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In the Void, the dragon travels through the countless rifts in its current hunt for the very creation that seeks to destroy it…Omega. The dragon found its target and unleashed a mighty roar that shook the dimensions in between as it fired an Atomic Breath as the soulless machine Omega countered with its Wave Cannon causing a mighty explosion as the two energies collided causing dust to cover the battle field. Wasting no time, the dragon quickly unleashed another attack, summoning water from another dimension through a rift to use the powerful Tsunami spell in which response Omega used the Earthquake spell to open a fissure in the already unstable world of the Void sending the water somewhere else before firing another Wave Cannon at the wyrm.
The attack hit the creature head on temporary losing sight of its opponent only to see the machine enter through a special red rift. The dragon knew that red rift anywhere, the very place that contained powerful warriors besides those from the 13 Legends await beyond there. "Perhaps there is a perfect place there to rest while searching for Omega." The great wyrm thought as it tried to enter the red rift, only to be rejected by a powerful force. Angered, the dragon unleashed its wrath on the barrier only to find out that it absorbed all of its attacks before hitting it with an enhanced Ultima spell. The power from that spell injured the dragon, but through its power of purification, its injuries were healed as the dragon saw a symbol on the red Rift's doorway…it was a zero, the symbol of Cipher.
"So this is what the Great Will wanted me to aid this Cipher…to help nurture his powers in order to help me on my hunt for that cursed machine Omega."the dragon thought as it began to sense a small but powerful force he sensed when he himself was a hatching when the world was created, the legendary descendant of the Cipher. Following the essence, the great wyrm began his original course to find the descendant of Cipher and awaken a new legend.
*In Konoha at a certain ship*
It was a nice peaceful morning as one Naruto Uzumaki was doing his usual morning routine. Wake up at 4 AM sharp, wash up and finish by 4:15, enjoy a healthy breakfast that wasn't ramen at 4:20, spar with Lightning from 4:30 to 5:30, do 50 sets of push-ups and sit-ups, do 10 laps around the village while avoid being seen by Gai-sensei at 7 AM, and finish training off with a nice bath at the hot springs which opens immediately at 8 AM. "Ah, this is the life. After a grueling day of training, nothing likes a nice warm bath to relax the muscles and ease the mind." Naruto said closing his eyes as he began drifting off…until the familiar perverted giggling was heard that immediately made Naruto's eyes open up, clearly pissed off and was about to kill the person giggling like that.
Getting up, he witnessed the self-proclaimed super pervert peeking from hidden gaps in the fence and kicked him from behind. Due to being a L'Cie with enhanced physical strength, an outline of Jiraiya was made as said man was thrown into the girl's bath. There were screams and the sounds of beatings as Jiraiya wailed in agony from punishment by the females as Naruto went back to relaxing in the bath enjoying Jiraiya's cries for help, "Music to my ears." Naruto said before dosing off in the bath. Fifteen minutes later, Naruto finished his bath and got dressed and left the bath house just in time to see a bloody and beaten Jiraiya thrown out of the girl's section causing Naruto to shake his head. "When will you ever learn Ero-Sennin?" Naruto asked out loud as suddenly Jiraiya was back on his feet suddenly appearing as if he hadn't been beaten up by a bunch of pissed off girls.
"I never will gaki, and the Hokage needs you for a mission." The toad sage replied as Naruto nodded his head and started heading towards the Hokage's office. Jiraiya stared at Naruto's retreating form and sighed. "He looks so much like you Minato yet he has his mother's personality. Though I guess becoming a L'Cie made him a bit more mature every once in a while." Jiraiya said in a somewhat sad tone. Minato was like a son to him and being given the honor of being Naruto's godfather brought him joy. Though Naruto went to hell with the life of a Jinchuuriki, he still kept on moving forward with a smile. "I'll make it up to him somehow…Maybe I should teach him Minato's ultimate shape manipulation jutsu of his. Who knows, maybe the kid will surpass his father one day." Jiraiya thought as he began preparing for his mission.
As Naruto made his way to the Hokage's office, Lightning was busy planning a new method of increasing Naruto's speed and agility. "Hmm, those fan girls did increase his speed but his agility needs more practice. Hana and Anko weren't enough, maybe something more lethal." Lightning thought with a devious look that wasn't very much like her. Meanwhile in the Hokage's office, Naruto shivered violently and looked around. "Why do I feel like Lightning has made the hot springs incident more dangerous the next time I go there?" Naruto thought as Hizuren cleared his throat regaining his attention. "Now back onto our conversation. Now I want you, Lightning and Jiraiya to go and find Tsunade and bring her back to Konoha to become the 5th Hokage." Hizuren said surprising Naruto.
"You're asking me to bring back my only relative who is probably getting drunk and losing a lot of money gambling to become Hokage?" Naruto asked.
Meanwhile in a casino far away from Konoha, a busty blond sneezed violently as she once again lost a bet in poker.
"Naruto, did anyone tell you anything about Tsunade yet?" Hizuren asked as Naruto shook his head no. "Strange, because somehow you were able to guess her habits correctly." Hizuren said as both the Professor and the Shinobi L'Cie sweat dropped at that. "By the way, for some reason a young queen was looking for you." Hizuren said making Naruto raise an eyebrow. "Was this queen around my age, with red hair in a ponytail, purple eyes, wears a yellow bandana and also an orange robe by any chance?" Naruto asked as Hizuren nodded his head. "Indeed, you described her appearance perfectly…I take it you two know each other?" Hizuren said.
"You can say that. After all she did make me a royal knight of Rōran a while ago." Naruto said as the old Kage chocked on his pipe and checked his pipe to see if there was something else besides tobacco in there. "I'm sorry, for a minute there I thought I heard you say you became a royal knight of the ruined kingdom of Rōran." Hizuren chuckled before seeing the serious look on Naruto's face. "You actually did? When was this?" Hizuren asked completely surprised. "During my time training for the finals with Lightning, I had a few days off and the events afterwards lead to one exciting adventure. I'll tell you another time old man but I've got a mission to do." Naruto said before running off. "That boy…he looks like Minato but gets into trouble and crazy adventures like his mother…he's going to be the death of me someday." Hizuren muttered before sighing.
Naruto was now seen in Konoha walking towards the ship until someone covered his eyes with their hands. "Guess who?" said a female voice as Naruto did a mocking think pose until he grinned. "Is it…Sera?" Naruto asked as the hands retracted and he turned around to see the young queen of Rōran smiling at him. "It's good to see you again Naruto. I saw your entrance at the Chunin Exams and your battles; I knew I made the right choice of making you a knight of Rōran." Sera said as Naruto nodded. "So how are your people been?" Naruto asked as Sera smiled. "They've been doing well, a baby girl was just born this year so we needed to see a doctor to check on the baby's health and Konoha was the nearest one to go to." Sera explained as Naruto nodded his head.
"I see…was anyone hurt during the invasion by Suna and Sound?" Naruto asked as Sera shook her head. "No, ever since that one incident that you saved me from, everyone began training themselves to fight ninjas in case someone else tried to kidnap me again." Sera said as they were almost at the ship, "Really? They wouldn't try and attack me if I come for a visit would they?" Naruto asked jokingly as Sera giggled at the thought. "They wouldn't do that silly; they already know you as a knight of Rōran so I doubt they would attack you." Sera replied as they shared a laugh till they got to the entrance of the ship with Lightning ready to go.
"I got the message from Jiraiya, and who is this?" Lightning said looking at Sera. "Oh yeah, you two have never met before. Lightning, this is the queen of Rōran, Sera." Naruto said as Lightning stiffened at the name. "Uh Naruto, is she okay?" Sera whispered in Naruto's ear as he chuckled. "Sorry, you share the name with her younger sister Serah with an "h" in it." He explained as she made an "oh" expression as she understood now. Lightning then knelt down like a knight would before royalty, "It is an honor to meet you your highness. May I ask what brings you here?" Lightning asked as Sera giggled.
"You don't need to kneel before me Lightning; I just came here just to see Naruto." Sera said as Lightning rose up confused. "Naruto? You two know each other?" Lightning asked. "Yes, in fact he's a royal knight of Rōran, the highest honor anyone could achieve from royalty." Sera said as Lightning looked at Naruto skeptically. "Two questions in one, when and how the hell did you become a knight for royalty?" Lightning said bluntly. "During my training in the Ark, you know that one final day you decided that I should rest up for the finals?" Naruto asked as Lightning remembered that day and nodded. "Well that day was when Sera and I met. In fact, I had to save her and her people from Kumo ninjas who wanted to acquire something called the Ryūmyaku. I'll get into that story after the mission though." Naruto said as he went into the ship and began packing his gear and gunblades.
Once he was out of sight, Lightning heard bell chimes ringing somewhere and her sixth sense kicked in. "Looks like we have company, I'll go deal with them." Lightning thought as she looked at Sera. "I'm heading out, tell Naruto to meet up with Jiraiya at the gate and I'll catch up to the two later." She said as the young queen nodded her head as Lightning walked off, following the sound of bells. Just as Lightning was out of sight, Naruto came out with a backpack on and his three gunblades in their sheaths, "Hey Sera, where did Lightning go?" Naruto asked as he noticed the one man army soldier wasn't there. "She said she had to take care of something and she'll catch up with you later." Sera replied as Naruto nodded his head. "See you later then?" Naruto asked as Sera nodded her head. "Of course, me and my people will be staying here for a while to get some supplies anyways." She said.
"Then may I at least escort you to them my lady?" Naruto said with a bow and an arm outstretched. "Aw, you're such a gentleman." Sera giggled as she took Naruto's outstretched hand and he began escorting her back to her people.
*At the Dango Shop*
Here we all see the famous Sharingan Warrior Kakashi Hatake currently leaning on a wall outside of the dango shop reading his Icha Icha Violence as he noticed two familiar Jonin walking by. "Hey guys," Kakashi said as he closed his book. "It seems you two are getting along." Kakashi finished making Kurenai blush at what he was implying. "Idiot, Anko just asked me to pick up some rice dumplings for her." She said looking away. "What are you doing here? Besides catching up on your reading." Asked one Asuma Sarutobi as Kakashi eye-smiled at the two, "Ah, I need to buy something to put on a grave…" he said trailing off as his single eye looked inside the shop.
"Plus I'm meeting somebody here." He said noticing a figure in a black cloak with red clouds on them. "I'm just waiting on Sasuke." He explained as the figure's hand twitched at the name while holding his cup. Asuma and Kurenai noticed something was up, "Ha! It's not like you to be waiting on somebody. Is it for Obito?" Asuma guessed as Kurenai was confused. "Obito?" Kurenai asked not understanding who that person is. "Uh, yeah, kind of…" Kakashi said as the two figures in black cloaks with red clouds on them looked at each other from their straw hats underneath the tassels.
Footsteps were heard as Sasuke walked towards the silver haired Jonin. "Kakashi, it's not like you to show up early. What gives?" he asked, confused. "Well, sometimes I do. Remember during the Chunin Exam finals when Naruto and a squad of Anbu tried to kill me for being early, thinking I was a fake?" Kakashi asked as the young Uchiha nodded his head. Noticing something wrong, Sasuke looked into the dango shop only to see two empty seats with two cups of tea still hot. "Let's eat somewhere else; I don't have much of a sweet tooth." Sasuke said with a dark feeling about the place.
"Well, is that so?" Kakashi asked as he looked at Kurenai and Asuma who nodded their heads and left the two. Sasuke had a suspicious feeling that something is going on as he noticed how fast those two were leaving. At a river, the two cloaked figures were walking only to stop as Asuma and Kurenai were in front of them with a serious look on their faces. "You guys aren't from around here are you?" Asuma asked with his voice no longer carefree, but the tone of an experience warrior. "What are you doing in this village?" he demanded as the smaller of the two cloaked figures spoke.
"It's been a long time Asuma, Kurenai." The mysterious figure said making the two Konoha ninja go on edge. "The fact that you know our names means that you're a shinobi formerly of this village." Asuma assumed as the younger man lifted his head and straw hat a bit revealing something that unnerved the pair…That young man had Sharingan eyes. "You're…" Asuma gasped as the twin Sharingan eyes glared menacingly at the two as the man pulled his hat off revealing black hair in a ponytail as he opened his high collared cloak from the top. "Well what do ya know? Itachi, Itachi Uchiha." Asuma said with a smirk as the wind blow ominously around them.
"Are these friends of yours Itachi?" the taller of the two asked as he put a hand on his hat. "Well then…" the man said as he smirked underneath. "I suppose I should introduce myself." He said as took his own hat off revealing dull blue hair in the form of a shark fin, small white round eyes, pale blue skin, and gill like facial markings underneath his eyes. "Hope we can get acquainted later, the names Kisame Hoshigaki." The man introduced himself.
"Why should we wait to get acquainted…when I can just wipe the floor with you both now?" Asuma asked as he held a strong face, but his eyes tell another story. "Boy Itachi, it looks like they hate you as much in this village just like mine." Kisame said to his partner who looked at him. "We know who you are Kisame. We've heard all about you. You hail from Kirigakure. Suspected of espionage and the murder of a feudal lord, a rouge ninja wanted from every nation." Kurenai replied with information she had on the man who was smiling with shark like teeth.
"Itachi, I gotta hand it to you to the fact that you show your face in the village it takes guts." Asuma said in disgust as Itachi kept a stoic look on his face. "I'm warning you two…you don't want to interfere with me. It isn't my desire to kill you." He said with a monotone voice. "You know that's pretty hilarious coming from the guy that murdered his own people. Now come on, out with it. What are you after? I know you didn't come here looking like that for no good reason." Asuma demanded. That was when Kisame grabbed his enormous sword and swung it downwards clearly annoyed. "This guy is getting on my nerves…can I kill him?" Kisame asked his partner.
"Well I guess we aren't going anywhere without a fight. Just try not to overdo it. Your moves tend to stand out." Itachi stated calmly as Kisame had a mad gleam in his eyes. "They're as good as dead." Kisame said darkly. "Mind if I join in the fight?" a female voice asked as Lightning appeared behind the two missing ninjas with her Omega Weapon gunblade in hand as it was in gun mode and aiming at the two. "When did she show up? I didn't even notice her until she was right behind us." Itachi thought with an interested look at Lightning.
"I don't know who you are, but something tells me that you two are after something dangerous." Lightning said as her Omega Weapon turned into blade mode as Itachi eyed the weapon wearily. "That is advanced weaponry; I thought I'll never see something like that again." Itachi thought as he turned around to face Lightning. "Kisame, I'll deal with her, you can play with the other two." Itachi said as Kisame grinned like a mad man. With that said and done, Kisame charged at Asuma and Kurenai as Itachi and Lightning began to clash with blades.
Lightning started off throwing a barrage of Fire spells at Itachi who countered it with a Grand Fireball Jutsu showing who the true master of flames is as Lightning's spells were consumed by Itachi's fire forcing her to dodge as she blocked a swipe from Itachi's kunai knife and the both of them glared at each other while in a deadlock as Lightning was slowly pushing him back. "This woman…is holding back on me." Itachi realized as Lightning broke the deadlock and swung her blade with electricity flowing through the blade forcing Itachi to replace himself with a clone that was immediately destroyed.
"I have a wonderful present for you." Lightning said as she clashed with Itachi once more into a deadlock, "Shall I give you despair?" she asked as Itachi was kicked in the stomach and crashed into the wall with incredible speeds. She wasted no time for the dust to settle as she charged while Itachi brought out a ninjato and charged at her with equal speeds as he tried to land a blow on her as she dodged or blocked the attacks forcing him to leap in the air to avoid a close blank attack of a Fira from Lightning as she used this chance to impale him in a non-vital place in the chest and held him in the air.
"Is this the pain you felt before when you killed your clan…Itachi?" Lightning asked with her hair overshadowing her eyes as Itachi struggled to remove himself from her blade. "Let me remind you, this time you won't forget." She said as she launched him in the air and followed him and slashed and impaled him in many places before using Smite to make him crash into the ground before landing a good distance from him as he began to bleed. "This woman…I have no choice but to use it." Itachi thought as he was about to use his special technique on the mysterious woman.
Before he could do anything, he heard the sounds of chirping birds and saw blue lightning heading towards him as he leapt back just in time for Kakashi to make a crater where Itachi was just at a few seconds ago. "Good to see you…Kakashi." Itachi muttered as Kakashi stood up with his Sharingan revealed. "Sorry I took so long, I had to convince Sasuke to go train, though I doubt this is a reunion party?" Kakashi asked while staring at Itachi. "I know you are here for something, what is it?" Kakashi demanded as he prepared for another jutsu. "…Unlike Kisame's style, mine is more efficient." Itachi stated as he brought out a handful of shuriken. Reacting quickly, Kakashi used a water wall jutsu to block drills made of water that appeared out of nowhere.
"He's not the only thing you're facing!" Lightning said as her gunblade was in gun mode and fired bullets that Itachi dodged as only one of the bullets nicked his cheek. "I see…this is the price to pay for underestimating you. Even though you were holding back, so was I." Itachi said as Kakashi glared at the man. "Be careful Lightning, this guy got into the most elite ranks at the age of 13 and this is only half of what he can do." Kakashi warned as Lightning nodded. "I'm still surprised that you haven't used those techniques yet." Lightning said to Itachi who narrowed his eyes. "She knows of them?" he thought, clearly believing that this woman in front of him was a much bigger threat than Kurenai, Asuma, and Kakashi combined.
"I must admit something Kakashi, for someone not of the Uchiha clan; you have mastered the Sharingan well. But not being one of us you lack the physical conditions and that is something you can't copy." Itachi confessed as Kakashi mentally agreed on. "He's right, my body doesn't have the stamina." He thought. Just then, the wind blew and the air around them felt ominous as leaves fell from trees. Lightning had a bad feeling about what's going as she felt a massive surge of Itachi's chakra heading straight for his left eye. "Why is the Uchiha clan known by all, and feared by all?" he asked as he closed his eyes.
"I'll show you what the Sharingan can do when it is wielded by a true heir of the bloodline." He said ominously as he was slowly opening them again. Kakashi realized what was happening quickly reacted, "Don't look at him! Close your eyes!" Kakashi shouted in pure fear as Asuma, Kurenai and Lightning did as they were told. A second passed and Kakashi began to pant and fell to his knees completely exhausted from that technique of Itachi's unnerving the two Jonin as Lightning kept calm. "Don't open your eyes yet you two, Itachi's technique seems to be able to work if you look into his eyes so do not open them no matter what." Lightning ordered making both Asuma and Kurenai nod their heads.
Kisame calmly walked towards his partner's side and noticed Kakashi's condition and was clearly impressed. "After all that, the fool's spirit is still intact. Meanwhile, you risked overusing those eyes of yours, you know that's dangerous." Kisame said. "This thing you've come for…is it Sasuke?" Kakashi asked as the wind blew. "…No, the legacy of the Fourth Hokage." Itachi replied making Asuma and Kurenai gasp and wonder what he meant, but Kakashi and Lightning know who Itachi's group is after. "…Naruto." They both thought.
"The Kyuubi inside Naruto…That's what you're after?" Kakashi asked while still panting from exhaustion "You're not the only ones are you? There are seven more of you out there…searching, hunting, I know all about you. You call yourself the Akatsuki, right?" he asked getting both members' attention as the two Jonin and L'Cie look at him. "Kisame, we'll take Kakashi with us. We don't need the others. Get rid of them." Itachi ordered as Kisame had a happy look on his face as he charged. Lightning got in her battle stance with her eyes still closed but knew where Kisame is, after her training with Naruto's C'ieth form when she put a limiter on her powers when they spared she began focusing on training her other senses to the degree that they act like "eyes" for her so to speak.
Kisame was going to make his strike as suddenly, the water swirled in the air as a shout of "Dynamic Hurricane!" and a kick in the face launched Kisame back to Itachi's side revealing one person that terrified all of Konoha…the Green Beast Might Gai. "Great, the worst walking fashion disaster is here…" Lightning thought as she began tuning him out, that guy gives her the creeps and not to mention she had witness his and Lee's…"Hugs" in Naruto's memory. That memory burned into her memory and she did every method of forgetting that scene but it still plagued her mind, it continued for so long that it even haunted her dreams sometimes…not to mention one of them had Naruto wearing that horrendous green spandex and joined in the hug.
"Note to self, if Naruto gets a green spandex from Gai, burn it." She thought as Itachi ordered Kisame to retreat as Gai had warned the Anbu before he came. As they left, Lightning sighed that a good battle had to end. "Now all I have to do is keep an extra eye on Naruto." She thought. Meanwhile at the gates, Naruto was seen carrying a huge backpack on his back like it was nothing at all while Jiraiya had asked the boy why he packed so much stuff. The reply from Naruto unnerved Jiraiya as the Shinobi L'Cie said "Because I want to show Bushy Brow and Thick Brow-sensei my own Flames of Youth!"
*New Fanfic Trailer: Rise of Discord*
Konoha…was in ruins. Meteors fell from a blackened sky as bodies of the dead littered the once powerful village that has fallen like the other great nations. Kumo was a burning mountain of fire, Kiri was flooded with poisonous miasma, Suna was buried under the sands of time, and Iwa was engulfed with fissures. In Konoha, a lone man was in the battle of his life against this monster responsible for this destruction. That man was Sasuke Uchiha as he breathed heavily as his opponent was on all fours, the creature's torn, burnt wings outstretched; it's ten tails whipping around it as its yellow eyes seemed to be staring at his soul.
"In the name of Harmony, I will slay you…" Sasuke coughed as the creature growled menacingly as it said one word "Discord." Its body soon took on a new shade of color as it turned into a bright shade of red and orange, giving the creature the appearance as if it was made of lava making Sasuke recall the ultimate form being said to be that "The power of discord reveals the true Chaos." It suddenly warped in front of Sasuke and delivered a flaming uppercut launching the Uchiha high into the air as the creature teleported around him and slashed at him multiple times before dealing the final blow which knocked Sasuke into the ground creating a crater in its wake.
The monster didn't stop there; it landed on Sasuke and threw him in the air while shouting "Regnum Dei!" as Sasuke was teleported into a closed-in arena of discord as they were surrounded by a ring of blue fire. As Sasuke fell onto the 'ground' the monster roared and charged as he stood up only in time to hear the creature say "Nexus Ultimus" and it grabbed him by the neck and was impaled by multiple copies of the same sword the creature wielded when it was sane in all directions as he grunted in pain, feeling his life leaving his body as he looked at the creatures face.
Instead of the monster's face, Sasuke saw the true face of what the monster once was before it became what it was now and smiled at it. Blond hair, blue eyes, and three whisker marks on each cheek now replaced by a snarling monster as it dealt a claw thrust as the world suddenly faded into black like a turned-off TV screen.
