Ask and yee shall recieve prototype gear, hell this went over 7000 so I guess I might of overdone it.
*Yawn* Last update for the week.
Chapter 13: Mission Start!: Journey to the Border!
The white being that had sent the Tactician of the Shepards through the gate to the world of the Elemental Nations, was currently staring at said gate. Deep in thought.
It seemed that despite the beings intentions, it had unintentionly altered the world in ways that it had not for seen.
People and beings that were not meant to exist in this world seemed to be popping up within the world of Shinobi ever since the Tacticians arrival. Some of them hadn't been a problem and seemed to be impacting the world in postive ways. Others however...
The being had noticed Grima's reemergance, not that they could do anything about it. Hell, they'd already had to pull a few strings to be allowed to send the Tactician and his children into the other world.
The influence it had over that world was actually fairly limited. While it was something that a mortel would consider a God, that didn't mean much when it's purpose was merely to watch over all the worlds.
Worlds were divided with each having their own God that kept the flow of each world running smoothly. Naga was a good example of this in the way that she handled threats to her world such as Grima.
But there were things that even the Gods didn't have control over, beings that threatened the worlds and the fabric of the multiverse. These upstarts commonly were big enough threats that they could very well destroy an entire world if they pleased. Beings such as Grima fit under this.
Why didn't the Gods themselves deal with such beings? It's due to the fact that the Gods themselves were not created for the purpose of battle.
While certain ones could fight, their power was so strong that they could easily destroy entires worlds in an instant causing it to become forbidden for them to actually toy with the affairs of the worlds they watched over.
They weren't truly immortal either, they just couldn't die at the hands of mortals for the most part, only beings that held power that was close to a Gods could actually outright kill them.
That's why the current growing problem within the world of the Elemental Nations was a problem.
Something had appeared there. It wasn't Grima, while the demonic dragon was just as much a threat as any other upstart, it wasn't what the white being was worried about.
In fact, the white being didn't know what this new upstart was, neither did the current overseer of the Elemental Nations world.
To be able to avoid the gaze of both the white being and the overseer of the world was considered to be an impossible feat. Yet somehow this creature was able to perfectly conceal itself.
That worried the white being greatly, it was part of the reason it started getting involved in the affairs of that world.
The overseer hadn't been very cooperative however, despite the changes and possible threat that was growing within it's world, the overseer still limited what the white being could do greatly.
At least Naga had been cooperative with the white being sending people from her world to the Elemental Nations.
The beings thoughts drifted for a moment. If it recalled correctly, hadn't a world under Naga's watch vanished at some point?
Perhaps that had something to do with what was occuring within the world of the Elemental Nations.
The orange skies of twilight washed over the scene as his eyes observed what appeared to be a girl standing at the edge of a boardwalk that was built over a lake around what appeared to be a forest.
He attempted to look around in confusion, yet his eyes stayed glued to the back of the girl, causing him to note her flowing white dress and long light blue hair that seemed rather odd compared to the bluenettes the boy was familler with. The final piece of clothing the boy noted was the hairband like piece of clothing that had a white cloth extending down the back of it to her shoudlers.
The blonde didn't know what to make of the scene, until he began to hear the girl sing.
"Swaying, and being swayed." The girl began as she also began to slowly walk down the boardwalk. The blonde found himself mystified as he listined to the girl's voice.
"One's thoughts flow, like bubbles," She continued to walk further down the wooden structure as she sang, seemingly unaware of his watching eyes.
"Down the river stream," He felt himself slowly began to walk up towards the girl as he continued listening to her sing.
"Those hands will, open up, the path to tomorrow." The girl stopped at that point and slowly turned around, her faded golden eyes meeting his mismatched blue and gold. She made no true indication that his presence disturbed her and instead seemed to be waiting for something.
"A-amazing,,," He said slowly as the girl smiled at him and slowly turned back around and stepped toward the edge of the boardwalk, her steps seemed to cause ripples to spring outwards in the water of the lake.
He slowly followed her out towards the edge as strange feelings began to well up within him.
Once he reached her, she turned towards him once again with the same smile still on her face. "I'm glad you enjoyed it...Naruto-kun."
Naruto awakened shortly after hearing the last of the girl's words in his dream. "Who was that? Why was she in my dream? How did she know who I was?" Questions flowed through the blondes head without a true answer as he thought of the girl.
Suddenly, his thoughts reminded him of what was happening today as his face lit up in joy.
Today was the day of his first C rank mission!
He recalled Hayate mentioning that they'd be leaving in the morning as he checked the apartments clock, noticing that it was only six in the morning.
Oh well, being early was always better then being late, the Tactician in training reasoned to himself as he took a quick moment to glance at his caretaker, who was currently sleeping on the floor.
Once Severa had shown up, the sleeping arrangements had been altered, mostly in her favour it seemed since now she got to use the bed that the blonde had been using to sleep on for the past few years, and since they didn't have a second bed for now, Robin had given Naruto the couch while the white haired Tactician took the floor.
As he picked up what he needed for the Mission and one of the many books on tactics that Robin had gotten for him over the years. Naruto quietly began to head towards the door to depart.
He stopped himself however when he noticed an Einherjar's card laying on the table with a note attached to it.
Naruto picked it up and quickly read the note. It read "I know your an early riser Naruto, so I've left this here for you to take with you, might come in handy for you."
The blondes face lit up once again when he checked to see which card it was.
It was the card of Lyndis.
Naruto resisted the urge to hug his sleeping caretaker, as he slowly left the apartment. He had a mission to get to after all.
The third training ground, was a place Rebecca didn't vist often.
The third training ground, was probably the most well known training field among both Shinobi and regular citizens of Konoha due to a certain object that was built there.
The Memorial Stone. A stone that listed the names of Shinobi that died in service of the village. Among the names listed on the rock was Rebecca's brother.
While it isn't fully known if her brother was dead, due to what the mission entailed and the last form of contact that was recieved from the Shinobi that had been sent.
They'd been sent to investigate a town that was barely on the border of the Land of Fire and Land of Wind, from what was gathered from the messanger bird that the team sent back, a missing nin from Iwa was hiding out in the border town. However, when backup was sent to aid the team that Rebecca's brother had been apart of, the town was found to be completely destroyed by what could only be an explosion. The bodies of the team were unable to be found.
Despite the fact that there was no true way to know if the team had died or been in the explosion, each member was labeled as KIA and had their names engraved on the Memorial Stone.
"Hey...Dan." Rebecca spoke slowly, her usual cheerful tone replaced by a more solemn one as she stood near the stone that resembled the commonly used Kunai. "It's been awhile. Haha."
"Sorry for not coming to vist since I joined the academy." A saddened smile began to form as she continued staring at the dark blue stone. "I've been pretty busy over the years. I made a friend that isn't you for a change, his names Naruto, he's actually pretty smart compared to most of the boys I know. I even ended up being on the same team as him when we graduated. Oh right I forgot to mention, I did it Dan! I became a Kunoichi just like I said I would! And to think, you thought I couldn't do it, Well look who's talking now!" She began to shout up with her tone being a slight mix of both happiness and sadness at this point.
"My other teammates name is Dante and he's pretty much an idiot compared to Naruto, hell I think he's just as dumb as you were Dan! Although...Whenever I see him, I just end up seeing you to be honest. He's so similar to you that it's weird, blindly rushing into things, acting like an idiot and he's also just as inconsiderate as you." Rebecca continued ranting on for a bit with her eyes closed and a smile still pasted on her face until she realized that she was running out of time. "Oh right, I need to get going Dan. Hayate-sensei's taking us on our first C rank today! I've been so excited that I had trouble sleeping last night. But anyway, I'll be going now Dan, and I promise I'll come vist you more!" With her words spoken, Rebecca turned around, only to find herself colliding with someone else.
"Ack! Sorry!" She apologized hastely as she looked up to see who she walked into.
It was a man with gravtiy defying silver hair and a dark mask worn over his mouth and wearing his Hitai-ate in a fashion similar to an eye patch. The man wore the standard Konoha flak jacket and dark blue pants that covered the majority of his legs.
The man seemed to smile at her with the use of his single showing eye as he looked down towards the greenette. "Paying your respects?" The man questioned as she quickly responded with the nod of her head.
Rebecca wouldn't lie. She found the man to be rather intimadating, the height difference and the fact that most of his face was covered caused her to be slightly on edge.
"Don't worry, I won't hurt you." The man spoke with that same eye smile before finally opening his only showing eye. "Shouldn't you be somewhere though, young miss?"
That knocked sense into her as she realized that if she kept standing there, then she was gonna be late to meet with the others! "Uh, thank you sir!" She cried out as she ran off to get to the gate her team was meeting at.
"This one's finished Tou-san!" Dante called out as he placed a newly forged blade on a table.
"Great, just leave it on the table and I'll get it later Dante!" His father called out from the front of the store.
Unlike most kids, Dante grew up surrounded by weapons since his day's as an infant. His families house was basically connected to the store that his father sold the weapon's they'd forged to any Shinobi that may require them.
Dante grunted in acknowledgement at his father's words as he decided to finally get the last thing he needed before leaving to meet with his team, as he stared at a wall of swords that his father kept in the backroom.
Despite growing up around all different sorts of weapon's. Dante had always found himself the most attracted to the Sword, truthfully he didn't know why, perhaps it had something to do with his father or maybe something else affected him.
He grabbed a normal white Katana, the blade itself was kept perfectly clean. It'd never properly been used before.
This was the first blade Dante had ever forged on his own, and he had always planned on using it on the day of his first true mission as a Shinobi.
And today was finally the day for it to come off the wall and into his sheath.
With his blade collected and having gotten anything else he felt he needed, Dante made his way out of the backroom of his father's store and briefly turned towards the man before departing. "You sure your gonna be fine to run the place on your own while I'm gone, Tou-san?"
Dante's father was a much older man then some might expect, while his face gave the look of a man in his late thirties or early forties, the man was actually in his fifthies, and was pretty much bald in terms of hair while having a long grey beard desending down his chin, the man was shirtless and wore tattered yellow pants. A very noteable thing about the man was his right arm, it was basically a stump from how it appeared to be, dangling at the mans side as if there was nothing keeping the arm up.
"Ha, since when do you care about stuff like that? Get going ya little runt, that nice Tenten girl volunteered to lend me a hand while your gone." The man chuckled as Dante shrugged.
"Alright, I'll see ya when I get back then Tou-san." Dante carelessly left the door open behind him as he ventured off into the streets. His father watched him depart with a smile on his face.
"Stay safe, Gaki."
Naruto stood by the side of Konoha's main gate as he calmly read his book, not really paying attention to the world around him. Although his thoughts weren't truly on the book in his hand and more focused on the girl from his dream.
Never before had a dream left Naruto so confused. Had he met the girl at some point and just forgotten?
He shook his head at that thought, he was sure that he'd never met a girl like her before. But then why was someone that he was sure he'd never met showing up in one of his dreams?
Maybe she was just a figment of his imagination?
He was taken out of his thought's when he felt someone slam their hands onto his shoulders.
That person quickly ended up being grabbed and thrown to the ground.
"Thanks Ike-sensei!"
"Damn Uzumaki...that hurt." It was then that Naruto noticed that the person he'd just thrown was his sword wielding teammate.
"Ah, sorry Dante-san, I get a bit jumpy sometimes." He offered the brunette a hand that Dante looked at in confusion.
"Your...not gonna scold me?" Naruto chuckled at the swordsmens question.
"Normally I would, but I don't really feel like it today." Naruto stated plainly, causing Dante to shrug and finally take the hand.
"Naruto-kun!" The shout of the teams final member caused both boy's to look in her direction.
Dante stepped forward with his hand up in a waving motion as he saw the greenette headed their way. "Yo Elibe, what's up?" He questioned as she simply ran past him and began talking to the blonde haired member of the team. Dante stared blankly at the pair as his mind began jumping to conculsions. "It's not fair!" He thought as he began to cry in the corner as his teammates simply continued talking to each other, completely ignoring him.
"*Cough* Well, I see your all here *Cough*" The sound of their Sensei caused them to end any conversation they were having as they all looked towards him. "Alright, *Cough* as you three know *Cough* we'll be headed to the border to *Cough* guard a researcher by the name of *Cough* Tatsuki Surei, once he's finished then we'll be able to head back. It'll take us a *Cough* full two days to reach the border. *Cough* So we'll be stopping at a town halfway there. *Cough* Understood?" The three nodded. "Alright *Cough* let's head off then."
"Bout time." Dante thought with a smirk as he gripped his sheathed blade in anticepation.
"I'll make you proud Dan-nii!" Rebecca thought with her usual cheerful smile.
"Robin-nii, Ike-Sensei, Alm-Senpai, Lyndis-Sensei, Micaiah-nii, Palla-Sensei, Catria-Senpai, Est-chan, Elincia-sama, Katarina-Sensei. I'll make sure that everything you guys taught me wasn't for nothing, Dattebayo!" Naruto thought with a look of determination, picturing each of his teachers in his head as he thought of them.
With all of them ready and raring to go. The members of Team 6 slowly stepped out of the gate of Konoha.
The town that team 6 ended up stopping in was nothing truly special, it was merely a town mostly built for travelers and Shinobi to rest at, it was relatively small. Only having a few houses, an Inn and a few vendors for people to buy supplies at.
"Ugh, things have been so damn boring so far. When are we gonna get some action Hayate-sensei?" Dante questioned as he rubbed his shoulder.
"We probably won't see any action until we reach the border Dante-san." Naruto spoke calmly as they continued walking through the small town until Hayate stopped them.
"*Cough* I'm going to go get us some rooms at the Inn. *Cough* Feel free to do whatever you want until sundown." The trio nodded as Hayate walked off.
"Well I dunno bout you two, but I'm gonna go find me someone to fight! Can't be to hard!" Dante proceeded to walk away, leaving Naruto and Rebecca by themselves.
Rebecca's stomach growled, indicating her hunger as she looked towards her blonde teammate. "I'm gonna go get something to eat, you wanna come with me Naruto-kun?"
Naruto was about to accept the offer, until he noticed something familler past the nearby treeline. "Uh, I'll have to decline Rebecca-chan. There's something I want to go take a look at." Rebecca looked somewhat down at that answer.
"Oh, alright. I'll see you later then Naruto-kun." She walked off as Naruto turned towards the treeline.
"Something seems familler about that path." He noted as he went down the path into the treeline to investigate.
Meanwhile, Dante pounded away at a nearby tree in boredem.
"God damnit, isn't there anyone to fight around here?" Dante continued to slam his blade into the tree until he heard noise coming from nearby.
"So that's the plan boy's, we go in, take anything valuable and any women we find. Then leave the place burning." A collected cry of 'Yeah' was shouted out as Dante moved closer to the sound of the voice.
What he found was a group of Bandits. Planing to attack the town.
Now if this was the Dante that was freash out of the academy, then he'd probably charge straight into the entire group of Bandits shouting "MY NAME IS MASAMUNE DANTE AND I'M HERE TO KICK ALL OF YOUR ASSES!"
Luckily, thanks to all the team training sessions he'd been through, Dante was at least smart enough to not do that.
He'd go get his team, THEN charge into the horde of Bandits while shouting something he thought sounded badass.
So he turned around and began to retrace his steps back to town.
At least he would of, if he didn't step on a twig and alert the entire group of Bandits.
"Well well, looks like we have a little curious cat here boy's, let's show him how curiosity killed the cat!"
Four of the Bandits raced towards him as Dante decided that if there was ever a moment in life that he should run, then it'd be now.
Naruto moved through the path in the forest as he noticed the sky turn a dim orange. Causing his thoughts to drift to his dream.
"This can't be what I think it is can it? It was only a dream right?" He thought, until he began to hear someone singing up ahead.
"Swaying, and being swayed,"
"That voice!" Naruto began to run through the path, not caring about things such as when his elbow got cut into by a branch.
"One's thoughts, flow, like bubbles,"
He could hear the words clearly, the voice sounded closer as the blonde continued running through the trees.
"Down the river stream. Those hands will, open up, the path, to tomorrow."
As he reached the end of the path, Naruto stared out at the lake. It was the exact same as the one from his dream, the surrounding trees, the orange sky, the wooden boardwalk and finally, standing on the boardwalk, was the light blue haired girl wearing the same white dress from his dream, standing at the end of the boardwalk.
"Being swayed and swaying." The girl took one final step, causing ripples to wave through the lake.
She turned around as once again just like in his dream, only further apart. His mis-matched blue and golden eyes stared at her fade gold orbs.
"W-who are you?" They both questioned in unison as they continued to stare at each other. Untill they noticed smoke coming from the direction of the town.
Seeing the smoke was a pretty good indicater for Naruto that something bad was happening in town as he removed the girl from his thoughts at the moment and raced back towards the town.
He didn't realize that the girl began to head back towards the town in a similar fashion.
No matter how much he ran, Dante was unable to lose the Bandits that were chasing him.
"Damnit, don't you guys have anything better to do?!" He questioned as he parried an attack from one of the Bandits axes, due to Dante's bad luck however, he ended up being backed into a corner.
"You've gotta be kidding me!" The brunette swordsmen screamed out in his thoughts as he raised his Katana "At least it's only four of em, shouldn't be hard!"
The four Bandits charged at the swordsmen, he threw a pair of Shuriken at two of them ceasing their charge, while he parried the first one that got to him and blocked the second one. He quickly kicked the first one to the side so that he could keep his focus on the one currently clashing their axe against his blade.
"Come on Dante, think! What would Uzumaki do right now?" That thought put an idea in the swordsmens head.
He let himself trip. Causing his foot to hit the Bandit in the groin.
The Bandit was left upon due to the pain as Dante recovered quickly and slashed the man through their upper body.
"One down." His victory was short lived as the other three Bandits were apon him, their relentless attacks prevented Dante from having a chance to counter as he continued dodging and ducking between each attack.
An opening soon appeared as he stabbed one of the Bandit's in the gut, this ended up causing a new problem for Dante as his bloodstained blade was now stuck in the Bandits gut.
"WHY IS MY LUCK SO BAD?!" Dante questioned in his mind as he attempted to pull the blade out, noticing the other two Bandits racing towards him. He threw a Kunai that lodged itself into one of the Bandits shoulder.
The other one he was forced to duck under as they swinged their axe over his head, Dante's luck finally looked up as he managed to pull his blade out of the dead Bandits gut and blocked the Bandits next swing and used his weight to push the axe wielder back and sliced through the mans lower body, leaving the man in two.
He looked towards where the last Bandit had been, only to end up with the Kunai he'd thrown becoming lodged in his right eye.
"AUGH!" Dante screamed in pain as blood began to ooze out of his right eye.
"Hehe, not so tough now are you kid!" The final Bandit exclaimed as they walked up to the young swordsmen with their axe raised and ready to put an end to the brunette.
Dante forced himself to try and ignore the pain as he brushed the hair that normally covered his left eye away. He managed to move out of the way of the Bandits strike and with a shout of a battle cry, Dante slammed his blade into the mans head.
With his victory obtained, Dante's mind shifted to his punctured eye as he riped the Kunai out of his eye socket. "AUGHHHHH!" He cried in pain once again, unable to truly stand the pain as blood continued to ooze out from it.
"DAMNIT! Ugh." He tried to see out of the eye that he'd commonly kept revealed to the world to no avail, it'd been rendered useless.
"T-the...bleeding, g-gotta stop the bleeding." Dante uttered out as he used the cloth from his Hitai-ate as a makeshift bandage. "There, that sh-should work, gotta...gotta get back to town...go-gotta warn Haya-Hayate-Sensei." He continued to mutter out his words as he slowly walked through the trees.
Rebecca fired an arrow at a Bandit that had been standing across the street "Where did all these Bandits come from?" She thought as she loaded her bow once again, failing to notice the Bandit sneaking up behind her.
"Rebecca-chan, look out!" The shouting voice of her blonde teammate caught her attention as she turned around, allowing her to finally notice the approaching Bandit before some kind of eletric energy surged through the mans vains.
"Naruto-kun!" The greenette archer called out as she spotted her blonde teammate heading towards her.
"Rebecca-chan, where did these Bandits come from? And where's Hayate-sensei and Dante-san?" Naruto questioned as he looked around the area, noting that some of the buildings were on fire.
"I don't know, they just came out of no where and started attacking the town. I've been trying to find Hayate-sensei and Dante, but I haven't seen them anywhere." Rebecca explained as she remained focused on sniping the Bandits she could see with her arrows.
"So it's just us right now? Damn." Naruto began to observe the surroundings to the best of his ability, trying to form a plan with what little he had access to. From his observations he noted that the total number of remaining Bandits was around ten, an amount that he doubted only he and Rebecca could handle by themselves.
Meanwhile, on the other side of town. Dante was just exiting the woods to find the town in it's current state. "Damnit! They beat me here." He grunted out as he wiped some the blood off his face. "Gotta find the others. They'll know what to do." He uttered out as he slowly stepped into the town with his sword drawn.
The Bandits noticed him quickly along with his teammates. "Oh, I see the little cats still alive. No matter, finish him boys!" The bald leader of the Bandits called out as his men focused on the young swordsmen.
This gave the Sensei of Team 6 the perfect chance to strike as he swiftly left his hiding place and attacked the nearest Bandit.
"AH, A JONIN?! Men form up and focus everything on that Jonin!" The leader called out.
Dante silently thanked his Sensei from afar as he used this chance to move further away from the Bandits.
"Dante-san!" The shouting voices of his teammates was a reliving sound to the swordsmens ears as he saw Naruto and Rebecca rush to him.
"What happened to your eye?" Rebecca questioned as Naruto scanned the battle field to think of a plan.
"Explain later. What's the plan Uzumaki!" Dante's shouts seemed to attract the attention of three of the Bandits as they moved towards the trio.
"Focus on reaching Hayate-sensei for now, then I'll tell you the rest." With their weapons drawn and their expressions steeled. Team 6 readied themselves for battle.
"I apologize for my tardiness, Sasuke." The being within the purple shroud spoke as Sasuke watched it with a look of anger.
"You said you'd be back a week ago!" The dark haired Uchiha lashed out at the shroud, not caring for what kind of backlash that could cause.
"Do not worry Sasuke, today your training truly begins."
Sasuke grunted as looked at the purple shroud in anticepation. "I'm listening."
"Good, now simply hold up one of the cards I gave you and channel your Chakra into it."
Sasuke did as he was instructed as the mark on his hand seemed to glow in responace to the act of channeling Chakra into the card. A purple circle manifested below him as he continued pooring his Chakra out.
And with a flash of light, Sasuke felt different, he felt knowledge poor through his minds and the sudden weight of a sword in the hand that had previously held the card.
But best of all, he felt powerful.
"Now then, it's time for us to discuss your training, Sasuke." If Grima could smile right now, then it would certainly be a large one, as he stared at what would eventually be his newest vessel.
Paralouge 2: The Monk and the Young One.
A lone Monk wandered through the area with no true destination in mind, not that he was a ninja or even had a village to his name. The Monk had long white hair and red eyes, his appearance suggested that he was around his 20's in terms of age, he wore the standard robes of a monk with a blue cape added in for personal flair. Today he was simply traveling as usual, fighting the random bandits that tried to jump him, not that they could harm him. He thought with a small smirk.
As Monk walked along the border of the land of fire he came across a small clearing with a river off to the side. Nothing to out of the ordinary for him, there were many clearing along the land of fire's borders, but more often then not, these were where he got ambushed as usual. Raising a hand to the axe on his back in anticipation, the monk steeled himself for the inevitable ambush.
His instincts were right as usual within a minute a small band of bandits came out, but these didn't seem like run of the mill bandits. A quick look at one's forehead showed a forehead protector on the head of the bandit, signifying a rouge nin. A Kiri rouge if his knowledge was correct. Kirigakure seemed to just produce a lot of rouges in his opinion.
The group numbered about a dozen, and they all seemed to be rouge nin. "Might actually give me a work out for once" the Monk thought bitterly. Grabbing his axe off his back he waited for the first nin to try and strike him.
He didn't have to wait long as one of the nin recklessly charged him and tried to stab him in the chest with a spear, but calling it a spear was pushing it as it was merely a stick with a kunai attached to it. Dodging quickly to the side he countered by using him momentum to cut the nin in half with his axe, showering the ground with the body of the nin split in half. Looking to his left seeing several nin about to preform their jutsu at him he rushed towards his right, cleaving a nin in half from the waist.
Two of the other nin who had jutsu ready launched a fireball and earth release at him. Dodging to the left, the Monk took the blow from the fireball being blown back. The nin seemed proud of himself, but that pride turned to shock as the Monk got up and grabbed his axe from the ground, barely fazed from the fire ball and the burn marks quickly disappearing from his skin.
"Might I make a suggestion?" The Monk questioned the ten remaining nin, each of them tense at what appeared to be a normal monk that just took a fire release jutsu to the face and got right back up. "Run." He said as his dull red eyes flashed a bloody Red scaring five of the nin away. "I'm going to have to deal with those later" The Monk thought as the other five advanced on him.
Two of the nin charged him at once, both using Katanas to try and slice the monk in half. Vaati stood prepared as both slashed at him at once, producing his axe, and while he took two slashs to the side, he cleaved the two nin in half, his body quickly healing his bleeding sides, his robes now slightly red from blood. The last three nin took a quick look at each other as one retreated and the other two tried to charge the monk with fireballs forming in their palms.
The white haired Monk quickly rushed towards them to meet their charge, his heavy axe barely slowing him down. The two released their jutsus at once, forming an overall larger fireball then either of them could alone in the heat of battle. Charging head on into the fire ball he hit in head on an explosion occurring once he made contact.
The nin looked pleased with themselves at they watched the fireball connect with the monk, thinking him dead. But before the smoke cleared the red eyed Monk emerged from the smoke, robes slightly smoldering and his burn marks healing as his long hair flowed behind him from the heat. The two nin were so surprised that the Monk got off two quick kills as his body healed from the burning.
"I'm going to need a new set of robes after this." He said with a sigh as he looked down at his smoldering robes. A surge of KI started behind him as he turned around seeing the third nin standing there with a little girl with a kunai to her throat.
"Here is how this is going to go, your going to get down, drop the axe, and hand over all your valuables or the girl dies, got it?" the nin said trying to sound threatening. "Not likely." The Monk replied as his eyes flashed blood red once more. "Taimuzusukuea!."
What happened next was but an instant as suddenly the nin found himself without his hostage and the monk right in front of him with his axe glowing. "Asutoraru mūnsurasshu!" He called out as his axe glowed in responace to his words, his first strike broke through the flak jacket the nin wore, and with three slashes of the axe the nin was bisected diagonally, horizontally and vertically from the super fast slashes.
Turning around as the dead nin fell to pieces, the Monk walked back towards the girl he had just saved, who was currently crying and sitting down by a tree. Kneeling down the Monk looked at the girl. "What is your name little one?" He asked the poor girl. Amsted her tears she gave out a small word of "Morgan" "Well Morgan, my name is Vaati. Now if I may ask, what are you doing out here?" He asked looking over the girl, she couldn't have been older then ten, and despite the intricate robe, she didn't seem like a shinobi in training, a noble maybe?
"My sister *sniff* and I got separated *Sniff* when we came to look for daddy." Morgan said before completely breaking down into tears. Vaati sighed and looked at the crying girl. "Well Morgan, if you would like I'll help you find your father, if you have any idea where he is?" Vaati said. The shaking of Morgan's head told him she didn't know where her father or sister were. "Guess we are doing this the hard way." Picking up the small girl and placing her over his shoulder, and placing his axe on his back with the blade facing away from her, he started walking once more with Morgan crying into his ruined monk robes as he traveled along the border of the land of Fire, unware that his time as a wanderer would soon come to an end.
Paralouge 3: Savior Inigo
Just outside the land of waves a bright flash of light appeared, unnoticed by all in the land of waves, their newest arrival had appeared.
Inigo awoke hung halfway across a tree branch of all things, his sword implanted in the ground beneath him with his bag under him as well. As Inigo awoke groggily a loud snap was heard, and Inigo instantly woke up as the branch he was hanging on snapped. "Crud." Was all Inigo could say as he fell ten feet and landed next to his sword and bag as the tree branch landed on him.
Almost instantly Inigo's body set to work on healing him, thanks to the Renewal skill passed down from his Father. The Blonde haired youth was already up within minutes, grabbing his backpack and sword and adjusting the hairband his mother had given him with a sad smile. While the hairband was rather ill fitting for someone like him, he still resolved to wear it as a momento of his Mother.
Inigo looked around him and noticed how things seemed a bit taller then normal. "Well now, what has happened to me?" Inigo said testing his voice, instantly noticing he sounded a few years younger.
Not bothering to care much about that, Inigo started walking in a random direction, trying to find civilization and with a slightly womanizing grin, a woman to talk to. As the Blonde, now younger, youth walked along he noticed a dirt road, and down it a large village.
Following his instincts and the road Indigo walked intp town, and almost instantly felt sorry for everyone there.
People were out on the streets begging for coin, Armed mercenaries patrolled the streets and generally the town was in the sorriest state ever. Inigo just continued walking further and further into the town and things got worse as he went in. It didn't help that the Mercs patrolling eyed him warily and were likely to either attack him or report to who ever hired them about him.
A quiet scream echoed through the street, bringing Inigo out of his thoughts as he looked to his left. An alley way stood there with a pair of shadows advancing on what appeared to be a young woman. Always one to help a young lady, Inigo rushed into the Alley and drew his blade.
"Hold there, foul rouges!" Inigo yelled at the two Mercs harassing the young woman.
The two Mercs instantly turned their attention to him and almost laughed as the kid before them held a blade between his hands, they were many years his senior and felt they had nothing to fear. Drawing their axes the two Brigands advanced threateningly on Inigo, to try and scare him off.
That was the first mistake they made as Inigo shot forward at the first brigand, his Steel Sword glowing a blue-green color with the power of Astra as the rouge fell to pieces in an instant with a shower of blood curtesy of Inigo's skill. He quickly moved towards the next Mercenary with the power of Galeforce triggering, a skill from his Mother, as he once again shot foreword towards the second brigand with the same speed as he attacked the second brigand with his blade, impaling him on his sword.
The brigand fell down on Inigo's blade as they bleed out as Inigo approached the cowering woman, who appeared to only be a fifth teen year old girl with short red hair wearing what Inigo could only really describe as rags, his expression darkened as he gave the bodies of the Mercenaries a glance, "You make me sick." He uttered under his breath at the dead bodies before turning his attention back to the young maiden. Feeling nostalgic, Inigo said an old line he had said the day he found his Mother. "It's okay, all safe now buttercup!" Inigo said as he held his hand out to the girl. Slowly she looked up at the smiling blonde and lifted her hand for him to grasp and he pulled her up from the ground.
"Thank you for saving me, sir." the young girl said with a bow as Inigo placed his hand behind his head in shyness. "It was nothing young lady, it was my honor to save you!" Inigo said giving his own polite bow to the woman.
"My name is Saika Gracia." she said. "My name is Inigo Dansa, milady." Inigo said, turning up his charm. The girl smiled at him and offered him a place to stay. "It's not much, but you'll need a place to hide once they discover these two dead." Gracia said as Indigo nodded his acceptance to the offer.
A few hours later the patrols had increased in response to the two dead brigands as Inigo and Gracia stayed in her worn down home. "Gato is a cruel man who cares only about his power, and he's done so much to ensure that he keeps it, while I thank you for saving me, It'd be best if you left, so that he doesn't have you killed Inigo." Gracia said with a downcast saddened look to her guest, who was in thought.
"Why is that, would you not be able to stand up to him?" Inigo said trying to imagine this Gato person. Gracia fidgeted on her knees before speaking up, "The last person who tried, Kaiza, was humiliated and publicly executed by Gato and his men for standing up to him."
That night Gracia lay in sleep and Inigo looked up at the ceiling wondering what to do. "Get ahold of yourself Inigo, you've fought Grima, you helped face Walhart, what's some guy and a bunch of poorly trained mercenaries to you?" Inigo quietly said to him self before closing his eyes, wondering what to do next.
Morning had come quickly to the blonde Mercenary, his thoughts prevented him from losing himself to sleep, but the young man was still very tired. He barely registered the footsteps of the young lady he had saved as she walked up to his location on the couch. Gracia seemed to have gotten a good nights sleep despite the events of the previous day. "I made you some breakfeast, Inigo-kun." She spoke with a small smile as she looked down at him. He smiled in response, he hadn't had anything to eat since his arrival.
Graica had set up a small set of fruit and vegetables on a small wooden table. It wasn't much, but judging by the look of the food, it was clear that Gracia had made an effort with it. Inigo took his first bite and while he had logically had food of much better taste, his time in the dying future of Ylisse had taught him to savor any food he could have, he noticed Gracia slowly eating away at a piece of her own as he smiled at her. "Thank you, Gracia, I give it a solid A+!" She smiled in happiness at his words.
"Gracia. Could you show me what this Gato person looks like?" Inigo noted her sudden shift in body langauge at the mentioning of this Gato person as she slowly nodded and grab what appeared to be a piece of paper to the blonde.
The paper showed a man with puffy brown hair wearing a small pair of black glasses. He also was wearing a black suit with a purple tie. The man was notable small compared to the men standing next to him on the paper.
Inigo had to hold back a chuckle. That was Gato? Inigo's mind had thought the man would be more similar to Walhart in stature but that? How were people intimerdated by someone like that?
Inigo's mind was now set on what he was going to do next. "Gracia, I'm going to save your country!" Gracia looked at the blonde Mercenary in shook and was about to protest until he placed his hand up. "Now I know that I may not look it, but I've been in my far share of life threating battles in my time. I've faced monsters, Conquerors, even a dragon! And I've lived through each and every encounter. It wouldn't feel right for me to just abadon this country, especially after the kindness you've shown me!" Inigo proceeded to untie his Mothers hairband and despite a part of him scearming at him not to do it, he reached it out towards Gracia. "I want you to have this, as a keepsake of my promise to save your country!"
And with those words said, Inigo day's as a freedom fighter for the country of Wave, had began.
Stat Sheets.
Sasuke Uchiha.
Class: Trainee/Varies (Think of something like Ross, Amelia and Ewan classes from Sacrded Stones).
Skills: None.
Weapon Mastery: Swords: E, Jutsu: D/Varies.
Affinity: Thunder/Varies.
Personal/Special Skill: Einherjar Fusion.
Vaati Star.
Class: Loosely War Monk
Skills: Renewal, Counter.
Personal Weapon: Ten no Ono.
Weapon Mastery: Axes: S, Medical Knowledge: C.
Affinity: Unknown.
Personal/Special/Bloodline skill: Taimuzusukuea.
Inigo Dansa.
Class: Mercenary.
Skills: Astra, Sol, Galeforce, Rally Strength and Renewal.
Weapon Mastery: Swords: B
Affinity: Water.
Personal/Special Skill: Azure Dance.
Gracia Saika.
Class: Villager/Trainee.
Skills: Aptitude, Rally Heart.
Weapon Mastery: Swords: E, Medical Knowledge: C.
Affinity: Wind.
Personal/Special Skill: Imbue (Not the FE9/FE10 version, allows Gracia to maniplulate the her Chakra to sharpen or add a burn effect to her weapon, low chance of working until she gets proper training.)
Rooster Information.
Naruto Uzumaki: The young student of the Tactician Robin. Likes Ramen more then anyone in the team. Birthday is October 10th.
Dante Masamune: A young swordsmen from Konoha and son of a well known Blacksmith. Most likely to shout things when charging into battle. Birthday is September 5th.
Rebecca Elibe: An Archer from Konoha that mourns the death of her brother. Most likely to hold a grude. Birthday is April 25th.
Hayate Gekkō: A Konoha Jonin who is very adapt at Kenjutsu. Most likely to Cough in the middle of a sentence. Birthday is November 2nd
Weapon/Jutsu/Technique Information.
Ten no Ono: Personal Axe of Vaati, a tresured weapon from a destroyed land. Resmebles the Brave Axe in design.
Shuriken and Kunai: Standard Ninja tools.
Asutoraru mūnsurasshu (Astral Moon Slashes): A combined version of the Luna and Astra skills.
Taimuzusukuea (Times Square): Vaati's bloodline, causes the flow of time to halt for up to 30 seconds, consumes extremely large amounts of Chakra while in use.
Astra: A technique that highly trained swordsmen can learn, using high speed the user can perform 5 slashs on an enemy in the blink of an eye.
Renewal: Technique learnt by Monks, heals the user passively. The amount healed depends on the users own personal strength.
Galeforce: A technique learnt by Pegasus knights from Ylisse, allowing them to flow from one enemy to the next without stopping.
Author's notes
Special thanks to Vaati Star for helping me with the Paralogues and for giving me access to their OCs, Vaati and Gracia.
So yeah, I guess I might as well allow you guys the chance to throw in an OC as well if you want, just throw me a PM and if I think the OC fits then I'll consider using them.
Anyway. I'm tired and this was a pain to edit. I don't want to make this a drawn out AN so if you guys have questions I'll answer em I guess and yeah. Have a good day/night.