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NU: Legend Reborn…
Chapter 8: Chaos…
By: 26 Lord Pain
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Human Speech…
Human Thoughts…
Radio In Use…
Jutsu In Use…
Demon Speech…
Demon Thoughts…
Inner Spirit Talking…
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(Nibelheim…)
A dark haired figure walked down deeper into the Chakra Reactor of this lonely little town. "Heh… I can't believe Scion's plan actually worked…" The young looking man muttered to himself with a slight grin. Soon he came to the room with the word JENOVA printed over the door and looked inside. He frowned upon seeing JENOVA's body was gone, however ignored that in favor of walking over to the side and looking down… "Man why do I always have to do the grunt work…" He muttered just before jumping down into the chasm and falling to one knee.
Looking around he saw a familiar ridiculously long sword that made him smirk. "Ahh, Masamune, you look as utterly destructive as ever." Inferno quipped then chuckled as he walked over and picked the sword up, wincing as it burnt his flesh with the amount of "Holy" power still sealed within it… "Tch, Sephiroth was supposed to taint the damn thing so that wouldn't be a problem…" He muttered then made an acknowledging noise as he walked over to a figure resting on the ground, rubble half covering his bloody battered form.
"Well, mister "Chosen One" how's it feel to get your ass handed to you?" Inferno mocked with a grin covering his face. "What? Got no way of defending yourself Sephy?" He quipped then began laughing, before slowly shaking his head and let out an annoyed sounding sigh. "Well, Scion wants your worthless Half-Angel ass so I better deliver…" Inferno said to himself as he then moved the rubble from Sephiroth, before then picking the silver haired man up and throwing him over his shoulder, then looked at JENOVA's head and picked it up as well.
"Never know when a former Angel of Death's powers will come in handy…" He mused as he then vanished in a plume of green flames…
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(??)
"So, how is he Dr. Valentine?" Comes the voice of Abel Negrado, looking to an aging woman in a white lab coat, her brown hair is slightly graying but she is still amazingly fit for someone her age…
"Well… It was just lucky you were able to use checking Nibelhiem as an excuse to get the Proto-Materia away from Shinra… It's slowing the decay of his cells… I'm trying to completely heal him but that may take a bit more time." The woman says to Abel and then man nods his head slowly before smiling.
"How's Vincent doing these days?" The man questions and the woman managed to give a small sly smile to the Onikage.
"He's fine Onikage-Sama, still the same lazy man I love and you respect." She says simply and the Onikage chuckles lightly in his throat. Vincent Valentine, he was a former member of Shinra's Turk's unit, basically enforcers if you wanted to get down to it. He had also been the one to alert the former Onikage, Dante Sparda, to Shinra's research in the fields of Demons and Angels, thus leading to them saving Lucrecia from making a grave mistake a long time ago…
"Yes… I figured Vincent was okay… Still, it must be hard for him, Hojo did manage to cripple him after all." Abel said with a growl at Hojo's name, if it wasn't for Vincent, and the fact he thought the man was sick in the head… No wait… He'd still hate him even if he didn't know about all that…
"Vincent learns how to get around, though I think teaching at the academy helps him cope in some small way." Lucrecia said and Abel rolled his eye's, then looked into the tank holding the silver haired teen, one who was apparently a relative of Sparda, at least according to the blood test he'd had done for verification. Not only that but he was the TRUE heir to the clan due to being a relative of Vergil, as he had been the oldest of the siblings after all…
"I need to go have a word with Dirge, he's going to be thrilled he doesn't have to deal with being Clan heir or on the council anymore… I just hope this kid here isn't a recreation of Vergil in his youth… One was bad enough…" Abel muttered quietly and Lucrecia smiled to the man.
"Never blame the child for the sins of their fathers." She said sagely and Abel chuckled lightly, before nodding and walking out of Lucrecia's lab, leaving the woman to turn and look inside a glass cylinder, within was Naruto, stripped of everything save a pair of black boxers and a breath mask. The woman placed a hand on the glass of the containment unit and let out a tired sigh… "Please… Forgive me…" She whispered looking at the metal plate over the left side of the boy's chest, the Proto-Materia sticking out of it…
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(??)
Naruto could feel his heartbeat… wait… wasn't his heart destroyed by Sephiroth's sword? As he pondered this conundrum, he suddenly saw flashes, his heartbeat echoing into his ears. He saw himself looking out of a tube of some kind and seeing a kindly looking woman. He saw another flash; a man in black and red was there now, looking at him with the woman… He saw another flash showing a silver haired young man who looked eerily like one of the other Sparda's… The flashes continued, no sounds were getting to him, his only sense still working was his sense of sight…
He began to get scared, being unable to feel anything, it was taking its toll on him, being unable to hear, speak, taste, or touch! Only to see the world beyond this glass cylinder he had found himself in… He saw something flash once more, now he looked to his hands, one was made of black reptilian scales, the other covered by golden armor forming into a clawed gauntlet. He couldn't see much more, yet noticed the gold kneepads on his legs in the shapes of golden skull with horns… What WAS this!? Where were his Devil-Arms? These questions raged in his mind as he floated helplessly in the strange chamber…
The teen began to panic, his breathing becoming erratic as he tried to move his hands, eventually placing them onto the glass he saw black bands and armor covering his right arm, his hand having formed into a talon while his left arm was covered up to the elbow by a golden gauntlet with claws and an elbow pad… That's when he started to hear the strange poem, trapped, locked in the back of his mind…
"Soul wrought of terra corrupt, quelling impurity, purging the stream to beckon forth an ultimate fate. Behold mighty Chaos, Omega's squire to the lofty heavens." It told him as he felt a strange power well up within him, shaping his body into something new, something he wasn't… Something that he had no wish to ever become… 'No…' The single thought echoed throughout his entire mind, making a pair of glowing red eyes narrow dangerously on the glass before him… 'I won't be changed… I cannot… I am I… Not Chaos!' The teen thought frantically as with a roar of fury he began swiping at the glass tomb he had found himself imprisoned in.
His fists beat against the cold glass, his legs kicked, doing anything to free himself even as the power began to shrink, forming into something. He couldn't let it be formed within him that was all he knew; and he couldn't let it become a part of him! His simple struggling soon turned into an outright battle, smashing his hands, legs, and anything else he could into the glass until it finally broke, making the teen flood out of it with the water, his breath coming out in heavy pants, the condensing power in his mind slowly ebbing away and allowing him to think clearly once more.
'I am I… we are Sparda… we are not Chaos… we are our self and no one else…' Came his jumbled thoughts as he then groaned, spitting out water of some kind onto the floor as his breaths continued to come in heavy pants. Shaking his head, he noticed a strange weight on the sides, he ignored it however, and looked around, soon noticing a woman looking at him with wide brown eyes, and last was her brown hair, which seemed to be lightly graying was held back into a ponytail with a yellow cloth. She was dressed in a blue dress with ruffles running down it, a white lab coat, and a pair of heeled shoes…
Standing up proved… Difficult… But Naruto managed, absently noting the pair of cloven hooves at his feet with gold armor around his ankles and then looked at the woman once more, more intently than before as he stumbled forward. His burning red eye's glared into her warm brown ones for what felt like an eternity for both of them. But, soon the teen felt groggy, his head began to spin, his vision became blurry once more. The teen placed a clawed hand to his head, idly noting the strange horns on either side of it. However, he then noticed a bright flash of light appearing before him just as he hit the ground and passed out completely… Falling once more into the darkness… his mind finally at ease as a warmth began to surround him…
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(Later…)
"So what exactly happened?" Abel questioned while looking down at Naruto, the boy now lying on a bed, a strange golden Gauntlet with claws at the end attached to his left arm with a black glove under the golden armor. Also, it seemed he'd gained several inches of height from his ordeal, as well as lost his baby fat, making him look the spitting image of a Sparda, save that unlike them, he had deep stress lines under each of his eyes. Lucrecia was on the other side of the boy, looking over him like a worried mother while trying to make some adjustments to the strange metal plate that held the Proto-Materia in place for his comfort.
"I… I'm not sure Onikage-sama… he… he just woke up when he was nearing his final cycle… after I checked everything I noticed what appeared to be some tampering with the Proto-Materia, but it seems to have come from how it was made…" Lucrecia said while placing a hand onto Naruto's forehead and becoming even more frazzled.
"Calm down Lucrecia, I'm sure even you can't predict everything about the Proto-Materia or it's… unique traits…" Abel tried to consol but the woman bit her lip and looked down as Naruto breathed easily, the metallic plate on the left side of his chest a blaring warning something was wrong, the glowing violet sphere in the center of that an even greater warning…
"No… I SHOULD have known sir! His LIFE was at stake! What if something truly horrible had happened! How would I ever… How would VINCENT ever forgive me!?" The woman demanded of the man bordering on hysterics and the Onikage punched the bed Naruto lay on, startling the woman enough to get her off her tirade.
"Now listen here Lucrecia, as I said you don't know everything about this… Proto-Materia, all even YOU know is that it's essentially a Devil-Heart with strange properties. So PLEASE, stopping being hard on yourself, the boy is fine, he'll hopefully be waking up soon and Dirge wants to promptly drop all Council and Clan matters onto his lap as soon as he can…" The Onikage told her simply, and then said with a chuckle and Lucrecia took a breath before giving a tiny smile to the man.
Before anything more could be said however someone burst through the door kicking and screaming as he tossed one Chunin into a wall, then kicked a Jounin back out of the room and flipped the bird to the Jounin. Smirking at this the teen then looked down to a final Chunin hanging onto his leg and narrowed his eyes… Lifting his leg up quickly to shake the man off the teen then spun on one heel to deliver a quick roundhouse kick to the Chunin, sending him flying out the nearby window. Chuckling evily the teen then walked over to the window and stuck his head out of it. "That's what you get for trying to keep me from seeing my damn family jackass!" He then shouted before then turning, his long coat spinning around him as he rushed over to Naruto's side ignoring the Onikage's look of annoyance and Lucrecia's look of horror.
This teen has silver hair pulled back into a short ponytail at the base of his neck while leaving some to cover his left eye, tan skin with an athletic build, and a pair of familiar blue eyes with slit pupils. Around his head is an Akumagakure Hittai-Ate with black bandages wrapped around his lower face and neck. Over most of his body is a long black coat with a red trim and thick red leather collar and pads over his left elbow, a strap over his chest attaching to a harness around his shoulders with a sword sheath and gun holsters at his back, a belt around his waist attached to the coat to hold it closed, however the right arm of the coat is made up of numerous straps of red leather and black covering his arm yet leaving it free for motion with a sword, leaving a gray shirt under that to cover his chest. Over each hand he wears a pair of black gloves with red fingerless gloves over them, metal plates on the back of each fist and red pouches around his wrists. Lastly, he wears a pair of black Shinobi pants with an Akumagakure Issue kunai pouch, gray kneepads on each leg, and last is a pair of black SOLDIER Issue Combat boots…
One his back is a sword, silver in color with what looks like an upside-down ribcage at the base of the blade, a horned skull at the bottom of this ribcage with it's mouth opened in a roar, rubies placed into each eye-socket and a pair of "Bones" raising to point upward at an angle, the handle of the sword is grooved and curves into a skull with spikes on it making a crown at the pommel of the blade. The two guns on his back are customized works, one black as pitch with a brown handle that has a dark picture of a Victorian style woman, the other is it's exact opposite, silver and shining with a brown handle that had a bright Victorian style woman on it. The words "Ebony & Ivory By .45 Art Warks—For Tony Redgrave" are engraved in gold on the sides of each of these weapons…
"Dirge… what have I told you about beating the hell out of Akumagakure Shinobi?" Abel questioned angrily, his right eyebrow twitching as Dirge looked up then chuckled nervously.
"Eh… not to unless they piss me off?" He offered and the Onikage twitching made him quickly rethink this. "Eh, never mind… So how's my little cousin doing doc?" Dirge then said with a wave making Abel smack his face and Lucrecia shake her head.
"Cuz… cousin?" A weak voice from behind alerted the group and they all looked behind themselves to find Naruto with one eye open towards them.
"Yo." Dirge then says to Naruto with an eye smile, making the younger teen wonder if by some freak chance they were related to Kakashi… "How you feeling?" Dirge then asked seriously and Naruto groaned softly.
"Like I just went four months without a decent meal, while fighting over a hundred demon things… oh, and did I mention I haven't had a decent meal in four months?" Naruto said with an annoyed tone and Dirge snickered while Abel simply shook his head. 'Something tells me these two are going to be trouble… no wait… something tells me I need to prepare restraining orders for Fangirls as soon as I leave…' The Onikage thought to himself, remembering how Dirge literally got restraining orders on fifteen separate girls due to the Fangirl problem… somehow with a calm serious Sparda he figured it would be even worse…
"I'll go get you something to eat Sparda-san." Lucrecia then said to the boy with a slight boy and Naruto raised a brow before sighing and nodding his head.
"So… what's it like with the new heart you got there, Cuz?" Dirge then questioned while tapping on the Proto-Materia still visible on Naruto's chest and the silver haired teen quickly looked down, twitched then glared at the Onikage.
"What is this?" He demanded in a none to happy tone making Abel chuckle nervously. 'Oh yeah, he'll do FINE in the Council that's for sure…' He thought to himself absently while trying to think of a way to explain what the Proto-Materia was.
"Well… when we got to you the other day Sparda-San…" Abel started and Naruto groaned.
"My name is Naruto…" He said flatly and Abel nodded to him once.
"Right then, Naruto. What happened was we found you, but your heart had been incinerated as far as we can tell. We needed a way to fix that so used the Proto-Materia, it is a Devil-Heart after all so we were able to use it to keep you alive while it also super charged your healing factor… though now we can't seem to take it off…" Abel explained then added mostly to himself at the end while Naruto raised his left arm, then one of his brows seeing the strange golden weapon grafted onto his arm.
"Alright… I don't know why, but I like this thing. Where did it come from?" Naruto said then questioned of the Onikage and Abel raised a hand, only to cup his chin in thought as even he wasn't really too sure on that one…
"It's more than likely a form of projection from the Proto-Materia. If you want, you could call it a way for the Proto-Materia to feel at home in your body, changing a part of you that it's original form must have had." Lucrecia explained while coming back and handing Naruto a Bento Box. "I wasn't really hungry today, you can have this." She then said to the teen sweetly and Naruto gave a curt bow of his head to the woman.
"Thank you, miss…?" Naruto said then questioned and Lucrecia smiled.
"Lucrecia Crescent Valentine." She said pleasantly and Naruto nodded.
"Miss Valentine then. Thank you for this, you have no idea how much I've grown to hate eating squirrel and snake the past few months…" Naruto said with a shudder before beginning on the meal, Lucrecia grimacing at the thought, while Abel rolled his eyes, and Dirge shrugged his shoulders… Ninja in Akumagakure were trained to eat those when they were on long missions in forested areas after all…
"So Cuz, what brings you to my neck of the world?" Dirge questioned while sitting next to Naruto, making Lucrecia look between them and mutter about twins instead of cousins. Looking to the other Sparda with one eye, Naruto hummed once before then placing the Bento down into his lap to explain.
"First off, what is this villages relations with the outside nations like?" Naruto questioned and Abel snorted.
"We don't have any… Konoha was our ally before along with Hebungakure, but they haven't contacted us for nearly thirty years now." Abel grumbled and Naruto blinked before nodding his head slowly and sighing.
"I came here after being banished from Konoha…" Naruto stated and Abel raised a brow, narrowing his eyes slightly.
"On what grounds were you banished?" He asked and Naruto frowned.
"They accused me of stealing Yamato from the Uchiha clan…" He growled and Dirge twitched yet remained silent. "They also started calling me a Demon…" He added and Dirge snapped, pulling a gun from his lower back he then shot the roof, much to both Lucrecia and Abel's annoyance.
"Okay… these bastards are SOOO gonna be meeting the business ends of Ebony and Ivory whenever I see them!" The silver haired teen said darkly, eyes glowing a fierce red and Naruto actually smirked.
"Right… well the reason I was called a Demon wasn't because I'm a, Sparda… but I'll speak of that when I feel I'm ready…" Naruto said and Dirge quickly spun his guns before holstering them at his lower back. "Another reason I was banished was because I beat the shit out of Sasuke Uchiha, but in my own defense HE was the one who put three holes through my chest with that damn Chidori of his…" Naruto stated and Dirge nodded his head in agreement.
"Yeah… I hate it when people stab me too… Got old after the millionth time I healed from it." Dirge stated and Naruto raised a brow for a mere second before deciding he really didn't want to know.
"Anyways, I was banished, I left, and then I meet this annoying ass Demon named Jester who tells me I have family here… So here I am…" Naruto finished and Dirge and the Onikage both raise a brow at the "Jester" part seeing as THAT devil has been dead for years now…
"Hmm… Seeing as you DO have Sparda blood and Yamato with you it doesn't seem likely that you'd be lying. I'll allow you to stay in the village for now… However I'm putting you on a probationary period for a while. Both so I can learn to trust you and so you can learn what your clan is all about. Once I relieve you of the Probation you can join the Ninja ranks but you'll have to take start at what you would call Genin level until we decide otherwise…" Abel stated and Naruto nodded his head, that was farily prudent of the man… though being a Genin again was going to be annoying.
"Not like that's any different than what was happening to me in Konoha…" He muttered before noticing his hair and reached up, only to smooth it back into a spiked style and made Dirge chuckle.
"You are Definitely Uncle Vergil's kid." He stated and Naruto frowned.
"Grandson actually…" He stated and Dirge blinked then snickered more heavily.
"Alright you two. Dirge, take Naruto to get his weapons from the front then help him find some clothes in town, and last show him to the Sparda estate so he won't get lost in town. I'm going to go get the restraining orders prepped and ready…" Abel said getting a laugh from Dirge and a confused expression from Naruto.
"What the bloody hell are you getting restraining orders ready for?" Naruto questioned incredulously, thus sending Dirge off the side of the bed and laughing on the floor while Abel grimaced.
"Eh… you'll find out soon enough." The man stated while walking out of the room, leaving Dirge to continue laughing like a madman… 'Why do I have the feeling I don't WANT to find out…' The teen wondered to himself, a sinking feeling deep in the pit of his stomach…
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TBC…
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AN: This is a brief look at what some of the Akumagakure gear looks like, I messed up on them last Chapter so hear you go! These will be seen throughout the rest of the story so try and remember what they look like or just come back here to get a visualization. Hope you liked the Chapter, Ja Ne!
Akumagakure Symbol: It looks like four slit like eyes that curve inward towards one another, then outward away from each other. On an Akumagakure Hittai-Ates these are red, on a Chunin/Jounin vests their blue, and on anything else there primarily black.
Akumagakure Hittai-Ate: Their Hittai-ate is different than normal. It's a black plate that is more curved that normal shaped more like a visor with a small hole at the bottom for the bridge of a persons nose, the Akumagakure symbol is etched into the front with a special seal on its inside to allow them to look through the steel plate, and last two small horns curve up at the top of the Hittai-ate.
Akumagakure Kunai-Case: These are odd, they look to be three Kunai Cases sewn together at the sides with a large Item pouch sewn to the front of them. This is used so when an enemy thinks your using a Kunai one can grab a shuriken, ninja wire, or even an explosive tag without immediately alerting them to this.
Akumagakure Chunin/Jounin Vest: It is black with black SOLDIER type Shoulder guards, a pair of silver plates curving at the neck to attach to the front and back of the vest with simple black straps, the Akumagakure symbol in blue on the back, the front is zipped up with a flap over most of the zipper, and the bottom cupped upwards.
Naruto's current Devil Arms:
Devil Arm: Weapon Type: Demons Original Name: Element(s)…
Yamato: O-Katana: Yama of the Mountains: Steel/Wind…
Kyuubi: Gauntlets and Greaves: Kyuubi no Youko: Earth/Fire…
Gilver: Katana: Vergil Sparda: Steel/Spectral (Ghost)…
Luce & Umbra: Chain Blades: Aubrey: Light / Dark…
Death Penalty: Tri-barreled Handgun: Chaos: Darkness
