Naruto and Edelgard: Shiny!
Naruto: Like a treasure from a sunken pirate wreck
Edelgard: Scrub the deck and make it look
Naruto and Edelgard: Shiny!
Naruko: Are they singing "Shiny" from Moana?
Claude: Edelgard is actually singing….a Disney song…
Menma and Dimitri:...Just start the chapter.
United I Stand
Chapter Seven: Welcome to Taki
The group of shinobi ran across the bridge into the entrance of the village. The five could see dozens of shinobi clad in midnight blue masks and black clothing attacking the various civilians. "Do not hesitate to kill," Inoichi commanded to the group.
The moment they got close enough, Inoichi leapt into the air and delivered a flying kick to the first shinobi that ran towards him to attack.
Anko skidded on her knees to avoid a large naginata taking off her head and quickly rose to her feet and twisted around with a leap and stabbed her kunai into the neck of her attack.
Naruto leapt over Anko and landed a kick to the shinobi behind her while Naruko and Menma ran past them and both leapt up and landed a knee to two of the invading shinobi's faces, sending them to the ground.
The two rolled on top of their downed opponents and both reached into their kunai pouch and stabbed the two shinobi in their necks.
Menma removed the kunai and immediately launched it at another invading shinobi, who was about to kill an mother and child.
But he also caught the attention of two more invading shinobi.
Menma smirked and ran forward and launched two kunai at the two shinobi, who deflected them only for Menma to skid in front of one of them and stab him in the gut with a kunai before he ducked the second's roundhouse kick, which nailed the first invading shinobi in the face.
Menma rolled behind the second shinobi and then leapt up and stabbed him in the throat with a kunai then pulled it out.
Meanwhile, Naruko ran towards a house where two invading shinobi were busting their way through and delivered a kick to both of their backs, sending the duo in. Naruko landed on the ground then flipped to her feet and said "Kage Bushin no Jutsu!"
Two clones of her quickly appeared and ran to the downed men and stabbed their backs repeatedly as she turned around only to catch the fist of another invading kunoichi and twisted her arm, sending him off her feet and onto the ground where Naruko quickly stabbed her in the neck twice.
Anko and Naruto let out a shout as the leapt into the air and delivered a double flying kick to a invading shinobi but when they landed, Naruto ducked the right fist of a kunoichi and kicked her in the face, sending the shinobi off of her feet and onto the ground before he launched a kunai into the masked kunoichi's head.
"Is that all of them?" Naruko asked as Anko finished off a shinobi on the ground. Menma and Inoichi joined seconds later.
"Seems like it but I'm betting there are more deeper into the village," Inoichi replied.
"But who are they anyways?" Menma questioned.
Inoichi looked at one of the downed bodies and said "I can find out. Keep watch." Inoichi then walked to one of the dead bodies and knelt beside it and performed several seals before placing his index and middle fingers on the deceased's forehead.
"Saiko Denshin," Inoichi whispered as he shut his eyes and began to focus.
Just five seconds later, Inoichi removed his fingers and said "There wasn't much but I did find out something. These shinobi were hired as an army to take over this country to get the Heroes Water…"
"The Heroes water?" Anko asked her partner.
"No idea what that is but I have the names and faces of the four shinobi. Suien," Kirisame, Murasame and Hisame but there is another figure there but I can't make out the face…" Inoichi said as he stood up from his knelt spot. "They must still be in the village somewhere."
"So what now then?" Menma asked.
"It means we get to fight these bitches," Naruto said with a cheeky grin with his hands behind his head.
"That should be quite the learning experience," Naruko said excitedly.
Menma smirked and replied "Well I'll take that."
"You won't take anything," Anko said.
"She's right. First things first, we look for survivors. If any of you are attacked, defend yourselves," Inoichi said.
The three Genin nodded and took off in different directions but Anko remained. "They were able to kill," Anko noted. "They didn't even hesitate…"
"I know," Inoichi said. "They don't even look shaken by it…"
"You don't think they have murdered before, do you?" Anko questioned.
Inoichi narrowed his eyes in thought before he and Anko glanced at each other.
"You can stop hiding now. We know you're there," Inoichi challenged.
There was silence before a bored voice said "And here I thought you two were dumb. Should've known better from Konoha shinobi."
From the roof behind the pair of Jōnin, a muscular, tough-looking shinobi stepped into sight.
He wore a black, sleeveless shirt, grey pants, ninja sandals, and brown-colored arm warmers. He had about chin length grey hair which is spiked at the top. He also had a teal line marking that goes over his nose.
"Hard to not notice the stench of blood coming from you," Anko said with a scowl.
"So you must be Murasame, The eldest of the Same Siblings of Amegakure," Inoichi said. "You do realize who you face, right?"
"I know," Murasame replied as he pulled out a bottle of water and held it up to the pair as he said "That's why I came prepared. To defeat the famed Yamanaka Inoichi and Mitarashi Anko will put me down in history."
The man smirked and drunk the bottle and both Inoichi and Anko immediately felt a pulse of chakra flow from the man. Ethereal blue flames flowed around the man as he placed the bottle back on his belt and let wide smirk appear on his face.
"Don't blink now," Murasame said before he flickered out of existence.
"I can't believe we actually killed," Naruto heard Naruko say in his head with a soft tone.
"It was us or them," Menma replied. "Simple as that."
"It's just after that night I…We swore to always find a different path, you know?" Naruko replied.
Naruto paused on the roof and thought 'I know…I hate the fact that we did it as well…We broke our promise but you heard Inoichi-sensei at the start. Use lethal force. We are on a mission now and we can't afford to not listen…Besides, if any of us die, we all do. We can't take that risk…'
"Looking at all the carnage around us shows they didn't care about human life…They earned what they got. They are the bad guys here," Menma replied with a growl.
"I guess…" Naruto replied faintly.
'Hold on,' Naruto thought as he heard crying in the distance. 'I hear someone crying…' Naruto leapt down from the roof and dashed forward through the streets of the ruined Taki, trying to ignore the various dead bodies that littered the streets.
Naruto skidded to a stop when he noticed a lone figure on his knees in the middle of the street.
The figure had long, dark brown hair, which was tied in a lower ponytail style and fair skin. The man wore grey pants, a green shirt, and shinobi sandals with a grey shoulder pad on his left shoulder with a brown strap over.
And he was holding what looked to be a deceased child in his arms.
Naruto, who had removed a kunai from his pouch at seeing the figure, slowly put it away as sadness filled his heart. The man was grieving heavily as the sobs indicated.
Naruto walked up to the kneeling man and asked "Are you alright?"
The man turned around and Naruto could see anger and fear in his dark brown eyes, as well as the tears on his face. "D-Don't hurt me!" The man exclaimed.
"I won't hurt you," Naruto said as he pointed to his forehead. "I'm from Konoha. We had a mission here to find-"
"T-To find Fū," The man said.
"Yeah, that's right. How did you know?" Naruto asked.
"I-I was the one who requested the mission," The man said. "My name is Shibuki…I am the leader of this village…"
Naruto narrowed his eyes. "The leader…What happened here?"
Shibuki shook his head with a broken look and said "I was coming to welcome you to the village but we were attacked…Suien-se…Suien decided to perform a coup for the Hero's water…So many slain…S-So many lost…"
Naruto opened his mouth but a voice from above exclaimed "So this is where you were hiding Shibuki!"
Just then, a man leapt down from the roof across from the pair and landed on the ground in a crouching position.
The man wore a black hat like forehead protector with the Amegakure symbol on the front of it, tied in the back of his head.
He also wore a black skin-tight suit underneath all of his clothing, which also covers his mouth and nose, a grey scarf around his neck, a white T-shirt over his black suit, a blue-colored strapped suit that acts as his pants and a shirt over his grey one. He was also wearing his weapon holster on his right thigh and black shinobi sandals.
The man turned around and Naruto could see that he had tiny black eye irises, messy, chin-length brown hair coming out from under his forehead protector, part of it covering his left eye.
And no eyebrows.
"Kirisame!" Shibuki exclaimed with terror.
"Suien-Sama was wondering where you escaped to," The man said. "He told us to find you and bring you back to him…But he didn't say to bring you back alive," Kirisame said with a sadistic gleam in his eyes.
"Is he one of the guys that attacked this place?" Naruto asked.
"Y-Yes…" Shibuki stammered out.
Naruto smirked and replied "That's all I needed to hear…" Naruto made his way in front of the broken Taki leader and stared at Kirisame and quipped "Never in my life have I seen an eyebrow-less being but here I am."
"A little pipsqueak from Konoha wishes to fight me?" Kirisame asked.
"I have a feeling this won't last long at all," Naruto replied. "For what you and your other teammates done brow-less, I'm going to stomp you out until there's nothing left."
Kirisame laughed wildly and said "I'm going to enjoy showing you your heart before you perish!"
'Hold on, I hear someone crying…'
Menma darted from left to right on a roof, his eyes scouring for any survivors. So far, he had managed to find ten people hidden but nothing short for enemies quite yet.
He landed on a roof and crouched down on it and thought 'Naruko…Anything?'
"Nothing yet," Naruko replied.
'Naruto, you find out the cause of the crying?'
"Little busy at the moment!" Naruto's voice exclaimed. Seconds later, the sound of explosions reached his ears.
'Naruto? Were you the cause of-' Menma was interrupted as a foot collided with the back of his head, which sent him soaring through the roof and crashing into the second floor of the house.
Thankfully on a nice and comfortable queen sized bed.
Menma shook his head and looked back from the corner of his eye only to roll off of the bed and onto one knee to avoid his head sliced by a water whip.
"How lucky you were able to avoid that," A female's voice said.
Menma narrowed his eyes and seconds later, he heard her voice shout "Suiton: Mizu Buki (Water Style: Water Weapons)!" Just then, a spear made of water shot through the roof right in Menma's direction. Menma rolled backwards to avoid it, only for the spear to retreat then pierce through the roof again at his direction.
Menma rolled to the left and leapt out of the window and clung to the wall with his chakra and quickly darted up the side but without warning, the woman leapt off the side of the roof with a water sword in her hand.
The woman had short light brown unkempt spiky hair, azure blue earrings, red lipstick, pupil-less black eye irises, short thin light brown eyebrows and wore a white hair band over her head, holding the hair out of the way from her eyes.
She wore a pink tube top that has dark red linen along with an open, light blue shirt, navy blue pants and ninja sandals. She wore her shuriken holster on her right leg. She felt towards Menma and swiped the water made sword but Menma pulled out a kunai and clashed weapons with her.
"You were quick to escape that trap boy," the woman said with a gleam in her eyes. "You will be a good challenge to see where I stand."
"Heh, I was about to say the same to you," Menma hissed out.
The woman smirked and said "When you meet the Shinigami, tell him that Hisame sent you to him."
"Took the words right out of my mouth!" Menma yelled before he broke away from the clash and leapt up to deliver a roundhouse kick, which sent her flying from the side of the house and crashing into the wall of the house to their left.
'Naruto? Were you the cause of-'
Naruko's eyes widened in horror when Menma was suddenly cut off but she knew that he was still alive.
Otherwise, she would have been dead already. The sounds of explosions and fighting rang in the distance and for a moment, Naruko was glad.
It was so eerie standing amongst the dead that she felt that she was about to lost her mind.
'Just like that night…' Naruko thought to herself before she heard crying from three houses down. Naruko immediately sprang into action and ran down the body filled streets as quickly as possible and when she made it to the house, she quickly threw open the door to see a cloaked figure standing in front of two small children.
Naruko's eyes widened and she sucked in a breath.
"W-Why are you doing this?"
"You *hick* killed my family and left me like this!"
The image of the children instantly flickered to a bloody five year old Naruto as he cowered in the corner as a hulking man stood before him, a bloody dagger in his hand before it flashed back to the scene in front of her.
And Naruko immediately sprung into action with a scream and tackled the hooded figure out from in front of the children and through the wall, sending both of them outside.
The two slammed to the ground but the figure kicked Naruko in the chest, sending her skidding backwards against the ground but Naruko placed her hand against the ground and pushed herself off and onto her feet, which skidded against the ground.
"Bōfū Sōru (Hurricane Soul)!" Naruko exclaimed as her eyes took on platinum blue color as a faint sapphire blue aura of chakra flowed from her body.
The figure flipped up to their feet and said "Wait, I'm not here to-"
Naruko dashed forward with an enraged shout.
The figure's orange eyes widened beneath their mask.
Naruko: That's where it ends?!
Claude: *Shrug* Until the next chapter I guess. Until then guys! Golden Deer signing off!
Naruto and Edelgard: Shiny!