Vermiculus: So, yet again I have had to lock up my other two personalities. The two were arguing over torture…. Obviously mental torture is the best.
Chorus: Bullshit, the best torture is when they torture themselves.
Umbra: Your both wrong, the best torture is to let them burn slowly…
? : Um, guys, we have a story to type up… Besides, I'm free…
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Disclaimer: Yeah no, I don't own any of this.
Naruto: The Crow of Konoha
Chapter 10: Midgar, Assassinations, and Turks!
Previously:
Naruto had crashed into the dimension of This Army Life (Whose author gave me permission to use, check the story out if you like FF7.) and was recruited into the army under the command of Sephiroth and Zack. We last saw our hero upon sitting and talking with Tonberry before getting the message that he was to travel with Sephiroth to the seventh level of hell known as Midgar.
With our hero…
Naruto was watching as Sephiroth glared at an old man in a scientist coat. The man who Sephiroth had called Hojo. Naruto was told of this man and what he had done. As the two super soldiers, one made by Jenova cells and the other due to his training and chakra, listened to the man all the souls that were in Naruto's mindscape were fighting about how he should deal with the man. The souls of the Crimson Fangs weapons were saying to wait and see what he wanted before determining whether or not to separate his head from his body. Crow, Natsume, Hei, and Amber were all saying to kill him now. Naruto decided to listen to the souls of his weapons; they were at least giving the man a chance to not get himself killed. Hojo looked at the young shinobi and then looked at Sephiroth. "This is the person you said was the one who crash landed on the Wutai front? He doesn't look like much…"
Hojo had stopped talking as Naruto had the Sin blades at his throat with a look that could freeze Ifrit solid. "I would prefer if you would not underestimate me. My name is Naruto Namikaze, however where I'm from I earned a name, they refer to me as the Blood Angel." He then returns his blades to back into blood that he seals into a scroll quickly. Hojo fixes his glasses and smirks.
"Well then Mr. Namikaze, would you be so kind as to donate some of your blood? For medical reasons of course." 'As soon as I have his blood I will be able to increase the abilities of that damn Kakashi and then I will be even more prepared to force Shinra to give me more money for my experiments.' Hojo noticed that Naruto was smirking. "What?"
"Sorry to say sir, but my blood is poisonous to anyone but myself. So using it to increase one of your experiments is impossible." Naruto said, smirking the entire time. 'I think that before I leave I will kill him, Giles, and Kakashi.' As Naruto and Sephiroth walked away they both shared a smirk that scared the Shinra employees as they walked by the two.
"So, Naruto, what are your plans?"
"Well, I plan on training in as many styles as I can, killing Hojo, Giles, and Kakashi before I leave, and also acquiring a couple of new weapons."
"You realize that Kakashi is immortal right?"
"If it bleeds it can die. If that doesn't work, I can always seal him into a teapot."
"A teapot?"
"Yes, a teapot."
"Wow, what about Giles, he seems to be immortal."
"Him? I have a special technique that there is no way he can survive. And if he does, well I guess I'll seal him into a teapot as well. Besides, how hard could it be to kill a single person?"
"Okay, and Hojo?"
"Well I will let him be covered in my blood then cause it to explode… destroying him and his lab… so if there is anyone or anything in there that you want to get out then tell me before hand."
"What weapons are you looking at?"
"Well, I prefer nodachi class weapons so your Masamune is on the list, I can use Zanbatou so Zack's Buster Blade is on the list, and maybe a few other weapons."
"If you can kill Giles and Kakashi, then our swords are yours."
"Awesome, now let's see what I can do about getting us someone who can cook."
A couple weeks later…
The men were surprised, after Giles went missing; they suddenly found someone who could cook. The man was blind as a bat but his food was at least edible. Everyone wondered where the general got the teapot he sent to the President though, that and what the giant explosion was before the teapot was sent out, they never saw it until the day that Giles disappeared. The general was a happier person, as were most of the others. Now if only they could get rid of Kakashi who had been hanging around the camp most of the time since then they would be ecstatic. Naruto was also a usual sight hanging out with either the Turks or Tonberry. He was usually also seen training in a sword style that seemed more like a dance than anything. He was also somewhat of a flirt, usually chatting up any of the women in the camp or even Elena the Turk. He was somewhat boisterous and loud except when he was sent on jobs by Sephiroth or Zack. Everyone swore he was some kind of a Turk with the way he acted while on a mission, the only person there with a greater success rate was Sephiroth himself. Naruto often disappeared and when he reappeared he always seemed to have another weapon, almost as if he was collecting them for some reason. Then there was the incident…
Flashback…
Naruto was training in a small clearing when he looked up and noticed that he was being watched by a small group of Wutai ninja. He sighed as he looked up at the one that was in charge. "What do you want? Can't you see I'm training?"
The lead ninja then threw a large shuriken at Naruto, who let it pass by him, barely cutting him. The man who threw it then caught it. "Seems he is not as good as he makes himself out to be. Come on guys, this will be easy."
"Ha, you really think that I wasn't in control. I let you cut me, for ya see, my blood is very fun." Naruto then formed a half ram seal and caused the blood on the shuriken to explode, removing the arm of the ninja holding it. "You see, my blood is a weapon on its own, and as such that means that every wound I receive makes me even more dangerous. If you can't kill me in one hit then you have already failed." Naruto then slowly walked over to the ninja and cut his own arm with a kunai before stabbing it into the stump that used to be his arm. The arm and eventually body of the man seemed to boil before exploding in a gory mess. The other ninja looked at the scene in horror as Naruto then formed wings from his blood and flew up. "Allow me to at least thank-you all for helping me with my training. Know that your deaths were not in vain." At this Naruto then swooped down and started to kill all of the ninja. The last one looked up at him before closing her eyes in expectation of the killing blow. When she didn't feel the cold sting of death she looked up to see the boy, no demon, which had killed her squad looking at her weirdly. "You're a Taggala, aren't you?"
The girl looked up and removed her hood to reveal long red hair and dark green eyes. "The name's Saya Taggala, and I happen to be a member of the Crimson Fangs as well. Who are you?"
"Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze. I happened to be trained by Toshiro Teki, Suijin Taggala, and Hiroshi Taggala. I also was granted this sword, but I don't recognize it." He shows her the blade that he had just received and she gasped as soon as she saw it.
"You may not recognize the blade but I do, that blade is Newyn. That is Shihiro-sama's blade. The blade that can determine the fate of all it cuts. This blade is what allowed Shihiro to injure Satsujin-o when he came for him." Saya then noticed Naruto growl at Satsujin-o's name. "What was that all about?"
"I fought an avatar of Satsujin-o and if you're telling me that this weapon was what it took just to injure him is telling me that I need to up my training exponentially." Naruto then growled. "I need to increase my abilities and increase my training regimen. Last time his avatar was just playing with me and it still trashed me. If that was just his avatar and it trashed me that badly, God save us all."
Saya just stared at the kid. "You fought Satsujin-o's avatar, and you're not dead?"
"Yes, and it was also in the presence of at least three other Taggala family members. I also had the help of some of my tenants as well as the souls' of my weapons. Without them I would have had my ass kicked even quicker." Naruto then deadpanned. "You just saw me kill your entire team and were still surprised that I survived against that bastard. I don't know if that means that he is that strong or team was that weak." Saya chuckled, and then sighed.
Naruto looked around and noticed Kakashi sneaking around. Kakashi looked at him and his tail started wagging. "I found you. Hojo was right you are a spy. When I inform him of this he will reward me and I will be awesome."
Naruto sighed as he cut his palms and forced them together before pulling them apart and a long blade of blood appears between them and he smirks. "Sonic Black!" The blade is then split into multiple mini blades and each is fired at Kakashi hitting him repeatedly. "Well, that was easy… Oh come on, you have got to be fucking kidding me." Naruto growled out, channeling Natsume's chakra as he saw Kakashi get back up. "Fine, Hojo wants to send his pet fox after me. I'll show him a fox." Naruto crouched down and was enveloped by the chakra forming the two-tail cloak. Naruto then charged at the fox man and swung one of his claws at him; however the man ducked and tried to punch Naruto in retaliation. Naruto back-stepped then one of his tails went flying forward and hit Kakashi right in the heart. The Hojo spawned fox man tried to pull the tail out but was slowly disintegrating due to the toxic chakra. "Heh, the mad man might have made you nearly indestructible; but I am a master of the insane." He then turned around when he heard coughing and saw Kakashi slowly start to get back up. "What the fuck, I thought I killed that bastard? What will it take for you to just die?"
"Hojo made it so that I would be able to survive everything except for an all-consuming technique, which would completely destroy my body. So unless you can use some ability that would kill me, you will never end this." Kakashi said as his body slowly reformed.
"Fine, Taggala Family Forbidden Technique: Demon Seal Release Stage 2!" Naruto said as his body slowly gained wings and a scythe formed from the blood on the ground. "In this form I can control the blood inside your body as well as the blood around me; unfortunately I can only hold this form for a total of five minutes. This is more than long enough to wipe you out. Secret Blood Art: Dance of the Bloody Angel." Naruto then swooped down from on high and cut into Kakashi, before he suddenly flew up and formed a large orb of black energy. "It's been awhile since I've used this technique. Oniton: Rasenshuriken!" The orb slowly gains a sickly purple glow and is forced to an even larger size before it slowly has blades formed around it. Naruto then throws it and when the first blade connects with Kakashi it expands and swallows the fox/human hybrid in the energy orb. "No one can survive that, a move than destroys all that touch it. My ultimate technique." Naruto then collapses.
Vermiculus: This chapter is over, and in my opinion: totally shitty compared to some of my earlier chapters. I could be wrong, and I hope I am for once.
Umbra: Yeah, probably not.
Chorus: Agreed.
Vermiculus-umbra-chorus: If you flame this chapter… we understand completely. Expect another chapter of Naruto of the Gold Dust next within a couple weeks.
Vermiculus-umbra-chorus OUT!