The Kuro Awai
Chapter 3
Human-thinking
Demon/Summon-thinking
Jutsu
Whispery voice
-Recap-
Naruto looked up, crimson eyes with two tomoe's in each eye with a slit instead of a pupil, Neji in his shock muttered it out.
"Sharingan…"
-Chunin stadium-
"How do you have the Sharingan?" Neji demanded.
"How do you dream about Hanabi?" Naruto shot back. "She's a freaking Kid you pedo!" Neji just blushed in embarrassment and anger.
Up in the stands Hanabi shuddered, being attracted to Neji? He was seven years her senior! On top that fact, he was a branch family member. No way in hell she'd ever subject herself to that. And yet…
"How in the name of hell do you know that?" he demanded again, this time a red hue coating his cheeks.
"I absorbed a Blood clone of you! Like I said: 'a-per-fe-c-t-cl-one'. Ring any bells?" he asked tapping the side of his head. Neji just blushed harder. "So, without further a due, let's get this party pop'n!" he said charging towards and sending an axe kick to Neji's head, which he parried and sent back a flurry of Juuken strike, which were dodged, and the ones that couldn't be dodged, were intercepted by shadow clones that fazed into life as fast as they fazed out. Naruto went for a low sweep kick followed by a creasant spin kick, Neji jumped the sweep kick, but the spin caught him in the sternum.
-Kage's box-
"Damn," Kushina said admiration clear in her voice. "I had no idea my son would get so good a flow in just one month."
"Flow?" A asked tilting his head.
"Yeah, 'flow'. The Uzumaki don't have a set taijutsu style, instead, we just learn how to move our bodies. When you do, your body moves in one big flow. A current," Kushina explained patiently and grinned. "Why did you think Sharingan users have such a hard time against us Uzumaki?" she asked, a Cheshire cat grin adorning her beautiful face."I always wondered how you constantly beat Fugaku into the ground…" Sarutobi muttered shaking his head, not taking in the fact that she said Have instead of Had.
"Heya Kaa-chan, Mizukage-sama, Kazekage-sama, Raikage-sama, Ji-sama," a voice behind them called out. The Kage's and bodyguards looked behind them to see another Naruto in the same clothes he was wearing in the field, only pristine, no rips, no blood, leaning against a wall. Lifting his hand, he gave a Low "Yoh."
"Uzumaki-kun, how are you up here and down their at the same time?" Mei asked, leaning forward slightly, giving Naruto a full view of her cleavage, much to Naruto's embarrassment and Kushina's irritation.
"I'm a Shadow Clone the boss made earlier to get some new threads for here. Can't look like a hobo in front of my mother, now can I?" he asked, an amused smile adorning his whiskered face. "Nice to see you Kaa-chan, we can talk after the match," the clone said pole vaulting over the rail, and landing near the real Naruto, who jumped away from Neji, back to the shadow clone. And looked up at Sasuke the two tomoe Sharingan implanting a message into his head. 'Copy this Jutsu for Gaara.' Sasuke nodded, his Sharingan fazing into life. Naruto went through the handseals for a Kawarmi, but the last handseal was inverted, the clothes on the clone and the clothes on himself swapped, the clone fazed away, clothes and all.
"Ahhhhhh, you know, Neji, there's are few feelings as good as a new, clean set of clothes after spending a month in the last set," Naruto said while cracking his neck.
"You are within my field of division," Neji said getting into a Hakke stance.
"Oh hell…" he felt like he was being stabbed en masse, when the last strike hit, he was sent flying. "FUCKING SHIT! That hurt like a bitch!" he said getting up slowly and stretching out his eyes were back to the regular blue.
"How the hell did you get up from that?" Neji demanded, veins pulsing from his eyes showing his irritation.
"Hummingbirds," he said reaching down and touching his toes before leaning back getting a multitude of pops.
"Hummingbirds?" he mimicked. "How the Fuck does Hummingbirds make you able to get back up from one of the Hyuuga clans strongest attacks?"
"Not regular hummingbirds you long haired paedophiliac twit! Hummingbird Demons!" he said boredly. "Seriously, those beaks of theirs are like daggers, and they aim them right at tenketsu's with blinding speed with sniper like accuracy, god I hate those things," he said rubbing where one of his tenketsu's were. "Though I gotta say, in hind sight, picking a fight with that flock, was useful, I'm still able to use chakra, hmm, you were right Shomaru, Youki is a lot thicker then chakra," he said loosening out his neck getting a few pops.
Shomaru walked up beside Naruto crouched low. "Damn straight! We're bigger, faster, stronger, so our energy needs to be more potent. Now lets take this bastard down." he growled menacingly.
Naruto had closed his eyes. 'Kaikoku-hime, think you could…' he didn't have to finish as a flood of energy ran through his being a warm feeling following it. 'Thanks hime'. reopening them they were back in the slitted Sharingan. "Ready partner? He said kneeling down on one knee, other hand on the ground and his leg ready to extend at a moments notice. "Uzumaki Hijutsu - Onimane," he said, making what looked like a yang sign, before everyone felt a malicious intent from Naruto and Shomaru, the Sharingan turned a golden green similar to Shomaru's eyes, which had also gained the tomoe's from the Sharingan. Naruto's hair turned unruly and spiky, gaining two extra whisker marks aside of his face, his fangs lengthened and his nail turned to claws. "Procter-san," Naruto said in a rough guttural voice. "Be ready to stop this at a moments notice," and with that, the two shot at Neji.
When Neji tried to strike at Naruto, Naruto would vault over Shomaru and he would take a swipe at the Hyuuga, whenever Neji tried to get some distance between himself and Shomaru, Naruto was right there pounding inside his guard. The two brought him on a run about of the whole field.
Neji tried to strike at Naruto, only for him to vault over Shomaru, who caught him with his fore paw sending him flying.
'I have to say, the Sharingan is an amazing tool, to be able to see how he's going to move before he does is a kick ass thing, gotta remember it's naught but a tool, don't need to become an arrogant ass,' he thought wincing at the thought of being him an arrogant brat.
Kicking Neji, he flipped back a distance before lunging at the Hyuuga, claws ready to take his throat out.
Neji watched with a hidden smirk as Naruto came closer, before he let off his trump card. "Kaiten!" he shouted as he felt Naruto impact with the chakra barrier, sending him flying.
Flipping in midair, he skidded on the ground and snarled at the smug look Neji had plastered on his face.
"Do you see now the difference between our skills now Uzumaki? The futility of this battle? That is the Hyuuga's ultimate shield, our absolute defence, the Hakke Sho Kaiten, you won't be able to land a single strike now," he gloated pompously.
"Absolute defence huh?" he questioned in a demonic tone, as Neji saw Shomaru lunge at him from the air.
"Kaiten!" he shouted as the chakra barrier once more surrounded him. Shomaru impacted with the barrier, bending it slightly, before being flung back, spinning several times in the air, before he righted himself, his six legs impacted on the ground as he slid.
"Oi, Shomaru! D'you see what I saw?" Naruto called out, seeing something everyone else had apparently missed.
"Yeah, I saw, test that new move you were ragging on about?"
"Sounds like a plan," he said, before kneeling down and clutching his left forearm.
"I won't let you!" he shouted out, but was swatted away by Shomaru, who had moved so fast, Neji barely had enough time to mount a defence.
Dark energy started to collect around Naruto's hand, forming a spear. "Step 1," he announced forebodingly "Mould it."
Neji saw the energy being displaced by the orb, and was desperately trying to get to Naruto, but the blasted demonic partner, Shomaru, kept getting in his way.
"Step 2," he called, the orb starting to shrink, a low growling emanating from it. "Condense it."
Neji had fell back to his stance, waiting for whatever plan Naruto had, seeing as Shomaru prowled in front of the blond, clearly, he wasn't letting him anywhere near his partner.
"And finally," he finished with a dark chuckle. "Rotation," he said standing up, still clutching his forearm as the dark orb of energy spun faster and faster. "Maton - Kurorasen Kyuutai," he muttered darkly, bracing his legs, he leapt skywards, and started tumbling in the air, as he fell faster and faster down to earth, Shomaru swung his massive paw and connected it with Naruto who had kick out just before Shomaru had swung. The contest between Naruto's legs and Shomaru's paw was short, the giant forepaw sending Naruto flying at Neji.
Not having enough time to do anything else, Neji quickly performed Kaiten. Naruto's black orb met Neji's defense and much to everyone's shock, Naruto wasn't being repulsed, quite the opposite, his orb was actually punching through the Kaiten, while keeping it stable. A wicked smirk formed on Naruto's face. "Boom," he said as he let go of his forearm, destabilizing his Kurorasen, and prepared for the pain that he was about to feel.
The black orb started expanding quickly shredding the skin from Naruto's hand and arm, before it exploded, shattering the Kaiten and sending Neji flying, bouncing of the gravel and careening into the arena wall, where he was quickly clamped down by Shomaru's giant paw, his jaws dangerously close to Neji's face, and giving Neji a full view of the razor sharp teeth the hexoped had.
Naruto walked up to them, his body returning to normal, and the Sharingan returning to it's normal form, then vanishing revealing twin sapphire orbs, his left hand steaming, the black light swirling around his arm, repairing the skin his Kurorasen had ripped away.
"How?" Neji gritted out, the Kaiten was supposed to be an absolute defense, it was able to stand against the Yondaime's legendary Rasengan, so why had this…abominations Jutsu get through?
"Oh it's simple really, your Kaiken or whatever it's called only spins one way, you spun to the left, anti clockwise, so I made my Kurorasen spin clockwise. When the two met they didn't clash, they went through each other,
Not much of an absolute defense really… having such a glaring weakness and all…" he mused shaking his head, before shooting his right out, hooking Neji in the temple, knocking him out like a light. Patting Shomaru's side, he walked back into the centre of the field and into the tree Moui was in and jumped in.
Genma finally caught his bearings and called the match in Naruto's favour. But before he could call the start of the next match. Drums started beating. Everyone looked to the Daimyo's box to see Hitorika Ozai stand up in his seat. Ozai was a powerfully built man with jet black hair and sharp features, breaking sixty, his hair was only starting to go grey, he was wearing robes made of the finest red silk, his hair hanging free from his shoulders, only few grey hairs standing out.
"Uzumaki Naruto, stand and be recognised," he called out in a powerful voice.
Naruto leapt down from his perch on the tree and kneeled on his left knee, his right arm resting on it, head bowed.
"Rise Uzumaki-san," Ozai called sternly. Naruto stood up and stood at attention, arms folded behind his back. "Uzumaki Naruto, for your duty in protecting Konoha, and saving my fortunes being wasted away by that damn immortal cat," he mumbled the last part lowly. "I cannot annul the citizenship of someone with such a fine perspective on his life, of the will of fire with good conscious," Ozai exclaimed, causing Sandaime's eyes to widen, and Naruto's to narrow dangerously. Seeing this Ozai raised a hand, showing he wasn't done. "Therefore, by the power vested in me, as the Daimyo of Hi no Kuni, I release your contract with the leaf," he said before, reaching into his robes, and threw down a Hitai-ate towards him, it landed by his feet, it had a dark red cloth, with flames emblazed in it, much longer then the standard Konoha issue length. On the plate were two small horns, and the kanji's for "demon" and "fire". "From here in, you will be under the employment as Hi no Kuni's private demon hunter, from the reports of your pilgrimage through Ya no Oni, the job should suit you well," he finished, a small smile on his face as he saw the boy rip the Konoha issue headband off his, kicking up his new one, he caught it and in three swift moves, he had his new Hitai-ate secured tightly around his head. "Now, Genma-san, I suggest you continue with the matches."
"Oh right," Genma said in a slightly embarrassed tone. "Match 2 of the Chunin Examinations. Gaara of the desert and Sasuke Uchiha. Front and centre!"Sasuke leapt down from the fighters box, he walked dramatically towards the Procter. Seeing Gaara had used his sand Shunshin to get to him.
Stopping a ways in front of Gaara, he took a ready stance.
Gaara just stood there arms crossed.
"Contestants ready?"
Two identical nods.
"Hajime!" he said, chopping his arm down and leaping back.
-Tree over looking the field-
"Ooh, Shhhhhhhhhhhukaku-chan is really livening up the party, issssssn't shhhhhe Naruto-kun," Moui said following the match with all of her serpentine eyes.
"Hands on your lap Moui," Naruto said in a blank voice.
"Awwwwww, your no fun," she said huffing cutely.
"I have to see my mom, remember?
"Do you really have to go NOW?" she asked, wanting to ra…I mean cuddle for a bit more. "You've been sssssssseparated for over a dozzzzzen yearssssss, I'm shhhhhhhure a few minutessssss won't causssssse any harm," she purred seductively, wrapping her arms around his neck and straddling him.
"Moui, get off, now," Naruto said in a dangerous tone, though the blush on his face took all the seriousness out of it.
When Moui tightened her grip, he looked at Shomaru, who was lounging under them.
"Little help bud?" he asked pleadingly.
Shomaru rolled his eyes, but sat up and nipped Moui's rear end, making her jump in the air, forgoing her grip on our favourite blonde hero. "You owe me for this one Naruto," he said, not liking the look Moui had in her eyes.
"Sounds good- BYE
!" he said, Shunshining away before Moui could glomp him again.
"Why'd you do that Shhhhhhhhomaru-kun?" she asked dangerously.
"Don't you remember what Shi-chan was like when you kept something from her?" Shomaru asked, causing Moui to shiver. "Enough said."
-Kage's box-
Naruto appeared inside the Kage's box, only to be pulled into the mother death hug by Kushina, yelling about how much he'd grown, she being so proud of him, looking like her father, something bout beating women off with a stick, and like any good son, he just….
"MOOOOOOOOOM!Your embarrassing me in front of the Kage's!" he shouted indignantly.
"It's my solemn right as a mother to do as such, She said grinning mischievously, before brushing off his shoulders and sighing happily. "You've grown so much," she said smiling at Naruto's beaming appearance, before bringing her fist down hard on his skull sending him to the floor hard enough to make spider cracks. "What the HELL were you thinking when you made the Chishio Bunshin young man? Do you have any idea how dangerous that is?" she scolded.
Naruto was floored by the knock, holding his head tightly. "I-itai…" he said before getting up, getting dropped jaws from the male Kage's. a hit from Kushina was lethal, a hit to the head was supposed to kill, and this boy just shrugged it off with a small 'ow'? That was unheard of! "Seriously Mom, I wanted to show that the Byakugan was shit compared to the Sharingan, in front of a live audience, can't get much bigger then every person watching the NCVC can I?" he asked, leaning against the railing.
"No, I don't suppose you can, but that was dangerous, do that again I'll let Taiaian-kun make you his chew toy for a week," she said, her eyes flashing evilly for a moment.
"I'll keep that in mind," he said nervously.
"Good boy," she said patting his head.
Naruto ducked out of it, handing his old Hitai-ate to the Sandaime. "I believe this is yours, Oyaji."
Hiruzen took the headband, smiling gently, if only to hide the rage burning inside him, 'Fucking fire daimyo, destroying everything I've worked for in two minutes, looks like Danzo is going to put his Root to good use," Sarutobi thought, sneering inwardly.
A smack was heard as Sasuke landed a punch on Gaara, sending he flying.
"Hmmm, seems my Dai Kawarimi works on big bodies as well as individual targets," leaning aver the balcony he cupped his hands. "KICK HIS SANDY PAIL ASS TEME!" he yelled encouragingly.
"Does he remind anyone else of Minato-sama?" A asked grinning. The Kazekage and Kushina grinned at him.
"He's a mix between his father and me," Kushina said proudly.
"As unfortunate as that is…" the Kazekage muttered
"What was that? Kazekage-kun?~" Kushina asked in a sickingly sweet sing song tone.
Immediately, the "shut up filter" on all the men were blaring in all the men's heads, and wisely, all chose to listen to it.
"I thought so," She grinned insanely, making Gaara's smile seem like one from a kitten.
And then from the arena: "Winner – UCHIHA SASUKE!" and the crowd went absolutely ballistic then.
E had watched the whole fight, everytime Gaara had try to ensnare Sasuke with his sand, the Uchiha would use a variation of the Kawarimi, to not just dodge, to move the sand to his last point and him vica versa he looked at Gaara's prone form appraisingly, although, not much of a fighter, it must have taken a hell of a lot of patience to move the sand around, sadly, a virtue E himself did not have. That's, he saw the sand start to coalesce around Gaara.
Killing intent seemed to explode from Gaara's prone form as the sand covered his body in a monstrous tanuki's form.
"Aw hell, hey Kaa-san?"
"Yes my little maelstrom?" Kushina asked, thoroughly embaressing Naruto.
"How in blue blazes do I get the weapon out of this fricken tatTOO?" he roared in irritation. All the kage's and attendants twisted their pinkies in their ears to stop the ringing.
"Add blood and chakra, add blood and chakra," she answered patiently.
"That's it?" he exclaimed incredulously.
"Yup, now get down there and earn your title before I kick your ass!" Kushina said, pushing him over the railing a little too forcefully. His legs hit the railing hard, denting the aluminium railings and had the sound effect of flipping his body back into the wall, creating a man teen shaped hole, where he then proceeded to slide down the wall piteously, hitting the ground head first with a 'thunk'. Kushina rubbed the back of her head sheepishly. "Whoops?" all the kage's and their guards simply sweatdropped.
-Down below—
"Shinigami damnit Kaa-chan…" Naruto said groaning as he got to his feet and dusted himself off irritatedly.
"Uchiha! Mother yearns for your blood!" Gaara roared, his voice shifting from normal to demonic.
Naruto jumped beside Sasuke, taking off the hooded shirt. "You just had to go and knock him out, didn't you, Sasuke," he asked rhetorically.
"Would you prefer I stabbed him with the Chidori?" Sasuke asked heatedly, before diving to the side as a monstrous hand of sand cut where he was a moment before.
"Yes actually! Then the sand rat inside of him would have to divide it's attention to healing him!"
"Who are you calling a sand rat Uzumaki? Suna Shuriken!" the demonised Gaara roared sending a volley of sand stars at the blond haired hunter. He dodged to the side and left his arm out intentionally.
The audience watched in horror as one sliced into his arm, and winced at the sight of bone, but were confused as Naruto smirked.
Whipping the blood down his entire arm and channelling his chakra along it, an intricate seal appeared creating a monstrous beast.
"Kuchiyose no Jutsu – Kedemono Umi no ken!" he yelled before whipping his uninjured arm out, in his hand, was…
An ornate blue, if slightly long, hilt…
The entire stadium facefaulted after all the hype, he drew a HILT? "Seriously Dobe, we're facing down a …giant rat, and you bring a useless hilt with no sword? Talk about use-WHOAH" Sasuke shouted irritatedly before dodging a flurry of furious attacks from Gaara, who did not take well to being called a rat, Shukaku even less, Mother was a tanuki Damnit!
Ignoring Sasuke, Naruto closed his eyes and brought the hilt out level with his shoulder, and touched two fingers on the top of the hilt. Instantly, a deep blue glow emanated from his hand.
"Rise from the depths of slumber…Leviathan!" he shouted, the air around the blade started to condense, water rose from between his fingers, taking the shape of a blade, it rose for nearly five feet, before it stopped. The blade was about 5 inches wide a blade on both sides and an ouroboros made of what looked like stone wedged between the blade's edges, getting narrower slightly the farther it went up, the blade looked to be made from crystal, sparkling, shifting crystal. Swinging the blade a few times before grinning viciously and leaping high in the air.
Sasuke hit the wall harshly, creating spiderweb cracks, coughing up a mixture of saliva and blood. Gaara's ominous form stalking closer slowly.
"Is this it? Uchiha Sasuke? Is this the extent of your existence? I thought you could entertain me!" he said, rearing his arm back to finish the dark Uchiha.
"Entertain this!"
The next thing Gaara knew, there was a biting pain going through his back.
"Suiton – Mizurappa!" Naruto yelled, swinging his sword down, a torrent of water coming from it smashing Gaara away from Sasuke. Resting the flat of the sword on his shoulder, he looked at Sasuke who had gotten out of the wall and was whipping some blood from his jaw, and simply grinned. "Leviathan doesn't appreciate being called a useless hilt, Teme," Naruto shot at the beat up Uchiha, before looking at Gaara, who was getting up slowly. Making his infamous seal, twenty clones popped up, each holding a copy of the monstrous blue sword. "Keep him busy," Naruto told the clones as he held the leviathan pointing at Gaara and closed his eyes, the blue sword began to darken, it's shifting effect starting to get far more wild and unpredictable.
"So, you have some form of existence after all, Uzumaki? Very well, if the Uchiha cannot, then YOU shall help me prove my existence," Gaara exclaimed insanely his voice growing more demonic by the second, before charging the Naruto clones and ripping into their defences.
"Sasuke, give them a hand, will you?" Naruto asked calmly, thoroughly shocking Sasuke out of his fatigue, a calm Naruto? Was this the end?
"You got three minutes, that's all I can buy you," he said, before launching at Gaara, white tattoos spreading across his body.
-kage's box—
At seeing the cursemark pulse before activating, all the kage's stiffened, their attendants watched in awe, and Kushina, well, she was looking at leviathan like a piece of meat.'The curse seal is different this time, I thought Kakashi sealed that glorified hicky.' Sarutobi thought with an eye twitch'So that is the legendary cursed seal, funny, I thought it would give a more…sinister feeling,' Mei thought with a raised eyebrow, wondering about the comforting air the pure white tattoo's were giving off.'Hmmm, it's kind of like lavender…' E thought absent mindedly.
'Fuck, another vessel lost to the blessed seal. What caused it this time, love? Understranding? Regret?... *Sigh* I gotta stop giving out the curse seal of heaven, it has too big a chance of shifting…' Orochimaru thought with an imperceptible series of forehead ticks.
-back in the arena—
Naruto had taken the basic batojutsu stance, Leviathans crystalline blade swirling, shifting menacingly across the length of the blade, the ouroboros spinning slowly. Closing his eyes, he remembered his first encounter with the Leviathan.
-flashback _ Ya no Oni—
Naruto looked at the treasures housed in the shrine ecstatically going from treasure to treasure in the blink of an eye , gold, silver, precious jewels galore, weapons of all types, including several he had no idea on how they classed as weapons. One set of which, was a rack with seven hilts of varying colours, going from a rich sea blue to the deepest forest green, a label named them as the 'blades of the seven beasts' only there was one problem:they didn't have blades…
"Hey, Moui-chan?" Naruto called out to the beautiful gorgon.
"Yesssssss? Naruto-kun?" she answered back, walking over to him sedately.
"This says these hilts are blades, but I really can't classify these things as weapons. I mean, their just handles!" he said in confusion, only to see the hilts glow ominously and feel 7 different killing intents hit him simultaneously, all monstrous, equal to that of kyu…Kaikoku-sama. He dropped to his knees, and was shivering lightly. Gritting his teeth, he got up slowly, the killing intent hitting harder as he rose.
"They are not just handles, Naruto. Within each of these hilts are creatures that matched, and put the Juubi to shame. No two are of the same time era or location," Shomaru's wise voice intoned from the entrance of the shrine. "Now apologise."
"Uhhh, I apologise for calling you 'Just handles', I hope you can forgive me for my ignorance," he said sincerely, bowing lightly.
The killing intents slowly dwindled, one by one, as the hilts let their glow slip, and as the last blades' glow slipped, Naruto promptly fell on his ass, panting heavily.
"Shomaru…" he called wearily.
"Yeah?"
"If I ever look to say something stupid along those lines, make sure to knock some sense into me…" he called out before falling flat on his back…getting a great view of Moui's … womanly parts.
The nose bleed sent him skidding over the floor, and abruptly stopping when his head met the cave…causing a precariously stacked pile of treasure to fall on him.
Shomaru stared at Moui blankly. "Must you tease the boy?" he asked tersely.
"Where would the fun be iffffff I didn't?" she asked saucily.
"…"
"Fffffffine, fffffffine, I'll cut down the teassssssing of him, but only a little," she grinned at seeing Shomaru roll his eyes.
A hand shot out from the treasure pile, swiping around for a moment or two, before Naruto sat up, eyes closed.
"Moui-chan, will you please put some clothes on?" he pleaded.
"Very well Naruto-kun, I'll put ssssssome clothhhhesss on," she said, before sauntering away.
"Shomaru?"
"You don't even have to ask," he said, before padding after her silently.
When all was silent, Naruto looked over at the hilts. What were they truly capable of. Getting out of the treasure pile, a lot of it clanging off the floor, he walked over to the rack and picked up the first. A deep blue hilt, on either end, horns of gold sat proudly, the material felt smooth, like thousands of fine scales.
'What is it you want, clild of the blacklight?' a sinister, fluidic voice echoed through his mind.
"Answers, if you are willing to give them," was Naruto's eventual answer, the blue hilt seemed to chuckle.
'An answer? Very well then child, I shall acquiesce your request, you ask one question, then in turn, I shall ask you one, you shall answer truthfully, or I dismiss you as anything worthy of even breathing with, do we have an accord?' the hilt asked, to which Naruto just nodded. 'Then since you requested this Q&A, I do believe the honour of the first question belongs to you.'
"What were you, I mean, before you got turned into a sword?"
'A great sea creature, far greater then that giant octopus of a Kraken. I was also able of going through the air as well as I did the water, I very useful skill when god comes to smite you.'
"You mean…Wait, it's your turn," Naruto stopped himself before his enthusiasm could take the best of him.
'Smart boy, you know how to control yourself. Very well, tell me of your grandest adventure' the revealed sea creature demanded.
And so Naruto regaled the sea creature of his mission to wave, vaguely detailing his fight against Haku, for the simple reason, he couldn't remember it very well.
'Your tale would would make an enjoyable epic, I commend you, do you have another question? One more…spirited, then the last one perhaps.'
"What skills do you have? I mean, something tells me having a hilt in a straight battle wouldn't be much help, no offence intended…" he said, hoping to whichever deity was watching over him he hadn't.
'Fear not child, it was a valid question. I grow my own blade, which holds within it oceans of water, vast enough to turn the most barren desert into the most fertile jungles many times over, and, if you permit it, I might be able to manifest myself into your plain of existence.'
"…Whow…" he thought, mentally drooling at the thought of having summons on par with the bijuu.
'Indeed, now for our last set of questions, our introduction.'
"Oh, I'm Uzumaki Naruto. Uh, would you care to tell me your name?" he asked, hoping his answer was polite enough for the seemingly polite beast.'I see we will have to work on your mannerisms. And maybe giving your introduction more flare, very well child, I shall indulge you, let an old snake show you how it's done. I am the most feared creature in the history of the sea, the serpent said to be able to swin round the world in hours, the legendary serpent put down by god itself, I am the Leviathan.'
Naruto could practically feel the need for awe reverberate through his mind."Oh I think I am going to love working with you!" he said, grinning insanely.
-flashback end-"Are you ready? Leviathan?" he asked lowly eyes closed and breathing slow. The blade hummed in response. "So let's go. Sasuke, MOVE!" he shouted, leaning his body, gripping the hilt tightly.
From the corner of his eye, Sasuke saw Naruto's sword generating an incredible amount of energy, it would have been nearly impossible to see without his Sharingan active. Ducking a swipe from Gaara's arm, he leapt back, preforming backflip after back flip to get away from what he guessed the blast wave would be. Giving the amount of energy that sharp pointy thing was giving off, maybe he might be off a mile or 12!
"Leviathan Jin'I – Myou Enkai no Yaiba!" he yelled loudly, slashing Leviathan out with speed unseen by the civilians, and barely caught by Chunin or lower, a giant wave of Black water, crashed into Gaara lifted him off his feet and pounded him into the arena wall with the force of a thousand women waiting to give a pervert a righteous beating.
Turning back to the tree Shomaru and Moui were in, he made a what the hell gesture with his arms. Moui's pale hand reached out of the foliage and waved dismissively. The killing intent returned full force.
"Seriously? When will this guy just call it a day?" Naruto shouted before spinning around to face Gaara, who was sluggishly getting out of the crater his last attack had made in the wall.
"My existence…shall never…be ENDED!" he roared, all the sand on his body and around the arena massing towards him. Growing, shifting, bulging until it towered by the walls. a sand free upper body of Gaara called down towards Naruto. "Do you see now Uzumaki? Do you see now the differences in our existence?"
"Look, Gaara, I'm tired, I'm thirsty, and I have not had any ramen in a month, so here's the deal. Put the sand rat back in her cage, or I show you why, people use to fear the ocean."
"Never Uzumaki, Mother will feast upon your Blood! Ninpo - Tanuki Neiri no Jutsu!" his body slumped against the massive head of Shukaku.
"YAHOOOOO, I'm free baby! Now, Uzumaki, what was that about me being a sand rat?" Shukaku asked, her voice all masculine and crazy, as was the price of using your demon form.
Naruto's eyes just twitched. "Sasuke, be awesome and keep the sand off me for a moment, would you?" he asked.
Spinning his blade over his his head, the blade spun faster and faster till it was just a mass of blue light, the high pich whistling sound giving way to what sounded like a conch shell.
"You better have a plan here Naruto…Katon – Hirameki hi enko!" he yelled spitting out a large amount of intensely hot fires, turning the approaching sand to glass.
Pulling leviathan out of the spin he looked up at the blue disk above him.
"Shinigami, I hope this works…" he muttered, channelling all the chakra he could into Leviathan, he thrust the blade up into the centre of the disk.
The disk shattered outwards, the shards slowing down as they went, they spread as wide as Shukaku's girth, ancient runes and glyphs connecting the two, a proverbial whirlpool of seals.
From the bottom of the whirlpool, a shadow appeared. The sky began to darken and the wind began to howl and gust violently. As lightning danced in the sky, thunder rolling ominously the shadow twisted ominously.
-Kage's booth-"Uh oh, someone's not happy!" Kushina shouted over the howling winds. All the kage looked at her curiously, this was an amazing fight, one they were ready to jump in to help the Genin if they got over their heads, but an amazing fight non the less.
"What do you mean 'someone's not happy'?" E shouted over the winds, noticing the fact that both Yugito and Bee were shivering, Yugito far more then Bee.
"What my son is trying to summon, is one of the few creatures the gods ever stepped in to personally put down. Watch now, you're about to see a sight that has not been seen in millennia!" she shouted as the shadow breached the surface of the whirlpool, the wind whipping her hair around doing nothing to hide the insane grin she had, or the excited gleam in her eyes.
The kage's looked in in awe as a humongous serpent swayed out of the whirlpool, coil around as it came. It's scales were a magnificent sapphire, the underside a stark difference was a stark beige, large rows of grey spines covered the entire length of it's back stopping just short of it's head and the tip of it's tail, while it's sides were adorned with large luminous circles. Two long black sweeping horns extending past it's snout, a large dragon like head, with glowing green eyes. Many were transfixed by the awesome serpent as it's body coiled in the air. Rearing back it's head, it gave a glass shattering roar, causing many to cover their ears in pain. When it ended, most fiddled with their fingers in their ears, trying to get their sense of hearing back through the annoying ringing.
Naruto's voice verberated through the entire arena, somehow piercing the ringing everyone had. "Lady's and gent's, lords and kage's. I present you with, the legendary Leviathan!" the giant serpent gave a low ominous growl. They looked to the giants head to see Naruto standing there proudly, if not a tad shakily. Looking over at the Shukaku, they saw it was shivering so bad, grains of sand were shaking off all over it's body.
Without a word more, the Leviathan shot at Shukaku like a speeding kunai, wrapping around it's arm as it shot out to intercept. They watched the two giant beasts rage on, biting, clawing(mostly in Shukaku's case) and swiping at them with their tails. Shukaku launching bullets of wind which Naruto countered, with blasts of black water, though much smaller they seemed to penetrate the air and explode out, sending black rain everywhere. The battle of the giants continued, the Leviathan coiling farther up the sand tanuki's body, when the Leviathan suddenly uncoiled quickly, sending the Shukaku spinning into the far arena wall.
"Amazing, the leviathan looks to be just toying with Shukaku. I never thought I would be able to see a Bijuu, even as weak as Shukaku, tossed around like a Kage to a Genin, by anything but a higher ranked Bijuu," E said in awe.
"Yo Foo, the Leviathan is an ancient creature, an awesome jewel, ain't no way it would feature a defeat to a bloody sand teeter all boo hoo! Foo ya foo!" Bee rapped(badly)only to get smacked by Yugito.
"This is not the time or the place for your rhymes you idiot!"
"I thought it was rather creative," Mei said happily, causing the Raikage's party and her bodyguards to stare at her incredulously, Kushina to giggle madly and Bee to get down on one knee and propose. Four giant bruises, one steaming slap mark and one unconscious and twitching with electricity Bee and one laughing her ass off Kushina later, they saw Shukaku, pull sand Out of the stadium wall, absorb it into itself, and form a shield and a spear."Well now, this just got interesting," Oroch-the Kazekage I mean muttered. Yeah, the Kazekage.
"Bring it on you overgrown excuse for a tapeworm!" Shukaku roared, twirling her spear insanely.
You could see the spines on the back of the giant snake bristle furiously, Oh, she is going down! Rearing back it's head, it let loose a stream of white flames, causing many to shield their eyes, Shukaku, however…
"Fuck me…" before raising the sand shield up and pumping as much Yokai as she could into it, hoping it would hold against the onslaught.
When the fire died down, the Shukaku's entire left side minus her face had turned to glass. "Can't…move!" she struggle out, trying in vainly to grow new sand over her glassed at her arm after feeling the vibrations hitting her body, she saw Naruto running along it at high speeds, his blasted sword hanging on his back by some means or another speeding along her arm, his target clear.
"Oh no you little shit, I just got out, like hell I'm letting you put me back in that tiny ass cage!" she hollered, smacking her arm with the shaft of her spear, but the little bastard just wasn't making it easy for her, deciding to cut off her arm before he made it close to her shoulder raising spear she went to chop off the immobile appendage, she brought it down, only to have the arm caught be a large tail around her wrist. Looking up, she saw the Leviathan grinning menacingly, white flame dancing behind it pearly giant fangs, just looking at the image caused the Shukaku to shrink back.
"Waaaaaaaake UPPPPP! *CLANG*" she heard Naruto shout, before an incredible head ache ran through her skull.
"NOOOOOOOoooooooooooo, I just got out!" she wailed in despair.
-Moments earlier—
'Bitch is gonna cut off her own arm!' he shouted in his head irritably, speeding up, the blacklight swirling around his legs, speeding him up exponentially. 'Move, move, move, move, MOOOOVE!' he snarled.
There was a slight jerk and shaking on the arm. Through the corner of his eye, he saw Leviathans tail wrap around Shukaku's wrist. Taking the sword off his back, he took it in both hands, and leaped. Speeding up to Gaara, he swung his sword back.
"Waaaaaaaake UPPPPP! *CLANG*" he roared. Bringing the flat of his blade onto the top of Gaara's skull. Gaara whole body stiffened and his eyes snapped wide open in pain. Hearing his "mother's" wail. He turned to Naruto with a murderous expression. Only to see him gear another one of the swords special attacks. "Leviathan Jin'I – Myou Enkai no Bakuha!" he shouted, sending a large sphere of water gunning towards Gaara, knocking him off the head and destabilizing the Shukaku, who promptly dropped with no more Jinchuriki to stabilize her outside form.
Falling, Gaara summoned sand to slow his decent, only to see Naruto dropping down after him, his fist reared back and a determined glare in his eyes. "TAKE THIS!" he roared, punching the smaller red head in the face sending him flying into the cloud of sand, and then both him and the cloud falling to the ground hard. Naruto landing softly after, holding a hand up to catch Leviathan as it fell. Walking over slowly to Gaara's still form, he stood directly over the Ichibi Jinchuriki.
Gaara watched Naruto advance on him slowly, a grim look in his eyes, that accursed blade resting on his shoulder. Trying to wriggle away, his tired try to escape failed miserably.
"Stay back! My existence will not be ended!" he yelled in despair. The sand tried to lift, but it succeeded only rising a few inches, before dropping feebly.
"The pain of loneliness, it's crippling isn't it," he said slowly, causing the red haired boy to stop and look at him strangely. "not knowing how or why your being treated like this, only knowing the people treat you like a monster. A blight on their 'perfect life'," he sneered the last part in distaste. "you had a shield of sand that kept the majority of the physical pain away from you, but nothing prepares you for the emotional pain that will usually follows when they discover that hurting you doesn't work. You know?" he pressed, squatting down beside him.
"How?" he whispered, tears threatening to spill in his eyes. "How are you so strong, you didn't fight for yourself."
"I'm strong, because I fought to protect them," he said, gesturing to the audience. "my mother in the Kage's booth," Kushina smiled proudly down at her son. "my friends, my precious people" here, Naruto just grinned cheekily. "and I eat four square meals a day, and exercise… Vigorously," he squinted his eyes slightly as said that, his tone cynical. (think the mad hatter from the new alice in wonderland movie)
"You fight to protect then huh? Are they easy to acquire?" he asked hopefully, and looked up at Naruto.
"Sometimes, others you'll have to work your ass for. But in the end, it's all worth it," he said helping the exhausted, to his feet and glaring at his sibling up in the competitors box.
Getting the message, they jumped down to tke their brother from the Uzumaki boy, and walked back up to the box slowly, Gaara's arms around their shoulders. "Temari, Kankuro. Thank you, both," he said sincerely, before fazing out into what they called his not-sleep.
Naruto stared at the freaked out proctor, crossed his arm and started tapping his foot. Leviathan glaring down at the man, a rumbling growl escaping past it's jaws. Taking the message, Genma walked back out to the centre of the ring, ignoring the chakra charged sand under him and waited for both Sasuke and Naruto to appear on either side of him.
"Both contestants ready?"
Sasuke nodded. An image of a stark white raven appearing behind him.
Naruto nodded as well, leviathan coiled menacingly.
"Hajime!""I FORFEIT!"
-done-
Original jutsu/techniues
Uzumaki Hijutsu – Onimane – Uzumaki secret techniques – demon mimicryMaton - Kurorasen Kyuutai – dark spiral orbKuchiyose no Jutsu – Kedemono Umi no ken – summoning technique – blade of the sea beast.Leviathan Jin'I – Myou Enkai no Yaiba – leviathan arts – blade of the dark oceanLeviathan Jin'I – Myou Enkai Bakuha – leviathan arts – blast of the dark ocean
First and foremost, I would like to apologise to all of you who read my shtuff and were expecting an update over the summer. I've been busy with martial arts, and have been beset by a nasty case of all writers nemesis. The writers block. Either way, it's gone now and I'm free to continue the stories. On top of that, I will be getting rid of all my old stories, and redoing them. Apologies to those who liked them, but I have recently re-read them all, and have found them to be sub par. Konoha's winged fox should be up soon, followed closely by a challenge from Dracohalo117. I hope you all had a brilliant summer, and are getting costumes and sweets ready for Halloween, the only real celtic holiday