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Lightning Farron was a woman of various things. She is a soldier, a former champion to a goddess, a teacher, a legend. But there was a part of her that had a very limited amount of patience with Naruto Uzumaki for a reason. Sure she could tolerate the childish persona which is now gone from him. But this Naruto was different, or rather, not human, in a way. He was more of an arrogant jackass that thinks he knows everything, and he seems to be…how would she describe it? Empty. This Naruto Uzumaki is an empty being. A hypocrite of the highest order, while he blames other versions of himself for having harems, he gets his own harem as well. Sickening indeed, a sick creature that somehow, exists in this world…
He is a creation (monster) of mad science, born with the blood of dragons that in lore, fit to be known for arrogance, greed, power. He was frivolous to a point it made her want to cut him down, but cannot, for she would be sealed away again into her Blazefire. But now Lightning knew, that this Naruto she is dealing with is something unpleasant and an existence that should not be. He was still weak, but even killing him could cause problems, for one, he can still reincarnate into a new life and spread whatever madness he had. Come to think of it, they share a mental connection. Maybe if she could just peer into his memories, she can learn of his nature, and his real intentions for this world.
She dived into the deepest parts of his mind, and felt madness.
Death awaits all
Death is a mercy
Death is eternal
Death is final
Death is the beginning of the end
What is true Death, an everlasting rest, free from a hollow life with no meaning? Humans cannot find true happiness in the world.
I cannot understand I am not human; what is it to be human?
To do good?
To do evil?
What am I?
An empty being.
A hollow shell
A fake life
A monster
An abomination
A mockery of life
A cursed existence doomed to enter endless cycles, never knowing true happiness.
What is love?
A feeling? A passion? A drive?
Love is…
Love is…
Love is fake for it does not truly exist in reality.
In stories, love can be manipulated to the author's end.
Can I feel love?
No, you are a disgrace to even exist, or even feel love.
Why?
You do not truly possess a human heart.
What is this 'human heart'?
Something a demon like you will never have.
Can I express love?
No, you cannot truly love anyone. A fake cannot truly love.
Lightning was baffled by these mental rambles. This was definitely the inner conscious of Naruto going to work. No, this is what he was dealing with most of his life. He questions even himself, he's disgusted with himself. Cypher Naruto is a being that cannot understand love. To him, love is something he cannot comprehend. Now she knew that, he tried to love someone else, but in the end, while those girls loved him, he cannot truly love them back. It was a hollow, empty love that cannot be called love.
"I really wish Snow and Serah were here to give this guy a lesson in love. But I have a feeling that won't help at all." She thought wryly. Even she knew how to love, but it was only familial affections. To her, at least that was something.
Am I a hero?
Am I a monster?
Am I good?
Am I evil?
Your very existence must be eliminated, faker.
"Due to you being a clone, a copy of Naruto, you cannot comprehend anything about what is love. You're bitter with not being able to understand it, yet you try. You try to grasp that feeling, yet, you cannot. Even with all of these girls you were with in previous lives, they were truly only 'tools' to you till the end." She started a sense of anger, and disgusted pity for him.
"Try as you may, you cannot ever find true love as you desperately seek to find it. A hollow being seeking to be filled, cannot find the one to make you whole. Your life is full of despair, yet you try to cling onto hope, trying to seek something else as well. What is it that you are looking for?" she asked. She began delving in deeper, into his very mind to the very roots of his origins.
I want to die…
My existence is suffering…
I die like mortals yet I am instantly reborn…
What is the answer to life?
That answer…can I find it?
No I cannot.
Besides Shana, I am alone…
Empty…
Hollow…
No real me…
Human morals have no effect on me…
Morals should affect you.
Why?
"…Because human morals affect your conscious, and helps decide things. If you do not have human moral, then you are not a human." Lightning answered.
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…
…
…I see…I am not human…
I am a monster that does not stay dead…
I have no one to really love…
Fine, I shall live my own way then. Whether people like me or not with the way I act, who cares? No one would miss me, nobody would care for me. I am no one. I have no real identity to these strangers.
"What is it you are seeking?" Lightning asked as she was shown a mental picture. It was Konoha at night as Naruto himself was flying overhead as an army was there behind him as many ninja of Konoha were prepared for him as he smirked. At the stroke of midnight, hell broke loose.
Konoha was falling into a sink hole as the Hokage Monument exploded, falling down onto residential areas as Naruto looked at his hands. "These hands of mine have been stained with blood of both the innocent and wicked, Konoha. You're trying to stop me from realizing my intended role as a weapon of destruction won't do you any good. No, in fact I welcome it." He told them, "After all, we are family." He added before chuckling, and then full blown laughter as buildings, people, animals, it didn't matter as many lives were crushed from the trap Naruto had laid as his insane laughter echoed throughout all of Konoha's ruins.
"Perhaps this is what I've longed for the whole time since I was created: the destruction and loss of everything. That's right, because Naruto Uzumaki isn't real, just a fictional character brought to life by humans who created him!" he exclaimed, surprising Lightning with what he was saying. "This emptiness was because I had learned the truth deep in the Abyss…I tried masking my discovery at the dark truth that kept beckoning it. Now at last…the restraints are off, I'll keep killing until Naruto Uzumaki no longer exists! I'll find the source of the origin, and destroy it, then no more Naruto Uzumaki!" he finished with a mad grin adorning his face. "Now then…" he added, now bearing the face of a demon of unfathomable horrors finally unleashed unto the world.
She needed to get out of here and end this now. He's worse than Barthandelus, worse than Caius, even worse than the Maker. "I won't allow you to interfere." A voice spoke as Lightning ducked and rolled out of the way in time to turn and see…herself staring back at her. "You're!" she realized at the difference in their eyes. Her eyes have a white concentric circle pattern to them, while she did not. Those eyes were inhuman, and yet, she recalled Orochimaru himself having those eyes as well at the last moments before his death…Only one person that was more powerful than she was right in front of her.
Cypher Éclair "Lightning" Farron