Chapter 4: The Outside World Part 2
"Be afraid of your mother, she brought you into this world and she can take you out."
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The warmth had returned, that wonderful warmth only Kaguya could give him, and then it was gone before Naruto could even so much as blink. Waking up, Naruto found himself in a completely destroyed open field with large rocks jutting up out of the ground, and scorch marks where green grass once was. There were no bodies of dead men or even a single drop of blood on the ground, just destroyed earth from people that weren't there anymore. Sitting up, Naruto ran his hand through his spiky red hair and tried to think of what could have happened. The last thing he remembered was hearing his mother again, but that couldn't be possible because she was dead, or was she? It was only the sound of people approaching from the distance that brought Naruto out of his train of thought and caused him to run back into the forest.
He needed to get away for there, to think, to rest, and try and figure out what just happened to him a few moments ago. However, it would seem that some other people had picked up on him and were now trailing after him, gaining by the second. Even if Naruto did pump some chakra into his legs, he doubted he would be able to get away in time, since they were also boxing him in from the sides as well. If this kept up then he would be forced to fight, although it would be counterproductive for his mission long term. Kaguya told him about how easily the outside world holds onto anger and never lets it go, which is the reason they've had so many wars to begin with. It was a little sad really, they thought that killing the person who killed their own precious person would make it all better but that would just make them a target for someone else. However, he wouldn't stray from his mission, he wouldn't fail his mother's last task, but he would dodge the giant fireball headed right for him!
As time seemed to slow down for Naruto, he twisted his body in mid air and watched as the large ball of fire went soaring right past him, blowing up a tree that was a few yards away. Correcting himself again, Naruto landed on the next tree branch before continuing on as fast as he could. With the rest of the large group having almost completely cut of his escape, the red haired boy decided it would be best to face them in a nice open place, a place where he could move around if he needed to.
So after sending chakra to his eyes, Naruto found a small clearing that hadn't been cut off from him yet. This place would be perfect for a fight, if it came to that. Landing with one knee on the ground, Naruto tried to get his heart rate to even out and some proper oxygen into his lungs. Unfortunately, the group that just tried to blow him up landed there soon after, covering both the ground and surrounding tree branches. All in all, it looked like half of the army that was now missing.
Most, if not all of them, were wearing some kind of vest with dark clothing and strange headbands with what looked like a leaf carved into them. Some of them wore more armor and had swords strapped to their backs along with animal masks, of all things, covering their faces. Naruto had no idea who these people were but the negative emotions coming off of them were really putting the son of the Rabbit Goddess on edge.
"Take the boy back to the camp for questioning while the rest of us continue to search for the person responsible for our men being missing," said one of the masked men to the apparent leader of the main group.
"Right," was the collective response of almost all of the non-masked people there before the apparent elite group shot off back into the forest in search of the person that had been right in front of them.
None of them bothered to address Naruto directly, not even to remark upon his strange looks, they had orders to follow and their experience made them believe that Naruto wouldn't be able to put up much of a fight. This would prove to be a mistake on their part, because with a simple thrust of his hand, Naruto sent out a blast of chakra powerful enough to knock several of the men many yards back, leaving the other in a momentary state of shock. Now Naruto wasn't violent by nature but there were just some cases that he couldn't simply reason his way out of, and sadly this was one of them. After all, his mother had told him of such people, people that are so controlled by their villages that they could barely talk without being told that they could.
"Katon: Gōkakyū no Jutsu!" several of the attackers yelled at the same time, sending large balls of fire at Naruto from almost every direction, which could possibly kill the boy but he had just proven to be far stronger than he first appeared.
Thinking quickly on what he could do, Naruto charged chakra into the palms of his hands and began to spin at an amazing rate. Some would mistake the technique as the Hyuga clan's Kaiten but that wasn't the case at all. All the attackers saw was the fire Jutsu vanished the moment they hit the blur that was Naruto, but he wasn't blocking the attack. In fact, he was absorbing the chakra from the attacks and was simply using his pure chakra to protect his hands from the flames. After the last fireball was gone, Naruto stopped spinning and narrowed his eyes ever so slightly.
"They'll try and stop you from keeping your promise, Naru-chan," there it was again, the voice of Kaguya whispering into his ear as a spectral form of her hovering just behind Naruto, arms wrapped loosely around him from behind.
What Naruto didn't see was that single black dot on his chest suddenly grow and turn into a spiral pattern no larger than an apple.
"You have to stop them Naru-chan...forever," Naruto felt like someone else had taken control of his body for a moment, yet he also felt like he was in complete control as his arms moved and his chakra surged at its master's command.
Naruto's spiky hair suddenly grew to an extremely long length, almost reaching down to the ground, before it moved out in all directions and snot out in small groups, detaching from the rest of Naruto's hair. All of the men there had no idea what had just happened, so they had no idea how to defend themselves when several red hair strands suddenly shot through their bodies like spears, pinning them to the ground or continuing on to the person behind them. The few that actually survived, although not unscathed, looked around in horror at the scene before them, where all of their comrades looked almost ripped to pieces.
"W-What the hell is this kid?" one of the men asked, watching as Naruto's hunched form slowly rose up, his hair back to its normal length but casting a shade over his eyes that made even him intimidating in the face of grown men.
"It is a mother's duty to guide her children down the proper path of life," Kaguya whispered and, for a brief second, everyone around Naruto could see her grinning spectral form behind Naruto, guiding his movements and influencing his current actions.
"Yes mother," Naruto almost sounded happy as he raised his twelve year old hand and aimed right at the nearest Shinobi, or at least in his general direction.
Focusing, just like mother taught him, Naruto began to absorb all the chakra in the area, even from the now dead bodies that littered the ground. Naruto drained every last bit of chakra from those bodies, until all that remained was dust, which would be blown away with the gentle evening breeze. This left only ten scared Shinobi, too injured to move or fight, to stare at what they thought was a child.
Just when they thought they were going to be next, Naruto felt an intense burn over his heart and clutched his chest while falling to his knees. The last ghost like image he saw of his mother was of her kneeling down in front of him and giving him a soft kiss on the forehead, all before both the pain and herself seemed to vanish. Under Naruto's robes, the spiral had receded back into a simply unnoticeable black dot.
Not one to look a gift horse in the mouth, Naruto took off back into the forest, leaving those few remaining men behind to live or die. It should have shaken him that he killed all of those people, that he stole their chakra for his own and left those few to die, yet now he was only focused on getting away. In fact, right now he actually felt HAPPY! Even now his mother was with him, guiding him down the right path, just like she had done all of his life! It's like he could feel her warmth right next to his heart, it was so warm that it bordered on painful
"Magen: Kasegui no Jutsu!" a deep monotone voice called out before the sky above Naruto turned blood red, the clouds black, and a pain he had never felt before course through his entire body.
When he hit the ground, Naruto's eyes widened in pure horror as six massive metal stakes were impaled into his body. The pain was so great that Naruto's entire body eventually went numb, besides the stakes of course, and he couldn't even focus his chakra because of it. Then one of the masked men from before landed in front of naruto and was simply staring down at him, strange glowing red eyes studying Naruto's even stranger features and pale white eyes. There was no negative emotion coming off of this older male but his chakra level was so much higher than any other person he had come across, except for his mother
"Taichou-san, I have him placed under a Genjutsu at the moment, he should be harmless," said the masked man as another one dropped down, and it turned out to be the very one that had been giving orders to those other men just a few minutes ago
"We should be careful with this one, we didn't know it before but it was his large chakra we felt, before the first group vanished, and now our main force is gone as well. If he tries anything or breaks out of you Genjutsu, kill him without hesitation," said the silver haired man, getting a nod from the young man who picked up the frozen Naruto and slung him over his shoulder.
"Taichou-san, we should leave before more Kumogakure Shinobi arrive, if our intelligence information was accurate then they will be here soon to reinforce their now missing men," said the younger man, who could feel the approaching large mass of chakra that was nothing short of an entire army.
"Right, I'll signal for the others to being their retreat back over the borders. Hokage-sama will want to know just what and who this child is," with that said, both masked Shinobi shot back off into the trees, hoping to outrun the enemy reinforcements that would no doubt kill them if even spotted.
Yet their small moment of victory was short lived as Naruto's eyes suddenly shot open and pure white chakra shot out of him in every direction, sending both Shinobi flying into several trees. Slowly getting up from the ground, where he had been dropped after his sudden attack, Naruto quickly ran back into the woods and away from the approaching army of negative emotions. This was all a lot for him to take in at the moment, he had no idea that these people could use their chakra to make him experience such pain by only influencing his mind. His mother never taught him that it was even possible to do that!
"Have to get somewhere safe!"
(Inside Naruto's seal)
Deep inside the seal that housed the mighty Kyuubi no Kitsune, a very real Kaguya stood in the knee high water, a frown marking her very beautiful face. Despite successfully sealing a part of herself inside her Naru-chan, and being able to influence him down the right path to such a degree, it sadly caused her precious son pain if she did it for too long. Although, she was still happy that she was able to give a part of herself to her third son before Hagoromo and Hamura sealed her away. She hated them both for that, and yet she loved them more for fighting for what they believed in, even if it meant fighting their own mother. Yet Naruto was her favorite son, he was her new light and he would help her finally come back, then they would be together again.
"He will stop you," the voice was low, yet somehow echoed through the entire chamber, and caused Kaguya to turn back towards the large cage doors behind her, and almost bored look on her face.
"Silence," it was that simple command that caused what ever thing was behind the massive bars to whimper like a beaten animal before everything was quiet again.
That's when Kaguya felt it, a feeling rather similar to her own illusions suddenly washed over her Naru-chan while also making him feel great pain. Anger welled up inside Kaguya at the very thought of someone hurting her son, and so she lashed out as best she could, shattering the illusion placed on Naruto and sending a shockwave of pure chakra out in every direction, hopefully causing his captures some intense pain. Yet she was still weak from the day's trials and the blast of chakra probably wasn't as powerful as she had hoped.
"Stay safe, my Naru-chan, and make me proud," and like the she walked down a strangely marked hallway, a single large red eye glaring down at her with enough hatred to burn an entire world to ashes, and it was all aimed at the Rabbit Goddess.
(Amegakure)
Deep in the country of no name lay a village far more advanced in the way of technology than most others, named Amegakure. This was a village known simply for its never ending rain and it's once feared leader Hanzo of the Salamander, and that almost all of their Shinobi wear breather masks because of all the poison based attacks they used. Then, standing tall in the rain and right in the middle of the village was a tower unlike any other, made of twisted metal and strange human like faces that frightened almost all who looked at it. Yet still, deep within this tower sat a man with a single glowing red eye, because his gloved hand covered the other, and he had just felt something rather troubling shift in the world.
"Zetsu," the man spoke, his voice hard and devoid of all emotion, save for a deep anger that was reflected in his red eye.
"You called Obito-san?" asked two voices in one while a strange black and white thing seemed to grow right out of the ceiling and stare down at the person who had summoned it.
"I've felt something shift in the winds just now, go and find what caused that surge of chakra. Bring the person or thing back to me," ordered Obito, closing his sole eye while the creature melded back into the stone, leaving the man alone in the dimly lit room, with only his thoughts to keep him company.
(Konohagakure no Sato)
Sitting at his old desk was Hiruzen Sarutobi, his old age showing with his almost white beard and long grey strands of hair. Yet, despite how frail he may look. Hiruzen had managed to keep his village together through two great wars and was now making sure it would last through a third. It wasn't easy to fight so many villages at once, especially since the war began at the worst possible time, almost twelve years ago. With Konohagakure weakened after Minato's death, along with several other Shinobi, and the loss of the Kyuubi, the village's enemies saw this as an opportunity to attack and get revenge for the past wars. In fact, if it wasn't for Sunagakure's help in that difficult time, Konohagakure would have surely fallen to the combined might of two major village and several smaller ones.
'Sigh, right now the war is at the tipping point and could go either way. I wonder what you would do Hashirama-sama, what would you think of the villages who you tried to make peace with, and what would you think of the village you created?' Hizuren asked himself before he felt a shockwave of completely pure chakra suddenly rush through his entire body, almost making him feel twenty years younger and it even took away his back pains!
"What was that?" Hizuren asked, standing up from his desk before looking out the window, expecting something to happen, anything to explain where that shockwave came from.
"Have the winds just…changed?"
Well here is chapter 4, let me know what you all think.