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Sorry for the wait guys, I have one word. Final Fantasy 13-2. Which should be renamed the true ff13. That's right guys, it seems they've finally realized that old school monsters spawning from blank screens was where it was at. FF7-10 (I think maybe even sooner). They have proper puzzles like the old school ff games too. They even added a bit of Pokémon for sheer addictiveness. Nearly every monster you fight you can add to your party including chocobo's. Miss the coloured chocobos for racing from FF7? Have no fear its back in FF13-2; and leveling your chocobo makes them do better in racing. I have only two complaints.
There are a total of 10 wild artifacts which you use to power portals that take you to different places (KH for the win!) that aren't the main storyline and they are a fucking bitch to find. There is a super cool secret boss fight but he is in one of those portals and I don't have a fucking clue which one! I spent 100 hours of my life training to kill the dark aeons from FF10 and I called it money well spent (Until in a freak of nature occurrence yojimbo killed dark anima for 1000 gil and all three of the dark magus sisters for a grand total of 1 gil! I was so surprised I didn't even save between the two; I was in shock when I realized I had wasted most of my 100 hours of life) I am spending hours doing nothing but looking for these fucking artifacts! We need a proper video guide for them people.
Oh yah, and MASS EFFECT 3 Demo! Oh yah, I am rocking the multiplayer right now and its free. I am still the man and raped the single player ME3 bit on insanity as a soldier. Ok, on to my fic!
Raven arrived in Gaia through a black portal that appeared above the city of Midgar. She was dressed in a usual robe and cowl over a black leotard; only this robe and cowl was white. A golden M was pinned on her robe in place of the Titans alert gem.
She looked down in horror as she saw the dead blackened land around the city. 'What the hell is that? Pollution? What have they done to this place! ' Before Raven could do anything or fly anywhere Naruto appeared behind her and chopped her in the back of her neck. He then vanished along with his unconscious future lover. None of them saw the hidden camera from a Shinra spybot.
Naruto reappeared back in the tunnels and future location of his R&D section. He quickly absorbed Raven and was already thinking about a good cover story to tell her if he didn't tell her the truth. In fact he might actually just tell her the truth once he was done with this world.
'Kami help me this world and women are complicated. I need to go solo until I've sorted out all the issues and trained little Rosso. Then we can ditch this world together and get on with our lives.'
Naruto took a deep breath before walking back up to the surface. It would take a lot of work in order to bring about the fruition of Project M; and no one else in Wutai could do it. "Excuse me Professor Uzumaki, can I have a word?" Naruto looked up ahead and couldn't hide his surprise at seeing another soul here, let alone two. Godo and his pregnant wife didn't look the slightest bit uncomfortable in the dark tunnels; something that gained his wife a bit of respect from Naruto. Since proper lighting hadn't being set up they had to use torches mounted on the walls; which to be fair wasn't much different to the rest of Wutai. But electricity would be needed to power the future hospital above them as well as the R&D section below.
"Sure thing Godo but why couldn't it have been said at the meeting? I take that it's a private matter?"
Godo was only two feet away from Naruto when he spoke his request. "You already have Centra cells harvested don't you?" Far from the accusatory tone Naruto expected; Godo seemed almost desperate. Naruto decided to play along and see where this was going. "Sure thing but like I said before, any Mako treatment is not going to happen for a few years." Godo shook his head. "That's not what I am after. Please; can you inject little Yuffie with Centra cells?" Godo and his wife put their hands over her belly, showing that they were together on this.
Naruto almost flinched visibly at the request until he remembered who and what kind of people they were. "Why? You don't seem the type to birth monsters Godo, even monsters of the Planet." 'If they have a truly good reason for this request then this should be something to hear.'
"NO! Not monsters; hope. Our hope for all of Wutai, that one day we could heal the Planet and stop Shinra. My wife does not have much time left Professor; it is our hope that we could bring a shining light into this world before we are separated!"
'This man is an idealist; which isn't exactly a bad thing. Yuffie will be raised a lot differently than Rosso; it would be good results for the experiment. And who says they are wrong either; Centra cells are powerful and mysterious things after all; for all I know their little prophesy here may come true.'
"Alright Godo I'll help you. Just promise me that you two together will go and speak to my future wife after the treatment; she'll kill me otherwise."
The couple chuckled, "No promises."
Seven and a half years later
The war had begun some years ago and had reached a stalemate. True to his word, Naruto massacred SOLDEIRS Third and Second Class and simply avoided the three monster children that became First Class. But the twenty-two year old Sephiroth was beginning to really bloom and was simply massacring everyone else on their side. Naruto knew that it would eventually come to a faceoff between them.
Rosso had graduated six months ago only to have her friends massacred by Genesis in an ambush when they thought a Shinra supply caravan was only guarded by some armed Shinra soldiers. The supply caravan had instead only carried one thing; Genesis, who killed just about everyone. That had been there first mission too. In response Rosso seemed to channel the Uchiha blood in here and massacred as many SOLDEIR Third classes that she could. Although the feat was amazing she wished to eventually work her way up to Genesis; until she tried to fight a SOLDEIR Second Class and was almost killed; but Naruto rescued her.
Now here they were; underground with the first Mako treatment by Wutai being attempted; on little Rosso. Which wasn't as bad as it sounded; they did have seven years of all encompassing testing to make sure it was safe.
Truthfully Naruto wanted to wait longer, but realized that they simply couldn't the way the war was going. After Rosso, all the survivors of her class had signed up for Project M with similar ambitions. Kill SOLDIER members.
They would never be able to churn out MAJIN members the same way Shinra did with their abominable machines; but they were all war time trained and bloodied ninjas; they would each kill a lot of SOLDIER Second Classes when they were done with the treatment.
Naruto manned the sole consol monitoring and controlling the process and the subject's life signs. Not that he needed to do anything; that was the point. Naruto was here for damage control if something went wrong; something which seven years of testing didn't account for. He would be here only for his daughter before immediately going onto the field with her and letting someone less qualified supervise the rest. They had a two pronged desperate plan; either this would work or they may as well surrender.
Five minutes later the treatment was complete; it would go a lot quicker with Rosso then the others since she was born with Centra cells and only had to go through the Mako 'shower'. When the Mako was drained out of the tank Rosso emerged with her crimson eyes glowing in the dark. Naruto grinned, 'I wonder if her eyes will reveal their power?'
"Are you ok little Rosso? If you are we need to go; we have a mission." This mission was the first prong and a test for Rosso. If she couldn't finish it Naruto was to complete the mission; he had the utmost confidence in her.
"I feel great dad; no weakness or headaches or anything. Not even dizziness." Proving what she said; Rosso walked straight to her father without even a wince.
Naruto exchanged a significant look with the other observers. Could it be that artificially made Mako gave more side effects then natural Mako? Not that natural Mako was harmless; their tests showed that. But this was their first human test; it would pay to see the rest of the results.
"Very well little Rosso let's move we have a lot of ground to cover." They both left the lab in a hurry and went to the nearest elevator. Punching the ground floor button (which happened to be the top floor) the lift doors closed.
Naruto grinned and opened the roof panel above them. Rosso had an adorable confused look that she never seemed to lose no matter the age or hardship; but changed into a girl's giddiness when she saw her father produce a wrapped present. It was a rectangular box as wide as his shoulders and wrapped with red ribbon. She gave her dad a hug before she tore into the box and revealed her latest piece of hardware, a double-bladed gunblade. (Rosso the Crimson's weapon)
She held it in her right hand and it unfolded by itself, revealing multiple gun barrels in the middle that went over her knuckles. "Oh daddy I love it! It's perfect!"
Naruto gave a true smile. "You didn't think your old man only works with genetics like Hojo. Ha, I do a bit of hardware too." Rosso's eyes got even bigger and became a little teary. "You made this? For me! Oh daddy!"
"Hey now, fold up your blade before hugging me or you'll disembowel daddy."
On the field
A scouting part of six SOLDIER Second Class's walked towards the capital of Wutai. They kept dead quite so not to be detected whilst they planned to plant explosives. They were being observed by small Shinra cameras on parts of their clothing with Genesis himself watching the feed. Sephiroth was resting and would be redeployed tomorrow if the sneak attack was successful and the walls went down. No matter how successful the ninja's were at guerilla warfare they still had a capital that was visible. Take that down and you will demoralize the rest; that was the plan anyway.
Suddenly a red tornado appeared and bisected two soldiers before beheading a third. Rosso appeared in all her preteen glory stained crimson by the blood of her foes. Her eyes were glowing red as she tracked the response of the remaining three SOLDIERS. One SOLDIER immediately jumped back to gain some distance whilst the other two drew their swords.
Rosso frowned at this. 'Standard soldier deployment, two melee fighters whilst the other uses materia to heal his comrades. Thankfully they can't risk offensive materia just in case I am simply a lone patrol.'
Rosso rushed in and immediately began fighting her two opponents whilst Naruto watched from a nearby cliff. 'This is interesting; her speed had gone through the roof.' Naruto continued to watch as Rosso got better and better at fighting her opponents as her eyes picked them out. 'Her eyes have the predicting and copying nature of the Sharingan whilst the Mako enhancement forces her body to move at the same speed she sees. The perfect match.'
Rosso's eyes found an opening and with a squeeze blew through the head of their medic with her guns. She then used their shock and hesitation to disembowel both her opponents. At the end she was panting; exhausted, invigorated; with a deadly smile on her face. She had killed six where's before one nearly killed her. Seeing a signal from her father she left the bodies behind to join him.
"Mission successful father! Do I get a reward?" Rosso batted her eyelashes at him to get what she wanted; like any good daughter. Naruto grinned and started running back with Rosso following, "Yes you do Rosso. My kenjutsu style was from my teacher Madara Uchiha; who moved just like you.
He fought in circles, literally; always spinning around whilst dancing forwards. I have mastered the style but it does not favour my weapon. But maybe his will lives through you; your weapon is also a lot better suited to it than mine."
Rosso nodded whilst noticing that they weren't headed back to Wutai. "But don't these things take years to learn?" Although she didn't see it; Naruto was grinning evilly. "Not for you sweetheart; just watch me. We currently have an hour or two of traveling to reach a camp where the rest of your classmates should be if they survived the process. Just watch me as we go and ask any questions."
One and a half hours later and Rosso had a pretty good hand on his kenjutsu style. She would learn the rest on the fields of battle, like she had done in the past six months. Only now she had a Mako enhanced body and eyes that, sides the genjutsu, had the same powers as the Sharingan. They finally arrived at the campsite and Rosso greeted her surviving classmates; her fellow MAJIN members all preparing for an attack.
Naruto told them to gather around and finally briefed them on the second stage or prong of the attack. "Tomorrow we will launch an all or nothing attack; Rosso will be leading you in a fight against Genesis and all the SOLDIER members of his command. Due to the firs prong of this attack we know Sephiroth will be redeployed at their base sometime tomorrow morning. It will be my job to hold him off whilst you attack the base. This mission is classified as a failure if the two monster children unite. We must keep them separate. Half of our normal ninja forces are attacking their docks tonight since Angel is returning by boat; bringing fresh supplies and men. We have a tiny window here people to wipe out a large force of SOLDIER Second Class's and Genesis himself. The other half of our ninja forces have been spent completely securing this location. No monsters, no spybots, no enemy scouts at all. You have the rest of today to get a handle on your new abilities and get ready for the attack tomorrow. There will be no night shift tonight as the ninja forces will handle that. We will need all the food and rest we can get for tomorrow. Alright that's it for the briefing. Rosso you take a break and have a meal; our supplies here are top notch since we are only here for a day. You've had a battle and have being running there and back; enhanced body or not." Rosso nodded and went up to a boiling metal pot over a fire to serve herself up some stew.
"The rest of you are all going to fight me. I think I'm at Genesis's level and it will be a good way to show you how not to fight him. In fact I would almost say let Rosso handle him alone whilst you kill off the rest. Cut off his retreat before finishing him off together."
Naruto drew the Kusanagi with his right hand from its sheath on his waist and held it in a reverse grip. "Begin!"
One of the students fired off a Trine spell straight at him. Naruto back flipped away from the pyramid of lightning before it exploded. When it did it threw up a dust cloud the served as cover to the shuriken that were being launched at him. Naruto grinned at the barrage of shuriken coming at him before swinging his sword to deflect them. He deflected them all with ease only for three Fire Breath attacks to be launched straight at him.
Naruto grinned even further before jumping straight up and launching a Trine of his own at the location of the shuriken. Knowing roughly where they would dodge next; Naruto extended the Kusanagi straight at one of them. The MAJIN member brought out his own sword and blocked it whilst grounding himself firmly like a sumo. The ninja was pushed a bit back until his heels dug in and killed the momentum. His comrades launched another barrage of shuriken at Naruto and a bit below him. However instead of dropping into the shuriken Naruto continued to extend the Kusanagi, allowing him fly further back. The ninja blocking his sword realized too late that he was being used as a launch pad and disengaged the block.
Naruto was able to land and firmly ground himself safely. He extended his sword in a flash and would have impaled four ninja who he had guided into a straight line without them knowing. As it was he just extended the sword so that the flat of the blade was touching their cheeks. "Dead!" Naruto yelled out before continuing the battle with the others. Those that were killed just shrugged and sat down.
Naruto grinned and fired off a Magic Breath to the sides of the remaining students, forcing them to group up. Naruto then got into Madara's kenjutsu style and charged straight at the group. It was a massacre. All through the fight, Rosso watched with her glowing red eyes.
Naruto sheathed his sword and walked towards his daughter. "You're their leader; get them ready for tomorrow. I am going to take a nap." Rosso wordlessly nodded as Naruto went to take a nap underneath a nearby tree. They would be ready, one way or another.
The next day everyone woke up at five in the morning and began moving out. The attack on the docks would happen at five thirty exactly. They needed to be at Genesis's base before that; otherwise an alert from the docks would wake up and mobilize the camp. Sephiroth would be catching a helicopter from the docks to Genesis's base; the helicopter left at five in the morning exactly and it was a forty minute fight.
The entire purpose of this timing was so Naruto could fight and stall Sephiroth whilst two simultaneous attacks happened, allowing him no chance to reinforce either. But the docks was simply another distraction; buying time for the MAJIN members and tying up Angel when he arrived by ferry. The end goal was to wipe out all SOLDIER Second Class members in Wutai with a secondary objective being the death of Genesis. The docks and base must be destroyed or badly damaged; Wutai could not afford the three monster children to unite and march with their army on Wutai.
On board the Shinra Helicopter…
Sephiroth was resting in the passenger back of the armoured helicopter, almost completely separated from the pilot. Of course he wasn't exactly asleep, more like in battle meditation before he encountered the enemy. This battle meditation is what saved his life; a split second before the Kusanagi would have pierced his forehead he was able to block it with Masamune.
However it had gotten there by going through the throat of the pilot and the helicopter began to tip down. Not one to leave anything to chance, Naruto fired a Trine through his sword and into the helicopter, which exploded. For good measure, Naruto fired off a Beta at the crash site, the miniature nuke creating a mushroom cloud of red smoke.
Only for the smoke to part when Sephiroth swung Masamune; revealing him to be unharmed and looking no worse for wear. Naruto just grinned and shortened Kusanagi back into a short sword before putting the blade across his left hand, with both the flat of the blade and his palm behind it facing Sephiroth.
Sephiroth realized that he was been mocked, as that position was a mirror of the position he took to block the stab. Suddenly Naruto disappeared from Sephiroth's sight and it was only due to his superior reflexes that he was able to save himself from a scalping.
After exchanging a few more blows that ended in a deadlock, Sephiroth regained his confidence.
'Ok so his is faster than me; by far, when running. However he is not stronger then I and I can keep up with his swinging speed.' Using two hands, Sephiroth broke the deadlock by pushing his blade up and out before taking a few more swings at Naruto with a lightning fast pace. Naruto confirmed his theory by ducking and dodging out of the way, choosing not to make contact for a second time.
Sephiroth smirked before swinging his sword from its lowered position up and across his left side. The full single-handed swing caused the blade to seamlessly slice through the stone floor of the canyon and straight at Naruto. It was doubly hard to block due to the fact that Sephiroth was also left handed.
Naruto surprised him though by jumping up and seemingly crouching in mid air. Naruto used the same hand-on-blade block that he had used to mock Sephiroth to block the swing. From his leaning forward crouch Naruto looked set to perform a handstand on Masamune. Naruto's right leg lashed out and nailed Sephiroth right across the cheek.
'Heh, I'll use nearly all my strength with my legs, just to make the fight interesting.' Naruto watched Sephiroth skip across the clay floor like a stone, finally impacting a nearby mountain and stopping with an explosion of dust and debris.
'Heh, I may have overdone it. But he definitely won't die from that. Anyway, I want to test out my latest version of the Curse Seal on him.' The ruble exploded outwards, revealing a slightly injured Sephiroth. Naruto grinned at him. "Idiot, did you forget about my speed? Where do you think it comes from!"
Sephiroth's eyes widened slightly as he figured it out. 'So that's it, immense leg and lower body strength. I must be careful, his legs are far more dangerous than his sword despite its ability to extend.' Suddenly Naruto disappeared again and Sephiroth had the wind knocked out of him as both of Naruto's feet smashed into his lungs. When Sephiroth was facing down from the strength of the impact Naruto extended his neck and bit the back of his neck, injecting him with Negative Lifestream.
Naruto timed the next part to perfect, pushing off with his legs but allowing his chest to be caught by an inch of Sephiroth's blade.
'With Kabuto's knowledge of the Curse Seal and me redeveloping the Majin spell; I was able to corrupt a small part of the Lifestream that I got from the Mako fountain. By injecting Sephiroth with this, it should react with his Jenova cells. Even I don't know what will happen then; which is the only reason I'm leaving Sephiroth alive instead of having a 'lucky' victory against him. Who knows, I may recreate another Jūgo. (Juugo and Jūgo are the same in the Japanese language) If not then I'll use this procedure on Jenova herself. Bye bye Sephiroth!'
Naruto frowned as he looked down at his chest wound then back to a sweating Sephiroth. "Heh, you got me. Well then, the operation should have been a success by now so I'm bugging out. Hope you enjoy Mako poisoning Sephiroth! See yah!" Naruto turned around and disappeared from Sephiroth's vision, who felt an immense pain at the back of his neck. It hurt like a bitch but being in SOLDIER would allow him to survive. He had no idea of the special properties that Naruto had injected him with.