12. Lunar Exorcism, 101
Story Start: Tsukino Household Usagi's Bedroom
Naruto leaned against the wall next to Usagi's bedroom door as he read the rather large book that described all of the different temples found across the world. As he did, Usagi was sitting down on the floor with her back against her bed with a book in her arms and Chibiusa laying on the bed looking over her shoulder in a tired manner and Luna on her other side with her eyes closed.
"After his long and strenuous journey, the prince found her! But the princess had fallen into an eternal sleep, under a wicked witch's spell. He knelt down and kissed her-"
"Boring." Chibiusa said interrupting Usagi.
Usagi blinked and turned her head to look at the younger rabbit as she said "You got to be kidding! This is the best part of the story!"
"But I already know this story!" Chibiusa grumbled.
"So you mean I've just been reading this for my own enjoyment?" Usagi asked before she looked over the top of the book at Naruto and said "Naruto, you're a good multi-tasker, you've been listening right?"
Naruto looked up from his book and said "I plead the first rule of being a boy."
Usagi felt her eyebrow rise as she said "And what might that rule be young man?"
Smirking Naruto said "As a boy, thou shall not enjoy anything that even hints at romance or forever be called a sissi-boy."
Usagi blinked before she muttered under her breath "That sounds about right." This caused Naruto's smirk to turn into a full grin before he went back to his own reading. Shaking her head, Usagi said "Fine then, I guess I'll just enjoy the best part of this wonderful story by myself."
"You go ahead and do that cousin." Naruto said making Usagi frown at him before she began reading the last few pages still talking out loud as if proving her point causing Naruto to raise his own eyebrow before he ignored it. When she finished she gently closed the book with a soft snapping sound and stood up to put the book away only to stop at the sight of Chibiusa with her eyes closed on her bed. Frowning, she said "I can't believe she fell asleep at the best part."
Her head turned at the sound of Naruto's much more heavier book closing with a soft thud as he stood up with a sigh and said "From what mom and dad have told me sis has never been much of a night owl." Placing the book in his ever present book bag and swinging it over his shoulders, Naruto tightened the straps on it as he walked over and picked his sister up in his arms as he said "I should probably head to bed as well. I've got that training session with Mr. Hino tomorrow after all."
Usagi winced as that sentence accidentally brought up the memory of what happened when said priest tried to start a martial arts class that was interrupted by the Black Moon Clan. Seeing the wince but misinterpreting it, Naruto smirked and said "Don't worry cousin, I'm sure he'll go easy on me."
"That's not what I was thinking about." Usagi said. Naruto rose an eyebrow but Usagi just waved him off and said "Off to bed my little Maelstrom." Naruto stiffened at her words as Usagi blinked and muttered "Why did I just say that?"
Putting on a neutral face, Naruto shrugged and said "Probably because I'm little and we're family, even if we're from two very different centuries."
"Maybe." Usagi conceded before she yawned and said "I think I'll hit the hay as well. Good night Naruto."
"Good night Usagi." Naruto said before he walked out and turned left to go up the attic stairs. As he climbed the stairs, he looked down at his sister as she yawned and said "That was weird." Grinning down at her, he said "Not as weird as you calling her Aunt V that one time she woke you up while her hair was down." Chibiusa blushed and turned her head to the side causing Naruto to chuckle before he reached the top of the stairs and placed Chibiusa on top of her bed.
As his sister dug underneath her blankets, she said "Good night brother." Smiling as he went under his own covers, he said "Good night sis."
Scene Change: Hikawa Shrine
Naruto ducked as Rei's grandfather sent a haymaker over his head. He then bent backwards into a right handspring as the old man tried to sweep his feet. Spinning on his hand Naruto swung his left foot at his opponent's head only to have it deflected and he quickly flipped from the countering straight punch to his ribs.
Mr. Hino frowned as he took a step forward while spinning on his heel in order to send a kick into Naruto's guard. As the blonde brought his arm up in a sweeping motion to through off his balance he said "You seem to be slightly distracted this morning young prince."
"Yeah well, something weird happened last night and it keeps popping up in my mind." Naruto said spinning away from the old man who had turned his maneuver against him by doing his own hand stand to counteract the loss of balance and sent his other foot at him. It had been weird for Naruto when the old man had cornered him two months ago and had said that he knew exactly when Naruto was from thanks to a vision from the shrine's great fire and the man wanted details on why he and his sister were in this era. Rei would be quite surprised if she ever found out her grandfather had known almost from the very beginning what kind of trouble she usually found herself in. Apparently there was very little you could keep hidden from a fire reading master when it came to anything even remotely concerning their family. Who knew?
"Oh? What happened?" the man asked as he pivoted on his heel while sending a hard straight punch that would shatter Naruto's guard if he tried to block it. But to his slight surprise, the blond didn't deflect the blow. Instead he actually leaned forward a little before he caught the punch in his right hand and used the force of it to spin in a circle and slam his right elbow into a hastily raised right forearm with a force that caused the old man to actually skid across the floor for about a foot.
Shifting into a defensive stance, Naruto shrugged as he said "When it was time go to bed last night, she called me her little Maelstrom. It had caught me a little off guard since that's what mom used to call me before I left for the Leave Village."
Mr. Hino hummed in thought as he cocked his head slightly before he chuckled and said "Well, the bond between a mother and her child is a very strong one. Even when one is not aware of the other it can't help but form between them when they meet. And Usagi is already aware that you are her descendant, even if she doesn't know how closely the two of you are related. Is it really any surprise she claimed you in such a way?"
"Well no, but hearing her call me that when she doesn't actually know I'm her son is just weird." Naruto said.
"I suppose it would be. Either way, I think we've done enough for the day. Come, let's see how your sister is doing." Mr. Hino said as he dropped his own stance causing Naruto to do the same and the blond followed him out of their training area snatching his book bag that was by the door as he did so.
The two walked through the shrine in a comfortable silence as they headed to the building housing the shrine's foretelling fire. Reaching the building, they took off their shoes and placed them on the side of the door against two other pairs of shoes before they entered the building. Walking into the fire room, they saw Rei kneeling in front of the fire with Chibiusa next to her. Both girls were wearing the shrine uniform and Chibiusa's hair was let down but tied with a ribbon like Rei's was preventing their hair from accidentally getting burned. Chibiusa was looking into the fire with her face beginning to scrunch up. But as she began to squint, Rei said "Don't try so hard Chibiusa, it won't come to you if you try to force it too hard."
"But every time I think I see something, it goes away." The younger lunar whined.
"That's not surprising considering you've only started learning two weeks ago." Mr. Hino said announcing his and Naruto's presence as the two walked over and kneeled beside the two girls. "And even then, you've only had six lessons. Three of which was learning how to unlock your ability to even see the hidden shapes in a fire. It takes time before you can begin to see anything with any real clarity. Fire reading is like a muscle, you have to exercise it to let it grow stronger. But just like a muscle, you can tear it if you overexert it. That is a rather common mistake that beginners make and it tends to set them back a bit when they do it. You have to be patient."
All of this went right over Naruto's head as he listened since apparently, he didn't have the right 'inner eye' to read the fire like the Hinos and his sister did. Oh he understood the metaphor of the muscle alright, but how could you strain something that wasn't actually physically there? Although Mr. Hino thought he might be able to 'dream seek' general things in the future, note the emphasis on might. Shaking his head, he thought 'And Kushina-sensei wonders why I always get a lost look every time she talks to me about reading those tarot cards of hers.'
He was brought out of that thought by Mr. Hino clapping his hands as the man said "Well, I believe that's enough philosophy for one day. Come, it's time for lunch." Easily standing up from his kneeling position without the use of his hands, the man bowed to the fire before he spun around and made his way out of the room. Naruto rocked back a little to get to his own feet and did the same before he followed his semi teacher/sparring partner as Rei and Chibiusa chose the 'sensible' route and used their hands to get up and followed as well after doing their own bows.
They quickly made their way to the building where the kitchen and dining area was kept and saw Chad cutting the last of the half sandwiches he had made for them all. Placing them on the table and taking a seat, he asked "So how is Chibiusa coming along?" He couldn't fire read either although he was fairly accurate when it came to what was known as 'atmo reading' which was reading the air currents and other atmospheric variables around him. It wasn't really what one would call an 'inner eye' skill but thanks to him, the Hinos were never caught flat footed when ever it began raining due to natural causes. He actually taught a small class on how to properly do it as part of paying his rent.
"Quite well actually. She's already beginning to see images a little." Rei said as she grabbed a sandwich half and chewed on it thoughtfully as she studied her student. Swallowing, she said "I'd give her a month before she can start seeing general images. It'll take a while before she can actually direct her focus enough to see things on command though, and even longer before she can foretell anything with any kind of guaranteed accuracy."
"Still better than anything I could hope to accomplish." Naruto said before taking a mega bite out of his sandwich and chewed before swallowing as he said "Whenever I look into it all I ever see is a hungry teenager devouring his wooden lunch."
Chad chuckled as he said "Yeah well, I think we've all confirmed you're better at reading the here and now than yesterday or tomorrow."
"Very true." Mr. Hino said as he grabbed a second sandwich and stuck a pickle from the jar in front of him inside it before chomping on it. Chewing thoughtfully as he considered his semi student, he swallowed and said "I don't think Naruto's eye will open for around another decade at least. It won't be very strong though, and unfortunately, even when it does open, it's going to be more oriented to dreams than anything and those are the most tricky to try and figure out with any accuracy. He'd be better with using his analyzing abilities to read what's around him instead of ahead of him. No offense Naruto."
"None taken. I'm not really one for this look into the future kind of stuff anyway."
"True." Chad said as he grabbed a pickle for himself and popped it into his mouth. Chewing twice before he swallowed, he said "That said though, you seemed to be fairly good at atmo reading the couple of times you've been in my class."
Naruto shrugged as he said "We're taught to be as observant as possible at my school. Atmo reading is really just building on that awareness."
Chad nodded and the topic changed to what the two kids were learning at school beginning a discussion between Naruto and Rei about how it wasn't fair that they couldn't do better science experiments than just making small magnets and other small stuff.
Scene Change: Tsukino Household: 11:37 PM
Naruto's eyes snapped open as he heard a stair creak below him. Shooting up immediately alert, his eyes shot around before he relaxed the slightest bit as he saw no one was in the room with him and his sister. Moving to the staircase, he looked down and sent chakra to his ears. Catching the sound of someone moving around on the ground floor, he frowned before he turned his head as he heard his sister get out of bed. Silently making his way over, he gently pushed her back down and said "I'll take care of this, you stay here alright?"
He waited until Chibiusa nodded before he walked over to his book bag and pulled out his sword. Now armed, he quickly made his way down to the second floor where he spotted Luna coming out of Usagi's room. The lunar cat must have sensed him because she immediately turned her head. She was about to gasp at the sight of him but he allowed his crescent moon mark to flash into existence for five seconds and she immediately relaxed when she saw it. A noise from below them drew both of their attention and they traded looks before they made their way down to the ground level.
Seeing a light coming from the kitchen, the two made their way there and pressed against the wall next to the door. Leaning his head against the doorframe and slowly tilting his head to perform a quick visual sweep of the room, Naruto allowed his tense body to relax as he saw blond hair held in two buns and he let out a sigh as he said "Isn't it a little late for a snack Usagi?"
He frowned when she didn't answer and his frown grew when he heard a near silent sob escape from his future mother. Trading a look with Luna, the two entered the kitchen and walked over to the teen who was kneeling in front of the open refrigerator. Luna gasped at the considerably less full appliance and she said "Usagi, what on earth are you doing? You'll have terrible time of getting to sleep if you eat all that."
Usagi's sobs became louder as she said "I don't care. I'm just going to eat all my troubles away. Mamoru no longer loves me, he's even gotten a new girlfriend!" Usagi was close to all out brawling now.
"What?!" Naruto asked in a sharp whisper and Luna shivered as Killing Intent slowly filled the air. Naruto scowled as he said "Alright that does it. I'm going to have a little talk with that jerk tomorrow." Scowl dropping to a concerned frown as he watched his mother still eating, he said "But that can wait." Grabbing the bun that Usagi had just taken out of the refrigerator, he tossed it back into its bowl before he closed the refrigerator door and grabbed Usagi's hands when she reached to open the refrigerator door again. Placing himself between her and the door, he let go of her left hand and lightly slapped her left cheek leaving a pink mark that caused her to blink and raise her now freed hand to her now stinging cheek. At least she had stopped crying though.
Naruto released her right hand as he said "Now you listen to me Usagi Tsukino. You are going to stop this absolutely ridiculous behavior. You are a sailor scout, and sailor scouts do not just turn to food as a form of suicide like some soap opera diva that finally had reality slap her in the face. You are stronger than that. Now get back to your room, get changed and meet me at the front door in ten minutes. If you're not there when I come down then I will kick down your door and drag you out. Am I understood?"
Usagi could only nod to her future son and she slowly stood and left the kitchen. Naruto sighed before he followed her to get changed as well. Reaching the attic, he sighed again as he saw his sister looking at him in confusion. Heading to the closet to get a change of clothes, he said "Usagi needs some fresh air so we're heading out, I'll leave a clone since we'll probably be gone for a while. Try to go back to sleep while we're gone alright?"
"Ok." Chibiusa said still not sure what was going on but trusting that her brother was handling it and so turned over to face the wall trying to do as he said.
Ten minutes later, Naruto watched Usagi lock the front door before turning around to look at him. Her eyes were still red from crying so much and the sight made Naruto frown before he turned around and said "Let's go." He then took off running and Usagi and Luna quickly followed.
As they ran, Naruto looked back and said "I think it's time for another lesson on lunar abilities Usagi. This one is how to use your lunar energy when you are not transformed to give yourself a kind of boost, making you faster and stronger to a certain degree. You already do it on a subconscious level when you transform into Sailor Moon, but if you can learn to do it by will, then you can use it at anytime you need it. Now, here's what you have to do."
Scene Change: Park
The two lunars stopped running when they reached the lake where people could rent out small boats. Usagi leaned over her knees panting a little as she said "I can't believe we can actually run that fast." Luna nodded her head from where she was sitting on Naruto's shoulder. The poor feline's fur was all ruffled from the small wind the two generated as they ran.
Naruto, who to Usagi's ire was even the slightest bit winded grinned as he said "We can actually go a whole lot faster, but that's teleportation, not running, and I can't do it yet since it takes so much to even activate, never mind the added energy cost to get to where you want to teleport to. If I did try it, I'd probably wind up in a coma for a few years."
"So you're not all powerful. That's good to know." Usagi said with a tired grin and Naruto gave a soft chuckle before he stiffened as he heard "Well, well. Looks like old Wiseman's little vision was right. The little brat and a heartbroken scout. This should be fun."
Naruto cursed to himself wondering how those two had managed to sneak up on him considering how familiar he was with their signatures by now. He had a lunar sword in hand as he turned around and stepped in front of Usagi and said "Sparky and Kinky, what a surprise. Let me guess, the two of you were feeling a little rusty and so came to have a nice little spar with me."
Both Prisma and Avery snarled at the nicknames but those snarls quickly turned into cruel grins as Avery said "Things are going to be much more different this time around. Your companion behind you isn't in her sailor form and we outnumber you two to one."
"I think you mean I outnumber you three to two." Naruto said before a shadow clone appeared on either side of him. Both clones gave savage grins as they both pulled their swords out of the their book bags causing the sisters to both take a step back and their faces gained wary looks as they eyed the blades that they were very familiar with.
Then the two seemed to remember something as both began smirking as Avery said "I think you're going to be a little too preoccupied to deal with us. Droid Hypnotica, Now!"
The lake behind them erupted as a blue haired droid with a horn on her forehead burst out of the water and launched herself at Usagi. All three shinobi trained blonds had sensed it just before it breached the surface and the original was already turning as it shot out of the water. The instant the droid had started moving towards Usagi, a Lunar Wave shot past the older lunar on an interception path. However, as soon as it reached the droid, she seemed to become black smoke and it seemingly passed through her without doing anything. Naruto's surprise at this was enough for the droid to get in close and suddenly the black smoke was entering Usagi's mouth and going down her wind pipe.
The effects of this odd possession were immediately apparent as Usagi's eyes rolled to the back of her head and she dropped to the ground like a sack of potatoes. And then her body began glowing pink and a haze of energy began leaving her body.
"Usagi!" Naruto and Luna shouted in alarm as he leapt the five feet separating them and landed in a crouch next to her putting his hand on her forehead and using the diagnostic jutsu to find out what was happening to his future mother. His clones both turned their heads slightly to see what was going on out of the corner of their eye but both kept their other eye on their opponents. Luna meanwhile was looking on in worry unable to do anything as her charge was brought under attack from the inside.
Avery laughed at the sight as she said "Oh no, I don't think the little girl will ever wake up again, how sad." Her sister began laughing as well before they both immediately stopped as Naruto's killing intent began suffocating them. 'Oh shit!' both thought with wide eyes as they just now remembered what this kid had done to Rubeus after he had attacked the very same girl not two weeks before. Suddenly neither of them thought their plan was a good one anymore.
Naruto looked up from Usagi's body and turned his head to look over his shoulder at them and both of them shivered at the sight of his sapphire eyes bleeding into silver as he said in a double toned voice "I want them in pieces."
His clones didn't need telling twice and they wasted no time launching themselves at the sisters with their blades shrieking with wind chakra. Avery and Prisma both jumped back to avoid the blades but to their surprise when they landed the felt pain coming from their stomach areas. Looking down, they saw that they hadn't actually avoided the blades like they had thought and both had shallow but rather long cuts across their stomachs.
Looking up, they saw the clone on the right had switched to a back hand grip with the blade held in front of his face. It started whining louder and a green energy became visible that not only coated the blade but also extended a full foot from the point. Grinning, the clone applied more wind chakra and it shot an additional two and a half feet in length making it a total of four and a half feet before the clone shot towards Prisma weaving a net of green light around him and tearing the ground apart on either side of him as he ran. Prisma cursed and shot a lightning bolt at the clone even as she jumped away. Her eyes widened when the clone expertly blocked the bolt of lightning with his sword and the bolt instantly fizzled into nothing. She didn't have any time to question what happened though because as soon as she landed, she had a four and half foot claymore of wind chakra being swung at her in a now two handed grip that was ready to cut her in half.
Prisma barely got out of the way of becoming half of what she was in time. Unfortunately, her left arm didn't come out unscathed. The claymore had left a rather nasty cut right at her elbow and her lower arm was now useless. Prisma held back a scream as she tried to retaliate while the blonde's back was exposed due to the swing but was unable to do anything as the clone used the momentum from the swing to turn in a full circle and bring the sword down over his head. The wind surrounding the sword burst off it and shot towards his opponent overtaking her and slicing into her body causing her to scream in pure agony.
Avery was having her own set of trouble. When she had looked at the clone that was facing her sister, she had been surprised at the sight of the green energy coating the blade. But as the clone resumed its attack against the lightning user, a crackling sound drew her attention to the other clone and her eyes widened at the sight of the other clone's blade surrounded by crackling electricity that was moving around in a what seemed to be both chaotic but at the same time controlled manner.
The clone grinned at his opponent as he said "I'm going to enjoy this." The clone then did a flourishing salute with his blade with it ending pointed down at the ground right next to his right foot before he shot at his target fast enough to blur. Avery's eyes had barely widened before she screamed as the clone's blade pierced her torso and the lightning nature chakra in the blade lit her up like the Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center. The clone kept the blade in her torso for a full minute before he cut the flow of chakra off and pulled it out. Without the clone holding it up, Avery's now unconscious body wasted no time in falling to the ground like a puppet with its strings cut.
The clone looked down at the body for a moment contemplating the fact that this would technically be his creator's first kill before he swung the sword around his hand into a reverse grip and raised it in preparation of ending it. 'This is war. And in war, people die.' the clone thought. But just before he began to bring the sword down, the woman's body was covered in a black light and she vanished. Sighing, the clone lowered the blade as he thought 'Looks like someone's been watching.' Turning, he saw the same happen to his brother's opponent and the two traded looks before they turned towards their creator.
With The Original Naruto
A small part of Naruto noticed when his clones began attacking the two sisters, but almost his entire focus was on his future mother and figuring out how to get the parasitic droid out of her. As he ran the diagnostic jutsu trying to figure out just what was happening to the older lunar and the best way to stop it, he thought 'Of all the times the Lunar Scape could come in handy, and I don't even know who to ask for.' As soon as that thought finished, Naruto wanted to slap himself. 'Of course, I'm so stupid! The registry!'
Naruto waited another thirty seconds for the diagnostic jutsu to finish before his crescent mark flared and his consciousness temporarily fled to the plane of existence where time had no meaning.
Scene Change: Lunar Scape: Registry
Naruto's eyes opened and he looked around the room he appeared in since this was the first time he had ever actually had a need to use it. The registry was a six walled room that was about twenty feet long. Set just off center to the middle of the room on the side of the door, was a pedestal with buttons on it for user interaction and a hologram projector mounted in the ceiling.
Walking over to the pedestal, Naruto studied the buttons before he looked up as the hologram projector automatically turned on and a holographic image of a raven colored man wearing a white coat appeared in front of him. Giving off the appearance of a researcher, he grinned at Naruto as he said "Greetings, I am LRAIA, Lunar Registry Artificial Intelligence Assistant, but most people like to call me Leon. I'm here to help you locate whoever it is you need to contact. How can I be of assistance?"
Naruto took a deep breath before he said "I'm looking for someone who specialized in the removal of this kind of possession." Placing his hand on an area outlined in the shape of a handprint, he allowed the pedestal to scan his memories and pull up the results of the diagnostic jutsu he just ran.
As the holographic image sprung up, Leon pulled a pair of glasses out of the right breast pocket on his coat and opened them with his left hand as he slid them on. Studying the readings in front of him, he nodded and said "I believe I know just the lunar for your problem. Give me one moment to verify." Leon's hologram shimmered for a few seconds signaling that he was currently running a task before he became solid again as he said "The lunar I had in mind would in fact be able to help you relatively late in his life." Leon stepped to the side and another man, this one red headed with a trace of blue mixed in marking him as the descendant of some extent to a Mercury celestial wearing a doctor's outfit that looked similar to Leon's appeared.
The man's biography stats appeared in between the man and Leon and the AI said "This is Dr. Rodric Trian. He was the leading researcher in the field of exorcism through yin yang infusion of a possessed body. This is the man who practically invented this infusion method so if anyone can help you, it would be him. Shall I input the proper time coordinates into the Solaris chamber sir?"
Naruto quickly studied the man's biography for a moment before he nodded and said "Yes please Leon. And thanks for the help."
Leon smirked as he said "You are quite welcome Your Highness. The Solaris chamber will be ready once you reach it, good luck Naruto."
Naruto nodded his thanks and stepped away from the podium. Leon's hologram disappeared and the door to the room opened. Walking through it, Naruto thought 'Thank god for AIs, I don't think I could have found the right person within a day without Leon's help.'
Coming to the Solaris chamber, Naruto entered and walked down the walkway inside until he reached the end where there was an interface chair. Sitting down in it, a holographic image showed his coordinates as well as asking him if this was when he wanted to send his consciousness. Trusting Leon's knowledge, Naruto accepted the coordinates and watched as the screen disappeared and the rings of the gyroscope began turning.
His surroundings began to fade away before they suddenly came back into sharp focus and he found himself standing in the courtyard. Looking around in slight confusion since this was the first time he had used the chamber, he was slightly surprised as he heard "Well now, this is a surprise. Usually the ones who want to learn my trade are a bit older before they give me a call."
Turning around, Naruto came face to face with the good doctor himself and he bowed as he said "I recon my circumstances are a bit different sir."
Dr. Trian's eyebrow rose and he said "Oh? Do tell."
Scene Change: Tokyo Park: The Present
Naruto's eyes opened and he grinned as he thought 'Thank you Solaris!' Face turning serious, he thought 'And thank you Dr. Trian. Now, let's get this parasite out of mom.' Taking a deep breath, Naruto rubbed his hands together before he placed his right hand on Usagi's forehead and his left hand over her heart. Taking another deep breath, Naruto's mark flared and his lunar energy surged as he prepared it for infusion. A moment later, he pushed it down his arms and willed it to spread through Usagi's body. He immediately sensed the parasitic droid jerking in surprise at the added yang energy that almost immediately began disrupting the droid's overbalancing of yin yang inside Usagi's body. As the droid tried to restore the 'balance' ratio, Naruto thought 'Unh uh, you're not pushing anymore of Usagi's energy out.' He pushed even more of his yang energy in and he grinned in satisfaction as he 'heard' the yin based droid scream in pain as the tables turned and the yang energy began destroying the enemy from the inside. Fifteen seconds later, the droid couldn't take anymore and Naruto saw it shoot out of Usagi's mouth screaming in pain.
Naruto wasted no time blasting the clone away with an overpowered Lunar Wave permanently putting the parasite out of its misery. Hearing Usagi groaning, he grinned as he looked down and saw her opening her eyes. Luna sighed in relief as she thought 'Thank goodness.' As Usagi looked around in confusion, Naruto said "Glad to see you awake Usagi. You had me worried."
"You had us worried as well." The clone that took on Prisma said as the two clones walked over. Naruto looked over his shoulder at them and said "What happened?" The two clones glanced at each other before the one who took on Avery said "Well, I basically hooked my opponent up to a giant outlet plug for a minute before she was transported out. Brother here pretty much turned the other one into sushi with wind chakra before she was also transported out."
Sighing, Naruto said "So they both survived." When the two clones nodded, he sighed again before he said "Well, nothing we can do about that now. Thanks guys." The two clones nodded before they dispersed themselves. Naruto absorbed their memories before he held his hand to Usagi and said "Well, this has been an interesting night. Lets go home cousin."
Usagi took the offered hand and allowed her future son to pull her up even as she looked around in confusion as she said "What happened?"
"That droid of their's? Turns out it was a kind that likes to posses people. It was killing you by overbalancing your already extremely delicate yin yang balance pushing out your yang energy in the process. I had to push some of my own in to do the same to the droid to get it to leave your body. Once it was out, I blasted it with a Lunar Wave and it pretty much evaporated from all of the excess yang energy." Naruto answered with a slight shrug.
"Okay?" Usagi said as she blinked in confusion not fully understanding but understanding that the younger blond knew what he had been doing when he did it. Luna herself blinked as she thought 'He used yin yang infusion for exorcism? That's a rather tricky method, just who did he talk to when he went to the Lunar Scape before he started?' Unaware of the lunar cat's thoughts, Naruto released Usagi's hand and took off running back to the Tsukino household ready to hit his futon.
Scene Change: Mamoru's Apartment The Next Morning
Mamoru frowned as he heard someone knocking at the door. Wondering who was visiting him, he set the newspaper down and got up from his table. Walking into the entrance hall, he peered into the peep hole and frowned when he didn't see anyone. He was about to dismiss it as a prank when whoever was out there knocked again. Frown growing, Mamoru unlocked his door and pulled it open.
He had barely had time to look down before he folded over like an accordion and was thrown back from the foot that had slammed into his stomach. Looking up from where he landed, his eyes widened as he saw a pissed off Naruto lower his foot and stomp into his apartment slamming the door shut as he growled out "What the hell is wrong with you?!"
"What are you talking about?" Mamoru asked scrabbling backwards while trying to get up. If it was anyone else he would be sending the guy packing but after what he saw at the construction site this kid honest to god scared him.
"Don't you go playing dumb with me! Let me guess, the cold shoulder wasn't working so you decided to completely shatter her heart. Well I've got news for you bud. Thanks to you, Usagi nearly died last night!" Naruto said shouting the last part as he shot forward and kicked his future father into his family room where he slammed against his couch.
"W-what?" Mamoru asked looking at Naruto with confusion.
Naruto growled and said "I had to get her out of the house after she tried to eat everything in the Tsukino's kitchen. Only instead of helping her clear her head, we were tracked down by two of the invaders who apparently knew about Usagi's problem. If it wasn't for you, we wouldn't have been out there. Tell me, how does breaking your love's heart to the point where someone can accurately send an assassination attempt at her keep her alive?"
"I was just trying to get her to hate me, I didn't know the enemy would go after her like that!" Mamoru said as he got to his feet.
"Well guess what! Your plan backfired!" Naruto shouted before he shot forward and jumped up to Mamoru's height and grabbed the back of his head and brought it straight into the path of his rising knee strike. Landing on the ground, Naruto turned around and began walking back to the apartment entrance as he said "Next time you come up with a way to make Usagi hate you, forget it." He opened the door and looked over his shoulder at the reincarnated prince who was holding his now broken nose as he said "Because the next time you do, I'll send you to the hospital. She doesn't need you tearing her heart apart anymore than you already have."
He walked out and slammed the door so hard that the picture frames in the hallway fell to the floor and shattered causing Mamoru to flinch before he hung his head and thought 'I really messed up big this time.'
Omake 3: What's The Sitch?
Last Time: Serenity discovers the Solaris Chamber's destruction and Selene begins to explain what's going on in the even further future.
Selene sighed as she pondered her words. Coming to a decision, she said "When I am from, the year is currently AC two oh one. That puts us roughly one thousand three hundred and fifty odd years into your future. In a nut shell, our troubles springs from the fact that humans apparently are too curious for their own good.
In the year After Colony one nine five, a mining team was exploring an asteroid in the belt separating Mars and Jupiter. They were looking for metals to help with the construction of a series of space stations that would orbit the sun just outside of Pluto's orbit. Unfortunately, what they found was a vault buried deep in the asteroid that contained something our ancestors had sealed away long ago. We're not sure why this team decided it would be a good idea to open this vault, but when they did, they were attacked by this giant dragon whose element of choice was nothing short of pure darkness. The bad part is that this thing is not only sentient, but also highly intelligent. Every attempt we made to subdue it failed and only seemed to piss this thing off even more. What's worst is that it somehow knew about the Solaris chamber and the first thing it did after destroying the mining fleet was to somehow enter this plane and completely demolish the Solaris chamber preventing us from asking the Ancients how they sealed it in the first place. This put us at a huge disadvantage since every scientist or militaristic lunar we've actually been able to contact hasn't got a clue on how to deal with this thing."
Selene looked up at the earth above them as she sighed and said "It's pretty much killed all life in the solar system except for those on Earth. And even we're not safe since it loves to make what can only be called bombing runs on the planet for its sick entertainment." Looking back at Serenity, she said "I'm not sure how much longer we'll be able to last. If what I have planned doesn't work out, we'll be picked off one settlement at a time until the earth is as dead as the rest of the planets in this Solar System."
Serenity closed her eyes and said "What do you need me to do?"
Selene's eyes closed for a moment before she opened them and said "We've found records indicating that the Ancients first subdued the dragon using ships that were specifically designed for the task. However, the design of these ships seem to have been lost in time. In order to get these designs, we need to get in contact with the Ancients. But thanks to the bastard currently residing on the moon, we are going to have to be a bit creative in how we contact them. Tell me, are you familiar with the tale of the Twilight Bark?"