A/N: hey guys, so far I'm getting good reviews on this story so far, which is a HUGE motivator for me, so thank you all very much!
Also, I wanna address something really quick. I recently got a review saying that Naruto did a crappy job at being a leader because he basically lost his cool when Sakura was killed. That's true, he did react to it very badly. However, there are a few things we have to remember about our blonde hero:
Naruto never was very good at holding back his emotions or leading. In fact, we don't even see this leadership until he becomes Hokage in the new Boruto series.
Sakura was Narutos long time friend and crush for YEARS. So yeah, seeing someone that close be killed like that, yeah, you'd flip the hell out too.
Naruto, after everything that has happened to him in his short life, pretty much just said fuck it. Yes, he will for the most part abide by the rules and whatnot, but when shit hits the fan, its time to get down and dirty to clean it all up.
So, even though good points were brought up, there is always a reason for it happening, or NOT happening.
However, he should process his emotions at least a little better, but, that's just not who he really is. At least, not yet anyway.
And that was a good final chapter wasn't it? But if you all think I'm done with this story?
(Shao Kahn's Voice) Hahahahahaha, don't make me laugh!
This story is definitely NOT done. I didn't spend all this time on this story just for it to end now! HEEELLLLLLL NAH!
However, it will eventually have to come to an end. When it does come close, I will be sure to let you know. And, more surprises will come, but if I told you what they were, that would just ruin it, right?
Hahahahahahahahaaaaa, prepare to die, mortal.
What Happened?
Chapter 36
Naruto stood back up and went to Ino who was on her knees with her face in her hands crying. He knelt down and hugged her tightly.
"We got'em, Ino-chan. We got'em."
Ino cried even more, out of relief or grief, he couldn't tell. He just continued to hug her. Cassie was also upset, silently crying at the loss of her own parents. Jacqui laid a comforting hand on her friends shoulder. Cassie looked at her and gave her a sad smile, silently thanking her for her efforts.
Just then, a flash of lightning appeared behind them. It faded out to reveal Raiden and Tsunade. Tsunade looked worried, grief stricken, and pissed all at the same time.
"Naruto!" she yelled out to him. Where's Sakura?!"
She had already gotten the brief report from Raiden, but she just couldn't bring herself to believe it.
"I'm sorry Godaime sama," Naruto said to her. She knew it was bad then. He never called her that unless it was deadly serious.
"No…" Tsunade said. She bent her head down and cried. She looked back up with a rage filled expression and asked him, "Did you at least get the son of a bitch that killed her?"
"Not me, Godaime sama," Naruto said, "it was Ino. Its that insect bitch over there." He pointed at the corpse of D'Vorah. "She literally made her mind explode. Not before she put her the most excruciating pain first though."
Tsunade went over to the kaitin's corpse and saw that the top, back, and sides of D'Vorah's head had literally been blown apart. She nodded and said, "Thank you Ino Yamanaka, for avenging my apprentice. Your friend."
She went over to Ino and helped her up and then wrapped her up in a motherly hug.
"We won against the tyrant, Kotal Kahn," Raiden said. "That, and Mileena has now been unofficially renamed Kahnum of Outworld once again. However, we paid too high a price. Naruto Uzumaki, Ino Yamanaka, Cassandra Cage, I am truly sorry for your loss."
"I can assure you that you shall have lost more, very soon," a deep voice said from behind them.
Raiden and Naruto turned around and saw Quan Chi in his MKX outfit. His arms were crossed and he had that evil smirk of his.
"You have won against the foolish Outworld Emperor, Kotal Kahn. However now, you face against an immortal enemy, a REAL, god!"
Black smoke arose slowly around Naruto. He studied for a second, then disappeared in a pillar of fire just in time as the black smoke suddenly turned into two giant skeletal hands that clapped together, intending on crushing Naruto. Naruto reappeared beside Raiden.
The giant skeletal hands slowly released each other to reveal Shinnok, the Fallen Elder God. He turned around to face the Earthrealm force and said, "Ah, Raiden, it has been a while, hasn't it?"
"Shinnok!" Raiden said. He then immediately got into a fighting stance and said to him, "You stand no chance against the might of Earthrealm! We defeated you before! Imprisoned you in the Netherrealm! We will do so again."
Shinnok walked forward to Raiden and said, "You still don't understand, do you? Your words of encouragement and hope are all but lies, only geared to help yourself and your pathetic realm. The legacy of life, is death, Raiden. My followers understand this, and live on. They fight for me. Speaking of which, allow me to introduce you to them all."
He spread his arms out slightly to his sides as pillars of black smoke began to slowly rise from the ground around him. After about thirty seconds or so, they began to take forms.
First, there was the revenant form Nightwolf. Gray skin with yellow eyes and some glowing veins showed that he was being controlled by Shinnok and Quan Chi. His old body was destroyed when he killed Sindel the first time around. Using his soul, Quan Chi used it to form and exact duplicate, as if it were never damaged in the first place. Now, this revenant Nightwolf was now their enemy.
Next, they saw revenant Smoke in his human form (In his alternate MK9 costume, the one with the loose hair and lower face mask).
Revenant Kabal, revenant Stryker, and revenant Baraka were also next to Shinnok.
The next three, however, no one was expecting.
Revenant Johnny Cage looked just as he did before, only with gray skin and yellow eyes and veins. He had spikes coming from his shoulders, elbows, and kneecaps. His fingernails had turned into claws.
Next was Revenant Sonya Blade. She was wearing a VERY revealing v-shaped black outfit, with almost shoulder length black arm wraps and thigh high black leggings. Her knuckles had spikes on them, as well as her shoulders, kneecaps, and elbows, much like her undead husband.
Lastly, was revenant Sakura Haruno.
Also having gray skin and yellow eyes and veins, she wore an outfit similar to Sonya's. her hair was a much lighter shade of pink now.
"What the…" Naruto said. He then grit his teeth and shook with rage. He yelled out to Quan Chi and said "WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO TO THEM?!"
"He gave us REAL life, Naruto" revenant Sakura told him. Naruto looked at her with a hurt expression. "Don't look at me like that, Naruto. Join me, love, and we will be together forever. Literally, forever! We cannot die like this!"
"Seeing you die the first time was absolutely horrific," he told her. "And now, I have to see it again?! WHAT THE FUCK, MAN!"
"Hahahahaha," Quan Chi chuckled. "You stand no chance against us, young Uzumaki," Quan Chi said to him. "You stand no chance against me, you definitely cannot stand against my Lord, Shinnok."
"I will kill you all," Naruto said. "Every…last…fucking…one of you! I swear!"
"Mom…dad?" Cassie said with tears in her eyes. "Is that you guys?"
"Hello darling, I've missed you," Sonya said in a motherly tone in her revenant voice. "Listen, I'm sorry…for everything. Come join us, and we'll be the family we were supposed to be when we were alive. I promise. I know I made mistakes, choosing my responsibilities…but now, I don't have that. I have my husband back! Now, only you are missing sweetheart. Join us, Cassie…"
Revenant Sonya held out her hand in an inviting manner.
Cassie was about to step forward, but Naruto threw his hand in front of her forcefully.
"Its not really them," he told her.
"Bullshit!" Cassie said. She pointed at them and said "LOOK! They are right there! What the fuckshit are you even talking about, that's not them! They are RIGHT THERE!"
"Its their bodies, yeah," Naruto said, never taking his eyes off of them the entire time. "They are being controlled with whatever Quan Chi is doing, or Shinnok, doesn't matter. An old enemy we had back home, Orochimaru, he had this jutsu that was call the Edo Tensei. In short, he would sacrifice a living person to bring back the dead. It would use the sacrifice's body to build their own body, but they would be under his control if he got to them soon enough. Clearly, Shinnok and Quan Chi have done something very similar. If you want them back, if you really want them back, we have to kill Shinnok and Quan Chi."
"Hahahaha…" Quan Chi laughed. "How can you even get to me…" Quan Chi raised his arms slightly, and the ground around them began to crack violently. Deep red and orange fumes rose from the cracks as they widened more and more. A huge section of earth behind Quan Chi fell apart, creating a huge hole in the ground. It was lit up with the helfires below, and smoke and fumes rose up high into the air. Legions and legions of demons and ogres and Oni jumped out of the hole and filled up the area behind Quan Chi as more continued to emerge from the Netherrealm through the hole in the ground. Quan Chi smiled as he continued to say, "…if you have to get through all of them first?"
Shinnok said in his raspy voice, "Kill them all."
The Netherrealm army of demons and ogres charged at the Earthrealm force.
"Another horde, really?" Cassie yelled out. "this is bullshit! And I'm almost out of ammo and grenades! Fuck me!"
"Are you really giving up?" Naruto said to her. "Compared to the Fourth Great Ninja War against Madara and Kaguya, this is easy."
"Who the fuck is Madara? And Kaguya?" Jacqui asked.
"Probably some idiot that wasn't even real," Jin said in his snide ass voice.
"Shut up faggot," Naruto told him.
"What did you just say to me?" Jin challenged.
"You heard me, faggot," Naruto said. "I said shut the hell up. Use those toy arrows and put a few of these damn things down already."
"Please, I bet you with just three of my arrows, I'll take more down than you ever could." Jin said to him.
"Clearly you haven't been paying attention," Naruto said.
Jin pulled out three arrows and shot them in quick succession. Three arrows were shot, and six demons were down.
"Take that, pretty boy," Jin said with a smirk.
Naruto pulled out a single kunai, showed it to him, and said, 'Wow, if that's all you got, then you really suck. Check this out."
He threw the kunai in the air up high at a thirty degree angle. He did his signature hand sign and yelled out, "Kunai Shadow Clone Jutsu!"
The one kunai turned into one hundred kunai easily. It went from one kunai to a rain of sharp metal. "One kunai, one hundred down," he told Jin. "I'll say it again, shut the hell up faggot."
Jin tried to swing at Naruto, but he ducked and roundhouse kicked him away and said, "Wow. How are you even on the defense team? Attacking your own? Really? You deserve to die faggot. I'd play with you more, but I have an evil army to kill. Later," Naruto said as he ran towards the oncoming horde.
"Dammit Jin," Jacqui said to him. "Just once, seriously, just ONE fucking time, stop being a fucking asshole! I'll fucking shoot you next time!"
Jin got up and said to her, "I'm taking him down next time."
"Bullshit," Cassie told him as she reloaded her pistols. "He created a fucking giant tree and blew it up. You shoot arrows. Dumbass. Now help us fight these fuckers already Jin!"
Cassie aimed her pistol very carefully, knowing that she only had about two magazines left, and there were a LOT of the damn demon things. (The demons in the beginning of MKX, just in case you are having a hard time imagining them). Shooting every few seconds, she never missed. Jacqui shot her arm cannons at the ground in front of some of them, improvising her shot to make them more like grenades. Each one of her shots, when they hit the ground, it would explode and send some of them flying away.
Takeda was out there, using his whip-like chains with spikes on them and just going to town. Flailing his weapons around wildly, and yet with precise skill, he was taking out quite a few them himself. However, just like with the Tarkatans, two would die, and four more would replace them. It never ended.
Scorpion was also fighting very well. Using his swords and his kunai with chain, he was taking demons out left and right. He would cut one in half, spin around and decapitate another. Jumping back, he thrust his kunai with chain forward and impaled a demons head. He yanked it back, ripping the demons head clean off. He retrieved his kunai and went to work with his sword. He performed a roundhouse kick to prevent one from getting too close. He sheathed his swords for a moment and placed his hands on the ground. His eyes lit up with fire and yelled with righteous fury.
"RRRRAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!""""
Hellfire rose up from the ground around him, engulfing the demons. Just because they were from the Netherrealm didn't mean that they could withstand the flames of Hellfire.
He stood up and looked at his handiwork. Fifty demons at least had been burnt to a crisp, dead as could be.
He unsheathed his swords once more and headed to the nearest group of demons to continue his slaughter.
…
Tsunade was PISSED.
First, her ninja were practically sent to fight in a tournament that technically wasn't even their own. Secondly, Naruto dies and is brought back to life. Thirdly, her apprentice is killed. Fourth, she's in a war with creatures just as ugly as the white zetsus, if not even uglier.
"You really think that you can kill me?!" Tsunade yelled out to no one in particular. After she literally knocked the head off of one of the demons, she looked at a small group running towards her and yelled out, "I'll show you why I am the Fifth Hokage!"
She raised her fist in the air and yelled out, "FOR SAKURAAA!"
She hit the ground in front of her, and unleashed every ounce of chakra she had built up in that hit. The ground in front of her split in half and forwards about three hundred feet, in a single move. Just, CRACK!...earth is split. Tens of the demons fell into the crevice of earth that Tsunade had created. She looked up at the remaining demons with a smirk on her face and said to them, not caring if they understood, "That's not even a warm up." She stood up straight and beckoned the demons forward. "I've survived two ninja wars that make this one look like waking up in the morning. Give me your best shot."
The demons charged forward, having no idea what they just got themselves into.
….
Sub Zero touched the ground and froze the immediate area, along with about twenty demons too. He didn't want to waste time on breaking them, they were already dead the instant they were turned into ice. He needed to move farther and farther and freeze as many of these freak shows as possible.
He froze one that was flying down towards him. It fell midair and hit the ground hard, shattering into hundreds of pieces. He continued this until he ran into a horde of even more demons than before. They turned to him and roared in their high pitched demonic voices.
Sub Zero knew he wouldn't walk out of this one without an actual fight. He created thick ice armor around him and told them, "You will feel death's cold embrace, demons. For the Lin Kuei!"
He charged forward and began killing them left and right. A particularly large demon slugged in him in the face, causing him to stumble back a little. The ice armor on his mask had been cracked. This demon was really strong. His ice armor could take a bullet at point blank range and not even scratch. For it to be cracked from just a single punch…he had to watch out with this one for sure.
The demon looked at him with its red eyes and sharp teeth and roared at him in a challenging manner.
"You must die," he said to the demon.
Sub Zero created an Ice Sword and charged forward.
….
Sheeva was knocking demons away with her four arms like they were toys. "For the Shokan!" she yelled.
She jumped up high in the air and crushed a larger one under her weight and momentum from her jump attack. She launched a few fireballs and said aloud to them all, "You are no match for a member of the Shokan tribe, let alone its Queen! I, Sheeva, Queen of the Shokan, am too much for any of you!"
"You are not too much for me, Sheeva," an incredibly deep voice said from behind her. She turned around and was shocked at what she saw.
Revenant Goro, in his Shokan armor.
"Goro!" Sheeva said with seething hatred.
"Prince, Sheeva, remember your place!" Goro scolded her.
"My place is beside Naruto, the NEW king of the Shokan!" She argued. "You know the laws of our tribe, Goro! Naruto killed you in combat, therefore he is the new king! You cannot defy this!"
"And I do not want to," Goro said as he slowly walked closer to her. He easily doubled in size compared to her. "Quan Chi has resurrected me in my prime. I was older and frail as far as Shokan is concerned when Naruto defeated me."
"And I'll defeat you again you overgrown prick!" Naruto said from behind him.
Goro whipped around and yelled "YOU!"
Goro charged forward, all four arms raised, intending on crushing the one who stole his title as Prince of the Shokan.
Naruto opened his eyes, once again revealing that he was in Sage Mode. In the blink of an eye, he had closed the distance between the two of them and punched Goro in the chest.
Goro flew back, his chest cavity crumbled. Naruto walked up and stood on his chest as he unsheathed his broadsword from his back (I am now going to refer to his broadsword as the Buster Sword, the one the Cloud Strife used in the beginning of Advent Children) and said to Goro, "You were always weak. I don't know how you came to a position of power within the Shokan, but it will not happen again. Goodbye, former Prince of the Shokan."
He raised his Buster Sword and stabbed Goro right in the chest, almost cutting him in half in the process. He left the blade in his chest until he could tell that the life was gone from Goro's body for good. He yanked out the sword and placed it back in its holster on his lower back. He turned around and looked at Sheeva as he said, "Are you okay love?"
"Yes, Head Mate," she told him. She slightly bowed to him.
"Don't worry about it, just kill all of these damn things, ok? Let's go Sheeva!" he encouraged with a smile.
Sheeva smiled along side him, proud that she could fight with her man.
….
Mileena was killing demon after demon after demon after demon. She was having the time of her life! The Tarkatan side of her was addicted to blood and battle, and it was getting its fix times ten right now. Naruto and Sheeva landed beside her and helped her take out the huge group that was surrounding her.
"I had that!" Mileena said, upset. "I did not need your help!"
"I know," Naruto told her. "Just wanted to help my baby out."
Mileena couldn't help but smile. Having someone by your side actually felt good, she decided. "Then let us play, my love."
"Hahahaha, yeah, lets play. Right now though, get behind me."
"Why?"
"Just do it! Now!"
Sheeva and Mileena jumped behind him as Naruto, quickly as he could, unsheathed his Buster Sword once again and blocked…air?
The ground around his feet cracked though, showing that he had indeed blocked something HEAVY.
"Mileena!" Naruto called out with gritted teeth. "Can you smell whatever is here? I blocked something but I don't know what it is!"
Mileena sniffed the air and yelled out, "I cant Naruto! Theres too much in the air to distinguish anything!"
"Fuck!" Naruto yelled. "There's definitely something here, but I cant see it!"
NARUTO, USE YOUR KYUUBI CLOAK. IT HELPS YOU SENSE THINGS, REMEMBER? JUST LIKE YOU SENSED WHERE THOSE COPIES OF MADARA WERE, YOU CAN DO THE SAME THING HERE, Kurama said in Narutos mindscape.
"Oh yeah!" Naruto said aloud. "Thanks, Kurama!"
Narutos body suddenly glowed a bright golden color. He transformed into his Cloak Transformation, and could now clearly tell what it was in front of them that had tried to crush them.
It was another one of the ogres, only more demonic, and tried to crush them with its giant hammer.
Naruto smiled as he said aloud, "Oh, its ON now!"
A/N: aaaannnnnd cut! How was that one guys! Lemme know what you al think! Roku out.