A/N: hey guys hows it going? First of all, to Apreditor, who said that the proper name was 'fukasaku', thank you very much. I knew it was something like that but I couldn't quite remember. That's what I meant, but I wrote down 'fugaku'. Too damn close if you ask me, haha. Anyways, thank you for the correction.
I feel like this story is really going down a great road. I feel that its well developed, or at least more so than my last story. If you all have any pointers or tips, I would really appreciate it.
I also would like to thank Lord Demolitions for his really great ideas! As I have said before, it was him who first suggested the idea of Raiden training Naruto in his lightning ability in the first place. Pretty cool idea.
Anyways, here is the next chapter for your enjoyment!
A Broken Man
Chapter 10
Elimination
Naruto looked at the spot in which Raiden had just taken the Earthrealm team back home. Staring blankly at the blackened spot on the ground, he recognized the fact that one of his tasks was now complete.
"Naruto?" Mileena asked him, stepping away from the wooden house and towards him. "Are you okay?"
Naruto didn't answer. Instead he just kept staring on ahead. His eyes narrowed and his body tensed up. Mileena noticed this and tried to reach out to him, but before she could make contact, Naruto yelled out to her, "Get back Mileena!"
She didn't move in time, but luckily for her Naruto did. He grabbed her and they shushinned onto the top of the roof of the wooden house as a spear thrown from the trees landed exactly where Mileena was half a second ago. Mileena looked at the area that the spear was thrown and saw nothing. She growled and retrieved her sais from their sheathes on her back and yelled out, "Come out and face me you cowards!"
"Shut up Mileena!" Naruto said harshly. "You don't even know what you're going up against! Stop being so damned brash and think! stop looking at what's in front of you! Underneath the underneath, Mileena! Stop forgetting! There's always more to what you can see! Ermac!"
The sorcerer-ninja materialized from green energy next to them on the roof. Naruto gave Mileena to Ermac and created ten clones around them and said to Ermac, "You get her to safety now, you understand? My clones will provide extra security. Do NOT let her out of your sight!"
"Where would you have us go?" Ermac asked Naruto. "How will you find us?"
"Go anywhere that's away from Kotal Kahn!" Naruto said as he crossed his arms in an 'x' in front of him, his clawed gauntlets ready to rip his unseen enemies to shreds. "don't worry, I'll find you, not get the fuck out of here!"
Ermac nodded and Ermac levitated and then disappeared with Mileena.
Naruto eyed the tree where the spear had come from. He pulled out a kunai with an explosive tag and threw it at the tree. Just before the kunai hit, he activated the tag, blowing the tree to smithereens. He jumped down and crouched low, in a similar looking style as the Gentle Fist, clawed gauntlets and talons on his greaves shining in the moonlight.
"I can sense all of you, no use in hiding," Naruto announced.
Immediately, at least seventy-five Oshtek soldiers came out from the tree lines and the bushes surrounding the immediate area. They were all armed with spears, swords both regular and oddly huge in size, shields, and knives that just looked cruel. Naruto knew that he would have a fight on his hands, regardless of how powerful he was. Seventy-five on one are never good odds.
"What the hell do you all want?" Naruto asked none of them particularly.
"Kotal Kahn wants Mileena!" One Oshtek, apparently the leader of the attack force, answered. "Hand her over, and you will not be harmed!"
The leader was a huge man. At least six and a half feet tall, he easily weighed about three hundred pounds, not an ounce of fat on him, pure muscle covered every inch of his body. Looking like an overgrown Oshtek toy, he carried a sword that looked much like Kotal Kahns saw-like sword. For all Naruto knew it may very well have been the same weapon. And he held it in one hand like it was a stick. The other arm held a large bronze shield that was oval in shape and had a large 'O' in the center. Likely it either stood for 'Oshtek' or maybe 'outworld'.
"Didn't you just see?" Naruto said to the leader. "I just had Mileena escorted out of here. As long as I'm alive, you will never get to her!"
"HAHAHAHAHAHA! I was hoping you'd say that!" the large man boasted with his booming voice. Naruto thought that as far as size and strength, this man could easily give Torr a run for his money.
Holding his large sword up in the air, the leader shouted, "FOR KOTAL KAHN!"
With that battle cry, all of the Oshtek soldiers charged at Naruto.
His claws and talons gleamed in the moonlight, aching for the opportunity to spill some blood. Naruto smiled under his mask before he charged forward. One Oshtek soldier was closing in on him with his sword raised in the air. Before the blow could connect, Naruto jumped in the air and seemed to glide forward like a bullet. His body was parallel to the ground, clawed gauntlets held forward and was spinning. (Think of Raiden's flying attack, but spinning at the same time).
The result was, with the momentum and spinning force of Narutos attack combined with the razor sharp claws, the Oshtek soldiers torso was suddenly missing. Naruto flew straight through the man as if he was made of paper. Blood and gore flew everywhere as Naruto exited from the other side of the soldier. A mixture of shock and pain was frozen on the soldier's face before he fell to the ground, dead.
Naruto crouched and swatted away a spear that was thrust at him and cut the soldiers throat. He took that spear and threw it up and performed his famous sign and yelled out, "Multi-Shadow Spear Jutsu!"
The single spear turned into twenty and turned into a rain of steel as they all hit targets. Cries of pain and death were heard from around the area. Naruto ducked under a sword swipe aiming for his throat and shoved his hand forward, stabbing through the man's heart. The man fell back, dead before he hit the ground. Two came at him from either side, one with a spear and the other with a shield. Naruto crouched low on the ground, barely dodging the spear thrust. Naruto ducking caused the spear wielding Oshtek to miss and hit the other one from Narutos other side, spearing him in the chest. Naruto rolled out from under the spear and jumped, performing a roundhouse kick in the air that connected with the spearman's jaw. The spearman stumbled backwards and Naruto yanked the spear from the unfortunate Oshtek fool and threw it at the original owner. The spear hit the man square in the throat, the spear going though his throat easily. The man was left with a huge hole in his neck and fell to the ground, dead.
Naruto created ten clones that went out to assist him in dealing out death and carnage to the group that tried to ambush him and Mileena. He looked at his armored hands, the claws bathing in blood. He smiled ferally underneath his mask. He once again charged forward and jumped in the middle of about twenty Oshtek soldiers. When he landed, he quickly performed a small series of hand signs and yelled out, "Wind Style: Vortex Wall!"
The twenty soldiers that surrounded him were suddenly blown away by an invisible force. They all flew away about ten feet. Naruto used that time to face the leader who was about fifty feet away and charging at him, yelling incoherently. Naruto performed a few more hand signs and held out his hands and a giant rasengan appeared, than was covered in fire.
"FALMING RASENGAN!" Naruto yelled out, then launched the jutsu.
The leader stopped dead in his tracks and then moved out of the way as the giant ball of energy coated in fire whizzed by him. He could literally feel the heat from the attack start to burn his skin. He could tell that if that had actually hit him, he would seize to exist entirely.
He watched as the jutsu took down several trees before exploding, creating a huge cloud of dust and heat to come their way. Everyone had to shield their eyes, but Naruto just stood there. The forceful gust of wind and dust blew over them all. Narutos scarf blew behind him in the strong gusts, and the ones closest to the actual explosion suffered from intense third degree burns. Even though the explosion itself was far off, the heat radiating from it reached all of them easily.
Naruto walked forward after the gusts died down. By this point, only about fifteen of the seventy-five remained. Eight of the ones left still able to fight stood up between Naruto and their leader. In a split second, Naruto appeared behind them, sword drawn. The blade itself was about four feet long and pitch black, with a depiction of a blood red dragon going down the blade. Blood coated the blade and was dripping off of the point of the blade. Naruto stood up and flicked the blood off, twirled it and sheathed his sword back into his sheathe on his back. The moment it was properly sheathed, the eight men behind him fell to pieces. Blood and limbs fell to the ground mixed with eight death cries in the air.
Now only seven more remained, minus the leader. They suddenly surrounded him, all having shields and spears pointed at him. Naruto stopped and looked at the seven fools around him. He smiled under his mask and threw a smoke bomb on the ground, giving the chance to disappear.
The seven men looked around as the voice of Naruto was heard in the air, "Hmmm…Let's try something new, shall we?"
The area then began to heat up as little tendrils of electricity would spark randomly around them all. Beginning to freak out, all seven of the men turned around and began to run off. Before they could get very far, Narutos voice was once again heard as he said from thin air, "I give this one credit to my friend Sasuke. Lightning Style: Chidori Stream!"
Naruto appeared in the center of the seven men once again. In slow motion, one could see that he had a chidori in his hand and was aiming for the ground. When Naruto landed, he immediately kneeled to the ground and thrust his hand down like he was summoning. The lightning from the chidori attack suddenly spread quickly and erratically. Seven large streams of electricity danced across the ground, each one aiming for their intended targets. The seven men never got very far, as the electricity reached them and fried them where they stood.
The leader was haunted by their screams that filled the air. The frying of flesh could be heard as the bodies of the seven men could be heard very clearly. Their screams had died out long ago. Their bodies were only standing from the muscles locking up, holding them in place as the electricity coursing through their already dead bodies. Their skeletons could be visibly seen with every flash of lightning going through them. finally, after what seemed like an hour but was only about a minute, the jutsu was cancelled out by Naruto, and the seven blackened bodies fell to the ground. Smoke could be seen rising from the freshly charred bodies like they were on a grill for far too long. Their mouths were locked open, forever showing the intensity of their final screams before their heart finally stopped beating. Naruto stood up and popped his neck and said to no one in particular, "Ah, that was fun."
He began to walk to the leader, who was staring at his men around him, all of them slaughtered. Some were cut to ribbons, others were fried, others were torn through. Either way, it didn't lessen the fact that the leader had lost his entire group to a single man. He looked at Naruto who was about twenty feet away. In the blink of an eye, Naruto closed the distance and grabbed his throat.
The man was choking on the ninja's grip on his windpipe. He dropped his weapons and tried to wrench the hand off of his throat, but to no avail. Naruto just looked in the man's eyes and brought him down to Narutos eye level. The leader saw the dullness in Narutos eyes, the deadness. Naruto threw the man down in front of him. The man choked, trying to get that precious life giving air back into his lungs.
"Did Kotal Kahn send you and your group exclusively?" Naruto asked the man, "Or were you already a part of the search group to begin with?"
The leader just stared at Naruto with hate and malice. Naruto kicked the man in the face, his talons on his greaves severely cutting the mans face and knocking off his Oshtek helmet. The leader stood up and faced Naruto, leaning down to pick up his huge sword.
"Answer my questions, and you'll be spared," Naruto said to him as the sword was being lifted, "Resist, and I will kill you slowly." He held up a bloody gauntlet and said, "So, which is it gonna be?"
The leader looked at Naruto and his claw. He then lowered his blade and said, "We were all sent exclusively," he answered in a deep voice. "Kotal Kahn called off the rest of the search party, but called for us and sent us out to search for you and Mileena and kill you both and report with your head."
"Ah, I see," Naruto said. "Is that all?"
"Y-Yes," The leader said. "Now…you said if I answered your questions, you would spare me."
"I did, didn't I," Naruto said. He flicked the blood off of his gauntlets and said, "Very well, you may go. But first, I need something from you. Where is Kotal Kahn now?"
"He…He is still at his throne hall," the leader answered. "He is normally there, unless he is called out for whatever reason."
"Good. And you see him frequently?"
"Enough, yes."
"Good."
Naruto, in a flash, drew his sword and cut the man's head off with one quick strike. Once again flicking the blood off, he sheathed it. Just then, Naruto sensed his clone that he had sent out earlier return with the scroll.
"Hey boss!" The clone said as it landed beside its creator. It handed him the scroll and said, "The idiots heads are in there just as you asked."
"Excellent," Naruto said. He looked at the clone and said, "Thanks."
The clone nodded before it dissipated into smoke. Naruto unfurled the scroll and laid it on the ground. He grabbed the severed head of the Oshtek leader and placed it onto the scroll and put his hands together and said, "Fuuin!"
The severed head soon was sealed away with Torr and Ferra's severed heads. Naruto rolled up the scroll and created a powerful clone. The clone popped into existence and said, "Whats up boss?"
"I need you to henge into that fool right there," Naruto said, pointing at the dead leader and continued to say, "and take this scroll to Kotal Kahn and give him one last warning. You know what to do."
The clone nodded and henged into the leader of the Oshtek that Naruto had just decimated.
The 'leader' then shushinned out of sight, heading towards his objective. Naruto turned around and looked at all of the dead bodies. Not wanting to leave any evidence as to where he was or what had happened, he produced another scroll and placed it on the ground. Channeling a lot more chakra, he clapped his hands together and yelled out, "Fuuin!"
All of the dead bodies and severed limbs were sealed into the scroll that Naruto had laid out. Once all of the deceased people were gone from the battlefield, Naruto rolled up the scroll. He walked back inside to his wooden house that surprisingly didn't take any damage at all from the failed ambush. He closed the door behind him and walked to the fire that was once again in the center of his self-made home and threw the scroll with all the sealed bodies in the flames and watched them burn. He sat down and closed his eyes to rest when the front door bust open and Mileena walked in quickly with Ermac right behind her.
"Naruto!" Mileena cried out desperately. Seeing him by the fire, she ran up and kneeled behind him and hugged him. "If you ever do that again I'll kill you myself!"
Naruto couldn't help but smirk a little at her little display of affection. "Are you and Ermac alright?" Naruto asked her.
"Yes," Mileena replied. "We didn't get very far when we saw that huge explosion. Was that from you?"
"That was me flaming rasengan at full power, yeah," Naruto replied.
"And who was it that caused you to use it?" Mileena asked. "Are you hurt?"
"I'm only hurt because there wasn't more for me to kill," Naruto said plainly. "It was about a hundred of those fools that Kotal Kahn employs, tek warriors or whatever they're called."
"Oshtek," Mileena corrected.
"Yeah, about a few squads of them," Naruto said to her. "They tried to ambush us, intent on killing us. I sent a clone disguised as their leader to send Kahn a message. I'm tired of his games. He wants to challenge me when I give him fair warning? So be it. He'll learn not to mess with the Jinchurriki of the Nine Tailed Fox."
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Kotal Kahn was on his throne talking to D'Vorah about their plans to find and kill Mileena when an Oshtek guard walked up to him and said, "My Lord, Dram has returned and wishes to see you."
"Ah, the leader of the extermination squads I sent out to kill the intruder and Mileena has returned, D'Vorah," Kotal Kahn said to her. He looked at the guard and said, "Very well, send him in."
The guard bowed and left. A few minutes later, the guard returned with the same leader of the extermination squads that Naruto had destroyed.
The guard left and the huge form of Dram stopped a few feet away from Kotal Kahn and bowed.
"Greetings, my Lord," the deep voice of Dram spoke, his booming voice easily heard in the small area of Kotal Kahn's encampment. (The little area that Kotal Kahn is in when he has Mileena killed originally in MKX…what is that place exactly? It doesn't look like an actual building, more like a camp. If anyone knows what it really is, please let me know.)
"I do have a message for you, my Lord," Dram said to Kotal Kahn.
"A message?" Kotal Kahn said, curious. "From whom, Dram?"
"From the intruder," Dram told his leader. "His name is Naruto Uzumaki. He is the jinchurriki of the Nine Tailed Fox and the Toad Sage of Mount Myoboku. He had me bring this message to you."
The form of Dram retrieved the scroll that was given to him and placed it on the ground.
"What is this?" Kotal Kahn asked Dram.
"I am about to show you my Lord," Dram said to Kahn.
Once the scroll was completely unfurled and laid out in front of the ground in front of Kotal Kahn, Kotal Kahn saw that Dram started to do something weird with his hands, and then clapped his hands together and said aloud, "Unseal!"
Kotal Kahn had never seen Dram do this sort of thing before. Smoke began to arise from the scroll, and a puff of smoke later, the severed head of Dram, the severed head that was still connected to the spine of Ferra, and the two halves of Torr's severed head appeared on top of the scroll, eyes blank and wide in horror, mouths still wide open in their final shriek of pain.
Kotal Kahn looked at Dram furiously and yelled out, "What kind of trick is this Dram?!"
'Dram' smiled as he stood up. He clapped his hands together one more time and said "Kai!", and smoke appeared around Dram. A moment later revealed it to actually be Naruto henged as Dram.
"THIS is the message, Kotal Kahn!" Naruto yelled out. He pointed a finger at him and said loudly, "I gave you a chance to back off, Kotal Kahn! I gave you an opportunity to live in peace! Your act of ordering a series of extermination squads to ambush me and Mileena are now an act of a new conflict! Torr, Ferra, AND Dram are now dead because of your foolish actions! Also, just so you know, Ermac is also at my side now! You have SERIOUSLY fucked up Kotal Kahn! Prepare to face the consequences! NO ONE double-crosses Naruto Uzumaki!"
Suddenly, Naruto popped into smoke, the clone seizing to exist.
Kotal Kahn was absolutely furious. He stared at the severed heads of his subordinates and yelled out, "I GAVE NO SUCH ORDER!"
A/N: hey guys so heres the next chapter. So yeah, like I said, that little place that Kotal Kahn is in during the scene in MKX where Mileena is executed, what place is that? A tent, building, castle, or what? It never was clear to me. Anyways, you all know the drill, lemme know what you all think! until next time, Roku out.