The Fateful XIII

Chapter 9

The Lord of Demons Unleashed

Disclaimer: I think you guys know by now that I don't own much on this page. All you need to know is that Roxas, Hikari and the bad dude are with me.

Alright guys, this chapter is pretty much the best one so far, so take it in while it lasts! This is where every ounce of action you missed out on in the beginning is made up for! This chapter is non-stop action-packed extremely violent fighting from beginning to end! Who will win; The Lord of Demons, or the Mystery Combatant? Who knows, read and find out!

(A/N: I would recommend playing some super action-packed fight music, it'll help the mood.)

Naruto smirked and leaped off the tree and performed a hand-sign. "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" he shouted as seven clones poofed into existence.

The seven clones plus the real Naruto surrounded the stranger and charged him from all directions. He just laughed a little to himself as he dodged every single strike with ease. He didn't even need his arms, as they were folded behind his back. Kicks and punches and counterattacks all meant nothing in the long run, all Naruto was doing was wearing himself out. Seeing that the clones weren't helping, he dispelled them and jumped back.

'Damn it, this guy's fast! If I'm gonna deal some damage I've got to step it up! What do I do, what do I do!' he thought frantically.

His opponent could practically feel his nervousness. "What's the matter Mr. Uzumaki, tuckered out already?" he taunted.

He just smirked back. "Not a chance, there's no way your that lucky!"

He laughed in response. "I admire your spirit Mr. Uzumaki; this will most definitely be an amusing game."

"Heh, a game I plan on winning!" he shouted as he charged forward with two kunai in one hand and four Shuriken in the other.

He threw the two kunai first, followed by the four shuriken behind them. The stranger easily kicked the two kunai aside, and blasted the four shuriken away with a small burst of dark energy. Through the smoke of the explosions, two more kunai came flying at him, then poofed in the familiar pinkish smoke, transforming into two more clones.

As they flew at him, they formed a swirling, glowing, orb of energy between them. It looked quite similar to the last technique that Jiraiya had used on him, but on a larger scale.

'Hm, let's see what this technique can do.'

They thrust the ball forward. "Take this! Odama Rasengan!"

At the same time, the stranger brought up a hand to block the attack and test its power. The first few seconds didn't seem to be making any impact at all, but eventually he began to struggle a bit against the force of the ball of chakra. Honestly, this surprised both party's.

When the jutsu finally wore off, both clones poofed out of existence and the dust began to clear. He looked around and Naruto was gone, and he was alone for the moment, except of course for a disarmed Roxas and a preoccupied Hikari. He could sense the blond coming at him from above, but decided to humor him and let him think he was ambushing him.

"Yoo-hoo, up here ya bastard!" called out the shinobi.

'I think it's time I moved this game to the next level.' The stranger thought to himself.

He looked up to see the blond shinobi with a standard Rasengan in his right hand. Right before his orb was able to make contact; the stranger shoved his left hand straight into the orb and blew it apart. Then pulled him down and slammed him into the ground, effectively pinning him with his foot. Naruto struggled to get free, but he couldn't break the grip.

"I sensed it," he said, leaning over him slightly.

"Sensed…what?" he grunted.

His mouth curved into a grin. "I sensed that wonderfully murderous darkness within you; a separate entity from yourself that lusts for death and feeds on dismay. I must apologize Mr. Uzumaki, but I feel that this game will be much more enjoyable if I were to play against someone with a similar motive for combat. I hope you understand."

With that, he plunged his free palm over the seal on Naruto's stomach, using dark fire to burn away the fabric of his jacket and shirt. Just the contact with the seal was enough for him to sense the marauding darkness thrashing inside, just waiting for a chance to escape. He was going to give it what it wanted.

Naruto's stomach was overcome with darkness as his hand literally plunged into the seal. The blond could feel the prison weakening, the bars disintegrating inside of him, the fox making its move on his desperate state. His eyes had already turned red, his nails sharpened, and the red shroud was forming. After just a second one tail had formed, then two tails, then the third.

The fourth tail was about to overtake him when the surge suddenly stopped. He looked up long enough to see that the man above him had been struck by something, and was pulling his had out of the seal. While his opponent's attention was on whoever it was that had distracted him in the first place, he took a foot hold on his tailed form.

When he was sure he could hold onto the demon chakra, he shot up and was on the stranger before he could even react. He landed a solid punch on the strangers jaw, and blew him back into a row of trees until he landed a good half mile away from where he was attacked. With the aid of his demon speed, Naruto was right behind him the entire way, and pounced on top of him and unleashed a flurry of punches.

After three seconds, and about sixty punches later, Naruto was blown into the air by a shockwave. His hooded opponent appeared in front of him and delivered a two handed slam to his forehead, driving him straight into the ground. The impact caused a plume of dirt to shoot into the air.

Immediately after, Naruto launched himself back into the air, a demon red Rasengan in hand and screaming in rage like crazy. When the Rasengan and a darkness enhanced fist collided, the sky lit up in a red and purple explosion, creating a darkening effect in the forest for miles. When the light returned, Naruto was already being drilled right back into the ground, and was being beaten down in a second crater. With one last heavy punch, Naruto was unconscious and his red shroud dissipated, and the hooded figure calmly walked away.

(A/N: I'm rewinding the time for a second to the point where Naruto is just about to start the second part of his fight in his three tailed form. Just to give you Hikari and Roxas' point of view)

"…and then he punched out Jiraiya, and that's when you showed up!" finished Roxas. He'd been explaining what had happened right up to the point where Hikari and Naruto had shown up to bail him out.

Then they heard a grunt and their attacker speaking to Naruto. The two had been going one on one for about two minutes now and it looked like Naruto was pretty much pinned. They were talking about something then suddenly the figures hand, from the looks of it, went inside Naruto's stomach, which made both their stomachs lurch.

"Hikari, do something!" Roxas shouted.

"Like what?" she retorted.

"Ugh, give me that!" he growled in frustration as he wrenched the Threshold of Light out of her hands.

He whipped it back at threw it like a buzz-saw. It cut through the air and nailed its target right in the jaw, knocking him off balance just enough to cause him to pull has hand out of Naruto's gut. Then Roxas and Hikari just watched in awe as Naruto proceeded to punch out the guy that Roxas couldn't even manage to land a blow on. Soon both of them were gone, but the battle could be heard like it was right next to the two of them.

Then an explosion erupted in the air that eclipsed the sun and darkened everything around them, it was amazing and frightening at the same time.

"Should we help him?" asked Hikari.

"Nah, I think at this point we'd just be getting in the way," he said as he listened intently to the battle raging in this distance.

(A/N: we're back in regular time now right after Naruto got knocked unconscious.)

All was oddly quiet around the crater where the blond shinobi lay unconscious; of course, things were anything but quiet inside Naruto's mind.

(Naruto's inner world)

The stinky sewers that made up Naruto's mind winded in front of him as he calmly walked to the source of all the red chakra; the fox's chamber. For most people it would be a foreboding sensation to be surrounded by such an aura of malice, but after entering his inner world dozens of times, it was business as usual for him. He wasn't so much afraid of the fox or his chakra, just what he might end up doing while under its influence. That was one of the reasons why he was probably going to hate himself in the morning for doing what he was about to do.

The fox's chamber was the largest room in his inner world; that he'd seen anyway, he never really like to spend more time in here than he had to. It was bare for the most part, but it was hard to miss the massive prison cell with the glowing red eyes behind the bars. Closing in on the bars, he could start to see his sharp, white, teeth.

"Back again, eh kit," he said in his demonic tone.

"Shut it fuzz-ball, I'm not here because I want to be, I'm here because…well…I sorta need your…help," he mumbled the last part of the sentence with an annoyed pout on his face. Of course with that super fox hearing, he heard the plea and laughed triumphantly.

"I knew you couldn't resist kit."

"Shut up, like I said, I'm only here because I can't even touch this guy on my own, and frankly even the three tails didn't help all that much," he spat back.

"I know; this man, whoever he is, has powers not of this world. I suspect that at maximum capacity, he is even slightly more powerful than if you were using four tails."

"Then how am I supposed to beat him?" he shouted in frustration.

"Easy; he's overconfident and his guard is down, and using four tails, you still have a good chance of victory."

"No way, I'm not using four tails! It cuts at my life span and on top of that, you take control of my body! No way, no how!" he yelled as he backed away a few steps.

The fox's grin grew bigger and the silhouette of one of his paws being raised could be seen in the darkness of his cell.

"Too late kit, I don't take to defeat kindly. If you can't defeat him, then I'll just kill him myself," he said as the red chakra enveloped the blond.

"Ready or not, here I come."

As the hooded figure walked away from the crater, he felt the air suddenly get heavier and darker. There was a sickening taste of bloodlust in the breeze, and it was emanating from the crater. The trees around him started to wilt and die, and the grass became a dark brown. Next the ground began to quake, and cracks began to form all around him. He slowly turned to the crater, awaiting his opponent's imminent return.

In an instant, a column of blood red demonic energy sprang up from the crater and turned the entire forest red for as far as anyone could see. The wind whipped in all directions and began uprooting the surrounding trees. Meanwhile, he just stood there with a growing smirk; this was what he was waiting for.

As the energy and the wind died down, the clouds of dirt and dead leaves obscured everything within the crater. Then out of nowhere a blood red hand shot out of the cloud and wrapped its finger around his entire body. It extended to the length of over half a mile, smashing him through trees all the way along. Then it whipped right, leveling the foliage and smashing him into tree after tree. This continued until they had gone in a complete circle, then he was thrown up into the air.

Following him up was a new figure. It was a mixture of black and blood red skin, long pointed ears, and glowing white eyes; it was truly an intimidating sight. It twirled horizontally and brought another extended hand down, slamming him back down into the ground. The hand stayed there and pinned him to the ground, and he couldn't see anything past more flying dirt.

Through the plume he heard what sounded like a muffled explosion; then the sound suddenly got much louder… much, much louder. Suddenly the entirety of the dust was blown aside by a huge beam-like blast that was speeding towards him at extremely high velocity. Time seemed to slow down as it closed in on him; it was like watching the sun slowly come crashing down. It grew brighter and brighter until everything was just white all around him.

Meanwhile, in the air; Naruto's four tailed state, with his body currently being controlled by the fox, was slowly drifting to the ground after a successful Strong Ball attack. The blast radius had reached to almost a quarter of a mile, and as far as he could see or smell or even hear, there was no trace of the man left at all. Still, a closer investigation would be prudent.

Mentally whipping away the dust and dirt, the newest crater was completely devoid of activity. Nothing moved except for the few wisps of dust left, and the dying leaves in the wind. It was almost too motionless for him to have been destroyed; there should have been some remains. A tattered piece of cloth, a charred appendage, there just had to be something.

Then he heard it. "You never do cease to amaze Mr. Uzumaki. Every time I think I have you, you come back with something better; this has been a very entertaining game. A game, I am sorry to say, must now come to and end."

There he was; the hooded figure that had been putting his host to shame. Examining him further, he noticed that he had almost no trace of damage at all. His cloak was a bit ripped and tattered around the edges, and it was covered in dirt, but other than that, he was completely unharmed. That didn't make sense, the Strong Ball should have at least severely injured him enough for a killing blow, yet there he was.

"Goodbye Mr. Uzumaki," he said as he disappeared suddenly. He re-appeared to his left, and then disappeared again, the appeared again to his right and in front of him, then again behind him in front of him and above him. His speed gained until the man was moving so fast that hundreds of after-images of his movements were being created simultaneously. The wind swirled around him, creating a small tornado around the fox controlled blond.

Then it stopped, all the after-images disappeared and the dust began to slowly drift back down to the ground.

Up in the air however, there was still chaos. While the fox was trying to pinpoint his location, his opponent was preparing one of his own heavy hitting attacks. A giant black orb formed in his raised hand; one with a black and purple exterior, with a red and purple core. (A/N: Think the giant orb that swallowed up Destiny Island in the first game.)

"Now you die," he said to himself as he launched the orb downward.

The huge disturbance in the air caught the fox's attention and then noticed the large orb coming down at him. He quickly prepared another Strong Ball attack, gathering the charka with the help of his tails into a ball, swallowing it whole. Soon after, he felt the explosion in his bowels, and opened his mouth to unleash the force of the raging demonic chakra.

When the exploding beam collided with the orb, the result surprised the fox, as the orb just drove its way straight through the Strong Ball, losing no velocity against the friction of the beam. When the orb finally hit the core of the beam, the resulting explosion was twice the size of Naruto's Strong Ball attack he had used just a minute ago. The black energy exploding outward devouring everything in its path, and everyone within any number of miles of the attack watched in confusion and fear as it continued to grow in size.

Back in Kanoha

The Fifth Hokage was silently enjoying the breezy day atop her compound, when she felt a foul presence hit the air. Looking to the horizon in the north, she saw a small black cloud. Something told her this had something to do with her organization friend and those two kids. Needless to say it probably wasn't good.

"Lady Tsunade, what is that?" asked Shizune.

"I'm not sure Shizune, but whatever it is, we definitely don't want to be caught in the middle of it. As soon as it's gone though, I want a team to investigate. Xelskyr said to look for anything suspicious, and that qualifies."

"Right, team Gai is free, I'll dispatch them right away, it'll take at least two days to travel that kind distance. I'm sure by the time they get there it'll be over."

Tsunade nodded. "Good, I also want double patrols around the village; I'm not taking any chances."

"Right away Lady Tsunade," Shizune complied.

'Xelskyr... what did he get himself into?' she thought to herself as she made her way back to her office.

The explosion -after almost two minutes- finally died down and all was quiet again. Naruto lay in the center of the crater battered, bruised, and utterly bloodied. The crater was easily a mile in a half in diameter. The Strong Ball had exploded right in his face along with the other attack, and he was now unconscious again, but this time, the fox wasn't even making any noise. They were both out of it.

Meanwhile, the hooded figure was now hovering above the downed blond, debating whether he should end his life or not. He decided on the latter, and left him in the crater until he woke up, or bled to death. Either one would do.

Though it didn't show, the fight had left him a bit sore and a little aching. His arms and legs stung when he moved them, and there was a headache forming. He still wasn't sure exactly what kind of transformations the blond had gone through, but his last form had by far been the most impressive. Given a few more years of training, he would most definitely be worthy of fighting him using his full power.

For now though, he was done with this world; he had found out what he wanted to and had no more reason for him or his heartless to stay. With a snap of his fingers, he sensed all his heartless warp away; then he to, disappeared into the darkness.

Roxas was rushing through the devastated wastelands in the aftermath of Naruto's battle with whoever it was that attacked them. The whole time he'd been wondering who won, who would be find still standing when he made it down the crater. The whole fight had been a spectacular sight, like two titans clashing. It sort of put into prospective just how weak he was compared to everyone he'd met so far.

He thought he was decently strong, but in the last twenty minutes, he'd seen just how strong his allies; and even his enemies were. That was when it occurred to him that this wasn't just some random heartless rampage, there was really something bad on the horizon, and it fell on him to stop whatever that crazy nut-job was trying to pull.

Right after that, it occurred to him that Naruto was right in front of him. He was lying limp, puddles of his own blood dotted the area around him, and he was severely cut up. He ran over and slid down next to him.

"Hey, Naruto, Naruto, come on, are you even conscious? Damn…come on then," he said, hefting the blond over his shoulders and slowly carrying him away.

While he was checking on Naruto, Hikari said she'd go after Jiraiya, and then they'd meet up back in the village if they didn't meet up on the way. He suspected Jiraiya was in much better shape than sleeping beauty over his shoulder.

He had to admit, the guy was a lot lighter than he looked, of course, the training he'd been doing was probably helping to. Even so, they were a good few miles outside the village, which was going to take even longer with Naruto weighing him down.

'Ugh, his is gonna be a long walk…today sucked.'

Yes people, you read right. Our boy Naruto, the number one hyperactive knuckle headed ninja, got his ass handed to him on a silver platter. The Nine Tailed Fox couldn't even help him! Do you see how badass this villain is now, do you see his POWER? Four tails worth of demonic chakra is thrown his way and he walks off with a headache!

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