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Naruto Ultimate:
The Nightmare of Konoha...
Chapter 6: The Unholy Trinity...
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"Normal Speaking"
'Normal Thinking'
Radio in use
"Jutsu In use"
"Demon/Nightmare Speaking"
'Demon/Nightmare Thinking'
"Inner Spirit Talking"
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(Night...)
Naruto jumped from building to building threw Konoha before landing in the Uchiha District and chuckling in his throat. Where Shards of Soul Edge existed, he would go to claim them... Naruto then ran to the building that had had it's door ripped off and walked inside, looking around to make sure Sasuke wasn't hanging around he entered into the room with the shards. The insane child then grinned behind his mask, pulled the bandages from his right hand to reveal the sharp yellow tinted nails which were growing.
Naruto then used one of his nails to pick the small lock on the box before then opening it and taking the fragments of Soul Edge from within. Naruto then quickly closed the box and then looked down into his hands to see the fragments of the legendary sword within. Naruto grinned insanely seeing the two fragments before wondering what he needed to do with them... One, absorb one of them, and Two... Well he hadn't figured out that part yet but was debating it in his mind. Before absorbing the fragment however, Naruto went over some of Madara's old records and grimaced.
While they did mention the last known wielder of Soul Edge, it was highly doubtful that the ancient records were accurate now. He then looked over the rest of the records, noticed that Madara mentioned an Armory in his home, then saw that whomever had taken Soul Edge from Madara had also gone towards the so called "Land of Blades". A region of the world which Nightmare had once traveled in his own journeys to reclaim both Soul Edge AND his full power in the past... 'Seems like we're technically heading home...' Naruto thought with a chuckle before then continuing to read the notes.
He also learned that Madara seemed to have had more shards of Soul Edge, however took them with him where ever the hell he went. Also he seemed to find something about some kind of plan involving the nine Bijuu Demons and then something about a group called "Akatsuki"... He'd figure out more about that later when it actually involved him, he then placed the records back in their own proper spots and looking at his right arm...
Naruto quickly then unwrapped his shoulder, leaving the rest of his arm covered as he pulled back his shirt some and placed the shard of Soul Edge near his chest then pushed it inward. The boy grunted in pain as he stabbed himself with the shard, however halfway in the shard began glowing before willingly sinking into his flesh and becoming absorbed by the boy's body. Now, the spot he placed it onto was bulging slightly with veins, a sickly looking sight as a plate grew under the plate on his shoulder leaving an oval shaped hole between them. Naruto then watched his hand mutate further, the skin darkening slightly as then the yellowish nails became slightly sharper, then the skin at the back of his first knuckle split to show that his nails went all the way to that knuckle and even came out of the knuckle in a short spike...
"Heh, not bad... Still not complete however..." He said to himself while placing the other shard into his pocket, then re-wrapped his arm and hand so no one would notice the change... For now... Naruto then walked into the main room of the building and was going to take the armor but stopped. Sasuke would probably never even notice that the fragments of steel were missing... The armor however was a bit hard to miss in comparison... Naruto frowned in thought as he walked into a room adjacent to the first one, one he didn't notice earlier for some reason. As he walked within the room, Naruto's eye's widened and an insane grin slipped across his face...
Within were numerous weapons of all shapes and sizes, lining the walls and glinting in the dim light. Zweihanders, Snake Swords, Katana of all shapes and sizes, fans, Ring Blades, Nunchoku, Broad Swords, Shields, Axes, and even some Scythes! Naruto nearly drooled at the sight of some of the Zweihanders... But shook it off and then grabbed what looked to be one of Ivy's old swords, only it was rusted over and covered with grime. It's blade was double edged but curved at the end like a Katana though was chipped and covered with grime and filth, with a tarnished gold cross guard in an X like shape, the handle was worn from years of either disuse or disrepair, and the pommel of the hilt was also tarnished gold with a grime covered ruby...
'Ivy's "Dream Blade" a decent weapon but not her best. I'm almost surprised that this was the only one Madara had, but many of the other weapons WERE quite powerful. This one will do for the time being...' The red haired boy thought to himself while then frowning at the dulled blade. 'I can clean this up, but the rest will take quite some time to fix... Especially the blade...' None of the other weapons would truly be of interest to him anyway, so he simply placed the Snake Sword into his sash and would have left had not another suit of Steel armor caught his eye... Naruto chuckled darkly to himself and looked over the Azure tinted battle armor, he noticed it was similar to the last suit, but only in that it was still steel.
This one's helmet was made in a Western design, had a horn coming off the front, with what looked like a spiked fin on the top of the helmet, the face mask looking like it had rows of teeth carved into it to look more fierce. The rest of the armor was of a design Naruto had never seen before though it was still blue, over the shoulders upper arms and thighs were three strange almost Y shaped plates that were held together by red bolts. Around the waist was a strange red sash that had a golden eye for the buckle which the sash was placed through to tighten the sash, over the knees and elbows were blue spiked plates with a red band to hold them on tightly, red bolts in place to hold them to those, the gauntlets were made of a more western design and covered the fingers. Over the legs there were thick plated shin guards, with the boots being covered by blue steel also which had fins coming off the back. Last was the chest plate, which was blue and had a smooth texture with thin shoulder guards over the point where the shoulder and neck connected for more protection. Under all that was a black leather body suit which Naruto couldn't figure out how you were supposed to put it on...
Naruto wondered briefly if he should take the armor, but shook the thought away as in the past all the other "Nightmares" had worn their own armor, no matter how hard it was to get it. Naruto wasn't about to break what was essentially a tradition in the long line of powerful warriors which had donned the azure armor. Naruto merely took one last glance at the armor before then walking out of the room and leaving everything save the Soul Edge fragments and Snake Sword in their proper place...
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(Later that Night...)
A large man was walking through the Uchiha District, his cold eye's unmoving as he walked into Madara's old home, then into the armory. He walked passed many items, taking only an old rusted Steel Paddle, then grabbed the Azure armor laying on the floor and tossed each over his muscular shoulders before leaving. The man then walked out of the building silent as the grave before then walking into the Forest of Death and dropping both the armor and weapon to the dirt...
"Servant, come and heed your masters orders..." His voice was deep and had a slight accent which couldn't quite be placed. However, that was moot as a deep moaning sound came out of the forest before what looked like a skeleton wearing Chunin or Jounin gear looked to the man and released yet another moan like sound. "Don the Armor and weapon, pretend to be Nightmare so that the child shall not be found out too soon..." The man said simply, pointing a large silver weapon towards the ground where the items lay.
The skeleton tilted it's head before walking to the armor, and attempted to don the azure armor. It seemed to have trouble with getting it on at first, before then realized it had to detach the chest armor to get the black leather under suit on. Once that had been done, the Skeleton simply pulled the body suit on, placing it's bony limbs into it and the gauntlets and boots allowing him perfect protection. It then grabbed it's helm from the ground and placed it over it's skeletal head, the eye holes of the helm now glowing a bright red as it then placed the Steel Paddle onto it's back.
"Yes, the pieces are slowly moving into place... What is a few more years wait when I have waited centuries for this..." Came his voice as the man walked out of the tree's and into the light. He wore white clothes with a hood over his head and was of African descent, his left eye was gold with a black tattoo over it. Over his chest, torso, and shoulders was simple gray scale mail with a golden rosary around his neck, a green belt around his waist to keep his robes and armor held down with pouches and golden objects clipped onto it. Long white gloves that left some of his fingers bare. Green pants were under his long gray armor, with long thigh high white boots over his legs...
The man had a massive silver scythe in his hands, and a smug smirk upon his lips as he then looked to his side as the armored skeleton walked to him. "Do this for me Revenant, protect the boy, and divert attention from him to yourself. This village cannot find out his secret... Obey him and serve him well if the need should arrive. Should you fail, I will personally see to your punishment... he is essential to my plans... To completing my dreams..." The large man said then smirked before he walked into the darkness, the Revenant doing the same as it lumbered into the forest, hunting for more souls...
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(Four Years Later...)
The next few years would be years that no one in Konoha would ever forget. Naruto would begin his training of Ino and Sasuke, teaching them skill's no one in Konoha knew of. With Ino he would slowly seep more and more of his own evil energy into her, slowly warping her mind. The red haired warrior would also seek out more information on Soul Edge in secret, finding what few clues which Madara had left behind. Using those clues was useless, as over the hundred or more years which Madara had been gone the information had become useless. The "Azure Knight" within the Forest of Death would become somewhat of a legend in Konoha, many believing it to be a demon of some kind sent to protect it's "Master" whom they believed to be The "Kyuubi Brat" as many still call him.
But at the moment, the Village was in an uproar, someone had managed to steal the sacred scroll of sealing and made off with it. Said person was none other than one of the teachers at the Shinobi academy, Mizuki. The silver haired Chunin had the scroll under one arm and was running for his life from numerous ANBU chasing him. He quickly lunged into the Forest of Death to escape them in the darkness, while also hoping that the "Azure Knight" which had made it's home in the depths of the forest would take care of them for him. Mizuki smirked as he soon lost track of the ANBU and made his way towards the edge of the forest, his contact with Oto was waiting for him there...
Mizuki somehow managed to evade detection by the ANBU and Azure Knight, soon he touched down onto the forest floor and saw a shadowed figure standing before him. "Hey, I've got the scroll for Orochimaru-Sama." He said and the person was still. Mizuki growled and walked over to the man, placing his hand on the mans shoulder he took a step back as the man fell to the ground, a massive wound in his chest... "The Azure Knight?" He questioned quickly while looking around only to hear insane laughter.
"No, well, not really Mizuki-Sensei..." Came the dark voice of Naruto Uzumaki and Mizuki looked into a nearby tree and saw the said boy, now bigger than ever and while only twelve looked as though he was fifteen, with long and spiky crimson colored hair reaching bellow his waist. The clothes he was wearing being the same as those he wore when he was younger only altered to fit his new size and build...
"So the Demons come out to play. What are you, actually friends with that Nightmare then, Demon?" Mizuki said then wondered, not believing that for even a second as everyone knew the Azure Knight left no one alive, though the possibility that the "Kyuubi Brat" had made some form of deal with it was still a very real option...
"Of course I'm not friends with him Mizuki-Teme, right Sasuke? Ino?" Naruto said then questioned and Mizuki looked around before seeing the said two kids. Sasuke was leaning back on another branch in a different tree, his eye's closed and a sword at his waist.
The young Uchiha heir had changed his look, he now wore black Shinobi pants, with a white sleeveless top that had a blue sash to tie it down, blue/black samurai waist armor under the sash, white wrappings around his waist, simple blue/black Samurai Gauntlets over black finger and palm-less gloves on his forearms, a single shoulder guard rested on his left arm with leather straps reaching over and across the right side of his chest and shoulders, and last his feet were covered by black sandals that covered his feet and shins. The rest of this boy was more or less the same, only that his hair was a tad bit different in that it was slightly longer, not noticeable or mentionable really. (Chunin Exam length)
Ino was laying in a tree, with one arm dangling down and a bored look on her face. She now kept her hair short, only reaching her chin while it covered her right blue pupiless eye, her sword the "Dream Blade" had been repaired completely with equal parts work from Tenten and Naruto. However, due to Naruto's constant sneaking of evil energy into her body in order to more fully control her will, Ino had begun developing far more quickly than any of the other girls, and as such looked more like she was thirteen than twelve. It sort of made Naruto wonder if Evil just made girls develop faster or if it was just a fluke as he couldn't think of any evil or crazy women that didn't look hot as hell.
However, she now wore a mesh body suit that did little more than show off her well developed figure and curves, over that she wore a purple coat that reached only below her ribs and had a belt to tighten it there leaving the rest open, with a purple skirt like the one she used to wear around her waist that had slits down her thighs. Over her shoulders were silver armored plates with long black gloves over her arms that left her fingers bare with black braces over her forearms that had silver trim/spikes on them. Over her legs was mesh netting which reached into a pair of knee high black Sandals which had a silver plate where her foot and shin would connect...
How she got that armor, Naruto wasn't quite sure as he still couldn't buy any till he was a ninja according to Tenten... He bet that rule was only because he contained the Kyuubi personally so was angry as hell... He wanted his armor dammit... "So what do you guys think?" Naruto then questioned of the two as Mizuki looked around towards the "Unholy Trinity" as someone in the class had nicknamed them, which amused Naruto to no end as the name reminded him of the supposed "Holy Trinity" which included Tenten, Neji, and Rock Lee as its own members...
"I think he's annoying..." Ino said boredly from her perch then slipped over the side and landed on her feet. "Mind if I get rid of him?" She then questioned and Naruto chuckled.
"Not at all, In fact, why don't I show you the proper way to torture someone in a second. Just make sure you leave that scroll intact. I'll turn it into the Hokage for a favor... Maybe so I can FINALLY get my own damn armor..." Naruto said with a shrug and Mizuki snorted towards the girl as she loosely held the Dream Blade in her hands.
"Is this a joke? You expect someone whose not even a Genin too..." Before Mizuki could finish Ino had decided to make her move.
"Extend!" She exclaimed while lunging forward and swinging the Dream Blade, the weapons blade disconnecting at points as the golden chain within extended the blade and she wrapped it around a surprised Mizuki.
"What the... Y-you didn't even let me get ready!?" He exclaimed and Ino actually smirked.
"I thought Ninja were supposed to always stay on guard... Mizuki-Sensei..." She mocked remembering when he had attacked her in a Taijutsu spar while she had been off guard, when she was younger. Mizuki snarled then widened his eye's as Sasuke then grabbed the Sacred Scroll from him and walked off with a smirk. Naruto then jumped down from his position and looked at Mizuki before letting out an evil chuckle as he drew out Madness.
"Any last words... Mizuki-Teme?" Naruto questioned and the silver haired nin looked to the girl and boy beyond Naruto.
"Y-you two are like helping this kid right?" Mizuki said with wide eye's, making Naruto roll his own, so the guy really was one of the shitty ninja... "Well, I'll let you all in on a secret the truth is that twelve years ago the Yondaime Hokage didn't kill the Kyuubi. He couldn't, so he did the next best thing by turning it into a baby and sealing away it's power!" Mizuki said then looked to Naruto who seemed to be holding back his laughter. "And that's how I know he's the Kyuubi!" Mizuki exclaimed, thinking that Ino and Sasuke would let him go...
"Is that all?" Sasuke questioned making Mizuki gape at him. "Naruto told us how he has Kyuubi sealed inside his stomach, I've even visited it on accident..." Sasuke admitted before closing his eye's and opening a pair of crimson red eye's with a black tomoe in each... "It's amazing what the Sharingan can do... Isn't it." He said with a smirk while Ino then looked to Naruto, who was now laughing loudly and holding his stomach.
"He's all yours..." She said simply and Naruto looked at Mizuki and chuckled darkly, holding Madness in his left arm as Ino released the man from the Dream Blade, he then had his throat grasped by the red haired boy before him. Mizuki attempted to kick the red head, attempted to break his arm, and even struggled just to breath as Naruto narrowed his eye's on the silver haired Chunin...
"Scream for me Mizuki... Scream for me..." He said with Nightmare's voice as Mizuki's screams and Nightmare's own maniacal laughter filled the forest of death...
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(Hokage Tower...)
Sarutobi sighed as he worked on more paper work, just his luck that he'd have to do more paper work even during a time of freaking crisis... "Hey, Old man, I've got something for you..." Came a voice and Sarutobi turned to the window behind him to see none other than Naruto, Scroll of Sealing in one hand...
"I'm getting too old for this shit..." The man mumbled to himself as Naruto then walked inside and tossed the scroll to the aging Hokage.
"Alright. Now I want something for all the trouble I went through to get that..." Naruto then said and Sarutobi grimaced... What could someone like the partly psychotic Naruto want...
"Before you try to get something Naruto. Mind telling me how an academy student managed to recover the Scroll of sealing from a Chunin level nin?" Sarutobi questioned and Naruto chuckled lightly to himself.
"I didn't." He said and Sarutobi raised a brow. "Me, Sasuke, and Ino were out training when we heard screams coming from the Forest of Death. We went to go check it out and low and behold find a decapitated Mizuki and the Scroll. Ino and Sasuke threw up and I brought the scroll to you..." Naruto explained, giving the best lie he could think of... The old man seemed to consider the story then frowned in thought before remembering about Nightmare and decided to just let it go... That damn Azure Knight was annoying, but at the moment he couldn't even convince Olcadan to go after him!
"So Naruto, what exactly did you want then?" Sarutobi questioned of the young man who chuckled to himself with a smirk behind his mask.
"I want a Custom Hittai-Ate and armor..." Naruto said simply with a smirk and the old man actually raised an eyebrow... That was all? He had thought the boy was going to want something like a life time's worth of Ramen or something...
"Er Naruto, not that I'm complaining, but why only that?" Sarutobi questioned and Naruto chuckled to himself.
"Thought I'd ask for a lifetimes supply of Ramen... Huh Old man?" Naruto questioned and Sarutobi looked at him strangely before nodding his head. "Yeah well Sorry, I read about how some Ninja get Costume Hittai-Ate for doing something great for the Village like Jiraiya of the Sannin, the Nidaime, and some member of the ANBU so I decided I wanted a Costume Hittai-ate also." Naruto explained and Sarutobi shrugged, technically speaking, a Costume Hittai-ate wasn't much more expensive than a normal one. The armor was somewhat surprising, mostly because most Ninja preferred Speed to protection...
"Alright then Naruto, lets get down to what you want your Armor and Hittai-Ate to look like." Sarutobi said and Naruto nodded his head, grinning to himself beneath his mask...
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(Land of Blades...)
Crow was moving a large pillar along the ground, his long spiky locks held back in a loose ponytail save the few wispy strands falling down his cheeks. Sophitia was with him, the two were working on fixing one of the temples near to the home which Sophitia and Cassandra lived. Crow suddenly crouched and grunted, as he then lifted the massive pillar up, it was only a couple pounds heavier than his normal Zweihander, so he was used to heavy loads.
"Crow, you don't have to work yourself to death. We have tools to do that with." Sophitia said with a frown, making the young man who looked almost full grown stop and look at her with his slitted crimson eye's.
"I owe you..." He said simply then moved the Pillar into place.
"No you don't. Stopping Nightmare was my duty, the gods sent me too..." Sophitia stopped as Crow turned his eye's to her, they were sad, and she realized he wasn't talking about her saving him...
"Yes I do... I murdered that Blacksmith... You liked him... And I murdered him without any sense of guilt or remorse or a second thought in my head... All because I sensed he was forging your sword and shield..." Crow said before closing his eye's, reopening them as they changed shape before he then clapped his hands together and placed them on a broken statue. Blue lightning flowed over the statue, then into the ground, and the pieces all seemed to repair themselves while Crow remained silent.
"It wasn't your fault... It was Nightmare that killed Rothian, not you." She said and Crow turned a single eye towards her.
"It was me. It was my madness, my darkness that gave birth to that Nightmare... It was just as much me then as I am now..." Crow said then removed his hands from the now repaired statue. "I can never repay you for your kindness, nor for sparing my life... By all rights you should have killed me... But you didn't, and for that I have to try... To live is my penance.." Crow said looking at Sophitia with a side long glance before walking passed her and towards her home. "I'll go start something for dinner..." He said and Sophitia was silent before sighing and following after the young man...
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TBC...
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AN: Hope you've like this chapter, it took me awhile to get what I wanted down in it. Next chapter will be the final time skip, I'm kind of getting bored with the Young Naruto thing... We know what happens more or less, he kills things, gathers souls, and more than likely gets his blue armor... Oh well. Next Chapter will be his, Ino's, and Sasuke's graduation from the academy. Hope you like it! Oh well, Ja ne!
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