Rebirth of the 4
A Naruto Darksiders Crossover
Written by Silent Soul Ken
Rating: M for Mature
Reason: Blood, Violence, Gore, Language, Nudity
Summary: The legendary Four Horsemen are dead and the angels and demons fight from realm to realm destroying them. The Charred council has no choice but to bring back the four but they only have enough power for one… War…
Chapter 9
Chaos
Naruto looked down at his home and as he did his right hand was clenched into a hard fist and his teeth were bared. "Konoha… it's…" he couldn't bring himself to say it, his blue eyes were glowing brightly as his anger grew. The school was rubble, a giant tree was burning, and there were explosions going on near the right side of the city.
The Kyuubi emerged from his hand, "The Destruction is worse than I thought…" he turned to Naruto, "I warned you kid this wouldn't be pretty." Naruto's hand shook, then he kicked Ruin's sides the horse snorted then galloped down the rock face. "Whoa, whoa, whoa!" The Kyuubi flew after the boy who was standing on the horse now. "Are you nuts? You don't have your sword how are you gonna fight?" he demanded.
Naruto looked around, "With Ruin I should be good, but I'll steal a weapon from-" then he staggered as Ruin bucked slightly.
The ghostly former bijuu floated down, "I don't think he agrees with you." He noted.
The Nephilim frowned, "Fine then…" he said then he jumped, just in time with a buck from Ruin, he flew down with great speed and when he landed on the ground he sunk into it slightly giant rock spikes emerging around him in a ring. "I gotta control my landings," He noted and jumped out kicking a rock spike and landing on it. His body was low then he stood looking around, when he heard a snort he turned only to get slammed by Ruin as it charged past him sending him flying he grunted then righted himself landing on the ground. He watched as the horse ran the trail of flame igniting behind it then it vanished. "That damn horse is so fickle!" he said.
The Kyuubi floated next to his head, "You say that now cause he doesn't recognize you as his master when he does, he will never betray you." Naruto was silent at that. He then realized his hood was down, and he used his left hand to pull it back up. He heard the flapping of wings and he looked up to see two angels they had strange halberd like weapons in hand. Their faces were hidden by their helmets and the only thing visible being their mouths and eyes both of which were open in terror. He heard laughing and chuckling and he turned to see some axe-wielding demons walking forward out from a alley. They turned and saw Naruto, and their features froze and transformed into horror.
The angels dropped their weapons, as did the demons, "He-he's here! He really is! War!" Said an angel, they flew away. "War! War is here!" The demons did the same their voices combining till the whole village heard.
-Near the Emergency Exits-
Tsunade gripped her chest, a vicious gash across it her body resting against a fallen rock, while behind her other shinobi watched their weapons drawn. She stared at the large demon with it's giant knuckles one of which were missing, it's face was bleeding slightly one eye forced shut but otherwise it snarled and taunted her. Behind it were smaller demons that were chuckling and punching each other as they watched some slapping their axes against their palms. She panted blood leaking from her head, her other arm useless and her body aching with pain shriveled and old, her view blurry and unfocused. 'Shit we'll be killed at this rate.' She realized, 'Jiraiya was right just fighting the runts was a pain in the ass but this guy he doesn't even care about how I've been punching his ass! Also I'm running low on Chakra I barely have enough to fully heal this wound even with the release of my seal.' she grimaced her teeth red with blood then she heard it, shouting.
It rose all around her, and as it the smaller demons looked at each other. "War! War is here! The horseman War has returned!" the smaller demons murmured then they began to move out. The large one laughed and pointed at her.
It's voice was of crushed glass, "You're lucky human, I'll be back to kill you later." It said and he stomped away. Tsunade was silent then she felt the throbbing.
She turned to the men behind her, "Go, anybody willing go and see if you can find any stragglers we're gonna leave now, and when we do seal up the exits we want none of these things after us." She gasped, the shinobi neared her nodded and leaped to find any remaining survivors two of them ran up to her their hands already making hand signs for healing Jutsu's. Tsunade let them work, but in her mind she wondered, 'Who is War?' an answer that would come soon enough.
-Lilith's Perch-
Sakura jumped up excited, "It's him! He's here!" She said then she noticed Lilith and sat back down, "I-I mean ahem, War has arrived." She spoke more stoically this time.
Lilith just chuckled, "There's nothing wrong with being happy… after all you do love him do you not? You shouldn't quash such feelings." She said, Sakura just smiled, then licked her lips as she watched Naruto grab an Axe that one of the demons had dropped, swing it a few times and begin to run. She could see his body move, powerful and dangerous the perfect combination in her eyes. She slid her hand down to her legs and paused when she felt a spike on her mutated hand poke her leg. She then used her normal hand her fingers reaching for her pussy below which was already moist. Her fingers teasing the puffy labia her face slightly red and her breath coming out in small huffs Lilith didn't say anything just smiled as Sakura played with herself unashamedly.
-Konohamaru-
The grandson of the third Hokage stood a kunai in hand his body shaking the rest of the students hiding behind him. Before him a large muscular demon stood it held an axe which was resting on it's shoulder, it's blockish teeth bared in a grin, as it approached the boy. "Heh you got guts… bet they taste delicious… normally I'd play with you but War is here so I think I'll just take you and your friends to hell." He said.
The demon approached and Konohamaru withdrew it reach out with it's pale blue hand, "The only one going to hell is you!" A voice shouted, and from above 4 kunai with paper bombs attached hit the demon it staggered back then it growled only for it's body to explode chunks flying everywhere. The chunks turning to ash, from above Iruka landed one arm mangled but the other quite fine. He turned to the students, "Did I make you wait?" He asked. The kids instantly rushed him crying and sobbing even Konohamaru was also bawling. He patted their head comfortingly, "Hey, hey it's ok guys calm down, we're not out of this mess yet." He said, after some gasping and sniffling they eventually calmed down, "Ok follow my lead and be careful remember to watch your surroundings and to use sound judgement nobody be a hero or try to fight the demons ok? And watch out for each other understood?" He said they nodded. "Good now let's go." And so they began their dangerous trek to the exits.
-The Nara Household-
Shikamaru was in the hidden basement of his home, he had been here for the past 10 minutes arming himself with every weapon he could muster on his body. After setting in the last weapon he stood his body brimming with various weaponry, kunai with explosive tags mainly, several scrolls and on his back a large broadsword. Normally he was a passive person didn't stick his nose into anybody's business and avoided fights as much as possible. But now he wasn't that person anymore. Today he was a ninja, and one who sought vengeance, for his friends, for his father, for his home! He stepped up the steps into the burning, choking air and looked around. He took a step forward only to hear a slight crunching he looked down and saw the remains of a frame. He stepped back then crouched and grabbed the frame he pulled and stiffened as he saw it was him and his parents.
Even as he stared at the photo he could hear his father's voice, 'Shikamaru? Shikamaru! What're you doing just lazing about? Get going aren't you supposed to be with your team?' he frowned.
He stood up staring at the photo, "My team huh…" he looked at his village then he sighed, "I guess I can stall my revenge for one day… but mark my words the angels of heaven and the demons of hell will pay for this by my hand or another." And he turned and jumped into the sky heading for the exits.
-Naruto-
Naruto ran down the street turning his head to and fro seeing the destruction. He turned down a street only to duck as an axe swung at his head. He rolled but the demon that wielded the axe jumped coming down to crush Naruto, the reborn War pushed himself to his feet and glared at the demon. This demon was different for one it wore heavy armor and it's axe was decorated but also almost complete covered in blood. For another it was larger than the demons and had large horns that curled like a rams. It smirked, "So you are War and here I thought that he had truly return a mere boy like you cannot stop me." It snarled it's voice deep and guttural.
Naruto rotated his neck cracks sounding as he did, "Wanna find out?" he then held up the axe twirled it once then struck he dashed forward, swung the axe at the demon, it parried with its own axe but then his huge fist slammed into its gut making it rise off the ground. He pulled away, spinning, and slashed at its middle the axe sunk in but didn't go all the way through black blood spurting out. The demon snarled and it kicked Naruto's head jerking it back and making him stagger. Landing it charged punching at the blonde's face getting a shot in. The new Nephilim grunted, he went low to dodge the axe swing, he thrusted his shoulder pauldron up slamming into the demons stomach. The demon fell to the ground it barely had time to raise it's head when the axe slammed into it's skull killing it with a single blow.
Panting Naruto pulled up the axe as the demon's body faded into ash. The Kyuubi came out of his gauntlet, "Not bad kid you killed a demon captain those guys are a bit tougher from the usual grunts." He said then he was back in the gauntlet. The reborn War looked at where the demon had been then he heard it, a piercing scream. He looked at a building that seemed to be covered with a pulsating fleshy wall. "You can use that to climb up." The Kyuubi informed from inside the gauntlet. Setting the axe at his back Naruto grabbed the wall disgusted by it, ignoring the pulsing flesh he climbed up it the specially clawed hands of his gauntlets sinking in pulling himself up. When he was high enough he turned and kicked off with his legs. He landed on another building wall and kicked off that landing at the top of the building. He had a good view of roughly the entire village he looked around.
Near the Hokage Summit he noticed a series of holes where some Shinobi were taking survivors into. He sighed with relief, only to stiffen as he turned just in time to raise his large hand to block a energy burst it dissipated but created a powerful gust of wind that blew his hood back. A large angel dressed in heavy armor and with a cannon in hand appeared. The angel's eyes glowed pure white, "A boy? Our forces were too hasty to believe you to be War. You may wear his armor but you have none of his power!" it said Naruto grabbed the axe pulling it from his back. The angel held up the cannon and began to fire a rapid stream of blue blasts. Naruto jumped backwards flipped once and landed on the ground. The angel flew after him firing the blue bolts at the former human.
Naruto ran nimbly jumping over small obstacles, and bashing through weak walls. The angel however was relentless. The blonde Nephilim realized he needed to pretend to be shot to hell to lose this quarry. He looked around and saw an old restaurant that was on it's last legs. He sped towards it bashing through the door. The angel above growled, "You're not getting away from me!" And it held up the cannon blue energy gathering at the tip of the barrel and then he fired a powerful pulse of energy it slammed into the building exploding violently. The building shook then began to crumble. The angel knew he couldn't be dead but he would at the least be gravely injured, "Hmph I'll wait for him to climb out the rubble and then I'll kill him from-" it was then he noticed a large demon flying toward him. He raised the cannon and began to fire. Black blood spurted out as it opened it's jaw and tackled the angel slamming him into the ground. Red blood spurted out of his own mouth, his cannon falling out of his hand and landing before the rubble he just recently created.
He hit the ground hard creating a small crater, he grunted and punched the demon twice in the head breaking off one of it's horn with the second punch. Snarling it leaped off him and began to walk around him it's wings spread flames emerging from it's mouth. He stood and held up his hand light forming and shaping into a greatsword with a single white edge. He clenched his hands around the grip and charged the demon slashing. The demon dodged and parried occasionally striking back with claw swipes. The sword swung horizontally then turned curving upward at the last second and slashing it's other horn off. The demon snarled and opening its mouth it belched out red flames. The angel turned his blade so that the width of the blade was held out. The flames it hit fanning out behind him. His blade heating up but he held firm.
The flames stopped and he lowered the blade to see the demon had vanished, he looked around then a roar from above caused him to look up. The demon came down hands outstretched but he was ready this time he swung his blade back then up in a powerful vertical slice. The demon split in half it's body spurting out blood, and then it hit the ground and vanished. The angel stood there then his armor glowed and the blood covering his body evaporated. He released his blade it hovered then faded into light. He turned to where he had dropped his cannon but grimaced at what he saw. War stood in his hands was the cannon, blue energy sparking at the tip of the muzzle and aimed directly at him.
Naruto smirked, "Nice toy I think I'll borrow it." And he fired the energy ball fired then split into 10 bolts each slamming into the angel penetrating it's armor, red blood spurting out and it fell vanishing into light as it did. The new born War looked at the cannon, "Pack as much of a punch as it weighs." He said.
The Kyuubi emerged, "Trust me the smaller one can do just as much damage if you use them right, as Strife proved on more than one occasion." He said.
The blonde nodded, "I see what's this thing called again?" he asked.
The foxy wraith folded his arms, "A cannon the smaller ones are called guns, but an all-around name for them is arms. In fact Strife's weapons are guns. And trust me when I say those can really do some damage. He could pop a demon's head like a grape with one shot and from half a mile away." He chuckled at that. Naruto raised an eyebrow.
He then began to run noting that the cannon slowed him down due to it's bulky design. He decided to try shouldering it and found it was easier to do so. With this he began to run he didn't know where to go so he went to the one place he always did when he felt lost. Ichiraku Ramen.
-Iruka-
Iruka spun around and threw the demon wind shuriken at the demon the blade slicing off it's arm. Even as it howled he pulled out a kunai with a paper bomb and threw it in the mouth. It gurgled briefly as the kunai punctured the flesh, then it exploded fading to ash before it even hit the ground. He wiped his brow which was slick with sweat and blood. "Come on! We're almost there!" he shouted.
The children ran forward happy to look away from all the bodies and rubble that surrounded them. Konohamaru ran up to his sensei, "Sensei are we gonna be alright?" he asked.
Iruka smiled, ignoring the pain of his mouth as he did, and rubbed the boy's head, "Course we will, you're not scared are you?" he asked.
The boy knocked the and away pouting, "I-I'm not scared! Ok?" he huffed and walked forward, "L-Let's get out of here already!" he said peeved. Iruka chuckled as he followed the boy. He walked past the students, who had crowded inside the remains of a building, looking out for any sign that he was getting close to the emergency exits. The children's morale were low and they were tired from the near 4 mile trudge, not to mention the mental horrors that would be permanently embedded in their minds now.
He could see a building with a broken water tower, and while several buildings had that the one closest to the Hokage Summit could be considered a landmark. But before he could make sure that he was correct a scream pierced the air. He turned to see the students backing away as four demons crawled toward them hissing and snarling with their horrible teeth one had sunk it's teeth into a girls leg and was dragging her off. Iruka moved but even as he did the other demons moved to the other students. He gritted his teeth as he pulled out three kunai and threw them at the demons approaching his students then drawing a fourth for the last demon. He landed and turned only to see the demon dead, a sword running through it's back. As it faded into ashes the blade was pulled up Iruka looked to see Shikamaru standing there. He had some wounds on his body and was bleeding from several places and his usual bored expression was replaced with a sad, grim gaze.
Iruka sighed with relief, "It's good to see an ally in this chaos." He admitted.
Shikamaru nodded, "Yeah… but it's hard with all that we've lost… we gotta protect the kids for the future that our people believe in." he said, now understanding the weight of those words remembering a time that his sensei Asuma had asked him a question on who would the king be in Konoha. He didn't know where Asuma went, nor did he know about what happened to Kurenai either. He hoped the two were safe. "Come I'll assist you in getting out of here." he said and he took
-The Falling Babylon-
Within the short few hours of their conversion process Heaven had begun transporting their mobile fortress, which was double timed when the demons had been discovered. A giant fortress that was hidden by clouds armed to the teeth with everything they had. Sentries, cannons, anti-demon turrets, and various other defensive applications, it was security overkill but needed. It was called the Falling Babylon. It's name was not coincidental as this was the legendary city of Babylon built thousands years of ago by humans who believed to themselves to be gods among men and as a result were punished. Their people were wiped out and their city lifted straight out of the very earth.
The city passed into legend while the forces of heaven converted it into their strongest offensive and defensive base. It's name became infamy to all demon kind and not even the strongest dare to challenge it. That being said the conversion process took place in heaven; the Falling Babylon was a gateway and a base of operations. Normally they wouldn't bring such a valuable and key item to the frontlines but due to the size of their operations they had to. Konoha wasn't their only target the entire elemental nations were. Already they were getting in humans from the Mist, Stone and Cloud villages. They had gotten some until their scouts reported a giant dome sand preventing them access.
In the command room was Uriel, Sariel, and Nathaniel; they were watching the battle via special drones. They were focusing on this due to the demon incursion their forces had been engaging them, fighting over humans with causalities on both sides. An angel walked in, Uriel turned to him, "Report." She commanded.
The angel bowed, "Yes we've confirmed that we've extracted roughly 53% of possible recruits, 40% are currently in Demon Captivity and the remaining 7% are either dead or hidden." He said.
Nathaniel folded his arms over his chest, "Hmmm it seems that our prediction that the demons realizing that these humans can become potential soldiers were true. We should've begun the extraction much sooner." He said.
Sariel sighed, "I don't even know why we're bothering they won't ever measure up to true angels anyway it's a waste of time and resources." She said breathily.
Uriel turned her gaze to the angel, "You may think so but that Hinata girl has shown great potential greater than yours even." She said evenly.
This was met with a glare from the female angel, "You must be joking no way she can be stronger than-" Suddenly the doors burst open.
Two angels stumbled in, "H-H-He's… He's here!" they stammered.
The three high ranking angels turned to the grunts, "Who's here?" Nathaniel asked.
They looked up, "W-W-War! He's here we saw him!" They said.
There was silence Uriel was stunned Sariel turned to her, "Seriously you couldn't deal with a damn imposter?" But the commander of heaven's army couldn't say anything. "Ugh fine I'll deal with him." She said and she walked out the open doors.
Nathaniel turned to Uriel, "It seems that whoever this new War is has his durability at the very least." He said.
The angelic commander didn't say anything too stunned to respond, when suddenly a gate appeared then opened revealing Azrael. He looked around as he gently floated in, "Where is Sariel?" He asked.
Nathaniel looked at him, "She's off to kill the reincarnated War." He said.
The angel didn't say anything, "Is that so? I doubt she'll win." He said.
Uriel looked at him, "What makes you think that?" She asked.
Azrael held up a hand and an orb of light formed the light shone then cleared to reveal Naruto he was blasting at demons with a cannon, and any that got too close he cleaved in half with an axe. These weren't run of the mill demons either, but prowlers and shadow captains. A Trauma then came into view and he held up the cannon and fired, it blocked the shots with it's knuckles then he threw the cannon at the large demon smashing the knuckles, and pushing it's face in with it's own fist! Grabbing his axe he charged forward and jumped into a double drop kick smashing its hand and, by extension, the demons face. It snarled staggering back but the reborn War threw his axe at it's head. The axe sunk in penetrating the skull and hitting it's brain. It gave a death rattle as it faded into ash.
Uriel was stunned, "How in heaven's name did he get stronger from being near dead?" She muttered.
Nathaniel raised an eyebrow, "Are you saying he was much weaker when you encountered him?" he asked.
She nodded, "He couldn't even come close to touching me let alone defeat me. His strength and speed have gone up remarkably." She said. "But not enough to pose a real threat to us," She said she was silent as she made quick calculations, "Begin the crystallization process." She said, "This land cannot be tainted any longer." She said.
Azrael moved away from the orb, "You must be out of your mind, to crystalize this is unnecessary what of the humans who call it home that have escaped?" He asked.
Uriel glared at him, "If they are smart they'll stay away, demonic corruption is imminent, it was the same with Earth because Heaven abandoned us we weren't able to do it last time. But now we can, prepare the crystallization process immediately if we're lucky we'll get this false Ware in the crossfire." She said and she was out the doors.
Nathaniel shook his head, "She's trying too hard to fill Abaddon's shoes." He said solemnly.
Azrael closed his eyes, "I fear she already has." And he looked at the orb. 'Naruto you must finish whatever business you have and return to Ulthane for training.' He closed his eyes offering his prayers for the former human.
Sariel walked down the hall to the gate leading to the human village, she paused when she saw a large pair of feathered wings. She turned and seeing a soldier she nudged his shoulder, he turned. "Whose that?" she asked.
He turned then grimaced, "She's new but from what I've heard she's gotten quite a killcount already, she's currently under Gabriel's apprenticeship. Don't know much else." He said.
The second Angel of death rubbed her chin then walked up smiling warmly, "Hello my dear, I hear you've made quite the standing amongst your peers." She said the angel was silent then turned, and the moment Sariel saw the new angel's face her smile slid off her face. "Oh it's you the human half-breed." Her voice devoid of warmth and now one of cold disgust, "Gabriel took you in huh? Pfft waste of time if you ask me." She said and she pushed past. Hinata didn't pay much mind to Sariel's comment, her mind still on the human who died right in front of her... she still didn't know why, but she felt like he was someone she knew, and she let him slip through her fingers... and so, she just looked at Sariel with dulled eyes, her face showing nothing but hollow emptiness, numbing herself to pain as best she could.
As Sariel got to the takeoff zone she heard whispering and muttering.
"War has returned."
"How can that be?"
"Does it matter? If he is here how long before the other's follow?"
Sariel stopped and she raised her voice, "Fear not my brothers and sisters!" all eyes turned to her, "I Sariel the Angel of Death shall deal with this pretender who calls himself War! I shall cut off his head, and bring it back to you as proof that he is nothing more than a fake, pretender!" Various angels began to cheer, and call out their approval. With the soldiers on her side Sariel was confident that she would deal with this fake War no problem. But even as she pushed the gates open one angel watched her.
Hinata's eyes which had been dulled lit up with a light at the name War. She remembered hearing that name earlier... she had been told at the time she wasn't ready for War. Wanting to feeling anything other than the pain she was feeling, she decided to focus on her hurt pride... she turned as Sariel opened her wings the doors opening and she jumped. Hinata raised her own wings her legs moving, then a hand grabbed her collar, "Where do you think you're going?" Gabriel asked.
The former human didn't respond but she didn't need to, "You need to rest, your mind is unfocused and unstable you need to calm down and organize your thoughts." The archangel lead her away from the door, which closed. Hinata looked back but didn't struggle she followed letting Gabriel lead her to a room where four angels floated in the air their legs crossed their eyes closed. "These are the mediator's they will help steady you." Said the archangel.
Hinata just nodded and Gabriel smiled then left sighing the human turned angel sat down pulling her knees to her chest resting her head against her knees. She tried to think of what was troubling her but each time she tried she was left with a sense of bittersweet contempt and longing. 'I… I don't want to…' she couldn't speak but her mind did it for her. 'I don't want to think about it.' She closed her eyes.
A voice spoke not her own, 'Why do you wish to hide from your past?' it asked.
She raised her head looking around but the angels hadn't even moved, they still however eye's closed but their face not as serene as earlier. She stopped then closed her eyes again, 'Because it hurts.' She replied.
Another voice spoke, 'Pain exists in everything, there's nothing wrong with that.' it responded.
A third rose, 'You cannot hide from it, you must meet it head on and challenge it.' It said.
Hinata frowned, 'how can I challenge what I don't know?' she responded.
A fourth emerged, 'Ah then you must understand it… to do that you must go back.' It advised.
She didn't understand… partially but the part of her that did understand shuddered at what they had said. She wanted and didn't want to go back… but maybe if she did she'd find some peace… maybe. She stood up and turned walking out the room briskly she didn't notice the faint smiles on the angels faces.
-The edge of Konoha's Border-
Anko was fuming with anger, "This is just great I can't believe we can't even go inside of Mist unless we have a document from the Hokage! All this searching for a blonde haired brat!" She growled as she stomped along. Her companions sighed rolling their eyes and gazing at the sky. That's when they saw the black smoke tinting the otherwise blue sky. Izumo moved forward.
He reached for Anko's shoulder, "Anko hold up." He said she stopped and gave him a glare but seeing his gaze she turned and looked up as well. Her heart stopped beating for one second.
She swallowed, and put a hand to her head, "Konoha's in danger!" She said.
Kotetsu nodded, "Looks that way… but I doubt we can do anything about it." He said.
The purple haired snake user turned, "What the hell do you mean we can't do anything about it? We can go there and find out what's going on for starters!" She snapped.
Izumo rubbed his chin thoughtfully, "I think it's obvious what's going on. Heaven and Hell have finally made their move in bringing this war to our planet." He hypothesized.
Kotetsu nodded in agreement, "That's the most likely scenario we were warned about this by Naruto via Sand." He said, "So the next best thing to do is-" But Anko shove him aside and began to run heading for Konoha. "Anko wait!" he shouted and began to chase her.
Anko ran, her body low to the ground, 'Faster I need to be faster!' she pumped chakra through her legs increasing her movement speed. Izumo appeared in front of her his arms held out, she skidded to halt dust flying up. "What the hell man!? Don't you see all that smoke? We gotta get to Konoha and fast!" she said angrily.
But Kotetsu walked up to her threw his head back then slammed it against her's in a jarring headbutt. She staged back one hand on forehead to hide the swelling lump. "You need to calm down! And start using your fucking brain for once!" He shouted at her. She flared up at him but was quelled by his gaze, "Now look! If Angels and Demons are fighting in Konoha then we shouldn't be trying to fight them we should be rendezvousing with any survivors that we can possible find. From there we can get our orders on how to proceed next. Now I know that the emergency exits were being dug and they'd lead through the mountain to a forest to the right of the summit which means we should check their for survivors understood?" He said loudly.
Anko bared her teeth then lowered her lips and nodded, "Fine… we'll do things your way but you owe me!" she snapped and she walked off frustrated and annoyed. The other three followed her, hoping that there were survivors.
They approached the woods, and were barely in there for 3 minutes when a twig snapped, they stood alert. From above a blur emerged, and landed before them. It was an ANBU black ops but the mask was gone revealing a brown haired man with a bandage over his right eye. "There you are, I see you've seen the smoke and came running. Follow me I'll take you to where we've made camp." He said and he turned walking away they followed him to the survivors of this terrible tragedy.
-Lilith's perch-
Lilith watched Naruto with a inquisitive gaze, she noted his movements, his attacks, and deadly precision. She took all of this and crossed it with the original War. She crossed it with his original form, his strength's, weaknesses, and overall combat ability. She soon came to a conclusion, at his current state the boy was about 3% of War's full power, and in future he would be able to equal War if not surpass him… she smiled 'I'll be watching you for a long… long time.' She mentally promised.
She then heard a hiss from Sakura and she turned to the demoness, who was staring at something with narrowed disgusted eyes. "Who the fuck is that bitch?" She snarled and Lilith followed her gaze.
She saw a beautiful angel wearing light armor flying down wings open as she glided down, "Oh ho… Sariel huh? Well this should be most interesting." She said and she sat up slightly straighter grabbing her skull cup which refilled with the red liquid and took a sip, "interesting indeed." She purred.
-Naruto-
He ran down the broken roads, and burning buildings barely any of them left for him to remember to get to Ichiraku, but he knew where he was going. In his hands was the cannon which was bent in places and the muzzle smoking slightly, and on his back the axe was matted with black and red blood. His armored feet moved remembering the way to his favorite place in the whole world. His body was shining with sweat but his breath's were even and steady no sign of stress or wear in them. Despite fighting the various high-level angels and demons he had torn through them like a wolf through a chicken coop. Rage had fueled him, directed his movements, and focused the killer instinct that was hidden inside of him. He knew exactly where to hit, how hard, and with what weapon.
Naruto stopped, sliding slightly as he did. He could sense something, hanging in the air filled with an unquenchable malice and intent the killing kind. With a powerful push of his feet he slid to the right just in time to avoid the large spinning scythe that buried itself right where he had been. He turned as he slid to face his foe. A female angel with long silver hair wearing armor covering her chest, waist, lower legs, and upper arms floated. The armor was colored gun-metal with blue mix in. He knew this angel was not Uriel as the memory of his defeat at her hand was forever burned into his mind. However he knew that this wasn't just some run of the mill angel, she was powerful but how powerful he would have to find out the hard way. He tightened his grip on the cannon as the angel landed.
She smiled, a cold and nasty smile, "My, my, my. I'm impressed you managed to dodge that I guess you have some skill to you." Her voice low and mocking.
Naruto held up his weapon his thumb hovering over the charge button. "I could sense your killing intent quite clearly, in the world I used to be part of hiding your killing intent was the key to being a good shinobi. If you can't do that you might as well give up. So who the hell are you?" He demanded.
The angel tutted, "tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk… my oh my aren't you the impatient one. You talk as if you're in a position to dominate… but let me assure you that it's quite the other way around." She held up her hand and the scythe flew back into it. Now that Naruto could see it the scythe was elegantly and lavishly designed. With a white and gold handle and several glowing spheres on the blade it was a wonder to look at, but the large curved blade had a slightly hooked tip, which he surmised to be used to catch swords to rip out of an unsuspecting foes hand. The angel noticed his gaze, "Yes my scythe a fitting tool for an Angel of Death." Naruto didn't say anything but his mind raced with that single sentence.
He shifted his stance, 'Angel of Death? Like Azrael?' his wariness of the angel grew, he quickly ran through his options, he had the cannon and the axe, both he had grown quite proficient in using in the short time he had used them. The cannon he had been able to turn into a club if he wanted to, and the axe he could draw quite quickly much to the surprise of the ones he had fought before. However he felt those wouldn't work on this angel. A gut instinct telling him to keep his distance, it was one he would follow. "Don't underestimate me, I may have a few surprises!" he said and he pulled the trigger, blue energy bullets shooting out of the cannon and at her.
She avoided the blast by flying up and as she did something began to emit from her body and within seconds a hazy mist rose and her body was hidden from view. Naruto tensed as the mist began to cover the field of battle. "And you'd best not underestimate me imposter!" her voice echoed from everywhere. "You won't survive this I can guarantee it." Her voice faded against the mist. Naruto lowered the cannon and reached for the axe on his back with his left hand.
What Sariel didn't realize was that this precise situation Naruto had met 2 times before. Both had been from the same shinobi and he had learned how to cope in this situation. The main thing was not to panic, and once you were steadied to sense out the users' killing intent. He slowed his breathing, focusing his senses to find that desire to kill him. But the intent was everywhere all around him he could feel it, the desire to end his life. He slid his right foot slightly lowering his body almost sprawling. He dropped the cannon and the moment he did he heard the singing tones of a blade slicing air. He spun and swung the axe up just in time to send the scythe whirling up into the mist.
He turned to where it had gone only to feel a strong desire to duck, he did so just barely avoiding the kick at his skull. He pushed up with his shoulder to slam into her but she was already gone. 'Tch she's fast.' He noted, but he wasn't too worried yet, her pride was giving her away… for now. He knew when she realized this, her movements would be less noticeable. He would have to strike before she stopped playing around. He waited again moving just enough to keep his body revolving enough to not have his back stationary he knew that eventually she would ignore aiming for his back and would start aiming for other vantage points.
The sound of the scythe swinging sounded in his ear again and he ducked. However in his field of vision was a knee. He moved his right hand up and it caught the kick but it slammed the back of his hand into his head knocking him onto his back. He didn't even have time to respond to the pain as he rolled to the right to dodge the scythe slash. It slashed through the ground and was back up in an instant but even as he swung his leg in a low kick she was gone. He punched the ground with enough force to pop himself to his feet and felt his forehead. It was bleeding, a small cut created by the rivets in his gloved hand. The kick had been important as it had given him a clear view of her power.
He smiled, and got to his feet now knowing what he had to do. He inhaled deeply, "I'll end this fight in 7 blows!" and he tightened his grip on his axe and switched his stance. He was holding the axe with his large gauntleted hand very close to the ground and his legs were set shoulder width apart the right leg forward the left back. The middle and index finger of his right was gently touching the ground. He looked like a marathon runner at the starting line.
The angels voice sounded, "7 blows? How stupidly arrogant for a human to believe he can defeat me! Sariel the Angel of Death!" And she appeared above him her scythe raised to strike. She smirked as she was within swinging distance. Then a wall slammed into her upper body. She hit the ground once and slid, her vision blurred and her senses debilitated. The blow was such an intense one that it left her stunned. She heard the footsteps but even as she tried to stand her legs collapsed too dazed to move. Then it came the foot to her skull the metal grinding into her face sending her flying again, and this time she flew out of the mist and into a wall where she crashed through it and tumbled to the ground. She felt the stones falling on her.
She was bewildered, 'His power is enormous! These blows are strong! Too strong to be human! But how can that be!? WHY!? Why would a human be strong enough to challenge me!? It's impossible!' her anger surged through her, and her body began to glow. She flashed and the angelic energy obliterated the rock around her. She stood up only to see a blue ball of energy fly toward her and explode.
Naruto watched as the dust and smoke flew into the air, red flames licking the smoke before fading. He tossed the cannon to the side and brought his axe back up again. 'She should be plenty mad now… it will make her sloppy.' He calculated. He stared at the smoke, but noticed the mist that was surrounding him. 'Four more blows… and I'll finish this.' He steadied himself inhaling deeply his mind, body, and his soul calm.
Sariel hovered above him, her armor smoked and battered, her torso ravaged with small cuts, and her cheek now bleeding from a cut. Her face was set in a twisted fury. "You piece of human garbage!" She shouted, "You arrogant ape, you primeval, brainless, worthless little monkey! You think that just because you bear the name War it makes you hot shit!?" She shouted she held up her hand her scythe flying to it. "You say you'll beat me in 4 more hits!? Then let me offer you my prediction you uppity monkey! I'll kill you in 2 hits!" and she vanished from view not that the boy could see her anyway.
Naruto steadied himself ignoring the words focusing on listening, something sliced into his side and he looked down to see a fresh gash he pressed his hand against it as blood spurted out. He could smell his blood and knew it would draw in demons even the more cowardly ones. He had to end this fight now, but he hadn't heard anything when she had attacked and knew that the next one would take his head or his torso utterly. But just because he knew where she would attack didn't make it any easier. He looked around the mist waiting, his foot scarping against the dust and dirt. He paused then looked down, he then raised his large fist and punched the ground. Dust shot up and the earth cracked then split beneath him. There was a cry and he swung up instinctively. "Fucking-!" blood soaked the ground creating a red trail as the Angel of Death was attacked.
Sariel's body crashed into a pile of rubble, her leg cut off by the knee and her body buried under stone, wood and wiring. Blood spurted out from the leg as it twitched and convulsed wildly. Naruto stood as the mist cleared, "You know thing is about wearing less armor, you're not as slow as fully armored, but you lose defense against dismemberment." He said in a low tone. Had Uriel had been there she would've gotten chills as the tone and the words were hauntingly similar to what War would've said. He ran forward toward the rubble, but he was barely a foot from it when the rocks exploded flying toward Naruto. He held up the axe and the pieces of rubble bounced off his axe with various dings and plink, when he looked she was gone.
He didn't relax but noticed the mist hadn't appeared, 'is she too weak to use it now? Then again… when was I this strong.' All this time Naruto had been moving on adrenaline and instinct, thought had been pushed deep into his mind allowing him to fight uninterrupted but now it emerged. When he considered what he had done his strength and speed had grown, and in such a short amount of time as well. He looked at the axe, it wasn't small, and it definitely wasn't light he could feel it's weight even now but it felt so easy to use and swing, in fact it had been easier than his sword. 'I guess Ulthane does know what he's doing.' He heard the wing beats and he looked to see Sariel floating before him, one leg missing but the wound already closing up. Her face, which was normally beautiful and refined, was twisted into an ugly mask of fury.
She glared at him, her eyes blazing gold energy sparking around them, "You damnable human! Never before have I suffered such injustice and shame in my entire life! Me! Sariel the Angel of Death." She snarled.
Naruto wrapped his other hand around the hilt, "So far it's a title you are not worthy of." He said.
He face was crimson, "You!" She shouted and she rushed him swinging her scythe wildly. Naruto parried and dodged the blows, seeing each one come and knowing how to react against it. Sariel's strikes were wild, unprincipled and with now finesse or focus. She might as well been a child swinging her fists like propellers. He saw it and struck his axe swinging so quickly it was a blur. Sariel's eyes were wide as her right hand, and the lower part of her left arm flew off blood spurting out of both ends of the wounds.
Sariel fell forward Naruto standing aside to let her land, he watched her quietly as she hit the dirt, turning it red with her blood. Her hands twitching and convulsing trying to move with intent yet failing to do so utterly severed. He watched as she grunted and groaned, in his mind a voice spoke 'Hey take her scythe it should be a bit easier to use and a bit more deadly than this dulling axe.' the voice of the Kyuubi and Naruto turned to the scythe, it lay there shining and beautiful and just as deadly. He walked up to it, and knelt in front of it. He reached forward grabbing it and released it as he felt the scythe burn! He looked at his gauntleted hand which was slightly red with heat then it faded, 'Don't be afraid, don't let go!' the Kyuubi urged. He looked at the scythe then he steeled himself and grabbed it. The scythe burned him again but he held on grimly feeling the heat build in his hand running up his arm which began to glow white hot. He held on not relenting and as he did his eyes widened as he saw the scythe lose it's white color and start turning a orange-gold the blade changed hooking slightly at the tip. The blade emergence formed into the back of a fox head, and the metal shifted looking like a open mouth. The handle turned orange as well and curved slightly and the bottom extended forming a foxtail with a blade protruding out of it.
Then it was over, and in his hand was the former scythe of the Angel of Death now it belonged to War. He held up the scythe and as he did he dropped the axe and gripped it with his other hand. He hefted it feeling it's weight, and gave an experimental swing. It was a clean precise swing and yet the top had a weight that made it strong. "Unforgivable." He looked to see Sariel flapping her wings, "Utterly unforgivable! You take my leg, my hands, my pride and now my weapon!? You… insolent little wretch!" she snarled.
-Falling Babylon Command Room-
The angels watching were stunned, they had never thought that Sariel would've been beaten so badly none was more surprised that Uriel who had returned in the interim and saw the veritable beatdown that he had effectively and decisively delivered. Azrael stroked his chin, "He's grown quite powerful indeed… he could become a great threat in future…" He said.
Uriel nodded, "For once you've said something sensible I'll go down myself and deal with him." She said, she was already heading for the door when Azrael grabbed her shoulder.
She glared at him, "Go then but not to fight him there's a complication." He said and the two turned to the orb and Uriel paled at what she saw.
-Naruto-
Sariel flapped her wings keeping herself aloft, she glared at him angrily and he glared back his eyes burning blue light. "The fight's over… if you value your life return to where you came… and never come back… you invaded my home for your selfish desires!" he held up the scythe pointing it at her face, "Never forget that!" and he turned and went back down the road to head for Ichiraku. The furious scream made him spin and as he did he slashed, powerful, swift and precise, blood coated feathers floated in the air. Sariel hit the ground rolling grunting as a horrible crack sounded. Her body laid on the ground, blood spurting out where her left wing used to be coloring her body red, the wing lay on the ground away from her white and crimson.
Sariel stared wide-eyed at her wing then her face narrowed into a look of pure anger and hatred, "YOU BASTARD!" she shouted, "I'll never forgive you as long as you live! You senseless brute!" But already was the boy walking away her former scythe on his back while he held the axe in his large right hand. She looked around, her memory remembering that he had a cannon that he had discarded near the beginning of the fight. She found it, it was upright and, quite coincidentally aimed at his back. She knew what she had to do and using her mangled arms and legs began to crawl toward it. She glanced in his direction to see that he had stopped briefly and was examining a piece of rubble. 'That's right you little fuck take your time it'll be the end of you I'll guarantee it!' she reached the cannon and sitting up she set the cannon between her legs and placed her arm at the trigger. She pressed the trigger preparing a full power blast, when she looked up he was gone. "What the-!?" she cried out then she screamed in excruciating pain as a blade sunk into her back piercing through her flesh and armor and sinking right into her spine.
She gasped as she was effectively paralyzed, "And that makes seven." Said the voice of the reborn War. Within Sariel was born an eternal hatred, one that would last till the day her light was extinguished, from this day forward War; Naruto Uzumaki was her eternal enemy, she would never rest, she would never stop, and she would never compromise as long as it meant killing him. "Goodbye." He said and she heard the footsteps and saw him running past her utterly uncaring of her plight. Sariel in her rage didn't realize the severity of her situation, she was paralyzed, wingless, and defenseless she was easy prey for any demons that were bold enough to not run when the name war was sounded.
-Falling Babylon-
All was silent, "How could he cut the wing!? How could he have beaten her so thoroughly and easily?" Uriel said.
Azrael had his hand on his chin, 'I understand he is furious but to cripple her to such an extent… he'll need discipline to temper that edge… It seems I must educate him as well.' He realized, "Uriel get Sariel and when you do we must retreat… " He advised.
Uriel turned to him, "Retreat!? How can you suggest such a dishonorable action!?" She demanded.
The other Angel of Death looked at her coldly, "Our forces are demoralized, and those that aren't are just fighting meaningless brawls, all the possible humans we could save have been. We must withdraw and see to our troops." He said, "Unless you're willing to risk more losses for a personal vendetta?" there was silence, Nathaniel closed his eyes.
The large angel understood what Azrael was saying, if Uriel abandoned Sariel to go after the reborn War it would seem as though she was letting her personal feelings be put over her soldiers. Such an action would be reported to Metatron and she could possibly lose her command. Also it was quite clear that this reborn War was enough to fend off some of the stronger forces they possessed. Not the pinnacle of their strength mind but it would take more than the standard grunts to put a dent in him now. He looked back at the orb, and he spoke "You should hurry Uriel." He said, while he would love to go rescue Sariel mainly to put her in his debt, he couldn't take place in the battle especially since it was almost over. He had already been down on the field of battle anyway. In the orb crawler demons were approaching the cripplied angel.
-Sariel-
The broken angel of death glared at the various crawlers that hissed, with their malformed heads and their glowing yellow-orange eyes plus their hideously bulbous shoulders and their teeth that were overgrown so much that they were almost coated black by their own blood. In spite of her glare she felt a feeling she hadn't felt in over a thousand years… fear, pure terror. She was terrified that she would die, helpless, alone, while the rest of her kin fought or stayed safe in the clouded fortress. Her body shivered and the crawlers snarled seeing the slight motion. They moved closer and she could feel the heat of their bodies on her, and smelt their foul, and putrid breath. She closed her eyes, 'Dear father… please… help me…' she mentally prayed and then she heard the hiss and knew her time was up.
But nothing happened, then she heard more hissing and then a gurgling as something pierced flesh, then the sound of more hissing and the whirling of blades and wingbeats. Then there was a pause and she opened her eyes, she saw feathered wings, and her heart leaped. "Uriel!? You came for-" Sariel stopped when the figure turned and she saw, to her disgust the human hybrid! "You!? Why the hell did you come here?" she demanded.
Hinata looked at her, "to save your life." She said, it was then that Sariel noticed her weapons.
Her eyes widened, "Holy beads? But those can only be used by…" but Hinata had grabbed the cannon and lifting it with ease she tossed it to the side. She then grabbed Sariel and lifted her up. "Let me go!" she snarled.
Hinata didn't listen just opened her wings, crouched and rocketed into the sky. Her wings beating powerfully carrying her through the air at impressive speeds.
-Falling Babylon command room-
Uriel sighed, "Thank heaven." She said.
It was then that Gabriel came in worried, "Has anyone seen Hinata? I've been looking for her fo-" she began then stopped when she saw the orb. "That little-! What's been going on?" Azrael turned to his comrade.
He rubbed his chin then spoke, "Sariel went to fight the reborn war and lost horribly, Hinata managed to save her life before demons devoured her." He explained.
The green skinned angel frowned, "I told her to stay her mind is not balanced especially since she saw her father die before her eyes." Said the being.
Azrael looked surprise, "She did? Did it trigger her past memories?" he asked.
Gabriel frowned, "I'm not sure it might have but I can't be sure. If it did they seem to be memories she wouldn't want." The angel turned to the orb, then to the map, "How many of are forces remain?" Nathaniel walked forward.
He pointed at the display, "most of our soldiers have fled back to the Babylon, few have remained behind. Some are looking for Pazuzu who disappeared after Babylon arrived. And other's are still looking for any humans that remain." He said.
The green archangel rubbed it's chin pensively, "I'm assuming with War coming our forces got a bit scared?" Nathaniel gave a snort.
Uriel folded her arms over her chest, "It seems I underestimated this… War, he's very durable… and his power has grown significantly in the past few days." She admitted, "Still I don't think we should retreat yet, if I take out this war then we can-" Suddenly the room shuddered making the angels falter slightly.
It was then that the display turned red, Nathaniel turned to the sensor angels, "What was that?" He asked.
The angel turned to him, "A massive power surge, far stronger than anything shown today! It's coming from here!" The map focused on a point, and Azrael went to the orb and made a quick motion, the orb clouded then cleared and when it did all that saw stiffened with shock and horror at what they saw.
Uriel's face went white, "But… that should be impossible! It's-!" But she couldn't say the words as she looked at the giant being, it's body composed of red and black energy in both hands where massive swords also made of the same red and black energy, it's face was flat with a large jagged mouth and glowing red eyes. Waving behind it were four large tails that looked uncannily like fox tails. The being was panting energy radiating off of it, empowering it.
Azrael stroked his chin, "It seems that the boy has unlocked his chaos form." He said.
-Several Minutes Earlier-
Naruto ran down the road, the scythe bumping against his back. His mind was contemplating his actions, he had been rather cruel but when he thought about it she ultimately deserved it. Not only had she invaded his home but she had belittled him and that was something he despised. All his life he had been belittled, looked-over and hated for no real reason. He was sick of the behavior, and now his fury that he had squashed down for so long was finally being unleashed. "HELP! AHHHHH!" came the scream. Naruto turned and he began to run toward the scream, he saw a crawler dragging a girl off who was desperately scrabbling at the ground and rubble. Naruto instantly moved his feet thudding on the ground as he drew the scythe and jumped. He soared through the sky and came down like a brick his foot slamming into the crawler's back. It shrieked it's ruined mouth opening only for the quick slice to take off it's head. He stepped off it as the creature turned to ash. He then turned to the girl who whimpered and moaned crawling away from him.
Naruto started as he realized who it was, "Ayame? Ayame is that you?" He asked.
The girl stopped and she turned to look at him, "N-Naruto?" She asked hesitantly he pulled down his hood revealing his face. "OH thank kami it's you." She said, he was already kneeling down checking her. His eyes' fell on her leg and he stiffened, it was horribly mauled and mutilated. She probably wouldn't be able to walk unaided ever again. "Naruto you have to find my father! He's been hurt as well!" She said her voice desperate.
He nodded, "Alright," and he placed the scythe at his back and reaching underneath he scooped her up, she wrapped her arms around his neck as he carried her bridal style. "Do you remember where he was?" He asked, she nodded and pointed westward. The two set off, traversing the wreckage and eventually they came to a familiar yet unwelcome sight. It was the building that Naruto used to rent from, most of it was rubble but there was some of it still standing. He slowed as he came up to it, "Not even this place was safe." He said sadly. He walked forward look around.
Ayame lowered one hand to her mouth, "Father! Father are you here?" she shouted.
Naruto kept walking looking around his glowing blue eyes scanning then his gaze caught a blood trail. He paled and he walked forward following it. He knew what he was going to see and he dreaded the sight. He felt Ayame's grip tighten around his neck. He walked to a wall and set her down, "Stay here I'm gonna go look." She nodded as he sat her down. He stood up and followed the trail which lead to a wedged wooden door, he grabbed the wedged door and ripped it out. Behind was a pile of rubble and he kicked it down. Dust flew up blocking his view, he waited till the dust cleared and looked inside. He saw what he had been dreading he would see.
Lying against a wall, his body bloodied with wounds, of which included bite marks along his right arm and legs was Ichiraku owner of the local ramen shop. Naruto felt the world spin and he staggered slightly catching a wall and resting on it briefly to recover his senses. When he looked up again the world threatened to spin again. But he gritted his teeth and walked forward. Each step was painful and heavy, growing heavier with each step. He eventually made it and knelt down to the mangled body and lifted it up. He could smell the blood and the rotting flesh, hear the fly's buzzing around it, and felt, even through his armor, the cold lifeless limbs. He walked out and set the old mans body down. Ayame raised her hands to her mouth in horror and she shuffled so that she could touch her father's body. "Daddy…" she moaned, "Dad…" tears were falling from her eyes.
Naruto couldn't look, but he had to, even with the emotions flooding his body. He turned and once again saw the mangled body, the face was the only thing relatively blood free, minus the blood trickling out of his mouth. He got down to his knees and rested his left hand on the old mans chest. Memories began to flood his mind, of when he was young, and hungry no one wanted to give him a meal. He had come to the ramen shop, and the people inside had kicked him out. Later that night Ayame, came with a bowl of ramen. It was his first true meal and it cemented his love of ramen. He would come back many days afterward to eat and was grateful that the two treated him with love and respect they didn't shun him or give him angry glares. They treated him like a human being.
He blinked in surprise as he saw tears falling onto Ichiraku's body, his tears. He reached up to his eyes and caught a few, he looked at it, the tears glistened with an inner light and as he let it fall the light exploded out forming tiny rainbows. He smiled slightly, happy that he could feel enough sorrow to cry. He felt the ground rumble and a shadow fall on him. He heard a gurgling chuckle, and a voice spoke rough, as if he had destroyed his throat with cigarettes and alcohol. "So this is War? Our grunts are fools to run from this whimpering little baby. Crying over some old man, haw haw haw!" Naruto's body trembled, the anger that had been cooled by his sorrow began boiling inside of him again but hotter than ever.
He stood up, "What the fuck did you just say?" He snarled and he turned to the demon behind him. It stood several feet taller than him and it had one eye closed, dried blood on it's face.
The demon breathed, a hot wave passing over the boy, even as his eyes shone with a new level of brightness. "I said you that you are baby, not worth the title of War. You are still human weak to your emotions, and just as a much a slave to said emotions. That old man is nothing more than a pile of meat… and I am feeling quite hungry." Naruto's eyes blazed, and the anger exploded. He raised his giant left fist and swung it at the demon black and red energy covering it and he the punch slammed into it's face a loud cracking and crunching sounding as it hit and the demon was blown backward one leg raised as it skidded on the ground.
It eventually righted itself slamming it's other foot on the ground snarling but stopped when it saw the boy standing several feet away from him, one hand over his face red energy steaming out of his body. "You think my emotions a weakness? My sorrow? My rage!?" He lowered his hands to reveal his eyes were a bloody red, "Then let me show you! HOW WRONG YOU ARE!" and he charged the Trauma. "Raaaaaagh!" he jumped forward and raising his giant fist he punched the giant demon again, it struck back with it's own fist only for it to get pushed back bending awkwardly as it did. The demon roared and swung it's other fist only for Naruto to raise a hand and grab the giant fist.
The demon's single eye widened, as the boy landed and then grabbing the giant fist with his other hand he pulled and digging his foot in, he lifted the Trauma and sent it crashing into the ground. It grunted as it landed and made to stand only for a scythe to swing. It froze then it's head split in half and it fell back vanishing into ashes. Naruto stood panting, not out of exhaustion but out of anger, even with the demon dead the rage still filled him. Pain, anguish, loss, hatred, and rage… all of these feelings grew hotter and hotter. He gripped his chest dropping the scythe, his teeth clenched, memories flooding his mind. He raised his head, eyes closed, mouth open but no sound came out.
His mind was filled with pain, suffering and anger, not just from this moment, not from the flaming buildings and fallen bodies of his people, but from his entire life. Living alone, shunted to the side, despised, hated, belittled, mocked, persecuted, and mistreated by his fellows. The death of the Third Hokage a man who could've been family to him, then the death of Ichiraku who had treated him with such kindness and taught him what true kindness was and above all that was the hatred for himself for being utterly powerless to stop any of this from happening.
He opened his eyes, and gave a ghastly howl, red tears sliding from his eyes bursting on the ground as energy began to pour out from his body. The howl was filled with such an intense anguish and despair that any who heard of it would've shuddered at the raw emotion in it. The energy surged and he was engulfed in red light the light shot up into the sky a beacon of power that sent a shockwave out shaking the earth with the raw power and even blowing back the clouds that covered Falling Babylon. The light faded where it had been stood a giant being standing slightly taller than a Trauma. In both hands were two giant swords of crackling energy. His head was flattened with no definable features minus the slightly open jagged mouth, at the top were two long attachments that looks like the ears of the Kyuubi, and waving behind it were 4 large tails.
The being huffed out hot breaths of air as it stood, then it turned each step shaking the very ground and it turned to Ayame who stared at the giant being astonished. It lowered itself and one of it's tails reached out for her. She was frozen with fear and she closed her eyes but as the tail enveloped her she felt a gentle warmth wrap over her and she opened them, around her a ball of energy had formed red and black crackling. Then the tail raised and the being turned snarling. From above Angels and Demons were gathering, attracted to the power energy beacon that had shone and now looking at the monstrosity before them. It was familiar and alien, those that had seen it and survived remembered the absolute feel of terror that was flooding them now. While those that were seeing this the first time were readying themselves for a chance to test their mettle.
-Just outside of Konoha's Borders-
Neji jumped into a tree climbing up it rapidly, when he got to the top he casted his eyes toward his home, Konoha, what he saw made his heart stop. The entire village was burning. He activated the Byakugan enhancing his already above average vision. He clenched his free hand into a fist as he saw the bodies, burning buildings, and rubble. "I barely even begin to leave and already my home is torched and my people massacred!" However he let his anger calm and casted his gaze around, 'they were building the emergency exits not sure how that went but it's worth looking into.' But just as he was about to scan for the exits he heard a cry.
"Demons!" one of the hyuuga members shouted. He stopped and jumped down gracefully pushing just enough from the branches to avoid any tangling. He landed on the ground and saw 4 demons with humanoid bodies snarling at them.
Neji was in command the moment he landed, "Do not worry, we are the Hyuuga and we will not submit to them!" despite this he didn't know what to do against a demon. He had a strong suspicion to not hold back. He was about to move when a Hyuuga charged howling a fierce battlecry he slammed a palm into the demon and it staggered back slightly. However the demon grabbed the ninja's head and with quick jerk it snapped his neck. It laughed then threw the body behind where another demon grabbed it only for another to grab the body, as the two fought the other demon walked to the first one burying his axe into the ground and cracking his knuckles. Neji analyzed the situation, 'So our techniques won't work which means we'll need brute force. Or rather explosive force.' He reached into his ninja pouch at his waist and pulled out several slips of paper bomb, he held them up and spread them like a fan.
The demons laughed, "Look fellows this one is gonna paper cut us to death!" And they began to guffaw. Neji moved like lightning he charged at them and placed 3 bombs on the first ones leg, torso and neck, 2 at the second ones waist and back, and two on each of the fighting demons head. He jumped into a single flip and landed. The demons blinked as they heard the paper start to hiss then exploded blowing chunks out of their bodies. They fell dead parts of their bodies missing as they turned to ash. Neji sighed then he turned t the fallen Hyuuga who had been ripped in half by the explosion. He closed his eyes regretting his lack of courtesy to his dead clansmen but it had to be done. The other clan members approached.
One of the older members bowed his head respectfully, "What should we do Neji?" He asked.
The Hyuuga looked in the direction of his former home, he inhaled deeply, "There's nothing we can do for our home. We have a job to do which is finding Lady Hinata and we'll do it with the pride of our clan on our shoulders." He said. With that he turned away and walked forward without looking back again.
-Lilith's perch-
Lilith had her hand held up, a sphere of purple energy forming around her and Sakura. She lowered it down and stood to look at the source of the shockwave better. The boy had achieved the ever powerful Chaos form, the power he had released had been far greater than she had ever seen her son let out. That being said if compared to the previous War's chaos form at full power it fell short but again if one looked at his power now it was a huge step in the right direction. Sakura sighed as she licked her fingers of the juices having orgasmed not but moments when the shockwave had came, "Mmmm tasty…" she said she then looked back at Naruto. "Oooooh when did he do that?" She asked.
Lilith smiled, "That is the Chaos form… it is War's most powerful form." She said.
The young demoness sucked on her middle finger and it came out with a loud pop, "I thought it looked much different than that. Based on the memories that are in my mind it looks quite different, in fact it looks a lot like the Kyuubi." She pointed out.
The older seductress rubbed her chin her face thoughtful. "The Chaos form is based what the person perceives as chaotic. So if this Kyuubi is his idea of chaotic then his form will reflect that." She explained, but she was troubled somewhat the name Kyuubi was familiar. But she couldn't place it.
-Emergency Exits-
The pillar of light and the shockwave that followed caught the attention of the last few people to exit. It was down to Kakashi, and a handful of Shinobi. Kakashi himself had taken quite a beating, the demons and angels had proven to be tough opponents. That being said his skill had allowed him to kill three angels and five demons. But each battle had worn him down considerably far more than the war he had fought so long ago. But this wasn't the typical war where both sides were even, well the sides fighting each other were. The humans were merely caught in the crossfire.
A ninja walked up to him, "That light… what could have been? It felt so… angry." Said the shinobi.
Kakashi looked at the ninja with both of his eyes, "Or it could be a beacon for help. I won't ask for anybody to come with me but I'm gonna go and see if there are any survivors." He said and with that he began to run, 4 more shinobi right behind him.
-Falling Babylon-
Uriel banged a fist on the display making it fizzle, "HOW!? How could he have access to that form!? He's nothing more than a sham!" She shouted.
Nathaniel turned his head to her, "Apparently not, he is War now through and through." He said.
Gabriel looked worried, "We definitely should withdraw now, the power he's emitting is staggering, not even Falling Babylon will be safe should he turn his gaze to here." This was met with a murmur of ascent. Uriel was about to say something when the orb showed something that would make her change her mind utterly.
-Naruto-
Naruto glared at the angels, power filled his every being, a wrathful and chaotic power the shield he had erected around Ayame was the last of the kindness he had in this form it would protect till he finished his hateful business. Winged demons, heavily armored angels wielding cannons, Trauma's, and shadow generals surrounded him. He growled at them all, the air tense with the situation. Then a Trauma roared, and the Chaos being charged toward it each step causing the rubble to visibly jump. It raised one giant sword and slashed the Trauma raising a hand to grab the blade. It snarled as the blade burned into it's skin. It looked into the face of Chaos Naruto smirking only for the smirk to slide off as the second blade stabbed into it's chest. Everything was still then another Trauma broke it by raising a fist to attack. The Chaos being turned dragging it's sword as it did slicing off the stricken Trauma to block the punch then respond with a slash at it's chest the blade slicing it open.
The Trauma staggered back as Naruto spun the tails slamming into it causing it to fall to the ground hard. Already he was attack another one of the giant demons even as the angels held up their cannons charging up for a full powered barrage. He stabbed both swords into another hulking Trauma and head butted it hard. Blood erupted as it's face partially caved in, then it roared as he lifted it up using his blades. The cannons fired multiple beams of blue light flying toward him. But the beams met the demons flesh and it was peppered by the energy and then it exploded bloody chunks raining everywhere that quickly turned into ash.
The angels were surprised by the action suddenly a sword was thrown at one and it slammed into the angel piercing the entire body and causing it to fade into light. A winged demon flew to the blade reaching out to grab it but the blade vanished. Down below another blade formed in Chaos Naruto's hand, he gripped it tightly and turned slicing at another Trauma that charged him, slashing off it's hands then raising the blades and reversing the grip he stabbed into it's skull with one sword and into it's ribs with the other.
He turned and bodily launched the dying body into the air. An angel screamed as it knocked him out of the air. The other angels began to fire at the transformed Nephilim. Naruto's tails raised up and began to whip wildly the blue energy blasts were knocked aside a few back into the air forcing the angels to dodge. "He's becoming more proficient with his power the longer he's in it!" An angel shouted.
Chaos Naruto was already attacking other Trauma's and Shadow Generals slicing, punching, and stomping through them. It was a chaotic whirl of blades and blood. The angels looked at each other knowing they would die but knowing they had to try nonetheless. They threw their cannons and summoned forth their large single edged greatswords their thruster packs flaring. They charged forward their blades pointed toward the back of the great slashing beast. Naruto turned and as he did he slashed with his giant sword, the angels existence was wiped out in an instant.
By this time even the Demons were starting to retreat, the power of War too great for them. They were dying blindly and as much as they hated to run away, they loved their rotten lives far more to care about the disgrace of retreat. Though some wanted a last minute snack before leaving as they doubled around to the girl that lay behind the chaotic being.
-Falling Babylon-
Uriel shook with fury and disgust but she knew she had to do it. "Order a full retreat." She said, looking at the orb with her golden eyes she saw as the Chaos beast roared and she heard the roar through the walls. 'I should've killed him…' she clenched her hand into a fist, 'now I could well be responsible the loss of our campaign against hell.' She realized.
Azrael waved his hand and the orb vanished, he turned floating away, Nathaniel stepped forward, "Where are you going?" He asked.
The Angel of Death looked at his comrade, "To check on Sariel." He said simply "She is an Angel of Death." He reminded.
The armored angel smiled, "Yet she is far weaker than you." He said, "Always has been." He pointed out.
Azrael just looked away, "I don't care about power all living beings that can prove their worth deserve to live and she has done so." With that said he floated away.
-Konoha-
Michael thrusted a spear into a demon, as it faded to ash he turned his gaze to where the powerful energy had emerged from. He was tempted to go and meet whatever it was but his duty was to protect not attack. He looked around, though any chance of finding anymore humans was slim. Most of them had already been taken by angels or demons and what few that managed to not get captured escaped to who knows where. A brilliant glow emerged from behind and he turned to see an angel fly through, "Lord Michael, I have orders for a full retreat… these orders are from Uriel herself." Said the angel, it wore brilliant golden armor that was smoothed down to allow speed.
Michael narrowed his eyes but didn't refuse, he turned to whatever guardian angels he still had remaining, "Men fall back to Babylon!" He shouted and the angels nodded and flew toward the gate the messenger angel standing aside. Michael checked briefly to make sure they were all accounted for when he was done he flew into the door. The golden angel also flew in and the door closed and vanished.
Pazuzu walked out of a building he had shrunk down to prevent the angels from finding him. He was a strong demon but to take on Michael was beyond him. However the powerful energy had interested him greatly. He was eager to see if it would be the fight he had been searching for. He began to grow to his giant size a slight smirk lighting on his muzzle.
-Hell-
Belial chomped noisily on the remains of a human being. Inside his personal chambers he had fled the field of battle the moment the angels began to move in. But he had planted a spy beast that would respond to his commands alone to watch on the proceedings. "Hmph if it weren't for those angels I could've gotten more than this damnable appetizer." He mumbled around the rib cage.
Sasuke was in a corner practicing combining his flames with his lightning. While he occasionally looked at the screen he ultimately wasn't interested in that village anymore. All he wanted to do was to get stronger to stand up to any angel, or any demon. "What in hell!?" he turned and saw the screen fizzle and the view vibrate violently. The screen went black for several seconds then reappeared fuzzy and distorted. The view shifted and showed a being made of black and red energy, as large as a Trauma and radiating such power the view fizzled violently. "Return to me at once!" Belial shouted the view dimmed. "War… he is alive! That is undoubtedly his Chaos form!" he snarled.
Sasuke was intrigued, "War?" He asked.
The demon turned to his former human pet, "Yes one of the Four Horseman. They were incredibly powerful the armies of heaven and hell trembled before their might… at least till they were killed… but it seems that War was reborn with a native from this planet… It was rumored that Uriel had killed him evidence suggests otherwise. He'll become a powerful enemy if he is not killed far stronger than even the strongest of us demons." Sasuke turned his gaze to the view screen it had been frozen on one image, of the giant made of energy.
Sasuke's eyes narrowed, 'The strongest huh? Then I'll have to surpass even that… if I'm going to have no equal.' And his mind wandered to the demon Samael… and he knew what he had to do or rather who he had to see.
-Ayame-
Ayame cried out as the demons punched and slashed at the shield but it rebounded all their attacks. However with each rebound the shield grew smaller and smaller, she shuddered as the demons hissed and snarled at her gnashing their horrible teeth and saliva flying from their rabid lips. She hung to her father's body tightly, "Help me…" She sobbed quietly.
Kakashi and the other's could see from the height of their jump the demons assaulting a red energy ball. His eyes could see a person in it, and he held up his hand giving a quick series of signals. The other's understood and began making handsigns for a jutsu. But no sooner had they landed when something red flashed in front of them and the demons froze then turned into ash. A deep growl sounded and they turned to see a being made of red and black energy staring at them. They were shocked as the being greatly resembled the Kyuubi.
Kakashi stepped forward, "Naruto? Is that you?" The being focused on Kakashi and it gave a slight growl, the ground shook, and Kakashi looked down to see pebbles bouncing and clattering on the ground. He then looked up and saw a giant being, as big as a Akimichi giant, if not bigger, the being was covered in fur, had large wings with feathers shaped roughly like a butterflies with a crest on the top of it's head.
The giant creature looked at the energy creature, "So this is the reincarnation of War, I must say for you to achieve the Chaos form is unexpected and pleasing though in the question is are you in control or is your anger controlling you?" The energy being snarled and then it turned to face the giant fully and it roared, "I see… well then, let's begin your destruction." And it held up a hand an suddenly the sky darkened. Suddenly from above a tornado descended down.
Kakashi went to the shield and he reached out a hand, "Don't touch it!" he paused as Ayame looked at him, "Don't touch it! It might hurt you!" She shouted.
The older ninja paused then continued, "Maybe but I have to try," and he reached out and touched the energy shield, it was hot to the touch but it didn't repel his hand, he kept pushing and it let him in. Ayame stared at him aghast, then she gripped her father tightly. He kept pushing till he was inside he looked at her then at her arms and legs then at her father. "Ah I see now," he placed a hand on her shoulder, "I promise to have him buried along with all that we could take of the dead." He said, she gave a weak sob. It was then that the shield crackled and fizzled out they turned to hear roaring and saw Naruto charging at the giant being heedless of the tornado and slashing at the giants legs who stepped back chuckling.
Pazuzu was amused, the boy was acting on rage, and while the Chaos form is the manifestation of his inner anger and chaos it was something that had be controlled not just used. He had seen the original War in his chaos form, it was a deadly hurricane of destruction but a controlled one, purposely targeting certain targets to cripple his foes. This thing was just pure rage no conscious thought… 'but if that was the case why didn't he attack those humans?' unfortunately for Pazuzu he realized too late that Naruto was totally in control, as Naruto threw one sword at his knee the blade penetrating his flesh and fur causing blood to spurt out. He cried out as he went to grab his knee only to raise his hand in time as the Chaos being jumped and with it's sword raised stabbed the knee. Pazuzu kicked but Naruto hung on with his swords
As the two fought Kakashi and the other's were running away from the scene Ayame on his back while her father was carried by another as they jumped over the rubble Kakashi looked back at the two. Naruto was stabbing the giant's leg with one giant sword while the giant demon kicked and twisted his leg. 'Naruto… what has happened to you?' he wondered before focusing on his duty and moving out of range.
Naruto himself was gouging and carving Pazuzu's leg, the giant demon tried to kick and shake him off but the Chaos being was too determined to slice of his leg. Realizing he couldn't save his leg he decided to destroy it along with the meddlesome Nephilim. He held up his hand green wind swirling in it and he pushed it forward the winds swirled toward Naruto a tornado of green winds slamming into the reborn War. He and the leg were engulfed in the tornado the demon wincing as it's leg was torn apart. When the wind stopped both the leg and Chaos Naruto were gone. "Hmph I overestimated him." He said, the demon was about to turned when he gave a cry as a blade stabbed into his back! "Impossible!" he shouted.
Climbing up his back by stabbing into his flesh was the reborn Nephilim. 'How the hell did he survive!?' he mentally cursed.
-Several Seconds earlier-
Naruto could sense the wind coming toward him and his body reacted before his mind did. Pulling out his blades he curled into a ball, the blades vanishing, his tails extending and wrapping around his body several times. They then locked together and the tornado slammed into him. He was jolted by the blow but remained in his position, when the jolting stopped he paused for about 20 seconds then uncurled his tails vanishing then reappearing behind him. He turned to see the giant demon flying away utterly not noticing him, he held up his hands and his giant blades appeared. He then jumped up and stabbed into the demon's back. Even as the demon screamed he realized that he needed to cut off the head and with that in mind he began to climb up the back.
Pazuzu was infuriated, mainly with himself he hadn't expected that the reborn war could even defend from that attack nor did he imagine that would outmaneuver him so effectively. 'He's more dangerous than I realized!' and with that the giant jumped up then fell back down back first!
Naruto growled and braced his body as the giant slammed into the ground. The landing caused the very earth to shake violently and cracks erupted from the impact zone destroying the surrounding area as the earth split and began to fall. Any buildings that were standing were ripped apart and sent collapsing along with the earth.
-Kakashi-
Kakashi could feel the earth tremble and he stumbled slightly but he never slackened his grip on Ayame. He was steadied by a fellow shinobi. "What was that?" he said aloud.
The ninja shrugged, "I dunno perhaps all the damage, from the attacks has messed with the ground enough that it's starting to collapse." He suggested.
The silver haired ninja looked at the rubble around him then he sighed, "We'll never be able to call this place home again…" He said softly. Ayame gripped him tightly, he understood why, she had grown up her much like he did. To say that they could never call this place home was a huge blow, it meant that everything he had fought for, both in the past and now was meaningless. But that didn't mean that hope was lost… like the leaf they would drift about till they found a land they could call home. He turned to the ninjas. "Alright get the paper bombs ready to blow we're collapsing the tunnel as planned." He said they all nodded and jumped to the rim of the entrance and planted large pieces of paper bombs around the rim. Kakashi ran inside and he lowered Ayame briefly to put down one paper bomb, the bombs were just far enough to explode simultaneously.
When the other shinobi gave thumbs up he nodded and bent down, "Grab my back." He said and Ayame did so he pushed up and made sure she was comfortable and grabbing onto him, he knelt down again pausing as he held his hand over the paper bomb. He looked up one last time, seeing the burning village, he lowered his head band over the sharingan eye he had, "Goodbye Konoha…" he said then he touched the paper bomb sending chakra into it. The paper began to burn hissing as it did, he turned and began to run the other ninja behind him already pulling out more paper bombs to collapse the other tunnels. The first tunnel exploded sending rocks cascading down, and within minutes the other tunnels followed suit.
With that the last remnants of Konoha fled their broken home to live another day.
-Pazuzu-
Pazuzu pushed himself back up, but growled as he felt another stab into his back. He jumped again this time aiming for some rocks that had rose up like needles from the first shaking. He came down like a meteor but when his back got close to the ground his body came to a screeching halt.
Chaos Naruto had intervened, by using his powerful legs and tails to stop himself from being impaled it had been a challenge lifting up the enormous demon but the rage of seeing his home destroyed even further had spurred his already considerable strength to a further plane of power. Roaring loudly he pushed and flipped Pazuzu onto his front slamming him into some of the spiked ground and using the body he began to run up the body dragging his sword along the skin as he went.
But the giant demon wouldn't take this lying down, quite literally in fact. He grabbed a spire and pushed himself up and then opening his wings he took off high into the air. The sudden change of direction caused the chaos entity to slide back down but only by digging his feet in did he stop himself halfway from where he had started. However even with his body held still the turbulence buffeted him. He had to get a strong hold, it then came to him what he needed. His tails raised up and the ends bulged then erupted into hands. With his 4 new hands he sunk each one into Pazuzu's back and began to climb the giant at a rapid pace.
Pazuzu jerked as he felt the burning chaos energy eating at his skin through his fur. He twisted his body then spun rapidly, so quickly it created powerful gusts of wind around him. However the reborn War held tight his tails anchoring him, and he continued his climb quickly reaching the giant's shoulder's but as he did he heard the wings beat and turned to face one then the other. Then the idea formed in his head. He raised a foot and stomped down hard causing the demon to fall briefly. He withdrew his swords his tails thickening with energy becoming larger as he let himself be taken in the spiral.
Pazuzu felt the hands still digging into his flesh but the weight of the boy was gone. He stopped spinning and turned his head. He could see the arms trailing out and he saw Chaos Naruto trailing out quite far away. Pazuzu narrowed his yellow eyes, 'What is he trying to do?' he righted himself 'Considering how far out he is I can send him straight through that mountain and dislodge him!' with that in mind Pazuzu began to head for the Hokage Summit. It was then that he felt the hands tighten and he winced he raised his head and gave a cry of alarm as the chaos being flew toward him like a bullet and slammed down with all the force the of a boulder dropped 200 miles in the air. Pazuzu was pushed into the ground his face first grinding then being full submerged under the ground his body creating a giant slash in the ground, a trench forming behind him.
Naruto, using his tail hands, ran up the body and then reached for each wing. He grabbed them hard, and he jumped into the air. He landed just outside of the slashing trench, and dug his feet in and also slammed his hands in and pulled. The wings bent horribly, cracking as they did just barely tearing from the flesh that was holding them. He pulled harder snarling as he did the energy around his body flaring as his gaze fell on the trench, true he had committed this act but it still burned him to see his town destroyed even further. He would only admit his guilt after this was over. He pulled even harder roaring as he did the waves shaking any building that was even trying to stand. The wings pulled back, he raised a foot and stomped it forward and pushed forward. Pazuzu's body was raised from the dirt as the wings strained then with a sickening ripping they tore right off. The demon's muzzle opened in a bloodcurdling scream, as blood spurted out of his back like black fountains.
His scream was drowned out by a roar as Chaos Naruto held up the bloodied wings his tails glowing as they began to absorb the wings into his own body.
-Falling Babylon-
All those that watched were ghastly white, such brutality, and ferocity could only be matched by one being and it became clear that the former human was that being through and through. Uriel shook with fear, "R-Retreat… order a full on retreat! We are leaving! Tell all the scouts and seekers to return at once! We're returning to Heaven… Double time…" Her voice was inconsistent the terror that was causing her heart to thump madly filling her every being as she stepped back.
Nathaniel was silent but pale, 'That boy… he'll be a great threat to us in future… but in his current state I don't think even I would be able to kill him… I'll just have to take care of him another time.' The bulky angel resolved.
-Konoha-
Samael stood on one of the walls that had protected the village his was rubbing his boney chin. "His power is even greater than I imagined," He said as he watched the chaos creature roar, "In time he should measure up to how War was… perhaps even greater than the original War. I will have to keep an eye on him." And the demon snapped his fingers a hole appearing underneath him. He sunk into the hole chuckling as he did.
-The Top of the Hokage Summit-
Ulthane watched as Pazuzu's body disintegrated, turning into ash that was blown away. He then raised his gaze to Naruto who had fully absorbed the wings and was now huffing as he walked around swords out, looking for any angel or demon remaining. The old Maker could see that the boy had the potential, the potential to be War and greater… however no one was there to mold him into War. No one… but him, and if he did he could create a threat that could possibly kill even him. He gave a slight 'hmph' at that, 'I think I can undo the damage I have done with this boy.' he realized and he went to get everything ready for the training.
And so the next chapter comes, One more chapter and after that I'll be putting this story on a 5 month hiatus to work on other stories. Don't get me wrong I love this story it's one of my top 5 but I got other stories to work and this one just ate up a lot of my time. I hope you enjoyed this story.