Blame the Demons That Raised Me
Chapter 10: Embodiment of the 8th Sin of Fraud
~Naruto Clone and Gnarl~
"Really? I can become a true immortal?" The Naruto clone as he stood in front of the Cavern Heart with Gnarl.
"Yes, in a sense."
"A ye- what do you mean in a sense?"
"Master, this spell can't stop you from being slain, it will just bring you back to the land of the living."
"So, I can die but I'll just come back? That's still pretty cool."
"Yes, though there are a few things you should know, for one this will not work if you, say, get trapped into an alternate dimension or get transformed into a slug do to magical ooze, well not until you die again."
"Trapped in a different dimension? Magical ooze? Are those things I actually should be worried about?"
"Probably not since this land is without magic. However, you can never be too careful. Now for number two should anything destroy the sarcophagus it will kill you permanently. Whatever life you're on will be your last."
"Oh." Naruto clone said with some worry.
"Fear not my lord we hide it very well, which is why we still have it all these years and unlike before this time it will be perfect. Just stay evil."
"Huh? Wait you've done this before? Why didn't you tell me? Why did it take this long to figure out?"
"Because my lord I had no idea of what's you were taking about, honestly I thought it would turn out to be some transportation spell but instead it is the Evil Never Dies spell. Makes sense, we've done it on previous overlords that we knew would be exceptional."
"Hey whatcha taking about?" Noemi said as she approached the two males.
"You're not gonna believe this."-The Naruto Clone said.
"Why what's up?" Noemi did as he glanced at her fellow clone.
"We're gonna be immortal."
"No way, you're shitting me?"
"Believe it sister."
"Oh man, oh so what are we going to do about those ninjas that are trying to invade the Leaf?"
"I'm too stoked about being immortal to care, let's have the original deal with this issue."
"Agreed."-The Noemi clone said before both her and the Naruto clone exploded.
~Naruto~
With his head in the mind protecting barrier, Naruto watched as Kurama dragged Shukaku around the village before releasing him and letting him slide over buildings. Just then he got information of what his clones had been doing, he had received info before about the Noemi clones which attacked the Star Village, but now he got info from the first Noemi clone and the clone he made earlier that very match.
However, before he could fully process that recent info he was contacted by Gnarl, who told him about the invading forces and wanted to know what he was going to do. In an annoyed rush, Naruto settled on them being destroyed and had the demon fox do so. After he did just that, the demon fox returned his focus on Shukaku with a means to end their match.
Kurama ran towards Shukaku with blinding speed, he knocked into the One Tail with full force. Kurama then dug his claws into the large beast making it cry out in sharp pain before the demonic fox chopped down on the sleeping Garaa.
The rush of pain awakened Garaa and subdued Shukaku, the sand genin exclaimed in pain as he was half in the mouth of Kurama. Using his tail, Shukaku Garaa knocked Kurama away, who growled in anger.
Kurama fired a torrent of flames from his mouth that Gaara countered with a wind bullet. The wind assimilated the fire, using it to strengthen its own power as it continued on its current path. Kurama smirked as he closed his mouth, he quickly turned and smacked the flame enhanced wind-bullet with his tails. The bullet was knocked back at Gaara, the enhanced wind bullet struck the large sand creature. When it subsided and Gaara's sand was revealed to be melting and deforming, Kurama approached the exhausted sound genin.
The massive Shukaku form melted on to ground, covering the land with sand. Gaara laid on the floor unmoving. Kurama rose a paw when he got close enough to the genin but his kill was prevented by Naruto.
"What do you think you're doing?"-Kurama growled out.
"He's like me, and he's powerful, I can use those skills."
"That's a fool's bet, all you need is my power, what can you possibly do with a weakling like him?"
"Is that, is that jealously? I think it is."
"Go fuck yourself Naruto." Kurama said before his chakra was forced away from Naruto due to the magical Barrier. Mario regained control of his body and released Kurama chakra to revert back to his human self. Unlike like Gaara, Naruto didn't leave a trace as he turned back into his human self.
Naruto walked towards Gaara who fearfully told him to stay away, not that Naruto listened. Naruto approached Gaara, since the sound genin was by far the strongest ninja he's met he was going to use the Evil Presence spell on him. However, when Naruto tried to use that spell the gauntlet began shaking in a somewhat defiant manner.
Naruto glanced at his gauntlet before he looked down at Gaara, taking a moment to gather his thoughts.
"So, you do fear death, I thought so. If you want to continue living you're going to have to serve under me. You can't beat me and if you stay here you'll surely die." Naruto said as he squatted next to Garaa's unmoving body. "It's better than it sounds, you have and I are alike so I'm giving you some special treatment, though I guess I could just kill you now...unless there's something you want in exchange?"
"... I'll consider your proposition if you kill my father, him being able to counter attack my sand has kept me under his command."
"It'll be easy but I'm curious why?"
"From my birth my upbringing is not what some would call a happy one. To ensure I became the strongest of shinobi, my father had cast his ninjutsu on me infusing my unborn self me with a sand spirit, I destroyed the life of the woman who gave birth to me. I was born a monster. Its name is Shukaku and it's the living incarnation of a monk of the sand village that was sealed within a jar of tea. Given life by the death of my mother, I was brought into being and nurtured as the salvation of the village. I was the Kazekage child. My father taught me the innermost secrets of the shinobi, he pampered and protected me and left me to myself and that's when everything started. In the six years that I became six years old my father tried to destroy me more times than I can count."
"Really now? Seems like we both have had unnecessarily cruel upbringings."
"The jutsu that gave me birth unbalanced something in my mind, even the fools in my village realized that I had emotional problems. My father, the Kazekage, had created me to be the ultimate weapon but I became a threat to the village I was supposed to save. By the time, I was six I was a figure of terror to the villagers. To them I was a relic of the past that they wanted to disappear. So, you see I failed at the one purpose that I was given life. I asked myself what was left in this existence why go one living for a long time I couldn't find an answer, to exist for no reason is the same as being dead. Then in time it came to me, simply put, my reason for living is in the killing of others. I killed many would-be assassins and it was while I was doing it that the truth came to me, I live solely for myself, I love only myself as it was the death of my mother that gave me life now it is in the death of others that I sustains me, almost makes me happy to be alive. And there's no end to it as long as there are people in this world to kill I will never disappear."
"I can't fault you on that but your purpose is kind of bland."
"Tell me what makes you so strong? What is your purpose?"
"I am going to make myself the most feared person in the entire world I will be a definitive power to rule the land and I will not die until I do just that."
"You can do that all by yourself?"
"I'm not by myself, I have a whole team behind me and I want you to join me. Stand behind me and you'll never disappear. That is, unless, you have something holding you back like those two fools that are always around you."
"The only emotional ties I have to family are the ones I want to tie around their necks. Their only ties of hate."
"I like the sound of that. Now, you're of no use to me in your current state so let me fix that." Naruto pulled out a kunai and put it to Garaa's neck but noticed how uneasy he became. "What? Too gruesome for you? Fine, I'll kill you in a less bloody way." Naruto said as he stood up and put his hand over Garaa. With the sand coffin as influence, Naruto crushed Garaa's heart. Blood seeped out of his mouth as Garaa become limp and motionless. Following the call of the gauntlet, Naruto scraped some blood off of Gaara's dead body using his kunai before he revived him. The kunai disappeared as Garaa looked around then sat up, looking at Naruto. "Welcome back."
Garaa stood up, feeling as if he never fought Naruto in the first place.
"You brought me back...and I feel rejuvenated…" Gaara said with some surprise as he looked at Naruto.
"There are many things I can do. Now, do we have a deal?"
"The death of my father will seal our fates. For his gruesome demise would be the closest thing I'll know to true happiness. His blood soaking the sand red will forever be in my memory." Gaara stated as he walked away from Naruto, who was smirking under his helm.
"Another demon carrier, hmm, and he seems to be as dark as you are, my lord. If not just a little bit obsessed with death. I hope gaining him as an ally will be useful."-Gnarl asked.
"It will, if anything he's strong and his village has just lost a lot of ninja, his land will be easy to take over." Naruto said as he looked around then headed back to the Minion Cavern.
Once there, he sat on his throne to gather himself, Kurama had been fighting him for control ever since he was forced to relinquish control over his body. Naruto sighed as fully reclaimed his body, fighting back the pull of Kurama's chakra.
"Sire, I believe it would be wise to contact Kakashi and see if he found out anything useful." Gnarl suggested.
"I doubt I could even find him besides wouldn't that be too suspicious?"
"Not if it is telepathically. Go to the Netherworld you'll be able to give and receive messages from your followers there."
"Really? Well I wanna test that out." Naruto said as he got up from his throne and headed for the Netherworld. When Naruto entered the Netherworld portal and was transported to the Netherworld throne hall, he was instructed to take his seat on his throne once again. There, he was shown a perfect imagine of Kakashi, who greet him in a casual way.
"Hello Naruto. Are you alright?" Kakashi asked.
"I'm fine, what's going on?"
"Well the sand and sound ninja tried to invade us, Orochimaru has slain the Hokage, and Sasuke and Neji are missing from the infirmary. The Leaf Village has suffered a great blow today but with the defeat of Gaara it appears that remaining sand ninja are retreating. During the attack, many of the villagers evacuated to Hokage Rock as it was hollowed for such occasions. They might be Later, negations are in the near future about this attack, to decide the fate of the Sand Village since it turns out the Kazekage was Orochimaru in disguise. There will also probably be a meeting to decide your fate as well, as what you did, did indeed get rid of the invading ninjas but it also got killed of many of our ow. That's not mentioning that the battle between you and Gaara resulted in large portions of the village being damaged." Kakashi informed.
"Hmm I see and which way do you think they'll lean?"
"Well the third cares for you and always gave you the benefit of the doubt so his fondness of memory will have some impact but there is one person will most definitely try to eliminate you."
"What? Who?"
"His name is Danzo and he is a powerful political figure, he also has his own secret organization called Root. He isn't as forgiving as the third and even tried to assassinate him when I was still a youth, around your age in fact. I know because when I was in ANBU I also somewhat worked for him out of respect but I soon relieved that he was not someone I wanted to follow."
"Tell me more about this Danzo guy."
"He runs a secret organization called Root as I said before he likes to think that he always has the interest of Leaf at heart no matter how cruel he can be. He's power hungry and is good at manipulating young minds."
"Hmm so I guess he might be a pain but it's not like he can actually defeat me so I'm not going to worry about that. So Kakashi when can you train me?"
"I don't know, with the shortage of available jounin, things will be getting very busy around here but I will find a way don't you worry. I have to make sure you're as strong as you can be."
"Glad to hear it, so is Sakura dead?"
"No, she is alright though currently people are just coming returning to the village since we had to evacuate it."
"I want her dead."
"Understood but it would be better if you did it yourself."
"Well dismissed." Naruto exclaimed and the image of Kakashi vanished.
"On to the next thing my lord, there are things that you need to do. That Neji fellow is in the dungeon just give the word and the blood bath will be prepared, for the Evil Never Dies spell the Cavern Heart needs more magic. I suggest getting it from Dimmer. Also, as you haven't destroyed the entire village I believe you should dominate it, these peons can speed up the construction of your Dark Tower and provide you with other valuable resources. Kakashi mentioned that there are a number of survivors at the mountain so start there master. In addition to that you should, at some point in the near future, be sure to punish those who dare talk about your fate when you're the one who has all power."
"Man, there's not a dull day is there?"
"Keeping busy is how evil stays so deadly my lord, so which one are you going to do first?"
Naruto made one clone, who turned himself into Noemi. "I'll stay here for the blood bath while she goes out and dominates the village."
"What about Dimmer?"-Noemi asked.
"He can wait, get to those people as fast as you can, their'll probably be in large groups if they're just getting back to the village. They'll no doubt spread out once they get back on the village and if that happens, rounding them up could take all day."
"Good point." Naruto glanced at the clone and held out gauntlet, which was removed by the beautiful clone. Noemi headed to the other side of the throne hall where she could be teleported to the Cavern Heart.
"Then I'll have the blood bath ready for you at once sire." Gnarl said as he walked away.
"Oh, and don't set it for too long it won't be a difficult fight." Naruto called out to his minion advisor.
"Understood lord."
~Noemi~
When the clone transformed in Noemi, he was immediately put in her attire. The minion gauntlet was worn over a long glove. In addition to the sudden appearance of Noemi's clothes, the Bako also appeared on his back. After teleporting to the Minion Cavern, Noemi walked out of the cavern and emerged from the still lively part of the forest.
Now wielding the Minion Gauntlet, Noemi activated the green ability and after a few moments turned invisible. She then leapt into the air and her eyes locked on to a line of people walking from the monumental wall, just behind the ninja Academy. Noemi made haste, jumping from the intact roof tops to the destroyed buildings. She makes her way to the large group of people returning to their heavily damaged village.
She landed on one of the small buildings in front of the Academy, watching people walk by. She noted the civilians and the more advanced ninjas, who were watching over them. Noemi ended the green ability in favor of the blue, her presences was quickly picked up by a panicked villager. The beauty saw that several villagers began running away as shinobi leapt towards her.
The three ninjas surrounded her, two jounin and a chunin, upon which the fair lady jumped onto the top of the ninja academy. Noemi took note of the red bar above their heads but with a plan in mind, did what she did best.
"Oh, hello boys, lovely day, isn't it? So, bright and sunny." Noemi said as she had her hands on her hips, looking up at the blue sky.
"Well yes I suppose it is, I mean kill her! Don't let her get to the villagers."-A jounin said before he reclaimed himself and took a fighting stance.
"Oh, there no need for that, I assure you I'm not here for a fight, I u want to make amends." Noemi said as she approached the leading jounin, who leaned back in surprise. "I mean you wouldn't want to hurt some who is surrendering would you?"
"Well uhh are you actually surrendering?" The jounin said with some confusion.
"Yes, I want us to work together." Noemi said as she took Bako off her back and held it out in front of her. With that jester and a soft smile, the leader lowered his guard. The jounin took the Bako and when he turned around he was immediately jumped on my Noemi. The seductress whispered in his ear, making him blush. She had her arms around him and her chest pressed to his back, seeing that the red bar above his head had turned green.
While she said nice things in such close proximity, Noemi used the Evil Presence spell with the Minion Gauntlet on the ninja's shoulder. Electricity crackled and the jounin's body tensed before relaxing. Noemi took a few steps back before she was met with a kunai to her neck.
"What did you do? Tell me right now or I'll end you where you stand!"-The other jounin asked with a demanding tone.
"I just said a few kind words. All I said was that you're a very handsome man." Noemi said as she locked eyes with the other jounin, who swallowed a lump in his throat as his blade started shaking. "There's no need for such hostility. I mean you no harm." Noemi said as she placed the gauntlet on the ninja's arm and moved it away from her neck.
Noemi then leaned in and whispered into the jounin's ear as the gauntlet crackled. Noemi stepped back from the jounin that stared at the ground before raising his head. Noemi turned around to see the chunin, who trembled with a kunai in her hand.
"Stay back!" The chunin exclaimed.
"Oh, darling do you really think you could hurt a face this pretty?" Noemi said as she slightly bender forward, towards the chunin. The chunin closed her eyes and began swinging the kunai but her arm was caught as soon as she swung it. In shock and terror, the chunin opened her eyes first looking at her arm then at the smiling Noemi.
"What are you?"
"Come closer and I'll tell you." Noemi said before she leaned in close to whisper in the chunin's ear. Noemi leaned back as the chunin gave her a skeptical look but Noemi just nodded with a smile. "It's all for the Leaf Village." The seductress released the chunin before holding out her gauntlet, the chunin looked at it before placing a hand on top of it. Noemi activated the Evil Presence Spell, the gauntlet crackled and the chunin grunted but without a wait she was just like the previous two.
Noemi stepped away from the chunin and turned to walked to the railing of the Academy rooftop. Noemi looked at the rushing people, seeing the green bars above their heads, she smiled, she didn't have to try to earn their trust like she did with the skilled ninjas. Noemi ended the blue ability and remained
Noemi created an army of herself and they with the three Leaf shinobi, descend upon the now fleeing villagers. The horde of Noemis would round up a small group villagers, at least two and at max four. The Leaf shinobi blocked the obvious escape path. As she ran through the crowd, Noemi didn't target specific villagers so she could alter two villagers at once. There were a lot of people to get through so while Noemi converted the villagers her own mind drifted to a more effective plan.
Though she couldn't enact it now or even later that night, she still figured that there must be way to make her ideal a reality. She shook her head, no she knew there was a way, there was a way to grant her clones the ability of Evil Presence and the various other powers of the gauntlet. She guessed all the power was in the stone so maybe all she had to do was imbed it in the original and then any clones he made would have all of his powers, despite not having the gauntlet in hand.
Noemi mused to herself for thinking of such a plan, ending the blue ability as she came to the front of the line. Sixty-eight people so far were now under her control but there were so much more to go. Those thirty-people stayed behind to guard the various routs while Noemi moved towards the back of the line with her clones already a head of her.
Her sixty clones maintain scared villagers and the three shinobi on their side fought off other shinobi. Noemi ran through the crowd barely turning off Evil Presence and instead moving from duo to duo, mentally rejoicing at the constantly reclaimed mana.
With seventy more villagers now under her control, Noemi had made her way to the wall, where the last horde of villagers where. However, before Noemi could do anything about it her eyes locked into a very special ninja. Iruka was amongst the crowd and making his way with to two other ninja. Noemi tried to keep herself from scowling but the one person she did feel like she could be nice to was vastly approaching her.
The walking bombshell called out to her recently turned ninja and they intercepted Iruka's three-man squad. Not wanting there to be a civilian caught in the cross fire Iruka moved out of the crowd, his underlings followed. Noemi took this opportunity to run through the remaining villagers. When she was done, she had a grand total of two hundred and four loyal slaves, really two hundred and ten as she turned six of the twelve shinobi guarding them. Once she took care of the villagers, the second squad of three squads came after her but they went down due to an old fashioned sexy harem jutsu. The army of Noemis hugged and giggled at the ninjas before the first Noemi used Evil Presence at their mind's temporary shifted ideals.
Noemi smiled as she now stood in front of 204 enslaved villagers. Noemi told them to gather supplies for the construction in the Land of Waves and they immediately began following that order. The clones went with the people in the guise of common villagers.
Noemi was left with three ninjas but then the first squad reappeared and joined them. Now, with six skilled Leaf Ninja, she ordered them to capture Iruka and murder Sakura, who wasn't among the villagers. Upon hearing their master, one of the ninjas informed Noemi that they are multiple evacuation centers. Noemi asked how many of them were there and the ninja told her that there were five in total.
Noemi thought for a moment then dispatched the squads, only having one of ninjas stay with her as all of the others were after Iruka and his squad. Noemi ordered the ninja to take her to one of the shelters.
The ninja took his new master to a left-hand side of the leaf village, who's Wall was still in tack despite all the nearby building were not. The two jumped on to the wall and looked over the vast forest.
"So, where are they?"
"Not far my lord, two shelters have an exit that leads outside of the Leaf village's border. This one in particular is just a few miles away. We can go to them if you want my lord, or we could wait here and let them come to us." The ninja informed.
Noemi didn't have to think for long as she saw a pair of ninja approaching the wall, inspecting their surroundings. She looked down at them and only went undetected for a few moments. Noemi turned and spoke to the mind controlled ninja before they both jumped down.
"Hello Iwashi, Bekko, this is Noemi." The ninja said as he gestured to his master.
"Daikoku? What are you doing here and with her?" Bekko said
"She's here to help the Leaf Village in this dire time."
"Help? She terrorized this village."-Iwashi shouted
"Yes, I admit I have been naughty but it was uh to put you all on high guard as fast as possible. Beside after this you can take me to jail, I just want to make sure everyone is in working order."
Bekko and Iwashi looked to their fellow leaf ninja, who nodded in agreement.
"She also has this rejuvenation jutsu that makes it seem like you never fought in the first place." Just after the ninja said that Noemi held out her gauntlet.
"That glove, it's the same one Naruto had." Iwashi whispered to Bekko.
"You're right, who do you think gave him it in the first place?" Noemi asked with an innocent smile.
"Part of this is his fault you know."
"I admit it got it destructive but he did stop that sand genin, who if I believe I'm right, would have done a whole lot more damage if not for my Naruto." Noemi said with a smile making the two chunin look at each other.
"You have a point..." Bekko groaned out.
"Now let's get you two back in top shape, shall we?" Noemi asked and the two nodded. Noemi raised her gauntlet and two electric streams shot out, striking both chunin. In a matter of moments, the two proclaimed their loyalty to the overlord as they were not told not to. "Perfect now I'm guessing there are other ninjas either scooting or guarding the villagers. The lordess was told that the other ninjas were with the people.
The group of four quickly made their way back to the initial exit of the nearby shelter, Noemi giving the recently changed chunin orders as they did so. When they got, close Noemi stood back as Iwashi and Bekko went in to draw out the other shinobi. The two shinobi went into the shelter and told the other ninjas they that they had to go outside immediately.
A total of twelve shinobi left the shelter and were met with Noemi and Daikoku. The three confirmed the seductress's story of being there solely to aid the Leaf and her ability to restore them to their former glory.
Some of the shinobi were skeptical but when the more trusting ninja stepped up and soon stayed that they never felt better, the judgment shifted. Two by two the shinobi stepped forward to be rejuvenated each time Noemi told them to relax and keep quiet.
With the thirteen shinobi under her thumb, Noemi entered the shelter and helped herself to the two hundred and twenty panickers. Those who tried to escaped were stopped the moment they got outside and those few who decided to fight back were the next to be singing praises for their master. The only whose permitted to walked out where the ones already under Noemi's control and only after they assisted in restraining another free minded peasant.
Noemi eventually walked out of the shelter and told the 220 villagers to gather supplies for the construction on her dark tower. With the thirteen shinobi, Noemi was taken to the next hidden shelter.
~Naruto~
When it came time for the blood bath, Naruto got up and went to the magical tub. When he entered the room he instantly heard Neji violently vomiting, as the Hyuga filled the tub Naruto stripped himself of his armor. When the blood reached the appropriate level Neji was thoroughly killed and then revived by Naruto.
Uptown his revival Neji's eyes and bones healed, with his body back in working order he was quick to get to his feet. Naruto was only slightly surprised as Neji glared at him, activating his Byakugan.
"Where am I? What am I doing here?" Neji demanded to know.
"Hey what do you call your taijutsu?"
"Gentle fist, wait is this why Lee went missing and how you were able to-"
"That's only thing you know how to do right? Even that barrier?"
"Just because you know my technique and have beaten me once doesn't mean you'll be able to do beat me again."
Naruto only retorted with a powerful punch to Neji's gut which not only lifted him an inch off the ground but knocked him out as well.
Mekhi was carried away and Naruto was left alone. Naruto undressed and entered the blood-filled tub with the Neji's Byakugan and Gentle Fist Style in his mind.
Naruto let out a sigh as he relaxed, closing his eyes in the tub and opened them to find himself in a familiar dark place.
Naruto looked dead ahead and saw Neji with his Byakugan activated but he looked passed him in favor of his floating portrait. It was of Neji with his Byakugan in a mid-finger jab, his eyes had a light white glow around them as the rest of his body had a blue glow.
Naruto knew that this was going to be an easy win, there was nothing Neji could do to stop him. The only thing Naruto could see Neji doing was holding him at bay with that rotating barrier, if allowed to do so. Naruto wasted no time in attacking Neji, Naruto dawned his single tailed fox coat and slashed Neji's neck. The front of Neji's neck was cut open before the tail came back to finish the job. Another slash left a deep incision, a chakra coated hand grabbed the head and ripped it off.
The deadly combo only took four seconds, now Naruto walked towards his portraits, Neji's head in one hand and his body being dragged by his chakra tail. When he stood before his portrait, Naruto raised Neji's body to his own then used magic to carefully remove Neji's eye's.
Neji's head was tossed away and Naruto reverted to his normal self. The rest of the time was spent with Naruto knocking Neji's head around.
When the bloodbath ended and Naruto opened his eyes, he felt tired. He stepped out of the blood bath, which was a blackish red. Despite how tired he was, Naruto walked out of the tub's chamber and found a minion just outside the door way.
"Hey Brown Minion, where can I wash this off?"
"Minions will clean the master, once we clean the tub."
"I can do it myself. You guys don't have to do anything."
"It is our life to do as much as we can for you lord."
"Fine, whatever is Noemi back yet?"
"No lord." The brown said as five blue minions went by their master and into tub's chamber. The bathtub was tipped over and its contents was poured into the lava nearby.
After that the blues thoroughly rinsed and clean the tub with their water style and towels. Once it was shined and clean it was refilled with clear water. The overlord was then given the ok to get into the tub and he reluctantly did so. Naruto was and found the experience weird but surprising cathartic. When that was done, Naruto was redressed, his clothes and armor also having been washed.
The overlord left the Netherworld for the Cavern training hall where he created a clone to test his new abilities.
~Noemi~
With the aid of the thirteen shinobi, Noemi tracked down all of the evacuation shelters. Only one of the last three was in use as Kurama's running rampage made the other two inaccessible.
Once they got close Noemi saw there were many people exiting an underground safe house with a whole new group of ninjas guarding them. Again, she had the shinobi talk to the shinobi before revealing herself, particular my Bekko and Iwashi. While those two conversed with the shinobi, the other loyal fifteen ninja kept the villagers from getting too far.
A squad of the shinobi went to where Noemi was and looked her over.
"Hello." Noemi said with bow of her head.
"You say you're here to help?"-Squad leader.
"Yes, I mean to restore you all to fighting condition..."
"And what do you get out of this?"
"Hm? Everything I did was to help the Leaf."
"What? How was eliminating a part of Aburame clan helpful?"
"Well it put you all on guard, didn't it?"
"There were better ways than that."
"More of an act first type of girl but I am willing to do whatever I can to properly help you guys out now."
"So, you're gonna help rebuild?"
"Yes." Noemi said as she secretly planed his shinobi's death.
"Really?"
"Mhm, though I hope you don't expect me to do all of the heavy lifting." Noemi said with a cute smile though the ninja wasn't swayed.
"Hmph."
"Maybe a show of good faith?" Noemi said as she held out her gauntlet.
"You should be in prison."
"Because If you committed such an act for your village you'd be thrown in prison too. I did what o had to, I'm sorry, I'm trying to make it up now if you'd let me."
"You have this one chance."
"One is all I need." Seeing the red flicker to green Noemi activated the evil presence spell.
"What are you-"
"See now doesn't that fee better?"
"...yes, mas- "
"Noemi, darling please, call me Noemi."
"Yes, Noemi."
"Is he ok?"-Squad member 2 asked.
"Yes, it's just a minor side effect don't worry it's temporary. Now let me help you, don't be scared. He'll be back to his old self in no time." The group was skeptical but when the head ninja returned to his normal self they relaxed.
"So, you are feeling better." -Squad member 2 said feeling better.
"Yes, I'll give her that much. now make yourself useful and the others."-The squad leader demanded.
"Hm rude." Noemi said as she held out her gauntlet to the two squad members. Noemi and the new squad of three went to the shelter where the leader conversed with the other squads. His hostile attitude won over the other shinobi who all agreed to let her help, despite not fully trusting her. Noemi just smiled cutely and used the spell, telling each pair to relax and to wait in silence for a moment.
The process went off easy enough and now with a complete total of thirty shinobi, five of which were hunting down squad Iruka, Noemi smiled brightly before getting to the real fun part. To Noemi's surprise, she was approached by a few towns people wanting to fixed like their shinobi guards. Noemi found this to be a delightful turn on and used Evil Presence on those brave and needy souls. Only a few dared to approach her, which was still more than the lordess expected.
Moving on to the larger mass of People, Noemi got to work shaping the minds of two hundred and four villagers. It was a fun time since their exits were blocked off by skilled shinobi ready to kill and more and more of them were being controlled. There was panic amongst those who had no idea of what was happening which was the bass majority of people, their cries like all those before them were heard and reveled in.
It took time but it was time well spent, the 204 villagers stood before their master and obeyed her command. As the villagers walked away in an orderly fashion the twenty-eight-shinobi gathered around Noemi.
"So, lordess Noemi what would you like us to do for you?"-A shinobi asked as he knelt before his overlord.
"Are you going to convert the people in the stands as well?"-Another shinobi asked.
"Oh, I completely forgot about those people, yeah. How many people do you think are still there?" Noemi asked before she headed to the stadium with the converted Leaf shinobi behind her.
"Around 300."
"Not bad, I remember something about them being special?"
"That is correct my beautiful master, aside from the common villagers, there are summons, judges and other nobles in attendance. I can't begin to understand your wonderful mind and I'll take the punishment if this isn't worth your time but it might be better to let them return to their respective lands, after they've succumb to your ways first, and then let them supply you funds."
"A constant flow of money? I love it, good work."
Noemi and her shinobi made their way to the wrecked stadium, twenty-four of the thrifty two shinobi fanned out. The eight shinobi with her took her to the stands, where five of them went to inspect the other two stands. Standing on the railing of the left-hand stand, Noemi's Presence didn't go unnoticed by the three Leaf shinobi there.
"Who are you? I'd imagine you're in cahoots with those sand ninja. "-Guy said as he rapidly approached the beauty.
"You couldn't be further from the truth. I'm here to make up for my ill deeds." Noemi said as she flipped over Guy's head and landed behind him. "Please don't hold it against me, there were things that I had to do but I'm here to make amends." Noemi said as she dodged a mighty swing of Guy's arm.
"It's true Guy-sensei."-Bekko said from his spot on the railing making Guy stop temporally.
"Really now? Then tell me what happened to Lee."-Guy
"As yes I heard he was a talented young man so I had to see him for myself unfortunately though I kn-heard that he was injured I wasn't aware of how severe it was. I tried to fix him, such talent should never be wasted unfortunately I was unsuccessful. Upon reflection, I realized I was going about it all wrong, so I might've been naughty and got some fresh ingredients so when I tried again my effort would actually be fruitful."
"Naughty? Fresh ingredients? You're referring to the Aburame clan attack, you did that so to see if you could fix Lee?"
"I do love a challenge, I know I can't undo the past but I hope my help here will at least heal some of those wounds."
"So, tell me the truth can you actually heal Lee?"
"Yes. I can and I will if you let me." Noemi said as Guy faces her, his arms falling to his side. Noemi placed a hand on his shoulder. "Sshh." With Evil Presence, Noemi took advantage of the moment of trust and Guy like all the others succumbed to Noemi. Noemi took her hand back and turned around, she saw Kakashi, to the far left, and Genma, to the far right. The first three rows from the top were completely empty while the others were filled with motionless people. "So, you fine gentlemen mind explaining to me why these people are just sitting here?"
"They're under a genjutsu, think you can break them out of it?" Genma said having his suspicions.
"Of course." Noemi said as she used Evil Presence on the sleeping people, who awoke at her gentle order. She kept her disappointment hidden as Genma and Kakashi set free minded people loose. When everyone was freed from the genjutsu, Noemi only having to tell her new followers to wake up to break the genjutsu, the four convened.
"You did good but there's still more to do, most of the other shinobi are getting checked out in the hospital so we're on our own." Genma said.
"That's ok, this will be a breeze with me on your team." Noemi retorted with a smile.
"Freeing two people at once is helpful." Kakashi stated making Genma nod lightly.
"Alright let's go to the middle stand." Genma suggested before everyone followed suit. Noemi, at the back of the line used Evil Presence on Genma while in mid-air.
Genma landed poorly but got to his feet as Noemi landed. Noemi looked around and saw no other shinobi so she told the three to stay put before she left to deal with the horde of people outside. Noemi exited the stadium and found people conversing angrily with each other and the shinobi blocking their path. Noemi however let loose upon the people, not hitting people she already had, which she saw as having glowing eyes.
Two chunin stepped in, confronting the lordess with battle ready yet fatigued expressions.
"Whatever you're doing to these people ends now." The first chunin said, getting a nod from his fellow chunin. However, Noemi quickly noticed that the second chunin had curios eyes. Noemi lowered her hand and stepped towards the pair.
"Now, I would provide an explanation but-" Noemi made two sexy clones that launched forward and cling to the shinobi. The sexy clones spoke such sweet flattery, making them blush and lightly flirt back. The two were then met with bolts of mind altering lighting before they stood motionless. The sexy clones disappeared and Noemi went back to work. It took time getting through everyone as once an a while another person would come outside but as the numbers grew, the controlled held on to the free-minded.
With the outside dealt with Noemi went back inside, entering the middle stadium. She reached the top of the stands, still filled with many people though also had its fair share of empty seats. The first thing to catch her eyes was a jounin pair and a genin pair. Three out of the four had red bars but one of them was green, much to Noemi surprise. Not expecting it to last long, a targeted electric bolt was aimed at the black-haired boy.
That action caused the other three ninja to turn around and spot Noemi.
"Don't be alarmed he's perfectly fine, I just gave him a bit of a kick." Noemi said as she began walking down the stairs.
"Don't move another inch. You're that mystery woman who terrorized the Leaf not too long ago."-The male jounin commanded, and getting the desired result. "Good now tell us what you just did to Shikamaru."
"And what you did to Kakashi sensei and the others."-The other genin commanded bit was far less intimidating.
"I...am getting really tired of repeating myself...I'm trying to make up for my past deeds. Despite how you feel towards me I mean you now harm, I just want to lend a hand after the things I've done." Noemi said trying to sounded like she cared, but the disposition of the jounin didn't change.
"I don't buy that for one second."-The male jounin stated.
"Yeah, I saw what you did to Guy-sensei and that referee guy."-The pink haired female genin said, sounding proud of herself.
"Well luckily for me, sleep." Noemi put her hand out then lowered it and the three ninja fell to the floor. Noemi commanded that Kakashi's squad take the sleeping three to the Cavern and to tell the minions to put them in the dungeon. He then told the three to guard the peasants once they finished that mission. The three left, leaving Noemi with a mind controlled Shikamaru and many sleeping people.
Noemi resumed her work, trying to get through everyone as fast as she could so she could move on to the final stand. Adding 350 people to the list of people under her control, Noemi controls 674 villagers and 39 Leaf shinobi.
The sun was setting upon the Leaf which was nearly completely barren, Noemi stood up the Academy victorious. The lordess had shifted the minds of six hundred and twenty-eight villagers and thirty-two shinobi, Iruka was the only shinobi not controlled.
~Naruto~
Naruto entered his private quarters and stripped himself of his armor before he went to sleep. Naruto was enjoying a blissfully slumber when he was awakened by Gnarl. Naruto groaned and turned away from the minion master.
"Master you have to arise, there is an important matter to attend to."
"It can wait till tomorrow."
"I'm afraid that it can't Gaara wants to talk to you now."
"Really?"
"Yes sire."
"Ugh fine, he better be bowing before me for waking up me." Naruto said as he got out of bed, he then went to his suit which dawned him by itself.
Naruto went down to the Netherworld and sat in his throne, an image of Gaara appeared in the Netherportal.
"God, don't you ever sleep? So, what is it? Why did you want to talk to me so late?" Naruto asked rudely and tiredly.
Gaara took a small moment to look around. "The Kazekage is dead and has been for a while, before the chunin exams to be exact."
"What?" Naruto said as he sat upright.
"He may be dead but you were the one who was supposed to do it, that was our deal."
"I'm well aware." Naruto said angrily, the overlord took a moment to gather his thoughts and think of a new way to get Gaara on his side. However, his mind wasn't a fresh as it would've been if he had gotten a full night's rest. Naruto looked back at Gaara then looked more closely at his eyes. "Gaara? What are those lines around your eyes?"
"Those who are posed by Shukaku have to be insomniacs or are terrorized whenever they do fall asleep."
"I remember you saying that you had Shukaku from the day you were born. Have you never had a proper rest?" Gaara didn't respond but Naruto knew it too be true. "Would you like me to fix that?"
"One rest in exchange for being your lackey?"
"No, not one for the rest of your life. I can stop that demon from ever damaging your mind, allowing you long enjoyable rests."
"One impossibility to another."
"I can't help that someone beat me at killing your father but I bet no one has ever tried to do something like this."
"And how are you going to do it?"
"Well you're gonna have to come here and don't worry about the long travel, I'll come get you. Gnarl remember that barrier spell you used on me a while ago? "
"Yes, my lord, I'll the preparations ready."-Gnarl
"Stay put, Gaara and prepare yourself for a brand-new life." Naruto said as he cut their connection. "Great, now how to get to him?"
"I believe this is a perfect time to mention that you can lock on to Gaara's location. Remember when you stole a sample of blood from him well that sample is in the Observatory and allows you to know where he is. You can use that knowledge and take Dimmer to his location. Once there a waypoint gate can be established and you can teleport back here."
Naruto sighed, he was not expecting to have to go on a journey but he made his way to Cavern Heart. "Really that's the best way? Half a day's ride or so? Can't I just move the sample to the Cavern Heart? I mean if the Cavern can lock on to his location why can't it teleport me there?"
"I would say because it's not strong enough, however with the amount of magic it obtained from Dimmer that might not be true anymore. Give it a whirl lord." Gnarl said promptly Naruto to get up and leave he Netherworld in favor of the Cavern's Observatory.
In the Observatory, there was a new addition on the wall behind the pool was a thin banner of Gaara and just at the base of that was a kunai seemingly stuck in the ledge. Naruto approached the kunai and with some resistance, pulled it out. The kunai was the same as any other aside from the dried blood on it.
Naruto took the kunai to the Cavern Heart and put it in the heart's pond, where he repeatedly made small circles. The water rippled with a red hue before it showed a still image of Gaara in a darkly lit room with his back to a wall. Naruto relieved and removed the kunai which still had dried blood on it. The kunai disappeared from the Overlord's hand, returning to its home in the Observatory.
Naruto teleported to the Hidden Sand Village to Gaara himself, his sudden appearance made the genin's eyes widen.
"Hello Gaara, ready to go?" Naruto said but only got an unblinking stare. "Hm well whatever let's go... oh, and we have to go the main entrance."
"That's foolish, it's heavily guarded." Gaara warned.
"Oh, well regardless, that won't be a problem." Naruto went through the doorway and Noemi stepped into the halls. She turned her head back and looked at Gaara. "Come on, you kinda have to lead this is your Village. Where do we go? "
Gaara stepped out of the room then took the lead but they were shortly stopped by sand shinobi.
"Gaara, what are you doing outside of your room?"-Baki asked before his eyes went to the beautiful lady just behind him. "And who the hell are you?"
"A woman who's not in the mood to play." Noemi did before she forced Baki against the walls before making him fall asleep against his will. "Let's go, I want to deal with the least amount of people as we can."
The two moved on going outside then made their way to the only entrance of the village. There had to be at least thirty sand shinobi in the narrow pathway. Noemi sighed, her mind going through her areas along but nothing was there able to take out such a large crowd quickly. Noemi crossed her arms and lazily lifted two fingers off her arm. An army of shadow clones ran through the pathway, easily overwhelming the many guards. The real Noemi and Gaara walked through chaos and when they made out the other side a waypoint gate was established.
"Step on it. You'll be fine." Noemi said and Gaara did so with a bright light Gaara was gone, Noemi followed suit after dispelling her clones. Gaara and Noemi appeared in the Minion Cavern. Gnarl greeted the two, bowing his head as he did so.
"Welcome back my lord and company." -Gnarl said as he stood upright and noticing Gaara staring at him.
"Is everything ready?"-Noemi asked before she ended the transformation.
"Yes, my lord, everything is waiting for your use. Follow me." Gnarl said before he took the two a back room of sorts.
In the small room was a circle of lit black candles and several minions standing around it waiting patiently.
"Will have to take off his clothes like I did?"-Naruto asked.
"When we did this for you it was to also unlocked part of the jutsu that limited your inner demon's power, but since we're not doing that for it would be unnecessary though he might have to take off hat thing on his back." Gnarl informed.
"Oh, for god's sakes." With no movement from Gaara, Naruto snapped the strap holding the gourd on Gaara's back. "Now get in the circle and lay down." The overlord demanded.
Gaara glared at Naruto but laid down within the circle. With the sand genin in place the minions got to work. One of the minions out a kunai to Gaara's hand making the sand genin tense and the gourd to spill sand on the Cavern floor. When the jab was made, sand rushed to Gaara's aid but was stopped by Naruto magic.
"Relax, you big baby, you know full well that if I wanted you bead you would be. Granted you are getting on my nerves, so I'm making you immobile until the ritual is over. Just close your eyes or something." Naruto said before he waved a hand over Gaara's form then nodded to the kunai wielding minion.
Another Minion approached the bleeding hand and let the fresh blood drip into a stone basin. With the fresh blood the minions wrote a foreign language across Gaara's forehead. All the predations were set and now the minions began reciting an incantation, one which Naruto knew he did but didn't have the foggiest idea of what he words were. In reciting the incantation, the words along Gaara's forehead glowed before sinking into the male's head, harmless attaching themselves to the brain. The ritual itself was quick, especially with Gaara and his sand being subdued.
Gaara's hand was healed by one of the minions after the ritual was over. The sand genin got to his feet and went over to his gourd which was on the ground. Naruto dismissively waved his hand and he gourd's strap was mended. Naruto yawned as Gaara left the back room and stood before the Cavern Heart.
"Remember to thank me when you wake up from your rest." Naruto said before sending Gaara back to his home village.
With him take care of Naruto went back to bed to resume his interrupted slumber.
~Noemi~
Darkness has fallen on the Leaf Village; the beautiful night was filled with stars as the Leaf was devoid of people. Noemi was thinking about what Iruka had told her, about possibly being used and that he essentially always cared for who she really was. There were a number of scenarios that dealt with the traitor but none of them had him giving a speech that actually struck the heart.
I care about the person he is and I always will. ...I loved him like a son…
...damn you Iruka... why can't you be easy to kill? I've imagined so many times but no. I can't believe you made me think of this, make me wonder, make me care about if I am actually loved or am I just being used?
Tobecontinued...
Flamingo Telegram: After rereading and remembering that evil souls can power the Cavern Heart...That's just a nice thought, I don't expect it to play out too much since dark magic from Dimmer would be more effective. But who knows what the future holds.