Chapter 13-EX
Showdown! Hinata-sou VS Danzo Shimura
(A Multi-Crossover Chapter)
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Mid April XX, 1999
|Hinata-sou|
Ruto Urashima, 8th Grade (or 2nd Year Junior High to those who are technical), has just finished his kendo session with his teacher and her new apprentice, Setsuna Sakurazaki (10, Elementary 5th Grade). At first, the students didn't quite get along with each other. But all that's been changed when they cross swords in a spar. (Ruto is holding back since he's bigger than Setsuna.)
It turns out Ruto learns from the clashes that the apprentice has memories of a precious close friend (who is a girl) that is like a sister that she never had and that she's an orphan that was abandoned because of her status as a half-breed: half-human (the human side from her mother), half-Kurama Tengu (the Tengu part from her father). She'd almost perished from starvation if it weren't for the Konoe family. She has a human appearance, but with the magically hidden pair of blue and white Tengu wings and the inner power of the Tengu.
-Explanation-
Kurama Tengu is the higher tier of Tengu Yōkai from Mt. Kurama (Kuramayama) in Kyoto. They were one of many [demons] that once roamed the lands along with other varieties of Tengu such as the Koppa and the Karasu. It's ironic that the name 'Kurama' gets turned up somewhere.
-End Explanation-
Last year, Setsuna almost lost her best friend from greedy men accompanied by demons, who would stop at nothing until they took their victim's inner power and the family treasure. Thankfully, Tsuruko stepped in and subdued the men and killed the demons with ease from her swordplay. The half-breed then asked the swordswoman if she wanted to become an apprentice to her Alma Mater, to which Tsuruko consented under certain conditions: she is to not to tell her younger sister that she's involved and that she won't be seeing the Konoés until she's properly ready for her adventure.
That's how the half-tengu shared the tragic and the good memories with Ruto in the middle of the clashing.
Then the two duelists stopped the match and respectively bowed. She then asks her colleague about why is he holding back and how did he get so strong and Ruto answered, "Firstly, because I'm not an official member of the Shinmei-style, but Tsuruko-sensei helped train me in mind, body, spirit, and the soul. And second, the way to become stronger is to protect those that are dear and precious to you, that's what the late Mikoto-sensei taught me. And do you have someone that is close to you?"
Setsuna said that there's a friend that was a confidante named Konoka Konoé since she lived with her and her whole family (particularly her doting grandfather, the dean of Mahora Gakuen). She has dreams of protecting her friend with her life.
Ruto admired the girl's determination and he didn't mind her strange heritage, because he, too, is more than just an ordinary person since he's an avatar for the Alkaid of the Septentrions.
And they became good friends, and that made Tsuruko-sensei very happy.
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|Later, at the crossroads|
Ruto (working on getting scholarships), Shinobu (a recent member of Track & Field team), and Kaolla (recent member of the Robotics Club) have finished their club activities and head to the streetcar where Ruto heard from his brother to meet them halfway at the Hinata-sou stop before they go to the place known as VotE Hotel (The Valley of the End) located at the outskirts of Hinata City. It's where the mayoral elections are between Danzo Shimura and a mysterious person known as «DARK HORSE» (55), who has come from behind to secure his standing as a candidate.
They say that DARK HORSE was a former undercover INTERPOL agent that helped bust many dangerous drugs, racketeering, smuggling, illegal gambling, and trafficking rings all over the world, along with a family of racers that coincidentally followed him. After that's been said and done, he decided to retire from the strenuous activities and chose to take a more mental approach in politics under the alias.
The rest of the Hinata-sou joined the students at their stop and rode the tram all the way to the end of the city to the VotE Hotel. The group has mixed feelings about going to their destination; Keitaro and Naru are partially excited that they are able to vote, Kitsuné just wants enjoy the party, Motoko is slightly anxious about socializing with other people (including men), Kaolla just wants some food and have fun, Shinobu is worried that Ruto may be in danger, Haruka just want to get out of the teahouse for once, and Ruto is sensing that he and his friends may be walking into a trap and there's more to what Danzo's intentions really are.
As they stopped by the luscious hotel, Ruto briefs the group that there are possible hostilities of evil intentions in the atrium along with other people with strong abilities. They are to be on their best behavior and try not to be rude. And the group came to an agreement and they entered the entrance and into the atrium.
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|VotE Hotel Atrium|
The atrium is a nice festive place; a western style room with long tables and chairs neatly in order. There's also a table lined with the various dishes that money can buy, along with some desserts, and disposable plates and utensils that are sure to feed somebody's appetite (mainly Kaolla and possibly a few others).
There are also numerous head counts of citizens that are awaiting the last hours of the elections between Danzo Shimura and DARK HORSE. Previously, the citizens of the Kanagawa Prefecture had voted in their respective ballots. Besides the civilians, there are some special guests that were also invited to the big event. People such as Jotaro Kujo, Mike Haggar and his compatriots, Ranma Saotome and the Wrecking Crew, Guile Williams (and his family)*, Xiang Chun-Li, Ryu Hoshi*, Ken Masters (and his family), the extended Mifuné family, the members of the King of Fighters tournaments (on a truce), and many familiar faces were among the crowd.
During the commotion, Ruto excused himself in front of his friends to go wash up before he joined in on the feast and he went into the restroom to at least get his hands clean (after a bit of relieving, that is.) As Ruto finished with the toilet, he overheard footsteps from other men that are bad news, says his special senses. That's when he hears 2 men chatting with each other.
"You think that the big boss is going to pull off this big idea?"
"Oh, for sure. The police wouldn't dare to break up our racket."
"You know, I've been thinking. Why does Danzo-sama want that blond Uzumaki brat in the first place? It's not like the kid's done any serious harm to anyone, especially him... Well, after we took up the assassination of 'former' Police Chief Uchiha, that is."
"Shut up, you fool! That little brat has been onto us ever since that incident! Just for that, he ruined Danzo-sama's schemes, evaded his traps and helped nice people... How disgusting."
The first man checked his watch and realized that their break time was just about over and they hastily left the room.
That's when Ruto decided that it's time for action as he quietly sets up his Shadow doubles; they will have to search everyplace for any clues and any hostages hidden in the frontage of the so-called hotel; one double will take over for the original's place, in case something goes wrong. And the Rutos crawled through the ductworks while being transformed to that of ermines and then split up to begin the seizure and the stand against the 'famous' warhawk of Japan.
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|Back at the Atrium|
Ruto (Double) returns to the table as both mayoral parties make their speeches and then Danzo begins his move. He calls for Ruto Urashima to come forth as a winner of a "lottery contest". And then the warthog said, "My congratulations to you, my boy, as I name you the winner. Or more appropriately - - the loser." The bodyguards guarding Danzo and their positions removed their disguises and then the old candidate casually said, "Seize him." And Ruto was tied and bound with rope while the crowd gasped at the surprise attack as Danzo said, "Boy! If you don't want your people to suffer sudden, instant, and immediate deaths, I will need to ask you a favor."
"Go ahead, 'axe' me," Ruto sarcastically replied.
"Cut the levity, boy!" Danzo drew out his knife in his left hand, "Now talk. You're not really Ruto Urashima, you're Naruto Uzumaki, the boy that was the last survivor of the Uzumaki incident over 13 years ago and murdered them with your demonic energy!"
The people are in utter disbelief. How can a boy do such a heinous act when he's just a baby at the time. The Hinata-sou group was hit the hardest in the befuddlement. And Ruto (Double) is not impressed with the accusation.
Then the warthog demanded, "Boy, you will tell me and the whole public about your family's secrets! Any withholding will result in a fatality to a single bystander and you'll be charged with an A-Class murder!"
DARK HORSE almost blew his cover as he was about to contact the standing-by riot squad via his hidden transceiver in his collar, but then he noticed what the tied up blond-haired young man was bound to do next.
"Before I want to say about myself, Danzo-san," Ruto declared, "Nobody can have a higher opinion of you than I have. You want to know? Then come closer."
Danzo wouldn't think that the boy wouldn't dare to pull any tricks while being tied his arms behind his back. And the scar-chin'd warhawk got closer to his quarry, the boy told him to move closer. And the former did until Ruto softly said, "That's it, right here..."
And then...
*Ding!*
The sneaky Ruto aimed a well-placed groin kick at the geriatric's ding-a-ling, dropping his weapon, as the crowd either bit their bottom lips from the imaginary pain or snorted in laughter for the humiliation. The microphone in the sound room nearby was turned on as the voice of a man clenching his deteriorating manhood, groaning from the intense pain, as the captive said to Danzo, "And you are a slimy, discontented sewer rat!"
The crowd applauded at the blond Urashima's declaration as they agreed to what the bandaged buffoon had done for the last 13 and some-odd years.
"You cannot and will not destroy the sanctity of our homes," Ruto hissed while kicking the nearby goons with aggressive impact, "And you know what? My name isn't Naruto Uzumaki! I am Naruto Urashima, brother and friend to the Hinata-sou and I'm proud of who I am as an Urashima!"
"You... you will tell me your secret of... *wheeze* of your inheritance, or so help me, you and everybody else will die... *wheeze* ...like cowards!" Danzo staggered from the low blow.
Ruto sassed at his foe's demand, "So you want to know my secret? Contemptuous swine! The truth is that it's not about the money, the property, or my family's prized possessions." He stood tall and said, "The real inheritance is me! It's all blood, sweat, tears, and effort that helped make me the way I am, dattébayo! But there's one little thing I want to ask of you. Did you or did you not have anything to do with the Uchiha family getting killed with a pipe bomb?"
"Since... *wheeze* ...you've asked me a question before you die, *wheeze* ...then yes, I did. I admit setting up the hit on placing the explosive, but my real target was you, Naruto Uzumaki. The police chief and his family were just collateral."
The crowd's tension begins to burn at a fever pitch at the scurvy warthog's admission as he recovers from the knockdown.
"And there's something else you should know," Danzo admitted, "I killed your grandparents. Why, you ask? They didn't want to surrender the family secrets, so I called Orochimaru to intentionally set a bomb in their car and... boom."
This is enough to make even Ruto and his kin fume out in anger as he wanted to yell, "No~! Murderer!", but Ruto is determined to keep his cool under pressure.
Thinking that Danzo still has the advantage, "So what are you going to do about your situation? Killing you will give me satisfaction and your Septentrion power will soon be mine!" Danzo tried to call his victim's bluff, but he forgot one particular detail as the bound boy then calmly said, "Here's the truth, my little nimrod. You got the wrong dummy and I'M GETTING AWAY! [Ninja Art: Double Explosion!]" And the fake Ruto's body began to glow and then... *BOOM!* The enemies surrounding the boy-turned-glowing bomb got caught in the blast, sending the enemies flying across the room. The real Ruto shunshins right behind the fiend with weapons prepared to be drawn in hand.
"For the record, Danzo-san, I found out that my parents weren't killed by the Septentrion's energy. Kushina Uzumaki, my mother, was dying from complications from childbirth after being kidnapped by you and Orochimaru for trying to take over Kanagawa all those years ago and my dad was mortally wounded from his final stand," he explained the truth behind the wall of lies.
-Explanation-
To elucidate how it happened… In the waning hours of the end of October 9th, Kushina (that is, the recent Mrs. Urashima) was full-term with her unborn son. She was planning to go to the hospital for delivering her new bundle of joy safely, while her devoted husband, Arashi Urashima was finishing a day of police work to make sure nothing can't possibly go wrong, (he hopes), when Danzo's and Orochimaru's flunkies forcibly kidnapped her from her home for not only her secrets of her family's ninja arts and sword skills, but for the baby, the prophecy of the Septentrions concerning him and the inheritances of the Urashimas and Uzumaki. Danzo threatened to rip the baby out of her womb, by crude means of a Cesarean if she didn't meet his demands. However, the crooked mobsters didn't count on the wedding ring that Kushina wore when it contained a special seal that both husband and wife created for just such an emergency. And it worked as Arashi arrived at lightning speed from his sinews and his family's secrets. After knocking out the crooks and wounding Danzo in the head, Arashi used his Hiraishin (Special form of Shunshin) to transport them to a safehouse in the Konoha Schools, away from the warhawk's noticing. But just then, Kushina's water broke and began the laboring process of pushing the baby out of her womb.
After a few tense hours, Naruto was born on October 10th, past midnight on his watch. But it came at a terrible price: Kushina was dying from not only having birth complications warned by her doctors. She wanted to see her baby boy before she passed on, just as Minato tied the umbilical cord with string and cut it with sterilized scissors from his emergency pack and soaked the navel in iodine. He also did a circumcision just as his mother requested long ago and suggested whenever she wished for grandchildren. And she says to baby Naruto to grow up with a good education, eat good food, find good and trustworthily friends, and beware of the vices about evil-hearted women, drinking too much liquor, and become too dependent on gambling, because Uzumakis often has the 'devil's luck' on earning their keep. Just as Arashi's double writes down a last will and testament to his relatives, the Urashima family, while the original tries to keep his wife and best friend alive. Then, Kushina gave up the ghost.
He tearfully placed the swaddled baby in a basket and his giant scroll, full of both family's documentations and secret arts, in a big box, placing the basket into the extra space. Then Arashi remembered where he placed a special marker at his Great Aunt's residence and he sadly said to his newborn son that he's sorry that he had to be in such a situation as this. He promised that he has faith that his closest relatives will take care of him and the truth about him will come out in the by and by. Baby Naruto began to cry as his father prepared a special seal from the leftover cord blood on baby Naruto's umbilical cord to help prepare his little body for future training and then the widower used a ninja sutra to transport the baby and the scroll to safety. The katas were successful as an open portal appeared and transported the contents over to a particular disclosed location.
And a good thing too, because Danzo and his thugs found the location with their guns drawn. The crooked scar-chinned mobster demanded the boy and those secrets, but realized that their quarry was gone! Before Arashi draws out his service pistol (tailored with armor piercing rounds) and a familiar black katana (he borrowed from his paternal relatives for such an occasion) from his hidden seal behind his badge, as he silently prays to God to watch over his baby boy, to let him join with his recently deceased wife, and to forgive his enemies so that they realize about how foolish and stupid their intentions are as the hellish, final stand as Arashi said to his foes, "You're all under arrest!"
And the heat is on...
After the smoke clears, out of about 200 numbered, almost all of the thugs' blood was spilt as they suffered life-threatening wounds, the rest suffered superficial or maiming injuries, and Danzo's right eye was pierced by ricochet bullet shrapnel and his right arm was lopped of by Arashi's black blade. Then, there lies Arashi Urashima on the ground, riddled with bullets and his black blade disappeared without a trace, lying dead next to his deceased wife.
Danzo and his remaining mugs made good their escape from their injuries as they failed to get what they (greedily) wanted. "The whole world will be singing a different tune when I get my hands on that miserable little brat!" the Shimura snarled as he declared his threat. Just as the police secured the scene and later examined the husband's and wife's corpses, they hadn't found the baby, proving that he may be alive or dead from the crossfire until a few days later.
(The information was discovered by the annals of Arashi Urashima's double before his last recording, with the collection of newspaper clippings, the video recordings, and data 'borrowed' from Danzo's computers, pieced, tied, and glued together by Ruto's posse of doubles.)
-End Explanation-
The crowd and DARK HORSE remembered the incident that went worldwide from the projection screen that one of Ruto's doubles had hacked from their computers and stored data into CDs. It shows various videos and pictures that show Danzo taking bribes, contracting hits against certain people that were about to testify in court. And finally, the truth about the Urashima-Uzumaki incident: the man that Danzo killed was Arashi Urashima, Sergeant First-Class (posthumously a lieutenant) of the Kanagawa Prefectural Police Dept., and Naruto's biological father. (Minato Namikazé was a pen name that he personally called himself.)
"No! You mustn't! You dare to- -" Danzo tries to prevent the media from happening but the people begin to complain and jeer at the big fraud as Ruto also said as he grabbed Danzo's bandaged wraps and stated, "And you're no war veteran! You were dishonorably discharged for your involvement in espionage from a foreign power during your stay at the SDF, but apparently, your files were caught in a big clerical error. That is, until now. And would you mind explaining your constant wearing of your wraps to our beloved audience?"
"It... it was from... the radiation burns from the... Hiroshima atomic bomb... when I was a boy," the fraudulent warhawk feebly and weakly explained.
"I doubt that," the blond ninja countered as he ripped the bandages of the mayoral candidate and it revealed an Uchiha's eye on his right eyesocket and a ugly mismatched arm full of Uchiha Eyes.
-Explanation-
The [Uchiha Eyes] look and feel like human eyes, but are not really human eyes containing ocular powers. but are actually the synthetic gems that are filled with the other Uchiha victims' lifeblood that the victims were kidnapped, used, and later killed for their key to the cursed gems' power, preferably the eyes themselves. It's been said once that the [Uchiha Eyes] have a power rivalling that of the [Devil's Eye] diamond, or so the legends say.
-End Explanation-
"«My Gawd.»" Ruto declared.
"«Oh my Gawd!»" some people from the crowd also blurted.
"«Oh my Gawd...»" DARK HORSE declared too, as he and the public witnessed the grotesque right arm holding 5 Uchiha Eyes.
It turns out that after his fiasco with the deceased officer and his wife, Danzo requested Orochimaru and Kabuto Yakushi to do an experiment to let him have the means to take over Hinata City and its neighboring towns and his greediness do its job. It's more than just a corporate takeover - - hostile, at worst. What's really more shocking is that Danzo embezzled the money for 13 years to pay for his big... 'cosmetic' surgery.
"You have learned my secret! Now you will never leave here alive!" Danzo snarled as he commanded his flunkies to kill the boy and everybody else. And then all hell broke loose...
The disguised thugs began to strike at the unsuspecting crowd - - only to realize that they picked on the wrong victims. Some enemies were blasted with ki blasts by a few people, some foes were kicked with a high kick to the chin, a few more end up being punching bags by a certain fashionable fighter, some were given a bodyslamming wrestling moves that made them kissed the dirt… HARD, more thugs were also bashed with weapons on hand, while others used many different means to pacify the brutes, making the foes seeing stars, busting out teeth, and then some.
(Thankfully, nobody died in the scuffle, the enemies were either left in slings, casts, busted teeth, etc. At best, they are crippled for life, despite the best in surgical procedures.)
Even the Hinata-sou group did their share of fighting, too. Keitaro trying not to turn chicken while smashing one foe's face with a nearby chair; Naru clobbered an enemy with a lucked-out, hard right cross; Kitsuné tripped and stripped the goons of their trousers and learned that their manhood is sorely lacking in size and authority (nothing came as close to Ruto-kun's and possibly Keitaro's) and to add insult to injury, she poured hot tea on their pitiful manhood); Motoko carries her blade and used different Shinmei-style techniques to subdue the thugs, along with having their clothes ripped and torn in the process; Kaolla uses her tools and banana peels to dampen the flunkies' spirits; Haruka surprisingly pulled some martial arts and used her airsoft handgun to non-fatally make her mark; and Shinobu fainted from defeating a nearby perp with a frying pan that Ruto secretly gave her after all the excitement - it's the only way to fry.
Meanwhile, Danzo is using the powers of the Uchiha eyes to make Ruto his slave...or die trying with his hidden blade from his cane. But every time Ruto tries to land a sword swing from his reverse-edged Tachibana to cripple Danzo, the old duff just seems to 'avoid' the fated blows and he countered with powerful wind-powered breath attacks and powerful jutsu.
Ruto then remembered about the Uchiha Eyes' abilities from his late teacher's letters. One of the many abilities is to change the fate of the user or of the target(s) and avert the destiny without much consequences among other traits, except there is a price: the user of those particular forbidden arts will make his/her eye(s) go permanently blind and become useless from the surge of power.
So far Ruto accomplished the feat 3 times and 3 eyes on Danzo's arm are closed shut. That's when the blond Urashima got an idea. He has a technique that can cut at the form of evil, misused power. So he readies his reverse-edged blade and gathers his chi to make a sharp edge and then with a reverse-gripped slash at Danzo and then cross-countered the blows, Ruto has a part of his shoulder area of his shirt ripped. And Danzo? He over-relied on the Uchiha eyes that he didn't know were spent; in fact, they exploded in front of the crooked candidate's face (including the right eye and the spent eyes on his arm) as he screamed in agony.
"Naruto Uzumaki! What did you do to me‽" Danzo roared in pain.
"[Shinmei-ryuu Hiken-ougi: Zanmaken] (Shinmei Style, Secret Sword Art: Evil-Cutting Blade). There was evil empowering your stolen set of eyes and I have cut off that strength behind your elusiveness," Ruto explained and then he draws closer to the truly crippled politician and then scares him with his reverse blade pointed at him and stated as he removed his mask, "Danzo Shimura, you killed my family and tried to harm those that are precious to me and everybody else along with them. «BIG MISTAKE»."
Danzo tries to call the boy's bluff, but then DARK HORSE tapped him on the shoulder and then gave the old fossil a right hook to his left side of his jaw, knocking him out (along with busting out some of Danzo's teeth).
[Danzo Shimura, former school board adviser and mayoral candidate, unable to continue the battle. Out of commission… for now.]
-Brief Explanation-
Ruto knew this would happen. He and DARK HORSE managed to "fix" the rat for sure.
-End Explanation-
"I haven't been this excited since my younger days," DARK HORSE said as he rubbed his knuckles, "He should have known better than to talk with his big mouth."
And then, the older man went to the swordsman and said, "Young man, you've done us a big favor." Ruto wonders what was it about that deed as the middle aged candidate said, "We've been after Danzo Shimura and his accomplices for years and we couldn't prosecute them without showing a hint of their evidence of racketeering. And actually, my name isn't really DARK HORSE. My real name is Ken'ichi Mifuné and you know me by my other alias." Ruto knows that the man in front of him was once known as [Racer X], the infamous undercover spy for his home country of Japan. Then the man now named Ken'ichi said with a compliment, "You know, young man? You remind me a lot of myself. Don't ever forget that form of spirit as you have shown."
"Thank you, sir," Ruto said as he formally bowed.
Then somebody in the crowd shouted, "Hey! Take a look at the screens!"
The local TV News Network announces the results of the elections between Danzo Shimura and Ken'ichi Mifuné and the results stated that the latter won by a landslide. The crowds cheered as they held hands in friendship. And Danzo, along with his ROOT FOUNDATION and the hired hands were subsequently arrested for multiple crimes as they were cuffed and carted away to jail until they are fit to stand for trial.
(The people decided to keep the riot a secret to themselves to avoid public attention until further notice.)
After that's been said and done, the Danzo Shimura incident is over. The Hinata-sou company finally managed to walk back home with tired feet (and muscles) and full stomachs. This has been a long night after learning more about Ruto's feud - - er, history with the school adviser-turned-criminal. As the small group of students (and moocher) reclined in the couches, they learned more from the annals of Naruto's family tree that Kushina Uzumaki is PAIN-sensei's, Karin's, and Tsunade's close relative and, surprisingly, Tsuruko's sensei when she was younger.
(Motoko didn't know what to believe, at first, about her elder sister's upperclasswoman having a son and that person is the Alkaid - - No, Ruto-kun this whole time,)
Arashi Urashima (alias Minato Namikazé) was Grandma Hina's nephew by her older brother (dubbed 'Keisuke') who married an American woman of European descent, named of Charlotte 'Charlie' von Schwarz during the beginning of the revival age of Japan's economic structure in the late 50's. Arashi was later born in late January, 1960.
But then, tragedy struck the Urashima family many times: the Hinata Inn fell into a slump, Haruka lost her parents, Arashi lost his parents to a fatal car explosion (done by Danzo's deeds) soon after he married Kushina Uzumaki (his childhood friend), and later, he and his wife gave up their lives to protect their only son, Naruto. Not to mention, Hina's husband (who married into his wife's family) of over 40 years passed away from health issues.
"So this makes you a 2nd cousin to me and Haruka-obasan?" Keitaro curiously asked.
(Haruka decidedly just doesn't want to correct that habit right now.)
"That would be correct," Ruto said as Shinobu and Kaolla are lying down on their boyfriend's lap, "However, you're still my brother by law just like Haruka-san is our aunt by law."
(He read the family genealogy book and learned that Haruka is actually Keitaro's 1st cousin by around 7½ years and Grandma Hina is really her grandmother. Pretty tight-knit family, isn't it?)
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Before we go any further, there will be content that is somewhat graphic to some readers.
Viewer discretion is strongly advised.
They decided to retire to their rooms before they could go take a nice hot bath. As Ruto goes into the Corner Bath Hall, he is having a nice invigorating shower while having a towel around his waist before taking a dip in the big wooden tub. As he was relaxing in the tub Ruto was suddenly blindfolded and senses Shinobu, Kaolla, and Motoko that are naked as wee babies, but are as beautiful as Indra's Apsaras. And they decided together to join him in the tub. (It's enough for about 5 grown people.)
What's even more shocking is that even Kitsuné wanted to join as well as show her beauty in front of her 'brother'. She said that she wanted to join in as Ruto's girlfriend after making some tough decisions.
Ruto reluctantly agrees, but with certain conditions: that she must find a job that can keep (one that doesn't include vagrancy), go less on her boozing, and try to keep that kind of relationship a secret from the public.
Then Kitsuné decided to play a little game in which Ruto can guess the size of their breasts with the blindfold. At first, the blonde Urashima objected to this outrageous idea, but Motoko, Kaolla, and a nervously excitable Shinobu consented to the idea of skinship.
"I'm going to regret getting myself into this mess, dattébayo..." Ruto inward grumbled while trying to keep his manhood under wraps, but then an idea occurred to the hapless younger Urashima. A special 'forbidden' jutsu that can even up the playing field of women...
(We'll leave them alone for now, but they promised not to touch their other forbidden places... yet.)
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Meanwhile, Naru and Haruka are in the main onsen trying to relax their muscles from earlier, with Tama to keep them company. Unfortunately, 'Danger-Prone' Keitaro picked a wrong time to check the women's bath and the 2 occupants sent him flying into the corner bath hall and saw not Ruto with the other women, but a female that looked somewhat like him.
It turns out that Ruto nearly forgot that he has his transformation art that changes himself into his female persona, to which she is dubbed "Runo-chan".
(Runo: Ruto's 'Sexy Jutsu' persona with Motoko's physique with Naru's bust size and light bluish hair. More closer to Bakugan's Runo, but with slightly more curvatures.)
Then 'Runo' mock-screamed and smacked Keitaro as 'she' yelled, "Ahhhh! Oh, you cad! *slap!* You brute!" *slap!* "You peeping tom!" *slap!* "Can't us girls take a bath and have privacy away from prying eyes, you beast‽"
And 'she' gave him one final smack before she kicked him out of the bath room and into the 2nd floor hallway with a 'boot' to the pants. The other girlfriends were surprised how the disguised Ruto/Runo masterfully kicked the unintentional peeper out, without hurting him too much... as a woman.
As the disillusioned landlord is stupefied at the surprising display as he rubbed his sore cheek and seat, but then he realizes that he has plans for the continuation of trying to find a better way to start his dreams of Tōdai... and then there's the trying to keep a steady job at the same time...
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To be continued...-»
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Elsewhere, in an undisclosed area, 2 elderly people, hidden in the dark, were incensed that their prey, Naruto Uzumaki, slipped through their fingers while Danzo blundered himself in front of the public and Sasuke got humiliated by his victims. And Orochimaru also spirited away both men into a foreign power until they decided to return.
"Curse them all to bits, that meddling brat and his posse are always getting in our way!"
"Calm yourself. Sooner or later, we'll kick Hiruzen out and then the school, the town, and that little devil will be as good as ours."
They are trying to find other means to draw their enemy from his hiding place, whether it's done dirt cheap or by any cruel means necessary.
What the 2 oldsters don't realize is that unbeknownst to them, a tiny surveillance camera with an infra-red lens and acoustically sensitive audio picked up every word behind their backs in plain sight.
Who authorized and set up the silent witness's surveillance is anybody's bet...
As for Orochimaru...
"Kukukuku... Soon Sasuke-kun will savor my blessing and we'll show those riffraff that I, Orochimaru, am not to be taken lightly. I may have lost the chance to have the Uzumaki boy, but now, he's as good as mine and the girls would make a nice collection for my 'garden'..."
The aggravating adder is laughing maniacally as he plans for the ruination of the City and its inhabitants.
Omaké
The Results of the Trials of Danzo Shimura
On May 12th, a trial was held in Dept. XXX, Supreme Court of Japan at Chiyoda; in and for the Prefecture of Kanagawa that lasted 3 weeks due to an extensive amount of evidence, including the murder of the Urashima couple.
Danzo Shimura, after getting dentures for his missing teeth, was tried and was found guilty of charges of A-class murders, conspiracies to commit robbery and murder, terroristic threats (about 300 counts), treason, misuse of public funds, tax fraud, evasion... (and many other felonius charges that were listed a mile long.)
He is sentenced to be executed, but before he was sentenced to death row, he was ordered by the courts to pay the cities of the Kanagawa Prefecture over 4,000,000,000,000¥ (4 trillion Yen; about $40 billion, give or take a few digits) in garnishments and liquidations from his properties and for restitution for damages.
(He'll likely die a broke, destitute, and miserable old man. But that doesn't mean that wouldn't swear and determine that he'll have revenge on the blasted meddling kid and his posse. Danzo later gets a letter from his associate Orochimaru that he'll give him one more chance. By that, it means that the snake-in-human-skin broke him out of jail and sent him on a one-way trip out of Japan to plot his schemes against the Urashima household. All in due time...)
The other suspects involved with Danzo Shimura (including the Akatsuki gang and the ROOT Disciplinary Squad) were subsequently found guilty of various crimes and are sentenced to separate prisons and/or are on lengthy probations.
When the police tried to capture Orochi Yamata (Orochimaru's alias) for his involvement in the biggest scandal in Kanagawa. He, along with Kabuto Yakushi (who just escaped from prison), and Sasuké Uchiha (smuggled out from the Youth Authorities by the same snake and false doctor) have made their getaway and are currently at large. They are said to be seeking sanctuary in Roanapur where they have connections to escape charges where extradition is next to impossible as long as they stay in the country. (But we won't be seeing the last of them, for sure.)
Omaké
Meeting Between Renegades
Itachi Uchiha learned that his foolish little brother had escaped from Juvenile Detention. He helped gather the evidence to further prove Danzo's and Orochi Yamata's guilt. He was called by the new mayor Ken'ichi Mifune to discuss the investigations of the said suspects and his runaway brother. He also heard that Sasuke intentionally became a deadbeat father to his niece.
To help solve the problem, Itachi will have to secretly tail the cowardly cobras to draw them out of their hiding place in the warmongering Roanapur. Ken'ichi requested that he handle the extremely dangerous job as an undercover. Itachi consented.
In the weeks that followed, Itachi managed to sail to the borders of the island outside of Thailand under an alias. He found where the targets were, but had to keep his distance, trying not to blow his cover without getting shot at from stray, friendly (or not so friendly) fire...
So far, so good...
A/N: This is one chapter that is straight out of my head based on one of my rough drafts I've used to write out. There are references to many crossover guest appearances, but there other sections that are based what I've watched, such as Shin Megami Tensei series, Armitage the 3rd (the kick in the clutch scene), Disney's The Great Mouse Detective, Robin Hood, and Peter Pan, Looney Tunes: Bill of Hare, Last Action Hero, Lion King, and some names borrowed/reused from other fanfictions, along with inspirations from the U.S. Version of Street Fighter.
Also, you did notice that Setsuna Sakurazaki from Negima! the series made a cameo appearance. However, in this life, before she reunites with Konoka Konoe, I decided to place them NOT as a Yuri couple, but are put into more of a philéo (almost to an agapé)-type or perhaps a platonic type (non-physical kind) of a friendship. And Setsuna's heritage as a demi-human in this story is one I personally think it's the closest to a bird yōkai. (Picture the image of Kurama Tengu and the wings from the SMT series.) I could be wrong, but it's only a matter of opinion.
Of course, there's also other varieties of Tengu such as Koppa Tengu (Leaf Tengu) and Karasu Tengu (Crow Tengu); they are of the lower tier of the Yoma family, but they are of the smaller size and power. Kurama Tengu, on the other hand, is said to be the most powerful variety of Tengu that once told in legend that he helped a 12th century samurai (Earth Date: 13XX A.D.) refine his sword skills and dances. Somehow, Setsuna was likely a descendant of the said samurai.
More Backstory
Hinata "Hina" Urashima in this story has an older brother (by 2 years) named Keisuke, who (like Keitaro) has had a hard time trying to go for higher education and get a date in the process after the mess from the 2nd World War. Fortunately, he earned a career as a diplomat for the United States/Japanese Affairs and then he met a blonde-haired American woman Charlotte 'Charlie' von Schwarz.
(A/N: Her surname is a play on the word schwarz, as in the color black. That and it's also a name change to avoid unwanted prosecution from their native country.)
Charlie was the youngest of 3 children, and born in 1935 in a quiet town not far from L.A. in California. The reason people from her old classes used to tease her and sometimes gave her that (rather) awful name of 'Charlie', all happened because back then, her parents (ex-military and were refugees from Germany's disservice some time after the first war broke out) decided let their little girl's blonde hair in a short manly fashion after handling the lice issue, mistaking her for a boy. However, the name kinda stuck on her, ever since.
But when she started Junior High, Charlie grew her hair long, down to her lower section of her back to prove to her classmates that she, Charlie, is smarter than being called a tomboy.
Charlie was one of the many Americans who had to survive the ordeal of the Second World War as a civilian. However, she and her family did their part of helping their fellow men, including the Oriental immigrants who wanted no part of their role as enemies to the Allies and the Axis. After making friends with some of their folk, Charlie dreams of becoming an English teacher in a classroom in Japan. So after brushing up her education and becoming bilingual and fluent in English, Japanese, Russian, and German (her family's native tongue), Miss Charlie von Schwarz graduated High School with Honors and chose to try the new program of going to the University in Japan. And that university was none other than Todai in Kanagawa. Charlie tells her family and friends goodbye before setting off on her new adventure.
Upon completing her graduation in Todai, Charlie is living and learning the cultures in Hinata City as a recent teacher in English, and when the unexpecting happenings of her meeting with a next door neighbor named Keisuke Urashima, they fell in love at first sight. And after going through trials and tribulations, the two eventually got married upon his graduation. And in 1960 (or Showa 34), after they started living as a family, when they had a son named Arashi.
(Think Minato Namikazé from the original series; blond hair and blue eyes, but more of an East Asian look from his dad's side.)
And as Arashi grew up, he became friends with Kushina Uzumaki (she's mostly Japanese with a small Irish descent; known for their fiery and sometimes reckless spirit, hence the peculiarly dominantly red hair genetic), Musashi (Motoko and Tsuruko's father) - Kushina's upperclassman, and the tutor for the group), Miyabi (Shinobu's mother), Sakuya (Kitsuné's mother), and Amamath (Kaolla's father who came from overseas, trying to earn a higher education for his family and to make connections with his country).
It was swell for this company as time marches on; Arashi becomes a police officer (who, ironically, went by the name "Minato Namikazé" when he's on undercover duty as a teacher), Kushina is now a housewife after training her lowerclassmen at the Shinmei-style school, Miyabi is currently a worker at the Hinata-sou, Musashi became the new head for his Alma Mater, succeeding his mother (because she didn't have any daughters), while bringing his own two young girls along (Tsuruko is holding little Motoko); Sakuya is also a housewife, raising little Mitsuné on her own; and Amamath wanted to pay one final visit with baby Kaolla, young Amalla and Lamba Lu, who is one in the family before returning to his kingdom (his wife recently passed away from an unfortunate circumstance soon after Kaolla was born). That's when the group of friends made a solemn vow, a promise to let their children (Kushina and Miyabi were recently pregnant at the time) to have a bright and better future that they normally wouldn't have and to unite their families some day. And then, they went their separate ways.
Ironically, Ruto's haremistic destiny was beginning to intertwine with his parents' promise, along with Motoko's, Kaolla's, Shinobu's, and Kitsuné's families as they, the children, were vowed to become married, given the circumstances. But the sad part is that Ruto is the only boy in the group in the company of older and younger women and the laws of marriage can get tangled up, in a way.
That's all, for now, until the heat is on...
- blukmage19
