Naruto: The Weapon Master
Chapter 18: Defending the Home Turf Pt. 1
Naruto looked around the stadium and noticed that everyone was asleep from the effects of the Genjutsu except a few were able to dispel it. Naruto then felt something approach from behind and quickly teleported to appear behind a sound ninja, he wrapped his arms around the waist and performed a suplex which knocked the ninja out.
"That was a most youthful move Naruto!" said Gai with a good guy pose, Naruto and his tenants just had to sweatdrop at the sight, then Kakashi appeared next to them with Sakura by his side.
"Naruto-kun!" he turned to see Haku and Fu running towards him "Naruto-kun, what's going on here?"
"We're being invaded by both the sound and sand villages as far as I can tell," said Naruto looking at the sound ninjas standing before them.
"Naruto-kun, look over there!" Naruto to see large four sided purple barrier and within it he saw Hiruzen held at knifepoint by the Kazekage.
"What is the Kazekage doing with Jiji?!" shouted Naruto angrily.
"Naruto, that's not the Kazekage, take another look," said Kakashi.
Naruto looked more carefully and realized that it was Orochimaru underneath the robes "Orochimaru? What is he doing here?!"
"He must have been the one who orchestrated the invasion," said Kurama.
"Naruto and Sakura, I need you to release the Genjutsu on Shikamaru for an important mission," said Kakashi, Sakura moved over to where Shikamaru laid and was about perform the release when Naruto stopped her.
"Why did you stop me Naruto-kun?"
"I have a way to wake him up," said Naruto with a mischievous grin, then he bent down and whispered into Shikamaru's ear "Oh Shikamaru~ If you don't wake up, I'm gonna tell your mother that you've been pretending to sleep while the invasion has been going on~ I wonder what kind of punishment she would have for you?"
Shikamaru instantly stood up with fear in his eyes, Naruto and his tenants were laughing at him.
"So you were pretending to be asleep this whole time?!" shouted Sakura angrily.
"At first I found it to be a drag, but not anymore more now that Naruto has brought the issue of my mom up," said Shikamaru shivering at the thought of a punishment.
"All of you listen up, I assigning to you an A-rank mission since the land of the waves. I want you, Sakura and Shikamaru to go after Sasuke,"
"What happened to him?" asked Naruto.
"He's gone after Gaia and her siblings, I need you three to retrieve him before he goes in too deep,"
"He's right Naruto-kun, I'm sensing something strange with Gaia's seal and we need to stop it or the seal will break and release Shukaku-chan," said Kurama.
"Then what about us?" asked Haku with Fu wondering the same thing.
"I'll need you two to help the others guide the civilians to safety as we Jounins and ANBU fight them off," said Kakashi.
"In that case, I'll give you guys some backup, Shadow Clone jutsu!" Naruto formed his signature handsign and there was over a hundred of his clones standing nearby, "Okay guys, half of you will guide the civilians to safety and the other will run those sand and sound ninjas out of town are clear?!"
"SIR, YES SIR!" the clones sped off with Haku and Fu following them.
"Please be careful Naruto-kun!" said Fu before sprouting insect wings from her back and flying off.
Naruto turned back to the others and nodded "Okay guys, let's go we don't have much time!" Kakashi summoned Pakkun to lead the way and then he took off with Sakura and Shikamaru following him.
"You think they'll be alright?" asked Gai as he took the Goken stance and faced the sound ninjas.
"I wouldn't worry about them, especially since Naruto is with them everything will be just fine," Kakashi replied as he raised his headband to reveal his sharingan "Let's show them the consequences of messing with the Hidden Leaf village,"
"As expected of my eternal rival, let's the power of our youth!" shouted Gai excitedly, making Kakashi sweatdrop.
Meanwhile Hiruzen was facing his former student who was grinning evilly at him.
"I never thought that I would fight you again Sarutobi-sensei," said Orochimaru.
"So you planned all of this just to kill me my dear former student?" said Hiruzen.
"That's right and not only that, I intend to completely destroy the Hidden Leaf village,"
"Orochimaru, I've regretted letting you go back then, but this time I intend to rectify that mistake," Hiruzen grabbed his robes and removed it to reveal him wearing his battle gear "And besides, a certain ninja would never let your plan succeed,"
"Fighting me is futile, soon I'll have the perfect body and finally achieve immortality!"
"Then I might as well make you work for it!"
At the Academy
In a field at the academy, Iruka was protecting the kids from the sound ninjas who were currently invading the place.
"Konohamaru, get Moegi, Udon and the other kids out of here! It's too dangerous!" shouted Iruka as he held a kunai in a reverse grip.
"What better to cripple a ninja village than to destroy the younger generation? Kill them!" at a sand ninja's command, the rest were about to rush in when someone jumped in between them whom Iruka, Konohamaru, Moegi and Udon instantly recognized.
"I can't let you do that, I'm supposed to be their role model," said a familiar voice.
"Naruto/Naruto-Nii!" shouted Iruka and the kids at the same time.
"What's a kid like you doing here?" one of the ninjas demanded.
"Isn't it obvious that I'm here to protect the kids and send you guys packing out of here?" said C-Naruto with a quirked eyebrow as if asking 'Are you stupid?'
"But Naruto, these are Chuunin level ninja, there's no way you can beat them all," said Iruka worriedly.
"O ye of little faith, surely you haven't forgotten that I've got an ace up my sleeve," C-Naruto raised his hand to reveal the bracelet, causing Iruka to realize what he's talking about "Hey kids, keep your eyes on me cause you're about to see something cool,"
Then C-Naruto channeled chakra into the bracelet and called out "Henshin!"
[Henshin!]
There was a bright light before it faded to reveal C-Naruto as Kamen Rider Kabuto in his mask form, then he took out the kunai gun and held it in axe mode and pointed it at them
"Come at me"
C-Naruto and the sound ninjas although he was a bit slower than them, he swung the axe at one of them only to miss and got hit with a kunai which created spark upon contact but he quickly retaliated with a backhand which knocked one back and flowed it up with a shoulder charge. He twirled the weapon and held it in gun mode before blasting a few back, but they were still capable of battling.
"Nii-chan, please be careful!" shouted Konohamaru.
"Look even the kids worry about you, maybe if you remove some of that armor then you might stand a chance of beating us," one of the sound ninjas taunted, too bad they couldn't see the blond smirk behind the mask.
"You have a point there, I think I'll do just that. Cast Off!" C-Naruto flipped the horn on the belt buckle to the other side as the extra armor flew off and hit some of the ninjas to reveal a much sleeker form.
[CAST OFF CHANGE BEETLE]
C-Naruto switched into kunai mode and dashed towards them with greater speeds. Iruka watched as the blond now fought with even footing against the invaders as he knocked a few off their feet with a low sweep kick and sent another reeling in pain from a high kick, one tried to attack from behind but was knocked back with spinning kick.
"It's time for me to wrap this up, Clock up!" C-Naruto swiped the side of his belt.
[CLOCK UP]
From everyone's point of view seemingly disappeared and the next thing they know is that the sound ninjas were getting pummeled from different directions, barely giving them any chance of putting up a defense.
"Wow, that's so fast!" said Moegi.
"Yes, even faster than the Fourth when he uses his Hirashin," said Iruka as he looked on in wonder "That bracelet truly is a powerful weapon, I truly pity anyone who goes up against Naruto now,"
[CLOCK OVER]
C-Naruto appeared before them and started pressing the buttons on the belt buckle before flipping the horn again.
[1, 2, 3]
"Rider Kick!"
[RIDER KICK]
C-Naruto jumped high into the air as white lightning flowed from the belt buckle to his horn and then to his right leg which he used to perform a flying side kick which created an explosion and severely wounded the sound ninjas when he made contact.
Konohamaru ran towards Naruto as he walked out of the crater that he made with the rider kick.
"That's was soo cool Nii-chan, you moved so fast that they couldn't even blink,"
"There is no time this Konohamaru," said Iruka.
"Iruka-sensei is right, we have to get the kids to safety. Put On!" said C-Naruto as he flipped the horn again
[PUT ON]
Then the extra pieces of armor flew back and reattached themselves reverting to his masked form, C-Naruto and the others ran into the academy to aid the other teachers.
On the Streets
"Why didn't Intel inform us that Zabuza Momochi has joined the Hidden Leaf?!" shouted a sand ninja as he watched Zabuza slash one of them into half with his Kubikiribocho.
"You punks have picked the wrong village to invade, especially since I live here now!" shouted Zabuza as he cut down another one before slinging his zanbatou over his shoulder while glaring at them. He was about to engage them when he sensed someone land beside him and turned to see a familiar blond hair. "Hey Kid, what brings you around here?"
"The boss created us to protect and clean out the trash, I saw you fighting these guys and thought you use a tag partner," said C-Naruto.
Zabuza smirked under his mask "All I can say is you're welcome to join in, there's a lot of these punks to go around," C-Naruto gave him a foxy grin and he stood next to him.
"Just let me get my big friend whom you're familiar with, the Final Fantasy!" there was a bright glow and it faded to reveal Naruto holding the Fusion sword which made the sand ninjas wary of him.
"Get the kid, he should be easier to kill!" shouted one of them as the rest charged at C-Naruto. The blond simply smirked and charged back at them as he started to hack and slash at them then Zabuza joined in the battle.
C-Naruto performed a downward slash at a sand ninja but it was avoided and the sword embedded itself in the ground and he couldn't pull it out hard enough. The ninja saw this as a golden opportunity and drew out a kunai to stab him in the back.
"Kid watch your back!" shouted Zabuza as he was fighting the other ninjas.
"Now you're dead brat!"
C-Naruto saw him get closer and realized that he wouldn't be able to pull out the sword in time to defend himself even if he applies chakra to his arms, he reached above the hilt and ejected a side blade then quickly turned around and slashed the ninja across the chest for blood to spill out and kicked him away.
C-Naruto turned around and saw Zabuza surrounded by the sand ninjas, then he kicked the embedded blade which had loosened due to ejecting the side blade into the air and jumped after it. He caught the blade in midair and slot the side blade back into it before landing with his back to Zabuza in the middle of the group.
"What are you waiting for?! Let's attack them all at once!" one of them shouted.
"That might work if you could see us, Hidden Mist jutsu!" Zabuza lift one arm up with a half ram handsign and the other with same handsign at his chest and a thick mist covered the area.
Sand ninjas frantically look around trying to locate the swordsman and the boy, then the next thing they heard were rapid footsteps, metal clanging, screams of agony and bodies falling to the ground. The mist cleared to reveal the dead bodies of the sand ninjas with C-Naruto and Zabuza standing there with blood on their clothes and blades.
"You know that you're going to end up on the bingo book after this," said Zabuza.
"Yeah but when I think of the stories which I get to tell my kids after I retire, it doesn't seem so bad," said C-Naruto with a shrug of his shoulders, then he turned to look behind "Oh look, more assholes who want us dead. By the way, would you like to give the fusion sword a try?"
Zabuza turned to see Naruto hold the blade out to him and smirked before holding out his zanbatou "That is if you want to try out my Kubikiribocho,"
"Deal,"
After switching swords, Naruto and Zabuza turned around to engage the new group with smirks on their faces.
Meanwhile Pakkun was leading Naruto and the others through the forest when he started sniffing around which they noticed.
"What is it?" asked Sakura.
"We've got two squads following us and according to their scents they are nine ninjas following us," said Pakkun.
"Oh man, we don't have time for this, what a drag," said Shikamaru.
"It is there anything that won't be a drag for this boy?" Kurama asked with a twitch of her eyebrow.
"I'll let you know when I find out," thought Naruto.
"And judging by the scents, they must be Orochimaru's men and are probably Jounin level,"
"Normally I'd have said we'd set an ambush, but not only would be exhausted afterwards but we could be taken down if they figured out that we'd planned it," said Shikamaru.
"Then what other options do we have?" asked Naruto.
"Just one, a diversion that only looks like an ambush so one of us will have to stay behind and slow them down.. but the one who stays behind will probably… die," hearing this caused the group to stop "So the question is who's going to do it? The dog is needed to locate Sasuke, in that case…" Naruto was about to volunteer when he was cut off "It's gonna have to be me,"
"What?! But Shikamaru why you, it's too dangerous!" Sakura protested.
"It's better than all of us getting taken down, plus I'm the best guy for the job with my Shadow Possession jutsu which was meant delay tactics, so you best get a move on," said Shikamaru.
Sakura was about to protest again but Naruto stopped her before moving towards Shikamaru "I can understand what your plan is, but it won't hurt to have an ace in the hole," this caused the lazy Nara to quirk an eyebrow when Naruto placed a hand on his shoulder and the bracelet glowed brightly.
Later on, the sound ninjas were tracking the footprints which were made by Naruto and the others. They were about to continue onwards when they suddenly felt like they couldn't move their bodies.
"Sorry about that, normally I don't like to get involved in these kind of things but I'm willing to make an exception this time since I don't want you guys to go after my friends," they turned to see Shikamaru standing behind with his hands crossed behind his back as his shadow were connected with theirs.
"I can't believe that we got caught by a kid," said one of the sound ninjas.
"This must be the Shadow Paralysis jutsu that we've heard about," said another.
"You guys must be behind the since we don't go by that name anymore, the true name is Shadow Possession jutsu," said Shikamaru, he feeling his chakra waning as his shadow distorted from time to time since he hadn't fully recovered from the battle against Temari, he studied his enemies carefully before frowning a bit "How come there's only eight, Pakkun said that there's nine unless one of them lagged behind so as to protect them against an ambush, in that case.
Shikamaru reached into his pouch and threw out a handful of shuriken at the group only for them to be deflected by some kunai, he quickly traced them to a nearby tree and tried to stretch a shadow towards but it stopped halfway.
"Damn, I don't have enough chakra to stretch out another shadow," thought Shikamaru.
"Looks like you're at your limit," said the sound ninja as he felt himself along with the others able to move and saw the shadow retreat to Shikamaru "Hey you can come out now, and when you do cut off his head,"
Shikamaru's arm twitched and there was a scream followed by a body landing, and the strange thing is that the head is missing.
"I guess that it was his head that was cut off," Shikamaru although he was shaking from his first kill. The group tried to attack but they found that they couldn't move again.
"What's going on, why can't we move when he's not using his shadow," then they noticed something glint in the sunlight "Wires, but how?!"
Shikamaru give them a lazy smile and brought his hand out from his back to reveal him wearing a glove with metal tips and thin wire threads running through it with the majority of the wire being held in a large spool at the back of his waist.
"Naruto told that it's called Cross tail, its wires are super strong which makes it perfect for immobilizing enemies but it can also be used for attacking and defending as well. As you can see, I had set up a trap before you guys showed up just in case something like this happened and I was right," then he noticed the sound ninjas struggle with the wires "I advise that you stop struggling or the threads will only get tighter and you might lose something if you catch my drift,"
Then he heard someone land next to him and turned to see that it was his sensei Asuma.
"I see you've got things under control," said Asuma.
"And I have a troublesome blond to thank for, I wonder if he can let me keep it since it makes things less troublesome for me," said Shikamaru, then he turned to the direction which Naruto and the others have gone "You guys better not die on me,"
On a different Street
A woman has her back against the wall of a building with her daughter in her arms while looking fearfully at a group of sound ninjas that were approaching her with lust in their eyes.
"Leave us alone, we didn't do anything to you," shouted the woman as her daughter hid her face in her mother's kimono.
"Heheheh, looks like someone who can give us a good time maybe we'll have some fun," said one of the sound ninjas as he reached out to grab the women.
"I don't think so," said a voice.
Then the man felt someone grab his arm and cried out in pain as it was twisted so hard that it broke and then got punched in the face, everyone turned to see a boy with blond hair whom the woman recognized as the girl peeped out.
"Onii-chan, who are you?" asked the girl curiously.
"Just your friendly neighborhood ninja here to save the day, don't worry about these guys I'll take care of them, especially him," said C-Naruto before glaring at the man with the broken arm "I think I'll need a tag team partner for this," C-Naruto bit his thumb hard enough to draw blood before going through a series of handsigns and slammed a palm on the ground "Summoning jutsu!"
There was a puff of smoke before it cleared to reveal a small red bipedal dragon with blue eyes and a spiky mouth and a V-shaped forehead. It wears green headphones around its ears, and the joints on its metallic body appear to be held by screws and is holding a mic which is long enough to act as a staff.
"What kind of summon is that?!" shouted one of the sound ninjas, the dragon looked at them with a toothy grin.
"You wanna know? I bet you wanna know…. My name that is,"
"Give em your intro buddy!" shouted C-Naruto.
"I'm Shoutmon! The man who's gonna be king one day! You'd better make sure to carve it into your hearts so you'll remember!" the dragon declared.
"Let's take them down! Journey to the West!" Naruto summoned the golden staff and next to Shoutmon in a ready stance.
"Let's do this! Rowdy Rocker!"
Shoutmon charged and proceeded to attack them while wielding his mic as in Bojutsu (Staff technique) some of the sound ninjas hurled kunais at him but Naruto jumped forward and spun the staff which deflected all of them.
"Naruto get out of the way, Soul Crusher!" Shoutmon screamed into his mic which released a blast of red energy which forced a few of them to jump into the air only for to Naruto to jump after them.
"Naruto SMASH!" Naruto made the staff lengthen before swinging around to slam them to the ground which formed a crater, then he landed next to Shoutmon who held a hand out and fire gathered around it to take the form of a eighth note.
Make it a homerun, Rock Soul!" Shoutmon tossed the fireball into the air, then Naruto held the staff like a baseball swung at it which increased its speed towards the fallen sound ninjas resulting in a fiery explosion.
"Dude, I might be the next Babe Ruth with that kind of swing," C-Naruto joked before turning to the woman and the girl "Are you okay?"
"Yes, but why are you helping us?" asked the woman, she was one of the people who saw him as a demon that wanted to kill them.
"If I can't protect the people of this village, then I have no right to even consider myself a potential for Hokage," said C-Naruto with a smile.
"The same can be said for me if I aim to be the next Digimon king," said Shoutmon with a smirk.
"Thank you for helping us Nii-chan," said the girl holding her hand out to C-Naruto which took and shook with a smile and the woman felt ashamed for being so biased, then they heard an explosion and turned to see giant snakes with red cloth around their necks rampaging through the village.
"Shoutmon, get those two to safety while I can see if I make snake wallets of these guys!"
"Got it Naruto!" Shoutmon grabbed them and took off as C-Naruto used the staff to pole vault to a roof and bit his thumb and went through the handsigns again before slamming a palm on the ground.
"Summoning jutsu!" there was a puff of smoke and it cleared to reveal Naruto standing on the head of a large orange tyrannosaurus rex with spikes on its arms, shoulders and jaws with blue tips on them. It has blue stripes on its body and wears red training bracers and a brown helmet with three horns and multiple spikes with red stripes on it.
"Yo Naruto, what's up?" asked the summon.
"Yo GeoGreymon, we've got some serpentine pest invading the invading the village and I could use some help from my favorite orange partner," said C-Naruto.
"Then you got the right Digimon for the job!" GeoGreymon turned to one of the serpents and got ready to attack "Mega Shot!" he launched a blast of fire from his mouth which made connect, causing the snake to hiss in pain, then he charged at it and slashed with his claws before turning around to slam his tail at the neck powerful enough to break it "How do you like that?"
"Awesome GeoGreymon, but keep your guard up. One of its friends are coming over here!" shouted C-Naruto, they turned around to see one of the snakes slither towards them.
"I got this, Horn Impulse!" GeoGreymon lowered his head and charged forward and pierce its belly with his horns, then he raised his head to fling the snake high into the air and turned with his mouth open "Mega Flame!" and spewed flames enough to burn the snakes into ashes.
The snakes realized the potential threat the new summon was and were about to attack when they heard a voice call out.
"Summon jutsu: Bringing down the house!" then a large toad with two katanas appeared from above and landed on one of the snakes, crushing it. Then Naruto saw someone riding on it and it was none other than Jiraiya.
"Never fear my fellow Leaf ninjas, Jiraiya the Toad Sage is here!" shouted Jiraiya while doing a kabuki pose.
"It's about time you got here Pervy Sage, I'm almost out of chakra and Jiji is fighting Snakey at the battle arena!" shouted C-Naruto.
"I see, then let's deal with the summons before we go help out the old man," said Jiraiya to which C-Naruto nodded before they turned to face the remaining snakes.
At the Market District
Several sand ninjas were dashing through the streets until they came to a stop when they saw someone standing in the middle of the road, it was a boy with blond hair and whisker marks on his cheeks as he stood there with his arms crossed and was glaring at them.
"What is a kid like you doing here, you wanna die or something?" one of the sand ninjas sneered at him.
"You guys think that you could walk into our village and act like you own the place? Here's a news flash for ya, we don't take kindly to rude guests," said C-Naruto.
"And what are you going to do about it?" taunted one of the ninjas.
"Simple, kick you out of town, Lock and Load!" then there was a bright glow and it faded to reveal Naruto holding a machinegun in his hands "You punks better take me seriously or I'll turn you into Swiss cheese,"
Naruto pulled the trigger and let loose a round of bullets at them, some of the sand ninjas got hit but the more experience were able to dodge it thanks to their instincts and retaliated by throwing shurikens at the blonde. Naruto quickly dove to the ground and landed on his stomach and continued to fire, being able to land a headshot on one of them.
He noticed a shadow growing over him and rolled to his back while switching to flamethrower shot a stream of fire at the ninja who had snuck up behind him. Naruto bounced to his feet and ran behind some stacked wooden crates to use as cover, then he started to charge the gun as yellow energy gathered at the muzzle. Then he jumped out annd shot a giant ball of fire but it missed them as they had dodged it and quickly moved in to attack. Naruto was forced to be defensive as he dodged the attacks from the sand ninjas.
"Not so tough now are you?" taunted one of the ninjas.
"Damn, I need to take these guys out all at once," thought Naruto, then he switched back to rapid fire and charged again, then he kicked a sand ninja in the face and used it as a springboard to jump away. In midair he shot a pod which headed towards the sand ninjas and Naruto quickly hid in an alley right as the pod started spinning and fired off rounds in all directions, killing the ninjas before they could react.
Naruto peeked out of the alley to see the dead bodies and grimaced, then he saw the giant toad and GeoGreymon attacking the snakes, "The others must be just as busy as I am, I'd better pick up the pace and do my job," then he took off in search of more sand and sound ninjas to take down.
Despite all this, the clones all shared the same thought "We're doing our best out here, so you'd better do the same boss!"
Meanwhile Naruto, Sakura and Pakkun are racing towards where Sasuke is as fast as they can "Sasuke, you'd better hold on, Gaia isn't someone you could handle even with the Sharingan," thought Naruto.
"Naruto-sama, you may need to use some of the weapons in order to fight against Shukaku," said Chinami.
"Naruto-kun, you must hurry! I can feel Shukaku's chakra leaking out!" said Kurama worriedly.
"I got Ku-chan, I'll hurry!" thought Naruto as he moved faster.
Weapon/Gear appearance
Kabuto Zecter = Kamen Rider Kabuto
Fusion Sword = Final Fantasy Advent Children
Cross Tail = Akame Ga Kill
Golden Staff = Journey to the West
Machine Gun = Contra: Shattered Soldier
This Hussbek online with another chapter, I hope you're enjoying the fiction so far, the next chapter will be between the battle against the Shukaku and the battle against Orochimaru, who knows what will happen then but it will be exciting. I'm up for suggestions for which summon should face the Shukaku when she comes out, so read and review as always.
This Hussbek from Ghana.
Signing out.