A/N: hey guys long time no see! Heres yet another chapter for your enjoyment! So I got a review saying that the story was good with grammar, but not so much as with the story development. What do the rest of you guys think? lemme know and I'll make changes accordingly, because so far I think I'm doing pretty good. Lemme know though, a little insight never hurt anyone.
I got another review asking for another passionate session between our favorite ninja and our favorite tarkatan/Edenian. Don't worry guys, there will be another one shortly, but you cant just jump right into it you know? But you wont have to wait too much longer.
Anyways, enjoy the story!
A Broken Man
Chapter 7
Service Restored
Naruto held his hands out straight, palms facing Ermac, the beach ball sized rasengan right in front of him, ready to be launched at its intended target.
"Your turn," Naruto told Ermac. "Fire style: Flame Enhancement!"
A blistering hot fire surrounded the rasengan, ready to incinerate and pulverize anything in its way. Ermac saw this and teleported to Narutos side and tried to hit him in the face. A second before his fist connected with Narutos jaw, Naruto, along with his beach ball sized, fire covered rasengan, disappeared.
And then reappeared a moment later, directly above Ermac's head.
"RASENGAN!"
Ermac dodged the attack just in time as Naruto shoved the jutsu in the floor of the wooden house, wooden shards covered in fire going everywhere. The fire quickly spread throughout the house, catching it on fire as well. Luckily, the roof was gone, courtesy of Ermac. The ninjas jumped out of the roof entrance while the Earthrealm team and Mileena booked it out of the front door. By this time, Ferra and Torr were running back up to them all, clearly pretty damn pissed off.
"YOU HERE MAKE TROUBLE SKINNY!" Ferra yelled out at Naruto at the top of her little lungs. "RRRNNNNN…TROUBLE MAKE YOU! KILL TORR!"
"RRAAAARRGGHHHH!"
Torr, with Ferra riding on his back charged once again at Naruto from behind, seeing red.
"Almighty Push!"
Torr flew back once again, blown back with an incredible and yet invisible force. He looked up and saw Sasuke, holding up one hand directed at them. Then, Kakashi landed in front of Sasuke, still in his ANBU outfit, and very quickly performed a few hand signs, and lightning appeared in his hand. He charged directly at Torr, a long trail of lightning behind him.
"Lightning Blade!" Kakashi yelled at Torr.
Torr held up a protective arm over his chest as the lightning jutsu pierced his arm clean through, Kakashi's arm getting stuck in the process. Torr lifted up his arm, lifting the stuck Kakashi as well. Torr brought back a massive fist, intending on crushing the white haired man.
Before he could do so, Kakashi planted both feet on the beast's arm and pushed himself off, freeing his arm. As he pushed off of Torr's arm, Kakashi backflipped in the air and flew a kunai, and attached to it, an explosive tag. The kunai buried itself in Torr's arm and exploded, destroying his arm. Torr howled in pain, waving around his bloody stump. Sasuke jumped above Kakashi and, on his descent, unsheathed his sword, and falling behind Torr, cut him clean in half from Torr's head to his pelvis. Sasuke stepped back, flicked the blood off of his blade, spun it around, and sheathed his sword. Torr slowly fell apart, the two sides of his corpse crumbling into two bloody heaps on the ground.
"Torr!" Ferra cried out. She started to run to her partner, going as fast as her small frame allowed her.
"I don't think so!" Kiba yelled out, arriving on the scene. "Akamaru would have fun playing with you! Summoning jutsu!"
Kiba had found out a way to keep his partner out of unnecessary harm…a summoning contract between him and his partner. It was also easier for them to travel as well. And, sometimes, Akamaru was too damn tired sometimes to do anything. Tsume, his mother, had helped him figure this out.
A puff of smoke later, the huge white feral looking dog was in front of his master as Kiba said to him, "Look at that little midget there boy! She tried to kill us! She's your chew toy now buddy!"
Akamaru grinned, his sharp teeth shining. He growled, lowered his body, and with the speed of a cheetah, pounced and ran towards his target and new toy, Ferra.
Ferra looked to her side and saw something large and white coming at her incredibly fast. Knowing she was too slow, she stopped and decided to deal with whatever it was.
She soon discovered that she made a grave mistake when a large set of jaws clamped around her neck as she was football tackled to the ground.
Akamaru clamped down on the small girls neck as hard as possible. He was so powerful, she so small, that one move killed her instantly, her spine snapped. He tossed her around violently, literally like a chew toy, blood flying everywhere. Akamaru clawed at her dead corpse, intent on making sure that she was definitely dead. He placed a firm paw on top of her chest, forcing her body down as he clamped his jaws over her head and pulled up, hard. The result? A sickening sound was heard as head, spine still attached, was separated from the body. Akamaru flung the separated head off to the side, sat on his haunches, and howled to the moon, announcing his victory.
About one hundred yards away, Naruto was in the middle of a heated battle with the construct of sorcery, Ermac.
"Shadow clone jutsu!" Naruto yelled, creating fifty shadow clones, all of them in their black outfits and red scarves and swords on their backs, charging at Ermac. Several of them threw kunai at him, only for them to be tossed to the side like toys, courtesy of Ermac's ability. Ten Narutos jumped up high in the air, coming down on him quickly, intending on stomping the man into the ground. Ermac raised one hand, it glowing brightly with his green energy. Suddenly all ten Narutos that were high in the air froze, encased in the same green energy, and Ermac threw his hand down, hard. All ten clones hit the ground with just as much force, if not more. The ground cracked, and the clones simultaneously poofed into clouds of smoke.
The remaining clones continued to charge at him, continuing to throw kunai and shuriken at Ermac, attempting to distract him. It didn't work on a seasoned warrior like Ermac as it would have others. He swatted them away like flies, quite annoyed.
"We are many, you are but a few," Ermac said, noting Narutos ability to make copies of himself. "It does not matter how many of yourself you create, you are no match for the might of Shao Kahn's creation, Ermac!"
Ermac shot his hand forth, a huge green ball of energy flying at Naruto at a blazing speed. Naruto wasn't expecting this, and he tried to dodge it just in time by jumping to the side, but the ball hit one of his legs as he jumped. The force of the hit caused his body to flip around in the air several times before he actually hit the ground. Sitting up a little, he winced as he tried to stand up.
"My leg feels like it was hit with a tree," Naruto muttered. "I cant let him hit me with that again, or its over."
Naruto made some more clones to provide as a distraction. He himself puffed into smoke, disappearing from view.
"This pointless trick again?" Ermac commented as he swatted the kunai and shuriken to the side again and again. He grabbed one clone by the throat and held it up saying, "and here I was, being cautious, because Kotal Kahn said you were dangerous. You just got lucky. Reptile always was weak. We are strong! We are Ermac! We will break you!"
The clone then started laughing a little and said, "Is that so? Well, at least my friend Hinata will break you first."
"Who?" Ermac said.
The real Naruto appeared directly behind Ermac and placed a paper tag on the back of Ermac and quickly drew a small pattern on it. Ermac crushed the clones throat, it yelling out in pain before it dissipated into smoke. He then turned around and tried to hit Naruto in the jaw, but Naruto did a series of back flips away from the man, stopped, and capped his hands together and said out oud, "Fuuin!"
Ermac felt a strange energy wrap around inside of him, seemingly trapping the very energy itself, thus, disabling his use of his telekinetic powers. It also forced his arms to go to his sides, completely outstretched as well as his legs, as if he was getting ready to do jumping jacks.
"You fool," Ermac said to Naruto, "do you really think that this alone will stop me?"
"No," Naruto said to him, "That's why I brought back up. Now, Hinata!"
"Hai!"
Hinata appeared behind Ermac via shunshin, byakugan already activated. With Ermac immobilized, he was a sitting duck, just waiting for his points to be closed out.
"You are within my field of Divination," Hinata said behind him. "Eight Trigrams, One Hundred Twenty Eight Palms!"
Hinata rushed forward, snake like hands ready to strike with a vengeance. Ermac felt his entire constructed body suffer extreme pain on a more internal level as he felt each one of his pressure points shut down, also further disabling his use of his powers.
"Two Palms!"
"Four Palms!"
"Eight Palms!"
"Sixteen Palms!"
"Thirty-two Palms!"
"Sixty-four Palms!"
"Eight Trigrams, One Hundred Twenty-Eight Palms!"
Hinata had hit each and every point in Ermac's body from behind multiple times. Ermac spit out a copious amount of blood from his mouth, his entire body, every inch of it both inside and out, in extreme severe pain. His body involuntarily shook with agony. However, the seal that Naruto had placed on him still trapped his body in that jumping jacks position.
Ermac looked up at Ermac and told him, "I wasn't doing my best against you, Ermac," Naruto told him. "I was setting you up for this. I cant question you if you're dead. You will provide me with answers, or you will suffer. Ino!"
Ino slowly walked up to Ermac, finally catching up to Hinata and Naruto. "Yes, Naruto," Ino said in response to her summons.
"I want you to search this man's mind," Naruto told her. "See what you can find. He may be a tough nut to crack, so be careful."
"Hai, Naruto," Ino nodded. She walked up and placed her hand onto Ermac's forehead and closed her eyes and focused her energy onto her target's conscious and memories.
The second she did that though, she shot her hand back and grabbed her own head in severe pain screaming a little shouting out, "So many minds!...So many memories!...So many souls!"
She threw a death glare at Ermac and said to him, "What the fuck ARE you?!"
Ermac could only smirk at Ino's feeble attempt to read his mind. "We are many-"
"We are many you are but one blah mother fucking blah," Naruto said cutting him off. "Listen, Ermac bud, I really don't give a damn how many of you there are in that little fake ass head of yours, but you just hurt my friend."
Naruto brought a kunai out and stabbed Ermac's foot, staking it into the ground. Ermac cried out in pain.
"Now, you will tell me what I want to know, or," Naruto pulled out another kunai and said, "We can play pin the cushion al night long and make the fat lady sing. Its your choice."
"Torr!" Ermac yelled out. "Ferra!"
Kakashi, Kiba, Sasuke, and Akamaru walked up to the rest of the group, carrying the two halves of the head of Torr, and the head and still attached spine of Ferra. They threw the two severed body parts at Ermac's feet and Kakashi said to him, "Trust me, their ends were not quick nor were they painless. It is in your best interest to give us the information we want to know."
"We will not betray our-AAARRRGGHHHH!" Ermac cried out in pain as Naruto staked Ermac's other foot. Ermac glared out Naruto with hate and Naruto said to him, "What? Did you think that I was joking when I said we would play pin the cushion? Here, let me reiterate that for you."
Naruto withdrew his sword from the sheath on his back and stabbed Ermac's leg. Ermac once again cried out in pain as Naruto pulled his blade out, flicked the blood off, and sheathed it back in its case on his back. "Now, I think I made myself clear that time. Next time though, a blade is going through your gut. Now, tell me what I want to know."
Ermac, realizing he had no choice if he wanted to survive, nodded his head.
"No, tell me what I want to know," Mileena said as she walked around the group to face Ermac. She brought tout her two sais, spun them around, and pointed one of the tips a millimeter from one of Ermac's eyes and said to him, "Why did you betray me?!"
Ermac didn't say anything for a minute but then said to her, "Because you stowed away from your father's goals and more towards your own."
"That is preposterous!" Mileena yelled out.
"Is it?" Ermac said to her. "Your father, Shao Kahn, ruled Outworld. You, Mileena, wanted to rule. I am faithful to Outworld and will serve whoever has the best interests of Outworld at heart, which you do not."
Mileena froze in place, taking in what she was just told. She looked away slightly, unable to defend herself from what Ermac had just said. And honestly? It made perfect sense.
"I…I have recently changed," Mileena told him. "Thanks to Naruto, I can now see clearly. I wish to rule Outworld and perfect it, to protect it and its people, not to just simply rule it to be called a ruler of something. I have seen the pain our citizens suffer from, and I wish to rectify it. However, I cannot unless I am Empress once again."
"We do not trust you," Ermac told her immediately. "How do we know that this is not some trick to get us to serve you once again?"
"Think whatever you will," Mileena told him. "But I know that I have changed, and I seek now to change Outworld for the better. You, Ermac, with or without your help, will see that happen."
Feeling the effects of Hinata's attack begin to wear off slightly, he looked at Naruto and asked him, "We wish to look into her mind. She has fallen from her father's way before, we wish to see for ourselves if she is being truthful or not."
Naruto thought about it for a long second.
what should I do Kurama?
THINK ABOUT IT KIT, IF THIS WORKS OUT, YOU WILL HAVE ANOTHER VERY POWERFUL ALLY ON YOUR SIDE. HOPEFULLY, THIS DOES NOT COME DOWN TO A FIGHT IN THE END, BUT EITHER WAY HE WILL PROVE VET USEFUL. I SAY LET HIM DO IT. OBVIOUSLY, IT DOESN'T HURT TO TAKE PRECAUTIONS.
Understood. Thanks buddy.
Naruto created ten clones that surrounded Ermac. Each one of them pulled out a sealing tag and each one drew a similar bit different pattern on it. Then, one by one, each clone placed a tag on each of his limbs, the back of his head, chest, and back. Once all tags were placed, Naruto told Ermac,
"I am going to release the restricting seal, however," Naruto pointed at the remaining tags on various parts of his body, "If I so much as smell you going to harm Mileena in any way at all, I will activate these tags. Each one will seal away whatever body part they are connected to. In other words, you will literally be ripped apart. Is that understood?"
For once a little fearful, Ermac nodded his understanding. He had encountered many foes before, but never as dangerous as Naruto or these others that were with him. Not even the Earthrealm team of Cassie, Takeda, Jacqui and Kung Jin came close to their prowess and ruthlessness in battle. He could honestly say that he had finally encountered a real ninja.
Naruto brought up a hand in the ram sign and said, "Kai!"
The restricting seal pattern faded and disappeared, and the actual tag itself fell off of Ermac's back and slowly drifted to the ground. The other tags were still armed and ready to be activated though. Ermac brought up one hand and lightly placed it upon Mileena's forehead and began reading her thoughts.
Ermac was thoroughly surprised. He had seen all of the events since Mileena's initial rescue by Naruto himself. He had seen the trek to the forest, the actual house created, the conversations they had, the lecture Naruto had given her, the love session they had, the bonding they had made…everything up until this very moment. He lowered his hand slowly, staring at Mileena. He then looked at Naruto, and slowly looked at everyone else. He then looked back at Mileena and said to her, "We will serve the new Empress of Outworld."
He then knelt upon the ground, bowing his head to Mileena, Kahnum of Outworld.
….
"Good work, D'Vorah," A deep voice said. "You have carried out your work perfectly. Did they suspect you at all?"
"No," D'Vorah replied to the voice. "Kotal Kahn trusts This One completely."
"Excellent," the voice said back to her. "Bring the amulet to me as soon as possible. The inevitable return of our Lord is near."
"This One lives to serve Lord Shinnok," D'Vorah said to the voice, bowing.
"As do I," the voice said to her. "Meet me at the Earthrealm defenses in seven days. Until then, do your normal activities with Kotal Kahn."
"Yes, Quan Chi," D'Vorah said as the green and ghost-like apparition dissipated into thin air. D'Vorah turned around and walked back to her Kotal Kahn's camp, a smile on her face.
A/N: Hey guys heres another chapter for you. Just so you know, I'm taking some elements from MKX, only slightly following the timeline. To those of you who have given me suggestions and ideas, thank you, and keep them coming! Your reviews do way more than you think. Thank you for the follows and reviews, and I hope you all take it easy. Lemme know if anything should change or be added or whatever ok guys? Until next time, Roku out.