Hello everyone, I'm back. If you want to know why, read the note at the top of the latest Uzumaki X, it explains why I'm cutting my threat short. Oh, and for those who were wondering, Blackfire is the winner of the third girl vote.
For anyone interested, Naruto's Fox look is getting a redo. Basically, his attire is very similar to V's in V for Vendetta. Great Movie btw, if you've never watched it, you should. There are a few minor differences though. First off, Naruto now wears a Zorro style mask to cover the upper part of his face and hair. His eyes are Spiderman style, blood red, he can see out, but others can't see in. His ears do stick out and fit through his hat as well. His lower part of his face is covered in a secondary mask similar to Kakashi's, but it also has a metal face-plate on the front. Both masks are black. The other main difference is that he has a steel clawed gauntlet on his left arm. The claws are sharp, but not big and bulky enough to restrict the use of hand-seals.
Hope I created a good enough picture. I'm looking for someone to draw it and send me a picture, because I have no artistic talent.
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, Teen Titans, or any other character or thing from the DC universe.
"Excellent," replied Naruto. "Training starts tomorrow, along with your transformation. I warn you however, according to the fuzz-ball, it'll be painful as hell. The bed is yours, I can take the floor."
With that, Terra watched, astounded, as the blonde before her fell dead asleep before she could argue the point with him. She sighed before taking the bed. She found herself unable to sleep however, and instead watched the different exploits of the Titans on the television, memories of her time with them and her betrayal flashing through her mind.
"!" The Titans were all either woken up by Beast Boy's shout or in Robin's case interrupted in his sweeping the city via computer.
"Geez BB, some of us are trying to sleep" said Cyborg, who entered the main room, followed shortly by a drowsy Starfire and an irate Raven.
"Guys, I just…and then I went…and now…SHE'S GONE!" shout Beast Boy, almost frantically.
"Cool it Beast Boy, what are you talking about?" asked Robin, grabbing a hold of Beast Boy's shoulders firmly.
"Terra…She's gone." The entire team's eyes widened at that.
"Are you sure?" asked Raven.
"Yeah. Remember I was talking that the only one who could ever go up against us and win was Slade? Well, that got me thinking about Terra, so I went to visit her, and the statue is gone" said Beast Boy between gulps of air.
"I installed cameras all over the place. Let's see what happened" said Cyborg, punching in some commands on the computer before it showed the cave, sure enough, Terra was gone. He rewound the footage and stopped at a point in which she was still there. They watched intently, before the very person that had beaten the team fell from the room of the cavern. By the looks of it, he landed very painfully, much to the team's pleasure. He seemed to examine the Terra statue before three of his tails began thrashing before they glowed and shot a light into the guy's hand.
The ball of light seemed to glow with every color, before the teen shoved the baseball sized orb into Terra's chest. The glowing orb absorbed directly into the statue, which began glowing in all colors with the same intensity as the orb. The light grew brighter and brighter until a blinding white light filled the cave, knocking out their video for a moment. As the light died down, the statue shattered, revealing the sleeping girl within, who fell and was caught by the teen. Picking her up bridal style, he quickly left the cavern.
"Dude…" said Beast Boy.
"He just accomplished in five seconds what we've been trying to do for months" said Raven, slightly impressed.
"Unfortunately, as good as it is that she's alive, she may very well be our enemy again" said Robin, getting a nod from Cyborg.
"Oh, I hope that you are wrong" said Starfire, not wanting to believe that her friend was once again her enemy.
The Next Morning
"Tell me again what we're doing on the beach?" asked Terra, shivering slightly at the cold morning sea-air.
"I told you," replied Naruto. "We are turning you into a full demon. As Shukaku was quite literally made of sand, you will be too." He continued drawing a circle of strange symbols in the sand around her.
"Could you at least let me put some clothes on?" asked Terra, looking around. Naruto had managed to get her armor off of her, but he had refused to give her any clothes. He said she wouldn't need any once he was done, that she would be able to form her own from sand. She personally thought it was some other, more perverted reason, though he denied it. So, there she was, in nothing but a bra and panties on the beach in the early morning.
"Hold on and you can have any clothes of your choosing. We'll be better off doing this with as much bare skin as possible. Believe it or not, the sand has to touch your body for your body to convert to sand" finished Naruto with a grin under his mask, while finishing up making the necessary seals in the sand. He honestly was not sure about what would happen, as he was only doing as the Old Fox instructed him. "Now" he said, "Let's begin."
"We have to find her. She could be in some sort of trouble" said Beast Boy to the team.
"Or she could be plotting our downfall. Who knows what that guy has told her? With all the things that have happened, her mind probably isn't in the best shape right now" replied Robin, doing still more research to find out about the strange person the team fought and lost to.
As the conversation kept going, Raven began to feel slightly uneasy, before a shockwave of demonic power coursed through the air, the rest of the team oblivious to it. Running to the window, she and the other titans watched a bolt of red light shoot into the sky. Before Robin could even give the word, Raven engulfed herself and the team in her power, letting it take the shape of a bird which soared off toward the source of the power.
They arrived on the beach to see the guy from yesterday with a new set of threads. And standing in front of him was Terra, half naked in a ring of glowing runes and seals.
"Whoa…" said Raven, causing Naruto to turn around and smirk beneath his mask before forming the half ram seal and stomping his foot. The seals on the ground began to glow brighter before the sand began swirling around Terra as though a tornado had touched down. Red and yellow lightning arced around the mini sand storm, sometimes lighting the inside of the tornado, allowing the group to see a silhouette of the girl inside, generally looking to be in some painful positions.
As soon as it had started, it ended. The sand froze where it was and suddenly plummeted to the ground. Terra was nowhere in sight. Naruto was suddenly attacked and pinned to the ground by Beast Boy, who had morphed into a tiger. The tiger than morphed back into Beast Boy, who had Naruto pinned down by standing on him.
"What did you do to her!" he shouted, only causing a laugh to escape Naruto's throat.
"Oh I can assure you she's quite fine. She's probably just getting used to the improvements I've made to her body. She's right here actually, and since I know she can hear me, it would be nice to get this guy off me, Ichibi" replied Naruto, before the sand picked up Beast Boy and while it was careful not to hurt him, brought him back to the titans. The remaining sand around Naruto then began to rise up. It rose before falling back to the ground, before rising slightly higher and once more falling.
The next time it rose, it began to take form, before two glowing yellow eyes opened on the mass of sand opened and the sand transformed back into Terra. She was different however, this time she had on an ancient looking armor, not unlike the one she had worn while working for Slade. Her ears were gone, replaced instead with animalistic ears on top of her head, and a large raccoon tail jutting from her tailbone. When her eyes stopped glowing, the Titans saw that her eyes were pure black with an odd yellow pupil, before they two faded back to their normal colors. Around her eyes, dark rings formed that connected and formed a mask-like marking around her eyes.
She stared at her arms, before letting one thing escape her lips. "Ooooooooowwww."
"I told you it would hurt" said Naruto. "You never had to go through with this." Naruto suddenly disappeared before reappearing before Terra.
"I think it's time we train you in the use of your full power" said Naruto, before giving a casual wave to the titans. Beast Boy lunged at the Naruto, taking the form of a wolf. However, just as he was about to reach him, both he and Terra disappeared in a blast of wind, leaves, and sand.
"Ok, just what is going on here? I mean, did everybody see what just happened? He turned a girl, into living sand?" shouted Cyborg.
"What was that he called Terra?" Everybody looked to see Raven hovering, a slightly shocked look adorning the part of her face they could see that wasn't shadowed by her hood.
"What are you talking about, Raven?" asked Robin.
"Before the sand moved Beast Boy off that guy, he called her something. Did anyone hear what he said?" asked Raven, landing on the beach.
"Yeah" said Beast Boy. "I think he called her "Ichibi", whatever that means."
"I think I know," said Raven. "Let's get back to the tower. I think I have an Idea of what just happened."
"What?" asked Starfire.
"I think our new friend is a demon. And if I'm correct, Terra is too." She said.
"WHAT?" shouted the rest of the team, before once more being swallowed by Raven's power and flown back to Titan's Tower.
Terra and Naruto appeared just outside of the city, in a part of the woods that had not been burned the night before.
"Now" said Naruto. "Your training begins. And your first lesson…meditation." Terra shot him a confused look.
"We're going to be teaching you how to manipulate an energy source inside your own body. In order to do that, you have to first find it. And you can do so through meditation" he said, sitting down cross-legged, indicating her to do the same. She sat down in the same position as him, before he instructed her further.
"I found it" said Raven, entering the main room with an old tome that looked like it was falling apart. She opened it, before flipping pages and stopping on one, pointing to a particular picture, indicating for the other Titans to look. When they did, a collective gasp was heard.
"No way" uttered Beast Boy, as he looked at a picture in the book that looked almost exactly like Terra. It wasn't as clear as a photo, but the drawn picture was nearly identical to the blonde. It sported the same animal features that Terra now sported. The group tried to find out more, but the book was written in something that looked almost Japanese, but seemed different, like an older dialect. Raven clued them in.
"This was created by a man called Jiraiya. He was one of very few survivors of a disaster that shaped the face of the world" said Raven.
"What do you mean? What happened that caused such a disaster?" asked Starfire.
"This is a picture of the Ichibi no Shukaku. Back in those times, there were nine legendary demons known as the tailed beasts. They ranged in power from the One-tail, Ichibi, which was the weakest, to Kyuubi, the Nine tailed Fox, which was the strongest. According to legend, they were each sealed inside nine humans, to be used not only as human weapons, but as ways to keep them from destroying their homes. Apparently, Ichibi no Shukaku, was sealed in a boy named Gaara" said Raven, flipping the page to show a boy with red hair, a large gourd on his back, and a tattoo on his forehead.
"The leader of the Village of Konoha, sealed the Nine-Tailed Fox inside a young boy named Naruto, who would later become the apprentice of Jiraiya. According to the book, approximately sixteen years after the sealing, Naruto vanished without a trace" she continued.
"What does this have to do with a world-shaping disaster?" asked Beast Boy.
"I'm getting to that. Apparently a group of people known as the Akatsuki were gathering the demons and used some sort of ritual to seal them in a statue. But without the Kyuubi to stabilize the power that was contained, the statue exploded and killed off many. And from the combined power of those demons, a new power was born. His name…Trigon."
Chapter end.
