A/N: Hello all my lovely readers! I'm back for chapter 9 in The Path Of Two Fires. I would just like to say thank you for all the support. It means alot to me. You guys are what helps keep the story going.
Alright on to one announcement. The story will begin to differ from the Akame Ga Kiru storyline and focus more on Naruto's story. So be warned.
Oh and merry early Christmas everyone ^-^ This is a present to all my patient readers. Happy holidays and I hope you enjoy chapter 9!
Now without further ado on with the story!
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or Akame ga kill
Naruto lunged towards the beast, and slammed one of his chakra rods into its side. Then while the beast was stunned the blonde kicked it with so much force that it was sent flying. The Uzumaki was truly pissed.
As the creature sailed through the air Naruto appeared behind it, and kicked the beast again. A few moments later it slammed back into the square. Naruto followed it, and slammed another chakra rod into the beast as hard as he could. The monster wailed in pain, before Naruto took the chakra rod out. A chakra arm from Kurama formed behind Naruto and he picked up the creature with it.
The monster struggled in his grip. It was not prepared for this. No one was prepared for Naruto to activate his Sage Of Six paths mode. In this state all of Naruto's abilities are increased by unmeasurable levels. He could literally level a continent with this mode.
"C-Child of Kaguya. You do not know what you are, or what you have unleashed." The beast said, again struggling in the blonde grip. Naruto narrowed his eyes, and increased his hold, "I am not the child of that women. My mother is Kushina Uzumaki!"
"This world will now burn." The monster shouted out, as Naruto began to form a dark like sphere in his left hand, "Over my dead body." The blonde said narrowing his eyes as the black sphere finished forming in his hands.
The monster looked down at the sphere in fear. Naruto reared back his hand, and yelled out with Valor, "Sage Art! Mini Tailed Beast Ball!" He slammed the ball directly into the creatures stomach. The monsters eyes widen in pain, as it ripped into its stomach. Blood flew out of the monsters mouth, and Naruto let go of the Mini Tailed Beast Ball. The Ten-tails-look-alike was sent flying with so much force that ground cracked under Naruto.
It flew through the trees of the park, and slammed into some deserted buildings. A large explosion soon followed, and the shockwave rocked the park. Naruto shielded Akame and Leone from the shockwave with his chakra cloak.
Once the after effects dissipated, Naruto looked to the smoking remains of the buildings, and began to walk towards it. He wasn't finished. The blonde had to make sure this thing had in fact died. Leone who was still holding the unconscious Akame remained behind. She was still amazed by the blondes strength. It was truly amazing.
As Naruto approached the rubble, it began to stir and the creature arose. It was bleeding heavily from its chest and mouth. Naruto would end this with one more attack.
The monster looked up to the sky, as the blonde approached, "M-My mistress. Please give me strength." It said, lifting its hand up into the sky.
Somewhere deep underground a pale looking women with horns smiled.
Suddenly the creature began to glow a bright white, so bright that Naruto had to covered his eyes to not be blinded, "W-What?" He asked himself lowering his arms.
Without warning the monster suddenly appeared in front of Naruto and punched him in the face. The blonde was sent back a few feet, but quickly recovered. The monster didn't stop, it lunged towards Naruto again. But this time he was prepared. Naruto formed one of his chakra, and struck the beast across the face as it approached. It skidded past Naruto and back into the park.
Naruto sprinted after it, and prepared a Rasengan for another attack. But as he saw the creature. He stopped dead in his tracks. Something was happening to it. Something weird.
Said creature struggled to get up in the park as it began to bleed again from the gash on its face from Naruto's chakra rod. Cracks began to form all over its body, and pieces of his body began to fall off. It looked like how Obito died when he was hit with Kaguya's attack.
Naruto gasped. Had his chakra rod really done this? He had no idea that he could do something so powerful. But then as if on a timer all of the creatures skin bursts away. The pieces of skin shattered like glass on the concrete. Naruto thought for a moment that the beast had died, but then where its body has been a human sized figure replaced it.
The figured appeared to look male. His skin was white, ten protrusions emerge from his back five near his shoulders and five near his hips. This man looked disturbingly like Obito when he became the Ten-tails Jinchūriki. Except this man had jet black hair, black eyes, and two horn that curled over each other on the side of his head. He held a staff similar to that of the Sage Of Six Paths staff.
"What are you?" Naruto asked, forming chakra rods in his hand, and formed them into the shape of chakra knuckle blades.
The man stood up, looking at him, and narrowing his eyes, "I? I-I am Oni. Loyal servant to main house of the Otsutsuki clan!" He said before launching himself at the blonde.
Naruto raised his blades in defense. The man know now as Oni reached Naruto in a matter of seconds. He went for a punch, but Naruto blocked in with his blades. The Uzumaki quickly kicked him in the stomach, and then struck him in the face with a punch from the knuckle part of the blade.
Oni took the punch the face, and swung his arm around and hit Naruto in the side. One of the blondes knuckle blades disappeared, and a Rasengan took its place. Oni raised his staff in defense from the Rasengan. But just as Naruto's Rasengan was fully formed, a black like substance covered the Rasengan.
"What?" Oni asked himself, staring at the now black Rasengan.
Suddenly Naruto slammed the Rasengan at Oni, it went right through his staff and into his chest. Naruto twisted the Rasengan, and the black of the Rasengan opened up, "Don't underestimate me!" Naruto shouted out at the black completely faded away, "Sage Art! Truth seeking Rasengan!" Naruto continued, twisting his arm one more time. The Justu exploded on Oni's chest like a bomb going off. The man was sent flying all the way to the destroyed city walls. He flew through the remains of the wall, and out of the capital city.
Naruto looked too the wall, and quickly made two shadow clones. Both of the clones stood guard, waiting for Oni to come back. Because he would.
While his clones stood guard the original Naruto looked back to find Akame, and Leone. As on queue Leone ran up to him, with Akame still in her arms, "I'm glad your okay!" Leone shouted, wanting to smother him with her body, but couldn't because of Akame.
Naruto smiled at her, "I'm glad you're okay to, but you two need to get out of here." He commanded, knowing this "Oni" wasn't going to be defeated that easily.
"But where? I can't run fast enough to get Akame and I out of here." Leone said, looking down at Akame who was still unconscious. At least she was alright, but why wasn't she waking up?
Naruto put on a thinking pose, before he mentally slapped himself. He could just Hiraishin no Jutsu them back to the hideout. The blonde began to form the signs in his hands, "Hold still. Let me send you back to the hideout."
The blonde had just finished the signs for the Justu when Oni burst back through the destroyed wall, and headed straight for them, "You will not take them away from me!" He screamed, bypassing both of the blondes clones, and closing in on the three.
The Justu activated just as Oni reached them. Naruto thought he had made it in time. But he was dead wrong. Just as Leone was being transported Oni grabbed onto her neck, and went with her and Akame in the transportation Justu.
"No!" Naruto shouted out, reaching for Leone as they disappeared into nothing, leaving the blonde alone in the park. Without a second thought he began to form the Justu on himself.
"Gah!" Leone shouted coming out on the other side of the Justu with Oni's hand still wrapped around her neck. She was pushed up against a wall in the hideouts main meeting room, dropping Akame. All of Night Raid had been in the room when she arrived. They all watched in shock.
"Leone!" Najenda shouted out from her chair. Yukari, Air, Fal, and Luna were all around Najenda, they all backed away to the wall out of fear. The rest of Night Raid all stood in shock, they could feel the power coming from Oni. None of them wanted to move.
Oni looked up at Leone with a scowl, "Future wife to the branch leader you will also do nicely for my mistress. But she only needs one." He spoke, looking down at the unconscious Akame, then back to her narrowing his eyes, "I can't let you live."
"GET AWAY FROM HER!" Naruto suddenly screamed out appearing behind him. Oni quickly turned but Naruto was too quick and pissed off. He gripped Oni's arm, and ripped him away from Leone. The blonde women was sent crashing to the ground next to Akame. Naruto pushed Oni away from Leone, he focused a large amount of strength and chakra into his hand. He reared back his arm, and punched Oni with an unmeasurable amount of force. The man was sent smashing through the wall of Night Raids hideout and into the forest below.
"Naruto?!" Najenda panicked, raising from her chair. The rest of the team stood their shocked.
The blonde turned too her with fire in his eyes, as he prepared another Rasengan, "Evacuate the base Najenda! He is as powerful as me right now!"
"What's going on?" Najenda protested.
"Just do it!" He shouted, jumping out of the hole, and into the woods. Najenda was still in slight shock as the blonde ran out into the woods. Who was that man? Why was he here? Was he really as strong as Naruto?
"J-Just do as he says." Leone stuttered as she regained her strength. She stood up, and looked out too the woods. She was worried for him. She had never seen so much desperation on his face before when he shouted at Najenda. Was he scared?
Najenda nodded to her, and began to order everyone around, "Let's go people! You heard Naruto. It's time to evacuate!"
As everyone ran around her, Leone kept staring out. A split second later the forest in front of her was rocked by explosions. It shook the base, and caused the damaged wall to start crumbling. Suddenly Akame shot up from behind Leone, and began to look around with a blank expression on her face. Leone looked back, and greeted her friend, "Finally awake?"
She nodded, and looked around, "Where's Naruto?"
"Out there." Leone pointed out to the forest. More explosions rocked the woods, and the base.
Akame's eyes widened for a second as she saw the explosions, "H-How did we get back to the hideout?" She stuttered.
"I'll explain later. We need to evacuate the base." Leone said pointing the the open door next to them. Akame looked through the door to see Tatsumi and Mine running down the hallway with their bags.
"What do you mean?" Akame asked. Still confused.
Leone frowned. Akame was still in shock, "No time to explain!" Leone suddenly blurted out, taking it into her own hands. Literally. She grabbed Akame's hand, and the two took off down the hallway.
As they ran, the two looked out the windows that stretched down the hallway. They could see and feel the explosions.
But as they ran Leone suddenly toppled over in pain. Soon followed by Akame. The blonde gripped her right hand, and the black haired assassin gripped her left hand. They both curled up in the hallway as their hand emitted a glowing orange energy.
"Tch. A-Akame are you okay?" Leone asked, struggling to get up from the floor. She looked down at the now strange symbol forming on her hand.
"Y-Yeah." Akame replied looking down at hers. The exact same symbol was forming on her hand as well. Akame could feel a strange like energy began to spread throughout her body.
"You can feel it too right?" Leone asked, standing up and leaning against the wall. She began to pant, looking down at Akame. Akame herself wasn't doing that well. She was coughing violently, and throwing up some blood, "G-God dammit. Akame hold on." Leone said, clutching her side as blood dripped out of her mouth. Their bodies began to glow with strange blue lines.
Below them in the forest Naruto and Oni were locked in brutal hand to hand combat. Naruto punched the man across the face, and in return Oni slashed out with his arm. The blonde grabbed his hand, and chucked Oni into a nearby tree. Oni quickly recovered, and lunged back at Naruto. The two again locked fists, "You don't even know what you've started coming to this world child of Kaguya!" Oni spat out.
Naruto narrow his eyes, and broke free of their stalemate. He punched Oni again, and grabbed his head, "The name's Naruto Uzumaki!" He shouted out slamming Oni's head down on his knee.
Oni was sent backwards in a daze. Naruto grabbed his back, and slammed him into the ground. The blonde did this repeatedly, until the earth cracked under him. He let go of Oni's body, and stood over him.
As Oni layed in the small crater Naruto had created a smile came to his face. "Heh."
"What's so funny?" Naruto asked, as truth seeking balls formed behind him. Two came down to his hand, and formed into chakra knuckle blades.
Oni instantly shot up, and punched Naruto in the chest, "You don't even know who you are!"
"W-What do you mean?" The blonde asked, struggling to look at him. Being punched by him was like slamming into the earth from space.
Oni smiled, "Do you think that your world was the only one with chakra? Kaguya didn't bring it to your world! The main house of the Otsutsuki did!" He shouted, slamming Naruto into the ground. The blonde dropped on of his knuckle blades, which Oni grabbed.
Oni then did the same thing Naruto had done to him. He slammed the blondes head into the ground repeatedly. Naruto resisted but it was too much. Oni kept this up for a couple seconds but then took out the knuckle blade, and shoved it into Naruto's stomach.
"Tch." Naruto grunted. Gripping Oni's arm that had stabbed him. He painful forced the blade from his stomach, then shoved the hilt into Oni's face, "I don't wanna hear anymore of this Otsutsuki crap!" He said, forming a Rasengan in his hands, and shoving it into Oni's chest.
The man was sent flying into a nearby tree. He slumped down, as blood ran down his forehead. But Naruto didn't let up, he sprinted towards Oni again, and slammed another Rasengan into his chest. Naruto repeated this one more time before he stopped. Naruto panted, looking at Oni's unmoving body.
He deactivated his Sage Of Six Paths mode and looked at Oni. Oni himself had changed as well. His skin had turned to a normal pink, all the extra features on his body had disappeared. The only thing on his body that remained different were the horns on his head, other then that he looked like a normal man now.
Naruto remained silent, standing in his tattered Haori looked at Oni with a scowl. Oni began to stir, and looked over at Naruto, "Y-You are already part of this circle. My mistress will complete the Otsutsuki plan." He said, coughing up some blood.
"Over my dead body." Naruto huffed out. The two of them had already used a considerable amount of chakra today. Oni more then Naruto, but even the blonde had taken some damage. He wasn't used too going all out against someone, but if he needed to he would continue to fight. But then the blonde gripped his chest in pain and fell to the ground. His entire body felt like it was on fire, specifically his chakra network. It was like something was pulling the very Chakra out of his system, "Gah!" He screamed out, clutching his chest.
Back at the hideout Leone was struggling too carry Akame out of the secret escape tunnel. Both of them looked terribly sick. Blood still dripped out of their mouths, "C-Come on Akame get up." Leone said, trying to move faster.
Suddenly she felt the sudden feeling to throw up. She dropped Akame, and threw up a large amount of blood, "Ahh!" She wallowed out once she finished throwing up.
"W-What's happening to me?" Leone asked, picking Akame back up, and beginning to walk towards the exist of the escape tunnel. Light blinded her vision, as she walked through.
Back in forest Naruto slowly got off the ground as the pain from his Chakra network calmed, he looked over at Oni. Who smirked up at him, "It has already began. I-I'll leave you with this little gift." Oni said weakly.
"W-Where the hell do you think you're going?" Naruto asked, exhausted. This day has taken a toll on him. But he was nowhere near finished.
"My mistress has called me back." Oni smiled.
"You're not going anywhere! You will answer my questions!" Naruto shouted out, fist raised at Oni.
Again he smirked, "Heh. In time." As he said this he raised both of his hand into the air, and grinned at Naruto, "Celestial Art: Katon Chibaku tensei!" Oni screamed, before disappearing into thin air.
Naruto's face whitened. He knew this Justu. This was something even he might not be able to beat. The blonde quickly looked up into the sky and just as he thought three black balls appeared in the air. They were massive in size, dwarfing even Kurama. Certainly bigger then anything Madara had thrown at them. Naruto tightened his fist together, as the very land it's self, began to lift up into the air. Large chunks of rocks, and trees where sent up, and attached to the balls.
"No." Naruto said to himself looking up at the large planetary bodies above him. He knew this wasn't good. There was a chance he could die. There was a chance Akame and Leone could die. Instantly an image of a the two dying flashed across his mind. Naruto grinted his teeth, and clenched his fist again. That wouldn't happen! They wouldn't die! Not on his watch, "Ahhhhh! KURAMA!" He screamed out, as he was bathed in orange chakra. The ground cracked under him, and he narrowed his eyes.
"W-We made it." Leone said, walking out of the escape tunnel. She still held Akame, and the pain in her body had dulled down, and a strange mark had appeared on her hand, "What's this?" She asked herself, looking down at her hand. It looked like a all black crescent moon.
But before she could investigate further, she heard footsteps running up to them, "Leone! Akame!" Doya shouted quickly moving to them. Najenda was right behind her, and the rest of Night Raid followed. Yukari, Air, Fal, and Luna were running next to Najenda. All of them had scared expressions on their faces. They were currently on the plateau just above the hideout.
"Where'd you go? What happened to you?" Najenda asked, gripping Leone's shoulders tightly. Relief filled her eyes as she stared at Leone, thankful she was okay.
"I-I don't know." Leone said, shaking her head. Everything seemed so foggy. The pain was almost completely gone in her body, and the symbol in her hand pulsated, "A-Ah." A voice muttered, Leone looked down to see Akame's eyes fluttered open.
"Akame?" Leone asked, tightening her grip around the smaller girl, "Ow." Akame replied gripping her left hand. Leone looked to her hand, then widened her eyes. The exact same crescent moon symbol had appeared on her hand.
"Are you okay?" Leone asked, staring down at Akame's hand with shocked eyes. What was happening to them? Was this the monsters doing?
"I don't know." Akame said, rubbing her hand. She didn't even pay much attention to the symbol. She just kinda shrugged at it.
"Uh guys." Lubbock suddenly said from behind them.
"What is it Lubbock?" Doya asked, turning to him. Akame and Leone looked over as well.
"What the hell is that?" He panicked pointing up to the sky. Everyone followed his finger, and looked up. Three incredibly large inflamed rocky spheres sat up in the sky.
"A-Are those moons?" Tatsumi asked, fear audible in his voice. Sayo nervously gripped his arm, Mine gripped his other arm as well. Yukari, Air, Fal, and Luna backed away in fear, and huddled around Leone. Leone hugged the girls, and stared at the spheres. What in the world was this? This was just too insane for her. Akame was feeling the same way right now. Demonic monsters, insane moon sized floating spheres that were on fire!
As she was lost in thought and shock the three spheres began to move towards them, "T-They're headed right for us!" Lubbock shouted out.
Almost everyone froze, besides Leone and Akame, "What do we do?!" Leone asked. This wasn't directed towards anyone in particular though. She just wanted an fucking answer.
"Najenda!" Akame shouted out, as the fiery planetary bodies got closer and closer picking up more momentum. Najenda just looked up at the spheres, and stared, "I-I don't know.…"
Leone grinted her teeth, "Everyone run!"
Her words seemed to get the group out of their gaze. They all began to run the opposite direction. Bulat picked up Yukari, Air, Fal, and Luna in his armor. As everyone ran away from the rocky spheres Leone picked up Akame and began to sprint as fast as she could away from them.
"Shit we aren't fast enough!" Lubbock said looking back at the approaching fireballs. All of Night Raid sprinted as fast as they could, with Bulat in the lead. He held the crying four little girls. They were scared, and so was everyone else. Up until now their wasn't a threat they couldn't beat. But now they were basically up against gods.
"Come on!" Leone shouted out to everyone. She needed to take charge if Najenda wasn't going to. None of them needed to die today. She narrowed her eyes and sprinted faster. While Leone carried her, Akame stared back at the fiery rocky spheres. The heat coming from them was intense, and to top it all off the spheres were coming in on after the other. Meaning they would all crash into each other, so that left out the ability that Bulat might be able to stop it, "S-So hot." Doya said to herself running next to Akame, this caught Akame's attention. She looked around and almost everyone besides Leone and her were sweating. That was strange. She barely felt hot at all, even with the fire balls so close.
Meanwhile Leone looked around and saw that everyone besides her was beginning to slow down, this wasn't good. She narrowed her eyes, and looked back at everyone, "Come on we need to go-" Leone wasn't able to finish her sentence, as she tripped over a stray rock. She hadn't been paying attention, and didn't see it.
Leone and Akame tumbled onto the ground, and crashed into each other. Everyone stopped, looking back at the two.
"Leone! Akame!" Tatsumi shouted out, running over to them, Sayo and Mine followed him with terrified expression.
"Come on we need to go!" Tatsumi shouted, pulling on Akames shoulder. Akame looked over to Leone, who nodded back to her. But as they began to get up, Tatsumi covered his eyes, as well as Mine and Sayo. The light and heat were getting to intense for them.
Akame and Leone turned their heads to the incoming planetary bodies. They couldn't move or stop this thing. Was is the end? No. No it wasn't. Akame and Leone could feel it. His chakra.
"Ahhhhh!" Kurama shouted out, dropping from the sky. He landed in front of the group. The mighty fox was in his chakra mode.
"Kurama?!" Tatsumi exclaimed. He looked up at the fox. Sayo and Mine gasped as well. The Fox payed them no mind, and rushed the first incoming fire ball. He brought both his arms up, and they smashed into the rocky sphere. Kurama dug his legs into the ground, and tried to stop the fiery ball. He pushed back with all his might, but it wasn't doing much good. Naruto had only infused his chakra during his fight with Oni. So the fox was fairly weak.
"You're late. You mangy furball." Leone shouted out to him. Kurama looked at them, narrowing his eyes, "Go! Get out of here!" He shouted, beginning to be pushed back by the overwhelming strength of the objects.
"Hold on Kurama!" Naruto shouted to his fox companion. The 9-tails couldn't handle it. Just one of the spheres was too much from him, "C-Can't. To powerful! Use the others!" Kurama yelled out, just as the two other fire balls smashed into the first one, increasing the weight and pressure 10 fold, "Ahhhhhhh!" Kurama screamed in agony, as he disappeared in a puff of smoke. Naruto was now face to face with the ball of fire.
"Gah! Kurama!" He shouted, being pushed back by the sheer force from the planetary bodies. He activated his Sage Of Six Paths mode, and pushed back against it, but even that wasn't enough.
Suddenly without warning his Sage Of Six Paths cloak burst away. His eyes widened in horror. He usually only infused Kurama's chakra when he entered this mode. Now almost all of the Foxes Chakra was used up, 'K-Kurama just a little bit more. Please!' He shouted out in his head to his tailed beast companion.
As if on queue his 9-tails cloak activated, and he tried to push back against the fireballs, "Ahhhh!" He screamed out, his hands smashing into the rocky surface with all of his strength. The blonde made a quick glace behind him to see that he and the spheres were closing in on Night Raid.
Naruto clenched his teeth, as his arms began to burn from the intense heat. Then again without warning, Kurama's cloak bursts away. The 9-tails couldn't spare anymore chakra. This wasn't good.
The blonde thinking fast activated his regular sage mode. But that didn't hold up too the fire ball. He was pushed back indefinitely, "Dammit!" Naruto screamed pushing as hard as he could. The blonde could feel his arms beginning to snap from the pressure. He wouldn't last much longer.
Not to far ahead of the blonde was Night Raid. They all continued to run, knowing that moving to the left or right wasn't an object. Cliffs on each side of them confirmed it. Suddenly the rock Naruto was trying to hold back, shot a smaller rock into the air. Most likely from the massive spheres unstable core. It flew through the air, and landed smack dab in front of Night Raid. Everyone came to a crashing hault.
"What do we do?" Mine asked, looking around to the other members with a frightened expression. The fear on her face was clearly visible, suddenly Tatsumi gripped her hand, which seemed to calm her down.
"W-We're totally screwed." Sayo said, huffing and puffing next to Tatsumi. Some of the others nodded to her. But not the two females that stood in front of the group.
Leone and Akame watched, looking up at Naruto as he struggled to hold the fireball of earth back. Akame gulped, and spoke out loud, "He can't possibly think he can hold back that giant thing?"
"NARUTO!" Leone shouted out in desperation watching the blonde struggled against the rock. Akame looked over at Leone with wide eyes. She truly loved and believed in the blonde. Akame had to too.
Naruto still being pushed back, closed his eyes, and took a deep breath. He called to all the tailed beasts at his disposal. (Except Kurama for obvious reasons) A split second later Naruto could instantly feel all of their combined chakra swell inside of him. With this power he could do it! He could take this thing out!
Naruto narrowed his eye, and focused all of their combined chakra. All around his eyes began to burn a white like chakra. He focused all this chakra to his hands, "AHHHHHHH!" He screamed, using all of his strength to bounce off the rock. Naruto went flying through the sky towards Night Raid. Landing unharmed on the ground, Naruto came skidding to a stop. Everyone stopped and stared. Naruto stood up and raised his burned hands. A massive Rasenganshuriken began to form in his hands, his eyes filled with rage. 4 Rasengan size tailed beast balls formed inside the Rasenshuriken.
Leone and Akame were speechless, as Naruto stood in front of them. The blonde raised his arm, and screamed out, "TAILED BEAST PLANETARY RASENSHURIKEN!" Naruto chucked the justu straight at the approaching fireball. It flew low, and fast hugging the ground. A split second later it collided with the fireball, slicing the massive thing clean in half. The upper half flew above Night Raid, and crashed into the trees behind them. The lower half smashed into the ground in front of them, still approaching. Naruto wasn't going to have any of that. He rushed the incoming piece with his right fist raised. His entire right arm began to blow with orange chakra. Kurama had gotten some chakra back. Naruto smirked.
The blondes fist connected.
Everything went dead quiet. No birds, nothing. Then as if reality came back into order, a spark appeared between Naruto and the fireball. A moment later the rock exploded, and was sent flying back in a million pieces. Then the shockwave finally took effect. Dust and debris was sent flying in every direction. Many off the pieces smashed back into the valley behind it and the remains of Night Raids base. Everyone was pushed too the ground because of this, the little girls were almost blown away but Bulat stopped that thankfully.
And just like that, the dust and debris was gone. Everything went back to normal. Birds began to chirp, and the sound of insects resumed.
"Tch. D-Did we make it?" Tatsumi asked, struggling to get up, his body still shaken by the shockwave. Sayo and Mine layed right beside him. They too began to stand.
"Is everyone alright?" Najenda asked, getting up and looking around at her team.
"Yeah." Lubbock said, laying face down on the ground. Everyone else got up too also confirm Najendas questions. Night Raid began to check themselves for injuries, and gather around Najenda so they could figure out what they were going to do.
All except Night Raids lead females. They still layed on their stomachs looking forward, trying to find their blonde. Finally Leone began to get up, she then reached down and helped Akame up.
Akame looked around hopelessly, the same could be said for Leone. Finally after scanning the area, they saw him.
Naruto stood on the very edge of the large crater the fireball had created. His haori flapped in the wind. His fists were clenched, as he looked up into the sky. Millions of stars filled the now dark expanse above him. Naruto took one last look before his gaze fell down to his burnt hands. They were slowly beginning to heal thanks to Kurama.
"Naruto.…NARUTO!" Both Leone and Akame shouted out, running towards him at full speed. The blonde turned too them with a smile, "Hey are you tw-Wahhhhh!" Naruto was cut short as Leone and Akame tackled him to the ground.
"I'm glad you're okay!" Akame shouted cuddling into his side.
"We thought you died!" Leone shouted out nibbling on Narutos neck.
The blonde chuckled and held them close, "I'm fine you two. Nothing's going to take me down! Believe it!" He shouted out, but quickly feeling embarrassed for using his younger catchphrase.
"Ah man. Why does Naruto get the girls?" Lubbock complained walking up with the rest of Night Raid. The two girls quickly got off of Naruto, as to not be embarrassed further.
Suddenly without warning Doya slammed her foot on Lubbock's, "Owww! What was that for!?" He screamed out. Grasping his foot. Doya simply shrugged her shoulder. Lubbock in turn began to yell at the cowgirl. Doya quickly retaliated, and in no time the two were in a full on fight.
"I'm glad you're okay Naruto. I was worried for you." Najenda said, walking up to the blonde.
"Thanks Najenda." Naruto said, with an exhausted smile. For the most part the smile was fake. Naruto still didn't know if Najenda knew anything about the corruption in the Revolutionary Army. But a part of the smile was sincere, even if she was a traitor, Naruto still wanted to convince and sway her to their side
"We all were." Bulat said with a chuckle, walking up behind her with all of the little girls with him. Naruto sighed in relief, he was glad that all of the little ones had survived.
"Hate too lose a friend." Tatsumi added, with a pleasant smile.
"I'm not going anywhere." Naruto said with a smirk, looking at Tatsumi. The blonde had to admit he liked Tatsumi. The boy had a good head on his shoulders, he would always pick the path of good.
"But Naruto. What was that thing?" Lubbock asked, breaking off from the argument with Doya.
The blonde thought for a moment. Should he tell them, with Najenda here? After another moment of talk, he decided to tell them. This went beyond petty empires and revolutions, this was damn near signaling the end of the world.
Naruto took a deep breath, and looked at all of the awaiting eyes, "He was-"
"Naruto!" Yukari shouted out, cutting him off. She ran from the other girls, and went to Naruto. The blonde kneeled down and opened his arms.
"Yukari!" Naruto exclaimed with glee, as she ran into his arms. He picked her up and twirled the little girl in his arms.
"I was so scared Naruto!" Yukari said, hugging him close. Naruto smiled down at her, and rubbed her head, "It's okay. Big brother's here for you." The blonde said in a soft voice. Naruto and Yukari agreed that he was more like a big brother too her then a father.
"You're a natural with children Naruto." Sayo said with a smirk, looking over at Akame and Leone winking. The two girls began to blush furiously, looking away from the group.
"Back to Lubbock's questions. Who was that and what is going on?" Najenda asked, walking up to him, getting his full attention.
Naruto took another deep breath, "I'm afraid this world just got a whole lot more dangerous."
A couple of their eyes widen. Najenda just crossed her arms, "Explain?"
"It's a long story." Naruto replied looking up into the sky. Should he tell them? About everything? Sasuke? Sakura? Kakashi Sensei? He had only told them about his world. Not his close people and his personal past. But now if he didn't tell them about this, then they would never understand how in endangered this world was in.
"Then you can explain it to us on the way to our secondary hideout." Najenda said, turning and walking away.
"Ehh!? We have another one?" Tatsumi shouted out, as everyone began to follow her. Naruto stayed behind for a moment, watching everyone pass him, until he felt the hands of both Akame and Leone. They wrapped their hands around his. Naruto looked up at both of them, they both smiled back. "Come on." Akame said.
"Let's go." Leone added. They both pulled on his arms. This brighten the blonde's eyes. He put on his signature smirk, "Right." The blonde said, beginning to move with them. He couldn't keep his complete past hidden forever.
"M-My lady. I'm afraid I have failed you." Oni stuttered out, still bleeding heavily from his fight with Naruto. He kneeled in the middle of the ancient vault that had been opened by the unfortunate miners.
"No you haven't Oni. You did just as I wanted." A voice called out from in front of him. A few moments later, the sister of Kaguya Otsutsuki stepped out of the shadows and stood in front of Oni, "What?" He asked, picking his head up. The women smiled down at him, and cupped his injured cheek, "I wanted to test that boy's might. He is fairly powerful."
Oni's eyes widen. It was a test? Only a test! He had fought his heart out for her, and she only called it a test. The servant lost his temper, "He is a descendent of the branch family. He is nothing put trash!"
"He is more powerful then you!" The women quickly shot back.
Oni, knowing he was already overstepping his boundaries still wanted to argue, "But I wared him down! I could've killed him if I had a bit more chakra!"
Without warning the women slapped him across the face, "He was going easy on you!" Oni was stunned for a moment, but then he lowered his head. He had angered her, something he should never do if he wanted to live, "I-I am terribly sorry my mistress. I spoke out of term."
"That boy has the full chakra of my sister. But he didn't even use 1/8 of it." She revealed, walking past him.
As she did his eyes widened, and he turned his head, "W-What? But he was exhausted!" The women ignored him for a moment, as she continued to walk forward. Eventually she stopped and looked up to the ceiling, "That's correct. I suspect something is blocking him from using all of it."
"Like what my lady?" Oni asked. What in gods name could possibly block that much chakra from being accessed? He needed to figure this out, so he could make sure Naruto never unlocks it.
His Mistress looked back to him with a neutral expression, "No idea. But you did fail in getting one of the girls."
Oni froze up. 'Crap!' He thought in his head. She had ordered him to take one of the two girls that was with the blonde mid fight. But he failed to do this because of Naruto. Oni lowered his head once again, "I know. I do apologize for my intolerance, but I still don't understand why you need one of them?"
His mistress chuckled, "You'll understand in all do time. But It has something to do with them possibly developing a chakra network."
Oni turned his head once again, "What! That's impossible!"
His mistress shook her head, "It doesn't matter now. We have to focus on the bigger threat." She said, not wanting to worry about what she had just revealed.
"The branch member?" Oni asked, trying to push the possibility of people in this world developing a chakra network to the back of his head. He would have to look into this more later.
The women walked back over to him, and looked down at him with a frown, "This boy…...Naruto Uzumaki. He's the only one that can possibly stop me." She told him. In truth she could sense how powerful Naruto was through Oni when he was battle the Uzumaki. Naruto was certainly a major threat to her plans.
"Indeed he is." A voice said from behind the two.
"Huh?" Oni asked, turning around to see Prime minister Honest staring at both of them. Oni was instantly put on alert and began to rush the man, but he was stopped by the women. She grasped his shoulder tightly, "Relax Oni. He's of some use to me. Allow me to introduce Prime Minister Honest. Leader of the Imperial Empire."
"What use is he going to be?!" Oni snarled.
"He has resources and knowledge of this new world. You must remember It's been sometime since we were on the surface. He even massacred those that were in charge of guarding this place." She explained to him.
Oni took a deep breath in and began to calm down. Instead of killing the man, Oni now simply scowled at him. Honest on the other hand, smiled innocently, "Pleasure to meet such a strong warrior."
Oni kept his scowl on even after the compliment. He would not fall into the Prime Ministers mind games, "What did he ask for in return?" Oni asked, simply ignoring Honest and looking back to his mistress.
The women smirked, as she walked up in between the two, "Ah. I see you still kept your wit Oni dear. You'll be aiding his troops in defending his empire against a rebel threat."
Oni crossed his arms and frowned. He wasn't going to fight Naruto? Surely this was just a waste of his skill. But being orders from his Mistress he had to comply, "I see. When will I do this?"
"As soon as possible. These are the locations I wish for you to attack." Honest said, stepping in and handing Oni a small pieces of paper that had various locations of Revolutionary Army bases.
"Fine." Oni said, snatching the paper from Honests hands, and walking off, "It'll be done after I rest a bit." He snarled walking away from the two.
"Charming young lad isn't he?" Honest asked, looking back over at the women.
"Indeed." She replied, nodding her head. In all honesty she had to watch Oni very carefully. Without proper control and authority he has the potential to over power her and everything in this plane of exist. But he was still young, and she didn't have to worry about this. Yet.
Honest chuckled, "Now then. I must hurry back to the capital. Your boy caused quite a bit of destruction." He informed her with a cheery voice, before turning away from her, towards the exit.
"You know when this is all over I will kill you Minister. All your fighting is in vain." The women announced to him. Honest stopped dead in his tracks and slowly turned to her with wide eyes, "Oh Uzume. We shall see." He said, sinister smile appearing on his face, as he turned back to the exit. Walking slowly away. The women now revealed to be Uzume Otsutsuki stared daggers into his back as he left.
Once Honest had left her chamber Uzume let out a sigh, "Fatass." She said, closing her eyes and turning away. Uzume walked to the edge of her small platform in the middle of the chamber. She stared down at the water, looking at the reflection of herself. She was still young, if Uzume was human she would only be in her early twenties, unlike her elder sister who would be in her forties. Suddenly the reflection changed, but in reality this was only in her mind. She saw herself with her sister and mother. They looked happy, but then a violent flash happened and then there was only her in the reflection. Suddenly Uzume slammed her hand down into the water and snarled out, "My family….your deaths will not have been in vain. I'll make my sister pay. And…..I'll bring Mom back."
Naruto suddenly jolted awake. He immediately looked around sleepily. The blonde thought he felt something. Like a sudden burst of energy, but only in his head not around him physically. Naruto shook it off, and tried to throw the covers off of him, but only there were no covers. Then Naruto took in his surrounding, and he immediately stood up, "What's going on here?" He called out looking around the same room Kurama usually stayed in. The last thing he remembered was going to bed in the new hideout after telling Night Raid the full story about his past. They had all widely accepted in and were not bothered by him keeping it from them for so long. Leone and Akame especially didn't care. It made the blonde so happy that they would still accept him. But now.…he was his own mindscape away from the bed with Leone and Akame in it.
"Hello? Kurama!" The blonde called out again trying to reach the fox. Only there wasn't a response. It was as if the place was deserted, but then a small light began to shine in a hallway off the the side of the main room. Strange he had never noticed that hallway before. Naruto began to walk towards it, carefully watching his surroundings. As he moved into the hallway the blonde noticed a room to the right with a bright white light shining from it. Something didn't feel right to him. Naruto began to near the room, but as he closed in the Uzumaki began to hear humming, "What the?" He asked himself nearing the room. This wasn't some artificial type of humming from a machine. A person was making this...a feminine person.
Naruto slowly peered into the bright white room, "I must say. This is a decent place you have here." A voice said from within. Naruto looked to the source of the voice and his eyes widen. In the center of the room sat Kaguya Otsutsuki. Naruto froze up, as he stared at her. This couldn't be possible! She was supposed to be sealed away! She couldn't be here, this meant that everything he did in his world were for nothing! Everyone's deaths were for nothing, "What? Kaguya!" He suddenly snarled activating his Sage Of Six paths mode.
Naruto lunged towards Kaguya, but as he was about to strike her she suddenly pulled him into a hug. Naruto was in shock, "Relax. I mean you no harm." She said softly stroking his hair. His Sage mode deactivated. The sudden feeling of calmness rushed over him, "I must say you have turned into a very handsome man Ashura."
"Ehhhh?!" Naruto freaked out in her grasp.
"It's fun to mess with the younger ones." Kaguya laughed, still rubbing his hair. Naruto looked up at her, she was supposed to be his enemy, "Why are you inside my head granny! You're supposed to be sealed away!"
"That I was." Kaguya said with a hum. She was acting so calm, unlike last time where she hardly spoke now she was very talkative. Finally she let the blonde go and Naruto moved away from her, "So what are you doing here!?"
"Please a child like you couldn't seal me. My children barely did it." She laughed.
"That means…." Naruto said, looking down with a frown.
As if she already knew what he was thinking Kaguya put her hand on the blondes shoulder, "I am sorry about Indra. But that wasn't my doing."
"What?" He asked looking up at her.
Her face scowled, "It was Zetsu. That horrible disgusting creature I foolishly made at the last. I regret doing that. He killed Indra."
"T-They did it." Kakashi stuttered out breathing heavily as he watched both Naruto and Sasuke seal away the rabbit goddess. But their victory was short lived, as the entire dimension around them began to shattered apart.
"What's happening Kakashi sensei!?" Sakura shouted out next to him. The entire world was ripping apart around them.
"No idea but we need to leave! Now!" Kakashi shouted out. Sakura nodded to him and turned back to the two boys, "Naruto Sasuke come on!"
"Right." Naruto shouted back. Sasuke nodded as well, and both of them began to sprint toward the other two.
"How are we supposed to get out of here!?" Naruto shouted out, looking around frantically tying to find a way out, as they neared Sakura and Kakashi.
"Naruto!" A voice yelled to him from afar. The blonde looked over to see that behind Kakashi and Sakura stood the Sage Of Six Paths. He awaited in a portal that looked like it lead back to their world, "Old man sage!" Naruto shouted out waving to him. Sakura and Kakashi looked back to see the Sage as well, both immediately began to run to the portal.
"Come on!" Sakura shouted out, yelling back to both of the boys.
As the blonde and the raven haired boy sprinted to catch up with their companions, strange portals began to tear open all around them, "Watch out!" Naruto shouted pushing Sasuke forward with a bit of force, just as a portal opened below them. It looked like it led to oblivion. Nevertheless the two boys continued to run with all their might.
But far behind the two, on the ground of the disintegrating dimension layer the remains of Black Zestu. He lay on the ground dying, but still barely holding onto life. Probably not for long though his life force was fading. Black Zestu weakly looked up at the giant boulder in the sky and snarled. Those creatures! They had sealed away his mother! He couldn't stand for this! He just couldn't! Zestu turned his head and snarled at the retreating two figures, "Y-You will not escape!" He announced weakly lifting up his hand weakly as dark energy began to form around it. A moment later a small black arrow formed in his hands, and he released it from his hands. It flew like a lightning bolt through the air.
"Come on we're almost there!" Naruto called out, still pushing his body to the limit to reach the portal. He didn't notice the black arrow approaching him. But Sasuke did, and then last Uchiha made the ultimate decision, "Naruto!" He called out, pushing the blonde out of the way. The Uzumaki looked back in surprise as he tumbled onto the ground. Sasuke was now the lone figure in the arrows flight path. The Uchiha smiled slightly. But the blondes eyes widen in horror as the arrow shot through Sasuke's heart and then exploded violently.
"Gah!" Sasuke spat out, blood flying out of his mouth as he fell to the floor. Naruto immediately got up and sprinting over to him, "Sasuke!" He tried to pick the boy up, but his injuries were too great, "I'm going to get you out of here." The blonde pleaded as Sasuke looked up at with sorrowful eyes. Suddenly he began to speak to the blonde.
The memories flashed through Naruto's eyes, as he stood before the Rabbit Goddess, "I see…" he said to himself, looking down at the ground. Kaguya frowned slightly at the blonde. She could tell that he was going through a lot of stress and information. It could easily overload someone, if not given time, "Again I'm sorry Ashura." Kaguya said, frowning again. It was tough to see one of her grandchildren go through this.
"I'll just need sometime." The blonde said looking down again with a frown. Having all this new information racked his brain. He wanted to know more about Kaguya now. But he couldn't forgive this women...not right now.
"I understand Ashura." Kaguya said, putting her hand on Naruto's shoulders. As she did this the blondes eyes widen and he looked up at her, realizing something, "Wait. Why are you calling me Ashura?" He asked, noticing now that she was the one calling Ashura in his head for the past couple of weeks. The Rabbit goddess smiled down at him, causing a strange feeling to appear in the blondes heart, "Because you are Ashura. My grandson. You may not be Ashura, but we're still related, and I'll love you as a grandmother should." Suddenly her face scrunched up, "I never wanted to hurt your world, it…it was just a needed evil to save this one." She revealed.
Naruto just stood there, staring at the frowning goddess. He was confused by what she meant by this world?
"I was trying to help you. Since I'm inside you now. I might as well help you Ashura." Kaguya said, sitting on the floor with her feet crossed. She motioned Naruto too sit down as well. The blonde cautiously sat down in front of her, "First off I'm Naruto Uzumaki and second...why are you inside me?!" He stammered out, making exaggerated expressions, "I sealed myself inside you, when I realized I opened up a portal back to this world when I lost my mind." Kaguya revealed, remembering when she lost all her reason when the black Zestu filled her with lies. Naruto's eyes widened she purposely sealed herself inside of him? And here he thought they had actually defeated her, but in reality she let them win.
His head hung low just from this thought. Kaguya saw this realizing she must've brought up some bad memory, so she began to speak again, "There's also a very important reason I wanted to speak to you."
His head shot up, "Oh yeah? About what?"
"I take it you've already met Oni?" Kaguya asked. But in reality she already knew Naruto had battled him. She just wanted to see if he would lie. The blonde's eyes widened at the name, "Y-Yeah I have. He was a tough opponent."
"Yes I know. He was one of my servant." Kaguya revealed.
"Ehhh?!" Naruto shouted out, eyes getting wider. 'Okay! What the hell was going on!?' He thought to himself. Kaguya looked down for a moment then shot her eyes up as she began to speak, "Yes. This dimension. This world..….is the home of my race." Naruto's still remained wide from this revelation. He was getting tired of all this crap! Why couldn't he go back to the simpler days when it was just the Akatsuki he had to worry about? He mentally sighed, Naruto guessed nothing would ever be the same again. So he decided to just let Kaguya continue to explain.
He calmed down and payed his full attention to the rabbit goddess. Once she knew the blonde was paying attention she began to speak, "A millennia ago my race ruled this entire dimension. All over our power spread. We were unstoppable thanks to the strange energy in our bodies that we had come to call chakra. Humans were our slaves. But our race ran into an issue. With our ever evolving society and race we desired to become immortal. We began to research heavily in new justu's that could help us achieve this goal. But instead of immortality we created something much more horrifying."
"What was it?" Naruto asked, listening carefully to every word she was saying.
"A virus."
"Huh?" He asked. Kaguya nodded to him and continued her tale, "Yes we created a virus that effected almost our entire species. It had deadly side effects. It could only be passed to others with a chakra network. So only we were effected. Eventually we were able to come up with a cure for this disease, but the damage was already done, and our humans slaves saw an opportunity. They rose up in the masses against us. Those who weren't killed sought refuge in a place we come to have called Mount Genten." Naruto's eyes widened at the name. It was the same name the women had shouted to him in his dreams.
He was going keep this to himself until Kaguya had finished speaking, "Only about 20,000 of us remained when we fled there. But the long war fought against the humans and the effects of the virus shattered us. Our bodies were broken. Unable to mold chakra. We were a dead race."
"Were you effected by this?" Naruto asked, perking up. Kaguya shook her head, "No. Being part of the royal family I was heavily guarded, but others in my family weren't so lucky. We had to do something."
"What was that?" He asked, tilting his head.
"My people realized we couldn't use our bodies any longer, so we came up with a plan. To take humanities bodies." She revealed.
The blondes eyes, yet again widened, "Eh! That's insane!" She nodded back, "Indeed. But before they could initiate this plan. We were betrayed."
"Huh? By who?" The blonde asked, still visibly shocked from all the news he was receiving. Everything always had to be so complicated in these kinda things, "Me." Kaguya finally said, closing her eyes. Naruto now finally adjusting to this decided to keep quiet for now. Kaguya took another deep breath, "I sided with humanity and stopped the plan from happening. That's also part of the reason I came to your world and started the infinite tsukuyomi. I didn't want to do that to your people but I needed an army to effectively combat my people."
"The white Zetsu..." Naruto said slowly, remembering the army he and the ninja world faced in the 4th Shinobi world war. It was not something he liked to remember, not knowing who was friend or foe felt strange and wrong to him.
"Correct." Kaguya said with a nod, looking around the room. Naruto followed her gaze until he jumped slightly when he realized all the tailed beasts were now surrounding him and Kaguya. They hadn't said a word. They were listening intently to her story.
Suddenly as he stared at the beast another question popped into his head, "But what about the chakra plant the story says you stole and ate?"
Her eyebrows raised slightly and then she laughed slightly, "Ah that? Well in truth that was sent by my people to your world ages before I arrived. They wanted to make a race of humans that would be their slaves, but also have the power of chakra. In the fruit the chakra stored in their could be controlled by our people. They were going to use use as a slave army. I stopped that by digesting the fruit and taking the controllable chakra into my own body. Which then faded away. Then you know the rest of the tale of me battling my sons." As she finished explain Naruto was taken deep into thought. Surprisingly he was beginning to understand much of what she was saying, but their was still one question that he had to ask. One that would put a little more trust in her if she correctly, "What I still don't get is…..Why did you side with us?" The Uzumaki asked, looking up at her.
The Rabbit goddess seemingly ignoring his question looked up to the tailed beast, specifically Kurama. The giant foxes eyes were trained on her he was ready just in case. But then she did something that none of them expected. Kaguya got up and walked up to the fox. Once she stood underneath him Kaguya put her hand out and she pet his paw. A slightly smiled appeared on her face, and she began to speak once again, "You humans are still young. You have a chance to do right. I believed in you. But for this I was removed from my position in the main family and put into the branch family. That's all you need to know." She looked back to the blonde who was now standing behind her with his arms crossed. His eye looked straight at her, filled with determination, wanting more answers. Kaguya was reminded of her self, she to once had that fiery look. She still might have it. She now knew Naruto was ready for the last part of what she had to say, "But now the horrible plan may come back." Kaguya revealed.
"What?" Naruto asked, stepping forward with an outraged and suprised expression. She nodded to him and continued to explain, "My younger sister. Uzume Otsutsuki. The one who controls Oni. She has been reawakened from her slumber in Mount Genten. She was infected by the virus and is now very weak. Uzume intends to reawaken our race so they can take control of human hosts."
"Reawaken?" Naruto asked, tilting his head.
"Yes. When they went into Mount Genten my people fell into an ancient slumber. Uzume seeks to gather enough chakra so she can reignite the beacon on Mount Genten that will awaken my people. It will be total war." Kaguya said, rubbing Kurama's paw again.
"What does she need to do to regain her chakra?" He asked. Kaguya stopped touching Kurama and turned back to him, "A powerful human host. One with a chakra network."
Naruto looked down for a moment letting what she said sink in. There was only one possible option to this, "So...me?" He asked looking back at her. Kaguya shook her head which surprised Naruto, "Normally I'd say yes. But she wouldn't be able to take you. My presence inside your body will stop her."
"Then we should be fine then right?" Naruto asked perking up. All he had to do was stop Oni in reality. And that wouldn't be too hard. Again Kaguya shook her head, "No. there are two others here that have a chakra network."
"What? Who!" He shouted back immediately thinking of Sakura and Kakashi. Had they made it here to? He needed to find them immediately!
"The two girls that you seemed to have grown fond of. They've developed a chakra network." Kaguya revealed. Naruto's heart almost stopped at her words. No….that wasn't possible. No one on this planet had developed a chakra system. She had to be incorrect. "No. That's impossible. Akame and Leone don't have any chakra networks!"
"It's tough to explain exactly. But it has something to do with you and I. It's possible that they have ancient ties to the humans of old. But that's a story for another time. The point is we also effected them. I'll try to find out more if I can. When a person develops a chakra network it is a very violent and painful few minutes when the system forms in their body. It also requires that some chara is taken from another. It happened when you were fighting Oni. That's why you were so weak trying to take down the Chibaku Tensei." She explained to him. Naruto was silently relieved at least he wasn't just took weak to stop them.
After the thought passed he narrowed his eyes at Kaguya, "What happens if Uzume gets to one of them?"
"She'll take their body. Ripping their lifeforce and chakra out. Killing them. That's the power it takes to reactive a royal families system." She sighed, sometimes wishing she was born as a farmer instead.
Naruto walked up to her and looked her straight in the eyes, "I'm not going to let that happen! I will protect those two even if it means I die! What do I have to do to protect them?" He asked, fury filling his voice. The thought of losing Leone or Akame shook him to the core. He had already lost everybody in his world, he didn't want to lose anymore! Kaguya smirked slightly from the blondes action. He had fire alright, "The only way to protect those two girls and the world is to kill my sister as well as Oni."
"If it means peace and avoiding the lost of the ones I love then so be it." He nodded to her.
The rabbit goddesses nodded and put a hand on her shoulder, "Then I guess our conversation is over my grandson. I'll contact you again if I come across anything in my mediations. It is up to you for the time being Naruto Uzumaki! As of right now you are this worlds only savior. The only thing more I can give you is your full power."
"Full power?" Naruto asked, confused.
"I locked away most of your power when I was sealed myself inside you. This also includes most of my power." Kaguya revealed with a small laugh.
"Why'd you do that!" Naruto suddenly shouted out almost humorously. He thought he was just extremely under estimating the guys he had faced, "A grandmother must test her grandson from time to time." She said, planting a kiss on his forehead. This caused Naruto to blush slight, "Goodluck." The rabbit goddess said in a soft rubbing his shoulder.
Naruto beginning to grow more and more comfortable with Kaguya put his signature thumbs up with confidence, "Right! Don't you worry super granny! I'll take your psycho sis down!" He shouted out fading away slowly from his own mindscape, leaving Kaguya alone with the tailed beast, "That boy reminds me to much of myself when I was a young girl." She whispered to herself, before turning around to all of the beast. She has some work to do.
Naruto's eyes slowly fluttered awake and he looked around. Realizing he was back in their second hideout. The blonde sighed in relief. But as he did this he felt a slight shuffle against his stomach, then he realized his arms were wrapped around someone. Naruto turned his head only to see Leone's sleeping face not even inches away from his. Her mouth moved slowly as her chest moved against his. Naruto smiled warmly at this. In all honesty Leones confession completely blind sided him. But it didn't matter now he cared for her and she for him. Leone suddenly inched closer to him, and moved her head under his neck.
"Mmm. Finally awake?" Leone asked, eyes still closed. Naruto was slightly surprised by this but then pushed it aside she could sense these kind of things, "Yeah." He said in a horse voice, still thinking about his earlier conversation with Kaguya. The blonde needed to prepare and contact his clones to make sure everything was going according to plan.
But Leone being Leone she quickly noticed the change of tone in his voice. Her eyes flew open and she looked up at him, "You were out for awhile? Are you alright?" The lioness asked, rubbing her head into his neck.
Knowing that he couldn't hide anything from her; he told her the truth in how he was actually feeling, "No I'm not actually." He sighed, looking down at her.
"Huh?" Leone asked, pushing herself closer to his body. She could tell just from his body language that he was already under some new form of stress. Leone wanted to help in anyway she could.
The Uzumaki was hesitant to even tell her, knowing that hearing the news that she would most likely be hunted down for Uzume wouldn't be taken well with her. But he needed her to know this, for her sake, "I um received some news from someone while I was out. It's not good." He began, looking away with an expression of slight despair.
Suddenly she cupped the side of his face, and directed his face back over to hers. The Lioness looked at the Uzumaki with soft eyes, "Tell me." She whispered licking his cheek. Naruto slightly blushed at this action, "Huh? A-Are you sure?" He stuttered out, still blushing.
"Yes." She smiled, planting a light kiss on his lips. After the kiss Naruto took a deep breath and began to explain everything to her. As he began both of them had no idea that Akame was sitting by the door listening in, she had only left for a moment to get something to eat but now she was too absorbed in their conversation to walk in. So she sat gripping Murasame as Naruto told Leone everything.
"W-Wow talk about unexpected." Leone began, as the blonde wrapped his arms around her again. During his explanation she had moved to sitting in his lap, so as he wrapped his arms around her she moved closer to him.
"Yeah." Naruto said softly, resting his chin on the top of her head. Naruto could tell that she was clearly shaken by this. Mainly the part where Uzume needed Akame's body or her own. The Uzumaki could feel her shaking in his arms, "I-I'm actually scared Naruto." She began, even her voice was shaky. Naruto hugged her tighter as she continued to speak, "But...but I know that whatever happens we'll make it through. Because of you and that s-stupid furball. But don't go doing anything stupid I'd hate for you to-" Leone wasn't able to finish talking before she broke down in tears. She quickly turned around and hugged the blonde tightly, "Shhhh. There, There." Naruto whispered out as she wailed into his chest. Just a few steps away behind the door Akame was gripping Murasame. She was afraid as well, but she needed to be strong even though their lives were threatened much more worse now.
"Oh god." Leone barely called out, tears still streaming from her eyes, "Why couldn't we just go back to fighting the empire?" She asked, looking up at him. Fighting a realistic opponent was easy for her but trying to battle a goddess didn't seem possibly for her even with Naruto.
The Uzumaki didn't say a word and just rubbed her head softly. When he was about to speak Leone shot up and look at him, "Just promise me you won't die okay!" She stammered out, eyes still teary. Naruto softly smiled again, "Don't worry, I'll be-"
"No I really mean it!" Leone shouted out, wrapping her arms around his neck, "I couldn't even handle watching you get beat up by that Oni thing and when I thought you died.…I just couldn't-" Leone was quickly silenced by Naruto who brought her into a deep and passionate kiss. Her body seemed to instantly calm down and she went limp leaning on the blonde. She felt at peace.
Naruto slowly broke the kiss and looked down at her. Fire filling his eyes, "I won't die! I give you my word! I'll protect you, Akame, Night Raid, all the innocents of this world! I won't leave you or Akame alone again! I'll hold the entire weight of the world on my shoulders to protect you two! The ones I love! I'll carry everyones burdens if I have to!"
Leone was quite shocked from his outburst, but then she smiled slightly and rubbed the tears from her eyes, "You idiot you-"
"Don't have to do it alone!" Akame shouted out, bursting through the doors and running over to Naruto.
"Akame!" The blonde shouted out in surprise nearly falling over. Leone made some room as Akame climbed onto the bed and hugged the blondes side within tears streaming down her eyes. She had been crying as well, "Akame." Naruto said again, but this time in a much softer voice as Akame looked up at him, "We're both here for you! I heard everything. If we have chakra we want to help fight with you! Stand with you! Start something greater then the Empire or the Imperial army could ever create. Us! The two that love you! We will carry your burden Naruto! Most of your life you were mistreated and abused. You were alone! Well no more! Marry me! So you'll never be alone again!" Naruto's eyes widened and so did Leones. But then determined not to lose the lioness spoke as well, "Me too Naruto! I never want you, Akame or me to be alone again! Marry me to!" She shouted proposing to Naruto as well, and beginning to take off her shirt.
"Leone!?" Naruto stammered out, from the proposal and from the fact that she was taking off her shirt. Akame saw this and blushed slightly but then quickly caught onto what Leone was doing. Not wanting to be beaten by her friend, Akame began to take her shirt off as well. The blonde's nose began to bleed slightly from this and he covered his lower area.
"We're with you all the way!" Both of the girls shouted out, their large bare breast fully exposed to him. Naruto's eyes went wide just before both of the girls tackled him onto the bed.
Dun-dun-dunnnn
And that's the end of chapter 9 folks. Some of you might be thinking this story is going a bit to fast. Well I can assure you it isn't. We haven't even gotten halfway in yet and I'm already thinking of plans for a sequel!
Anyway enough with my boring talk. Here's this chapters author question!
Author question: Any abilities you guys think Akame and Leone should learn now?
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