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Chapter 6: It's (Almost) the Same
o Flashback: Another Dimension o
"A-ah man, this really frickin' hurts..."
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"I-I know, Naru-koi. I feel what you feel, r-remember?"
Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze sighs only to stop short as he starts coughing blood, the dark red liquid running down his mouth and chin as he lays in a crater in the same shape as his body against a mountainside.
"Shh, it's okay. Don't worry, you'll heal fast enough to get up. Just wait a little bit, okay?"
Naruto sighs softly, forcing himself to not cough up blood again.
"T-thanks, Akemi-chan."
Both lovers stay quiet, as a gentle breeze flows over Naruto's body. His blonde hair and tattered outfit swaying with the wind. The only sound being the dripping of his blood to the ground.
The ground that happens to be quite destroyed. That is to say as well
...That's just the tip of the iceberg so-to-speak.
That doesn't look as destroyed as say the massive craters that stretches for miles upon miles.
Where the all of the villages, great or not, used to be.
But that is essentially in another dimension, with Naruto and his partner having been forced to fight Kaguya in her own dimension after the demise of Sasuke. But that still didn't save this dimension from the fight.
It sure was quite the fight. He, and the rest of Team Seven were barely managed to kill Madara and Kaguya's will, Zetsu, despite the latter being more annoying than the former.
It was also quite lucky that Obito switched sides.
But that luck shriveled into dust.
Kaguya Otsutsuki is a force to be reckoned with. What felt like days upon days of fighting was only just a couple of hours. There wasn't a single moment of rest, which the three ninja (Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura) realized after the death of Obito and Kakashi.
Kaguya didn't show mercy. She didn't show mercy when she obliterated Konoha, why would she now?
Naruto forces his now healed arm up, his hand resting against his eyes as he clenches them shut.
'Don't cry…'
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'D-don't fucking cry...!'
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"O-oi! Naruto! Calm do-!"
"Hmm? You're still alive?"
Akemi's eyes widen in surprise and shock at the voice of Kaguya. She could have sworn there was more time!
The soft steps of Kaguya slowly make its way to Naruto.
Approximately two hundred steps left.
Kaguya sighs, sounding as if she was truly surprised.
"To think this would drag out this long."
Approximately one hundred and sixty seven steps left.
The Rabbit Goddess shakes her head sadly.
"And I was even forced to kill every last one you. I mean, you have truly exceeded my expectations in how long you...ninja, can fight and unwinnable fight."
Approximately one hundred steps left.
Kaguya stops and stares at Naruto, who still has his hand to his face.
"Can you even hear me?"
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Naruto moves his hand down, his eyes no longer clenched but still closed.
Kaguya sighs again but this time in frustration.
"You just had keep fighting. All of this," Kaguya gestures with her hands to the landscape around her despite Naruto not seeing this. And if she could but seeing as it is destroyed, she would gesture at the Elemental Nations, "Would have been avoided if you just submitted in the beginning."
Approximately forty five steps left.
"Now the Infinite Tsukuyomi is useless, and I have to spend time finding another world. My, a millennia of time and effort, wasted..."
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"Ten steps left..."
Kaguya stops and stares at Naruto in confusion. Despite her advanced hearing, she was unable to hear the ninja's words. She didn't expect him to talk after all.
Humph, maybe he's saying goodbye to his...lover.
The slow steps of Kaguya make it to Naruto, and she stands only a couple feet away from his stuck body in the cliffside. Deciding that a simple throat ripping would suffice, Kaguya raises her pale white hand to Naruto's throat.
'Naruto', smirks and in a poof of smoke, he is replaced by one of the handsome males from his Oiroke Gyaku Haremu no Jutsu.
And with a sexy smile, the clone opens his eyes only to wink at her as he disappears in a poof of smoke, leaving as fast as he did when he came.
"Neh Kaguya..."
Kaguya's eyes widen in shock.
'How did...!'
"Sorry it was a waste of time for you..." Naruto wasn't sorry whatsoever, "but don't worry, ya won't need to worry about finding a new world..."
For some reason, as if an unknown force was stopping her and was binding her arms and feet, Kaguya wasn't able to do anything to stop her opponent.
The ground began to glow, slowly becoming brighter than the last second as it continues on.
Naruto, Kaguya, and her dimension slowly crumbled, literally and metaphorically.
There is no point in worrying.
The war is over.
With no one truly winning.
A dream crushed.
A place to call home, destroyed.
o The Void o
Two pale lavender eyes open as it begins to take in the surroundings.
Floating in a black desolate void after her subsequent demise wasn't what Kaguya thought would happen. She of course, thought it was her death and would end up in the realm of the Yami, given her essential eradication of almost all those living in the Elemental Nations.
'To think that he would be able to defeat me…'
Kaguya's eyes close, a single tear drop falling into the empty void. A sudden epiphany coming to her.
"If only..."
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Around the time of Kaguya's awakening, that is when Naruto woke up. Whispering into a man's ear to shoot an arrow at another man's heel in a battlefield.
o Flashback End o
o Apollo's Temple – Infirmary: Artemis Care o
Standing in the still destroyed room where Artemis had suddenly lost control, the now Apollo sighs in relief and plops himself down to the floor-still riddled with debris- and looks to where his sister lays on a bed he had to conjure up due to how the other one was pretty much destroyed and gone.
"Man what a pain in the ass…"
Apollo looks up towards the ceiling, revealing the "sky" of Mt. Olympus, his appearance flickering back and forth from his essential "first appearance" to his godly appearance.
'Hope she hurries the hell up… don't think I could subdue Artemis next time.'
Trying to stop the uncontrollable power of another godly being sure is a hassle.
o In A Forest in Colorado o
"… it's patterns on your face."
In her outfit she wore during her battle with Kaguya, Naruko twirls slowly about in a forest clearing, having spent a few hours looking for the Hunters of Artemis campsite with no such luck. Her tracking senses having quite dulled a bit with Kurama having been basically removed from her.
She began to sing the lyrics to a song she remembered hearing awhile back due to being quite bored. Her clones watching over her friend as well as Tama and Tsuki having not dispelled, indicating that nothing serious has happened for Naruko to make forget her little quest and protect her precious people.
Her lips part open and the words spill out softly.
"… looks like some kaleidoscopic breathing exercise."
"It's the same."
"It's the same."
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"It's the same..."
As Naruko opens her mouth to continue, a rock flies to her head and smack her in between the eyes, drawing a little blood.
"GAH! What the-?!"
She was then head-butted by Kurama, who was slowly walking in front of her in irritation and turned around and quickly ran up and jumped to hit her.
He didn't really like the music in the world. He just barely tolerated the music back home.
"Shut the hell up! I can't focus with that incessant singing of yours!"
Naruko pouts as she rubs her forehead.
"I thought I was singing well…" She mumbled, "Stupid fox…"
Kurama merely scoffs and turns back around, disappearing into the bushes.
"Hurry up! We're almost there!"
"Fine fine. Don't get your panties in a twist..."
o Chapter End o
Swampy's Note: Swampy apologizes for the late update, but Swampy did write down that it would be somewhere in July.
Swampy appreciates the reviews posted these last few weeks. Also, Swampy apologizes if anything seemed a bit confusing Swampy doesn't really know but moo moo cachoo.
Until next time which may or may not be August 7th due to how school starts for Swampy on the 8th.
How annoying…
Anyways, hope this meets up to standards, if there even is one and Swampy apologizes for any mistakes.
