I think that with this Chapter, Akari has now dropped out of the realm of Kage-level strength and into a whole new level above even Hashirama.
Sure, she's got no fancy Sage-mode or anything like that, but she has power in spades. You'll see what I mean in the opening chapter, where Akari finally uses those 165 points she's got sitting there being useless.
Chapter 49
After finishing up her help at the medical tent, Akari found a quiet corner to sit down at.
She hadn't gotten any experience for her work, that was a bit of a shame, but she decided that now was a pretty good time to put some of her points to work, considering she had like a hundred and sixty of the damn things. Opening up her status screen, Akari gnawed at her lip a little debating, before finally giving up and raising all her stats to a rounded-off 100, leaving her with 95 points to spare.
She saw her notifications flash, but ignored it as she tried to debate on whether or not to bite the bullet and jump her agility all the way up to 400, before finally shrugging and doing so. As she did so, the side of her vision flashed once again, finally forcing her attention to the three new notifications she'd received. Two of them had purple outlines, different from the norm, while the third was the typical colouration. She opened the first, her eyes widening.
For reaching 100 in Vitality, Endurance, Intelligence and Wisdom, your Quantity of Health and Chakra calculations have been returned to pre-patch levels. To adjust, your regeneration rate calculations have been amended, owing to your larger pools. Finally, the limitation of regeneration only occurring when Chakra is not in use has been removed.
Akari blinked once. Twice. then she smashed a hand against the floor, gritting her teeth in anger. If she knew that was going to be a fucking thing she would have done that ages ago instead of levelling her Agility! Groaning, she belatedly closed that notification, happy to have received it but irritated that it would have solved her problems. As she opened up the second one all thoughts of her anger were wiped away.
For reaching a whopping 400 points in Agility, the special perk Speedster has been granted.
Speedster - Hours upon hours of running have made you adept at, well, running! Run twice as fast, instinctive speed control adjusted to compensate for increased speed.
"Wait, so...if I hit certain levels with my stats I'll get special rewards? Because if so, I'm going straight for Intelligence and Wisdom after this." Nobody responded, but Akari knew that if she earned a reward for 400 from Agility, a stat that didn't tie into any of the numbers, then Strength and Luck probably had the same rewards, while her Vit, End, Int and Luck each had just as good a chance as giving a reward as they did not giving a reward.
Deciding to give her new speed a try, Akari slipped out of the camp silently, her Agility keeping her footsteps nigh-silent while visually she was invisible, the Kiri-Woka no Jutsu enshrouding her body. As she made it to the treeline, she flicked a coin into the air then loosened her control over her speed, just enough so she was moving at a quarter of her top speed.
She then ran as swiftly as she could all the way around the camp, staying within the treeline, reaching the same point which she'd left, only to find that the coin was still travelling upwards. She had done a full traversal of the perimeter in the time it took the coin to travel upwards a few more centimetres. Whistling, she mentally closed off her speed again, the coin speeding up until it fell naturally into her palm.
This was pretty huge. Tossing the coin back into her inventory, she opened the third notification, grinning. It was pretty simple, informing her that she was now functionally immune to a large list of poisons she'd previously ingested. To gain full immunity to a poison, she simply had to ingest it the same number of times as it had danger rating, and she'd become immune. If the poison had a danger rating of 100, then taking that poison 100 times would make her fully immune.
A danger rating 17 was the highest she'd ever seen, and it was a nasty piece of work by some Suna-nin, dealing by standard 1350 points of HP damage every second for a full minute, though it had no bonus effects like enervation or nausea. She would have an 83% resistance, meaning it would deal about 230 damage per second to her, for a total of almost 14,000 damage. With her old Vitality, that would have been a pretty major issue, but now?
Nowadays, the health she'd lose ingesting that poison wasn't even 15% of her healthbar.
Quest Received!
Endless Eyes.
Objective:
Recover your team without casualties.
Reward: 500,000 Experience
Hidden Objectives:
?
"I really should have expected this..."
Akari was, of course, referring to the fact that her team seemed to have mysteriously vanished, with this quest appearing as she entered the disarrayed camp. She'd gone on a hunter-killer mission, taking out groups of Iwa-nin who had split off from the main encampment and were now in disarray when the camp destroyed, but when she came back, Konoha's camp had been attacked by...'weird white things', who killed at least half the Konoha-nin for as many losses of their own if not more.
But more importantly, they'd decided to steal Akari's team for some reason, possibly as revenge for her killing all those Iwa-nin. She'd never heard of a Jutsu that made white clones, but the Kage Bunshin was evidence that near-anything was possible give enough effort and Chakra was poured into it. Maybe it was just a way for them to..."Hang on, were any of them Black and White, or were they all just white?"
Shigaraki shook his head. "They were all white, with yellow eyes, grey hair and lines on their faces. But they were each identical, so we believe it's a clone technique, possibly a way to get back at your use of the Kage Bunshin no Jutsu to wipe out Iwa's camp." Humming, Akari recalled the weird thing which accompanied Obito, since it had a white half which sounded very similar to these white clones.
Maybe it was able to split into two, since it certainly had two distinct personalities, one helpful whilst the other was antagonistic. It could have also been entirely unrelated, but she doubted it, since it also fit with the idea of revenge, alongside trying to recapture her so they could get at Kurama for...some reason. Since Naruto was now certainly inaccessible, they go after the next vulnerable target that Akari would care about, her team.
But, unlike with Naruto, this time...she had the Hiraishin on each of her team.
On a hunch, Akari went the room she'd tagged with her Hiraishin.
Immediately she shrouded herself in the Kiri-Woka no Jutsu, glancing across the room below her. It was empty, which was good since it meant her arrival probably went undetected. She felt around for her Hiraishin markers, all three of the Genin were somewhere directly above her, so her hunch was correct, it was the same place Obito was in. She dropped down to the floor, looking around once more before walking towards the only doors in the room, pressing her ear to the crack then pulling them open, glancing either direction. There was nobody in the hallway.
Slipping through the gap, she shut the door behind herself then began roaming around, tracking down a set of stairs which led upwards. After a few minutes, she found them, though when she looked down the stairwell, she could see they were either in an extremely deep underground base, or a large building. As she looked up, she saw only a few floors to the top, so if they were underground, reaching the surface would be easy.
Since the Hiraishin markers for her team were upstairs, she obviously went upwards, though made three Shadow Clones who travelled downwards to scout the area out further, then another three who would continue searching the floor she'd appeared on. She didn't like using them too much, but if her team was being kidnapped, you could be goddan sure she would use all her assets to kick the ass of whoever took them. "Hey Kurama, you got any idea how many of them we're dealing with?"
Akari wasn't a very good sensor, she needed to be incredibly familiar with someone's Chakra to pick them out of the myriad of random Chakra sources, so to her, the jumbled mass of Chakra she could sense upstairs was just that, a jumbled mish-mash of signatures, so mixed she had no idea the quantity of enemy forces. Because if they were in here, they were almost certainly enemies.
The fox gave a hum, then made a weird noise of surprise. "There are about...five different sources of emotions above you, not including your three kits. One of them though...he feels wrong, truly malevolent, not just evil, cruel or negative. I would take care engaging them, I've never felt more repulsive emotions before." Nodding, Akari kept her head on a swivel as she moved up, bringing two more Shadow Clones forth for support, both of them holding Kunai while her hands remained empty in case she had to use a Jutsu.
They arrived on the top floor, with Akari and Kurama both confirming they were on the same level, then sweeping across, finally coming across a set of double-doors. "You ready?" His response was a growl, as though he'd ever not be ready to support her. With a smirk, she booted the doors open, glaring across the room at a...decrepid old man? Her sudden kick didn't go unnoticed by the other inhabitants of the room, each of them turning to face her.
There was a masked man, a guy without a shirt on for some reason, a blue-haired chick with a rose in her hair, the aforementioned decrepid old man, though after closer inspection it was revealed that he wasn't actually that old-looking, his body was just obscenely frail, and the final member, the weird black and white thing. She immediately used Observe on him, unsurprised when she only observed half of him, immediately looking at the second.
So it was Black Zetsu and White Zetsu, pretty unoriginal. "Kit, that thing isn't what you should be worried about right now. Look at the red-haired one, he has the Rinnegan." Blinking, Akari dragged her gaze from Zetsu to look at him, idly noting that his name was Uzumaki Nagato, though he had a sub-text calling him 'Pain' for some reason. "Those eyes are extremely powerful, he probably doesn't have much less Chakra than you do...without my support of course."
Smiling despite herself, Akari folded her arms, looking over each member as they stared at her. "Well, isn't this nice? Hope I'm not interrupting, I just wanted to come collect my brats then go home again." She felt air breeze past her as one of her Shadow Clones attacked something, stepping to the side and casting her gaze back to see one of the White Clone things that attacked the camp. "Hmm, wonder how those things work then."
She heard Nagato say something to his partner, his rippling eyes glaring down at her from his weird chair thing. Actually observing his body revealed a bunch of black spikes stuck into his back for some weird reason, while his arms were pinned down for a probably even weirder reason. "The Kyuubi Jinchuriki comes, perhaps to pay her own penance and those of her flock? It doesn't matter, you shall experience pain for interfering with the plan of God." Snorting, Akari tried her hardest not to laugh.
"Yeah, get a load of this guy. Look buddy, I don't give a shit what kinda fancy eyes you've got, you'll die just like any other man. God? The only God-like being I know is on my side, and he'd probably be all for-" Akari snatched the triple-bladed scythe which was thrown at her, levelling a low glare at the idiot who threw it. "-as I was saying, all for me kicking you asses."
The idiot then started charging her, yelling something or another about Jashin and how he was the only true god. Being frank, Akari didn't care, spinning the scythe around in her hand then throwing it backwards. She didn't know how to use a scythe, so she didn't bother. Her proficiency in scythes would probably make her accidentally cut her own arm off or something, so lodging it blade-first into the wall behind her was probably a good start.
Backhanding his fist, she slammed her hand fingers-first into his guts, wrenching upwards in a vicious riposte, then kicked his corpse away. "Well, that guy was an idiot." She flicked her hand off, folding her arms again. "So, about my kits, you guys gonna just give them up, or are you going to be pricks and force me to kill you all before I get them back?"
She was pretty surprised by just how nonchalant the other four inhabitants of the room was, though that quickly became apparent as the man she'd just eviscerated got back up, his stomach sealing up as he glared at her. "You bitch! You'll make a fine fucking sacrifice for Jashin-sama, right after I rip those fucking eyes from your face." As he yelled, Akari was more interested in his healing factor.
The torn flesh was regrowing without any visible aid, no Jutsu was being used that she could see, nor did he look to be focusing on it, almost like it was a by-product of something. Observing the man revealed his name as Hidan. "That's a pretty neat party trick, I wonder how it'd react if I chopped you up like a sardine and threw your body parts all over the Elemental Nations, would you crawl back together slowly, inch by inch, or would you regrow from the largest or most important piece?" She tapped her chin, her eyes watching as the final little slice sealed up, his stomach as good as new.
She smirked as he took a step back, seemingly off-put slightly by her reaction to his healing. "Enough. Konan, if you would?" The Uzumaki in the room spoke softly, the chick next to him giving a nod before waving her arm, paper emerging from her large sleeves and whistling around her in streams. She thrust her hand forwards, sending the paper flying towards Akari.
With a frown on her lips, Akari let a clone slip in front of her, her hands forming seals before slamming her palms against the floor. "Doton: Doryuheki!" A wall coloured just as the floor sprung up, easily stopping the paper from reaching her. As it reformed and flowed around the outsides of the walls, her clone switched tacks, performing several more hand seals before inhaling. "Katon: Gokakyu no Jutsu!" She exhaled a condensed stream of flames, spraying it across Konan's paper and burning it to ashes. On the other side, her second clone performed the same Jutsu, stopping Konan's attack bluntly. "I think I can do this longer than you can keep pouring out paper."
She then jumped back in surprise as the earth wall shattered, a blue lance of lightning slicing through the clone on the left side. She quickly backtraced the lightning towards the last unidentified member of the group, her Observe identifying him as Kakuzu. Akari tipped back into a flip to avoid a sudden stab by the paper which had slipped through as her clone died, the paper then re-directed to killing her other clone. "Okay then, I guess you lot aren't going to just give me those Genin then. Time to play."
Dropping to a crouch, Akari shut her right eye, Zetsu yelling a warning too late as she re-opened it in her Mangekyo pattern, bringing only a single enemy forwards. "Uchiha Madara." She pointedly did not grant him free will as he appeared, instead immediately giving him orders. "Kill every hostile in this room." The tall Uchiha gave a curt nod, his arms forming hand seals as he leaned back.
"Katon: Goka Mekkyaku!" Then leaned forwards again, spraying out a colossal flame which nearly engulfed the room from wall to wall, pushing those hungry flames forwards as he leaned. She heard a loud hissing noise, evidently, on the other side, someone was using a Suiton Jutsu, a foolish move. The best thing to do would be to erect a Doton wall around yourself, since Fire had a hard time breaching earth, unless it was significantly more powerful. A single Doton: Doryuheki would crumble in the face of the Gokakyu no Jutsu after all.
As Madara finally finished his first Jutsu, settling back in a stance of standing fully upright, he crossed his arms over much like her own. She grinned as she realized that she actually had a few similarities with the extremely powerful Uchiha, even if she didn't agree with his whole idea of deserting the village. As the smoke cleared, it revealed that the only one not standing was the one who had healed lying burned on the floor nearby.
As if reading her mind, there was a massive earthen wall now between her and her enemies, reaching all the wall up to the ceiling and the walls on either side, blunting the flames entirely and protecting everyone else in the room. "Hey Madara!" She attracted her summons attention, tossing him a Nodachi from her inventory which was slick with poison. "Use that. One slash does enough damage to kill practically anyone. I mean, I'd put a bet on mister Uzumaki over there surviving it with his vitality, but that was if he didn't look like he was one step from the grave."
The summoned Uchiha just stared at her for a moment before turning back to the fight, whilst at the same time Akari drew the Kusanagi, passing it from one hand to the other, her 100 Strength making the sword feeling like it weighed barely anything at all, even if her arms looked like they would struggle doing such a thing. With a flash of movement, Madara struck, plowing a fist against the wall which shattered it, revealing that Zetsu had vanished, Konan had a tornado of paper flying around herself, and Kakuzu had three weird masked creatures around himself.
Madara only took a moment to pick a target, rushing towards Kakuzu while Akari followed behind him, watching Nagato raise his hand towards her, having freed it from the weird contraption holding him down. As his lips started moving, she prepared to bolt to the side. "Shinra Tensei." She moved, watching the floor she was just stood on erupt from seemingly nothing at all as she evaded the attack. Narrowing her eyes, she prepared to dodge again, but when he didn't use it, it set her mind ticking as she then dodged a strike of Konan's paper.
She snapped her fingers. "You have a cooldown, don't you?" Hearing her words, Konan grit her teeth, waving her arms in increasingly intricate patterns. To counter her, Akari dumped a thousand Chakra points each into two Shadow Clones, letting them loose to form two more streams of flame with the Gokakyu no Jutsu, burning away Konan's paper again. As the blue-haired woman made to move her arms again, Akari simply pointed the Kusanagi at her, aiming it directly at her heart.
She saw Nagato's eyes widen in recognition of the blade she was holding, his lips moving to try and warn Konan, but too late. She forced enough Chakra into the blade to pierce the paper-wielding woman's heart, retracting itself after a few moments and letting her corpse fall to the ground dead. Even if she was still alive after the attack, the myriad of poisons she'd poured onto the Kusanagi would have finished her off. At the same time, Madara intoned a Jutsu loudly enough to be heard. "Doton: Dosekiryu." The floor around him warped and contorted into an earthen dragon which crashed down on Kakuzu.
She ignored his fight as she focused on Nagato, who was staring at Konan's corpse with...it wasn't sadness, whatever it was. Maybe he was already so broken her death didn't effect him, or maybe he was in shock. She raised the Kusanagi to stab him again, but felt a pinprick in her ankle, followed by a mild burning sensation. Turning to look, she saw Zetsu emerge from the ground. "Don't worry, that poison won't kill you. We need you for the Bijuu of course. Just so long as you don't fight it of course!"
Deciding to play along for a moment so she got a chance to actually kill that black-and-white thing this time, she stayed stationary, resisting the urge to smirk as he watched Madara fight. "I wonder how you got Madara to actually work with you. He's probably being forced by this bitch. Maybe it doesn't work based on willpower? If it did, her head would have exploded by now."
"Oh, you can go fuck yourself for that." She lunged forwards, her right hand snapping shut around Zetsu's throat. The weird hybrid tried to turn around, making a weird chittering noise of panic when it realized that despite her size, Akari had more than enough strength to forcibly hold him in place. She attempted to snap his neck, but it seemed it didn't actually have a spine to break.
Frowning, Akari channelled pure Lightning Chakra into her hand, finally receiving a pained screech as it thrashed like, well, like a trapped animal. She didn't expect Zetsu to start physically morphing, turning into other forms right under her hand. First, it was her mother, then it was Naruto. But the one that made her lose her vision temporarily was...her mother, but her mother from her old world. "You..."
Her eyes turned crimson with the Sharingan as her grip tightened, unconsciously pulling Kurama's Chakra into herself as her dual Lightning and Fire natures clashed together, forming a weird amalgamation of Chakra which spewed out of her hand, covering Zetsu in blood-red and midnight-black flames.
Idly, Akari remembered what merging her two Chakra Natures together along with Kurama's Chakra did, but she was far more interested in keeping her grasp on Zetsu even as the flesh of her hand burned, her fingers staying tightly wrapped around his throat as he screeched, crowed and thrashed in her grasp. At one point, he went limp, playing dead perhaps, but when she raised her other hand, pouring the same malevolent Chakra out of her Shadow Hand as her intent was made clear to burn him into nothingless, he began screeching again.
She saw her two clones approach, both of them guarding her as she burned away...whatever Zetsu was. When he showed her something he should not have ever known, she knew she couldn't let him live, not a second time. As his feet desperately reached for the floor, for any hope of trying to escape, she merely hoisted him higher, until he finally dispersed into ashes, whatever was fuelling his medium-speed regeneration simply unable to outlast Akari's flames. Those same ashes were then burned to atoms, leaving not one trace of the blasted creature that...that did what he did.
Akari swept her gaze over her scorched hand, her new endurance and health pool allowing Akari to ignore the pain she felt from the wounds even as they began weeping blood, then looked over to watch Madara as he plunged the sword she gave him through one of the remaining two masks, the third and fourth each shattered on the floor. Kakuzu was fighting the man viciously, anger clear in his eyes, but he couldn't lay a hand on him. Even if he could, Madara could just ignore it, since her Spectres worked far differently to a Shadow Clone.
Then she turned her eyes towards Nagato, who met her gaze with a cold look of his own. "This...all of this could have been avoided y'know. What was the fucking point?" As she spoke, one of her clones broke off from behind her, a snapping sound being heard as she crushed Hidan's leg, then his arm, which was outstretched towards his scythe as if to grab it. "I would've been happy to just take my three Genin and leave you all alone. Well, I'd probably try to figure out why the hell Obito was here, but whatever."
As she approached Nagato, she watched him raise his palm towards her again, except this time, he spoke different words. "Bansho Tenin." Immediately, a force began drawing her towards Nagato, even when she attached herself to the floor with Chakra. She was confused as to exactly why he wanted to pull her towards him considering she clearly had the advantage physically, but when she saw his hand ready to attempt to touch her, she immediately knew he had some kind of ability similar to Obito's, which required touch to activate. Otherwise, he would never risk getting into close quarters, not unless it was worth the risk.
She didn't miss the flicker of worry on his face as she began channelling Lightning Chakra, but she had her own lapse of worry as he extended his other hand towards her as she released the crimson streaks, her Lightning being absorbed by his hand. As she got closer, Akari smirked, something which caused the Rinnegan-wielding redhead a great deal more worry.
That worry was justified when Akari stuck herself to the ground again, just for a second. She was stationary long enough to point the Kusanagi towards him. "Game over." The blade extended in a flash, piercing straight through his chest. The frail Uzumaki looked down at the blade in his chest in shock, as though he couldn't believe what had happened, before slumping to join his partner, lover, whatever, in death.
Flicking the Kusanagi clean of blood as it retracted, she watched Kakuzu as he looked over at her, stood beside the corpses of Konan, Nagato as well as the ash pile which made up Zetsu, then he...stopped. His sole remaining mask stopped what they were doing entirely. "That's it then?" He spoke in a gruff voice, at the same time as Akari ordered Madara to stop fighting.
"Hey, they were the ones to pick a fight, not me." The man looked between her, Madara, and the prone body of Hidan, just as he got his arm snapped again, then huffed, the material holding the remaining masks up vanishing, leaving him to catch them all and stuff them behind himself. He then began walking towards the doors, Akari not stopping him. "You know, I would normally attack you, but I know when a bounty isn't worth hunting."
He seemed like he didn't care about any of this going on, he probably was only in it for the money thanks to his final comment. Letting him go really didn't matter in Akari's eyes, not like Zetsu or Nagato, they were in too deep. She kinda regretted killing Konan, she seemed like she didn't really want to fight Akari, but hey, they started it, so they had to take the consequences of pissing her off. She sealed up Zetsu's ashes, or rather...it was more like dust, into a scroll, then placed Nagato and Konan into scrolls as well, before finally walking over to Hidan, ignoring his rampant cursing and spouted gibberish about Jashin as she knelt down.
"Alright cocksucker, here's the deal. You're going to tell me where my Genin team are, or I'm going to lock you up in a dark dungeon where machines will continually break each of the most painful bones in your body repeatedly for as long as your regeneration lasts. I wonder how long you'd survive, one hour? Five? A day? Maybe a month? Who knows, aside from you most likely." The man turned his head far enough to spit at Akari, though she easily avoided it, snorting at the attempt as he started cursing again. "Meh, I can't be bothered to see something like that up."
With a nod towards her clone, the idiot was promptly decapitated, his head being placed in one storage scroll while he was diced up, his arms, legs and torso each going in their own scroll, then from there into her inventory to be promptly forgotten about. She obviously didn't need his help to find her team, but it would have told her if he feared much, which he probably didn't, not if he was seemingly immortal, a type 2 immortality, compared to Akari's type 1.
Considering how damn fast she healed though, she might as well have had type-2 immortality. "Akari, who-" Akari cut Kurama off sharply.
"Please, don't." Was all she asked, though her voice made it damn clear she didn't want to say a word about who it was that set her off so violently, much to Zetsu's downfall. "I'll...I'll tell you later. For now, let's just get those cubs back." Closing her eyes, Akari used the Hiraishin on the back of Aiko's Hitai-ate, appearing in the middle of a pretty decent room all things considered.
Her team were all around the door, and it appeared as though they were all trying to listen, though they each had spun around in surprise at the flash of red which signalled Akari's arrival. "Heya kits, how's it going?" She stepped forwards and ruffled their hair, creating a Shadow Clone to grab Aiko while she laid her hands on Tachiko and Hikaru's heads, sending all of them back to her Hiraishin marker at the main camp.
"Well, that was exciting."
Finally getting off the hook for disappearing solo to go hunt down her team, Akari slipped into the Kiri-Woka no Jutsu, closing her eyes for a moment.
With her eyes closed still, Akari opened up her menu, lazily scrolling to and fro, her mind just...blank. She'd killed someone wielding a Rinnegan, something even Kurama expressed worry about. But it was just so...so easy! Her Agility was actually making her have less fun than before. A fight had to be a challenge at the very least, or things would just get tiresome.
Sure, there was still Iwa to crush, but the issue was that if Akari wanted to, really wanted to, she could just spawn a hundred Shadow Clones, each with enough Chakra to last over 72 hours, then just send them all blitzing across Iwa kicking ass using her Agility to its utmost effect. Or she could just run to Iwagakure itself, then use Kurama's Chakra with her Lightning to produce the same unorthodox lightning bomb which gave her the strange lightning affinity, then just Hiraishin back to the border, levelling the village entirely with the blast.
The problem was that Akari was fairly sure that she'd now broken whatever 'canon' this Universe was meant to have. With killing that Zetsu thing, as well as Nagato and Obito, then earlier killing Orochimaru and Danzo, she'd probably removed most of the hard enemies she was supposed to encounter later on, catching them before they could build their proper repertoire of abilities which would make them a hard fight. Perhaps there were others she knew nothing about, people who could give her a challenge, but, right now, Akari was confident in her ability to call herself the strongest Shinobi in the Elemental Nations.
Granted, most of that was off of her speed, but she also had enough Chakra for over six-hundred and seventy Shadow Clones, without relying on Kurama's Chakra whatsoever. They would all only last an hour, but that many Shadow Clones was enough to overwhelm an army, plus after only five minutes, she'd be ready to produce another 670 clones...she was a powerhouse now, both in speed, and in Chakra.
Sighing, she brought up her notifications, her eyes glazing slightly as she read the rewards and huffed.
Quest Completed!
Endless Eyes.
Objective:
Recover your team without casualties - completed.
Reward: 500,000 Experience
Hidden Objectives:
Capture Uzumaki Nagato's body - completed.
Reward - Optional Rinnegan Implantation
Ensure Zetsu (Black and White) has been destroyed - completed.
Reward - 350,000 Experience, Optional Hashirama Cells Implantation
Closing her menu down, Akari just laid down where she was, spreading her arms out as she stared up at the sky. She really didn't give a damn any more...Hashirama Cells? A Rinnegan? What was the point? She was already strong enough to fight any comer and be confident that she'd come out on top, so why would she bother getting even more strength, just to widen that gap between her and a fun fight?
Then again, getting stronger...sure, it would cost her some short-term enjoyment, but in the long term, it would ensure that Naruto and the others were safe. Gritting her teeth, Akari opened the menu, going into her quests and stopping with her finger hovering above the two options. Did she want...yeah, she wanted both. Akari pressed the Rinnegan Implantation, a menu opening.
It asked her which eye she would prefer to have replaced, or if she would like both to be replaced, but warned her that she would lose the Sharingan in that eye. That wasn't exactly a difficult choice, she replaced her left eye, wincing as she felt an uncomfortable sensation around her eye, like fingers brushing every part of her eye at once. Shutting her eye, Akari ignored the feeling and waited until it stopped, re-opening her eye then frowning. Things didn't look too different, but then again, the Rinnegan wasn't like the Sharingan she supposed.
Selecting the second option saw a far more violent reaction, Akari curling in on herself and biting down on her lip to stop herself from cursing as her insides felt like someone had poured hydrofluoric acid all over her guts then sealed her skin back up. Fortunately much like the Rinnegan, the pain only lasted for maybe ten seconds, receding and leaving her feeling...funny.
Akari got up from her position laying on the ground, brushing out the grass that managed to get stuck in her hair, then closed her quests and opened her stats screen, quirking her mouth to the side in confusion. Her Chakra points had received an extra 1.5x multiplier, probably thanks to the Hashirama cells, then a pretty crazy three times multiplier for the Rinnegan, whilst her health had been tripled, the Hashirama Cells apparently having a major effect on her life-force.
Scrolling down, Akari muttered as she listed off each of her new Jutsu, focusing on the more notable ones. She now had Six 'Paths', which each referred to a school of abilities. In alphabetical order, she had the Animal Path for summoning any animal she wished, even fictional ones. She had the Asura Path, granting her the ability to summon mechanized armour and weaponry. The Deva Path was the one responsible for the gravity attacks Nagato had used against her.
Then there was the Human Path, the one Nagato was probably going to attempt to use on her, which apparently could suck out souls, bypassing how 'tough' someone was. Against her...Akari didn't want to know how close she'd actually come to having her soul ripped out to be...devoured, or maybe just destroyed, by the Rinnegan-wielding Uzumaki. The Naraka Path was able to interrogate a person, pulling their tongue out then killing them if they lied. It could also repair a body if placed within a mouth which would appear, so if someone was really injured, she could use that to heal them.
She spared a chance at her left hand, but shook her head. She didn't need to fix herself, she was happy how she was. The final path was the Preta Path, the one he used to absorb her Lightning. Those were the Six Paths...but Akari noticed a seventh, one that for some reason wasn't listed with the regular Six Paths. Upon reading what it said, Akari couldn't help the mumbled curse that slipped out her lips. "That's bullshit..."
The Outer Path could do three things. It could manifest Chakra Chains much like the Uzumaki signature Sealing Chains, which also mirrored them in being extremely adept as suppressing Bijuu Chakra. It could also transmit Chakra through 'Black Receivers', a weird metallic material she could produce which could allow her to use the aforementioned Chakra Chains without getting close, simply by making the manifest through the receivers.
But, the final, most terrifying ability, was the Rinne Tensei no Jutsu, the only one she read each word for.
Rinne Tensei no Jutsu - This Jutsu allows the user to return the souls of the deceased to either their original bodies, or suitable substitute bodies, at the cost of the user's own life-force. Cost - 15,000CP + 35,000 HP per soul returned
That was...terrifying. If she used the Naraka Path to repair their corpses...Akari could potentially return anybody to life. She shivered as a chill ran over her back. This was like her Megano no Mon, but so, so much more worrying. if it was learned that she could repair a body to perfect condition then bring the dead person back to life...she would never stop running.
Unbidden, her memories of Kushina and Minato struck at her mind. "Fuck it." She didn't care if she'd be hunted across the Elemental Nations for it, Naruto deserved his parents back. Maybe Hiruzen would be able to explain how Minato and Kushina had survived, but it was more likely that she'd be pinned with this. But, at the very least, this time, it was entirely her choice to do it. "Hey Kurama, you see all of this as well?"
One of the things that Akari had managed to get working was allowing Kurama to see her interface. Considering how he already knew about her Game, letting him see just saved her the hassle of telling him what she wanted help with. "...Are you sure about this Akari?" She nodded. "Then...go for it. I just ask that...that you don't ever revive my father...he earned his rest, don't interrupt it just for curiosity." Blinking, Akari smirked.
"Can I at least use Megami no Mon to chat with him?" All she got in response was a disgruntled growl.
...Akari might be going to Harry Potter or Bleach.
A lot of people seem to be not too keen on her going to StarCraft, so...Poll time! After this story is over and Akari intrepidly goes off to new horizons, which Fandom would you like her to go to next? You are welcome to suggest other Universes for Akari to go to, but I reserve the right to deny them just based off the fact I wouldn't be able to write them effectively, like One Piece or Code: Geass.
So please, just go to my profile, at the top the poll is there, toss your vote in, or just hit me up with a message if you don't see your chosen Universe there. I will tell you if I'm not comfortable writing that Universe though, don't worry!
Hope you enjoyed boos!
Name: Akari Uchiha
Level: 149
Age: 17?
Experience: 83,888/149,000
To Next Level: 65,112
Title: Sannin-slayer - Defeating one of the three legendary sannin is no easy feat, but you managed it. Future opportunities unlocked.
Secondary Title: Jonin - +25% Experience gained working with Genin
Health Points: 303,000 - ((100 Base + (Vit x End)) x 10) x 3
Regeneration Rate - 20,000/m - 166.6*/s - (Vit x End) x 2
Chakra Points: 454,500 - (((100 Base + (Int x Wis)) x 10) x 1.5) x 3
Regeneration Rate - 20,000/m - 166.6*/s - (Int x Wis) x 2
Strength - 100
Vitality - 100
Endurance - 100
Intelligence - 100
Agility - 400
Wisdom - 100
Luck - 100
30 Skill Points Available