Chapter 4
Jeez
It's been so long.
I wrote all throughout the summer so I will be posting them in intervals of every week probably.
Regular talking- Ramen
Thinking or Flashbacks- Ramen
Seals - Explosive seal
Jutsu - Hiraishin
Bijuu - Kit
Gods - Ramen
Uzushiogakure
If you looked down on the ground where Yukio Uzumaki was standing, one would find almost nothing.
It's been twenty two years since the invasion of Uzushiogakure, since anyone has stepped into the royal grounds of the whirlpool country. The desolate grounds that used to house many Uzumaki's were now all bones and ashes. The wall themselves had been crushed to rubble, as it held against a barrage of offensive Jutsu.
But after twenty two years, an Uzumaki and her adopted son set foot into the destroyed country of Uzu.
Yukio all by himself was navigating the barren ground of destroyed buildings. Homes where families used to spend time together was now dust in the wind. Monasteries where the great wise ones prayed was razed to the ground.
The desolate roads of Uzu slightly put Yukio off. The harsh winds seemed to cut into his very skin as he walked. Amongst the heavy winds, something pulled Yukio to a source.
Yukio felt a slight pull, almost like his center of gravity was in that direction.
Yukio jumped over large pieces of debris. He ventured deeper and deeper into the parts of Uzu.
The lands seemed to give a harsh glare at the small child that looked around. Yukio could feel the dark miasma that permeated the air.
Than he felt it.
He could feel something calling to him, that was beckoning him, whispering to him to find it. But Yukio didn't know what this was.
When he reached a certain spot, the heartbeat stopped, leaving Yukio to wonder what had happened to the strange calling.
When he looked around, he found that what surrounded him was the last remains of a temple of sorts.
He could make out the intricate patterns that adorned the marble, which was in pieces when found, and he could see some jade jewelry and other fancy cosmetics lying around. Broken pieces of jade littered the grounds as Yukio looked around. They looked expensive, but Yukio felt like if he picked them up, horrible things might befell upon him.
With his slightly pudgy fingers he sent a little of his chakra in a slight burst to sense the area around him.
To his surprise he felt foreign chakra pulse back at him from the ground which he was standing on.
He quickly crouched down and dusted off the floor to clear the dust and rubble away from the surface he was standing on.
After brushing away the rubble, Yukio found something that had surprised him.
A seal, covered the floor with intricate brush strokes that covered the entrance, stared at the young boy.
He could tell that this was advanced Fuinjutsu. The kanji and the squiggles just made Yukio's head turn. Even though he had studied the art under his mother for 2 years, he could only make out the seals for defense, and protect.
The pulse was back, and was ever increasing now. It was almost painful for the boy to forget. The pulsing beat shook Yukio through his core as he laid his hand over the intricate seals that held something.
Once his hands touched the seals however, the seals started moving, unraveling at speeds that Yukio never saw. Then they stopped abruptly before glowing a soft white color.
Seal glowed before revealing the floor a small hatch that it covered. The marble retracted in a spiral formation before releasing dust that made Yukio cough.
When the dust cleared he could see the nigh empty room before him. Yukio hesitated as to entering a room where it was dark. Yukio gulped down his fear before dropping down.
As if responding to his chakra, the vault soon flooded with lights coming from torches that adorned the walls.
Yukio looked around with wonder as his eyes filled with pictures and figures that showed great battles. His fingers hovered over the drawings beings and creatures fighting.
Yukio kept on looking over the pictures before his eyes came across a scroll sitting on a altar at the end of the room. Unbenounced to Yukio, a Pair of rippling blue eyes stared at the boy watching his every move.
The walls of the vault gave an questioning vibe, almost as if the vault itself was testing the young boy.
Yukio touched at the walls, and was sucked into a vision.
Vision
Unknown
When Yukio woke up, the first thing he thought was the sea.
He could smell the sea, the salty and musty scent that he oh so familiar with. He could hear the raging waters crashing onto the rocks, carving the rock to sand over and over again.
The second thing Yukio thought was the rain.
The drops of rain had adorned his vision with the heavy sense that he was in a very bad storm. The kind that sent trees uprooted and destroyed homes with a simple rush of water. The wind was howling in his ears, almost pain inducing sounds whipped through the air.
Yukio looked around and discovered that he had woken up on a coastline. The wind was buffeting his hair around, while the rain had not drenched him one bit. Yukio only found that odd for awhile before seeing a man with a sword seeming to yell at the sea.
The man was tall, and very muscular. Yukio could see his arms flex and show rippling amounts of muscle. He wore a bright blue kimono and held a katana and was waving it at the sea.
Than Yukio saw it.
A large eight headed monster loomed in the sea, his titanic heads barely touching the clouds themselves. It's eight heads swayed back and forth almost giving it a hypnotic look if not for the cold stares he saw from all the sixteen eyes. They were yellow with slitted eyes, and seemed to poisoning the very ground that they layer their eyes on.
The creature itself was emitting so much killing intent, that it made Yukio want to roll up and die. The man, was faring much better than him. He held his sword confidently and was shouting at the beast who looked pissed at the man.
He could hear the deafening roars of the monster as it growled in anger and annoyance. The man seemed to be laughing at the discomfort the creature was showing. His face was glowing with humor, as his sea black hair billowed in the sea's wind.
Yukio wanted to call out to the man, telling him to run away from the beast, but something held him up. Something told him that he shouldn't interfere.
Just as he hesitated, the man launched himself at the large beast at impressive speeds. The heads recoiled back and poised to strike the man.
A single head shot down and crashed into the very waves of the sea sending a great spray of water. When the head landed the very earth seemed to shake, splitting the ground. Nothing in its way should have lived, and yet the man was standing at the base of the head of the creature.
He raised his sword before slashing across the very creatures neck and sending the head rolling. The bloodcurdling roar from the remaining seven heads only intensified the killing intent of the beast.
By this time Yukio was seeing all the ways he was dying by the beast's mouth. Yukio soon snapped out of this as the man charged at the beast with a fearsome war cry.
With awe, Yukio saw the man's swordsmanship. His sword glided around and struck at the beast with the strengths of typhoons. Everytime he swung his blade, gust of wind was felt all the way to Yukio.
The beast seeming to grow more and more angry, seemed to be striking at the man in the world's most deadly dance. It's giant fangs dripped with poison that caused the great seas to boil up.
After what seemed like an eternity of fighting, the beast was down to one head. Its face was growling with anger, but at the same time, Yukio saw something different about the beast. It had felt… Afraid. Very afraid.
The man wasn't faring so well also. His body was torn up with the many time, the beast had managed to cut him with its fangs.
But curiously, the man did not bleed blood, but a golden substance. His golden blood stained his blue kimono. The kimono itself did not look like what he hours before.
The top half was completely obliterated, showing the muscles of the man and the hundreds of scars that lined the man. Each scar told of the many battles the man had faced. His eyes finally being shown to Yukio was rippling with power. His rippling eye pattern was not forgotten by Yukio. The blue rippling eyes stared at the beast with enough power that made Yukio feel like an infinitesimal speck in the universe
The beast it self bleeding it's poisonous blood was growling at the man. It opened it maw and spoke. "Godling… I will not go down without… a fight."
Man stared impassively at the beast, bellowing with a deep voice. "It over Orochi. I will kill you and scatter your essence through space."
The beast, now known as Orochi, hissed at the god, before slyfully lunging at the god before biting his fang once more into the god.
The god roared in pain before grabbing his sword tightly and lobbing off the final head. Orochi's body collapsed with no more head to support the body. His flesh steamed with an acrid smell and dissolved.
The god hobbled down the rocks to the flesh which was currently disintegrating. His gaping hole in his shoulder was bleeding heavy amounts of Gold, before closing up. Leaving a bloodied skin the showed a huge scar. The God seemed to look for something before grabbing something in the midst of the flesh.
He pulled out a blade, a long gleaming chokuto, before walking out of the battle field.
Yukio gaped at the feat the man had done before feeling the rush of being whisked away.
Unknown
Yukio woke up this time to smell the ungodly fire. He woke up to black fire raging the forest in which he woke up.
He could smell the acrid fires, and the flesh burning. It was overpowering almost to Yukio, but he powered through the smell.
Yukio looked around and saw what almost shattered his six year old mind. A giant monster, a demon with one eyes was roaring at two figures that stood in the way of the demon.
The demon had a single giant eye showing the same rippling pattern with something that looked like commas in the rippling patterns. The only other difference with the god he had seen earlier was that the eyes was colored red. The beast was white in color and had ten swishing tails, and its mouth was gaping with multitudes of sharp white teeth.
It made Yukio think of a shark.
The two men in front of the demon seemed to exclude a strange but powerful aura.
The man on the left held a black staff with rings, and the man on the right held a black staff with a crosspiece at the top.
The man with the ringed staff had on a trench coat with nine commas on his back and a eye with a rippling pattern above it.
The tension between the three figures was incredible.
THeir white hair billowed in the nonexistent wind, giving them an almost godly look.
At last the man with the ringed staff yelled out to the beast. At least that's what it looked like to Yukio. His words were lost in the winds, before the demon roared at them once more. The only thing Yukio could hear was the crackling sound of fire raging around him.
Than the demon roared again before collecting dark energy in it's mouth and sending a dark beam of energy crashing into the two men, intending to obliterate them.
One of the men jumped out of the way of the beam, while the other man took the brunt of the beam. An explosion appeared from the point of impact, generating typhoon levels of winds that whistled around Yukio.
From the explosion the man was still standing, but with seven swords, impaled in the ground. He was carrying a sword with scales and a giant mouth. THe sword was gladly munching the air around it and was consuming the surrounding energy of the blast. Than the man, grabbed a sword that was in the shape of a giant shield, before sending a pulses of energy into the sword.
Than the man proceeded to throw all eight blades into the air and the man that dodged the blast jumped up to the blades and grabbed a sword that looked like the biggest needle that Yukio had ever seen. Then he grabbed a axe blade that was attached to a hammer, and stabbed the beast with the needle like blade before hammering on the needle with the hammer at the end of the axe.
The demon howled in pain and annoyance as it started to shift in form. The tails retracted into the back of the demon and the single giant eye that adorn it's face shrunk into an eye in the forehead of a woman. The woman had a regal look with no eyebrows, and had two red dots on her forehead. When she opened her two eyes, pale lavender eyes pierced the very soul of Yukio. Yukio shivered, because at that exact moment, he had felt like they had made eye contact.
The woman raised her hands before shooting out out long projectiles of bone that pierced the tree that was behind the man with the staff that had a cross piece. The tree started to crumble into dust before being blown away by the winds.
The long needle still piercing the woman pinned down the woman who had tried to wrench the weapon out of her abdomen.
At this moment the man with the ringed staff took his chance to raise a sword to the heavens. Lightning struck the sword before the the sword split in two. The two lighting infused blades struck the woman, making her shriek in agony.
Then the man with the cross pieced staff raised a giant blade that looked fit to decapitate things than be wielded. He rushed in, at the woman and cleanly cut through the woman's body, flinging golden blood, which became absorbed into the blade. The bisection continued to bleed before closing up like it had never happened. The woman than began to turn back into the demonic form.
Her ten tails swished around her randomly as if they had minds of their own, almost hypnotising Yukio.
Her tails flicked away the two men, before ripping out the the needle from her body. The blades clattered on the sides of the forest men stood back up nodding to each other, before rushing into battle once more.
This time grabbing the blade that looked like a giant brush, the man hack away at the oncoming tails that assailed both men. He mouthed out some words before sending a huge pulse of chakra that seemed to repel every tail that came towards him.
The demon roared in annoyance before shifting back in her woman form. She started to rip the very air and shot a bone spike into the dark abyss, which reappeared right next to the man with the ringed staff.
The man twists his body in a way that made the spike miss him. He rushed back in with clear intent to defeat the demon in the woman's form. He slams his hand in unison with the other man, who seemed to reappear behind the woman, before holding her down. The man with the ringed staff proceeds to pull away his hand dragging along a huge mass of bubbling chakra.
The man seemed to struggle holding apart the body, which grew into a large wooden beast with, ten closed eyes. THe bubbling chakra writhed in the man's grasp, struggling to get back in the giant wooden beast. The man grimaces and shouts at the other man. This time, Yukio hearing him.
"Buy me some time, Homura!" The man shouts to the other man.
The man, now dubbed Homura, nods at the man holding the bubbling chakra, and pulses more chakra that caused the beast's body slam down into the ground.
The man with ringed staff then slams his hands together, and the bubbling chakra floods into the man's body. The chakra rushed into the body leaving behind a seal pattern, sixteen points, adorning the seal. Than he grabs his eighth sword, a regular katana, before inscribing seal patterns on the sword's blade.
Then he proceeds to seal away the blade, and look back at the beast, which was slowly losing it's eyes. At the last moment,it transformed back into the woman, as she faced the two men once more.
Her face, filled with rage and panic, shoots out once more, trying to gut the two men, but the both dodged, this time both of them yelling out two words, that made the woman raise her eyes in shock.
Chibaku Tensei
Once the words were uttered, rocks, and surrounding materials rumbled before breaking apart into parts that slowly rose around gradually gaining speed which gathered around the woman, sealing her into a huge pile of rocks, floating in the air. The woman then transformed back into the beast with now only sporting one eye, and tried to break out of the gathering all of rocks.
Her attempts her proved futile as the mass of rocks grew once more, floating in the sky, now turning into the moon.
Yukio watched with wonder as more and more rocks piled onto the mass, but not realising a large rocks hurtling behind him.
The world became dark again as Yukio's vision was blurred from the rocks.
End
Yukio woke up with a start discovering that he was laying on the ground of the vault. The outside world seeming the same, as no time passed when Yukio looked into the past memories of the world.
Unknown to Yukio, he now had a marking on his back that glowed faintly, in the form of a blue dragon, before disappearing from sight.
Yukio shook the cold feeling from his body and proceeded towards the scroll that was being held in the stone statues hands.
He carefully picked it up hoping not to trigger some alarms, and proceeded to open it.
The scroll itself felt old, as the paper had a musty smell, the kind of smell that would come from paper that was in a dark damp corners, and was brittle to the touch. The scroll felt cold, as seeing it had never touched the hands of the living for who knows how long.
Yukio held his breathe as he unraveled the scroll.
A single seal adorned the paper. A simple storage seal was in the middle of the scroll. Yukio examined the scroll, before adding his chakra into the seal.
A puff of smoke covered his face, making Yukio cough again, before waving out the smoke in the room. He
A small hand held gourd was laying in the scrolls surface. Yukio peered curiously at the gourd wondering what it had contained. Another small scroll sat next to the gourd. Yukio tentatively opened this scroll, only to find out kanji entitling a simple letter.
Yukio read the letter.
Whoever has opened this vault, I congratulate you for being the gourds next chosen user. THis Gourd is nigh indestructible, and can only be wielded by one's who this gourd finds acceptable.
The gourd can contain anything, as it was passed down our lineage of ancestors. Treat the power of this goud well, and I pray that whoever will wield this gourd good luck.
The First Royal Uzumaki King,
Ashinadzu Uzumaki
Yukio gaped at the letter as he discovered what the gourd could do. Yukio looked at the gourd before deciding to seal it away for later uses. Yukio crawls out of the vault and watches as the vault slowly close behind him. Today, Yukio had seen to of the greatest pieces of history in the universe that Izanagi governed.
He had a lot of thoughts to sort out of his mind.
The Heavenly Realm
Susanoo raised his blue Rinnegan eyes in amusement as he watched his chosen warrior get his first Heavenly weapon.
The gourd from which has Been fashioned from the very testicles of the first demon that sprung forth from Yomi.
Susanoo grinned as he remembered killing that demon. It had been a guilty pleasure of taking out demons and that particular demon Susanoo took a liking to permanently disposing it.
Susanoo grinned at that thought and fingered his sword, before deactivating his rinnegan.
A beautiful woman step up behind Susanoo as he gazed upon the waters that shown upon the Human realm.
She wore a flowing white kimono, adorned with a giant red ribbon. Tribal flame marks decorated the ribbon along with multitudes of beads that strung along with the ribbon. On her head was a crown that floated just above her fore head, giving an ethereal look to the Sun Goddess. She held a katana, sheathed, by her hip. She had no eyebrows, signifying the royal status, and had flowing black hair that cascaded don her back. Her irises were pitch black in color and held a certain glint to them. As if everything she saw she could command it to burn.
Amaterasu was somewhat relieved and worried why her brother had been inactive of messing with her. While it had been refreshing to see that he wasn't bothering her every five millennia, it was worrying that he wasn't himself for the past six years.
After he had went and visited the neighboring realm, he had stuck to the well for six years gazing upon a child and a red haired woman.
She spoke out to him. "Is she your human lover, brother?"
Susanoo jumped up in surprise as Amaterasu scared him. "Jeez, Ama-chan, don't do that!"
Amaterasu looked indifferently at the god.
Susanoo sighed. "It's a soldier project that Izanagi and I had been working on."
Amaterasu raised her eyebrow less eyebrow. "For what exactly?"
Susanoo smiled deviously. "For the second coming of the War."
Amaterasu wore a shocked face as she listened to the words. She looked ready to rant at the god, but as soon as she opened her mouth, something caught her attention.
She stared at the well, and peered into what Susanoo had been watched no this whole time.
The rippled water showed a young boy making his way down deserted roads, and desolate houses. But it wasn't the appearance that had caught the eye of Amaterasu. It was the boy's energy. A pang of hurt, and anger ran through Amaterasu.
"That boy. Is he an anomaly?" She spat. Her eyes burned furiously, as black flames of the sun deity started entering reality. The rooms temperature immediately increased significant amount that caused even Susanoo to sweat.
Susanoo's grin threatened to split his face in half.
Amaterasu glared at her brother. "Why have you brought in an anomaly into this realm Susanoo? You know I despise Anomalies."
Susanoo just shrugged.
She frowned at Susanoo. "I have pressing matters to attend to right now, but I expect a full explanation brother. And I swear if you did this just to anger me, you will pay." Amaterasu's threat hung in the air.
And with that Amaterasu pointed her finger out and dragged it across the air in front of her. The finger seemed to catch onto something, before tearing a hole into reality. She stepped into the Amenominaka and disappeared from Susanoo's sight.
Susanoo looked back into the well to keep track of his little project. Since he was an anomaly, they couldn't really see the outcome of his future. But he had a backup plan, just in case Izanagi's plan didn't go his way.
Susanoo glanced back the boy figure currently walking back to the seal he had placed to tag down places.
He smiled.
Manhattan, New York
It was a quiet night in the city of Manhattan. At least what the New Yorkers would call quiet in the bustling city. Lights filled the air of the city. Warm winds swept through the city as some couples walked together as they toured the city at night. Some were parents taking their children out for a walk.
The streets were filled with people walking, and many stores were closing up. All that were opened, was the few convenient stores.
Apartments were quiet as the people were fast asleep.
Except for one household.
Sally Jackson sat in the kitchen of her apartment, or what she would call an apartment. It was a run down hovel, really. The ceiling was low as it could get, and Sally couldn't enter a doorway without having to duck down every time.
Sally was filing her tax reports and other financial support files. She had tried out for many insurance plans, and had so many bank debts, that she had to worry about.
As she was filing this, an od thought just ran by her head. She wondered how her deceased child was doing. After finding out that he had died, she fell into a small depression. What really pulled her out was raising her daughter.
Sally then thought that she should visit the grave some time, when Persephone was at school.
And while Sally went back to filing the financial records of their little family, a young girl woke with a start.
Long black hair covered the sheets, and her tan skin greatly contrasted with the sheets.
Her sea green eyes shone with confusion.
She had that dream again. The dream of a boy that looked very similar to her. She contemplated on telling her mom, but she dismissed the idea.
Then again, it's just a dream, right?
So we are done with chapter 4 now.
I know it took me a long time to get this up, but in my defense I am traveling in Asia right now, so I don't get a lot of time to type down the ideas that I get.
But I still remember all the awesome details that I want to share with you people.
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