How long has it been I wonder, definitely more than seventy years that's for sure. It was hard saying goodbye to my family but slowly they all left. I always heard at one point of life one comes to term with their own mortality, I saw my parents come to term with it when they were on their deathbeds. I didn't let death take them several times before but when they were more than a hundred years old, terribly sick yet still with a smile on their face as they talked to me they felt different. They told me how it will be alright, that they were happy, they were proud of me. Then they talked about the disease, I saw them have worse but with my power it didn't matter, I could save them again. But this time it was unlike the times before.
I understood it, they were happy, they had come to terms with it; maybe they had a long time ago but I never understood. I stayed with them, we talked, we watched television, we talked about the children and we stayed together. After a month I called them, but they did not move, they were in each other's arm when they died. I cried for months after their deaths. My cousins were supportive my son even more so. A certain holographic eye stood beside me in a human form now as she offered her condolences.
It had been decades since that happened but it was still fresh in my mind. I kept wondering, a human must always come to terms with their own mortality, but how does one come to terms with their immortality.
I tried to understand death by leaving the world in a natural way but I just found myself back at the blank slate, but this time the darkness did not feel unnatural but welcoming. I guess the power of god was certainly having its effect on me.
I decided to travel the world to look for answers, a new face and name served me well. EM-1205 or Emi, as I called her now accompanied me. She did not have the access to my power ever since I separated her from myself but she still understood me very well.
It was a different kind of experience travelling the world. My mother had an obsession with traveling which she passed onto me and it was a beautiful obsession. The new landscape, the new sceneries the flavors, the people; it was enlightening but I still could not find what I was looking for: A reason.
The purpose of my immortality was still lost to me, as a human I lived my life to the fullest with my parents and family; I came to terms with the situation and accepted them as reality even though they were created by my powers. But after living that mortal life, what is to be of the immortal one?
So, I lived. I lived believing one day I would find the purpose, that by the end of the world I would find meaning.
And it came; The end of the world.
It was a cosmic anomaly, maybe it was aliens, maybe it was something beyond human mind, but the fact was it was here. And it wanted to end it all.
I saw as the world launched every weapon ever made in hopes of defeating it, but it all failed ultimately. The purple cloud closed in engulfing the earth, about to ionize it within seconds. But I moved, I came face to face with it and pushed it back. It travelled all the way to Jupiter in that one push, the people watched me, watched as the weaponry made after millennia of advancement fail where one man succeeded. The storm came back within a minute, but I simply erased it from existence, it was gone without a trace but I understood the reason of my immortality.
If I was immortal, then I wanted to prove it. If I was god then I wanted to prove it.
I understood, I erased whatever could have tried to harm humanity from the world and left it, they could handle it from there.
I arrived at the blank slate. Emi was soon with me using the set of powers which I had given her.
"How long has it been?" I asked.
"It has been a millennia since you became a creator." She replied.
Definitely more than seventy years, my sense of time had truly dwindled.
"Emi, can I ask you something?"
"Ask away." She replied as usual.
"How do I create a world?" I asked as my voice sounded elated to me after a very long time.
Even Emi looked happy at my words as she appeared to be looking for something as well.
"The answer is same just imagine it and it will happen." She answered the same as well.
"Even if the world I choose is fiction?"
"Reality is at your command, did you forget?"
I smiled at her statement. I guess she was right; this is a rebirth of sorts. A new world, new me sort of scenario. I was free to be whoever I want to be, however I want to be.
Yes, that is the ultimate purpose of life is it not?
It does not matter if one is mortal or immortal; the purpose of life is to live happy.
A mortal has to live happy till the last day of their life, while an immortal must live happy every day.
The old happiness is lost while the new one is just waiting to be found.
"Let's go." I said as the darkness was replaced with a new light.
Dealing with Immortality
Arc-1: Naruto
"You have changed." Emi said to me as we walked through the lush forest.
I took the bite of the fruit in my hand; the plump texture with rich sweetness filled my mouth. The timeless feeling was still enjoyable as it was back then.
"Hmm, how so?" I asked with the fruit still in my mouth.
"When we first met you acted as but a scared child, now you hold less doubt in yourself." She said as she nodded her head.
"Well you tend to get a confidence boost when you do what no one else has ever done for 1000 years." I said as I took another bite of the fruit.
"Yes that is true; I can say the years have served you well. But I need to ask why this world, Ryan?"
"Hmm, I guess nostalgia and because I finished its story, but don't sweat the small stuff. We are here to have fun think of this as a vacation." I told her with a wave of my hands.
Her hands reached her chins as she faked a look of contemplation. She always liked to tease me even though she did everything I wanted.
"Fine, if you wish to traverse this world, then I think I can accompany you. But do thank me later on." She decided and quickened her pace surpassing me.
I grew a smile and threw the pod of the fruit on the ground.
"She really does know my tastes though." I thought.
I put my hands around my head and casually followed her.
We walked for a few minutes whilst gazing at the abnormally sized trees and the large vines growing from them. It was clear we needed a point of reference since I did not bother to find a good location to enter the world. Hence, we used our powers to pick up the speed and zoom through the landscape. Finally finding a dirt road was a good sign since I must lead to civilization and I was growing more anxious by the second for my first contact.
"How do you plan to handle the people of this world?" Emi asked.
I turned my head to her and simply opted to look away to save face since I did not have an answer.
"You didn't think did you?" she said immediately.
Drat, telling on my lies and knowing what I want. This woman truly has too much power.
"I'll think of it when we meet one." I said and opted to keep moving along the road.
But my pace was halted as the woods rustled, a masked man wearing a bandana and cloth over his face jumped in front of me. He had what looked like a cleaver in his hand. He was followed by a man with a spiked mace and a midget with a halberd, both the men dressed in similar uniforms.
"Look brothers I found a group of two rabbits walking on our turf."
The man with the clever said enthusiasm, perhaps with a bit too much of enthusiasm as he proceeded to throw his clever in the air and catch it again. He repeated the process four times.
"Yeah buddy you found us, good job!" I though with a bead of sweat forming at the back of my head.
The tall man with the mace chuckled with amusement, he moved closer and said.
"Well I wanted some rabbits for myself, I guess I will take the girl."
Well this guy is just asking for it and I was pretty sure Emi was going to give him exactly what he asked for.
"Kill the boy and take his belongings boys! Leave the girl for my brother." The midget called out.
Hearing his call more bandits moved out of the vegetation. They were approaching us but Emi held out a hand.
"Before you hold he captive, may I ask who it is that is holding me against my will." She asked with a dignified expression, but I felt a chill creep along my back.
Mark my words, when Emi drags out a conflict, someone is going to die in a way which would make me bleach my eyeballs, literally.
"Hah, rejoice girl for you are going to be the little bunny of The Oni brothers!"
The midget's proclamation was kinda pathetic, infinitely more so when I used the X-ray vision to check for more weapons only to find a clearly lacking member. It was clear that he was compensating for something.
"you misunderstand me, I asked for the burly one, who called me his rabbit." She replied with a smile.
That smile was one of execution and I did not want to be anywhere near the site of execution when heads started to roll. Or what kind of head for that matter.
"Hah! See brother she wants a real man, unlike you. Rejoice girl, for you will be the rabbit of Goro, the oldest of the Oni brother." The man with the mace proclaimed.
"First off buddy, you gonna die. Second off, you are smaller than the little guy here."
"I see, then I will deal with you first Goro." She said with the same cold smile which somehow grew colder by the second.
She levitated for a second, before zooming straight for the guy's face and dragging him into the vegetation.
The rest of the brother's eyes immediately widened while the bandits were not even able to react.
I sighed and went into thought about how I should present myself in my fight. Everyone in Naruto had a niche dedicated to them, Sasuke had sharingan and chidori, Naruto had rasengan and clones and Guy was just having everyone catch his fists. What should I use?
"A shinobi!" The midget screamed and jumped back to put some distance between us.
His brother followed the same pattern but was still twirling his cleaver around. It was very distracting.
"You may think you have the drop on me boy, but my brothers and I used to be shinobi like you." The small man declared.
I did not ask for that information. Clearly you are a bandit now instead of a shinobi because of your big mouth rather than that small height.
The other bandits lunged at me, clearly they had some level of teamwork and training but it was lost to me since I was much beyond a level where that mattered.
A black blade with a circular guard looping across the handle emerged bit-by-bit as dark particles grouped together to form the deadly blade. The sword straightened as it floated and positioned itself in a stance. The bandits drew closer their eyes unable to perceive the formation of the sword in a rapid manner, but the sword swinged without a wielder and mercilessly struck down its master's attackers. The dying bandits neither saw the cause of their death nor did their blood reach their attacker.
The dark sword straightened again positioning itself beside its master, the bandits layed on the ground with their blood spreading through it like veins. The leaders watched with widened eyes, the ex-shinobi felt fear in the presence of the person which was moments before their prey.
"T-This boy, is not a normal shinobi, that blade is unlike a jutsu I have seen before and he cast it without hand seals. It must be his bloodline release."
"He must be a shinobi from one of the five great ninja villages, only they can have a talent like this"
The brothers were in deep thought, the bandits they trained to stall the shinobi so that they could have the time to cast the jutsu were killed within an instant. The lifeline which allowed them to survive the bounty hunters and shinobi sent after them fell within an instant against the child.
"We must not yield now, he is still a child. The sword is strong but that means he must be a close ranged specialist. If we maintain are distance and exhaust him little by little we can capture him. Killing him would bring one of the big 5 anger on us but they will give good money as ransom for them."
"Oi, maggots." The call caught the brother's attention. The boy now with a neutral expression on his face was staring them down. There was no anger on his face; all that was present were cold eyes.
"This rabbit had a taste of blood, now he wants more. Kindly give him a taste, will you?"
Their veins throbbed upon hearing his words, but their minds calmed down. If a shinobi was inviting their opponents casually instead of attacking them without warning, he must be greener than a leaf.
The brothers jumped into formation, the clever with a switch grew spikes and loosened to form an iron whip, while the halberd in the hands of its master was held like a spear pointing at the enemy.
"Hidden mist jutsu"
With a one-handed hand sign the chain whip wielder, cast the jutsu. The surroundings immediately filled with a thick mist provided by his chakra.
With a grin he and his brother readied themselves. They had practiced in the mist for years, they could find a fly in the mist as easily as they would in clear day, but the inexperienced greenhorn could see nothing.
The halberd wielder put his weapon back, hoping the child was fooled by his feint stance and readied his jutsu.
"Water Release: Water Bullet Technique"
With four hand signs performed in quick succession, the man steadied his hand like a gun and pointed it towards the direction of his instincts. His accuracy honed by his sharpens instincts made sure he would hit the target with range while he would accept a close ranged halberd.
With a steady hand he fired, the high pressure water bullet whizzed towards his target, a small amount of chakra was exhausted but he could do it a hundred more times before he would feel the need for rest.
The cleaver-wielding brother swung his whip-like cleaver at the target, the distance meant they could not see their target's condition and stance, but their instinct was well honed to be aware of his position throughout the battle.
"Even if he gets injured we could use our supplies to heal him. The ransom won't go down if he is missing a limb or two." He thought as he attacked after his brother.
But the cleaver never reached his target. Instead it flew back as a black wind comparable to a tornado's pushed it back. The brothers were pushed back by the wind, but the wind also pushed their hearts. Fear grew in their minds for the black wind was nothing they had seen before; it was like smoke yet blew unlike a heavy cloud of soot and ash. The black wind held an intent of maliciousness similar to one held by their kage before they betrayed the village.
The boy was not within the now empty mist, but walked freely and clearly without a mark on his body. With the sword now floated a axe, a trident, a spear and a mace.
His eyes changed colour and held a blue sky like tint almost oozing along his irises like aura leaking off his body.
"You wanted to kill Me." the god in form of man said.
Their weapons clattered to the ground from the pressure which did not belong to one who should be in mortal coils. They felt fear unlike any other they had known before and could only gaze as the mighty form of a war god approach them.
"So, you must be ready to die in turn. That is the rule of war and war has no take-backs."
The words of the deity were absolute and his weapons delivered his judgment.
The cleaver wielding brother was impaled by the spear; he was unable to feel any agony as a moment after the mace crushed his face ending his life.
The halberd wielding brother did not see his brother die as he was struck in the same instant, all he did was drop to his knees and accept the incoming trident in his chest and the executioner axe on his neck. Before dying his mouth whispered a word, his last words were the culmination of his will against a god.
"Yato."
The whisper reached his killers ears and made him lips form a smirk.
"Yato, a god of calamity." He whispered to himself.
The weapons returned to his stead within a moment's notice, the collected weapons twirled around in happiness as if they were extension of their master's limbs.
"I guess that is accurate with my weapons and words I give the aura of such a god." The man mused to himself as the weapons continued to move in wonder.
"The Oni brothers, I did not know your name but I thank you for providing me with one for this world, Ryan would not have suited this place anyway."
He addressed the dead bodies and chuckled to himself, with the twirl of his fingers the bodies were marked with a grave and the remnants of the beings descended under the ground as the dirt itself started to submerge them.
"As Yato, a burial is my thanks to you." The god bowed in front of his adversaries, his arm on his chest and other in the air made it look as an end of an act.
Yato stood tall after his bow, the weapons disappeared and his hand approached his chin.
"Boy Emi is taking long, I dealt with more than ten men and two shinobi's but she is taking her time with just one." The skin on his back crawled thinking what Emi would have done with the man.
"I can use my powers to deal with anything I want but, how to handle a Tsundere-Yandere wife who has an unhealthy hatred for NTR is still one without any answer much less a solution"
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Goro landed on his knees. He definitely heard a pop as they hit the ground. His body dragged along the ground for a few seconds before the friction stopped it. He balanced his legs on the ground trying to establish a hold whilst gritting his teeth pushing through the pain.
"What the fuck was that? The bitch just flew at me." he thought.
"Was that swift release?"
The girl materialized in front of him holding a sadistic smile. His eyes widened before he was launched into a tree with a swift kick to his neck.
"Wait! I yield." He yelled.
Goro knew he was outmatched from his opponents speed to his injury, the only thing he could do now was barter for his life.
"Me and my brothers have a lot of money, if you let me live I can give it all to you."
Even if his brothers won against the boy it would become a hostage situation and while he doubted his brothers would betray him he thought saving his life in exchange for money directly was the smart choice. Since if they won they could ransom some money back from her for the companion.
"…."
The sadistic smile changed into a blank expression with anger still leaking from it.
"Hah." The girl sighed and raised her hand.
"It seems you are still unaware of your situation."
A portal opened upon her words, it was pure white and distorted. Cries of the unknown wailed from it and it held misery he never knew of radiated off its very presence.
"You see you held the arrogance of trying to take me from my beloved." The strict tone of her voice sent a shiver down his spine, her voice felt more of an educator rather than an executioner.
"Now beyond this gate lies eldritch abominations which can lick your very memories and tell me what I want to hear. So, do me the world a favor and die you ugly bastard."
Goro immediately jumped from the adrenaline which filled his system from the fear. His body entered a flight or fight response and the instincts immediately ruled out the fight. But unfortunately the only flight he attained was one inside of the hellish portal.
He dropped and saw what was beyond comprehension and his mind immediately snapped.
TENTACLES
TEETH
HORROR
INSERTION
"Thank you, Lovecraft your information will be useful." The black haired girl said as she exited the portal after delivering her divine punishment.
When her husband separated her from his psyche she thought it was the end. But her husband gave her a new body, a new life. Instead of using her and deleting her like she was intended to be used she was given a chance of companionship with him. He introduced her to the wonders of the world and she was forever thankful for it, hence why she was utterly disgusted by one of the horrors of the world.
NTR
No word could describe her disgust for such a practice, a beautiful woman betraying her loving husband for a old/tanned male just because of better sex. It was disgusting. Sure sex was important for a relationship and she cherished such affection with her husband but betraying him because someone is better than him at sex was revolting.
"Have you ever held the hands of your significant other under the statue of Christ at Brazil as they told you in the dim lights how much they loved you. Let me tell you the feeling in your heart during that time is better than an orgasm from a male who looks like the pot of greed."
But all was well now, she had destroyed one who would have thought of such a thing and she would do the same for the countless other such misguided fools. She gave her hair a flick and travelled to her husband again. Her heart fluttered thinking of their moment's together every time she saw his face, not that she would ever tell him that.
Yes, she will be the dutiful wife and protect her husband from any who would throw a wrench in their love he never needs to know what happened to them.
"You done?" I call for Emi as I saw her approaching, if she took five minutes for that guy he must have really gotten unspeakable horrors on his mind as he died.
I got up from the tree I was leaning on and approached her, she came and hugged me.
"What happened?" I asked but I knew, she always did this after getting rid of those who made a move on her.
"Nothing, just cherishing you."
"Damn woman that's just cheating" I thought as I put a hand over her black hair and kissed her forehead.
"Heheh.. Let's go, I had Lovecraft extract information from that brute, I know the general knowledge of our world now and the nearest settlement should be the best place for more." She said as she giggled and dragged me by my hand.
"Well where are we then?" I asked back as I followed her with a smile on my face as well.
"We are near what should have been the borders of Uzushiogakure. In other words near Kiri territory."
"So we are on a island?"
"Yes but the distance between them can be crossed by a rowing boat in a matter of minutes. But the most interesting thing is yet to come."
"Well what is it?"
"The second shinobi war is still ongoing, the death of the second hokage happened merely weeks ago."
That made me stop in my tracks, the second shinobi war meant I was more in the time of Minato rather than Naruto, which meant much of the major events were still left to happen with Madara's and Black Zetsu's plan in the stages of infancy.
"Well that certainly is interesting." I concluded with a smirk on my face.
Author's note: As you can tell by reading this chapter the story will have some sudden POV changes. I would have liked to tune them out but that would take ages and I would probably find another reason to tell myself to not publish this story. Hence, they are still in here. Besides that I am satisfied with this chapter as it solidifies the point of time in the story and the location, good foundation for me to develop the story from. I hope you enjoyed the chapter and life is treating you well.