Chapter 8
„Last Wish"
Naruto was about to fell asleep, but footsteps caught his ears. He let out a sigh and open his eye. He got up slightly and saw Geralt. He seems to absent-minded. Naruto raised his one visible eyebrow.
"Geralt?" -Naruto called, but there was no response. Geralt went for the doors, ignoring Naruto's calls."Geralt? Where are you going? Oi!"
[...Told ya...]
[...I better check on him...]
Naruto quickly followed Geralt to the courtyard and saw Witcher jumping on Roach. He then left the grounds of the manor and vanished in the darkness. He gave a glance at the manor and crossed his fingers. A single shadow clone pops out into existence.
"Keep an eye on the manor, while I go after Geralt." -Naruto said to his clone. The Clone nods and gave him a thumb up."Alright, let's see what's up with Geralt."
It was too easy to catch up with Geralt and Roach. Naruto was sticking to the shadows, but would still detect him. But, the Witcher was simply looking ahead. Naruto was wondering what's gotten into him. As if he was put under the spell. But why would Yennefer put him under a spell?
[...Maybe, because she doesn't want anyone to intervene in her schemes?...]
[...What schemes? She just needs Jaskier to grant her wish. What else would she want?...]
[...Perhaps she wants the djinn?...]
[...Are you kidding me? Yennefer doesn't strike as someone who doesn't know how dangerous djinns are...]
[...She strikes me as someone, who's ready to do anything to get what she wants...]
[...Even if it means dying? What she can gain from dying?...]
[...Maybe she wants to go out with style?...]
[...Yeah, sure...]
Naruto carefully entered the manor again. He noticed the same mist from before, but instead of licking the ground, it was everywhere. Even with his perfect vision, Naruto had a hard time knowing where he was. He could swear that something was moving in the mist.
"Yennefer?" -Naruto called, but there was no response."Are you there? Hello?"
Suddenly the room shook and Naruto was tossed to the wall. But instead of landing on the floor, Naruto notices that he was just lying like on a floor. Now, he was standing on the wall, not the floor. But for Shinobi like him, it didn't make any difference. Yennefer was playing with him now.
"Come on, this is childish." -Naruto said and the room moved again. Now, Naruto was standing on the roof."Talk to me...Why do you want that djinn?"
"You would never understand..." -Her voice sounded through the corridors."I can't let you intervene...Sorry."
Naruto quickly rushed and jumped to the kitchen. Everything there seems to be normal. But as he turned to the doors, they immediately closed. Naruto noticed that they were dimly glowing. He walks to the doors and didn't even bother with trying to open them.
"If you think that's gonna stop me..." -Naruto said with a smirk."Then you're wrong." -With lightning speed, Naruto formed Rasengan and slam it against the doors. Initially, the shield protected the doors, but after a second it broke down."Come out! This is stupid!"
Not wanting to waste time, Naruto moved as quick as lightning to the room where he sensed Yennefer and Jaskier. He saw her standing next to the mage seal from an amphora. Jaskier was still in his sleep.
"Yennefer...Let's just talk." -Naruto said and raised his hands. She just stared at him with awe and resolve.
"You're not bad. Not bad at all." -Yennefer commented and her hands glowed."But you're not stopping me..."
"You'll die if you try to control the djinn!" -Naruto yelled at her and felt something pulling him backward. He used the chakra to stick to the floor. Yennefer was momentarily surprised."Don't do this!"
"I apologize for this." -Yennefer said and Naruto was covered by light. After the light was gone, Naruto was gone."Now...no one will stop me."
[Rinde. Later.]
Naruto landed on a rooftop and saw how Geralt stopped and jump from Roach. He walks up to a building and starts climbing the ladder. He broke down the doors and went inside the house. Naruto let out a sigh and quickly vanish and reappear next to broken doors. After hearing a shriek. so he carefully peaks in and his eyes almost fell off.
There was a pair of two mature people. A woman and a man. There were naked and everything. But what shocked and disgusted Naruto what Geralt did. He took a banana from a bowl of fruits and pulled the man to himself. He then, almost to swiftly, shove the banana up the man's arse. Naruto almost drops to his knees upon hearing the poor man's scream of terror. But he found the hidden strength within him to rush in and pull Geralt away from the man.
"Geralt! What the fuck, man?!" -Naruto shouted at his friend who didn't seem to hear him. Geralt instead rush out of the room."I'm so sorry! I don't know what happened to him!" -With that he followed Geralt, not wanting to witness a man in pain.
Geralt was already on the ground, running after probably another victim.
"What did she do to him?!" -Naruto asked out loud and jumped down as well. He saw that Geralt punched a random civilian and then went inside the tavern. By the time he reached the doors, Naruto could hear shouts and rumbles, Quickly rushing into the tavern, Naruto groaned upon seeing Geralt in a bar fight. Geralt had no problems with fighting more than a few enemies. With his 'six' sense, Witcher could naturally tell where he's going to be attacked.
Suddenly, Naruto's eyes widen. His clone's memories returned to him. Naruto cursed under his nose and within a second, he switched places with Geralt. He ducked to avoid getting a punch in the face and throw a smoke bomb to the ground. A thick layer of smoke blinded everyone in the tavern. But Naruto had no issue of getting out of the smoke. Geralt planned to get away again, but Naruto caught him by the shoulder. He stared at him with his Sharingan and said 'Release'.
"What?" -Geralt said while blinking."Where the fuck am I?"
"Maybe We should get out of here first..." -Naruto said and heard drunkards yelling.
"Right...Let's go." -Geralt agreed and they quickly started to get away from the tavern. But they were stopped by the handy amount of guards pointing their weapons at them."Fuck..."
"Yield! You're under arrest!" -One of the guards yelled. Naruto notices that behind the guards were the couple from before. Upon seeing them, Naruto got pale.
"It's him!" -The man in robes said. His hand was resting on his back."He...He's the one who raped me!"
Geralt's face got even paler than before. He glanced at Naruto who was sweating and decided not to ask. This will forever remain a secret. At least between them. Then, they heard footsteps behind them. They turned their head around to see an angry mob from the tavern.
"Shit..." -Geralt cursed and they both raised their hands."I wish We're in the manor..."
The wind picked up and everyone had to shield themself. Then a vortex formed around Naruto and Geralt. In a blink of bright light, They were gone.
Naruto felt like was tossed around before landing on the ground. He landed face down with a grunt. After turning around, he let out a loud groan. Looking to his left, Naruto noticed Geralt who was lying on the ground as well.
"Geralt...The fuck happened?" -Naruto said with small difficulty. He got up on his elbows and looked around. To his shock and surprise, they were next to the Mayor's manor.
Geralt slowly got up with a loud groan. He glanced at Naruto and shook his head.
"You tell me...Since when can you teleport?" -Geralt asked and Naruto got up as well.
"Here's the thing, I can't teleport that far with my Rinnegan." -Naruto admitted with a sigh. Geralt felt a nasty itch on his forearm. He pulled the sleeve and cursed under his nose."What? Are you alright?"
Without responding, Geralt revealed two marks on his forearm to Naruto. Naruto groaned and run his hand through his hair. Geralt was the djinn master. Both responded by quickly rushing to the manor. To their surprise, they saw Jaskier rushing out of the manor. He let out a sigh of relief upon seeing them.
"Guys, thank the gods!" -He said while panting."We need to go!"
"Jaskier, you're okay." -Geralt said with a usual smile.
"I'm glad you're giving a monkey about it." -Jaskier said with a rather dry smile.
"Let's not jump to conclusions." -Geralt said and then Jaskier in the eyes."What happened? Try to keep it short."
"I woke up, some crazy witch wanted to say my wish." -Jaskier quickly said and added."She had a drawn amphora on the stomach..."
"So that's her plan..." -Naruto said out loud."She wants to become the vessel..."
"To grow more powerful." -Geralt finished and they both quickly rush past Jaskier.
Jaskier, on the other hand, groans and turns to them. In a second they were gone.
"Bullocks..." -He said under his nose and sat down on the steps.
Geralt and Naruto quickly found Yennefer on her knees. She was struggling to keep control over the djinn. Naruto lifted his headband to reveal his Rinnegan. He saw that djinn was floating on the bed. Although it was a mass of energy, Naruto could make out eyes and lips. There was also a rope that linked Yennefer to a djinn. He could see how djinn was taking Yennefer's energy away from her.
Upon seeing them, Yennefer lifted her hand and was ready to attack them. They raised their hand in a gesture of surrender. Yennefer slowly put her hand down.
"I'm here to help you..." -Geralt said and they both put their hands down.
"Me too..." -Naruto added quietly, but loud enough to hear them.
"I don't need your help." -She was trying to force a confident grin, but to no avail."You're free. No longer under my spell."
"And yet...Here I am." -Geralt said and Yennefer stared at him.
"You seem to want to meet your end." -Yennefer said with a small smile.
"As you do..." -Geralt said, while Naruto nodded. Naruto suddenly came up with an idea. He carefully gave Geralt a sign to buy him some time. Witcher nodded and turned his eyes toward Yennefer.
"The djinn isn't weakening." -Yennefer said with a dry voice."The bard expressed his last wish, but it's!-" -She stopped, feeling as if someone was breaking bones inside of her body."It's getting stronger! Go!"
Without her realizing it, Naruto slowly made his way toward the djinn. He reaches out with his hand and his Rinnegan glowed. At the same time, he used Preta and Human Path. Human Path allowed him to tap into djinn more spiritual appearance, while Preta Path will absorb his power. The room shook violently for a second, but Naruto noticed that djinn was growing weaker. The link between him and Yennefer was slowly breaking apart. Luckily, she didn't seem to notice it.
"That's because I'm the one with my wishes." -Geralt admitted with an annoyed tone. She stared at him with disbelief and slight anger.
"You?" -She said out loud. For some reason, there was no anger in her voice."You're the djinn's master?"
"Yeah..." -He said with a sigh. Geralt glanced at Naruto, who smiled at him. Djinn was barely holding himself together. Yennefer finally took notice of what Naruto was doing.
"Stop! I don't need your help!" -She shouted, sending a small magical blast toward him. But Naruto used his second hand to absorb her attack.
"Becoming the vessel for the djinn will have you lose control, not gain it!" -Geralt yelled at her, but she didn't want to listen to him."Can't you see what this is doing to you?!"
"True transformation is painful!" -She exclaimed, trying to use her Chaos to fix the link. But whatever Naruto was doing, it was on a different level.
"It's over! The djinn is barely there!" -Naruto shouted and then looked at Geralt."Make a wish and let's be done with this."
"Dammit, release the djinn!" -Geralt yelled at her again."Tell me what you want!"
"I want everything!" -She screamed as the link was breaking apart.
"Come on! I'm not going to hold for the rest of the day." -Naruto said with annoyances. Yennefer screamed for the last time before the link broke. Then she fell to the floor, motionless.
"I want people of Rinde to forget what I did!" -He shouted and rush to the Yennefer side.
Naruto finally let go of the djinn, who quickly broke through the ceiling. He rushes to Geralt and Yennefer and shielded them with his Susanoo. The ceiling fell on them, but thanks to his Susanoo they were unharmed. Eventually, everything calmed down and Naruto released his Susanoo. He looks around them and let out a sigh.
"Yennefer! Wake up!" -Geralt yelled and shook her body. Naruto examines her with his eyes and saw that her life force was fading.
"Shit...She's dying." -Naruto cursed and Geralt pulled by his collar.
"Then do something!" -Geralt almost roared at him. Naruto nodded and told him to step aside.
"I'll give her back what djinn was taking from her." -Naruto said and his Rinngan glowed again. He put his hand on her head with a thumb on her forehead. His other hand on the stomach. His hands glowed with blue light and eyes shot open. Naruto took his hands, as she quickly got up.
"Where is the djinn?" -She demanded while looking at Geralt and Naruto."What did you do?! I nearly had it!"
"Maybe saying a 'thank you for bringing me back' or 'thanks' should be the first thing to say." -Naruto said with a sigh."Seriously..."
"You had shit, while We saved your life." -Geralt said while shaking his head.
"You two let the djinn escape!" -She yelled at them."Who knows what havoc will it do, now that it has no vessel!"
"No more havoc than you." -Naruto said with a chuckle."Besides, the djinn is a dark creature when they're captive."
"How can you be so sure." -Yennefer snorted at him.
"When did you last feel happy, when you felt trapped?" -Geralt asked smugly. She turned to him, fire in her violet eyes.
"I had a plan!" -She hissed at him, causing Geralt and Naruto to smile.
"And that was going swimmingly." -Geralt said with a chuckle.
"It was...like a drowning fish." -She said to him and they both stared at each other. Their face only inches apart. Suddenly, they kiss each other causing Naruto to shake his head in disbelief.
"Get a room, you two." -He said to them with a smile. Within a second, they were gone causing Naruto to chuckle. He decided to lie down and stare a the night sky. He smiled at said."What a day..."