A/N: OVER 480 FAVORITES AND 500 FOLLOWS!? OVER 200 REVIEWS!? Thank you so much (;-;) Apologies for the late upate and I hope you enjoy this chapter! Also, I do NOT own the image for my story's cover! :DDDD
Talking: "In the ninja world, those who break the rules are scum, that's true, but those who abandon their friends are worser than scum."
'Thoughts': Dattebayo!
Kurama/Kyuubi: "Me? Stealing Kakashi's book? Of course not."
'Kyuubi's thoughts': Hehe... Time to read the masterpiece.
Jutsu/Techniques: Fūton: Rasenshuriken!
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XxxXx Attention! xXxxX
*Warning: Major OOC, Language, Grammar, Dramatic, and crazy Authoress's wild imaginations.
**Disclaimer: 'Naruto' and 'Naruto Shippuden' is Kishimoto-san's work! and 'One Piece' is owned by Eichiro-san!
***IMPORTANT!: I edited everything except for spelling checks and grammar!( I only edited/fixed unnecessary spaces between the letters in words!) Sorry! I promise I'll update better version someday -w-"
****PLEASE READ THE MESSAGE AT END OF THIS CHAPTER~! Thank you :D
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Chapter 6:: Pacifista
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The free bird leaps
on the back of the wind
and floats downstream
till the current ends
and dips his wings
in the orange sun rays
and dares to claim the sky.
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But a wingless bird that stalks
down his narrow cage
can see through
his bars of rage.
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His wings are clipped and,
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His feet are tied
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So he opens his throat to sing.
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"I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings" By: Maya Angelou
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Chapter 6: XXxx Blade of Kamikaze xxXX Pacifista
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Flashes of yellow and blue exploded throughout the field.
The once smooth ground with lush grass and trees drastically changed into chaotic battlefield filled with dusts and smokes.
/Slash!/
Melodic sounds of iron clashing against each other echoed throughout the forest, fiery sparks turned into bizarre fire storm and smell of burning metallic filled the air. Afar from peace and silence, Both fighters released suffocating killing intent as they launched toward the small clearing into blazing combat.
/Swish!/
Straight punch, Upper cut, left punch, right punch.
Despite his large and bulky figure, Admiral Kizaru gracefully dodged the punches from Naruto and counter attacked by sending quick bone-breaking punch toward the blonde's face.
The Ex-ANBU Captain quickly ducked, and he felt the air above him shift from the barely visible punch. He cartwheeled away from the location he'd just been standing on, seeing the ground explode upon the contact from Kizaru's light blade. The blonde pushed himself off from the tree bark behind him and spun in the air, kicking Kizaru soundly against the jaw, skillfully he raised his beloved katana 'Akai Shizuku' and aimed to slash the Admiral's neck. Unluckily, Naruto heard a grunt as Kizaru quickly vanished from his sight and disappeared into yellow light particles.
'What a troublesome power.' Naruto mentally sighed with a annoyed look on his face. Shifting his fighting stance, The blonde carefully analyzed his current situation as the crimson blade reflected every glow of Kizaru's yellow light and narrowed his blue eyes in concentration.
'If only I can limit his prideful speed, I'll have the advantage over this battle. Tch, I better activate my Sage mode... What was the devil fruit user's weakness again? Oh yeah, something called 'Sea Prism-Stone', Apparently it gives off a wavelength aura that is the same as the sea itself and drains the user's energy, and prevents their Devil Fruit powers from activating...- Having the same effect as throwing them into the sea.' The Blonde-Immortal thought curiously and briefly remembered about his sister-like figure goddess's gifts.
'I remember receiving few of them from Megami, Maybe I can use them against the Admiral and somehow limit his speed?' Continuing to observe his surroundings, Naruto took out a unusual green-colored stone from his pocket before crumbling them into small pieces and hid it back to the pouch. Kurama, who was snuggling comfortably on the blonde's board shoulders, scrunched up his nose in disgust at the ocean-like smell emitted from the stones. Slightly amused and apologetic for interrupting his partner's 'beauty' nap, Naruto reassuringly patted the demon fox's back before focusing his blue eyes to find his enemy.
'Now, all I need is a right moment to strike...'
'Brat! I sense his annoying presence near us.' Kurama's urgent voice echoed loudly throughout the blonde's mind.
Suddenly, Overwhelming disturbance between the natural energy and air patterns resulted Naruto to snap out from his thoughts. He tensed when the yellow light flashed across his sight and cautiously looked around, tightly gripping his katana's handle.
The Immortal-blonde already knew the 'light' was the most fastest thing in the world, but, speed and agility wasn't everything in the battle.
Slowly, Naruto closed his eyes and brought one hand up to his ear, listening to everything around him. During his lifetime, He realized it helped him concentrate when he had something to focus on. And one of his most favorite view was the depth of eternal darkness. Closing his eyes helped him focus on how close he was to everything around him, almost like a soundless music. Although other ninjas might laugh at him for lowering your guard down in middle of the battle, they needed to understand that calmness was one of the most vital things to become a true shinobi. And now, all he needed was for Kizaru to move, and the blonde would know exactly where he was. It didn't matter if the Admiral had the speed of light, everything makes a sound whenever they moved. Activating his Sage mode, Naruto took deep breaths as natural chakra swirled around him like a soft breeze, trying to appease him with their comforting warmth and soothing coolness.
'Kit! Concentrate!'
Suddenly, Naruto easily ducked a quick swing over his head, and then jumped over a swipe at his feet, his eyes still closed. To have them open would just distract him from the sudden brightness, because his eyes would be searching endlessly for something so fast that they wouldn't be able to fully focus on.
The blonde did a few back handsprings to avoid more swipes and then flipped over surprised Kizaru in the air, kicking him in the back. He felt the Admiral quickly regain his balance and lunge at him. The blond moved his head swiftly to the side to avoid Kizaru's lightened hand slamming right into him, the wind brushing past his cheek because he'd been so close and made a small cut on his cheek. 'That was close.' Naruto thought as he felt small trails of blood tickling down from his injured cheek. 'Way too close.'
Deactivating his Sage mode and quickly opening his blue eyes, Naruto slapped Kizaru's hand away forcefully before stepping close to him as fast as he could. As he stepped inside, he immediately grabbed Kizaru's slapped arm and quickly threw the larger man against the ground, creating large craters from the pure force. With a painful grunt, Kizaru suddenly vanished from the crater into scattering light particles before he quickly materialized behind Naruto and swung his light blade vertically.
'Shit!' Naruto's eyes widened and he hurled himself off the ground to dodge. The blonde turned hurriedly and stood up as dirt and smoke exploded upon the contact from Kizaru's lethal light weapon.
"Good thing you got those fast reflexes, kid~ I'm impressed." Kizaru smiled lazily with hint of respect, pretending to ignore the darkening aura from the blonde.
'Stupid asshole jerk, I'm WAY older than you.' Naruto thought angrily and childishly stuck out his tongue at him, earning amused look from the Admiral.
'Why do I feel like he's making fun of me right now? Whatever, I better hurry up and finish this fight or else Luffy is gonna whine me to death.' He lunged forward, appearing in front of the Admiral with glowing red eyes and dark blood-thirsty grin on his face.
The Admiral slightly widened his eyes at the sudden change in demeanor; Quickly, Kizaru barely blocked the crimson blade with his own sword, both blades slightly trembled from the raw power between the blades.
Clash/Swish/Crash!
Like a raging lightning storm, deafening sounds of metal clashed against each other as sparks ignited and flew throughout the field. Gripping 'Akai Shizuku's handle in his hands, Naruto glided forward with inhuman speed toward Kizaru, clashing his crimson blade against the Admiral's lightening light blade, though as soon as the blonde came down with a swing Kizaru shifted his sword upward as the tip of the light blade clashed with the glimmering red steel and effortlessly blocked it. Swiftly, Naruto pushed back as he steadied himself and launched in the air as Kizaru followed him by using his devil fruit power. The blue sky slightly turned into bright colors of yellow and red, The clash of blades erupted into the air as the sound rustled through and echoed loudly in the sky. Powerful force radiated from two figures resulted the trees to sway roughly and numerous bubbles exploded into mere nothingness.
Kizaru slightly pushed his blade into Naruto's holding firm, Two fighters pushed for dominance in the sky. The Admiral was beyond impressed to discover that this strange yet powerful blonde was also the Master of swordsmanship. Judging from his skills and confidence, Kizaru briefly wondered if the greatest swordsman, Hawk-eye Mihawk, would have hard time defeating this 'young' man. "I'm really impressed~... Not only you can use weird powers but I can clearly tell that you're a dangerous sword user too."
"Same goes for you Mr. Admiral." Naruto responded with a small grin. Although the blonde barely used any chakra yet, He was fully aware that he would have to take this battle little seriously. From his information and observation, Naruto knew how dangerous and life threatening Admirals can be. They weren't the second highest rank in the Marine for nothing. Not to mention, Every Admirals were Logia, the most troublesome types of devil fruit because of their ability to turn into natural elements and force of nature. But, Logia users still had a unavoidable weakness and they were far from truly invincible because of their short life spans, sea-stones, and sneak attacks can be useful against them. Well, Naruto thought and mentally grinned, They shouldn't underestimate a Ninja who was a former famous prankster among his village. Not to mention, a Nine-Tailed fox demon was the blonde's so-called partner and best friend.
'Although,' Naruto snorted. 'Once you get to know the fox for over two-thousand years and all your lifetime, he's just a annoying, moody, twisted guy who has no sense of humor. Not to mention he's heartless when it comes to food...'
'Go die Kit.' Kurama mentally growled.
'Nah, I'll rather live this wonderful life.' Playfully and sarcastically, Naruto patted Kurama's back who was sleeping contently on his shoulders.
"I've been wondering~... Is that the weird canine fox who also caused major difficulties against the Marine elite army and my subordinates?" Kizaru asked curiously and pointed at the red-orange furred fox with his pointing-finger, while his other hand clutched on his sword's handle. Something about the unusual fox sent uneasy feelings throughout Kizaru's instinct and the Admirals were definitely not the type of people who gets easily cautious around a mere animal. Said fox opened his crimson eyes and growled before going back to sleep.
Naruto chuckled with fake sincere and mock concern on his tanned face, "Trust me, Don't point fingers at him unless you wanna lose them."
Feeling amused, Kurama snapped his jaw open to reveal sharp fangs before snapping them shut as clear demonstration.
"Oh~ That's scary~" Borsalino commented lazily before raising his other hand to form a glowing light sphere. "Yata no Kagami"
Suddenly, the light sphere glowed in bright yellow color before forming into a thin laser beam and rushed past Naruto and continued to sped toward the nothingness. Taken back at the lousy aim and Kurama's sudden growl of warning, The blonde widened his eyes when the light beam reflected off from the tree bark's surface behind him and speedily hit his back. Realizing that the Admiral purposefully miss the first aim to catch him off guard, Naruto bit his lips to refrain himself from screaming in pain as intense burning agony coursed through his injured back and quickly stepped aside to dodge the incoming fist. Barely conscious from the sudden sneaky attack, Naruto noticed how his sage cloak was slightly burnt off and his ANBU armor looked weakened from the numerous deadly punches and cuts. His ORANGE, -I repeat-, ORANGE shirt's backside was completely burnt off with tickle of blood smudged on the front.
'Fuck, That bastard is gonna pay for ruining my shirt... my ORANGE shirt...' Naruto cursed and purposefully ignored how Kurama snorted in amusement. Familiar sensation of Kyuubi's red chakra surged throughout the blonde's injuries and within few seconds, it completely healed the cuts and bruises. While Kizaru seemed curious and astonished when the blonde's injuries magically disappeared. He cautiously narrowed his eyes at the sudden darkening aura around the blonde-haired man.
Unconsciously raising his killing intent, Naruto blurred his hands to form hand seals and his surroundings heated up several degrees. Instantly, scarlet flames came into existence and swirled around the blonde with passionate wild dance.
"Katon: Houko No Tenkai Mai!"
The scarlet flames suddenly exploded up in a pillar of fire, destroying the tree and the ground as Kizaru quickly leapt back to avoid the searing heat. Out of the fire, Naruto burst out and landed lightly in front of the blazing hell fire behind him. "Im gonna fucking kill you... You freaking ruined my shirt, you asshole!" The blonde dramatically pointed to his tattered shirt with comical angry and sad expression. Kurama sent his partner a deadpanned 'WTF' look before sighing and returned back to sleep.
Amused and shocked at his unusual opponent's childishness and behavior, Admiral Kizaru couldn't help but laugh out loudly. "You're the weirdest kid I've ever seen before...""
"Thanks, that totally makes my mood hundred times better!" Naruto snarled sarcastically and opened his scrolls.
Suddenly, The amused Borsalino heard a angry shout, "Kage Shuriken no Jutsu!"
Rain of metals and sharpened steels mercilessly fell from the sky, enshrouding the area with deadly weapons. However, The Admiral easily swung his light sword to block the lethal weapons falling toward him and evaded rest of them with ease. Vanishing into light-particles, Kizaru skillfully avoided another onslaught of shurikens with impressive speed and was in front of Naruto less than mere milliseconds. Kizaru swiftly slashed his sword to decapitate the blonde's head. Naruto quickly blocked the heavy blow with his own katana before the two fighters began trading numerous blows between the crimson blade and the light blade. The Admiral effortlessly dodged a vertical slash from the blonde, and thrust his sword straight toward Naruto's chest, but fortunately, the blonde dodged and disappeared within the whirlwind.
"Ara, Ara... Are we playing hide and seek~?..." Calmly, Kizaru brought his hands up into a fists. "Yasakani no Magatama" From his both fists, The Admiral mercilessly fired countless torrents of sphere-shaped light particles through the whole area. Explosions erupted everywhere as the rain-like light spheres created huge craters from its devastating power and the forest turned into ruins in mere seconds.
Within the shadows, Naruto stealthily hid behind the huge boulder, watching Brosalino destroy everything. He quickly began meditating to restore his chakra supplies and entranced himself into the natural energy. Until he froze momentarily when he felt unfamiliar presence seemed to approach toward 'Shakky's Rip-Off bar' where Luffy and others were staying, waiting for him. Kurama narrowed his crimson eyes at the blonde's obvious discomfort and protectiveness. Calmly, The demon fox reassuringly patted his partner's messy blonde-haired head with one of his tails. Smiling slightly at the Nine-tailed fox's rare affections, Naruto gratefully welcomed the brotherly comfort and warmth.
Suddenly, The blonde-sage silently cursed when Borsalino sensed his presence behind the huge rock he was currently hiding on, and felt another torrent of light-spheres sent toward him. The Immortal-blonde barely managed to dodge the devastating attacks and rolled across the earthy ground before blocking the sudden slash from Kizaru.
"Ahhh... I found you Namikaze~" Admiral Kizaru smiled and pressured his light-blade against Naruto's crimson blade. "Now... Are you ready to die~?"
"Nope." The blonde smirked confidently, he mockingly tilted his head and darkly grinned. " But I'll prepare your funeral soon, Mr. Admiral."
Soundlessly, Both opponents jumped away from each other before swinging their swords to create powerful gust of wind and wave of light particles as it violently exploded with one another.
~:XX Shakky's Rip-Off Bar XX:~
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The golden sun was slowly descending upon the horizon. The day was in its afternoon time and preparing for a sunset. Slowly, but surely, the light was fading away into darkness. Few hours ago, Rayleigh stated that he would go and coat their ship 'Thousand Sunny-Go' before the Marines Headquarter sends more reinforcements and left the bar with Shakky who followed him as his assistant. Leaving only the Straw Hat Pirates to wait for certain blonde-haired man and his partner red fox.
"Luffy..."
The Straw-Hat boy titled his head to see a certain orange-haired navigator, her eyes filled with swirling emotions of uneasiness and cautiousness.
"Yeah? what is it Nami?" He asked curiously.
"You..." Nami narrowed her eyes before sighing. "You really trust that guy don't you?" The Straw-Hat boy blinked and instantly knew she was referring to their newest nakama.
"You mean Naruto?" Luffy smiled widely and sat on the couch beside the sleeping green-haired swordsman. "What about him? Oh! Have I ever told you how awesome he is? He can control wind and do other awesome stuff!" The Straw Hat boy begin to endlessly chatter about the blonde-haired man who single handedly defeated the Marines with amazing powers.
Silently, Nami carefully observed her captain's expression as it considerably brightened and he spoke with deep admiration and excitement. Pair of coal eyes seemed to glow in happiness, Luffy was always happy whenever he got a new nakama. -But..- Biting her lips, The navigator unconsciously shivered at the thought of mysterious blonde-haired man. She didn't know why but she felt uncomfortable around him. Was it fear? No. Cautiousness? Yes. Attraction? ...Maybe, but it was a unusual-weird feeling she exactly couldn't put a name to, Although it was vaguely close to cautiousness and curiosity toward the blonde-man with whiskered cheeks. Soft blue eyes that seemed capable of seeing through her unsettling soul and heartwarming smile that brightened up everything. He was indeed a strange, mysterious man. To be honest, She didn't know how to feel about him.
"Luffy, I know you want him to be part of your crew but, I... I think he's too dangerous. He's entirely different from us and terrifyingly strong with strange powers I've never witnessed before... I don't know why but I feel like he's hiding something." Shivering slightly, Nami entirely closed her eyes. "I feel uncomfortable whenever he's here, like... something dark is inside of him."
Taking a deep breath, Nami whispered. "I don't trust him."
For few seconds, Eerie silence stretched throughout the bar; Luffy simply stared at her with passive expression, Zoro opened his eyes and stared blankly toward nothingness while Sanji took out a cigarette from his pocket. Hesitantly, Usopp seemed to nod in agreement although Chopper looked confused and sad. While Robin, Franky, and Brook stood impassive with hint of surprise etched on their faces at the navigator's sudden declaration.
"Why don't you trust him Nami? He's really nice!" Chopper exclaimed, The little reindeer couldn't understand why Nami didn't trust Naruto. The mysterious blonde was both strong and kind, Those soft blue eyes held tiredness, understanding, and passionate emotions. His animal instincts told him to trust that man without hesitation. Confused yet determined, Chopper didn't know why but he started to view the blonde-haired man as his older brother.
"Naru-chin is not a bad guy! He saved me, Hachiin, and other slaves! Someone so selfless, kind, and courageous like him can never be bad! Never!" Camie shouted with tears in her purple eyes and threatened to spill. The young mermaid's heart clenched painfully at the thought of blonde-haired man, her savior and a friend. "Right now, he's fighting against the Admiral just to protect us! We shouldn't be distrusting someone who's risking their life! We should trust him!"
"... ... ..." Everyone stood in silence, speechless by her words.
"I... I wanna go help him.." Chopper whispered but the talking reindeer knew he couldn't because their captain trusted the blonde-haired man and declared they'll wait for him until he comes back.
"I personally think he's a good person." Robin suddenly commented with soft look on her face, surprising everyone at her sudden change in demeanor. "If he was a enemy from the very beginning, He would've attacked us the moment we let our guard down without hesitation." At her reasoning, Usopp sighed and nodded in agreement for the second time.
"I know but-" Nami was about to retort until she abruptly stopped and widened her eyes, The orange-haired navigator's face froze into shock and fear. Others stared at her in confusion before Zoro suddenly unsheathed his katanas with unreadable expression. Slowly, Everyone else turned to see a large figure standing across the door way. An threatening shadow loomed over the room with emotionless facade on the tall man's face.
Pair of pupiless pale eyes stared back.
Memories of Thriller Bark surged throughout everyone's mind except for the utterly confused mermaid, fishman, starfish, and forgettable Straw-Hat captain.
"WHAAAT!? W-why is he here! H-h-h-how did he find us!?" Usopp and Chopper shouted fearfully and quickly hid behind Franky.
"H-how? Y-you... W-why...?" Nami uncontrollably stuttered and shakily pointed at the familiar face with absolute astonishment and fear. Clenching his precious white-katana into his mouth and his hands gripping onto other two katana's handle, Zoro sent a fierce glare toward the man who once defeated him. Quickly, Sanji stood protectively in front of Nami and Robin before he readied himself into his own fighting stance with grim expression. Other Straw-Hat members took their stance with cautious eyes excluding Luffy who stared confusedly.
"Who're you?" Luffy asked and tilted his head.
"Straw Hat Luffy, Current Bounty: 300 Million Berries, Captain Of Straw Hat Pirates... Tell me," The man spoke in monotone voice and slowly took off his black gloves to reveal his hands with strange paw pads-like flesh on his both palms.
Bartholomew Kuma slightly raised his hands with threatening aura.
"If you wanted to go on a trip, where would you like to go?"
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Dusts, smokes, and debris danced around the air,
And two fighters mercilessly swung their swords with fierce killing intent.
Thrusting forward at inhuman speed, Naruto quickly created crescent-shaped Chakra wind blade and fired it by swinging his katana'\. Surprised at the sudden whirlwind, Kizaru narrowed his eyes before counterattacking with his own man-made light spheres to breakthrough the wind patterns and quickly blocked the incoming vertical slash. Wasting no moments, Naruto elegantly twirled his katana before swinging it vertically towards the Admiral's side which Kizaru quickly blocked it and quickly aimed his blade toward the blonde's head. Throwing 'Akai Shizuku' up the sky, Naruto performed few back flips through the air to dodge Kizaru's attack before catching his beloved sword. Raising his katana handle, Naruto sent a powerful jab on Kizaru's stomach.
The pressure and the force sent him few miles back, Kizaru slightly grunted as he forced himself to halt. Disappearing in speed of light, Kizaru appeared behind Naruto and vertically sliced his sword toward the blonde. Dodging it effortlessly, Naruto counter attacked by using his fists and sent a powerful punch and successfully hit the Admiral's chest. Coughing at the force and choking from his own breath, Kizaru quickly steadied himself and swung his blade at greater speed causing Naruto to take few steps back to dodge.
Kizaru created another light sword and threw it toward the blonde. The blade shimmered in yellow light, Naruto narrowed his eyes at the unbearable brightness and barely dodged the lethal weapon, losing few strands of his golden hair in process.
Taking another graceful steps, Naruto luckily dodged Kizaru's uppercut and sword with his rapid instincts and blocked the light-sword with his own katana, creating sparks between the two swords. The air let out ringing sounds as the blades clashed and metallic sound erupted throughout the air. Naruto clutched on his sword handle before surging Kyuubi's chakra through the crimson blade of 'Akai Shizuku', making the reddest blade into darker shades of beautiful crimson-scarlet color. Pushing the Admiral away, Naruto summoned an wave of blazing fire in a flick of his wrist. Dodging most of the toxic heat waves, Kizaru blocked the incoming red-kunai with his own weapon before gasping in disbelief when his light-magnified sword suddenly shattered into mere light particles. Narrowing his eyes at the sudden disappearance of his weaponry, Kizaru cautiously looked around to find the blonde's presence. Through the reddish surrounding, the Admiral quickly dodged the incoming kunais and jumped back for distance. At the same time, Naruto expeditiously took out a special kunai from his pouch and threw it toward the oblivious Kizaru, hitting the tree behind him.
'Kit, Hurry up... I'm starving to death.' Kurama mentally demanded.
'Aye, aye.' The blonde rolled his eyes at the over-dramatic fox. Although, He would have to agree with his partner about being starve... He needed Ramen and sake.
Preparing for one of his favorite jutsu, Naruto mentally shouted.
'Hiraishin No Justu!'
In a flash of blue-silvery light, Naruto seemed to completely vanish from Kizaru's sight.
'What was that? For a briefest moment, he relinquished incomparable speed and agility beyond my own. Impossible, No one has ever exceeded speed of light before.' Uncharacteristically, Kizaru narrowed his eyes as serious facade took place on his face. 'From the very beginning, I knew this kid was dangerous but it's unbelievable that he outmatches my speed... Exactly who is he? He's too young to be this powerful... Behind those blue eyes, I can clearly see the soul of a brave warrior who has seen countless deaths, war, and pain. As if he's a... war veteran.' Flashes of blue light surrounded the Admiral and tensed when he felt a presence behind him. Kizaru quickly turned but he wasn't fast enough and felt a heavy impact hit him from the side, sending him toward the hard-surfaced earth. Coughing up dust and blood, Kizaru barely looked up to see Naruto above the sky. The Admiral widened his eyes in disbelief when the blonde flickered his wrist and blazing inferno of flames came into existence.
Crackle of ashes, smokes and flames exploded throughout the field.
"Katon: Hōsenka no Jutsu" Naruto swung his blade, sending rivers of hot burning flames. In silent roar, the fire whipped throughout the air and lashed out in hunger. It showed no mercy as the flames changed its form into numerous amounts of fire spheres and launched toward the Admiral, forcing Kizaru to move away and dodge the fire balls. However, Following him like an magnet, volley of fire spheres flew in unpredictable movements, making the Admiral have hard time trying to predict their pattern and random motions. One of the fire spheres blazed toward his back, Kizaru quickly dodged but failed to notice another sphere launched as soon as he reappeared again. Hot, burning agony washed over his left arm.
"Urgh!" Kizaru winced in pain with look of agony on his face. The blood stained half of his midsection and arm but it wasn't pouring out of the wound anymore, in fact, his arm was starting to heal already. Yellow-golden glow engulfed around Kizaru, The Admiral quickly gathered light particles to heal the aching burn, barely noticing the silvery-blue electricity sparks dancing around the blonde.
"Raiton:...
Visible blue force intensified into deep aqua color and the sky darkened with gray clouds, thunder roared its mightiest shout. Mixture of invisible rain drops and pressure dampened the earth.
Chidori Senbon!"
A powerful bolt of blue lightning exploded around him before changing its shape into thin needles, consuming the entire area as it came washing down like a rain. In speed of light, Kizaru dodged every needles and sent a devastating kick toward Naruto but the blonde quickly dodged by back flipping. Both opponents jumped back before lunging forward into fist combat.
Right uppercut, left straight punch, leg sweep, rising heel kick, round house kick, right punch, and numerous fists were exchanged. The two males clashed with each other as intensity of aura literally suffocated everything around them, blocking each ones attacks and laying blows on each other that were of equal amount. It was a battle of agility and power.
In blur moment, Naruto quickly formed hand seals before gathering his chakra into sphere-like shape.
"Raiton: Raireki No Mai!"
From his hands, Orbs of lightning spheres blasted throughout the field, increasing its speed toward the Admiral. Kizaru stared at the incredible attack with wide eyes, crossing his arms together as he attempted to endure the attack and activated his devil fruit power to create a dome-like yellow light shield. The devastating lightning orbs blasted against the shield as the intense force caused wide spread damage to the forest. Blue lightning sparked in wild dance and the blinding yellow light enveloped the area. From the force and pressure, the earth exploded into dirt and the sky slightly changed its colors. Through dusts and smokes, Slowly the sparking electricity and light died down to eerie silence. It left major damage to the tree lines with multiple trees broken down and the grassy earth now turned to nothingness and empty without the lush green. Though from that large attack, Kizaru casually stood there with slight electricity and dusts covering his entire body, the light shield was crumbled from the attack before disappearing completely into light particles. The Admiral's coat was slightly burnt off, his yellow striped suit was slightly ripped and his pants were roughly tattered. Kizaru slightly panted as he looked at Naruto with cautious eyes.
"That was really dangerous~" Borsalino patted his suit to get the dusts off. "You almost killed me there."
"That's a shame." Naruto chuckled with amusement vibrating his words. "Although, Is this all the strength...that an Admiral has to offer me? I'm disappointed. An mere kid beating up an grown up adult? Not to mention, one of the strongest Marine's force having hard time defeating a unknown stranger..." His blue eyes flashed in crimson-red with dark smirk blooming his scarred face. "Come on, please tell me this isn't all the potential and strength Admirals have... or else, I'll be truly disappointed."
Kizaru didn't make a sound nor changed his smiley expression.
He hardly reacted at all.
Yet he did.
If Naruto wasn't the expert on reading people's expression and hidden emotion, Anyone would have missed the fraction of a second that Kizaru's smile wavered. Like a unstoppable wave; Anger, embarrassment, annoyance and hint of fear washed over the blonde's soul. Sighing, Naruto couldn't help but feel disappointed. Humans were such foolish creatures, letting their emotion take control of themselves. He fully understood how words and feelings can lead to misunderstanding, hate, and war... He wasn't afraid of the Admiral's unimaginable power and wisdom, He just needed to watch out for that indefatigable speed Kizaru has.
"Let me ask you somethin' Admiral-san," Naruto sung jovially, twirling the kunai around his fingers. "Who do you think is stronger? Me or you? Because from what I've seen so far, this battle is wasting my precious time."
Suddenly, Naruto's expression turned murderous and the kunai vanished from his gloved hands before hitting the tree behind Kizaru; barely missing the Admiral's left cheek.
"I thought the Marines fought for justice and fairness? But you guys haven't done anything to save the people who's been suffering from slavery, countless of people being bought and sold against their will. This hateful cycle endlessly repeating itself throughout generations." Shivering slightly from anger and hate, Naruto snarled. "You guys ignored the pleas of help and freely let the world noble kill many innocent people. Many children lost their innocence and adults are forced to live through fear and pain. The Human Auction disgusts me; All humans should be equal, no one has the right to take away another person's happiness and freedom."
"Brat~..., Don't talk as if you know everything. You're too young and foolish to fully understand the meaning of absolute justice." The Admiral growled with his usual smile replaced by a deep frown. "It's against the absolute law, the government, and the entire world to disobey the Tenryuubito. They're one of the important descendants who established the world government and entire laws of righteousness. "
The blonde threateningly growled at his words.
"Really? cause all I see is a bunch of cowards and selfish bastards who doesn't try to change this corrupted world." Naruto sneered darkly. "Including you Marines, you guys committed countless unforgivable crimes at the Ohara and shamelessly hid the truth from the public's eyes. You may have deceived everyone but I know everything and I'm not afraid to yell out to the whole world about your guy's darkest secrets. Tch, people like you guys disgust me the most!"
In blink of an eye, Kizaru reappeared behind Naruto and aimed devastating punch toward him. The Admiral's expression was slightly murderous with hint of annoyance and anger. Calmly, Naruto stood motionlessly before raising his killing intent and his eyes briefly flashed into silvery-blue.
'Too slow.'
Dodging the punch with ease, Naruto flickered his wrist and glowing blue flames burst out from the ground and enshrouded the area, creating a barrier around the Admiral who widened his eyes in shock. Blue chakra flowed out of Naruto's hand, solidifying as it stretched out and weaved itself into long chains. The chains were glimmering in blue and silver halo light before bursting out with glorious vividness of aquatic colors. From their beautiful artistic appearance, The silvery-blue chains looked fragile but unbearable suffocating and powerful aura visibly radiated from them. Along with the chains, Silvery-blue flames appeared upon Naruto's palm of his hands and the wind roared in screeching scream. Suddenly, the chains expeditiously snaked through the air and tightly wrapped itself around Kizaru's arms and torso. Foreign yet familiar sensation of becoming unconscious under the sea coursed throughout the light-man's body and felt himself loosing strength in drastic speed. Shocked, surprised, and confused, Borsalino tried to free himself but only caused the chains to glow brightly and the Admiral quickly realized this chain was limiting his devil fruit power.
"What is this?!" Kizaru growled, playfulness and casualness completely gone from his face and struggled against the bindings.
'Now...!' Naruto thought and narrowed his eyes in determination as his hands formed into hand seals.
Dragon, Dog, Monkey, Bird, Horse, Tiger, Dragon, Tiger!
Blue lightning crackled and wildly danced around the blonde, taking its shape into large canine. Electrifying eyes and teeth snarled angrily as the lightening freely sparked throughout the area.
"Raiton: Raiju Ookami!" A large wolf of lightning rushed at the shocked Kizaru, biting down onto his shoulder with hard force, increasing the volts of electricity coursing through the Admiral.
However, In blink of an eye, Kizaru quickly disappeared into light particles to avoid full damage. Although he successfully escaped, Kizaru grunted painfully and felt his conscious darkening from the powerful electric volt and the chains wrapped around him continued to drain most of his strengths. Slowly his vision started to blur with black dots appearing everywhere. Blue electricity sparked throughout his body and numbing pain mercilessly restricted his movements. Sudden realization took place on Kizaru's mind; He tried to move but a painful jab of shocking numb pain caused him to widen his eyes before narrowing them angrily toward 'innocent'- looking Naruto who whistled and smirked foxily. The Admiral gritted his teeth to control his growing anger and annoyance, He finally understood what the blonde was trying to do. From the very beginning of this battle, That brat planned out everything to limit his speed and utterly prevent him from using his devil fruit powers. And now, somehow, He succeeded.
"Oh? Aren't you gonna use your prideful devil fruit power Mr. Admiral? I'm pretty sure you can use your amazing speed of light and punch my face right now." Naruto said calmly yet hint of playfulness betrayed his voice.
"Ahh, What a troublesome brat~... Care to explain what the hell you did to me?" Kizaru bit out angrily and barely controlled his annoyance, trying to free himself from the chains around him.
"It's simple, I used my lightning 'power' to numb your body and blood circulation." Naruto smirked. "Haven't you realized the current battle styles I've been doing? I've been mainly using my lightening and fire attacks, Do you know why? By making the ground heat up with my fire power helps the electricity to flow throughout the area in mere seconds. I don't think you noticed but every time you touched the earth's ground, small amount of electricity was already numbing you from the very start. So when I use my big lightning attacks, it makes the technique ten times more powerful. And since you're a troublesome Logia type, I had to prevent you from turning into light particles and somehow decrease your speed."
The blonde-Immortal eye-smiled toward the Admiral when he tried to move against the bindings.
"Oh, I suggest you not to move too much. It'll just make the electricity to course through your blood veins faster and burn countless amounts of brain cells resulting your painful death...," The Immortal couldn't help but laugh at the passive yet paled expression on Kizaru's face. "Just kidding but that's what my lovely medic told me whenever I got hurt by a lightning attacks." The blonde explained with soft yet strained smile blooming on his face.
'Shika-chan and Saku-chan would be so proud of me right now...' Naruto thought fondly about his shadow user genius and pink-haired medic, One of his precious best friends. He ignored the pang of sadness and shook his head before turning his attention to the confused Admiral.
"Enough with my chit-chat, So? What do you think of my genius strategy?" Naruto cheekily asked Kizaru who has been oddly quiet for a while.
In state of shock and surprise, Borsalino only stared openly at the blonde before chuckling with hint of bitterness and respect.
"It's been many years since I lost a fight and not to mention, a mere kid beating me up." Kizaru said casually despite the numb pain he was in. "But even if you kill me, The Marine Headquarter will definitely use every bit of their military power to capture you, They'll hunt you down till the very end of your breath. I don't know what you're planning to do but the New world is tough and many obstacle will mercilessly block your path and ambition. Besides me, other Admirals will try to kill you. The World Nobles will persistently try to make your life a living hell for punching one of the Tenryuubito's son." The Admiral bitterly chuckled and narrowed his eyes with a small smile. "Not only you made the royal family and the Marines to turn against you, You also managed to shift this entire world's attention toward you. To be honest~... I'm rather concerned about your current position."
"Thank you for your concern but sadly, I don't plan on getting caught nor get defeated by bunch of cowards and brats." Naruto smirked at the shocked and surprised expression on the Admiral's face'
"I'll beat the world noble's ass and change this world. Believe it!"
Naruto's eyes narrowed as mixture of lightning and wind charged around his body, becoming brighter as he continued concentrating. Both elements changed from their blue color to a near deep silver-blue. He blurred forward, his lightning-wind armored hand came toward the numb Admiral and punched into the taller male's gut sending him high into the air. A painful grunt/cough came from Kizaru's throat as he felt the intense pain explode in his gut and taste of iron spread throughout his mouth. Suddenly, Kizaru felt suffocating pressure wrapped around him, squeezing his arms and rib cage, he glanced at the corner of his eyes and noticed another unusual chains were restrained around him. This time, the metallic red chains glowed in mystic silvery-reddish glow with intense aura around it. Like an hissing snake, the chains tightly confined the Admiral with immoderate durability and strength.
'What the hell is this!' Kizaru shouted mentally and small panic erupted from his throat.
"You should close your eyes Mr. Admiral~! That'll prevent dusts and dirt from getting into your eyes." The blonde said cheerfully and complimented himself for being such a genius. Until, He stared in realization and sweat-dropped at the obvious display before grinning sheepishly. "Never mind, you're wearing sunglasses." Kizaru gritted his teeth in annoyance and Kurama sighed in exasperation at the blonde's remark but narrowed his crimson eyes when the Kyuubi felt his partner's exhaustion and physical stress. Sighing, The demon fox already knew his blonde-haired companion was pushing through his limits but didn't show it because of his stubborn personality and burning will of 'never giving up'.
"Tch, This is harder than I thought..." Naruto whispered tiredly, beads of sweat tickling down his forehead and felt his own chakra dispersing itself from overuse.
The Immortal-Sage carefully concentrated his unstable natural energy and Kyuubi's chakra to manipulate his chakra chains. Skillfully, Naruto flickered his wrist and Kizaru felt himself rise higher to the sky. Suddenly, The Admiral widened his eyes and felt himself tilted downward and begun to spin at such a great velocity toward the ground. He could feel the pressure coming upon him as he was going down at such a great speed, he couldn't tell how high up he was, Four hundred feet? Maybe even Five hundred. Kizaru perfectly understood the situation he was in. Struggling against the stubborn chains, Kizaru noticed greater problem, he had no way of avoiding the crash due to the numbness and the blue-chains didn't even budge against his struggles. Calculating numerous plans and strategies from his years of survival, Kizaru quickly picked the reasonable and effective idea of using his devil fruit powers to escape from this dangerous situation. However, something powerful and overwhelming aura limited his entire movements and prevented his light-abilities from activating. Suddenly, He started to solve the scattered puzzle pieces together in his head. Calmly, Borsalino noticed there was some kind of disturbance between his physical strength and devil fruit powers to become utterly useless, familiar weakening sensation like he was drowning under the sea, uncontrollable sickening headache, and unavoidable limits in his movements. After few moments of realization and shock, The Admiral finally understood the main source of his problem.
'Don't tell me...This familiar weakening sensation is...' Kizaru slightly paled and gritted his teeth in uncontrollable anger mixed with annoyance and realization for umpteenth times today. Through the blurry scenery, The Admiral barely saw a fox-like grin on the blonde's face and a 'peace'-sign sent toward him. Besides Naruto's feet, crumbles of familiar-looking green stones were spread throughout the ground and glowed in eerie emerald-greenish color. 'Sea stones!?'
From the corner of his eyes, The Admiral stared in disbelief to see a detailed features of glowing Sea stones fused together with the silvery-blue chains around him.
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The impact into the ground caused earth to rise from the ground and split and large amount of debris to be sent into the air. Once the smokes and dusts faded away, Kizaru slightly coughed from the dirt's rubble and gravels. The Admiral slowly opened his eyes until shivering at the sudden coldness and freezing presence enveloped the area. Cautiously looking around for the blonde, Borsalino felt dizziness from the crumbled sea stones around him and took deep breaths to relief his throbbing headache. Suddenly, Misty fogs came into existence and crusts of ice spread throughout the earth's ground, no warmth nor heat existed against the air's atmosphere. Howling and wailing across the wide earth, Wind harshly blew out of no where, Harmonic whistle soothed everything into deep slumber as the afternoon sky darkened in eerie dark blue color.
"This is the end, Mr. Admiral."
Trembling slightly at the raw emotions reechoing throughout a familiar voice, The proud Admiral froze and slowly looked up from the frozen ground. Sudden fear and amazement coursed through Kizaru's soul and his gut instincts screamed to run away from the intimidating yet astonishing sight in front of him.
Speechless.
Astounded.
Fear.
Kizaru uncharacteristically fell silent and oddly enough, 'Are you a god?' was on the tip of his tongue before he nervously swallowed the absurd question down.
The breathtaking scenery didn't apply to any logic or common sense beyond this world.
It simply took his breath away.
"Illusionary Moon Fox:: Shingetsukami (New Moon God) "
Blue and silver aurora spread throughout the sudden starlit sky like a curtains, Naruto held his beautiful blue katana 'Tsukiyori's azure handle as silvery-cyan glow emitted from the symbol on upper side of its midnight-blue sheath. It was a beautiful emblem of silver fox with crescent blue moon descending upon the artistic animal.
"Become my blade and shield, Shinseitsuki." At Naruto's soft yet commanding voice, A lotus of blazing blue fire came into existence and icy surroundings instantly vanished and was replaced by a burning silver-blue hellfire igniting throughout the field with predatory hunger. Wild silver-blue flames seemed to shower upon the blonde with affections and automatically swirled around him before changing its featureless shape into a glorious burning silver-blue canine.
His blue eyes never blinked nor fluttered from the intense heat emitted throughout the area. Calmly, Naruto stood with enormous blue-silver shaded fire fox surrounding him. The celestial creature's features were ethereally beautiful yet its terrifying aura shook everything into fear and demanded absolute respect. Pair of animalistic blue-silver eyes stared in great calmness and power. Instead of fur, this majestic beast possessed a beautiful burning flames around its figure. Silvery-blue flames flickered and protectively surrounded their master, Naruto, and each of its exotic nine tails swirled as if they were dancing. Sharp crystal fangs bared itself and shimmered threateningly from the sunset's brightening scarlet light. Deep silver-blue markings around its eyes, lineament, and on the burning blue body was illustrated like a heavenly art. But the most shocking and unimaginable sight was the blonde's new appearance. Naruto stood in middle of the blazing blue inferno, His outfits now covered in blue-silver flames and his eyes changed from their original blue to silvery-cerulean. His radiating aura was surprisingly cold and held suffocating power. But that wasn't all; Borsalino widened his eyes in amazement when he unsheathed a beautiful katana, It certainly wasn't the deadly crimson blade, but a completely different sword with serene aura around it. Exquisite yet deadly; The silver-bluish katana was overall beautiful and elegant. It had remarkable and flawless designs of silver/ blue flames on the azure-colored handle wrapping. The blade was curved, slender, and single-edged with deep-silver linings. It resembled a delicate ice crystal. The sword glowed in mystic yet calming glow like a lightened full moon.
Kizaru stood silently with an unreadable expression, absolutely frozen and entranced at the magnificent sight behold in front of him. The Admiral felt fear, astonishment, awe, and respect tingling through his soul.
No one can control mother nature but he was proven wrong by the blonde who easily created a magnificent stage show.
... This unbelievable scenery was intoxicating.
"I'm not young as my appearance shows and I experienced many things Mr. Kizaru." The blonde-immortal suddenly whispered, his voice velvet and smooth. "Both good and bad, I witnessed every existence of life and it's matter of time until I finally break and shatter into nothingness... No one is truly invincible and I'm no exception. I have a mind, I have emotions, I have weakness, but I know I can never be a normal human being ever again..."
The blonde-haired man's presence changed drastically and unleashed different kind of aura. It wasn't the warm and comforting one; This time Namikaze-Uzumaki Naruto's aura was cold, deadly, and held authority with calming emotions. Like a snow storm and tropical summer breeze mixed together in unusual sensation of pure relaxation and calmness. Visible blue swirls protectively surrounded him, shaping into a powerful dragon as it roared its mighty roar. It was as if the wind and the Mother Nature was waiting for the blonde to command them to attack anything that gets in his way. Waiting to shred everything into pieces and erase any existence for their master.
Continuously stunned and awed, Kizaru stared with wide eyes and certain name flew past his mind; The overall sight reminded him of the legendary Wind God...,
The Kamikaze.
"This is one of my forbidden powers, Shingetsukami." Naruto spoke in an icy voice, his silver-blue eyes were set on the astonished Admiral as the blonde stomped a foot on the ground.
Dust and rubble kicked up as the area beneath his feet exploded, creating a large crater. "Using this shortens my life span considerably but I will use it to defeat you and end this battle. Although, I won't kill you and I'll let you live but tell your Fleet Admiral I'm not joking around, I will overthrow the world government and Gorosei to change this world." Naruto's expression darkened with pair of scarlet-blue eyes glaring at the Admiral. "This is the end, I've wasted enough time with you already." The Immortal-blonde slightly tilted his head and his thoughts were on the Straw Hat Pirates again, A worried look crossed his face when he couldn't find any presence of them at the Shakky's Rip-Off Bar. A feeling of dread coursed through Naruto's chest but he quickly shook it off and forcefully brought his attention back to the Admiral.
He fluidly unsheathed his katana 'Tsukiyoru' form its midnight-blue sheath, the silver-blue wind and flame enhanced blade beautifully shimmered.
"Oh, just to let you know, I'm way older than you think. Way older than you are..., kid." Naruto smiled 'innocently' at the absurd look from Kizaru before he swung the beautiful sword down, causing small sparks of silvery-blue flames to flicker across the air before touching the Admiral's forehead. An blue-inked kanji letter '封印'(Sealed) appeared upon Kizaru's forehead before fading away into nothingness.
"Mr. Admiral Kizaru, You were definitely the most admirable and tough opponent I've fought so far. Undoubtedly, You're truly one of the worthy people to see my special katana, Tsukiyoru. Thanks for the awesome fight, I certainly hope we can encounter each other again and spar sometime soon. Although, I hope you won't get too upset if I beat you again." Yawning tiredly and scratching his head, Naruto chuckled in teasing humor. "You can have the sea stone as our farewell gift." The blonde spoke cheerily toward the dumbfounded Kizaru and smiled. His smile filled with knowledge, understanding, wisdom, and reflection of warrior itself appeared upon his scarred face.
"Good night Admiral-san. I promise I'll change this world, I never go back on my words."
Blue flames swirled around the air as they entirely consumed the Admiral with their calming glow. Not fighting back the sudden sleepiness and irresistible calmness; Kizaru chuckled, feeling disbelief and amusement at the blonde's unbelievable antics but somehow, He couldn't help but inwardly cheer and believe that Naruto will succeed. Every word from the blonde sounded so trustworthy and Borsalino hopefully wished this man will someday change this world. Breathing deeply to steady his ragged breath, Kizaru slowly closed his eyes and imagined how Sengoku yelling at him for failing a mission. Oh well, That old man really needed to learn how to relax. Breathlessly sighing with a smile, He closed his eyes. The Admiral's body limped and his back hit the tree behind him, the blue chains still tightly wrapped around him with evident silvery glow.
"Finally, This fight is over. Damn, his punches hurt like bloody hell!" Naruto whined childishly, stretching his sore muscles. In a snap of his fingers, The blonde dispersed the silvery-blue flames and wind, deactivating the 'Illusionary Fox Mode: Shingetsukami'. He sheathed his 'Tsukiyoru' back to its midnight-blue sheath before strapping it beside 'Akai Shizuku'. Few moments later, his original appearance came back with slightly tattered cloak and clothes. His tanned face was wounded with countless number of scratches and blood seeped through from his already ruined shirt. Comical angered expression took place on Naruto's face, raising his both hands in dramatic manner.
'Shitty-Fuck! This ORANGE shirt was my favorite! Now its all bloody and ripped beyond repairing...' Naruto turned to glare murderously at the unconscious Admiral. 'I'm gonna kill him if I ever meet him again... That asshole is gonna pay for what he had done! Doesn't he understand how annoying it is to wash off blood from clothes?!'
Shaking his head in annoyance, The blonde sighed. "Kurama, can you heal me? I'm pretty low on my chakra and I'm too lazy to use my medical jutsu right now." Naruto smiled sheepishly and watched as the familiar red chakra quickly healed his injuries and bruises.
"Brat, How many motherfucking times do I have to tell you? Don't release your chakra limiter so frequently! This power is only used for special occasions!" Kurama growled after he finished healing the 'innocent' blonde who smiled childishly. "Remember during our training with bitchy Megami? You have three Demon Fox forms/modes, and she specially told you NOT to use them unless you're in REALLY shitty situation OR when you're fighting against some annoying fuckers!"
"Kurama, language!" Narrowing his intense blue eyes, Naruto angrily snapped at the fox and the Great ol' Kyuubi rolled his crimson eyes in response. During the two-thousand years of training with Megami and his parents, The goddess held a meeting with other gods/Goddesses and specifically ordered them to train him individually with different abilities. But the most troublesome teacher was the God Of Death himself; Shinigami taught him how to control 'Death' and 'Souls'. But the Death God's eerie aura and uncomfortable smiles always made the blonde cautious around him. The usual-patient blonde couldn't help but feel annoyed with his teacher's dark-humored remarks but grudgingly respected the sarcastic-lazy god who skillfully hid his warrior's experience and unwavering determination underneath that happy-go-lucky facade.
The Death God also taught him how to control devastating power known as the 'Demon Fox Modes'... However, the blonde needed to sacrifice few things to fully obtain those powers and abilities from Shinigami. To be more exact and succinct, his life and soul. Unconsciously, Naruto rubbed his right hand on his left wrist, tracing his slim finger over the crimson-colored red fox with a black scythe tattoo, an clear evidence between him and the death god's contract.
"I'm gonna explain and repeat everything to you again cause you're an idiot!" Kurama ignored the annoyed look from Naruto.
"Out of the three forms, Chaos Fox mode 'Shinkuzakura' is the most dangerous and risky form to use. It grants you the ability to control 'Death' and the Hell Realm. It's capable of creating Amaterasu and Susanoo, but you'll need your katana to manipulate it. To activate this mode, it requires your 'Akai Shizuku' or my chakra. This mode also allows you to have complete mastery over Natural Elements like Fire and Lightning."
Kyuubi narrowed his eyes.
"Next, The Healing Fox Mode 'Iyasugami'. It requires your Fox Sage Mode or Toad Sage Mode to activate this form. Powerful weaponry isn't necessary to control this power. It gives you the ability to heal and bring life to the world. Also, you can easily control rare element affinities like Wood release and earth. Lastly, the most fucking-troublesome form out of all; the Illusionary Moon Fox mode. I can't believe you used this mode against that shitty yellow nightlight-man." The fox sighed and shook his head. "He's not even worth it."
"Don't be such a rude-moody bastard, Kyuubi. He was a very admirable and freakishly strong opponent, I had to use more than half of my powers against him or else I had no way to make him unconscious nor defeat him. This world is filled with many people who can control Haki and it's necessary for me to use my Demon Fox modes to fight future opponents, especially if they eaten a devil fruit. Some day I might have to fight someone stronger than me and I always need to stay strong to achieve my goal." Naruto narrowed his eyes before sighing as well. "I know I shouldn't have used 'Demon Fox Mode' so carelessly, sorry. I'll be more careful."
"You better be." Kurama snapped angrily. "As I was saying, the Illusionary Moon Fox Mode 'Shingetsukami' grants you the ability to control difficult chakra elements like Ice, Water, and Wind. Activating this mode requires your katana 'Tsukiyoru' to control its greatest power without any restraints. Other than manipulating weather and the natural energy, you can also create illusions and generate them into reality. During this mode, you're capable of using Tsukuyomi and trapping people's souls in a dimensional prison that's completely under your control. The disadvantages after using this mode is unavoidable tiredness and exhaustion." The fox threateningly sent a extra warning look.
"I know, I know." The blonde nodded tiredly with a hint of annoyance shown on his face. "Why are you telling me all this? I already know! I didn't train for nothing."
"Just making sure you'll remember it through your idiotic dense mind."
"Kurama..." Naruto glared at the fox. "I already know how dangerous and risky it is but I have to use these powers to fulfill my mission. I made a promise with my parents and I don't plan on taking my words back, My absolute nindo way is to keep promises and fulfill them till the very end. This world is corrupted and I'm gonna change it no matter what. I won't-.. I can't fail again."
He balled his hands into tight fists, The blonde completely ignored the tingling sensation of blood tickling down from palm of his hands. Sighing, Naruto unintentionally had a distant look in his dull blue eyes. A look of someone lost in the past, a saddening and nostalgic expression. Mixed feelings of wistful regret, anger, hatred, and guilt barely etched itself on his face. An lingering look of someone who had lost something very dear, precious, and important to them.
'Never... Never again... '
Images of Luffy and the StrawHats appeared. His hands turned into tight fists, his face darkening with determined expression. He swore to protect his comrades no matter what, even if it meant sacrificing everything. After his failures and losing everything through his previous lifetime, he couldn't bear the thought of losing someone precious to him. Again. He needed to find the 'Child Of Prophecy' soon and lead the child to the glory of Pirate King.
'I'm not allowed to fail again.'
Slowly, Naruto gazed at the endless blue sky and briefly blinked at the sun's blazing brightness, shading the white clouds with hint of scarlet. Its beautiful red color painted the crystal blue sky into a crimson artwork, momentarily taking away his breath at the sight.
His hand unconsciously gripped around the necklace gifted from his godmother Tsunade and his parents.
Tearing his blurry blue eyes from the beautiful sky, Kurama's voice interrupted the blonde's reverie.
The Nine-tailed fox solemnly sighed at the emotionless look on his face. "Gaki, it's true you've gotten stronger over the years... But Kit, You truly need to understand. Every time you activate the 'Demon Fox modes', it shortens your ability to be yourself and one day, that power will completely devour your soul. That bastard Shinigami feeds on your life force and soul and it's a matter of time before you turn into his personal puppet. Your mind and soul will be forever trapped inside the eternal abyss of darkness and your body will be selfishly used for mere killing machine and unstoppable tool of destruction." Kurama narrowed his crimson eyes. "Don't tell me you forgot about the risks cause I sure as hell remember how Megami explained it to you for about hundred days straight, literally. She doesn't want you to become Bastard-Shinigami's toy." Growling, The demon fox huffed.
"I don't want you to regret and die in such pathetic death ever again. Are we clear?"
"... Yeah, crystal clear." Naruto closed his eyes and smiled softly, knowing that the 'fearsome' demon fox was simply worried about him. Although the Kyuubi won't admit it (He bet the fox would rather die 'again' than admitting it), he knew Kurama cared for him. Through those long yet short years of training and way before he gained immorality from Megami, Kurama was the only existence who truly understood about his pain and sadness. If the blonde lied, the fox would always know the truth, if he fake a smile, Kurama would always punch him in the face (literally) and brotherly shout at him for being an idiot, and whenever he stole a life from someone, The Kyuubi would always stay by his side to comfort his hidden guilt. It was weird but an important bond he created with the fox demon. Kurama was his friend and a comrade.
'Friend.'
Naruto smiled softly at the heart-lifting thought.
"Thanks Kurama." Naruto thanked him and tiredly smiled. Kurama's eyes soften before snorting rudely. The tense atmosphere quickly disappeared and comfortable silence settled between them.
"Tch, whatever. You took long enough to defeat that pathetic Admiral... Hurry up and send him away to the Marine Headquarter before the annoying reinforcements come again." The blonde nodded in agreement before smiling foxily and comical light bulb appeared above his head.
"Wait."
"What?" Kurama did not like the evil expression on the blonde's face and sweat-dropped.
Slowly, Naruto smiled evilly and took out a rainbow-colored sharpie (A/N: I don't think they invented sharpie yet... Oh well xD) from his pocket, he casually walked over to the unconscious Admiral. Crouching down to his knees, he took off the cap from the sharpie and started to laugh in crazy-evil-laughter. Kurama watched in silence, sweat-dropping at his 'stupid' and playful blonde-haired comrade.
'This is for ruining my favorite shirt!"
In mere seconds; Naruto finished drawing whiskers, happy face, mustache, and other absurd drawings on Kizaru's sleeping face.
"Rule number one: Never anger a famous, handsome, blonde-haired Ex-prankster." Naruto chuckled before replacing back the marker in his pocket.
"Im proud of you Kit," Kurama snorted and smirked. "Now hurry up and summon two of my kits so they can send this filthy human away."
"Yeah, yeah, I know~"
Chuckling, Naruto took out a beautiful red-golden scroll with fox designs on the cover from his pouch and took out a silver brush before writing down a kanji '琥珀 (Kohaku/Amber)' and '緑 (Midori/Green)' on the paper's smooth surface. Suddenly, the writings glowed into blue light before smokes exploded throughout the area. Through smokes and dusts, two figures of small black fox and brown fox appeared in front of Naruto. The small foxes's size was no more than a puppy with orange and blue-colored head protectors similar to Naruto's wrapped comfortably around their necks. Pair of amber stared with hint of playfulness and mischievousness and pair of green eyes stared impassively, The little fox's small puffy black tail whipped happily at the sight of his blonde-haired master and Kurama. While the small brown-furred fox calmly bowed his head in respect. Jumping around energetically, the black-furred fox grinned happily.
"Naru~! Kyuu-sama!" The small black-furred fox yipped childishly.
"Hey Kohaku, Midori." Naruto smiled and Kurama waved one of his crimson tails as a lazy greeting.
"Is there something you need Naruto-sama?" Midori asked curiously and tilted his head.
"Yep, Sorry for summoning you guys all of the sudden. I need you guys to take that guy and take him to a place called Marine Headquarter." Rubbing his head, Naruto gestured to the unconscious Admiral Kizaru and Kohaku barked out a laughter at the hilarious yet familiar sight.
"Naru, Kyuu-sama, again with your pranks?" Kohaku happily yipped and walked in front of the Admiral, While Midori cautiously observed the man with calculating green eyes.
"Mhmm." Naruto nodded with a small smile before taking out a piece of paper to the foxes. "This map shows the location where Marine Headquarter is located, try not to cause too much ruckus and return to your dimension after succeeding your mission."
"Aye sir!" The optimistic black fox saluted with his left paw and the calm brown fox politely nodded before they disappeared in poof of smokes with the unconscious Admiral.
"..." After they left, Naruto's smile fell and replaced by a emotionless expression.
"Kit..." Kurama whispered and watched how the blonde clenched his hand into tight fist. 'Luffy... Camie... Everyone...'
"Kurama, Lets go."
In swirl of leafs and whirlwind, Naruto and Kurama disappeared.
'Please... Please be all right."
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Xxx Pacifista xxX
Fear, Hopelessness, Anxiousness, and Concern.
Moving through the trees with graceful movements, Naruto felt suffocating emotions from Shakky's Rip-Off Bar and quickly felt the feelings grow intenser, deeper, and stronger. His nose tingled in familiar smell of exotic ocean and hint of vanilla scent mixed within the air. His chest slightly bloomed in hope but instantly deflated when he also smelt tears and blood.
It was Camie.
Slightly exhausted from the fight earlier, The blonde panted and finally stood in front of the building, Shakky's Rip-off Bar, with wide eyes as his mind slowly registered the scenery in front of him. The small home-welcoming bar was now destroyed with half of the roof's wood pieces scattered into debris. The doorway barely managing its existence with destroyed windows and walls. Without any second thoughts, Naruto swiftly barged in through the medium-sized opening between the cracked walls.
"EVERYONE! LUFFY! CAMIE!" The blonde desperately shouted and noticed how Luffy and other Straw Hat pirates weren't inside the bar.
"N-Naru... chin?" Naruto's heart swelled up in happiness and relief when he found the timid mermaid hiding behind the tipped over table with Hachi and Pappug.
"Camie! Are you okay? Are you hurt anywhere?" He asked worriedly and sighed in relief when she shook her head 'no'.
"I-Im fine Naru-chin... B-but..." Camie whimpered and tears welled up in her purple eyes. "Luffy-chin and others protected us and left the bar so they won't cause a major ruckus here... Nami-chin told me to stay here with Hachi and Pappug, She promised me they'll come back soon as Luffy-chin defeats the scary-looking man... But, they haven't come back yet and I'm worried..." The mermaid finally let her tears fall and helplessly sobbed.
"Camie..." Pappug sniffled with tears threatening to spill from his own eyes and desperately tried to comfort his best friend. Silently, Hachi reassuringly patted her messy green locks.
At Camie's words, Naruto's blood ran cold and his expression turned slightly pale. 'Everyone... No no no! I can't afford to lose another comrade! I gotta go... I need to save them!'
"I have to go after them." Determinedly, Naruto spoke without hesitation. "You guys stay here, I'm sure Rayleigh-san and Shakky-san will come back soon. No matter what, I repeat, Don't leave this place... I don't want you all getting captured by slave holders again." His blue eyes softened in concern and protectiveness, making the mermaid slightly blush at the brotherly heartwarming expression before widening her eyes in fear.
"No!" Camie tightly gripped onto Naruto's wrist, making the blonde-haired man to stare at her with shocked facade. "Y-you'll be killed! That man was strong! Even Luffy-chin had hard time trying to fight him!"
Silently, Naruto watched her panicking and teary eyes with neutral face before smiling a little and ruffled her hair. "Camie-chan, Don't worry about me... I'll be fine! I defeated the Admiral and I'm pretty confident in my own skills... Not to mention, even if I die, I'll definitely put up a good fight." At first, The young mermaid looked astonished at his statement but stubbornly shook her head.
"B-but..."
"Camie."
She froze at his stern voice and slowly looked up to see pair of beautiful blue eyes that held understanding, kindness, and most of all... fierce passionate determination.
"I promise I'll come back." The blonde slowly leaned down and affectionately pecked her forehead, making the innocent mermaid to blush brightly into beet red. "Even for the briefest and shortest time, You're like my precious sister to me and I don't want you to get hurt, Please understand."
For few moments of silence, Neither spoke a word before the mermaid slowly released her hold from the blonde's wrist. The young maiden stood silently before rubbing her eyes to stop herself from crying.
"... Promise?" Camie stared deeply into Naruto's eye and the blonde fully understood what she meant and smiled.
"Yes, I promise I'll return by your side. My imouto."
With flicker of leafs and wind, Naruto vanished.
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'Dammit! Where are they!?' Naruto cursed, desperately trying to find the Straw Hat Pirate's presence.
'Kit, Something's coming...' Kurama mentally warned and growled.
Out of nowhere, Naruto watched as massive figures stepped out from the shadows with impassive expressions. The blonde-Immortal instantly felt something was off about them and cautiously observed the unusual pack of identical figures. He tried to sense any emotions from them but received none, resulting the Sage to narrow his eyes. Every single one of them wore same clothes, same face, same aura of nothingness, and puppet-like facade.
'What are they? This is not the human feeling I'm getting... It's almost as if they're puppets or something.' Naruto thought.
'Brat, this is the presence I told you about earlier... They're not human, that's for sure, they're somewhat close to mechanics which means every single one of them is unique species called 'cyborg'. An human turned into a machine with metal mechanical parts to improve their abilities to the fullest. ' Kurama explained. 'To be more succinct, they have no soul or heart whatsoever. They're only programmed to complete their mission with perfect rating of completion. In Shinobi world, they'll be mostly known as human puppets.'
'Cyborg? You mean the Pacifista?' The blonde widened his eyes in realization, briefly remembering about stack of books he read during the training with Megami. Apparently, 'Pacifista' are type of an cyborg developed by Dr. Vegapunk and mainly used for capturing highly wanted pirates and villains.
"Namikaze-Uzumaki Naruto... Current Bounty: Unknown... Current Status: Unknown. Must be captured... Must be captured..." Suddenly, Mechanic robot-like voice echoed loudly throughout the forest and Naruto tensed in surprise when one of the Pacifista came running toward the blonde with a speed that defied its massive size and attempted to punch Naruto into the ground, but the blonde-haired ninja quickly dodged and it ended up smashing the ground with its fist. Swiftly, Naruto delivered a round-house kick to the side of his face causing the robot's head to twist uncomfortably before exploding into debris as smokes rose up. Another 'Kuma' appeared out of nowhere and turned its head toward the blonde and fired devastating laser attack from its mouth causing Naruto to jump out of the way to dodge.
'Okay, so they can shoot laser beams. That's fun. And they don't really care about causing property damage either, That's very rude. Don't they realize how long time it took the hard-working people to build that building and houses?' The blonde narrowed his blue eyes at the cyborgs with disapproving expression. 'And they seem to be programmed about me too... Tch, The Marine sure does act fast.'
'Stop whining and concentrate!'
The 'Kuma' turned its head back towards him again and fired another laser attack causing Naruto to perform few back flips to dodge. Unluckily, He wound up jumping right into the another 'Kuma' that had his hands extended as a light shone from its palms, "Oops." Naruto said as he made a series of hand-seals just as the second 'Kuma' fired.
"Kage Bunshin No Justu!"
Within poof of large smokes, Group of at least twenty Naruto's Kage Bunshin leapt away from the beam and swiftly created series of Rasengan before they all drilled it into 'Kuma's massive torso, causing it to explode.
"You guys! Don't let your guard down! Create another onslaught of Rasengan and attack one of them!" Naruto commanded his clones.
"Yes sir, boss!"
Creating another torrents of Rasengans, Naruto's clones quickly ran towards the other two remaining enemies that immediately launched laser attacks. Half of Naruto's clones dispersed from the attack but other half of them instantly aimed their deadly attacks against one of the 'Kuma's and succeeded on defeating it. Panting slightly from his inevitable exhaustion, Original Naruto felt rest of his clones disappear and barely managed to dodge the incoming laser beam from the side.
'Tch, The of using Demon Fox Mode is acting up!'
"Stop shooting at me you idiot moron!" Naruto yelled as lasers flew past him while he continued to dodge. Swiftly, Naruto jumped up and saw his last opponent charging up another laser from its mouth. Cursing, Naruto quickly sprung off from the nearest tree and performed few black flips, connecting with a kick planted right under the 'Kuma's chin. The blonde quickly narrowed his blue eyes when it effortlessly stood back up with slight electricity coursing through its mechanical head. It located Naruto and fired off another laser, and then another, and then another and endlessly fired toward the blonde-haired man. Gracefully, Naruto was dodging laser after laser from the wounded cyborg.
'This is taking forever...' Naruto growled and dodged another onslaught of laser beams. He can easily defeat this annoying piece of metal with single Rasenshuriken but he was too tired from the fight against Kizaru and the blonde could clearly sense his physical stress throughout his body.
Everyone...
The blonde momentarily froze in shock but quickly snapped out from his surprise when another laser was sent toward him.
Zoro…gone…Kuma….
Crew... Save...
Everyone... gone... gone...
Run...! Run! RUN!
Naruto widened his eyes, surging emotions of sadness, anger, hate, loneliness, and agony flew past him like a breeze. Suddenly, the blonde felt presence near him, it was near, somewhere around him. Faintly, the blonde smelt tears before widening his eyes when he finally entranced himself within the familiar aura.
It was Luffy.
"Fuuton: Rasenshuriken" In swift movement, Naruto forcefully gathered rest of his chakra and mercilessly plunged the Rasenshuriken through 'Kuma's chest before the last cyborg exploded into shredded metal pieces.
"Luffy..." Naruto whispered dreadfully and ignored the intense smell of burnt mechanic. His body throbbed in intense pain and stress but the blonde didn't care, he didn't give a damn, He only wanted to see them safe and sound.
Without hesitation, The Immortal-blonde quickly shunshined toward where Luffy's presence and emotions grew stronger. Naruto's chest felt tight with suffocating feelings and the blonde felt himself tremble slightly as he continued to run across the forest. Memories of his past slowly haunted him, choking his throat with rising cries. He needed to stay strong... He needed to save his friends... He couldn't bear the agony anymore... No no no... He'll never let his mistakes repeat itself again. Never.
'Kit, Calm down.' Kurama comfortingly whispered but the demon fox's words never reached his ears.
Eventually, The blonde reached up to the forest's clearing and widened his blue eyes at sight in front of him. Growling, Kurama hopped off from Naruto's trembling shoulders and threateningly snarled with red chakra flickering around the legendary demon fox.
"Luffy..." Naruto whispered fearfully.
He saw Luffy with another man, Bartholomew Kuma, and the straw-hat boy's face struck with absolute sadness and anger as threatening shadow fell upon him. Like a slow motion, Kuma's hand was about to touch Luffy; The blonde felt fear and surging protectiveness, He couldn't think anymore, his mind became blank white, and his eyes only saw red.
'No!' Out of pure instinct, Naruto threw himself between Luffy and the Shichibukai's hand, that swept down toward him, without any hesitation nor pause. The paw-like palms gently pressed into his torso. Then there was nothingness before a deep, lingering, mind numbing pain rippled through out his body. His blue eyes blurred as agonizing seconds passed and barely saw the shocked expression etched on the Straw Hat captain's face.
Darkness... ...
As Luffy's urgent voice became distant and faded away within the eternal darkness,
Naruto entirely closed his eyes before pure bliss of blackness embraced him.
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Blade Of Kamikaze chapter 6 End.
A/N: Thanks for reading! :D I apologize for my bad grammar and spelling mistakes! I'll definitely update better version someday!
First of all, I just wanted to explain few important things.
~Question #1: No offence, But why is Naruto having such hard time trying to defeat an Admiral after he trained for over two-thousand years?
Eternal: It's true Naruto trained for over One-thousand years and with his current level, He can fairly defeat over Admiral/Yonko-leveled enemies with slight difficulties. BUT, That doesn't mean he's completely incredible or anything; Naruto is emotionally broken and he has witnessed countless of wars, deaths, and traumatic scenery during his lifetime. His hellish experiences resulted his heart and mind to shatter numerous times. He still blames himself for his old friend's death and Konoha's downfall. He sometimes gets obsessed with sudden protectiveness toward his new comrades and precious people, He can't fully control his emotions and nightmares. This is why he suddenly remembers his old lifetime in middle of the battle, no matter how many years passes, Naruto can never forget his bloodshed and guilt.
- It's true I said Naruto is god-like, but I mainly meant he has godly 'powers' and 'abilities'.
~Question#2: Dude, Naruto is strong! He shouldn't be crying about his deceased friends for over thousands of years... He should f*cking get over with it!
Eternal: Naruto has been treated unequally and was isolated from others since his young childhood and only wished for people to accept him. Through hardship and difficult suffering, He finally gained amazing friends and people who respected him. Until the war between Konoha and the Sound occur; Naruto lost his precious people and endured many traumatic experiences throughout his whole lifetime, He fought countless of wars with Orochimaru and had to watch his own friends die in front of his own eyes. Undoubtedly, Naruto is truly strong but not emotionally strong enough to simply forget about his past life and move on. It'll take much more time for him to finally forgive himself.
~Question #3: What's a Demon Fox Modes/Forms?
Eternal: Demon Fox Modes is a special type of technique taught by Shinigami. It includes three modes/forms: Shinkuzakura (Crimson Cherry Blossom), Shingetsukami (New Moon God), and Iyasugami (Healing God). Although Naruto mastered all these modes, He had to sacrifice few vital things for exchange of its incredible abilities. Naruto sacrificed his soul to Shinigami and in return, The Death God gifted him the power of Demon Fox Mode. The Shingetsukami actually shortens his soul, which is slightly different from his life source, The soul is his characteristics and important part of his identity. If his soul completely vanishes, he will simply become a emotionless puppet. Sorry for the confusion :P (During this chapter, he purposefully stated its his 'life force' because he didn't want the Admiral to know that he's a immortal.)
Thank you for your guy's understanding and support! :D Please review! Gladly accepts any advice! But please refrain yourself from cursing, swearing, or flaming! *sweat-drops* Lol xD
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Next Chapter: Heaven or Hell? Amazon Lily, Island Of Women!
Preview:
"What's wrong?" Blue eyes glinted threateningly with sinister smirk plastered on his scarred face. "Your heart must be freezing over right now... Don't worry, It'll be over soon...-" He unsheathed a beautiful crimson katana and its silvery-red blade glimmered in beastly bloodlust.
"-...After breaking you apart into little pieces."
The scarlet rain splattered on the ground and screaming voice soundlessly echoed throughout the bloodied night.