Naruto: A Stranger's Promise Chapter 10 The Four Nations
The barren wasteland stretched out further than sight could travel. Daremo walked silently with Rael and Dartis, leaving no footmarks in the scorched land. Eventually, something did appear on the horizon. It was a large city with wide open gates and a fortified stone wall that surrounded it. "Tell the council that he has come back and wishes to see them." Dartis said to a guard standing with four other men outside the gates.
The council room was gold in colour, with marble columns and large tapestries that draped down the overhanging walls. Before Daremo sat four councillors, high up on an impressive council meeting table.
"Kalron, I see you have returned." These words were spoken by an old woman with grey hair, but few wrinkles. "I'm sorry, but for over ten years now, I have gone by the name of Daremo. So please, if you will, call me Daremo." Daremo said this with a bow and then stood up straight again. A grey haired man, without any wrinkles at all, nodded his head. "Very well then, if you want to be called Daremo, we'll call you by this. But I assume this is only because you wish to return to the other continent?" He said this and coughed, presumably moving the conversation along, before speaking again. "What about your travels in this newly discovered land, did you find what you were looking for?" Daremo smiled at this. "Yes, yes I did. In fact I found demons." The council were shocked to the bone by Daremo's words. "You're telling me, that you spent fourteen years in this place and all you've found is more problems?" A large man stood up and said this, his left side was completely metallic, showing the tell-tale signs of a cyborg. "On the contrary, these demons might be just what we need. There are nine of them in total, and combined, they may have the power to guide us the golden garden." Daremo finished explaining and waited for the upcoming questions. "If this is true, why haven't you already united the power of these demons?" Asked the grey haired man. "This is because most of the demons are inside human bodies. Making so that, in order to extract the demons, we'd have to kill the hosts and I will not pave the way to the golden garden with blood." The large cybotic man grumbled at this, but saw no reason to question Daremo and instead growled out. "So, what have you been doing all these years?"
Four pairs of eyes stared down at Daremo from the council seats and waited for his swift answer. "The human host can still use the demon powers after learning to control these powers. However, a good third of the hosts were just children when I found them and even worse than this, most of the hosts are not likely to co-operate. As they are all separated by countries with bad blood. Added to this is the fact that the demons themselves, hate each other and will try to convince the hosts to fight each other." Daremo glanced up, but quickly continued before the inevitable shouting began. "But, I did spend the last fourteen years doing something useful. I took care of the host kids that I could find, until they were of an appropriate age and I put them in a position to be able to persuade the last host child to gather the adult hosts for when we need all nine demons together." When Daremo finished, a raven black haired man stood up quietly. Making his presence known for the first time during the meeting. "What is it Lok'tu?" The large councillor asked. The thin man with black hair smiled. "When I read in-between the lines, it sounds like you've been playing house all of this time." He grinned deviously, but the smile shrunk rapidly when Daremo appeared in front of him in an instant. "I didn't bring the four nations together, just so that you can sit around throwing accusations. Admittedly, I grew attached to the youngsters. But that's none of your business Lok'tu." Lok'tu regained his composure and put his hands behind his head. With a crack, Daremo was standing before the whole council again. "Council members, I have nothing more to say."
"Very well." The old woman said. "This meeting is adjourned until further notice. However we do want what's in the golden garden and if you want to restore your homeland, then you will also do what's required to get your hands on it." Daremo bowed and left. Meeting with Rael and Dartis outside.
"All of you should know of our biology by now. But let's do a quick recap so that we can do a quick evaluation of our last world war." A brown haired teacher stood at the front of a classroom, beginning her lecture. "As humans, our chakra organs do not produce any chakra, but instead, intake them or output them through our chakra receptors. Which are located all around our body. This allows us to either manipulate our own bodies or our surroundings at will as we are effectively extending a part of ourselves into the world around us. Now, that we know of, there are four different groups of ways that you can do this and these four disciples of chakra manipulation, created four different groups. The four groups were the psychics, the elementalists, the shape manipulators and the shadowed. Due to much arguing, these four groups split and formed four different nations of mentality, strength, life and darkness." The teacher smiled and said "I'll leave you to guess which nation belongs to which group of people." She then coughed and resumed her lecture. "However, the arguing was so great that wars began between these four nations. The very last war destroyed peaceful nation of unity. Which was composed of farmers and other people who did not want to engage in warfare. The land outside this city is the destroyed land that belonged to the nation of unity. So then, can anyone tell me what happened next?" The teacher asked this and smiled when a brown haired girl put up her hand and shouted out. "Kalron appeared!"
"Yes, very good Aleana. Kalron did appear and as the last of the people from the unity nation and he became the only man to master all four of the chakra disciples. After which, he challenged and defeated all of the nations leaders and generals in single combat. After their defeat, he united the four nations and asked for them to create capital in his old homeland. So that all of the nations were bound by the tragedy of the past." The teacher finished the lecture with a sigh and then looked up to smile at her class. "All right, class dismissed."
Aleana packed away her things and waited outside, soon a identically looking boy haired boy appeared and they ran home together. Arriving home, they entered and were greeted by their mother. But smiled with big eyes and grins when they saw Daremo. "Uncle Kalron!" They both shouted together and gave him a big hug.
"Well look at you two, little babies the last time I saw you and now you're both cheerful little kids." Daremo hug them as he said this and then parted from their hugs to speak to the woman sitting by the table. "You've done well to raise them both by yourself, sister." The two children went to stand by their mother, but their eyes didn't leave Daremo. "I said I would didn't I? Or my name isn't Olivia." The mother then laughed and said, "it's been hard though. But every hardship was worth it in the end." "I'm glad you pulled through. Now then, Aleana, Orion. I want to hear all about yourselves, however, I'm going to cook something for a change and give your mum a day off." Daremo said this and grinned with a light hearted chuckle.
Naruto threw himself into a snake and then yelled, "shadow clone jutsu!" Making dozens of clones appear inside the snakes throat, expanding it until the snake disappeared in a puff of smoke. Fu landed beside him and they both grabbed hold of their knees, almost collapsing with fatigue. Then Naruto stood up straight and yelled out. "Is that you've got sensei!? A few little forest pests and you're done for the day!?" This taunt received Anko's wrath as trees started to fall around Naruto and Fu, making it look like nature itself wanted to kill them both. They dodge out of the way and began running again to escape certain death.
Author's Note:
Hmm, Chapter ten is here already. This calls for a celebration! Left-Handed gloves, with cheese in them, for everyone! Thank you for reading this fanfic so far, I plan to continue until the world implodes or until somewhere after pain gets the living daylights beaten out of him.
Now a few of you have been asking me what relationships will be happening in this fanfic. So hey they are.
Naruto X Anko
Daremo/Kalron X Shizune
Fu X [Mostly undecided character, but the guy I have in my head right now shall be left as a surprise if I do end choosing him as Fu's partner (I have to keep some surprises for you guys, you know?)]
I shall also be doing some other relationships, but they're pretty minor and I don't think it will effect the fan fiction in any great shape or form.
So, once again, thank you for reading so far and I would be thrilled to know that you've all enjoyed the journey so far and want to continue it with me. (Don't make me say "Would you kindly.")