Chapter 17 - Siege
(Fate/Apocrypha OST - Before Dawn)
Naruto smirked as he ran towards his clone seeing him ride Ban who was now in his tailed beast form wearing bronze armor covering the top of his head and snout, shin guards for his legs and retractable blades on his tails.
"How's everything dad?" the real Naruto asked before making his clone explode in front of the nibi's face.
"Same as always, Gyuki is an asshole with a bigger inferiority complexity than Shukaku." Ban answered before crawling on top of the ox... octopus... thing... hybrid? Some call it ushi oni despite said creature supposedly looking more like a spider revealing that Kishimoto decided to pull an Araki by forgetting important concepts.
"Hey, 9-0 don't go hatin' on my bro yo! Fool ya fo- AHHH!" Killer Bee yelled through his beast form taking a giant fist to back of the head making his face hit the ground.
"Wow and I thought I was annoying." Naruto said avoiding swipes from the Nibi, "Kitty has claws, fishcake need to extinguish flames first." he said creating several clones using his sacred treasure and preparing his mokuton.
"You got any plans kid?" Ban asked firing a bijuudama at the nibi sending her flying back while smacking the hachibi around, not giving him time to breathe.
"Sure do, you want to stop the bad rapper or ms silent treatment over there?" Naruto asked avoiding more blue flames being shot at him.
"Let's deal with this dumb ass here first." Ban said nailing another crushing blow onto his head.
Naruto nodded and commanded his clones restrain hachibi with a combination of his chakra chains and mokuton binding keeping the bijuu still.
"Bee! Don't move I'll get them off!" Yelled Yugito running towards the Naruto clones only to take a shoulder to the face followed by multiple kicks and slashes across the body knocking her on her back.
"Oh no you don't! You're in the wrong neighborhood lady and I expect you to pay a poll tax for entering it!" Yelled Ban continuing his assault.
(End of Song)
Unknown location
An elderly man in bandages can be seen sitting in a room watching the village under attack through the monitors. He smiles at the fact his plan is coming into motion, whether or not this invasion proves to be fatal towards the village. The old man plans his rise to power now that act one is complete, act two involves breaking into that mansion the Kyuubi brat claimed to have built. The reason, the boy has developed a certain bond to the strange individuals he brought with them and it was because of this his new power was unleashed.
This man needed that power to be under his control and not run loose like the dog the boy is like that senile fool Hiruzen has decided. Now that the boy and most of the shinobi who live in it are gone, it was a perfect time for his ROOT operatives to go in while the village was under chaos. Now that Orochimaru's forces are allied with a stronger village, he was sure Hiruzen would likely die or become too heavily injured before the old man had a chance to announce his successor beginning the third act of his plan. With the former Uzumaki under his thumb, he would have a weapon with enough potential to make all the bijuu weak and obsolete.
From there, his fourth act would be to take the hat and appear as a hero by defeating betraying Orochimaru and defeating both Oto and Kumo in a war as Iwa has yet to prepare itself for another war giving him time to prepare for an arms race beginning the next shinobi war as Suna and Kiri would both be too weak to join. Soon after, he would prepare himself to dominate those two last villages keeping Konoha as the strongest village in the entire Elemental Nations. Afterwards he would deal with making the kyuubi brat make spawns for him before killing him and raising an army to protect the village and dominate any force that challenges him.
All was going according to plan.
With the hokage
Hiruzen Sarutobi was looking over the map of the village with Shikaku and a couple of ANBU captains trying to plan their counter attack seeing that the angels were forcing Kumo on the defensive and keeping them from getting too close as Oto forces were regrouping in hopes that large battalions would be enough to break through their line.
The genin did their part in evacuating the civilians, chunin and jounin were in the streets and rooftops combating any forces that were breaking in through the sides and Oto forces were still forcing themselves into summoning snakes with poor results. Despite the loss of both the Toad and Slug clans, the Goddess clan brought faith to the shinobi seeing as there were enough of them to fight this army.
"Has the Raikage made an appearance?" Sarutobi asked wondering if this will be another fight between village leaders.
"No, word is that he was making an appearance, but there hasn't been any sightings of him." answered Shikaku.
"What about the bijuu, I swear I saw a large ox fighting what appeared to be the kyuubi wearing armor." said one of the captains.
"Naruto has full control of the beast and has lead it outside of the village to fight both of Kumo's jinchuuriki without damaging the village." Sarutobi explained getting shocked looks.
"Hokage-sama, with all due respect, but are you sure we should put faith into one child to control the strongest tailed beast and keep it from destroying the village again?" asked another captain who was much more doubtful.
"I do, many of you have put him down for so long, but he is much stronger than anyone here for the burden he carries. For he is willing to keep the beast at bay instead of releasing it on us like he has now. Instead he is risking his life fighting alongside it fighting both the nibi and hachibi as if they were on equal ground. This is the new generation, these are our successors and Naruto is the prime example of the testament to the will of fire." Sarutobi explained shutting up most of the doubtful people around him.
"Well I'm personally going to keep that to him, because I'm not liking our odds if we did this without the help of his summons." Shikaku said with some hint of motivation seeing as the enemy stopped their long range attacks due to the summons getting in the way.
With some random Kumo shinobi
Three Kumo shinobi can be seen taking cover in one of the destroyed shops seeing many of their own comrades getting eviscerated by the Goddess clan seeing as they never had the chance to perform their jutsus or get move fast enough to engage them in sword battle. One of them a white haired boy with a lollipop in his mouth, another a muscular redhead and the other one a pale blond with a bust that would make you assume she was related to Tsunade.
"I said it before, I asked if we were doing the right thing Karui and you told me to shut up and listen to Raikage-sama's orders and look where that got us." the white haired boy whispered pointing the Goddess clan member firing an Ark and blowing up her target, "Kami himself decided to punish us!" he continued before being hit over the head by the redhead now named Karui.
"Shut the hell up Omoi, you're going to get us caught!" she silently yelled, "Samui, do you see a way for us to get out of this?" she asked her blond her friend.
"We could not be cool and surrender." Samui deadpanned.
"Any ideas that you think are cool?" Omoi asked.
"We take them by surprise and successfully defeat them before making a run for it." Samui answered.
"So, either surrender or hope things work out for the better?" Karui asked getting a nod from her blond friend.
Suddenly they could hear someone screaming hot over and over again in the distance making Samui face fault.
"Isn't that your stupid brother?" Omoi asked receiving silence from his blond teammate.
Suddenly a blond haired man with a similar hairstyle as Samui appeared screaming "Hot!" ran in with his blades before being knocked out by an Ark followed by being dragged away.
"I think surrendering might be slightly more cool now." Samui said getting up and placing her hands on the back of her head walking towards the enemy.
The other two sighed before dropping their weapons and surrendering as well.
With the Raikage
A was not in a good mood, he could see his brother being restrained while Yugito was having her ass kicked by the Kyuubi who suddenly switched into a bipedal position and became taijutsu specialist, a rather odd sight at the very least. However, he was fuming seeing that Orochimaru was barely doing any of the work himself since Oto ninja can barely be seen joining the fight while also failing to summon their snake to support them in battle. To top it off, Konoha suddenly got their hands on warriors with a strange bloodline making them appear as angels. Another on the list of bloodlines he would hope to steal after this invasion was all over.
He was rather impatient and was not feeling too optimistic at how things looked and was ready to smash another window at any minute. That silver haired bastard and his Kaguya sidekick better step things up otherwise he's going to have to pull out in an even more humiliating defeat than what Suna did.
What the oversized monkey on steroids didn't notice were the group of four men with black cloaks with red clouds on them.
With the Akatsuki
"I think if we're lucky, I might have time to make sacrifices for Jashin-sama." Hidan said licking his lips.
"Hidan we don't have time for you talk about that weird shrine you made out of gum." Kakazu deadpanned.
"It's earwax Kakazu, you wouldn't know because you're too busy staring at your money wife!" Hidan yelled.
"At least my money wife isn't made from something disgusting!" Kakazu yelled back.
"Do you even know what some people do with their money? Or where they even put it? And you have the decency to say my shrine is disgusting?" Hidan asked feeling annoyed.
"At the very least I'm not worshipping some deity and running around in some cult group dedicated to murdering people for the sake of a new world order and wearing matching outfits with the same logo!" Kakuzu yelled not listening to his own words.
Itachi, Kisame and even Hidan sweatdropped at the detailed description and started questioning what they all got themselves into. Hidan also started thinking he might be committing a sin against his religion by partaking in a completely different one. Kakuzu waited a minute staring at their silence and ignoring the sounds of war behind him to realize that he contradicted himself.
"I think it's best we start moving before we manage to attract attention." Itachi said stoically getting nods from the group as they moved to a safe distance to watch the battle between bijuu.
With the Seven Deadly Sins
A battalion of Kumo and Oto nin charge through the lines breaking through the line of Goddess clan members and jounin only to stop hearing loud stomps and large tremors around them. They all looked up too see Diane wielding Gideon followed by several Akimichi clan members who grew as well, but unable to reach Diane's intimidating height. Good thing there were no Inuzuka around since they would've have been distracted by the multiple scents of foreign shinobi shitting themselves.
"Jet Rock!" all the invading shinobi started to run as Diane fired a giant fist coming from the ground crushing most of them in the way before the Akimichi stepped in and started crushing all those in their path.
Diane turned to see Ban smashin the Nibi against the wall, she felt worried thinking about her nephew being out there and only hoped Ban would be enough to stop two bijuu at the same time. She didn't exactly have too much faith in herself to stop either one on her own considering Shukaku was much weaker and was still able to pin her down. Diane shook her head ignoring the thoughts and ran after the Akimichi clan to support in suppressing the enemy.
King eventually makes his way to all the all civilians and injured shinobi that made it to the shelters, "Form 8: Pollen Garden" King said creating a large sunflower releasing healing magic healing all of the injured giving them time to rest and heal up before joining the fight. Many of the civilians thanked King before he took off after Diane.
On one of the sides of the village walls, Oto shinobi manage to make their rappelling down the walls only for the fall to their deaths as Escanor slices their ropes and rampages through them with Rhitta on hand.
"You trespassers would have been given a more merciful experience had you gone through the front. For I the Lion Sin of Pride will not show weakness." Escanor said slicing through the Oto nin who recklessly ran towards Escanor assuming an easy victory. Escanor managed to beat all in his way within less than 10 minutes, "Is this what it takes to create a village? Putting on masks and playing dress up?" Escanor asked tossing the last one aside.
"Hello trash." Escanor turned to see an albino man with white hair and red dots on his four heads, "You should not underestimate the forces of Orochimaru-sama regardless of how many weaklings you kill." the man said coldly.
"Kimimaro." both turned to see Kabuto on one of the rooftops, "Hold that brute off and kill him if you can, I'll go free Orochimaru-sama." he said before jumping away.
"Let us dance then." Kimimaro said sprouting several bones out of his body and pulling one out from his spine and wielding it from like a sword.
"He said to kill me, he will be disappointed when he finds you dead instead. That is if I don't catch him in time." Escanor said engaging Kimimaro. To be fair, one of them is at a heavy disadvantage.
Finally with Merlin, the mage quickly putting on her jounin garb not wanting another bloody nose situation with the hokage and some of the other jounin hence the reason for her being fine with said outfit. However, after an extensive interview with Escanor by his side, Sarutobi saw Escanor as a power ally would often recommend him for the front lines and special events when in his base form. As for Merlin, she was actually a specialist who's knowledge and skill would contribute to the studies of the village along with further advancements since she was working on a way to connect magical energy with chakra.
"Hokage-sama, what is the status report of the village?" she asked.
"Merlin-san from the looks of it, we are managing to push back the enemy with the help of Naruto's summons. However, I fear that this is all just a distraction as we have word that the Raikage is somewhere here as well." Sarutobi explained.
"Hokage-sama, you wouldn't happen to have your crystal ball with you now?" Merlin asked making the old man raise a brow.
"I keep a spare for emergencies whenever I'm not in the office." he said pulling out a sealing scroll revealing the crystal ball, "However, it can only track one thing at a time within a five mile radius." he warned.
Merlin picked it up, "I think I've worked with something similar, it may not be like my Aldan but I think I can amplify this to get a further view of what is happening. This will take a while. You won't need this right now will you?" she asked.
"I fear now is the time for action and not viewing Merlin, do as you must." Sarutobi said going back to watching the plans with the captains.
A few minutes later, "And that should be it, luckily a basic listen on Goddess Fuinjutsu as you call it was enough to improve it. Just activate it as you would and look for two things at the same time." Merlin explained as Sarutobi attempted his telescope technique.
"Let's find that brute first." Sarutobi said revealing a light coming from the orb showing a square like object showing A going ballistic on his supervisors and screaming about his dissatisfaction with Orochimaru's forces.
"Remember, I said imagine two images at the same time so try to keep hold of that one then make another." Merlin reminded.
Sarutobi nodded concentrating, "Let's see how Naruto-kun is doing." he said worried about his surrogate grandson. Another square appeared right next to it revealing Naruto holding down the Hachibi with the mokuton and chakra chains while performing some sealing technique around the restrained bijuu. "Damn that boy always doing insane things, he won't reach his dream of taking my hat if he's pulling these stunts." Sarutobi said wide eyed at Naruto.
Merlin felt internally worried, "That's my boyfriend for you lord hokage, isn't the Will of Fire you preach about sacrifice?" she asked getting a nod.
"Yes it is, I can't help to feel worried about him hurting himself. First the Ichibi now the Hachibi while riding the Kyuubi." Sarutobi said wondering what he must have put in his pipe to see this.
"He's always making me worried too, how do you think I felt when he went on his rampage a while back?" Merlin asked.
Sarutobi sighed remembering Asuma's report of Naruto transforming and taking away Kurenai's chakra, "How is he with that by the way?" he asked.
"Much better, he won't go at full power, but at the very least he won't go at full power since I sealed a good portion of it way." Merlin explained, "I think you can create more screens if you manage to concentrate hard enough." Sarutobi nodded and did as suggested.
Several more screens popped up, one of Escanor getting stabbed by the bones of some kid before Escanor just ribs the bones out and starts tossing the kid around. The second was of the civilians being tended to at the shelters along with injured shinobi. A third was of Diane and King forcing the enemy back. The next three made the pair gap, the fourth was of Kabuto killing several ANBU and making his way to the cells, fifth was of the Akatsuki watching the battle between the bijuu and several ROOT ninja are going through the forest making their way to Naruto's mansion.
"Danzo, the Akatsuki, and Kabuto! Damn a triple threat under our midst and I'm not sure if we have anyone to spare!" Sarutobi said outraged and worrying about who to help first. He had three options, one was to stop Kabuto from freeing Orochimaru, two was to deal with the Akatsuki and support Naruto and three was to stop the ROOT ninja that was supposed to be shutdown, but clearly showed Danzo was doing some evil deeds behind his back.
Merlin bit her lip having to worry about who to help first, sure she could grab Escanor since his fight seems to practically be over, but who's going to help who?
At the mansion
"I don't like it." Margaret said.
"I know, but what else can we do?" Veronica asked.
"Nothing, we can stay here and avoid putting everyone we leave behind at risk." Matrona said as the three sat in the common room surrounded by servants wearing bearskin hats while the tricorn wearing servants are stationed at every window and doorway.
"Our nephew and everyone else is out there risking their lives, it's just like Liones again before..." Margaret trailed off remembering Elizabeth freezing her, "I don't like feeling like a damsel anymore. Every time I'm captured or forced to sit back while everyone else fights for me." she admitted.
Veronica placed her hand on her sister's shoulder, "I know sis, even though I prepare myself everyday for a fight. I can't help to feel useless or weak at times. Just look at the exams or the time I lashed out at Naruto because I couldn't control the chakra." Margaret nodded remembering both times Veronica lost her mind.
"We can only hope for the best that this all blows over. It's better to hope than to worry and worrying will hurt us more than do them any good." Elaine said.
Then suddenly the whole mansion started to shake, "What was that?" Matron asked seeing the tricorn wearing servants began to shift and change their positions.
"Must be some kind of danger, I should summon Artoria." Veronica said getting a nod.
"Summoning Jutsu!" in a poof of smoke Artoria revealed herself, "Lady Veronica, do you require my services?" she asked.
"Yes, I think the mansion might be in trouble so I will need you on standby should they break through." Veronica explained getting a nod.
With Zeal, the boy was drawing on his desk until he felt the building shake and began to suddenly feel lots of movement happening around him. He couldn't understand it, but it's as if he knew which servants were moving and where they were heading while sensing a cold blank aura outside trying to break through Naruto's barrier. He wasn't sure what to do so he did what he felt was best to ensure his safety.
"Summoning Jutsu!" in a poof of smoke Atalanta made an appearance, "Zeal, are you in danger?" she asked knowing about the invasion everyone else would be participating in.
"I think there's someone trying to break into the mansion and I don't think they're the good guys." Zeal answered making Atalanta pull out her bow.
"Zeal stay close, I will make sure no one reaches you." Atalanta said reassuring the boy.
Outside, the barrier finally fell apart revealing several ANBU with blank masks walking through only for the first dozen to fall and clutch vital areas around their chest as they slowly bleed to death.
"What was that? Senbon?" asked one of them before being hit directly through the eye.
"Everyone disperse and find shinobi firing the projectiles." commanded another making them all run before a couple more picked off.
More ROOT took place and started noticing the servants opening fire on anything that moving whether it be a squirrel or a creepy person wearing a mask. The teams managed to signal each other before sending a pigeon to call more for reinforcements. The remaining forces split into different groups trying to use ninjutsu only to find their chakra slowly draining away due to some hidden seals preventing them from using shunshin and at times, kawarimi.
With Naruto and Ban
"Keep 'er goin' boys, I'm almost done." Naruto said to his clones keeping Hachibi restrained while Nibi was getting her ass handed to her by Ban.
Killer Bee was wailing inside his form trying to break free until he started noticing several seals forming around his mindscape.
"Bee what the hell are those?" Gyuki asked.
"Ay 8-0 I don't know what this kid be playing at!" Bee yelled seeing the seals grow brighter making him take a knee, "Yo what's going on? I'm losing control!"
"It's these seals, they're not like any suppressing tags I've seen before. It's like being sucked inside the sealing jar again, except this time it's just my power not and not myself." Gyuki explained feeling weaker every second.
"That ain't cool, can't I break it off with some of your juice?" Bee asked.
"It's worse than a sealing tag you idiot! If anything that will speed everything up!" Gyuki yelled reprimanding Bee.
Meanwhile on the outside, the Hachibi began to shrink down slowly revealing Killer Bee who was on his chest breathing heavily. Naruto quickly ordered one of his clones to wrap Bee in a mokuton prison before running beside Ban who was holding the Nibi down.
"You dealt with octo-ox?" Ban asked.
"Sure did dad, now we have to deal with the cat!" Naruto yelled holding down the Nibi with his mokuton and chains restarting the sealing process away.
As Naruto created the seals again, "That won't be necessary as we'll be taking the both of them. We'd also like it if you calm the fox down and come with us Naruto-kun." Naruto's eyes went wide and turned to see none other than Itachi Uchiha prompting his eyes to turn into slits.
"Itachi Uchiha..." Naruto whispered as his curse mark slowly appeared on his forehead.
Ban didn't like the sight of what was in front of him, one he has to deal with a bijuu and two he has to deal with those Akatsuki guys since they're looking for jinchuuriki so they could steal their bijuu. However the worst part was...
Just as the Akatsuki took their stance, "Maybe I should cut a leg or two so we don't have to worry about him..." Naruto suddenly disappeared, "Hey where the hell did he go?" Kisame's answer...
Itachi activated his Sharingan only to register a kick to the head sending him face first into the ground. Kisame and the rest were startled, but all found their individual ribs being repeatedly beaten before they had the chance to take up a stance whether assault or defense. Ban knew where this was heading and was glad Merlin was able to split his wrath, but that didn't mean the danger was over considering he might not have time to help his son since he still has to deal with the annoying cat.
What neither son or father noticed was the sign of darkness growing within Naruto that was laughing as too what was going on in the battlefield.
With Merlin and Escanor
Kimimaro was on his last legs using the last bit of his curse mark level two form, Escanor for his part was covered on dry blood and signs of scratches around his body while the man himself appeared to be unharmed or aware if any injury or damage even landed on him. Kimimaro was ready to die for his crazy beliefs which just ended with him charging at Escanor with the latter smashing his bones and decapitating him.
"You lost because you fought for a mad man who does not care for your own existence." Escanor said trying to sound as if he pitied his opponent before wiping the blood of Rhitta.
Merlin soon floated beside him, "Escanor, come quick I need your assistance with something." she said.
Escanor nodded and put his hand on Merlin's shoulder before the teleported into the Konoha cells where several ANBU and other guards lay dead in a pool of their own blood. Merlin took a deep breath trying to avoid being bothered by the massacre as she lead Escanor to the lower levels in hopes of stopping Kabuto from freeing Orochimaru. A few minutes later, they made their way to the mess hall to find the prisoners rioting against the guards prompting them to hurry seeing that Kabuto is hoping to run during a distraction.
The two were aware of how dire this situation was, but Orochimaru had to come first considering he is the reason for this attack. A few more minutes later they managed to find Kabuto unlocking the special locks meant to contain S-rank and above criminals giving them enough time to get the drop on him. Escanor quickly grabs Kabuto and tosses him into a wall.
Kabuto quickly recovers and gets off the wall, "So I see Kimimaro's health must have given out on him if your still alive. Very well, I have time to get rid of you myself." he said arrogantly as he activated his chakra scalpels.
"Ms. Merlin, will you do me the pleasure in breaking this man's arrogance?" Escanor asked.
"I sure will Escanor." Merlin answered as Kabuto charged her first only for Escanor to get in the way.
Kabuto smirked only to look and see Escanor giving him an impassive look followed by a punch to the face sending him back into the wall. Feeling annoyed Kabuto quickly tried to stab Escanor with his scalpels a few times not realizing the attacks didn't face him which led to Kabuto having to avoid several strong yet slow swings that nearly took his head off. Kabuto quickly kicked the bigger man in the face only for it to be grabbed and crushed and being tossed at the floor. The silver haired man narrowly rolled away as the Sin of Pride barely shaved some flesh off of his back with Rhitta.
Merlin smirked seeing the injury and was rather mesmerized at how it slowly healed itself similar to how Naruto would heal. She could see the silver haired man smirk seeing his healing factor giving her one idea. She watches as the two continue to go at it seeing it become pointless as Kabuto continues to heal himself while Escanor barely registers any damage. By quickly taking a sample of Kabuto's blood, Merlin begins to work on her spell.
Once again Kabuto begins to heal his gaping wounds waiting for Escanor to attack only for it stop midway and start to open even more making him cry out in pain. He looks up to see Merlin laughing seeing her hands glow from using one of her spells.
"What did you do?" Kabuto asked cradling the giant gaping open wound on his arm.
Merlin stopped laughing for a moment, "I used my absolute cancel ability since I can tell your ability is a bloodline of sorts meaning it involves chakra. I however study magic which is like the ancestor of chakra giving my ability to cancel your healing factor along with making your wound worse." she explained making Kabuto grit his teeth.
Escanor took his chance and attacked Kabuto who didn't have much time nor energy to move out of the way letting him take the hit at the chest. At this point, Kabuto gave into his injuries since Merlin opened his wounds further making it too much for the medic to handle. Merlin didn't want to take any chances and surrounded him in a perfect cube before going back to help the guards to contain the escaped prisoners.
Back at the mansion
Everyone took cover in their respective rooms as the doors were finally bashed down revealing more ROOT operatives only for the first wave to be gunned down immediately causing the second wave to trip and end up getting killed as well creating another barrier for the next groups. The operatives already attempted to use the windows, but the walls would often react as if they were sentient by cutting their ropes and creating spikes impaling operatives along with sealing away the windows and replacing them with more walls. Their best bet was to use the door since they didn't have a Hyuga within their program due to Hiashi and the elder being 1000% secure about their bloodline and clan members staying within the clan.
Eventually the several dozen remaining operatives managed to push through using their own dead comrades as meat shields preventing more losses as they charged the servants and finally killing them only for them to turn into ink and sink back into the ground. ROOT saw this as a temporary victory and began to divide into several groups to search the halls for any potential prisoners or items worth to Danzo-sama's cause. Sadly for them, they were not aware of the other servants who have suddenly went gung-ho or the fact that the house really was sentient. Calcifer was not going to enjoy cleaning up all the dead bodies or washing off all of the blood.
As already stated, several more ROOT found themselves crushed whenever they entered small spaces Calcifer created or being impaled by the walls and ceiling showing how much dedication was put into Calcifer's programming. However, they weren't out of the fray yet as Danzo himself saw the lack of results from the live feed from the cameras he placed on the masks of the captains. He found it annoying and decided to jump into the fray himself with more back up meaning he would have to reveal what he hid under all of those bandages. Spoiler alert: they're not gruesome injuries.
Matrona was already in her metallic state standing beside Zalpa and the kids, the Liones sisters and Artoria also waited for the worst and Zeal barricaded his room with traps as Atalanta also took an stealthy position never taking her eyes of the door. They could all hear the grunts and screams outside their doors and the floors below from the impaled and crushed victims. Another thing that the adults were worried about, was the fact that the children would likely be exposed to the sight of death before any of this was over.
"Oh crap, Zeal!" Veronica yelled.
"What about him?" Margaret asked.
"He's all by himself since Guila had to join the other knights and Naruto to defend the village." Veronica explained getting a gasp from her sister.
"We should go look for him." Margaret suggested getting a nod.
"I would discourage you from doing that. The mansion is under attack and you would be likely to either get attacked by the intruders or get caught up in the traps set up by the house." Artoria spoke up.
"But we can't leave Zeal alone. He's only a child and he can't defend himself." Margaret argued.
"I agree, he'll could be captured or worse." Elaine added.
"I know, but I have a solution. I would go myself, but I believe it would be safer for the both of you since Lady Veronica isn't too skilled to handle trained warriors unlike that red headed girl who was juiced up under demonic influence. Despite Master Naruto summoning an entire armada to defend the village, he didn't exactly have the chakra nor required everyone from the entire realm to be summoned." Artoria explained.
"So you're saying there might still be some available people to summon from the realm." Veronica said deducing what her summon was trying to say.
"Exactly, it would be best to summon one or more people to help assist in finding the child." Artoria added, "Do you have enough chakra for at least one more summon?" she asked.
Veronica nodded, "Summoning Jutsu!" causing a plume of smoke to appear, Veronica narrowed her eyes revealing a man in a red outfit with tan skin and white hair.
The man looked around before noticing Artoria and the princesses, "You know you didn't have to force your summoner to summon me just so you could ask me out." said the man with a smirk.
Artoria blushed, "That's not what I called you for baka!" she yelled before composing herself, "Lady Veronica and Lady Margaret's home is under attack."
"Ok, is this part of the invasion fishcake talked about?" the man asked.
"Why does everyone like to call my son by the meaning of his name?" Elaine asked rubbing her temples.
"Yes, however one of the people who stayed here while the invasion goes on outside is a child who is by himself and will likely be a target himself unless we get to him." Artoria explained.
"So you need my help to find the kid?" he asked from what he understood.
"Yes, I can't do it due to these two not having much experience in combat." Artoria answered getting a nod.
"It sounds easy enough, basically find him and bring him back here." the three women nodded, "Can you show me what he looks like?" he asked.
Veronica did the henge jutsu and turned into a mostly accurate copy of Zeal based on her memory since she didn't interact with him as much. The man nodded and studied the image having the trait of good memory laced with studious eyes since it was required as a long distance fighter.
"I think I can remember this face. I'll be back as soon as I can." he said opening the door and summoning two tiffany knives before running down the halls.
"Artoria who was that?" Veronica asked.
"His name is Shirou, he's a long distance fighter, but is rather capable with his blades to an extent. He was also my ex." she blurted out the last part with a blush. The two decided to leave their questions at that not wanting to settle into the affairs of someone else's love life remembering the story Naruto recounted when he went on a double date with Merlin, Diane, and King.
Shirou was already using his sensory ability that scanned the area around him looking for life signs only to run into ROOT. The ROOT took their stances and charged at the summon who quickly dodged the first attacker and stabbed him the back before cutting off the next one's throat followed by a slash to the knee ending with a stab onto the abdomen for the third attacker. Shirou gave them a "come here" hand gesture prompting ROOT dash at him only for the fight to end with several more throats being slit or stabbed.
Taking a quick breather, Shirou scanned the hallways again finding two faint signatures down the hall deciding to go down there to seek out Zeal. A few minutes later, Shirou made it the door of the room and scanned it to find a child's signature along with an adult who was hiding while the door itself was rigged with a trap. Shirou decided to spring the trap, but managed to get out of the way in time only to avoid several arrows, kicks, and punches leading to a wrestling match where he found himself holding down Atalanta.
"Calm down! Artoria sent me!" Shirou yelled bringing Atalanta back to reality.
"Shirou?" she asked getting a nod before he helped pick her up, "Why did they send you?" she asked again.
"The princesses were worried about some kid being by himself and sent me to fetch him hoping those guys in the masks didn't get to him first." he answered.
"Well he's fine since I'm guarding him since it's my job as his summon." Atalanta stated proudly.
"Well I didn't know and clearly the other two and Artoria didn't know. Besides, it would be best if we regroup since I detect another dozen making their way up and avoiding some traps from... the house?" he asked.
"The house is sentient." this confused Shirou, "It was something Master Naruto invented, a house made a sentient who can manipulate the house's physical appearance as well as modify and reshape it on it's own accord." Atalanta explained according to what Zeal and Guila were able to tell her.
"Ok that's... actually pretty amazing. Now I feel bad for not volunteering in Celine's place." Shirou admitted making Atalanta's eyes roll.
"Let's just regroup ok?" Atalanta asked getting a nod as she picked up Zeal and began to run toward Veronica and Margaret's room.
On their way back, Shirou detected more ROOT hiding in the ducks and prepared his blades for another fight, "Keep moving no matter what!" Atalanta nodded and picked up the pace.
Shirou slid on his knees as the ROOT jumped revealing themselves only for their knees to get cut followed by several stabs towards their chests as they were down. Shirou wasted no time as more came up behind him, blocking and parrying all the attacks, he was able to land several critical hits on his opponents before finishing them leaving Calcifer to finish off the final groups before Danzo would arrive. Atalanta eventually arrived at the room with Shirou appearing behind her a minute later.
"Atalanta is that you?" Artoria asked surprised to see another familiar face.
"Yes Artoria, I'm a familiar like you and Medea from what I have heard." Atalanta answered putting Zeal down who was greeted by the two princesses.
"Oh I forgot you signed the contract, I should have known since I've seen Guila spar with her familiar." Veronica said getting an annoyed look from everyone else.
"Yeah, I locked myself in my room and summoned Atalanta so she could protect me while my big sister was helping everyone else in the battle." Zeal explained.
"Well you'll be much more safer now that we're all together." Margaret said seeing as they had three people as back up. However, no one was aware as to Danzo arriving with a larger platoon of ROOT ANBU right behind him. Calcifer was slowly gathering up energy to rebuild and put the traps together while replacing the servants. The mansion was fully aware that this fight was far from over.
With Naruto and Ban
Yugito eventually succumbed to exhaustion and reverted back to her human form. She only now noticed the Akatsuki and attempted to run only to fall from exhaustion. With that out of the way, Ban was able to revert to his human form and jump down to help his son. Oh and Killer Bee was still trapped in his mokuton cage almost making it easy for the Akatsuki to catch him. However that would be done had Naruto not gone ballistic and started beating all of them down.
"Naruto I'll take on the grim reaper and that sword guy." Ban said getting a nod.
Naruto picked up Kisame by his robe and tossed him to Ban who jumped and nailed him in the head with a front flip kick sending him into the ground. Ban would soon notice that there was a scythe going through him making him spit out blood.
"I don't know how you were able to turn into the Kyuubi since your not the jinchuuriki we're looking for, but that doesn't mean I won't sacrifice you to jashin-sama." Hidan said with a feral grin.
Ban deadpanned and merely pulled on the scythe by the blade and ripped it right through Hidan's fingers. Hidan a bit annoyed for losing his weapon demanded it back. Ban's response, chop his head off with his own weapon. Sadly Hidan proved to be much more durable since he was still alive while his body remained inactive. Just before Hidan to call out to Kakazu to sew him back up, Ban picked up the severed head and kicked it like a football sending it towards where the Kumo shinobi were arriving from.
"I won't be able to sew him up. As long as Hidan's body..." Kakazu was cut off seeing Ban burn Hidan's body to ashes, "Nevermind." he said facepalming.
Kisame got up from the ground feeling a massive headache and looked up to see Ban who smashed his three section staff over his head. Having enough, he quickly avoided another attack then lifted Samehada down onto Ban who took some damage with but quickly repelled the sentient sword. Kisame was none the wiser not realizing Samehada felt the rejection from trying to eat Ban's chakra.
(Seven Deadly Sins OST - Big Tsum Tsum)
While they were fighting, Naruto used Lostvayne's power to create six copies of himself to go after Kakazu who created these weird creatures made from some kind of wire like material wearing painted masks. Thus the fight between Liones and Uchiha began when Itachi kept his Sharingan active at three tomoe before running at Naruto. Naruto stood there waiting for Itachi to arrive and started blocking all his attacks before kicking him in the chest making him skid back.
Not wanting to continue a taijutsu battle, Itachi formed several hand seals, "Fire Style: Phoenix Fire Sage" he called out sending several balls of fire towards Naruto.
Naruto ran towards the fireballs and hit each one quickly making them bigger and flying back towards Itachi who lost control of his tecnique forcing him to switch to the offensive.
"Water Style: Water Bullet" he called out attempting to extinguish the fires only for most of them to continue burning forcing him to disappear in a shunshin of crows.
Appearing right behind Naruto, Itachi went for the neck chop only to receive a kick from behind followed by an uppercut sending him up in the air and slamming him into the ground before he had a chance to react. He recovered to see a clone poofing a way giving him the idea to create several shadow clones surrounding the both of them. Itachi pulled out the tanto he kept with him since his days as an ANBU captain and engaged Naruto in a sword battle while the clones prepared themselves for the fireball technique. A minute later, Itachi manages to make Naruto slip a few times before pushing him into the ground and bursting into crows again while the shadow clones spit fireballs from their mouths.
The fire was extinguished as a dome of ice appeared, the clones placed their hands on the dome and blew themselves up forcing the dome to collapse revealing nothing inside making the Uchiha prodigy raise and eyebrow, but remain on high alert. Knowing this, he ducked feeling a kick aimed for his head only to kick the legs behind him creating another plume of smoke before taking a blow to the side of the head. The two engaged each other in another round of taijutsu trading blows every other second testing their endurance as they continued their attacks without taking the time to catch their breaths.
Itachi realized that Naruto had grown much more than when he was a child, back during happier times. Putting the good memories aside, Itachi three tomoe transformed into a three pointed curved shuriken. Jumping back Itachi used his evolved dojutsu's technique and fired black flames at Naruto who tried to counter the technique with some more ice only for it to melt before the flames even reached him. Naruto internally growled as he failed to extinguish the flames forcing him to retreat. Running at his enemy, Naruto narrowed his eyes at Itachi who was holding still only open his eyes wide as he jumped away in time to avoid another clone explosion.
"It's over now." Naruto turned to see Itachi's Mangekyou Sharingan spinning, "Tsukiyomi" he whispered sending Naruto into an entirely new world manipulated by none other than Itachi himself. Or so the latter thought.
(End of Song)
Danzo's invasion of the mansion, a while later
After a half hour of navigation, Danzo Shimura, adviser of the hokage and secret leader of ROOT which was never disbanded, finally made his way to the hallways maintaining half of his ROOT escort after helping them survive the onslaught of servants and traps Calcifer was able to produce. Peeking his head out, Danzo narrowly avoided taking a bullet to the head by three servants who were waiting for them. Signalling two of his own to distract them, Danzo unleashed his arm which he kept bandaged revealing a gruesome mutated arm with several Sharingan eyes implanted into them along with what appeared to be a human face on his shoulder.
While the ROOT shinobi took their jobs as meat shields seriously (by dying), several tree roots crushing the servants along with the ones that were hanging onto the ceiling. Satisfied with the results and ignoring the bloody scenery caused by the corpses of his failed experiments, Danzo continues to look around while following one of his agents who specialized in sensory and was able to detect more lifeforms, which were likely the unarmed family members.
Just as he came close, he was surprised to see Shirou in his way already cutting down several of his ROOT shinobi while Atalanta started firing arrows into their skulls before revealing Artoria who also joined in the fray by standing guard at the door repelling anyone who got too close. Having enough of this farce, he raised his arm forcing more wood to smash through the building surrounding the three summons. The wood wrapped around each summon restraining them and forcing them to drop their weapons.
"Now that I have your attention." Danzo revealed his Sharingan eye which he stole from Shisui Uchiha after the Uchiha massacre which was also were he managed to steal the Sharingan eyes. However when activated his genjutsu, he noticed that none of the three looked remotely affected and were mostly focused in breaking free from the wood. He decided to risk using Kotoamatsukami on the servants only to realize that none of them were affected.
Danzo gritted his teeth, "If you will not obey, then perhaps you will make more use being dead." he signalled his remaining agents to approach the summons, "End them." he said coldly.
They approached Artoria first who was struggling the most, "Get away from her! I'm more of a threat than she is!" Shirou yelled briefly grabbing their attention, "What you feckless magots to scared kill a man!? You enjoy picking on defenseless women!? And you! You call yourself a man!? If it weren't for this wood, I would kick your ass without picking up a weapon or raising my fists!" he continued to yell.
"Yelling won't help us here Shirou, talking things out was always Lady Elizabeth and Naruto's job." Atalanta spoke up while trying to pick up her bow with her legs.
Danzo grew a tick mark having to listen to the annoying man, "Change of plan, kill the loudmouth first. I can't stand listening to that mouth of his any longer." he said getting nods from his lackeys who ignored Artoria and moved towards Shirou.
"Shirou no!" Artoria yelled.
"Oh boy." Atalanta said seeing that her fellow archer got himself killed.
"I won't show fear, that would only encourage the mummy." Shirou said looking at the blank masked men dead in the eye.
Just as one of them drew his tanto out, the whole building started shaking and drastically started becoming cold. As this happened, Calcifer started freaking out causing the houses to shake even more making doors and windows rapidly appear and disappear along with walls getting destroyed and repairing over and over exhaustion. Even Danzo felt rather uneasy knowing this was completely different compared to killing intent, unlinke KI this felt less natural, but made his surroundings rather difficult to breathe in.
Just as he the ROOT shinobi attempted to cut Shirou down, the floor beneath revealed a large arm grabbing him by the head and dragging him down. Danzo jumped back bumping into one of his shinobi who was the next one to be dragged down through the floor. All around him all of his shinobi were brutally being dragged from the floors presumably killing them all leaving Danzo all by himself. Keeping his demeanor calm, Danzo quickly scanned the room with his Sharingan detecting no chakra signature, not even from his shinobi that were dragged away.
At one point, he used Izanagi twice killing two of the eyes on his arms just hearing the loud creaking from the house. Meanwhile, Matrona's family were all huddled as they were worried and rather afraid of what was going on now that everything had gone silent. Veronica was contemplating running out and cutting the summons free or summoning someone else to help her. Margaret was holding Zeal closely to her chest trying to keep him calm as he continued to whimper ever since Danzo entered the hallways. Elaine was right beside Margaret who was hoping someone would come back and help them with the situation. Everyone soon gasped and heard Danzo use Izanagi again after seeing Calcifer slowly start to repair all of the damage around the house caused by the assault.
Danzo felt rather annoyed that someone was toying with him and only fumed more seeing that he lost a third of his eyes just from fear alone. He was ready to destroy this trouble maker and make him bend to his will for causing him this grief of fear.
"Hello demigod." Danzo quickly span around only to feel a giant arm grab him by the face and teleport him to the outside.
Danzo struggled to rip the hand off of his face and used his mokuton to attack the stranger. Danzo felt the grip loosen and drop him only to see the man grab the wood and slowly turn it completely black then into ash. Danzo used Izanagi to disappear and reappear behind the man only to take a fist to face sending him to the ground before being picked up by his throat.
"You asked for a demon. You received one. Doing so you've met your grim reaper or shinigami as you people say in your tongue." said the man sticking his thumb inside Danzo's eye before the latter could use Izanagi making him scream in pain as Shisui's eye was slowly destroyed along with part of his optic nerve. "This arm does not belong to you does it?" he asked receiving silence and heavy breathing, "I guess I'll take that away from you as well." he said ripping the arm away.
Danzo used his good arm to rip off the robe revealing black seals on chest, "Reverse Four Symbol S..." Danzo was interrupted as the stranger shoved his fist through his body before snapping his neck with his other arm.
Inside, the summons were freed as the wood fell apart after turning black and becoming dust. Everyone took the moment to notice the silence and was careful to make sure there weren't anymore ROOT shinobi lurking around every corner.
With Ban
The Fox Sin gripped his bloody arm in pain gritting his teeth as he moved as quickly as possible. His son was in danger and from the sound of things, so was everyone else at the mansion. Too bad that bastard Itachi got away, he's the sole reason Naruto lost his mind again.
"Don't worry son. I'll save you this time." Ban said trying to run as fast as he could across the village that was on its last legs.
The mansion, aftermath of the assault
As Calcifer managed to rebuild most of the mansion, a window appeared revealing the front yard and the two who were fighting at the front. Elaine looked first and immediately covered her mouth as she suddenly lost all oxygen to her longs. Everyone noticed her look of worry and wondered what it is she saw that made her panic.
"Elaine what's wrong?" Veronica asked.
"Naruto..." she whispered as she along with her sister gasped.
As they looked outside, they were able to notice who the stranger really was. The man had long blond hair, wore a white unitard with a symbol on the front and wore golden greaves and bracers. However, none of them were aware of the entity that was in his place of their loved one.
"Naruto" smirked at what lied before him, one less demigod to rule this new world. That ape from lightning country was next on his list. However, that confrontation would be interrupted as the Cheshire ANBU arrived.
"Stand down Liones!" she ordered.
"You dare order me? The Demon King to stand down?" he asked with a chuckle, "You're rather brave for a human, that is... if you were human." he said.
"So you know?" Cheshire asked.
"I knew the moment I inhabited this child's mind that there was another member of the Goddess Clan among the villagers. Now tell me, who are you?" he asked.
Cheshire tossed away her mask as golden energy surrounded her making her dreadlocks turn into curls before revealing her eyes that turned orange with golden triskyles. She quickly summoned a spear to her side and took an offensive position. Neither were aware that Merlin and Escanor made it to the field as well along with Ban who made it in time to see everything.
"I am Herodias, the one and only student of Cora Liones." everyone inside managed to run downstairs in time to see the confrontation gasped at the proclamation.
"Who's Cora Liones?" Veronica asked.
"Veronica, don't you remember that pantheon Naruto isn't our only nephew so Cora was likely one of Elizabeth's grandchildren." Margaret explained.
"So, you studied under one of my progenies. Show me what my granddaughter has taught you Herodias!" the Demon King yelled charging at the ANBU revealed to be a Goddess Clan member.
Herodias moved to the side and avoided the attack, "I would be a fool to believe I could fight someone as powerful as you and live to tell the tale." she said.
"So you have some intelligence to understand my power, but what will you do now? Run? Cry? Hope someone saves you?" he asked with a smirk.
The three members of the Seven Deadly Sins were ready to run in and help until Herodias pulled out two scrolls from her pocket.
"I may not be able to defeat you, but my grandfather Meliodas prophesied that the day you returned." she said unrolling the scrolls.
"What are you going to do? Read me a poem?" the Demon King mocked seeing the kanji on the scrolls unaware of the meaning behind the writing.
"Long ago, there was a warrior from another land and he took on two apprentices. These two have been said to become strong enough to rival my ." the Demon King raised a brow.
"If you believe it then I want you all to give me your best shot!" he yelled as Herodias cut her thumb and unsealed the contents.
Two plumes of smoke appeared revealing the shadows of two rather familiar people.
"Impossible... could it be..." Merlin gasped.
"Wait is that...?" Margaret asked fearfully.
(Fate Extra/ Last Encore OST - Pavilion of the Falling Flowers)
In front of them was a male and female. The male had amber hair with purple eyes and wore a red military jacket with black pants and epaulettes on his shoulders. The female had bobbed hair with brown and wore a light purple armored dress dressed in a military style with epaulettes as well and wielded a spear with a flag wrapped around it as if it were a flag pole as well. The male moved up a foot before drawing a sword.
"Has it been thousands of years already?" asked the male.
"Must be if our old teacher is here as well." answered the female.
Merlin's jaw dropped as her hand reached out, "Arthur... Vivian..." she whispered.
"You might want to close your mouth unless you want to let the flies in master." Vivian said receiving an agreeing nod.
"Enough chatter!" yelled the Demon King who charged at Vivian only for Arthur to get in the way by blocking his strike with what appeared to be Excalibur.
"How about a gentleman's duel instead? I propose a battle between kings." Arthur said successfully pushing him back.
The two charged at each other again with the Demon King creating a sword made of darkness engaging Arthur in a sword battle composed at the two slashing and blocking each other's attacks until Arthur destroyed the Demon King's sword and jumped back.
"An annoying one you are. Time to end this buffoonery, I have no time to play with children." he said charging up his power, "Black Nebula!" he yelled firing the giant dark ball of death towards them only for Vivian to jump in and unravel the flag revealing Konoha's symbol.
"Time to reveal my power." Vivian said as the flagpole/spear began to glow and stopped the orb as it collided with her weapon until it vanished.
"Impossible, it looks like I will have to be serious about this." the Demon King said cracking his knuckles.
"Just like with sensei right Vivian?" Arthur asked.
"Sensei almost put us six feet underground at this point. This goblin isn't worth our time." Vivian answered with a smirk frustrating the Demon King.
Merlin was frozen thinking about her two former students. The King of Camelot who she knew as a boy and the girl who lost herself were both here fighting on equal ground with possibly their strongest foe to ever face.
"Master, would you mind helping us out here? I would be less frustrated if you did." Vivian yelled out grabbing Merlin's attention.
"Come on, we need to beat this guy and get Naruto back." Ban said as Escanor already jumped into the fray.
'They said sensei, that means teacher according to Naruto. If so, who taught them all those years ago?' Merlin wondered.
Far away from Konoha
A man with silver hair sneezed, "Someone must be talking about you boss." the man looked to see a mini fox with a bowler hat and vest.
"I don't believe in that sort of stuff Fillmore. Let's just enjoy our meal before we head out." said the man, "However, I feel like there's something important waiting for us." he added.
"Whatever you say big guy, but couldn't you have picked somewhere where they sell booze?" the fox named Fillmore asked.
"You need to cut back on the drinking." he said rolling his eyes at his companion.
TO BE CONTINUED...