In this chapter, most of the complicated bullshit is explained, so if you have a question regarding that, told me and I would try to explain it without going too much on spoilers.
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_ஜ ۩Chapter 2۩ ஜ_
_ஜ ۩ Demon World۩ ஜ_
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"...What?"
"I was expecting a little more energetic reaction from you, that's all" Izanagi commented looking at Naruto.
The latter had woken up from a terrible, terrible hangover relatively well, it's not like immortality alcohol had toxic components, but his body had to acclimate to what consuming stuff like that was doing to his body.
Naruto, now ten years old, looked... good, far too good in fact.
Not only had his physical energy been increased by leaps and bounds, but it had become denser, in the sense that not only had the quantity of his physical energy increased, but its quality had increased much more.
But the problem for him was…
"Is it just me or do I look like a girl?" wondered the red-haired boy looking at himself in a mirror inside his room.
As such, Izanagi had taught Naruto to be diligent with his hygiene, washing his hair, brushing his teeth and bathing every day from sweating, bleeding and bathing in monster blood, if Naruto preferred, he would have wanted to learn something that would simply teach him to disinfect his body without the whole annoying process.
Likewise, Naruto wouldn't call himself ugly, but he didn't consider himself attractive.
But he couldn't say the same after what he was seeing in the mirror.
Considerably long, bristly crimson hair, darker than it had been before, with his skin gaining a slight darker tone, almost as if he were tanned, his blue eyes had turned a darker shade, the markings on his cheeks had become more pronounced and wild.
And his face had actively changed, gaining more androgynous features, even Naruto himself would notice this as he ran his hands over every part of his body, his skin was too smooth to be that of a child who had lived without care all his life.
"Your body changed slightly to better match your physical energy" Izanagi explained to him.
"Why is my butt bigger?" asked Naruto bringing his hands to his rear.
And he really didn't like it.
To say that Naruto looked feminine was really putting it short, even his voice had become slightly softer, mixed with the fact that he hadn't even hit puberty, made it more noticeable every thing that a girl would have instead of a man.
Naruto really didn't like it.
"Look on the bright side, there are a huge amount of shotacon in the world, you'll get lucky with the women... or man if you hide some things well" Izanagi teased.
"In Konoha, we call those pedophiles" the red head emphasized to him as he stretched back and forth. "I was hoping the change would be me getting more muscular and bigger, not looking more...like this."
A detail that almost no one knew.
Naruto actually liked muscles.
Beyond physical strength, he didn't want to be like a shinobi who had super human strength but had thin bodies, what he wanted was to be tall, be strong, and have a peaceful life.
Although the third one was his priority, the other two didn't bother him, he was slightly short for his age and right now still with monstrous strength for someone his age, his entire body no longer had any baby fat on it, but he didn't have any muscles either.
"For a Shinobi, Chakra and physical energy play a factor in them having greater strength than their bodies normally would. Your physical energy levels would have to be more than your spiritual energy levels for a change to your body to happen."
"Hmrrrgh" normally when Naruto would scrunch up his face he looked more like an animal showing an expression of anger or aggression. Now that he looked like someone totally different he looked... slightly adorable furrowing his brow and eyebrows.
"Alright, this is the second year of seven that you will train in" the God of order told him as Naruto looked at him interested. "Right now you will learn how to increase the aspects of your spiritual energy with cosmic energy" Izanagi told him as if it was nothing.
The red-haired kid raised an eyebrow at that. "Isn't the whole point of my spiritual energy being too much the whole point of all this?"
"You're misunderstanding me" Izanagi told him as three flames, one blue, one red, and one black appeared on his fingers. "Remember I told you that your soul is really easy to be affected by external energies because of the amount of spiritual energy you have? In addition to your own essence, there's the fox's essence and the Shinigami spiritual clone's essence in your soul?"
"Yeah, like that part still takes a bit to sink in" Naruto commented as he shook slightly knowing what each of the flames on Izanagi's fingers were referring to.
The bluebell nodded as the flames on his fingers grew larger and larger and more intense. "With cosmic energy, increasing the strength and power of an energy is child's play, just as natural energy turns Jutsus into Senjutsu, cosmic energy turns any energy into a much more enhanced version of it" the flames died down as Izanagi closed his hand. "Your goal right now will be to increase that essence in you, to make it part of your own."
"If you say so... How I'm supposed to do that?"
"By doing exactly what you like to do the least...meditate."
"...Shit, you know me well."
From what Izanagi began to explain to him the next few days, gods were creatures that essentially mastered certain aspects of a dimension, there were different gods between different dimensions, and what the gods mastered was essentially called [Authority] or [Order], their ability to exercise something specific.
Gods of Time, Gods of Space, Gods of Destruction, Gods of Creation, Gods of Miracles.
Likewise, there were what Izanagi called Demon Gods, they also had other names such as Evil Gods, or simply called Majin.
The difference between the two lay in things that Izanagi was apparently not going to tell him.
"Hey, Old man. I have a question"
"Hmm?"
Naruto was meditating, in his hand was a katana almost completely made of metal in which a red and black energy glowed towards it.
He had discovered that some of the skeletons of the creatures he killed were made of a metal of various colors, apparently, it was Chakra conducting metal, but it had the special properties of being able to increase his power and absorb physical and spiritual energy as long as he transferred enough energy to it. It could also be used with Aura or Magic too, apparently.
It was a pretty good exercise for his control of those two energies, and for his future Chakra control.
The little red-haired boy lowered the katana in his hands.
"If my soul is full of things dark and bad, does that mean I'm bad too?"
"No" was Izanagi's quick reply, making Naruto stare at him. "Your soul is special, that's why it has inherited some things from your past lives, it doesn't mean you're going to be bad in the least" Izanagi told him with a smile. "The order between light and dark is one you have to define yourself, after all."
"...Thank you...Izanagi"
"What happened to Old man?"
"Shut it! Sword Cannon!"
Pointing the katana forward, the red-haired man sent a shot of red and black energy towards the blue-haired man who disappeared as if he was made of smoke, while the little red-haired was sent backwards for using that Arts at its maximum intensity.
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Over a year had passed since Naruto's disappearance from the face of the earth.
Simply put it like that sounded like something extremely out of place, as the disappearance of an ordinary boy - or at least one that the Shinobi world wouldn't look at as anything special - was not something that would matter to anyone, but it had started a considerable amount of movement, like a game of dominoes.
Nagato let out a slight but very long inhale, feeling how his lungs that had had black rods embedded inside them for years to aid in his breathing were suddenly as good as new.
It wasn't just his lungs.
The real body of Pain, the God of the rain country, was standing in the middle of a huge room, while three figures, two of them covered in black cloaks with red clouds, watched him in the distance of a room with a window to see him. Konan swallowed lightly as she saw the body of her best friend, reconstructed in an almost miraculous way, and turned to look at the blond man beside him who had not a single emotion on his face at the moment.
"This is beyond anything I could have imagined" commented the red-haired man with Rinnegan eyes looking at his hand.
His body had not only stopped being starved and emaciated from lack of mobility and old injuries, but it was even better than the body he had in his youth, his physical strength and speed, which could allow him to overpower even a Jōnin with ease, had multiplied at least tenfold.
"The transfer of physical energy and Yang Chakra to our dear leader seems to have gone wonderfully, don't you think so?" the masked Madara turned to look at his new blond companion.
He had changed his expression.
He had brought his thumb close to his mouth and was biting his nail with an exasperated expression.
"Not good enough...is not good enough" mumbled the blond scratching his head with an expression so annoyed that it made whatever natural beauty he had look distorted into a show of disgust.
"Excuse me?" commented the redhead turning to look at the blond.
The latter disappeared in a moment and the next he was in front of the Akatsuki leader.
Around him, a huge amount of beasts and creatures brought from other countries and even the other side of the world. The kind of creatures that could bite and chew up experienced ninjas as if they were little more than insects, they had only been a warm-up for the Uzumaki.
"You're not the only one training, remember that well, I went so far as to use my own Seiki on you and even further, modify your body even more, but it's too far from enough" commented the blond standing in front of Nagato with a stern expression on his face.
"Modify?" asked the redhead with an equally cold expression. "What have you done, exactly?"
The blond sighed and ran a hand through his hair in annoyance. "Don't get me wrong, I've done absolutely nothing against you" the red-eyed man swiped a hand through the air, and suddenly, as if time moved backwards, the corpses of the creatures there began to be reconstructed out of thin air. "You Shinobi have knowledge only of Chakra, but that is far from the only thing that exists in the world regarding power."
"What exactly does that mean?" appearing in a black vortex, Tobi looked at the blond who looked impatient.
"What you call Chakra is the mixture of physical and spiritual energy traveling through the Chakra meridians you call Tenketsu" the blond explained to him crossing his arms. "But the difference is in the mixture of spiritual energy and the energy surrounding nature around them" he stated as he snapped his fingers, the creatures around them had not only rebuilt themselves, but began to mutate all of a sudden. "This is my Authority, my..."
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"Skill?" Naruto frowned as he listened to what Izanagi was explaining.
"What's with that face?"
"...Can't any of you come up with a better name than that?" the redhead asked raising an eyebrow.
The bluehaired laughed lightly at that. "It's not so much the name, but more the effect of what it is" said Izanagi as he held up a finger. "Chakra has only been around for about... I don't know, twenty thousand years or so? At least in your world. Most creatures from other dimensions use Aura or Magic, though Chakra isn't uncommon, other things are more used from time to time."
Naruto looked like he was losing focus.
"But it has the effect of being easier to reach what you're looking for..."
Naruto's eyes were fixed as soon as his teacher said that.
"Chakra is the mixture of physical and spiritual energy. Aura is the mixture of physical and natural energy. Magic is the mixture of spiritual and natural energy" explained Izanagi raising three fingers. "Magic, specifically, consists of knowing the physical phenomena that exist naturally, and knowing how to manipulate the laws of reality to achieve what you are looking for," said the blue-haired man serenely. "Skills are essentially Formulas, engraved in the mind, body or soul that you can use instinctively, or automatically."
The redhead blinked as he thought about that. "So... it's basically like having a Jutsu on automatic even if it's a complicated one, right?"
"Something like that" Izanagi held up a finger. "Magic is more natural in divine or demonic beings because they are spiritual lifeforms, and so are Skills, to the point that they can be divided into several types" this time the blue-haired man held up five fingers. "Intrinsic or Passive Skills are pretty much something you're already born with, something that's always working on yourself, there is a sub-category called "resistances"."
"Then there are normal Skills, the basics that work kind of like the switch of a button, there's an Awakened Skill that's a normal one that has grown with enough power or training, Unique Skills that are pretty much what they say they are, only one that you can get by following an idea or something specific, then there is the most powerfull ones, Ultimate Skills that- wake the fuck up Naruto"
Izanagi actually threw an eraser out of nowhere at the redhead who had suddenly fallen asleep.
"Hrmg, uh... this is pretty cool and all, but I don't see what you're telling me for" the redhead muttered rubbing his eyes. "According to you, I can't use chakra yet, let alone magic. Those things you call Skills, I don't have any of them, so why tell me about them right now?"
"The place you will go to when this year is over will be for a long time, there, creatures with skills like that exist in great numbers" the bluebell told him. "I have taught you of Chakra and Aura, but against beings that know magic or use skills, not as much as necessary."
"I suppose... though I must say I've taken a liking to the new training regimen."
Naruto was currently wearing only the tatters of dark blue pants, leaving his body visible, which while, in the red-haired man's own opinion wasn't masculine enough, didn't have any sort of flaw that he could complain about.
There wasn't a single wound on his body, apparently, the cultivation and nurturing of his physical energy, while it hadn't made him muscular like he wanted, had given him strength and speed that got nothing to envy an experienced Jōnin.
That along with the fact that Naruto had taken a special liking in the intensive study of martial arts of all kinds, both with different weapons and with his own body, although the redhead was like a sponge in a matter of learning it was not as if he was going to become a master in a few months, he had excellent basics.
As such... he had liked learning hand to hand combat, most Arts used their own body, so that went into detail as well.
"There's also another" the red-haired boy looked at Izanagi carefully. "Like I said, you have to nurture the essences that are in your soul, that might help you develop some Skills before learning Magic."
"Okay, that actually has me fired uo! I already want to see that test of yours!"
"Heh, you'd better get ready, because this one's going to be a long one" Izanagi muttered.
"Hmm?"
"Nothing, nothing."
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Grunting as he slowly pulled his body out of the wall, Madara, or rather Obito, grunted as he stepped out and felt for the first time since that night on the tenth of October a rather sharp physical pain. Ten years had passed since the last time he had fought against someone who had rendered his Kamui useless.
Only that his sensei had not been so overwhelmingly powerful.
He looked around to see the various corpses Nagato used as Paths, completely mangled into unrecognizable parts, he wouldn't even know they were the Six Paths were it not for the masses of black metal in the melted, bent and deformed flesh.
Breathing raggedly looking up at the ceiling, the red-haired man was staring into the air, his eyes darkly colored instead of the usual Rinnegan.
"I was far from using my real strength in this confrontation" the red-eyed blond was sitting a few feet away from him over the corpse of a creature. "And I can assure you that the thing coming against this world is stronger than me."
"...You've got to be kidding me" the unusually nervous Konan was away from them, in a remote room where she had seen everything, and sweat covered her face from nerves. "What kind of stuff are you getting us into? Is that thing stronger than all this?"
"Currently, no. Although it's complicated to really tell" even though she was several dozen meters away, the blond heard him as if he was right next to her. "He could probably beat you all in a matter of raw power, a minute... no, thirty seconds is the most I think you last against him" he said with a grimace.
Nagato was staring at the ceiling, exhausted as he hadn't been since he had summoned the Gedō Mazō years ago, the modifications the blond had said had been made with something he himself called an Intrinsic Skill, his [Administrative Authority] that allowed him to manipulate various effects of reality with little more than exerting his will.
And as he had said, it had done nothing but help him, it had made the Rinnegan he had, which though Nagato himself didn't know it wasn't his, more compatible with his body, not only was his body far more capable than it once was in his life, his techniques, his speed, even his connection to his ways had been greatly improved.
Nagato doubted there was anyone in the shinobi world who could beat him now.
But the planet wasn't just the shinobi world, apparently, for he had been defeated with ease by the blond.
"Why don't we go attack him now then? Before it becomes a threat we couldn't control" commented Tobi, who had joined the fight and had been defeated almost as one-sidedly as Nagato, if not more so.
"Do you think I would be here if i could? No, he is currently protected by someone more powerful than me, by far too much, but that being won't act on anything but instructing him" explained the Red-Eyed one with an annoyed expression. "The best I can do is prepare for the best."
"My, how merciful and charitable" commented with some level of sarcasm the masked one.
Only the two of them knew who he was talking about when they first met.
The friction between the two was more than noticeable, the blond wasn't angry that he had attacked a woman who had just given birth and separated a baby from her family.
He was angry that he hadn't killed the baby.
"You haven't entirely mastered what your Rinnegan is capable of," the blond said to Nagato, who had stopped catching his breath to stare at the ceiling . "You lack too much to become a factor in what is to come, to all this Akatsuki you have built, do you want to be the leader of those who will bring peace to this world? It starts with having the power to do so."
"..." the red-haired man fell silent before speaking in a sonorous and serious voice. "Konan, start preparing new bodies, the best quality ones possible. I'll start training more with our new partner... How strong is the threat you say is coming? If he has something that overcome my Rinnegan"
"...Seven..."
"...Seven threats?" Nagato frowned as he noticed the blond's expression turn grim.
"Seven Blessings. Seven Abilities to him," the Red-Eyed One said dryly, staring into nothingness. "Among them, one that competes and leaves your six paths in the dust in their own level. Not only do you have to train, you'll have to master your eyes even better than the original owner of them ever did."
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Forging, sealing, martial arts, ancient civilizations, chemistry, physics, biology, medicine, use of swords, spears, and many other weapons, much to his chagrin mathematics, and many more was what Naruto studied.
Well, studying would be an understatement.
He essentially devoured knowledge from books.
That specific year, Naruto had not been attacked by beasts or creatures, even though the intensity of the dimension had only increased, according to Izanagi himself, he wanted him to learn to do more than just fight, of course Naruto had not wanted to get rusty with his skills, so every now and then he would reduce his defenses and improve his physical capabilities.
Still nothing muscular, unfortunately.
As such, he would occasionally talk to Izanagi, eat some things he hadn't had to kill, read and read, train for what Izanagi had told him and go to sleep.
For a whole year, that was his routine.
"What is it that you want to do once this training is over?" Izanagi had asked him once.
Naruto felt that he already knew his answer, by the expression on his face.
However, the red-haired man kept thinking about his answer for some time, maybe too long, he hated math, of all the subjects he had to learn, it was the one he was worst at, so less time studying better for him.
"I don't know" he admitted slightly putting down the book he was reading. "I just want to live a quiet life, I don't care about having luxuries or being worshipped or shit like that" even though his cursing had calmed down with those last two years, he was still slightly vulgar in his speech. "I just want to become strong so I don't lose anyone, ever again, to stand up for what matters..." the little redhead looked down at his hands. "I just want to live a happy life."
"...A rather humble dream" Izanagi had murmured to him. "You'll be happier if you learn how to calculate better, boy" the god teased him with a full-throated laugh as he turned as red as his hair from the anger and embarrassment of it.
And so, the year passed.
His internal clock had told him it was time.
He had gotten up and walked out into the room in the middle of that desolate dimension.
Izanagi's expression was hard to read for the red-haired kid in those moments.
" I must say, in this year you actually made more progress than I thought you would."
"We both know I can tell the lie"
"...Yeah, I figured" Izanagi muttered scratching the back of his neck, before his expression became more serious. "You're going to the Makai (Demon World) this time."
"…."
"You have a pretty calm reaction to what you just heard" commented the bluehaired god at the expression of the kid that didn't change in the slightest.
"A year ago you told me to invade the divine realm, besides, didn't you say that my soul had something to do with Demons or something?"
"Yes, I did, but if most people got a god told them "You're going to hell!" they would have a panic reaction."
Naruto was quiet, thinking about that.
Then he shrugged his shoulders. "Being honest, with so much of me being called Demon as a kid, I really thought I would go to hell when I died" he commented as a matter-of-factly, for normal kids, that would be a deep terror if everyone told them that, for Naruto it had been the norm.
It's not like he really cared, he had stayed alive until then precisely because he didn't want to die.
However, Izanagi's expression was actually serious.
"There are a few things I have to warn you about" the blue-haired man told him as he squatted down to see Naruto face to face. "The first of them, the Makai is a place... complicated to explain, to say the least. It's a network of countless dimensions, but all of them share the fact that they have a different casualty from the rest of normal dimensions, time there is unintelligible to a humans"
"Which means...?"
"At the very least, a thousand years will pass there for you, when in your home world no more than a second will have passed."
"...Haa?" the redhead frowned sharply at hearing that.
"Your physical body is anchored to the time stream of your dimension, you won't age there, and even if you did, the things you eat and such would ensure that you wouldn't die of old age."
"No, that's not the part that bothers me, it's the fact that you say that I could spend a thousand years in hell, at the very least" stressed the redhead with a scowl on his face. "How... how am I supposed to take that, why not train there? No, the fuck am I supposed to do for a thousand years there?"
Izanagi scratched the back of his head.
Naruto was mature for his age, relatively, but his brain was that of a child in his eleventh year.
In fact, his whole body was, outside of what any child at that age would achieve, no doubt, but the idea of spending a thousand years as an 11 year old was not particularly pleasing to him.
"You'll have to free someone," Izanagi told him simply. "The most powerful Demon God there, the Kotoamatsukami sealed him regardless of the imbalance that has brought to the Makai, he will train you in your stay there, for a time."
"….Oi, Old man" The redhead muttered when Izanagi had turned around. "Am I doing this because it's part of training or because it's something you want me to do that will benefit you?"
"I said it when we first met, I'm not helping you out of kindness or mercy," the God of Order shrugged, a little too subduedly. "The Demonic creatures there will be able to sense Rouge's essence inside you, so it will be dangerous for those who are especially aggressive against it and..."
Izanagi fell silent as he felt Naruto suddenly hug His leg, causing him to look down.
"...Okami..." muttered The redhead suddenly.
"...hmm?" the bluehaired god blinked slightly as he watched him, slightly curious.
"I'll do this, on the condition that you give me your last name" the redhead told him, making a grimace that went between a mixture of a pout with an angry face. "From today I want to be Naruto Okami! Do you hear me old man!?"
"...Wow you're bold, what would you be then from me, my son?" asked the blue-haired man with a chuckle. "Sounds good to me, Naruto Okami...son" he told him making Naruto's slightly teary eyes sparkle at his words.
Izanagi ran a hand through his hair before he waved his hand.
From the ground itself, a huge black metal double door with demonic inscriptions was suddenly starting to come out of a black vortex.
"It has many names, mainly because it's a mixture of dimensions as I said. Yomi, Makai, Naraka, Impure Land, not all those dimensions are the same, but well, you can check it out for yourself, you'll have time to go there."
"Makai… the Demon World, huh" Naruto looked at the Hell Gate with a serious face. "Well, everyone on Konoha kept calling me a demon, so I'm just going to give them more of a reason to call me that"
"Oh, yeah" Izanagi snapped his fingers and the next instant, Naruto was covered by black colored pants, a faint dark blue shirt, and a red and black jacket (*1). "You better not go in there looking like a tramp" he commented shaking his hair slightly, with a sly laugh.
"They feel a little tight in some parts" Naruto muttered shaking his hips a little. "And kind of baggy in others" he commented as he waved his arms with the jacket shaking.
"It's a little gift from me, your spiritual energy can end up covering the clothes you wear, that would make them part of you in a way" explained the blue haired man. "It means they can be repaired, not soiled and would grow with you."
"Way to save on clothes I guess" commented the red-haired boy as he stretched a bit. "What's so special about the guy I have to release anyway?"
"He's my brother" just as Naruto heard that, he frowned, and as soon as he turned to look at Izanagi, he was pushed by an invisible wave of air that sent him hurtling towards the portal..
"You son of a biiiiiiii-" Then he was cut off in the middle of that sentence… insult.
Izanagi sighed as he ran a hand down his neck. "He's going to feel just like home, and that's the bad thing..."
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"Seriously this village is going to shit" muttered Kotetsu as he felt his eyes growing sleepy.
"I remind you that regardless of that, we have a job to do" commented Izumo beside him as he stood idly in front of the entrance.
"Yeah, yeah, whatever you say, but come on, just now the village has recovered from what happened with the fox, and look at the situation we're in right now" was his companion's reply.
Izumo grimaced, unable to deny whatever Kotetsu was going to say.
Putting it nicely, the leaf village had gone through a considerable amount of changes in the last few years, specifically in the last two.
Enough had happened that the entire country was beginning to be increasingly affected by said changes.
After Danzo Shimura, the worst possible candidate to become Hokage, had been chosen by the Daimyō himself to be the new leader, things hadn't changed instantly, but the air felt heavier now that Root ninja could travel everywhere with a greater amount of freedom, knowing that he had eyes everywhere, even the person who accompanied you or traveled the streets of the village could be a ninja who would tell Danzo all of your secrets or stab you when you lowered your guard.
The Shimura had not been able to exercise the changes instantly due to a considerable amount of factors, among them, the political restructuring that Hiruzen Sarutobi had done to the village foretelling the possibility of his death at the hands of Danzo, having structured it as a change for the micro-management of different aspects of the village.
Konoha now had a council.
It wasn't exactly some sort of dark room where a bunch of civilians were shouting to the four winds and planning evil things, on the contrary, it was a rather simple and orderly system.
The different clan leaders were in charge of different areas and aspects of the village in each of the regions delimited to them, sending reports and so on to the Hokage that would help manage and control those aspects in their own way, in the same way, different services were distributed by the different clans, likewise, civilians, mostly noble councilors with a considerable amount of business and land belonging to them throughout the village, had a say simply in the business pertaining to their areas, i.e. civilians and shinobi were set apart, due to serving to manage the various aspects of a village.
It was a simple thing, which had caused Danzo to find himself up against a wall when his actions were actively frowned upon by a good portion of said council, including the civilian sector.
Some things, like actively mandating that every child of a specific age should have a mandatory amount of shinobi training, would instantly be negated and actively forcing his authority would result in starting a revolt.
Danzo could handle it if it was just a couple of clans, if it was half the village the risk was not worth the benefit.
So he decided to play it safe.
He increased the academy graduation age, the Yondaime had escalated it to 12 years since the end of the war due to seeing the adverse effects that a shinobi life at young age had given his student Kakashi, and Danzo planned to remove it, but seeing that he couldn't act to have greater military power in a shorter amount of time, he became slightly more concerned with improving the quality of his soldiers.
So not only did he raise the mandatory graduation age from 12 to 16, but he had restructured the academy's training plan as much as possible, the intensity had become much higher, and the number quitting had increased considerably, but at least that way, Danzo would make sure that the Gennin coming out of there would be of better use.
Because it was nothing except to protect and prepare the children for what was to come in the future, there was no negative reaction in the least, needless to say, the parents were not happy when one of the many changes was that the students would be doing D and C class missions in small numbers to find out what their shinobi life would be like in their first few months.
It was really that Danzo was looking to get some extra money out of it due to the fact that increasing taxes would not do any good if the village had nothing to give.
That was all the good that had happened.
Now it was taking into account the bad that had happened.
For better or worse, when it came to military matters, the Hokage had absolute authority, the reason for the academy students now being able to do D-class missions was, in a way, to reduce the number of low-ranking missions the Shinobi in action could accept.
That is, to throw them out of the village fast.
It wasn't noticeable to most Gennins who just came out each year, but it was noticeable to the Jōnin who recognized places like various territorial boundaries with other villages, or recognized places smoothed out to other villages, in the past few years, a sort of cold war had happened where missions were almost mostly on enemy ground, stealing information or technologies that other villages were developing, in the last few years, metallurgical factories, and many other things that were building at an accelerated rate, polluting at an even faster rate, were starting to become more prominent, an industrial revolution had been jumped all at once, buildings had become bigger, less nature was around the village.
Konoha was preparing for a war, and the rest of the villages were not lagging behind, only now it would be far from just a shinobi war.
Izumo only sighed as he scratched the back of his neck, before noticing a few figures approaching the village, three quite small and one larger, though his eyes widened slightly as he noticed after a few moments the figure of a beautiful red haired woman.
"W…woah" muttered the dazed man before his companion gave him a light tap on the head to get him to react. "A...Ah, excuse me, we need to see your identification to let you pass" he asked as his voice trembled.
"...Ah, hum, I think I have something like that over here-ttebane" said red haired woman as the two Chūnin stared at her...maybe a little too much, and pulled out an ID.
Kotetsu accepted it with a slightly flirtatious smile and a rather noticeable blush on his face.
Then he looked down at the ID.
Both the blush and the smile disappeared from his face as soon as he looked at the shinobi ID, specifically at the number.
007310.
His skin grew paler and paler as he felt the gaze of the woman above him, who looked the same age as she did eleven years ago, in her mid-thirties, she hadn't aged a day.
"Is something wrong, Kotetsu-kun?" she asked calmly.
KRAAAMP.
The benefits and disadvantages of being switched to being the village guards.
They were the first to hear about the Uzumaki Clan return to the leaf village.
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There was a fairly simple way to explain what happened after death.
There was the Impure Land, the material world, it had an enormous amount of names, but it was a dimension that was both physical and spiritual on both levels, there were similar dimensions, but none so specific to the events that had happened in that specific universe.
Once someone died, their soul went to the spiritual realm, an elevated plane, depending on their "karma", their soul traveled to a positive or negative realm.
The Pure Land, Heaven, Takamagahara, had many names, of someone got a positive amount of Karma, it traveled there.
If someone had negative karma, the soul traveled to the figurative lower spiritual realm.
Both Takamagahara and the Makai were essentially a web of dimensions, and to much surprise, the Demon world was overflowing with life, utterly abominable and terrifying to any living being in the material world, but it was still life after all.
Amidst the black sky of the Makai, a light fell from the starless sky.
To begin with, the Makai, one of the many demonic dimensions, was a spiritual realm, so it was not guided by the same laws of physics as the material world. There was not a single star in the black sky, there were no planets either, and creatures that could fly would do it for eternity but would never find an end to the black sky above.
All there was was the sky above and the ground below, rocky, lifeless, an unnatural shade of purple, with a faint miasma coming out of it.
However, that light had alerted all the creatures that had been nearby, the first to get there had been some sort of giant salamanders, about three meters to be exact, each of them would have enough strength and speed to, a little too literally, tear a Jōnin apart with teeth and claws.
They had arrived at an enormous speed towards the place where that glow had fallen from the sky, as soon as they saw a small but humanoid figure on the ground, they jumped on it, causing blood and flesh to spurt out of the hole where they were.
A few seconds later, Naruto was coming out of the hole with the head of one of the salamanders in his mouth, chewing the flesh of the beast with inhumanly sharp teeth, yet still chewing with slight difficulty the flesh of the demonic creatures.
"Son of a bitch, actually ripped my eye out" commented the red-haired kid, who hadn't received any scratches before he started a bit literally devouring the salamanders, but there were so many that he had his arms, legs and teeth occupied, one actually bit the side of his skull, and had ripped out his eye along with a slight part of bone in that area.
On top of that, Naruto scowled his face after speaking.
The Makai was an incredibly hostile place, that was a fact, the atmosphere it had was poisonous, not only did it have no oxygen, but it was actively filled with pathogens and poisons that would kill a normal human in seconds.
The redhead held his throat and eye with both hands as he grunted.
Physical pain was still something to consider, but among the many things he learned from Aura had been to reduce his pain as much as possible, and how little Arts had for any kind of healing.
However there was one thing Naruto had not taken into account.
Aura was the mixture of physical and natural energy.
Normally, it meant absorbing, storing and even generating natural energy within the body itself, so far, Naruto had only absorbed the cosmic energy infested place where Izanagi had put him to train.
And one of the reasons why the Makai was such an inhospitable place was the fact that the whole dimension was infested by an almost infinite amount of Youki (Demonic Qi).
Just at the moment he tried to use aura, every part of Naruto's body froze for an instant before he felt as if his nerves had been set on fire.
He couldn't even scream as he felt inhumanly intense pain for a few seconds before it was physical shown how intense it really was.
A scream of pure agony that tore at his vocal cords as every muscle in his body convulsed nonstop, falling to the ground as his scream echoed through that desolate wasteland, Naruto's fingernails buried into his flesh, trying to claw and tear at whatever it was that was doing something to him.
His body was not responding to it.
He kept absorbing more and more Youki from the environment against his will, making the burning only become more inhumanly painful, his gums were bleeding while his teeth were practically grinding against each other, after his scream that made him hoarse, blood was also coming out of his throat, making the choking sensation even worse.
Naruto was no stranger to physical pain, he had become more accustomed to pain than any child his age ever would, but this was something completely different, worse than anything he had experienced in his entire life combined, pain in both body and soul, indescribable and inhuman, just one second of it would be enough for a normal person to fall into shock and if he remained conscious, he would go insane in less than a minute.
The blood that came out of the red-haired kid nose and mouth with too much force began to turn black, at the same time that it touched the ground and melted the floor as if they were acid, the tears of pain that came out of his eyes uncontrollably turned red as well, before also turning black.
The pain was so much that he couldn't even fall unconscious.
Shaking like a leaf, the little boy dug his nails into his shoulders as his teeth constantly clashed together, his one remaining eye twitching uncontrollably as his very soul resonated with the energy in the environment.
It felt like an eternity, seconds, minutes, and hours passed in pain, in the distance, a huge creature as tall as the mountains suddenly began to rise, looking like some sort of bird with a humanoid body though still covered in feathers that seemed hard as steel.
The creature moved one of its wings, with one movement, sending a wave of air in the direction of the red-haired boy who was completely dwarfed by the size of the beast, just that mere movement had been enough to send the entire mountain flying into the air, including Naruto himself.
Floating high above, teeth clenched and hair covering his eyes.
Where there was supposed to be nothing, one of his eyes glowed red as he watched the beast that had attacked him with an enormous amount of anger.
"Don't even think..." muttered the Okami as he raised a hand into the air, where an enormous amount of Youki was being concentrated in the form of a red Maryokudan with a completely black core. "...That I'm going to run from you motherfuckers..."
He had done nothing but run when he had faced the lowest of the low in divine terms.
Naruto had trained relentlessly for that last year, even more than the year before, to stop running away.
Naruto kept firing Maryokudan one after another, the black and red colored spheres crashing in great numbers against the body of the giant bird, who didn't even move in the slightest, letting out a screech in response that made the red-haired man's eyes widen as soon as the sound wave made his eyes start to bleed.
"... in another life... I was one of the first of you fuckers."
Naruto was "floating" in the air at those moments due to an Arts for it, Airflight, it allowed him to walk and move even on the air, so he din't fall even when his ears where bleeding and his equilibrium was getting worse and worse at any second.
He put his hands together in front of his body and created another Maryokudan, but this time, he did not stop at the size of a normal one.
The larger the size of a Maryokudan, the more difficult it would be to control it, much like it was like a construct made of Chakra, as such, it would be useless for Naruto to use all his energy to create a sphere the size of a moon, if it was going to explode directly in his face.
So he kept the size steady, giving it more and more energy but compressing a colossal amount of power.
The sphere went from red and black, to becoming completely black, without even a hint of light in it, looking more like a hole in reality itself as the skin on Naruto's hands was melting away just from the contact against the Maryokudan of barely Naruto's own size.
Ah, I guess this is the part where I give this shit a name or something.
The sphere was fired at the giant bird, which this time had been equally charging an attack, a jet of purple electricity shot out from the bird's beak, which was totally consumed by the black sphere that moved as fast as fired from a cannon.
Cannon, huh? Naruto thought after having put almost all his physical energy into a single attack, starting to fall to the ground.
How about...Hollow Cannon.
The giant Demon's head was pierced from side to side without any kind of resistance, as the beast began to crumble into dust and electricity, the black sphere continued to advance to the ground.
And it fell.
And the dimension shacked.
On that day, the entire dimension of the Makai felt a complete shockwave., as a small red-haired boy fell towards the ground with a huge grin on his face.
"Gods, humans, demons" he muttered with his voice raspy and pained. "I don't care about any of that shit" he commented raising his fist to the starless sky. "As long as it's power, I don't care if it's evil"
In the huge dimension that was the Makai, a great amount of beings at the same time would react to what they were feeling at the same time.
"DDRAAAAAGGGHHH" a creature in the depths of the earth suddenly shook as an enormous amount of its strength was used in maintaining what could only be called a Mind-Breaking labyrinth, the creature could only be called a mixture of spider and scorpion, with its body being formed by an enormous amount of crystals in geometric figures.
Had it not been that he recognized that energy, he would have believed that Izanagi-no-Okami's most powerful son, Susanoo-no-Mikoto had come down from Takamagahara and used an enormous amount of his power against the Makai itself in an attempt to shatter the dimension apart.
The Demon God of Laberynths, Gufadgarn, was screaming with two emotions at same time, the pain of using his power to prevent the destruction of the laberynth that he was in, and pure bliss as he recognized the source of energy he was feeling.
"So, the incarnation of Rouge-sama has finally return to it's home, fu…fuhahahaha… ahhh… I guess now I just have to wait for him to meet us again, my master"
In different types of castles where three different types of Demons dwell, three women who looked almost completely human except for the horns, wings and tails on them each had their different reactions.
"Well, well, that troublemaker is finally back" muttered a beautiful white haired, red eyed woman, shifting on her throne with an amount of mild interest. "He's not as strong as he was in ancient times, but I guess that means he'll have more fun... too bad, Jaune will probably be beating me to this point of greeting him" the Primordial Demon Blanc rose from her throne as she lightly licked her lips.
In another castle in the middle of the demon world, a young violet-haired girl was grimacing angrily.
"That bastard Red" she muttered as she folded her arms and looked like a child throwing a tantrum. "What's he supposed to be here for, does he want a competition again?"
"My lady, I don't think that..." the most powerful Demons usually ended up having a slight amount of offspring in the form of creatures that were formed from their residual Youki, as such, the older ones had a certain amount of offspring even if they had never had sex.
Therefore, the Demon was thrown against a wall by a sphere of purple fire as soon as he tried to express something to his Primordial.
Violet, the most ruthless among the Primordial Demons, was now in a worse mood than usual.
Finally
"Hehehehehehehehehe... Hahahahahahahahaha!"
A childish giggle was all that could be heard from Jaune's castle as she literally shot out of there in the direction where the energy that had shaken the entire dimension of the Makai was.
Deep within the Makai, the most powerful of all the Demon Gods, Yamata felt more in detail than any other the energy collision, and if her body would allow it, she would be grinning from side to side.
"So Izanagi's puppet has finally arrived... well... very well... I'll wait for you brat, until when we finally meet, let's see if you have the work to finish this once and for all."
Back to Naruto.
"...I don't know why... but I suddenly don't feel like getting up" muttered the red head with a grimace.
He felt that a lot of extremely complicated things had been put on top of him.
He still had to wait for his physical energy to recover, it was like spending all his stamina, he couldn't even move a muscle until he recovered. The red-haired man took a couple of minutes to be able to move his hands with some effort, passing them in front of his eyes.
Because there was literally no light in the Makai, Naruto was blind or so it would normally be, passing his hand over his right eye, he noticed a red silhouette with a bunch of black faces every time he passed his hand near the eye that was now red.
And in fact, on the left side, everything looked completely dark, while on the right side, he could see a huge amount of detail, different colors, as if energy wouldn't stop coming out of everything.
That's why he was curious when the body of the giant demon bird disappeared, but there was a kind of white sphere floating above and slowly coming to where he was, Naruto raised an eyebrow when it was in front of him and extended his hand towards it.
Not long after, the redhead saw the sphere unravel and let a white aura pass around his entire body, feeling his energy suddenly recover.
"This is something new" the redhead muttered as he watched red electricity begin to flow out of his hands, squeezing his fingers slightly, it turned a slightly black hue before glowing crimson again.
If a spirit creature experiences defeat, it is not unusual for it to surrender its entire existence to another being, that includes abilities, physical and spiritual energy.
"Fucking...fucking...fucking...shit" cursing into the air, Naruto heard a guttural, beastly voice in his head, it was inhuman, like that thing was not made for speaking at all, just hearing him talk actually hurt. "Who the fuck are you, Izanagi?"
Hahahahaha, close enough in fact, I'm the one he sent you to release, brat. The Demon God Yamata. I'm using some of my power to communicate with you, Rouge incarnation.
The Okami rubbed his head lightly. "My name is Naruto, Naruto Okami. I don't even have any memories of that Rouge guy for you to call me that."
Wow, a few hundred reincarnations have made you pretty disrespectful.
"Whatever, I'm not particularly happy to have a voice in my head but you don't see me complaining, do you?" commented the red-haired man looking skyward. "My body doesn't hurt anymore and I'm not tired, but I feel like this isn't all that's going on."
Skills are basically formulas engraved directly into the soul, by absorbing so much Youki, not only have you made your body gain a Demon Factor, becoming part Demon, but you have made a good portion of the things in your soul awaken after being engraved into your soul.
"What it boils down to?"
...You have new abilities now that you're half Demon.
Naruto didn't pay much attention to the part about being a Demon, the people of Konoha had called him that so much that he really didn't mind being called that, or becoming one, it was natural to him.
The pain of whatever happened before was gone so, he actually was thinking more about that than anything else
"I don't suppose I have something convenient to me like a screen that tells me what I have, do I?"
The knowledge of what your soul possesses, and how to use it, is engraved in your soul, there's not much need for it, too, this isn't a fucking isekai.
"What the fuck is an isekai?" the redhead asked as he stood up, cupping his chest for a moment, trying to understand what who Yamata apparently was telling him.
Really, it was like trying to interpret what his soul was feeling, but apparently he could tell by himself.
Intrinsic Skills:
Demon Transformation (Oni)
Pain Resistence.
Natural Effects Resistence.
Darkness Manipulation
Dark Flame Manipulation
Abyss.
Ultra-Fast Regeneration.
Magic Resistance
Material Creation
Unique Skills:
Pride.
Ultimate Skill:
[Brilliant King, Surya]
[Devourer of Worlds, Níðhöggr]
[Covenant King, Uriel]
"Wait, what the fuck?"
Naruto suddenly opened his eyes as he tried to do what he had just done once again.
He got the same information
What the fuck? He thought as he raised his eyebrows a lot. "Oi, Yamata."
What?
"What the fuck does this mean?"
Well, it's barely been more than ten years since you reincarnated into this body, so it's a given that you would be weaker, though it's kind of pitiful the state you're in.
"Nononono, don't give me that shit, Izanagi told me that these things... Ultimate... Whatever! They're unique abilities from each other, only attainable by a huge amount of effort and other shit, why the fuck do I have three of them?"
Ah that, you absorbed a huge amount of Youki, awakened some of the power of your old lives, if not for you awakening them, you would have exploded.
Naruto was silenced by that as he froze.
Then he put a hand to his face and was silent for a while.
"What the fuck am I supposed to do with this then!? I just got here and almost got killed by a bunch of cannon fodder! how do you go from that to me having this things just like that out of nowhere!?"
Naruto wanted to be strong.
There was truly nothing he wanted more than to be strong.
But simply getting power out of nowhere had seemed rather out of character for the universe itself to not fuck him over.
Not that he was complaining about gaining power, strength was strength, but even he himself wasn't able to understand how such a considerable leap had happened.
Stop squealing, having one of those isn't all that matters, knowing how to use them by experience and skill is what matters, oh, and you'd better start running.
The red-haired kid was confused by that before he watched as what he could only call a yellow star was launched towards him... and threw other small stars... literally.
The mixed-eye kid opened his eyes before running in the opposite direction of where that yellow glow was coming from.
While he had just said an inspirational talk to himself about not wanting to keep running from those who were stronger than him, the red-haired man wasn't stupid enough to stay in the same place either.
Especially when plasma spheres were fired at him.
The redhead used another Arts, Instantmove, to accelerate his body and make it look like he had moved hundreds of meters in an instant, getting out of the mountain as fast as he could.
"Aaaaaaaah!" shouted the red-haired man as even after appearing a huge distance away from that mountain, the plasma spheres launched against him exploded, taking the mountain with them.
Naruto kept using Arts, again and again to fly in the air or to make it look like he was moving instantly, and he was only a few meters away from an explosion about to consume him.
At one point, the red-haired kid was stopping using anything and was running as alarmed as possible, an expression of effort on his face as he heard a loud laugh overhead.
It was the first time Naruto had encountered someone with as much spiritual energy as he did.
"What the... what the fuck is wrong with this place!" he shouted as his arms and legs looked like a blur from the speed at which he was escaping.
Wait, wait, if what Izanagi said is true, almost no one have Ultimate Skills! That means I can use them against this thing!
Naruto made his hands back as a black vortex appeared in front of his hand. "[Níðhöggr!]" a colossal vortex of darkness formed in Naruto's hand.
Then it disappeared.
Naruto froze at the sight.
Ah yeah, larva, even if you know how to use them, you don't have any actual experience using it, so... keep running.
"Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck!" Naruto shouted when he saw a young girl with short blonde hair come down from the heavens with an expression of complete madness, aimed directly at him.
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Naruto currently lay with his face against the ground.
Six months had passed since he had first arrived at the Makai.
Normally such a significant jump in time would be news of a big change for Naruto but...
"Beyond the fact that my Youki has increased, and that I've gained other abilities, nothing has happened" the red-haired man commented to the air.
As had been apparent, in addition to Physical Energy and Aura, there were things like magic and Skills.
But he hadn't had much success using the latter.
"To begin with, this sort of thing is pretty complicated for an eleven year old to understand" he muttered looking up at the Makai's sky after he had turned around.
Naruto probably thought that a child shouldn't be doing the things he was doing, but he kept doing them.
Having escaped from the CBB (Crazy Blonde Bitch as Naruto called her) he had essentially spent an enormous amount of time just fighting demonic creatures and beasts nonstop, for months in fact, not knowing where to go.
His spiritual energy and his physical energy had increased greatly, they were much more balanced than before.
That could be because apparently, awakening three Ultimate Skills had taken a considerable toll on his spiritual energy for such tremendous abilities.
Months of training later, Naruto couldn't use any of them anyway.
"At first I thought it was power out of nowhere but it's just other things I have to learn how to use" the redhead commented, his arsenal had increased, but apparently it was like having a Dojutsu capable of destroying the world but not even knowing what it does.
But apparently, "knowing what it does even if you've never used it" was something natural to that kind of ability, it was engraved in the spiritual energy of someone, their very soul.
For that reason a Dojutsu user would be able to use the techniques and skills of his eyes even without having any experience of their own, but the red-haired boy on the other hand only had the skills, he had to practice them like any Jutsu to get results, he just din't even used them.
It was the first time Naruto met such a considerable wall in his training, he could master skills that would take someone years in just a few days, but he didn't know that, this was him just not knowing that to do, there wasn't anyone to teach him at all.
In the Makai, time passed differently.
A thousand years there was less than an instant on his world, likewise, millions of years could pass in his world and not an instant would have passed in the Makai.
That was the world of the Demons, where the laws of time itself ceased to make sense.
It makes sense that Izanagi would send you here if he knew you would awaken those abilities, mastering an Ultimate Skill takes time, a thousand years here means you could show up in an instant with three of those on you.
"I realize that" commented the red head slightly clenching his hands for a moment before slowly inhaling and exhaling, even though he didn't need to. "You know, it's kind of weird not needing to poop or pee."
...What the hell does that have to do with anything?
"Normally when I'm not training, I eat and sleep, there are no bathrooms around here but that ability Níðhöggr allows me to devour the dirt and bacteria in the air, since I'm not taking any shit ir also means not wasting time with anything but eating and sleeping" commented the redhead as he stood up.
A considerable waste of time if you ask me, you gained Demon Factor, that's the equivalent of the DNA of the soul, now that you're a Demonoid, you have no need to consume meat or sleep.
"I couldn't agree more" commented the red head as he seemed to get on his guard. "I do it because I like it, sleeping or eating, but those are things I like to do because they relax me" he commented as a red aura began to cover him. "So I'll discard everything useless to train these things.
Wow, for being born human you seem to be putting basic needs aside pretty easy, but don't you think you're forgetting about the freeing me part?
"Well, I don't know where you are to begin with," the red-haired kid answered him as he stretched his arms back and forth repeatedly, looking as if he were doing katas of a martial art.
You say that, but in fact you have followed the direction from where you hear my voice, although it is more like the direction from where I transmit my mental energy to you. When you arrive, you will notice my energy, just like that.
"Ah..." Naruto grimaced at that. "Well, if you're Izanagi's brother, doesn't that make you my uncle?"
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"Well, it's not like I have much experience, but it's rude to let the family wait" the red-haired man commented with a smile before a black vortex formed in his hand. "[Níðhöggr!]"
The ability to consume anything was not limited to just physical matter in the slightest.
The very space in front of Naruto buckled and shook as it was consumed by his ability, as the red-haired man appeared in mid-air where an enormous amount of black tentacles lay around him.
"[Surya!]"
Causing them to barely close around him, a giant red blade cut the tentacles and the same black vortex consumed the giant tentacles in an instant, before the space was again consumed by the red-haired man who was clasping his hands together where a huge amount of physical energy and the demonic energy of the environment came together in a black sphere.
In front of him was what could only be described as an army of insects, which were soon eliminated as the Hollow Cannon tore through the forest from side to side, and the remains were consumed by the black vortex.
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"The fuck?" It was not unusual for the Demon God Yamata to suddenly curse, but it was unusual to see him surprised.
Its body was that of a humanoid creature, several tens of meters long, its arms and legs with six claws were a brown, a pale wood-like color with white inscriptions on it, black fur similar to the feathers of a raven on its forearms and legs, its entire torso was like the black skull of a six-eyed creature where three pairs of yellow eyes, its head had only a sharp-toothed jaw, no eyes, nose or ears, only flesh like wood, long white hair flowed from the top of its head, and from its back, black wings likewise spread out.
He was a mixture of abominable and beautiful, but whatever majestic traits he had were set aside by the fact that black stakes pierced his arms, legs, torso, head and wings, anchoring him to the throne where he sat.
The Demon God Yamata had invaded the material world around a hundred thousand years ago, the most powerful of all the Demons in the Makai, his Youki had been so intense that it had endured even after it was sealed.
The Shinjū, an otherworldly entity that fed on the suffering and energy of the planet itself, had found itself affected by the insane amount of Youki in the world it invaded.
That had meant that consequently, the tailed beasts born from the tree had inherited really powerful Youki even though they would normally just be Chakra clusters, but that had been far from the only thing Yamata had done in the material world.
The Kotoamatsukami had sealed him in a specific area of the Makai, with the help of the Seven Primordial Angels, they had been able to create not only a barrier that would prevent any creature with negative emotions from getting to where he was, but they had made special stakes that robbed him of his energies and broke his very soul.
For spiritual creatures, Demons included, having their souls affected was one of the worst pains imaginable, a single one of those stakes would be enough for any other lower being to be in agony, but with his body pierced by dozens of them, Yamata was far from being an inert creature..
He could still slightly transmit his energy towards high level Demons, big amounts of demonic power were like a sonar to him, along with it, his eyes had the ability to see from a huge distance even when it would be impossible for his eyes to see from that perspective, a kind of clairvoyance apparently.
Therefore, he was confused by two things.
Normally he did not communicate for more than a few seconds, wasting his energies on useless words served no purpose for him, but beyond that as soon as he tried to communicate with the energy that had appeared, he felt a kind of spiritual tug.
What had only been him sending information to the boy had become a kind of two-way communication.
Does it have something to do with that ability in his soul? Yamata wondered, specifically, that 'Abyss' ability inscribed in the red-haired boy soul seemed to have had some sort of effect, no incarnation of Rouge have it. That aside, what the hell was up with that leap in ability?
Mow he could communicate and see things from the redhead's perspective without needing to expend a single ounce of energy, the redhead expended more, apparently. So he didn't understand, in the last few months he had barely been able to manifest the effects of his abilities, Yamata thought he would need a few years to be able to use them well, and a few decades to use them in combat.
He had skipped all that to go straight into combat, and was approaching dangerously fast to where he was, he would still take his time considering the distance between them, but the red-haired man was not only fighting the Demon races at the moment, he was proliferating wildly.
There was no sort of savage or sadistic gusto in his actions.
After all, the detection of negative emotions of the Kyūbi, the Bijū to inherit the most Youki from Yamata, came from the Demons intrinsic ability to feed on negative emotions to gain power.
Likewise, he felt no enjoyment or emotion in the red-haired man as he ravaged nightmarish creatures as if it was the most natural thing in the world.
It should also be added, due to how that dimension worked, there was no natural energy for Naruto to use Arts, there was only a huge amount of demonic energy, that is, spiritual energy born from the primordial spirit of darkness.
Naruto was using spiritual energy and physical energy instead of just one or the other.
While his Chakra network was still unable to properly transmit Chakra, he had found an alternate way to do so using the Arts as a base, creating a form of Dark Chakra as pure and demonic as possible.
If he solved his problem with his Chakra network, considering the amount of spiritual and physical energy he was having, Yamata could only guess what kind of monstrous Chakra he would have.
Well, I guess I'll just have to wait to see you in person… Nephew. Thought the Demon God as he concentrated on communicating with the boy.
Someone who could shake an entire dimension upon arrival was someone who would be fun to watch in the future.
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Ultimate Skills/Abilities (Kyūkyoku Nōryoku) are the evolved form of Unique Skill and the final evolutionary stage of Skills in general.
Ultimate skills, as the name implies, gives the wielder ultimate power to control the very laws of nature. Normally, they are formed of several sub-skills with an almost absolute power and control over several effects.
Skills of this class, normally, may not be shared or copied. Only one individual in the universe may own a skill of this class until its current user is either killed or somehow lost the skill in some way.
Naruto Okami is a special scenario, where each and all of the skills are carried over each reincarnation but only when specific scenarios are done.
Having one of these abilities usually means having a considerable loss of energy, this is because it is the price to pay for a conceptual power over the laws of the world itself.
There is a Chakra variant of this type of ability, called Rubedo Class Jutsu.
Brilliant King, Surya
Apparently, an ability that belonged to one of Naruto Okami's former lives, the original bearer unknown.
All Creation – Sub-Skill that allows to understand a phenomena with a minimal amount of information, capable of understand and even copy the effects of Jutsus or other abilities with enough information.
Chant Annulment – Ability to use magic without the need to chant beforehand, likewise, allows the use of Jutsus without the need for hand seals.
Energy Breakdown – Allows the absorption, expulsion, purification and transduction of energy in different ways.
Spirit Domination – Absolute control over soul (information and matter)
Devourer of Worlds, Níðhöggr.
Consumption – Allows to consume matter and energy, both physical and spiritual, living beings depends on size, willpower and energy.
Spatial Storage – Allows things absorbed by Consumption to be stored inside of a dimension with Stasis.
Mutagenesis – absorbed matter, energy and spirit becomes part of the user own essence.
Covenant King, Uriel.
One of a series of Seven specific Ultimate Skills, a power that specializes in spatial management and is used for the management of all events. Power variates between users.
Food Chain – The user can freely copy the prototypes of the Skills of any subordinates, while also enabling the user to grant subordinates any Skills they are compatible with. Furthermore, the user's Magicule levels also grow whenever the subordinates show any significant growth.
Unique Skill.
Pride – Allows to copy or stole skills, depending on the level the chances are reduced, can't copy Ultimate Skills nor body modification Kekkei Genkais can't be copied unless absorbed.
Abyss – ¿?
I was originally going to cut this episode in two, but considering there will be a tremendous timeskip in the next chapter, I might as well enjoy this while I can, lel.
The characters that appear in this chapter will appear in the future of the fic, way into the future, but I'm probably going to do a tremendous timeskip, if I were to go into such extensive detail as this mostly about Naruto's abilities, I'd be about over ten chapters long in and I still wouldn't be done.
Also if it's not clear enough:
Chakra – Physical Energy + Spiritual Energy
Magic – Spiritual Energy + Natural Energy
Aura – Physical Energy + Natural Energy.
Skills – Magic Formula with an specific effect.
Youki – Demon Physical Energy.
Depending on the race, a Demon has different Intrinsic Skills.
Shinobi don't have any skill, but Chakra on itself has a lot more benefits for them than it does normally.