Here's the third chapter everyone! Man, this is insane! This story has the most view and reviews. I never expected it to get this popular this quickly. Also, I have seen and replied to many reviews about this story and I'm saying this, many of the things you suggest like Naruto being able to summon the felines, Which is happening in this chapter, by the way, is very surprising and I was already planning on having those ideas of your's in the story. It's going to take a while cause I'm working on other chapters for my other stories along with juggling time for school which I'm about to graduate from in a few days, my job, and at home, so I am very busy and tight scheduled right now. Now onto the chapter! EvaUnit15 owns nothing but his ideas and oc's.
Chapter 3
It is time to return back home to Konoha. The people of Wave were sad that they had to go back, but they understood. Their moods instantly brightened when Naruto promised to come back and visit from time to time.
Team 7 were at the bridge, which in the time of having it built the villagers kept Naruto and his team away from a certain area of the town, stating they were making a present to send them off.
When Naruto and the team looked at the bridge, they saw a statue with life-size versions of Zinogre, Stygian, and Naruto. The statue had a life-sized Naruto in his hunter clothes and wielding the same weapons he used in the fight, the right one on his shoulder while he held the other straight-forward as he had a grin on his face.
Zinogre was on the right roaring while low to the ground and had its spikes raised up. Stygian was on the left roaring as well, but with its head held up high along with its spikes standing up.
The statue of the three stood in the middle of the bridge, with the Naruto statue pointing its weapon towards the open road before the bridge.
Naruto whistled as he looked at the statue, Kakashi nodded while he had his book away, Sakura was looking at the statue in surprise while Satsuki, who is back in her disguise of Sasuke, was inwardly impressed at the craftsmanship since the statue has every detail down to the scales on Naruto's partners.
"Can't believe this is what they've been working on." Naruto said while walking around the statue to see it completely.
"I have to agree." Kakashi said as he looked at it from his spot.
They heard a voice that they weren't expecting to be there.
"I would have to agree as well," Zabuza's voice said from behind the team, making them turn around to see Zabuza walking toward them with Haku walking beside him with her mask on her belt.
"Though I do like the fierceness and ferocity that it has the most." Zabuza said with a grin under his bandages.
"We decided we would like to join Konoha. You can thank your monster hunter there for that." Zabuza said while pointed to Naruto, who raised an eyebrow at this.
"Alright," Naruto said before he walked until he was in front of the bridge along with a cat wearing clothing similar to him walking upright alongside him with some armor on its torso, legs, arms, and a helmet on its head. On its back was a small backpack fit for its size and it had a weapon similar to the ones Naruto used on the bridge on its lower back.
The cat was tall enough to reach Naruto's knees and was reading and writing in a small notebook it has.
"WHAT IS THAT?!" Sakura yelled while pointing at the cat, which made it look at her from its writing, the rest of the group were also looking at it funny.
Naruto stopped and looked at her with a flat stare before answering her while gesturing to the cat.
"This is Lora, she is my partner for the Feline's," Naruto said while Lora was also giving a flat stair toward Sakura, who was starting to be creeped out by both stairs from Naruto and Lora.
"She is a special feline though because she is from the Palico side of the feline family, but still a feline none the less. Palico's are fighting partners that work alongside hunter's as they are on quests." Naruto said with a lecture type voice toward Sakura.
While the others were chuckling quietly to themselves at the scene before Kakashi collected himself with his book out.
"Now its time to go back to the village, let's go home team." Kakashi said with his signature eye smile.
Zabuza simply looked at him with a twitching eye while Haku was standing next to Naruto with a small blush.
"Actually sensei," Naruto said, getting Kakashi's and the rest of the group's attention before continuing.
"I have another way that could get us back in a few minutes." Naruto said while walking in front of the group while moving his hand to his mouth.
"Oh, and what is this way of your's, dope?" Satsuki said, playing her part as Sasuke, with a scoff.
"I have been working with Zinogre and Stygian on ways to travel faster and we were able to complete it about 4 months ago." Naruto said before he bit his thumb and slammed his palm on the ground, causing two large puffs of smoke to appear before they cleared, showing Zinogre and Stygian standing there.
"Alright you two, we're going to travel through the lightning tunnel." Naruto said, causing Zinogre and Stygian to grin, which scared Sakura, and to walk to the middle of the road and lay down on their stomachs with their grins still on.
"What is the lightning tunnel?" Haku asked with a raised eyebrow while looking at Naruto, who was walking toward Zinogre with Lora following after she put her notebook away.
"You find out soon enough." Naruto said simply with a grin as he jumped with a small amount of chakra in his legs and landed on Zinogre's back, Lora climbed up Zinogre's arm and sat on its shoulder.
"Well, what are you waiting for? Get on or we're leaving you here." Naruto said as he gestured to the two fanged wyverns who were shaking slightly, from what the group didn't know.
Satsuki walked up to Stygian, who simply looked at her with the same grin, and climbed up to sit.
The other's walked up to the two monsters, Haku climbed up Zinogre and sat in front of Naruto, Zabuza climbed up as well and sat behind the two of them.
Lora moved from her spot on Zinogre's shoulder and sat in front of Haku, who hugged her.
The rest of team seven got on Stygian, Sasuke in the middle, Sakura in front of him with her legs on one side, and Kakashi behind both of them with his book still out.
Naruto saw the mistake Sakura made and got off of Zinogre, getting a disappointed look from Haku and a chuckle from Zabuza when he saw this, and walked over to Stygian and grabbed Sakura's right ankle and tossed her entire body in the air, making her scream, and she landed back in her spot but with her legs on either side.
"What was that for baka?!" Sakura yelled at Naruto who had a straight face as he spoke.
"If you stayed like that while we were traveling, you would have been flung off and sent tumbling along the ground at high speed. Now imagine what would happen since you couldn't channel chakra throughout your body to lessen the impact, which may I add if Kakashi had the same fall and channeled a lot of chakra he would still be gravely injured to the point where he will be hospitalized for a few months. Now again, imagine what would happen to you." Naruto said with a straight face.
Sakura, who was pale and shaking slightly, simply shook her head.
"Never mind." Sakura said quietly while she tried to get the images out of her head.
Naruto nodded before he walked until he was between the two monsters.
"Now, we are going to travel in a way that I and my partners developed called the Lightning Tunnel, as the name implies we will be moving at extremely high speeds, higher than a kage can go on a big adrenalin rush and massive chakra reserves." Naruto explained, which got surprised looks from the group while Zinogre and Stygian got up.
"Now like the name implies once again, the travel is like we're going through a tunnel of lightning with some of the lightning arching off of us as we travel." Naruto said as he looked at the group before he bit his thumb again and smeared some blood on a hidden seal and was covered in smoke.
When it cleared he got more surprised looks from his group, along with the townspeople watch from the bridge with Inari and his family in the front.
In Naruto's place was an armored individual that looked like it belonged in legends, the armor was mainly blue with red accents on it with large, spiked shoulder pauldrons similar to Zinogre, and the helmet completely covered Naruto's head with halfway back it was covered in a wild mane of fur that Zinogre has and his face is covered by faceplate that had glowing electric blue eyes and mouth along with the same glow coming from many places of the armor.
"This is my Zinogre X armor, the blademaster version." Naruto said with a distorted voice with static and a little thunder in it, making the team feel like Naruto was able to yell and have thunder go off at the same time, Zabuza had a grin at the travel along with the idea of yelling and having thunder go off at the same time.
"Now there are two versions of armor, this is one of them, the blademaster, you can guess what that's for," Naruto said while he turned his head to look at both his team and Zabuza with Haku before continuing.
"Though I do believe Zabuza would like the blademaster armor while Haku would like the Gunner armor, the gunner armor is for someone who uses long-range attacks like how Haku uses her senbon." Naruto said as he finished his lecture by turning around to face the direction they are about to go in.
"Now let's get this started shall we, you two." Naruto said while he looked at Zinogre and Stygian, who started building electricity up, causing some of it to float in the air around them and zap nearby things around them, including Naruto.
"Hey, Inari!" Naruto yelled at the boy when he turned his body sideways so his left side is facing him and the villagers.
"Remember what I told you, alright?" Naruto said while he raised his left hand in a fist toward Inari, who did the same action with a smile and tears in his eyes and nodded, not trusting his voice.
Naruto smiled under his helmet before grinning when he heard the electricity build up even more, after a few more seconds a tear appeared in front of the group, it was glowing electric blue with red and black flashing in it before it opened wider, showing a straight tunnel made of electricity and lighting of the same colors.
Naruto turned his head toward it while lowering his left arm and looked at the tunnel before he lifted his right arm and pointed at the tunnel.
"Once more, into the breach my old friends!" Naruto yelled as he charged right towards it with Zinogre and Stygian alongside him.
As he jumped, Naruto spun around and did a two finger salute towards the villagers before he spun back around and sped up like a bullet when he entered the tunnel, Zinogre and Stygian sped up in the same manner when they entered the tunnel.
After they entered it the tunnels closed with a bang.
"There goes the Hero of Nami." Tazuna said he rubbed the back of his head before speaking again
"I think the bridge would be named 'The Great Naruto Bridge'." Tazuna said, getting agreements from everyone that heard him.
Back with the group, Naruto was flying diagonally with his monster partners running in the air as they sped through the Lightning Tunnel.
As they sped through the group saw lightning arching off on Zinogre and Stygian as they moved forward, when they looked down they saw that they weren't even running on the ground, but on air, that surprised the group, making Naruto chuckle as he moved around objects in their way along with his partners and looked around to see other lightning tunnels merging into the one their in from different areas with various other monsters in them.
One of the monsters just entered from behind them when they passed one of the openings and came up behind Naruto and raised its head underneath him until he was kneeling on its head as it sped along with Zinogre and Stygian, getting surprised looks from the group as they looked at the giant monster Naruto was on.
"This is Lagiacrus, the one that helped at the bridge alongside Zinogre and Stygian." Naruto said while petting Lagiacrus on the head, getting a purr from her.
"Now we're coming up on our stop in a few minutes, so just enjoy yourselves and look at all the monster around you." Naruto said to the group, prompting them to look around to see many and various of different monsters that traveled through the lightning tunnels, some merging into the one they're in and sped past them and entered a different tunnel branching off.
Their next stop is Konoha, but will she be ready for Naruto who is now letting his true self-be seen, along with his monster partners.
Chapter 3 End
So many views and reviews along with PM's. You readers really like this story don't you? Well, then I can't deny you that so here was chapter 3. Also the lightning tunnel, I got the idea from 'Digimon the movie' good movie you should watch it, anyway the tunnel was from the internet scene where wargreymon and metalgarurumon were traveling through the internet pathways to fight diaboromon. So please leave me reviews on what you thought of the chapter along with PM'S, have a good time reading everyone.
