Naruto: Shattered Destiny

by KingdomCody

Keiki Sekine was born into this world different. He sees the world differently than anyone else, he sees it as a game. No he wasn't reborn into the role. His first glimpse of life is of a video game. Can he survive long enough to figure out how to make use of his gift, or will he be killed out of jealousy?

13. No Need to Shout

Naruto: Shattered Destiny:

Chapter 13: No need to shout

-26 chakra. +40 elemental Ninjutsu XP (67/200)

My firebolt hits the enormous spider's head, before I get a chance to throw another it spits a web at my arm.

-26 chakra.

Sending the bolt wide, hitting one of the egg sacs and causing it to combust. Flaming eggs pop out of the sac as if it were a balloon being slowly deflated.

The flames claim the spider's young.

Your [left hand] has been restrained.

Tip: Being restrained stops all actions able to be performed by that body part.

The flames on my hand die out immediately.

Restrained.

Appears over my webbed hand. "Retrained stops me!?" I exclaim.

"Can you get it off?" Zabuza asks.

"I can try, but I don't think we have time for that." I lob a firebolt from my free hand at the spider.

-26 chakra. +40 Elemental Ninjutsu XP (107/200)

My chakra bar flashes as I try to ready another one. "I'm out!" I fish in my kunai pack for a blade to free my arm.

"Look out!" Zabuza rams into me, knocking me aside as the enormous arachnid bites the ground where I was just at.

Sensei leaps onto the spider's back and stabs both of her kunai into it. It's health bar moves less than one of my Firebolts. "That was close." I say getting back up… where'd my kunai go?

"You regenerate?" Zabuza asks me.

"Yeah, wh-"

-7 health.

Not once.

-7 health.

Not twice.

-7 health.

But three times he cuts into my hand, and I yelp with each one.

Your [left hand] is no longer being restrained.

Flames ignite in my hand, although it's not entirely clear of webbing. "You can do the rest." Zabuza says grimly, jumping at the spider.

-8 chakra.

That's true, a jet of flame erupts from my semi restrained hand, the web on me catches fire.

As does the coat. "Oh crap!" I flail my arm about, trying to put out the flame. "Oh crap, oh crap, oh crap!"

Satu rushes over, she holds her hand over the fire and a jet of steam erupts from her sleeve, putting the fire out with the sudden pressure. "A-are you okay?"

"Yeah, thank you Satu-chan!" I beam. "How'd you do that?"

"I've always been able to do that." Satu adjusts her scarf.

"Lookout!" I pull her behind me as a web misses Sensei and hits my back.

I'm not restrained, thankfully. "Are you okay?"

She gives me a thumbs up and I back off. "My chakra's coming back, but it's slow." I throw a kunai at the spider.

+10 Archery XP (10/75)

"I've never seen a spider that large before." Satu-chan says pulling out a kunai of her own and throwing it at the spider.

The Frostbite Spider jabs a leg at Sensei and spits webbing at Zabuza's face. "Gah!' Zabuza exclaims backpedaling, trying to rip the webbing from his face.

"Zabuza-san!" I shout.

"I'm fine, kill that thing for me!" Zabuza finds the staircase and hides behind the wall as he struggles with the web blinding him.

"Suiton, Suidan no Jutsu!" Sensei pelts the spider with several brief, high pressure jets of water from her mouth. Individually it doesn't do much, but altogether it takes a chunk out of it's health.

Not enough Chakra.

Not Enough Chakra.

-26 chakra.

Finally! I throw another Firebolt at the spider.

+40 Elemental Ninjutsu XP (147/200)

Not enough Chakra.

And now the wait. "This thing is tough." I bemoan. "But at least we're killing it."

"H-how can you tell?" Satu-chan asks.

"I can see its health bar, for whatever reason." I shake my head.

Satu doesn't say anything, so I continue. "What makes this thing any different from what we've fought before?" I ask exasperated as a water bullet hits a ball of web above us.

"Watch out!" I tackle Satu out of the way as the sac crashes to the ground with a crack. An arm falls out of the sac along with a scroll, the arm is still attached to the body it came from.

Tenderly I pick up the scroll.

Scroll of Summon Familiar.

Familiar?

The wax seal is the same as the Summon constellation. "I'm going to open it." I tell Satu.

"Y-you don't know what it does."

"This scroll is a summon scroll." I hold the scroll up for her to see.

"C-can I?" She asks.

"Use it? Sure." With a shrug I hand her the scroll.

She opens it and the scroll turns into a tiny ball of blue energy in the palm of her hand.

Tip: Scrolls are one use, free jutsu's.

My eyes go wide. "W-what?" Satu asks nervously, eyeing the sphere of energy in her hand warily.

"They're the same as my k-kekkei genkai." I stutter. "Throw it at the spider, see what it does."

"What is it?"

"Tutorial says that it's 'summon familiar', whatever a familiar is." Without further explanation, Satu turns and throws the ball at the Frostbite spider.

The sphere lands on its head and expands, turning black. After a second a spectral wolf appears through the portal and bites the spider. The scroll is now lost forever. "How did it feel?" I ask her, honestly curious.

"Ah!" Satu shouts as the Frostbite spider backs up into us, her abdomen pinning us up against the wall.

-15 health. Your [torso] is now restrained.

I place a hand on the spider, it's fur and carapice foreign to the touch, and dump what little chakra I have into it.

-6 chakra. +8 Elemental Ninjutsu XP (155/200)

The spirit wolf is biting at one of the Frostbite spider's legs from its back. "Where did that come from?!" Sensei shouts.

The arachnid surges forward, air rushes into my lungs as we fall to our knees, struggling to breathe.

"You two okay?" Sensei asks, getting between us and the arachnid.

"I think I broke a few ribs." I clutch my chest. "How about you?"

"I was pinned in the corner." Satu-chan groans.

"Lucky."

The spirit wolf is thrown off of the spider and it jumps on it, fangs going into its spectral flesh. It's extra unnerving as it stares at us as it does this. It just sits there as it's venom kills the wolf, it dissipates without leaving a trace.

Zabuza jumps onto the spider's back and plunges his sword deep into it. With a yelp the spider thrashes, trying to throw him off of it. "Finally felt one of these?" He asks with rising confidence.

It jumps onto the wall and scuttles up it, Zabuza falls off of the Frostbite Spider and onto the ground. With him off the arachnid turns and jumps down, Zabuza readies his blade, but Sensei dives, pushing him out of the way.

"What are you, suicidal?!" She scolds him, throwing three senbon behind her at the arachnid, it brings it's legs up to protect its body.

"Sorry, sensei." Zabuza says with his eyes downcast.

"We'll talk about this later." Sensei stands and faces the spider, rolling her shoulders.

"Sensei, it's almost dead!" I call out.

She glances over her shoulder at me. "Good to know." She turns into a blur, appearing next to one of the arachnid's legs and slices into one of the existing wounds.

And severs the leg, the Frostbite spider roars in pain, jumping up onto the wall.

Not enough chakra.

Not enough chakra.

But I've almost got enough!

Not enough chakra.

-26 chakra.

Finally! I throw the firebolt with as much strength as I can muster.

+40 Elemental Ninjutsu XP (107/200)

And watch as the spider catches fire and flails as it dies.

The Frostbite Spider's health bar vanishes as all that's left is an upended corpse.

"Is it over?" Satu-chan asks.

"Where did that wolf come from?" Zabuza-san asks, watching the corpse burn.

"What was it, more importantly." Sensei tells him.

"We found another one of those scrolls." I say leaning up against the wall, my chest still hurts.

"And you just opened it?" Sensei asks, I can see the blood vessel in her head about to pop.

"H-he said that-"

"Do you know how dangerous that was!?" Sensei continues to chide.

"They're single use jutsu scrolls!" I hurry to get out. "T-t-tutorial told me when I picked it up."

"What was it?"

"S-summon Familiar." Satu-chan pipes up. "I was the one who used it."

"What was it like?" I ask her.

"I didn't feel a thing, is that how you feel whenever you use a jutsu?"

"Yeah, if I didn't have a chakra bar I'd never know if I could or couldn't throw a firebolt right this second."

"You don't get chakra exhaustion?" Sensei asks, gingerly checking the extent of my broken ribs.

"What's-ah!-that?" I wince as my broken ribs complain about being touched.

"When you're running low on chakra, it feels like being exhausted."

"I didn't-ah!- know that you were supposed to -ah!- feel something."

"Several broken ribs, probably a punctured lung." Sensei assesses.

"No wonder it hurts to breathe."

"Sensei?"

"Yes, Satu?"

"Can we get out of here? The smell is making me sick."

Sensei looks over at the burning corpse, and nods.

"Can you walk?" Zabuza helps Satu to her feet.

"I'm okay."

"How about you?"

I try to get to my feet, but a sharp rise in pain in my chest makes me stop, gasping for breath. "I don't think so."

Without another word Sensei picks me up as carefully as she can, which still hurts like crazy. "Zabuza."

"Yes, sensei?"

"Was there any decent hiding places back where we came?"

After a moment he shakes his head uncertainty.

Sensei looks around before spotting large double doors covered by webbing that's being burned away. "We'll continue onward until we find a good hiding place."

"Why?"

"Lightning is still outside, Satu and Keiki aren't in any condition to fight trained shinobi if it comes down to it."

Tell me about it. "I'll heal."

"We know, but until then you are out of commission for all intents and purposes."

We approach the door, Zabuza pushes it open with a loud creek. "How'd you use the scroll?" Sensei asks Satu.

"I-I opened it, then threw it like Keiki… it's gone now."

"Once we get back to Kiri I'll see about getting the one we have copied." Sensei decides.

I guess that means we're keeping it?

On the other side of the door is a large cavernous tunnel with lots of those glowshrooms on the walls, in the distance is a raised Dais with a coffin, a table and a chest.

There's a staircase leading up to it. The hairs on my neck raise as I can hear some sort of chant in the distance. "I don't like this room." I shiver.

"We are not going close to that." Sensei says, setting me down to dig around in her pack. She pulls out a thick cord and uses it to keep the door shut. "That'll buy us some time."

"Do you think that there's more of those dead guys farther up?" Zabuza asks.

"Probably." Sensei says, looking ahead at what's to come. "This place is a burial ground, but how long has it been since anyone's come through here?"

"There was that skeleton at the front." Zabuza points out.

Sensei nods. "But there's also that enormous spider we just killed, meaning there's enough food in here to sustain them."

"S-sensei?" Satu tries to interject.

"Yes, Satu-kun?"

"W-we found the scroll inside of one of the sacs, with a corpse."

"They're hunting people?" Sensei rubs her chin. "I'll bring this up with some of the Frost nin, see if there's been disappearances lately."

We waited an hour for my health to regenerate, with the occasional crack as my ribs snapped back into place. I'm really starting to enjoy this regeneration, if only there was a way to block out pain.

Satu-chan will need more time to recover as well as a proper medic to take a look at her injuries. While she wasn't as crushes as I was, she still has a few broken ribs.

Sensei and I walk up the steps, leaving Satu with Zabuza. the chanting gets louder the closer we get. "Keep an eye on the coffin, if it opens there's no kill like overkill."

"Yes, sensei!" I nod furiously as we near the top of the stairs.

The top of the stairs ends between the coffin and a manmade wall, separate from the cave's wall. Sensei stops by the table to examine the tools on it, as well as a skeleton missing a few bones.

I approach the wall, a crescent covered in symbols. I reach the center and one of the symbols lights up and becomes the only thing I can see, becoming imprinted in my mind.

You have obtained: Fus - Unrelenting Force.

Quest Updated: Way of the Voice:

Obtain the Dragonstone:

Optional: use [Unrelenting Force]:

Tip: To Shout, simply say the word(s) part of the shout, you can't shout more than once in quick succession, nor can you mix and match shout words.

Tip: Try shouting on the Draugr!

Before I have an opportunity to process what Tutorial's telling me, a healthbar appears.

Draugr Overlord:

"SENSEI!" I shout as the lid pops off of the coffin and an armored hand grips the side, and up comes a zombie wearing full plate, it's eyes are glowing a menacing bright blue eyes.

"Of course he'd be the tough one." Sensei groans, readying a kunai.

"FUS!" I shout at it. As the words leave my mouth I can feel the force erupt from my throat, a shockwave ripples the air-

Quest Updated: Way of the Voice:

Optional: Use [Unrelenting Force]: Complete

-and knocks everything off the table, as well as knocking the Draugr Overlord off balance. My health bar flashes as a white outline surrounds it.

Sensei was just outside of the radius but could feel the rush of air. She looks at me momentarily before turning her attention to the Draugr.

It gets to its feet and readies it's greatsword, snarling with eyes locked on mine.

I can't help but gulp nervously. "What was that!?" Zabuza calls from the bottom of the stairs.

"Stay with Satu-kun!" Sensei yells back. "We have another one of those undead-"

"Fus-Ro-Dah!" The Draugr shouts, and that's the last thing I can remember before regaining conscious up against the wall, missing a portion of my health.

Sensei ducks out of the way as the draugr swings its sword at her. I must have blacked out temporarily, my head is pounding.

The wall behind me has blood splattered on it.

-26 chakra. +40 Elemental Ninjutsu XP (147/200)

My Firebolt hits the thing's armor, bathing it in flames, but it dies before any lasting damage could be done. I push myself to my feet.

The Draugr looks at me, holds a hand out and ice flies out at me.

-8 Health. -8 Stamina.

Tip: Frost related jutsu's drain stamina in addition to health.

Within seconds I've stopped shivering from the cold. I duck behind the table to get away from the intense cold, using my Flames to restore body temperature.

Didn't tutorial say that Lightning jutsu's drained chakra? The ice is turned away from me and I spring up, my hands sparking with electricity.

-10 chakra. +8 elemental Ninjutsu XP (155/200)

The sparks course along the creature's body, but it hardly seems to notice as it changes from using frost to it's greatsword, the blade alone is twice my size.

-10 chakra. +8 Elemental Ninjutsu XP (163/200)

It swings at Sensei, she deflects the blade with a kunai as she sidesteps and slips a kunai into one of the weak points.

Does this thing have the same amount of health as the Frostbite spider?! "Fus-"

Oh no.

"Ro-Dah!" The shockwave sends Sensei flying off of the dais and down the stairs.

"Fus!" I shout at the Draugr, it staggers and-

No, no, no!

It falls off of the dais, where we left Zabuza and satu. On the bright side it's health bar takes a hit?

I rush over to the edge of the dais, feeling light headed as my concussion starts catching up to me. Zabuza and Satu aren't where we left them.

The draugr and Sensei get up at the same time, it looks up at me angrily. Zabuza runs at it with his sword drawn. It notices my teammate running at it and turns towards him. "Zun-Haal-Vik!" A shockwave hits Zabuza, ripping the sword from his hands.

He stares dumbly at his hands as the Draugr readies another strike. I jump down on top of it as Sensei sweep kicks its legs out from under it.

-15 health.

I put a hand on the Draugr's head-

-26 chakra. +40 Elemental Ninjutsu XP (203/200) Elemental Ninjutsu is now level 7. +7 Character XP (22/175)

And pump-

-26 chakra. +40 Elemental Ninjutsu XP (43/225)

As many Firebolts-

Not enough chakra.

Sit! I scramble to get off of the draugr before it can-

-17 health.

Too late, it's great sword cuts into my shoulder.

-5 health.

And sensei pulls me out of there, making the cut worse as the draugr- Why's my arm over there? Panicking I use the rest of my chakra to Spark it.

-12 chakra. +9 Elemental Ninjutsu XP (52/225)

I can feel someone drag me away. "How're you feeling?" A shaken Zabuza asks.

"My arm!" I thought the headache was bad, but missing a limb!?

"Did you see where my sword went?" Zabuza looks around frantically.

"MY ARM!"

"No? I'll use your tonfas then." With a shrug Zabuza takes both of the tonfa clipped onto my belt and jumps into the fray, decking the draugr's jaw as it gets to its feet.

"FUS!" I scream at it, knocking it further off balance.

Angirly it turns towards me. "Fus-Ro-Dah!"

-20 Health.

I hit the wall with a force, I can remember it this time. Little help that does as I slump over, barely hanging onto consciousness.

I'll heal.

I'll heal.

But my arm… What a useless Kekkei Genkai, I ran out of chakra almost immediately and it takes so long for the regeneration to kick in, can I even regenerate lost limbs? At least it was my right arm and not my left, that would have been a disaster!

"Keiki?" I can hear echo repeatedly, I look up at a blurry Satu. "A-are you okay?"

"Uuuhhhh." I let my head fall, eyes squeezed shut in protest against the headache "S-satu-chan?"

"Why'd you do that?"

"Do what?"

"Jump?"

That was stupid. "I think… it was because it was going to hurt Zabuza-san."

"But why?"

"Besides for Mei-chan, you guys are the only friends I have." I don't want to talk anymore, all these sounds are-

"Fus-Ro-Dah!"

Especially that one! Hurt my head. "Oh stars it hurts."

"D-did tutorial tell you about that thing?"

"The Draugr? Yeah." It's health bar is blurred, why is it blurred? The bars are never blurred, even with my eyes closed I can still see them clearly! "It's… Shouting at us."

"What's it saying?" Satu-chan asks looking at the fight.

"Frank if I know." I let out a sigh. "Can you move out of the way, I want to see them fight."

"Oh, sorry."

...

"FUS!" I shout, Satu jumps in shock.

"FUS!"

You cannot Shout so soon.

Figured. "How'd you-"

"There's a wall up there covered in symbols, I got close and suddenly I can Shout."

"Is that what that is?" Satu-chan asks, looking at the Draugr.

My health finally starts regenerating, as slow as it is. "Yeah." The headache is the first thing to mend. "Can you remind me of something."

"S-sure."

"When we get back to Kirigakure, or Shimogakure… To remind me to buy some armor." Do I even have the Yen for it? Maybe I can work it off if I don't.

Satu pulls me upright. "...I promise."

"Mind putting me back together?" I ask jokingly.

"I thought you said that you'd heal?" satu asks with concern.

"I will… I think… I hope." I glance down at my missing arm, my vision is clearing up from the two times I hit the wall face first.

Wait, do I have enough chakra for a Firebolt?

-26 chakra.

Indeed I do… If only I could clearly see which one of the three blobs is the Draugr, given enough time I'll be able to see… but what if they get hurt before I can. "Can you help me aim?" I hesitantly ask.

"O-okay." Satu hesitantly grabs my wrist.

…

"There?"

I let the firebolt fly.

…

I think I missed.

"You missed."

Sit.

"Oh! It's dead now."

"Oh great, now I can fall asleep." I say hollowly.

"No, Don't-" Too late.

Authors Notes: And done! Whew I had some fun with this one (Well, I always have fun writing these) and now I get to share it with everyone! I hope everyone enjoyed this and the previous bits. The more I write about the Game system the more I realize it's flaws, and I love it for it. I'm going to enjoy writing more than I previously was, and I hope you'll stick around as well!