Echo of Spiraling Heart

Disclaimer: I own only Kenshin, Ester, Hao, Yusei even though he only appears in author's notes and omakes, and the treacherous devil lords. On a side note, the devil lords are based on the Nazca Lines, not the Jibakushin. Oh what the hell, might as well put up Yugioh 5d's incase.

Kenshin: Instead of boring you with our talking we're going straight to an omake.

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"So how much do you have?" Naruto asks his fiancés through a telephone inside some hidden place. Beside him are Akatsuki members Hidan and Kakuzu.

On the other line Tenten, Sakura and Hinata are placing money together. Anko on the phone says, "All together from the cash we got from your stash, our own savings, and what we still have leftover: We only got 1200 dollars in yen."

"Oh good! That will buy you back," Naruto picks up a piece of paper and looks over it. He then replies with, "One of my limbs, or what they classify as a mystery bag. I'll get back with you."

Naruto hangs up the phone, and says to his kidnappers, "They've got 1200."

"What?!" Kakuzu shouts back.

"You've gotta be fuckin' kidding me! You've already eaten that damn much in ramen!" Hidan curses.

"Now hold up a minute I…" Naruto then calculates the food he ate, and how much of it he did. He then says, "Well maybe."

"Oh this is a waste of time. Let's sodomize him already!" Kakuzu says, as he begins to take off his clothes.

"What?!" Naruto yells at them, quickly backing away.

"A group of nerdy looking girls, probably fan girls, paid us a shit load of moola to put you in some sort of homosexual situation." Hidan says, stripping down to his underwear as well.

"Oh god, I hate fangirls…" Naruto mutters to himself.

Just then the door bursts open and out jets Kenshin, holding up a briefcase. "Here you go…50,000 dollars in yen."

"Well it's about time. Now we don't need to sodomize him." Kakuzu says, taking the briefcase from him.

Kenshin takes Naruto's arm and heads out the door. Hidan then opens the briefcase, and then shouts, "Hey! This is a trick! He only gave up 5,000!"

"Get him!" – Kakuzu

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Chapter 37: The God of Chaos Hao

"Rasengan!" Naruto shoves his spiraling sphere into Lucci's chest, but with his Tekkai he easily absorbs the majority of the blow.

"This fight bores me." Lucci kicks Naruto in the face, knocking him to the ground. He then summons three bolts of lightning to strike him from above, but with successful rolling blondie got out of the way.

He jabs his black arm forward, extending his claws at him. Disappearing in the blink of an eye Lucci vanishes from Naruto's attack and sight, appearing behind him and giving our hero a jolt to the back. Naruto falls to the ground in pain, as if his body wouldn't answer to his demands anymore. "Damn…it hurts this much…"

"You're nothing more than a loser. As if you could defeat me." He taunts the young ninja. He kicks him in the ribs and sends him over one of the holes in the ground.

Naruto grabs hold of the edge with his black claws, and pulls himself back up. His determination begins to give him strength as he begins to stand up to Lucci. "I'll show you who is the loser!"

"Come!" Lucci lunges after Naruto with electricity charging his fists. Naruto forces the energy in his arms to resonate with its respective element as he raises them to block his opponent's attack.

When his hands block the attacks, they each begin to fluctuate wildly. Eventually his hands somehow react negatively; the dark armor around his black arm shatters away and reveals his normal arm in its original color while the light skin on his white arm blows away and returns to normal.

Naruto pales and widens his eyes in shock at this action. Even Lucci was surprised at this, but didn't falter with his assault. He kicks Naruto's ribs and uses Shigan on his chest. Our blond protagonist falls to his knees, coughing up blood in the process.

"What…happened…" Naruto tries to summon his energy like he use to, but could gather up nothing; no light, no darkness; he can't even feel chakra or spiritual energy. "What's…going on?"

"It seems at least your body knows when to give up." Lucci holds up his right hand to Naruto's face, pulsating with light blue electricity. "Goodbye."

The shock Naruto is put through is strong enough to force a scream out through his lips. Afterwards when the attack subsides Naruto is seen leaning back, smoking all over and eyes dilated. He falls into the hole.

Lucci then feels an earthquake nearby, and begins to close his eyes. He smiles, mutters to himself, "So, Itachi decided to use that huh?"

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Kenshin looks up above him to see Itachi standing before a ghostly monster; it resembles a sort of yamabushi with a mirror like shield in its left hand and a blade in the other. "What the hell is that?"

"A simple 'what the hell' would have sufficed." Itachi says to him. "This is Susanoo, the third technique of the Mangekyou Sharingan. This is also the strongest of my abilities."

Kenshin looks at the ghostly demon with his transformed eyes, a rainbow aura illuminating from him. "I see. So that's why you chose to use this."

"I assume you're referring to the weapons it holds; on the left is Yata no Kagami, a shield that reflects everything while on the right is Totsuka no Tsurugi, an ethereal sword that seals anything away into a dream-like illusion." Itachi explains while looking at Kenshin. "You cannot stop me anymore."

"When you say it like that, I guess you have a point. I can't copy a weapon's ability, and my powers don't seem to work on bloodlines as I can see." Kenshin confesses as he thinks it over. "But then again there's something I would like to understand; if you could use this why did you wait until now?"

Instead of giving him an answer, Itachi's ghost swings its sword at him, but Kenshin switches to Space Kenshin and disappears away. The sword continues to the left, and makes contact with Kenshin somehow. He falls to the ground and quickly picks himself up.

"Fire Kenshin!" The rainbow man changes to fire form and shoots several fireballs at Itachi.

None of them seem to hit thanks to the Eight Span Mirror. While Kenshin was trying to think of a way past that sword he is forced to dodge it once more by leaping backwards. As he does he doesn't notice the spherical grid which appeared behind him. He enters into it and is caught in the explosion.

Kenshin falls to his knees in pain, his transformation canceled. "This isn't going very well."

"It's over, civilian." Itachi says to Kenshin. The Ten Hands Long Sword lunges at Kenshin, who transforms into Lightning Kenshin. He then blows a hole in the wall and leaps out, apparently heading outside. He successfully dodges the sword though. "Pathetic-!"

"Sansen Sekai!" Itachi is suddenly cut in three different locations by katanas, and can see someone standing before him. The person turns around, revealing he to be Sasuke.

"How…did you escape the Tsukiyomi?" A bleeding Itachi asks him before he gasps when he notices something strange about his little brother. There seems to be a black aura illuminating from his outline. The strangest thing is he has seen it before: from Madara. "So that's how…you've inherited some of his powers."

"What power? Whom are you talking about?" Sasuke asks him, breathing heavily from just having waking up from that horrible nightmare. He then notices Susanoo above him. "When could you use that?"

"The end is here…you've finally reached my expectations!" Itachi says as he finally grows a smile on his face: not a good one though.

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Kenshin lands on the ground outside of the Akatsuki building, breathing a sigh of relief. It would really suck if he were stuck in some weird dream. After brushing his clothes of dirt he sees Kakashi on the ground unconscious with Tenten.

He quickly runs to them, yelling out, "Kakashi! Tenten! Are you two okay?"

After he got no answer he stops in front of them and checks over their wounds; silver hair seems fine at the moment, but Tenten seems to be in serious trouble. But it seems like someone gave her a little treatment. He reverts to his normal self and calms down.

"Well, at least they're alive." He says to himself.

"They won't be for long." A dark, ominous voice says to Kenshin from behind. He turns around and pales when he sees only a phantom-like figure.

"Who are you?" Kenshin asks him/her/it.

"I'm surprised. You look exactly like me," The ghost releases a black aura from around it, and reveals himself in human form. Kenshin gasps when he sees that the guy looks just like a mirrored version of him. "And yet you know nothing about me. I should have known when I first met you."

"I don't know who you are? So answer my fucking question!" Kenshin shouts at him, releasing his rainbow energy and becoming Fire Kenshin.

The other Kenshin grins maliciously and laughs similar to a maniac; he even sticks his purple tongue out. "I WAS RIGHT!! YOU'RE THE ONE I'M LOOKING FOR!!"

"What?" Kenshin asks, now sounding scared for him.

"If you want to find out then come and get me!" He says as he opens his arms out wide.

"If you say so!!" Kenshin shouts as he rushes at him.

At that moment Kakashi wakes up, looking up and sees Kenshin charging at the other version of him. Kenshin throws a flaming fist at him. Kakashi gasps and shouts, "Kenshin stop! He's-!"

But it was too late; Kenshin's fist makes contact with the other him's face, but he doesn't even flinch or budge. Kenshin grins when he hits him, but then gasps when he sees that his attack did nothing. The other him says, "Wow, I'm amazed. You really do want to reunite with me!!"

"What!?" Before he could register it the other him grabs both his arms. His chest then bursts open and crab leg like tentacles ensnarl around Kenshin and pull him into the black light inside. Kenshin tries his best to get free, but is squeezed inside the dark him's chest. "Let me go!! YAMETO!!!"

Kenshin is eventually consumed inside, and the rib tentacles reassemble within his chest and closes up. "SHIZUNE!!!"

Evil Kenshin then makes a big evil laugh, as a dark aura releases from his body. This is compiled with a rainbow one over top it. Madara and Apollo run up from behind the building and see Evil Kenshin standing up beside Kakashi and Tenten. Madara makes no hesitation to radiate darkness around him, and leaps up at him in rage.

"HAO!!!!" He slams his fist down at him and a huge explosion is made from impact.

Dust builds up from the strike, blowing away Kakashi and Tenten as well as Apollo away from Madara and the evil Kenshin. The dust finally stops and Hao is seen blocking Madara's fist with a single finger. "Ah, Madara. I thank you for your 'assistance'. If it wasn't for you visiting me in Limbo I would have never escaped."

"HAO…I WILL MAKE SURE YOU NEVER COME BACK! Naiyou Boufuu!!" Darkness encircles Hao and wraps around him, slowly shrinking and suddenly disappearing away. Madara then calms himself down and looks around. "Good. He's gone."

"Who's gone?" Hao asks while standing behind the darkness god. Madara quickly turns around to face him, but is surrounding by black and purple energy. "Yami no Hao; Gensou Sekkan(Illusion Spear Sarcophagus)."

Spears of dark energy appear out of nowhere and pierce into where Madara is trapped as Hao walks away smiling. The sarcophagus vanishes away and Madara is seen collapsing to the ground bleeding from multiple wounds in his body. "I've already copied your powers. Now that I have my rainbow veil back I can continue with my true plans."

"Matte…" Madara mutters while crawling up to Hao.

"Madara!!" Apollo shouts out while running up to Hao. "You bastard! Ame no Ohabari!"

"Apollo…" Hao watches Apollo charge at him with a sword of pure light energy. He grabs the blade with his bare hands, illuminating his rainbow aura. "Your rage allowed me to copy your powers. Let's see how you like my light!"

He shoots a beam of light from his eyes, knocking the light god away. "Hikari no Hao; Hikari no Gofuuken!"

Seven swords of light shoot out from nowhere and pierce into Apollo's waist, and she is somehow paralyzed on the spot. "And don't bother trying to control it; my light powers are much stronger than yours at the moment, now that I'm back with my light half."

"Your what?" Apollo asks him.

"He pulled Kenshin into his chest moments ago before you came by." Kakashi says to them.

"Kenshin? He was alive?" Apollo asks him.

"What's going on?!" Kakashi asks the godly woman.

She gasps when she begins to put the pieces together. Hao laughs when the goddess of light understands what's going on. "That's right! I had only recently understood that that boy was the light half I sought after for so long. If I had known when we met I would have captured him instead of letting Itachi try to kill him. Lucky he didn't."

"So Kenshin was the other part of your soul that Kami ripped from you so she could keep you under wraps?" Apollo asks finally. "So you're still insistent on stealing Kami's powers and becoming the new god of creation?"

"That's right; maybe I should explain it to you so you don't seem so stupid. The human over there might need an explanation too." Hao says as he walks over to Madara and stomps on his head. "After I crushed you two I then went for Heaven to kill my sister and steal the Nothingness energy that permits her the power of creation and birth. But I overestimated myself and was slaughtered. She removed my heart and a portion of my soul, stealing my Rainbow Veil power in the process. I spent millions of years in there."

"That's right; we all know about that. We were there!" Apollo shouts at him.

Hao teleports in front of her by moving quickly, pulling on her hair with his right hand. She cries in pain as he says, "It was only a matter of time before Madara came to see me, and I took possession of him due to his foolish emotions. I then used him to make a clan of ninjas called the Uchihas, forcing Apollo here and Reid to come after me. With my psycho power and the Tsukiyomi I placed both of them under a spell and forced them to attack two different villages at two different points in time."

"Why did you do that? Why send Apollo in the form of Kyubi to kill hundreds of innocent people? Did all that time in limbo make you emotionless?" Kakashi yells at Hao.

"Of course! I don't even remember what it was like to have heart, and even with it back I can't even tell the difference!" Hao laughs as he pulls on Apollo's hair even more.

"Stop it!!" A voice from above shouts, as a lightning bolt shoots down at Hao. He blocks it by removing a sword from around Apollo and deflecting it. Reid lands in front of him. "Let her go!"

"Reid!" Apollo calls out with a smile and a blush.

"Are you sure? I'm not even done with my story!" Hao says as he watches Reid approach him.

"Soshi no Tsurugi!" Reid summons forth a sword from out his body, resonating with all five natural elements. He slams it down at Hao, who blocks with his sealing sword.

"I realized that there is strength in numbers, so I called forth the help of the Hangyaku no Maou(Devil Lords of Treachery). All I need to do is set them free and they will help with my task, one they would have done even without my help." He says, and all three gods gasp in shock.

"You what?! How could you call upon them? They were sealed into the earth for a reason; because of the horrible things they've done when humanity was just growing up!" Reid shouts at the god of chaos.

"Oh…I know of their deeds; eight artificial devils Enma abandoned after his failure that have grown into powerful monsters that were sealed away to prevent casualties." Hao explains, as he pushes back Reid effortlessly.

Hao then grabs hold of Reid's neck, and lifts him up in the air. "The only reason I didn't resurrect them until now was because of my handicapped position. I needed power, or energy large enough to summon forth the dark creatures. There were only two options that would grant me enough strength: the first option was to find my light half and retrieve him, then I would have more than enough energy to bring them back to life, and the other required me to release the Kyomu, and absorb my father's corpse which plagues the world of nothing."

"I won't…let you…bring them back!" Reid growls through his closed throat.

"If you have time to stop me, then you have time to save those humans inside. Or are you that heartless to let them die?" Hao says to Reid in a taunting voice. He tosses Reid to the ground holds the sealing sword over him. "Forget that; how would you like it if you couldn't help them at all?"

"Reid!" Apollo and Madara shout.

Before Hao could make a move, tears slowly came out of the sinister god's eyes. They stream down the side of his grinning teeth. All three gods see this, and it only takes a minute for Kakashi to notice, and gasp when they witness those tears appearing. Hao notices the tears on his face, and while confused he asks himself, "What's this? I'm crying? Impossible, I…oh I see."

Hao then grabs hold of his face and disperses the sword. He even gets rid of the ones around Apollo. "He's not completely absorbed yet…guess it's time to go."

"What? Where are you going?" Apollo yells as she shoots a beam of light at him.

Hao blocks it with his hand and scatters the light with a squeeze. "I'll deal with you later. I have a goal to achieve."

He snaps his left hand's fingers and creates a spiraling portal of dark and light energy. Hao walks towards it and disappears with Apollo leaping after him. But she doesn't make it in time and he gets away. She slams her fist into the ground, cursing, "I can't believe he got away! We couldn't stop him!"

'This is not good,' Kakashi states within his mind.

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"I'm so glad you're finally here, standing up to your older brother with eyes that almost resemble my own." Itachi says as he looks at his brother.

"Like hell! I don't need to have your eyes to beat you! I don't need to kill someone I care about to become strong!" Sasuke yells at him.

"Is that what's in your heart?" Itachi asks him. He then says, "Do you know that those who possess the Mangekyou are doomed to a future of blindness?"

"They are?" Sasuke was rather confused as to why his brother was giving him a pep talk at this time. "Where is this going?"

"Those who achieve the Mangekyou will eventually become blind in the end, but there's a way around this; by taking the eyes of a younger loved one." Itachi says with a grin.

"What?" – Sasuke

"And that's what I'll do; steal the eyes of my little brother and become stronger!" Itachi reaches his right hand out to Sasuke, and Susanoo stabs its sword at the young Uchiha.

"Nigentou!" Sasuke blocks Susanoo's blade with his twin swords, which glow with the energy of his dark chakra. With his successful parrying he leaps up at the ghostlike monster to cut it up.

Itachi dispels Susanoo, which causes Sasuke to swipe nothing, and devises a hand seal. After Sasuke lands Itachi's other hand tosses a wire at him and it wraps around his neck. "Katon: Ryuuka no Jutsu!"

"Goryuuka no Jutsu!" Sasuke quickly drops his swords and develops hand seals, creating a giant flaming dragonhead, which shoots after Itachi. The powerful attacks collide with one another, but it seems the dark energy around Sasuke quickly gave him an upper hand. But then Itachi closes his eyes and reopens them, and blood slowly leaks down them.

"Amaterasu." Black flames overlap Itachi's jutsu, and forces back the dragonhead on Sasuke's side. Amaterasu consumes Sasuke entirely, who couldn't escape because he was still under wraps.

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Naruto opens his eyes, and looks up to realize he was inside his mind. "What happened?"

"You're about to die kid." A voice says near him. Naruto looks to his side and sees Xutaron standing there. "Yo!"

"NO YO!!" Naruto quickly rises up to his feet and balls his fist up while facing him. "What the hell are you doing here? Leave me alone!"

"And what if I don't? You'll stop me with your bare fists?" He says. Naruto looks to his hands and gasps when he remembers that he lost his powers. "I could help you, but you have to trust me completely."

"No way! I don't need my powers or you to beat up Mr. Bio-Shock! Go away Xutaron!" Naruto says as he throws a punch at him.

"That's not really my name. I just made an anagram of your name with X in it. I've only recently discovered my real name, and who I really am." He says while blocking Naruto's punch. He then crosses his arms over his chest.

"What? So everything you said was a lie?" Naruto asks him.

"Not all of it; I lived on within Apollo for a large amount of time as demonic energy. I regained a conscious thanks to you, and the blue gunk made by your bloodlines development and the demonic aura inside you together." The mysterious entity explains to him. "I spent most of my time studying the world through your eyes and hers before that day during your chuunin exams not too long ago. My memories came back to me after the last time I used your body, while earlier I was consumed with rage for some reason and went kind of nuts. That's why I had to alter your Reiton element, removing your abilities of light and darkness."

"Why? Who are you?" – Naruto

"I use to be, everything." He replies, his eyes turning completely white. No other colors existed, not even the red of his veins. "The element I've chosen will soon take hold completely."

"And this can't be stop?" Naruto asks him, his eyes soon becoming pure white as well.

"It could be stopped, but then we both die and those fiancés of yours will be unhappy. Do you want that?" At these words Naruto suddenly becomes depressed.

"Then I guess I might as well ask the real question, one I should have asked at the beginning of your speech." Naruto walks over to the cell where Apollo used to live as the fox demon. "What's going to happen to me now? Just tell me; nothing else matters at this moment."

"You will become me; that's as far as I know. I need full dominance over your body and Nothingness to stop that guy." Both their bodies begin to glitch as if they were holograms.

"You didn't answer that other question though…who are you?" Naruto questions him one last time before he fades away completely.

"My name is Kagirinai." He answers him then vanishes as well. The sewers they were in before disappear like a poof of smoke.

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Lucci walks towards the first door he sees, about ready to head down. "I didn't even get to sweat; I bet the other ninjas that came were strong."

"You haven't won yet." A booming two-person-like voice speaks out from the crevices. A shining light penetrates the darkness they hold and grasps Lucci's attention.

He turns around quickly to the light his peripheral saw, and sees Naruto rising up from the ground. He looks up at Lucci with a blank look in his eye, his hair grown to ridiculous proportions. He now looks like a Square Enix character, with his blond hair hanging down onto his shoulders and behind his back. He still holds the spiky quality on top.

"So, you somehow survived. I had thought you were just a regular boy with weird powers, child." Lucci says as blood lust begins to fill his eyes.

"My name is Naruto." The blond says to him.

"I don't care." Lucci releases a lightning bolt at Naruto.

A light blue shield of mysterious energy appears in front of him, blocking the strike and dispersing it. Naruto then fades away and reappears before Lucci, throwing a punch to his face. As he flew through the air into the ceiling, Naruto forms a cross seal whispering, "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu."

Twelve doppelgangers of him appear beside him and step on the ground. They each rush forward after Lucci, who descends below with an electric charged fist.

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Somewhere within a dark room, in a castle of skulls, Hao sits on a throne of bones. In his right hand he holds the orb Apollo left behind which would hold the 7 other Biju inside. With the second one already in the Kyomu he would only need to return and place them inside.

But as he looks at it it is revealed that the orb is a fake; the stars have disappeared from it and replaced with a picture of Apollo pulling her left bottom eyelid down and giving him a raspberry. In kanji next to the picture is the words 'Dumbass! Dumbass! Dumbass!'

He shatters the ball with his bare fingers, and glares in front of him with a scowl. "In the end I got lucky. Had Kenshin not been there, I would most definitely have been captured."

He then grins while revealing his pearl white teeth. "But it doesn't matter. Now I can continue with my plans. I won't need the Kyomu anymore."

Hao rises up from his throne and throws his hands up in the air. A purple beam of light gathers in between and shoots up into the sky, piercing through the ceiling. The beam splits into eight separate ones and goes their own way. "I shall resurrect you all; Magellan the giant, Colibri the humming bird, Escuridao the condor, Yggdrasil the world tree, Baleia the killer whale, Macaco the monkey, Lagarto the lizard and Aranha the spider."

One beam lands in the earth of Amegakure, and the landmark of a monkey appears for a split second.

The second beams lands in Konoha, and the landmark of a lizard appears for less than a minute.

The third one strikes the soil of Mizugakure, showing the image of a bird mark.

The fourth hits Hao's area, and reveals the landmark of a spider.

The fifth reaches a deserted mass of land and reveals a fish like mark.

The sixth stops at Kazegakure, and brings up the landmark of another bird.

The seventh lands in Yukigakure and shows a tree looking landmark.

The last goes to the Land of Waves, and the image of what appears to be an astronaut.

All the landmarks disappear seconds after appearing, but what could this mean?

Ester: And that's the end of that chapter. I hope this clears some things up. Next chapter Naruto and Sasuke finish their battles finally, and the group finally returns to Konoha. Apollo, Madara and Reid then explain to the ninjas the new problem. But the main issue is will the new Naruto tell his loved ones what's wrong with him?

Hao: Since we're still here I might as well explain my main abilities; my first power is what I call Rainbow Magic. Like Kenshin explained last chapter it allows one to copy the magic cells used in any form of non-physical magic ability and lets them transform themselves to match that element. But the user has to be exposed to the magic ability for a certain amount of time. The main weakness is that it makes the user more vulnerable to the magic's weak points, and won't work against it. Rainbow magic cannot copy Nothingness magic though.

The other is Psycho magic, which allows me to summon psychokinetic energy, which grants me multiple psychic powers. I can't levitate items or read other people's minds though. But there is also another advantage: with my Rainbow magic I can also negate magic other people used but I've already copied. That's mainly why I was able to defeat the Santoushin so easily. But this one is useless without my Rainbow magic, which is why I needed Kenshin back.

Ester: Screw that! Give back Kenshin!! He has a family!

Hao: And now I am sorry to bring to you, the wait you'll all have to suffer before the next chapter is placed up.