Me: HELLO PEOPLES!!! Streaming down the Infobahn at 54.0 Mbps, it's chapter 6 of Fury of the Storm!!!
Random Crowd of People: Yay! Wahoo! General approval!
Me: Thank you, thank you. You're all to kind. Now, let's get sta…
Naruto: HEY! You bastard! You finally have me and Hina-chan together, and you do a plot-split!!!
Me: It builds suspense!
Senkou: And you haven't mentioned me!
Me: You'll be more important later.
Anko: And you STILL haven't told me about Daraku's connection to the snake!
Me: All in good time. Now let's roll!!!
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Suneku Ita, 5:12:53 P.M.
Suneku Ita was an out of the way little place, neither in the shinobi section of Konohagakure nor was it on the civilian side. It was actually located, quite literally, on the wall of the village. While this meant that it got few customers, it also presented a great degree of exclusivity and allowed quality control of customers. At its doorstep is where we find Tsukuyomi and Kattou.
"Ah, welcome Kattou-dono, your seat has been readied for you," said a peon waiter, who then led the pair inside and to a seat near the back of the room. As they were led back, they looked over the place, and were quite impressed. A candle lit atmosphere, with wood furniture that looked like it had been grown into shape, and they had an actual band and dance floor. The waiter quickly came and took their orders.
"How'd you find this place?" asked the only female we care about at the moment.
"The current owner was a customer of mine before I started the ANT. Anyways, how's life been treating you lately?" asked our hero.
"Meh, it's been pretty dull. But that'll change soon," she said, scratching the back of her head before leaning in a bit.
"What makes you say that?" asked Kattou.
"I have a chance with you now," she said, grinning before giving a quick peck to his cheek. (Random Hinata Fan: HEY!!! What do you mean "A chance?") (What, you honestly thought he'd suddenly sweep her off her feet and have 9 kids at the drop of a hat?) (RHF: Everyone else does it.) (And that alone is a reason not to do it. I hate being a Harbinger of Things Already Done. Anyways, Naruto's been away from her for 13 years! Sure, he may not have gone out with anyone or gotten laid, but people evolve and circumstance changes everything.) At that time, the waiter came and brought them their orders, before a commotion on the band stage caught their attention.
"Hello patrons! We are MCFB! We hope you enjoy your meal while we show you the joy of our music!" shouted a blond man with long hair and obvious hair extensions, before he and his 5 man band began to… 'play' if you could call it that. That is, before the candles were all simultaneously blown out and a few noises came from the stage, before the lights came back, but a different band was on stage. In place of the band that sucked was a group of 4 people, although it looked like it was two sets of identical twins actually, each with instruments that bore the mark of the Arashi no Tensei upon them is some way.
"HELLOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooo Konoha! We are Kage Bunshin Squad! We apologize for KO-ing your band, but they sucked anyway!" shouted the man in front of the mike, getting applause for getting rid of the crap band, before he said, "We're here because our boss is on a date today! Over there in the back! Everyone applaud him for finally getting a girl!" This, as you can guess, caused the off scene guy with the spotlight to move it over to Kattou and Tsukuyomi, who both hid their faces while blushing, before the guy on stage said, "Our hope is that, maybe if he gets lucky, we get a raise! So here it goes!" he shouted, causing said Leader to blush brightly, although he was doubled by his date before the music started.
"In the car, I just can't wait
To pick you up on our very first date
Is it cool if I hold your hand?
Is it wrong if I think it's lame to dance?
Do you like my stupid hair?
Would you guess that I didn't know what to wear?
I'm just scared of what you think
You make me nervous so I really can't eat
Let's go
Don't wait
This night's almost over
Honest
Let's make
This night last forever
Forever, and ever, let's make this last forever
Forever, and ever, let's make this last forever
When you smile, I melt inside
I'm not worthy for a minute of your time
I really wish it was only me and you
I'm jealous of everybody in the room
Please don't look at me with those eyes
Please don't hint that you're capable of lies
I dreamt the thought of our very first kiss
A target that I'm probably gonna' miss
Let's go
Don't wait
This night's almost over
Honest
Let's make
This night last forever
Forever, and ever, let's make this last forever
Forever, and ever, let's make this last forever
Let's go
Don't wait
This night's almost over
Honest
Let's make
This night last forever
Forever, and ever, let's make this last forever
Forever, and ever, let's make this last forever
Forever, and ever, let's make this last forever
Forever, and ever, let's make this last forever"
"That was a shout out to our boss! Wait, where'd he go?"
Meanwhile, outside Suneku Ita
"Sorry about them. Some of the members of the ANT can't just stay out of my personal life," said Kattou, leading our favorite ex-Hyuuga away from the building.
"It's fine. Are you actually going to give them that raise?" she asked.
"Don't be ridiculous! I'm tempted to have them sent to the the cleaning squad for that!" he said, laughing.
"Don't be too hard on them, they only tried to help out," she said, smiling as they made their way into town, before asking, "so, what are we going to do now?"
"I was thinking we just take a walk around the village. After that, whatever the fair maiden doth want!" he exclaimed, bowing to her while laughing.
"In that case, there's something I've always wanted to do," she said, a glint in her eyes.
One walk later, outside Hyuuga compound
"Alright, are you sure you want to do this?" asked our hero, questioning the sanity of his companion.
"Trust me, it needs to be done," she said, smiling as she lifted the container at her side to shoulder height, looking down at the pool of frothy water below.
"I understand where you're coming from, but why this?" he asked.
"If you can find a better method to get them to stop acting so high and mighty than dyeing the entire Hyuuga clan's load of laundry heliotrope for the next month, speak up now," she said, her violet eyes glowing slightly in the moonlight.
"Ok, ok. Let's get wild!" he exclaimed as they dumped drums of dye into the gigantic Suiton powered washer, laughing as they did.
"That's something I've wanted to do for years!" said Tsukuyomi, laughing and smiling so hard she could barely see.
"Just like my pranking days. Hey, you up for one last thing before we go back to the camp?" asked Kattou
Five minutes later, top of Kage Monument
"C'mon, we're almost there," said Kattou, as he led Tsukuyomi, blindfolded, by the hand.
"Just show me already!" she said, pouting as they finally stopped, before he undid the blindfold. What she saw left her dazzled. It was a pond, surrounded by fireflies, as silver winged butterflies acted as mirrors, dotting everything with spots or yellow, red, and orange while a set of will-o-wisps glowed a pale blue and sea green, casting the place in their hues while mirrored fishes swam beneath crystal waters. It was a surrealistic wonderland of dream-light and perfection.
"What is this? It's… beautiful beyond all reasonable thought," said the moonlight goddess.
"You'd be surprised how well I think things out when I need to," said Kattou. Meanwhile, in his inner thoughts, something to the effect of 'thank you Genkaku-chan!' was going on.
"This is just wonderful! It's been the most amazing night of my life!" said Tsukuyomi, before she spun around and enveloped Kattou in a hug.
"C'mon, let's go back to the camp. We're kind of out of space, so I hope you don't mind bunking with someone," said Kattou.
"It's not the creepy guy with the metal face, is it?" she said suspiciously.
"…Do you think a fool of me?" he said in half joking mock-surprise.
"Let's just go," she said, before they set off for the ANT camp.
Meanwhile, Konoha High Security Prison
The KHSP is considered to be the most secure place in Hi no Kuni. Located inside an active volcano, made from chakra absorbing material, its inmates are constantly shackled and each is forced to wear a chakra-suppressing seal. Added to this is the fact that all the guards are at least Tokubetsu Jonin. But, unfortunately, the Ne ANBU happen to have a counter to each and every facet to this Hellish prison. This was proven when Danzou escaped atop a gigantic moth while all other inmates were killed and all the guards were rendered unconscious. The only thing left of the cripple was a picture of a great tree with the symbol for Konoha for leaves, the Kanji for Ne instead of roots, and a small symbol placed upon the trunk, all of it done in the blood of inmates. If only they knew how important that one symbol would become.
ANT Camp, 3:56:87 minutes later
"Thanks for showing me here," said a smiling Tsukuyomi.
"Think nothing of it. I wouldn't dare let any other do the deed," Kattou said, bowing.
"So, who am I bunking with?" asked the young lady.
"The only person here you already know," said Kattou, before he walked off.
Area Outside ANT Camp, 3 minutes later
"You can come out now. I know you're there," said Kattou, stepping onto the center of a lake, a beam of moonlight illuminating the area while his chakra burst forth, forming into ethereal braces along his body.
"You're pretty good. Just as we expected," said a voice from the shadows before 7 people came out of the darkness.
"You know, I have to wonder why it is that Orochimaru-teme keeps sending men to kill me in such small numbers. After all, if I could kill him once and he could kill each of you at once, then why send you all against me?" he said, placing his left hand over his right wrist, summoning a strange sword with a strait blade, pointed in the center, double edged, about the same width as a katana, and with a skewed S shaped handle, the blade the color of poison in the guise of steel and the handle the shade of blood and absinth. (I'm going to clear this up right now for those who are confused right now and so those who aren't won't get confused later. Naruto has 3 swords: one sealed in his left wrist, one sealed in his right, and one constantly at his left hip.) (Random Critic: Why doesn't he seal that last one somewhere?) (All shall be explained.)
Now let's queue the tunes!!! Sugar We're Goin' Down Swinging by Fall Out Boy!
It started when a burly man with dark-ish skin ran onto the lake, his ham-sized fists cloaked by gauntlets as he tried to punch our hero's face into the back of his skull. But Kattou wasn't struck, having slid under the strikes with the grace of a feline, before beating the man away with a strike from the pommel his sword, before he began twirling the blade back and forth along its S curve, looking to another to fight. He didn't have to wait long, as another of the men, a slim and short green haired man with a set of scalpels held between his fingers like claws dashed in like a torpedo shot from its tube, spinning like a madman along the wake he created as he ran. The great Wanatacchi Kira was on the ball though, as he backpedalled as the scalpel-ed madman slashed downward, before Kattou slashed and spun his blade, slashing at the lunatic before said man back-flipped away from the 'red haired god of destruction and wonder' and threw his scalpels, somehow spiraling inward by the spin of the throw.
"Not good enough, least not if you want me dead," said Kattou, who then managed to dodge them all, before they continued on and struck each other mid-flight and refracted out, one of them going through the gauntleted man's skull as he tried to sneak up on the red-head, causing a spray of blood to fly out through the exit wound. Following up on this, Kattou ran up to his remaining enemy and sent a small flourish movement through his blade, neatly carving out his chest cavity, covering him in his blood. It was then that another two men jumped onto the lake, each with black hair in a Mohawk like cut, although the two of them had theirs parted to the left or right. Kattou wrapped his wrist around his sword as he fended off them as they tried to kill him using long-blade kunai, ducking and slashing in tandem. Kattou had to disengage by sinking through the water before he jumped out, just avoiding having his neck split like a banana. (Alternate Critic Me: That just sucked.) (Could you think of anything better?) (ACM: Not my job. My task is to slowly push you closer to perfection. That, or a death caused by alcohol abuse. Whichever happens first.) (You know, I hope the other voices in my head kill you soon.) (ACM: Keh, not going to happen soon! I've enslaved most of them and the others are easily distracted.) (Alternate Otaku Me: Whatever lets me read more manga! Kyehehehehe!) (Last Shred Of Sanity Me: I'm kind of busy making sure he doesn't cause you to think yourself an anime character too much. It's an up-hill battle though!) (Alternate Overlord Me: BWAHAHAHA! You, ACM, think I'M YOUR minion? I OWN YOU ALL!!! MWAHAHAHAHA!!!)
The men began sealing, attempting to perform a jutsu before our hero could recover, only to find themselves dead by a thrown sword, which embedded itself in a tree outside the clearing. But before the Demonic God in Human Form could recover the sword, three people, two women and one man, shot out of the water in front of him, each of them decked out in ANBU cloaks with the same scary poison orange eyes. But, unfortunately for them, they died when a clone, created when the 'Leader' was underwater, retrieved the sword and sliced two of them in half before stabbing the third through her forehead, dyeing the water at his feet red. The clone then handed the original the blade, before he sealed it while the clone dispersed.
"Not bad for someone so out of practice, Kattou-kun," said a man with grey and yellow, not blond, striped hair, his canines sticking out just a bit farther than normal.
"I might not have been out in the world fighting much lately, but by no stretch of the imagination am I out of practice, Chi Sa-do," said the 'Leader' before he jumped up, sending water into the air while he began to form hand seals, stopping on dragon while the water he scattered into the air formed into about a hundred arrowheads and began launching itself at Sa-do. But Sa-do managed to quickly draw a twin bladed katana (Like Kadaj from FF VII: AC) from a scabbard at his waist, before ripping the Suiton projectiles to bits of moisture.
"Odd, I expected a bit more from one with as much hype as you to have something a bit stronger in store for me," said Sa-Do, before slashing with his blade, sending out a pair of parallel blades of chakra, ripping into the water and almost slicing off Kattou's leg.
"You know, you're right. I couldn't possibly beat you like this with these," he said pointing to the braces along his body, "sucking down chakra and with only about a twelfth my strength usable, so let's get wild!" he shouted demonically, shattering and crystallizing into Uzumaki Naruto, with razors of wind dancing at his whims and tendrils of chakra forming over his arms like vines upon a branch.
"Nice to know you're taking me seriously, Wanatacchi Kira, but it won't help you," said the Third-Blood as his blade covered in a sickly pale green chakra and a set of pastel colored orbs floating around his wrist.
"You know, I hate it when people get cocky with me," said Naruto, who then began slashing with claws of spinning chakra he created while his enemy was talking. The battle began in full as Su-do was able to block each of the swipes of Naruto's Rasen-Claws while almost dancing around the razors of wind that surrounded our hero, each moment with its own cacophony of clashes, chinks, and sheers, like all the worlds mettles grinding against itself. Disengaging, he began spamming the blond with glowing cut after cut of flying chakra, each stopped by those infernal winds, before he stabbed the water, causing large chunks of the lake to fly into the air, before he began jumping onto the flying platforms of liquid, Naruto doing the same. The two, dashing around the aerial/aquatic battlefield, slicing to be blocked, slashing to be stopped, continued on, each gaining the occasional scratch or wound, each healing solely by the chakra in the air, before the water fell to the ground and they jumped back to their respective edges of the lake.
Now let's change pace with the tunes! Burn it to the Ground by Nickleback!
Su-do, moving his head side to side and shaking his arms out, his eyes taking on a wild and blood-shot look, said, "Kami, I'm so excited! This is what I mean! Hell, when I'm done with you, I think it'll take at least 3 women to bring me down this time! I should try out that girl you had on your arm earlier and maybe that green-haired chick. After that, I think I'll find out if your sis's a screamer!"
The sudden look upon Naruto's face said it all, his eyes slit almost in two, his chakra taking on a color that can only be described as bloody sin, like the life of your veins spilt and left to dry for an hour but keeping its hue. His hands grew claws, serrated and long, and his teeth changed to that of a true carnivore, one built to eat only the most fearsome of creatures. To Su-do, it was the visage of one who would laugh as he would feast upon the very existence of sinners. One to whom redemption of others was a concept beyond imagination.
"You are no man, or even the most pathetic of worms. You are the lowest of all creatures, a murderer of souls, and a corrupter of what small innocence is left in this Hellish world. One such as you has no worth in this life or the next. I shall cleanse this realm of your worthless existence, for there is no love of Kami for you, even at her most merciful. May you find no rest, forever haunted by those for whom you have wrought not but ruin. Now die, and be not even a memory!" shouted Naruto, the raw disgust and rage you could see but a small gust in the tempest and furor of his emotions as he reached with his right hand to his left hip before grasping the hilt of the blade that rest there and drew the sword. With a long, thin edge of ashen bone with a winged wolf carved upon it and a woven guard knitted of dark and vine-ed steel, it was a weapon no man should have to live with having seen it turned to him. And, as would fate have it, none would.
Naruto slashed forth with an elegant yet deadly precision and speed, one the Third-Blood could barely match. It was no longer a fight so much as an arranged slaying in the feeblest of guises as fair. Thrusting again and again with that Hell-fueled blade, Su-do could only divert the sword with his every move slowly leaving him a bit more behind. A spinning slash, trying to move away from the possessed assault of the Demon God, was stopped after having barely begun, his left wrist all but gone from the feedback. Wounded and terrified, he went in for a last ditch move, set so that if he was killed then he could at least cleave off the arm if not head of his opponent. But he was stopped when the blond Monstrosity of Vengeance batted his blades and flew between them, painting a red dot right between the eyes of his still breathing foe. But to the enemy of our hero, things were far worse than he imagined, for his eyes were drawn down the blade to a gate, forged from blackened and charred iron. It opened and revealed 10,000 arms while it whispered:
"Through me you pass into the city of woe:
Through me you pass into Eternal Pain:
Through me among the people Lost for Aye.
Justice the founder of my Fabric moved:
To rear me was the task of Power Divine,
Supremest Wisdom, and Primeval Love.
Before me things Create were none, save Things
Eternal, and Eternal I endure.
All Hope abandon, ye who enter here."
And as the whispering ceased, the soul of Chi Su-do was ripped apart and drawn into the gate by the hands while his body was drawn into the blade of our hero.
"Yet another falls before Nashisuki," said Naruto, who then placed the blade back in its scabbard and walked away. (RC: You didn't explain why the sword can't be sealed!) (I thought it was obvious. If the tailed demons like Kyuubi for the most part can't be sealed in inanimate objects, then a blade like Nashisuki can't just be locked in ink.) (RC: Why's that?) (It summoned the Gates of Hell itself! If that isn't a sign of power, what is?) (ACM: And that, peoples, is overpower-ed weaponry in action!) (Fuck you. Anyways, sorry for the abuse of Dante there; I've been reading his work and this came. Oh, and to whoever can guess where I got the base idea for the winged wolf on Nashisuki, you get an OC. I know I offer these a bit too often, but you need to understand just how many meat-shields and living targets this fic needs.) (AOvM: Yes, just as I want all you readers to be MY meat-shields! Together, I can rule those pathetic masses you all are! KYAHAHAHAHA!) (AOtM: Dude, don't call them meat-shields. The correct term is expendable characters!) (All of you, get back in my head or I let Tobi out of his box!)
Meanwhile, halfway from Oto border to Otogakure
It had been hour's sense they found out the base they were going to investigate was empty, and they had to take this chance to find out all they could about the snake's forces. They were hot, tired, and annoyed by the endless stamina of the ANT-based druggy.
"Hey dude-men, I know a short cut from here to one of Oto's bases," said Shichishou.
"Oh? Then where is it?" asked Kurenai, fed up with the drug addict.
"This way, follow me!" he said, jumping out of the clearing… and into a tree, before recovering and this time going around the tree this time while Kurenai face-palmed herself.
Meanwhile, in the tent Hinata entered
"Hi! Welcome to the tent, Tsuki-chan!" said a cheerful Guardian, her scarlet eyes glittering.
"Greetings. Thanks for taking me in. You didn't have to, you know," said Tsukuyomi, bowing slightly to the pale-skinned psychic.
"Think nothing of it. I rather like the company, and you need it. Trust me," the green haired woman said, smiling lightly.
"Thanks. You know, you seem a lot different than Shikamaru-san said," she commented.
"I'm only like that on the clock. So, want to do anything in a bit? I have a few cartons of eggs and a map of all the Konoha Councilmen's homes," she said, smiling a mischievous smile that looked rather unsuited to her face.
"I'm in!" said Tsukuyomi, beginning a wondrous friendship.
Me: And that's a wrap! Now to apologize, I'm sorry this took so long and that I've been neglecting my other works. This one just deserves its title as flagship and high school sucks up a LOT of time. But high school is still awesome. I recently joined the movie/game/anime club. It rocks! My studies are going well, particularly in psychology, and the teachers are (for the most part) awesome at old BHS. But I can't entirely excuse myself via school. Lately I've been going through every anime known to man, just for the challenge, and I can't stop!!! I've seen the bloody, although I already watched that, I've seen the futuristic, I've seen the medieval, I've seen the strange, and I've seen the "so strange you can't stop watching once you get sucked in" and yet I still have an Exabyte of anime to go through!
ACM: Dude, you're turning this into a blog, you know.
Me: SHUTUP! Anyway, I have an actual problem related to the fic: I need a beta, as my temporary beta is sick of dealing with me. If you think you could take the job and have an actual beta account, just R&R with that in the text! Oh, and to The Me Who Is Me, I've put up some data on me in my profile. I tend to keep my text gender neutral so it's not a five paragraph spiel of blood or an equally long description of a characters shoes. Well, that sums it up!
Forever or Never,
-InfinityorNone