Chapter 3: slaves of the tower of heaven part 1: arrival.
As naruto walked down the road to akane resort, he kept having headaches. He kept getting memories of the three men whose power he got. He found a lot in those memories that made him glad that Nagato brought him to earthland. The first man was a sixteen year old teenager called Deidara. Deidara originated from the hidden village Iwagakure. He was the apprentice of the villages leader, but betrayed him after an arguement where the leader called Deidara's jutsu's second-rate art. Afterwards, he left the village, and joined akatsuki. His specialty was the creation of bombs, by infusing a material (preferably clay) with his chakra through the mouth on his hand. The best part was, that if he molded a soft material into an animal, it would come to life, and commit a suicide attack on the target.
The second man, Kakuzu was a ninety-six year old man, who originated from the village takigakure. Appearently he was trained as an assassin in order to kill the first hokage, hashirama senju. After he failed, he was cast aside by his own village. Betrayed, he stole the village's most powerful technique, earth grudge fear, and left to become a bounty hunter. The earth grudge fear gave him the ability to detach, and reattach body parts with many living black threads, and consume the hearts of his victims. With that process, he could prolong his own life, and take his opponent's powers for himself. This gave Kakuzu an extensive library of deadly jutsus.
The third man was his own uncle, Nagato. However, most of his memories were fuzzy, and Naruto couldn't make much of it.
He walked into the small seaside town where Akane resort was settled, when he heard something odd. His increased senses picked up footsteps where he was standing. The odd part was the fact that he was completely alone. The street was empty.
Naruto deduced that there had to be some underground path underneath the surface of the street. He decided until he heard something pelicular. A gruff voice was softly yelling to a crying child.
"shut up, stupid brat. You slaves should be glad to be sacrificed to the revival of our lord zeref."
Naruto angrily growled as he knew who zeref was thanks to his mother's lessons. Fiamma taught him that Zeref was a dark mage that lived four hundred years ago. Zeref used the forbidden death magic to kill masses of humans, and wrote a book filled with ideas for powerful demon summonings. Unfortunately, he managed to create several of these demons already, some of them being lullaby, acnologia, doriarte and deliora.
Also the part where the man called the child a slave didn't sit well with the eleven-year old dragon slayer. He decided to dig down, and follow the group to see if he could help them. He flashed throught two hand signs. "Doton: moguragakure no jutsu". (earth release: hiding like a mole technique) And sunk into the ground as if it became a liquid. He soon dropped out of the ceiling of a stone tunnel. Without a sound, he decided to follow the voices. He soundlessly ran throught the tunnel until a large group of people came into vision. The largest group of people all had sad, desperate and grave looks on their faces. They were dressed in rags, and looked like they had all been beaten recently. Naruto was disgusted as there were children, not even six, and old people aging over the eighty between the slaves.
The other group of men were all dressed in similar blue executioner's outfits. All of them held staffs, and some of them even held swords or axes. They were eating a feast, while the slaves looked like they could just keel over from hunger. A little girl with snow white hair of approximately nine-years old shyly walked up to one of the guards.
"C-can you please share s-some f-food with us? We are all very hungry, and-"
before she could finish her question, the guard backhanded her and began hitting her with the blunt end of his staff.
"WHO the FUCK do ya think ya are, EH? Asking for food. We give you enough. A roof over your FUCKING heads, two slices of bread a day, and a purpose in your miserable fucking lives! And still you dare to ask US to give YOU MORE FOOD? You ungrateful little BITCH?!"
the little girl kept crying, and repeating, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry" over and over again as the guard kept hitting her. After a while, naruto had enough, and henge'd his outfit into a slave's rags. He sealed his weapons into his scroll, and sealed his scroll into a temporary seal in his wrist. (nagato is his uncle. Seals of this calibre are nothing) he then shunshinned into the cave in the middle of the crowd, and ran towards the guard. Naruto then punched the man straight in the nose, breaking it and flinging him back. He then hardened his skin slightly and recieved the beating that was meant for the girl, like a man.
"YOU LITTLE SHIT! YOU BROKE MY FUCKING NOSE! I'LL KILL YOU, I'LL KILL YOU, I'LL. FUCKING. KILL. YOU!" the man roared in a mix of agony and a blood rage, before the other guards restrained him, and kicked naruto back into the crowd. Naruto softened his skin again, and laid still. After a few minutes, the little girl limped towards him, and kneeled next to him.
"A-are you okay mister" she asked him, before he opened his eyes again and smiled at her. He stood up, stretched his back and offered her a hand.
"Yes young lady. I am fine. How about you? Did he hurt you very much?" he asked her with a kind smile plastered across his face. The girl blushed a little bit as she took his hand and pulled herself up. She winced a bit when she put strain on her left leg, and fell forward. Before she could hit the ground, however, Naruto put his arm around her chest, and supported her. He put her arms around his neck, and scooped her up, carrying her bridal-style. Her blush intesified, but kept quiet. Naruto walked over to the group, where a small group of children of approximately nine, or ten years old sat together. One boy, an auburn haired boy with unnaturally pointed ears jumped up.
"Angel! Are you okay?! Did he hurt you?" the boy rattled on in concern of his friend. Naruto laid her down, and examined her leg. He saw that her leg was bruised badly, and broken in several places. As he carefully prodded her leg, she winced in pain and the boy pushed Naruto away.
"stop that! You're hurting her!" he cried out. Naruto shook his head, and smiled disarmingly.
"It's great to see that you care about your friend like that, but I was just checking her leg for any broken bones, or internal bleedings. As for now, she has three fractures in her left leg, so we have to make a splint to keep the fractures from worsening. Could you please go look for a stick, or a plank?" the boy nodded hesitantly, and ran off to go look for a piece of wood. Naruto made sure no-one looked, and pulled a piece of cloth out of his seal, before he went back to Angel, and waited for the boy. After about five minutes waiting, the boy came back, and gave naruto a few pieces of wood.
"thank you...?"
"eric. The name's eric. Yours?"
"Naruto." He replied to eric, before he focused back to Angel, who followed the conversation attentively. "Angel... that was your name right?" Angel nodded. "Angel. I need you to bite into this stick. I'm going to re-break your leg, so that the bone will regrow straight. It'll hurt a lot, but if I don't do this, you might have to limp for the rest of your life. Just bite in this stick to relieve the pain a bit, okay?"
she nodded, and bit down onto the stick.
"Eric. I need you to hold her arms down. If you don't, she'll trash around, and there will be a chance that the bone gets worse."
Eric nodded too, and held her hands against the ground above her head.
"ready?"he asked both kids. They nodded, and he carefully pushed two pressure-points on her lower leg. Angel grimaced, and bit down on the piece of wood slightly harder. When Naruto felt the cracks, he lifted his hand, hardened his skin and made a quick karate chop. Tears leaked from her eyes, as she began trashing around. She bit down hard on the piece of wood in order to not scream her lungs out. Naruto quickly did three more chops, and with each chop, he softly muttered "Forgive me". By the third chop, her leg was numb from the pain, and she calmed down. After four more chops, naruto asked Eric to hand the piece of wood. He placed the piece of wood against her leg, and wrapped the cloth tightly around it. By the time he was done, Angel was sleeping soundly.
"good job eric, thanks for your help." Eric nodded, and lied down next to her. Naruto, also exhausted lied down next to eric and promptly fell asleep.
The next morning, they were pushed into ships. For the next three days, naruto, eric and Angel got to know each other on board of the ship. For instance, Naruto learned that eric had a creepy obsession with snakes, and poisons, while Angel wanted to find her little sister, who was separated from her when she was younger. Naruto hadn't told them about his magic, or ninjutsu yet, but he knew that he had to reveal himself sooner rather than later.
He also made friends with erza, jellal and rob. Erza was a nine year old girl with scarlet red hair, and a rebellous, spunky personality. Jellal was a blue haired boy with a strange red tattoo crossing his left eye. Just like erza, he was spunky, and rebellous. Also very self sacrifical, which naruto saw as a good thing.
The third one was rob. An old man, well within his seventies, with long white hair and a long white beard. His eyes were permanently squinted, but in a friendly way. The most prominent thing about this skinny old man was tha fact that he had a humongous black hummingbird-like creature tattooed on his back. Rob told them that he was once a member of the infamous mage guild: Fairy Tail. At that news, naruto nearly jumped a hole in the roof, and made a note to himself to ask about it later.
As they were pushed out of the boats, Naruto saw the tower. It was huge, made of stone, and looked like it wasn't done by a long-shot. They were pushed into the tower, where a large one-eyed man stood there grinning.
"Ladies, and gentlemen! I welcome you to our humble abode. For the next years, you will work, eat, sleep, piss, and shit here! This is your new home, your new lives... ladies and gentlemen... WELCOME TO HELL!"
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