And we're back! Welcome to Twilight Key, Chapter 28!
Never really understood why people would leave the ANs in the story and not replace them with the chapters. Now I get it. I'm re-uploading this chapter as 29 so everyone can review.
First off, thank you to everybody who gave me their opinions! And it's nice to know a lot of you are cool with me doing this how I want. I had the poll up for a couple days before closing it. I wanted to have it go up to at least 50 votes, but when I saw that the result wouldn't have been changed even if the rest of the voters went for yes, I just closed it. So in the end, I will be sticking with the original plan. If you do not like this, I'm sorry but that's how it is.
I'm glad you guys liked the dream eaters as summons thing.
Finals are kicking my ass…
Did you guys get emails or something when I took Chapter 28 (The AN) down? It was weird to me that activity suddenly spiked.
Be sure to check out under the ending AN for a special announcement!
JKLO: There are so many people out there that can kill heartless. Hell, Tarzan's spear could do it. I don't see a problem with letting super-powered shinobi be able to do it.
prototype gear: Absolutely, I 100% feel better writing things that aren't fist fights. I feel like there isn't much to say in those. About the bijū fight, I guess I can see what you mean. The environment is something I never really considered. Unfortunately, by the time I remembered this review, the chapter was already done and I wanted to get it out, but I will try to add some more in the future.
Dark Natsu Dragneel: I haven't addressed this in your other reviews, but I'm not planning to use a Darkside just yet. That one will come later.
Kairitrion Cerulean: Thanks for the info. I definitely didn't know the thing about the emblem heartless.
redlox2: I'm going to say yes to your question, but I reserve the right to take it back in case I think of something I want to do.
Xandarius: Well, I haven't worked out all the details yet (I never work stuff out until I need to use it) but I was thinking something along the lines of realizing they had been manipulated.
rinsegaku: Thanks! This means nothing of course, but I don't plan on going on hiatus. And the dream stuff is something I am extremely excited to try. The only problems are working out all the details and I am unable to do it as I want yet (But I am a lot closer than I was when I first alluded to it). He is twelve now, and I plan to have him be either twelve or thirteen when the Kingdom Hearts Story starts. And he will be joining from Kingom Hearts 1.
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God Emperor Terra Bornstellar: Chapter 28 was originally an AN. Now that the actual chapter is done, I took it down so I could put this up.
Anyways, on with the story!
I don't own Naruto, Kingdom Hearts or anything else. I'm just a broke college student...
Normal Talking: "Insert witty remark here."
Normal Thinking: 'Insert witty remark here.'
Biju/Deity Talking: "Insert witty remark here."
Biju/Deity Thinking: 'Insert witty remark here.'
Scene Change: Insert Place Here
Jutsu/Magic/Technique: Insert Jutsu Here
BOOM!
The group shielded their heads and rode out the shockwave as the echoing explosion nearly deafened them. As the winds died down, Naruto got up, took stock of his surroundings, and immediately noticed the darkness falling from the sky. His eyes roved the area for any further abnormalities, hoping that he was expecting wouldn't come true.
Suddenly, a pool of darkness opened in the ground nearby, giving way for a soldier heartless to materialize. 'No.' Turning his head in the other direction, Naruto spotted an armored knight heartless emerge. 'No…No.' Naruto snapped his head around into the trees, only to spot a hook bat appearing. 'No! This is really bad!' He whirled around towards the others, who were just gaining their bearings. "Guys, you have to get up! We have company-ttebayo!" He took his keyblade out and got into a battle stance. Ryu was growling next to him.
Misa was the first of the others to grasp the situation. She quickly got into her own battle stance. "He's right! Everyone up! We're getting out of here, now!" She ordered. The others were soon following her and Naruto's lead and got ready for a fight.
"There are so many of them…" Narumi said quietly.
"The other ones were weak. There may be more of them in a wider variety, but they stand no chance." Sasuke responded.
'Even if the ones here now are weak, it will only get tougher as they keep coming…And then lead heartless will follow the foot soldiers…' Naruto grit his teeth. With this amount of darkness, the heartless will definitely start taking notice of the world!
"So…What's the plan?" Menma asked as he eyed a circling heartless.
Misa frowned and took another look around. "We need to get out of here. We accomplished our mission, we should report back and help however we can in the invasion. These things are here because of Orochimaru. Continue considering them as part of the enemy forces."
"So we fight our way out?" Sasuke asked with a smirk. "I can get behind that."
Nodding, Naruto looked over to the nearby form of Gaara. "Ryu, can you carry Gaara?" The dream eater nodded and went over to the unconscious redhead. After Naruto placed it on the dragon's back, he spoke up. "Alright, please keep him out of danger, okay?"
"Kyu!" The dream eater nodded before taking flight.
Misa eyed the heartless. "I think that they're getting tired of waiting…" While the group had been talking, the surrounding heartless continued to steadily increase in numbers and inch closer. Many of them were becoming increasingly twitchy as they neared the prey.
"I hope you guys are ready…" Naruto said. The closest batch of heartless crouched. "Here they come!"
Back in the Arena
Clang! Asuma parried a sword with his chakra blades and sliced into the chest of the enemy before kicking them back and into the wall. The force of the blow knocked them out. Not letting his guard down, Asuma looked around. "They're starting to slow down! Just keep it up for a little while longer!" He called. They had been fighting off the attacking shinobi for a while now, and although they had yet to have a significant amount of casualties dealt, there were still losses here and there.
Taking out another enemy with a chain, Kushina glanced around. The jōnin were still fighting in the arena while the genin had been sent off and into the village already to aid at evacuation points. She sent a worried look in the direction that she knew the group fighting Gaara had been in. "It looks like they took care of the jinchuriki…" She said quietly before looking away again.
Yūgao nodded from her spot. "That looked like a big battle. Three versions of the one tail, the toad boss, and the slug boss? I'm surprised things got that bad…"
"Yosh! But it seems that our youthful genin prevailed and fought off our foes! That deserves praise!"
"Hm. They did accomplish the mission given to them…" Kakashi whirled around and sent the sneaking Oto shinobi flying. "But I had no idea that the one tail had the ability to clone itself."
Kushina frowned. "Didn't it look weird to you? It looked a lot like these things." She made her point as she killed another heartless.
Kurenai nodded as her eyes swept over the area. "I can't say I have ever seen the one tailed bijū before, but I don't think it should have looked like that."
"We can worry about it later. It was taken down, so we should focus on the immediate threat." Asuma commented. Although much of the fight was still going on, many of the Suna shinobi had been ordered to retreat when they saw that their jinchuriki was defeated. Suna was starting to lose confidence without its biggest weapon.
Boom! The heads of all the fighting shinobi snapped around to the source of the explosion.
"The hell was that?" Kushina muttered.
"Something bad…" A serious Gai returned. His eyes scanned the area. "And it appears that the situation has just escalated." The other's followed his line of sight and saw what he was referring to.
Yūgao gripped her sword tighter when she saw the number of heartless popping up. "Well, it looks like we still have our work cut out for us." An armored knight jumped in front of her. "There are more types now?"
Kakashi nodded. "Whatever caused that explosion must have attracted more of them." He crouched in preparation. "Get ready, we can't relax yet!"
"Hey, you mind if I join in?"
"Gah!" An Oto shinobi was sent rocketing into his allies after getting hit with the surprise attack. The group of shinobi glanced to the owner of the voice and were greeted with the sight of a stranger.
She was a dark skinned woman with a slender build, golden eyes and long purple hair that was done in a ponytail. She had on an orange over-shirt that had two white straps on each shoulder and a beige sash around her waist. Under this, it was possible to spot a black, long sleeved shirt. She also had on black stretch pants with a pair of brown shoes.
The woman smirked at them. "You guys seem to be having a party. I felt a little left out." She turned and kicked an attacking enemy with enough force to send him through the nearby wall. Gai's massive eyebrows shot up in surprise and interest.
Kushina eyed the woman with a frown. "Who are…" She began before getting cut off.
"We should hold off on pleasantries. I don't think they will wait for us." The dark skinned woman grinned. Although they didn't like it, the Konoha shinobi nodded and focused on the invaders. They didn't trust the woman, but were willing to accept the help. "Great! Now let's get to it!"
With Minato and A
Minato carefully controlled his breathing as he sped around the battlefield. His thoughts were racing just as quickly as his body was as he attempted to come up with a plan. 'If it was just Orochimaru, this could have been finished by now. But these reanimated kage get up every time we do manage to land a hit on them…' Whoosh! Minato ducked as a lightning coated third Raikage appeared in front of him with a strike aimed at his head. Minato thrust his hand forward as an orb of chakra formed in it. "Rasengan!" The attack connected and sent the third Raikage back several feet, giving Minato the chance to jump back and regroup with A.
The fourth Raikage was slightly winded from the high level battle, but he only had minor scrapes on his body. Like his father, he too had lightning crackling around him. A glanced at Minato before returning his eyes to the enemy. "What was the point of that? You know that it won't work." Even as he said this, the third Raikage got back up without a scratch on his body.
Minato nodded. "I know. It was more to push him back a bit." He tracked the movement of the first and second Hokages as they went and grouped up with the third Raikage. "I don't suppose you have any ideas?"
"Tch. If I had an idea, I would have used it by now." A responded. "My father is as hard to beat as I remember he was. We haven't made a single scratch on him."
"Yes, and Hashirama-sama and Tobirama-sama are pretty tough as well…Not to mention we have Orochimaru slithering about." He glanced back for a moment. "But it looks like the one tail has been taken care of."
"Kukuku." They looked over to see Orochimaru walking over to his reanimated servants. He was also slightly winded, but not majorly hurt. "No matter. Even without the one tailed bijū, it is only a matter of time before Konoha falls." He gestured to the undead kage. "You cannot defeat them. No matter how many times they fall, they will only get back up again to continue the battle."
Minato and A scowled, but couldn't refute the point. 'This really isn't good.' Minato thought to himself. 'At this rate…I will need to resort to using the Reaper Death Seal.' If he had known that he was going to be fighting undead opponents, he would have prepared the necessary seals to detain them. If it came down to it, he would sacrifice his life to stop them, but that was a last resort.
"Talk all you like, snake!" A shouted. "You will die here!"
This amused Orochimaru greatly. "Baseless claims. There is no possible way for you to come out of this as the victor."
Minato crouched lower into his battle stance. "We'll find a way. You'll never win. Many of your allies have already decided to leave." He tensed his muscles in preparation to launch forward.
Boom! They all snapped their eyes to the source of the sound to see a large amount of darkness descending upon the entire area.
Minato immediately turned back to Orochimaru with a fierce glare. "What have you done?" He demanded.
Orochimaru had a small frown on his face as he observed the anomaly. He held a hand out to catch one of the dark particles. 'What is this? This is a large amount of darkness…' He looked around the village. What he saw made a smirk creep onto his face. "Well, this is interesting."
They watched for a moment as a large amount of heartless started to appear around the village.
"What is this? You called for more of these things to show up?" A growled.
A small frown flash across the sannin's face. 'I do not even think I am yet able to call upon this many heartless at once. Or such a large variety of them…' The frown was quickly replaced by a smirk."As much as I would love to take claim for this turn of events, I am unfortunately unable to." Orochimaru responded, his smirk growing as he spoke. "But I will gladly take advantage of it!" He raised his arms as darkness started to shroud his body.
As if answering a silent call, heartless started to appear around him. With a manic grin, Orochimaru pointed at Minato and A. "Let's see how you fare now!" The heartless lunged at them, with the revived kage soon following.
"This is going to be difficult…" Minato muttered. He drew out a tri-pronged kunai and prepared himself for the battle. "The creatures should be fairly easy. The problem with them is the amount of them."
A nodded. "It doesn't matter. We'll wipe them all out!" They rushed to meet the enemy.
With Naruto and the Others
"Above!" Naruto immediately reacted to Misa's warning and aimed his attack at the swooping wyvern.
"Fire!" The fireball impacted the heartless, killing it. "We need to keep moving! We're almost out of the training ground!" He shouted. They had been fighting off the heartless and making a steady pace back to the main part of the village. The group would have made it by now, but they were under constant siege by the heartless.
"Fire Style: Phoenix Sage Fire!" Boom! "They just keep coming!" Sasuke growled.
Narumi nodded as her hands sped through hand seals. "Wind Style: Air Bullets!" Blasts of wind shot out of mouth and destroyed a few more heartless. "Where are they all coming from?"
Misa slashed down another heartless. "No clue, but it is really annoying!" She gauged their location. "Almost there! One last push!" The others nodded.
Menma was scowling at the amount of heartless that kept showing up. "Why. Won't. You. Get. Out. Of. The. Way-ttebasa?!" He took out multiple kunai with paper bombs attached. "Take this!" Boom! A path was cleared for them and they used the chance to rush out of the forest.
"Overkill much?" Narumi asked with an eye roll.
"Hey, it got the job done…didn't…it…" Menma trailed off as he and the others saw what was happening in the village. "Oh no…" The others were staring in similar states of horror and disbelief at what they saw.
There were hundreds of heartless spread out throughout the village. While there were many of them before, it was now impossible to look in any direction and not spot a heartless.
'This is really bad…' Looking around, Naruto saw that the invasion was still in progress. He noticed something that made his eyes widen in surprise. "Look, the creatures are attacking both sides now!"
It was true. While the heartless had initially been brought in to help attack Konoha, they were now attacking indiscriminately. Whether it be someone from Konoha, Suna, or Oto, the heartless attacked them. The battle had effectively become a three-sided war, although Suna was starting to pull out somewhat.
"I thought they were on the same side?" Narumi asked in confusion.
Misa shook her head. "I don't think that those things care too much about who they attack…at least, not anymore."
'Damn! That just means they are growing out of control!' Naruto looked around again.
"You guys are back…" They turned to see a dirtied Shikamaru land nearby. Shino landed beside him a moment later. The two of them were scanning their surroundings for more attacks.
"Yeah, we took care of the problem." Menma responded.
Shikamaru snorted. "We noticed. Kind of hard not to."
Naruto glanced behind the two of them and frowned. "I see you made some new friends…" He commented. That was when the rest of the group saw that Temari and Kankurō were standing nearby with nervous and worried looks.
Shino nodded. "Yes. They had surrendered when it became apparent that their brother had lost. Seeing that many other Suna shinobi have dropped hostilities, we decided to leave them." He looked around at the large number of heartless. "I believe that there is a bigger threat."
Temari swallowed nervously and looked around. "Where…Where's Gaara?" She asked hesitantly before a fearful look crossed her face and she looked back towards the heartless infested training ground. "You didn't leave him in there, did you?" Kankurō paled at the question.
Seeing that the two of them were extremely worried for their brother, Naruto whistled shrilly. Ryu instantly followed the order and descended towards the group. "Don't worry, we have him here." He nodded towards the dream eater and its passenger. Shikamaru raised an eyebrow at the dream eater.
Choosing to ignore the strange creature for now, Tamari and Kankurō focused on the person on its back. "Gaara!" Temari shouted. She and Kankurō rushed over to him.
"He is fine, only unconscious." Naruto said. They nodded and carefully lifted Gaara up to carry him.
Kankurō turned his head towards the Konoha group. "Um…thanks for not leaving him."
Narumi rolled her eyes. "Like we could do that to someone! He would have been eaten within seconds-ttebane!"
"…Um, do these things even eat people?" Narumi just glared at her younger brother, who shrugged at the look. "What? Just asking."
Choosing to ignore his siblings for the moment, Naruto spoke to Temari and Kankurō. "It's fine. Just be careful as you leave the village. These things are probably in the entire surrounding area." They nodded before jumping off.
Sasuke watched them go with a frown. "Why are we letting them go? Shouldn't we detain them?"
Misa frowned at the question, but not for what he said. She was thinking about the situation and their options. "No. While that was the original plan, our priority should be ensuring the safety of the villagers and driving off the active threats." The Uchiha nodded in understanding. Misa turned to face the others. "Alright, people. We have a new mission. We're going to head to key locations and help the evacuations!"
Shino nodded. "Which areas are we going to aid?"
The elder genin considered the question for a moment. "We are splitting up into two groups. One to head to the academy and the other will go to the other main shelter. The hospital should be well defended, especially with Tsunade-sama there." They nodded. "Group one will be myself, Naruto, and Sasuke. We will head to the academy. Group two will be Shikamaru, Narumi, Menma, Sasuke, and Shino. Shikamaru will lead. We have a smaller group because there should be more allies already stationed near our target."
"Troublesome." Although he said this, Shikamaru had a serious expression on his face.
"Any questions?" None were raised. "Good, then let's get moving!" She, Naruto, and Sasuke turned towards the direction the academy was in and sped off as the other group turned and did the same in the other direction.
With Minato and A
"Hidden Shadow Snake Hands!" A group of snakes shot out of Orochimaru's sleeves and shot at Minato at the same time a group of heartless lunged at him, only for the Hokage to disappear in a yellow flash.
"Rasengan!" Boom!
Minato reappeared behind Orochimaru using the seal he had planted on the ground earlier in the fight. The snake sannin was sent flying towards the awaiting Raikage. "Lariat!" Bam! A launched Orochimaru flying as his attack connected. Not wasting a moment, he spun around and dodged the punch sent to him by his father and countered with a kick to the side, sending the third Raikage away.
Orochimaru struggled to get back to his feet. After a moment, he froze as if something hit him and he slowly opened his mouth. From his throat emerged a pale hand. Orochimaru opened his mouth further and the hand was revealed to be attached to an entire body. The body was covered in slime and was an exact copy of the sannin. After a few more moments, the entire thing was thrown up and Orochimaru collapsed onto the floor, only for the new body to stand up.
He had a fierce scowl on his face as he looked at his opponents. Orochimaru was extremely fast, but he was up against the two shinobi who were praised as the fastest. He couldn't get out of the way of many of their attacks quickly enough, forcing him to take the damage. He could heal from virtually anything, but it took up a large amount of chakra.
'Damn it! I can't keep this up for much longer!' Minato and A were up against three kage, Orochimaru, and the heartless, but they were still extremely strong. Not only that, but Orochimaru had revived the kage in weakened states to ensure that he would be able to control them.
Minato jumped out of the way of an attacking wood pillar and threw a tri-pronged kunai at the first Hokage. Seeing the chance, Tobirama flashed through hand seals. "Water Style: Water Dragon Bullet." Water was pulled out of the air and formed a dragon made of water. The second Hokage was so quick in forming the jutsu, there was practically no delay between the hand seals and the jutsu.
Seeing the oncoming danger, Minato disappeared in a yellow flash. He reappeared behind the first Hokage and hit him with a chakra infused kick that sent him right at Tobirama. Minato chanced a glance at the state of the invasion before looking back to Orochimaru. "You won't last much longer Orochimaru. Your forces are dwindling and you are starting to run out of steam." He glared with a light sheen of sweat on his skin. "It's over."
Orochimaru glared back. "This…isn't over." He panted out. Darkness started to gather around him again, and with it, more heartless. "I haven't lost yet." He looked at the battle waging in the village. Although he spoke confidently, he still felt some doubt cloud him. 'I may not win this. They are stronger and more resilient than I had expected…' He scowled. 'At this rate, I will lose within minutes.'
He turned back to his opponents and pointed while instructing the heartless. "Attack!" Minato tensed in preparation, ready to defend himself, but nothing happened. The heartless remained where they were as if Orochimaru never gave an order. "I said attack!" Instead of leaping at Minato, the heartless turned to Orochimaru. "What is this? How dare you ignore my order?!"
Suddenly, the closest soldier heartless lunged at Orochimaru, but missed when the pale sannin moved out of the way. "What?!" The group of heartless were turning their backs on the designated targets and were instead attacking Orochimaru. "You stupid creatures! I am the one in control of you! I will destroy you for this!" The heartless ignored the threats and continued to attack him. Orochimaru was forced to jump out of the way when an armored knight lunged at him with its sword and an attacking wyvern was destroyed the moment it got close.
Minato simply watched the turn of events in confusion. 'What's going on? Why are they attacking him?' His eyes widened in alarm as his instincts screamed for him to duck. He was barely able to avoid a three fingered jab from the third Raikage.
"Hidden Shadow Snake Hands!" A group of heartless was destroyed as snakes bit into them, but another group immediately replaced it. "Damn!" 'They are all ignoring the enemy and attacking me instead! And I don't have the chakra to keep fighting on this level for much longer…' Rage built in Orochimaru as he was forced to make a decision. After cutting down another heartless, he turned to Minato and A. "This isn't the end. I will be back. And then you and Konoha will fall." He spat.
The fourth Hokage glared back. "You aren't getting away!" He launched a tri-pronged kunai at him, but the third Raikage appeared to intercept it.
Orochimaru smirked. At least that was still working properly. "Don't worry, I'll leave my friends here to keep you entertained." He turned and fled the area. Many of the heartless were still attacking him as he ran.
"No!" A roared in rage and made to follow, but was cut off by a wall of wood appearing in his path. "Damn it!"
Minato glared after Orochimaru for a moment before getting forced to return his attention to his opponent. 'Damn it! He's getting away. And we still haven't found a way to take these guys out of the fight!' He jumped back towards A when a wooden dragon attempted to get to him. The two of them were now standing back to back.
A glanced back to him. "Any ideas?" Minato sighed.
"Only one…And I think I have no other choice…" He was silent for a moment. "Please tell my family I'm sorry. And I love them." This request instantly made A's eyes snap to his.
The two of them stared at each other for a moment, but A eventually nodded slowly. "Very well. I will tell them."
Minato smiled gratefully. "Thank you." He wished from the bottom of his heart that it didn't come to this, but he saw no other option. However, he wasn't going to run away from it. This was something he was proud to do. He lived a happy and full life, blessed with friends and family who he loved with his entire being. It was the knowledge that they would be safe that drove him.
But…If he had one regret, it would be that he failed at being a good father for Naruto.
With a deep sigh, Minato collected himself. A determined look appeared on his face and he formed a hand seal. "Shadow Clone Jutsu." Two clones popped up on either side of him. "I'm going to seal them away. I would have done so before now, but I was hoping to use this seal as a last resort."
A nodded. He didn't need to ask any questions as the way Minato was speaking and his request said everything he needed to know. "It has been an honor fighting with you, Minato."
Minato smiled sadly at him. "The same to you, A." He turned back to the undead. "Now then, here I go!" He and his clones crouched and prepared to rush at the undead.
"Now just wait a minute! There is no need to go that far!" Before he could do anything, Minato was interrupted. "Bakudō 99: Full Prohibition!" Out of nowhere, a white fabric shot out of the ground and wrapped around the three previous kage, who were unable to break free. "Prologue-Halting Wraps!" The moment the fabric was wrapping them completely, metal bolts formed in the air and impaled them. "Refrain-Serial Hundred Bolts!" The three undead were now completely encased in fabric and bolts. "Well, I don't think the final step is quite necessary…" A voice said behind them. A and Minato whirled around to find the speaker.
Standing there was a tall man with a lean frame and light blond hair. He also had some chin stubble. His hair was messy and strands framed the sides of his face. The man was wearing a dark coat that had a white diamond pattern along the bottom half, and dark green shirt and pants combo. On his feet were traditional geta sandals. He hid the bottom half of his face behind a paper fan he was holding. On his head was a green hat with white stripes.
The man smiled at them as he fanned himself with the fan he was holding. "Hello, gentlemen. I thought you could use a hand before things escalated too far." The look in his eyes abruptly hardened and his tone was farm more serious. "Whatever technique you were thinking about using just now had to be a nasty one." The previous smile was nowhere in sight.
Minato, his clones, and A slid into battle stances. "Who are you?" Minato demanded.
Like a switch, the man's entire demeanor shifted again. "Oh, I'm just a passing candy store owner, don't mind me." This answer stunned them into silence.
A soon regained himself and growled. "What was that? Take this seriously!"
Minato nodded in agreement. "You just waltzed in and -within a minute- did what the two of us couldn't for the entire course of the battle."
The man shrugged. "Well, you know how it is. Some people are just luckier than others." They looked like they were going to argue some more, but the man spoke up before they could. "I'm sure you have dozens of questions and possibly some pointy things you would like to throw at me, but I must be on my way." He snapped his fingers. Suddenly, doorways opened up in midair behind each of the three sealed kage and swallowed them. The doorways disappeared as quickly as they had appeared. "Don't worry about these three, I'll be sure to take care of it." He waved at them with a grin. "Goodbye."
"No you don't!" A rushed at him with an arm raised. With his speed, the Raikage was able to cross the distance within a second and throw his punch. Bam! The man was sent flying when the lightning coated fist hit him. Poof! A growled when he saw the man suddenly exploded.
A note fluttered down to the ground and Minato walked up to the note and picked it up. "'How do you like my invention? It's called the portable Gigai. Pretty convincing replacement, right?'" He read. A was nearly popping a vein at this point.
Minato frowned. 'Who was that man?' Shaking his head, he looked to his fellow kage. "We will worry about that later. For now, we should help finish getting rid of the rest of them." Although he was infuriated, A nodded before the two of them sped off.
With Naruto and the Others
"The academy is just up ahead." Sasuke said. The three of them had made good progress towards the academy, but they had been forced to fight off heartless the entire way.
Misa glanced at it and scowled. "Looks like they haven't been able to evacuate it yet. I guess the enemy had sent shinobi in with specific orders to target it." Even from where they were, they could see multiple chūnin fighting off Oto shinobi and students in a few of the windows.
"Then we should help them out!" Naruto said.
"Of course. Be careful not to endanger any of the students." Misa instructed. They nodded and rushed in to join the battle.
As they got closer, Naruto was able to identify Iruka as he fought against an Oto shinobi. The scarred chūnin was putting up a great fight, but it was obvious that he was starting to get tired. The Oto shinobi was slowly pushing him back with his katana, and Iruka was having trouble deflecting all the attacks while he was only armed with a kunai. When Iruka stumbled back for a moment, the Oto shinobi grinned and brought his sword down.
Clang! The enemy grunted in surprise when a strange sword shaped like a key appeared and blocked the blow. "The hell?" He asked.
Iruka's eyes widened in shock. "Naruto?"
Naruto glanced back to Iruka and flashed a grin. "Hey, Iruka-sensei. I thought you could use a little help." He turned back and glared at the enemy. "Take a breather, we've got this." Naruto used his keyblade to deflect the sword up towards the air. Raising a hand, Naruto shouted. "Fire!"
"Gah!" The enemy was blown back as the fireball hit him in the center of the chest.
Iruka was speechless for a few moments. "Wha…What are you doing here?"
"We had completed our mission and moved on to help out with defending and evacuating people. We thought it would be a good idea to check in at some key locations." Naruto responded. While he was talking, he was scanning the area for another enemy who would attack. "I'd say we got here at a good time."
"Yeah…Thanks for that." Iruka pushed himself to his feet.
Naruto grinned at him. "No problem." His face turned serious again as a group of Oto shinobi started to approach them. "I think we should take care of these guys…" He paused when he saw more heartless show up. 'Damn. They are still popping up…' "And it looks like another annoyance has appeared."
Iruka frowned at the heartless. "They have been popping up for a while now. At first they were helping the attackers, but they started to attack them as well a while back." He slid into a battle stance as the heartless crept closer.
"Yeah, I think that they stopped caring about sides…" A soldier heartless crouched before lunging at him. Naruto prepared to defend himself, but he didn't need to. Boom! A fireball shot out of the sky and killed the heartless. Naruto grinned up at the circling dream eater. "Thanks!"
"Kyu!"
"…Is that a dragon?" Iruka asked, but he shook his head immediately after. "Never mind. I'll assume it is your summon or something. Let's focus on these guys."
"Right." Naruto crouched lower and got ready for the fight.
An approaching Oto kunoichi smirked at him. "Oh, the brat thinks he's tough, does he? You're in way over your head, kid. Just give it up."
Naruto smirked in return. "You really think so? I'm pretty sure you won't be so tough to beat down. You're just cannon fodder, right?"
The woman snarled at him. "What was that?! I'll kill you!" She lunged at him. Naruto simply ducked out of the way cut into her back.
"You see? Cannon fodder." He looked back at the other enemies. "I would rather this goes by quickly so I can help out the others, so I'm sorry if I'm in a hurry." He pulled on some twilight and the wind started to blow around him before he crouched low. "This won't even take a minute. Sonic Blade!" He blurred as his body shot at the group of shinobi and heartless.
"Gah!"
"Argh!"
Although they tried, none of them proved to be fast enough to be able to stop the onslaught of strikes coming from Naruto. Finishing his combo with a horizontal slash on the chest of another shinobi, Naruto jumped high into the air and gripped his keyblade. His body started to give off a bright glow. "This is the end. Meteor Crash!" He flew back at the ground and struck it with his keyblade. Boom!
As his keyblade hit the ground, miniature flaming meteors appeared in the air and struck the remainder of the nearby shinobi. Naruto panted slightly as his attack finished. While he would normally hold back somewhat and not reveal so many of his abilities, this was a serious situation with lives on the line. Holding back would result in not being fast enough to help out his comrades, so he used some more of his attacks freely.
Iruka gaped at the carnage for a moment before turning his attention to Naruto. "Naruto…That was…"
Naruto shook his head. "We can talk about it later." He looked around. "We should make sure the danger is gone first." The chūnin nodded in response before scanning the area as well.
"Naruto! Iruka-sensei!" The two of them turned to see Misa and Sasuke running over to them. The other chūnin were now finishing the evacuation of the students. Misa looked around warily as she got close. "You two good over here?"
Iruka nodded. "Yes, there weren't that many over here. We just finished up. Good work, you three." He smiled. "You have all become fantastic shinobi." He praised. Misa smiled back while Sasuke just smirked.
"Thanks."
"It was expected."
"…" They blinked and turned to Naruto when he didn't say anything. Naruto was simply looking around the deserted battlefield with a frown.
Misa frowned at him. "Naruto, what's wrong?" She glanced around but didn't spot anything of worry.
The others did the same. "…There aren't any more enemies." Naruto said after a moment. They blinked. Iruka immediately caught on and started to scan the area as well.
"So? That means we won." Sasuke said.
Naruto shook his head in response. "But there are no enemies. I can see that all of the enemy shinobi finally decided to retreat…but what about the creatures? Where did they all go?" Misa and Sasuke's eyes widened in realization and joined the search. Just as he said, there were no heartless in sight. 'I know that they weren't all killed off, so where did they go?' He couldn't understand why all of the heartless would decide to leave. 'The heartless wouldn't have left just like that. I can see if they stopped appearing and we killed the rest, but to leave? It's as if they were…ordered…to…' Naruto's eyes widened as he sensed something appear above them. 'Oh shit.'
His head snapped up and he slid into a battle stance. "They left because something else was coming! Get ready! This isn't going to be another small fry!" The other's heads shot up to see what he was looking at. Something large was falling towards them. Boom!
Play Kingdom Hearts 1.5 HD ReMIX – The Deep End
Several large objects fell out of the sky and landed in front of them. The objects immediately began to float towards one another after they landed. Once they were arranged, Naruto saw that the objects were actually floating body parts of a large heartless. The heartless was divided into six pieces -a body, a head, two arms, and two legs- and none of them made contact with each other as they floated in the air.
The torso was similar to an hourglass in shape and was colored a dark purple. There was a diamond pattern going around its waist and the heartless emblem was in the center of the chest. Its head was violet, spherical in shape, and sported three silver spikes along with a faceplate. Both of the arms were violet as well, had large wrists, and claws. The legs of the heartless were short, violet, and had hammer-like feet.
A slightly nervous look crossed Misa's face. "That's a big one…" She shook her head and glared at it. "It must be the leader of these things, besides Orochimaru."
"Kyah!" Their eyes snapped to the nearby children who were still getting evacuated. The guard armor noticed the kids and turned to them. The nearby chūnin jumped in front of the kids, but it was obvious they were injured and tired. Iruka was one of the few who were only lightly injured.
"No!" Naruto quickly turned to Iruka. "Iruka-sensei, you go help with the evacuation. Leave this to us!"
Iruka gaped at him for a moment. "No way! There is no way I'm letting you guys go up against that thing on your own!"
Naruto quickly looked back to the giant heartless before looking at Iruka. "Trust us. We've got this. Make sure the students get out of here!" He turned towards the heartless and got into a battle stance. Iruka made to argue again, but was cut off.
"Sensei, please leave this to us. We can do this."
"Hn. It isn't a problem." Misa and Sasuke were quick to get into their own stances. Iruka looked as if he was going to argue again, but relented.
"Fine, but you three better be right!" He sped off to the students.
Seeing he was going, Naruto looked at the other two. "You guys ready for this?" He got two nods in return. "Great." He turned back to the heartless. "Then let's go!"
The three of them rushed at the giant heartless. Sensing the oncoming hearts, the heartless turned towards them. It raised its hands at them and fired the limbs. "Move!" The three of them dove out of the way as the hands rushed by them. "Get in close while it doesn't have arms!" Misa instructed.
"Right!" They sped at the body of the heartless and went in close to get some attacks in. Naruto jumped up to get shot at the torso and flew into a small combo. Wham! He was only able to get a few strikes in before one of the feet shot up and kicked him away. Flipping and landing on his feet, Naruto looked at the heartless in surprise. "Don't let the other limbs out of your sight! It can attack with any of them!" He rushed back in.
Sasuke had been occupied when one of the arms shot back around and started to attack him. "Fire Style: Great Fireball!" The arm veered out of the way of the fireball, making the Uchiha growl. "These things are annoying to hit…"
While this was going on, Misa had been defending herself from the other arm. She had to roll out of the way as it swooped in on her. Before it could turn around and try again, she launched a swift kick at it, followed by a complimenting punch. She went in for another attack, but the arm flew away and back towards the main body.
Once it had its limbs back, the heartless brought its arms up before quickly bringing them back down on Naruto. The crimson blond dove forward and in between the heartless' legs. He rolled back to his feet on the other side of the heartless and brought his keyblade forward to get some attacks in. But before he could do anything, the arms of the heartless started to spin around the body at high speeds and the torso spun around like a top. Wham! Naruto was blown back by the force of the attack.
Scowling at being hit twice, Naruto raise his keyblade and pointed it at the heartless. "Fira!" The large fireball sped towards the heartless, only for it to break into pieces as each body part detached. The arms flew at Naruto while the feet attacked Sasuke. Misa was forced to deal with the torso.
"Ryu, fireball!" The dragon complied with a large fireball, but the arms moved out of the way and retaliated by clasping together and coming down on the dragon.
"Kyu!" The dream eater slammed into the ground.
"Ryu!" Naruto rushed over to the fallen dream eater. "You alright?" Ryu weakly whimpered. "Alright, thanks for everything. I'll take it from here." The dragon nodded before it glowed. In a flash of twilight, it disappeared and a card took its place. Naruto put the card away and looked back to the floating hands. "You're gonna pay for that one." He leapt at the hands. "Ars Arcanum!" The attacks came too quickly for the arms to move out of the way. In twin explosions of darkness, the arms were destroyed. Naruto blinked at that before a grin formed on his face. "Hey, guys! Take out the limbs first! They aren't that durable!" Hearing the shout, the other two nodded.
As Misa was keeping the torso busy, Sasuke fought the legs. A smirk appeared on his face. "The flying arms were able to move out of the way, but how about the grounded legs?" He jumped into the air and flashed through hand seals. "Fire Style: Phoenix Sage Fire!" The legs were unable to move out of the way in time to avoid the attack and were destroyed.
Seeing that she was the only one still fighting, Misa smirked. "Well, I can't be the only one to not beat my part, can I?" She waited for the heartless to stop its spin attack before leaping at it. Using her chakra, she clung to the upper torso. "I'm pretty sure I saw that you were hollow…" She looked down the collar of the torso and saw that there was nothing inside. "Perfect." She winked at the head. "Enjoy the bomb!" She dropped several paper bombs inside before jumping off.
Boom! The heartless couldn't do anything to prevent the explosion. The three of them grouped up again and watched as the heartless dissolved into darkness and a large heart was released.
End Music
Misa looked around to see the invasion was pretty much over before she smirked at the two of them. "Well…that was a thing."
Naruto just rolled his eyes.
There we go! All done with Chapter 28!
This came up again recently, so I will ask again. Would you guys like me to drop "-ttebayo" and the like? I have it now as something they say when they are excited or yelling, but should I drop it completely? I don't care whichever way.
There are so many types of heartless…I don't really want to describe every single one of them…You guys can look them up if you want to…Or do you want me to add descriptions to them?
Ok, so Sarutobi was able to fight Hashirama, Tobirama, and Orochimaru at the same time. I figure that Minato is stronger than Sarutobi (At the very least due to Sarutobi's age). Add in A, and give Orochimaru the third Raikage, I still see things going well for Minato and A.
The heartless follow the orders of those who control darkness, but if they detect hesitation, doubt, or any type of weakness, they will turn on you. Orochimaru doubted himself for a bit there and was extremely fatigued.
Fun fact: the fight against the undead kage didn't end how I had originally planned. I had been planning on Naruto getting involved at some point, but decided against it in the end.
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Until next time,
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