Taru:...
Nira:...
Taru:...so uh...Is he dead?
*pokes me with a stick to the head*
Nira: nah i think he's simply working too much.
Taru: yeah maybe...so wait we have to do this for him instead?
Nira: preeeetty much!
Taru: ok then *ahem* welcome everyone to The Kitsune Overlord, chapter 2: fall of a village of loyalty!
Nira: do they mean the fall of the Leaf village or something else?
Taru: nah i think it's something else.
Nira: really? well we're about to find out, let's read everybody!
Taru: in three!
Nira: two!
Taru and Nira: and one!
Me: SPAGHETTI!
The Kitsune Overlord.
chapter II: Fall of a village of loyalty
{Netherworld-Scarlet town}
Naruto was amazed at what he was seeing upon the Scarlet town, buildings painted in majestic red colors, huge walls surrounding the town protecting them from any threat, so many different demons minding their own business, there were so many variants of demons that he never thought he ever saw before...but then again Kurama, Shukaku, Tiffany and Zerena are the only demons he seen in his life so far.
But when he set his eyes upon this strange demon he couldn't help but ask Zerena who's walking beside him.
"Hey Zerena"
"Yeah?"
"...Is that a giant chicken?" Pointing toward a large chicken that has a tail of a snake head.
Zerena stared for a moment before giggling "Oh you mean the Cockatrice? yeah they're giant chicken of course, don't you also have giant chickens up in the human world?" she asked which Naruto shook his head no.
"Zerena we don't have anything like these kind of creatures up in my world, the closest demon or supernatural beings we have are the Biju's and animal summons"
"is that so? sounds boring up there" she said.
Naruto chuckled "yeah it kinda is" he said as they passed the Cockatrice.
"It IS boring, I have no idea what the hell you humans do for fun other than stab each others in the back and wage war for petty things" Kurama commented which Naruto ingored.
But now that he was thinking about it, after he became a demon, what became of his abilities? did they get stronger or did he suddenly have newfound powers after being reincarnated?
"If you're wondering about that then sad to say all of your shinobi art have become useless, in other words you can no longer use chakra. The reason why you don't have chakra anymore is because Chakra isn't demons native energy since we all demons are born with Youkai and since you reincarnated as a demon you no longer have chakra inside your body" eyed widen in shock, naruto couldn't help but panic about that. To lose not only his ability to use chakra but lose both the Rasengan and Kage bunsin as well.
"Actually you can still use rasengan, not the shadow clones though" Kurama said, naruto just frowned "but how? I couldn't properly form a rasengan by myself so how can i do that without a clone to help me?" He thought.
Kurama just rolled his eyes "you're an idiot you know that? you can use your frickin tail to help with that, not only that you can use your own Youkai instead of chakra, the only reason you had problem to use my powers is because you were a human. You humans can't handle pure concentrated dark energy to either power up or unleash an attack".
"So that means I can make up my own ninjutus right?" Naruto only got a groan from Kurama "Brat, it doesn't have to be called a ninjutsu or jutsu for any matter! actually how about stop screaming out jutsu or spells? because It gets really, REALLY annoying to hear them over and over again!".
"But how can i unleash my awesome powers against my enemies?"
"You don't have to! You don't have to frickin scream the attacks out and let your enemies knows what you're about to do! that's why you're getting your ass kicked because they know how to counter them whenever you scream the jutsu out!"
"That's...make actaully sense now, no wonder why I had so much trouble!"
"...I'm going to say it again you're an idiot you know that?"
Naruto just shook his head and glanced back at the chicken as it suddenly start to run away from other demon childrens, hell one of them had fork and knives for some reason "so what's up with the giant chicken anyway? it is a demon right?" he asked.
Zerena nodded "yeah they're also demons, I've heard they can be annoying but they also make great chicken pies" she answered.
Naruto just stared at her "...wait a minute you eat the-" he didn't finished his sentence as he bumped into another person and knocked them over "ah crap sorry! I didn't see where I was going!" Naruto said as he helped up a cute looking girl.
she have pale blond hair that cover her eyes and tied in pigtails, pale skin and she's wearing a white tabard with a red dress underneath, at the bottom of the dress it plits up like a flower of sort. Lastly she's wearing silvery shackles.
needless to say she was really cute.
"oh it's alright!" the girl said cheerfully.
Naruto couldn't help but blush a bit a he helped her up to her feets "man she's really cute" he thought, until he heard Kurama start laughing "OI! what are you laughing about!?" He thought angrily.
"Oh nothing PFFF" Kurama said as he tried to contain his laughter but failed.
Naruto eye twitched in annoyance at Kurama, the fox may have helped him to save his life but he can still be an ass when he wants to.
"hey I don't think seen you around here before, new in town?" the girl asked.
Naruto straighten out and tried to look heroic "That I am! My name is Naruto Uzumaki the Kitsune demon!" he answered which got only a giggle from the girl.
"well nice to meet you Naruto, well I better go now, hope to see you again!" with that the girl walked away. Naruto stared where the girl walked away until he heard Zerena laughing behind him.
looking back at her, annoyed that another one is laughing at him "ok seriously why are you laughing?" he asked, Zerena just continue to laugh and pointed at him "(haha) you do (hehehe) realize that was a guy right?"
{Human world-Konoha}
"WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!?"
Tsunade jumped up from her desk after she fell asleep from drinking too much, she wasn't expecting a bloody scream coming out of nowhere, strangest thing is that the scream almost sounded like...
"Naruto..." she whispers as she sat down, depressed that the knuckled headed boy is gone. For a moment she thought it was just a nightmare but realized it wasn't and likely the alcohol was playing tricks to her mind.
Ever since the mission bringing back the damn Uchiha from defecting the village and the sudden burst of dark energy within the valley of the end, everything have gone to hell.
the day everyone felt and even saw the pillar of red energy of Kyuubi scared everyone nearly to death, believes the Kyuubi is once again free. But strangely it never came for revenge and in Kakashi's report as he tried to make it in time to stop sasuke and help Naruto, there was nothing there after the pillar of dark energy disappeared...Only a large crater where the statues of her grandfather and Uchiha Madara used to be.
She didn't want to believe Naruto was dead but when jiraiya came back showed the summoning scroll for Toad to her, Naruto's name was gone...Meaning he was truly dead.
After the failed mission, Tsunade wanted the damn Uchiha brat wanted in the Bingo book for not only defecting the village but killed a fellow shinobi and possibly freed Kyuubi.
But as usual the council voted against her, claiming they couldn't kill the last uchiha or else ending the bloodline and cripple the village.
tsunade rubbed her forehead from the headache, the village have already been crippled, without Naruto who contained the nine tailed fox who not only defeated the Jinchuuriki of Shukaku but also formed the alliance with several different countries due to his heroism.
It doesn't help the fact they even asked WHY the village was celebrating the death of their hero, Tsunade had no choice to tell them of Naruto's burden and what he have gone through and why the damn people were celebrating for.
needless to say they weren't happy at all of what they heard, because of the people of Konoha blatant disrespecting of not only their hero but the last dying wish of their fourth hokage they lost all of their alliance.
as for the rookies 12...well more like rookie 10 now who knew Naruto and were his friends wasn't in best terms with the village now.
when they found out about Naruto's burden they couldn't be more than angry how these people could treat someone as a monster when the boy himself only wanted recognition of the true him not the fox.
as for Sakura, she was devastated that Sasuke would willingly to not only defect the village but to willingly kill naruto as well for sake of power. She never felt so alone in her entire life to be the only genin member left of team 7.
kakashi felt like he failed his sensei and to naruto, he began to distant himself from everyone and more shockingly he actually came on meetings in time!
as for Team 8, hinata cries and desperately don't want to believe that her crush is dead. It took literal two days for Kurenai, kiba and Shino to get her to come out of her room.
Kiba was enraged of not only at Sasuke but at the village as well, digusted of how these people would celebrating someone's death simply because he carried a burden that no one would ever be willingly carry.
not only that he even beat Gaara who went berserk during the invasion, he pretty much saved the village from an angry Jinchuuriki and still they didn't see him as a hero for that.
Shino didn't say much but it was clear he saw Naruto a comrade and someone who didn't see him as a bug freak.
Kurenai may not have know Naruto that much like the others but she did feel pity for the boy of what he went through.
as for team 10, Shikamaru only said troublesome of how far the village have become and swore to not only to better himself but flush out the corruption that's going on in the village so that no more would go through what Naruto did.
Choji was the same way with Shikamaru, naruto was his friend and to see the true color of the village only made him angry...angry enough to start rolling people over.
Ino however felt bad how she treated naruto and wished to make it up for him, but now that he's dead she can only train harder and bring Sasuke to justice for killing a fellow leaf nin.
Asuma could only sigh and told everyone how disappointed his father and the past hokages would have been if they saw how the village have become.
As for team Gai, Lee could only cry and shouted that he will avenge naruto his true eternal rival and bring Sasuke to justice and train even harder than before...cue for sunset no genjutsu.
Neji finally understood Naruto, how much he have suffered like he has. to carrying a seal from birth and yet still sane from being alone for so long takes great amount of strength and willpower, he will always has his respect.
Tenten may have not know Naruto personally but he was a fellow leaf nin and someone who strived to become the best, the least she can do is honor his memory making few special weapons named after him.
Gai is well...Gai.
As for Teuchi and Ayame, they honoring in the memory of Naruto making a ramen dish named after him and would kick out anyone who bad mouthed him.
Tsunade even heard that Ayame knocked out bunch of chunin with a Skillet as they were talking trash about Naruto, that gave a good chuckle to the Senju when she heard about that.
Iruka was devastated, his little brother dead...killed by one of his former student who killed him for the sake of power. Tsunade even heard he once broke a jounin nose who bad mouthed about Naruto.
Lastly, Konohamaru and his friends were heartbroken that their boss was dead and everyone in the village was ahppy about it, when they learn of Naruto's burden they made it their personal mission to prank the hell out of everyone who were mean toward Naruto.
Yesterday they all set up a memorial for Naruto, deep within the woods where Naruto first time used the shadow clones against Mizuki, they erected a tombstone this deep in the forest, away from the villager should they get funny ideas trying to vandalizing it.
They all set up all kinds of flowers, some bowls of ramen and few jewelry from the girls.
This shows how much they cared for him, and now he's gone...for good.
as for the villagers and the shinobi, majority of the shinobi while a good minority of civilians regretted what they did to Naruto, they all have seen how determined he was to prove he was not the fox and how far he was willing to become the Hokage to protect them.
they all felt ashamed of not seeing of who he truly was, a simply lonely boy who only wanted attention and not the demon fox who nearly destroyed the village all those years ago.
and now he was gone, like a sunshine who brough joy to the village and they ruined it..All because of their ignorance and their blind hatred toward the fox.
Sighing once again she leaned back by her chair and stared out from the window where she could see the entire village, before it looked grand and full of life...Now it's become a shadow of it's former shell in three literal days.
"To think Gaki was the one who brighten this cursed village up and everyone wanted him gone...now that he is they want him back, damn hypocrites" Tsunade thought bitterly, ever since they lost the alliance and the village becoming vulnerable from any shinobi attacks from losing valuable missions that boost their economics and funds and support from other countries that held most of the hidden villages from even thinking of attacking them, the council wanted Naruto back in anyway possible.
one of the council member even suggested to bring him back by using the forbidden jutsu Orochimaru used during the invasion in chunin exam against the third hokage.
needless to say the guy lost his head from a straight punch courtesy of Tsunade of even suggesting such an disguting plan.
"heh well this is surprise, expected you to be drunk and asleep" a voice broke from her thoughts.
"Jiraiya..."
Jiraiya the toad sannin leaned back by the wall in the far corner of the hokage office, he smiled sadly to her as he walked over "can't say I blame you hime, ever since gaki disappeared from that pillar of that dark energy the entire lands have been restless, looking for answer that we don't even have".
Tsunade shook her head "it's been nothing but troubles, everyone expect me to somehow come up with a miracle to save the village from the state they found themself in..." she said.
Jiraiya snorted when he heard that "seriously...if they respected Minato's last wish then they wouldn't be in this situation we are in" he said bitterly.
Tsunade said nothing as she stared at the pictures of the last hokages, she thought what they would have done with how the village have become? what would they do with so many corrupted council members that had stripped of almost all powers the position of hokage once had. She thought of just strip of their position and have them executed for all the damage they caused to the village but those vultures have the support of not only those two damn advisor but Danzo as well.
If she did anything a civil war will break out and this time they might not come out of this alive if the other hidden villages takes the advantage to attack them while focusing against Danzo and his ROOT.
Tsunade sighed, this have become the worst situation they ended up in, if they did anything a civil war will happen, but if they don't do anything the council would do whatever they damn please.
But there was one thing she needed to know, she stared right at the old pervert eyes and asked "what became of that damn Uchiha? did your spy network find him?".
Jiraiya sighed and asnwered "sadly no, they haven't found him at all...it's strange how he never went to Orochimaru after he killed Naruto, my spy network manage to at least see him entering a fishing village before disappearing within something called the forbidden woods".
Tsunade raised an eyebrow "the forbidden woods? never heard of such a place" she said.
"not surprised you haven't heard about it, from what i manage to gather travelling over there it just suddenly became haunted not too long ago" Jiraiya said making Tsunade just stare at him "haunted you say? and you're saying it became haunted not too long ago?" getting a nod he answered "yeah and get this, the forest became haunted the day BEFORE the Uchiha defected the village".
Tsunade just stared at him, the fact a forest became haunted the day before the damn Uchiha brat defected the village just screams something horrible is going on. The chances are the sound nin who were escorting the traitor was simply just an distraction, cannonfodder's to his true goal.
"Jiraiya...please tell me you tried to find him in those woods or did you go to another bathhouse to further work on your damn research?"
"Hime I actually tried to enter the forest...But i only ended up back to the entrance everytime i tried to go deeper, I even tried to summon gamabunta but for some reason i was unable to summon him at all...it's like the forest negate all chakra in the area"
Jiraiya then crossed his arms, looking worried "not only that but when I questioned the people at the fishing village they saw the brat and they heard him talking to himself, but what scared the people more is that the brat actually spoke in some strange gibberish language that no one ever heard of and he was smiling really creepily...Like he was possessed" he said.
"then that means we don't have any means to find that brat and find out how that forest became haunted and how it influenced the traitorous Uchiha to begin with?" Tsunade asked, feeling more stressed as it is.
"pretty much"
"great..."
Tsunade just rested face into her hands, this possible couldn't get any worse as it is. Somehow...She has a feeling the evil within the forest must have found it's way to their village and likely influenced the council, if not the entire village.
because if it could do that to the Uchiha then what's stopping it from doing it same to her people?
"what a fine situation we ended up in, didn't we hime?"
"yeah...yeah we have...the only question is how do we counter this...this evil? this evil the village have become?" jiraiya said nothing, because he as well have no answer to that.
they can only hope a miracle would happen.
*KNOCK*
*KNOCK*
"Tsunade-sama, sorry for intruding but we have a foreign guests who wishes to speak to you!" both of them heard Shizune behind the door, what surprised them most is the fact a foreign visitor wanted to speak with her despite the unsavory reputation the village have gotten.
Tsunade cleared her throat and answered her student "let them in" no sooner she said that the door opened and came in a blond haired man donned in silver armor with golden trims.
beside him were two robed figures, likely his guards.
The man himself looked to be in his mid twenties while he flashed a grin toward Tsunade "Greetings my fair lady, My name is william the 4th, descendant from a powerful group of heroes who slew the tyrant demon overlord of the Netherworld and I've come to offer an alliance to your village" he said making both the sannin eyed widen.
they didn't expect someone show up to offer alliance to the village, especially how far the village have fallen.
Tsunade straighten up and said "g-greeting to you as well William-san, we wasn't expecting someone to show up and offering an alliance to us" this only made the man chuckle "It is quite alright, we didn't send a letter to inform you of our arrival but we were in a hurry to warn you of danger ahead".
this made both Tsunade and Jiraiya tense up, they have a feeling it might have something to do with the forbidden woods.
William continued "I may not know how much you have heard already but lately strange things have been happening as of late" he paused for a moment then continued "what do you know of the fobidden woods?".
This made Tsunade narrow her eyes "other than it used to be normal forest until it became haunted the day before a traitor defected our village" she answered.
Williams seem to eyed widen and exclaimed "then it is as I feared, the Evil that ravage my homelands have manage to manifested here as well" this made Tsunade, Jiraiya and Shizune who was standing near the doorway eye widen.
"tell me my lady, have this traitor somehow ended up in that forest?" william asked which he got a slow nod from both the sannin, he sighed "then it is likely the traitor have listened the dark whispers of the Old one, they have become nothing more but a mindless thrall of the ancient evils" he said.
"the Old one?" Tsunade asked.
William nodded as he explained "yes the Old one, beings of ancient evil that wishes to invade our world have begun to set foothold on our world, fortunately me along the other descendants of our heroic ancestors have banded every kingdoms together to rid this evil" he sighed "but sadly this new evil seems to be much more stronger than demons and angels combine...that is why I have come to establish alliance with the people of the East"
He face palmed and shook his head "but in the end none of the shinobi villages believed me nor they didn't wish to make alliance with a banded kingdoms from a foreign lands of the West to help us banish this new Evil".
Tsunade sighed, she can understand what this man is getting to. Desperate for alliance to save their people, like how Suna made a fragile alliance with the Sound to invade konoha due to low mission contracts and low funds no thanks to their Daimyo cutting it off.
"I can understand what your getting at William-san but we are as well facing a tough crisis here in the village, right now there's a power struggles between a corrupted council and me with shinobi council members who're still loyal to me...If we do anything to strip of their power they and along with half of the population they seem to have brainwashed will raise arms to go civil war and our old enemies will use this advantage to attack us"
William seem to perk up hearing this because he had this large grin on his face when he heard this.
"then i can gladly say we can offer you our help should these corrupted hooligans even think of starting a civil war, after all I never said how many kingdoms have banded together in my lands" he said "first of we have the human kingdom of which i'm from, second the elven kingdom, third the dvarven kingdom, fourth the half giants kingdom, fifth the Angels of Celestial who joined us recently after they sensed how much of a threat this new evil is"
He chuckled "combining these kingdoms we have amassed the largest legion there is to combatant the ancient evil, once we manage to rid the evil away we can finally be able to make peace to the entire world" he continued "we have decided to call our Alliance the Great Starlight empire, the true peace to the people of light"
Tsunade and jiraiya just stared at the man, they didn't know what to say. If what he says is true then with all of those kingdoms combine they may as well take over Konoha and maybe two more hidden villages with little difficulties.
Jiraiya stared at this young man with a frown, he got this feeling he's hidding something but what exactly? He made up his mind to not trust this man or the kingdoms he came from because there's usually a hidden agenda when someone offering an Alliance.
Tsunade however failed to see this, jiraiya could see she believes what he says and thinking that with the Alliance of the West could very well save the village from its own destruction.
"Hime you honestly can't be thinking of agreeing to this" the old pervert thought with a frown, honestly he don't blame her to jumping the gun of finding a mean to save the village due to the heavy burden as a Hokage.
but he can actually see the desperation in her eyes and it scares him.
William may as well taking this advantage of her desperation and it angers him, for all he knows William or the faction he came from knows their situation and tries to take advantage of it and acting like they never knew of their situation. Looking over to the other two robed figures he can't help but notice something seems off about them.
Jiraiya could sense what little chakra William is giving off but he actaully have another great powerful source of energy he could sense, likely common from where he came from but the two robed figures however had none.
they didn't give off any chakra or this unknown energy at all...it's like they aren't even there.
"So then what shall it be my lady, do you wish to talk about the Alliance or shall I and my men take our leave?" William began as he looked intensely at Tsunade with a kind smile.
Jiraiya just looked at his old Teammate as she stared back at him, begging her not to accept this shady alliance no matter how much it could save the village. Tsunade sighed and looked back to William, to everyone it felt like an eternity as she pondered over this. An alliance that may as well save Konoha but they themself likely may end up against the conflict against these Old one's adding more enemies to the list like Akatsuki and Orochimaru.
only problem is that these so called Old one sound much more stronger than the Akatsuki and Orochimaru, chances are the village may not come out of this unscathed should they be dragged into war with the Great Starlight alliance against the old one's.
or decline the Alliance and they may as well end up in a civil war in the future with no hope of winning, not with Orochimaru and the other hidden villages like Kumo and Iwa would take the chance to attack them with their pants down.
Finally she answered.
"I, Senju Tsunade, fifth Hokage of Konoha accept talk of this Great Starlight Alliance"
{Netherworld-Scarlet town}
"So the currency are called Hell right?" Naruto asked while both he and Zerena were at a park and sitting down on a bench and ate snacks they bought.
Zerena nodded while finishing eating her snacks "yeah, kinda surprised you humans use different currency than we do" Naruto just shrugged and said "yeah, although i doubt anyone back home would want to name the current currency as hell, even if it was for jokes".
Zerena nodded and stared toward the distance where she could see the Overlord's tower from a very long distant, she could see the mountains where the tower was built upon was covered in snow, high up in the mountain peak.
"Hey I've been meaning to ask but what's with that tower over there?" Naruto asked as he noticed she was looking over to the ruined overlord tower.
Zerena said nothing at first but with a sigh she answer "that used to be the home of a powerful Overlord who once ruled the netherworld, he kept control over our home and made sure no demons wouldn't make trouble for his subjects or to the human world."
Naruto tilted his head at that "if so what happened to the guy?"he asked, while he knows what happened to the Overlord but he's curious to hear from someone else perspective of the event with the heroes that may shed some more light to the history of this place.
"OI! aren't I good enough or what!?"
"shut up Kurama"
"well" Zerena began "I only know from history books but a group of heroes somehow came to the Netherworld and wage war against the Overlord, the battle went for months until the Heroes finally made it to the Overlord's tower...There they battle against our lord and killed him"
She sighed "ever since then chaos and bloodshed was unleashed upon the Netherworld. Demons and monsters did whatever they wanted, pillaged and murder the people who were under the deceased Overlord's protection and now after 400 years Scarlet town is one of the few remaining towns still loyal to the Overlord and we demons have been attacked multiple times by many demons who hated the overlord"
Naruto grimace when he heard that, Tiffany did tell him Zerena's parents were killed during a raid. He couldn't help but feel sorry for these people, being attacked over and over again isn't good at all.
"is that what happened to your parents? because I asked Tiffany before and she told me they were killed during a raid?" Naruto asked.
Zerena nodded solemnly "yeah, I was only five at the time when it happened" she answered.
Naruto sighed "well I don't know about you but we're kinda the same when it comes to parents" he said.
"huh?"
"My parents were killed when I was only few hours old, A masked man who claimed to be Uchiha Madara wanted something from my mother and kidnapped her" Zerena just looked confused and asked "kidnapped her? why would he do that?" Naruto was silent for a moment and looked around to make sure there was no one listening to their conversation.
seeing no one around he answered "because she was the Jinchuuriki of Kyuubi no yoko or his real name Kurama" Zerena eyed widen "K-Kurama? you mean THE Kurama? the one nine tailed fox who used to be around protecting our homes?" Naruto nodded and continued "jupp, apparently the bastard who claimed to be the man known as Uchiha Madara, the man himself who actually dragged Kurama out of the Netherworld to combatant against his rival but lost in the end, His rival then thought it was such a good idea to seal Kurama away instead of sending him back here"
"so then...if this Madara never summon lord Kurama from the Netherworld...my parents would be alive?"
Naruto just shrugged and answered "I honestly don't know, the only blame i can think of is both Madara and his rival who was our first leader to the village I came from named senju harashima, but in the end after like what? a century later, somehow my mother ended up being the Jichuuriki of Kurama"
"Is that why the man who claimed to be Madara wanted? he wanted lord Kurama for what exactly?" getting a shake he answered "I don't know, but he somehow manage to rip Kurama out of my mother and proceed to unleash hell on the village I came from".
He sighed "in the end my father who was the fourth hokage, the leader of the hidden in leaves manage to beat the guy and seal Kurama away inside an infant...that infant happened to be me, his own son."
Zerena eyed widen at that, she wasn't expecting her new friend to be the container of the powerful demon lord Kurama "n-no way...then that means your own father sealed lord Kurama away inside of you? but why?"
"from what i gathered it was the only option there was since it was just sudden and there was simply no time, ever since then when the news came of my status as the Jinchuuriki my life have turn into a living hell of isolation" Naruto sighed and continued "everyday people would avoid me like I'm some sort of a plague while most of the stores would either kick me out or sells stuff at high prices and they are usually spoiled or merely garbage"
"not only that but when I wanted to become a shinobi and prove everyone that i'm not some monster everyone thought i was, my education was sabotaged and most of my classmates just made fun of me for either failing at the academy or being an orphan"
"kinda like me..." Zerena mutters, loud enough for Naruto to hear. He didn't ask what she meant because he had a feeling that she as well might go through bullying for being parentless like him.
"and when Me along my friends I actually made attempted to bring back my teammate who decided it was such a good idea to betray the village and go for a powerful criminal who not only killed our previous leader but also attepmted to invade our home as well"
Naruto sighed "in the end he beat me and shoved Chidori, a powerful assassination attack through my chest and stabbed me with a poisonous kunai that cut me off from the fox chakra or Youkai from healing me"
"I lied there on the ground, finally realized that everything i did never mattered anymore, no matter how much I tried to show everyone i wasn't the fox nor a failure it was simply never enough...In the end I manage to make a deal with kurama to reincarnate me into a demon and I ended up in the Netherworld"
He laughed bitterly "and you know the rest since you and Tiffany were the one who found me" he said as he looked down to the ground.
He wasn't sure why he told her of his life as a human, but it felt...great, like a whole weight was lifted from his shoulders.
To his surprise Zerena suddenly hugged him, he could hear her sobbing and said "i-i'm so sorry! i never thought you went through such a harsh life!" Naruto just chuckled nervously as he patted her back, he wasn't really that good comforting people but he at least was trying.
"it's alright, beside I did reincarnate in order to start a new life so all is good i supposed, beside we're friends so we should look out for each other right?" Zerena let go and wiped away the tears and nodded with a smile "y-yeah we're friends" she said witha bright smile.
"my how adorable this is, it almost looks like you two are a couple~" a smiling Tiffany said as she was behind the two young demons.
"GAH!?" both the kitsune and the demon girl yelped in surprise and jumped up from the bench they were sitting on.
"M-MISS TIFFANY!?" Zerena exclaimed with a blush.
"O-OI DON'T SNEAK UPON US LIKE THAT!" Naruto yelled while trying to fight back a blush.
The fallen angel just laughed "sorry, sorry! i couldn't resist" that only made the two young demons glare slightly at the older women.
Tiffany just chuckled and looked at Naruto and asked "so naruto-kun, how's the tour around the town gone so far?" Naruto just shrugged and answered "the town is pretty neat, there are so many different demons I didn't think existed" Zerena giggled "not to mention when you bumped into that healer who you thought was a girl, it was so funny seeing you blush like that!"
"WHA-HEY I THOUGHT WE AGREED NOT TO MENTION THAT!?"
"tehe~"
"traitor!"
Tiffany can't help but laugh as Naruto began chasing Zerena around the park, she can't help but be happy for the girl finally to have a friend. She continued watching until she heard someone running behind her, the sound of clanking armor isn't hard to miss really.
"lady Tiffany we got a problem!" a heavy knight exlaimed as he panted from running so much.
"what's wrong?" she asked.
"it's...it's harold he's injured and come to warn us about the immediate danger ahead!" Tiffany looked at the heavy knight in surprise, she knew Harold who along with other demons are usually posted outside the town in certain outpost to warn about incoming raid to the town.
"what happened to him?"
"He told us that a large force of monsters and demons are headed this way, they're also carrying the banners of Lord Izarion the frost king!" Tiffany paled when she heard that name.
Izarion the frost king is an infamous demon lord who butcher anyone who goes against him whether they are soldiers or civilians it doesn't matter to him. All that matter is his dark ambition, it doesn't help he's one of the demon lords who hated the overlord.
"What does the town major say about this situation?" She asked.
The heavy knight grunted and answered "he want all civilians evacuated out of the town, there's no way we can fight against Izarion! we need to save all town's people before the main force gets here!" Tiffany bit her lip, what he says is true, Izarion is simply too powerful to fight against.
but that would mean those who can fight must stay behind to buy the town people some time to escape, it will be nothing more but a massacre if they stayed! She looked over to the knight and asked "where are all the civilians gathered?".
"at the main center of the village, there along with few warriors, archer and mages are going to keep them safe getting them to the underground bunker" The knight answered, he turned around and said "I need to go, the other need help preparing against the advancing force!" with that he ran away.
Tiffany can't help but face palm, this is the worst day it could ever happened. Sure they're used to be attack from bandits and marauders and manage to repel them many times but against a full force of a Demon lord army? they have no hope surviving this.
"miss Tiffany what's going on?" glancing back to Zerena and Naruto, both of them looked worried.
"Zerena, Naruto listen to me really carefully. I want you two go to the center of the town where the people are gathered and follow them out of the town, we're going to be attacked by a powerful Demon lord Izarion army" She said making the kids eye widen in shock.
"we're about to be attacked!?" naruto exclaimed.
"wh-what should we do?" Zerena asked, she was afraid as she have heard many horrible things from the demon lord Izarion.
"there's nothing we can do but you two need to leave with the group before it's too late" Tiffany said strickly, Naruto gulped from fear. While he have actually been part of defending Konoha from the sound and Suna invasion but against a full force of demons and a powerful demon lord? But then he remembered he has Kurama within him!
Maybe they have a chance against them no-
"Uh yeah about that, there's a slight problem with the seal just now" Kurama said, making Naruto frown "What do you mean there's a slight problem with the seal!?" he thought.
"I forgot to mention that after I poured my Youkai into the seal it nearly broke and changed into what it is now, after we fell down to the Netherworld it started to repair itself from the overload of Youkai i poured through and from the looks of it...It's gonna take a while, maybe a week or two" the demon fox explained "so right now if I gave you even the slightest bit of my power you'll blow up"
"I'LL WILL BLOW UP!?" Naruto screamed, making both Zerena and Tiffany jump at his outburst.
"Naruto what's wrong? are you talking to Kurama-sama?" Tiffany asked.
Naruto nodded and answered "yeah, i thought that maybe I could use kurama's power to beat this Izarion guy but he just told me that the Seal nearly broke after my transformation and right now it's repairing itself" he sigh "but if I even tried to use slightest bit of his Youkai I'll blow up like a bomb!" that only made both the girls shock from the revelation.
"t-then there's no hope of stopping them now?" Zerena asked.
"looks like it...dammit why can't anything good ever happen to me!?" Naruto shouted, his hands tighten in fist while his nails digging into his skin from anger. He always hated to be powerless to do anything, he wasn't strong enough to beat sasuke and now this happens...It's like the universe is against him or something.
"Kid you and the girl need to leave, I can sense a powerful presence coming closer to the town" Kurama warned and suddenly loud sounds of bells rang out through the town, suddenly screams of panic and sounds of explosion outside the town walls was heard.
Tiffany eyed widen and summoned a staff, she turns to the kids and ordered "Naruto, Zerena! you need to leave NOW!" Zerena eyed widen "wh-what!? but what about you!?" she yelled, fearing what Tiffany likely will try to fight the forces of Izarion.
"Don't worry about me little one, me and the other will try to stall them and buy you and the others time to escape" by that time Zerena already crying "N-NO! I DON'T WANT TO LOSE YOU AS WELL!" she screamed and latched onto the healer.
Tiffany sighed sadly while Naruto could only look in sadness.
Tiffany caressing Zerena's head and mutter softly "Zerena please..." the young demon didn't let go but continued to cry "NO! I DON'T WANT TO LOSE YOU LIKE I DID WITH MOM AND DAD!" she cried while hugging the healer.
"Zerena listen to me" finally letting the blond haired woman go she looked up while her tears still ran down "I want you to be safe, I wasn't able to save your parents but I could still save you...promise me that you'll be careful alright?" Zerena only nodded.
Tiffany looked over to Naruto and said "And Naruto can you promise me something" Getting a nod she continued "Please watch over Zerena, she's all I have left...I lost so much after the death of the Overlord and she and her parents were the only people I could call family, so please I beg of you to promise me that you will look after her, Izarion would do anything to make sure anyone still loyal to the overlord's bloodline dead and forgotten"
Naruto just smiled sadly and nodded "don't worry, I promise I do anything to protect her Believe it!" he exclaimed making the older woman smile.
"thank you, Naruto..."
*BOOM*
all three of them heard the explosion very close now, they could hear battle cry and fighting behind the wall that protects the town. Tiffany frowned and readied her staff, ready to go support the guards. Glancing toward the kids she shouted "RUN NOW!" and with that she ran away to join the battle.
Naruto steeled his expression and grabbed Zerena's hand, with a quick nod both of them left the empty park to join the evacuation group.
Zerena glanced toward where she last saw Tiffany, knowing it was the last time she would ever see the kind healer who was like an Aunt to her, wiping her tears away she held a determined expression, promising herself to become strong and avenge Tiffany and end the tyrant demon lord Izarion.
{Desert Graveyard Canyon}
Naruto and Zerena manage to catch up with the group just in time to leave through underground tunnels leading outside the town and away from the fighting.
both of them could feel the ground shook from explosion above, likely from either enemies casting spells or shooting the town with catapults. Naruto looked around and saw everyone was terrified, crying and angry.
He shook his head and wondered if this is how the villager felt when the bastard imposter forced Kurama attacking the village. The walk through the tunnels were sort lived as everyone manage to come to the surface.
Naruto and Zerena looked around once they left the tunnels and saw they along with the survivors were within a large desert canyon, devoid of life. Heck there were even gravestones all over the place with skeletal remains of either monsters or demons they didn't know which
One of the leading warriors turn to the civilians "Alright listen up! we all make haste to the underground bunker, there's no telling if that Bastard Izarion might have foreseen this and likely prepared a trap so keep a look out!" everyone nodded as the remaining fighting force lead them through the forgotton roads that once used to be travelled when the Overlord was around.
Both Naruto and Zerena stayed behind a little as they don't want to be trampled over by the adults, Naruto glanced to the side and from a long distance he could see distant high mountains covered in snow and behind them was the ruined Overlord tower.
And then he suddenly stopped walking.
"huh? Naruto why did you stop?" Zerena asked.
Naruto didn't asnwer, because he felt...something. He wasn't sure why but he could feel the tower was calling to him, urging him to come over.
come...
come home...
"What the?" Naruto thought as the entire world suddenly froze.
The throne lies empty...
choosen prince come...
Naruto stared at the tower, the more he looked at it the more sinister and darker it gets. he could almost see the Tower becoming bigger and bigger the longer he looked at it.
Your loyal minions awaits...
the heart is missing...
Naruto wanted to look away but he found himself unable to move at all, he couldn't tear his eyes away from the tower as suddenly the middle of the tower split open and revealed a blood red eyes staring right back at him and the whole world gets darker and darker.
and suddenly the whole area glowed ominous red and the ground shook.
COME AND REBUILT WHAT'S BEEN LOST!
"hey come on wake up!" Zerena called while waving a hand in front of his face, snapping him out of his trance "bwu-wha-huh?" Zerena just looked at him strangely "are you alright? you were spacing out for a minute" she said worriedly.
Naruto wasn't sure to answer, he glanced back to the tower and saw it was back to normal ruined self, he looked back to Zerena and answered "y-yeah just...felt and saw something weird when I looked at the tower for moment".
The young girl just stared at him with a raised eyebrow "felt and saw something? like what exactly?" she asked.
"I felt...I wasn't sure what I felt but when i looked at the tower I could hear whispers, like a voice deep in my mind telling me to come to the tower...urging me to come home..." Naruto answered, not truly know how to answer this one.
Zerena stared at Naruto with confusion, she wasn't sure what's going on as she looked toward the tower and felt nothing.
"Maybe you're just tired Naruto, i mean what's happening now i-"
*BOOM*
Zerena didn't get to finish her sentence as someone cast a fireball toward the group of survivors, screams of panic spread out as everyone began running for their lives.
Naruto and Zerena eyed widen when they saw an army of demons holding blue banners of the symbol of a black helmet with horns and behind the helmet a large white snowflake.
these were the smaller part of the demon lord Izarion the frost king army that waited for the town people to flee and ambush them.
the army stood upon the canyon mountains as they rained down fireballs, Arrows and bombs toward the group of survivors, luckily Naruto and Zerena was far behind the group could only stare in horror as the army of demons slaughtered the large group of civilians and the remaining guards.
"Oh no..." Zerena whispered in despair while Naruto glared at the army and suddenly grabbed Zerena's hand and dragged her toward where the tower was.
"wh-wha-naruto where are we going!?" she half asked and half screamed. Naruto didn't look back and but answered "The tower! we maybe be able to find shelter somewhere near the Tower!" Zerena eyed widen "bu-but wait what about the others!?".
"there's nothing we can do for them, we can't beat an army and not only that most of my jutsu are useless since I no longer can use chakra anymore!" Naruto exclaimed as they jumped off a cliff down to the ground.
both of them landed and continued to run with everything they got toward the tower.
Naruto could hear the survivors screams fading out, he grit his teeth in anger. No matter how much he wanted to go back and help them but all he got was Rasengan and the only weapon he has are his claws.
There's no way he could take on well armed and trained demons.
not only that but the damn seal is damage and is repairing itself, if it wasn't for that he could easily call upon kurama's power and wipe these bastards off the map.
they ran and ran until they could no longer hear the screams but they could still hear distant explosion going off and off. Naruto kept running while holding Zerena's hand, the girl herself was panting from running too much and kept checking behind her to make sure they weren't followed.
Naruto and Zerena wasn't sure how long they kept running, they would usually stop by large boulders to hide behind to rest a minute or two before proceed to run toward the silhouette form of the tower.
Naruto scanned the canyon for hiding spots because he has a feeling the demons will try to hunt them down, after all their escape likely didn't go unnotice by the enemy forces. After looking around Naruto nearly missed to see a small hole on the ground that was almost covered by dried bushes and also is near couple of large boulders and broken gravestones. The hole was large enough for both him and Zerena as they dived into it, within the hole there lies a haystack and few small bones left.
likely an animal of some sort used to live here and left it's home.
Both of the young demons peeked out the gap, so far they saw nobody and the sky was turning dark. After a moment of keeping a lookout both of them went back and lied down on the haystack, both of them tired from running so long.
"they're all gone...all of them" Zerena muttered.
Naruto said nothing as he stared sadly at Zerena, she was hugging her knees while resting her head against them. He sighed and tried to come up with something to cheer the girl up, but found nothing to say that would cheer her up.
"..naruto"
"yeah?"
"wha-what are we going to do?" she asked while looked at him with tired eyes, naruto stared back and answered "we try find shelter and wait out until they're truly gone...after that we just try finding a village or town that would take us in"
Zerena hummed at his answer, so far it was better than nothing.
"let's rest up for a bit, I doubt they're going to let us go...how far is it to the tower?" naruto asked while focusing looking through the gap, making sure to keep a lookout for any enemies.
"um...I would guess a day or two if we travel by foot but even then the barrier that's protecting the ruin would likely just block off any attempt of getting closer to it." Zerena answered.
Naruto hummed and muttered a "I see..." before sitting down, today he wasn't expecting an invasion from an army belonging to a Demon lord.
"I have to say it is rather strange how they choose to attack today after you woke up" Kurama commented.
"Yeah it's rather strange...you don't think they're here because of me?" Naruto thought and hoped he was wrong about that one, he suddenly felt a pit in his stomach that made him ill.
What if...What if it was all his fault and his appearance of falling star brought unwanted attention from some Demon lords, because of him they were all dead.
"your an Idiot..."
He could sense Kurama shaking his head.
"I don't think they're here because of you Naruto, i think this is simply an invasion...After all that fallen angel did tell us that the demon lord who led this army hated the Overlord and since the people of Scarlet town were loyal to him, it is likely he wanted them to be removed before they could be a problem"
"bu-but I-"
"...Naruto listen to me, what just happened wasn't your fault to begin with" The fox began "if the one who is at fault it is the heroes who killed the Overlord...If it wasn't for them then this wouldn't have happened in the first place!"
"the heroes..." Naruto thought it over, if it wasn't for them then Zerena wouldn't had her parents killed by raiders, Tiffany would be alive, The Scarlet town wouldn't been burned to the ground by those bastards.
Suddenly a burning hatred began forming within his heart, these heroes...they're like the villagers back in Konoha.
Naruto remembered everytime he tried to buy something from one of the shops in Konoha the shopkeeper would kick him out and would sometimes either throw garbage or bucket of water, the passing bystander would always commenting how much of a hero the shopkeeper was, apparently it was heroic to people by simply throw a kid out and proceed to throw something at him was considered an act of heroism?
It start to anger him the more he thought about it, the word hero is used by many and yet Naruto have yet seen anything heroic the people have done. All they done is creating more problems because of either for fame, money and something else.
To Naruto the word Hero have become tainted, it isn't what it used to be and now it have become something so foul that Naruto just felt like vomit of even hearing it.
"I hate them...I hate those damn heroes..." surprisingly it wasn't Naruto who said that.
Naruto looked over to Zerena and saw her eyes were glowing red, there was a red aura around her and boy she looked pissed.
"Zerena?"
"They took everything away from us...our home was once peaceful and they destroyed it...FOR WHAT EXACTLY!?" she screamed as tears flooded down from her eyes, suddenly sparks of electricity emitted from her body.
"HOLY CRAP!? ZERENA!" naruto exclaimed as he stood up and backed away from his friend, he wasn't sure what's going on but it was bad...Really bad!
"THEY DESTROYED EVERYTHING! I HATE THEM! I WANT THEM ALL DEAD!" as she stood up the aura just got bigger and bigger, the sparks of electricity became even more frenzier as it progressed
"SHIT! Kit she's going berserk!" Kurama exclaimed in shock.
"Really!? Is this normal!?"
"Yes, I can feel her magic is unlocking due to her emotion going haywire but if she doesn't calm down she's going to end up blowing not just herself up but US as well!" Kurama explained, Naruto eyed widen in shock.
this was bad, if he didn't do anything then things would escalated very quickly! Naruto did the very logical thing he could think up...he immediately hugged her tightly, this action actually made her stop out of surprise.
"wh-wha-Naruto?"
"There, it's alright I'm here Zerena...you're not alone" he said softly as he patted the girls back, Zerena herself just stood still out of shock for few seconds, until she began to cry again and hugged back.
the entire event have been horrible for her, she lost everything. First her parents many years ago, her home and Tiffany who looked after her since she was a child...But at least she has Naruto, her very first friend to lean on.
She didn't remember what happened next because she fell asleep from exhaustion, both mentally and physically.
Naruto laid her safely down on the Haystack, carefully not to wake her up. he sighed as he sat next to Zerena's sleeping form. He don't blame her for having that emotional outburst, she lost everything in one day.
Hearing Kurama sighed "Well hopefully things won't get any worse tomorrow, but what is your plan so far?" Naruto didn't say anything at first as he laid down next to Zerena, finally he answer "I'm going to train, I'm going to train so damn hard that would make Lee cry in joy several times over and learn new abilities and hopefully gets to that tower...Ever since I saw it i felt strange, like it's beckoning me to come over...What do you think Kurama?" the fox hummed for a bit until he answers.
"I would probably follow that instinct kid, maybe there's something there that could help us fight against the demon lord until the seal have finally been repaired"
Hearing an angry grunt Kurama continued "I still remember the bastard Izarion, he's nothing more but a coward who hides behind his magic! He even once tried to challenge me to become his vassal but failed miserably, if the damn seal wasn't damage then I would have glady given you my tailed powers to obliterate the bastard and his army"
"yeah...well I gonna go take a nap now, can you wake me up if you sense an enemy getting too close to our hiding spot?"
"Sure thing, go to sleep and tomorrow I'm going to help both You and Zerena how to properly fight, especially you Naruto"
"Hey! I can fight pretty good!" hearing a snort Kurama answer "Flailing your arms around isn't exactly fighting kid, just go to sleep dammit!" Naruto just huffed and closed his eyes.
"Hey Kurama?"
"Yeah?"
"Goodnight"
"...goodnight to you as well kid"
with that Naruto fell asleep, hoping that tomorrow they would be able to make it to the Tower.
{Elsewhere}
A rifle demon smiled evilly as he overseeing the destruction over the pitiful village that was still Loyal to the deceased Overlord.
It baffled him how they can still be loyal to a dead Overlord, either way the group of Heroes made their jobs much more easier to deal with the rest of the demons who weren't loyal to lord Izarion.
He grinned as he spotted one of few surviving stragglers and aimed his arm cannon toward them, unleashed a light blue beam of energy and obliterated the area where the survivors were, creating a huge crater.
The Rifle demon just cackle evilly as he had killed them, hearing footsteps he glanced to his side and sees one of the scouts he sent out to see if there were any more survivors left.
"Master Vandal, we've scouted the area and found no more survivors within the town, however we got report of two young childrens manage to get away from the ambush group C set up, One normal demon girl and the other a Kitsune boy"
The now named Vandal grunted in annoyance "where did they manage to flee?" he asked in deep voice.
"they went further within the Desert graveyard canyon, we couldn't find them so either the wild monsters that lived there likely have already made lunch out of them or the bandits that prowl the area already finished them off and left their corpses for the monsters that lives there to feed"
The Rifle demon was in deep thought, chances are these two survivors may have somehow made it out alive but at the same time likely got themself killed since they were just kids with no way protecting themself from the danger that lurks deep within the desert sands.
finally he grunted "let's leave this pathetic village, I doubt those kids can survive out there all by themself" the scout raised their eyebrow and asked "Are you sure it is wise to leave them alone? Lord Izarion specifically ordered no survivors of this place"
The rifle demon only grunted in annoyance as he walked away "Please how can two brats be able to survive in that desert, it IS marked by everyone too dangerous for a reason" with that he was gone leaving the scout alone to only sigh at their general lack of care.
"hope it doesn't come back to bite us in the asses"
Nira: wow I feel really sad for those two...especially Zerena.
Taru: those demons are lucky I'm not there to chop them into tiny pieces or freeze them to death...
Nira: yeah...ok what the heck are you doing?
Me: setting up defenses.
Taru:...with poster of ladies with big breast? all over your apartment?
Me: YEAH! i'm not going to have that glory hog coming in here again!
Nira. you do realize your neighbors going to think you've a screw loose or something?
Me: whatever! *putting up the last poster' HAH! try to come in here again Laharl! MUHAhAHAHAHA!
Nira: and there he goes again.
Taru: should we finish this up?
Nira: yeah we should
Taru: *ahem' next time on The Kitsune Overlord!
Nira: Chapter III: From dirt to Overlord!
Taru and Nira: hope to see you guys again!