Sleepless D: Hope you're all enjoying it so far, keep reading and reviewing, and wow, half the people are saying 'Naruto! Go to Hinata and talk!' while the other half dislikes Hinata now and going for drama, it's very entertaining. Peace out.
"You...you were with Norio...inside the wet room..." Naruto says, gaining a nod from the teenager.
"Good eye." He says with a smile and raises his hands, causing Naruto's mind to fly a thousand miles a minute. "And I'm just doing a favour which is going to piss a lot of people off." He says and leans forward.
"Like who?" Naruto asks the teenager.
"Well, the Reapers for one, those people that wanted you dead since you were dead." He informs Naruto while looking round. "And the people this temple was built for." He says.
Naruto looks around, getting another flashback since this place is too familiar from his past.
Flashback
They all walked into the dark room and noticed that the room seemed more wrecked compared to the rest of the places they visited, and the roof seemed to have collapsed and had several holes that led to the surface. They walked into the room several feet and something stood in the middle, they moved the torch towards it and a statue with its forearms missing, it was a very detailed statue that looked in pain and shock. Jiraiya and Hinata looked confused as to why someone made a statue like that while Naruto looked shocked and upset; they noticed this and were confused. "W-What's the matter N-Naruto-Kun?" Hinata asked.
"N-Norio...it's Norio." Naruto said in a shocked tone.
They looked back at the statue and then to Naruto. "It's just a statue." Jiraiya said as he looked back at the statue, seeing the statue's perfectly bald head, some battle scars and looking very life like.
"No...He's right...it's Norio." Someone said from the darkness, making them all jump in fright.
Jiraiya moved the torch towards the darkness but couldn't see who spoke. "Who's there?" Jiraiya called.
Naruto looked confused by what he smelled; it smelled strange to him, almost like he could smell green if you could call it a colour. "You want to see...me? I never usually...have someone from...the living wanting...to see me." The person chuckled in slight pain and suddenly the room lit up with torches from everywhere and showed a much large room then they originally thought.
They looked around and saw many pillars with torches and they were in the middle of nine thrones, one of which was occupied by someone in green robes and they looked cautiously at the person.
End flashback
The room is nearly exactly like the room before, minus the woman, Norio's statue, no holes in the roof, less rubble and additional entrances along the walls. "I've been here before...just less shitty than before..." Naruto notes and gained a chuckle from the older teen.
"Yeah, true, this is the less destroyed of the Rifts." The guy says.
"...Yeah...who are you?" Naruto then asks the guy, finally curious about the guy since he knows Norio, but he's never met him.
"Me? Oh, I don't have a name, but people tend to call me Strife...or is it Shift...Syphilis...Stad...S T D? I can't remember." 'Strife' says while rubbing his head.
"Okay...how do you know Norio?" Naruto then asked.
"Hmm...he saved me, my home...my clan...my nation...my people...are wiped out, none alive, gone from a war...I forget which, but I owe him everything." Strife informs Naruto while thinking about his past, scratching his groin during that time.
"You're bad at remembering stuff, aren't you?" Naruto says aloud while Strife glares at him.
"No, I just don't care about that stuff, but I remember and hold a grudges against those that do manage to hit me." Strife says while glaring at Naruto. "But anyway, I'm just Master's follower, his left hand man."
Naruto nods, understanding since Norio did have a leading aura when he knew him. "...Is...Norio really gone?" Naruto asks him, having seen before, but that was during his near death experience.
Strife sighs, rubbing the back of his neck. "Yeah, he's gone in so many ways, but then again, he's around as well." Strife tells him, gaining a confused look from Naruto. "His body is gone; his spirit is taken by those Reapers, his influence is practically gone. However, there's still his former presence and his legacy."
Naruto nods sadly, looking down and praying for Norio to pass safely, thanking him for his time for protecting him when he was younger. "Okay...why does this place look similar to that hidden place at my old home?" Naruto asks him, looking around, seeing the differences, but knew it was nearly the exact same.
Strife looks around. "There's quite a lot of these places, some gone, but still there, we called these areas Rifts. Centuries ago, when Ninjutsu was new and more powerful, these were used through worshiping for gods, communication through the ripples in the water and...when directed and given enough Chakra and Natural Energy can teleport people and cargo." Strife informs Naruto while looking at the pool in the middle. "This is what's used to teleport people, it's been centuries, so it can transport several people, unless broken for some odd reason."
"...Teleport? Natural Energies?" Naruto asks him, getting a little more confused.
"You've heard of Summoning Jutsus?" Strife asks him, gaining a nod. "This is similar to it, and Natural Energies are basically everything in this world's energy, much more lethal than usual chakra..." Strife informs him.
Naruto nods, understanding some of it, but it's still confusing for him. "Okay..." Naruto says, getting sudden familiar scents passing into his nose, making him worry. 'Blood...power...some mucky scent...and...Ili?' Naruto says to himself, confused by the last one, looking and seeing the small girl hiding at the doorframe, looking at Naruto curiously and fearfully towards Strife's presence.
Strife looks at her, sighing as he rubs the back of his neck, annoyed by her presence. "Damn it, once one person comes here, every fucking nuisance will come here! I don't want to end up fighting the pissed off people coming here and an army of those Wild People, you were hard enough to handle, more of you will be a pain." He tells Naruto, making him confused as he motioned Ili to come over there, complying and ran and hid behind Naruto.
"What do you mean?" Naruto asks the guy, unsure what he was talking about.
"Well...I'm very positive that those Reapers are hunting me and may know where I am very soon. Also, those people you saw outside, they're the survivors of Jinchuuriki babies, becoming what 'The Last' is, so...they're practically your family." Strife informs Naruto and looks at the girl. "Who knows, maybe there are members of your family amongst these people...maybe this is your cousin...probably not, but right now, anything's possible."
"Family?" Naruto says in confusion.
"Yeah, those people are the unfortunate offspring of Jinchuuriki...or those directly influenced by the beasts...they tend to get what you're becoming." Strife informed Naruto.
Naruto tilts his head, thinking on the numbers he's seen and something he heard when he first seen Wild Naruto within his mind.
Flashback
"Have you ever thought on how many Jinchuriki there are?" Wild Naruto asks.
"...About Nine, right?" Naruto asks.
"Yes, and think of all the previous ones." Wild Naruto says, Naruto raises an eyebrow and nods. "How many of them do you think lived a happy life with a family?" He then asks.
"...I don't know." Naruto says.
Wild Naruto chuckles at this. "Well, let's just say they never experienced love and have never given an offspring." Wild Naruto tells him. "But there are a few that managed to get pregnant and impregnate...and most of the babies, including the mother died during birth, only you managed to live as far as anyone's aware." Wild Naruto says.
"...What?" Naruto says in confusion.
"Yes, but I could be wrong and there could be a few others like us out there that we haven't met...maybe they'll die soon and we'll be the last, hence the title 'The Last'...or maybe we'll be the last living thing remaining in this world should I escape...or maybe we'll be the last of 'our' clan." Wild Naruto chuckles. "It could be anything; destiny gives us titles of how it'll play out."
End flashback
"But I was told there weren't any other...like me." Naruto informs the older man.
Strife looks at him in confusion, looking up and taping his fingers, almost like counting. "No...there's been quite a few, maybe a few of the normal women with Jinchuuriki fathers, but as far as I'm aware, there's been a few that changed fully into those things. Who told you that?" Strife asks him.
"...The thing inside my mind...The Last." Naruto informs him.
Strife starts laughing before smacking the back of Naruto's head, making him annoyed. "That thing has been inside you from the start, how the hell would it know who else is out there?" Strife asks him.
Naruto looks a little more annoyed, wondering if that damned creature knows anything. "So how many are there?"
Strife thinks for a few seconds. "Direct descendants of the originals, at least half a dozen, after the few that didn't change, close to two dozen, but it hardly reached beyond the next few generations since fear came from their ancestor." Strife informs Naruto, counting for a few more seconds, gaining a sigh from Naruto, glad there aren't that many out there that are suffering like he is. "However...if we count the ones the 'Wild People' have been adding." Strife then says, gaining Naruto's attention once again.
"...What? What do you mean by adding?" Naruto asks him, feeling Ili press the side of her face against Naruto's arm, enjoying his closeness and nice aura since she still fears Strife, but not as much anymore.
"There were originally a dozen or so, but what do you think animals...people like them do?" Strife asks Naruto, making his eyes widen. "They do a little dance...then they make a little love...and then pretty much get down tonight." He tells him, making Naruto confused, but figured out he meant mating. "And they breed like rabbits, when puberty hits, most turn out like them, but a few are human at mind, but act like them...like her, but it's still too soon to tell..."
Naruto looks and sees Ili, watching curiously at the man now, wondering why she feared him before while not noticing Naruto's worried look. "...How many?"
Strife starts counting with his fingers again. "...Take the two...over one hundred from my last count...and that's just the ones we know about, we didn't count you."
Naruto's heart stops for a second, finding it unbelievable that there's over one hundred people similar to him. "But I've only seen like two dozen up there!" Naruto yells, thinking he's talking bullshit.
"That's just the surface, there's several more within the tunnels..." Strife tells Naruto in a serious tone, pointing at the tunnels around the wall. "There may be several of them around, but there are other packs with similar places like this, free from civilisation and live as they want."
Naruto thinks of what he's been saying for the past several minutes, still confused, but Ili nudges him, making him look down, smiling slightly. 'Live as they want...sounds nice...' Naruto says to himself.
"Let's get moving, we've got to get you back to civilisation." Strife tells him, getting a bad feeling now and begins to walk towards the pool.
"Why? Why should I go back? Cause I'm not seeing the point...if I'm to become like them, what's the point of living within civilisation?" Naruto asks the boy, making Strife look in interest.
"Well you've got a destiny in front of you, like most, some are complicated, some are simple, you, yours is more twisted than my guts." Strife informs him, patting his head and looks at the smaller, naked, dirt covered girl and bends down to her level, seeing her trying to hide once again, slight fear coming back to her. "I believe yours is simple, you're a follower that has some use." Strife tells her, gaining a growl from both her and Naruto.
"Maybe I don't want to go back, maybe I'll enjoy life here!" Naruto argues, glaring at Strife and he sighs.
"Look, Master...Norio gave us a chance of life, a better life than we would've had if he never showed up. So do him a favour and go back to that damned village, many things are happening, if you're not there to face it, more people will suffer than before." Strife tells him, seeing Naruto think for a few seconds, but shakes his head before walking away from Strife with Ili.
Strife gets a surge or anger and shoots his left hand towards Naruto, grabbing him by his collar pulls him forward, making him yell in shock and pain. "What the fuck are you doing!?" Naruto yells, feeling pain from the force he's being pulled by.
Ili sees this, getting angry and bites Strife's left forearm and stays there, trying to get him to release Naruto. However, all that did was draw blood and gain an irritated look from Strife, whom raises his arm, lifting Naruto from his feet and Ili is also dangling from the lift, looking confused and scared. "Now listen, I'm the nicest guy in my group and I don't take a hit from someone as pathetic as this girl, and you only caught me while I was too fucked in the chakra apartment from protecting everyone from you guys." He says, getting a distant look on his face, remembering the beating her got and two crotch shots. "And there was that girl that punched me in the balls...I got to kill that bitch." He says, his mind wondering and forgetting Naruto and the biting Ili for a few seconds.
"...I don't...want to go...back...there's only...pain back...there!" Naruto yells, tears running down his eyes. "The girl I cared about more than anyone else let someone else kiss her! She's my mate! She's mine! But all I want to do right now is hurt people back there! I've nearly died several times! I want a simple life again! No village! No ninja! No Sasuke! No Tsunade! No fucking Hinata!" Naruto yells, crying since his heart feels like its wants to break, wanting to be with Hinata, but every part of him doesn't want to see her, fearing the worst and the rage gets worse.
Strife says nothing, just watching the younger boy crying, slightly confused by that since Naruto is showing anger. "You know you have to go back, ties there are as strong as they're ever were, so man up you pussy, I don't care if the people there arse raped you for five years. I've been told to take you back, maybe talk to someone that doesn't feel anything but annoyance by getting bitten by a pre-pube girl!" Strife informs Naruto, glaring at the girl who becomes confused by Naruto's emotions, getting angrier and biting harder, believing Strife is causing it.
The man sighs, punching her in the gut, making her let go and landing on her knees, coughing in pain while spitting up blood, mostly his. "Ili!" Naruto yells in shock, going to kick Strife in the gut, but he raises his foot and manages to block Naruto's kick, surprising Naruto slightly.
"You're going back! Fuck whoever fucked you over and get back to that damned village!" Strife yells, dragging him towards the pool, but Naruto keeps struggling. "Stop it! Or I'll-" Strife began.
"You'll do what?" A new voice comes, making Strife stop in his place, paler than a ghost.
Naruto looks for the source, gaining a new scent, but for some reason, it smelled green, if you could put a colour to it. He sees movement near the pool, looking and seeing a person wearing a green cloak. Naruto suddenly gains the memory of this feeling, remembering the woman in green at the last place, at his former home, the one that put Hinata into a temporary comatose state from shock.
"You're...Hinata's mother...right?" Naruto asks the woman in green, gaining Strife's look of disbelief that Naruto's talking to the woman.
"...I use to be, I don't think I have that title now." The woman informs Naruto, giggling slightly and making him confused and angry.
The woman removes her hood, hearing cracking sounds as she shows herself. She is a very pale woman, like she's never seen the sun her entire life, her hair is the colour of an eggplant, grown long which goes back into the cloak. However, what unnerved Naruto more, making him want to cry and yell in anger is that she looks strikingly like Hinata, only older and the sweet look she gives isn't there at all.
"...Levia...what the fuck are you doing here?" Strife asks nervously, sensing danger and a few chakra/natural signatures coming his way.
"I hear you've been breaking a lot of rules, interfering with mortals again...and one that is supposed to be dead already." Levia notes while walking around the pool, her joints cracking with each step. "I am suppose to stop you, should be interesting."
Strife looks at her, nervous while looking at the pool, knowing he has to put Naruto in it before things get too messy. He feels someone grab his arm, looking and seeing that Naruto is still in his grip, soon releasing Naruto and quickly ducks. Naruto gets smashed in the face, causing him to fly backwards and crash into the wall, coughing in slight pain while rubbing his face. He looks, seeing Strife dodging and rolling away from the woman, becoming confused since every swing she did, Strife dodged every one of them.
Naruto sees Ili on the floor, trying to move, but she can't catch her breath. Naruto shots towards her, grabbing her and shooting backwards, placing her against the wall inside the tunnel he entered from. Naruto looks in the room again, seeing Strife getting closer to him, having Levia trying to punch him, a smirk on her face.
Naruto shoots, forwards, aiming to punch one of them, Strife rolls to the side, making Naruto aim at Levia. The woman blocks the attack, but slides backwards by several feet, her wrist cracking while seemingly bemused that Naruto attacked her. "Attacking Hinata's mother are you? I am shocked." She tells him, but a sweet smile on her face, making Naruto tilt his head in confusion, looking too similar to Hinata than ever.
She vanishes, making Naruto surprised, seeing her movements and sees her smashing her palm into Naruto's chest, causing him to fly backward and smash into the wall. He coughs in pain, breathing hard and trying not to vomit. 'That...wasn't that...' Naruto began.
"Yes, it was Gentle Fist, I may not be a pure Hyuga, but I have been trained to be able to use the Hyuga's Gentle Fist and other Jutsus of my clan...but seeing as you're still conscious, I must have missed." She notes while looking at Strife, thinking quickly.
Naruto coughs and manages to regain his breathe before standing. "You...are more...of a pain...than Hinata is." Naruto tells her, cracking his neck.
"My Hinata? A pain? I'm shocked." Levia tells him, thinking and remembering Hinata as a shy girl who couldn't hurt a fly, even if it would attacks her.
"Yeah...well, she kinda...screwed me over." Naruto tells her, seeing her smile once again.
"Hey, kid!" Strife calls.
"What?" Naruto replies.
"Watch your step, otherwise you'll die." Strife informs him, making Naruto sigh.
"No shit." Naruto replies before vanishing, Strife following suite.
Levia jumps backwards, dodging Naruto's attack easily, gaining his annoyed look before Strife appears behind Levia, smashing his foot into her and causing her to stagger forward. Naruto saw the opportunity and shot forward, smashing his fist into her gut, causing her to fly backwards, Strife grits his teeth in pain, blood leaking out of his mouth before he smashes his fist into her once again. It soon became a ping pong tournament, smashing her back and forth, seeing a little bit of blood fly from her as the two shoot forward as she's halfway across.
Naruto does a spinning kick towards her lower jaw while Strife goes to smash the back of her head, his eyes widening before vanishing as Levia starts spinning. "Rotation!" She yells, while Naruto collides with Levia, but a blue aura appears before it extends and becomes a sphere, causing Naruto to fly backwards and smash through the wall.
Strife appears near the hole in the wall that Naruto, coughing hard before spitting up blood. "Damn...it hurts...all the time...but I have to keep fighting...you up for another round?" Strife asks Naruto, seeing the teenager groan in pain.
"I...hate that...Jutsu." Naruto simply states, getting out and looking weakly, his shin bleeding from the friction he gained from the collision of the chakra wall.
Levia stops, coughing slightly, blood coming from her nose and lip, her left eye black from a bruise and glares at Naruto and Strife. "Brats like you should stay down...brats like you end up dead." She states.
"And women like you should be nicer to young people and not envy them for being young." Strife tells her.
Levia tilts her head in confusion, giggling a little before raising her foot, ripping out a stone plate out with her chakra and swings around, launching it at Naruto. "Shit!" Naruto yells, but didn't react fast enough, having it collide with his skull and shattering, causing Naruto to hit the floor and hold his head.
Strife watches this and raises both his arms. "Touch down!" He yells, chuckling before looking at Levia. "Nice shot! Hard aim to do."
"Thank you." Levia says, seeing Naruto get back up, some blood coming from his forehead, making Strife and Levia look in interest.
"You sure know how to take a hit kid." Strife tells him.
Naruto ignores him, the creature in his head telling him to lose it, his mind growing dark from being in this place, holding onto his head in anger. Naruto's eyes become more paler, his muscles twitching, remembering what happened, or what did happen when he was in a place like this, Wild Naruto came a from the experience. He looks at Levia, his teeth sharpening and he growls, standing up and Levia becomes confused by his sudden change of attitude and subtle change in appearance.
Naruto shoots forward, vanishing and Levia becomes confused, soon feeling someone grab her from behind, teeth bitting hard into her shoulder, making her yell in pain and shock. Naruto squeezes tighter, feeling her bones bend and crack by the pressure, soon focusing her chakra around her body. The chakra explodes from her body, causing Naruto to fly away, skidding across the floor until he hits one of the stone thrones, breaking through it and lays on the floor.
Naruto is about to get back up, but a foot collides with his ribs, preventing him from moving and seeing the woman's foot there, pressing hard and smiling. "Poor little boy, seems like there's something wrong with you..." Levia began before looking at her shoulder, picking something out and looking at a sharp tooth. "I best end you before you end up scaring my body...even though it's nothing special." She began, raising her hand to deliver a blow from her Gentle Fist style into his heart. However, a piercing pain on her forearm, looking and seeing Ili biting her and making her annoyed. "Another brat...so young, I envy them so...now die!" She yells, slamming her other palm into Ili's chest, causing her to let go and hit the floor.
Naruto looks in shock, seeing her hold her chest, coughing up blood while a look of pain is printed across her face. "That was a big mistake Levia." Strife informs her, having not moved a muscle since Naruto charged at her.
"Why? Was it this brat's girlfriend?" Levia asks, watching Ili's pained expression.
"No, that was the Pack Leader's youngest child." Strife informs her.
Levia becomes confused, looking away from the young ones to look at Strife, but something collides with her, making her yell in pain. She feels nails dig into her back, trying to look, seeing white eyes, dirty blond hair and a purple triangle on his forehead, blood dripping from his body from fighting the others. He roars in rage, smashing and ripping into her while she yells in anger and pushes him off, the two struggling against each other and fighting one another.
Strife walks over to Naruto and Ili, seeing Naruto panic over her. "Ili...are you alright?" Naruto asks her, worrying about her.
"Hey kid, it's time to leave." Strife informs him, seeing Naruto ignoring him, tears close to coming from Naruto's eyes since the only person to keep him company for all this time. He sighs even more, walking over to him, seeing the pool nearby and has Naruto and Ili between him and the pool. "Time to move kid!" He yells, kicking Naruto, causing him to roll away, soon having Ili follow him by kicking her towards him as well.
"What the fuck are you doing!?" Naruto yells in anger, grabbing Ili to protect her before Strife kicks the two of them, making them slide backwards, soon feeling his toes touch the pool, becoming shocked that it's so cold.
"I'm sending you to someplace safe, so shut up!" Strife yells, kicking the two children into the pool, seeing them vanish into the pool and sighs, feeling the ground shake, looking back, seeing Hashi smashing his foot into the wall that Levia was at, but dodged his attack. "...Best try and end this." He says before spitting out blood.
Xxx
Naruto couldn't move, his body frozen and fear growing in him, holding onto the unconscious Ili, shocked by the coldness of the water and how black it is. He feels Ili struggle, wondering if she's suffocating and worries for her more, he pulls her towards him, feeling bubbles of air come from her mouth.
He presses her nose together, wrapping his lips around hers and giving what air he has left in his lung to her. After that, he quickly starts swimming or moving as best as he can, trying to figure out which way he has to go, but his body is losing its function. 'I've...got to...move...' Naruto thought to himself, but his mind is throbbing before his eyes start shutting. 'I need...to save...Ili...'
Sleepless D: I worry that this may not be good, but I hope you all enjoyed it, please review...I apologise if I didn't do a good job at this and over did it with the talking. Peace out.
