This is my ninth consecutive installment of my story: Milo, the Genjutsu God.
Sorry that I'm a little slow with the delivery as I am not used to typing 10k+ word chapters, I'm Kind of slow ;)
I hope you enjoy and as always, if you like these stories, like it, maybe even write about it. If you don't, well that's just fine to, but tell me about it, and its reasonable I'll fix it.
"I am talking like this."
'I am thinking like this'
'I am thinking very deep and being very important right now'
'I am so self centered for thinking this importantly'
"I am underlining details like this"
"I am saying something important like this"
"I am saying something really bold so it can stick out from the rest like this"
Milo and company managed to walk back to the other Chunin hopefuls to a forest with a danger sign on the ten foot tall fence surrounding said forest. Just in time too, because the second proctor, Mitarashi Anko, spun around to address all the Genin present with an insane smile,
"Welcome to the 44th training ground, also known to the locals as the Forest of Death!" said Anko with a seriously unnerving level of cheerfulness. She sighed in absolute bliss, again making some Genin to question her sanity levels. "My own little home away from home, though I don't think you guys will like it that much."
"This is creepy…" said Sakura to no one in particular.
Anko hearing this snickered a bit at the pink haired girl. "Hehe, you gakis will learn soon enough why it's called the forest of death."
Naruto then made the foolish mistake of mocking the crazy lady. He put his fist on his hips and did an ok impression of a chicken while swirling side to side. "Oh, you'll soon find soon enough why it's called the forest of death." Said the short blonde boy in his take on a girly voice; "HA! YOU THINK THAT SCARES ME?! THAT'S NOTHING! I'M NOT AFRAID!"
"You're quite spirited, aren't cha'?" Anko smiled disarmingly and before the shorter Uzumaki knew it a kunai came wising passed him, slicing his cheek open. Before Naruto could even yelp in surprise rather than pain, a hand gripped his head in a vice holding him in place while Anko appeared behind him and licked the Genin's blood from the cut.
'That's hot.' Milo perversely thought.
"Spirited kid like you are quickly killed hehehe." Anko grinned in amusement as she watched the various expressions at the same time from the kid ranging from embarrassment to scared shitless; Kami, she love messing with Genin, Chunin… anybody really. She stopped her blood letting when she felt a presence behind her and quickly drew another kunai, turning to see a strange woman from the village of grass with a straw hat and an overly long tongue with her kunai she has thrown previously.
Name: ?
Title: ?
Age: ?, Lvl ?
HP: ? CP: ? MP: ?
Description: ?
[Must be Kage level status or over level 90 to look at these godly stats]
[NOTE: the woman's appearance is not from an illusion, it is actually human skin.]
Milo stared at the mysterious woman… man, whatever, in unsettlement and with a wide eyed expression despite having the Gamer mind perk activated at all times. 'What the f-uuu-fuck is the Kage version of Buffalo bill doing here? Is he/she/it possibly in cahoots with that spy Kabuto?'
It noticed the redhead's starring and masked its surprise with a smile despite having its tongue sticking out, the 'woman' then turned back at the suspicious Anko, "Here's your Kunai." The woman spoke in an eerie voice despite having the best intentions of returning the kunai to its rightful owner.
"Why thank you Kusa-nin," Anko smiled, completely ignoring the fact that one of the Genin's managed to get the jump on her, as she took the offered kunai back into her weapons pouch. "Although next time I would recommend not sneaking up on me like that, unless of course if you have a death wish."
The 'kunoichi' did a sideways glance at Milo before turning back, "My apologizes I just get… excited at the sight of blood, besides your kunai cut my precious hair so I couldn't help myself." 'She' then licked her lips hungrily, and Milo was pretty sure that display was partly for him.
"What's wrong, Milo-kun?" Haku asked the redhead, finally noticing his uneasiness.
"Huh?" said Milo unintelligently before realizing who was speaking, "Oh Haku it's you, did you need something?"
"Is something wrong?" Haku asked a little more forcefully this time.
Crossing gazes with the abomination for the last time, Milo turned around and guided the long haired boy far away from it as possible. "Watch out for face stealers." He says after they were out of hearing range.
"Looks like we have a lot of blood thirsty candidates this year." said Anko to herself after seeing the long haired woman going back to her teammates, "hehehe, this should be fun."
Naruto, oblivious to the ominous threat the grass kunoichi possesses, simply commented while rubbing his cheek, "Yeah but you're the most blood thirsty."
Choosing to ignore the comment, Anko addressed the group. "Now before we start the second test, I have something to give out." She said cheerfully, holding up a stack of papers, from where? Nobody knows. "You are all going to need to sign one of these, waivers that state that you know and accept the risks involved with entering training ground 44 and as for injuries and/or death that occur inside it are in no way our fault! If you don't read over and sign it then I will be held accountable and if that happens… I won't be happy." She said the last part in a cold tone of voice, a stark contrast to her normal bubbly demeanor while leaking a bit of her Killing Intent.
She laughed internally after seeing most of the Genin were shocked at what she said, "Now then pass these out amongst yourself while I go over the rules of the test to you." Anko said, passing the stack to a nearby Genin who stared passing it along. "Oh I forgot, once you're done signing the forms then give them to the booth behind you." She motioned to the stand filled with Chunin.
"Now in short, you will attempt the ultimate survival." She said, taking out a scroll with a detailed map on it.
'Survival?' Shikamaru thought. 'Man what a drag.'
"There are 44 gates all around the training grounds, each team will be placed at one of those gates. There is a tower at the center of the ten kilometer course. There is a river that cuts through it." Anko said, pointing at all the mentions on the map.
"Your objective is simple, get both the Heaven and earth scroll and be at the tower within a certain time limit. You'll each start one per team, you can fight maim or even kill other teams to get another scroll. However there is a chance that you'll end up with two of the same scroll, you need one of each to win." She said freaking them out even more.
"Now your time limit is one hundred and twenty hours or five days for those who aren't that good at math."
"F-five days?!" Ino exclaimed in surprise. She did not want to spend five days in a dark forest especially with tweedle di and tweedle dumb.
"What about food?!" Choji yelled in shock long enough to stop stuffing his face in potato chips.
Anko sighed as she just knew that an Akimichi would ask that, "You're on your own food wise. There's plenty of food in there, just watch out for man eating beast, poisonous insects, and poisonous plants." She said shrugging.
Choji wasn't pleased after hear this, if his shaking was any indication, he didn't feel like being a snack for whatever's in there. Thankfully she said there's food in the training ground, and plenty of it too. First and this is obvious, if a team member dies or is unable to continue. The second is to fail to retrieve the required scrolls." The purple pineapple said neutrally.
"Also, you cannot quit during the exam," she said quickly after noticing the Nara was about to raise his hand. "Once you go though those gates you will have to go through the full five days unless of course you choose the easy way out, hehehe."
Ok one more rule, don't open the scrolls till you're on the tower. Those that can't follow directions… well that I'll be their surprise now wouldn't it." the hemophiliac stated, "A Chunin will be asked to handle classified information, this test will prove to them if you're trustworthy or not. Well that's all, take your forms to the Chunin booth now and hand over the signed document in exchange for your starter scroll. After that an instructor will point you all to your designated gates, good luck we'll start the exam in thirty minutes."
At the 14th gate
Milo looked down at the scroll he'd receive not a moment ago. It was an earth scroll meaning they needed a heavens scroll to be eligible to make it to the tower. He looked at Haku who had his cold, indifferent stare while looking towards the forest, no doubt from year and years experience under the tutelage of a self proclaimed demon.
Haku was definitely up for the challenge and could probably best all the Genin present in a one on one fight… well except for the jinjurikis, the Jonin in disguise, and Mr./Mrs. Face changer. Hopefully they wouldn't have to run into it anytime soon as he felt the prospect of fighting a Kage level ninja would be very unappealing.
"You ready for this Haku?" he asked his obedient pet who finally turned around after hearing the boy's name being called.
After a moment of silence, the ice user nodded, "Yes Milo-kun, this would be a great chance to test myself against other ninja and make Zabuza-sama proud."
Milo nodded in understanding before sealing the scroll into his portable inventory, "I can understand that, but I also want us to stay far away from Lily-kun and the likes during the five days. If you feel an overwhelming sense of bloodlust, come find me so we can disappear via my ID creation technique… do you understand?" he asked seriously. Even though Haku level was the same level as Gaara, he was not willing to take the risk. A general rule of thumb earth beats water and the Sunakinetic has a lot of earth at his disposal.
Haku once again nodded. "I understand." He said before remembering what his boss said. "What about that woman, the face stealer, should we not engage her as well and slip by unseen?" he asked.
Milo involuntarily shuddered, "Haku, if I think what I think it is than even my dungeon won't be enough to hide from that guy."
"Alright brats!" Anko shouted over the loudspeaker, "The thirty minutes are up. The second part of the Chunin Exams starts now!" she said as each gate opened at the same time.
Milo and Haku blurred into the forest with impressive speeds, as did the other teams competing at their own gate. They quickly jumped through the trees once the gate was swung open in a tactical eagle eye point of view.
"Suiton: Mizu Bunshin no Jutsu (Water style: water clone)." Milo whispered. Suddenly 40 clones appeared out of the water supply he was storing and his chakra, turning to address them all while at the same time watching his steps, "You all are to be our scouting party. Spread out under the dungeon's camouflage and report back to me if you find a target or if danger approaches, now go." He commanded the clones that then disappeared and each went off in different directions.
"What do we do until then Milo-kun?" Haku asked, secretly praising his quick thinking of the situation.
"Hmm," the redhead said, "What do you think we should do Haku-chan, I mean you were trained in hunter ninja tactics... even though you never were one." He said, looking over to the mask ninja for a rebuttal.
Haku took a few moments to gather his thoughts, "Hunter tracking 101 dictates that while going after your designated prey it's key to set up traps for the prey to stumble into so that the hunter can easily move onto the wounded or impaired so that he or she may conserve essential energy." While the long haired boy said this he took on a matter of fact tone.
"My moisture detecting skills tells me that a large body of water is off a couple hundred feet ahead of us, I can only imagine that to be the river Anko-sensei mentioned about. We can travel up the river to the tower and set up our traps there." Haku said to a bewildered Milo.
"I knew there had to be a reason why that you were my favorite, good thinking Haku-chan." Milo said genuinely to the mask shinobi who was slightly blushing at the praise.
Clone POV
While my other 39 brethren were off elsewhere, I was scouting the northwest region under the safety of the sub spatial illusory dimension. It was really an OP skill as long as no one higher in level can detect you; you're basically a ghost to everyone… just watch out for the risk of the occasional telefragging.
I widen my purple colored eyes as I felt a small pulse of chakra affecting the vectors in the air in a drastic way as a massive gale of wind fell upon three un-expecting chakra signatures, three very familiar chakra signatures, sending the three flying.
Searching for the trio, I end up only finding Sakura and Sasuke and a very, very wrong looking Naruto (Naruto was somehow blasted out of my search range) before poofing into the skin changer.
"Ku ku ku, impressive," the grass ninja stated playfully, "How did you know I was a fake?" she asked purely out of curiosity.
"I knew you were listening to our conversation from underground, that's why I made the codeword so long to draw you out because I know Naruto and I don't just call him dobe without reason." Sasuke smirked at the pleasantly surprised face of the enemy kunoichi.
I have to give it to Emo-chan that was a good plan, kudos to you.
"I see…" the 'woman' said, taking off 'her' hat, "Neither tired nor ill prepared are we? This shall be more delightful than I originally thought, but it seems you aren't the only one that can spring a trap successfully ku ku ku." She said the last part looking directly at me.
"What are you…" Sakura was cut off by my sudden appearance.
Sasuke was just as surprised as Sakura was.
"So…" I said to the predator. "How you said the last part of your little speech, it makes me think that you're hunting me also and you're smart enough to use my emotional ties as bait. That's kind of cold blooded, I respect that." I finished nodded in acknowledgement.
"Why thank you," 'she' said, going through the motion of a performance bow. "I aim to please, your presence in the bingo book as a new addition interested me greatly, and it seems that your rumored intelligence is nothing to scoff about (A/N: you need intelligence to perform illusions). You are a curious one I must admit, the way you almost instantly categorize me as a threat when no one else saw me as such. You're not wrong by the way, but may I ask, how were you able to find out about me so quickly?"
"You mean beside the fact that you're not supposed to be here with your insane power level and the fact that you make it a fashion trend to wear some else's skin." I said with a shiver of disgust.
"WHAT?!" Sakura screamed, severely freaking out by the prospect of someone wearing another person's skin that even Sasuke seemed disgusted by that fact.
"Ah I see. You are a very perceptive young boy, but can you perceive… THIS!" faster than I can even think, an anaconda sized snake jumped out of the 'woman's' sleeve and manage to sink its fangs into me. The last thing I heard was the familiar pinging sound before my entire body turned back into a puddle of water.
Back with Milo and Haku
Back to the two we find them finishing up setting up traps around their base for the night. That's when, while tending to the fire, Milo received his memories of his clone; his reaction worried Haku.
"What is it Milo-kun? Has one of your clones dispelled? Are we in danger?" he said getting to his feet and in a defensive stance.
Milo didn't respond, he just headed in the direction where his clone had popped. At this speed and if he conserved his stamina properly, he would make it there in about ten minutes or so. Let's just hope they're all still alive.
Sparing a glance back, the redhead was pleasantly relieved that Haku was able to keep his pace. "Change of plans. My clones will merge up into groups to take on the other teams with scrolls, while we respond to a distress call. The creep with the body snatching ability just attacked Naruto's group, I don't know where he is but before my clone was destroyed, the guy was about to go into battle with Sasuke and Sakura." Haku nodded in response.
He made another clone to proceed back the way they came and get help from the Chunins or that crazy examiner lady, Anko.
When the demon summoner and the ice 'queen' made it to the spot, they sensed their comrades were a bit ways away. Sakura and Sasuke, with their backs turned, were worse for ware, facing down the Kage level monster, an unconscious and bleeding Naruto was suspended by the pack of his jacket from a well placed kunai on a tall tree; most likely to save his life.
"So you came back… ooh this makes me so… happy." The now half melted woman/man said licking his lips sadistically while ripping off the partially melted faced and revealed the albino face of Orochimaru, one of the legendary sages, with long silky back hair, yellow snake like eyes and purple mascara markings over his eyes giving the illusion of a narrower face.
The snake man then unleashed a devastating amount of killing intent. The aftereffects were as followed, both Sasuke and Sakura gasped as they fell to their knees, shaking and struggling to breath as images of their death resurfaced since it wasn't their first time on the receiving end as the Kusa nin did this. Haku, after being able to combat the psychological attack by Zabuza, was handling it a little more out of the three.
"Alright I'll bite, your obliviously not here for the Chunin Exams, are you just here for mindless sense of violence? If so, then I'm all for it, but instead of attacking other Genin you attacked my friends. So it pains me to tell that you just made an enemy out of me." Milo said to the snake… man… thing, seemingly unaffected by the attack on the mind at a primal level which the man was generally surprise and curious about.
'That attack was too high, it managed to take off a full tenth of my total health and that's with my mental defense in that skill. What is this guy?' Milo thought, activating his blue eyed Doujutsu.
This planet's version of Leatherface (A/N: look it up) cackled joyfully, "Oh is that so? Tell me then, how is the strength of the little mouse to contest against the might of a cat?" The Sannin asked, really curiously and at the same time anticipated what his prey's answer would be.
(Play: Day of the Dead – Hollywood Undead.)
"By overpowering its feline counterpart, Create ID – Zombie ID!" just then a portal enveloped both Milo and the mysterious man and sending them into the illusive reality of the gamer.
Inside the spatial illusion – Milo's POV
"An interesting Genjutsu you made for us." The man commented offhandedly as he observed the ghostly feel of our surrounds.
"If you like that so much, you're really going to like this…" I said ominously.
"What are you -." The deranged man was cut off as he did as quick sidestep less he be grabbed by a rotted hand to an equally rotted undead.
"Rawrrr!" just then two more Zombies tried to test their luck against the man's exposed backside which was quickly shut down by the snakelike man actually slithering away to another branch.
"Interesting Genjutsu indeed; the walking corpses feel like the generally real, but that's all it is an illusion Genjutsu: Kai (Illusion Technique: Release)." The admittedly creepy man said, clapping his hands together and releasing his built up chakra.
"Rawrrr!" the makeup wearing dude dodged another swipe at his midsection, but instead of fleeing this time he drove a knife into its forehead killing it instantly.
"I'm afraid it's not going to be that simple shape shifter," I said, confirming the man's suspicions and confusions, "You see my illusions, especially this one in particular, is different than the norm. You cannot just opt out like that without the dungeon master's consent, and he would like to play a game." I said in my best Jigsaw impression. "Since you already dissolved one barrier you are too survive three more rounds of barrage after barrage monsters varying in difficulty."
"Hmm very tempting," Orochimaru said scratching his chin in thinking before setting into a sadistic demeanor, "But I have a better alternative, Sen'ei Jashu (Hidden shadow snake hands)." Again faster than normal eyesight the cobra strikes, but instead of latching onto my torso and injecting what I can imagine is poisonous venom, the snake passed through me.
Noticing the man's hock, I smirked, "I'm afraid using your techniques on me while the illusion is still up is utterly useless." I said. "Now you must play my little game if you want to come out alive." As I said that, ten rotted corpses, with roots from the trees growing out of every opening out of the human body (A/N: Zombies from the Scorch Trials. Those bitches are scary) bull rushed him in a total erratic fashion, trampling over their comrades just to sink their eroded teeth into warm flesh.
The reason why whitey couldn't touch me is truly ingenious and found out only recently, the simplest explanation is that I am not am in the Zombie ID and yet I still am at the same time; by entering the Empty ID not once but four times, one of which was broken by the man's release, sort of like dimensional inception really.
Contrary to belief but since every other dungeon, besides my empty one, is a training one and therefore hostile to anyone in said dungeon, I picked zombies because no matter how strong they are (compared to the average level between two or more levels inside dungeon) they're still abysmally stupid and are the perfect candidate to NOT perceive the fact that I am not in the same room as everyone else. The up and downside of this technique is that both of us will receive experience points from this endeavor… in short, both of us will have equal chances to level up.
The snake man was not having a pleasant day right now, considering the scowl on his face as he was playing on the defensive of the seeming less never ending swarm of the dead. "Okay, I'll play your little game mouse Sen'ei Tajashu (Many hidden shadow snake hands)!" the Snake Sannin then sent about fifty snakes, that are attached to his arms, to shoot out and ultimately pierce all of the dead that was in front of him. The man was able to release another barrier before 20 more ganged up on him and proceeded to tear him to pieces, but instead of blood and gore like what should have happened, in their decomposing minds anyway, they were met by nothing but mud.
"Futon: Daitoppa (Wind style: Great breakthrough)." Snake man said from being partially in a tree parallel to the adjacent tree the creatures were huddled on and literally blew them away at high speeds. The man then cackled wildly while coming out of the tree, "Ku ku ku… you and that Doujutsu of yours are, and I have to admit, are most interesting. How you are able to create realistic illusions that can create real physical harm is simply outstanding, I must have you with that Uchiha friend of yours." He commented, licking his lips while discreetly blasting another of the boy's layers.
Involuntarily shuddering, I gulped at the sickening leer the man was giving me. "Okay one, ewww pedophilia talk!" I said discreetly summoning a massive collective of monsters, which are on the forest floor, to fuse together. "And two, I'm all for equality and whatever sexual preference one has and whatnot but you are talking about having your way with minors. I realize now that I was talking about sexual conduct with children in both of my points… but serious dude, fuck you."
The man was not happy at all with these allegations as he shouted, I'm not a pedophile you insolent brat."
I scoffed at him, "yeah whatever pedo-hebi, just die already." The albino was going to say more of how he was going to flay me alive or something when he saw that my hand was raised up high and a giant hand made from hundreds of composed body parts that were attached to an equally titanic size conglomeration of rotted flesh hugging the tree I was standing on.
"Rawwwwrrrrrr!" it released a guttural roar as hot breath and gore burst out from its jagged teeth.
"Oh shi-." The skirt wearing man managed to say before quickly jumping out of the way lest he be flattened by the massive weight of the zombie boss's hand. he jumped back even more when he saw that the abomination lost its grip on the trunk that its master was on when it attack and toppled over, toppling many trees ahead in a domino effect.
"Such devastation… and creativity" the slithery voice of the albino spoke in awe as he observe the destruction his new vessel create from the giant monster he made from his smaller illusions. He then looked at the redhead himself and smirked as he noticed something, "You are truly talented for your age creating this level of surrealism in your illusion you must be very proud, but you appeared to forget one thing."
(End: Day of the Dead – Hollywood Undead.)
"Yeah and what's that." I said defiantly as my giant tried to get back to its feet but was having trouble.
He just smirked as he sank into the floor. "One of Genjutsu's major flaws is that you need immense concentration, and this one is no difference. Genjutsu: Kai." Faster than I thought possible, the snake man appeared standing upside down on tree branch higher then my own doing hand seals at impossible speeds before his neck elongating at unnatural lengths, "Game over!" I was too stunned to noticed his mouth clamped onto my neck and his fangs injected his venom, but before I lose consciousness I felt the pain to be absolutely unbearable and screamed.
Outside training ground 44 – an hour before Milo attacks
Outside the Forest of Death one Mitarashi Anko was happily drinking her red bean soup and munching on some Dango on a stick. "Hmmm. There's nothing better than dango and red bean soup… once I'm done eating I guess I'll go and head to the tower. It's been what, a whole day since their start, so the faster ones should be finishing up soon."
Finishing eating all of the dango, Anko threw the pointy toothpicks and embedded them into a tree. "Now there's a perfect leaf symbol." She exclaimed as she finished making her symbol of Konoha from forty toothpicks.
There was a sudden puff of smoke and one of the Chunin from the booth popped into existence, "Sorry to disturb your meal Anko-sama, but there is big trouble."
Anko stared at the Chunin with a blank expression despite the fact that she doesn't like to be disturbed while eating her dango, "Yes, what is it."
"Bodies, three of them; something's very wrong with them, something I think you should see."
'Bodies?' she thought, surprised. She followed the Chunin to where the bodies were. Once she was there it was quickly discovered that something indeed was very wrong, since she saw it happened before.
"After examining the deceased's paper's and personal items, they seem to be the genin team from Kusagakure but…" The Chunin who was looking at the information did a double take. "As you can see they have no faces, they're blank as if they weren't there at all."
'There's no mistaking it, this is Orochimaru's work!' Anko thought frantically, 'But why is he here and why now?'
"Show me the pictures of the three." Anko spoke with authority. She widened her eyes when she got the photo ID's as one was the face of the woman that gave her kunai back.
'I should have realized it from the beginning! He was in disguised the whole time!' the snake mistress shouted in her mind.
Anko whirled on the three Chunin faster than they expected, "I need you to report this to Hokage-sama and get him to send an Anbu team to scourer the forest of death! I'm going ahead!"
The revealing lady didn't bother to wait for a response as she ran towards the gate and jumped over it, heading into the forest to confront her old teammate.
Outside the illusion – real time
"Ahhhh!" Just as the Sasuke managed to get Naruto down safely on the their tree branch and checked his status to find out, to their relief, that the blonde was in fact alive just in a coma of sorts, Milo and Orochimaru finally reappeared with Milo screaming out in pain before going limp from the albino's fangs that pierced his neck, creating a seal on the boy's neck.
The seal itself was a slight variation of the Curse Mark of Heaven called the Curse Mark of Life. Ware as the heaven seal boost the user's yang chakra and natural chakra, the life seal does the same but with yin chakra instead of yang.
An adequate name for an individual such as himself to be able to create false pocket dimensions within our reality and able to create "real" illusions within said dimension at will (A/N: note that this is how Milo's illusions are considered "true", even at the battle on the bridge a couple chapters ago by Anima's nether energy).
The markings of the seal is a little like the heaven's three tomoe patterned but instead that pattern it three narrow half circles formed in a clockwise triangle formation (A/N: almost like the triple spiral in that regard, also sorry for so many author notes).
"Hehe, that's one." Orochimaru commented in a sadistic fashion.
"MILO-KUN!" Haku shouted as a freezing aura encompassed his figure, seeing nothing but red with anger and fear for the slithering snake that took his man away from him.
"Oh look at this, a Hyoton user… very rare indeed." Orochimaru stated intrigued, "I'm sorry my dear as I normally welcome such a pretty face, but alas I am on a tight schedule as is so… Kanashibari no Jutsu (Temporary Paralysis Jutsu)." He said, immobilizing Sakura and the ice queen before turning his attention to Sasuke who was, despite not being affected by the technique, unable to move against the powerful might of the Snake Sannin.
"Now now Sasuke-kun why, must you be so frightened of me? I only want to give you a gift like I did Milo-kun, which in the end will lead you to seek me out for what you desire most: the strength to defeat your brother, Itachi." He said before extending his neck in the same way that he attacked Milo and biting the boy's neck, clamping his teeth down to create a seal that was slightly modified then the redhead.
The snake simply giggled when seeing the young Uchiha writhe in anguish before facing the ice wielder, who really was living up to the element's reputation with that stare of him. "My my you seem rather close to Milo-kun, could you be a dear and tell the boy that if he wants the same power he only need to seek thee out ku ku ku." He said as he slowly melded within the earth.
Unknown
Milo's eye's shot open as he sat up. "What the – where am i?" he asked himself as he looked around frowning when saw that he was on the cracked highway that was surrounded by deep looking water. Some of the many ruins of buildings and rusted cars, which looked like some of the buildings in New York, were suspended by nothing but air. Looking past the floating debris and the ocean floor was nothing but inky blackness surrounded by trillions and trillions of stars, and right dab in the middle was this gigantic waning moon emanating a hum of light blue lunar energy.
"What the hell is this bizarre place and how did I get here?" he asked out loud, creating an echo. "The last thing I remember was…" his hands immediately went to his neck to see if the puncture marks were still there, which he knew for a fact that every wound would seal up once at full health. They weren't there though, making the boy frown in thought. "This is weird, I never experience this before. I know I wasn't dreaming when that creepy dude bit me, but I can't prove it since, and this is even scarier, I cannot see my status bar."
He was knocked out of his thoughts when he saw a shadow hopping across the suspended debris and up a ruined skyscraper. Spinning around, Milo jumped from the broken highway to the nearest vehicle and took off to catch up with the shadow.
"Hey! Stop!" he called out to no avail. Either he was too far away for the figure to hear or he wasn't listening. "Damn it, listen to me! Stop!"
Milo chased the figure all over what is interpretive as Manhattan, and eventually ending up on top of the Brooklyn Bridge. "What the hell's going on here? Why can't use my Scanning ability or any of my Gamer perks, and who are you lady?!" he glared at the womanly figure whose back was turned to him, "Answer me damn it!"
"Hehehe," the woman laughed with a strangely seductive echo to her, like two people were speaking one demonic and one a harlot. "So you can't figure it out yet big boy? Figures; I was always the smarter one out of this forced relationship between the two of us."
"Anima?" Milo asked, confused as all hell.
The woman turned fully so that Milo could take in her form and smirked as Anima saw her host's eyes widen in surprise. What the form that Anima took was her take on a voodoo priestess-like get up. She is dressed in a low-cut dark-gray and black shoulderless dress that displays the top half of her cleavage, with two crossed belts on the upper part of each sleeve. The décolletage is trimmed in fur, and the hem and sleeves have ornate lace edges. The lower front of her gown is made of a collection of interlaced belts. She also wears, under the belts, a corset and lace-trimmed stockings.
She has blue teal eyes and her ebony hair is braided in cornrows that lead into a bun and long braids, except for her long forelock: the braids are tied into a knot with four ornamented pins which may represent the four cardinal elements of black magic (Fire, Lightning, Water, and Ice), and four bead-tipped braids falling from it. She wears many accessories: a necklace of purple round beads, a small one of white beads, and another of red and blue beads, rings and many earrings. She uses purple makeup and nail polish, a royal complement to her pale skin.
She smiled at his semi blushing face "Not so ugly now am I punk?"
'It's almost nightfall,' Anko thought as she jumped through the trees in search of her former master Orochimaru. She had been searching over every mental landmark she could think of for the past two or three hours, and now she was starting to get both angry and desperate. 'I have to find him quickly, once it gets dark out I will be at a disadvantage.'
'But why is he here?! At a time like this…' Anko raged internally, 'what's his purpose?!'
She then vaulted over a tree branch while hopping by trees like a monkey. 'Well it matters none… if he's come with mal intentions of the village and its citizens, it's my job to end him!' she thought. 'And even if that's not possible…'
'I must slow you down enough for the ANBU to take care of you!' A couple more leaps she landed crouched on a seemingly ordinary branch before slowly rising. "I learned everything from you… you were my Jonin-sensei after all. Isn't that right Orochimaru?" she said out loud.
"Ku ku ku," Anko smirked as the sound of parting bark filled her ears as Orochimaru's face was unveiled from his hiding. "Perceptive as ever Anko-chan, it's good to see you grown so much." The vile man said while licking his lips in a predatory fashion.
"Eat shit, you bastard!" Anko spun on her heel, jumping back simultaneously, and ready to tossed several pointy objects at the unprotected head. The Sannin's tongue shot out and successfully deflected all the throwing projectiles by ensnaring Anko's throwing arm.
"Grrr you're not getting away, Sen'ei Jashu!" the snake woman shouted as three snake shot out of her sleeve and coiled around the tongue, sinking their fangs into it. Then with a great deal of strength, the snake mistress of Konoha tugged her former sensei into the air via the tongue and using the built up momentum, she slammed him down on a tree branch.
Orochimaru, still grounded, quickly propelled himself by retracting the out stretched muscle, head butting Anko's stomach all the way to the wall of the tree. Thinking fast, Anko brought out another kunai to deliver a fatal blow. But a hand stopped her; not discouraged in anyway, she flipped around stabbing both her hand and Orochimaru's, pinning them in place. "Got you now." She said cockily to an angry snake.
"I'm going to borrow your left hand, hope you don't mind." She smirked at his unsettledness after seeing what his former student was planning to do.
'These seals…' he thought worriedly.
"Yes master," she spat. "You and I will die together." Anko says haggardly due to blood loss. "Ninpou: Sojasosai no…" she was going to finish but saw Orochimaru's position; it was calm and relax, something was wrong.
"Planning suicide are we, Anko-chan?" he smirked, leering at her.
Something clicked in her brain which made her want to mentally throttle herself for her stupidity.
"Shadow clone," If anything after saying that Orochimaru's smirk grew into a full blown sadistic smile and popped out of existence.
"My my, you know for a special Jonin such as yourself…" Anko quickly spun around to find the white snake just lying about on the tree branch behind her. "You should use all those forbidden jutsus I taught you." He said in a condescending voice.
"W-why are you h-here?" she panted, "Ha-ha… do you, do you plan on assassinating the Hokage?" Anko asked as she pulled out the kunai and then infused her platelets with chakra to stop the bleeding.
"No, no I don't have enough men for that… yet," Orochimaru smirked as he casually held up a half seal, "I thought I'd recruit some outstanding shinobi of this village."
"Ugh…" Anko released a moan of pain as her curse seal flared up.
"I have to admit though, I'd received quite the bountiful harvest today," the snake licked his lips in pleasure at seeing others in pain. "I came here for one particular Genin, yet I ending up with two who had received my… gift."
"Arg, how selfish… those kids are going to die." Anko gasped in pain while starring in defiance.
"Hmm… the chances of survival are 1/10, but like you… they might not die." Orochimaru leered at his treacherous student.
"You must really like them then…" the implications were clear.
"…Jealous are we?"Orochimaru asked curiously then smirked, "Is poor Anko-chan still upset that I threw her away?" he asked successfully getting under her skin.
"Unlike you, these two are quite talented." The white snake continued, "after all, one of those kids carries the Uchiha blood line, and the other puts your very own Genjutsu mistress to shame."
As he continued, Anko's eyes started to get heavy from the pain. It was so bad that she lose her concentration so the blood restarted the blood flowing out of the open wound. "There also so very beautiful… perfect vessels to be my successor."
"Urrrrgh…" Anko doubled over in pain.
"If the two survives… this could be rather interesting." Orochimaru said to himself rather to the screaming girl, "Oh Anko-chan I forgot, please don't cancel the Chunin Exams pre-maturely… about three pawns from my village are also participating, you don't want to take their fun away do you?"
He then went into the process of sinking back into the tree, "If you try to end my enjoyment, know that the leaf village will be finished." And just like that Orochimaru, an S-ranked Nuke-nin, was gone.
Anko was forced to lay there for several more moments until she could move again. Getting up she made her way to the tower.
Back with Team 7 and Team Ronin, Hours later
"Their breathing is returning to normal, but they're still burning up." The bishonen commented softly about his teammate and the Uchiha, not really expecting a response. They both knew that whatever the Sannin did it messed with their bodies, what that was they did not know. Their screams died down some time ago, but every once in awhile they would grunt in pain, and they were sweating a lot.
"Damn it why aren't they waking up?!" Sakura raged in silent worry as she looked over Sasuke, Milo, and Naruto. Haku sighed sadly while applying and icy rag on each forehead of their fallen comrades with the strange marks on their necks.
Once the two were free from that paralysis Jutsu and with their combine strength, they managed to drag their friends to a large vacant hollowed out tree to help ward off the elements and gave them natural cover from unwanted shinobi.
"For the last time Sakura I don't know. Now could you please tend to Naruto-kun or the defenses?"Haku calmly stated, causing the girl deflate and sat down next to her blonde comatose teammate.
'Sakura has a right to worry,' Haku berated himself. 'With two of her teammates out of commission, it's understandable to feel vulnerable.' He then looked at his own teammate, 'right now we have to be strong for their sakes…'
"It's getting late." The boy mused, noticing the growing shadows.
"Yeah it is… I'll take first watch." Sakura responded tiredly.
"No you won't Sakura, go and rest, we're counting on you to be at your best when it's your turn." Haku said firmly. Not want to argue with the boy, Sakura nodded tiredly before she left to lay on a decent part of the ground. Low breathing noises could be heard from the girl a few moments later, indicating light sleeping.
A small distance away a certain Oto team was watching their prey carefully.
"Hehe, found them…" said the black haired Kunoichi. "Should we attack the Uchiha now and be done with it?"
Dosu, the bandage boy, shook his head. "No, we've been giving strict orders to kill the Uchiha boy at dawn by Orochimaru-sama."
"But if the others get in the way we can kill them, right?" the spiky haired boy said, eager to destroy things.
"Of course." Dosu said, grinning under his bandages.
With Milo
Milo Stared at the person/idea who just looked like the 'Final Fantasy X's' Black mage herself, Lulu, in shock; Anima was, all intents and purposes, hot.
The demon lady giggled, "You know, you really should close your mouth. Don't want any fly's getting in, do we." She teased.
The man turned shook his head while cursing his early adolescent body, "W-where are we Anima and… what happened, you know, to the rest of you." Milo asked, confused.
"That's easy, right now we're on the Brooklyn Bridge… well the one that you're imagining it to be." The demon snorted in amusement at her host confusion. "We're in your mind dipshit and for the drastic change of appearance… I felt like it."
Milo sweat dropped at the last part. Milo then looked around in disgust, "b-but why is it, you know…"
"A shit hole?"
"Yeah…" He nodded.
"Well believe it or not your mind was not always like this, sure you were still a little crazy from your in-depth method acting, but everything you see here was a scale replica of your previous home." Anima said looking toward her friend and host.
"What happened?" Milo asked curiously.
Shrugging her shoulders, she responded. "My influence on your world happened, seeing as I am part moon and all." Anima said to the redhead like talking about the weather.
The teen rubbed his chin in thought, "Yeah that does make – wait what!" Milo snapped, pointing an accusing finger at the inner personality. "Since when are you the fucking moon?"
The demon held up two fingers, "Okay first of all, langue, totally uncalled for." Milo just gave the taller woman the stink eye, "and two, don't blame me, it's you mortal's fault for always comparing women with the fertility of childbirth to the moon. Just look at all the gods for the moon; over 70% of them are female."
Milo pinched the bridge of his nose, "and that's all I need to be about that, god… I know that you're supposed to be my inner femininity, but come on, I do not need to hear about your sick menstrual cy- youuuuu biiiiiiiiich."
Before he could finish, he was blasted of the top of the bridge all the way into the ocean by an invisible gravitational force.
Anima lowered her hand; a pink blush of embarrassment crossed her face. "That wasn't very nice."
Moments later, a soaking wet and annoyed redhead came in the presence of a highly amused Demoness and just sighed. "Why am I here Anima?" he asked.
Anima smirked for several more moments then got serious, "You're body's recuperating from what that snake, Orochimaru, did to you. Though you might want to help me with something, well that is unless you're fine with the man corrupting your mind." She said the last part in her normal sarcastic tone.
"What do you mean Anima?"
"What I mean kid… is that you have a major parasite." She said pointing to a nearby building with a giant albino snake coiling throughout the ruins.
"Holy Shit!" Milo exclaimed in surprise.
Anima nodded, "My thoughts exactly, but that's not all. That giant slithering mess is a soul fragment that deeply rooted into that curse mark that's on your neck to help regulate its vile chakra. If we can beat the fragment, we can then assimilate its being so the seal won't be too unstable."
"Hmmm, so it's either having the risk of being some evil dude's puppet… and possibly his sex slave," Milo shivered at just the thought of having that pedophiliac touch him. "Or having a big ass snake for breakfast, which is a soul fragment of said evil dude, Anima please tell me if I go with the second option that I won't like little boy's after this."
The woman smirked, "Well ~ technically you are 35 and Haku is only a lowly 14 year old teenager, so…"
Milo had a prominent blush on his cheeks, either out of anger or embarrassment she would never know, "S-shut up, you know what I mean!"
She smiled while holding up her hands in surrender. "Whoa okay be cool, I get it. The short answer is no… but that only if you filter that sort of stuff once you reform the fragment to your liking." She explained.
"What do you mean by t- Holy Shit? Are you telling me that once I beat this sucker, I can change it to whatever I see fit?! That's fucking OP… ouch, you bitch!" Milo cried out while holding his head as it was unjustly assaulted by a pebble size gravity ball as the assaulter kept complaining about foul langue.
"This is your mind dumb ass!" Anima commented on her host's lack of common sense, "You can do whatever you want…" She said, speeding off in the distance to their unwanted guest. Moments later, Milo could be seen following.
With Haku and the rest of team 7
It's been almost a half a day since the traitorous Sannin attacked, Naruto was still unconscious and Sasuke and Milo kept radiating this putrid aura which both worried and confused to two. Sakura, of all her lack of strength besides using her chakra to enhance her, had the sense to set up numerous traps around the clearing on the off chance they would be attacked.
Haku was getting rather nervous. Occasionally the boy would see movement in the trees nearby, but just as quickly as he picked on it, it would disappear. He was pretty that a nothing team was watching them… that, or the stress of not having a partner was really starting to get to him.
They snapped at attention when the two heard the sound of a twig snapping. Now wide awake as the thought of danger cross their minds, but relaxed when the cause of the noise was a squirrel running towards them. Sakura widen her eyes and threw a kunai towards it, which unknowingly had an explosive note on its back, luckily for the squirrel it the ground right in front of it causing the creature to squeak and run off.
A sinister chuckle filled the room and after a few moments later the Oto Genin leaped from the bushes with the bandage guy, whom Milo said that he uses a sound base jutsu, was in the front. All of them had a cocky smirk plastered on their faces; well two were only really visible.
"Looks like you guys had a rough night." Dosu voiced out smugly, noticing the bags over their eyes.
"Now if you don't mind, can you wake Sasuke-kun pretty please, we wish to fight him." the spiky haired boy, Zaku, gave the two a bloodthirsty grin.
"You guys work for Orochimaru right? What did he do to Sempai and Sasuke-kun?!" asked Sakura, causing the trio to widen their eyes in recognition of the name. "You guys do work for him, tell me what that mark he put on them is then!"
The group paused as they absorbed the new found information given. The curse mark was something only failed experiments or the elite members of Orochimaru's guard had. Something seemed off about their orders now. Why give the Uchiha the mark only for him to be killed moments later. And this girl was saying someone else had it, most likely the redhead, which was even more out of character for their leader.
"Hmmm… I wonder what the man is up to…" Dosu wondered out loud.
Zaku chuckled, "Hehe, well since you know that name girly… we have no choice but to kill you now, or the rest of you for that matter." He said licking his lips while preparing to charge.
"Zaku, wait!" Dosu ordered, getting the boy to stop. The hunchback then walked forward until he stopped a foot away to the spot where sakura threw the kunai. Kneeling down on the grass he ran his hand over the area. "This soil looks like it's been disturbed and the gr -."With quick thinking, the man jumped back from the barrage of senbons speeding to him considerably fast.
"Sakura, do it now!" Haku shouted
"Right." Sakura said, using the kunai in her hand to cut strand of ninja wire attached to the kunai that was embedded in the ground next to her.
A second later a thick log came barreling towards the bandaged hunchback. Dosu, who saw this coming, channel some chakra in that strange gauntlet he wore, and punched the speeding log. The result shocked the two as it split in two.
Just then, a second log appeared out of nowhere. "Dosu look out! Zankuha! (Decapitating Airwaves)" a gust of supersonic pressurized air ejected from his outstretched hand toward the second log, causing it to tumble off course.
"That wasn't very nice," Dosu commented, rushing to the black haired girl with his gauntlet charged.
"Bring it." Haku said coldly, senbons at the ready. he was ready to die for his friends, especially his precious person.
Back into the mind of our residential hero, we see him and his life time partner locked in a battle of wills against a fragment of Orochimaru's soul.
"Yahhhhhh!" the snake screeched in pain as it was blinded in one eye.
"Huh, not so tough are you?" Milo mocked as he lowered his high powered rifle that was made from his thoughts before having to quickly move to a different building, less he would be flattened by a powerful tail swipe. "Well that wasn't very nice." He smirked while repeating to chip away at the snakes heavily dense scales.
"Honestly, can you take nothing seriously?" Anima said to Milo sarcastically, gathering a vast amount of sea water below her to make a fist which she then proceeded to pummel the building that Orochimaru was in and making it crumble. "It's like talking with a child, oh wait…" the Lulu impersonator smirk as she loved getting under her host's skin.
"Your one to talk, could you possibly be more laid back?" as he said this, he fired an incendiary grenade from the attachable "Nuke Tube" on his M4 Carbine. The result of the attack was not in the albino's favor as it had to shed its skin for the umpteenth time. "Jeez, don't this thing ever quit?!" Milo asked amazed and annoyed at the fact that it won't stay down.
The snake roared in defiance, launching itself at Milo with the intent of swallowing him whole. Before it could come even close to its target, an invisible force slammed into the beast and drove it off course head first into the ground below.
"Okay now you're just being silly," Anima said to Milo once again rescuing his sorry behind. "Just kill him already and be done with It." she says, tapping her foot impatiently.
Milo rolled his eyes. "Yes MOM!"
He then jumped from the roof to the street blow without harming himself, "Come here snaky, Yami no Genso: Drain." He said, placing both palms on the creature's head. Too tired to fight, the snake tried one last unsuccessful attempt to free itself from the iron vice, he submitted himself to the dominating will as the teen took pleasure in siphoning the foreign entity.
Once the snake was no more, Milo received all its knowledge of this curse seal in its entirety; the mark acts like an amplifier. It amplifies everything: emotions, exhaustion, chakra and mana levels, everything. It also is not complete. There's one final level, but that requires something called Natural Chakra. Also to activate the seal, you must tap the vile man's soul fragment.
"That must be how he can subjugate his will on his victims, that's saying if I wasn't his first one with his hickey." He shivered at the thought, "The seal acts like an addictive drug as it enhances the euphoric sense of power that you get while taking it, and once the chakra exhaustion sets in –it varies with the amount of chakra one has- it would be easier for the corruption to set in and much harder of a withdrawal if one were to get rid of the seal.
'Well with that being said, I don't have to worry too much on the drawbacks with using the seal. I just need some part of me to regulate the seal as I absorbed the soul tied to the mark… and I think I just know what to regulate it, Suiton: Mizu Bunshin no Jutsu, Henge no Jutsu: Leviathan.' Milo shouted to himself as off in the distance, over on the ocean side, a single clone appeared but then quickly changed into titanic coiling water serpent/dragon.
"Hmm, interesting," Ani commented, seeing the aftermath of her host's work. "You got rid of one snake so an even bigger one could take its place?" she said looking over to the redhead with a questioning look.
Milo just shrugged and held out two fingers for the residential demon lady, "Okay first of all, technically he's considered a dragon, that's racial discrimination." Anima just snorted and rolled her eyes at her friends antics, "and two, I just thought you wanted a baddass such as he to keep you company."
Anima actually laughed at that, "Pfffh, god knows I need it. Besides all the sick twisted shit you come up with, it's nice have something decent around. You should wake up now; your friends might need you."
"You're right," Milo said, all worried all of the sudden. "I have to get back. I have to see if Naru-chan and the others are alright. see yah." And just like that, he vanished without a trace.
Anima smiled sadistically once her host was gone and slowly walked towards the ocean, "Good now that he's gone, operation: training the new pet is a go, ku ku ku."
Clearing battle scene – real time
|Ding: your HP, CP, and MP are back at full|
|Ding: you have received 30(12,500EXP + 1200AP + 1500Ryu) / 2 = 187,500EXP, 18,000AP, and 22,500Ryu|
Name: Milo Uzumaki
Title: Gamer, Honorary Uzumaki
Age: 14
Level: Lvl50 8.85k/50k EXP
HP: (6650 + 2500) 20%= 10,980 / 10,980
CP: (7100 + 5000) + 33% = 16,093 / 16,093
MP: (10600 + 7350) + 10% = 19,745 / 19,745
STR: (35 + 29) + 10.5% = 71
VIT: (31 + 73) + 18% = 123
DEX: (47 + 29) + 38.5% = 105
CKR: 52 + 36% = 71
CKRC: (51 + 48) + 54% = 154
INT: (40 + 104) + 56% = 222
WIS: (72 + 44) + 84% = 213
POINTS: 36
AP: 19563
Ryu: (166,425 + 55.320115140B) + 525.92M per week
Wind Affinity: 0
Fire Affinity: 0
Water Affinity: 54
Earth Affinity: 0
Lightning Affinity: 0
Yin Affinity: 1
HP Regen= 4 per minute (2% of Max HP + 0.1 VIT)
CP Regen= 13 per minute (4% of Max CP + CKRC)
MP Regen= 350 per minute (1% of max MP x 0.5 of WIS) + 10%
Description: A brilliant method actor who went to school for acting, but he took his passion to far and now the lines of being himself and playing a character that he portrays are blurred.
[New status effect: The Curse mark of life]
Since you absorbed part of Orochimaru's soul, you can activate the seal addiction free. Although, as always, there appear to be some negative effects to the seal.
NOTE: Anima's eye color changed from teal to amber.
Initial Level:
Increase VIT by ½ Level
Increase WIS by ½ Level
Increase INT by Level
Level 1:
Increase HP and MP by 50%
(20 + (5 x 1/10 of Lvl)) to DEX and STR
+ MP Jutsus by 20%
Cost CP: 20 + (Lvl) per minute
Level 2: - ?
[Not unlocked yet]
|Ding –because you passed the first 100VIT benchmark, a new perk has been added: good health|
Increase HP by 20%
Increase stamina by 5%
Increase stamina recovery by 10%
Increase HP regen to 2% + 1/10 VIT
|Ding –because you passed the first 100WIS benchmark, a new perk has been added: Yin Affinity|
[Mana Nature Transformation: Inton: (Supplemental-Passive) Lvl1 0/10 AP]
Due to having your mind warp by the darkness of the spirit that lives inside you, you now have this skill. Performed by transforming your mana into shadows.
Generates (2 + 1/10 WIS) AP per minute while activated
Gain one natural affinity point per leveling up this skill
NOTE: natural affinity acts as your elemental resistance.
NOTE: passed 100 affinity points you gain the title: Yin Eater
Allow the user to transform his/her Mana into darkness.
Allow you to telekinetically move and shape the shadows around your or others to your liking
Note: level of control depends on skill level and WIS.
(skill level) % decrease cost in Inton Jutsus
2(skill level) % increase damage in Inton Jutsus
That was the first things that the red haired teen woken up to, and let me just say, damn.
The second was… Sakura screaming, and then…
"Zankukyokuha (Extreme Decapitating Airwaves)," Zaku shouted at Sasuke, who was under the influence of the curse mark if the secretion of vile purple chakra and tribal tattoo like markings that covered park of his body was anything to go on.
A large blast of pressurized air was shot from out stretched palms toward the hollowed out tree. The attack destroyed everything that had not been rooted to the ground.
"Narutooooooo!" a worse for wear Sakura screeched and just watch horror as his still unconscious teammate was still in the tree, only for it to be torn to shreds a second later.
"Milo-kun!" a banged up Haku, whose mask was cracked beyond repair and ears were bleeding after the altercation with the Bandaged hunchback, shouted in despair and tears in eyes as he saw someone that he truly care for just disappeared with that technique.
'I never got to tell him how I really feel.' The boy thought depressingly.
When the dust settled, Zaku smirked as he saw devastation as he no longer saw any sign of neither the raven haired shinobi or the two sleeping in the wrecked tree. "Ha! Did you see that Dosu. I've blown'em away!"
"Blown who away?" a familiar voice to some asked. Zaku barely had time to turn around before a Pissed off Milo, who was carrying the unconscious blonde under his armpit, backhanded the spiky haired boy, sending him flying back head first. "You know you could have really hurt someone with that technique."
'How the fuck is he awake, let alone alive!' Dosu screamed internally in shock. 'I can barely see the chances of the Uchiha surviving the seal and coming out on top, but him?!'
"Hi there Haku-chan, Kohai-chan!" Milo exclaimed joyfully at the two while walking over, "Sorry I'm late, you have no idea the time I had I-Sakura did you get a haircut? It looks great." He said a foot away from them and carefully put his brother down, "I especially like the beat up look yo-."
SMACK!
The redhead rubbed the stinging on his cheek where he's been slapped, hard, before being enveloped against his will in a desperate hug from his crying teammate. Haku, coming out of his shock that his crush hadn't just been killed, was furious. He dare make light of the situation that Sakura and he, and all the rest of the Genin that decided to help, almost gave their lives protecting them. Jerk…
"Hey asshole!" a bloody death shirt wearing teen shout at the moron, "You broke my nose, dick! Zanku- huh?" he stopped prematurely to see that his would be victim was pointing right behind him.
Grinning devilishly, Sasuke went through several hand seals before in a breath of hot air, "Katon: Hosenka no Jutsu (Fire Release: Mythical Fire Flower)!" six cinder block size Mario style fireballs sailed towards their target.
Thinking fast, Zaku thrust his hands out again. "Zankuha!"
The slicing airwave blasted into the flying plasma, putting the out almost instantly. However, once being put out, everyone could see that the fireballs were nothing but a faux for the real threat inside.
Zaku only had time to form his hands in a cross guard to protect his face as he was pelted by shuriken, "Ahhh!"
Once the spinning blades hit their mark, Zaku looked around to find the Uchiha. He'd only had a few seconds to look before Sasuke managed to sneak behind him, grabbing both arms and at the same he forced the boy on his knees. Sasuke then put a foot on the Oto Genin's back and began to pull the arms upward.
Ino looked at her crush in shock horror, 'His chakra is way different than his time at the academy. What's going on?'
Zaku tried to move away from this uncomfortable position, but a grinning Sasuke held him back. "You seem to be proud of these arms of yours; you must be very attached to them."
"W-what are you doing?" Zaku tried to free himself by pushing his arms down, but Sasuke had the strength and leverage to do the exact opposite.
SNAP!
"AHHHH!" Zaku wailed in agony as one of his arms bended backwards at an unnatural angle. Everyone who saw this horrible maiming either flinched or blanched at the raven's apparent mercilessness. When Zaku's screams of pain died down, Sasuke did the decent thing and let him go, no longer finding any joy in kicking a near comatose horse.
Sasuke's eyes narrow to the only standing sound Genin. A smirk crossed his lips, "It seems that you're the only one left." That statement made Dosu stumbled back in fear as the "last" Uchiha slowly stalked him, "I hope you put up more of a fight then your comrade did."
'This… this isn't Sasuke, this is not my Sasuke-kun,' Sakura thought to herself in horror. She remembered all of the times she had watched Sasuke while on their adventures in team 7. Too emotional to think straight, the cherry blossom was about to run up to him with reckless abandonment and get him to stop when someone else did it for her.
The Uchiha froze as a gentle hand placed itself on his shoulder, "That's enough Emo-chan."
Milo stood his ground as the chakra influenced boy ask the obvious question as to why he should do that, "Because Sasuke that one over there," he said pointing to the still terrified Dosu, "that one's mine. He hurt Haku, I can't let that go unpunished." The redhead then applied a bit of pressure on the boy's shoulder in an assertive gesture, "You will not deny this from me, power down."
For some unknown reason something click in the drug induced avenger, causing him to go back into his sealed state exhausted. "Easy easy," Milo said catching the tired ravenette and setting him on the ground, "you used too much chakra as is, that seal is a double edge sword. We'll talk more on this subject later. Right now though, rest Suripuru." The redhead said softly while putting his index and middle finger to the boy's temple and in an instant Sasuke Uchiha was out cold.
After calling Sakura to care for the sleeping boy, Milo Started to rise, all the while he never left his newly yellow eyes from Dosu's single brown one.
"Hello again," was the first thing that Milo said to the hunchback. "I remember us meeting in this exact same fashion, you trying to prove yourself by fighting. I get it; you even got your team to join in, kudos. though, I also remember giving you a warning what should happen if you, or anyone else, were to harm my precious people. The people that I love unconditionally, and would never trade them for any price. You remember what I said, don't you?" when he spoke it was so calm and relaxed, increasing the tension between the two tenfold.
When Dosu widen his eyes in fear and stumbled back into a tree, the redhead just nodded. "So you do remember. You don't need to fear I won't harm you, I don't need to…" he said calmly, going through a series of hand seals. "Magen: Akai Maka no Koru (Demonic Illusion: Call of the Red Marker)."
Everyone who was still conscious was waiting with baited breath for something, anything, to happen, but it never came. "I-is that it?" Dosu asked confusion in his voice, feeling no foreign chakra entering his core and warping his senses.
"Don't worry… at our next meeting, you'll know my song in all its entirety." The tall teenager said ominously and without emotion, "Now as compensation for your spared lives, one scroll please." As Milo said this, he held out his hand expectantly.
Dosu nodded and without hesitation he tossed the earth scroll to the red haired devil, who the tossed it to the pink haired kunoichi. The hunch back then quickly left with his fallen squadmates all the while wondering what exactly did the yellow eyed teen done to him.
"Hey you guy's okay?!" team Ten's Choji Akimichi shouted in worry as they emerged from the bushes.
"Ino, you look after Lee, we'll look after the kid." Shikamaru yelled to Ino as he and his best friend went over to see how Naruto was.
"Right!" Ino responded.
'That was no ordinary chakra,' Neji said as he observed the fight. 'I had no idea the Uchiha Clan was that strong, and that technique that kid used. The chakra used was small, smaller than any Genjutsu I saw ever used before. It was able to enter that Oto Genin's senses undetected. He's someone not to be underestimated.'
"Ah, Sakura's in trouble got to save her…" Naruto said dreamily, sleeping peacefully.
"Oh man, this is so troublesome. Someone might want to hit him to wake him up." Shika over looked the lazy blonde.
"Can I?" Choji asked, getting a slab of wood and rearing it back like a club. Before he could take a swing though, a wave of water splashed all three of them, waking the sleeping blonde in the process.
"Sorry," Milo sheepishly called out. "My plan was to only wake up Naru-chan."
"Troublesome,"
"Gah," Naruto shot straight up and started to crawl in an erratic fashion. "EVERYONE GET DOWN! WHERE DID THAT KUSA-NIN GO- wait why am I all wet?" he asked confused as he sat up a look over his cloths, "Gah! Please don't tell me that I peed myself?!"
Everyone sweat dropped, 'Good ol' Naruto.' Milo smiled at his brother's antics.
"Oh Sakura-chan!" Naruto yelled, noticing something different about her.
"What?" she asked, confused.
The blonde then scrambled over to the rest of team 7, "Sakura-chan, your hair!"
"…" Ino was silently observing the two.
"Oh, you mean this?" she said unsure, twirling her short hair while forcing a smile for her idiot friend. "It's just a change of image, like your change of clothing. I like it longer, but… you know in this forest it can get in the way."
"I see…" Naruto stared at her intently, making her nervous. "I like it!" he exclaimed with a big smile.
"I'm glad…" she gave him a genuine smile and chuckled, "You're exactly like your brother Naruto. He likes it too." Sakura said gesturing to where the redhead was, who was administering first aid to Haku and Lee while showing Ino what to do.
That got his attention as he finally noticed everyone around him and more importantly, the sleeping form of Sasuke head was in the cherry blossom's lap. "By the way why are you guys here and why are you guys all dirty and why is Sasuke sleeping?" Naruto shot of question after question as confusion was written on the blonde's face.
"Man… explaining everything to you is a waste of my time." Shika exasperated, not wanting to do it.
"I'll do it," Milo said calmly, done patching up the injured on his side. He then went over to where everyone else was while holding out his hand out and started to suck out the excess water out of the wet cloths of Shikamaru, Choji, and Naruto. "I can't tell you the long version of the story as I'm in the same boat as you, but the short version is that we were in trouble while I, Sasuke, and you were still unconscious after fighting that creepy lady. And so, team ten and Lee offered their assistance in aiding Sakura and Haku."
Naruto nodded in understanding, "But wait, what about the teme, why is he still sleeping while we're awake?"
Milo shrugged, "He wasn't himself, so I knocked him out again." he simply said.
"So Sakura," Milo said to the green eyed girl, getting the girl's attention. "Is that Earth scroll the one you need?" he asked curiously.
"Y-Yes, why?"
He didn't answer right away and turned to Shikamaru and Choji, "What about you guys, do you have all your scrolls?"
Choji was about to answer that they had none, but his best friend beat him to it. "Why should we tell you, you're the "enemy" remember."
Naruto was about to come to his brother's aid, but a hand blocked his path. "Fair enough, you don't have to tell me anything, I was just going give you guys a reward seeing that Haku and I managed to acquire two of each scroll?"
"We lost our scrolls!" Choji blathered out, getting on his hands and knees, begging. "Please help us! I don't want to stay here anymore! There's no food that that won't want to take a bite out you!"
Milo reeled back, not expecting this. He then held out a heaven and earth scroll in each hand from his wrist seal. "If I give these to you, will you stop crying?" the obese boy nodded furiously.
Milo sighed before turning to the white eyed boy, "What about you guys? I don't have a spare set, but we can team up."
"That won't be necessary." The boy said dismissively while watching Tenten successfully waking up their last team member with an amused smirk.
"Okay," Milo clapped his hands, getting everyone's attention, "Seeing as everyone has their designated scrolls to pass…" he then grabbed Sasuke and fling his body over his shoulders like a sack of potatoes. Once he made sure Sasuke was secured, he spoke again, "I would like to call a four team truce… till we get to the tower of course." He offered with the other teams nodding their consent.
At the Tower
When they reached the tower, the first thing they noticed were several different sets of doors wrapping around the tower's base. Each doorway has two doors that was shut and had pieces of paper to show whether or not the door had been closed. Deciding to split up now, everyone said their goodbyes and team Ronin entered one of the papered doors to find a large and empty room with a plague on the opposite wall.
"Hmm, without heaven… what do you think Haku-chan?" wondered Milo, looking at the plaque with an intense stare.
"It looks like there are some words missing here. It must have to do something about the scrolls, I think they're telling us to open them." he deduced, bringing out the heaven scroll.
"Alright lefts open them…" Milo said excitedly while tearing open the earth scroll, with Haku following soon after. When they were open, Milo immediately sensed something was wrong, "Quick, Haku let go of the scroll!" he shouted, prompting the Bishonen to do the same. The scrolls made a perfect 'X' for some reason, before a burst of smoke appeared, revealing one of the Chunin's from the first Exam.
"Congratulations on passing the second stage of the Chunin Selection Exams." She said cheerfully.
The unknown Chunin looked over the beaten up forms of the two Ronin. "So, what happen to you two? You guys look like shit." The woman said bluntly, making the two sweat dropped.
"Oh you know, we were attacked by a rogue S-class pedophile, a group of rampaging sound Genin… oh and there was also a battle of the mind that was surprisingly cathartic. So all-in-all… Tuesday." Milo said to the wide eyed Chunin sarcastically.
"When was the mind battle?" Haku tilted his head, confused.
"I'll tell you when you're older." He said dismissively making his partner fume. Milo the addressed the stock still Chunin, "Hey lady, is the Hokage in? I need to talk to him about something?"
At the mention of the Hokage, the Chunin snapped out of her shock. "Yes he is, also I should mention that you two have the rest of today and tomorrow to yourselves. Feel free to take whatever rooms are left. There is a kitchen and training room to sedate boredom. Do you wish to see him now, or would you like to freshen up first?"
Milo nodded while turning to Haku, "Why do you go on ahead, it shouldn't be that long. I'll meet you in the Kitchen alright?" when the girly boy nodded his head, Milo turn back. "Alright lead the way."
With The Hokage
Reaching the top of the tower, the first thing that Milo was able to see was that the Hokage was sitting behind a desk with the second examiner, Anko, on his left with the members of team 7 on the right.
"Milo-kun, I was told that you had something to tell me, where's Haku-kun by the way?" the leader of the whole village asked grandfatherly asked while the Chunin escort bowed deeply and left, leaving the redhead alone with the group.
"I wonder how that is, seeing as I only told one person, and she left not a moment ago." As he said this, Milo walked up to the man's desk, "Also, Haku's fine. He's getting patched up and then we're going to meet up later… Hi Sensei! Long time no see, huh?" the redhead said to the bored looking shinobi.
"Huh?" said ninja looked over from his book and gave Milo a pointed sate, "I'm sorry Milo-kun, did you say something?" Kakashi asked, making everyone sweat drop.
"So cold," Milo pouted, making the grey haired man eye smile.
"Anyway," the Hokage said with assertiveness, getting rid of this foolishness. "I know that you would want to request an audience with me because I know you and Sasuke-kun received Orochimaru's cursed seal, and seeing how there's a 1/10 survivability rate is a miracle." He stated, shocking all those who were unaware. "My question to you is why that once waking up, you were not under the influence of the seal as Sasuke-kun was and was even returned the boy to a sense of normalcy as stated to us by Sakura-chan?"
Everyone was eager to hear the boy's response, "Do you want to hear the long version or the shorter one." Milo asked the Hokage in all seriousness, foregoing the playful act he puts up.
"Whichever you prefer Milo-kun." Responded Sarutobi. He was glad that the boy was taking this issue very serious.
"Short answer it is then…" Milo sighed before addressing the hovering shinobi. "The reason why is because I was battling a fragment of the Sannin soul that was within the seal, and ultimately absorbing said soul." He said in a straight face even when seeing the reactions he was getting.
Anko grabbed the boy by his shoulders, "Wha-how ?" never have she known someone that could resist the snakes power, let alone absorb the effects of the seal.
"You have it too, don't you?" Milo asked pointing to where her mark resides. Anko sub consciously covered said mark either in shame or force of habit, Milo knows not. "That's the same as Sasuke isn't it? I don't know if each seal is the same or not, but I was able to fight him inside my mind were I am god and try to take over. That's not to say I didn't have any help."
"You mean this Anima don't you? The demon that you can summon at will correct?" The Hokage asked the boy who nodded, surprising team 7 and the snake mistress. "But that leave another question, if you assimilated the fragment, will you not you develop his tendencies?" he asked, not all too thrilled in having another Orochimaru.
"Not exactly, thank god for that." Hiruzen blew out a sigh of relieve after hearing that. "Once I was able to expel the unwanted attributes of the Sannin and focus on the basic core components of the seal. From that, I was able to create the Leviathan to help regulate the seal in place of the fragment." He said once again shocking the audience.
"Levi-lev-what?" a confused Naruto asked, never having heard of the word before.
"The Leviathan, Le-vi-a-than." The taller Uzumaki explained, "It literally means: the serpent that coils, I don't know about you guys but I think it's a fitting name." he said, letting his serious attitude slip up for a second.
"Milo," Sasuke said, getting the slightly taller of the two to look at him. Taking a deep breath, Sasuke spoke, "Can you help me defeat Orochimaru, I don't want to be a puppet."
"Yes I can Sasuke," Milo stated, "but not at this time."
"What, why not?!" Sasuke asked heatedly.
"First of all, how am I to go into your mind, I'm not a Yamanaka if you didn't noticed Sasuke." The redhead pointed out, "Second is that, as of right now, you are not god of your own mind. You first must learn how to defeat your demons before taking on the big cheese. The seal itself is design as an amplifier. It amplifies your negative emotions given to you by your brother, and the snake is feeding of it and making it stronger. It's true that we must get rid of the fragment, lest you be a power drunk psychopath, but going after its source of nourishment is key Sasuke."
The boy then looked to the Hokage, "Hokage-sama, I think it will be of the utmost importance to seal up Sasuke's mark as soon as possible. I would also like to beseech the head of the Yamanaka clan to allow me to learn whatever jutsu that allows me to enter Sasuke's mind and assert my will on his psyche."
The Hokage for his part was a little surprise at the request, "Well I can call for a seal master to arrive two days the latest. As for the jutsu, I can definitely write a letter to Inoichi about the severity of the issue, like you said though you are not a Yamanaka. Clans do not like it when outsiders use their techniques against them, not to say that's what you would do, but you are more than welcome to look at the shinobi section of the library… here." The Hokage said handing the selfless boy a slip of paper with the Hokage seal on it.
"That slip of paper allows you to check out the public academy to Chunin level Jutsus, whatever that may help you on your quest." The Hokage said, showing off his grandfatherly side again.
"Thank you Hokage-sama," Milo said bowing. He then turned the purple pineapple, "What about you, want to help me kick some major snake be-hind?"
The snake princess just smirked, "Kid, I'm always willing to put a few bad S-rank traitors in their place." She licked her lips in anticipation.
Magen: Akai Maka no Koru (Demonic Illusion: Call of the Red Marker) – a B-Rank Genjutsu of Milo's design. The chakra used to invade a targets senses are parasitic in natural and won't take effect depending on the time used as the chakra slowly assimilates the targets chakra core, creating horrible Hallucination and even dementia on varies of degrees. Milo got the inspiration of the markers in the dead space universe.
I am so sorry I know I must've said this to you like a million times now, but I am truly sorry for not getting this chapter in time to you. I hope you can forgive me.
Also new poll: other then reality warping Genjutsus, what should Milo's second specialty be?
1
Fuinjutsu: Fuin-Gen
5 31%
2
Taijutsu: Tai-Gen
5 31%
3
Kenjutsu: Gen-Ken
3 18%
4
Ninjutsu: Nin-Gen
3 18%