The Many Minds of Namikaze Naruto
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Kyuubi's thought-speech
Uryuu's thought-speech
*Ranma's thought-speech*
*Lelouch's thought-speech*
*Gambit's thought-speech*
Thoughts
(Author/Narrator Commentary)
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Esparza: You make two valid points. Here's my stance on them: Yes, I think Naruto is being selfish. No I don't think he's being as selfish as you make him out to be, and here is why. He expected to be able to send the summon back(if it worked at all) the first time. He also didn't expect to summon someone from another dimension. He didn't even realize the possibility of summoning someone from something important accidentally. Thoughtless, but not so much selfish. The second time he was only SLIGHTLY motivated by power, but mainly trying to figure out the seal and make it work again so he COULD send Uryuu back. This was also a small part of his motivation for the third. The third attempt was the most motivated by power, but even then it wasn't SOLELY selfish, because he was also looking out for the lives of Uryuu and Ranma…if he dies, they die. He saw himself as still being too weak. The fourth attempt he has a valid reason for too, although it is somewhat skewed by emotion…you'll see.
The others, I'll admit, are sometimes more accepting of the situation than they perhaps should be. However, Ranma is used to weird crap, and was not in the middle of anything, so I think his reaction was reasonable. Uryuu essentially lived over a decade inside naruto's mind, and so he was acclimated to the new world quickly. Gambit and Lelouch, if you notice, reacted the strongest, and both eventually settled on the rational conclusion of "There's nothing I can do but make sure I survive until he sends me back."
Magnus Prime: funny you should mention that...the next chapter will include someone that meets your descriptions...at least one of them.
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The boy was clearly deranged, and Naruto decided not to postpone things any longer. He'd tested his limits without Kyuubi's power, and it wasn't enough. With her power, he could rival at least another jinchuuriki, and that showed him enough. A third tail grew beside the first two, and when Naruto struck again it was with such speed that only Ranma and Kataki could see him. His next blow struck Gaara's sand and continued straight through it, the energy from his bow coating his arm and making it stronger.
He hit Gaara hard in the stomach just after the energy dissipated, and the shinobi went down hard, coughing up blood and falling backward unconscious with only one direct blow.
Naruto watched the sand around him fall still and slowly move back inside the gourd on his back.
Naruto dusted himself off and looked at the other two with a smirk. "So…my scroll?"
Naruto's smirk grew stronger as he saw the look of terror to appear on the two sand-nin's faces. It rapidly vanished when it became apparent that they weren't looking at him, but something behind him. He didn't have time to turn back around. He heard a shout—"Naruto!"—and barely had time to place Sakura's voice before he was thrown forcefully through the air. His head struck a tree and as his vision blurred, he saw the others leap into the clearing in front of some large…thing. The last thing he saw before blacking out was that whatever it was, it was growing.
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*Naruto! NARUTO! Get up, damnit!*
Naruto couldn't think clearly. What? What's happening?
We need your help over here. We're getting slaughtered.
Naruto stood slowly, shaking his head to clear it. The memories before he was knocked out hit like a flood. He looked around, seeing a towering beast off some distance from him. It looked like an enormous, rather overweight badger, it's body appeared to be made of sand, and almost every tree between it and Naruto was destroyed or knocked over. It was facing almost away from him, and let out a massive roar as something underneath one of it's feet exploded, blowing off a good portion of it's foot. Naruto was shocked when it began to topple over, but then quickly recovered as it's foot reformed from more sand. A bright energy arrow streaked through the air and struck it's face, blowing a significant hole in it's cheek, but that too reformed from sand in only seconds.
Naruto…I need more chakra.
What's happening? How long was I out?
Just do it! You were only out a few minutes, but we can't use my chakra unless you release it.
Naruto shook his head again and went into action. He subtly opened the gates on his extra chakra reserves, letting it flood him and the clones, as first one, then two and finally three tails appeared, along with the other fox-like qualities he always gained when drawing on Kyuubi's chakra.
He didn't know who'd caused the explosion, but the arrow had been Uryuu's. He knew Lelouch was still inside his mind, and obviously Uryuu was near the demon, but he had no idea what was happening with anyone else.
Is everyone ok? What's the situation?
Me and Gambit are near the thing's feet. Nothing we do seems to hurt it. Ranma went to help Sakura.
I'm currently coming up behind it.
Wait, what happened to Sakura?
She's…hurt.
Naruto's heart skipped a beat. That hesitation told him it was probably serious.
Ranma, keep her out of the way as best you can. I can't do anything until that thing is gone.
Meanwhile, Kataki had abandoned her human shape and taken on the form of a three-tailed fox. About half the badger's size, she was barely visible over the trees.
Damnit Kataki, you're going to cause a riot if anyone sees you.
Bigger problems right now, kid.
The fox tackled the sand demon as if it was three times it's size, knocking it flat. Every tear and bite though ultimately had no effect. One massive arm threw Kyuubi into the air, knocking over quite a number of didn't see Kyuubi get back up, and through the trees couldn't see what happened.
Naruto was frantic as he ran toward the enormous beast. How? How can I stop it? Where are the other two?
*They ran toward the tower.*
Naruto swore and turned that direction. Out of the corner of his eye he saw Ranma run past him away from the fighting, carrying Sakura. She was limp, and Naruto saw lots of blood. He swore again and kept running.
He found the two easily. He overcame them even faster once he'd spotted them. A shadow clone appeared beside him and they each tackled one of the two sand-nin.
I need your power.
*Done*
Naruto's eye glowed with the shape of a bird in flight as he looked into first the boy, then the girl's eyes and repeated his command. "You will obey my commands and answer me honestly."
The now semi-familiar glowing ring surrounded their eyes. "Yes."
Naruto was practically growling the question. "How do I stop him? Tell me how I can stop that beast."
Both gave similar answers. They didn't know how to stop their brother. He was too strong. Naruto made a mental note that the three were siblings, then continued. "He hasn't done this before?"
Apparently he had…when he fell asleep the demon took control. He had only stopped when he ran out of chakra or was woken up.
So I have to stall him or wake him up? I'm already burning through too much chakra trying to fight him at a standstill, if I try to wait him out who knows what could happen. I'll have to wake him up.
How? You knocked him unconscious.
Well, I have to try something.
Naruto gave a final command to the two. "Give me your scrolls and go about your business. Don't attack us at least until this test is over."
The guy tossed the bag of scrolls to Naruto and the two walked away silently, their eyes only clearing up when he was gone and they were at the tower.
Naruto strapped the bag to his back and took off running.
Rain…that's what I need. Water, lots of it.
Naruto was close to the demon's feet now. He saw Gambit…but Uryuu wasn't anywhere to be seen. It took him only a second to realize he'd been knocked out and his shadow clone had vanished.
Naruto scowled.
Gambit leapt higher than would normally be possible, Using his staff for leverage to literally propel himself up the giant's body, he smashed the staff against it's face. Naruto noted that although he'd received the chakra boost, his appearance was fairly normal, not fox-like like the rest of them. He didn't dwell on it, and wordlessly summoned more than two dozen clones. Each one ran around the beast's feet as Gambit was thrown down, his clone vanishing. Each of the 30 clones forming identical seals, and Naruto followed suit. The beast stomped forward, crushing eight of the clones, just as the remainder finished. "Water Release: Torrential Rain Technique!"
The sky clouded over immediately above the circle of clones, and moments later rain began falling heavily on the sand demon's head. The sudden downpour of water soaked the sand, and brought a sudden chill to the boy inside its head. As he began to awaken, the sand around him was seemingly melted off the creature's body, falling in massive clumps to the ground below, crushing some of the shadow clones. Naruto barely got away from the area before the entire thing collapsed into a pile of wet sand, the red haired nin lying on the top of it, barely conscious now.
Naruto let the technique continue itself…it was self perpetuating until the air was dry enough to stop itself. He ran toward the fallen jinchuuriki and stopped when he was standing over him. Gaara raised a hand feebly and some of the sand shifted slightly under Naruto's feet, but it didn't rise. The hand fell back to his side. "Why…"
Naruto's eye was still showing the Geass, and so he looked down at Gaara and gave him a single order. "You will hold on and fight your demon until I can help you more." Gaara's eyes glowed, and he merely looked back at Naruto silently. Naruto hoped that would be enough to keep him sane until he had a better way to help the abused genin.
Naruto Didn't particularly want to have to face this boy again, but he knew if he was eliminated he'd potentially lose his chance to help, so he dropped two of the scrolls he'd taken beside him in the sand before running toward the place he'd last seen Ranma. He quickly found him and Sakura near the tower, Ranma was kneeling over her and putting pressure on a large wound in her stomach. Naruto swore. He examined her wounds and quickly came to the realization that there was nothing he knew that could help with wounds like these.A bruised and battered Kataki walked up behind him.
Kataki, can you do anything for her?
I...don't know...My chakra might be able to jumpstart her system into healing itself, but it could just as easily kill her.
Please...try...do something, she's my teammate, and my friend.
I'll try...but it's going to hurt both of us...brace yourself.
Kataki knelt beside the girl and began pulling chakra through the connection of their minds. Naruto felt the drain and let it go. A moment later his world became pain, as virtually Kyuubi's entire available reserve flooded his coils, forcing them to expand many times their size. He almost blacked out as it felt like his head and body were both put under countless jackhammers. Finally his breathing calmed as he felt the pain subside. He realized Ranma's clone had vanished, probably due to the drain on their system. Already though, he felt his reserves refilling from the remainder of Kyuubi's chakra. He looked up and saw theat Kataki was still gritting her teeth and had her hands pressed to the skin just between sakura's chest and stomach. A reddish glow surrounded her hands and eventually that too faded. Naruto nervously approached. "When will we know if it worked?"
"I don't know...it should become obvious within a few minutes."
"And if it didn't, she'll be too far gone to save by the time we can do anything else."
Naruto scowled and threw his bag on the ground, pulling handfuls of scrolls out and tossing the un-needed ones in the dirt. He found one of the one's he needed and unrolled it, biting his thumb and pressing his hand against it along with a burst of his remaining chakra.
Lelouch. Do anything you can to find out if they can help Sakura.
There was a pause...*Naruto...*
Just Do It!
Another pause. *He can't help her.*
Naruto swore yet again and grabbed for another scroll. Kataki grabbed his arm. "Stop it. If you keep this up you'll die of chakra exhaustion, and it's not helping her, and it's certainly not helping whoever you just pulled out of their world. Take her to the tower, they'll likely have medics there who can help her. This is a dangerous test after all."
Naruto closed his eyes. After a moment he dropped the scroll. "Fine. You get the supplies, i'll bring her to the tower." Naruto left the bag lying there and carefully picked up Sakura before running toward the tower as rapidly as he could.
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AN: Really sorry about this, my computer has had a virus for the last few weeks that i've been trying to fix. I had this chapter about halfway done when the virus hit, so now that it's working again, i decided to get out what i had and the next chapter will be the rest of what would have been this chapter.
As always, R&R