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For a better grasp of what's happening watch the original Naruto show, as this story, for now, is going chronologically with that plot, just with a number of noticeable differences.
Blame the Demons that Raised Me
Chapter Four: What The Hell Are Those?!
~Third Person~
Naruto went back home and quickly went to Gnarl.
"Greetings your evilness, since you missed breakfast I had a chance to sample Quaver's spin on ramen and it may not be my fancy, but I can still see some likability."
"Glad to- I'll talk about that later, I got a new power, I'm putting it under the title Minion Ability."
"A what? Ah you mean you achieved a skill when you held Grubby's protégé as he was dying. You stole his abilities well copied..more or less.. you needn't worry about him, he was resurrected once your needs were met."
"Oh ok got it. But Yeah I gotta practice it for the upcoming mission tomorrow."
"Perhaps you'd like to finish what you started?"
"What do you mean?"
"We still have breathing ninjas well one that still has chakra that is far better serving the Cavernheart than himself."
"Right. I'll do that right after I get some practice with this new ability. If I do that one first I'll probably pass out again.. and I don't want to do that just yet.."
"I suppose you make a valid point master. So onto the training room then my lord?"
"Yep."
They went to the training room where a few minions came upon their master's request.
"Alright boys, I want half of you guys to make a running track out of this stuff and the other half to make a barricade near the wall, all except for you." Naruto demanded before he grabbed a minion by the head. With two fingers raised in front of his own face and a puff of smoke, Naruto transformed the minion into himself. "You're going to be my sparing partner."
The transformed minion nodded to his master and the sparring began.
"You are gonna fight back right?" Naruto said as the minion stumbled back but it didn't do anything.
"Fight the master?..." The clone asked, he seemed confused by the very idea. He tilted his head and Naruto growled in anger.
"Yes! That's what sparring is! Now put 'em up and fight me!"
The clone looked nervous as he raised his hands. Naruto didn't move, he waited until the clone attacked him and let the changed minion land a blow.
"Master are you alright?" The Minion asked with worry and panic.
"Good job, again!"
"Ok...if master say so.."
After a small series of blows, Naruto growled at the clone, as he had done nothing to fight back or even block the attacks thrown his way.
"Do you actually know how to fight?" Naruto spat out.
"I do bashies on heads."
"That's not enough! Not anymore. You and the rest of the minions are going to learn basic taijutsu. I want some sort of a challenge. Gnarl make it happen."
"But sire the minions don't have the brain power to do that." Gnarl pleaded but his master stood firm on his demand.
"Make. It. Happen. If not taijutsu then NIN-jutsu! That's dealing with weapons and a few others things too but oh never mind. Just get it done." Naruto's voice was cold and serious, with much demand behind it. Though he felt a bit bad for being so forceful toward Gnarl, he had to make his wants clear.
"As you wish..though it won't be easy-" Gnarl kept talking to himself and Naruto sucker punched the clone in the face.
"Is the barricade up yet?" Naruto asked with malice and a glare.
"Yes master." A minion said with a smile as he saluted his overlord. The minion stood next to a tall stature of logs that were tightly tied together.
"Good now get out of my way." Naruto said as he put himself in a running position. He ran at the stature, with the expectation that he would crash into it. The structure didn't budge while Naruto fell to the floor, feeling the effects as he gathered his nerves.
"Are you alright master?" Naruto groaned as he got to his feet, not even making an effort to figure out who asked that. He went back to the start and faced the structure again.
"Brown." Naruto glanced at the gem as he ran, this time when he ran into it he forced it into the back wall before coming to a stop. The young lord stepped back and fidgeted slightly as he noticed that he had forced the barricade deep into the wall. He felt no pain and a bit of excitement as he stepped away from the structure which sustained heavy damage.
"Very impressive my lord. Are you alright master?" Gnarl asked.
"Yeah I'm great don't feel a thing. So tell me about the browns again Gnarl..I want to know what I can do with this uh new skill."
"They're the most durable minions of all, also the physically strongest. However, they can't swim and are weak to poison and fire. If you have truly taken all their benefits..you are indeed a super human, with enhanced speed, strength, possibly even reaction time not to mention extra stamina..I wonder if there's a downside. Like do you also get their weaknesses?"
"I wouldn't know, I just got it, though I did feel a bit weird after I used this for the first time. Anyway, how long will this last?" Naruto felt impatient, he wanted to know all he could so he could effectively use this power in combat.
"I don't know, it's never happened before. I've had to say that many more times upon meeting you than I would like to and ever have in the past."
"Alright fine whatever, let's get speed training out of the way." Naruto hauled ass as he ran around the minion made track finishing it within thirty seconds. After two laps, Naruto grew bored and felt like a true test of this ability will be better.
"Alright enough of this, let's move on to strength training. To the surface." Naruto stated before he ran to towards the forest above, finding himself there within a few short moments. The minions were also there just a few seconds later, though Gnarl didn't seem interested as the forest was abloom.
In the forest, Naruto punched a tree twice before it fell. Earning o put himself to the test, he tried to pick it up. Despite his enhanced strength, he couldn't lift it as fast as he wanted. Naruto still smiled to himself as he soon held up the massive trunk. He pushed it up and down a few times, testing his ability further.
He found himself leaving the tree behind in favor of attacking things at random. He put what he found on his head, if he felt it was worth his time. His minions were right there with him enjoying the needless destruction of trees, plants and animals. Naruto ran through the forest like a mad man though, he punched and kicked whatever he wanted. Eventually he had a lucid moment and he used it to end the brown power, which was stating the original color of the special gem, yellow.
Naruto suddenly hollered in utter agony, he felt the repercussions of everything he had done hit him all at once. Despite the pain in most of his body, it was more than doubled solely in his arms which he couldn't move at all.
Naruto was returned to his room; his minions being panicked about the state of their master. Naruto never felt such pain before in his life. When the minions reached his room, they put him in his bed. He was far too sore to do anything other than just lay on his bed.
~The next day~
Naruto was in the throne room, sitting upon his throne, ignoring the pain in his body. Most of it was somewhat bearable but he could not move his arms at all, he could barely move his shoulders let along the whole arm. Though he could walk around on his own, his legs did cause mild discomfort.
A group of fifteen grunt minions stood before him, he had a task for them and they were eager to hear what it was.
"Okay listen you guys, I need n-need weights to put in my armor. T-they should be easy to f-find. I'm sure they're be-being sold at the m-market just make su-sure when you steal th-them to not get cau-caught and to st-steal as many as you can. G-Got it?" Naruto stated mostly calmly to the troop of minions before him.
"Yes master." The minions said in obedient and eager unison. The minions quickly left the cavern to fulfill their master's request.
Naruto sat on the crudely made throne as he looked at the Cavern Heart across the room. The heart no longer had any more writings on its rows of scroll paper.
"How much chakra will you need?.."
"Umm my lord, may I trouble you but for a moment?"-Gnarl said as he stood before his overlord.
"What?" Naruto said with annoyance, turning his gaze down towards the old minion. "If it's about minions, I had a number of them go out and get supplies, I want a supply of weapons for the upcoming mission. I was going to train later tonight but it all depends on if the brown power also boosts recovery."
"I see.. well for the future, my lord, best not over do it again. You need to be in top condition to properly power Cavernheart, it still has a long way to go." Gnarl turned to face the Cavernheart.
"How much longer until it's fully charged? It has the power to bestow gifts on me and can even give me visions. What more can it do for me?"
"It can greatly enhance your power, master, and it will also allow you to upgrade all of your skills, has it spoke of the hives yet?"
"Not that I know of. These hives are for minion summoning right?"
"Correct my lord, and once we have one, you can summon one of its respective color from nearly anywhere straight to you. Well not exactly but nevertheless, I suspect that the first minion hive we will get is the Brown one. Once you get it you won't have to wait for Grubby or one of his underlings to run back and forth to you, you can summon a number of browns from where ever you are."
"Well until then Grubby will have to do. Besides he's pretty good at it."
"It is one of the few things he's good at but a hive is much better, my lord."
"I'll take your word for it. So, it appears that I need to completely fill the Cavern Heart with chakra since there's no magic around here."
"Afraid so the only magic source would be back where we came from but it's over run by the Golden and that is ignoring the incredibly long travel period."
"What is the Golden again?"
"A vile wave of goodness, able to turn the darkest hearts into the nicest people. Bleck."
"Is it coming here?"
"I don't believe so."
"Oh I wonder why."
"Perhaps due to the difference of realms.."
"All lands are different, I mean what's the major difference between this land and your former land?"
"...chakra. As you've noticed we're not use to it.."
"So maybe the Golden whatever only affects magical creatures?"
"Hmm that could be a possibility."
"What's with the thinking face?"
"I'm just wondering how we're going to test this theory, I don't want to risk you, true evil is so hard to find these days."
"Hmm...what's keeping those minions? I want to train now."
"Your anger is your strongest tool but too much of it can lead to insanity, which is only fun for the first hundred years I would know. But in all serious you should re-frame from training, your arms are too badly damaged."
"They'll be fine, now where are they?" Naruto growled out, growing impatient. To Naruto, it was a long time before the minions returned, but it was only fifteen whole minutes. However, they made their master smile once he saw the haul they had brought in.
"That's a bit more than I was expecting, I'm impressed...but you still kept me waiting."
"Forgive us master, we took many shinies.." A minion said as he got on his hands and knees before his lord. Naruto took a closer look at the minions. He saw that they had put on a few things and were holding several things from a large turnip to a long kunai.
"What's with the accessories?"
"While out and about, minions equip useful items, relatively speaking, to assist them in bashing the brains out of whatever their hitting...they are very stupid sire but when it comes to fighting they're do the job or probably die trying." Gnarl states as he stood beside the large stone throne.
"You guys need real weapons. Did you get my weights? They should be very heavy." Naruto asked as the minions before they started checking the large bags. After a few moments, they held up several bands of weights. "Alright let's see how things go. Brown." Naruto's mind lost trace of pain that was in his body. The young dark lord rose from his seat and grabbed at the weights. The weight felt like a flower in the young Overlord's hand, Naruto quickly undressed to his dark underclothes and fitted the weights to his body.
He had a row of weights wrapped around each of his shins then fitted his torso with four rows from his waist to just under the arms, and finally he put a band around both of his wrists.
~Naruto~
The armor was put back on me and I smiled as everything actually felt heavier even in this form. I got right to it, knowing I didn't have much time before I had to change back to normal. I started with a light jog on the surface to the river and back. When I returned to the Minion Cavern, I started doing basic exercises: push-ups, sits ups, crunches and ended it by continuously toppling trees.
Over time, I felt myself getting dumber thinking about mindless violence and wanting to put something on my head. I gave a final punch and the tree fell. "Ugh now take the armor off and make it quick." I ordered, knowing it was not long before I would turn into a mindless idiot for a while.
"Yes master." The minions said in unison as they rushed over and took off my armor.
"Faster! You poor excuses for evil!" I commanded before they started taking off the weights. Once they were down to my legs I ordered one of them to put the gauntlet back on. "Yellow."
I gasped as pain raced through it my very being, I fell to the floor and was unable to move. I groaned as I looked up, to see the confused faces of the minions. "Br-brow-"
"Master! I believe your body has been through enough. Minions carry our dark lord back to his private quarters." Gnarl instructed from the shade, I sighed as the group of fifteen picked me up and quickly carried me all the way back to my room, where I was placed in bed.
They left and a few minutes later a robed minion came in, wielding a scythe.
"Greetings master-" The minion spoke.
"Who are you again? And what do you want? If it's to do the forbidden jutsu, I'm not in any condition to do that."
"I am Mortis, my lord, and no, Gnarl has informed me of the result of your training so I am here to see how close you are to the lovely side of death." Mortis said as he tossed the bed sheet off me and lifted up my leather shirt. He started poking me and feeling around.
"Ow ow that hurts you dick, ow stop it. I said stop! Ow."
"Forgive me master but your health is my main concern over your current demands."
"Then at least be gentler."
"How about by comparison, the average poke doesn't hurt that much?"
"Compared to what?" I asked before I felt him drag a sharp nail across my stomach, I let out a scream as it hurt so much he might have drawn blood it was hard to tell but I wouldn't be surprised. "AHAH-OW! You bastard! That hurts a lot!"
"Forgive me, my lord, though now the average poke don't seem like such a big deal anymore hmm?"
"You're fucking demented."
"Thank you my lord." He chuckled out.
After his poking and prodding, checking every part of my body, he re-covered me with the blankets and stood to the sides. "Well you don't have any broken bones but a few are cracked, the ones in your arms particularly. Cracked just not fully broken. You have torn a few muscles over your body, though most of those tears are in you're arms. You should be able to move again, without leg pain, in about two weeks or so, even with the Cavernheart's assistance. But even then, your arms alone-"
"Two weeks!? I'm not waiting here that long! I have a very important mission tomorrow!"
"Well next time don't push your body so far. I'll return later, my lord." Mortis said as he walked out of the room.
I laid there in pain and anger for an hour before I had company, Quaver with two minions. One of the minions was holding a steaming bowl and the other was holding a cloth.
"Greetings O'- fearless master, I've made you some of the ramen that you hold so dear. Why? To help speed your recovery of course, and after such a great display, you are most likely to be hungry hmm?" Quaver said as the minion holding the bowl came closer, I then noticed that there was a fork inside the bowl, as I saw the handle poking out.
I tried to sit up but my body felt so stiff and sore. I couldn't move except for my neck but everything else was too damaged to do anything. "Oh master don't strain yourself more, you need much needed rest."
"I guess you're right..."
"You heal faster when you're asleep master."
"...go get Grubby's hammer... or Grubby or fucking both."
"What for my liege?"
"To knock me out. I'm not sleepy despite feeling very tired, and I'm in a lot of pain. So, GO get him."
"Unusual request but very well master do enjoy the ramen. I got the recipe from the cook book from Ichiraku's."
~The next day~ ~Third Person~
Naruto woke up, his body still in total hell but he knew that he had a mission with Kakashi to do, a real mission. Naruto was so excited he wanted to jump out of his bed and leave right then and there, but he knew better. Naruto did not leave his bed immediately he took a short nap, having a minion wake him in an hour or two. When the minion woke him up, he had that one, along with a few others, suit him up.
The weights he wore made it difficult to walk and only added to his pain but he headed out anyway. He ignored all the smart advice Gnarl gave him and left the cavern. Despite knowing that it would just come back with a vengeance once the it subsides, Naruto used the brown minion ability. The young overlord jumped from building to building, surprised at his own speed as he made it to the typical met up point.
~Kakashi~
Naruto seems a little off today, I knew he was definitely the oddest of the three, being the one in armor, but now he really seems to have lost his marbles. He's been saying brown and yellow throughout the mission and whenever he'd say yellow he would cry out in sheer pain but a few moments later he'd say brown and seem fine if not better.
"Uhh Naruto try not to scream again will ya? You'll scare away our target. Again. For hundredth time." Sakura said as we got into position.
"Hmph, just shut up." Naruto responded.
"You're the ones whose been screaming every five minutes.."-Sasuke blurts out in his typical tone.
"I'll try to make it every six just for you." Naruto panted out, sounding like he was half kidding.
"Ssh you guys the target is sighted so you copy?" I said to my team, seeing the target run across the forest floor.
"Yes sensei."-Sakura
"Yeah."-Sasuke
"...I wonder if this would look good on my head?"-Naruto, sounding completely distracted.
"What the hell Naruto? Focus you knucklehead."-Sakura
"Everyone be quiet -and on my mark, go." I ordered, before I figured Naruto would yell in pain and scare away the target, it's happened before. We've been out here for an hour and this was supposed to only take half an hour, really fifteen minutes.
"Got it."-Sasuke said.
"Y-yellow."-Naruto said sounding completely exhausted before he gave a cry of pain. "AH! OWWW! G-good, who'd we get? Ooww.."
"A cat.."
"A w-what?"
"A cat, idiot."
"A f-fuck-king cat? A f-fucking- Brown! A FUCKING CAT!? ARE YO SERIOUS!? KAKASHI ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND?! I THOUGHT WE WERE GOING ON A REAL MISSION! WHAT'S WITH THIS BULLSHIT?! I HATE CATS THEY'RE STUPID AND THEY SMELL AND THEY'RE SOO STUCK UP! LIKE SAKURA! WHAT THE FUCK KAKASHI?!"
My ears would not stop ringing, I never fully grasped how powerful his voice was, I never gave it much thought until now. I didn't instantly respond to his vulgar comments, instead I took out the earpiece. I did tell everyone that we were heading back to the village and I could hear Naruto's rants from a distance.
Eventually, he stopped making sense and then he sounded like he was losing his mind but then he said the magic word. After another cry of bloody murder followed by a moment of silence, Naruto was back to normal I think and he didn't feel like yelling anymore, hurray.
~Third Person~
Team 7 reached the Hokage's office, which had been turned into a mission request center and they returned the cat to its royal owner. Naruto saw the cat being smothered by its over bearing owner and chuckled. Then the Hokage informed the squad of a few other missions, which the group had a feeling would bring out Naruto's temper.
"Baby sitting!? HELL No! I want to go on a real mission! I don't want to do this little baby stuff! I want something challenging and exciting Give us a real mission old man!" Naruto shouted from his spot on the floor.
"Naruto.." Kakashi sighed out.
"NARUTO! How dare you speak to your Hokage like that! You'll start with the mission assigned to everyone else at you're level and you'll like it!"-Iruka shout as he stood up from his seat, next to the Hokage.
"Are you kiddings me rightz? Babzies sitz not mission!"
"Uhh Naruto..you're starting to make less sense again.." Sasuke said with his hands in his pockets.
"I knowz thatz! I wantz a-"
"Say yellow Naruto." Kakashi said as he glanced down at Naruto who was glaring up at me.
"Hmph...Y-yellow." Before Naruto could scream from the reoccurring agony, Kakashi gave him a quick chop to the back of the neck, knocking him out for a few seconds. The Hokage then began to lecture them, but when Naruto came too he said brown. However, this time nothing happened, he didn't even get up and he seemed every surprised.
"Brown damnit."
"What are you doing Naruto? Just get up already." Sakura said in annoyance.
"I'm trying, b-brown ugh..guess it ran out of juice.."
"I'm not surprised you've said it like 24 times."
"..re-really? Oh.." Naruto was hearing Gnarl voice, which told him that 24 was the total number of brown minions in the cavern.
"Yeah you-"
"Shut up I wasn't-nnn talking to you."
"Ugh then who were you talking to? There's no one else here."
"Silence!"-The Hokage ordered gaining their attention.
"Oops sorry." Kakashi said scratching the back of my head as he was caught not paying any attention to the lecture.
"You always lecture me like I'm your grandson but I'm not the same as before and I want a ninja mission and uhh I won't get off this floor until then!" Naruto said and Kakashi sighed but the Hokage seemed amused. He gave them a C ranked mission labeling them as body guards. Soon the person they were supposed to guard walked in drinking a beer, a very cheap beer.
"What kids? You can't be serious and look one of them is one the floor like a loser already. Cowering in-" The man wasn't able to even able to finish his sentence before he encores Naruto's wrath.
"Gnarl? Good. BROWN!" Naruto jumped up and charged at the man with a raised fist. Sakura tried to stop him but he didn't even seem to notice. Kakashi got in front of him but the boy just went around his teacher like he saw it coming. "Rah! Who's a loser!?"
Kakashi turned to see Naruto's fist fly but luckily miss its target, who got out of the way. Instead, the wall was hit and the size of the hole Naruto made left the room completely speechless. It was remarkably huge, larger than the door frame itself and almost broke through to the room on the other side.
"Naruto made that? It's huge. How can he do that, but not pick himself off the floor?"-Sakura asked, a question shared by all in the room.
"WHOSE COWERING NOW!?" Naruto's voice rang thought the halls bringing everyone out of their shocked state.
"Come one we have to get the man away from Naruto or to at least apologize." Kakashi said as his team sped out of the room, having to get closer to the crater in the wall. The squad leader didn't have time to ponder right now as Naruto seemed to be on a whole different level now, least before he was moderately calm. Now he's furious and seems like he's determined to punish the man. The silver haired male found Naruto outside about to punch the frightened man in the face.
"NARUTO STOP! We're supposed to protect him." Kakashi stated, trying to appeal to Naruto's better judgment.
"He deserves this! Whose a loser now!? Huh?! You stupid fucking drunk! Whose a loser now!?" Naruto turned back with his fist raised, Kakashi made a quick move.
Kakashi got in front of the man and looked down at Naruto. "Stop Naruto. That's enough."
"Out of the way sensei." Naruto had a bit of a cockiness to his voice so much that Kakashi, even though he couldn't see his lips or anything aside from his glowing eyes, knew that the boy was smirking.
"Naruto that's an order. Either stop or...we leave you here." Kakashi said, not a real threat to be made in this situation but he had a hunch that Naruto wanted to go in a real mission more than the others so this might work. He hoped it does, he didn't want to have to use force on his students if he could avoid it.
"What!? He insulted me and I'm the reason we were even given this mission!" Kakashi just crossed his arms and looked down at Naruto then took a step to the side.
"You're right so you can decide what you rather do. Hit him, once, and have your pride restored but stay here, or suck it up and join us on this very important mission. How important is this mission?" Kakashi asked the man, who was on the floor before Naruto.
"Oh uh very very very important. I'm a master bridge builder and if I don't finish that bridge, it'll be utter doom for the people in the mist village." The man said with fear in his voice.
"...Must Bash!" Naruto shouted as he raised his fist.
"Oh Naruto." Kakashi said with disappointment, just then Sasuke and Sakura made it out of the building.
"I. Want. You. To. Die!" Kakashi watched as Naruto jumped back then jumped in the air. Naruto jumped higher then Kakashi ever thought the boy could, and at his descent, he was coming down fast. Of course, the real reason why Naruto jumped so high was beyond Kakashi or anyone else unaware of the Minion Gauntlet, which was calling out even as Naruto was coming down.
The armored male punched the ground a foot a way from the two men but the force brought up a strong wind and lots of dirt. Both men rose their arms over their faces to shield themselves. Naruto called out the words 'summoning jutsu' then he screamed in pain. Kakashi was surprised that the boy knew any type of summoning justu and was also glad that Naruto didn't kill their escortee.
~Kakashi~
After the smoke cleared, I saw the five weirdest creatures I've ever seen, they were brown with pointed ears and pointed teeth they had fur around their shoulders and fur loincloths on, they were carrying Naruto.
"What the hell are those?!" The master brigder cried out.
"They're ugh they're uh.. They're helping me and that's all you need to know, so let's ugh go." Naruto said as the weird creatures carry him off.
"Eww what are those ugly things?"-Sakura asked with complete disgust.
"And why are they here? What are they doing to Naruto?"-Sasuke said in shock with wide eyes.
"Naruto summoned them…they're helping him move apparently..." I said as I walked over to my younger teammates. Then I asked why didn't he do it sooner. Oh well I'll ask him later, least he made the right choice.
"If he can make a huge hole in the wall then chase a guy out of a building from almost the top floor why does he do need help walking?"
"Better question..what's with the crater?" Sasuke asked as he glanced at the crater behind us.
"Naruto had to choose between getting revenge or going on the mission, luckily he made the right choice though he still wasn't that happy with it, hence the crater in the street." I said before motioning everyone to get going. "Come, we have to catch up with him."
On our trip, we passed over a bridge, it was made to cross over a small river but there wasn't one at all, it had completely dried up, which was very strange. I made a note to inform the Hokage about that later.
~Third Person~
At some point, Sakura asked about the ninjas in the Land of Waves, which is where they were heading. Kakashi informed her that they didn't have any ninjas because they were protected by the ocean. He then went on to tell the group about the ninjas in general and then that they are five hidden villages: the village hidden in the leaves in the land of fire, the village hidden in the mist in the land of water, the village hidden in the clouds in the land of lighting, the village hidden in sand in the land of wind, and the village hidden in the stones in the land of earth. Naruto, however, fell asleep as Kakashi rambled on, but not before telling his minions to follow the silver haired male.
Later, during a moment of silence they passed by a puddle. One which earned Kakashi's suspicions. His suspicions were correct as of in just a few moments he was attacked. He was wrapped up in spiked chains, unable to move. Two rain ninja assassins rose from the puddle and they instantly pulled at the chains, tearing Kakashi apart. Sasuke had his doubts that he was really gone, but the others seemed shocked with horror. However, Naruto was unaware as he was fast asleep for the time being. Sasuke looked at his opponents as they appeared in front of Naruto, he wondered if the minions could hold their own or if they were only good for caring Naruto around.
"Heh easy pickings."- One of the assassins said as he raised his claw, the minions having temporarily left Naruto by his lonesome. Sasuke glanced around and saw that the brown minions were playing with Kakashi's remains, which were, he guessed, just logs due to a substitution justsu.
"Hey dumbasses they're gonna kill Naruto! Do something!" He shouted at them before he threw a shuriken, pinning the chain, the two rain ninja shared, to a tree. Then the blue haired boy threw a kunai to keep the chain stuck there. Sasuke jumped and landed on the metal arms of the ninjas and kicked them in face, impressing Sakura as she guarded Tazuna.
The rain ninjas quickly separated from the chain, quick enough to leaving Sasuke in midair. The assassins darted for the other potential threats, Sakura and Naruto. Though despite their efforts they were overwhelmed, the one that went for Naruto was met with the five the brown minions which held thick logs. He was met with shock and to some degree as he has never seen such vile looking creatures before. He tried a frontal attack, striking one of them but he was surrounded by the others and battered. Despite wielding weapons about the same size of their own bodies, the small demonic creature didn't seem to be weighted down but even more powerful.
The minions were attacked as they defended their master but when one was attacked it let the other four use their logs with great malice. To add to the already surprising scene, the minions could suffer a few hits. The assassin thought it would only take one swipe from his poison laced claw to drop the knee-high pests but they kept coming and wouldn't let him get away. He attacked all over of them but, in the end he was battered and beaten on the forest floor with blood pooling under him. The other rain ninja suffered a less traumatic defeat as he was put in a fierce head lock by Kakashi.
Later, with the assailants tied to a tree, Kakashi questioned the master bridge builder about what was really going on. Kakashi and Sakura were along the lines of going back and with the added bonus of Naruto being completely useless it only added to their decision.
"Y-you can't be serious." Naruto said weakly, getting their attention, as he was awakened with the help of Gnarl and the rowdy minions.
"Naruto, you can't even move on your own and eventually those ugly things will disappear eventually and then what are we going to do? You need to see a doctor this isn't healthy." Sakura stated, concerned for her teammate.
"I made the choice to come here and I will be damned if I'm the reason you all turn back. Come here you losers, we're going." Naruto gained the attention of the weakened brown minions, each one equipped with freshly stolen accessories.
Two minions had masks on and two had claws, each one on the respective claw. The last one had taken the chain and had wrapped it around himself where it hangs off both of his arms. To the rest of his group it was weird and creepy, but Naruto knew exactly what was happening as his minions kept running from the ninja assassins to him. They were gathering life force, blue life force. Eventually, the browns picked up Naruto and started walking ahead.
"Well I guess that settles that." Kakashi said as he started walking after Naruto.
"Did they just rob the assassins?"-Sakura asked.
"Apparently so, let's get moving." Sasuke said as he started walking.
They didn't run into any more trouble, though the presence of the minions had the others uneasy. It made them wonder about the armor-clad ninja. They knew he was hiding something and they dying to know.
~Sakura~
I was only somewhat happy that we got a boat with a rower, on one point I'd be closer to Sasuke and I wouldn't have to walk anymore but the down side was being closer to those monsters. Though when we got on the boat they seemed a bit more docile and with a few commands from Naruto they were mostly alright but they did shake the boat every now and then.
However, they weren't the focus of Kakashi's attention. He questioned the bridge builder on why we were really here on this mission. The bridge builder told us that he was the target of a mob boss named Gato, because his bridge would sever the grip the mob boss had on the village. The man started guilt tripping us saying that if we didn't take his request he'd be instantly killed and we'd be dooming a whole village of people. I started to cry a bit but, Naruto gave a weak chuckle and those monsters cheered the doom of the poor innocent people.
"Hey keep it down we don't want them to know we're here. Why do you think I turned off the engine."-The boat rower whispered.
"We're here! we're here!"- One of the monster said waving his arms back and forth in the air.
"Enough! Shut up!" Naruto said angrily, as he laid face up on the boat, and the monsters groaned but followed his order.
"Uhh Naruto..speaking of your uhh helpers?.."-Kakashi said as he looked at the five monsters, fidgeting next to their 'master' as they often called him.
"What about them? They're helping me."-Naruto said in a tone that made it clear he was not planning to talk about it.
"Well, they-how did you learn to summon them? How thought how to do such a thing?"
"That's my business and my business alone."
"Come on Naruto, you can tell us we're your uh friends." I said sweetly, far more sweetly than he actually deserves. Just come out with it you little creep. Cha!
"Hmph. Not gonna happen friend."
"Well suit yourself..are you going to be alright?" Kakashi asked.
"Uhh yeah...eventually.."
"Should you see a doctor?"
"No, I'm fine I swear." I saw Kakashi raise an eyebrow at Naruto's quick and kinda desperate response.
"Hmm well what happened?"
"It's not of your business."
"Then I guess we'll be talking you to a doctor, I bet they have decent doctors in the village and we'll find what's wrong with you in no time."
"No no that ow won't be necessary." Naruto exclaimed as he tried to move.
"Then tells us what happened to you."
"Ugh fine I...I over did my training and messed myself up ok. I pushed myself harder than I thought and it came back to bite me in the butt. There are you happy now?"
"I'm better. Will you be alright tomorrow?"
"Uhh sure maybe.."
"Hmm." Kakashi didn't seem too happy with the answer but he dropped the talk for now. I wonder why Naruto doesn't want a doctor?
Soon we reached dry land again and Naruto was carried out first and the rest of us just stepped out. As we walked one of the monsters ran into the bushes and I heard some strange noise before the monster came out with blood on its stolen metal claw.
"What are they doing?" I asked as my eyes were drawn to the monster seemed to be holding something up to Naruto's body, but there was nothing in his hands.
"Who cares? They're about as useful as Naruto is." -Sasuke said in a totally cool tone.
"Yeah Sasuke, you're probably right. Huh? Where's Kakashi sensei?" I asked as I looked around to see that he was in the bushes where that creature came from.
"Hmm a snow rabbit? But...look out!"-Kakashi's voice rang out and we all hit the dirt before a massive sword flew through the air getting it stuck in a tree.
A large man stood on the hilt of the sword, Kakashi seemed on edge and they bantered before the man named Zabuza mentioned something about a sharingan, something I've never heard of. Then Naruto managed to ask the question, of what is a sharingan, before Kakashi ordered us into Mangi formation. Just then Naruto demanded again to know what a sharingan was, and it was explained beautifully by my Sasuke, he's so dreamy. Then Zabuza explained some more about it but then he went on about saying that Kakashi was in a Bingo Book and known as the Copy Cat Ninja. Is he really that famous?
Kakashi and Zabuza started to fight with Zabuza creating a thick mist. Kakashi gave us some info about this Zabuza guy and it was some scary stuff, he was a master of the silent kill. I kinda wished we turned back but it was too late now, I can't back down.
Naruto gave quiet orders to his monsters and they carried him into the bushes then three of them came out and assumed the Mangi position with us. Two of them had one of the metal claws and the third had a mask. One of the clawed ones stood in front of Sasuke and the other was where Naruto would be if he was able to walk. The one next to me had he mask which I was kinda thankful for as I didn't have to look at its face.
I began to get worried and Kakashi made a terrible joke, on top of that the fact that the mist was getting thicker wasn't helping at all. It was long before Kakashi was able to clear some of the fog in front of us, but all of this seemed to get to Sasuke more. I hope he's alright.
Then I noticed that the masked helper that was next to me was gone.
~Third Person~
Kakashi gave his team some relief as he stated that he'd protect all of them with his life. Just then Zabuza appeared within the manji formation. It left the humans frightened but they were soon pushed out of the way. Kakashi had stabbed Zabuza but he was leaking water. Which confused the humans for a second before they realized that it was just a water clone. The two minions on the other hand were entertained as they ran to the sides of the young ninjas and bridge builder. Kakashi had told his team to get the bridge builder to safety while he deals with Zabuza.
"Brown!" Naruto's voice rang after Kakashi and Zabuza exchanged a few blows.
~Naruto Look Alike~
I walked out of the bushes and saw Zabuza standing in front of the guys and in the distance, on a large lake, Kakashi was in some sort of water prison.
"Oh seems like someone has come to the party a little late."-Zabuza said, being the first person to notice me.
"Bout time you did something useful, idiot."-Sasuke said, he had an annoying voice but I didn't mind it much mind I knew what I had to do.
"Naruto can you get theses freaks away from me?"-Sakura said as I walked to over to them, never taking my eyes off Zabuza.
"..ugly female. Ahem, so Kakashi sensei said we should run and just abandon him, all In favor raise your and say I." I said before I raised my hand, I looked around and saw the others glaring at me. "No one huh? I'm glad if none of you did, I'd lose the little respect I had for you. So, let's get going, brothers!"
"Yes!?" The three minions around the ground quickly went to me with eager faces.
"It's time to bash."
"Yaaay! We is gonna kill 'im."-A minion said as all of them grinned before turning their attention to Zabuza, with them hitting the floor and fidgeting from excitement.
"What the hell are those?" The Zabuza clone said as he took a good look at the minions.
"On my command...let's show him what it means to mess with the overlord!" I yelled as I ran at Zabuza, who hand a hand on his massive sword.
Before I got too close I tossed three kunai at him, he used his sword to block but that let me get up close. I threw a punch almost hitting the sword, and hopefully breaking it, but he dodged and tried to counter attack. Before he could hit me, my friends pounced on him, they grabbed onto him, scratching with their newly equipped claws, biting with their sharp teeth, and they slashed at him with regular claws.
"Ugh seriously what are these things? Get off of me!" The water clone tosses the minions off but I didn't care, they were doing their job. I pulled out a large four sided shuriken, which was in its collapsed form. I quickly unfolded it and tossed it at the real Zabuza, he caught it but I pulled out another one and tossed that one at him.
Before the real Zabuza could counter, I deactivated the jutsu and the first shuriken exploded in smoke revealing a minion. The minion had chains one its body and with a grin he waved at the man throttling his neck. I saw Zabuza's look of fear and shocked as the second shuriken was too close to counter mad he didn't have a free arm anymore. The chain covered minion wouldn't let go as he clung to the man, no matter how hard the human tried to shake him off.
"You little freak!"-The Zabuza behind me said, having his sword ready to kill.
"Ahaha!" I laughed as I felt the sword's long blade slide into my stomach but it didn't go the whole way.
"Naruto!"-Saukra screamed from behind me.
I coughed off blood and turned my head towards the sword wielding ninja. "You bastard..you no kill me but I kill you..ahaha!"
"Ugh what the? I think it's stuck, what the hell?" The clone Zabuza said as he tried to free his sword from my armored body, causing me to cough up some more blood but seeing him struggling caused me to chuckle, not to mention that the pain was funny too. "You call yourself a demon but you can't even cut me. Who's the real demon?"
"Impossible, you should be dead, you're losing so much blood! Now give me back my sword!" The clone continued to pull but I just gave the sword a strong punch and it turned into water.
"What sword? Hehehe."
The real Zabuza pulled away from the water prison and glared at the minion in his hand. He started choking it and sooner than later, it exploded in his hands. It was move created by an old overlord called throttling. The water clone became water, due to the poison and though pain races through my mind, I kept standing. I watched as Zabuza, the only Zabuza left, was sent backwards. He was now Kakashi's problem cuz I'm not stepping into that water. I turned around and looked at human children.
"You guys no hurt? Ahah." I mocked as I took a step forward, looking down at the minions, one of the two was decapitated and the third one was gone. The minions left were, the two with the claws, and the one with the mask.
"Nows not the time to make jokes Naruto! You have a deep gash across your stomach!"-Sakura, the pink haired female, panicky yelled as she pointed at me.
"The Ove- ahem just listen in a few minutes I'm going to go full crazy on the outside but I will be fine physically as long as I stay like that."
"Wait what do you mean you'll go full crazy?"
"Nothing, ahaha! Pain is funny!" I laughed as I played with the wound seeing how far I could get my finger inside. The sound of pain drew my ear so, I turned back around to watch the fight between Zabuza and Kakashi. Kakashi had summoned a huge amass of water that ended up pinning Zabuza to a tree.
Kakashi had thrown several kunai at the so-called demon of the mist he gave a delicious cry of pain but before Kakashi could finish him off, some strange ninja came by and did it for him.
Though I was curious on why his life force didn't manifest, the new idea of stealing the mask of the new guy and wearing it for myself entered my mind. I groaned in disappointment and shook my head when the tracker ninja, as one eye stated, left with the body. I made it a few feet before I started going off path, having one of the team grab me and keep me close by.
~Third Person~
"Ooo pretty butterfly..smash!" The fake Naruto smashed a butterfly fly using both hands, acting like he didn't have a seriously bleeding wound, he even had a bounce to his step and was taking his time.
"Naruto please hurry up we have to get you to a place where you can heal." Sakura said to Naruto, who was walking while the rest of the group wanted to run but had to keep going back for him.
"What's with the kid? Aside from major blood loss? And how is he still standing?" Tazuna asked as he helped Kakashi walk, who might've over done it with the sharingan.
"How far is your house? We should hurry before he dies." Sasuke asked Tazuna, who glanced back to see Naruto far behind them, stepping on a plant.
"He said he was gonna go full crazy..and I have no clue on any of those other questions."-Sakura said a bit worried then had to stop Naruto from going off path once again.
"My house is not too far now..that kid is weird, first he had to be carried around and now he's frolicking with an open wound."
"Weird doesn't begin to cut it." Sakura stated before she had to go back for her friend. "Naruto come on!" Sakura held her comrade's arm tightly with a clearly annoyed look on her face. "Naruto said his actual mind should still be intact though his physical being is uhh elsewhere, not that that makes sense but regardless we have to make him say the word yellow. He usually says that and ten returns to his normal self, well his less weird self."
"There it is, on the lake."-Tazuna said as he held up Kakashi, loud enough for the others to hear. The ninja escorts were relieved when they saw the house.
Kakashi and Naruto were taken to an empty room. Tazuna tried to help Kakashi to the floor but he stayed standing.
"Naruto come here, I have something for you." The jonin said.
"Hahah one eye one eye hahah!" Naruto laughed out as he pointed at Kakashi, then he tried grab the single eye. "Gimme gimme."
"Naruto? Stop that now hold still. You have to take things easy until so we can bandage you up." Kakashi exclaimed before he struck a point in Naruto's neck that rendered him unconscious. "There now see if you two can't find some bandages to cover up that wound of his." Kakashi said to his other students.
The remaining squad members treated Naruto's open wound the best they could, wrapping a bandage around it after they made a few attempts to take off the armor, with unsuccessful results.
After that, the two left the other half of the squad to rest. They ate lunch with Tazuna's family and asked a few questions about their village. An hour later, Sasuke and Sakura checked on their friends to see how they were fairing. At the time, only Kakashi was awake. The trio was joined by Tazuna, who asked how Kakashi and Naruto were doing.
"He's ok, kinda, I don't know how deep the cut is since I couldn't get a closer look... But he hasn't done anything for a while. And as for me I'll be fine by the end of the week I just pushed myself a little too hard." Kakashi exclaimed as he laid on the floor with a pillow under his head and blanket covering him.
~Sasuke~
Later that night, while we were having dinner, there was a knock on the door. Tazuna's daughter answered the door and her scream was heard, I quickly got to my feet and went to her side.
At the door was one of Naruto's weird freaks, he wore both of the assassins' claws and had the mask of an assassin's on. He also had the real Naruto right behind him.
"What is that thing!? Is it a demon!?"-Tsunami screamed.
"It's alright it's one of Naruto's uh helpers, why don't you go sit down I'll take care of this." I said and she slowly walked away, obviously shaken up. "I'm assuming the other Naruto is a fake." I said as I stepped aside and the demon dragged Naruto inside, looking like he was having serious trouble but managing. "You look so pathetic let me do it."
"No! No touchie the master!" The thing snapped at me, swing a claw at me while glaring with its ugly eyes.
"Hmph. Fine whatever, let me show you where to put him." I said as I got in front of the creature and we eventually made it to the room. There the helper pushed the fake Naruto out of the covers and gave it to the real Naruto. Sakura joined me, standing a bit too close for comfort but whatever.
"Wait there's two Naruto's now?" She asked, man she's stupid.
"I'm guessing when he was carried into the forest he made a cloaking jutsu and made you or at least the other one of you in to him. I'm actually impressed, it was a smart move and it lasted for quite a while." I said and Sakura gave me a weird look before complimenting me like always.
"Ugh nothing gets past you huh? Oww..could you knock me out? I know you did it to him since it's probably the only way you'd get him to stay so still. Nnn not even I can get them to stop fidgeting." Naruto said slowly, I glanced over and saw Tazuna standing behind us.
"How's your friend? He definitely gave my daughter a scare with the little demon thing of his." Tazuna said.
"He's fine I guess. The one that saved us was just one of those monsters made to look like Naruto"-Sakura said like it was no big deal and that she knew the entire time.
"Ah impressive those things are durable then, I guess that also meant we didn't have to rush."
"So Naruto, what's the story behind those things." I asked looking back at the immobile idiot.
"Someone sounds jealous since even like this..I'm far more useful.."-Naruto said before he let out a light cough.
"Yes you are a valuable asset..do you know how long you'll be out though? Also, you can drop the jutsu now, it's just a waste of chakra since you're here." Kakashi said and the fake Naruto exploded in smoke, revealing a helper fast asleep.
"I'll be out for at least a week..or least that's what I was told.."
"So what are those things? Now you kinda have to tell us." -Sakura said with a little smugness to it.
"I don't have to tell you a god damn thing." Naruto growled out.
"No I suppose you don't but why don't you anyway."-Kakashi said in a calm tone.
"Ugh fine I guess. They're... creatures from the Netherworld. They have agreed to be my loyal servants and even teach me their skills but at a cost..my uh ... suffering."
"Netherworld? What's that?"-Sakura.
"Basically hell."
"So they are like demons." - I said glancing at the demon sleeping just a few inches away. How is that possible? Why Naruto?
"Pretty much."
"Why the hell did they did they choose to serve you?"
"Because they saw my past and how I was currently treated, I was the perfect candidate, which they told me about, not just that but also about my...coming into this world."
"..." What's so bad but his past? How is his worse than mine?!
"So they told you about the..well I'm assuming you now know.." Kakashi said trying to keep the actual thing unspoken though he was still a little surprised.
"Yeah and soon, well eventually, I'll be able to use its power though I'm not gonna overdo it like I did with my training."
"Yes, you said that this was a result of that but what were you doing?"
"G-gnarl?...I was testing the mantra.."
"Mantra? You mean when you say brown and yellow?" -Sakura
"Yeah ..brown means uh hm? Oh yes thank you. Brown means strength in insanity and... yellow means... hm? payment in pain."
"Ohhh guess it makes sense well makes more sense.."
"So you're entwining what they teach you in with your ninja training. I'm also guessing they taught you how to do those fireballs." Kakashi stated but wanting decisive answer.
"If you're impressed now, as you should be, you should wait til I'm actually up and running. I'm unstoppable." Naruto said with smugness in his voice but I didn't care, mantra of not he's still not at my level. He's just learned a few new tricks, no big deal.
"Only for a while." I said coldly.
"We should test that then huh Sasuke? I'll gladly drive you into the ground. Why I might not even need the mantra."
"You're gonna need a whole lot more than that to beat me."
"Why don't you want to see a doctor?" Kakashi, cutting in.
"...you'd stop me from being here or continuing if you knew how baldly I'm fucked up."
"Oh. Hmm well then I won't check but you will heal right? Whoever did check on you, did someone-"
"Yeah I got the run down and no they thought I was stupid too for coming on the mission but I don't care I'm glad I came."
"Well I'm glad you did too but take it easy from now on ok?"
"...fine."
~The Next Day~ ~Third Person~
Kakashi sensei had his team go outside and despite his own protest Naruto came along too. At first it took a while as his two minions had trouble bringing him along as it was a five-minion job. Once they left the house and went into the forest, Naruto was placed by a tree and he watched.
Kakashi told his squad about our lesson and let Sakura tell the guys what chakra was all about. Then he told the group to use their chakra to climb a tree instead of using their hands.
Sakura climbed the tree with perfect focus and with the best motivation for her, impressing Sasuke. Though her plan back fired as Sasuke was very displeased at being beaten, he could only get as far as halfway. Naruto watched with the same resentment as he couldn't even get up let alone walk up a tree. He carefully watched his teammates to see if he could discover an easy way to do it when the time came.
~Kakashi~
"Well it seems the female of the group has the best chakra control." I said as I noticed Sakura sitting on a high branch.
"Hmm."-Naruto huffed out as he watched, I had a feeling he wanted to join in the fun.
"Awe poor Naruto can't even lift a finger on his own."-Sasuke smirked getting a growl from Naruto.
"No I can't which is why I have these guys do it for me." Naruto nodded to his demon helpers and in a few moments Naruto made a trio of shadow clones.
"A shadow clone won't help you better your own chakra control Naruto." I informed the demon wielder. I wonder if I should be scared about the fact that this boy not only knows about the nine-tailed fox but has demons helping him.
"I know but as long as he beats Sasuke it doesn't really matter." Naruto said before he turned his attention to the clone. The clone took focus before taking a running start, he made it two steps up before he fell back down.
"You might want to mark your progress.." I said to the clone, who nodded and I tossed a kunai to. He tried again and this time made it up another step. Throughout the day, he and Sasuke competed and the clone Naruto was doing pretty well, about five steps away from Sasuke's top height.
When the sun started to go down I told the boys that they could continue if they wanted but I was going back to the house. Sometime later that night, the boys came home with Sasuke looking worn out and Naruto came through being carried by two helpers and two clones.
"What happened? Weren't there three clones?" I asked then looked at Sasuke.
"Don't look at me he sent him away to "finish what he started" he won't tell me what that means."-Sasuke said as he crossed his arms and looked down at Naruto.
"I've already told you guys more than I planned to. Can't I keep anything to myself? God." Naruto growled out before he was carried towards the back room.
"Just make sure you eat something you need all your strength for a fast recovery." I told him. I'll have to keep an eye on him, most people who want to keep their powers a secrete don't have the best intentions. Though I hope you're not up to anything.
"Yeah yeah."
A few moments later, a clone came into the room and grabbed a bowl of food and walked out. I checked up on him later that night, he was still awake.
"You should try to get some sleep Naruto."
"I can't, least not on my own." He said less annoyed and a bit sad.
"What do you mean?"
"I'm always exhausted and in pain but I'm wide awake and have been all day even though I'm running low-I just can't ok! Oh ow.. I need you to knock me out. Or tell me one of those boring stories."
"...no need to be rude." I knelt down beside Naruto and with a jab to his neck he was out like a light. I moved over an inch and was the same. "My stories aren't boring.."
~Third Person~
Squad seven talked about what happened with Zabuza and were informed by Kakashi that a typical tracker, in lame man's terms, would've just destroyed Zabuza's body right there instead of taking it away. After they came to the conclusion that the tracker was a fake and that the two were working together, Sasuke and Sakura had to focus on a different task. They had to stop the minions from tearing Tazuna's grandson apart along with the rest of the house.
With Naruto out cold and the clones taking the bigger priority of making sure the real Naruto was ok, the two minions have been destroying whatever they could get their hands on. They were fast and hard to handle as they needed to be constantly watched especially the one with the extra equipment, he was much more aggressive than the other one.
Though the biggest challenge the two genin found was keeping the minions indoors as they often tried to go through a window to get out side. One time they did manage to get outside and they ran amuck amongst the town people, stabbing stealing and just plain scaring them.
By midday, the two minions were tied up and put in the back of the room where Sasuke and Sakura could easily keep an eye on them. The two genin were exhausted but the minions were still fidgeting in their bindings.
"I really wish Naruro would wake up, I don't want to have to deal with those things anymore, they ripped my clothes." Sakura complained as she finally had a moments rest.
"I'm not that surprised that their all over the place, Naruto mentioned that brown is 'strength in insanity' but these things are fast too." Sasuke said, his clothes also having been torn in a few places.
The Naruto clones snickered to themselves and got a glare from the tired genin but it didn't bother them one bit.
"How's the grandson? I saw that they took a liking to him. Or at least liked chasing him." Kakashi asked, waking up from his nap. Kakashi laid on the right side of the clones while Naruto was on the left, close to the wall.
"Well he got his hat stolen a few times and they bit and scratched him a few times- but uhh he's fine just a little scared of them but then again I am too.."-Sakura said waving the extra details off, which would be the boy's run in with the poison laced claw or that the minions departed most of the kitchen and upstairs area. Sakura and Sasuke got the poison out by bloodletting before it did any real harm but that let the minions run unsupervised as Tazuna was working and Tsunami was out of the house, shopping for the extra guest.
"I see well as long as they stay like that everything should be fine." Kakashi said as he noted the minions tied up in the corner.
"How's Naruto? Has he woken up at all today?"
"I don't think so, he's really out but I guess it's for the best. He needs his rest."
~Naruto~
I was forcefully shaken awake, my eyes opened and I saw me looking down at me.
"He's here."- Clone #1 informed me as I sat up straight.
"Morning, my liege, sorry to take you away from your slumber you looked truly happy in your deathly state. Anyway, I have finished my inspection." It was Mortis, the minion reaper but more importantly the medic I need.
"Ok..I know pushed myself earlier today-" I said feeling a bit stupid as I tried to sit up but failed, my body felt so heavy and sore.
"Actually it's been about three days since you were conscious."-Clone number two stated.
"Three days?! Oh Ugh ...how bad is it Mortis?"
"You've healed faster than expected most of your torn muscles are all fixed up." - The grey minion said as he poked the joints of my suit, it was mildly painful but I bared it without complaint.
"Re-really? But everything's still so oh wait now I remember I'm wearing the weights. Ok, that's it, help me up." I said and the two clones looked at each other before doing so. I struggled to keep my balance but I managed to stay up right.
"Do not push yourself my lord lest you be out for an even longer time."
"Right."
"Mortis told us that the other clone had finished off the other ninja so think you could get another ability?" Clone number 1 asked.
"Hard to say it might take more than just one this time. Where are the others?" I honestly stated, this whole magic thing is unpredictable.
"Out guarding the drunk, uh the kid went shopping with his mom so we we'll be alone for a while. Also, Kakashi is looking better and Sasuke has reached the top of the tallest tree he could find."
"Ugh! No way! That little ugh whatever I can't think about that now. I need to focus on more important things. I got to get used to this extra weight." I said as I slowly lifted my foot off the ground. "Man, these are heavy."
"Let's try to walk around ok?" Clone number 2 said as he had an arm around my waist and had my arm over his shoulder.
"Ok.." I said trying not to let my anger get the best of me but I couldn't believe Sasuke already mastered the lesson Kakashi gave him.
The three of us left the minions and Mortis to their own devices and took a walk. We went down to the docks and back, it took about a half hour despite my best effort.
"Dude take it easy for once."-Clone #1
"Yeah we got a whole 'nother day before Kakashi is ready to fight again." Clone #2 informed me.
"Ok."-I said a bit depressed as I felt like I fell behind despite everything.
"Hey we can't show up Sasuke if we can't even walk."-Clone number one reprimanded.
"Right right I know I know but..you know." I sighed out as we turned around to face the dock and the ocean around it.
"Yeah we know."-Clone number two.
"...I want to do this one alone or least without you guys to help me."
"Find but we'll be right behind you."
"Deal." I said as I took my arms back, off their shoulders, and they felt extremely heavy. I took a step forward and then paused as I tried to move the other one. It took me an hour to reach the end and get back but I didn't fall down once.
I went back inside, I didn't do that much but I was exhausted and I was put back on the floor and covered with a blanket.
"I watched you, and I'm amazed at your recovery. At this rate I suppose you will be as good as new in two days...which I must say feels like an impossibility without the use of a spell or potion or minion sacrifice."
"Y-Yeah well anyway I had- m-minion sacrifice?"
"Yes in our land there are minion fountains for mana, which are for spells, and health. I doubt such tools would be in a land that knows not of magic nor minions."
"Too bad, well anyway what I was gonna say was that while I was out, I had dream or vision of a sarcophagus and a clue to unlock the hives. I'll start with the sarcophagus, it was like someone was coming out of it, well trying to break free but can't least not on their own. That's all I can really remember about that but I'm pretty that it was another overlord."
"Another overlord you say?"
TO BE CONTINUED...
Ps. Does having a ~third person~ between POV's help with clarification? Thought that I would at least try something, so it wasn't back to back. Let me know by reviewing or PM'ing me.