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Chapter 17
"You just made this a lot easier."
"Y-yeah, I d-did," she replied and threw the trinket to the ground.
Martha lost consciousness after she threw the trinket and the bonding was almost complete. Just a little more, the demon thought.
"Yes!"Ashirok exclaimed before his eyes widened and so did the devils when Naruto appeared in a flash, a giant rasengan spinning furiously in his hands. He gripped the demon by the face and dragged it out of Martha.
"Not again!"
"Senpo: Raiton, Odama Rasengan"
Naruto slammed the lightning-powered Jutsu into Ashirok's core, killing it instantly.
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John was staring at the blonde a few minutes ago when said blonde disappeared in a yellow flash just like when he appeared with Martha in the living room back then. He turned his head to where Naruto was looking before he disappeared and prayed for the safety of his sister.
As soon as Naruto disappeared, two people stepped out of a magic circle beside John, Souji, and Agatha. He heard Ashirok chuckle before it turned into a full-blown laugh.
A powerful wave of purple energy burst out of Ashirok's body, flattening the entire school completely.
Gaia, Souji, and Martha created a magic barrier in time and even then, their magic barrier barely held on.
Ashirok rose out of a thick puddle of purple fluid and what came out wasn't an 'it' but a 'he'. A pale handsome, well-built man with flaming long purple hair, purple eyes with black slits, and purple claws. He had on dark purple eyeliner and two skull earrings.
"Ah, the feeling of being complete. It's tantalizing,"the demon sighed.
"He's complete!"Gaia's eyes widened in shock, seeing the demon in his full glory.
Ashirok took to the sky and stretched his wings, balled his fists, and smiled; a true happy smile before he laughed maniacally. "Ah, I can feel the wind on my skin… I can almost taste it."
The now complete demon looked in the direction where Martha was and smirked. He turned his attention back to the group below. They were nothing but trash… Well, except that fake Gaia, The church soldier, and that she-devil.
"Well, I guess I have enough time to kill you all, saving the blonde one for last."
"Ashirok, what do you intend to do?! The three great factions are allied now, they will put an end to you!" Gaia hollered.
"Listen up everyone, his power level right now equals that of a super devil," Dulio informed, all traces of humor gone from his face. "Fulfilling the order to seal him is impossible right now. Our only option is to fight him, right here, right now till he's exhausted, and seal him off while he's weak!"
"Right now, that demon is at full power, he's invincible," Gaia said, walking forward.
"How did it come to this?"She wondered as her legs went over the edge of the earth wall Naruto created.
"You dare challenge me, fake?"Ashirok questioned.
"We have to take Martha far away from here." Gaia's gears were shifting furiously as she walked on thin air.
"John, take your sister far away from here. Wife of Lucifer, extend and fortify the barrier as much as you can. The rest are with me, we'll buy the Hunter siblings enough time to escape."
"Gaia…" John whispered in pure astonishment. He was nervous after seeing this side of her.
The words that John's mind focused on were: run away. He was tired of it; being chased by an ancient demon.
"I'm sorry, Gaia, but this is my fight too. If I can't protect my sister and my friends right now, I don't think I can ever gain my confidence back." John ripped off the trinket on his neck.
Ashirok smirked when he felt his power inside the trinket.
A purple spark later and the sword Annie's son used to split Ashirok was spinning in the air.
The sword, a huge doubled edge purple sword that had no guard. Its hilt was wrapped with a purple ribbon that swayed gently in the air. The edge of the blades had silver linings. The sword was indeed a magnificent one.
"If you wield me, you will lose your mind."A boy that looked almost like him, dragged him into their shared inner world.
John suddenly found himself knee-deep in that pool of blood. There were no clouds, just the orange hue of the evening sun. He stared at the boy and tried to speak to him.
"Please, I need your help, just this once. Give me the power to protect my sister and my friends."
"I will require a sacrifice, then,"the boy, who was actually his sacred gear, replied telepathically.
"Anything you want, take it! Just give me power."
"Very well, then."
John stilled his breath after the internal conversation was over and grabbed the hilt of the sword in the air and raw purple energy burst out of his body. A purple marking covered the left side of his face and he gained some of the characteristics of Ashirok himself.
"Hm, he's not losing his mind? That's no fun."Ashirok mused, scanning John below. He was really looking forward to seeing the policeman attack everyone and everything in his line of sight with blind fury. "It was only a matter of time before they found a way to prevent the madness."
Ashirok spread out his right palm at the group and kept on rising higher and higher till he could see the entire school. "You all are too weak to challenge me. Despair!"
"Something big is coming, brace yourselves," Dulio yelled, entering his angel form.
The demon snapped his fingers and the Klepto Six and Quavo appeared behind him. A purple tentacle burst out of his back and he impaled all six Kleptos with it.
"Keep them busy while I go retrieve my bride."
All of the Kleptos turned into full-fledged demons. Each taking a characteristic of an animal, each representing six basic elements.
A dragon for fire. A gargoyle for earth. A water horse for, well, water. A djinn for lightning. A centaur for dark energy and a pterosaur for wind.
Gaia, John, Dulio, Agatha, Souji, and Grayfia were outnumbered but determined.
Dulio attacked first with a wide range lightning attack which the djinn absorbed. The earth wall Naruto created rumbled and crumbled to pieces and the surrounding earth broke off to create a huge earth golem, the size of a gogmagog.
The supernatural beings took to the air when the ground wasn't safe anymore, with John growing a purple wing out of his left shoulder blade and staying in the air with that singular wing. The gargoyle descended on the shoulder of the golem and the golem ripped off a piece of earth and hurled it at the supernatural group.
Grayfia raised her hands at the incoming earth and froze it with a magic circle. Souji unsheathed his blade and cut the frozen rock into two.
Quavo appeared behind Gaia, chuckling as he opened fire on her with both Uzi. The bullets exploded on impact and it was like a rain of grenades but Gaia's magic barrier did its job just fine.
John rushed after Quavo but the criminal was having none of that and blasted the cop with one of the missiles from the rocket launchers mounted on his shoulders.
Quavo couldn't help but laugh when John dodged the missiles.
"Look at us, pig! Indeed, we broke our human limitations, Transcended our mortal barriers, but deep down... we still are police and thieves." he hollered and opened fire on John.
Displaying great swordsmanship, John cut all the bullets with great precision. "Get out of my way, Quavo!" John yelled, trying to cleave Quavo in two.
The criminal ducked under the slash and kicked John in the gut. The kick packed quite a great deal of power as John was launched away only to be seized by the Pterosaur and taken towards a dark forest in the distance against his will.
"John!" Gaia yelled and tried to rush after him.
"The hell? That forest wasn't there a moment ago."The mother goddess thought only to see that the entire landscape had changed. The clouds were purple and the atmosphere was gloomy.
"I wouldn't worry about him if I were you," Quavo yelled.
"My fight is not with you, Human," Gaia replied and was replaced by John instantly in a quick burst of green light.
"She switched places with him?" Quavo thought in surprise.
John seemed a bit disoriented before he saw Quavo and his anger returned.
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Grayfia backflipped over a fireball from the dragon with grace. The demonic dragon dived at Lucifer's wife and the normally stoic maid let a smirk grace her features before she created an ice stake and tried to impale the dragon with it. She frowned when the ice stake turned to mist upon contact with the dragon's hard scales.
She quickly brought up a magic barrier to stop the incoming huge fireball but underestimated the power behind it. Her barrier was shattered instantly and she was sent tumbling in the air before she regained her balance.
Millicas' mom glared at the dragon with a heavy frown. That magic barrier should have been strong enough to block the fireball, she thought before she realized she was weak against strong fire-based attacks.
"Tch, this is going to be hard."
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Agatha weaved through beams of dark energy and sent a beam of light energy of her own at the centaur she was tasked to fight. For a grotesque demon, it displayed intelligence as its attacks were planned.
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Souji flicked his sword with style as the wooden golem behind him crumbled to dust. The gargoyle screeched at him and a pitchfork made out of rock appeared in its hands. It rushed forward and so did Souji both clashing in the middle of their previous positions.
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"Today's kinda great,"Gaia thought. "I can really stretch my wings without worry."She grunted as she ripped the wings off the pterosaur with her bare hands. It screeched, sending out a wave of wind that carried Gaia away from it.
"That's not a screech, demon," Gaia remarked, taking in a deep breath before she infused her voice with divine magic. "This is a screech."
The mother goddess screamed. The winds howled, the trees were blasted away. Everything was flattened by the powerful airwaves smashed into any solid object with enough force to break it apart.
Three seconds later, she stopped. A good portion of the forest had been flattened.
That was something she does occasionally when she's compelling humans into doing what she wants them to do but this time, she completely upped the ante and screamed. The pterosaur reduced to a pile of flesh here and a puddle of blood there.
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Grayfia exhaled, cold mist coming out her body, her eyes shining a cold blue. She extended her hand at the incoming wall of flames and froze it. She jumped up and punched the dragon in the face and intoned, "Super Freeze."From the point of impact, the demon's body was covered with frost till it travelled throughout its entire body. The demon shattered as soon as its body touched the ground.
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Dulio sighed as he pulled his spear of doom from the chest of the Djinn. He took off to the sky to evade a wave of water infused with poison.
"Bad, water horse!" he yelled and threw his spear of doom and a light spear at the same time at the water horse, Killing it instantly.
The Church's strongest exorcist smiled when he saw Agatha defeat the centaur with minor injuries. She was among the few young angels that didn't fight in the war. She was kidnapped in the past but, thankfully, she was saved, claiming a human saved her from the clutches of a maniacal devil and a dragon who wanted to do 'things' to her... The event took a toll on her confidence and self-esteem, and he was glad to see she had recovered.
Dulio reached out for his muffin when a green blur materialized behind him. Taking a good look at her, he realized she was quite a looker. The kids at church wouldn't shut up until they knew of his relationship status. She'd make a great babysitter, Dulio thought checking her out.
"No! Bad, Dulio!"
John was left fighting with Quavo, who was switching guns like he was a walking arsenal. The criminal now had a shotgun that sprayed tiny bullets that burned through rocks.
"That's enough, Quavo! Turn yourself in, you're outnumbered and outgunned!"John tried to reason with him but the situation was too serious for that.
"Haha, Never, you hog! I'd rather die than surrender! And oh, for the record, I still got guns! Lots of them! I can't be outgunned, I never run out of them, motherfucker!" Quavo decided to pull out his balance breaker's ultimate move: The Arsenal.
Quavo's balance breaker had just one ability, before he received powers from Ashirok, his twin blue pistols turned into machine guns. But after receiving a Power-up from Ashirok, it now had two abilities, the first one is the one he's been using so far in the battle, which were the two rocket launchers mounted on his shoulders.
The other ultimate move was a little something called "Arsenal". A blue and purple aura seeped out of his body as a crosshair made of blue-purple energy appeared at his right eye. All sorts of guns—if one could think of it, it was there—materialized in front of him, and all were directed at John. Even John was a bit intimidated when he saw the RPGs among the arsenal.
"This is it, you big fat hog! This is your end!" he yelled, a detonator appeared in his hands and two massive machine guns grew out of his back.
John sighed as his face twitched twice and he had to suppress the rage that threatened to take over. He held the sword by his side and it burst to life with purple flames. He raised his sword up and the devils created a magic barrier knowing the clash would be quite devastating.
"Balance Breaker: Arsenal!"
"Crescent Eraser!"
Both fighters called out the name of their attack. The wave of purple energy overcame the sacred gear attack and an explosion went off kicking up a huge cloud of dust. The dust settled and John, sword in his right hand, glared at Quavo who was losing an arm.
"He's come a long way in such a short amount of time. Maybe he's been practicing how to wield the sword all this time when he knew of its existence since he was a kid."Gaia thought with a fond smile but something was bothering her. He wasn't consumed by rage. He was perfectly sane.
Quavo coughed up blood, now back to normal, all traces of dark energy gone from his system. "Come to finish me off, eh? Make it quick… Hog."
"You have the right to remain silent. Any word you say can and will be used against you in the court of law."
"Don't give me that crap, Hombre! I'm a boss, damn it, and I deserve to dictate how I die!" Quavo yelled with a crazy gleam in his eyes. Pity from a pig was the last thing he ever wanted.
He gasped when Harshblade, the name of the sword John wields, impaled the ground beside Quavo's head.
"For what you did to the precinct"—John climbed onto Quavo and kept punching him in the face—"I should kill you, but they'd want to put you behind bars because that was our goal! We swore on our badge we were going to put you behind bars for the rest of your life. Give it up, it's over."
Quavo coughed, his face bruised and swollen. "You dumbasses, you think this is over? No, it's just beginning," he chuckled with a sneer.
Gaia's eyes widened when her precognitive abilities activated and made quick haste to conjure a powerful spell, a divine shield on all of them, before an ear-deafening explosion and a mighty wave of pure destructive energy washed past them.
Dulio and Souji narrowed their eyes at Gaia. That technique was a high-level spell.
"Such power!"Quavo thought.
"Up in the air!" Agatha yelled, pointing at a blue and purple blur that raced across the sky.
"What's that blue thing?" Dulio questioned.
"Naruto?"Gaia thought when she sensed Naruto's peculiar energy mixed with something sinister.
Both blurs descended on the forest, flattening it in an instant and it looked like they were at a stalemate.
"What the fuck is that?"Quavo thought with fear when he saw what looked like a six-tailed beast from the deepest depths of hell. It was blue and its eyes were white, devoid of feelings, showing only rage.
An oppressive pressure emanating from the blue demon descended on the devils, angels, and humans.
Ashirok laughed with a maniacal gleam in his eyes. "You never cease to amaze me, Human! Yes, let us see who's the greater demon between us!"
The blue demon roared at Ashirok and breathed out a pink gas which deteriorated everything it touched but it wasn't effective against Ashirok as he stretched out his arm and gripped the demon around the neck. Ashirok's hand hissed as it made contact with the blue demon but the purple demon didn't let go. The blue demon struggled against Ashirok's chokehold but failed to break free.
Ashirok punched the 'Saiken-fied' Naruto in the face as it tried to deliver a nasty butthead.
"Hey! Saiken, you are too soft on him! You gotta try harder if you want to kill him,"Naruto yelled inside his mindscape.
"Keh, hand me control so I can teach this guy a lesson!"Kurama roared.
"OK, be careful! That's my body dattebayo!"
(A few minutes ago)
Ashirok flew towards Martha's location and smirked when he saw her In the distance. He performed a perfect superhero landing in front of the group and his countenance fell on Martha.
"My bride,"He smirked, standing on both feet and stretched his arm at her. "Come let us become one!"
Martha hid behind Naruto in fear. The Uzumaki himself was surprised, to say the least, when he saw the misty demon was actually quite something in his full form.
"Sensei! What's going on?!" Yuri yelled.
"Why weren't you two in class!" Naruto questioned with a glare.
"..." Martha and Yuri held their tongues.
"You should have stayed in class! That's two more people to worry about!"
Serafall and Beowulf, seeing how Ashirok was complete, knew how bad the situation had become and appeared instantaneously in front of Ashirok, their hands outstretched, magic circles spinning furiously.
The demon clapped his hands, as If he was trying to kill a mosquito, and intoned, "Dark Banishment."
Naruto was alarmed when he saw the wave of dark energy coming and quickly Hiraishinedaway, grabbing the nearest person, which was Martha.
The wave of dark energy was quite short but when it disappeared, Serafall, Beowulf, and Yuri were nowhere to be found. Naruto extended his senses but couldn't find anything.
With anger coursing through his veins, he yelled,
"What did you do to them?!"
"Simple, I banished them!"
"To where?!" Naruto asked, feeling his anger rise. His homeroom class president was god knows where right now and it's all thanks to the bastard in front of him.
"Do not get in my way, Human, and I will make your death quick and painless."
"Too bad, you'll have to go through me to get to her, Akshay!"
"You talk too much, Human. Know your place. I am a demon of the highest order, while you are a mere human; albeit, a human with chakra, but a human no less."
Naruto pried his hand off Martha and cupped her face. "Everything is going to be alright. This failure will protect you!"
Naruto wasn't going to be the one fighting, He's failed too many people to believe in his own promises anymore.
Naruto had a mini flashback of a white-haired woman in a pool of blood in his lap. A woman he swore to protect but failed, just like he swore to protect so many other people but always seemed to fail. Maybe Kaguya cursed him before she died, to fail at protecting the ones he swore to protect.
"Naruto-nii…"
Naruto smiled, for the first time in a while, trying to reassure her but his smile didn't reach his eyes.
Naruto took calm footsteps towards Ashirok. "A demon of the highest order, huh?" he asked. "Let me tell you a story." His eyes bled red and his voice became guttural.
"Nine super powerful demons once roamed the lands, they could flatten mountains on a whim and create tsunamis. Ever heard of them?"
"Oi, you know we ain't demons, right?"Gyuki debunked Naruto's statement.
"Keh, speak for yourself,"Kurama grunted. "The nine-tailed demon fox" was too badass of a title to give up.
"There are no such demons as powerful as I."Ashirok stated.
"Let me introduce them to you, Akshay, and let's see which is the greater demon between you and them."
"Naruto?!"Son Goku exclaimed.
"No way!"Matatabi thought.
"Let me out! I wanna fight!"The raccoon-dog hollered.
Naruto went on all fours and his skin suddenly started peeling off to reveal dark red chakra underneath.
Martha, with her mouth wide open, watched as Naruto grew four tails and became a beast from her darkest nightmares.
They both blurred out of existence destroying the ground they had moved from before they halted in the air in a stalemate. Saiken gathered negative and positive chakra before she swallowed it. Ashirok did the same with a Dark Eraser from his mouth, and both techniques were released at point-blank.
Boom.
Both demon and Tailed Beast still kept on fighting even after their destructive techniques exploded, rocketing them away.
(Back to the present)
"I'll show this guy what a true demon is made of!"Kurama roared.
Ashirok retreated when he felt the massive build-up of power. He watched as the sky darkened even further and a ball of red energy descended on the transformed human and now, he's transformed again. Naruto now had seven tails with a fox-like bone encasing the demon and his color was now red, instead of blue.
Kurama, now in control, blurred out of sight and threw a punch at Ashirok's face. Ashirok lashed out with his own punch and both fists met in the middle, halting each other, sending out a powerful shockwave.
"Ugh,"Ashirok exclaimed before they blurred again.
The goddess, the devils, angels, and humans watched as Ashirok and the red demon became nothing but a blur. Gaia and Dulio's eyes could keep up with them but the rest were having a hard time seeing what was happening.
Kurama ducked under a mean jab and Ashirok smirked, just perfect. He tried to kick the beast away but a supersonic roar from the beast foiled his plans. Ashirok stood in the air and stretched his arm, creating multiple purple energy hands in a palm thrust position before he launched them all at Kurama. The strongest Bijū growled and dipped his hand into the ground as multiple red huge hands intercepted Ashirok's barrage.
Both demon and beast exchanged attacks at a super-fast rate, cracking the ground they were on as their appendages shifted the air between them, furiously trying to cause bodily harm. The onslaught stopped all of a sudden when Kurama grabbed all of Ashirok's multiple forelimbs at once with his tails and pulled the demon back. Kurama reared his fist back and gave the incoming demon a bone-shattering punch to the face.
Ashirok was dazed for a moment due to the punch and was flying parallel to the ground before he heard the unmistakable crackles of fireballs; lots of human-sized fireballs. The demon flipped once and landed on his feet, erecting a barrier on time before the fireballs reached him. The fireballs ricocheted off his barrier before they exploded in a blaze of fiery glory wherever they landed.
Countless fireballs ricocheted off the barrier he erected as he skidded back, each fireball decreasing the integrity of his shield before the onslaught stopped only for Kurama to appear and break the defense completely with a single punch.
"How is he so strong?!"Ashirok asked himself as another punch connected again and this time, he coughed up purple blood and skidded to a stop, his face buried in the dirt.
Kurama let out a growl and smirked.
Ashirok rose from the floor shaking with blind fury.
"Don't you dare, Demon!"Ashirok yelled, purple energy bursting forth before it settled down to reveal Ashirok in body armor with a pitchfork in hand.
Kurama sported a huge grin when he saw Ashirok's new appearance and sped off on all fours towards the demon.
"Ha!"Ashirok yelled, putting his spear forward. Purple energy gathered on the tip and a wide purple beam came out of it.
Kurama built up a massive amount of chakra in his fangs and roared at the incoming beam. Small chunks of earth were uprooted as the sonic roar raced towards the purple beam. Both attacks cancelled each other out, creating a smokescreen of dust.
Kurama appeared a few feet away from Ashirok and tilted his body sideways to evade the pitchfork projectile.
"Don't underestimate me, demon!"Ashirok yelled and reared his fist back and met Kurama's punch in the middle creating a shockwave that ruffled his hair. Kurama growled and both monsters started exchanging blow for blow, firmly fixed to their spot. Soon, their hands were nothing but a blur when Ashirok scored a punch in. Kurama's jawbones cracked a fraction and the arrogant Bijū wasn't happy, to say the least.
Kurama ducked under a punch and lashed out strongly with all seven tails. Ashirok defended his face with his arms as he was launched back. He flew to the sky to regain some semblance of balance.
Kurama created a Tailed Beast Ballthe size of a normal Rasenganin hand and the very ground he stood on shattered as spider cracks appeared on it.
"If that thing hits me, it's gonna be fatal." Ashirok thought before he balled up his fist and concentrated. bright light seeped out from the little space between his fingers. He opened his palm and a pitch black ball the size of a cherry levitated on his hand.
The chakra monster planted his right foot forward and flew towards the demon and the ancient demon dived down at the chakra monster.
Both monsters reared their arms back and met in the middle.
"Absolute Eraser!"
"Bijūdama!"
Both techniques clashed for a while before a huge ball of Chakra and dark energy surrounded both fighters. The ball stays confined, energy clashing with energy before it turns white and an explosion with enough power to turn night to day occurred.
Boom!
Saying the explosion that followed was just a light display of fireworks was a massive understatement. Gaia and co were absolutely astonished, staring from a very far and safe distance away from the battleground.
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The devils planted their feet on the ground, hands forward maintaining a magic circle when they were caught off guard when a white light shone from where the Kyubified-Naruto and Ashirok were fighting. They could even feel the tremors of the attack from where they were.
"So, this is the power of the Tailed Beasts inside Naruto?"Gaia thought with slightly wide eyes. She had both herself, John, and Martha inside a green magic circle.
John held onto his sister as the harsh storm the explosion created threatened to blow her away.
They all gritted their teeth when the pressure became unbearable, and then, all of a sudden, it stopped.
"What the hell was that?!" John yelled.
"What was that red beast and where's the blonde human?"Dulio's gears were shifting trying to connect the dots. The possibility too obvious to ignore.
Souji took to the air and stared on in astonishment upon seeing a massive crater, where the two demonic combatants had been. It was so huge and deep that the devil couldn't see the bottom and the crater was still smoking. The others joined him in the air and they spotted two red and purple figures in the distance.
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Kurama landed on a floating rift of sand, his right side regenerating at an impressive pace and his adversary was in the same condition. Both monsters were healing at a fast rate before Naruto gained control of his body and reverted back to normal.
"Where's the demon, Human! Let him out!"
Naruto stared on with a poker face and replied, "No. The destruction is getting out of hand."
"No, I want that demon out!"
"That's enough. It's about time I sealed you." Naruto spoke like Ashirok was a domestic dog that went berserk and bit someone and needed to be put down.
"The likes of you can't seal me, human! It took the combined effort of the three factions and Annie's son to seal me!"
Naruto sighed and closed his eyes. He widened his hips, lowered his centre of mass, and did a snake seal.
"I am a higher creature and I will not—"Ashirok stopped his rant when his entire body went stiff and he rose higher and higher up in the air against his will.
Naruto opened his eyes and the fabled Rinnegan of the Sage of Six Paths were there, manifested in his two orbs. Naruto looked at the demon and uttered two words that split the very ground they stood on, even the crater wasn't exempted.
Play Girei ost.
"Chibaku… Tensei."
Ashirok watched in true astonishment as something he's never seen, experienced, or thought possible, happened. He was mesmerized as rocks the size of a building and other different sizes rose from the ground and floated in the air towards him. His body served as the core of the gravitational pull as all the surrounding rocks floating in the air were pulled towards him and held together, tightened together by a great force.
"Was he holding back all those times we fought?"Was the last thought going through Ashirok's mind as his vision went dark, the rocks completely blocking out the light.
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Everyone watched the magnificent technique and were floored. Even Gaia was awed when she saw rocks as big as a 12 storey house floating in the air, gathering together and forming a huge sphere of rock above, growing larger and going higher till it blocked the sun.
"My… god," Dulio exclaimed, watching the massive rock grow.
"That technique…" Agatha gasped.
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Naruto exhaled and released the snake seal when the sealing was complete.
"Feh, you should have let me pummel that guy into mush,"Kurama complained.
"I wanted to kill somebody!"Shikaku roared.
Naruto cut them out and rode on the sand rift towards the group watching the fight.
Souji gripped the hilt of his sheathed sword and took a step back when he saw the gargantuan sphere of rock move forward. His eyes widened a fraction when he saw Naruto standing on a sand rift, both hands folded in front of his chest, looking at him like he was a pitiful fly buzzing around. A chill ran down his spine when he stared into those purple eyes that glowed under the shadow cast by the satellite.
Grayfia's hands went limp beside her, she stared at Souji and saw that the Knight was in the same situation, staring at Naruto who was above them, literally and figuratively. Devils were greedy creatures that respected power and, right now, the blonde human looked invincible.
"Is this the real Naruto Uzumaki?"Grayfia thought. He was incomprehensible at that moment to her. She had so much on her mind now.
When, Who, What, How, Where, Why was He… So many questions to ask. Why was he living a boring life in the human world? Why was he playing 'weak human'? Who was he? What was he? How did he gain so much power? Why is he hiding his power? How is this possible?
John and Martha mistook him for a god when the Chibaku Tensei followed him like a puppy as he neared them. It cast a huge shadow over them and Naruto stood by the Massive sphere of rock, floating in the air despite all its weight.
Dulio stared at Naruto and knew, instinctively, not to mess with the blonde.
The sphere was just there behind him, housing a great ancient demon inside. If the blonde had a triumph card like this and that red beast earlier, then that means he was playing around with Ashirok all along, the supernatural beings came to that startling realization together.
Quavo just couldn't speak. No human should possess that kind of power.
And just like that, it was over. No more demons, no more threats. The Hunter family were now free, they could spread their wings like a bird. The realization brought great comfort to them.
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"Marie," Naruto called her name like he didn't just create a massive sphere and showed all of them the vast difference between him and them, his voice was too calm, too casual, as if everything was normal. "We have a lot to talk about you trying to commit suicide."
Martha looked down with guilt while John was horrified at the thought.
This is why Naruto Uzumaki disliked showing his powers to those he deemed unworthy. It wasn't his pride or cockiness talking—or maybe it was, just a bit—the main reason was because of situations like this. They all hid it well but they were afraid, except Gaia who was smirking at him.
He was happy to see her smile at him after he revealed a fraction of his power.
The notion of people who used to categorize him as a minor threat updating his status to a god-level threat was tiring and agonizing. The devils would surely report what they saw and the top things to expect was a formal visit from all three factions leaders since he was temporarily 'allied' with them.
Being powerful is nice and all but people fear what they do not understand—the same being applicable to all supernaturals—and that fear gradually turns to hate until all that is left is the desire to get rid of or suppress that which they fear, that which they hate, that which they don't understand.
Martha and John were completely astonished. Their stares had a glint in them, like they were in the presence of something greater. He hoped this display would change nothing; he'd love it very much if they treated him like they did before this happened.
The devils on the other hand, well… His message was heard loud and clear. He gazed at Grayfia and raised his chin a bit to let her know he was being smug about it. He turned his gaze to Souji and tilted his head a bit and raised an eyebrow at the Knight. His body language was daring the devil to challenge him again. His stare lingered on the Knight before he turned his head to the last group present.
Two blondies, one radiating holy energy and sacred gear energy while the other a pure holy energy, which felt nostalgic but only for a moment.
The man had his fist balled up beside him and his face was blank. Naruto nodded mentally, the guy had earned a tiny bit of his respect just like that.
"N-n-naruto-san? Is t-that you?" Agatha stuttered flying forward like she was in trance towards the blonde ninja.
Dulio grabbed her hand and pulled her back. Superhuman or not, he'd be damned before he let her walk into danger. Gabriel would have his hide if she had so much as a scratch on her body.
Naruto raised an eyebrow at the four-winged Angel. How did she know his name? "Yo," he greeted with a wave of his hand, and Agatha's face lit up like a Christmas tree at Naruto's gesture. "Do I know you?" he asked and like a blackout, her mood dampened.
"Don't you remember me?" she asked, her voice shaking.
Naruto scratched his head in confusion.
"Grendel?! Rizevim?! Don't you remember me anymore? You saved my life!" Agatha yelled, on the verge of tears.
The man who came into her life in the most bizarre way to save her like a knight in shining armor when all hope seemed lost and then disappeared in the most bizarre way, had forgotten about her? The man she didn't even forget about for a single second?
Naruto's eyes darkened at the mention of Rizevim and he went down memory lane for a second. He trailed off and his eyes widened when he recognized the female Angel. "Y-you, C-clumsy Angel!" Naruto pointed a finger at her.
Agatha cried tears of happiness when her hero remembered who she was, and she couldn't help but laugh at the name he called her back then. This was the man responsible for her courage, the man who helped her in so many ways in the brief period of time they knew each other. Many thought her story was unbelievable. A human fought against an evil dragon and won, an instant defeat.
"You remember me!" She pulled herself away From Dulio's grip and flew towards Naruto, tackling him in a hug. Naruto groaned when she buried her face into his stomach. She barely reached his chest as she gripped him tight and bawled into his chest.
The blonde ninja's lips curved up a bit as he hugged her back and patted the first angel he met in this world awkwardly. Gaia recognized the smile as the small, almost unnoticeable smile he rarely displayed.
The rest of the group watched, dumbfounded by the scenario going on. Dulio was aghast, to say the least. Agatha looked really happy in the blonde's arms.
"Maa, don't cry. I'm already a bad jerk as it is but making an authentic Angel cry would damage my already broken reputation even further." The blonde complained, rubbing her back.
And just like that, all of a sudden, the blonde was back to being an above-average human and not the super-being they all witnessed a moment ago.
What a weirdo.
As the scene went on something else was going on inside the Chibaku Tensei. Ashirok stared at the dark, unmoving and unblinking.
"What a scary human. To think a mastery of Chakra could grant one such abilities… Yes, This is no ordinary man but why am I so angry? I don't want to lose to the likes… Of him!"Ashirok roared mentally.
Naruto's eyes widened as the 'core' disappeared all of a sudden. "Impossible! He's gone!"He turned his head around.
Naruto pushed Agatha away on time as a powerful beam that came out of nowhere swallowed him whole. The others disappeared with a wave of dark energy while Naruto, who was still inside the beam, felt a force he couldn't defy. It was like space and time were bending to someone else's will at that moment.
Fwoop.
Naruto Uzumaki disappeared to an unknown dimension.
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John's body came out of a void and bounced off the surface of a great water body all of a sudden while Naruto, who was still inside the beam, appeared a few seconds later, moving in a diagonal line towards a great ocean that appeared out of nowhere.
"John!"Naruto thought as his body hit the ocean and the beam detonated.
(Scene Change)
Serafall, Beowulf, and Yuri had been walking around in this barrier for who knows how long. The human currently had a silencing seal on her mouth.
She asked too many questions and Serafall got tired of it
Erasing her memories right now wouldn't help the situation. A purple void appeared in the air and out came Gaia, Dulio, Agatha, Grayfia, and Souji.
"Fuck!" Gaia punched the ground in frustration. Her eyes were closed shut as she tried her best not to unleash her godly powers with the intense emotion she was feeling. She snapped her eyes open, they were glowing an eerie green, devoid of pupils, just pure jade green.
An intricate magic circle, none like the devils have ever seen, spun furiously in the air.
"Grayfia, Souji? What happened? Did the demon get you guys?" Serafall asked, eyeing Gaia whose magic circle was transforming, looking almost like the Olympians' magic.
"A lot has occurred, Serafall-sama," Grayfia replied.
"What's with that furious look on her face and what's she doing?" Dulio asked.
"He- He Ashi—" Gaia gritted her teeth.
The last thing Gaia saw before the void closed up was Martha's wide eyes filled with unholy fear and despair and Ashirok behind her, grabbing her face and they were both… Alone.
(Scene Change)
Naruto pulled John out of the water, his orange shirt in shreds.
"John?! Are you okay?" he slapped the man in the face.
The dimension they were in was dark and cold. It had no light and no visible ground, just rocks growing from the bottom of the endless ocean.
John coughed up water and came to life with a yell, "Where's Martha? Where are we? Where are the others? Where's Martha?!" he yelled, going out of control.
(Scene Change: With Ashirok.)
'I never thought you'd help me, Harshblade,"Ashirok stated, holding Martha up in a chokehold. His expression was that of a person that won the lotto, a child in a candy store.
"Don't be mistaken. This time for sure I'll kill you. The girl is the sacrifice this time."
"So, you made a pact with the Hunter boy. What a mad gambler you are. This child is the same as Annie, her potential hasn't been unlocked yet, a virgin at the right age. A perfect bride for me."
"I'll be waiting for you. Come and face your death, demon."The sword disappeared.
What a powerful sword Harshblade was. Created by Ashirok and his beloved priestess, Annie. The sword that was supposed to signify their love was the same weapon the lovechild between his beloved and a human used to defeat him. Oh, the irony.
"Now, my Annie, this time we will truly become one, as it should have been thousands of years ago."
Ashirok then captured the sixteen-year-old girl's lips with his thousands-of-year-old lips and the ritual began.
A purple magic circle appeared below their legs as their bodies began fusing.
Memories flew into both human and demon's minds. Memories of each being, different but slowly becoming one. He saw the love her brother had for her, how he took care of her when he was but a boy. He saw the fake Gaia and a bit of the blonde, and her growing feelings for the blonde, which just made him hate Naruto more.
"You are mine and nothing will take me from you!"he roared. "I'll kill the men you love most with your own hands, I'll make you miserable for the rest of your life just like Annie did to me!"A tear slipped down Martha's face as she went through all of Ashirok's memories and when she understood the gravity of his threat.
"Oh, how I'd kill to immortalize the look on their faces when I drive my pitchfork into their heart with your own hand and body! The look of betrayal on their face."
Martha's consciousness was slipping away as she cried tears of sorrow. What she feared the most was going to happen and she'd be powerless to stop it.
Martha Hunter didn't fear the demon, no, what she feared was killing her own brother and Naruto because she was too weak to do anything. John would never raise a finger against his baby sister and Naruto would never kill the innocent girl he's come to like. The girl he took to a clothes store, the same girl he took out on a date whenever she was feeling down or bored. The little moments they shared. When he helped her with his assignment. When he promised to teach her how to fight. When he tried to teach her how to ward off perverts. Those little moments invaded her heart and planted a seed inside that grew steadily.
"As the moon and the sun is eternal, so, too, shall our unison be. Our paths shall be merged. My life will become yours and yours, mine. Two souls, two bodies shall become one, in harmony, never to be separated… Forever."Ashirok finished with a sigh.
A mighty wave of dark energy flowed throughout the entire barrier and when it cleared, both girl and demon were nowhere to be found.
(Scene Change)
Naruto held John down, trying to reassure him, trying to talk sense into him.
"I'm sure she's fine. Gaia's there. You might not know it but she's much more powerful than the rest combined."
"But what if Martha is—" John tried to argue before Harshblade came out of his trinket.
"Prepare yourself, John. I have held up my end of the bargain, now it's time to hold yours."
"Where's my sister? What did you do?!"John yelled more than asked.
A purple void opened and out came a person that left Naruto and John shocked to the core.
Play Hiruzen Funeral ost.
The woman giggled innocently, contrasting her getup greatly. Her getup was the perfect definition of every pervert's wet dream.
A dark purple armor that left nothing to imagine. The breastplate looked like fingers coiling from the behind, covering her bare busts. It had spaces between and looked like it was made of out lace, showing flawless pale skin. Her stomach was bare bar purple piercing on her navel. She had two pink marks going down her face and her eyelashes turned purple and grew longer.
Her pupils were purple with white flakes scattered around it. Long purple hair reaching her waist with two side bangs reaching her bust. She wore a tight long-sleeve armor reaching her midriff. It looked scaly and was brown in color. Her breastplate looked like fingers holding her jugs in place and were made of golden metal. It revealed quite a lot of cleavage, pale cleavage. A dark blue overflowing scarf covered her mouth.
She wore dark purple pants that seemed almost like second skin on her. She was bare footage and had ornaments on her ankles. Her hands too had the same ornaments. Two short swords were sheathed on her hips.
All in all, she looked like a goddess.
"M-m-Martha?" John called out to his sister, his voice thick with despair and disbelief, barely above a whisper but she heard.
"Big brother, it's me your baby sister,"she replied with a giggle.
Naruto stared at her, bewilderment plastered on his face. He gritted his teeth, his eyes were red with anger and tears threatened to fall down. "Did I fail again? Did I fail to protect someone I swore to keep safe again?!"Naruto stared at Martha.
A particular memory he kept deep in his brain locked in a small box that's inside another huge vault came out of the box he locked it in.
The brief memory of him and Sasuke smiling at each other as the Shin: Chibaku Tenseiwas completed only for a wave of Chakra he's never felt before, even greater than that of the ten tails, pulled the sealing technique apart.
Naruto gripped his fist hard till he bled. Seals don't do shit these days. He should have known better.
"Martha, hey, what are you wearing? We have to go home. I made myself a promise to buy everyone a good meal when I receive my paycheck. You're joking around, right? This isn't funny anymore."
Naruto watched John walk towards Martha, Harshblade in hand, and thought, "He's lost it?"
Martha chuckled till it became a full-blown, evil laugh. "Oh, Brother, can't you see? This is what I've always wanted all along. I've never felt so alive. Come join me, brother, we will be together, forever."
"John, we both know that's not 'our' Martha, she's messing with your head, bro," Naruto warned.
John turned around gaining a tiny fraction of his sanity back. "B-but that's Martha, right there. She's just pulling a prank in that cosplay, trying to scare us. I told her not to hang out with you too much. Now you see, she's picked up your bad habits."
"Brother, please, I need you. Don't you love me anymore? Don't you want to see me happy?"Martha touched down on the surface of the water perfectly, no disturbance was transferred, no waves were formed, just felt like landing on solid ground.
"Please, Brother, I love you. Don't leave me,"Martha pleaded and held her arms out for a hug.
John continued moving towards his sister like a zombie. "Wait, I'm coming to your side, my baby sister."
Naruto pulled John back, slapped him in the face, grabbed him by the collar, and lifted him up. "Snap out of it, John! That's not Marie! That's not your Martha!" Naruto yelled.
"Stay out of this, outsider."
Naruto's eyes widened when he heard Martha's voice behind him. Her voice sent shivers down his spine. He never knew she could sound like this, almost as cold as Kaguya's voice.
"Please, Martha, Stop this. I know you're inside there somewhere." Naruto turned his head to see the transformed Martha up close, only to be met by a powerful kick to the face that dislocated his jaw.
Pow.
Naruto traveled a great distance instantly, splitting the surface of the water in two as he bounced off it. He crashed into a rock poking out of the ocean and shattered it completely. He kept going on till he crashed into another bigger one and stopped. He coughed up a lot of blood and his jaw was dislocated, his arms bent at an odd angle.
Naruto Uzumaki felt real pain for the first time in months and it hurts, it hurts so bad. Martha and John weren't in his line of sight anymore, their signature was far from his position.
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"Now, Brother, it's just you and me."
"Hey, Martha, Naruto is almost like family to us now. Though he might be a jerk sometimes, he's a good man."
"No, he's not. Don't you get it?"
"But, Naruto is our friend—"
"No! He's not our friend! He let the demon take control of me! Naruto Uzumaki killed me! He promised to keep me safe but he failed! He's a failure."
Naruto appeared and heard all she said. The Bijūs were helping him but the damage he received from that kick was quite lethal.
"She's right, I'm a failure. If I had paid more attention to the seal back then!"Naruto thought.
"John, she's just messing with your head!" he yelled and fell to his knees. He underestimated the amount of damage the kick dealt to his body.
John was confused, seeing Naruto on his knees, he didn't know what to say.
"Come to me, Brother. Let me decide for you."She opened her arms and all John had to do was take a few steps to reach her, which he was doing.
"John…"
"Yes, my beloved Brother, come to me,"Martha cooed with her gentle, innocent smile.
John spread his arms out and tried to hug her but Harshblade took over and a cloak, like Naruto's one-tailed state, covered his body, and then rage took over. He whipped out the blade and tried to cut Martha's head off but it stopped a millimeter away from her neck.
"You deny me my end of the bargain?"the sentient being inside Harshblade asked, struggling against John.
John gripped his right wrist with his left hand. "Y-you can take anything but not my baby sister."
"Such love, such a shame. My brother is incapable of killing me. The one capable of doing that deed hesitates and it's frankly quite boring without him challenging me."Martha said with disappointment present on her face.
The possessed Hunter placed her index and middle finger on Harshblade and pushed it down.
She walked towards Naruto and disappeared all of a sudden and a second later Naruto did too.
"This girl..."Naruto thought as she pummeled him through multiple rocks growing from under the ocean until she kicked him towards the massive mountain in the distance. Naruto felt his spinal cord crack in two when she held his neck and slammed him into the mountain.
"She's grown so powerful."He thought, nearing the edge of unconsciousness.
She was continuously punching him in the face till she dragged him over the surface of the mountain all the way up and into the sky before she spread out six purple angel-like wings and descended down with a purple lightning strike from above with Naruto, flattening the top of the mountain upon impact.
"You bore me, Naruto-nii, don't get in my way ever again."She straddled him and balled his sleeves in her slender arms.
"M-Martha," Naruto coughed out.
Martha cupped his face and caressed his whisker marks softly. "I'll make it quick and gently, Naruto-nii"She whispered sensually before her scarf pulled itself down and she claimed his lips with her dark purple ones.
Naruto couldn't move as all his body became stiff the moment her lips touched his. Her lips melted with his mouth eagerly sucking his lower lips, biting and gnawing on it before she snaked her tongue in and explored his mouth eagerly. The moment her tongue touched his, she secreted a viscous purple saliva and pushed it deep into Naruto's mouth. The blonde's veins turned purple as she pulled her tongue out his mouth and released his lips. A thin trail of saliva connecting them.
Naruto's eyes widened when he saw tears stream down her face. "Goodbye, Naru-nii."
And like that Martha was gone.
"That was Martha! She's still somewhere inside there!"Naruto thought and gathered Nature energy trying to flush out the poison.
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John stood on dark solid ground on one knee as his sister appeared right in front of him. The aura had receded back in but faint traces were still there.
"Martha, kill me right now! I don't think I can suppress him anymore." John ordered.
"That's what you want, Brother?"
John lifted his head up and stared into his sister's purple eyes. "Please."
"Well, if that's what you want, it's my duty as your sister to make you happy."
Martha unsheathed both swords, twirled them in her hands, and stabbed John in the gut but it didn't feel right. Warm hands were hugging her in a tight embrace. Orange filled her vision and her anger rose towards the blonde shinobi.
"I know you're still in there, Martha! You gotta fight Akshay!"
"No! We are one! Never to be put asunder again!"Her voice switched between Ashirok and hers.
Naruto grabbed her shoulders and pulled her back. "Martha! You're still in there, you're strong, fight him! Don't you wanna see your brother again?!"
Martha's eyes glistened with tears as the white flakes disappeared from her eyes. She pushed Naruto away but the blonde didn't let go, they were at the edge of the mountain when Martha turned her body around and hugged Naruto close.
"Curse you, human!"Ashirok raged mentally as the last of his consciousness went to sleep.
Martha successfully suppressed Ashirok.
The sixteen-year-old girl caressed Naruto's face as the memories she shared with the blonde human disappeared one by one. She stared at him fondly as tears cascaded down her face.
"Thank you for everything, Naruto-nii, I'm sorry for being a bother and a burden but please, let me place this last burden On you." She gave him her widest grin as the last of her memories with the blonde disappeared slowly. "Please, I'm begging you, Keep my brother safe. He'll never do It but you can."
Naruto shook his head, tears threatening to fall. "N-o. No!"
He knew what she was going to ask but Naruto Never! Ever! Ever! Wanted to make that kind of Choice again! Ever.
"Naruto-nii, you can do it. Please, kill me."
"No Martha! Don't give up! I-I-I'm, I can't do that again!" Naruto was crying at this point.
Martha placed her fingers on his lips to shut him up and shook her head negatively.
The last memory was the first time she laid eyes on the Shinobi of Konohagakure for the first time; when she was held at gunpoint by another and Naruto walked up to her fearlessly and asked, "How much for these?"
Martha's smile widened at that memory. "Thank you, Naruto."
Martha pushed him away and stabbed herself with the knife. "Now, you can do it, right?" She asked with an eye-smile as blood leaked from the corner of her lips.
"M-Martha?" John's eyes were wide as his tear gland leaked like a faucet.
Naruto, the cold bastard's heart tore to pieces as tears streamed down his face. Both adults watched as she fell down the edge of the mountain. Naruto felt his heart freeze when she was overtaken by a dark aura and unfurled her wings before she took to the sky.
"Aww, such melodrama."Ashirok's voice came out this time around, mocking the blonde shinobi.
Naruto couldn't sense Martha anymore. The demon was in complete control. Her will was the only thing stopping him and when she said her goodbyes and left the rest to Naruto, her consciousness was swallowed whole
The ninja's bangs shadowed his eyes as he held his head down.
"The damsel in distress sacrifice herself to make things easier for the cold hero, How tear-jerking it was as she begged her beloved Na-ru-to-nii."Ashirok's voice took over but the form was still Martha's. He was using the same face, same eyes, same smile but different voice to taunt the blonde.
Naruto snapped his eyes wide open, his Irises were now black cross-shaped, the horizontal bars of the sage mode and the vertical slits of Kurama's chakra entering his own system.
All the hate, anger, frustration, rage, KI, all his negative emotion came out full throttle as a thick aura of red and golden Chakra surrounded him, bathing him in an ethereal glow.
He whispered one word with so much hate as he glared at Marth's form in the sky in such a way that Ashirok was taken aback.
"Korosu."
The end.
And there and done.
Martha's gone to Knowhere and John's broken and Naruto is livid. What's gonna happen? Will the blonde kill Martha? Will John go berserk and attack everything in sight? How powerful is the current Ashirok?
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