21: Greetings folks! It's been a long time since I updated this fic so I decided to update it again for anyone who was patient enough.
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The Kyuubi charged at Shukaku at fast speeds and bit into the sand replica while it's claws dug into Shukaku's shoulders. "Alright kid, finish this!" the fox said only to reveal it was Gamabunta in control as the transformation ended and Naruto leapt to Gaara with a fist cocked back. "Rise and shine sleeping beauty!" Naruto shouted as he punched Gaara right in the face. With that speed and the enhancements as an L'Cie, that would wake anybody up. "NO FAIR! I JUST GOT HERE!" Shukaku wailed as he was resealed again.
Even though Shukaku was resealed, its body is pushing Gamatuba back into the village who was weakening at the moment. "Even after releasing the jutsu, this guy has some fight left eh?" Gamabunta said as Gaara opened his eyes in anger. Naruto ran up preparing to launch another punch only for his feet to be caught in the sand as it began gather around him. Gamabunta used his tongue to cover Naruto but the sand began rising from underneath Naruto causing the Chief Toad to bring back his tongue.
Naruto looked back in the arena as they were being pushed in that direction and noticed the sand on Hinata was weakening as a few Jonin began removing it, this made Naruto look back at Gaara with a determined look on his face as he plans to end this fight. "Believe me I will kill you. I will not cease to exist." Gaara said in a monotone voice with hints of anger in them. "I'm running out of time…Looks like I'll have to use its chakra again." Naruto thought as he told the fox to give him chakra. The red chakra covered Naruto in a fire like aura as the wind caused his headband to fly off as his jacket swayed in the wind and the sand no longer held his feet.
"I'm going to protect everyone so here I come you crazy monster!" Naruto said as he jumped at Gaara. "Die!" Gaara said as he made a hand sign causing the sand to restrain Naruto's arms. "I've had it with you!" Naruto said as he bashed his own head against Gaara's, causing them to bleed as the Shukaku replica started to fall apart. At the same time, the sand that was holding Hinata fell apart, releasing her. "A simple head-butt eh? He's not the brightest person, but with the chakra he drew even at his most exhausted level I have to say he must be the biggest knucklehead that I have ever seen. I wish I could stay to see how it ends but it seems I'm at my limit as well." Gamabunta thought as he put his pipe back in his mouth. "Come on Gamakichi, let's go home." He said as he and his son vanished in a poof.
Being near the vanishing toad caused the wind to blow as Gaara and Naruto were thrown onto the opposite ends of the stadium roofs while in the middle of the arena, Gamabunta's own blade reflected the images of Naruto and Gaara as they breathed with exhaustion from the fight. "That's it, I'm at my limit with my shinobi abilities and can't continue this…but it could be also be said the same with you." Naruto said to Gaara as they both got up and in a stance with their eyes meeting for the final showdown. As Gamabunta's blade poofed away they immediately jumped with a fist cocked back and they struck. Naruto got a clean hit on Gaara as they fell to the ground exhausted for Gaara as Naruto use his Medic role to heal himself and stood up as he began walking towards Gaara.
As he walked towards Gaara, Naruto recalled his own past and pain of loneliness in his child hood and at the same time, he saw Gaara in his place as they both wept. He recalled Gaara question his own existence the way similar to Haku's lament. Lightning who was watching this in his mind quietly shredded a single tear knowing that they had both suffered and it sickened her that people were cruel in this world to make these children suffer like that. "No, stay away!" Gaara said with fear in his voice at the thought of his own existence being destroyed as Naruto stopped with his head down.
"It's unbearable isn't it?" Naruto asked Gaara as his eyes were overshadowed by his bangs. "The feeling of being alone, I know that feeling anywhere. The pain of loneliness, no one to care for you, it hurts doesn't it?" said Naruto as he looked up with tears in his eyes. "But after meeting new people who cared for me, I cared for them and I didn't care how powerful the enemy might be as I protect those who I hold dear to me. They rescued me from myself and one taught me that true strength comes from protecting those precious to you. That's why I won't give up protecting them, even if I have to kill you." Naruto finished as the tears stopped and his pupils turned silted but remained blue as he stared at Gaara.
"So that was how he got so strong…Love." Gaara thought as he looked at the sky. "You win…Naruto Uzumaki." Gaara said as Naruto casted a Cure spell on Gaara and stretched out a hand to him much to Gaara's surprise. "We are brothers in a way, we are both Jinchurriki and we try to find our place in the world, right Gaara?" Naruto asked while smiling. Gaara for once in his life let a small happy smile as he took the hand and was helped up. Gaara then got to Naruto's ear and whispered that Konoha is going to be invaded by Suna and Oto that made his and Lightning's eyes widened but at the same time they smiled as Gaara said that he would helping them in the invasion. The Procter was listening in to their conversation since the minute they fell back in and smiled and raised his hand. "Winner of the Chunin Exams by surrender: Naruto Uzumaki!" he said as the audience clapped and cheered for Naruto should have felt happy, he felt something worse than an invasion on Konoha as he felt something ominous in the air.
Orochimaru who is currently disguised as the deceased Yondaime Kazekage frowned that Gaara had befriended Naruto which had ruin his plans, an injured Suna Jonin came to the Kage booth and he looked terrified at the moment. Orochimaru excused himself from the booth to talk with the terrified man in a separate place and started to demand what was going on. "Kazekage-sama! A-A flying monster just wiped out the squads in charge of the summons for the invasion!" the ninja said as Orochimaru raised his hidden eyebrows. "Looks like things aren't going as planned today, but I'll at least deal with Sarutobi-sensei." Orochimaru said as he killed the ninja with a hidden kunai and had his bodyguards take the corpse somewhere else as he went back to the Kage booth.
As Gaara was escorted to the infirmary with Temari and Kankuro, a shadow of a flying creature was seen and Naruto drew out Blazefire Saber in response to this ominous aura as suddenly, a yellow six-winged C'ieth that flew faster than normal flying C'ieth do, charged at Naruto. The first thing Naruto did was dodge the Miasma breath that the strange C'ieth blew out. That was then Lightning came out of his body in a white flash and Naruto quickly handed her Blazefire and jumped to avoid a kick from the C'ieth.
"Careful Naruto, it's one of the Undying!" Lightning said as Naruto narrowed his eyes and casted Libra on the C'ieth. Bituitus The Pillager: Halves all elemental spells and physical attacks and is immune to earth spells. Weakness: Magic based attacks like Ruin the Datalog said as Naruto drew out Edged Carbine and got into a stance. "Summon the other Naruto, his defenses will be useful at the moment." Lightning said as Naruto gave her a look as they dodged another Miasma attack. "How?" Naruto asked as he launched a few Ruin spells at Bituitus that screeched in pain. "Just touch the glowing magmata bead on the necklace and summon him!" Lightning shouted as she launched her own barrage of Ruin which made it roar in agony as they noticed it was gathering electricity.
Naruto quickly touched the glowing icy blue jewel and made a mental command to summon the other Naruto. In a flash of blue light, the Snow Path Naruto arrived and raised his hand in a Kakashi-ish style. "Yo, you called?" he asked as Naruto pointed to the C'ieth. The Snow path Naruto whistled "Damn, you know how to throw a party huh? Well let's show this thing how hero's kick butt!" he said as all three used the Cerberus Paradigm and blasted Bituitus with a barrage of Ruin spells as they felt it charged up. "Quick, Tortoise Paradigm now!" Naruto shouted as he, his frosty counterpart and Lightning switched roles and prepared for the barrage of lightning bolts. When it hit them, Naruto noticed that he still didn't recover from his fight with Gaara completely and needed to heal more. "Change the tide!" Naruto said as they changed to Combat Clinic Paradigm and started healing everyone with Lightning's help while the other Naruto taunted the C'ieth and kept guarding till they all healed themselves.
"Let's end this!" Naruto shouted as they switched to Cerberus one more time and blasted Bituitus with a volley of Ruin spells and Naruto charged at it while drawing out Gladius in his left hand and leapt into the air right into the sun where the C'ieth can't see as Naruto brought down his blades in an X formation as he appeared behind the C'ieth. Just then, the Undying C'ieth began twitching violently as a strange red crystal bursted from its brand and flew right into Naruto's own brand. Naruto suddenly felt Kyuubi's chakra leak out to the brand as the strange crystal merged with his brand as suddenly, Naruto was engulfed in a red light.
Once the light died out, there was something different about Naruto's appearance. He was in a strange fox-C'ieth hybrid form that was made entirely of golden crystal with cracks of lava like veins all over its body as Naruto's once human face was replaced with one of a snarling fox also made of crystal. Everyone was at a lost at the appearance as they noticed the Undying was still moving as a crystal cocoon surrounded it and 5 miniature C'ieth stones surrounded the cocoon as strange beams of light were launched into the air. "It seems that the Undying are making a comeback." Lightning said as the Snow Naruto smirked. "Things here are getting interesting already." He said as Naruto began moving. "So…how do you feel?" the Snow path asked his Lightning counterpart. When Naruto looked up, his eyes were silted and amethyst purple in color and it unnerved the Snow Path as the fox's jaws opened. "Like I've been born anew…" Naruto said in a smooth voice that somehow caused many females in the audience plus Lightning herself to blush at the sound of the voice.
"So what happened to you?" The Snow Path asked as the fox like C'ieth chuckled. "It seems I'm able to use the form of the Undying at will, but I can't completely control this form's powers." Naruto said as his Snowy other whistled. "Nice, so you can't change back or something?" he asked as Naruto chuckled and turned back to his human form. "I can change back between the forms at will, but I can only use this C'ieth form for a set time before I revert back to normal." Naruto said as he recalled something. "We need codenames." He stated as his other thought about it "When there are more than one of use in the same place and they say "Naruto!", which one are they talking about?" he asked as the other Naruto nodded his head as he slowly got it.
"So for now on we'll call you Snow Jr. since you have the same personality as him." Naruto said as the newly named Snow Jr. smirked and pumped a fist in the air. "Alright! Things are going to get interesting now! But what should I call you?" Snow Jr. asked. Naruto thought about it and made his reply "Call me…Storm. Because I will shake this world by storm and destroy the current system of shinobi." Naruto said as Snow Jr. nodded. "Fitting, taking the world by storm is ideal, and I have a feeling you'll be good at using those thunder and wind spells as well, though you can use Thundaga but not Aeroga." Snow Jr. said. "Well that's true, but as a shinobi I've been known as the most unpredictable ninja so I might surprise you with something along the way." Naruto said as Snow Jr. laughed. "True, after all we are the same person and are both full of surprises." Snow Jr. said before he disappeared in an icy blue flash.
Naruto looked up and noticed that he had forgotten the entire audience was watching this. Naruto laughed weakly at the sudden surge of exhaustion and feel unconscious only for Lightning to catch him in his fall. "I guess things will never be the same for you Naruto." Lightning said as suddenly feathers rained down on the arena. Lightning quickly used Dispel to undo the genjutsu on her as the procter took Naruto somewhere safe for her as the invasion began.
Meanwhile in another part of Konoha, a Spider Anbu girl is having the time of her life with Anko and the Anbu Shinryu who is currently watching a show that Spider is doing. "Hehehehehe! I hope you're in for the shock of your life baby!" Spider said as she used Raiton: False Darkness and impaled two Oto ninjas at once While Shinryu was busy grumbling with annoyance about something. "Come on Shinryu! Were's that inner beast you always had?" Spider asked as she felt Shinryu glaring at everything. "All I wanted to do is get my reserved copy of Return of the Capturing God II and the next thing I know the store is empty because of this stupid invasion!" Shinryu shouted as he grabbed a Suna nin by the head and instantly the Suna nin's head was set on fire as he screamed in agony as Shinryu threw him into a group of Oto and Suna and made a single hand sign. "Katsu!" he shouted as a massive explosion shook the village.
Meanwhile at Ame, a certain blonde haired bomber looked to the East with a shit eating grin on his face as his partner looked at him. "What are you looking at now Deidara?" asked the hunched man with annoyance. "Someone is trying to imitate me and my art, yeah." The terrorist bomber said as the hunched man sighed with annoyance. "True art is eternal, not a fleeting moment like yourself Deidara." Sasori said as the two began their infamous argument on what art is.
While most of the invading ninjas finally got the summons back, our friend Spidey had a hidden dark, cruel smile on her face as she pricked her finger and made a few hand signs and slammed her hands to the ground. "Summoning Jutsu!" she shouted and in a puff of smoke, one giant spider made of stone and lava with a scorpion's tail while an invisible spider shaped being with bat like wings flew into the air while a female humanoid like spider planted an egg into a female Oto ninja and watched as the women became one of their own as chaos reigned in the streets while Shinryu had a dead panned expression on his face even though he had a mask on.
"You know…you've been going overkill with things lately Panda-chan." Shinryu said as Spider started strangling him comically. "How many times do I have to tell you I'm not a panda!" she demanded while Shinryu replied while being strangled. "You are…after all you…wore that panda suit at a restaurant before." He said while he was shook violently. "I wore that once you idiot!" she shouted while Anko was watching this with popcorn. "This is just as fun as that three-some with these two a week ago." Anko muttered.
*back with the story*
Lightning is currently on top one of the roofs with the Third Hokage and Jiraiya as they face the infamous snake Sannin Orochimaru who has trapped them in some sort of box so they won't get help from the outside. "So miss, what brings you here to the fight?" Jiraiya asked as Lightning glared at him which caused him to flinch and cower at that site. "To help out the grandfather figure of Naruto's of course, and don't think I won't kick your ass afterwards for being a super pervert." Lightning said as Hizuren chuckled at that since it reminded him of the times when Tsunade was around.
"Enough with this, it's time to end things once and for all Sarutobi-sensei." Orochimaru said as he, Hizuren, and Jiraiya released their chakra which caused the tiles to crack. Lightning was amused as she drew her gunblade and had it in sword mode as Orochimaru summoned his Kusanagi sword as the four-way battle begins.
*with Naruto's subconscious*
Naruto was in darkness, he felt empty yet happy. "All things are born from darkness…and also end…" a mysterious voice said as Naruto looked to see his C'ieth form looking at him. "In the end…everything returns to the darkness from once it came." The C'ieth said as Naruto gave him a puzzeled look. "As a baby in the mother's womb you sleep in darkness and you step into the light to live in the world. But the day you die is when you see the darkness taking you back into its grip." The C'ieth explained as Naruto nodded. "Darkness is anger, hate, rage, despair, agony, pain and even loneliness. I am the embodiment of your darkness as you are the light…" the C'ieth said as Naruto understood what it was saying. "I am happiness, hope, courage, and honor and I cannot exist without you…" Naruto said as the C'ieth nodded. "Now you understand the nature of the human heart and learned from it." The C'ieth said as Naruto nodded "Every light must fade…every heart return to darkness!" said both Naruto and his C'ieth form as they were engulfed in a bright light.
*With Naruto in the real world*
As Naruto woke up, he felt rejuvenated and he noticed he was in the infirmary of the stadium and heard a battle under wage. This caused him to smile as he transformed into his C'ieth mode and let out a savage roar that echoed throughout all of Konoha. Many shinobi from both sides were wondering what that roar was as suddenly; many Oto and Suna ninjas fell down and were unconscious as they saw a golden crystal fox like creature taking down the enemy with inhumane speeds and the Konoha ninjas were weary of it since they have some issues with foxes since the Kyuubi's attack. "Now this is the way of a ninja like me should roll!" Naruto said as he noticed sand engulfing Suna ninjas and taking them away which caused him to smile, Gaara is helping out by capturing his fellow ninjas and noticed Temari was blowing away a group of Oto ninjas with her Kamaitachi jutsu while Kankuro disposed of another group with his puppets.
Naruto noticed a purple box like shape on one of the roofs and with great strength, he leapt onto the roof surprising the three Anbu that are forced to watch. "What's going on in there?" Naruto asked as one of the Anbu recognized him as Naruto. "Uzumaki-san, Hokage-sama, Jiraiya-sama and a mysterious lady are in there fighting Orochimaru. We can't get past this barrier due to those four Oto ninjas so we have no choice but to watch." The one with the boar masked said as Naruto nodded his head in understanding.
He got to one of the four corners and noticed a redhead woman was one of the four ninjas that were powering the barrier and did something that gave him the title "Unpredictable Knucklehead Ninja" as he impaled his claws in the barrier and with an iron will, forced a whole in the barrier and quickly got in and attacked the woman which forced the barrier to drop down as Naruto glared at the redhead who was currently cussing up a storm only to shut up when Naruto bared his fangs menacingly.
*Lightning's point of view*
Lightning is currently firing a barrage of Fire, Thunder, Water and Aero spells at the slithering snake Orochimaru while Jiraiya and his sensei did a collaboration jutsu with Earth and Fire elemental releases to create a fire bomb which made a direct to Orochimaru as the skin on his face was peeled away by the attack which caused both Jiraiya and Hizuren's eyes to widen in shock. "So, he finally did it." Jiraiya said with disgust as Hizuren nodded his head while Lightning was wondering what they were talking about. "He finally found the forbidden art of immortality by exchanging bodies to keep his spirit in this realm." Hizuren said to Lightning's unasked question which caused her to look at Orochimaru with disgust.
"Slimy bastards like you deserve to rot in hell for your transgressions." Lightning said as Orochimaru chuckled and they noticed a gold crystal fox disabling one of the four Oto ninjas who were powering the barrier which caused said barrier to drop as the three Anbu made their move and attacked the other three Oto ninjas while more Anbu were seen on their way. This caused Orochimaru to scowl in anger and he looked at the three with hate. "I will return one day to see this place burned to the ground as I become an all powerful being!" Orochimaru said as he began to sink into the ground and vanish from site.
"The next time though Orochimaru, we'll be prepared." Hizuren said as Lightning went to the crystal fox that was currently snarling at the only female Oto ninja. "Down boy, I'll take care of her for you." Lightning said as the fox nodded and got off of the girl who began hugging Lightning's legs as she felt the fox staring at the redhead who was begging her to not let the fox eat her. "He won't bite till I say so." Lightning said as the crystal fox rolled its amethyst colored eyes as the Anbu took the red head away. Konoha had survived this onslaught from the treachery of Suna and the invasion from Oto, but they lived and the Will of Fire burned brightly as ever. "Excuse me miss? I would like to know what's going on." Hizuren said as the crystal fox transformed into Naruto who looked at the Third in the eye. "We have some things to talk about too old man." Naruto said in a serious voice as the old monkey sighed, he's seriously getting old for this shit!
C'ieth Trigger data:
After defeating a member of the Undying, Naruto Uzumaki has awakened the ability to transform into a C'ieth of the Undying category. It grants him enhanced speed and strengths that normal L'Cie can't acquire through their journey in order to complete their focus. This form is a double edge sword though, the more he uses it, the more exhausted he'll become and the C'ieth nature will corrupt his mentality. Should he use it when he is exhausted, Naruto will become possessed by the combined natures of Kyuubi and the C'ieth hatred and destroy everything in his path. Note that Kyuubi's chakra flows through Naruto's body when he uses this form so be cautious when using it.
Important details: Should Naruto slay more members of the Undying, Naruto's C'ieth Trigger will acquire new abilities and will be a lot easier to resist the corruption when using the form.
21: Thats a wrap folks, if I disappoint you with this chapter then I am sorry since I've been busy with my other fics that I have been getting rusty with writing for this one oh and SurfaceMemory, keep doing a great job with your fic!
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