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Chapter 4- A New World In Peril
Naruto had spent the past four years training his chakra, with the help of Kurama, to reach the prime of his past life. This included relearning all of his techniques from the Shadow Clone Jutsu to the Rasengan and its variants as well as relearning how to use Kurama's chakra properly. During his chakra training however, Naruto learnt that he now had a dual element affinity to add to his wind and was curious if the god that brought him here had something to do with it. The prince learned from his mother that it was thee goddess Hera that brought him here from the day he told her along with Diana and Donna about his past life. Kurama insisted on bringing them into Naruto's mindscape as it would be much easier for them to just see it rather than Naruto trying to explain it to them.
While the trio of females only got glimpses of Naruto's life, one thing that the girls fixated on was his childhood. They did not see much of it but they saw a small boy that was not giving any amount of love, except for a select few, because of something that was out of his control. This cause the women to squeeze the boy in a vice-grip hug once they were out of said mindscape. Kurama was laughing hysterically at his partner as his begging to let him go fell on deaf ears as he struggled to to breathe from the amazonian hug. Once free Naruto told his mother and sisters that it is fine that because of them he was able to know what growing up surrounded by love felt like. This put him back into to the predicament that he just was released from as he was ensnared in another amazonian hug from the trio.
These were the thoughts that rushed through Naruto's mind on his way to the arena where he promised a spar with Diana and Donna. As he trained to use his chakra once more, Naruto became one of if not the strongest people on the island. There were three women that constantly asking him to train with them which are Diana, Donna and Artemis. Artemis was always considered one of the strongest amazons and once Naruto began to beat her on a consistent basis. At first she was angry that a man was beating her but after Artemis realized that her prince was not hoarding it over her and actually wanted to help her get stronger, she became less hostile and began to enjoy the sparring sessions with the young man.
Naruto arrived at the arena and smiled at the two amazon women whom looked like they were waiting for him. "So are you two both ready?" the prince asked.
Donna exclaimed "That's right and this time we will beat you." getting into her battle stance while Diana nodded in agreement.
Naruto held out his hand signaling them to wait which confused the two until he shouts "You can come out Artemis." as the third amazon came out of the shadows.
"I can never get anything by you my prince." Artemis responds with a smile on her face that confused the other two amazons because she rarely smiled unless in combat.
Naruto responds "Well we are having a spar why don't you join to see if the three of you can beat me?" while noticing the glares he was on the receiving end from Diana and Donna.
"As if I need their help to beat you my prince." Artemis scoffs which only angered the other two amazons.
Trying to diffuse the situation, Naruto with a smile on his face states "While Diana and Donna's tag team is the only way I have suffered a defeat since my fifteenth birthday. So how about we get the match started?" Once he sees the three are in a battle stance, he performs his signature technique, Multi-Shadow Clone Jutsu, and sends a wave of hundreds towards the three. The amazons were having no trouble with disrupting the clones as their enhanced punches and kicks knocking out the clones in one blow. After about three minutes none of the five hundred shadow clones remained but as the trio of amazons looked around the arena, their real opponent was nowhere to be seen.
Artemis angrily shouts "Come on out and fight us like a true Themysciran warrior!" thinking that he was hiding while Diana and Donna were worried that Naruto was up to something.
"Actually I never was hiding I was merely using my clones as a way to see how much you three have improved." a voice comes from behind them. They turn around to see Naruto in a meditative position that puzzled them as he continues "But after realizing that I owed the three of you more of a challenge so I decided to take it up a notch." opening his eyes revealing that they were no longer ocean blue but yellow with his pupil was a horizontal bar with orange around his eye.
While two of the females were cautious about the change of Naruto's appearance, Artemis laughed "I guess will will have to beat that make-up off your face." as she charges the boy. This did not give the other two amazons time to warn her and she throws a punch at his face only for Naruto to dodge while sighing. Naruto counterattacked in a similar manner with Artemis seems to easily dodge the attack. The amazon smiles for a second thinking she evaded the fist but she suddenly felt a severe pain on her cheek bone then immediately flew back into the arena wall knocking her out of the fight.
Diana was the first to speak "I am guessing Artemis does not know about the extended reach that you have when you are in your sage mode?"
"Yes I thought she would learn better from our previous spars." the prince of Themyscira sighs at the amazon still letting her pride rule all of decisions when it came to the art of battle. Naruto smiles as looks at his other two opponents "At least I can see how much you two have learned since our last spar." getting into a fighting stance signaling for them to come at him.
The two amazon warriors look at each other before charging at Naruto with Diana attacking from his right and Donna his left. Naruto immediately felt the two were not holding anything back as the decided to block the first punches from the woman and quickly realized that if he was not in sage mode, he would have two broken arms. Naruto then quickly grabs their wrists and toss them in the opposite directions allowing for a few seconds to prepare for their next strike. While Diana had no trouble landing flawlessly allowing her to charge back at the back at the male, Donna was not so lucky as she landed awkwardly that caused her retaliation to be delayed a few seconds. Diana noticed this quickly and knew that she would need to keep Naruto on the defensive while Donna recovers as she sends a flurry punches trying to land a blow. Naruto while dodging all of the Amazon's attacks begins to see a pattern in them so he takes advantage of that as he lands a blow to her face forcing her a few steps backwards. Naruto notices the smirk on his elders face as she wipes the blood dribbling out of the corner of her mouth and realizes that it was a trap and turns his attention towards Donna to barely be able block her incoming attack. This however gave Diana the perfect opportunity to swiftly land a uppercut sending her opponent flying backwards a good ten feet.
While the two amazons were in a fighting stance ready for whatever comes next, they hear their opponent chuckling as he gets up "I think that is enough for today." The two are stunned to see that their efforts were not only successful in landing a blow on him in sage mode but knocked the young man out of the mode as well. Naruto walks over to the two smiling "I am very impressed and even though I am not as able to maintain my sage mode as I was in my past life, the act of knocking me out of it is a feat that is quite impressive."
Diana replies "You were probably just joking around and if you were serious you could have taken us down easily." not thinking it was the big deal that the prince of Themyscira was making it out to be.
"While yes if I used more of my offensive abilities, I could have ended the fight rather easily don't think for a second that I was not going one hundred percent to see how far you too have come." Naruto sternly responds giving her a look to know he is dead serious. The boy's expression changes immediately "What do you say we go get these injuries check out." picking up a still unconscious Artemis in a bridal style carry.
Diana smiles "I will have to take a rain-check as I have to talk to mother about something important." then immediately began to leave the arena not leaving any opportunity for a rebuttal.
"What is her problem?" Donna asked confused by her fellow amazon's actions.
The prince sighs "Something that's going to be troublesome." then proceeded to chuckle at what just came out of his mouth and how it sounded like a certain lazy ass. "Come on lets go get you two checked out." Naruto states and once he sees the girl nod, he proceeds to walk towards the infirmary with Donna close behind.
The walk to the infirmary was excruciating for Naruto as he could sense all of the jealousy that he was the main focus of. The moment he unlocked his chakra Naruto learned that he had a new ability that he did not ever come across in his past life let alone actually having which was empathy. Naruto immediately thought that Kurama had something to do with it but was shocked when Kurama was just as surprised as he was about it. The wise fox stated that the only time he ever came in the presence of this ability was in his first jinchuriki Mito Uzumaki. Naruto asked the obvious question that if he has this ability, why did it never come up in his past life. Kurama smirked at the boy stating that he was probably just too stupid to notice that he was an empath in his past life in hopes of riling up the boy. After the fox decided to give the boy an honest response and told him that it was likely that he did have it in a much smaller capacity how else could he have connected and changed the hearts of so many people without being able to read other emotions to a degree.
Naruto sighs in relief as the three finally arrived at their destination and while Donna went with one of her fellow amazons to have her wounds treated, Naruto carried Artemis to an empty room. The young man laid the amazon on the bed and sat in the chair beside the woman to begin to speak to her. "Artemis I am disappointed in your actions today. I thought that our sparring sessions would change your attitude so that you would work together with Diana and Donna. However it still looks like you are stuck in your ways of trying to become the strongest amazon on your own. For the look on Diana's face earlier, she senses that the outside world is in trouble and needs our help so we won't be back for a while. I am trusting you with this so that if any of you need my help I can flash here in an instant." Naruto instantly disappears from the room leaving only a three pronged kunai with seals drawn on the hilt in the woman's hand as proof of him ever being in the room to begin with.
Naruto arrived at his mother's palace just in time to hear his mother and sister's conversation and he suspicion was correct. Diana was telling their mother that the outside world was in trouble and needed their help while Hippolyta stated that it was not their place and she should leave it be. Diana not liking her mother's answer stormed out in a huff while Hippolyta shook her head knowing that this is not over. "You do know that she will leave with or without your approval." Naruto spoke up revealing himself from from his hiding position.
Hippolyta responds "She should realize that it is not our duty to protect the outside world and that no matter what happens as long as we believe in the gods they will protect us." not even bothering to ask how he knew as Naruto probably felt the outside world's distress before Diana.
Naruto smiles because he knows he has the perfect comeback to her statement "Well maybe you should have not raised use to care so much about others if you wanted us to think like that." Seeing his mother grit her teeth at the fact that he had her trapped, he continues "How about you and I have a duel and if I win us three can leave but if you win we will stay here and never bring it up again."
"I accept your challenge meet me at the arena in thirty minutes but do not think that I will go easy on you because you are my little boy." his mother smile at Naruto lovingly.
Naruto grinned "I would not want it any other way." as he rushed towards his room to prepare for his battle. Hippolyta chuckled at her son's antics as she retreats to her chambers to prepare for the match with her son.
Naruto was walking to the arena in an outfit was familiar to him or at least in his past life. He was dawning a pair dark green pants with a matching vest with the Uzumaki symbol displayed on the back and a pair of blue open toe sandals similar to what a jonin from Konoha would wear. The only visual difference between his outfit and one of a Konoha jonin is that instead of a dark undershirt, he wore an orange one. He was given this outfit as gift from Hephaestus when his mother as well a select amazon were given armor as gifts. His first set of armor that the god gave him was way too bulky and Naruto thanked the god for the gift but kindly refused the gift stating that it would hinder his fighting rather than help. The god took this as a challenge as with some design choices from his mother Hera came back the next day with a new and improved set for the boy. Naruto took the new set of armor that was much more flexible and lighter than the previous. The prince thanked the god and stated that he would wear the armor with pride.
Naruto walked into the arena hoping that his mother decided not to wear the armor that was given but that wasn't the case much to his disappointment. (A/N Check profile to see armor) Hippolyta saw the redness in her son's face and decides that this is a perfect teasing opportunity "What's the matter my prince? There is no need to be embarrassed thinking that your mother is beautiful." leaning on her sword slightly.
Being flustered, Naruto shouts "Can we just start this?" drawing out his two tri-pronged kunai and prepared himself.
"Very well come at me my prince." the queen bringing her sword up into a fighting stance.
Naruto charged at his mother trying to trap her sword between the two so that he could disarm her but Hippolyta realized quickly as she swung her blade preemptively at one of the kunai with enough force to dislodge it from Naruto's hand. The prince instantaneously propelled himself towards his fallen kunai but had to swiftly dodge his mother's blade while retrieving it. This put Naruto in a defensive position as all he could do is dodge Hippolyta's slashes so to change the tide, he decided to take a risk and instead of dodging used both of his kunai to block the slash and used all of his force to toss his mother a few feet backwards. This allowed the young man to counterattack with Hippolyta slightly off guard but instead of giving his mother a wound that could seriously injury her by slashing a kunai near her throat, he slashed at her face leaving only a superficial wound. Hippolyta sighed in disapproval knowing that she taught her son better when it came to fighting and decided to teach him a lesson. She quickly slashed her sword creating a deep gash in her son's face from his right ear to his chin.
Naruto jumped a few feet back with a hurt look on his face until his partner explained while healing him "Your mother was disappointed that you hesitated and went for a minor wound when you could have landed a more serious blow ending this match. If you want to win your mother's approval you will have to give it everything you have, even if it meets hurting her."
"Kurama already explained mother and I am not mad." Naruto states after looking up to see his mother try to explain while his wound is healing.
Hippolyta smiled slightly at the fact that her son understood but had no time to savor moment as Naruto launched one of his kunai at her. She easily blocked the kunai but as not able to stop Naruto's attack as her slashed the back of her hand making her wince in pain. The wound loosen the grip on her sword allowing Naruto's swift kick to the hand sending the blade 10 feet away.
After landing a punch to his face, sending him a few feet away, Hippolyta smiles at her precious son "I see that you realized that your best chance to defeat me is without my blade." However before Naruto can respond, Hippolyta went on a full out offensive knocking the second kunai out of his hands. At first Hippolyta thought that her son had not learned his lesson,but after following his eye movements, she quickly realized that her son did have a plan and that she had to finish this quickly. This made her slightly careless as after a missed punch Naruto was able to get behind her but for reasons she could not understand instead of finishing the battle, he only gave he a light tap on the back. Hippolyta then proceed to land a back fist sending the young man flying in the direction on one of his downed kunai.
Thinking that the battle was over due to her sonnot moving, Hippolyta began to state "I guess I win and you three will.." when she was interrupted when her son's body teleported away.
"Mother Yield." a voice behind her says in a monotone voice holding his kunai to her neck close enough to draw blood.
Hippolyta smiles as she knew that she was beaten "I guess you put a tag on me when you got behind me then." as the young man removed the weapon from her throat and she turns to face him.
"Of course I had to put a fast one if I wanted to win against then the Queen of Themsyscira." the prince boasted even though they both knew that at one hundred percent there was no chance that Hippolyta would stand a chance.
"Stop being so humble." Hippolyta chuckles as she pulls the boy in for a hug.
Without even seeing his mother shed a few tears, Naruto responds "I am going to miss you too." as he brings his mother into a tighter embrace.
Once the embrace was finished, Naruto brought her hands to his as they began glowing orange and her wound was rapidly healing. "You better go to Diana or she will probably leave without you." the queen says and once Naruto turns around and starts running she shouts "Please be careful."
Naruto responded by turning around with a smirk on his face "You know me better than that mother." and then continues towards his destination. Hippolyta was now alone with her thoughts but only one made her chuckle 'I hope you have better luck in the man's world with fangirls than you do here at home.'
Diana had spent the evening preparing for her trip, by putting on her battle armor, to help with whatever is going wrong in the man's world was nagging at her, leaving Naruto and Donna behind. The three had grown very close over the years that she almost could not imagine life without them however wanted to protect them from any danger was then probably the biggest motivator to go to the man's world and help.
Just as she was about to leave, a voice came from her windowsill startling her "You did not think you were going to leave without me."
"Naruto I am leaving against mother's wishes and I do not want you to do the same." Diana replies after regaining her barrings.
Naruto laughs "Well I already got mother's permission for the three of us to leave the Themyscira."
"What did you do beat her in combat?" Diana asks as that is the only way that their mother would ever let them leave. After seeing Naruto nod, she sighs "I guess I will go and make sure Donna gets ready then."
"Why don't we save the world and I will come back for her later." Naruto asks hoping for the response he was looking for.
Knowing that Naruto was being his usual protective self when it came to Donna, Diana sighs "You do realize how pissed she is going to be at you for leaving her behind?" and once seeing him nod she agrees.
Naruto smirks "I'll race you." proceeding to jump out the window and bolt towards his destination without hearing her answer. Diana shook her head negatively while muttering under her breath calling the boy a idiot while going after him but using the door like a normal person.