Alright, 6th chapter!
So far, I've been getting mostly praise, so that is good, it is nice to be an entertainer.
To Meca Vegeta, I'm not going to have Hinata "shake her can", but...well...no...we couldn't do that, who would clean up the mess?
Disclaimer! I don't own Naruto! Oh noes! I also don't own Elric...cries
ON WITH THE SHOW!
"Blah"-person speaking...'Blah'-person thinking..."Blah"-Demon speaking...'Blah'-Demon thinking..."Blah"-Memory speaking(they don't think)
Leaves of Steel, Chapter 6
Water Country's easternmost shore
The loud sounds of hoofbeats could be heard, hitting the planks of the boardwalk, Clop...Clop...Clop...Clop...Clop... This is what the bandits, waiting in secret, heard.
"Hey guys, remember, surprise attack, jump 'em and take the valuables, okay?" The obvious leader asked in a hushed tone.
"Hai, Ika-sama!" the henchmen whispered in response.
The bandit gang jumped out from their hiding spot, swords drawn, in a very threatening manner.
"GIVE US YOUR MONEY AND VALUABLES OR DIE!" They shouted in unison.
The poor, defenseless man was very frightened. It took all he had to not wet his pants. I mean, what could he do except mutter a few words, and conjure up a couple giant venomous wasps on these bastards? He did just that, and listened to their final cries of pain before the venom dissolved them, and the wasps disappeared.
'Foolish humans! None can stand against the mighty Elric! Nocoughone!' He thought while coughing.
Elric was riding a mighty warhorse, specially bred to be able to heal itself using arcane magic. It was a dusty brown, with white hair, most of it shagging around his ankles and mane.
His rider, on the other hand was Elric. Thin, sickly, and incredibly pale. He wore a long flowing white cape, with his equally white hair blowing in the wind. His magic was still flowing, and you could see a wispy dark red trail of smoke leading to his hand, being slowly blown by the breeze.
The effect this had was breathtaking, he looked like a skeleton, yet somehow complete, hands glowing, holding on to the bit's strap, remaining as upright as he could.
"Well then, Kawska, my handsome steed, let us go." he said, nudging the horse's side.
Back in training ground seven
Naruto went through every jutsu he knew, none of them worked, not even his trusted Shadow Clone.
"NOOOOO! " shouted Naruto, "Tenten! I can't use my jutsu!"
Tenten was puzzled. She'd watched him perform jutsu before, why couldn't he? "Naruto-kun?" She asked, "Do you need help?" She asked, quite politely.
"Yes! Yes I do!" Shouted Naruto, but then calmed down, "could you help me, Tenten?" He asked with puppy dog eyes.
"Umm...sure Naruto-kun, I'll help...I think..." She said, thinking 'well, This sucks, I wanted to see his jutsu...oh well...'
Mean while, really, REALLY close to Training ground 7...
'How dare she call him "Naruto-kun"! That is my job! My Naruto! Mine!' A certain crazy lavender eyed girl thought, before thinking, 'While he was in the hospital, I stared at him, while he slept...I also...mmmmm...' and passed out.
Back at Training ground 7, bout 2 hours later...
"Well, as far as we know, you don't have any jutsu, but you have chakra." Tenten said, after running several tests on the blond-haired genin.
"Yeah, that sucks." Naruto said, pouting, while thinking, 'At least she doesn't know about the metal control, let's keep it that way'.
"Well, Naruto-kun, I have to go meet up with my team, so bye!" She said, giving him a soft, quick hug, then running off.
'Dude!' he thought, blushing a tiny bit, 'Awesome!'
Naruto wondered what to do before he decided on heading to the Hokage's tower. 'Maybe the old man will know what happened...this really blows...' Naruto thought.
Hokage's Tower
Naruto came up to the receptionist, and asked for an audience for the Hokage.
"Naruto-kun," The receptionist said with a smile, "go on in."
As Naruto came into the dark room the lights suddenly turned on, and people came out from everywhere with party hats, shouting, "SURPRISE, NARUTO-KUN!!!"
Naruto fell down backwards, only to be caught by a giggling receptionist. Confetti was falling from the ceiling, with all the clan heads, and their children there.
The only of the rookie nine not in attendance was Sasuke. Even team Guy had shown; Neji with the closest he could get to a smile, a smirk, Lee with a 'super Youthful' (as he had put it during the party) smile, larger than his foot. Tenten was smiling happily, and being unusually friendly.
Off in the corner Hinata could be seen, fantasizing about Naruto, and not doing anything that would actually lead to the completion of that goal. 'Naruto-kun, yes, I'd love to marry you...and then I jump on him, and then...' Naughty thoughts for such a proper girl.
It was a great time, but not only did Naruto not have a chance to talk to the Hokage about his jutsu problems, he was pretty sure someone slipped something into his drink, so he set it down.
'Damn it!' thought Hinata, 'I just wanted...' she trailed off, pressing her fingers together like mad.
Naruto was fully aware of her, 'What a weirdo...'.
Back to Naruto's Apartment
When the party finally ended, it was too late for Naruto to talk to the Hokage, so he left to go home. A certain Pale-eyed girl was stalking him, but as she had practice in this, was not caught.
'Just wait Naruto-kun!' she thought, 'soon my second dose will start working, then you will be...MINE!' Her heart racing, Hinata almost stumbled over a cat, but knocked it out instead, so it wouldn't ruin her plan with noise.
Naruto finally made it to his apartment, but couldn't find his keys, he was too dizzy from the party, or that's what he thought. He decided to try something he just thought of, and lifted his finger to the lock. Focusing, Naruto drew metal out of his hand, and into the lock. The metal took the lock's shape, and fit like a glove.
Unaware that the Hyuuga was watching with her Byakugan, Naruto turned the self-made key, and unlocked the door.
'Naruto-kun! How did you do that?' She wondered, as Naruto pulled his hand back, and metal returned into his finger, after he swirled it around for fun a couple times.
'Naruto-kun! If you can control metal...aa...we...we could...and then...we could...while you and I...mmmmmm!!!' Hinata was thinking those perverted thoughts before she fainted for about 5 minutes, dreaming about the same things, before getting up and heading home, Naruto's house key in her pocket.
Naruto fell onto his bed after a shower, and fell into slumber-land yet again.
Naruto's Dreamscape
When he opened his eyes, he was in the large chamber of the castle of the good memories, back where he was last time.
"Naruto-sama! You're back!" said the bunny Naruto had met last time. "Are you going to help us defeat the increased force of bad guys? Ibiki-san's good memories, as well as your memories of Ninjutsu and Genjutsu have been taken hostage by Ibiki's bad memories!" the rabbit explained to Naruto.
"Yeah! I need those memories! What is the plan so far?" Naruto inquired of the bunny.
"I'll explain that, Naruto." said the figment of Yondaime, "We need you to go out and destroy as many skeletons, your bad memories, and zombies, Ibiki's bad ones, as you can. Every one you kill will bolster your concentration, as well as give us an extra fighter if you learn something. Every memory you rescue will be free to come back here." continued the figment, "Furthermore, each good memory you have has an opposing bad memory, but only those you make in the real world. Killing the bad one gives you better control over the good memory." ended the desire to become Hokage.
"Right," said Naruto, "How do I kill them?" He asked
"Very well, Thank you." The illusionary Yondaime said very mystically.
"WHAT!?" yelled Naruto.
Outside of the cerebral castle...
All of the figments in his field of vision faded away, and Naruto was transported to the very side door the small rabbit had shown him on his first visit. Not only that, but he was treated to the sight of 4 skeletons shambling up to him, this time, however, their eyes were glowing red. 'Probably not a good thing...' he thought.
Seeing no other way out, Naruto attempted to summon metal from his body, an d found himself unable to. 'Most likely because there isn't any metal in my dreams...' he thought, and stooped to pick up a leg bone from a fallen skeleton.
Naruto took a swing at a skeleton's head, crushing it in to little tiny bits. The broken head shot out a ball of light, which zoomed into Naruto's head. The only thing going through his head was, 'Shuriken Accuracy, 10 of 100!'. Figuring it out, Naruto swung at one of the other skeletons, breaking its spine, instantly destroying it. 'Kawarimi no jutsu!' The third skeleton was armed with a short-sword, and swung at our blond protagonist, before he switched with the fourth, relearning...'Melee weaponry!''
The fourth Skeleton, twice as large as the others, was black. Naruto ran one the thigh-bone through its brittle skull, causing it to drop both the short-sword it was carrying and 'Chakra Control!''. Naruto moved chakra into his torso, causing his lungs to function better.
"YATTA!" he shouted, having regained his chakra.
Naruto's little celebration was cut short as ten skeletons moved around him, in a circle to prevent his escape. 'Time to un-rust my skills!' thought the boy, as he channeled chakra to his legs, disappearing in a flash, a blur circled around the skeletons, then Naruto came to a stop in the middle, as the skeletons suddenly crumpled.
'Still got it!' thought Naruto happily, as 10 orbs zoomed towards him:
'Shuriken Accuracy... 20, 30, 40, 50, 60'
'Kunai Accuracy...20, 40'
'Kage Bunshin no jutsu...5, 10 clones'
'Metal Control...25'
Naruto's hands became more maneuverable, his shadow became deeper, and he could feel his bones become lighter, and liquid metal began to flow once again through his body. He absorbed the damaged sword, and two metal spikes grew from his wrists, as well as 2 from his elbows, followed by a metal coating of his skin, turning it into light armor.
Naruto ran off, finding a group of 3 zombies chilling out, playing a game of cards.
"Go fish" was the last thing That particular zombie got to say, before Naruto's right elbow spike embedded itself into the zombie's ear.
The zombie's head crumpled to ash, 'Vital point locations!'
Naruto spun around quickly to behead the other two:
'Kage bunshin no jutsu...no seal!'
'Rapid jabs...10 s.p.s!''
Naruto heard hoofbeats, as he saw a large armored zombie riding a decaying horse charge up, screaming, "Die, Fiend!"
Naruto sped towards the horses front right leg, severing it, and causing the rider to be crushed beneath his steed:
'Rapid jabs...20, 40 s.p.s!'
Naruto figured that "birds of a feather flock together" so if he wanted to find certain skills, he should look in one area, such as the lowered swamp he was in right now.
20 minutes later...
Naruto had recovered all 80 of his shuriken accuracy, all 90 of the Kunai accuracy, and his entire kage bunshin repertoire of 1,000 clones. He had also claimed many of Ibiki's skills, his "Blurred hands", where he delivers 100 strikes per second, his complete knowledge of torture implements, as well as all 100 of Ibiki's chakra.
Naruto's previous metal control, as he now realized, was only a mere 5 compared to what he had now, 50.
A rival appears...Generic boss battle
A very large Zombie, plated entirely with silver, radiating fire out of its pores, rose from the ground, towering above Naruto.
'uh-oh...' thought Naruto, 'This can't be good'.
The Zombie slammed his mighty hand, nearly squishing Naruto, who barely managed to run up its arm. Naruto jumped onto its head, then a voice spoke to him..."Good...kill more...use this move..." an image of Naruto sending metal vines underneath the Zombie's skin, then ripping it all outwards, flashed through his mind.
Naruto followed the directions, not caring where the advice came from, and ripped the zombie to itty-bitty-bits.
'Katon: Gōkakyū no Jutsu!' the elusive technique came back to him, he would finally be able to show Tenten he could do it! he could see her smile! 'Wait, what am I thinking, I just met her...but...nonono...She's a year older...'
Suddenly, Naruto heard the voice that told him what to do, "Age 'aint nothing but a number..."
"Okay...whatever..." Naruto said aloud, "Every technique needs a name...what should I call my new one...?"
Naruto thought through its effects, and finally compared it to the flaying of an animal, removing its skin.
It came to him pretty easily, 'Flay.'
As soon as he had the name memorized, he heard a deep tone.
The world around him faded, and Naruto's eyes met his ceiling once again.
End of Chapter 6
The last pat may have been rushed, but I REALLY don't want to go through each skeleton, as the listing is tedious.
Tell me what you think of Ibiki's moves, as well as your guesses on Naruto's metal control's new abilities. I already have them listed, but, If your ideas are good enough, you'll see them added!
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