A/N: Hey there! D.G.S here with a new chapter of Demon Lacrima for you guys.

Well, the most important thing to mention is that...Demon Lacrima has made 200 favourites! XD. I don't know how good that is by author standards but it sounds f*****g amazing! So thanks a lot you guys.

On the topic of this chapter, there are some cameo appearances from a few Naruto canon characters, mainly because of pure laziness to think of new OC characters to fill a five minute role.

So I won't waste anymore of your time, I'll let you get on with reading the new chapter...


Demon Lacrima

Chapter 7: To Make The Story Convincing...

by DeathGodSlayer


"Hey Sakura, whose that?" A girl with long blond hair, dressed in a purple skirt and shirt pointed t the boy who had just entered the village.

The pink girl accompanying her squinted her emerald eyes, dressed in a red shirt and blue skirt. "I'm not sure, Ino. He doesn't seem familiar at all."

"Maybe he's just passing through." Ino commented as they both stared at the boy.

"No one ever passes through." Sakura retorted almost angrily. "So what is he doing here?"

"Lets just go ask him!" Ino smiled confidently, without any time to argue back Ino was off in his direction, sighing, Sakura took off after her.

As they approached him they found that he was of a lean structure. His hair was separated into two separate styles. The top was black and spiky, but he also had straight, long, white hair on the bottom with a set of five maroon beads on the left strand of his hair. He wore a black leather vest with white fur-like material on the collar and sleeves. He had a white armlet around his right bicep, a black choker around his neck and spiked bracelets around his wrists and a pair of skull earrings. He also wore a pair of yellow trousers with black designs on them, and burgundy boots. From what Zancrow could see from his face as it was currently slunk downwards, he even masked dark eyeliner around his pupilless red eyes and plum-colored lipstick. The bottom eyelashes around his eyes sticking out as well. He had red skin on his right shoulder, as if he had just rubbed something off from it.

"Hi!" Ino approached him. "Are you new around here? We haven't had anyone new before? What's your name?" She instantly bombarded him with questions, the boy stopped if only to glance at her for a moment, before his eyes scanned around the village.

"Ino!" Sakura, jumped next to her. "Don't get to close. We don't know anything about this guy." She whispered quietly in the blond's ear, making sure the guy in front of her couldn't hear.

"So what? He looks too cool to ignore." Ino replied defiantly, she quite liked this mystery man's bad boy look. "So again, what are you doing here?" She spoke up to the boy, her whole body perking up in his direction.

A wide sly grin grew on his face, his breath trembled in anticipation. "I'm here to destroy this village." His eyes widened beyond belief. "Spiral Pain." He spoke darkly.

The girls could only feel pain, the air twisted and distorted around them, making a whirlpool like feature around them, it dug into them, tearing away at their bodies. Both managed to have high pitched screams of agony escape their throats. It alerted the villagers, who upon seeing a mystery stranger attack two villagers, were on the war path. Brandishing pitchforks and torches they circled around the boy, cutting off any means of escape for him.

"What are you doing here? Attacking our villagers? Why don't you leave before you get a beating!" The villagers yelled in anger at the mystery black haired boy. Who looked at their pitchforks, torches and angry faces uninterestedly.

"A wasted effort." The boy spoke again, he raised his hands, the fires grew with them, hopping off their torches the flames circled around him fluidly, before they exploded out would, a ring of fire extend right across the village, everything set on fire, hay, houses, those with reflexes not fast enough to duck. Everything was instantly set alight.

The villagers screamed in fear, looking around at their burning houses, when the turned to order the boy to stop the flames, he had disappeared. Wasting no time, they set off to put out the fires.


Midnight stared down at the glowing fires from a close hill. The fires raged in different sizes, but everything was destroyed none the less.

"So you accomplished your task?" A voice spoke behind him, tilting his head, he found Naruto approaching him, readjusting his black shirt.

Midnight nodded in return. "Did you get the Grimoire Heart stamp off?"

Naruto himself nodded, turning around to show the back of his shirt completely empty. "It was a lot harder to get off clothes then off skin." Naruto turned back around, standing next to Midnight, he saw the fires roaring through that village.

Midnight himself smirked darkly. "Well, it's all yours now. I shall meet you down there when you're finished, seeing as we do have to cut through this village to Ozaru anyway, it is the quickest route."

"Yeah." Naruto smirked more evilly than Midnight, everything had gone according to plan so far. "This won't take long."


Many ran through the small streets screaming in a panic, however none left the small village. Where else could they go? Their home, their money, their life, it was all here. Villagers ran to the wells, collecting buckets of water to throw on the raging fires.

A futile attempt. These flames were too large now, most of the water had evaporated too quickly to do any major dousing of the fire. The fires continued raging, battered through wooden doors and raided houses, simply for the destruction. A fire was a fire, it desired nothing materialistic, but loved to take them away from others.

"HELP!" Screamed the villagers, collecting children sleeping in their beds and running out the houses. "WILL NO ONE SAVE US?" They screamed up to the heavens, hoping for mercy and guidance through this fiery storm.

As if on cue, thunder crashed, black clouds began forming above, not of smoke, these clouds enveloped them like nothing.

And it rained. Quickly and furiously, pounding against everything, crashing down on the villagers and their homes, the tormenting fires could not cope with this beacon of hope, becoming doused in in everything the clouds had to offer.

The villagers stared up to the sky in shock, so quickly and so easily were their prayers answered. They raised their hands to the sky, smiling and laughing and cheering and praising. "Thank God! He has saved us!"

"No. It wasn't God." A voice, loud and calm called out, they all turned to the same direction a new boy came into the village, his blond hair matted down by the rain, small spikes just being able to escape, yet his icy blue eyes pierced through the dark atmosphere. The rain began to stop, leaving his black shirt clinging to chest, set in an open torso fashion. Wearing a pair of black pants tucked into skin tight, shin high sandals and a grey cloth wrapped around his waist, supported by a burnt orange coloured rope, the knot at the back of him. "God has been long since dead." He carried on, moving closer to the villagers, who in turning took small shaking steps away from him, they didn't like the aura that surrounded him.

Noticing their movements the boy stopped. "You should really be more thankful to me." His eyes darted around to the charred marks and destroyed homes.

The villagers murmured among themselves. Had this boy really saved them? The timing couldn't have been just coincidental, but who was he? Did he have previous connections to the village that made him want to save it?

Sakura, a girl well liked around the village moved through the crowd, she approached him, stopping just in front of the blond and connected her hands together behind her back, she raised her heels up in some attempt to get her face closer to his, all the while smiling sweetly at him.

"Thank you for saving us." She spoke as sweet as her voice. "That Midnight guy earlier was a freak, but then you came and saved us." She gave off a light giggle.

"Oh no you don't, Sakura!" A blond girl pushed the pinkette out the way, her hair was long and tied back into a ponytail, with one long bang covering her right eye. Taking the same stance that the previous girl had, she smiled sweetly at the blond boy in front of her. "Hi, I'm Ino. I have to say that you are very brave, so how long will you be staying with us?"

"GET LOST, INO!"

"MAKE ME, SAKURA!"

Both girls eyes connect a beam of anger shot through their eyes to the other. The blond in front of them could only chuckle slightly, both looked to him confused.

"You really don't remember me?" A smirk grew on the boy's face as he continued to chuckle, his laugh growing darker by the second. This causing what little noise made the other villagers to cease completely.

"I think I'd remember someone like you?" Both girls spoke in surprising unison, forgetting their previous transgressions of anger and rivalry, they'll let this guy decide who he likes better.

"Then perhaps you'll remember what I said." The blond stared across at every member of the village, his eyes targeting the older members. "I told you I would become the most powerful mage in the world, and that you would beg me to protect you."

The elder villagers gasped, they DID recognise those words, words that he had said five years ago to them, and then disappeared without a trace for five years. Then suddenly he returned to them in their darkest hour. Could they had made a mistake all those years ago by pushing him away? For judging him for being a mage, someone that nearly destroyed their village but also someone who had just saved it. "N-Naruto."

The two girl's in front of him stared at him in surprise, mouths agape and all. "Naruto? This is you?" Sakura questioned.

"Well, it appears to me that you have grown in all the right ways. So, is it not to late to ask for a date?" Ino gave a chaste wink his way, Naruto remained impassive to her forwardness. Staring at the village with a smirk on his face.

The elder members of the village smiled weakly, there nervous laughter filling the tension of the situation. "S-So are you here to stick by your words. After five years, are you here to protect from people like Midnight as you promised?" They asked hopefully.

Naruto only scoffed loudly. "And there shines the true pitifulness of this village. After despising me for so long, now you want me back! It is too late for that, my eyes are open to the truth!"

Thunder crashed over head again, the black clouds swirling above them.

"My intentions were not to save this village! But to DESTROY IT MYSELF!" Naruto screamed, his voice louder and more ferocious than the thunder above. Sakura and Ino jumped away from him in fear, running back to the safety of the crowd.

They caught a glimpse of his eyes, the shining blue had been replaced with a malicious red. "I WILL TAKE MY VENGEANCE ON THIS VILLAGE! FOR MOCKING ME AND DEPISING ME WITHOUT EVEN GIVING ME A CHANCE!"

"But what of Hiruzen! What of the man who cared for you when you were just a baby!" The elder village members screamed at him with a mercy seeking tone to their voice, hoping that might spark some old love for the village from the boy.

It worked, Naruto had cooled considerably, breathing heavily his fury furrowed brow softened, but those red eyes still remained.

He stared at the ground if only for a minute. None of the villagers dared make a movement. Had it worked? Had they saved themselves from obliteration?

"He abandoned me as well." Naruto looked upon them psychotically, he raised his left hand to the black clouds above. Blue electricity sparked off his body, swirling around him like a veil of protection.

Ranjin no Susanoo


Midnight re-entered the small village, or rather, the area where the small village once was. He didn't care to take the name of the village, and now he didn't have to. Everything was erased from the map. Small cinders and smoke rose from the ground where the largest of buildings had been, but everything had been laid to waste. The area was now a scar in the forest, barren of all life in any form.

In the middle of the wasteland stood his blond companion, not a spec of dust on him, electricity still coursing around his body after his attack, it reduced everything in an instant. "This is the point when you tell me why we have destroyed this village." Midnight spoke with a smile on his face. "I only agreed out of boredom in the first place."

"Roshi, the guild Master of Ozaru Guild may have geographical knowledge of the surrounding area, he might know all the villages even remotely close to his guild. I've been trying to come up with a convincing story as to why we approach his guild in the first place, we something that can ensure us a spot in the guild. So I have devised a way to make that possible." Naruto explained dully, turning back around to face Midnight, their was no sorrow in his eyes, nor anger nor shame, just a blank slate.

"If we were to choose a random or self created village, even a village to far away, Roshi might become suspicious, he might know how that village is. However if we choose a village that is too close to his guild, Ozaru's mages might be stationed there. And we don't want to kill members in order to secure a position in the very same guild."

"This village," Naruto kicked the burnt crusty soil at his feet. "Is too remote for any of Roshi's mages to be stationed here, but close enough that Roshi will have even basic knowledge of it's existence, that and this village and I have some rather bad history." Naruto finished the final sentence quietly, before promptly snapping out of it. "Therefore, our story is this: We are two mages that have grown up in this village, and it was destroyed by another mage, we fought to protect our home, but we were too weak," Naruto raised his hand to silence Midnight, whose eyes widened upon the idea of being called, even in a lie, weak. "We go to Ozaru because it can make us stronger, so we can protect the things we care about, and a Mage Guild will not turn away mages. Light Guilds need all the members they can get."

"Very well. I'll accept this plan for now, but if it goes astray, what do we do?" Midnight asked, should this plan fail, they would be left in quite a predicament.

"It won't fail. The old people of Light Guilds are so insistent about keeping the younger generations off the path of darkness. If we spew something about planning to take revenge on the man and destroy him Roshi will welcome us with open arms." Naruto brushed off Midnight's worries easily.

"Then lets go." Midnight clicked his neck before walking forwards, as he was about to pass Naruto his arm shot up, blocking Midnight from moving any further.

"I haven't finished." Naruto's eyes shifted over Midnight, eyeing him up. "Won't it be weird in our current condition?" Naruto spoke cryptically. "If we arrive in perfect condition to Ozaru after trying to fight and protect our destroyed village and losing in both."

"What are you getting at?" Midnight's own eyed shifted over to Naruto.

Suddenly Naruto's body shifted, his further hand connected to Midnight's face, rocketing him across the wasteland. Midnight landed sorely on his back, rubbing his cheek, it had been bruised and dirtied. He stared back at Naruto angrily, who had slipped into a battle stance.

"We must look tattered and beaten. So we are going to have that fight you are so desperate for." Naruto explained, clenching his fists tightly, waiting for Midnight to stand back up. "But not at full power, so consider this fight a taster of things to come, until we can eventually have our all out fight."

Smirking in return, Midnight rose to his feet. "Challenge accepted." He spoke with a slight giggle of anticipation.

Naruto wasted no time, he smashed his palms together, crossing his fingers over. "Chaos: Dark Spotlight!" A similar enormous black light shot from Naruto's body, launching towards Midnight.

Midnight remained unmoving, as the beam of light was but a few inches from striking him it bent to the left, avoiding Midnight entirely. 'What?' Naruto stared at what just happened, while Midnight l smirked in return.

Shaking it off, Naruto went on the attack again. He circled Midnight, standing behind him, Midnight didn't even bother to turn around, not even look over his shoulder. "Chaos: Eclipse Fists!" He punched his fist forwards, a thinner beam of light shot from the end, small branches shaped like knuckles grew off, all aiming to strike Midnight's back.

But again as they approached him they all redirected upwards, leaving Midnight completely unscathed.

'Again?' Naruto's anger began growing. 'What ever he is doing, its annoying me!'

"I'll take this to the next level!" Naruto screamed, it was only then when Midnight looked with boredom over his shoulder. He saw Naruto raise his right hand upwards towards the black skies. "Chaos: Dullahan!" A ball of black light began growing in his hand, expanding in size until it was several times larger than Naruto himself, a large crack appeared that open wide, creating something akin to a wide hilarious grin touching both sides of the ball.

Naruto swung his arm down, bringing the ball with it, Midnight only looked as the ball began its decent onto him. The ball crashed on top of Midnight, Midnight entering through the grinning mouth on the ball, effectively being swallowed by the ball.

Grinning himself now with victory, Naruto closed his open palm into a fist, the ball shrunk down in size, compressing itself around Midnight's body before exploding in an array of black light flashes.

Naruto's grin fell from his face, leaving only shock. Midnight stood completely unharmed in the centre of the attack, it was as if he had some veil of protection around him.

'Impossible!' Naruto stared at Midnight in fury, 'Chaos: Dullahan is an unavoidable attack, everyone always walks away with some form of injury, how has he survived unscathed?'

"I can not fight well in the sun." Midnight spoke almost in a loud whisper, his own eyes widening. "But under the moon, my power intensifies, and at midnight, I am invincible. Your kin were lucky Oracion Seis was in such a confined environment during our last fight. Many of our powers revolve around large battlefields."

"Now it is my turn." Midnight raised his hand towards the blond. "Spiral Pain!" Naruto looked around, the air seemed to begin pick up speed, circling him. Suddenly a tornado appeared around him, squeezing and cutting into him, Naruto let out a scream of pain.

"That's it!" Midnight screamed in a maniacal glee. "That sound is music to my ears!"

'So is he an air mage?' Naruto wondered, it would make sense, manipulating the air to avoid attacks, switching the air around the magic's direction. 'But do I have enough time...' He wondered, looking to the skies.

"Ranjin no Kushi!" Naruto wheezed out, blue lightning covered his body again, before firing at Midnight like a thrown spear. Midnight's eyes widened as he was hit with the blue attack. His body convulsed in electric shock as he screamed out in agony, his own attack ceasing on Naruto, who dropped to the floor in a heap.

As Naruto landed his own attack on Midnight cancelled, groaning he rubbed his head sorely, the part of his body he landed on. He looked towards Midnight, who appeared to have blacked out on his feet, his mouth was as wide as his pupilless eyes, short strangled gasps of breath left his body. Small plumes of smoke continued to leave his body.

"That's enough..." Naruto panted out, not even sure if Midnight could here him. Midnight's magic was dangerous, but he could take a physical hit. A serious area for improvement fr the guy. "We both look terrible. This will make our story the more convincing."

"I agree," Midnight had suddenly snapped back into reality, his stiff body slouched over as he clutched his right arm in his left, panting heavily all the while. "We have to leave before others arrive. I will not fail father in this mission."

"Right." Naruto struggled back up to his feet, slowly limping back over to Midnight. Midnight himself waved his hand lazily, through the trees darted his flying carpet, seemingly with a mind of it's own. Stopping right at Midnight's feet, who quickly fell onto it, crossing his legs.

"Lets go." He spoke quietly, his carpet floating slowly over the ground. Naruto heaved himself for each step, trying to keep up with the carpet.

Looking back at Naruto's limping form Midnight sighed, waving his hand a new carpet appeared next to his own, floating in perfect unison with midnight's, the very ripples of the carpet floating were symmetrical. "I have used my magic to refract the light and create a mirror copy of my carpet. I won't have you slow me down on such an important mission that father has requested of me."

Looking towards the carpet, Naruto formed a weak grin. "Thanks." He spoke in gratitude, sitting in a similar position to Midnight. Midnight nodded quickly, before lowering his head to slumber. The two carpets hovered away from the wasteland, on route to their next destination. Ozaru Guild.


A bright flash of light appeared onto the now deadened scene. Feet patting onto the ground were instantly followed by a horrified gasp. One pair of feet moved over to the side of the site. Everything was reduced to rubble and cinders, even the very foundations of houses were destroyed, there was no sign of life in the area.

A high choking of breath of agony was heard, tears dripped from the one who had remained still's face, hitting the burned ground. "W-What happened?" A feminine voice trembled as she asked to the other.

"Over here." A more masculine voice called back, the feminine one hurried over to where the other stood. "It appears this was just out of range." He pointed down. A small headstone, barely identifiable as that was present.

"Hiruzen died? When?" The feminine voice asked, the male squatted down, brushing the dust of the headstone gently, revealing the entire name and the date of death.

"Apparently 9 years ago." The male noted the date of death. "This is bad. So for seven years he might have been completely alone" He commented to himself quietly, making sure his words were out of earshot of his companion.

"There's some more graves over here." The female pointed, instantly they were away, scanning each headstone's name, trying to locate the single person they were so desperately trying to find.

"He's definitely not among these." The male spoke again, regrouping with his female companion.

"But what if he is dead, Minato?" The female spoke, obviously in pain from even speaking such words. "What if his grave has been destroyed by whatever did this to the village, what if he was killed in the blast?"

"Calm down, Kushina!" The man now identified as Minato spoke loudly, before calming, a soft smile appeared on his face as he brushed her long red hair back out her face gently. "Don't assume the worst so hastily, he would be 16 by now. He may have just left earlier before all this happened."

The woman, Kushina, shook her head furiously, unable to hold back the tears streaming from her face. "No he wouldn't have. Growing up here, he would no nothing about the world, how bad it can be, that's why we chose it!" The woman began crying hysterically.

"Kushina." The man hushed her gently, tilting her chin back up gently so she would look him in the eyes. "Naruto is still alive. He's our son after all, just keep telling yourself that, and believe every word of it."


A/N: Well, how was that? Remember to R.E.R, I'd really like to reach my 200 review goal by chapter 10. And I realise I've been a bit of a tool, you guys have been taking the time to review my chapters, but I haven't been replying, so I want to start replying to all the reviews I get, so please review.

I'm sorry if you didn't like Ino and Sakura's personalities, but there dead now. We won't be seeing them again.

I feel in some way I've taken away from the awesomeness of Midnight by making him act so nice towards Naruto. Midnight was truly badass, in my opinion I find his magic and appearance far more scarier than any of the seven kin, except maybe Rustyrose, but come on, bringing his imagination into existence, thats pretty hard to top. I also feel that his character and magic was seriously underdeveloped, because he was pwning Erza and Jellal, and then suddenly she pulls out a Rose of Yuen out her ass and takes him down in one strike. So I want to develop him some more.

After careful contemplation I have decided to add Kushina and Minato, they won't be very many appearances from them. But I have created quite a powerful story that involves them, and hopefully, should I improve my writing abilities, you guys will really enjoy whatI have instore for them.

The Ozaru Arc? Will proably last up to Chapter 13. Gives me plenty of time for Naruto to contemplate going against his orders, bonding with Midnight and Ozaru members and generally training his abilities.

On the topic of Ozaru members. Out of sheer laziness I have decided that all the mages of Ozaru will be from the Manga 666 Satan (O-Parts Hunter), there are a lot of fun characters in there, some great ideas for magics, and again, I seriously CBA in creating OCs.

Anything else?... Oh, I have a new fic up. It's called The Namikage, so if you have the time please go check it out. It goes along the whole, Naruto becomes the leader of a foreign village concept, but with a classic (or soon to be classic) -Shyamalan-on par twist.

Also if you have time, go check out the fic Legend of a S-Class Mage by Rinne-Kami, I helped write and create ideas for it so I would really like it if you went and read it and left some feedback for Rinne-Kami and myself if you have time.

I'll be working on Chapter 2 of The Namikage, and I have my plans for next chapter of Demon Lacrima all ready, so I can get to work right away. So please stick around and continue reading.

D.G.S