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"Ghosts, ghosts, and more ghosts, who's bright idea was it to have this many ghosts come and attack the shrine!" a certain blond yelled as he ran through another mob of white blobs which were the apparent ghosts. "I mean why couldn't it have been something else, these ghosts are just coming straight at us and nothing else,"
Charging through another wave of ghosts the blond couldn't help but smirk as the ghosts were brushed aside easily. "Hey Reimu, are we close to where the ghosts are coming from?"
Looking towards the sky a figure could be seen flying mid air on what seemed to be a green shell. Just like the blond there were multitudes of ghosts going after the turtle, yet they were all destroyed by small red amulets before they could even reach the figure. Looking closer there was a familiar purple haired shrine maiden on top of the turtle hurtling out amulets.
"I don't know Naruto… but when I do find out who sent these annoyances they'll pay!" Reimu said before tossing her yin yang orb to the side. Surprisingly the orbs stayed floating next to Reimu and started firing off weird green shaped missiles at the ghosts that came by.
Looking at her new trick Naruto couldn't help but feel a bit jealous, "Reimu when did you learn to do that?"
Smirking Reimu only told Genji to speed up leaving Naruto behind with a whole bunch of ghosts.
"Damn it Reimu stop being lazy and handing me the ghosts," Naruto shouted as he soon stopped to find himself surrounded by the ghosts. "You guys think you're so tough with your floating abilities and energy balls, but I'm not afraid of you nuh-uh!" punching a ghost that got too close Naruto immediately turned his attention to the other ghosts. "Well looks like I'll have to even the odds, Kage Bunshin no Jutsu," a few puffs of smoke appeared around a surprised and slightly winded Naruto. 'Only five clones and I'm tired… something is wrong here,' Naruto didn't dwell on that thought much longer though as he immediately started to fight the ghosts with his clones.
One of his clones seeing a bullet coming straight for the real Naruto took the dive and pushed the real out of the way. Only when he did get hit by the bullet the clone didn't dispel, he let out a pained gasp but otherwise was still functioning normally. "No time to think about it now, just continue fighting," the real shouted which the clone agreed to and went after a few ghosts that were close by.
Attentive to his surroundings this time Naruto held out his right hand and formed a small barrier which effectively stopped another bullet from slamming into him. "You guys handle this part here, I have to go check up on Reimu and make sure she doesn't do anything stupid… without me," Not even bothering for the affirmative Naruto rushed off towards the last direction he saw Reimu go.
'There has got to be another way for me to travel,' Naruto thought skipping across the river before getting sight of Reimu. "Hey Reimu what are you doing?" Naruto asked as he reached Reimu only to quickly form a barrier in front of him. Just as he did a white beam crashed into the barrier and pushed him back slightly. "What the hell was that?"
"Oh Naruto you finally made it, but I'm almost done with the boss here,"
Releasing his barrier Naruto proceeded to dodge a few bullets thrown his way, "Boss, what boss?" feeling another mass of energy Naruto looked over to where it was coming from before he saw another beam head his way. "What the hell is that thing?" finally noticing what was emitting the beams he saw what looked like a rectangular object on wheels that was able to move.
"It's a tank and I'll be using it to defeat you guys," a voice came from inside of the tank, "It is top of the line technology and will easily defeat you magic users,"
"Well I don't use magic I use Chakra,"
"Divine power for me,"
"Bah doesn't matter I will be defeating you, too bad those ghosts of mine couldn't defeat you,"
Naruto stood still for a minute before a maniacal grin appeared on his face, "Ghosts you say… and you say you made them huh?" Naruto couldn't help but start letting out a small chuckle before it turned into a full blown laughter, "You were the one who made them right?" Naruto slowly turned his attention to the person in the tank. "Allow me to show you my gratitude for what you have done for me," reaching into his holster he pulled out a bunch of kunai and threw them all at the tank.
"You really think that will work on my tank, you must be pretty stupid," the person in the tank said as the kunai approached. The person in the tank laughed as the kunai harmlessly bounced off the tank, "I told you that would be useless… huh where did you two go?" the tank swiveled around trying to locate the two only to stop when a dull 'thunk' was heard on the top of the tank.
"I've noticed that no matter how many bullets you've fired that none of them seem to protect your top," Naruto grinned as he pulled out what seemed to be a few red tags that Reimu uses. "This should be the grand finale!" Naruto slapped a few of the tags onto the top of the tank before jumping back, "Reimu get back now I slapped 10 tags on that stupid machine,"
"No, this was supposed to be my glorious finish," seeing how Reimu wasn't going to give the order to head back Genji slowly moved back on his own which Reimu disagreed with by whining and pounding on Genji's shell.
"What did you do to my tank?" before the voice could ask any more Naruto put his arms together, "Katsu,"
One simple word and soon the tags grew white before exploding all at the same time. "Man that was refreshing," Naruto smiled as he watched the smoke start to clear. The tank was completely destroyed yet the person who was inside seemed to be fine.
"*Cough cough* it looks like I couldn't do it," a girl came out from the debris covered in soot. "This is good bye then," the girl quickly took off in another direction looking back at the duo every so often.
The duo and turtle could only stare at the retreating form of the girl before Naruto looked at Reimu, "So who was that girl?"
"I don't know she never told me her name," Reimu said before turning towards Naruto, "But that doesn't matter, what matters is that you took my grand finale!"
"Well you left me with a bunch of ghosts," Naruto countered meeting her stare.
"But those are easy to defeat they're not even worth the time it took to make them unless…" Reimu had predatory grin on her face which told Naruto he wouldn't like what she was about to say. "So… you're afraid of ghosts,"
Sweating a bit Naruto couldn't help but take a step back. Sure he had just come out of a battle with a bunch of ghosts, but he still couldn't shake off the fear he had kept with him since he was a kid. What if suddenly one day he wasn't able to hit them anymore, they would be able to stick around him all day and possibly even possess him. Shivering at that thought Naruto quickly pushed on forward, "Well what do you know the time sure is running, I mean if we want to find out what exactly is going on we should continue," not even looking back at Reimu, who he knew was smiling, Naruto ran on.
"Oh Naruto we have so much to talk about later," Reimu said in a sing song voice before motioning Genji to continue on after Naruto.
"…is no one going to come after me?" the girl from the tank asked as she watched the two go off,"
"Hoo boy it's starting to get dark now," Naruto mumbled to himself as he took to the trees in the forested area they had been led to. "Reimu, this time I'll go on ahead and see if I can find anything suspicious,"
"How are you going to…" before she could finish she could barely see Naruto as he was moving much faster than he was before. "Damn ninja tricks," Reimu mumbled to herself as she then saw strange bat like creatures, except with only one eye, come straight at her occasionally shooting a red projectile. "Move aside small fries!" Reimu shouted firing off her amulets and a few missiles from the two yin yang orbs from her sides.
Back with Naruto he was moving on ahead occasionally batting away the flying youkai that came straight at him with his gauntlets. It wasn't until he entered a wide open area did he land on the ground and look around. He could feel the bloodlust of someone around but strangely it wasn't directed at him. Looking around some more he finally found out who was releasing the killing intent and found a strange woman dressed like a samurai.
'Well this can't be good,' pulling out some kunai Naruto prepared to throw them but stopped when he saw her move. Moving his attention he soon saw Reimu enter the area as well and saw that woman engage Reimu. 'Bah she gets all the fun,' Naruto thought only half listening to what the samurai wanted with Reimu. Something about the Hakurei power, which he thought was hereditary, and defeating Reimu would make her have the power.
"Hey Reimu, if you lose to this crazy samurai I'll never stop making fun of you," quickly taking a step back to dodge an amulet Naruto smirked. Seeing the ensuing battle about to occur Naruto took one step back only to rush around as 'bullets' started to be thrown around all around the area. "God damn it control those damn bullets," side stepping a few bullets Naruto soon noticed a huge wave of bullets heading his way. "Barrier," mumbling those words a thin white wall appeared in front of Naruto, effectively blocking most of the bullets.
'There's got to be a better way to dodge all these damn bullets,' seeing his barrier start to crack Naruto jumped into the air with a quick burst of chakra. 'Strange… no more bullets,' Naruto thought only to feel something head straight towards him. Reacting on instinct Naruto managed to shift his body in midair enough for a small orb to pass by him. However, instead of the orb disappearing it bounced off a tree and headed straight back at Naruto. "Reimu finish this fast," quickly forming another barrier Naruto managed to stop the orb from impacting him only to panic slightly as more orbs headed his direction. Glancing over at where these were coming from he saw that Reimu too was dodging the orbs only she was doing so with ease on top of Genji.
'No time to theorize now… its do or pain now,' dispelling his already made barrier Naruto quickly then brought his hands down. "Barrier," a familiar barrier formed below his feet, seeing that Narto then quickly smiled as he felt himself stop falling and instead stay standing on his barrier which was staying firmly on the air. "Yatta!" Naruto shouted only to jump again to avoid one of the orbs coming straight at him. Completing the same action Naruto formed another barrier below his feet to stay floating midair. 'Need to be able to do this faster,'
Noticing the orbs disappear he saw the samurai girl on the ground passed out. "I did it! Uh-oh… she's not moving. Oh well, time for the burial rites…"
"Reimu don't you think that it's a bit too early to determine her funeral,"
"What are you talking about, she is not moving and that's as good as being dead. Oh when did you learn to fly on air? That is so unfair!" Reimu started not bothered by the fact that Naruto was shaking his head.
"*sigh* I should have expected that," Naruto said before pointing at the samurai, "Look she's getting away,"
"What? Come back I have to prepare the ceremony for your safe departure to the otherworld,"
Genji looking a bit relieved sighed while Naruto just could only stare at Reimu before joining Genji.
"I wonder what she wanted though. She was pretty persistent on defeating me,"
"Excuse me? Weren't you paying the least bit of attention?"
"Genji its Reimu, she's unpredictable and loses interest in things too fast, at least that's what I picked up from her while living with you guys,"
"That is true Naruto-san,"
"Whatever, let's just continue on," Reimu shouted slapping Genji's shell and motioning to continue on.
"Where are we even going? I mean we passed the girl who apparently created the ghosts but we didn't chase her,"
"Onward Genji!"
"Why?" Naruto said helplessly as he continued his new form of air travel to catch up to Reimu.
It wasn't long before the duo and turtle soon approached a new area. Naruto couldn't have been happier to learn his new 'air walking skill' as there was no safe place for him to land. The area they had reached was a vast expanse of dark sky and a strange miasma of purple and red green star like glitter on the ground.
Looking over at Reimu he could see that she was a bit perplexed on the whole situation they were in, yet she still remained calm. Still not knowing why they were continuing on in this journey Naruto finally gave up on thinking and just asked, "Reimu why are we going so far away from the shrine?"
Turning from the scenery Reimu glanced quickly at Naruto before looking forward, "I have a hunch that I'm going to meet someone I know," leaving it at that Reimu didn't say anything more but she suddenly pulled out her amulets. "We have company,"
Seeing the ghosts appear in front of them Naruto dropped any thought for now and started to leap forward to meet the enemy. Unlike Reimu he still had to resort to close ranged tactics against most of the enemy, even if he could still 'fly' it didn't give him that much of an advantage. Punching ones that got in front of him Naruto soon found himself surrounded by the ghosts, looking back at Reimu he saw her busy trying to catch up to him.
"Barrier," Naruto quickly said extending his hands to stop a few bullets from colliding with him only to quickly find himself dropping. 'Crap I forgot I can only form one barrier at a time. That means if I'm standing on one I can't defend myself!' quickly regaining his bearings he formed another barrier underneath him and proceeded to jump upwards, forming more barriers every time he reached the apex of his jump. "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu" quickly forming three clones the clones immediately jumped separate ways to deal with the ghosts around him while the real went back to give Reimu some relief.
A few meters from Reimu Naruto prepared to hit one of the ghosts only to be blown back by a sudden burst of power coming from Reimu. "Why!" Naruto shouted as he felt himself falling back towards the endless abyss.
"Oh crap, Naruto!" realizing her mistake Reimu urged Genji forward toward Naruto's falling figured before snatching him out of the air. "Sorry about that, I probably should have told you before using that much power,"
Using her arm as leverage Naruto swung his body upward and kicked a few strange hollow yin yang orb like objects away from Reimu, "Don't worry, we're in this together and there's bound to be accidents," landing on one the air Naruto looked onward, "Also you might want to prepare, I figure we're almost at the 'boss' of this area," true to his word a platform of sorts was in their sights and on it were five ritual stones. "Any idea what that is?"
"If I remember correctly those are The Five Magic Stones I'm not exactly sure if that is the name but that is what some call them, as for what they do I am not exactly sure. As for your other unasked question we are in the Dreamworld, it is the world between our world and the demon world, even if it looks like we are in space do not worry because we can still breathe,"
"Well I wasn't exactly worried about that Genji considering we are not dead,"
"I wasn't worried about that part too,"
"This is the quickest route for you to take to get to Reimaden,"
"Reimaden?"
"No time to explain looks like the stones are attacking," before Naruto could ask any more questions two of the five stones started to fire bullets at a rapid pace at the two.
Seeing as he couldn't get close enough to the stones without getting pelted by energy blasts Naruto reached into his kunai pouch only to frown. 'Dang it I'm almost out of kunai's and that last stunt with my explosive tags has only left me with two… I need to stop being so emotional these tags cost way too much to use like as if they were my kunai,' "Here goes nothing, Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" only forming two clones Naruto panted slightly before the three looked at each other and nodded.
Heading off each in a different direction the clones and Naurto pulled the attention of the stones from Reimu giving Reimu more time to focus fire on the stones themselves. Seeing one of the five stones destroyed Naruto quickly acted and jumped towards the nearest clone. Giving a small nod Naruto grabbed the clone's hand and launched him toward the other stone that was firing bullets.
As if sensing an impending attack the stone soon fired bullets toward the launched clone only for the clone that was launched to form a quick barrier under its legs and jump up. "Misdirection," the clone said smiling looking towards the second clone who had made it to the stone and impacted it, effectively destroying the stone and the clone.
"Ha take that!" Naruto shouted only to see the two outer stones had started to fire green bullets in a ring towards him and Reimu. "I'll draw their attention again," nodding towards his remaining clone the two split off and started to dodge the frenzy of bullets that was sent their way.
"Piece of cake then," seeing how the two Naruto were able to draw the attention Naruto quickly attacked the right most stone first and after a few seconds of focused fire the stone was destroyed. However, as soon as that stone was destroyed the second stone started to fire much faster, catching the remaining clone off guard and pelting it with bullets.
"Sorry boss I'm done," the clone disappeared in a puff of smoke, but gave enough time for Naruto to land a kunai with a explosive note attached to it next to the stone.
"Katsu," the tag detonated taking the stone with it leaving only the center stone left. Changing its color it was only a few seconds before it blasted a whole bunch of bullets in all directions. "That's not good!"
"Naruto just dodge left and right, there's a small opening between the waves of bullets," Reimu quickly gave Naruto advice as she saw Naruto leading himself into a trap. "Tch, its guarding itself while shooting out its own wave of bullets," Seeing a strange charging going on at the base of the platform the stones exactly in front of where Naruto was Reimu panicked. "Naruto get out of there now!"
Instead of her warning helping Naruto as she wanted it to it only proved to pull Naruto's attention away from the fight and the beam which impacted his shoulder. "GAH," screaming Naruto kneeled onto his platform grabbing his right shoulder. "Continue the fight Reimu, I'll manage for now," reacting fast Naruto dispelled the barrier he was standing on to drop further down before forming another barrier, albeit a bit slower, to stand on.
Pushing her feelings of guilt aside Reimu focused on the last stone which was turning out to be a bit more difficult than the last few stones. Apparently this stone was able to shield itself from any attack that Reimu threw at it, and when Reimu was busy dodging the bullets it was throwing out it would take off its shield itself and throw another wave of beams that would have her running from one side of the platform to the other.
"At this rate I won't be able to hit it at all!" Reimu shouted as she dodged another wave of beams and bullets. 'If only I had an opening,' as the thought crept to her mind she suddenly saw a blur of orange and yellow race across towards the stone.
"Hey I'm over here you stupid stone!" hearing Naruto's voice Reimu quickly turned her head over to where Naruto had gone to.
"Idiot what are you doing!" Reimu shouted as she saw Naruto start provoking the stone and somehow get the stones attention.
"Now's your chance Reimu," Naruto shouted as he suddenly found himself stuck. All avenues of escape for him were blocked leaving Naruto staring at the incoming beam attack. "Well, Reimu looks like I'll be out of commission for a while," Saying that Naruto closed his eyes and waited for the beam to hit him only to suddenly feel himself being pulled. Having not balanced himself he went backwards and quickly opened his eyes to find out where he was.
Glancing around Naruto only got a glimpse of where he was and saw strange eyes floating around and all staring at him. Before he could fully turn around he felt someone grab him and hold him. "Not yet, it's too early for us to meet. Hopefully when we meet again though you will have discovered your powers," with that last note Naruto soon saw an opening in the weird area he was in and soon was pushed out into that opening.
"Who are you?" Naruto asked as he fell out of the hole and onto the platform which now held five destroyed stones.
"You will know soon," the voice said before the hole closed and left Naruto alone with a red blur who tackled him to the ground.
"You, you idiot!" Naruto heard Reimu say as she started pounding on his chest with her fists. "What do you think you were doing there? You could've gotten killed!"
"You were getting nowhere with that enemy and I couldn't just sit and watch as you struggled," Naruto said as he patted Reimu on the back, "Come to think of it did you happen to see what happened?"
Stopping her sniffling and wiping her eyes Reimu quickly looked up at him and replied, "You disappeared into a strange gap with eyes in it. It kinda was like the one you came out of when you first came to Gensokyo except it was more vibrant, almost sinister like, then yours,"
"Did you happen to see a person from that gap?"
"No, you were kind of covered by the bullet wave and that beam attack. I'm just glad you're okay," Reimu sniffled before feeling herself get lifted up.
"Sorry that won't happen again," Naruto winced slightly as he felt a sharp pain in his shoulder, "Why don't you continue on first though, I would just slow you down. Right now I am out of chakra and have a dangerously low supply of kunai and I also won't be able to defend myself against even the softest of attacks,"
"I'll wait then,"
"No, go on I'll be fine on my own remember how I always heal fast after our spars,"
"He is right M'lady he should be fine on his own considering we took care of the youkai in the area besides, if we stop here now the person you are chasing will just get further away from us,"
Reimu started tapping her foot impatiently against the floor making a pensive face before it turned into an annoyed one, "Alright fine, but you better not move from that location until I come back understand?"
"Does it look like I'm going anywhere anytime soon?"
"Genji lets go," hopping onto Genji Reimu ushered Genji forward but kept looking back towards Naruto.
"Don't worry, I'll be fine," Naruto shouted at Reimu as he waved his one arm that did not have an injured shoulder. Seeing her get further and further away until she disappeared, when she did Naruto finally let out a sigh of relief. "Damn this hurts," Naruto stumbled backwards onto his back. "Hah… man I haven't been in this much pain since the fight with Zabuza," slowly Naruto controlled his breathing before closing his eyes. "A quick rest should do it," a few seconds later Naruto was sleeping completely defenseless on the platform in the dreamworld.
"Finally he's here," a deep voice suddenly forced Naruto to open his eyes. Looking around he found himself in a sewer and a giant cage across from him. Looking inside he saw a pair of giant red eyes staring right back at him.
"Kyuubi," Naruto weakly stood up and stared right back at the being that had been trapped inside of him for over thirteen years, "What a pleasant surprise,"
"We have no time for pleasantries… kit we need to talk now,"
A/N: Well it has been some time since my last update I know but I had trouble in my real life situation and writing this chapter. This chapter in a nutshell was hard to write, I mean how exactly do you write a danmaku fight scene, and this is the pc era one, one in which they don't use spell cards so I can't show off anything cool. But yeah anyway here is the chapter and I have a question to ask, why do people review for the 2nd chapter more than the 1st, from my experience most people review the 1st chapter before leaving the story and not reviewing ever again. Yet here I have 2 reviews for chapter 1 and 5 for chapter 2. Anyway that aside I hope you guys continue reading my attempt to get back into writing fanfiction and I'll try to make the next chapter come out sooner but that might be hard considering there is still a few more danmaku battles left ahead, and with Reimu being the main character for Touhou Project it is kinda hard to write a tag team battle like scene with Naruto and Reimu going after the same opponent. Also kudo's to those who can guess who saved Naruto… not that its much of a secrete but it is to the characters.