Danzo smiled as he looked down at the battle before him. One of the previously dead Sannin was trying to stop him and his plans. Too bad, really. It was beyond too late. He had already completed the matrix and empowered the last seals. The gateway was already closing, its job complete. Danzo however was far more perturbed by the strange man who called himself Cross. He had only left a powerful clone in his place and left the battle early on. His Root ANBU had done enough and was pulling back into the gateway.
"Why are you doing this Danzo?" Jiraiya asked with a huff even as the pair of warriors he had been dealing with retreated. Faros only smirked as he stepped back with Mira to the gateway, before leaving only Danzo, Cross and Jiraiya.
"Utopia's Gates are opening. Sadly because you discovered me so soon I must retreat for now." His single eye cold as ice, even as he turned away and moved towards the gate "A single piece of advice for the village I devoted myself to…Dimiter is a threat that will show its colors. Soon." Then he was gone through the gateway and it closed the entire array crumbling. Cross looked to Jiraiya and shook his head.
"This is wrong…The Plan has been changed. We need to hurry. We're going to need you up there. Now." Cross uttered as they turned to leave and noticed the entranced had collapsed during the fighting. Jiraiya sighed and then said "this is so tedious." Then a blue ball of chakra formed in his hand, even as Cross watched and then looked back to the seals on the ground for communication. The only shadow that remained was the one for the Leader.
"So, Cross. You will see the true power of the Fallen Utopian God." The shadow said before winking out and leaving a deathly cold behind.
"This is bad…"
Naruto: Visions of Immortality
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.
Arc 1: Shadow Wars
Chapter 4: Revelation! Utopia's Call! What is Dimiter?
The limp ragged body was lying dutifully on the ground, watching with unblinking eyes. It was dead, nothing more than a torso with a head. Dimiter remained unmoving, watching, waiting. Then for no reason a small spasm coursed through the torso and the eyes blinked awake. 'Damn that pitifully excuse for a monster. It is lucky. Drake…I will crush him. Soon…soon, the Black Blood will free me. Soon…' the silent torso thought as slowly it returned to its full mental capacity and a soft smile crossed its dreadful features.
Pein not too far away was smiling down at the pitiful sight before him as he pined the last two blades into the boy's legs. "Is this the extent of Jiraiya-Sensei's teachings to you? Is this all you learned? I would think our sensei would have done more. I expected more." He muttered almost as if to himself more than to Naruto. "Do you even understand what you are fighting to prevent?"
Naruto's blue eyes showed annoyance and anger at his opponent's attitude "No, nor should I care what you people chase!" Pein smiled in a most evil way before tilting his head.
"Peace, Naruto-kun. Peace through the only means that can create it. Pain." His words were cold as ice even as he looked down into the adolescent's eyes. Then looking up at the distant battle that was arrayed out before him. It was a wondrous horror that only the most terrible beings could wish for. He quickly looked down and smiled as he began to make hand seals. "Now you will-" he grunted and slid back as Naruto noticed two things in rapid succession one, he had been saved by someone with long hair and two, the sun was going down enough for him to make out what they looked like against the light.
"H-Hinata!? L-look, you have to run, get out of here! He's too-" but he could see the resigned smiled on her face as she looked back at him and then it widened into a real full smile.
"Naruto…I-" she was cut off as she dodged a quick slash from the violent multi-bodied shinobi. For Naruto it was horrible all he could do was listen as the Chakra blade crashed into the ground and then after only moments, a blast of power echoed out and he felt something crash into him. Clenching his eyes in a pure reaction, he opened then to see a bloodied Hinata laying on him. His eyes were wide and shocked as he tired to pull himself up. 'I have to move quickly! He's coming!'
Then he stopped for a moment hearing the weak whispers of the bloodied heiress on top of him. "I-I always wanted to…" she gasped as she tried to pull herself up trying to stand again to protect him and looked down, knowing her limbs were too weak to carry her further. "T-Tell…y-you…" another cough was broken as Naruto looked up and blinked as his vision was clouded with red, and he felt something pressing against him. He blinked the red color away as well as he could before noticing the blade stabbed deep into her chest. "I-I love you, Naruto-kun." A small happy smile on her lips, after her confession then slowly her vision began to drain away.
Naruto blinked as if in shock, a hot wetness staining his dirty cheeks erasing the blood in his eyes. As he felt her collapse onto him all he could do is stare at her, nothing could have prepared him for it. He could feel her breathing grow weaker and weaker. Then suddenly she was removed, her eye were closed and Naruto was allowed a final look at the broken hyuga heiress before Pein tossed her away and looked down at Naruto. "Now you come with me, Naru-" it took only moments but Pein reacted his power to push himself away and he felt the purest shockwave of killing intent, he or any other shinobi had ever encountered. It was humbling.
Pein watched in calm despair as his chakra blades were shattered like toys by the pure power and raged the boy was exuding. Pein frowned however as he noticed the laughter in the wind and glanced over to the large form of Drake merely watching the occurrence with cursory interest. Then suddenly all the rage, all the power. It was gone. Pein returned to looking at the vessel and his eyes widened.
He had only moved to the lip of the crater but the difference was obvious, his eyes had small shadowed ring under them, and a single fang sticking out below his lip. His blue eyes had become cloudy, a dim almost black color and his hands had sharp claws at the end. However, he had a soft black glow around him, and strange seals covering his skin. Then he let out a heavy breath throwing the rubble at his feet away. "Finally…" the deep voice uttered as he locked eyes with Pein. Then in flash of black light, he began to scream, the seals peeling off his skin and melting into the ground.
Then entire seal seemed crawl until it covered half the distance between Pein and Naruto. Pein moved to attack but stopped suddenly when he noticed small red droplets floating in the air all around them melting into the seal, the horrible screams of the container not even making Pein flinch. Then suddenly something ripped out of him, landed in the center of the array, and merged with it. Pein watched as Naruto returned to his feat and gasped out, clinging for breath. He was on guard as he looked around and then shuddered as he felt his entire body chill and the God Realm was shivering.
"Oh Ho… finally…after a thousand years. I am. Whole." The voice was one Pein could recognize even as Drake looked down at the destroyed body of Dimiter as it literally floated to the center of the seal and began to form arms and legs. Then the moment he was whole and touched the array it shined brightly before shattering and the lines merging into him. "Thank you, Naruto-kun. Thanks to you, the Kyuubi, and your lineage. I am finally whole again." Dimiter looked around himself and then laughed.
Pein however wasn't just idling and nodded as he glared over at Drake. "Take him." Drake blinked at the reformed Drake and the darkened Naruto before he drew his sword and charged Dimiter without a care. Dimiter didn't even look away from the sky as Drake drew closer, moments before the large man struck with his massive cleaver of a sword; he was smashed away as he was stabbed and smashed several times by invisible blows. Then, Dimiter's hair shortened to a cut closer to what Naruto's looked like. Then without warning, a pair of shadowy black wings grew from his back, as he finally seemed to notice Pein.
"Ah…finally…Seal Level Six…Released." Then he blinked as Naruto flew past him and attacked Pein and watched in amazement at the pure power. 'So this is the power of the black blood of the Namikaze. It seemed my plans words out well. However I think I should go recover Night and leave Naruto to leave of his new fate quickly.'
Pein was barely able to react as Naruto slammed into him with a violent blast of rage and a show of power. Pein coughed as he shifted a piece of the ruined building and looked over to the container and blinked completely lost as to where this power could have come from. Naruto glared as he pointed at Pein and growled, "Despite my gratitude at freedom…I'm going to crush you for what you did! You won't escape!" then in a pure roar of distilled rage he burst forward and literally crushed the ground between him and his target, never even noticing that his traits as one of the People were slowly dissipating.
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Mindscape: Kyuubi's Chamber
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Within the dark chambers of Naruto's, mind the Kyuubi no kitsune glared from behind the bars of his chamber. It had always monitored its host's body and mind carefully so it would best be able to do what it desired. However, since the fight at the valley of the end, something had changed. A corruption existed, and not just one. Two of them. The Kyuubi could do little but watch as the twin spores grew. One became the piece of Dimiter's power hidden within the sealed darkness of Naruto's family line. The rest was the very darkness of Naruto's ancestor's linage. One the Kyuubi knew well. On a personal level.
Thus, the great beast wasn't shocked when the very specter he'd dreaded for a millennium showed up in his vessel's very mindscape. The aged biju merely let out a resigned sigh and suddenly missed the loud child he had been partnered with. A sudden hole had been torn in the Kyuubi's very being. It never understood the difference in the meaning of vessels until he lost his. Now this…monster was in control.
"Ah, one of the pieces of the Jubi, how quant." The specter stated in a scholarly tone. Then with a wave of his hand, the Kyuubi felt something it, in its entire existence, never felt. Pure undiluted agony. It knew what was happening the creature was stealing its power for its own purposes. For the first time, it hoped for Naruto to push back the dark powers within. However, the Kyuubi saw the reflection of its vessel in the water. Weak and defeated. Lost to the pain of reality. "I will be borrowing all the power I want, I hope you can handle the strain." Then the specter calmly turned and walked away but the shadow of Naruto remained.
"K-Kit…wake…up."
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Konoha Ruins: Great Crater
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Then as sudden as the attack began, it ended. Naruto merely smiled down at Pein and tilted his head "On second thought…I think I am in the mood for something closer to total genocide." With each word he spoke, the world around him seemed to darken. Then in a burst of pure chakra, the massive form of Drake spilt in three erupted from behind Pein's attack, without Naruto even turning to his assailant.
Dimiter however was already far off moving massive chunks of rubble to uncover the familiar known as Night. He smiled as he tossed the massive ruin aside and looked down at her but then he blinked as he heard the chuckle from her lips. "Ku ku ku…"
Suddenly Naruto was surrounded on all sides. Cloaked figures stood around him, only one's face would be visible, however he had a cross scarred mask covering it. The cool voice of Lord Black rung out. "Sarcosis, Dread King of First Utopia!" Naruto suddenly looked at the figure intrigued. "Father of the Three Princes, I will tell you only once!" then Lord Black drew out a single tri-bladed kunai. "Let my son go or die!" Naruto possessed by Sarcosis smiled darkly as the hood fell back.
Finally it was revealed, Lord Black was Minato Namikaze.
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A/N
Hey tried to get out a quick chapter for you all. Hope this is received well. Now things get more and more interesting.