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Here comes the third chapter of the story so far! Let's see if I can keep it going!
First, however, some of you may be wondering why no one said anything when Naruto's Henge dropped last chapter. Well, no one noticed. I probably should have been specific, but all his Henge did was add a few inches of height, longer hair, and make him more male-ish. This is because usually he looks like a girl, a flat chested one mind, but still. As it stands, Naruto is Fifteen, and he gets pretty tall at that age canonically, so while not as tall as, say, Jiraiya he is still pretty tall.
Now some of you may be asking why people didn't notice that a male seemingly turned into a girl. Well, it's Naruto's clothes. He may look like a girl, true, but with the clothes he wears he is simply androgynous enough to look like a bishi or something because he's not wearing women's clothes. … Hopefully there are still people who know what a bishi is, otherwise my fanfiction lingo is outdated.
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It had been a week since Naruto had been in Vanity Town, since he'd lost his v-card, and now he was on the road again, (Can't wait to be on the road again~) and he was taking his sweet time this time. To pass said time, he was looking at the original tome Jiraiya had brought when he made his first trip to wherever he'd gotten the book.
Looking at some of the illustrations within the tome, Naruto had decided that it was time to try his hand at calling upon some of the abilities of his more evil tenants. He already was able to call upon furious red portals, though they only lead to places he'd been before. Sadly that was the only other skill he'd learned with the evil magic besides the force beams. Though, he had learned that the beams could do more than just destroy things. They could also 'unlock' doors, turn trees (And other things if he guessed right) into twisted demonic versions of themselves, and craft elaborate illusions over things if he focused it correctly.
Closing the tome, Naruto looked around a bit, finding a nice place to stop for the moment so he could practice his demonic magic. His first practice spell would be the bone spire things descripted in the tome, something he'd tried and failed to use whenever he practiced in the past.
After practicing for several hours, with several dozen Kagebunshin, Naruto was able to summon several spires of bone at a time, but he could only hold them for a few seconds at most. Sighing, Naruto rubbed the back of his head, resting against a tree and contemplating the spell, wondering what he was doing wrong. It couldn't be the power behind it, he had more than he knew what to do with after all.
Thunking his head back against the tree he was resting at, Naruto swung his feet side to side and tapped his toes together a few times, hands in his lap. Then he started thinking about his time with Tsunade, a blush blooming on his face, a bit of drool running down his chin.
"Oho? What's this? A brat with a pervy look on her face? We're in luck boys, we caught us one of those female perverts! Looks like we can have a bit of fun with this one!"
Gasping slightly, Naruto's eyes snapped fully open, catching sight of a small contingent of scruffy men, eyes widening. Promptly scowling, Naruto popped up and got into a fighting stance. What a time to have his weapons put away!
Not that he needed weapons to beat simple bandits.
However, before he could make a move to drop the scruffy band of men, there was a clatter from the back of the group, and Naruto tilted his head as he saw a trio of people, Kumo ninja by the looks of it, busting their way to the head of the group of bandits. Their blades were flashing, and heads were rolling with each swing.
Whistling as the last of the bandits tried to flee, and were promptly taken down, he let out a soft 'urk!' as the trio's blades were then turned on him. Gulping as a trio of sharp blades were held at his neck, he turned his burning gold eyes on the apparent leader of the trio, a super busty blonde young woman. "S-so, um, any reason you're turning your weapons on the would be victim?"
It was the male of the group that responded, his voice a bit lazy, if that was a thing. "This could have been a trap, you see. You could be one of the bandits, perhaps their leader, trying to lull us into a false sense of security. And then, when our guards are down, you'd follow us to our village and burn it down! Rape our women! Usurp our kage! D-Do other things to our ka-urk!"
The boy was cut off from saying anything more when his redheaded teammate bashing him upside the head angrily. "Idiot! There's no way she'd be able to do that! Even if she was the leader of the bandits!"
"That's a dude, sis…"/"I'm a guy, 'Ttebayo!"
Blinking, the blades were taken from his neck, but Naruto's fellow redhead was scrutinizing closely, eyes squinted. Blushing at the sudden closeness, Naruto averted his gaze, unable to look the girl in the eyes. He had a thing for redheads, due to his mother.
"Nope, I don't see it. Look, even blushes like a girl! Omoi, are you sure you aren't seeing things?"
"Karui shush. There is only one way to be certain… T-though it's not cool…"
The blonde young woman approached Naruto this time, and due to his encounter with another busty blonde, his blush only increased. Without warning, a firm hand cupped his crotch, and his pupils dilated, the two behind the blonde's eyes widening as they stared in shock at their leader.
Squeeze squeeze
Naruto jumped up into the branches of the tree he was under, sticking to them like a scared cat, face positively flushed, heart pounding in his chest. Within the seal on his gut, a certain fox was howling in laughter within his cage, while several other beings were thoroughly amused.
"Well, it's certainly a boy…"
The blonde wasn't helping Naruto's situation at all, her teammates gawking as the young woman stared at her hand in seeming wonder. Turning to the redheaded female of the group, the blonde young woman raised an eyebrow, "Unless you'd like to make certain yourself? He can't be too hard to catch…"
Waving her hands in front of her quickly, Karui shook her head rapidly, "N-No no! No, i-it's cool! Totally fine! I-I don't need to go touching a guy's junk, thank you!"
Giving a little nod, the blonde turned back to look up at Naruto, who was still clinging to the tree branch he'd landed on using his chakra. "Now, you can come down, or we can come up. We believe that you're a male, but there is still the issue of you being with the bandits or not. Till we can discern your place in all this, you will be coming with us."
Sweating a bit at his situation now, he thought it over a bit in his head. He could easily escape, true, but perhaps he could spin this into an adventure. He'd never been to Kumo after all. Or, well, anywhere really, besides that town from a week ago.
"Um, you aren't gonna grope me again if I come down, are you?"
The blonde seemed to blush a bit, but shook her head in the negative, crossing her arms under her bust. "No, now come down. It would be very not cool if we had to come up there after you. Not cool in the least."
Sighing softly, our redheaded hero finally nodded, relenting and dropping from the branch he'd been stuck to, landing on his feet and allowing a pair of cuffs to be latched onto his wrists. He was surprised of course to find that he couldn't feel his chakra after they were locked in place, but he had other ways to do combat, so he wasn't really worried about it. They'd never see it coming if he decided to retaliate.
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Four days of ninja speed travel later, we find Naruto in an interrogation room in nothing but his underwear, his hands tied together in front of him, tied to the table before him. On the other side of the table sat a Kumo Chunin, who seemed to have a very stern look on his face. Naruto knew this face, Jiraiya had told him it was a man trying to vanquish their 'Why-Boner', whatever that was.
"So kid, mind telling us who you are? If you aren't with the bandits in some kind of complicated plot, why were you with them?"
Tilting his head, Naruto gave a shrug, "Well, it's certainly not some kind of plot to get me here, I'm sure with a bit more wandering I may have ended up here anyway. Apparently those bandits thought I was a girl, or something, and I was just gonna teach them the error of their ways when those three Kumo ninja decided to show up. That reminds me, is the one with the sucker always so… Um… Out there, shall we say?"
Sighing and rubbing his temple, the Chunin could only give a nod, "Yes, that's Omoi, as I'm quite sure you've heard already. He's always coming up with conspiracies, blowing things way out of proportion. Now, I've another question for you. Say I believe you weren't working with the bandits? What proof do you have that would prove it? And what about all that stuff we found in your bag?"
Naruto narrowed his eyes at that, "What about the stuff in my bag? Were you guys going through my stuff?! You dicks, I better have everything I came here with when I get released Dattebayo!"
Scoffing, the Chunin gave a shrug, "As far as we know, you're working for the bandits Team Samui had been sent to deal with. That you're even alive means you probably have useful information about other camps used by those bandits. For all we know that stuff is stolen, and therefore shall be returned to the rightful owners, or taken as spoils. You may not live much longer, so I don't see how it matters to you, damn bandit."
Now, normally Naruto would explain himself firmly till he got his point across. However, it didn't seem as if he had that option today, as if he waited any longer he may not get his stuff back at all.
"Now you listen here, I better have all my stuff by the time I'm released, or I swear to all that is holy, this building if nothing else will cease to exist by the end of the day! I'm Not a bandit! I'm Uzumaki Naruto, Toad Sage of Myobokuzan, son of Kushina Uzumaki!"
Perking up at the boys outburst, the Chunin raised an eyebrow as he scrutinized the boy. "We've heard of that woman before… You're her son, huh? Well! No wonder I've been sitting here thinking you looked like a familiar tomato!"
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Moments later the man realized what he just said and paled, watching as Naruto's face grew shadowed, showing only his frowning lips. His muscles all visibly tensed, and the Chunin began fearing for his life as a violent reddish orange energy began to form around the redhead. The next thing to tip the poor man off that something was up with the prisoner, was the sound of the ropes holding his hands together straining, dangerously so.
"Tomato…"
"Noooo…"
"T-Tomato…!"
"No no No!"
By this point Naruto's face was set in a shadowed scowl, and the Chunin was shaking his head as he slowly backed up towards the door, slowly quickening his pace, he had almost reached it, before…
"TOMATOOOOOOO!?"
"NononoFUUUUUUUUUUUUUuuuuuu-BOOOOOM"
Naruto exploded in a massive show of power, destroying the rope holding him bound, the chair he was sitting on, the table, the very ground he was now standing on. Even though the poor Chunin had made it to the door, he didn't survive the explosion, at least not with dignity.
The man's clothes were destroyed, and he was flung clear from the building with impressive force. Only to land directly in one of Kumo's few hotsprings, in the women's side, during a meeting of Kumo's Woman's Association. Suffice to say while Naruto had barely not killed the man, the women in the hotspring may very well have finished the job.
Back in the building, after the explosive force at the start, the blast had expanded rapidly and engulfed the entire building, leaving it in ruins. Panting in the middle of it all was Naruto, surrounded by the groaning bodies of those who had been inside the building when he asploded.
Searching around a bit, Naruto found his bag, with his things littered around with a few groaning bodies. Quickly collecting his stuff, he stuffed them into his bag and, wincing a bit, inscribed a basic storage seal on his right arm, sealing his bag inside as he was surrounded. Thankfully for Naruto, they were all Chunin, and he knew he had enough training to take care of them.
"Hey guys, I'm just gonna go this way?" Naruto asked, rolling his shoulder a bit, a grin on his face as he began walking.
At once the Chunin surrounding him attacked, only making Naruto's grin widen, a tic mark on his forehead.
Instantly Naruto released a burst of frost a full 360 degrees around himself, his frost nova spell. Several of the ninja were frozen solid, but the rest jumped back and escaped being frozen. Promptly following this Naruto created several Kagebunshin, each using ray of frost to further freeze the frozen ninja over.
As this was going on, more ninja were converging on his location, including the team that had originally 'captured' him. The clones jobs done, Naruto released them and gathered his fury, releasing a threatening shout that echoed and made his opponents step back. By this point the frozen shinobi had thawed out, and were evacuated by their fellow ninja, leaving Naruto still surrounded.
Readying himself, Naruto blinked as a body was suddenly thrown before him. Looking down, the tic mark on his forehead grew, and he snatched up the groaning body. "Who's a tomato now!? Who's a tomato now bitch!" Shaking the body like a rag doll, the surrounding ninja sweatdropped as they contemplated saving their comrade.
"You know, now that he mentions it, he does kinda look like a tomato…"
Immediately, Naruto dropped the man he was shaking, and the ninja on either side of the man who'd spoken inched away from him as Naruto sloooowly turned his head towards him. On the young man's face was a positively evil grin. He took a step forward, and the now sweating ninja took a step back. Step forward, step back, etcetera and so on.
Before Naruto could give chase to the ninja who'd called him a tomato, he found himself restrained by a beefy dark skinned man with white hair and a white goatee, and a mature young woman with long blond hair and dark eyes. "Lemme go! Must! Kill! He who called me Tomato!"
Seeing the rampaging redhead restrained, the rest of the ninja began digging out their injured comrades from the rubble of the building, and taking their previously frozen comrades off to the hospital post haste.
Sending a glare to the dark skinned man helping her hold the redhead, the blond woman whispered into the redheads ear, "Calm down. It will do you no good to attack more of our ninja. You're in enough trouble as it is."
"Excuse me? I'm in trouble? First off! You guys took me here under suspicion of being a bandit with some kind of elaborate plot, then you guys take my stuff and threaten to not give it back, never mind threatening to steal from me. Then… Then!" He pointed viciously towards the man he'd been shaking, who was being picked up by two other Kumo ninja.
"That guy called me a t-t-Tomato!"
"Hey, Yugito, isn't that guy new, yo?"
Wanting so hard to facepalm, the blonde young woman, Yugito, sighed instead and shook her head. "Look, kid, we'll look into your claims, but unless you can somehow pay for the damages here, you're going to be thrown in jail for a while, even if you're proven innocent of being a bandit. You can't just go around blowing up buildings because you get mad."
"Eh? Well screw all that noise! I'll pay for the damages, but I am not a bandit, and I'm definitely not going to jail!"
"Well, you'll still need to be detained for a bit, and the Raikage may want to have words with you, but if you truly aren't part of Team Samui's mission, we'll take your statement, your payment for the damages, and then I'm fairly certain you can be on your way. Of course, that all depends on if the Raikage wants to speak with you or not."
Just then, another voice spoke out, gruff and powerful, "As a matter of fact, I do want to speak with him. He's taken out several of my shinobi, destroyed my interrogation building, assaulted several more shinobi. These are very serious crimes you've committed brat."
Turning his head a bit so he could see who was talking, he spotted what he was sure was the Raikage, a large muscular man with dark skin, and a hairstyle similar to the man holding him with the blonde woman. Differences being this man's skin was a somewhat lighter tone, he was obviously more muscled, and his hair was a bit neater, and he didn't have the same style mustache/goatee combo as the other man.
"Oi! I was defending my belongings, and as I've already stated, that bastard over there called me a damn Tomato!"
Grunting and lifting a single eyebrow, the Raikage shook his head, "You think that gives you the right to destroy a building? Assault my men? What's to stop me from doing away with you right now?"
Huffing, Naruto had the decency to look sheepish, blushing just a bit. "Well, I admit I may have gone a bit overboard… But the stuff your guy told me I would likely never see again were gifts from my godfather. Also, I've already agreed to pay for what I broke, I was in Vanity just about a couple weeks ago, and I made a killing, as it were."
Blinking, the Raikage thought a bit, "Vanity… Kid, that's too far away for someone to travel to anywhere near here in just a few weeks without training. Who trained you?"
Tilting his head as much as he could, still in the hold of the man and woman behind him, Naruto bit his bottom lip, before shrugging. It couldn't hurt to tell about his godfather a bit, practically everyone knew him anyway, if not by prowess then by perversion.
"I was trained by my godfather, Jiraiya, on Mount Myoboku. But that's all I'm saying till I'm released! I can't very well pay for what I destroyed if I'm held prisoner like this!"
"B, Yugito, let him go. I doubt he could do much with me here, but stick to him just in case."
The two nodded, and Naruto rolled his shoulders a bit, dusting himself off as he reached up to a seal imprinted on his left shoulder. In a poof, the surrounding ninja tensed, though when all that appeared was a small brown pouch, they relaxed a bit. "Here, this should be more than enough to pay for what I brought down."
Tossing the pouch to the Raikage, who snatched it out of the air and hefted it a bit, it was a bit heavy. Opening it up, his eyes widened as he beheld several dozen golden coins. "What the! These can't be real!"
"Real as you and me pops, see for yourself!"
"Speak to the Raikage with respect brat!" Yugito chided, popping Naruto upside the head sharply, "Itai! Jeeze lady, the hell is up with your arm strength?!"
Huffing, Yugito stayed silent as she turned to watch the Raikage reach into the pouch, though her eyes, along with everyone elses, widened as the man pulled out a handful of gold coins, testing their weight. When the man put one between his index finger and thumb, and bit into it, they were surprised when it held. "Well I'll be damned. It's real… Your 'godfather Jiraiya' give you this too?"
Crossing his arms, Naruto gave a huff and a nod, "Yes, he did. And I've got more, but that should be enough to pay for the damages I did, plus any hospital bills, or whatever. Now, I expect to be let go! Your men attacked me first, I was just defending myself!"
Of course, he didn't let them know he could go whenever he wanted, he wanted to at least see if he could go without a fight first.
"Tch, and you think we'll just let you go? You're obviously quite powerful, how about you work for me? You could easily become a great shinobi if you were trained by that Jiraiya. What do you say kid?"
Blinking and looking just a tad shocked at the offer, Naruto tilted his head again and thought about it for a minute. He wouldn't accept, of course, but the offer was very flattering, specially coming from the Raikage himself. However, his godfather and mother had always told him that they were going to return to Konoha someday, as it was originally his home, and the place his father sacrificed himself for. So…
"I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to decline. I'm very flattered, honest, but my home is elsewhere. However! If you ever need some extra muscle for a job or something, you can just send me a bird, I'll definitely come help."
For a moment, it seemed as if the Raikage would take offence to this, before the man shrugged, he could always just have the boy detained and… shall we say, reeducated. Before he could give the order however, the boy lifted a hand and conjured a portal of furious red, "Well, I guess I'll get going then! Heh, nice meeting you pops!"
Dodging another fist from Yugito, Naruto turned and jumped into the portal, sticking his tongue out at the angry blonde.
"Well… That just happened. Okay! I want the injured taken to the hospital, and I want this mess cleaned up, now!"
Every able nin saluted and got to work, though B just went off to goof off somewhere, and Yugito kneeled before the Raikage. "Raikage-sama, do you wish for me to go after the boy?"
Stroking his goatee, the man sighed and shook his head. "We have no idea where he's gone, so there's no point. However, if you see him out on missions, go ahead and try to apprehend him. For now, we'll put him in our Bingo Book as Capture Alive."
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Letting out a breath, Naruto closed the portal behind him as he exited it, looking around and rubbing the back of his head. He was back near where he was captured. The bodies of the bandits were still there, and there was an unholy stink to the place. "Well, can't just leave them like this. Can't be good for the environment."
Rubbing his hands together, Naruto called on his magic, his demonic magic, since usually he used it to destroy things. Hopefully it would get rid of these bodies till he could learn the disintegration beam spell in his wizard path's abilities. Shooting out a beam of the furious red magic, Naruto watched as it impacted the first body.
It wouldn't be till the beam split off and hit the rest of the bodies that he figured something was wrong. The bodies started to glow with the furious magic energy, and Naruto found he couldn't stop the flow, no matter how hard he tried. In the end, he was able to redirect the energy upward, blasting a hole through the canopy of trees. This also had the effect of widening the beam, and showering the surrounding area with the furious red magic.
The moment the beam finally stopped, Naruto gasped and jumped back to avoid a slash from deadly claws. His eyes widened further as he saw the cause, the corpses of the previously dead bandits had changed, becoming demonic, alive.
"Did… Not see that coming…"
Quickly putting his hands together again, Naruto channeled his arcane energy, firing off his ray of frost, catching two of the demonic creatures and slowing them down, the rest taking the chance to flee rather than fight. "Tch… Crapbaskets!"
Intensifying the beam of ice, Naruto growled and bit his bottom lip as his palms began to frost over. Before it could get any worse though, he was quite surprised to find the two frozen demons crushed under dual ethereal spiked hammers, which created glowing blue cracks along the ground as the frozen demons were shattered.
He quickly through his hands up as he found something hard poking at his back, and some kind of strange fist weapon aimed at his jugular by a surprisingly pretty woman with short white hair.
"What kind of demon summoner attacks the demons he summons?"
This was the voice of a fighter, a warrior, and it came from one of the two who'd used those badass ethereal hammers, hammer of the ancients if he remembered correctly. From the Barbarian path of his skills. The male was the one who spoke, and Naruto had no idea what he meant by his words. Though, he had a feeling he was in trouble.
"Um, demon summoner? Demon summoner… Nope! D-don't know any demon summoners, 'Ttebayo!"
The sharp implement of the fist weapon held at his neck pushed a little closer, and Naruto gulped, biting his bottom lip and mentally smacking himself for his words.
"We saw you make those demons, boy, don't get smart with us. While we're at it though, where did you learn that ice spell?"
This time it was a woman who spoke, one holding a trio of little floating blue orbs, and a wand… Crap.
"Um, I was brought material on them by my godfather. They were something I needed to counteract something I have. Very personal, I don't suppose you'd let it go at that, would you?"
Unfortunately for him, the next one to appear was another woman, this one with a bow trained on him. The first thing he noticed however, were her legs. First, he was raised around Jiraiya, and second, the shoes the woman was wearing just made her legs quite enticing. (I love the female Demon Hunter's legs…)
Gulping, and quickly tearing his eyes from those lovely legs, he looked into the strangely glowing eyes of the woman. She had a small smirk on her lips, no doubt having caught where the redheaded boy had looked first.
"No such luck, kid. Tell us though, this godfather of yours… He wouldn't happen to be named Jiraiya, would he?"
Blinking, and looking around as the rest showed themselves, the first thing Naruto noticed was that the majority of the group were extremely beautiful women. Groaning loudly, Naruto sighed and rolled his eyes, "Okay, what has ero-sennin done this time? Did he peep on you while bathing? Or did he steal your panties or something?"
At once, the men actually snickered, though the women all looked affronted at the claims. Just what did their old companion get up to in his spare time?!
"No, nothing of the sort. He has stolen many things of great importance to us and ours, and we have been sent to retrieve them. Great secrets have been stolen by that man, and this is the place we followed him to. Though, admittedly we lost his trail after a we entered this strange land, and have simply been following the strong demonic presence we felt."
This time it was the armored woman with long white hair who spoke. Even under all her armor, Naruto could tell she was quite a beauty.
"Well, if it's secrets and stuff… I know what happened with them. But before I say anything! Who are you guys?"
First to speak was the buff man with the wicked armor, "My comrade and I are Barbarians, from Mount Akarat, we have been tasked with retrieving tomes stolen by Jiraiya pertaining to our techniques and teachings."
Next to speak were the ones holding Naruto at staff and fist point. The female spoke, seeing as she was in front of Naruto, "Me and my companion have traveled with this group in hope of retrieving tomes of our order of Monks. Likewise, our teachings and techniques have been stolen by Jiraiya, whom we had called friend before now."
The woman with the great legs spoke next, not lowering her bow at all, keeping Naruto in her sights. "That rat Jiraiya stole from my clan, the teachings, secrets, and techniques of the Demon Hunter, and I have been tasked with collecting what he has taken. Or destroying it should I not be able to."
The arrogant sounding woman spoke next, the one with the floating orbs and wand. The wizard, no doubt. "I am a Wizard, and that beast Jiraiya has stolen many tomes from my people, and though honestly I could care less for their wishes for me to retrieve the tomes for safety reasons, it irks me that Jiraiya even bothered with them in the first place. All one would learn from those things was safe ways to channel magic."
Naruto sweatdropped at this, as it would explain a LOT about his troubles with magic…
Finally, it was the armored white haired woman who spoke up, "I am a Crusader, and it is my job to retrieve or destroy knowledge and artefacts that Jiraiya had stolen from the High Heavens. It is what I have been tasked with, and I shall carry out my mission."
Naruto gulped, now knowing just who these people were. Oooooh, him and Jiraiya were screwed, so screwed!
"Well then… Uh, I think that's all I needed to hear, thank you. While I'm sure being done in by pretty women would be a nice way to go, I'd rather not die here. So I'll just apologize for now, and be on my way. When next we meet, hopefully I won't feel like you'll all try to kill me…"
With his piece spoken, Naruto released a great force of energy, his wave of force, knocking the monks away from him, though in response he took an arrow to the shoulder. Grunting, Naruto dashed off, ripping the arrow from his shoulder as he ran, dodging more arrows being sent his way.
"Well, at least we know where Your peoples secrets ended up Wizard!"
"Quiet, he could very well know your peoples secrets as well Barbarian! He said Jiraiya is his godfather, he could very well know All our secrets!"
Sparing no more time for chatter, the group gave chase to the redheaded boy they had found. It seemed they hadn't even needed to find Jiraiya to get hold of their secrets. But this proved a danger to them as well, for if this boy indeed knew all their secrets, they may very well have to do as the boy feared and kill him. The only other option would be to train him themselves, and induct him into their orders, and that would not go over well with their leaders.
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Naruto groaned as he ran from his pursuers, occasionally having to dodge arrows or spells, even ethereal thrown hammers, or axes. On occasion, the crusader lady would ride at him on a ghostly horse, almost catching him a couple times. The wizard too showed to be a nuisance, teleporting uncomfortably close to him whenever she could use the spell.
If only he could use those techniques too! But he couldn't, because for one he hadn't been trained in the crusader lady's ways, and for another, he wasn't skilled enough in magic to teleport yet. He could always try a portal of course, but who was to say it would work in his panicked state?
The group chased him for quite a while, and honestly even Naruto was starting to get a bit fatigued. Taking a deep breath, the redhead held his breath and pushed harder, straining his legs as he pulled further ahead of the group pursuing him. "You'll never take me alive Dattebayo!"
"That's the point brat!" Spoke the male Barbarian, though his words were quickly refuted by the Demon Hunter, "Hush, we aren't here to kill anyone, this boy could very well be innocent. We will question him further once we catch him."
Naruto heard them of course, as neither had tried to be quiet, but that still didn't inspire confidence in him. For all he knew their questioning could be quite torturous! Still, he did feel a little bit better knowing they weren't going to kill him if they caught him.
"Still however, this is getting quite annoying. Let's end this little game, shall we?"
"Say what now?"
Chancing a look behind him, his eyes widened as he saw the Barbarians pick up their Wizard companion, carrying her with little difficulty, and tossing her forward. She then blinked out of sight, and he returned his gaze in front of himself only to find her there in front of him. Gasping and digging his heels into the dirt, a bola was shot at his ankles, then his knees, and finally his hips, thoroughly binding his feet and legs together.
Waving his hands around, Naruto flew forward and bounced a bit in the dirt, finding himself quickly at the Wizard's feet, a smug look on her face as she gazed down at him. "Say goodnight, princess.~" the woman mocked, "I'm a boy 'Tteba-urk!" The bolas wrapped around him exploded, making him seize up in pain, before blacking out. The last thing he saw was the group gathering around him.
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When next Naruto awoke, he found himself in what looked to be a forgotten tomb, probably an old clan burial ground. He really didn't like the feel of this place already. Didn't have anything to do with a fear of ghosts that he certainly didn't have. Nope, not at all.
Hearing voices on the other side of a door, he tried to move, only to find himself chained to the wall, his hands above his head. Grumbling and struggling against his chains, Naruto huffed and took a deep breath, "Oooooi! Get me out of here! I swear if a ghost kills me I'm haunting your asses Dattebayo!"
The door was soon opened, and the group entered. They stayed a bit away from him however, and Naruto glared at them with his smoldering eyes, "What do you want from me? I'm not selling out my godfather, no matter how much of a perv he is!"
The Crusader spoke then, arms crossed over her chest plate, "That is fine, simply tell us what we want to know, and he needn't be brought into this." Naruto gave her a wary look; all the women of the group were extremely beautiful, but from their little chase of him alone he could tell they were also very dangerous, even to strong ninja.
"Well… What do you want to know? Depending on what it is I may or may not be able to tell you."
The Barbarians stepped up first, arms crossed, stern looks on their face. "Us first brat. Tell us what that lout Jiraiya took our peoples tomes? What use could he have for them? Why did he steal them in the first place?"
Naruto looked at them for a moment, and while he wasn't one to like muscular women, he had to say the female Barbarian pulled the look off nicely. Even the male Barbarian had a youthful flare to him, even if he was older than the female. "He… He brought them to me. I'm assuming Everything he stole from all of you was brought to me."
Raising an eyebrow, the Crusader stepped forward again, "And why would he bring you these things young man? Did you ask him to bring you these things specifically?"
Shaking his head vehemently, Naruto denied that, "No, no, it was simply needed that he bring me things to counteract demonic magic. Skills, artefacts… I needed these things because something interfered with a very important event in my life. Before I tell you though, I need all of you to give me your word! Give me your word that I won't be harmed for the knowledge I give!"
Looking at each other, the group gave little nods, it wasn't as if the boy was a demon or something. Even if he had created demons when they had met, something they'd have to take care of immediately after they were finished with the boy.
The Crusader spoke again, seeming to be the spokesperson for the group. "Very well, you have our word that you will not be harmed. Now tell us, what has you so up in arms over this information?"
Sighing, Naruto took a deep breath, and let it out. "Fifteen years ago, my original home was attacked. A great nine tailed fox, a demon, attacked my village. It killed many people, destroyed many homes, before it was eventually stopped by my father… He died, sealing the great beast. Of course, of the Biju, the Nine Tailed Fox was the strongest, and so couldn't be sealed into something inanimate, it had to be a living being, who's chakra coils were yet to develop. It had to be a newborn, and I just so happened to meet those parameters. My father sealed the beast inside me."
This got the groups eyes to widen; sealing a demon into a human… Now why did that sound so familiar?
"The seal is there, under my shirt on my stomach. It shows every time I channel chakra, but that's not all… That alone is not the reason my godfather had to take those things from you. If you are from wherever my godfather got what he did, you're likely the group he was with when he was gone. He told me a bit about you, though I never got your names. Go ahead… Lift my shirt, I'll channel some chakra, and then you'll know why I needed what he took…"
The Crusader stepped forward once again, reaching forth to lift the shirt they had put on the boy. Honestly, who went around in their underwear?
Once he was sure they could see his stomach, Naruto sighed and channeled chakra through his body, bringing forth the seal on his stomach, drawing interest from the group, the Wizard more so. Then the group gasped, the Crusader stepping back hastily.
There, on the boys stomach, sat the Black Soulstone.
"Now do you see? The terrible danger I pose to my world if I do not get the 'gifts' that stone gives me under control? Do to the nature of my seal I am in minimal danger of possession, but, I am fully capable of using the evil powers within. And therein lies the problem. Whenever I use that dark magic, it's like a fight for control. I've got it down to where I can use simple blasts of it, but… I fear that should I ever lose control like I did today, I will bring about the end of days for my people. That is why I needed what my godfather stole from you. To give me skills, discipline, and power to properly counter whatever may happen in my moments without control."
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There we go! Third chapter done! Now, I need a favor. Does anyone have the D3 game on console? Do me a favor if you do, and start it up, start up a new character for the classes and genders within this story, don't worry you don't have to play or keep them, but what I need is the generated names. I can't for the life of me remember any of them.
So yeah, I need names for my characters, the ones generated in the console version preferably. I need names for:
Crusader: Female
Barbarian: Female
Barbarian: Male
Monk: Female
Monk: Male
Demon Hunter: Female
Wizard: Female
Simple enough, yeah?
Also, questions. Should any of the group be in the harem? Personally I'm voting for the Demon Hunter myself. I simply love the female Demon Hunter's legs. It's gotta be those stiletto's they wear, cause their legs are the first thing I see whenever I see a closeup of the female DH in the create a character screen.
Of course, I'm also partial to the Crusader being in it too.
Should Tsunade be in the harem, or simply a one (or more) time thing?
Should Naruto have 'concubines'? Meaning, lovers that he won't marry, but will still have relations with, with permission from his actual wives?
Also, I'm taking suggestions for what becomes of those demons that got away. Do they start up their own cult and slowly grow in power? Do they summon more demons and eventually try to usurp the Great Evil's powers from within Naruto, and become the New Evils? Give me suggestions, plans, things you'd like to see happen.
On that note however, what would you like to see happen? I'm open to suggestions, as I've said.
Poll Up! (Who in the D3 group should be in the harem)
