?" Gato said in a vain attempt to save himself.
Naruto just looked him in the eye as he threw him down on the ground and raised his sword up, "All I want... is you dead." With that, he brought his sword down, Slicing Gato's head clean off.
He turned back to the rest of the thugs and released his dark power...
He looked at them as his eyes changed to an empty gold, not like normal, these eyes were devoid of emotion, compassion, and mercy. These were the eyes of a killer. "You all die, by order of the King..."
"Oh shit... This isn't going to be pretty."
"For once, we agree on something furball, this is one time that I don't like seeing what Naruto does to his enemies with his power."
Dark energy exploded from Naruto's form as an aura of darkness surrounded him in a sphere, Naruto brought his hand up and put his fingers in a snapping position... he snapped his fingers, and it was released.
A curtain of Darkness was expelled from his body, the thugs just stood frozen in fear as it overtook them, some died of heart attacks right there, and others had their souls obliterated by the darkness. When is cleared, there were countless bodies on the bridge, killed by Naruto or the others, every single one dead.
Naruto let his cards return to his cases as he returned to normal.
-song end-
It was then that the villagers showed up, armed with some weapons that they had scrounged from somewhere, Inari was leading the charge as he looked around the bridge, "Uh, are we late?"
A few days later.
With Gato gone, the villagers had raided his base and taken their fair share of money, setting some aside to rebuild. Naruto had kept his distance for a while, letting the others come to terms with what they'd seen him do.
Said king of darkness was leaning up against a tree in a clearing, he was about to leave when he sensed four people coming toward him. He turned to see Hinata, Ino, Sakura, and Haku, now in her yukata, they had come to find him to tell him that it was time for everyone to leave.
They noticed his mood and Ino was the first to speak, "Naru-kun... Are you okay?"
Naruto closed his eyes and said, "I thought that you three would be afraid of me after what I'd done."
Sakura walked up and gave him a light punch in the shoulder, "Idiot... we might have been surprised, but we wouldn't leave just like that."
Hinata came last, with a blush on her face, "Naruto-kun, we care about you more than we can say, and to show you that..." Hinata looked down and fidgeted until she jumped at him, hand taking his mask doen and her lips pressing against his. He was surprised at first, until he relented and wrapped his arms around her. It was a minute after that they separated, Naruto was going to say something but.
"ME NEXT!" Ino yelled as she took her place, smashing her lips into his, and kissing him with much more passion and force, she seemed to be trying to meld herself with him.
Sakura decided that Ino had enough as she pulled Ino back by her shoulders and kissed Naruto again, he had decided to go with it after Ino started mouth-raping him.
A few minutes later, Naruto was finally free as the three had their fill and headed back, leaving him alone with Haku.
"Well, that was... interesting..." Haku said with a blush on her face.
Naruto just got his feet under him and said, "Yeah, after a few years with Akiza you get used to it."
Haku just smiled, "That's good." She said as she grabbed his collar and pulled him down for a kiss.
Now Naruto was surprised, he didn't expect this.
Haku let him go and started to walk away with a little extra sway in her hips.
Naruto just stood there for a minute before heading back, "My life is complicated."
"You mean amazing!"
"Shut up pervert!"
Later, on the road to Kiri.
After a tearful goodbye fro the villagers, (and Naruto getting many glomps from the kids he had helped.) Team black garden was on their way back to Kiri with Zabuza and Haku in tow. When everyone hed heard about Haku kissing Naruto, the girls started an interrogation, Ringo started cackling, and Zabuza started flailing his sword around trying to castrate Naruto.
Before Haku stopped him with a smack to the head.
Mizukage's office - a few days later.
"Welcome back Zabu-chan!" Mei exclaimed with her usual enthusiasm.
"Hi..." Zabuza was not as excited.
Mei took one last look at the mission report and looked at the assembled ninja, "You all can go now, Zabuza, you'll find that your old house is still available. But, girls could you stay here? You can too Ringo if you want." She said with a small glint in her eyes.
Naruto and Zabuza were confused as they were literally pushed out of the office.
As soon as the door were closed, Ringo started laughing as the blings snapped shut and the lights dimmed. Akiza, Luna, and Haku looked to Mei and saw her hands folded and covering her mouth, with a serious look in her eyes, "Listen up you three!"
The girls stood straight as Mei continued talking, "I will be teaching you an ancient art, passed down through Kunoichi since the time of the creation of ninja. This art... is..."
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"HOW TO TEASE BOYS!" Mei yelled as she lost all sense of seriousness.
The girls had different reactions, Luna was blushing madly, Haku was confused, and Akiza had a blank face before it slowly twitched up into a twisted grin.
At the Mizukage Manor.
Naruto was sitting, going over his cards when he got a chill going down his spine, "What was that?!"
"I have no idea, but Yubel is giggling like a schoolgirl and it's starting to freak me out... Kit... Get me out of here!"
Naruto just shook his head, whatever it was, he had a feeling that it involved the girls, so he wouldn't be able to avoid it anyway. He just hoped that he wouldn't be suffering.
He has no idea does he?
Chapter End.
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I also hope that you liked the Tsunade & Akiza thing.
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