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NEXT UPDATE IS "Grand Arcanum is Awake" NEW CHAPTER.
- After this I will start working on my other, 10K-words-long, stories so the update MIGHT take a while. Sorry for the trouble. -
Do you mind if I add some elements from Bloodborne here? Got the impression that maybe the thing was a nice idea as Blood is a great part of the game.
Remember: Naruto here possess Alucard's Powers and Kefka's Magic (every spell from the Final Fantasy franchise, new ones comprised).
I'll change the blond's "Mannerism" a little if you don't mind, just to warn you.
Pairing: I think I will go with Female!Sai (AND YES HER NAME IS SAIKO!)
" You bastard" - demon talking / jutsu
"Let's finish this" - dialogue
" Can it get any worse? " - during flashback/thoughts
Disclaimer: I don't own Final Fantasy, Hellsing, Naruto or whatever I will use here in this fic.
No-Life Mad King: Chapter 4: Finals, Invasion, Collection - Part 1.
ANBU Headquarters – Interrogation Room 306 -
Four masked shinobi were standing at ready at the four corners of the room in clear apprehension and actually jumping slightly when the door was hastily opened by a Captain-ranked ANBU escorting three other men inside, each one of them holding a thick chain in their hands.
Joining the opposing end of each chain there was a collar firmly closed around the throat of Naruto, the young man sporting a calm expression as he was driven to sit at the lonely table in the middle of the room and actually smirking at the shaking hands of his jailers as they fixed the chain in their hands on the floor around his chair until they were short enough to technically stop any movement of his and forcing him to stay sit.
"Hands on the table." the Captain ordered with a low voice.
"..." Not even giving-out the faintest sound of acknowledgement the blond obediently moved his still-handcuffed hands palms-up on the table so that a new lock could be closed around them to block his movements further.
"Do you know why you are here?" the ANBU asked.
"Yes." the other answered with a scrunched nose.
He could smell them, their sweating, their breath and their skin's scent; he could hear the wild thumping of their heart to the point of almost counting each blood-cell down, listen to their useless breathing exercises to try reigning their anxiety and he could tell how their muscles flexed and/or relaxed as they shifted their weight on their feet in a way they thought was imperceptible.
High senses were the norm in well-trained shinobi, high sense were also normal in animals (predators especially) and the blond could easily fit in both groups at the same time, and if he needed, surpass both; saying that you could smell fear was a nice cliché way to unnerve your opponent, but Naruto was actually smelling it, it was not hard if one knew how to 'read' the human body's reactions.
A 'dead-last' Genin shinobi could surpass a Civilian in sensory awareness and ability department by five times and an acceptable Chunin was supposed to be twice that good; to become a proper Jounin other than ability, power and experience you had to show being between ten-to-fifteen times more aware about yourself and what happened around you than a Chuunin at any given moment.
By the time you reached ANBU level your instructors would define you a 'failure' if you showed being just a mere "ten-times better" than what a Jounin was...people like the Kages and other 'legendary' figures of the Elemental Countries like the Sannin Trio of Konoha instead were on such a superior level people often wondered WHY they even bothered to have escorts when going around to begin with.
But where did this put someone like Naruto then? A Jinchuuriki was normally a class on its own due to stamina, chakra and other abilities, but when dealing with his own, singular and peculiar case? Where would someone put a Jinchuuriki by now unable to feel fear or remorse of his actions, apparently unable to be sealed, to be paralysed or even to be killed? Someone that could only get stronger?
At the moment he had to fight down the little voice in his head comparing him with someone chained to a table and surrounded by food; was it inflated ego? Delusions of grandeur? Animal hunger? Stupidity? He simply didn't know nor cared. He was no longer human and he knew that as the millions of voices in his head (with at the head of said group Kefka himself) were relentless in remembering him;
He just wished for those voices to go away! To stay silent! To stop forcing THEIR memories and personalities on HIS mind!
He already knew that all of the men in front of him will probably die either fighting or of old age, he knew he will eventually meet their children and then their children's children until only he will even remember what happened in that room; he didn't need their constant reminding!
"Immortality is the curse of loneliness..." he muttered to himself.
"So? Are you listening to me?" the ANBU Captain asked again, now with an angry tone as apparently Naruto's moment of introspection had went on long enough to annoy the masked man.
"I have killed a girl from Kumo, the 'supposed' Genin I was fighting with in the preliminary fights. You didn't appreciate it when she screamed? It didn't excite you to see her die? Not even a little, Hokage-sama?" Naruto answered amused while looking at the fake mirror in the room and unnerving Hiruzen behind it.
Sigh! "You have eaten her, you have devoured an human being."
"Yes." Naruto answered seemingly nonplussed, but cringing inside.
"Captain, the psychologist is here for the evaluation." a new ANBU said entering the room accompanied by a nondescript Yamanaka.
The adult blonde just flashed a gentle smile to the prisoner as soon as the two's eyes met.
"Good evening, Naruto-kun. Can I call you Naruto-kun?" the man said with a calm tone while sitting in front of the ROOT Genin.
"If you have to, who are you?"
"My name is Yamanaka Noburou, and I am here to help you." the psychologist replied without dropping his smile.
"Help me?" the other asked with a plain tone.
"Yes, you have great abilities, but people are worried your habits may unnerve our clients..."
"They may not like to see me kill their enemies?" the vampire asked with an empty chuckle, here was another one that wanted to help 'Konoha' then, not just 'Naruto'.
"Not that, but cannibalism is wrong, even among ninjas." Noburou answered slowly.
"And how will you help me then?" Naruto asked curious, all respect for the man already vanished after the first words he spoke.
The ones watching, either hidden by the mirror or not, could only mentally gape at the blatant disinterest in his tone and posture and the impudent way he moved slightly forward making the chains holding him whine under the stress while he flashed a feral, fanged grin.
"We all fear that what happened with Mizuki may have...warped your view of the world, we just need you to answer few questions and we will decide if you really need help and how to actually do that." the Yamanaka answered.
"Let's get this over with." Naruto answered leaning back on his seat.
"Very well. We'll start with something simple, what do you see here?" the psychologist asked holding up an image of an ink blot.
It was by watching that image that a flash of the preliminary fight he had been through the previous day with the girl called Yugito Nii during the Chuunin Exams momentarily popped-up in Naruto's head, more than a voice excitingly pushing the memories forward with a feel of perverse glee filling his being.
Chuunin Exam – Preliminary fight -
"AAAAARGH!" Yugito yelled in agony as she jumped away from the blond Genin of Konoha she had tried to pin down.
"Delicious." Naruto answered smirking as he swallowed in a single gulp the big chunk of human flesh in his mouth.
"You are a beast..." the girl said trying to stop the furious bleeding of her shoulder where a big gaping hole had been opened by her enemy's bite that had almost tore away her whole arm.
"And you are delicious, Huhuhuhu!"
Present time -
"...A pretty butterfly." the young man answered simply while mentally trying to push away the voices.
"And in here?" the Yamanaka asked with an annoyed expression as a new picture was shown to the patient.
Chuunin Exam – Preliminary fight -
"HUHUHUHU! Losing one arm or two won't stop me, little cat!" Naruto said as the burned stumps on his shoulders that had once been his arms erupted in blood then compacting into new arms and even clothes.
"W-What are you made of?" the girl asked growling before unsealing a pair of gauntlets holding three long claw-like blades each.
"Claws? Very well, Yugito Nii...Since you believe yourself to be a tiger, I am going to test how strong your delusions are!" the young man answered laughing as he lunged forward.
"DIE!" Yugito yelled thrusting her fist forward in a shining flash of sharp blades.
When his teeth closed around one of the blades breaking it in a dozen pieces the girl's eyes grew wide in shock while the young man's smirk enlarged, his right hand hitting palm-first her whole face and slamming her head on the floor with a dull Wham! That turned everything the girl from Kumo saw into an unfocused blur.
Present Time -
"Some nice flowers." the blond Genin said with a strained tone no-one else seemed to catch.
This time the psychologist didn't even bother to hide the annoyance from his face as he threw away the picture to take out a third one and making the vampire in the room burst into deranged chuckles as soon as he saw the ink blot on it, the voices were winning again.
Chuunin Exam – Preliminary fight -
"Why can't you die? WHY?! WHY?!" Yugito screamed in both rage and fear while pummelling the downed Naruto with her fists before both his hands closed around her wrists.
Watching as both head and lower half of the Konoha Genin's body regrew instantly from being an unrecognisable lump of battered flesh and broken bones she gave a full-body shiver, failing to meet the hungry glare the downed blond gave her as soon as his eyes regenerated immediately after.
"Why? Because I am a monster, and only an human can kill a monster." CRACK! "You are not human apparently..." he answered breaking her wrists and tearing away her hands while reversing their position so that he was now pinning her down.
"And now, I am going to eat you..." Naruto whispered in her ear.
"Uuuugh!" the girl whimpered biting down on her lower lip until she drew blood.
"You and your Biju." the young man added, biting on her cheek and pulling away tearing her flesh open.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAH!" Yugito screamed again before a strong kick silenced her by shattering her jaw bones.
"HUHUHUHU! What's wrong? The pretty cat has lost her claws?" Naruto asked holding up the hands of Yugito he had just tore away.
"GAAAAH!" the girl gurgled-out from her broken jaw.
"Your pretty blue fire is not enough, your claws were not enough...If you don't want to die you'll have to do better than all that!" the young man answered kicking her face hard enough to send her fly against the wall.
"..." a weak whimper was all the wounded girl could manage while failing to rise again to her feet.
"No more then? You are weak! Pathetic! I'll take a page from Alucard and deal with you once and for all...I'll turn you into dog shit." the young man said as his body got covered in eyes.
"This is enough..." the Proctor said unsure, surprised to see Yugito finally manage to stand.
"Bad choice, little cat..." Naruto said as the whole left half of his body morphed into a dog-like creature that then snapped forward at lightning speed pouncing on the screaming Yugito, soon covering a whole section of the arena in blood while the 'dogs' kept eating her until only a thick red smear remained on the floor.
"Now the fight is over." the ROOT Genin said as the smear too rapidly flew towards him to be absorbed by his body, leaving nothing of the Kumo girl behind if not few blood-stained shreds of her clothes.
Present time -
"Huhuhu!...Clouds." Naruto said smirking, his mind no longer connected to the world.
Sigh! "Tell me something...Why you refuse to define yourself human? Why you call yourself a monster?" the Yamanaka asked once taken-in an huge calming breath.
"Huhuhu! You keep trying to change me. I don't like you." Naruto answered leaning forward once again with unfocused eyes.
"Oh!...You don't like me...Alright, why is that it, exactly?" Noborou asked honestly curious.
"You are dumb, wealthy, self-centered attitude, you know nothing about monsters..." the other answered whispering.
"If you want I can teach you about real monsters." he then said smiling coldly.
It was in that moment that the door went unceremoniously kicked open by a ROOT ANBU immediately sending every shinobi in there on edge until a deeply scowling Danzo marched inside freezing the ANBU in there with his glare.
"You have five seconds to explain to me why my ROOT Agent is being detained here before I get violent." Danzo hissed slamming down with his walking cane.
"They don't appreciate cannibals, Danzo." Naruto calmly answered once he finally subdued the voices.
"Get up and follow me, we are leaving. Hiruzen will have to talk to me personally if he has problems with you." the elder barked in answer while looking towards the fake mirror.
"Coming, coming." the blond Genin answered getting up in a snapping of breaking chains before biting down on his hand-cuffs breaking them as well.
"STOP!" Hiruzen yelled as he joined the scene.
"Naruto, let's go." Danzo said nonplussed and ignoring his old rival.
"I am still the Hokage, Danzo."
"And he is under my direct command as a member of the ROOT Police Force, I can vouch for him by saying that he is not a menace and can testify his being loyal to Konoha...or you hate him for not being loyal to YOU personally?" the other answered.
"This has nothing to do with me and you know it! I want to help him, Danzo! HE EATS PEOPLE!" Hiruzen yelled furious.
"HE LITERALLY CAN'T EAT ANYTHING ELSE IF HE WANTS TO LIVE, YOU FOOL! HE DOESN'T DO THAT BECAUSE HE LIKES THE TASTE!" Danzo yelled back shocking the Hokage.
"He...he what?"
"Whatever happened that night changed him, his metabolism can't handle normal food anymore, the stomach refuses it and in the worst cases he even gets sick and puke. His body now can sustain itself only with human blood and flesh, animal blood is a mere substitute that can be used only in case of emergencies as it has not the same 'nutritional properties' of the human one." Danzo explained.
"There is no way to cure him?" the old man asked sadly.
"We tried and we failed, and even then...would it really help him now? After all that he has done?" the ROOT Leader said as he walked away followed by the blond vampire.
As soon as the duo left the hidden rooms of the T&I Department and reached the trafficked streets of Konoha both got swiftly swallowed by the huge mass of people coming and going everywhere around them.
"Do you want some ramen?" Danzo asked.
"May as well." Naruto answered as the Ichiraku Ramen Restaurant came into view.
"Yes?" Teuchi asked curious.
"Table for two, in the back." Danzo answered flashing an hidden seal under his coat.
"Ayame?" the man said without turning back.
"This way, please, Naruto-kun." the girl answered opening an hidden trapdoor on the floor behind the kitchen.
"Knowing before-hand that you kept track of me ever since I was born would have been more useful, Danzo." Naruto said as he went down first into one of the MANY hidden tunnels of ROOT.
"You are Konoha's Jinchuuriki, you were already more useful military-speaking than the various Genin and of some of the Chuunin as soon as the Seal was put on you that night, so I decided to ignore Hiruzen's plan about giving you a 'normal' childhood and instead secretly followed your every step. Ichiraku is only one of many, every cent you used to eat there before had been instead moved in a secret bank account I opened for you, whoever wished you harm had been always secretly 'convinced' to desist and so on." Danzo answered as he too went down once closed the lid himself.
"And your open dislike of his plan?" Naruto asked.
"What a better way to hide myself other than seemingly be so vocal about it? If he didn't want to help you directly, I would have done it in his place." the bandaged man answered laughing.
"What now?"
"Kumo is trying to pull a stint about you eating that Yugito girl even though their Raikage and every member of every Team signed those papers recognizing that Konoha would not be held responsible for anything that happens in those fights unless clearly provoked to damage the Village...do you know why they are whining NOW when they didn't before?" Danzo answered with narrowed eyes.
"It may be the fact that she was a Jinchuuriki herself?" Naruto answered chuckling, highly entertained by Danzo's wide-eyed expression.
"She was what?" he asked with a weak whisper.
"The Jinchuuriki of the Two-Tailed Cat Matatabi...now both Biju and girl have moved here." the Blond answered patting the Seal on his stomach.
"In the Seal?" the ROOT Master asked faintly.
"I devoured their souls...They are MINE now." the other answered, admittedly mildly surprised at watching Danzo grab his collar to slam him against the wall to seize him with an hard glare.
"...You are not joking...This piece of information WILL NOT be shared, only me and you know about this, otherwise we'll have Kumo on us ready for battle." the old man said letting the young man go.
"Let them come, I'll take their second Biju as well! If you want...I can take Gaara and his own Biju during the Finals...or during the Invasion soon after."
"Invasion?" Danzo asked shocked.
"Right during the Finals, I have devoured a Team from Oto during the written exam and saw dear Orochimaru plan with them the kidnapping of the Uchiha Heir. Yugito instead knew about Ay's orders to use the chaos to try and kidnap an Hyuga, either Main Family or Branch Family. The mountain of muscles managed to corrupt a Suna spy to have him spit-out everything." the blond answered.
"You are not drawing a good picture, we have Suna and Oto planning an Invasion and Kumo ready to use the resulting Chaos to have another go at the Byakugan...not a nice way to close the week." Danzo said sighing tiredly.
"Any idea about how to counter?" Naruto asked.
"You are sure you can 'add' the Suna Biju in your Seal?"
"I have enough souls in there to repopulate a small nation, even adding other seven Biju it won't make a difference,"
"Then during the Finals eat Gaara, like that Suna will lose their greatest source of disturbance and hopefully withdraw, from now on we will secretly strengthen Konoha enough to withstand the attack. No-one knows about your Soul-Stealing ability nor that you can gain memories from drinking your victim's blood...I want you to secretly eat as many Suna, Oto and Kumo shinobi you can in this month before the Finals, you technically can't leave the Village until the Exams are over, but we can hide your disappearance easily. Go to those three Villages and eat whoever you think will hold informations without being discovered and send a daily message bird with the discoveries, we need everything you can gather." Danzo ordered.
"And then?"
"Then we will use those informations against them as soon as the Invasion is over."
"As you wish...And by the way..." the blond said walking away towards ROOT HQ.
"Yes?"
"I already planned to take away every single Biju from every Village. I was looking for something to do and starting a collection of Tailed Beasts sounded quite fun, Bwahahaha!" the blond said making his laugh echo in the whole corridor.
"Oh...That doesn't sound good." the bandaged man muttered weakly.
"Why you decided to take those pets away?" Kefka asked in a mixture of boredom and curiosity.
"You saw the memories of some of the souls inside Alucard, would you leave a bunch of angry kids playing with the Shinobi equivalent of a nuke? It's already bad that they are waging war left and right with their own soldiers, they don't need those Bijus making everything worse." the blond answered calmly, the lie flowing from his mind like spring water while the truth stood safely away from the clowns' eyes confirming the young man's suspicions.
"Aaah! The nuke! Those toys were such a fun way to try mimic magic...It brings me back to the days where I had the power of the Warring Triad at my fingertips, I could erase whole countries with a mere thought and reshape the world as I wished...Good times." the Mad Clown answered with a longing sigh.
"It still took a bunch of teenagers to defeat you." Naruto thought amused.
"Not a word about it!They got lucky!"
"So? What do you think about my idea of removing the Biju?"
"Do it. If ever at least they'll have to find a new way to decide who's the strongest or kill each other. Like I care," Kefka answered with a mental shrug.
"Naruto-kun, Danzo-sama." Saiko said as soon as she opened the door to the ROOT HQ.
"I have a mission for you two and I need your talent with seals and Ink-based jutsus to cover Naruto's absence." Danzo answered.
"As you wish."
"I am almost certain now...as soon as I added the Nibi it happened again, I need the Ichibi to be sure but if it works then...then maybe I have found a solution to this..." the blond Vampire thought with no amount of hope filling his chest.
Later that night – ROOT HQ – Naruto and Saiko's room -
"You are leaving, good Hunter?" the Doll asked curious.
"Going to hunt outside Konoha, I'll be back in a month." the blond answered.
"Then take this, it's the garb of the Hunters, it will protect you!" the gentle thing said presenting him a worn-out black tricorn hat, a gray duster coat, a pair of brown leather boots, a pair of black gauntlets with golden ornaments and a bandana to cover his face with.
(Hunter Garb A – Game cover)
"That will fit an adult, not him." Saiko said with narrowed eyes.
"That is good instead, at least I'll have something else to cover my identity." Naruto said pleased.
"And how will you..." the pale girl started asking before her companion's body exploded into black fire-like energy that then moved to 'fill' the clothes like a body would.
"Does it suits me?" he asked with a growling, distorted voice.
"Now it does." Saiko answered nonplussed.
"...You are not fun to scare." the blond said with narrowed, shining blood-red eyes and an annoyed tone before walking away.
"I saw you at your worst, nothing else can scare me anymore." Saiko answered with a tiny smile as she unfolded a big scroll to start creating the seal array Danzo ordered her to create to cover the blond's absence.
A month Later – ROOT HQ – Danzo's Office -
"Today is the day of the Finals, how's our duo?" the bandaged man asked without looking away from the papers he was signing.
"Saiko-san is properly ready for her fight against Hyuga Neji, she informed us that should things go south she has enough seals to momentarily restrain the Suna Jinchuuriki for Naruto-san to use in her place should something happen to her." the man's assistant answered reading her notes.
"Very well, how about Naruto himself?" Danzo asked.
"Our Scouting Team outside already had sneaked him inside Konoha and he has already changed himself and reached the Arena, apparently he had not bothered washing away his victims' blood in the whole month he was away."
"Bleah." the old man muttered with a grimace.
"Quite right, Danzo-sama. Every information he sent us has already been put to use or archived for later, we have the names and faces of most of the hidden men from Oto and almost everyone of Suna, our squad of Seal Experts has already found the temporary summoning arrays the invading force will use and will soon tamper with them to have those fail." the assistant answered.
"Good, tell to Saiko and Naruto that I want them to wait for the Invasion's start for them to attack Gaara, our Immortal ROOT already knows what I want him to do. And tell them to take some shinobi from Kumo of the ones that will attack the Hyuga heiress and his cousin, and I mean take them here alive, the others they can do with as they wish, but I want most of them alive and in good enough conditions to be interrogated."
"As you wish, Danzo-sama." the woman replied bowing before leaving the office.
"Coincidentally, Danzo-sama..." she said unsure before closing the door behind her.
"Yes?"
"The Elemental Nations may have discovered a new...let's call it Bogeyman, following Naruto-san's month-long mission...The total number of victims seems to be around the thousand and still counting; good day, Danzo-sama." she answered before closing the door.
"Why am I not surprised?" the old man muttered sighing in defeat.
"Kumo is playing dirty, Oto is Orochimaru's new plaything and Suna has finally reached the breaking point...I am surprised this Peace lasted this long, now we are returning to a moment of restlessness. I wonder how far a new Shinobi War is, all we need is Iwa and Mist trying something against us as well and we have the full set." the man added walking outside his office.
"As soon as this is over and the One-Tailed Biju is inside Naruto we'll have to see if this mess can be fixed...A common enemy of the whole Elemental Nations would be good, something dangerous and merciless forcing everyone to cooperate, showing that working together is not exactly outside the realm of possibilities...I am not asking for a full-fledged Peace, but a form of long-lasting Equilibrium. I just hope we won't be forced to use Naruto as Common Enemy, he isn't exactly easy to manage."
Meanwhile – Arena – Chuunin Exams Finals -
"Good morning people of Konoha and non! I am Genma Shiranui and I will be the proctor for the finals of these Chuunin Exam!" Genma said basking in the howling of the audience for a minute before continuing.
The stands were full of cheering people of every age, both civilian and shinobi of various rank, all their voices mixing into a single deafening howl making the very walls tremble as bets were being made and money passed around along the names of the ones participating.
"Let me guess, I am not given much value," Naruto asked amused.
"They are somehow taking you for a poor bet, very few are betting on your victory in truth, two of which are me myself and Danzo-sama." Saiko answered with a short laugh.
"Then I guess I'll have to win now, but I pretend part of the money," the blond answered as he jumped down the railing and into the arena.
"I preferred your clothes when they were drenched in blood." Kefka said with a childish whine of disappointment.
"This is still a dark-red jumpsuit, clown. Be happy with that." he answered annoyed.
"Pfeh!"
"With who are you talking with?" Temari of Suna asked confused.
"Nothing you should concern yourself with, Suna brat..." the Vampire answered amused as eyes momentarily opened and closed all over his body and clothes making her take an half step back.
"Try to contain yourself...Please." Genma asked with an half-pleading tone.
"No."
"At least I tried...FIGHT!" Genma said before jumping all the way back.
"Your move first, Sabaku no Temari. Or are you afraid of me?" the blond Vampire said giving a mocking bow with his arms slightly open, blood-lust once again clouding his judgment.
"Be prepared, Temari. When that monster will appear before you in the Finals, what will you do?" for some reason the voice of the girl's sensei echoed in her mind in that precise moment.
"What will you do? Temari..." Naruto asked again mimicking the man's voice with his smirk growing wider as thick dark clouds rapidly amassed on the sky to plunge the arena in an unnatural darkness.
Taking an huge breath the Suna girl opened her fan wide behind herself and took a fighting stance, glaring at the Konoha ROOT Genin in hate and determination.
"May you be Immortal or just plain human, I will crush you with my wind without distinction!" she answered focusing all herself in preparing her attack.
"Huhuhu!" animal instincts taking over, the Vampire opened his arms wide as if to welcome her to try and kill him.
"AH!" Temari yelled as she swung her fan down with all her strength launching a thick blade of wind that easily managed to cut away the blond's arm while pushing him back.
Not happy with the result she kept launching bullets of compressed air by the dozens, pelting the Vampire's body and opening wounds and literal holes everywhere on his chest and even head.
"FALL!" Temari yelled as her next attack removed his other arm and made a fountain of blood erupt from the huge gaping hole on his side she opened immediately after.
"FALL!" she yelled again and gaining a tone of desperation as her attacks kept raining on the blond ROOT opening his chest wide, removing the right-half of his face and slamming him against the wall.
"FALL!" as he went slammed against the wall attacks kept battering him while his organs as well went shredded and thrown up in the air and the terrain under him got drenched in red.
In the stands -
"W-W-Why is the proctor not stopping the match?" Mei Terumi (Mizukage of Mist) asked with wide eyes.
"Naruto hates when people interrupt his playing." Hiruzen answered with a grimace.
"Playing?" Ay the Raikage muttered disturbed.
"Ufufufufu! You enjoy the pain, don't you? Naruto-kun...That is what it takes to make you feel alive...wonderful." Orochimaru muttered as his mask as Kazekage twisted into a sickening grin.
The other Genin too didn't know where to look as the sound of Naruto's flesh getting ripped apart echoed in the silent Arena as the apparent massacre kept going and going without stop.
Back in the Arena -
"FALL! FALL!" Temari howled in tears as she ignored the pain in her muscles and the approaching chakra exhaustion while she still launched attacks without pause.
"FALL AND DIEEE!" she finally said spent as her last attack cleaved the Vampire's body in half making the two pieces slid down the wall with a sickening SPLAT! Sound before she herself fell on her hands and knees panting in fatigue.
"Call..." Pant! "Call the match..." she asked weakly.
"Sorry, girl. I can't do that." Genma answered shaking his head in sadness.
"What do you..."
"Huhuhu! Sabaku no Temari..." Naruto's voice resounded clearly making the girl grow deadly pale.
"Aaaha." she whined weakly as the versed blood flew back inside the boy to heal his wounds while bones and organs and even clothes regenerated rapidly until he returned to be completely healthy.
"Now. I. Have. You!" the deranged monster said with a pleased growl as he slowly walked towards her.
"Aaaha..."
"RUN AWAY!" Kankurou, her brother, yelled from the Stands with wide eyes.
"N-No...st-stay back!" the girl muttered clutching her fan protectively to her chest while trying to stand on her legs.
"Huhuhuhu! Soon, the Sun's bright light shall too, be lost. Fate has driven you forward..."
"Towards your end! Uwee-hee-hee-hee!" Kefka finished saying in his own voice, taking over the blond boy's mind and body for an instance as the clouds did the impossible and got even darker cutting-off the sun almost completely.
"PROCTOR, CALL THE MATCH! TEMARI! TEMARI, FORFEIT THE MATCH!" the Puppet User from Suna yelled with a pleading tone.
"No way out, TEMARI!" Naruto yelled as his punch slammed on her cheek launching her down on the floor, a stomp on her hand later and with broken fingers she no longer could hold onto her fan making it clatter on the ground.
"GAH!" Temari whimpered again as his hand closed around her throat in a crushing hold lifting her from the ground.
"Huhuhu!" laughing softly he walked towards the opposite wall while dragging the kicking girl before slamming her against the wall and unsealing Kabikuriocho with his free hand.
"The Mizukage is watching us, let's show them that I am not wasting one of their swords, shall we?" he said moving the tip of the blade on her chest.
"Naruto...maybe you shouldn't..." Hiruzen tried saying before the blond Vampire grabbed the back of Temari's head and shoved her whole body on the blade making her slide all the way to the handle and at a millimeter from his face while screaming in agony and getting nailed to the wall standing upright.
"Uh?" he asked confused.
"Too late." the old man muttered sighing and waving the blond off.
What horrified the ones watching was the fact that the girl was shockingly still alive, although with her pupils reduced to pin size and ragged breath as the blond from Konoha grabbed her cheeks with his free hand to move her head slightly back.
"He doesn't do all this for rage, revenge or even the mere rank of Chuunin." Danzo said as he joined the Kage booth with a sad smile.
"Then why?" the masked Orochimaru asked amused.
"I personally think that he does this because he believes it's the only thing he can do, he doesn't know anything else other than fighting, we should try to help him find a place in this world he can call his own. A reason to live." the old man answered before a new scream erupted from Temari's mouth.
From where the flaming extra arms holding her up had come from no-one wanted to know as Danzo's words were fully ignored, all of them were just watching as the blond boy slowly trailed his tongue from Temari's feet and all the way up on her body and up to bite on her neck taking whatever drop of blood that may have escaped him from the sword's piercing her.
"You do know it's because you encouraged him that he is like that?" Hiruzen asked with narrowed eyes.
"It was the only way I came up with to channel his new taste for violence, putting him against enemies outside the Village in place of the ones He may see inside Konoha after the past abuses he suffered or believes to have suffered at the villagers' hands." the bandaged elder answered.
"Winner of the Fight: Naruto Namikaze." Genma said with a sombre expression as the almost-pleasured moans of the trapped girl went suffocated by the flaming energy forming the young man's body that had slowly engulfed her until she disappeared along every trace of her blood.
"Wonderful, as always he ends up being both the cruellest and the cleanest killer." Saiko said simply as only she welcomed the immortal blond once he jumped back on the railing to reach her while everyone else simply scampered away to not be too close to him.
"Enjoyed the show, Saiko?" Naruto asked curious and grimacing at the returning of the sun with the rapid dissipating of the clouds.
"You were bloody, I prefer cleaner jobs," she quipped amused and hooking her arms around his offered one.
"Then I'll be more careful next time."
With Orochimaru – Kage Booth -
A nondescript ANBU calmly leaned closer to the masked Sannin to whisper something in his ear before retreating to stand with the other masked guards.
"Well, sensei I have to admit that I would just love to finish watching the Chuunin Exams, but I have a Sharingan User to catch and a blond whose Immortality I need to steal...so I'll cut this short." the Snake Sannin said getting up to look with amused eyes at Hiruzen's shocked expression.
"What do you..." the Hokage had the time to say before and explosion engulfed the whole booth.
With Naruto – At the same time -
"We are under attack," Saiko said unsealing her scroll and brushes.
"Create an ink bird, we are attacking from the air." Naruto said making his companion nod.
"Wide area spells! Wide Area spells!" Kefka said laughing madly.
"SHUT UP!" the blond answered while jumping on the newly-created ink bird to fly up in the air with Saiko.
"First objective?" he asked.
"Hyuga kidnappers, other Genin are trying to follow Gaara, they will buy us time," Saiko answered as her summon turned sharply to the right towards the Hyuga compound.
"I take the kidnappers in the Clan House, you take care of Hinata-san and Neji-san, knock them out if you have to, at least they won't bother you." Naruto said as he jumped down.
"Pay attention," the girl answered as she turned her bird towards the two Hyuga Genin that took part to the Exams.
Hyuga Compound – entrance of the Main House -
Three men without an headband were slowly creeping through the silent corridors of the huge house with an hastily-scribbled map in the hands of their Leader.
"One failure means nothing, at least we got a map out of the thing, we suspected the first time would have gone bad, at least that idiot managed to draw this before getting caught." the group Leader said smirking as he checked where the 'Safe Room' of the Clan was positioned.
"In times of crisis the weak and young are moved to the Clan's personal bunker to stop things like this from happening, but we have enough talent and time to rip it open, Hihihi!" the second in command added laughing.
"Sssh! Here it is!" the third one said hissing as a sturdy metallic door came into view once forcibly removed a fake wall.
"Uhmm! That's a Shinogi&Shinogi lock...nasty stuff to pick..." the Leader said with a grimace at seeing the lock on the door.
"Stupid rich bastards and their need to flaunt money...make room, I'll try to open it,"
As soon as the man neared the door though an human hand phased through it piercing the man's chest all the way to the back until it grabbed the spine deep in the Kumo shinobi's flesh.
"I cannot help but be of the same advice...but they still pay me to take missions, so I'll have to stop you three and your colleagues in the Branch House." the blond Vampire answered chuckling while the rest of his body as well came out phasing through the door.
"You are that blond Genin...the one they say it's immortal." the group Leader hissed with narrowed eyes.
"I am." the blond answered lifting the man he was holding above his head and once added a second hand used his old on his spine to tear his body in half. "So what?" he then asked amused.
"GRAB HIM!" the Leader yelled as he and his other companion drew their kunai to attack the Vampire.
"Let's take this OUTSIDE!" Naruto answered grabbing both men's face and pushing them against the wall and through it in a shower of splinters and broken bricks.
The Human-shaped bullet didn't stop and went through a second and then third wall soon colliding with the second group of men from Kumo, bringing the total number of infiltrated kidnappers to seven against the lone Vampire teen.
"What the hell?!" one of the others gasped in shock at seeing their two companions being thrown at their feet by the young 'Genin' in front of them.
"Come outside, you'll have to deal with me before taking an Hyuga." Naruto said jabbing a thumb towards the hole in the wall his charge had created.
"Let's deal with him fast, other Shinobi mustn't be too far behind. Someone must have talked." the wounded Leader of the group said holding his broken arm with his sane one.
"I'll go first! SUITON: TEPPODAMA!" (Water Release: Liquid Bullet) one of the men said as the water bullet he spat-out nailed the blond on the chest launching him back.
"ME TOO! SUITON: TEPPODAMA!" other two said as they as well launched their own water bullets taking away the Vampire's arms at the shoulders and drenching him and the terrain at the same time.
"And now the final touch! Raiton: Kangekiha! (Lightning Release: Wave of inspiration)" a fourth one said touching the water still on the ground to make his lightning attack travel through it, electrocuting the downed Genin until his body seemingly got charred black.
"Is he dead?" a new Kumo Shinobi said joining the scene from the top of a near wall.
"I think he is, Darui. He may be able to put himself back together from being cut, but I fried him alive, he won't knit back charred tissue!" the one that had used the Raiton technique said smugly.
"Just to be sure...What a pain. Raiton: Kuropansa! (Black Panther)" Darui answered generating black lightning from his body while giving it the form of a panther and launching it against the burnt remains of Naruto.
"Huhuhu! Very clever...but not enough! Hyoton: Makyō Hyōshō (Demonic Mirroring Ice Crystals)" The blond said amused before using the water still around himself to form multiple mirrors of ice around the group trapping most of them; in every mirror now stood a reflection of his whole body was looking down at the two Kumo shinobi in a dome of twenty-one floating mirrors made out of ice, twelve at ground level, other eight floating above the first twelve and the final mirror above the rest facing the ground.
"Be careful! Those mirrors are more sturdy than what they appear and regenerate fast!" Darui ordered at seeing to his dismay his black panther Jutsu slam on a couple of mirrors breaking only one of them, unfortunately whatever 'hole' left went soon covered by a new mirror of ice.
"I need a couple of you alive for interrogation, but everybody else is mine...and your black lightning will be a nice addiction to my repertoire...I wonder if I can use it to make my Thunder Spell stronger..." Naruto commented amused with his voice coming out as an echo from every mirror at the same time.
"You can't defeat all of us at the same time!" Darui said angrily.
"Want to bet about it, Darui of Kumo?" the blond answered raising his hand.
"DEMI!" the Vampire ordered making a small ball of black energy explode above the group throwing most of them to their knees.
"W-W-What the fuck happened!?"
"I halved your chakra reserves, Stamina and life energy, and I can do this as much as I want to drag-on the torture until you drop down exhausted since the spell is non-lethal...mostly." the Vampire answered amused.
"STOP HIM!" Darui yelled with wide eyes as he prepared a new black lighting Jutsu.
"Focus on a single mirror, we break it and run for it as soon as it goes down!" another Kumo Shinobi said frantically going through hand-seals.
"RAITON: JIBASHI/KANGEKIHA/KUROPANSA/GIAN! (Electromagnetic murder/ Wave of Inspiration/ Black Panther/ False Darkness!) as one several bullets, spears, rays and a new black panther made of the Lightning Element went launched towards the lower row of mirrors in a blinding explosion of light blowing-up a whole side of the dome.
"This Jutsu is not only for trapping..." the Vampire said laughing as he jumped out from the remaining mirrors faster than the men could react, tearing away Darui's arm at the shoulder before re-entering into an ice mirror to come out at the opposite side to take away another man's legs at the knees and pierce a third in the stomach.
"STOP HIM! STOP HIM!"
"DOTON: Earth Burial!" one said summoning two walls of rock from underground to slam the vampire between them and stopping Naruto's hand at a millimeter from clawing away the Kumo shinobi's eyes.
"Got You-URK!" the poor soul had the time to say before the hand closed the distance piercing his skull with the tip of the fingers.
"HUHUHU! Fun! So much FUN! I am sorry, bastard...What was your name again?" the blond asked with a devilish chuckle as his wounds healed again once he broke free.
"Darui." the man answered finally stopping his bleeding with a piece of his shirt tightly draped around the stump.
"Huhuhu! Darui...you are good, you are very good as only your jutsu among all of them managed to break my mirrors more than once...I am not going to kill you or give you to Danzo...No, I am taking you with me." Naruto said going on all fours with a feral snarl on his face as a red bubbling aura covered him.
"That chakra! THE NIBI!" one of the remaining members of the group (a sensor) said shocked.
"And the Kyuubi as well, and soon the Ichibi too will join. I need them." Naruto answered as the two Biju's chakra mixed in his cloak forming two wildly flaying tails behind his body.
"STOP HIM!" Darui yelled with wide eyes as the blond pounced on them at unreal speed.
Meanwhile – with Saiko -
"There it is, Gaara of Suna. And Naruto-kun is nowhere to be seen...I take I'll have to deal with it myself until he stops playing and reach me..." the girl said sighing while sealing the unconscious Kumo shinobi around her in separated scrolls labelled 'Dead' and 'Alive'.
"T-Thank you." a wounded Hinata gasped out while holding her broken arm.
"At least you made yourself useful," Neji added sneering while checking his own broken leg.
"Just because I need you alive, ass-stick. I have orders to follow so I'll let you live." Saiko answered nonplussed as she created a new Ink Bird.
"A-Ass-stick!?" Neji roared in fury.
"Be quite or I won't stop Naruto-kun from eating you. Again." the ROOT girl answered.
"I'll take them to safety, thank you for helping us." Kurenai said silencing Neji with a glare.
"I had my orders, see to not have them kidnapped as soon as I leave, we can't let Kumo have the Byakugan, we still need it as an edge on the other Villages." she answered before flying away.
Soon the trees surrounding Konoha came into view along the far-away sound of the battle between the Leaf Genin and Gaara.
"Situation?" the Ink User asked as soon as she found a wounded Shino Aburame sitting with his back against a tree.
"Me and Shikamaru neutralized Gaara's sibling, the Puppet User." the Aburame boy answered while nursing his clearly broken arm.
"Sasuke, Kiba, Sakura and Chouji are still dealing with Gaara; you partner eating that girl helped in reducing the number of guys protecting the Jinchuuriki." Shikamaru added while still strapping his wounded leg in bandages.
"I see, anyone else helping Gaara?" she asked.
"We didn't see any, most of the forces are fighting in Konoha, those two were the only ones." Shino answered.
"Good. I'll call for back-up on my way there to have you brought back in the Village," Saiko answered nodding as she flew away towards the source of the noise.
"I already called for support, but thank you." Shikamaru said waving her off.
It was in that moment that sand started amassing between the trees taking the shape of an huge creature with a fanged maw.
"He is already summoning his Biju, this is not good." the girl muttered as she made her Ink Bird fly faster.
With Gaara – not too far away -
"Hahahaha! Finally free at last! I can finally see the outside world!" the sand-made body of Shukaku said in cruel amusement and with a growling laugh.
"Oh, I would worry if I were you." A disembodied voice said amused.
"Who's talking?"
"Where you are going will be much worse than the Seal Suna used on you, so enjoy this short moment of freedom." Naruto said as he phased out from Shukaku's very sand to stand in front of Gaara's unconscious form on the Biju's forehead.
"NO!" Shukaku roared as he guided the sand forming his body to swallow the blond vampire, crush his body and 'spit' the remains against a tree far away from him.
"You couldn't wait for this, why?" Saiko asked as she joined the shapeless mass of munched flesh on the same branch.
"Huhuhu! I didn't want to interfere in what you were doing!" he answered as he reformed standing behind her.
"Remember to contain yourself, we can't let him destroy Konoha." Saiko said with her ever-present smile.
"I'll pay attention. THUNDAGA!" the blond Vampire answered amused as at his gesture the heavens got split in two to rain dozens of giant streams of lightning on the Biju's giant body tearing it apart.
With that the fight was on as both charged the furious Shukaku while he recomposed himself from the attack.
I have to cut the chapter in two parts and stop here to continue in the next, I don't want a 10k-long chapter and anything less and I would have to cut Shukaku's fight short and I honestly don't want that.
Next chapter will cover the rest of the fight, the aftermath AND contain both Time-skip and the events after that.
The "Teacher" that will take care of Naruto for those three years will be a very "Special one" by the way.
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Okay, it's Bloodborne Huntress (Player's Female Hunter) following the "Childhood's Beginning" Ending, I said it.
Yes, I am using that character, and No, I won't change idea.
I hope you at least enjoyed this chapter a little, even just a tiny bit, and please keep following me.
I'll see you around the net hopefully.
Tr230.
