The Chaos Maelstrom
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Land of Earth: Hidden Stone Village
Gaia 1, the evolved Chaos of Earth, is standing on top of a rocky cliff as she glared down at the Hidden Stone Village. Or to be more precise, she was glaring at the annoying human that was glaring back at her from atop of a pointy building.
"Seriously. Of all the times for both Roshi and Han to be away from the village, why did it have to be when this accursed creature comes and starts causing trouble?"
The annoying human that asked that question is a very short, old man with a triangular beard and a moustache that had angular corners, a big red nose and thick eyebrows. The top of his head is bald, although he had long white hair on the lower-half of his head which is styled in a traditional chonmage haircut, the back of which was tied with a yellow ribbon into a topknot. He wore a green and yellow coat with a red collar. Underneath, he wore the traditional hidden stone outfit which consisted of a light green version of the stone jacket and mesh armour. He however had both the sleeves of his shirt, but kept the single lapel on his right side. Along with this, he wore sandals.
The short man looked around his village and what he saw made him become unbelievably angry that his blood boiled. The Hidden Stone, his home, his pride and joy was getting destroyed and was starting to turn into a jungle. Nearly all of the buildings and homes had been completely destroyed by several rock pillars and shockingly enough by large vines that came out from the ground. The vines had several spores on it which unleashed some kind of purple smoke. The smoke was extremely poisonous as it killed anyone who was caught by it.
The old man even caught a glimpse of what happens to those that were caught in it, which involved their flesh looking as though it was melting off of their skin, leaving nothing but bones. Despite his many years of being a shinobi, this was the first time he had ever seen something like that and it honestly surprised him that he hadn't felt like barfed out his breakfast.
The old shinobi clenched his fists tightly as he listened to the panicked cries from everyone. His shinobi were trying their hardest to destroy the vines while the others were trying to hold the purple smoke back using whatever wind jutsu they had on their persons. Gaia 1 continued to watch the old fool look at the destruction of his village. The short human started to float in the air until he was right in front of her, his back still facing her. He turned his head and gave her a glare full of hatred much to her slight amusement.
"I don't know what you are, where you came from or why you're attacking us. But know this you stupid beast; I, the Hidden Stone Village's Third Tsuchikage, Onoki the Fence Sitter, shall be the one who eradicates you off the face of the earth! Prepare yourself!"
Gaia 1 didn't take too kindly to what this old fool said to her. So, she summoned her weapon and got ready to attack him but stopped when she sensed something that shocked her, if her eyes widening was of any indication. She looked off in the distance, her eyes narrowing into a dark glare with her hands shaking in rage.
Agni. Frost. Vayu.
All three of them have been defeated by Chaos! That means it's just her and Zenon now! She thought they could handle him already but apparently she was wrong. From the vision she just had, it looks like Chaos and his group were going after Zenon next and they had five of the emeralds with them, meaning that if he was reckless just like the others were, he would be defeated as well.
But that will not happen. Not on her watch.
Onoki watched on as the creature looked to be distracted by something. He took advantage of the distraction and created a structure, with a sphere located at its centre, between the palms of his hands. "Say goodbye monster! Particle Style: Atomic Dismantling Jutsu!" He launched the jutsu at Gaia 1, who turned back towards it and waved her arms up to create a large wall of rocks. She then jumped back just as the jutsu exploded upon impact. "Tch! Come back here!"
The earth chaos glares at Onoki, seeing him chasing after her as he continued to launch that stupid attack at her. As much as she wants to kill that elderly human l, she needs to hurry to Zenon quickly before Chaos and his friends do, otherwise it'll be too late. So with her decision made, she raised her hands towards Onoki and emitted a powerful flash of light that made the old kage stop and cover his eyes.
"Gah!? My eyes!"
With him now blinded with her attack, Gaia 1 turns around and flies to the sky, heading towards her brother's location. Once he felt the need to open his eyes, Onoki did so ever so slightly as he watched the unknown creature disappear from his sight.
"That damn monster! Where is it going?!"
Chaos 10: The Final Two- Lightning and Earth! A Terrible Combination Appears!?
Chapter Cover: The Chaos Warriors all stood in a single line in the order of Agni, Vayu, Gaia, Zenon and Frost. Agni, Vayu, and Frost had their backs turned to the readers with Gaia and Zenon facing forward. Behind them were their first evolved state while a silhouette of an unknown creature stood between them, it's eyes and teeth glowing to show a snarl as six of the emeralds circled it.
Land of Lightning: Forest
"Phew. So far so good." Naruto said, taking a good look around them.
Team Chaos are currently walking through a forest, following along the road. The forest itself is quite beautiful and peaceful as it has nice flowing rivers and a couple of flowers here and there. The group were mesmerized by the beauty of the country, and just when they thought they couldn't be more amazed they were wrong. For as they were walking towards the edge of the forest, they saw something that stunned them.
"Whoa~" They stared at the various tall and vast mountain ranges and the clouds that surrounded them, completely blocking their view of the tallest points.
"Wow, this is incredible." Kia said in awe with Snow meowing in agreement.
"Yeah. I wasn't expecting the Land of Lighting to look like...well this." Naruto said as he looked below to see more rivers, lakes and trees. "I wonder why they gave this place such a name?"
"I-It's because of the thunderstorms." Ethan replied softly, getting looks from everyone making him shuffle shyly in place. "Back in the facility, not only were we taught how to fight, we were also taught a lot of things about the shinobi countries and villages."
"So the reason for this land's namesake is because of the thunderstorms." Zane said, taking a moment to observe the clouds. "Looking at all of these clouds, that does make sense."
"Don't forget about the shinobi here." Kia reminded them as she remembered her and Temari's conversation. "From what Temari told me, these guys can use lightning based jutsu. Which is also why Zenon is here as well, because he knows that their jutsu won't have any effect on him."
"Right~" Naruto dragged the word out, placing his hands behind his head as he turned to walk down the path, the others following after him. "It's either that or it's a coincidence."
"Coincidence?" Kia asked, raising her eyebrow at him.
"Think about it. How did the Chaos Warriors, who were born thousands of years ago, when the nations and villages didn't even exist yet, know exactly where to go after they jumped me? It ain't like Terios told them to. He did tell us he has no use for them." Naruto answered.
"So what you're saying is that the locations the Chao Warriors went to were just random?" Zane asked.
"Yup."
"That...honestly would make more sense." Kia said, placing a hand under her chin. "They have been frozen for a long time, so it's not like they knew where they were going. I don't even think they knew that there were shinobi that used the same elements like them in countries they invaded, except for Land of Snow."
"Exactly!" Naruto smiled as he turned around to walk backwards and face his friends. "So like I said, nothing but a big fat stupid-"
The guardian let out a sound as he bumped into someone, making him stumble forward and causing everyone to stop walking and face the individual. In fact, there were two of them. One of them being taller than the other one and also carrying a big sword. They both were dressed up in black cloaks with pictures of red clouds decorated on them. They also wore conical straw hats with small ornamental torques and tassels hanging down over their faces.
Naruto blinked as he looked up at the shorter man he bumped into. Since he was closer to him, he could see a bit of his face, which oddly enough seemed familiar to him, and his hair color which was jet black. He also saw a pair of red eyes looking down at him.
"Huh?"
"Oh! Sorry about that sir." Kia apologized to the shorter man, getting his attention. "Our goofy friend here didn't see you coming. Naruto, apologize to him!"
The man stared at her before turning his attention back to Naruto, who was still staring up at him with a confused and somewhat narrowed curious look on his face. The demigod knew he saw his face somewhere before but he couldn't…
Wait. Now that he got a closer look at the man, Naruto's eyes widened in disbelief as a certain someone, whom he obviously hasn't seen in years, flashed in his head.
"S...Sasuke?" The former Namikaze couldn't help but ask as he stared at the familiar face of his former rival. His friends looked at him when he called the man by that name, all of them (except Omochao who looked surprised) being curious. They turned back to the man to see his reaction.
The man's index finger slightly twitched for a moment at the mention of that name and his eyes went narrow making Naruto feel a bit intimidated by it. Blinking a couple of times and shaking his head for good measure, he looked back at the man and noted that while the man looked like Sasuke it clearly wasn't him as he was older and more mature.
Chop!
"Ow!" Naruto knelt on the ground and held his head which now has a smoking bump. He looked back at Kia and saw her hand was out in a karate chop motion. He quickly stood up and comically glared at her slightly, tears sticking out the corner of his left eye. "What was that for?"
"You know why. Apologize to him. Now." Kia ordered sternly.
"Okay! Okay! I was gonna!" Naruto grumbled, turning to look at the man. "Sorry for bumping into you."
Kia happily nodded in approval as she rubbed his head. "Good boy." She ignored his mumbling ("I'm not a dog.")
The man stared hard at the two before looking at the rest of the group as though he was examining them. He closed his eyes and walked past them, getting their attention which he simply ignored. His companion immediately followed after him, not before giving a slight glance at the group, showing them his blue-grey skin color along with his shark-like face which surprised them. He gave them a shark-toothed smirk prompting Snow to hiss at him before he turned away from them and continued, an amused chuckle escaping his mouth.
Team Chaos watched them leave with various reactions; Zane narrowed his eyes in suspicion at the group, Ethan and Omochao looked scared at the individuals, Snow was glaring at the two, though her eyes were focused on the shark man, Kia released a sigh of relief and Naruto himself continued to eye the shorter man.
"That was close." Kia said as she calmed her racing heart. The way that shorter man stared at them with his bizarre looking eyes and his intimidating presence made her feel incredibly nervous and a little scared.
"Y-Yeah. Those guys looked dangerous." Omochao said as he let Ethan hold him.
"Should we pursue them? They look suspicious." Zane noted.
"Nya!" Snow meowed in agreement.
"Nah, let's just focus on taking down Zenon." Kia answered. "Besides, I don't think those guys are causing trouble, right?" She turned to Naruto when she asked that question but looked concerned when she saw that he was still staring at the direction of the two men, who were long gone by now. She grabbed his shoulder and shook him. "Naruto?"
"Huh?" Naruto jumped slightly and he turned to his friends, seeing them looking at him with slightly concerned expressions. "Oh! Um, what's up?"
"Are you alright?" Zane asked.
"Yeah, you look like you're taking a trip down memory lane." Kia added.
"Don't worry, I'm fine." Naruto replied. "It's just...that guy looked like someone I knew."
"You mean Sasuke?" Omochao asked with the guardian nodding.
"Sasuke? Who's that?" Kia asked, looking a bit curious.
"..."
Naruto had a comical blank look on his face as he remembered that little bastard who used to always get on his nerves because of his attitude. A vein popped out of his head as he remembered the times the bastard would always beat him in a fight and the times he would often turn him down because he was a waste of his time.
"A stupid annoying duck butt haired bastard."
The group blinked at Naruto's comment about this Sasuke character while Omochao had a sweat drop icon appear above his head. Back when Naruto was younger, he would always tell them stories about the 'stupid duck butt bastard' Sasuke and how he thought that he was better than everybody because he was one of the great prodigies of the leaf village.
"Yup. That's how Naruto always described Sasuke." Omochao deadpans.
CRASH!
An unexpected loud crash caused everyone to jump in surprise and look up to the sky. Snow jumped on Naruto's shoulder in fright while Ethan quickly hid behind Kia's legs.
"The fuck!?" Naruto cursed in shock.
"What was that?!" Kia asked in fear as she frantically looked at the sky. She saw traces of yellow in the clouds as it vanished.
"That sounded like a powerful storm!" Omochao exclaimed.
"I-It must be the t-thunderstorms." Ethan said fearfully, still hiding behind Kia.
"No." Zane said, narrowing his eyes at the clouds as he saw not a grey cloud in the sky. "That wasn't a storm or lightning, if anything it was an attack."
"Whatever it was, it wasn't Zenon. I can't sense him nor the emerald being used." Naruto said. His nose picked up a new scent causing him to sniff the air for a couple of seconds before he looked dumbfounded. "What the chao?"
"What is it?" Kia asked, feeling happy that her ears had finally stopped ringing.
"I smell an octopus and a...a bull?" Naruto answered, though looking confused by his last statement. Seeing the confused looks they gave him, he shrugged his shoulders. "Hey, I'm just as confused as you guys are. But I definitely smell an octopus that's fused with an ox or bull...or something similar to them. Whatever it is, it's close to where that sound came from."
"Nya!" Snow let out a meow as though she was agreeing with what he said since she too smelled it. She rubbed her nose with her paws in irritation. "This smell is really weird."
"An octopus fused with an ox?" Omochao asked, furrowing his brows as a huge question mark appeared above his head. "I've never heard of a creature like-"
"Lightning Release: Tailed Beast Bomb!"
Everyone looked surprised by the yell and became shocked when they saw a giant yellow ball of lightning shot out from the forest ahead of them and into the sky. The ball soon exploded into the sky, making it look like an electrifying firecracker.
"What the hell?" Kia asked. "That was a jutsu!"
"Come on!" Naruto ran along the path with everyone following after him. As they did so, they began to hear a loud joyous laughter. They stopped and reached into a clearing to see a person dancing kind of weirdly and making beat noises with his mouth.
The person is a man with dark skin and a muscular build, as well as blond hair and a goatee. On his right shoulder, he has a tattoo of the kanji for "iron" (鉄, tetsu), and on his left cheek, he has a tattoo of a bull's horn. His top lip also has a slightly darker hue than his bottom one. He wears oval-shaped sunglasses and a white-coloured forehead protector. He also has on a one-strap-over-one-shoulder flak jacket, and a long, red rope belt tied around his waist, with hand and shin guards, shinobi sandals, and a white scarf around his neck. He carried seven swords on his back.
"Aight! Aight! That was a tight attack." The man said happily. "Killer B truly is da best of da best, ya feel me Eight-O!"
…
Team Chaos comically stared blankly at the man as he continued to talk to himself. It sounded like he was trying to sing and rhyme at the same time. While Kia and Ethan were perplexed by his way of talking, Naruto, Omochao, and unknown to them, Snow herself recognized it. Zane remained comically neutral about it.
"He must be a cloud ninja." Zane said, noticing the cloud image on his forehead protector.
"Why is he talking like that?" Kia asked, raising a confused eyebrow.
"I think he's trying to rap." Naruto said, quite surprised that there's a shinobi who knows about rapping.
"It sure looks that way." Omochao answered while sweat dropping at the older man's terrible rapping.
"But he sure stinks at it." Snow thought to herself with a deadpan look on her face. Zane, Kia and Ethan blinked from their replies and turned to them.
"R-Rap?" Ethan asked, tilting his head curiously. "What's that?"
"Rapping is a musical form of vocal delivery that incorporates rhyme, rhythmic speech, and street vernacular, which is performed or chanted in a variety of ways, usually over a backing beat or musical accompaniment." Omochao explained, earning comical blank looks from those who didn't know about rapping. "The components of rap include-"
"The short and simple version is that it's talking in rhymes." Naruto interrupted Omochao's explanation with a flat voice. "It's often used in certain types of music, mainly hip hop and R&B... before you ask me what they are, I'll let you listen to some songs on my PAD after we beat Zenon."
The reason why he said that last bit was because he could see the question marks appearing around their heads and the comical confusion on their faces. Once he finished, he saw Kia pouting at him, Zane nodding his head, Ethan looking really curious and Snow looking surprised (because she was unaware that Naruto and Omochao knew about those type of music).
"More importantly…" The guardian said, getting back on topic. "That octopus bull thing that I was talking about just now? The scent is coming from that guy." The group looked surprised at Naruto before turning back to the rapping man.
"From him?" Kia asked as she narrowed her eyes slightly at the man. Her eyes suddenly started to glow a pinkish hue which made her close them and rub them softly. She opened her still glowing eyes only to look shocked as she found herself floating in a black space.
But that wasn't the only thing that shocked her. No, it was the massive creature that was inside this black space.
The creature has a muscular upper-body structure, with a hunched back similar to a bison, arms with spike protrusions on the elbows, and hands with opposable thumbs like that of a human. Instead of hind-legs, its lower half consists of eight arms of an octopus. All in all, the creature looked like a mix between an ox and an octopus.
Taking a moment to look at the eight octopus 'arms' did Kia realize that they weren't arms but tails.
"Eight...tails?"
"...Hm?"
As though it heard her, she flinched slightly when she saw the Eight-Tails turn it's head to look at her. Instead of sensing any bloodlust like with Shukaku the other day, she was surprised when she saw it was looking at her with a surprised and curious look on its face. The island princess moved her lips slightly, looking as though she wanted to try something out since it looked like her thoughts were reaching out towards the beast.
"Can you...hear me?"
Before the Eight Tails could make a motion to reply to her question, Kia blinked her eyes once again and the mysterious vision of the tailed beast disappeared. She shook her head and looked surprised by this.
"It...it happened again." Tikal's incarnate whispered to herself. She looked back at the man and saw he was still rapping before he suddenly stopped. She and the others were curious about why he had stopped. They soon got their answer when he turned their way.
"Hey yo! Who is hiding and watching me from the trees before me?"
"...Crap." Naruto sighed tiredly at being caught. "Okay. We're coming out now, so no need to attack us."
The group walked out from their hiding spot and walked up towards the older man.
"Hello, and sorry for watching." Kia apologized for the group. "We were traveling when we heard a loud crash and saw a ball of lightning shoot up in the sky. Are you training?"
"Yeah yeah!" Killer B said as he did a few air jabs. "Gotta get ready for when I take the Electric Monster down!"
The group looked confused.
"Electric Monster? Are you talking about Zenon?" Zane asked.
"Ze-who now?"
"Zenon." Naruto said. "The monster you're talking about. Has he been causing trouble around here lately?"
"For the past two weeks yo." Killer B replied. "That electrifying thing has been causing all kinds of troubs for my village and peeps yo! My big brotha A, the legendary Fourth Raikage himself sent out several ninja to hunt it down only for them to be shocked by it's unknown powers that they didn't make it back home!"
The group flinched from that, especially Naruto since it reminded him how much Zenon's electric powers hurt like hell.
"So, being a good little brother, I decided to go out and defeat this monster by myself, ya feel me?" Killer B asked.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa. Hold up a second. You say your brother's the Fourth Raikage right?" Naruto asked.
"That's what I said fool, ya fool."
An angry tick mark appeared on Naruto's head at what the man called him. "Who the hell are you-!?" He got ready to yell at him if not for Kia covering his mouth as she asked the next question.
"Then does he know you're out here, by yourself, looking for said monster?"
"No, he does not!"
Team Chaos were surprised by the older man that suddenly appeared behind B, who flinched comically, and by the cloud ninja that circled them.
Looking back at the man, whom they automatically assumed was the fourth Raikage, certainly looked the part of an imitating individual. He has dark skin with a large muscular build, blond hair combed back, a small moustache and goatee. His face has pronounced cheekbones and tear troughs under his eyes, and a prominent crease across his forehead. He has pointed canines and his top lip also has a darker hue than the bottom one. He wears a white haori without a shirt underneath. He has black Fūma Shuriken tattoos on both shoulders and wore large, golden vambraces on his wrists. He also wears a gold belt around his waist with a boar's face engraved in the centre, black pants with torn ends, shin guards, and shinobi sandals.
"O-Oh...um...hey bro. W-What's up?"
"...'What's up'?" A repeated with his brow twitching before he closed his eyes. "Let's see...I've been looking all over the village for you, then found out you left without my permission and now I'm hearing the reason you left was just so you can fight that Lightning Demon?"
"U-Um...well...er…"
"WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU B!?" A roared in comical anger. "IRON CLAW!"
B's whole face was covered by A's hand and he let out muffled screams as he felt the fingers squeezing his skull. Nearby, Team Chaos watched this happen with sweat drops running down their heads as B was trying to get out of his brother's iron claw with A reprimanding him for his stupidity.
"The wrestlers from Chaos' world would be happy to see this." Naruto thought flatly as he and the other backed away from the group. "So...yeah. While you explain yourself to your brother, we'll just be on our way." They turn around to leave only to see they were blocked by the ninja.
"You four are coming back with us!" A told Naruto, still holding his grip on the struggling B. "I want to know exactly who you brats are and how you know about that Lightning Demon!"
That made various reactions appear on Team Chaos; Omochao and Ethan looked comically scared as they looked around at the scary cloud ninja. Snow was hissing at them. Kia rolled her eyes, looking as though she knew that that was going to happen. Zane just sighed and shook his head with Naruto looking extremely tired and annoyed.
"Awww come on!" Naruto complained, knowing full well that they're gonna have to explain their situation. Again.
If they were paying any close attention to their surroundings, they would've seen Zenon standing on top of a mountain cliff, his electrifying purple eyes glaring down at them. His mouth moved upward slightly as though he was smirking before he vanished in a flash of lightning.
Meanwhile
Hidden Leaf Village: Yakiniku Q
Music: Chun-Nun (Hub World: Day) [Sonic Unleashed]
Inside the famous Yakiniku Q, the genin teams of Kakashi, Asuma and Kurenai all sat together at a large table, enjoying the peaceful atmosphere of the restaurant and listening to the sound of the various meats that they ordered being cooked on the charcoal brazier as they took the cooked ones off and sat them on their plate, loving the smell they were giving off.
All in all, the group were having a peaceful time. Each of them were talking about various subjects while others remained quiet and were just minding their own business. Minami sighed at this but she couldn't help but give a small happy smile as she looked at her friends/former classmates.
Choji Akimichi, Shikamaru Nara and Kiba Inuzuka were chatting amongst themselves with Shino Aburame there listening in on their conversation. Naruki and Hinata Hyuga were having a pleasant conversation but then Naruki started an argument with Kiba over the meat that finished cooking before Choji swiped in and took it much to their anger. Sakura and Ino Yamanaka were arguing amongst them as they tried to feed Sasuke some of their cooked meat, annoying the Uchiha greatly before he moved away from them and sat somewhere else.
Minami gave a small laugh at that and smiled happily at everyone present. This was nice. All of them hanging out together like this, having a fantastic time off. In all honesty, they deserved it. Ever since they graduated, they never really had the time to truly hang out with the whole gang like this. It was either due to the missions they were taking or personal training. Sure there were some co-op missions they did together, but at the end of the day they were still on a mission which had to be completed without fail.
So the '10 Rookies' being here together like this always made Minami happy. It was a shame that Team Guy was out right now, she really did enjoy training with them. In fact, it would be even better if Naruto was here with…
Oh. Right.
Just like that, Minami's happiness died and was replaced with sadness and a hint of longing. She looked ahead at the empty space in front of her and imagined Naruto being here with them, looking all bright and happy, proudly wearing the shinobi headband before he vanished. She placed her hand on her chest, her heart feeling so much pain about this whole mess. Even more so when she and her sisters learned the truth about Naruto from their father the other night when he came home.
*Flashback*
Last Night
Namikaze Residence
Inside the Namikaze Residence, the daughters of the Fourth Hokage were in the living room doing various things. Minami was sitting on the couch reading a book, Naruki was in front of a mirror brushing her hair and Mikazuki was laying on the floor happily drawing a picture of her and Naruto holding hands while excitedly kicking her legs back and forth.
After their mother left yesterday for the Land of Waves, Minami and Naruki felt a huge amount of relief and happiness at Naruto being alive. But they were also incredibly worried after hearing that he was there fighting against the Fire Demon that's been terrorizing their country!
Which only leaves the question: Why?
Why was Naruto, who doesn't have chakra, out there fighting against a demon that nearly destroyed half of the country and killed many of their shinobi that died when they were out on their missions? It was crazy! Doesn't he know that he'll be killed by that thing? How was he even going to defeat it?
Hearing the front door click open made the girls look at it with hopeful eyes, thinking it was their mother with Naruto. But much to their slight disappointment it was their father, a somber expression briefly seen before it was replaced with a smile at seeing them.
"Hello girls."
"Hello father/Hey dad." Minami and Naruki greeted their father.
"Hiya daddy! Welcome home!" Mika got up and ran to her father, happily jumping into his arms earning a small laugh from him. "How was your day?"
"Well, it was long and tiresome as usual." Minato answered honestly as he sat her down. "How about you?"
"It was great!" Mika said happily, watching her father take off his Hokage robe to be hung up. "We're just waiting on mama to come home with big brother! I got a BIG surprise for him!"
Minato had to suppress a flinch from what she said which didn't go unnoticed by his eldest daughters. "I...I see. Well, I'll go ahead and get dinner started. I know you three must be starving, huh?"
"Hm!" Mika nodded before she noticed something fall out of the Hokage's robe. She curiously walked over to it and picked it up, seeing it was a picture of three teens, two(?) girls and a boy, together with a boy in her age group and who was holding a cute toy. "Hey daddy, who are these people?"
That caught Minami and Naruki's attention while Minato silently cursed that the picture fell out of his pocket. The girls walked over to Mika and looked at it with curious expressions before blushing hotly as they stared at the blue haired boy's face. Minami shook her head and took a closer look at the blue haired boy's face, seeing that there was something familiar about him.
"Hey yeah, who are these guys?" Naruki asked, her blush vanishing as she turned to her dad. "Are they someone you know?"
Minato looked at them before he let out a sigh. Well, he might as well tell them now. "Before I answer that, there's something I have to tell you three." He caught their attention. "Earlier today, I got a message from your mother and her team about Naruto." He flinched in surprise when the three of them appeared in front of him.
"Really!?"
"Y-Yes." Minato coughed. "Firstly, that boy in the picture, the one with blue hair, that's Naruto."
"Eh?" The Namikaze daughters blinked at their father with comical eyes. They slowly looked down at the picture, staring at the blue hair boy's feminine like face and noted the slight similarities between him and their father. Their eyes slowly widened in comical shock. "EHHHHH?!"
*Flashback End*
After that shocking revelation, Minato then explained to them exactly what was going on with Naruto. Since Mika was there with them, their father had to give her a brief explanation about what was going on with Naruto, everyone paying close attention.
Apparently, after Naruto left the Leaf Village he awakened some kind of power that allows him to control water, which is why he looks that way now. He even showed them a picture of the form Naruto takes on when he's using it, much to her and Naruki's shock and disbelief while Mika looked awestruck at her big brother's awesome form.
Their father told their little sister how about the Fire Demon and how there were others like it currently attacking the other countries. Naruto along with his friends were currently traveling around the nations to take care of these demons with the Fire Demon that was in Wave already taken care of a day before they learned that Naruto was found there before leaving to take care of the rest.
Minato also told them that once they were done, Naruto and his friends would head back to the Land of Wave to celebrate the completion of the bridge thereby meeting up with their mother and the others. Instead of being sad that she had to wait a little more, Mika was too awestruck at how much she learned about her big brother that night. To her, not only was he even prettier than her mom and sisters, he also had this awesome ability to control water and take on an even cooler form, he was also traveling across the shinobi nations to beat those scary monsters that were hurting everyone.
In Mika's eyes, Naruto quickly became her #1 hero and just couldn't wait for him to come home. In a surprising burst of speed that impressed even Minato, Mika took both pictures and went back to her drawing, this time looking at both versions of her big brother with stars in her eyes as she excitedly drew more pictures of him and his other form.
With Mika distracted, Minato took them to the kitchen and showed them the letter. Needless to say, they couldn't believe the contents that were written in it. The demons that are attacking the nations are pieces of Naruto's power that were taken from him a long time ago and he's out there fighting them in order to get them back. More than that, they felt a large amount of pain enter their hearts as they read the part about Naruto having a new family and moving on from them.
They were replaced.
Minami never would've thought she would hear those words but she did. Naruto had replaced them. He seriously hated them that much that he would replace them for strangers who aren't even related to him by blood. But then again when did they ever show Naruto that they loved him just because he can't be a ninja like them?
Oh how she wished to go back to live in those happier days. Back to when they were having fun, laughing together and enjoy each other's company like a family should. But after they turned four, it was announced that she and Naruki would begin training to become ninja, they just focused more on that and not paying any mind to Naruto. When they asked their parents why Naruto didn't join them, they learned that Naruto didn't have chakra and can't be a ninja which shocked them. After that, they just pushed him away or either ignored him whenever he just wanted to play with them when they were busy training to become proud ninja.
But then somewhere along the line, after he kept pulling those childish pranks just to get attention and annoying everyone throughout the village, ignoring him evolved to them mocking him to straight up bullying him. It was only then after what happened with Naruki did they and everyone in the village including their parents said some pretty awful things about him, either behind his back or towards his face.
Just remembering all the awful things they all did to him made the eldest Namikaze tear up again, especially when she remembered the horrified expression he had on his face after she said some nasty stuff to him before turning away and leaving him crying by himself.
It made her want to punch younger self in the face. She was the eldest triplet, dammit! It was her job to always protect her younger siblings and she didn't protect Naruto! Instead of doing that, she hurt him, crushed all of his hopes and dreams like that and just left him by himself. It was only after he ran away and disappeared did she now realize what she had done and she's been living with that regret for a long time.
That regret only deepened when she learned of this kekkei genkai Naruto has and the fact that he got experimented on like a lab rat. She couldn't even imagine the kind of pain Naruto went through during that experience. And the worse thing about it? They weren't there to save him. He had to save himself and along the way he found himself a new family that he loves with all his heart, forgetting all about them, his real family.
"Naruto...I...I…"
"H-Hey. Minami what's wrong?" Sakura asked, bringing all conversations to a halt as they turned to Minami, only to be shocked when they saw the tears falling from her eyes.
"A...ah…?" Minami looked at everyone and saw them looking at her with concern. She touched her cheeks, feeling the tears raining down her face. She gasped when she felt more tears fall from her eyes. "I...I'm sorry!" She got up and ran out the building, using her hand to cover her mouth from the sobs that were leaving her lips.
"Minami!" Sakura called out as she ran after her with Ino following.
The rest of the group watched them leave, all of them having worried, concerned or confused looks on their faces, even Sasuke was a little put off by what happened. Minami was always the most calm and collected girl amongst their group. So to see her suddenly break down into tears and run off like that caught him by surprise.
"W-What's wrong with Minami?" Hinata asked worriedly.
Naruki, who had her head down and hair shadowing her eyes answered in a trembling voice. "She...she was probably thinking about Naruto." She didn't see the surprised looks everyone gave her.
"Naruto?" Choji asked.
"That's a name I haven't heard in a long time." Shino said.
"Are you kidding?" Kiba asked incredulously. "After Takashi told everyone what happened, the whole village has been practically talking about Naruto."
"Can you blame them?" Shikamaru asked back. "We all knew about his condition, so of course it would throw us off guard to find out he has a kekkei genkai."
"What's more, it would seem that there's a connection between Naruto and those demons which is why he and his friends are after them." Shino said. "Our parents had a meeting about this with Lord Fourth yesterday and it would seem like it's true."
"I hope he's okay." Choji said, feeling worried about Naruto even though they haven't seen him in such a long time. "I can't help but wonder what he's been up to since we last saw him."
"Tch." Kiba grit his teeth as he stuffed his hands in his pocket. "Man...who would've thought that loser actually had a kekkei genkai and is out there having the time of his life."
"It sounds like you're jealous." Shino stated, making Kiba spit out in shock as he turned to glare at him.
"I ain't jealous of that moron!"
"Bark!" Akamaru barked.
"Not you too Akamaru!"
Hinata giggled slightly from that before she turned to look at Naruki and saw her looking down, seeing that she too was trying her best not to cry as well. She frowned slightly towards her best friend before looking down in thought.
"Naruto…"
The former Hyuga heiress definitely remembered that ball of sunshine and energy. He always had this big smile on his face and would always try to become friends with everybody even though they often ignore him. He was someone who would yell about wanting to become an even stronger Hokage than his father despite his condition. She always did admire him about his not giving up attitude.
She won't even tell her best friend this...but it is also why she always had a crush on him, which is why she was devastated when she found out that he ran away. She really missed him.
Sasuke closed his eyes and focused on eating. He won't lie, he himself was curious about the lost son of the Namikaze family and about this mysterious kekkei genkai he possessed. Looking back, that kid would always come to him looking for a fight to prove that he was better than him and his sisters. To be honest, he never paid him any mind, mainly because he thought he was just a weak loser unlike his sisters who proved to be a challenge for him.
But now, hearing that Naruto was out there fighting against these powerful destructive demons with a team of his own and no jonin to instruct him, made him feel jealous. Naruto was traveling throughout the whole shinobi nation just to fight those demons but who else could he be fighting? For all he knew, he and his friends were also fighting against different kinds of shinobi and no doubt growing stronger than they were.
That's the kind of thing he should be experiencing right now. During his time as a genin, all they've ever done were D-Rank missions and training exercises. After doing enough D-Rank missions, their missions got boosted up to C-Rank and they've been doing a lot of bodyguard jobs, fighting bandits, or capturing wild animals. Then they got their first A-Rank assignment which was protecting the Land of Snow's Princess from her uncle.
Now that was truly an experience he will never forget. If he ever wants to kill him, he needs to go out and gain more experience like that mission. But Naruto, he wasn't even a ninja, yet he was out there experiencing a lot of things that they themselves probably haven't done yet and he's been doing it for six years, which meant that Naruto...is probably stronger than all of them.
Sasuke grit his teeth at the thought. To think that the loser had a special power this whole time and it didn't activate until after he left. Minami and Naruki were definitely stronger than them when it came to a certain set of skills but now knowing that Naruto had a power that he only has, there's a chance that might actually be stronger than them.
It made the Uchiha want to actually fight Naruto just to see how strong he became. Still, he couldn't help but wonder where the loser is at now.
Meanwhile
Hidden Cloud Village: Raikage's Office
It was a quiet journey for Team Chaos as they were (forcibly) led to the cloud village.
While they were traveling, Naruto, Kia and Zane had kept their guard up as they remembered Ms. Chiyo's warning about the cloud ninja and were quietly eyeing each and every one of them to make sure they wouldn't try anything. Snow and Omochao were also keeping an eye on them, but Snow mostly kept her eyes on B most of the time, mainly because of the odd scent he was giving off. Ethan remained ever so close to his new older siblings, feeling intimidated by the Raikage and his shinobi.
The moment the village came into view, the group were starstruck.
The village is located in a range of tall mountains, and is literally hidden in the clouds. Just like the previous times when they entered a new village, they garnered a lot of attention from the villagers which they ignored. Most of the attention was towards the Raikage as many parted their way for him and greeted him with respect but the focus was on Team Chaos as they were most curious about them and wondered if they were shinobi but the thought left their minds when they saw they had no forehead protectors on their person.
But then everyone sweat dropped when they saw B trying to sneak away again before being grabbed by his brother.
The group had gathered into Lord Raikage's office, which was based in a large blue structure built into the tallest mountain. The office honestly didn't have much, just a couch with a small table in front of it. There was also a boxing bag and some gym equipment like weights. Team Chaos stood in front of A, with his two bodyguards, C and Darui by his side and his assistant Mabui. B was in there, leaning on the wall as he rubbed his aching face.
After a quick introduction, Team Chaos explained to everyone in the room about the situation.
"Okay, now I understand what's going on." A said after hearing the brats story about the origins of the Lightning Demon. He leaned back into his couch, eyeing the three teens. "So you brats have been traveling across the Lands of Fire, Snow and Wind to defeat these Chaos Warriors. Three of them are gone and once you're done with this one, then that means you'll be going to the Land of Earth to get the last one."
"That's right." Naruto confirmed. "We were on our way to where Zenon was until we ran into Mr. Rap Star over there." He pointed his thumb at B, who now stopped rubbing his face.
"That's...kind of disturbing." Mabui said, placing her under her chin. "We never took into account that there were others like Zenon out there."
"I did hear that nearly half of the Land of Fire got burned to a crisp by a Fire Demon." Darui said, placing his hands in his pocket. "Didn't think it was related to the Lightning Demon. Looks like the rumors were true."
"Same with them." C said, pointing at Team Chaos who looked confused and curious by what he meant.
"What do you mean?" Kia asked.
"There's a rumor going around about a mysterious group of kids who's traveling across the countries in search of the elemental demons that's been causing trouble throughout the nations." C explained in amusement, much to the group's surprise.
"Hold up, there's rumors about us?" Naruto asked, actually feeling a little bit proud that they were being acknowledged for their efforts.
"That's right!" B rapped, pointing at the main three. "The cool blue girly dude that controls the flowing waters, the spunky little girl from a foreign land, the red man that can wear different suits of armor, and last but not least, the living talking toy! Oh yeah! These guys right here match the description perfectly but I can see that they added new members."
A loud crack sound was heard as multiple large veins appeared on Naruto, Kia and Omochao's heads as they comically glared at B.
"I'm not girly!/Who're you calling a little girl!?/I'm not a toy!"
Zane stared at his friends with a neutral expression as always with Snow and Ethan giggled quietly while A just palmed his face in annoyance.
"Ignoring my idiot little brother, just how exactly can you find this thing? Do you even know where it's at?"
"Naruto can sense where he's located." Zane replied, surprising the group of shinobi.
"I can somewhat sense him as well but it's only because he took something important from us." Kia said. She was still trying to get used to her new ability to sense chaos energy. "Lord Raikage, with your permission we would like to continue on our journey to defeat Zenon and then we'll leave your country."
"Hmmm..." A closed his eyes as he thought about it.
Normally, he would never allow outsiders, mainly shinobi, to help with their village and overall country's problems since it was his duty as Raikage. But these brats before him weren't shinobi from any village and they definitely know more about these demons than they do. Most of all, this demon has killed more than several of his shinobi the past almost two weeks and it's been mocking him about it! Him! The Raikage of the Hidden Cloud! And that's something he cannot allow!
Team Chaos flinched as they saw blue electricity shot out from A and hit the wall behind them. Everyone else remained neutral about it.
"Fine then. You brats go ahead and take care of this thing. But first..." A said as he stood up, looking down at Naruto, whom he quickly assumed was the leader. "...I want you and your team to fight one of my shinobi."
That threw the group off guard, including the cloud ninja in the room. Naruto however got annoyed.
"Hey, what the hell?! We don't have time to play with your-"
"Sorry!" Omochao quickly covered Naruto's mouth to stop him from speaking out and getting them in trouble with Raikage.
"Thank you Omo." Kia said, earning a happy wave from the robochao, and looked to the Raikage. "I hope you don't mind me asking sir, but why?"
"I'll be honest, I'm still finding it hard to believe that a couple of non-shinobi brats like you were able to kill not one but three of these demons." A told them, earning a tick mark from Kia. "So I want to see for myself how strong you three are."
The vein on Naruto's head got larger as he removed Omochao off his face and glared at A. "Are you serious?! Why do we have to prove ourselves to you when we-!?" His mouth was covered again, this time by Zane and he let out a muffled 'Come on!' and tried to break out by waving his arms up and down.
A stared at Naruto flatly before turning his attention to the others. "Is he always like this?"
"Yes." Kia, Zane and Omochao flatly said, causing Ethan to giggle to himself with Snow meowing in agreement and making Naruto pout.
"So all we have to do is fight your shinobi and then we'll continue our quest?" Zane asked.
"That's right."
"But Lord Raikage, where will they fight?" Mabui asked. "Ever since Zenon's last appearance, he's destroyed many of our training spots along with our-"
"I know the perfect spot for them to battle." A said. "And I've already picked out the opponents whom they will fight."
Naruto, Kia and Zane blinked at that as they looked at each other with raised eyebrows while Ethan, Snow and Omochao looked curious at what the Kage said.
Hidden Cloud Village: The Academy
A, his bodyguards, his assistant and B led Team Chaos inside a building, which they learned was the cloud village's ninja academy. Naruto had to admit, the academy here was more impressive than the one in the Leaf. For one, the building was bigger than the one from the leaf and it wasn't connected to the Raikage's building, with the front even having a statue of the First Raikage.
Walking through the building, they saw various children taking different courses. The courses ranged from math, reading, history...basically stuff you would learn in a regular school except it's ninja-context. There was also a class where students were learning their nature transformation and how to better control their chakra so they can stick to walls and stuff. They even witnessed a graduation ceremony where some of the students were showing off their unique techniques which impressed the group.
Of course as they walked through the Academy, they gained the attention of just about everybody in the building from teachers to students. Many of them whispered to themselves about Fourth Raikage and mainly about them as they had never seen them before.
And just like what happened in the Lands of Snow and the Sand Village, Naruto, Zane and Ethan had garnered attention from the girls with Kia getting the attention of the boys. Omochao and Snow had gotten the attention of the younger children as they wanted to go over and play with them but couldn't because they knew they were the Raikage's honored guests.
After walking through the academy, the group walked to the lower level where there was an underground training area. The training ground had a huge space and there was a grandstand. There was also a group of genin and jonin training. Once they saw the Raikage, they immediately bowed to him and left the training ground.
"This is where you'll be fighting." A said.
"Okay, so who are we fighting?" Naruto asked curiously and a little impatiently.
"Since you brats were able to defeat these powerful demons, especially one that was able to evolve in a stronger state, you'll be fighting against a Jonin-level shinobi." A explained.
"Think of it as a spar." Mabui told Team Chaos. "There are no winners or losers. It's just to see if you can handle yourselves in a fight."
"A spar, huh?" Naruto asked, putting his hands behind his head. "Yeah, I'm down with that. It gives me a chance to test out some new moves."
"Same with me." Kia said, flexing her arms. "Come to think of it, this is actually the first time we've trained together."
"Yes." Zane agreed. "We haven't done any training as a team since we started this journey so it's understandable."
"Hey, no worries you guys." Naruto said, now doing stretches. "We may not have had any group training, but we know each other's strengths and weaknesses during our battles against Agni and the others, even with Gaara and Shukaku!"
B looked surprised by what Naruto said, which they weren't paying any attention to as they were focused on their conversation. "Hey yo. Did he just say…?"
"Yes." Gyuki spoke up. "He said kids fought against Shukaku and his Jinchuriki and lived to tell the tale? Unbelievable!"
"So if you ask me, ninja or not, we make a pretty awesome team!" Naruto finished with a happy smile which was shared by the whole team.
"You said it!" Omochao cheered happily.
"Ethan, Omo, Snow. You guys better move out of the way." Kia told them.
"Okay." Ethan nodded as he picked up Snow, who had an adorable pout on her face and walked away from the ring.
"Aw man! I wanna join nya!"
"Have fun you guys." Omochao said as he followed after Ethan.
"Alright! So who's gonna get a piece of Team Chaos?" Naruto asked, now getting excited that he's gonna test his skills on a jonin level shinobi. Before A could answer, B was already among them.
"That would be me, the great and mighty Killer B, fool ya fools!"
A glared at B with a tick mark on his head before he sighed in annoyance as he palmed his face. He wanted Darui to fight them but then again it doesn't really matter who fights them, all he wants is to see what these kids got.
"Whatever." A said as he moved away from the arena, his associates following after him.
"So we're fighting you huh?" Naruto asked, smirking in a feral way with his eyes narrowed into slits. He took a feral fighting stance. "I don't know why but my instincts have been screaming at me to have a go with you and I always listen to them."
"Now Naruto, don't forget that this is a spar." Kia reminded him, already knowing why his instincts are reacting towards B. She pounded her fists together and smirked confidently as she too went into a stance. "No going out unless he does."
"Understood." Zane said, cracking his neck as he took a stance.
"Hm-hm!" B said as he held his arms. "Alright Team Chaos, show Killer B what you're made of!"
"Oh, you got it!" Naruto's smirk widened. "Hey Omo! Play us a song!"
"You got it!" Omochao happily said as he selected the appropriate song for something like this.
Insert Fight Song: Remember the Name (Clean) [By: Fort Minor]
Killer B's eyes widened behind his shades as he heard the incredible music that was playing. Never in his life has he ever heard of an incredible music like this. But when the voice of a man started talking and the beat suddenly dropped that's when he started to nod his head to it and a huge smirk suddenly appeared.
"Oh, this is nice!" Killer B ducked down to avoid a spinning kick from Kia, who looked surprised before she spun around to land a heel kick to B's head, which he blocked with both arms. "Not bad, not bad! You almost had me, but better luck next time little girl!"
Kia frowned slightly before she gave a yelp when B pushed her away. Naruto and Zane jumped in a second later as they charged at B, both of their fists pulled back. Just as they were about to reach him, B went ahead and jumped over them, making Naruto smirk.
As B landed, two water tentacles shot out from below him and wrapped themselves around his legs surprising him and the spectators slightly. B looked up back to see a metal fist aiming for his face. He moved his head to the side and avoided it, not seeing the small smirk that was on the teen's face as his other arm started to glow.
"That all you-"
Zane fired an energy beam at B, which pushed him back. Just when he was to hit a pillar, B was gone and in his place was an octopus tentacle. He narrowed his eyes as the tentacle continued to move.
"Substitution." He had to thank Naruto again for telling him about the basic techniques the ninja of today use in battle.
"Yo! This song is so fly, I feel like I'm in the sky!" B said as he was moving his whole body to the song that was playing. "Aw yeah! Like the man rapping to this music is saying, remember the name Killer B, ya fools!" He got grabbed by a giant pair of water hands that came out of the ground.
"Your name? You better remember this name!" Naruto smirked at catching his prey. "Naruto Kaosu, chao chao!"
"Chao chao?" B asked before he gave a startled scream when Naruto spun his arms and threw the older ninja up towards the ceiling.
"Guys! Together!" Naruto called out as they appeared by his sides. They lept towards Killer B till they surrounded him. They then did a variant of the spin charge before doing their own unique spin dash as they charged at the older jonin.
"Oh, not bad!" Killer B thought to himself as he dodged the cool attacks, with the water one nearly barely close to hitting his face. He landed on the ground and looked to where the trio landed, staring hard at Naruto as he felt a cut appear on his cheek. He let an amused smirk. "Not bad at all, fool ya fool."
"Believe me, you ain't seen nothing yet Octopops." Naruto told him.
"That's right. We're just getting started." Kia added in.
"Is that so? Well then..." B said as he did a hand sign. "I believe it's time that I even these odds y'all. Shadow Clone Jutsu!" Two clones popped into existence. "Let's go boys!"
The three Killer B charged at the trio, causing them to split off to take on their versions.
Up in the stands, Ethan looked on with a starstruck expression as he watched the others fight against the older jonin and his clones. While he did see some fighting back at the Snake Man's base, those fights involved gruesome scary deaths at the hands of those older and younger. He got involved in some of those fights and he just couldn't stand hurting people or any other living creature. He hated it. But the more they kept hurting him, he would always blank out for a second and found himself covered in blood and guts.
Not wanting to be reminded of the scary experience, the young boy focused more on today's fight...or sparring match as the lady called it. The fight wasn't as scary as he thought it would be. In fact, big brother Naruto and his friends seem to be having fun. Even Killer B looked like he was having fun too. There was no killing for amusement, no mocking laughter, no torturing your opponents, no nothing.
It was just simply fighting for fun.
"S-So cool…" Ethan said in wonder, watching as Naruto summoned his three pointed spear to fight against the real B, who was using his swords. He laughed a little when he saw that Naruto almost hit B in his 'private area
"Nya! Nya!" Snow cheered out. "Go everyone!"
This was the first time the cat was seeing her friends actually fight. That encounter with that Vayu guy in the desert didn't count as Omochao carried her to safety and out of the way.
Kia looked graceful as she practically danced around her opponent yet as she landed a few hits while also trying to disarm him of his sword. She was also using those shovel claw things to try and get an extra hit in. Matter of fact, her fighting style reminded her of those Hawaiian martial artists.
Zane's fighting style was...unique. It looked like a combination of several different styles like karate, kung fu and various others.
Naruto was more on the wild side as she could tell that he was a self-taught fighter. He would always stick to a pattern before suddenly switching it up. Using his water powers also helps him in his unique fighting style as he can stretch his limbs out, spit out streams of water, etc.
All in all, her friends were incredibly strong in their own ways.
"This is impressive." Mabui said, watching Zane blocking the attacks of one of B's clomes using his arms.
"Yeah. For a couple of kids who aren't shinobi these guys aren't half bad." Darui said, looking at Kia practically dancing around her Killer B clone as she avoided his swords. He looked surprised when he saw her summon these metal gauntlets and used them to attack B.
C nodded as he continued to observe the trio more closely, watching as they came together and pulled a switcheroo on B and his clones. "Their fighting styles are completely different from each other yet their teamwork is something else. It's almost like they're in complete sync with one another. How are they not genin?"
"Hmph." A grunted, arms crossed as he focused his attention on the group.
While he won't admit it, he too was impressed by what he was seeing. Those brats are seriously holding their own against his younger brother, who had way more talent than him even when he was a child. Hell, he even fought the third Great Ninja War where he earned the title "Killer" by the Yellow Flash and became a hero throughout the village.
So to see a couple of brats go head to head with his brother's Disturbance Taijutsu told him that there was something more about them then they let on.
For one the red brat with the metal arms, Zane if he remembered correctly, looks like he's switching between different never before seen fighting styles to try to keep up with the B clone while staying on the defensive. He uses his metal limbs to fire off blasts of chakra.
The girl Kia uses a fighting style that screams foreign to him and it wasn't just her outfit. She was both fast on her feet and had a devastating strength that reminded him of The Slug Queen Tsunade. He saw how she would do bizarre things even most shinobi wouldn't do. She gave her opponent quick jabs before attacking him with multiple kicks. Whenever he would grab her, she would always maneuver on his arm and flip him over as she pulled his arm back. She would also at times speak in a foreign language he's never heard of.
Lastly the blue one, Naruto has an incredible ability to manipulate water without any source at all! Plus, the brat was the only one who looked like he didn't have any form of training at all unlike his companions. Seeing him move around and attacking B like some sort of wild feral animal immediately told him the kid had taught himself how to fight. His odd fighting style was similar to B except it was more unpredictable, or better yet...it seemed more chaotic, which was flawed but still impressive.
All in all, these kids would make proud ninjas. But he knew that all three of the brats were simply holding back because this was only a spar as Mabui said. A wanted to see more of what they were capable of and to see just how they were able to beat those demons.
Naruto jumped in the air to dodge a tentacle tail from the real B. "Sayanora!" He aimed his trident at him and was going to fire at him. He suddenly stopped as he felt something strange yet familiar causing him to freeze in place. "This...this feeling…!" He recognized this feeling as it was the same with Agni and the others. His eyes moved up to the ceiling lights as he saw them flashing yellow. His eyes widened as he briefly saw Zenon's face.
"Oh shit! Guys! Stop fighting!"
Music Stops
Everyone stopped what they were doing when they heard Naruto's urgent yell.
"What's wrong Naruto?" Kia asked.
"Zenon is here!" Naruto exclaimed, shocking everyone present.
"WHAT!?" A asked angrily, looking around for it. "That thing is in here? Where is it?!"
They heard the sound of sparks flying from above them making them look up at the ceiling lights. They saw yellow electricity coming out of the bulbs which made them glow brightly before they exploded. It wasn't just the ceiling lights as various light bulbs that were in the arena exploded, making the room go dark slightly. Up in the stands, Ethan let out a terrified scream as this happened causing him to duck in fear with Omochao comforting him. Snow let out an angry hiss as she looked around, her eyes narrowed into a glare.
"Zenon!" Naruto called out. "We know you're doing this! Come out and show yourself!"
They heard another spark-like sound, only this time it was close to them. Too close. They turned to the sound, only to see a bolt of lightning move around in the room. They heard the spark again and turned to it, only to see another bolt of lightning. They soon started to see the bolt of lightning move around the room. In fact, it was moving so fast they couldn't keep up with it's movement.
"N-Naruto! Kia! Zane!" Ethan called out as he looked ready to head down but quickly ducked as the bolt zoomed past him.
"Stay there Ethan!" Naruto told him.
"Ohhh, this is not good for my eyes! Making me all kinds of dizzy!" B said.
"What is it doing?" Mabui asked worriedly.
"It's playing with us." Darui answered, taking his sword out as he got ready to fight with C doing the same thing.
"Yeah?" A asked calmly as electricity danced off him and made his hair spike up. "Well I'm sick and tired of it's games! Stop running and face us you damn coward!"
An angry vein popped out of the bolt of lightning as it went right above the center of the arena. Naruto's eyes widened as he knew what Zenon was planning to do.
"Everyone! Get away from the arena!" Naruto ordered as he grabbed Kia and jumped backwards while Zane did the same. Killer B followed their lead just as Zenon crashed to the arena floor, creating a yellow and blue electrical barrier. B's clones were still there and got electrocuted as they dispersed.
"Whoa! That was close!" Kia said in alarm.
"Yeah. Good reaction time yo!" B complimented towards Naruto.
Once the barrier vanished, everyone saw Zenon 1, in all his glory, glaring at everyone present before setting his sights on Naruto, who glared back at him. Zenon then started to walk towards him which made the group tense up as they took fighting stances. Suddenly, A appeared behind the walking Zenon, lightning chakra covering him and his hand raised in a chop motion.
"YOU'RE DEAD!" He gave Zenon a backhanded chop to his head, but the Lightning Chaos reacted quicker as he caught the hand and gripped it. The Raikage then went in for the punch towards the back of Zenon's head, which did nothing but push him forward. B grit his teeth but then felt his lightning chakra being absorbed, making his Lightning Chakra Mode flicker slightly. "What the hell?!"
As Zenon continued to absorb the lightning around the Raikage, he got blasted away by a jet of high pressure water courtesy of Naruto, who had already transformed into his Chaos form, which stunned everyone who hadn't seen it.
"Whoa…" B mumbled in surprise.
"Naruto…?" Ethan asked, staring at Naruto's form with an awestruck expression.
"Hey Zenon! Did you forget about us?" C-Naruto asked, smirking smugly at him.
Zenon weakly stood up after being short-circuited by the attack. The Lightning Chaos glared angrily at him as Kia, Zane and surprisingly B stood at his side.
"Don't think I forgot either!" C-Naruto then pounded his fist in his hand and summoned a water ball filled with chaos energy. "That was payback for when you clawed me back on the island."
Zenon continued to glare at him before he started glowing and turned himself into a bolt of lightning. He shot out of the building creating a giant hole in the ceiling.
"He's going outside!" Mabui said in alarm.
"Shit! Is he going to attack the village again?!" A asked in anger.
"No, he won't!" Kia told the Fourth Raikage. "Not with us here! Omochao, stay with Ethan and Snow until we come back."
"You got it!" Omochao gave her a salute.
"Hang on!" C-Naruto used his Chaos Control and teleported them out of the training ground, stunning the Cloud ninja present.
"E-Everyone." Ethan uttered to himself. He looked down but then noticed someone in their group was missing. "U-Um O-Omochao? Where's Snow?"
"...eh?" Omochao looked around and saw the cat was nowhere near them. He looked at the spot where the others vanished. "Oh no! She must've gone with the others when we weren't looking!"
Unknown to them, a feminine like silhouette is seen crawling along the ceiling, entering the hole and following after Zenon.
"Dude, chill. It's just a cat." Darui deadpans at the robochao.
"Lord B, you okay?" C asked his kage in concern as he held him steady once he released his Chakra Mode.
"Yeah. Damn thing was absorbing my lightning as if it was a snack." A said, looking up at the hole and where the trio disappeared from. He raised his brows when he noticed someone missing. "Wait...where the hell is B?"
Everyone blinked and looked around the stadium to search for him, only to see no sign of him. In fact, now that they remember he was near the trio. Sweat dropping slightly, they turned to the Raikage and saw a comical vein pulsing out his forehead.
"THAT SNEAKY LITTLE FOOL!"
Outside the Village
"AW YEAH! Let's get this party started yo!" B rapped happily. "Get ready Lightning Man, cause Killer B is ready to shock you to the system!"
"Is the rapping really necessary?" Kia asked herself, her face flat as a board. She really needs to listen to this rap music Naruto has on his PAD so she can get a better feel of how it's supposed to sound like.
Right now, the group were chasing after Zenon, who was once again in the form of a lightning bolt. While doing so, they gathered many of the villagers' attention as they moved out of their way. Zenon was also causing many damages and used various objects as a way to try and block them. The Cloud ninja that were in the area tried to help catch Zenon, but he was too fast for them as he kept zig zagging all over the place at breakneck speed, never losing his momentum.
In order to stop Zenon from causing further damage on the streets, they took to the roofs and watched as he continuously caused mischief throughout the village.
"He's a speedy little bastard, I'll give him that!" C-Naruto growled in annoyance after he tried to shoot Zenon with a blast of water, only to miss and end up hitting a drunken man.
The group soon left the village and were out in a clearing. Even though there was nothing here, Zenon was still zig zagging around at lightning speed.
Zane, in his Gamma armor, was closely analyzing the speedy Lightning Chaos, his intellectual mind already trying to come up with ideas on how to stop him. His thoughts went back on what he learned about Change in Chakra Nature from Temari and Kia's discussion, about how shinobi can turn their chakra into one of the five basic elements, which are named after their respective countries.
From what Temari told Kia, these five nature transformations are stronger or weaker towards another, which is basically the same with the Chaos Warriors.
"That's it!" Just like that, Zane came with an idea. He turned to C-Naruto. "Naruto, change into your Vayu form."
"Huh?" The guardian asked, him and the others turning to Zane.
"Do you remember Kia and Temari's conversation about Change in Chakra Nature?" Zane asked.
"Um...you mean that Nature Transformation thing?" C-Naruto asked.
"Why bring that...oh, I see! That's a great idea Zane!" Kia complimented him with a smile.
"Huh? Huh? What's a great idea?" C-Naruto asked in complete confusion, making Kia facepalm herself.
"Dummy!" Kia said in her foreign language, making the guardian feel offended for some reason. "Naruto, the five basic nature transformations are Fire, Wind, Lightning, Earth and Water. These natures have strength and weakness against one another."
"That's right yo! For example, Fire Style is strong against Wind Style but weak against Water Style." Killer B helped out with the explanation. "Earth Style is strong against Water Style but weak against Lightning Style, ya feel me?"
C-Naruto raised his brows before he realized what Zane's plan was. "OH! So that means lightning is weak against wind! Got it!" He leaps in the air surrounded by a green wind before it vanishes, showing him in his Vayu form with Sonic Cyclone in hand. "Chaos Aero!"
A swift gust of wind appeared around Zenon 1, forcibly making him stop and return to normal as he spun around in the air. Kia took this chance to do a homing attack on Zenon's brain, making him splatter on the ground, the glowing light of the emerald circling around the puddle.
"All right!" C-Naruto said happily.
"Don't celebrate yet." Zane told him.
The pieces and emerald gather together to form the tall Zenon 1. He shook his head from the minor headache and glared at the group of four before him. He prepared his claw weapons, the blades dancing with electricity, as he nearly got on all fours in a feral like stance.
"Okay, I think we made him mad." Kia said after observing Zenon's facial features.
"Not our problem." C-Naruto said as he spun Sonic Cyclone in his hand and took the double bladed staff apart. "Hey B, are you ready for this?"
"You bet! I've been wanting to fight that crazy shocker for a long time now." B said, arms crossed. "Time for this thing to get a taste of Lord Jinchuriki and the mighty Lord Eight-Tails, y'all!"
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C-Naruto and Zane slowly blinked from the sudden revelation. They turned to B and looked at his expression to see if he was serious, and judging from the look on the older man's face, he was definitely serious.
"SAY WHAT!?" C-Naruto gave surprised yells. "You're the Eight-Tails'...!?
Zenon made his move when everyone was distracted. They quickly moved out of the way to avoid the swiping claws attack.
"Can we please focus!" Kia exclaimed.
"Right, sorry! Fight now, ask later." C-Naruto said. He went to strike Zenon with his twin swords, only for him to disappear.
Battle Music: Chaos Ver.0 [Sonic Adventure]
Killer B, sensing a presence behind him quickly jumped in the air to avoid a double swipe before he roundhouse kicked Zenon, expecting him to get blown back. But Zenon didn't so much as tried to block or avoid it. He just took the force of the kick like it was nothing. The jinchuriki sweated nervously when the Lightning Chaos grabbed his foot.
"Uh oh." He was then thrown away but was caught by Zane.
The Lightning Chaos looked to the side to see C-Naruto and Kia charging at him. He backflips away just as copies of himself appear and charges at them, making them stop and jump out of the way before they vanished.
"You're kidding me, right? He can do that?" Kia asked in disbelief.
"I didn't even think that he could make copies!" C-Naruto said, watching as Zenon kept zigzagging around them.
The Lightning Chaos appeared and swiped the ground upwards, causing a pillar of lightning to head their way. The two quickly moved out the way, which is what Zenon wanted as he and a copy of himself appeared in front of them. Seeing this causes C-Naruto to block the originals' attack using his twin swords while Kia used her forearms to block the punch that was aimed at her head and got blasted away by electricity, earning a cry of pain from her.
"Kia!" C-Naruto called out as he kicked Zenon from him and launched a blast of wind at the copy causing it to vanish. He turned back to the original only to see him fly around them as a bolt of lightning. He raised his hand to try and catch him using Chaos Control but he couldn't keep track of him.
"Damn it!" The guardian gave a startled yell when he saw a bolt of lightning rain down from the sky in front of him.
Zane and B were already with Kia, helping her back up as she felt the numbness go away. "That hurt…" She looks towards Naruto to see him comically jumping back to avoid the lightning bolts Zenon was shooting at him.
"Yo, that electrifying thing is moving so fast my eyes could barely follow!"
"No kidding." Kia said, turning to Zane. "Hey Zane, please tell me you got an armor that can keep up with Zenon?"
"Actually, I do." Zane answered much to Kia's joy as she smirked.
"Good, because I got a plan."
Meanwhile C-Naruto continued to avoid the lightning bolts while also charging at Zenon when he wasn't moving, only for him to vanish much to his annoyance as he could tell the Lightning Chaos was only mocking him. Once he avoided the last lightning bolt, he glared up at the flying Zenon, whose feet was now a lightning bolt. A comical vein hovered above C-Naruto's head when he saw him,wag his finger back and forth like a certain hedgehog.
"Hey! That's Sonic's thing you bastard!" The demi-god charged at Zenon to swipe him with his twin swords, only for him to disappear, further angering him. "And stop running away!"
"Don't worry, he won't."
Zenon was about ready to launch another thunderbolt at C-Naruto. But since he was paying attention to only him, he didn't see the incoming blue metal fist that decked him in the face, making him fly back in the air. "Now!"
Kia and B, now shrouded in a red bubbly chakra cloak charged at Zenon from both sides, both their fists clenched with Kia's covered with green energy. They both punched Zenon's head at the same time making him splash all over the ground. They landed on the ground and smirked at their accomplishment.
C-Naruto looked at them with an awestruck expression. "Way to go guys! Wait, where's Zane?" He heard a 'whoosh' sound next to him, making him blink as he looked beside him before jumping back in surprise. "Zane?!"
Zane wore an entirely new E-Armor. It was colored blue and was much sleeker and more fluid than his previous armors. Looking at it's design told that it was an armor that was meant for speed and mobility. There were blades attached to his wrists and on his chest was the symbol for delta.
"Yes, it's me." Zane answered. "This is my Delta armor, it allows me to move at supersonic speed."
"Awesome! Super speed and the color blue, now that's what I call a perfect combo!" C-Naruto complimented. He turned to look at Killer B and saw the red bull bubbly chakra around. He also noted the elongated fangs and the number of tails he has, which were seven.
The guardian looked serious as he examined it. B's form looks completely different from Gaara's form which literally turned him into a monster. C-Naruto wondered if all jinchuriki were supposed to look like B when they used their tailed-beasts power. If that's true then why did Gaara look like a miniature version of Shukaku during his initial transformation.
But then, maybe the reason why Gaara's form was different was because he had the One-Tail and the form was made of sand and not chakra.
"I'll ask about that later." C-Naruto said to himself, already sensing Zenon had already reform.
And boy did he look pissed. The Lightning Chaos made a motion with his whole body as though he was letting out a roar of anger. The emerald inside him responded to his anger as it glowed brightly and made an aura of lightning cover his being along with making his eyes glow yellow.
"Um, he looks pissed." Kia said, looking nervous.
Zenon then spread his arms out and made several copies of himself that surrounded the group. The copies started to gain electric aura as the original and judging how they had started to summon giant balls of lightning, they looked ready to attack.
"Definitely pissed." B stated.
"Guys, get around me!" C-Naruto ordered as they did so. He raised Sonic Cyclone in the air and created a wind barrier around them.
The army of Zenon charged at the group as they tried to break through the barrier only to get bounced back by the powerful wind it released as it dispersed. The Zenon army disappeared before reappearing on the ground in a single line formation. They charged at the group at breakneck speed, causing them to jump over them before they vanished again.
"Where did they go now?!" Kia asked, now feeling annoyed as she activated her Chaos Boost. She got her answer when one appeared in front of her, it's claws extended as it swiped at her using various combo attacks making her dodge it.
"Hang on yo! Imma coming!" B was about to go help her before he jumped back as two Zenon appeared charging at him from either side, making them crash into each other. "Yeah! You missed, fool ya fools! Come and get a piece of Lord B and Lord Eight!"
The two Zenon glared at B as they charged at him. Zane meanwhile was running across the field as he and a Zenon clone fought each other using their weapons. They soon stopped and were now fighting in hand to hand combat.
C-Naruto looked around as he saw his friends fight against the Zenon clones. He could tell that none of them were the real Zenon and wondered where the real one was. With his eyes narrowed, he looked up and just as he thought, Zenon was charging at him from the sky. Gathering up wind below his feet, C-Naruto dashed at Zenon giving a battle cry. Their weapons clashed against each other with sparks flying as they tried to push each other back.
Zenon's mouth-less face moved up slightly as he saw C-Naruto's Vayu-like form starting to flicker off. He used the claws on his feet to slash both of C-Naruto's shoulders, making him fall to the ground.
"AH!" The guardian cried out before Zenon created a ball of lightning and immediately launched it. "Crap!" He used his short swords to block it.
Once it made contact and sent C-Naruto hurling to the ground, he stood his ground and continued to hold the attack before he deflected it away. The ball of lighting exploded in the air, getting the others attention as the Zenon clones they were fighting disappeared.
C-Naruto's Sonic Cyclone disappeared causing him to revert back to his Chaos form. He looks down at himself in shock. "Oh man! Not now!" He looked around when he noticed multiple yellow blurs circling around him before they formed a giant ring of lightning, shocking the guardian.
The blurs charged at C-Naruto, sending him flying up in the air as Zenon appeared above him as he unleashed a burst of lightning from the ring, earning a cry of pain from C-Naruto as he crashed to the ground.
"NARUTO!" Kia and Zane called out as they rushed to help their friend only to stop as a wall of lightning to appear before them.
C-Naruto grit his teeth as he felt electricity dancing off him and leaving him stunned. "He danced around us on purpose because he knew my other forms had a time limit." He got on a knee and looked up at Zenon as he landed in front of him. Despite being in pain, he grins up at him. "Hehe. You're a lot smarter than you look, Zenon. I guess I shouldn't have underestimated you."
The Lightning Chaos glared at him before his hand and began to gather up lightning energy. C-Naruto was still too stunned to move even though he tried his hardest. He couldn't even create a barrier because Zenon's hand was close to his face.
Music End
"LEAVE NARUTO ALONE YOU BULLY!"
Everyone, even Zenon, jumped at the sudden feminine voice that called Zenon out. Suddenly, C-Naruto saw a white spinning blur, very similar to the spin dash, tackled Zenon making him blink in astonishment and confusion.
"What was that?" He turned his head to where Zenon was tackled and saw he had crashed his head into a tree branch as he splattered all over, causing the chaos emerald to fly out of him which C-Naruto caught and made the lightning barrier disappear.
"Naruto!" Kia called out, immediately running to C-Naruto and helping him up.
"You cool?" B asked.
"Yeah, I'm cool." C-Naruto reassured everyone.
"What...just happened?" Zane asked in confusion, looking at the splatter remains of Zenon.
"I...have no idea." C-Naruto confessed equally as confused. "One second I heard a girl's voice then I saw a-"
"NARUTO!"
"Wha…OOF!?"
Everyone looked stunned as they watched Naruto get tackled to the ground by a mysterious girl making him also drop the yellow emerald. They were also shocked by her appearance.
The girl looked to be in the trio's age group but her body definitely looked even more mature than Kia's. She has a thick, short mane of blue hair that reaches her back. She wore a single light-coloured, open garment, that extended to her thighs, with a light purple sash and red belt tied around her waist.
Her arms and legs from the elbows and knees down are covered in white fur, with the legs wrapped in blue bandages, ending in over-sized cat paws sporting red claws. Cat ears protrude from her head and a long thin tail from the small of her back, which was shaking happily back and forth as she hugged Naruto.
"Huh!? Wait a...I...huh!?" C-Naruto looked dumbfounded as the girl wrapped her arms and legs around him, hugging him tightly as she rubbed her face with his.
Just like the others, he too was shocked when he got a good look at her and found his whole face blushing brightly as he felt her curvy body against his own. He was also able to clearly see her breasts sticking out of her outfit. Thankfully, her nipples were covered by fur.
"I'm so glad I made it in time! Are you okay? You're not hurt anywhere are you!?" The girl asked worriedly as she pulled away and looked all over him, showing everyone her blue cat-like eyes which were a lighter and brighter shade than Naruto's.
"I...y-you...I...HUH?!" C-Naruto still looked dumbfounded as he stared at the mysterious cat-girl that seemed to know him. "How do you know my...who are you?!"
"It's me, nya!"
"Me who?"
"Nya? Wait a second…" Kia said as she looked into the girl's eyes while examining her aura which, much to her disbelief, made her immediately recognize it. "Are you...Snow?!"
"SNOW!?" C-Naruto asked in shock as he turned to the cat girl who smiled happily at him. "You're Snow?! He imagined the cat Snow and the girl in front of him together and noted the similar eye color and same facial features they had. Plus he couldn't deny that the girl in front of him smelled exactly the same as the freshly cleaned Snow.
Even if his face wasn't shown Zane himself was shocked at his friend's declaration about the girl's identity. He knows about Transformation Jutsu and all that but this right here was something new.
B himself was shocked as well. "Whoa whoa hold up! You mean this kitty cat girl is that same little kitty cat y'all brought with you?"
As a jinchuriki and someone who fought in the third shinobi war, he can easily tell what's a transformation jutsu and what wasn't. When he first met them, he was definitely sure that white cat was just a normal cat but for some reason his Tailed Beast kept on telling him that there was something different about her which he didn't pay any mind to as he knew he would take her down if she tried anything.
But seeing this definitely threw him off.
"Yup!" The humanized Snow said happily, releasing C-Naruto as she looked at them. "Hiya Naruto! Kia! Zane! Killa B! Even though you named me Snow, my real name is actually Felicia and I'm a Catwoman, nya nya!" She made a cute cat pose that made her look adorable.
Everything was silent in the field as they stared at Snow...er, at Felicia with dumbfounded expressions.
"Huh. Wasn't expecting this." Zane spoke up, breaking the awkward silence as they stared at him. Before anyone could make a comment, the whole ground suddenly began to shake.
"W-W-What's going on, nya!?" Felicia asked, hugging C-Naruto tighter, once again meshing her slightly big breasts with his well toned chest which made him look down at before he quickly turned away.
"Whoa! What's with this sudden earthquake we are feeling!?" B also asked while trying to comically keep his balance.
"This is not an average earthquake!" Zane exclaimed watching as large cracks began to appear on the ground.
"He's right!" Kia said, also watching in shock as the cracks heading towards the yellow emerald. "Naruto! It's…"
"I know!" C-Naruto stretched his hand to grab the emerald only for green vines to shoot out of the ground and grabbed his arm. "Shit!"
A green pillar burst out of the ground underneath the emerald causing it to float. The pillar then starts to take shape and forms into Gaia 1, holding the yellow emerald in her hand.
"Gaia!" C-Naruto growled as he and Felicia stood up from the ground and took fighting stances with the cat girl letting out a hiss.
"The last warrior." Zane added.
"Ayo man, I thought y'all said this one was in the Land of Earth." B reminded them.
"What is she even doing here?" Kia asked in confusion.
"She sensed that we defeated the others and came here to help Zenon." C-Naruto answered.
Gaia 1 glared at the group, but her eyes remained focused on Naruto. She turns to the emerald less Zenon who had just reconstructed himself. The Earth Chaos gave an angry glare at her useless brother for not only being defeated but also losing his emerald like. She knew that he always played around with his enemies before killing them. But like before, he underestimated Chaos and his friends. Now she's glad that she came here to do what she needed to do. But she needed Zenon to do it, whether he likes it or not.
So imagine everyone's surprise when Gaia 1 charged at Zenon, who looked shocked as hell, before he got stabbed by Gaia 1's hand which had the yellow emerald, shocking those present.
"Whoa, she stabbed him." Felicia stated.
C-Naruto's shocked expression slowly turned to worry and unease. "Guys? I got a bad feeling about this."
After he said that, the two emeralds started glowing which also made Zenon and Gaia 1 to glow as well. The two lights shot out to the sky, circling around each other, before they combined into a unique color as it formed into a chao cocoon. A bright light erupted from the chao cocoon forcing everyone to cover their eyes for a couple of seconds before it disappeared. They moved their hands down and were shocked to the core by what they saw.
There before them stood...they didn't even know who or what it was. It was definitely bigger than Zenon 1 but its current form somewhat reminds both Naruto and Kia of Chaos 2 with some difference. One major difference is the color scheme.
It was forest green from the head to the torso while it's arms and legs were an electrifying yellow but also had green thunder cracks on them Everything else was similar to Chaos 2. It has a broader chest, wider shoulders, larger hands and more muscle-toned limbs. It also has two gray bones in both its arms that travel down its shoulders into its hands where each of the Chaos Emeralds are embedded. It had long leaf-shaped "hair" with the two horns on the back head moved up to the sides of the head and were shaped like yellow lightning bolts. It's eye color was unique as it was a mix between earthly brown and electric purple.
Everyone looked at the creature with stunned expressions as they saw electricity dance off it's arms, legs and the sides.
"What...are we looking at?" B asked curiously.
"Gaia and Zenon." Zane said, his tone full of stunned disbelief.
"I don't believe it." Kia mumbled, eyes widened in shock. "They...they combined!"
"I had no idea they could do that." C-Naruto whispered to himself, staring at the combined creature. He looked down at his hands, silently wondering if he could do that with his other forms.
"Nya? So what should we call them now?" Felicia asked curiously as she looked up thoughtfully. "Hmm? Gaia and Zenon...Ah! How about we call them Gaiaon?"
"Gaiaon?" Was everyone's thoughts as they stared at the catwoman with raised eyebrows. Actually, that name has a nice ring to it. After all, this creature looked like Gaia but with the extra features of Zenon added on her.
Gaiaon 2 looked at the group, making them tense up. It stared hard at C-Naruto, already sensing the presence of the other four emeralds. Green and yellow electricity danced off it's body before vanishing.
"Where'd it go!?" C-Naruto asked.
"NYAOUCH!"
Everyone turned around and saw Felicia get sent flying into a tree snapping it in two before getting grabbed by giant hands made of stone.
"Felicia!" Kia called out as she ran to help her. Her eyes widened when she saw a large hand made of rocks pop out of the ground in front of her and grabbed hold of her. Before she could try and break free, she and Felicia got electrocuted by powerful lightning, rendering them unconscious.
C-Naruto grit his teeth at that as he and the others searched for the creature. "Bastard! Come out and show yourself!" He flinched when Gaiaon 2 appeared in front of him and grabbed him by the face, lifting him off the ground as he struggled to get it's hand off his face but let out a yell when it sent volts of electricity on his body stunning him.
"Let him go!" Zane quickly ran towards them, spikes of energy appearing on his back as he did a spin dash.
Gaiaon 2 didn't pay him no mind however as when he was close to hitting her, a shield made of electricity appeared, making Zane come out of the spin dash as it grabbed his chest and began to absorb the electrical power of the suit, making the cyborg scream out. It used an energy blast to send him crashing him into a stone wall as the suit vanished. A stone hand grabbed him before he could fall.
C-Naruto let out a muffled yell at what happened to Zane glaring angrily at Gaiaon 2, who slowly turned to look back at him as though it was smirking. It then put its hand on the guardian's chest as he continued to try and move his body.
"Ay yo! You forgot about Master B! Ya fool!" B yelled as he dashed towards Gaiaon 2, his swords drawn. "Lariat!"
The fused Chaos Warrior had a dark idea as it turned to the charging jinchuriki and aimed C-Naruto at him. It then released it's hold on the water demi-god's face before firing a blast of lightning energy at C-Naruto, launching him into the charging jinchuriki who stopped and caught him in his arms.
"You alright little blue?"
"Yeah." C-Naruto said, turning to look at Gaiaon 2 and saw it was holding the four emeralds using electricity before it absorbed them into it's being. "And things just got worse."
A bright light erupted from Gaiaon 2, only this one was bigger. Once the light vanished, the two looked up at what was before them and what they saw made B's jaw drop in shock while C-Naruto just looked at it with his brow twitching. He then sighed tiredly and face palmed.
"Let me rephrase that. Things just got a lot worse."
In front of them was the now evolved Gaiaon 6, and boy does it look different than the scorpion/frog-like Chaos 6. Gaiaon 6 bore a resemblance to a large bear/tiger hybrid. It had the body of a bear but the forelimbs and face of a tiger. The forelimbs and face were yellow with green stripes on them while the torso was green with yellow stripes on them. It's claws were in the shape of razor sharp leaves. It has a mouth with razor sharp yellow and black teeth which are cackled with electricity. It's eyes were large and purple with brown slits. It has two extensions on its hind with green electricity dancing between them along with dust circling around them.
Running through its hind legs are black bones, connected in the rear by a pelvis-like bone, with a Chaos Emerald embedded in each of them. In its belly lies it's bone covered brain, encircled by four standing bones, each with a Chaos Emerald on top.
"Okay seriously. What the CHAO is going on?!"C-Naruto demanded, feeling quite angry and annoyed at the situation they were in. "Vayu took three emeralds from us the other day and you're telling me that this thing, who only just appeared, snatched the remaining emeralds we had! Come on! Is the universe against us or something!? I mean seriously! It's like nobody cuts us any slack! Did Sonic and his friends have to go through this crap every now and then with Eggman?"
While the guardian was busy ranting, B, his tailed beast and surprisingly enough Gaiaon 6 had sweat drops running down their heads as they listened to him. The sweat drops grew larger as he still continued his rants.
"Yo, Eight-O, you got any idea what this kid is saying?"
"I have no idea. And I'm starting to question if Shukaku actually lost to this kid."The Eight Tails replied before taking a more serious tone. "But in any case, keep your guard up and pay close attention to that thing. Follow it's patterns and make sure to strike it."
B smirked as he twirls his swords in his hands. "No worries. I got this, yo!"
Gaiaon 6 looked incredibly annoyed at the two as they looked to be in their own little worlds. The evolved earth/lightning chaos let out a loud roar that made the earth shake below them and caused electricity to shoot right out of it. If that wasn't enough, pillars shot out of the ground and were heading their way.
C-Naruto quickly grabbed B using his enlarged hand and jumped back away from the incoming pillars. While they were in the air, C-Naruto noticed that the pillars split off and were heading towards his friends much to his fear. He created two clones from his body and they were sent to where Zane and Felicia were being held while he and B landed to where Kia is.
Together, all three broke the rocks/stone that held their friends before grabbing them and jumping away from the incoming pillars as they stopped moving. Once they landed a good distance away from Gaiaon 6, C-Naruto and his clones gently laid them on the ground just as the water clones disappeared
"Guys..." C-Naruto said softly. Hearing soft groans made him look at all of them and saw them sit up. "Hey! You're okay!"
"Of course we're okay." Kia reassured him as he helped her stand up. She smiled slightly. "Come on, you know we're tougher than that."
"She's right." Zane said, shaking his head slightly before standing up.
"Ouch! Stupid monster! That hurts nya!" Felicia said as she rubbed her head. She blinked in surprise when saw the hand that belonged to C-Naruto. She happily took and got right back up.
"So, what happened to Gaiaon?" Kia asked, slightly curious and caution.
C-Naruto and B (who was still writing notes for some dumb reason before he stoppped once he heard the question) glanced at each other before pointing ahead, beckoning everyone to look at the now evolved Gaiaon 6, who was glaring at them.
"Oh shit." Kia pretty much summed up what was on their mind.
"How are we going to beat this thing?" Felicia asked.
"Same like with all the others. We have to attack it's brain." C-Naruto said. "But that might be difficult."
"Why?"
"It's brain is encased in bone." Zane told her as he examined Gaiaon 6. "As Naruto said, it will be difficult to get to it especially since it has inherited Zenon's super speed and his lightning powers."
Kia nodded in agreement. "Even though the brain is the weakness, it's not the only one. Since it can still use lightning, that means Naruto can use his water to try and keep it stun. It won't be much but it just might be long enough for us to try and break through the bone."
"Let's not forget it's Earth Style attacks." B said in a serious tone. "From what I can tell, it can use one or the other or both at the same time. So we definitely need to be careful and watch it's attack pattern."
"And then we can land a counterattack." C-Naruto said, palming his fists together and having a determined grin on his face. "Okay guys! Let's show this thing what we're made of! Y'all ready?"
"Yeah!"
Battle Music: Boss-CHAOS Ver.6 (S.A.M.E version (2016)
Gaiaon 6 let out a fearsome roar, obviously having enough of their pointless chatter. It summoned multiple large rocks with electricity dancing around them. It gave a roar as it launched the electrified rocks at the group making them jump out of the way.
While they were in the mid-air various things happened; Kia turned into her Chaos Boost form, Killer B had turned into his Version 1 form, Zane's entire being was covered in purple light, C-Naruto summoned Perfect Zero: Sword Mode and Felicia let out a cat-like roar as her claws sharpened.
"Chaos Wave!" C-Naruto swiped his sword to the side, summoning a wave of high pressure water at Gaiaon 6.
The fused Chaos Warrior jumped to the side and roared at C-Naruto, who only smirked at him and nudged his head to the side. Gaiaon 6 looked confused before it got punched in the face by both Kia and B, which barely did anything, making them jump back when they saw an electrical barrier appear.
"Wasn't expecting that." Killer B commented.
Gaiaon 6 roars and charges at them, raising his forepaws to strike them down. Kia and B quickly avoided it but jumped backwards when they saw sharp rock pillars come out. Felicia then jumped on Gaiaon 6's back and struck it with ferocious claw swipes to try and get to it's brain, which proved futile.
"It's not working nya!" The catgirl cried out before she felt her cat senses tingling. She quickly jumped off Gaiaon 6 just as tentacles shot out of its back.
Just as Felicia landed on the ground, Gaiaon 6 fired a blast of lightning at her but Zane appeared and blocked it using a shield. He deflected the lightning straight into the air, all the while showing everyone his new E-Armor. Unlike his other E-Armors, this one was more bulky and bears a heavy resemblance to E-105 Zeta with it's purple color scheme. He also had the symbol of zeta on his chest. The bulky armor has two large futuristic shields attached to it with blades attached to it on the edges.
All in all, the armor looked like it was made for defense purposes only.
"Thanks Zane!" Felicia said happily.
"Hm." Zane nodded his head in acknowledgement.
Gaiaon 6 growled at them and opened its mouth to try and launch an attack but C-Naruto appeared and punched it multiple times. Just like before with B and Kia, it didn't feel the impact of C-Naruto's punches which only annoyed it, prompting C-Naruto to jump back when it tried to take a good bite out of him.
"That was close!" C-Naruto exclaimed.
"Shit!" Kia cursed. "In this form, blunt attacks don't work against it! It's skin is too durable!"
"That's right, yo." B said. "The only way to get through that tough skin is to pierce it with something sharp."
"Normally that would work…" Felicia said. "But because of it's lightning powers, metal would be useless against it."
Gaiaon 6 roared as it pounced at the group, making them jump out of it's way. Much to their shock, the monster dug itself into the ground making a large hole which everyone gathered around to it and peaked inside the whole.
"It dug underground!?" Felicia asked in disbelief. The area around them started to shake. They then saw a large burrow heading their way pop and heading their way. The group took stances but Kia was already in front of them.
"Leave this to me!" Kia said as she charged at the burrow, gathering both her chaos energy and her spirit energy in her hand. "Wrath of Gaia: Chaos Boost Lv. 2!" She gave a devastating punch to ground, making the area shake harder and sending a wave of blue energy to the burrow that knocked Gaiaon 6 out of it and sending it on it's back.
That left everyone stupefied as they stared at the powerful crater Kia's punch caused on the ground before turning to look at said person. "Whoa." They said at the same time.
"Way to go Kia!" C-Naruto cheered while secretly reminding himself to never act up around Kia. He then charges at Gaiaon 6, sword drawn as he swipes it across the beast's body, exposing the bone covered brain. "Quick! Break the bone open before it gets back up!"
"Got it!"
Everyone charged at the exposed bone with Kia being first as she summoned the Shovel Claws. She did a mid-air dash, similar to a dive as she held her fists forward, and spun her entire body rapidly horizontally, leaving behind a trail of blue light. She lands a critical hit on the bone causing it to shake and moves away for Felicia to do her variant of the spin dash on it. Once she was done, Zane came in next and attacked the bone with enlarged fists, giving it heavy damage as cracks were heard.
"Let's go B!"
"Right!"
C-Naruto and B charged at Gaiaon 6 and both slashed the bone at the same time, completely destroying it with the glowing core being exposed. Gaiaon 6 let out a pained scream as electricity shot out of it's whole body, making the group back away from it.
"Alright! We destroyed the bone, nya!" Felicia cheered.
"It's not over yet!" C-Naruto said, watching as Gaiaon 6 rolled on its forepaws and was now glaring angrily at them. "
The fused Chaos Warrior gave a powerful roar as it changed its shape into another animal, this time having the body of a gorilla with the bones rearranged. It now stood on its hind legs and grew an extra pair of arms. The changed creature pounded it's chest while giving a roar before it slammed both its upper hands to the ground, making green lines come out from the ground.
The group then watched in comical shock as these four strange creatures came out of the ground. The creatures looked like they were made of rocks with green moss on their bodies and green electrical energy holding them in place.
"Whoa." Killer B said.
"...It can create monsters." Zane said blankly.
C-Naruto just sighed tiredly and face palms himself. "You know what? After seeing Agni create smaller versions of himself, I don't know why I'm still surprised about this."
"You and me both." Kia said in a deadpan tone.
"Um...call me crazy but I think Gaiaon created them just for us." Felicia said, seeing how there were four of those monsters.
"In other words, it's five vs five now, ya fools." Killer B said.
Gaiaon 6 roared once again causing the creatures to charge at them. C-Naruto got ready to fight them but noticed the creatures were ignoring him and started their assault on his friends.
"Guys!" The guardian called out, looking ready to help them if not for something zipping past him, making him look down to see a knife on the ground. He looked back and saw Gaiaon 6 was now carrying weapons with its arms, mainly Gaia and Zenon's weapons, though he noticed that Gaia's weapons were now axes and there were knives hovering around it.
"Don't worry about us!" Zane told him while avoiding one of the monsters he was fighting attacks.
"Yeah! Just take down Gaiaon! We got these chumps!" Kia grinned as she gave a spinning kick at her monster, knocking it to the side.
"Take him down, yo!" B said.
Felicia avoided a punch from her monster and climbed on its head, giving a wink at C-Naruto's direction. "You got this, nya!" She back flips off the monster's head as it tried to grab her.
C-Naruto smirked slightly from his friends' words. He turned to the fused Chaos Warrior. "Just you and me Gaiaon. Come at me, bruh!"
Gaiaon 6 roared and charged at C-Naruto. They slammed their axes down at him, making him jump to the side. It then tried to attack him using it's knives though he continued to avoid them. The guardian even dared to mock them by making goofy faces at them. He even spanked his bottom at them while shaking his tail. Gaiaon 6 once again roars, this time in anger and annoyance before charging at C-Naruto, this time the axes covered in electricity.
"Heh! You're just full of surprises, huh?" C-Naruto asked as he summoned Wildfire and changed into his Agni form. "Well so am I!"
The chaos drive on Wildfire started glowing. As it did, C-Naruto threw it behind him like a boomerang getting Gaiaon 6's and just about everyone's attention. Much to their shock and/or amazement, the greatsword suddenly disassembled itself into several pieces of fiery lights as they were sent flying towards C-Naruto who quickly stood up and held his arms out.
The pieces covered the demi-god's torso, arms and legs (from the feet to shins). The lights disappeared to reveal stylish new armor. The armor looked like it had a dragon motif design as the armor on the arms and shins look like scales with the torso having the image of a red dragon circling the red crystal. The color of this armor was the same as his greatsword (red, white and black with gold accents).
The guardian of Angel Island looked at the armor he was wearing with a wide excited grin. "Holy chaos, it actually worked!? Sweet!" He turned to the shell-shocked Gaiaon 6 and dashed at it.
Not knowing that fire erupted from his armored feet which caught him off guard, he had trouble trying to keep his balance before unintentionally doing a round-house kick to Gaiaon 6's face. The impact from his attack sent Gaiaon 6 flying to the side and hitting a large stone rock.
"Oh snap!" Killer B muttered in surprise.
Everyone else looked surprised as well as they stared at Gaiaon 6 before turning their attention to C-Naruto and were greeted with a comical sight. He was still trying his hardest to control the flames that were coming out of his feet before fire suddenly shot out of his hands, making him fly backwards before crashing on the ground.
The guardian blinked from that before he let out an excited laugh. "Okay! This is awesome!" He instantly got back up and grins at Gaiaon 6 as it got back up on its feet and glared hatefully at him. "Come and get some, you four armed King Kong!"
Gaiaon 6 roars angrily and charges at C-Naruto swiping its electrical charged axes at him. The guardian grins from that as he charges as well before he dashed around Gaiaon 6, avoiding and began to attack him using explosive kicks and punches that knocked it back.
While Naruto was busy fighting the fused warrior, everyone else (the monsters included) watched on as the guardian danced around it and continued his assault while also avoiding its own assault at him.
"Looks like I was right about that kid." Gyuki told his tenant. "First a water form, then wind and now fire? There is more to him than meets the eye."
"Yeah. But you gotta admit, this kid is showing some pretty cool chaotic moves." B said to his beast, feeling impressed by Naruto's unique fighting style.
"Huh. Wasn't expecting that." Zane thought, a smirk forming on his lips.
"So cool~!" Felicia thought
"I had no idea he could do that." Kia thought to herself. She turned to the monster, who was still distracted with the fight. Seeing that made her grin. "Hey jackass!"
"!?" The monster turned to Kia in anger but then saw she had vanished. It looked around for her before it heard whistling coming from above it.
Before it could look upwards Kia had already come down upon it, using her shovel claws, now enhanced with chaos energy, to slash its body before landing on the ground. The monster stood still before slash marks appeared and the monster fell apart, causing her to smirk.
The monster's companions looked to where their comrade had fallen and were going to charge at Kia, if not for the others appearing before her. The trio knocked the three monsters into one another just as Zane and B charged at them, with their weapons drawn, Zane's shields having sharp energy around them.
The duo slashed through the monsters and slid on the ground. The next second, the monsters split apart and fell to the ground.
"Alright! Now let's go help Naruto finish off Gaiaon, nya!" Felicia said.
"Yeah!" The others agreed as they turned to see the duo still fighting with C-Naruto avoiding the electrical vines that were rising out of the ground. Just when they were about to join the fight, a soft voice cried out.
"E-Everyone!"
Everyone's head instantly turned to the voice and much to their shock, they saw Ethan running towards them with Omochao trying to pull him back.
"Ethan?! Omochao!?" C-Naruto asked. "What are you guys doing here!? Get out of-?!"
The guardian was interrupted by Gaiaon 6 grabbing him by his torso. The fused Chaos Warrior grinned sadistically at the guardian's struggle to get out of their powerful grip. Using the power of the six emeralds, they then electrocuted him as he let out painful cries to the point where he returned to his human form. Seeing this caused them to stop and threw Naruto away as he landed on the ground.
"NARUTO!" Kia, Zane, Felicia and Omochao called out to their friend as they saw him struggling to get up. Ethan looked shocked at what happened to big brother Naruto and B grit his teeth in anger.
Gaiaon 6 let out a victorious roar as they pounded their fists on their chest. The fused warrior then turned their attention to Naruto and saw him trying to get back up on his feet. They walked towards him until they stood right in front of him, causing the guardian to look up at them. They then raised their axes.
"Leave him alone!" Kia and the others were about to charge at Gaiaon 6.
But something unexpected happened.
Music Ends
A large fireball suddenly came out from the trees and landed a direct hit on Gaiaon 6. Once it made contact, the fireball exploded in a glorious flare making Gaiaon 6 screech out in pain as it backed away from Naruto and tried to put out the flames that were on its body.
"What the? Was that a jutsu?" Naruto asked in shock, looking to where the fireball came from. "Who fired it?"
Everyone else shared his shock as well and tried to look for where it came from, only to see nothing. Kia herself tried to sense the person who fired that jutsu but couldn't find that person.
Gaiaon 6 once again roars, getting everyone's attention as they saw its body wasn't covered in flames again. But it did look extremely angry at having someone interrupt it's kill. The fused warrior glared at Naruto and was about to charge at him once again.
However, before it could something unexpected happened again.
Ethan suddenly appeared in front of Gaiaon 6's face and gave them a powerful punch that sent them sliding and falling on their back while also forcing them to drop their weapons. Everyone looked on with shocked expressions on their faces as they turned to Ethan and saw the arm he used to punch Gaiaon 6 was his bandaged arm, which was now loose enough to reveal what it actually looks like.
Ethan landed in front of the stunned Naruto, his hair shadowing his eyes.
"D...did you guys see that?" Omochao asked in comical surprise.
Nobody answered the upgraded robochao as they were too stunned about what happened just now.
Gaiaon 6 roared in absolute anger and rage at being interrupted from killing their prey. They glared hatefully at Ethan, who looked back at them with an emotionless look in his eyes. The veins on his demon-like arm began to emit a powerful glow with the same thing happening somehow happening to his other arm. The fused warrior got up and charged angrily at Ethan like a feral gorilla, causing the young child to charge at them in return.
"Ethan!" Omochao, Kia and Felicia cried out in worry and fear.
But their worry was unnecessary as Ethan gave Gaiaon 6 an uppercut which launched them into the air. Ethan then appeared above them, spinning in the air as he punched the gorilla-like beast back to the ground. He charged at Gaiaon 6 with his fist pulled back but the beast quickly vanished in a zap of lightning causing Ethan to crash into the ground.
Gaiaon 6 appeared behind Ethan, their axes in hands as they took ferocious swipes at Ethan but the young boy avoided them with ease before jumping on Gaiaon 6's arm and performed a spinning kick across Gaiaon 6's face before pulling multiple punches on them.
Nearby, everyone watched on in stunned silence as Gaiaon 6 was having trouble trying to attack a little kid. But it wasn't just any little kid. This was Ethan! The shy and timid little boy that the group immediately loved like a little brother! B was impressed by the kid's power and that mysterious arm of his.
"I...don't believe it." Kia said in disbelief.
"You and me both, nya." Felicia said.
"Ethan did say he was taught how to fight." Zane remembered what Ethan told them earlier as he observed the boy's actions...or better yet, the lack of emotion in his eyes. "But...looking at him, I don't think he's aware of what he's doing."
"You're right…" Kia said softly. She tried to get a feel of Ethan's aura right now but she couldn't. He was blank, he was just...completely blank. In other words, Orochimaru was training him to be a weapon which explained the emptiness of his eyes. She grit her teeth and clenched her fist.
Naruto was thinking the same thing as he found himself trembling in anger, thinking about the only person who caused Ethan to have those eyes.n"You rotten snake! You better pray we don't meet each other." Feeling the paralysis was gone, the guardian stood up and transformed back into his Chaos form. It was time to finish this fight!
"Hey!" The guardian called out to the others, getting their attention. "Let's hurry up and take that thing down! I think Ethan is starting to run out of juice!"
Everyone turned back to the fight and saw that, yes indeed, Ethan was looking a bit tired as he started to take short breaths after punching the fused warrior once again. They nodded their heads at C-Naruto as they turned and charged at Gaiaon 6.
Ethan was taking deep breaths as he stared at the beast in front of him, only problem was his vision was starting to get blurry and he was losing focus. That could only mean that he was running low on his chakra and needed rest. He fell on his knees but still kept his focused yet tired gaze on the beast in front of him. He began to lose consciousness just as Gaiaon 6 roared and charged at him.
"Look over here, ya fool!"
Gaiaon 6 turned their head towards Killer B, now using his Version 2 state, and was struck by him, sending them towards Zane, who switched into his Omega armor and fired multiple laser beams at it sending it rolling onto the ground as it landed on it's back.
Felicia came a second later, doing her variant spin dash across Gaiaon 6's body exposing their core, earning a roar from them. Killer B appeared in front of it and used his tails to hold the beast in place to keep it from escaping.
"Naruto! Kia! Do it m!" Zane called out to them as he looked up at the sky, seeing them floating in the sky as they held Perfect Zero: Trident Mode together.
Music: Strong and Strike [NARUTO]
"Right!" C-Naruto and Kia said as they charged at Gaiaon 6, who looked up at them in shock.
The fused warrior roared at them as it tried to attack them using it's knives but they were moving faster than them. They gave determined roars themselves as they poured their chaos and spirit energies into Perfect Zero. The trident started glowing for a moment before a burst of water erupted from the tips and covered them both in it, taking the form of a blue spear with the water spiraling like drill and pinkish energy circling it.
With no other choice and seeing how they were getting close, Gaiaon 6 roared and summoned uses the power of the emeralds to create a powerful electrical barrier around their core. The trident and electric barrier clashed together making B let go of Gaiaon 6 and back away from them.
The resulting collision of the two made a strong gust of wind and electricity appear as the energy spear tried to make contact with the core. Felicia quickly went to grab Ethan and protect him with Zane grabbing the two and went to join where Omochao and B were.
Gaiaon 6 roared as it tried to pour more power into his barrier with C-Naruto and Kia doing the same thing.
"We're not…!" Kia started as her eyes started to glow neon blue.
"Gonna let you win!" C-Naruto finished as his eyes began glowing neon green.
"YOU'RE FINISHED!" They both yelled at the same time as the spear became surrounded by a yellow and pink whirlwind. "Aqua Spiraling Drill!"
The spear broke through the electric barrier and stabbed directly at Gaiaon 6's core. The moment it did, the fused beast gave one last roar as a burst of energy erupted from the trident, causing it to disperse into two separate liquid-like puddles and the six emeralds to fall on the ground. The burst of energy disperses and surrounds Naruto and Kia, who were still holding Perfect Zero and on their single knee, in a stunning particle-like effect with glowing flower petals and blue water puddles.
Music Ends
The two remained still for a moment as the particle effects vanished, both of them huffing. They looked at each other and gave happy smiles before noticing the position they were in and how close they were. They quickly put some distance between them, both having minor blushes on their faces as Kia played with her hair and Naruto awkwardly scratched his cheek.
"They won..." Omochao said in an awestruck voice. A huge smile appeared before he flew around and did a happy cheer as he played a victory jingle. "HOORAY! They did it! They beat the monster!"
"Yeah! That was so cool, nya!" Felicia cheered as well as she jumped in place while holding Ethan, who was starting to wake up because of the catgirl's happy reaction.
"H-Huh? W-What's happening?" The confused boy asked before noticing he was being carried by an unknown...cat girl? He blinked curiously at her, wondering who she was.
"Ah, yeah! Now that was tight yo!" B exclaimed.
Zane, who had already de-transformed, gave an accomplished smirk as he returned the thumbs up as well. He looked alarmed as he quickly noticed the splattered green and yellow puddles began to gather and formed into large puddles.
"Naruto! Kia!"
"Don't worry Zane." Naruto smiled gently at both Gaia and Zenon as ripples started to appear in their puddle form. The guardian walked up to them, taking a knee and reaching his hands out to them. "Gaia...Zenon...it's okay now. There's no need for us to fight anymore. It's time to come back home. Everyone is waiting for you."
The puddles made noises before reaching their hands out towards Naruto's outstretched hands.
The moment they touched him, a bright light erupted from them. The light enveloped the three into a chao cocoon, which stunned Felicia, B and Ethan as this was their first time seeing it before their own eyes. Kia, Zane and Omochao had knowing smiles on their faces.
A couple of seconds later, the chao cocoon faded away, revealing a standing Naruto, who had a content smile on his face and his eyes closed with the emeralds floating and disappearing inside him. If he were to look at his pendant, he would see that it's completely golden. There was a yellow crystal in the last empty diamond slot while a green crystal was on the bottom point of the cross.
"Hey, what's up with the light show?" B asked. "What happened to them Chaos Warriors?"
"Heh!" Naruto smirks as his eyes snapped opened, revealing them to be pupil-less electric blue. "Watch this!"
In a spark of yellow lightning, Naruto transformed into a form similar to Zenon. His entire body was completely yellow but he now has blue zigzagging stripes on his forearms, legs and on his cheeks. His eyes were glowing an electric blue. His twin protrusions on his head were in the shape of lightning bolts like Zenon's though they were glowing blue.
In his left hand was a stylized bladed tonfa. The blade itself was blue with the edges being a lighter shade of purple. There was also a yellow crystal on it with a yellow lightning bolt design on the blade.
Everyone looked in awe at Naruto's new form, he himself looked at it and his weapon with an excited grin.
"Sweet! Check out Static Charge!"
"AWESOME!" Kia, Omochao and Felicia shouted in excitement.
Ethan looked on with a starry eyed expression. "B-Big brother looks so cool!"
"Oh! Now that's what I call a shock to the system!" B said, looking mighty impressed.
"That looks amazing." Zane commented.
"That's not all!" Naruto's grin widened as he closed his eyes and was surrounded by green energy. The energy disappeared, revealing his second form.
The form was similar to Gaia, only he was a lighter shade of green with darker shades on his hands and feet. His tail and protrusions look like tattered leaves, and he had sprouts all over his body. He also had yellow markings over his torso.
In his hand and was a large hammer. The hammer had wood as the handle, with vines covering it and flowers sprouting on them. The hammer itself was made of stone and had green markings on it with a green crystal embedded in it's center.
"Oh~!" Everyone said, examining the new form.
Naruto gave the hammer a few good swings and examined it, trying to think of a perfect name for his new weapon. A light bulb appeared above his head. "Rising Terra! That's gonna be your new name!"
In a flash of light, Naruto returned to normal. He sighed and stretched his arms out, releasing a satisfied sigh. "Okay! Now that all that's taken care of, we can get back to the topic from earlier!"
Everyone looked at Naruto with curious looks.
"Which is…?" Kia asked, trailing off.
Naruto took a deep breath and let it out through his nose. He immediately turned to Felicia and pointed at her with a comical shocked expression. "SNOW IS A CATGIRL!?"
…
Everyone stared at Naruto, surprised by his sudden yell but then turned their attention to Felicia, who looked comically startled by it.
"Snow…?" Ethan asked, looking completely confused.
"Huh!? That's Snow?!" Omochao asked, looking dumbfounded.
"My name isn't Snow. It's Felicia nya!" Felicia replied happily.
"I believe it would be better to discuss this back at the village." Zane told everyone.
"I couldn't agree more, kid." Everyone turned and saw A and his bodyguards showing up into the clearing.
"How long have you guys been here?" Naruto asked.
"Not too long ago." C said sheepishly. "We were going to help you guys out but Lord Fourth said you could handle it."
The group sweat drops from that as Naruto, Kia and Felicia glared at the Kage with comical veins on their heads.
"Is this common amongst shinobi villages?" Zane deadpans. First the Kazekage appeared after Naruto beat Shukaku and now they show up after beating the last Chaos Warriors.
"U-Um, where's Mr. B going?" Ethan asked curiously.
Everyone looked at Ethan and turned to B, watching as he was sneaking away from them. B looked back at them and saw the attention he was getting, earning a sheepish chuckle from him before he ran off. A glared at B, looking both annoyed and angry as he chases after him.
"Get back here B!"
Team Chaos and the bodyguards sweat drops as A grabbed B's face and was shaking him back and forth, yelling at him for following after the group.
"So, yeah...we got a lot to talk about when we get back." Kia sheepishly smiles towards Felicia who did the same thing.
The group then walked away, their destination already clear. Naruto stopped for a moment and looked back at the scorch marks of the large fireball that attacked Gaiaon. He turned his attention to the trees, seeing nothing out of the ordinary and not smelling anything that was near him. He gave a grateful smile at whoever it was that saved him.
"Whoever you are, thanks for saving me and helping us out. I owe ya one." The guardian turned around and ran after his friends, completely unaware that he was being watched by the two individuals he and the others ran into earlier, from behind the trees.
"Well now, that was an interesting battle if I ever saw one." The shark-face man said. "Shame that we couldn't join the fun, still it was mighty nice of you to help them out. At least we know now that there's something special about those kids, especially the water one. We should stick around and find out more about them. Right, Itachi?"
The shorter man, named Itachi Uchiha, didn't say anything to reply to his partner. He just stared hard at Naruto as he disappeared from view. "Hn." He closed his eyes and the two instantly vanished.
Later
Hidden Cloud Village: Council Room
"Okay, so let me get this straight, your real name is actually Felicia and you're something called a Darkstalker?" Naruto asked with an excited look on his face.
"That's right, nya!" Felicia answered happily.
"You came from a place called Makai, which is basically another realm where other darkstalkers like you live?" Kia continued asking with an equally stunned awestruck expression.
"Uh-huh!"
"And this Makai is connected to our world?" Zane asked.
"Yuppers!"
Right now, Team Chaos were in the council room with the Raikage and his entourage there with them. They sat around a small table as the team told the Raikage about what happened after chasing Zenon and fighting him. Once all of that was done, everyone's attention then became focused on Felicia as they wanted to know more about her and what she was.
And what they learned shocked them all to the core.
Apparently, this Makai or Dark Realm is a place that exists outside of their world, that's somehow connected through a rift, where many supernatural beings such as werewolves, vampires, mummys and many others live. Felicia gave everyone a brief history of the mysterious unknown realm, which was respectfully ruled by the first supernatural being named Zeruru Aensland. His rule marked the rise of the Makai nobles, and their reign and control over separate regions of the realm.
Despite this, the realm was mainly ruled by the three noble families: The Aensland, the Dohma and the Bosital.
There were many darkstalkers who were in conflict with the Makai nobles due to their selfish greed of wanting to take control of everything, including humanity and their desire for power. But there were also some darkstalkers who were in conflict with humans due to their hatred and fear of them for being different.
Once Felicia had finished explaining everything about Makai, everyone in the room couldn't help but stare at her in shocked silence...okay, everyone except Naruto, who was starry eyed and looked so amazed, he would just explode.
A's eyebrow twitched before he sighed and rubbed his temple. "I can't believe what I'm hearing. A realm where monsters I never heard of exists and that cat happens to be one of them."
Mabui looked a little sheepish at her kage. "Well, the world is a mysterious place Lord Fourth. There are some things and places that even we humans have yet to discover."
"You're right." C agreed with her, scratching the back of his head. "But...to hear that there's a different realm that's connected to ours is actually startling, especially these darkstalkers. I'm amazed we haven't heard of them before until now."
"Heh. Matatabi and her jinchuriki will be shocked when they come back and we tell them this." Gyuki told his holder, sounding amused as he imagined their reaction.
B chuckle in amusement at the thought as well. "For sure."
"I think it's awesome!" Naruto excitedly called out, bringing attention to himself as he stood up from his seat. "Werewolves, vampires, ghouls, freakin zombies! I've seen all those guys in movies back home! I didn't even think it was possible for them to exist! It's almost like Halloween!"
"What's Halloween?" The cloud ninja silently asked themselves, wondering what was this Halloween.
Naruto instantly appeared in front of Felicia which comically surprised her. "Hey Felicia! You gotta take us there! I wanna see them all!"
"Wha-?"
"Yeah!" Omochao said as he flew in front of her, beside Naruto's head. "It'll be so much fun to learn what other creatures are in Makai!"
"A-Ah…" Felicia began to sweat nervously.
"I too would like to learn more about this Makai world." Zane said, appearing beside her which made the catgirl give out a startled yell.
The sound of a fist hitting the table, which startled the trio, and made them turn back to see Kia had stood up and slammed her fist on the table, making cracks form on the surface. She turns to them with a 'smile' on her face as she raises her fist up at them.
"Will you three please sit back down? You're scaring the poor girl." The three instantly went back to their seats which made Felicia sigh in relief and Ethan to giggle at them. Kia's 'smile' was then replaced with curiosity. "So Felicia, what brings you here to our world?"
"Hm…" Felicia looked thoughtful for a second but then shrugged her shoulders. "Honestly, I don't know." Her answer surprised everyone.
"What do you mean 'you don't know'?" A asked incredulously. "You said this Dark Realm or whatever it's called is connected to our world by a rift. Isn't that how you got here?"
"That part is true, but what I meant was I don't remember how I got to this world." Felicia replied.
"What's the last thing you remember before coming here?" Naruto asked, with everyone paying close attention to her as she told her story.
Felicia looked up thoughtfully, thinking back on what happened that day all those years ago. "Well, my friends and I were getting ready for a concert so I can start my dream of being a musical superstar as a way to bridge the coexistence between darkstalkers and humans."
That caught B's attention as ideas began to form on his head while Team Chaos were smiling at Felicia's wonderful dream. The catgirl soon frowned sadly as she looked down.
"Just when we were about to begin, I remember seeing these multiple white flashes and then loud explosions happening all over the city. Buildings were collapsing, many people were screaming and running away...then…then everything being consumed by flames. I'm pretty sure everyone...no...all of Makai had perished."
Nearly everyone gasped in alarm and horror from that while the Cloud ninja wore serious expressions on their faces. Many of them were wondering what sort of monster would cause the destruction of an entire realm? But if Makai and everyone in it perished then how did Felicia get here?
"I thought I died, I should've died. But I didn't." Felicia continued, her voice soft and quiet. "I found myself waking up in a nearby village where I saw humans. I realized that this must've been the human world. I tried to call for their help, but when they saw me they screamed and ran away. I was then surrounded by a group of ninja carrying kunai or swords. I told them I meant no harm but they didn't listen and just attacked me. I ran away after that, but no matter where I went the same thing would happen again, so I stayed in my cat form ever since."
Everyone remained quiet as they stared at the sad catgirl, all of them feeling sorry for her. Here she was by herself in a world where she would be attacked from both civilians and shinobi just because they've never seen someone like her before. But then again, this was the first time they had ever seen a darkstalker. Hell this was the first time they had ever heard of a Demon Realm before and they didn't even know such a place even existed!
Naruto's eyes narrowed in anger at hearing what Felicia has been through since entering this world. He couldn't believe how cruel the people of this world were to attack someone who needed help. It just doesn't make sense to him at all! Wasn't it in human nature to help those in need no matter who or what they were?
And he was just talking about this the other night. Kia, Zane and Omochao were thinking the same thing as they thought about Naruto's speech.
"How long has it been since you've been in this world Felicia?" Naruto asked her.
"For a couple of years now." Felicia answered. "I've been traveling from place to place exploring the world. I found myself staying in the Land of Snow for a while but then that snow storm suddenly appeared and-" She gave a startled yelp when Naruto moved from his spot and gave her a hug, her head touching his chest which made her blush warmly. "N-Naruto?"
"Don't worry. You're not alone anymore." Naruto said, smiling softly at her which made the catgirl's eyes widened. "You've got friends now. Right?"
Kia, Zane, Omochao and Ethan got up as well and hugged the catgirl. Felicia herself couldn't help but feel a gentle warmth in her heart as her new friends gave her a group hug. In fact, it brought tears to her eyes as she missed this feeling and was happy to find out that they truly accepted her for both who and what she is. This acceptance made Felicia want to know more about them, especially Naruto, despite only knowing traveling with them for just two days.
"Y-Yeah." Felicia said happily, blinking the tears away. "I'm with friends now nya!"
Team Chaos smiles happily at her which also brought either small smiles or smirks on the Raikage and his shinobi.
"Now this is what I call a happy ending." Killer B said with a satisfied nod. "Right, bro?"
"Hmph." A smirked. "Well, all that matters is that those Chaos Warriors are finally gone. Maybe now I can finally go to bed early tonight."
"You said it, boss." Darui said.
"We still got some repairs that need to be done." Mabui said. She closed her eyes and smiled. "But that can wait till tomorrow, today, we can all celebrate."
"Aw, yeah! Party time everybody!" B rapped excitedly.
"Yeah." A stood up and stretched his limbs before rubbing his head. "I need to rest my brain up after today."
"What are you kids going to do?" C asked Team Chaos curiously. "Are you gonna leave now that your mission is done?"
Naruto placed his hands behind his head and looked happy. "Nah, we're gonna stay and rest up."
"Yup!" Omochao said, flying around happily. "We're gonna enjoy the sights, grab some souvenirs then hit the road tomorrow!"
"It's a thing we started since we began this journey." Kia said, giggling at the looks the shinobi were giving them.
A just shrugged uncaring, feeling too tired and walked out the room. "Whatever. As long as you brats aren't causing trouble in my village then you can go ahead and have fun. B! You're in charge of them!"
"Got it, bro." B gave his big brother a thumbs up just as they left the room. As soon as they left, Naruto appeared in front of B, comically startling him. He saw the huge smile on his face.
"Sooo, you're the Eight-Tails' jinchuriki, right?" The guardian asked.
B smirked and nodded at him. "That's right! My partner is the Giant Ox himself, Gyuki!"
"I knew it!" Naruto said, turning to his friends. "No wonder why he smelled like an ox and octopus. It was his Tailed Beast I was smelling."
B raised an eyebrow at Naruto before he sniffed his armpit. He shrugged his shoulders as he smelled nothing wrong with him.
"I kinda knew the whole time." Kia said happily, earning looks from everyone
"You did? How?" Zane asked curiously.
"Remember when I first met Gaara and my reaction towards him?" Naruto and Zane nodded their heads. "Well, the reason for that was because when he walked past me I saw a vision of Shukaku glaring at me and I sensed his bloodlust to kill me. The same thing happened again when I saw B and I think Gyuki reacted towards me."
"Really? That's awesome!" Naruto complimented. "I didn't know you could sense a tailed beast."
"I didn't know either." Kia told him, placing her knuckles underneath her chin, looking a bit thoughtful. "I guess I still got a lot to learn about my powers."
B looked surprised from that. "Yo, is that true Gyuki?"
"She's right. I felt her presence inside your head earlier. I was honestly surprised that she didn't freak out when she saw me and that she asked if I could hear her." Gyuki told his jailor. "It looks like what she and her friends said about Shukaku is true. Heh, can't believe he lost to these kids and they aren't even ninja."
"Damn. These kids are something else." B said with Gyuki nodding in agreement. The two were then interrupted by Kia who was now in front of B as she bowed her head slightly to them.
"Hello Mr. Gyuki. You may probably already know but my name is Kia. On behalf of my friends I would like to thank you and B for helping us during our fight with the Chaos Warriors."
"Yeah Gyuki! You guys were awesome out there!" Naruto added in.
"I agree. Your teamwork was most impressive." Zane complimented.
Inside B's mindscape, Gyuki looked absolutely surprised and was caught off guard by what the children said. This was the first time any human had ever thanked him for doing something like helping them. Hell, this was the first time any human, other than B of course, would actually try to talk to him, especially through his jinchuriki.
"Huh. Well uh...this is a first for me. Um, tell them I said that they're welcome and that it's nice to meet them." Gyuki told B, who chuckled at hearing the bashful tone in his voice.
"Yo, Gyuki said that y'all are welcome and that it's nice to meet you as well."
The group nodded their heads at him with smiles on their faces. Omochao then recalled something about what Ms. Chiyo told them earlier.
"Oh yeah, I can't believe I forgot!" The robochao exclaimed, everyone's attention now on him. "Hey B, before coming here we heard that there were two jinchuriki in this village. Since you're here, where's the other one?"
"You mean Yugito and her tailed beast Matatabi the Monster Cat?" B asked, not seeing Felicia perk up at that. "She and her squad are out of the village doing an A-Rank mission right now. They won't be back until a couple more days."
"Yugito and Matatabi." Zane muttered, making sure he would remember those names.
"Aw man! I wanted to meet them." Naruto complained.
"Cheer up, Naruto. I'm sure we'll meet them someday." Kia said.
"Uh-huh! I wanna meet them as well, especially since Matatabi is a giant cat." Felicia said.
B coughed in his hand to get their attention. "So anybody got any more questions?" They looked at each other for a moment before looking back at him and shook their heads. "Good. Now that we got out of the way, how about Master B gave you kids the grand tour of our fabulous village then we can get this party started?"
"Yeah!" Everyone replied with smiles on their faces.
Later That Night
Music: Cherry Blossoms [Hyper Potions]
Up in the sky loud and colorful fireworks could be seen in the cloud village. Not only that but the sound of loud cheering could be heard. The sounds meant that everyone in the village from civilians to shinobi were having a party. The party was a celebration of the defeat of the Lightning Demon that was terrorizing their whole country has been destroyed and for once everyone can now live with relief and a sense of security now knowing their village and overall country were at peace once more.
Down in the village plaza, everyone was gathered there. The tables were set up quite nicely as it gave enough space for everyone to walk. The tables had a cuisine of the country's finest foods, snacks and desserts. The table also had glasses of the finest beer and alcohol for the adults while another table had some juice and milk for the children. There were also games setup for families to enjoy.
All in all, this was a nice party. But it really wouldn't be a party without the guests of honor themselves there celebrating with them. Team Chaos were also at the plaza with Killer as they enjoyed the time of their life. Earlier, before the party was up and running, B showed them around the village while explaining certain things about them. Along the way, they gathered a lot of attention from the villagers, especially Felicia since they were shocked as hell to see her in regular form.
They went to various stores and used the money they had left to get some souvenirs. Kia and Felicia themselves went to a lot of clothing stores to check out what they had. Needless to say they were disappointed by what they saw and left.
Like they did the previous times, the group took a lot of pictures together as they continued their exploration throughout the village. Hell they even ran into B's students, a redheaded girl named Karui and a white haired boy Omoi, along with their sensei Samui.
The moment Samui made an appearance it took all of Naruto's willpower to not stare at those impressive large busts of hers. It also didn't help that she was also attractive. Hell, even Zane seemed somewhat curious about her. Thankfully, Ethan was too young to even be interested in the opposite sex and Omochao was a robochao.
Kia and Felicia stared at Naruto with half-lid gazes before turning to look at Samui and her assets. The two of them stared at their own chests before looking towards each other. Kia looked ready to explode as it finally crossed her mind that Felicia was actually bigger than her and they were in the same age group!
Felicia herself was in the same boat. This was the first time she had even seen a woman with such large breasts in this world. What's more, these weren't implants like back on the earth she came from, these were full natural breasts! Hell she was even bigger than Morrigan and she's a succubus for crying out loud!
Of course, there were B's students. Karui saw the looks Naruto and Zane were giving her sensei and called them out on it which snapped the two out of their gaze. Omoi snuck his way to them and whispered to them that she was just jealous because she was flat, which the boys agreed too after seeing her reaction. He even brought up Kia and Felicia feeling the same way as he noticed their reactions too which surprised them.
Of course, Omoi received punishment for his comments from the three girls with Karui finishing him off while Kia and Felicia dealt with Naruto and Zane, though for some reason they've been dealing with Naruto more than Zane
After that little incident, the group returned to their tour of the village before it ended. Once that was done as Naruto promised he let everyone listen to the various types of songs he got on his PAD and showed them a playlist of different music genres, which were Rap/Hip Hop, Rock, R&B, Pop, Party and Regular Non-Lyric Music.
Since B asked first, Naruto let him listen to hip hop first. B instantly fell in love with the genre as he became inspired by the various artists he listened to like that rapper Hunnid-P.
Next were R&B and Pop which Kia and Felicia found a favorite in, especially Felicia with Pop songs as she found herself singing along to some songs like 'Follow Me' and 'Believe in Myself'. Kia herself hummed along to the song 'Sweet Dreams' and 'My Destiny'. Hell even Ethan joined in on the fun when Naruto played 'Believe in Myself'.
Before Naruto could play any more songs, he noticed he had gathered a lot of attention as the villagers looked at both him and his PAD. They immediately surrounded him, asking him a bunch of questions about his mysterious music playing device and where he got it from.
Nearby, everyone sweat dropped from the commotion that was being caused as Naruto tried to keep them from touching his PAD. Kia, Zane, Felicia and Omochao of course understood the villagers' reaction quite well. Compared to Sonic's World, and (unknown to the others yet) the Earth where Felicia came from, they were incredibly advanced in technology, yet this world wasn't. To Felicia and Omochao, this world looked like it takes place in Feudal Japan since they had Feudal Lords, Ninjas, Ninja Villages and even Samurai.
So to the people of this world, this was the first time they ever saw something like a smartphone as this was something from another world even though they don't know it. But Naruto didn't care about that as he began to grow angry when some of them tried to take it out of his hand before he transformed into a form reminiscent of Chaos 6 and scared them off.
Now, here they are, enjoying a victory party with Naruto acting as DJ. He had his PAD hooked on a speaker and was blasting music from his Party playlists. The party's been going on for hours with it being so close to midnight, which meant it was almost time for it to end.
Kia and Felicia were out dancing on the floor to the song that was playing with everyone looking awestruck by them. Hell, some of the boys who wanted to join them looked a bit nervous and awkward as none of them didn't know how to dance. Matter of fact, nobody in the village were dancers as none of them learned how to since they saw no meaning to it.
Omochao was with them as he danced around happily. Seeing them having so much fun dancing made Ethan join them as he tried to follow their movements. His big sisters helped him out by showing him some of the basics which he managed to get down in no time with everyone watching.
The young boy found himself dancing with everyone and he was enjoying every single moment of it. It wasn't long before the children joined them on the dance floor and then some of the grown ups. Sadly, it was close to midnight and a lot of people were getting tired from having too much fun. So of course, as Naruto was the DJ for night, he decided to play one more song before they all hit the sack, only this one was a performance by both Killer B and Felicia.
Earlier, before the party started, the two of them went to Naruto and wanted to perform a song together. For Felicia, this will be the first time she ever performed for the people of this world in the years since she's been living here and she wanted everyone to know who she is. For B, well, he just wanted to do a collaboration as a way to show everyone that Felicia was cool.
The reception for their performance was incredible. The whole village, even the Raikage himself, who at the momemt felt very proud in his younger brother, were stunned by their performance together, even Felicia was a bit surprised by B's rapping skills on the mic. Looks like listening to those songs really motivated and inspired him to be a better rapper in those moments he listened to them.
The villagers immediately came to them and congratulated them on their stunning performance though they were crowding Felicia more and asked her a bunch of questions about her race. Nearby, her friends looked on with smiles on their faces. Earlier, their reception on Felicia were mixed to some even fearing her. But now, after that amazing performance on stage, everybody loved her and wanted to know more about her.
After that, everybody went to their homes to rest up while those who were two drunk remained outside past out on the ground. As for Team Chaos themselves, they followed B to an apartment where they would spend the night. The room they were in was pretty nice. There were two bedrooms, a living room connected to a kitchen and a bathroom. Ethan was already sleeping in one of the rooms, due to him already being asleep after the party ended. Meanwhile, everyone was in the living room.
Music End
"AWW YEAH!" B cheered happily. "That was the craziest, wildest, banging party we've ever had in the village! Yo Dee Jay Naruto, thanks a ton for the fun! You were the man out there!"
"Aw, no biggie." Naruto smiled before looking excited. "Besides, you and Felicia were the stars tonight!"
"I'll say." Kia said happily. "You two really killed it out there."
"Ah, shucks. It was nothing." Felicia said with a happy smile, scratching her cheek.
"Nothing? Nothing? You're crazy Felicia! That was amazing!" Naruto complimented her, earning a blush from her. "We can tell you practiced really hard to sing and dance the way you did. You're like an idol!"
"C-Come on, you're making me blush nya." Felicia said, turning away from him with her ears twitching as she stole a glance at Naruto. Kia noticed this and turned to Naruto with her cheeks puffing out which earned her an awkward chuckle from him as he silently wondered what he did.
"I still can't believe it!" Omochao said happily as he danced around, getting the attention. "We did it! We beat all of the Chaos Warriors! What's more, we also got six of the emeralds!"
"Yeah, it's almost over." Kia said seriously.
"Huh?" B and Felicia asked, looking a bit confused.
"Wait a sec, it's not over yet? I thought you guys beat them Chaos Warriors." B said.
"We did beat them." Zane said in a serious voice. "All five of them. And we got five of the emeralds they stole from us. There's just one more we have to fight."
"Yeah. This one is different from the others." Naruto answered. "His name is Terios Kura and...well...long story short, he has the same powers as me and he's the reason why the Chaos Warriors were released."
"Really?" Felicia asked, turning to Kia and Zane for confirmation with them nodding at her.
"Terios...Kura? As in the infamous Kura Clan?" B asked, which got him surprised looks from Naruto, Kia and Zane.
"Kura Clan?" Naruto said, looking confused. He had no idea that Terios was a part of a clan.
"We didn't know he was a part of a clan. Have you heard of them?" Kia asked.
"Yeah. They're an evil clan." B said in an ominous voice.
"Evil?" Zane asked, narrowing his eyes.
"A long time ago, just months after the founding of the hidden villages, there existed a clan that always traveled throughout the nations. They weren't accepted into any shinobi village, big and small, because of their dark twisted ways." B explained.
"What do you mean by that?" Naruto asked. "What did this clan do?"
"The Kura clan performed a dangerous and forbidden ritual in order to gain a power that would make them even greater than the Sage of Six Paths himself." B replied, making everyone gasp in shock. "To perform this ritual, they had to take one clan member, who is the heir, and the sacrificial branch members, even those outside of the clan. They extract the chakra of the sacrifices and send it all to the heir so that they can wield whatever jutsu or technique the sacrifices has. But..."
"But what?" Kia asked.
"There were drawbacks." B said. "While the ritual was a success and the heir wielded the powers of the various ninja that were used as sacrifice, the results were not pretty. The heir got hit by an illness."
"The heir got sick?" Zane asked.
"Yeah. The heir's body couldn't handle the amount of foreign chakra from different people that was in it it's system. It caused an unknown illness that broke the body down before they passed away. Some of the next heirs didn't live past the age of 13 while the others died after the ritual was finished. Even if they did miraculously survive, there were those who would still have the illness and seeing no use for a weak heir, they would either kill them or simply leave them to die."
Team Chaos released gasps of horror at the revelation of what the Kura clan had done.
"My God…" Felicia whispered, covering her mouth. "Those poor children."
"What happened to this clan?" Kia asked.
"Last time I heard of them was before the Third Great Ninja War. Seeing how they were becoming a huge threat to the Nations, there was an immediate kill on sight for all members of the Kura clan. After that, we hadn't heard a thing about them, so we thought that they all died out. Looks like we were wrong." B said, frowning a little as he crossed his arms.
"So they were hiding this whole time." Zane stated. He had a cold angry look on his face as he thought about this clan of heinous ninja. Even though he's been asleep for a long time, he can already tell what's right and what's wrong. What the Kura clan has done to those people was the most disgusting thing he's ever heard, even more disgusting than Orochimaru's human experimentation. Is that really how shinobi are in this day and age? Just how low would they go to receive such impossible goals?
Felicia looked absolutely horrified to hear such an evil clan existed. Sure she's met some pretty nasty and evil darkstalkers, even fought some of them, but these are humans they were talking about. These humans were actually sacrificing other humans just so they gain an even greater power that's similar to the Sage of Six Paths? How many people did they sacrifice, did they kill in order to get stronger?! Just how despicable were they?
"Oh man…" Naruto muttered as his body trembled in anger. He couldn't believe that Terios had come from such a rotten disgusting clan such as this. Hell, he couldn't believe that such a ninja clan even exists! They would practice human sacrifice all just to receive a power that was similar to the Sage himself?
What utter foolishness!
Kia was pretty much thinking the same thing as she bit down on her thumb. Just what the hell is going on in the shinobi nations? First human experimentation, now she is learning about them performing human sacrifices? Do shinobi really don't value human life at all? Do all they care about is just gaining power just to make their village stronger and nothing else? Was power so important to them that they would even turn their backs on those they call family who were born too weak and not strong like them?
The ninja villages aren't even saints themselves. Here they are living peaceful everyday lives as their ninja would protect them from harm, but once they see their resident jinchūriki, they would automatically fear and hate them for the wrong reason and in turn their Jinchūriki would hate them back to the point where they kill them, just look at Gaara!
Is this really the type of dark world they live in? All those things her father said to her about shinobi were right after all! All they do is learn how to take, steal and kill just to complete whatever mission they had and they don't care who they hurt along the way. Just shows much they truly are the worst...
"No." Kia shook such thoughts away from her head. "I shouldn't be thinking like that! Come on girl, remember what grandma said all those years ago; There is good and there is bad in everybody, shinobi included. But still…"
"Terios…" Naruto thought, thinking back on that day when he arrived on the island and the moments before his battle with Terios. "He said he wanted revenge. But in order to get it, he needed to have power. But revenge on who exactly?"
The guardian sighed tiredly and shook his head. If he wanted to get the answers, he would have to ask him. But he had no idea where-
"Oh? Are you looking for me, Naruto?"
"...!" Naruto's head shot up showing an alarmed expression on his face, getting everyone's attention as he looked around frantically for the unknown male's voice. "Who said that?!"
Everyone looked confused at Naruto.
"Nobody said anything Naruto." Kia said.
"But I just heard-"
"What do you say we have a little chat?"
It took Naruto a moment to realize that the voice was coming from inside his head. A second later, he felt an incredibly powerful headache that made him clench his head and let out a yell which startled everyone. As he was holding his head to try and ease it, he fell on his knees before falling on his side, causing his friends to immediately come to his aid.
"Naruto!" Felicia called out worriedly.
"What's happening to him, Kia?!" Zane asked.
"I...I don't know!" Kia answered worriedly. "
"Naruto!" Omochao called out. "Naruto, what's wrong!?"
"My...head!" Naruto said painfully. He could feel his consciousness fade as his vision was starting to get blurry and he couldn't hear his friends' voices. In those moments, did he realize whose voice it was that was talking to him. "Te...rios."
Unknown Space
Naruto's eyes snapped open and he found himself inside a purple space. The space seems to darken slightly and there were faint black clouds in it.
"What the hell? What is this place?"
"This is where I want us to talk."
Naruto's eyes widened at the voice that came from directly behind him. He looked back in shock to see Terios standing there, looking at him with a smirk on his face.
"Hey. Long time no see, Naruto."
Author's Note: This is it! The next chapter will be the last chapter of the first arc. So much has gone down in this chapter, mainly the revelation of Felicia from the Darkstalkers franchise being in the Naruto world and Terios' Clan. I've played Darkstalkers multiple times in my childhood, so I know all about it's lore and I found it as a perfect way to bring it into this story. For those of you who don't, well, there's the wikia site.
Some of you might be asking how did the Makai realm get connected to Naruto's earth in the first place right? Well guess what? That's going to be explained in the next chapter.
As for Terios' Clan and his overall history, that too will be explained in the next chapter before his fight with Naruto. The ending of this chapter is actually a teaser for it.
