KONOHA'S BLOODY PRINCE
BY MSTRDANTE
If you skipped over the prologue whether by accident or on purpose than please go read it it's important.
Disclaimer : I don't own Naruto Or Reborn! Only any characters or plotlines I create
"Characters talking to each other"
'Characters thinking to themselves'
"/'Character's exclaiming/thinking technique names"/'
CHAPTER ONE
Accidental Leaving/Surprised Arrival
It's been a week and a half since Belphegor turned seventeen and he's been enjoying some timeoff. It's currently a hour and a half after midnight and Belphegor can't sleep. 'After so much time doing nothing no wonder I'm so friggin antsy.' Belphegor spends the next few minutes lying on his bed with his hands behind his head.
Tapping the back of his head furiously Belphegor let's out a frustrated grunt getting up. 'I guess I might as well do some late night training.' Moving efficiently but leisurely Belphegor gets dressed in his Varia battle outfit. Equipping the knive that Sqaulo gave him, he has it strapped to his right wrist for quick and easy drawing.
Making sure his tiara is firmly in place atop of his head Belphegor makes his way out of his room. On his way to the mansion's rear training field Belphegor's mind wanders to the events transpired following Xanxus's escape from his frozen prison a year ago. The battle for the rings to decide the next head of the Vongola was the first event that came to Belphegor's mind.
Of course the Varia easily defeated Tsunayoshi Sawada's group of misfit middle schoolers. However things went south when the rings rejected Xanxus for not being of Vongola blood. 'The outcome was certainly surprising the idea that a naive child like Sawada would be deemed more worthy than Xanxus is laughable.'
The next event that comes to his mind that came to his mind didn't really involve Belphegor or at the very least not this Belphegor. It's safe to say that when Belphegor received memories of events that took place ten years in the future he was shocked would be an understatement. 'I still have a hard time believing that Sawada really took up the challenge and defeated the Millefiore. With help from us of course but still a very impressive accomplishment for a kid like him.'
If there was any hypocrisy in Belphegor being only a few years older than Sawada he chooses not to see it. The final event that comes to is Belphegor's mind is The Rainbow War to free one of the Arcobaleno from their curse. Following Mammon's request for help with his curse Xanxus lead the Varia six other team representing the six other Arcobaleno.
To the surprise of all the teams the war was interrupted by a secret eighth team lead by an eighth Arcobaleno. Following the revelation that the eighth Arcobaleno Bermuda von Veckenschtein's plan to kill the man behind the Arcobaleno's curse would involve the death of all the Arcobaleno. Sawada implored the other teams including the Varia to form a truce and stop Bermuda. Xanxus and the other team leaders agreed to help and together with Sawada they defeated Bermuda.
Following a meeting with the man behind the curse man calling himself Checker Face and some outside of the box thinking from Sawada the Arcobaleno were freed from their curse. 'I don't care much about the other Arcobaleno but I'm really glad Mammon got what he wanted.'
Just as Belphegor finishes his little trip down memory lane he finds himself at his destination. Exiting the mansion Belphegor finds himself at the Varia outside training grounds. It was relatively simple in appearance, a large field of dirt the field like the rest of the mansion was surrounded by trees.
On the outskirts of the field were several practice dummies designed for both ranged and melee weapon practice. But the part of the field that intrested Belphegor the most at the current moment was the trees. Making his way to a tree Belphegor draws the knive Sqaulo gave him for his birthday.
With a cheshire grin on his face Belphegor unleashes a flurry of slashes with the knife easily digging into and cutting the bark and base of the tree. After his flurry Belphegor leans in and examines the slash marks firmly impressed with how deep they were. Satisfied with the knife's test Belphegor moves on to his next test.
Moving between the two biggest trees he could Belphegor throws a pair of knives one to the left and one to the right with a wire connecting them. 'Alright Mammon time to test your gift let's see who did better you or Sqaulo!' With the wire firmly secure between the two trees Belphegor raises his new combat knife above his head before cackling 'Shi Shi Shi' and bringing the knife down full force on the wire.
The following sound of metal clashing with metal reverberated throughout the training field. Taking a small step back to admire the aftermath Belphegor is excited to see that the wire is completely intact.
Moving his attention from the wire to the knife he is surprised to see a small chip in the blade where it met the wire. 'Sorry Sqaulo but it looks like Mammon wins this time.'
Collecting the knives and the wire from the trees Belphegor feels the hairs on the back of his neck stand up. Turning around he is greeted with the sight of what appears to be a blue portal distorting the air around it aswpurple lightning shoots out of it as it grows in size.
Belphegor notes that as it gets bigger it gets closer to swallowing him up, Belphegor tries to get out of the way only to discover that his body is paralyzed in place. 'Well Shit!' Were his last thoughts as the portal swallowed him up only to shrink and dissapear afterwards.
'What just happened?' Belphegor thought with a grin as he finds himself now in a lying down position. Looking up to the sky he realizes that it's no longer night instead of stars he's greeted with a full blue sky.
After Belphegor moves himself intto a sitting position Belphegor begins to survey his surroundings only to discover that he's been transported to a different location. 'Makes sense after all I did just get swallowed up by a portal of all things'
The first thing Belphegor notes as he observes his new surroundings is lots of green in his vision, upon closer inspection he learns that the green belongs to tall trees with absurdly thick brown trunks.
Rising to his feet Belphegor pats down his clothes and then he raises his left hand up to check his head for his tiara finding it secure in its usual place on the left side of his head.
'Good! gotta make sure they understand that I'm above them' Reaching into his inner left breast pocket he pulls out his Smartphone to find that wherever he is he has no signal. Belphegor uses his left hand to scratch the back of his head still grinning but slightly less so.
'It seems I'll have to figure out where I am the old fashioned way.' Being lost in the woods the smart thing to do is to pick a direction and stick with it and since Belphegor is genius that's of course exactly what he does.
Choosing north he begins his trek at a leisurely pace with his left hand in his left coat pocket, his right hand lazily waving its index finger around as he hums a jaunty tune.
Right foot, left foot, right foot, left foot again and again for almost two hours Belphegor has been walking down this same dirt path. Still surrounded by trees with no sign of civilization in sight and the heat combined with his leather jacket has turned a slightly amusing occurrence to a very irritating situation.
'So sweaty! I don't know who's idea of a joke this is but when I find them they're so dead' Belphegor thinks while he picks at his shirts collar contemplating taking of his jacket to better deal with the heat.
Belphegor's musings were interrupted by the familiar sounds of metal meeting metal. The grin that had dissapeared quickly reappears on Belphegor's face. Belphegor turns to his right towards the sound of battle before quickly dashing towards it.
'Finally something entertaining is happening.'
As he sped towards his destination Belphegor's vision became tunneled filled with nothing but green racing behind him. After less than a minute of running the green left his vision and he found himself stopped at the edge of a clearing.
Towards the center of the clearing Belphegor finds the curious sight of fifteen darkly colored figures facing of against one solitary brightly colored figure. Focusing his attention on the group of individuals Belphegor takes in their appearances.
The first thing Belphegor notes is that they're all wearing a matching outfit that consists of a black jumpsuit, a dark brown combat vest, full black face masks and open toed black boots to complete the outfit.
As his eyes roam the masked men he notices that one of them did not have a mask on. The maskless man's long flowing green hair makes him stand out from his allies denoting him as the obvious leader of the group.
Belphegor's eyes then traveled to the lone figure facing down this group. The first thing that jumped out to him was the girl's bright bubblegum pink hair, eyes roaming down taking in her attire of a red vest, black tights underneath a light brown apron, black gloves and finally open toed black shoes.
'Must be the style around here' Noting the Shuriken and Kunai littering the ground around the girl and the Kunai held in her right hand defensively. Belphegor determines that group initiated the encounter with a volley of weapons while the girl used her Kunai to deflect them.
'That must've been the cause of the sound of clashing metal that drew me here.' Despite himself Belphegor let out his distinctive laugh of 'Shi Shi Shi' altering the clearing to his presence. The leader of the masked men turned towards him and threw a group of Shuriken at him.
Belphegor prepared to meet the incoming barrage of shuriken with a barrage of his own knifes but before he could move the attack was intercepted by the pink-haired girl.
She managed to deflect most of them with her Kunai but a few slip passed her blade two landing in her right forearm and one grazing her left cheek blood seeping from the three wounds. She turns her attention to Belphegor but not enough that she loses sight of the enemy.
"Are you okay?" She asked Belphegor through gritted teeth a hard look in her eyes but her concern very much evident in her expression. 'Did she really just get hurt protecting me, a total stranger how amusingly naive.'
Belphegor grinned bringing his right hand up with it's thumb and fore finger pressed together with the rest of his fingers extended up. "I'm OH-KAY!" he responded cheerily putting extra emphasis on the stwo two syllables of okay. If his cheerful demeanor put her off the girl didn't show it transitioning quickly to her next statement.
"I'm sorry you got caught up in my fight, go on and get out of here I'll cover your escape." It's after she said this that Belphegor realized that him and the girl were speaking Japanese. 'Man I was in Italy only two hours ago that portal must of sent me pretty fucking far!'
Belphegor raises an eyebrow behind his bangs as he focused on what she said coming to an understanding. 'She seems to be under the impression that I'm just a hapless bystander that has no place on the battlefield how cute.'
With a giggle of Shi Shi Shi Belphegor confidently steps in front of the girl ignoring her confused "What're you doing?" "Step back girlie and let me teach you a lesson about why you shouldn't underestimate a Prince!" He remarks as he comically raises his arms In an exaggerated stretch designed to give a lackadaisical appearance in order anger his opponents.
It worked like a charm with one of the more hot headed masked men chucking a handful of Kunai at Belphegor's face. His response was to turn his head away from the incoming projectiles and towards the girl behind him catching the Kunai with his head turned away from them.
His grin threatening to split his face wide open Belphegor remarked. "I don't even need to pay attention to kill these peasants." With a flick of his wrist Belphegor sends the Kunai back at their original owner. The Kunai were travelling at speeds far superior to the original throw the Kunai find their target faster than their original owner could react.
The sound of the man's body hitting the ground reverberated throughout the clearing. Returning his attention to the opposition Belphegor spreads his arms out wide "Anyone else think that they have what it takes to step to the Prince?"
'If they were smart they'd take this opportunity to run the opposite direction.' Sakura realized now understanding that she was mistaken in her assumption that this stranger needed her protection.
'Standing so close to him I can feel it now his presence he has the same presence as Zabuza the presence of an experienced assassin.' It would appear that they're not smart enough to run away because the remaning thirteen masked men start running towards the mysterious stranger.
Sakura tensed anxious to see how this so called 'Prince' would handle these masked morons. Reaching his hands behind his back he makes a show of drawing two sets of knives, unique knives she's never seen before. Then with blistering speed he hurls them at the incoming attackers a volley of metal death heading their way.
At the speed the knives were traveling towards their targets only a fraction of them possess the ability to react in time. The sound of metal tearing through flesh resonates in the ears of everyone present as eight men lost their lives. Just barely managing to escape death by dodging the knives five men continue their advance.
The surviving men having been positioned in the middle of the attack force are closing in fast on their blonde-haired target. As they neared the self proclaimed 'Prince' he quickly threw his arms out sideways in the air.
'What's he gonna do now?' Sakura wonders as she watched these events unfold in front of her eyes. After waiting for his attackers to get within two meters distance Sakura's circumstanceal ally threw his arms inward speedily.
Bringing his arms inward at full speed Belphegor causes the razor sharp wires he had attached to the knives he threw earlier to converge on his attackers his special strength wires cutting through them easily.
The attack was so fast its victims didn't even know it happened untill it was too late. With a giant splatter of blood their dissected bodies fall to ground landing with a thud.
'That attack was brought to you courtesy of Mammon!' Belphegor takes a second to send Mammon his thanks again for the new extra strong wires.
Belphegor looks upon the unmoving pile of limbs his ever present grin unaffected by the gruesome scene. Belphegor begins to laugh quietly to himself amused with his work.
Belphegor's moment of self-appreciation is interrupted by one of the disfigured bodies vanishing in a poof of smoke leaving behind a destroyed log in its place. 'What in the world just happened, am I caught in someone's Illusion?... No I don't think so.'
Belphegor's consternation at what just happened has caused his smile to become slightly strained. Recognizing the sound of an enemy approaching him from behind. Belphegor begins to turn around and punish his attacker only for the pink-haired girl to beat him to the punch.
With knives in his right hand Belphegor watches the girl drive her fist into the man's face sending him flying to his left with such force that he went flying through a tree. The upper half of the now split tree falls to the ground with a massive crash.
Belphegor whistles impressed with the girls inhuman strength as she smirks clearly proud of herself. "You sure showed him didn't you Pinky!" Belphegor complements with no small amount of snark while still actually meaning the compliment.
Sakura scowled in response to the nickname. "My name is Sakura not Pinky, Got it!" The stranger chuckled before putting his left hand on his heart in an expression of mock horror. "My sincerest apologies, Sakura-Chan please call me Belphegor-Sama."
Sakura raised an eyebrow at his response "Alrighty then, thanks for your help Belphegor-San." Sakura replied as the leader of their masked attackers decided to reassert his presence. "How Dare You Ignore Me! Don't think that I'll go down as easily as my men did."
The man's green eyes that matched his hair were squinting and filled with rage. Reaching behind his back he pulled out a three-section staff brandishing it in full staff form. "You're gonna regret what you did to my men!"
In response Belphegor looks at him intently before turning to Sakura. "Do you want to take care of him or should I?" He asks her to which she smirks before standing in front of him in a fighting stance. "Stand back and watch how the apprentice of the Godaime Hokage fights!"
Unbeknownst to Sakura Belphegor raises his left eyebrow completely unfamiliar with who the 'Godamie Hokage' is. Having enough of Belphegor and Sakura treating him like a joke the enemy leader finally charged at them.
As he neared her Sakura focused her chakra into her right fist before driving it into the ground causing it to crack and rock debris to fly out of the ground towards the leader's body. Instead of trying to dodge the attack like Sakura expected him to. The leader raises his staff above his head before bringing It down striking the rocks causing them to turn to dust harmlessly passing by him.
"Earth is MY weapon it can't be used against me!" Ken'Chi said with confidence as he stared down the pink-haired girl. Driving the tip of his Gurētoāsupōru into the ground on his right he pulls it out along with a big chunk of the earth in the shape of a hammer.
'Earth Style Equip: Great Hammer' With all his might Ken'Chi swings his Great Hammer sideways at his pink-haired adversary. Hopping backwards she dodges his first swipe. Recovering from the missed swing Ken'Chi quickly follows up with a second swing this time coming from his left.
When she dodges again he decides to kick it up a notch. He increases the speed of his approach while simultaneously increasing the number of his swings. But still the girl manages to dodge hopping backwards while swaying.
Left, right, left, right, backwards, right, left and backwards at the same time. She's dancing on the balls of her feet as she dodges his swings. And the part that aggravates Ken'Chi the most is how relaxed she looks as she does it.
'How is she this good she's just a damn brat?' The thirty-five year old man thought livid at his current situation. Ken'Chi glances over the girl's shoulder at her blonde haired ally as they approached him.
When they started to get really close to her ally Ken'Chi launches himself backwards in order to get a breather come up with a better attack strategy. 'Alright I know how I'm gonna finish her off!'
Taking into account that the girl is clearly taking him lightly he makes a cometh hither motion with his left hand. And just as Ken'Chi expected she smirks and willing accepts his provacation. As she approaches him Ken'Chi makes a giant horizontal swing to the left.
The girl of course ducks under it but Ken'Chi who expected the dodge span with the swing spinning himself to the left. As he spins around Ken'Chi stabs the other end of Gurētoāsupōru into the ground before quickly pulling it out.
'Earth Style Equip: Great Spear!' Pulling out a chunk of rock in the shape of a spear he continues his spin as he transitions from a swinging attack to a thrusting one. Aiming to impale her through the heart he thrusts with all his might.
He expected her to be caught of guard by his sudden change in attack. But instead of getting impaled she quickly dodges to the left simultaneously raising her right arm she quickly brings her elbow down hard shattering the spear tip.
In the same fluid motion that she broke the spear she adjusted her arm and grabbed ahold of the staff. In response Ken'Chi plants his feet trying to free his weapon from her grip to no avail as she smirks at him confidently.
'What in the world is going on here, how in the hell is she this strong? She's Just A Damn Little Girl!'
'How Pathetic! I can barely feel him trying to take back his hammer.' Thinks Sakura well aware of her own cockiness but not finding it in herself to care. 'I mean come on I'm Awesome!'
With that last thought Sakura plants her feet, her heels twisting in the soil beneath them, she rotates her hips to the right as she yanks the hammer clean out of her enemy's hands.
Continuing her rotation Sakura uses her right arm to swing the hammer towards it's original owner. Despite only using one hand the speed of Sakura's attack far exceeded that of her opponents previous two handed one.
Her opponent dodges the swing by leaning back but barely. With her arm extended to the far right following her missed swing, she swings it back to the left in a halfhearted attack. After he predictably dodges that attack she brings the hammer around behind her to the left as she transitions to a two handed grip.
Planting her right foot forward before taking a strong step forward with her left. With a mighty yell oF "CHHHAAAAA!" Sakura makes her move as she swings the hammer full force towards the backpedaling man's chest.
With the enemy already on the back foot and the speed of her attack far surpassing anything he was capable of doing he could do nothing to stop its connection. The force of which the stone hammer collided with the man's chest resulting in the hammer falling apart and becoming dust in the wind.
Following the impact of her attack Sakura watches as her enemy goes hurdling backwards flying over ten meters straight through countless trees. Loosening her stance Sakura places the end of the now staff on the ground slightly leaning on it. Admiring her handiwork Sakura blows a loose strand of hair out of her vision.
Hearing the sound of clapping behind her Sakura turns around her eyes honing in on the clapping figure of Belphegor. "Ten, Ten, Ten! I give that swing a ten out of ten." He exclaims excitedly holding his hands out in overdramatic 'Ten' signs cackling quietly.
Smiling at his praise despite herself, Sakura turns her attention to the staff now in her possession. Her eyes and fingers roaming up and down the weapon she notes that when you look at it it looks like a plain metal pole.
But when you touch it you can feel the Kanji engraved onto it some kind of seal matrix that grants it it's abilities. 'What a well made weapon, no way that lousy excuse of a shinobi made this thing.' Returning it to it's collapsed state she loops it through her belt for hands-free carrying.
Looking to her defeated enemy several meters away she sighs knowing that she has to walk over there and check his person for the stolen medical text she's been tasked with retrieving.
"But before that." She mutters to herself quietly before turning her attention back to Belphegor, who just so happened to be waving at her lazily. 'With that same stupid grin on his face.' With a polite smile on her face she bows respectfully to him.
"Thank you for your help Belphegor-San but it's time I must return to my mission's objective." Turning back towards the scenery of destroyed trees she left in the wake of her battle with the Earth Style User.
Before she could start towards her goal she was stopped by the sound of Belphegor clearing his throat. Swiveling her head back toward Belphegor with an eyebrow raised she's greeted with a rather amusing sight.
Scratching the back of his head nervously clearly embarrassed by whatever he's about to say if the pink on his cheek is any indication.
"Considering I just helped you with your little problem do think you could help me with mine? It's nothing big I'm just a little lost... 'Shi Shi Shi'... Where am I?" In response Sakura stares at him for a few seconds before breaking out in a fit of giggles.
A few minutes ago he was reminding me of Zabuza and now he's reminding me of Naruto with that stupid lost puppy look on his face.'
After taking a second to collect herself Sakura replies. "You're lost eh... well where is it that you need to go?" Looking towards the ground Belphegor kicks a few pebbles before sighing looking back up at Sakura.
"You see I'm trying to get home but I have no idea how I got here." Belphegor explains shaking his head a few times. "So really all I need from you is to tell me what direction the nearest town or city is? I should be able to find my way home from there."
"Well, you've found yourself in the heart of Hi No Kuni, there's a town called Joji in that direction that's where I was just coming from actually."
Sakura explains as she points in the opposite direction than the one Belphegor came from. At this point Belphegor was scratching his cheek clearly quite confused and flustered. Raising an eyebrow at his demeanor Sakura clears her throat before continuing.
"If you've never heard about Joji then luckily we're only about 60 kilometers from Konohagukre." No longer scratching his cheek Belphegor's now just staring at her with his head tilted like a confused dog. 'Why is he acting like I'm speaking a completely different language?'
"You say Konohagukre like everyone knows what that is but I've never heard of it. Same thing is true for this so called Hi No Kuni!" Now it's Sakuras turn to stare at Belphegor like he's an idiot. "Ok! Sure you've never heard of Hi No Kuni it's only one of the five largest countries in the entire Shinobi World."
Faster than Sakura could react Belphegor closes the distance between them standing so close that Sakura can feel his breath exhale from his nose. "The Shinobi World huh. What exactly are you talking about Pinky?"
END
AN:
Alright so that was Chapter One of Konoha's Bloody Prince I hope you enjoyed both this and this and the prologue.
Both of them were written and edited without the help of a Beta but I think I did a pretty good job or at least I hope I did. But any advice or criticism is appreciated as long as you don't attack me personally!
I hope you enjoyed and meet me back here for chapter two and maybe chapter three cause I'm contemplating a double upload kind of schedule.
MSTRDANTE