Author's Note: Here is the third chapter guys. I hope you all liked the last one. This chapter shows details about Izumi's life in the Akatsuki and Naruto's escape from the demon world.
I would like to make some things clear:-
1)This will only be a Naruto × Izumi pairing.
2)There is still some readers asking why Naruto left Noriko. The reason why Naruto left is because he had two options. Either stay with his sister and try protecting her from the Iwa assassination attempts when they find that he and his sister is still alive and die trying, along with his sister OR leave to train and become strong enough to protect her and also indirectly protect her from assassinations by keeping the enemies of his and his father ignorant about him being alive and that Noriko is his sister.
Naruto being the calm and intelligent person he is, chose the latter because he knew that his father will not be alive this time to help them like he had protected Naruto when he was born.
3) I will only show how Naruto escapes from the demon world. I may add little details of his life as flashbacks in the future if requested. Naruto will join the Akatsuki to better protect his sister by being the one assigned to catch her. But he will make stops in certain places before joining them.
4)Naruto attitude will be more cold, silent and deadly. He may seem to be somewhat ruthless and cold-hearted. But, you must know people change when being asked to survive such a harsh place such as the demon world.
I hope I have cleared all worries. Now on with the story.
[This chapter takes place 8 years after the Kyuubi's attack i.e. about 1 year after the last chapter]
"Normal Speech"
'Thoughts'
"Jutsus"
"Demon Speech"
[Disclaimer: Is Naruto's orange jumpsuit cool. No...then I do not own Naruto]
[Warning: This chapter contains excessive violence and gore at the end. Read at your own discretion]
Chapter 3- Limbo
[One year later, Amegakure]
A raven haired women with onyx black eyes was silently watching the seemingly never ending rain in Ame.
She was very beautiful and was wearing a blackish blue battle kimono and on her neck was an odd necklace. She had two tear marks on her face and had an ANBU tattoo on her right arm. She had two bangs on either side of her face while the rest of her hair was tied to a ponytail on her back. She had a black cloak on with red clouds on top of the kimono which was only buttoned at the middle.
"It has been 1 year since that day" Izumi Uchiha said to herself slightly coughing and drinking her medicine.
Izumi was now a slowly dying women. She had been diagnosed by the doctors she had visited with a rare disease that slowly eats away at your chakra when you use it excessively. The doctors had given her maybe 10 more years to live before she died, if she used her medicines which could only delay the inevitable. Knowing that medicines could not cure it, she had resigned herself to her fate of dying. But she wished to die by Sasuke's hands, So that he could be seen as a hero who avenged the Uchiha clan.
Her thoughts then went on to the Uchiha Massacre. She and Madara had killed all the members of her clan except her little brother. She had done it because of the ultimatum that Danzo had given her, either kill her clan and save her brother or die along with the rest of her clan.
She knew of Danzo's inner motives and had given him a warning before she left the village that if he so as touched her little brother, She would leak out the truth about the massacre to all the elemental nations.
She knew she could not trust Danzo because Shisui had told her what Danzo did when he had came to her on that day to give her his other eye.
She had known Shisui from when she was little. She had seen him as a close friend, second only to Naruto who was not only her best friend but more.
When Naruto had died, she had shut herself off from the rest of the world. It was with the combined efforts of Shisui and her mother that had made her come out of her room. But she had maintained an unapproachable shell about her after that. Shisui and her mother were the only ones who could see past her facade. They knew despite the tough act she puts on in front of others, She was still broken inside because of Naruto's death.
Shisui was an constant support to her throughout the years and had been a very good friend. She had gradually came to see him as her best friend.
Then came the day that she had watched him jump of the cliff to his death after he gave her his right eye. That was the day she had gained her Mangekyo Sharingans.
"Naruto-kun..." she said to herself in a pained breath when her thought went to Naruto.
She still had not gotten over his death. She had cried herself to sleep that day when she heard that Naruto died. She only had come out of her room in time for the funeral ceremony. She had then cried her heart out in front of his empty grave when the funeral ceremony ended. Her parents did not stop her because they knew about her feelings concerned with Naruto.
It was on that day that she had realised that she did not just have a puppy dog crush on Naruto and that she was deeply in love with him.
The following days she had nightmares about Naruto's death and she would wake up in the middle of the night, out of breath.
When she had finally come out of her room, She had adopted a silent and stoic demeanour. She had made a decision to honour Naruto's death by training hard and pushing herself to the limit. She wanted to join the ANBU, following Naruto's footsteps.
She had fulfilled that dream. She became a chunin at 10, joined the ANBU at 11 (the second youngest to do so) and became an ANBU captain at 13. She made record as the youngest ANBU captain.
She still had not let go of her dream of attaining peace someday. A dream that she had shared with Naruto.
Her thoughts then went to the leaf. She wondered what Noriko was doing. 'Probably eating ramen' she thought with a small smile.
When she became a chunin, she was told the truth that the Fourth and Naruto died sealing the Kyuubi into Noriko.
She being the brilliant, analytical mind that she was quickly deduced that the Fourth would only seal the Kyuubi into his own child. So that would make the child Naruto's little sister. Her talk with her mother also confirmed it.
She was ecstatic to know that Naruto's little sister was still alive and had kept it a secret from others, knowing the consequences if she let that secret out. She knew the girl was the Kyuubi's vessel but she did not see her as the demon that had killed Naruto like several others. The girl had not asked the fate she had received.
She had promised on Naruto's grave that she would protect his little sister. She had protected the little girl from the villagers and had secretly left healthy foods (except ramen that the girl was obsessed with in Izumi's secret pocky and Naruto loving mind) sometimes at her door.
She had joined the Akatsuki to better protect Noriko by spying on them for the leaf, when Madara had told her about their goal of gathering the biju to attain peace. End goal being peace or not, she would not let them lay a finger on Naruto's little sister.
She was snapped out of her thoughts by the voice of her partner. "The ceremony for joining of the new member in our group is about to begin, Izumi-san" Kisame Hoshigaki, former member of the Seven Swordsmen of the Mist, said to her.
" Yes...Alright" she replied.
She then got up and followed Kisame to the meeting place.
She was partnered up with Kisame a few months ago when her former partner Juzo Biwa, who was also a former member of the Seven Swordsmen of the Mist, had died at the hands of the Yondaime Mizukage, Yagura during a mission.
At first she had been tense about her partnership with Kisame. But then they had both found a common ground between them which was their respect for each others strength.
Though she knew Kisame was a dependable partner, it would not mean that she would drop her guard around him because she knew that the man was a little crazy for battles. But who was she to judge, she knew that everyone in the shinobi world including her had atleast a little craziness deep within their being.
They were currently in Ame for the welcoming ceremony for the new member of the Akatsuki.
The new guy was meant to be the new partner for Sasori of the Red Sands after his former partner Orochimaru, the Snake Sannin betrayed and left the organisation.
The greedy snake thought that he could gain immortality by taking over her body. How foolish he was. She had caught him in a genjutsu and had cut his hand off, but before she could kill him, his lackey Kabuto had saved him and he had disappeared swearing vengeance. She knew he would be a problem for her in the future and regretted not finishing him off earlier.
"We have reached the ceremony place" Kisame said to her.
She looked to see that they had entered a place with many old statues. They then walked inside and saw all the remaining members of the Akatsuki including the new guy standing there.
Izumi along with Kisame and Sasori had been assigned to recruit the blonde. He was a former Iwa explosion corps member who had defected and became a terrorist bomber.
He had refused to join at first but had agreed to join the organisation if one of them defeats him. She had easily defeated him by trapping him in a genjutsu. He had then agreed to join them, although bitterly because of his defeat.
"It would seem all of us are here. So we can begin the welcoming ceremony" Pein, the leader of the Akatsuki said.
Konan then came and gave the new guy his Akatsuki cloak.
"Before wearing that, you must forego all ties with your former village" she said stoically.
"Yeah, Yeah" Deidara said mockingly.
He took out a kunai from his pouch and slashed the stone symbol on the hiate he was wearing on his head. He then put on his cloak and turned to face Pein.
"Lets make it clear, I won't stop in my pursuit of art!" he said, crossing his arms.
"Do as you please" Pein replied. He then walked up to Deidara and continued, " But now that you're a part of the Akatsuki, I expect you to fulfil your missions".
He then gave Deidara a ring with the kanji for blue.
"All right, all right. I got it" he said wearing the ring. "But" he said pointing his hand at Izumi. "You over there!. I'll never get caught up in your genjutsu again, hmm!".
'It would seem he is still bitter about his defeat' Izumi thought. To ease his worries, she said in a calm voice " Now that you're one of us, I doubt that I'll have to use my genjutsu on you".
Still pointing his hand at her, he replied, "I don't mind giving you a taste of my art, hmm".
Izumi remained silent. Her final assessment of Deidara is that he is a complete idiot.
When she had first met him, he very slightly reminded her of Naruto because of his blonde hair and blue eyes. But their similarities were finished at that. While Naruto was calm, wise and intelligent, this guy was just a complete buffoon. She was just sullying her Naruto's name when she compared him to Deidara.
She was broken out of her thoughts by Sasori saying "Leave it at that".
"Sasori..." Pein spoke getting his attention. "Partner with Deidara and go kill Orochimaru" he commanded.
"About time" he replied gleefully and began walking (in his case crawling) to the door to outside.
"Who is this Orochimaru?" Deidara asked dumfounded.
"I'll tell you on the way" Sasori replied.
"Orochimaru has escaped into the Land of Wind. Beyond that, I don't know" Konan said to him.
"That's all I need to know. Let's go" he said to Deidara.
"You Akatsuki's sure like to order guys around, hmm" Deidara said fixing his hair.
"Hey. Hurry up" Sasori called back, exiting the room.
"I know, you darn hunchback" Deidara said running out of the room.
"Izumi and Kisame, go to the Hidden Grass Village" Pein said to them and they both nodded.
"What about my partner?" Kakuzu of the Five Hearts, asked. He had killed his own partner in 'friendly fire' according to Black Zetsu.
"Wait just a while longer" Pein replied. "You all may now leave to do your missions" he finished and left along with Konan.
With that they all left to do their respective missions.
[Demon World, Cemetery]
A young man was currently chasing after a demon through the graves.
The man had blonde hair that fell on his face as two bangs with red hue up-to ¼ of them and blue eyes. He was wearing a white T-shirt with a red coat over it [Imagine Dante's dress in Devil May Cry]. He was also wearing black pants with black sandals at his foot. He had four swords with him, two attached to his back in a criss-cross pattern and the other two attached to his hip.
He used the adamantine chakra chains inherited from his mother to bring the demon to the ground.
"Please...Don't kill me" the demon begged, crawling to try to get away from the Demon Killer.
Seeing that the demon was trying to get away, the man took out one of his sword and stabbed it through the demon's leg. The demon roared in pain.
"Now, Now Abigor. Who said I was going to kill you" the blonde man said twisting the sword inside his leg much to the demon's pain.
"But you had killed the rest of my kin!" the demon now known as Abigor said.
"No...Not all of them. I have yet to kill your leader. Now would you be a dear and tell me where his hideout is and I will promise you a quick death" Naruto said calmly.
The demon spitted at Naruto and said through gritted teeth, "I will die before I rat out my kin, you darn Demon Slayer. Curse the day that damn Shinigami brought you here".
Calmly wiping his face of the spit, the man said in a cold voice, "Death...that can be arranged. But now I want information and I know of a certain parrot that is begging for torture for him to tell me everything".
[Warning: Excessive Violence and Gore]
With that said he took out three more swords and stabbed them through his hands and the other leg.
"Aaaaaargh..." the demon screamed in pain.
"Willing to talk, little parrot" the man said emotionlessly.
"Damn you, Naruto" the demon said snarling.
"What...you want a cracker?, poppy" the man now identified as Naruto, asked the demon. His eyes then turned cold and he told in a voice that froze the demon's blood "Because I'm goanna do this all night until you chirp out what I want to hear".
With that he cut the demon's leg out with the sword that was stabbed into it. He ignored the demon's scream and cut out his hand. He then began beating the demon's face in with it saying, "Tell me before I cut out your eyes next".
"Okay...Okay...I'll talk...Please...stop" the demon said in pain.
"Then tell me quickly" Naruto said.
"His name is Roark. He lives in the Castle of Death. What you are looking for will be there. Please...that's all I know" the demon said tiredly.
"Now that was not bad was it. You should have just told me earlier, little parrot. Now I will make your death quick" saying that, he cut of his head.
Naruto then retrieved all his sword that was stabbed in the demon and placed them in their positions. This was not a new experience for him. He had killed demons countless time since he came here.
The Shinigami had left him in the demon world about 8 years ago. He only said three things to him before he left: that was to train, unlock his hidden abilities and to try not to die.
Initially he was. horrified. The demon world called limbo was a place that was in another dimension from the mortal world. In the demon world there were two types of beings, demons and spirits. The spirits were mostly harmless and one friendly spirit named Gail had helped him initially to get to know about the demon world.
Through Gail, he came to know that the portal to the mortal world was in the far end of the demon world guarded by the King of demons, Roark and that no demons could escape through it because only a human can pass through it.
He had then trained by defeating troublesome demons and had unlocked all his hidden abilities. He had inherited his mothers chakra chains. He also had unlocked his affinities for Yin and Yang style along with mastering his natural affinities for wind, lightning and water. He also had mastered the Hraishin no Jutsu and had also mastered his Araton (Storm Release) bloodline which combines all his natural affinities wind, lightning and water.
The Shinigami after a few years had visited him and had done visits once a year after that. Every time he visits, he would tell all that was happening in the mortal world. Last year, he had heard of the Uchiha massacre and also knew of Izumi's reason for doing it.
He now had enough powers to face Roark and get out of the demon world. 'I now only have one more obstacle before I can leave' Naruto thought as he travelled to the Castle of Death for his last battle in limbo.
[Limbo, Castle of Death]
Naruto was currently standing in front of the place where he could achieve his freedom.
He slowly began to walk and opened the gates. The Castle of Death was not really a castle but a large shrine, where the king of demons resided.
He walked in and saw about a hundred of demons with Roark in between sitting on a thrown in the far end.
Roark was about 10 feet tall with a humongous build. He had an ugly face with fangs like the rest of the demons. He had four arms and was carrying a big sword on his back. He easily identified the sword as the Yoarashi (The Night Storm).
The Yoarashi was a legendary sword. It had the power to conduct and absorb all types of attacks including jutsus and even demonic chakra. It was said to be created by Kami-sama herself and was sentient.
"It would seem that the puny Demon Slayer has finally arrived to challenge me" the mocking demonic voice of Roark was heard.
"It is nothing personal but I would like to have your head at my feet" Naruto said in a monotone voice.
"You may try by all means boy. But before you face me, you must defeat my minions" Roark said to him.
"Fine by me" Naruto replied and began his massacre.
He looked to the right and saw a group of ten demons rushing towards him. He took out two of his swords and held them one with each hand.
He dashed towards the first demon and cut his head off, he ducked the following punch and stabbed the second one with one sword and the third with the other. He then hurled them at the rest of the group knocking them down.
He went through a few handseals and shouted, "futon: Decapitation Blades".All there heads were cut off.
He then avoided the acid attack that was spit out by the second group aimed at him via Hraishin. He then Hraishined to the middle of the second group which was about four times that of the first.
"Razen Flash: Death Dance" he shouted holding his Hraishin kunai. In a flash, he killed all of them in a dance of death.
With about half of his enemies down he placed his Hraishin kunai away and took out his sword.
He then rushed to the third group of about twenty demons which were somewhat bigger in size than the others he faced.
"Die...you son of a bitch" a demon cursed, slashing at him with a giant axe.
Naruto did not like that statement. He was going to make sure that demon suffered.
He put his sword in front of his face to block the axe swing. He then deflected it away and stabbed the demon through his stomach, pinning him to the wall. He was going to kill him slowly and painfully after he finished with the rest of his group.
He then took out another sword from his back and blocked a strike from a meat cleaver. He then twisted the meat cleaver so it would mutilate the user itself. He then began systematically cutting and slicing the rest of the group of demons until only the first one remained.
He then went up to the demon pinned on the wall and on the way picked up the demon's own axe and several meat cleavers. He then cut him at several vital places with them further pinning him.
"I normally don't do this. But, you made me do this after you said a word that you should not have called me" he spoke with a cold look in his eye. "Now go up in flames" he said going through several handseals and yelling, "Araton (Lightning Release): Kin no tora (Golden Tiger)".
After he shouted, he then spit out a golden tiger made out of wind, water and lightning. It first shocked the demon to the core and then sliced his body in to pieces and then burned them to ashes in blue flames.
"I now lost all mood to test my kenjutsu skills because of him. Enough games, I am ending this NOW" Naruto said and began amassing huge amounts of chakra.
The last group of demons looked on scared as the sky became riddled with thunder and lightning.
Naruto had finished gathering his chakra for the attack and now had blue glowing eyes that were brimming with power.
"Araton: Inazuma (Lightning Strike)"he shouted and let loose his chakra to the sky. Suddenly several bolts of lightning came from the sky and fried the rest of the demons (except Roark who was saved from the lightning strike by the Yoarashi because it absorbs all attacks) till death.
"It seems only you are left" Naruto said in an emotionless voice as he began closing his distance to the demon king.
Meanwhile, Roark was terrified. He had thought that it would be an easy battle for him. But what the blonde mortal was capable of scared even him. He had only escaped death by lightning because of the Yoarashi. 'Just what is he' Roark thought.
"I will not die today" Roark roared out as he charged at Naruto bringing his sword down at the smaller mortal.
Naruto sidestepped the sword strike and brought his sword to Roark's side saying, "Neither will I".
But Roark easily grabbed his sword with one of his four arms. He then tried to punch Naruto with the other.
Naruto barely had time to avoid the punch as he released his sword and summersaulted away.
'It would seem his arms are going to be a problem' he thought. He then took out his last sword from his back and held it in his right hand and a Hraishin kunai in his left.
Roark looked on dumfounded as the blonde disappeared in a flash. He then experienced pain in his arm and looked to see that it was cut off.
Naruto had placed his Hraishin seal on Roark earlier when he attacked him. He cut off two of the demon's arms but before he could cut off a third, he was stabbed through his heart by the yoarashi.
"Your end will be by my hands...you bastard" Roark said snarling. But before he could finish him off the Naruto he had stabbed dispersed off in a group of bats.
He then experienced a pain through his heart and heard a monotone voice from behind him, "No...Your end will be by my hands".
Saying that Naruto cut Roark's head off. He then reached down and picked up the Yoarashi.
"Do you want to come with me" he asked the sentient blade. He took the warm vibration from it as affirmative and strapped it on his back leaving the other ordinary swords behind.
He then spotted the portal to the human world and stepped towards it. He felt the familiar presence of the Shinigami behind him and looked back.
"It would seem your training has come to an end" the Shinigami said to him.
"Yeah...Not thanks to you, by the way" Naruto replied clearly annoyed by the Death God's tardiness.
"I only said before you agreed to come with me that I will let you train in the demon world. I did not say that I will train you myself" the Shinigami said, obviously trying and failing to hide his tardiness.
"Okay, Okay...you win. Now can I return back to my world?" Naruto asked calmly.
"Yes, you can. Before I do that, I hope you remember the things we had agreed upon that you do when you reach there" the Shinigami said seriously.
"Hai...I remember them" he replied.
"Okay then. You may go now and try to leave your training with me a secret. I would continue doing my role as the Soul Reaper in the mortal world. You may call me in times of need with the help of the Shiki Fúin without the payment of your soul. Now go, you have a world to protect" the Shinigami told him.
With that he went through the portal.
[Forest near Takigakure]
A small vortex was formed out of nowhere and from it a young man emerged.
'It seems that I have landed on one of the elemental states. Now to gather information before I go to fulfil my plans ' he thought to himself and began walking to the nearest village.
So that was the end of the chapter. How was it.
This chapter contained some violence. I did say that Naruto became somewhat cold and ruthless towards those who deserved it.
Naruto's new sword Yoarashi means Night Storm. It is somewhat same in function like Samehada but unlike the Shark's Skin, Yoarashi can also conduct chakra through it and perform attacks. You can see all its functions when Naruto uses it in the future.
So I gave Naruto the Araton blood limit and Kushina's chakra chains and also the ability to do both Yin and Yang style. Give me your opinion on it. Did make him too powerful.
So please read, review and follow. I only get the motivation to write when I see your support in the form of reviews and followings.
The great Author-chan, signing out. Have a nice day.