Alright! 10th Chapter!
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I have sad news. I won't be able to update for a week or something. This is because I am going to California, so...don't worry! Be Happy! I'll be back in the Emerald City soon enough! As I'll be gone...I'm writing a SUPER LONG CHAPTER to appease you all. One person is thinking that the quality of my writing is degrading...oh well, can't win them all.
Disclaimer! I don't own Naruto or Elric...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 10
Tazuna's Pad: 10:00 AM
Sasuke calmly walked into the main room, where Kakashi-sensei was reading his perverted book. Sakura was presumedly protecting Tazuna with Sai. Sasuke stepped towards his teacher and knocked away his book.
"Kakashi...What do you know about Naruto?" he demanded.
Kakashi caught the book before it hit the ground, cradling it n his arms, "Well, you already know he was the carrier of the kyubi...and he was trained by Ibiki-sempai...other than his new teacher, I don't know anything special about him." Kakashi stated to get the boy off of his case, brushing away the imaginary dust he saw on his book.
Sasuke didn't know about Naruto' s teacher all that much, so he inquired about him next, "Who IS Elric anyways?" asked the boy.
Kakashi pulled out a notepad, and began to read off of it,
"Elric, King of Melnibonē...Age: Unknown...Weight: Unknown...Blood-type: Unknown...Skin: Very pale...Eye color: Red...Weapon of choice: Magic...Style of battle: Incredibly strong summons...And finally...Rank: Kage-level." Kakashi had read it in a monotone, but added, "Based off of my own confrontation, not the man to challenge. He used to be the bearer of a cursed rune-sword: Stormbringer, apparently capable of stealing the soul of its enemies." Kakashi said in his standard tone.
Sasuke changed the subject, "Naruto is capable of healing jutsu. You might want to have the Hokage informed of that." before walking upstairs.
Central Forest: 11:45 AM
Naruto had been practicing making weapons, of all sorts. With his mastery over metal at 75, the boy was crafting them at amazing speeds. Swords, axes, and assorted pole-arms were flying in and out. Naruto moved his hand to a nearby tree's direction, and launched a spinning Kunai through the bark, and stopping in the exact middle of the tree.
'Even one Kunai can bring the most powerful of Ninja if they can't get it out of their body...that is something I learned from Iruka. Elric taught me that once you have thrown one, its usefulness does not end.' thought the Blond-headed child, as he clenched his hand together, causing metal spikes to protrude from all over the tree.
Naruto pulled the kunai back to his right arm, and moved the metal to his left, shooting a giant cleaver through his skin. Naruto gripped the cleaver, and forced more and more metal into it. The huge blade grew to even greater proportions, before it melted back into Naruto.
'There is, however, a limit to how much metal I can use at once. Once I make the item, It stays in the form I give it, unless I pull the metal inside. I just figured this part out, my body offers no resistance to a metal object, absorbing any metal that hits it, unless I harden my metal form.' Naruto narrated to himself, trying to memorize his limits.
There was only one metal object that he couldn't absorb, his gauntlets. However many times he tried, the gauntlets wouldn't absorb.
'Why won't the gauntlets come into me? I can change them, add metal to them, but there seems to be something protecting their form.'
This confused Naruto greatly, but he had decided not to dwell on it, and try to train his reflexes. He raised shield after shield, deflecting the attacks of a Kage Bunshin.
Increasing the number of Bunshin to 20, Naruto continued to block their attacks. The boy sliced the shadow clones into metal, so they couldn't be called shadow clones any more could they?
A clone slipped behind his defenses, only to be met by a barrage of spikes, growing from Naruto's back. The Genin began to grow wider, and split himself into two.
'God Dammit! I'm like an amoeba or something, If I can get this down, I'll be deadly.' The boy thought with a smirk on his face.
Naruto split his original body again and again, but, unlike a Shadow clone, he retained consciousness in all bodies at the same time. It was like watching multiple television sets. Each body was the same Naruto, with one mind.
Long ago, Naruto had stopped wearing clothes. He no longer needed cloth, he just changed the metal that made up his body into colored thread. Tears repaired themselves, and he could change his appearance at any time. He changed himself into a perfect replication of Sakura, pulling all of his clones back to his body.
'Wow...Her forehead IS gigantic...poor girl...' he thought, before letting his form return to normal on its own.
Unnamed bridge out of Wave Country 12:15 PM
Sakura sneezed violently, and as such, failed to notice Sai doing a quick sketch of her panties. Damn, Ninjas move fast. How he did it was only known by him. after all, she wears those shorts...
Tazuna and his crew were working on the bridge, slowly making progress. The rippling water could be heard on both sides, with intermittent hammering and sawing.
"Hey, Sai?" asked Sakura, "Why do you carry around that book with you? It has a picture of both you and some other kid on it, who is that?"
Sai groaned, and flipped the book open, showing Sakura the contents, "That kid was my brother. He died before I was assigned to this team, some enemy ninja killed him for being in the way. To this day, this picture book will be finished after I kill the men who murdered my brother." Sai said coldly.
Sakura nodded, wondering if Sai got his odd fashion sense from his brother.
Central Forest: 12:30 PM
Naruto was lying exhausted on the ground, staring up at the clouds that Shikamaru seemed to value so much.
'What's so special about the clouds? They provide precipitation, and sometimes resemble things...Oh! A sword! yeah this IS pretty awesome...' thought the Genin.
A figure approached Naruto's prone body out of the mist. It walked up towards Naruto, and revealed itself to be a kid about his age.
"Yo." greeted Naruto plainly.
"Hello, my name is Haku. Who are you, may I ask?" politely greeted Haku.
"The name is Uzumaki Naruto, nice to meet you, Haku-san." responded Naruto dully.
'Is this the same vibrant kid I saw on the road?' wondered the disguised Hunter-Nin.
"Picking herbs, Haku-san?" Naruto asked, interested in the basket Haku was carrying.
"Yes, For...my uncle." Haku replied hesitantly.
Naruto got up, and began to walk off. He produced a metal flower from his hand, and tossed it over to Haku.
"Later...Haku-kun." said Naruto knowingly, leaving a stunned boy in his wake.
Wave's Bridge-In-Construction: 1:00 PM
Naruto arrived with Kakashi and Sasuke at the bridge, having been called upon to speed up the process. Tazuna walked up to the newcomers, and handed them plans for the bridge.
Tazuna pointed to circled areas on each plan map, "These will be your stations, the sooner we finish, the sooner you guys can leave. Get to work." the old man said, handing them hammers and saws.
Naruto quickly formed 30 Kage Bunshin, and told each what they had to do.
Wave's Bridge-In-Construction: 5:00 PM
"Great job, Naruto!" began Tazuna, "I think you should ditch being a Ninja, and become a construction worker!" Tazuna proclaimed, after Naruto had finished more work in those 4 hours than every body else's work that entire day.
'I used my powers, and it all came so easily...faster than these dimwits...' thought the complimented boy, looking at Kakashi and his team.
Naruto gave the group a wave of his hand before retreating to the forest.
Central Forest: 5:10
Naruto was standing alone in the forest, as he had made sure nobody was watching. Naruto did a final surveillance check, and found nobody.
"Phase" Naruto said in the demonic-influenced voice, as the Ethereal Plane came into view.
In the odd space that was the ethereal plane, Naruto saw remnants of chakra hanging in the air, most of them were grey, so he walked right towards them and reabsorbed them. Some were tagged with floating tomoe, so Naruto figured they must be Sasuke's. Finally, Naruto noticed a single band of chakra, leading away, with small snowflakes circling around it.
'The only other person here was...Haku...' thought the blond-haired child as he took off after the line.
North-West Wave Country: 5:30
Naruto had been following the chakra line for quite a while, only to notice another join it. The new line was a blood-red, with small versions of Zabuza's Zanbato hanging off of it.
'If those are Zabuza's...then Haku must be...That fake Hunter-Nin!' realized Naruto, who took off at high speeds following the ice-cold line. As he ran, Naruto saw the lines grow bolder, as he neared a large chakra source.
Naruto stepped into the clearing, to bear witness to Haku and Zabuza plotting the downfall of Kakashi and the rest of his team. Naruto quickly pulled out a scroll and pen, writing down the words they said.
"Haku, when we reach the bridge at 0800 hours in two days, you are to hide in the water, where you will use that surprise to counter the first attack the enemy makes. Use an overly-sufficiant amount of senbon, made by your ice when you are hiding, to make them under-estimate your accuracy. Then, throw senbon at Kakashi, as well as the bridge-builder, Aim to kill instantly, BEFORE Kakashi can use his Sharingan. At this point, I will activate the mist, so stay on your guard. That Uchiha they have with them appears to not know his own Sharingan, so use your speed against him. I will be attacking Kakashi, as your attack is likely to be stopped. If The Uchiha does not down in the first instant, Go for...Sai...I think his name is." ordered Zabuza as Naruto wrote all this down.
"After disposing of those two, go after pinky, that large forehead should serve as a decent target." Finished Momochi Zabuza, the S-ranked missing-Nin.
Haku, remembering Naruto, asked, "What about Uzumaki Naruto, the Blonde one? The one who beat both Demon Brothers single handedly?"
"Haku, you must either kill him on sight, or ask him to join us. If he says 'no', you MUST kill him." calmly answered the eye-browless freak.
Naruto shuddered as he heard his own death sentence, but finished writing his report on the situation. Not wanting to get found out, Naruto stayed in the Ethereal Realm. He wouldn't fare so well against both Haku AND Zabuza.
Naruto did the thing he thought appropriate, he shattered the Metal flower that he gave to Haku with his mind.
"What!?" shouted Haku incredulously, as he held the shattered flower, "Why did Naruto's flower shatter? He was so cute!"
Zabuza backed away a little, "Haku...Are you...infatuated with that boy? Are you...y'know...of alternate sexual orientation?" Zabuza asked, obviously freaked out.
Haku looked VERY miffed, "YES! YES I AM! DO HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THAT, ZABUZA?" shouted Haku loudly, holding an Icy dagger to Zabuza's throat.
"Ummm...no?" Zabuza attempted to say.
"Good. I didn't want to kill you...And I'm not going to kill that boy!" stated Haku, arms crossed.
"Haku...those are orders from Gato..." mumbled Zabuza.
"I DON'T CARE! HE'S MINE! MINE I SAY!" screamed Haku, holding a newly made Naruto plushie.
Naruto backed away, far, far away, breaking into a run back to town.
Far away in Konoha: same time
Hinata had that feeling again...the feeling that told her someone was after Naruto, in a romantic way. It had only happened once before, when she was at home, sick, forced to sit out seeing Naruto leave for his mission. She hadn't gotten to leave that ENTIRE day.
'Someone is after MY Naruto-kun!' thought Hinata, breaking out into a sweat.
Elsewhere in Konoha, Training ground 14
Tenten noticed an odd vibration in the air, but decided to let it go.
Land of Waves: Tazuna's Pad: 6:30
Naruto had just finished explaining everything, sans the things that Haku said about him, as well as how he avoided detection, to Kakashi and Team 7.
"Great job, Naruto!" applauded Kakashi, "I'll make sure your sensei hears about your wonderful skills of observation. BUT you really shouldn't have gone by yourself. What I don't get, is how Zabuza or Haku didn't find you out, you aren't good at hiding your chakra at all." noted the scarecrow.
Naruto patted the top of his right hand, to which Kakashi nodded in understanding.
Naruto finished his dinner, and, deciding that it wouldn't be safe to sleep outside because of Haku, Naruto choose to sleep in the room he had been granted. The blue-eyed boy walked towards the stairs, only to have Inari follow him.
When they reached the top, Inari told Naruto, "I got in some training with your present today, It was awesome! Thanks a lot!" said Inari, before hugging Naruto goodnight.
Naruto entered his room happily, well other than the fact that another guy was obsessed over him. Naruto laid his head down, and fell asleep.
Naruto's Dreamscape
Naruto found himself standing in front of Stormbringer's altar, exactly where he was last time. The imprint of the sword was shimmering, and the room was as dark as when he had left.
"Finally you return, Naruto." said the voice that Naruto had come to realize was Stormbringer's, " I was watching your training, and I must say, VERY impressive. With the proper training, you could defeat Elric even! I've decided to give you another mission. Do you remember that sword Zabuza had?" asked the god of the void.
"Yeah...I remember his Zanbato...what about it?" inquired Naruto nervously.
The demonic voice began again, "I want you to posses THAT blade. I don't really care for the ones you make, and will not give you the same sword that was give to Elric. My presence needs a host, and it must already be corrupt enough to not be destroyed. That sword Zabuza has will be perfect. Find him, kill him, and take his sword. Only then will I train you to handle my greatness. The old sword was WAY too cramped, and WEAK, EVER SO WEAK." Stormbringer demanded.
"So...you can forget about collecting my pieces...but I'm not going to forget about killing your mind, so GET TO IT! Collect those pieces, and I shall reward you. Until then, take your absence of this place, come back with another part of me. If you do it very well, I might decide to cease my attack on your brain, but, until then, expect death." the voice disappeared into the shadows.
Naruto ran out of the tower, to be greeted by a small army of skeletons, about 20, led by a black-bladed ogre.
"Good evening, Naruto-sama, might we trouble you for your life?"the ogre asked politely, raising its tusked war-mask.
"Sure thing, but I'm not going to give it to you." stated Naruto, forming a full set of white armor, along with a medieval long-sword and shield he saw in a movie, "You'll have to take it from me!" he shouted, before charging at the skeleton horde.
The first three skeletons threw wooden spears at Naruto, who hardened his armor to the point where the spears entirely splintered to pieces. The gallant knight split into three of himself, and each smote the skeleton before them. All three Naruto's charged into the fight, while another, light-armored archer, sprung from the original's back.
The archer produced a bow of the white metal, and a full quiver of arrows, dull grey, formed from his back. As soon as the archer's glowing hand touched an arrow, it turned bight white, and was propelled through the air into the skull of an unsuspecting skeleton.
Naruto saw no need to waste time, so he sent a flat, horizontal, piece of metal through the waists of the horde, cutting all but the ogre in twain. The sheet receded, to reveal that the skeletons were all crumbling. The remaining Narutos pulled back into the original, who placed his hand on the ogre's left leg, and shouted, "Rend!" shattering the bone into powder.
As the ogre fell, Naruto cut off its head, and laid his left hand upon the black sword, and said, "Evil Sealing Method: Soul Seal!" causing the dark blade to shatter and reform, with the aid of the skeleton's energies, into a shard of the sword. This one, however, did not fly towards the pedestal, so Naruto reasoned that it had not collected enough souls, and set off for more.
As he set off, Naruto saw the marching dust of an army, leading to the Cerebral Castle, 'Oh no!' thought Naruto, 'I can't let them destroy my mind!' and with that, he sprouted stilts again, and dashed off towards the marching army.
As he ran, Naruto encountered roaming skeletons and zombies. Instead of wasting his time on them, Naruto sent metal spines through their skulls, shattering them for easy kills. The souls of the defeated flew into his shard, but were not enough to make it fly. Naruto hastened towards the army, to count their numbers.
'Holy Shit!' he thought, 'over a hundred small ones, AND 3 large ones; a two-headed wolf, a giant snake, and a large spiked crab! This can't be good.'
The entire army halted, and turned towards him. suddenly, Naruto was subject to a barrage of arrows, included within them were poison streams, pairs of fireballs, and steaming spines. Naruto raised both of his hands and produced the most powerful; shield he had, glowing white.
The shots dropped off of the dome-shield, and the sound of rushing enemies was what made Naruto withdraw his shield into a ridiculous imitation of a Zanbato. at least 3 meters long, it was only good for one blow. The boy sliced through at least 15 enemies, and dispersed his blade into hundreds of spines, stabbing blindly at the forces of darkness. Naruto unleashed barrage after barrage of these, leaving a wall of dust to block off his vision.
The warrior made a giant fan, and blew away the dust, as well as a couple of light-armored skeletons. Only about 20 were left, and these had shards of dark metal in their armor. The hell-hound roared, and two massive fireballs came Naruto's way. Joining those fireballs were silent steams of venom, as well as spinning spines from the crab and the snake.
Naruto shouted "Phase!" and slipped past the attacks, taking the chance to cut the head off of the snake.
As he got close to the snake, he noticed that the scales that made up its skin were all of the dark metal, as was the collars of the hound, and the claws of the crab. Naruto thought up a good idea, which he had been doing a lot of lately.
Forming his vine-hands, Naruto hit all 5 areas on his enemies, and shouted, "Evil Sealing Method: Soul Seal!" and shattered the skin, claws, and collars of his opponents.
The shattered Dark metal had yet to reform, as all of his foes had yet to be vanquished. Naruto decided to use the thing he had recovered from Kyubi-chan for the first time.
Forming his hands into the fox/tiger seal, Naruto said, "Vulpine Terror Charm!" and immediatly felt the effects.
Naruto bones were forced into a four-legged position, and he felt a tail spring out from his lower back. He felt another tail, followed by more, until 9 in total had popped on out. Fur covered his entire body, as he grew to immense proportions.
'Is this what it is like to be Kyubi-chan?' wondered the boy, as he looked around at his new body, 'Orange coat, dark streaks, glowing white front paws, nothing is wrong here...Time to squish some fools!' shouted the boy in his mind.
Naruto launched his massive paws on top of the enemy, crushing them while thinking, "Evil Sealing Method: Soul Seal' so he could get rid of their shards.
After smashing the final one into little bits, Naruto felt the effects of the transformation wear off, as he returned to his normal self. At that point the dark shards reformed along with his, and began to devour the memories, so it could gain power. The massive piece Naruto was holding was easily the length of a short sword. That fragment hurtled towards the obsidian tower, so Naruto followed.
At the tower once more, Naruto walked up to the pedestal, to see that the Sword was a little more than half-way filled. Two floating orbs were on either end of the pedestal, held by shadowy claws.
"Good job, Naruto. Going at this rate, you might be able to start learning the next time you visit. Take your rewards; 'Control', which evicts an enemy from their body into the ethereal plane, where they will be just a spirit, which you can put back if you so wish, and 'Corrupt', for those times when you need my power. Using 'Corrupt' WILL prove hazardous to your health, but gives you unmatched speed, dexterity, and raw power. You can also 'Corrupt' your metal, giving it that dark sheen you previously were destroying." announced the dark voice.
"But how about the seals on my hands, wont those purify my metal all over again?" asked the boy, raising his hands to show the seals.
Stormbringer pondered over this, before deciding, "Not if I give you full control over which one you use. Touch my symbol on your torso to switch between the two." Stormbringer finally said, "Speaking of which...I'm changing it, the symbol that is. I'm thinking a massive, pitch-black eye...yeah, that'll do nicely."
Naruto felt the skin began to flow around, as the 'ink', if you could call it that, formed into a bloodshot eye, with a sword for a pupil. The eye then 'shut' itself, and all that was visible was a black line.
"Take your gifts and go." directed Stormbringer, letting the orbs free of their roosts.
Naruto walked up to the orbs and took one in each hand. As the power flowed into him, the eye opened wide, and then closed. The pull of the waking hour was felt, and Naruto felt the Dreamscape drift away.
Tazuna's Pad: 8:30 AM
Naruto woke in the morning, and found himself sweaty from his battles in his dreams. Deciding to take a shower, Naruto knocked on the bathroom door to see if anybody was in there.
"Naruto, wait your god-damned turn." came a muffled voice, most likely Sasuke.
"Fine. Call me when you're done." Said Naruto, as he went downstairs for breakfast, which consisted of; rice, carrots, yams, and apples.
Tsunami, Tazuna's daughter, greeted Naruto cheerfully, "Good morning, Naruto! Did you sleep well?"
"Yes, thank you." Naruto said, while thinking, 'If you can call participating in a massive battle against a horde of hell-spawn "Sleeping" well.'
As Naruto finished, he heard Sasuke call him, "Yo! Naruto! Your turn!" so he ran upstairs after thanking Tsunami for breakfast.
Naruto was going to take a long shower. After removing his gauntlets, Naruto saw that the seal on his hands had changed to that of a sword. pushing chakra into the symbol on his stomach, the eye opened to reveal the curved triangle as the pupil. Deciding to switch the seals, Naruto briefly touched the eye, and the seals switched out. His hands lightly glowed white, he was surprised nobody noticed that the 'tattoos' on his hands had been different.
It was not that Naruto needed a shower, more that he wanted one. He could have always shaken off his outer layer of 'skin', and then reabsorbed the metal only. The beat of the water felt good on his body, and he greatly appreciated the fact that he didn't rust, as he was a solid. Stepping out of the bath, Naruto's clothes formed again, coloring themselves in.
'Time to change my clothes' thought the boy, so he did, switching them out for a pitch-black robe, tied at the waist to allow his feet to move freely.
Naruto inlaid copper spirals on his robe at the shoulders, and a Konoha leaf on the back. Taking the time to place pockets in the robe, Naruto added kunai and shuriken, so as to make others think he had a limited supply of weapons. He was no longer sure how much metal he was carrying, but he knew that he had as much as one needs to outfit an army. Naruto stepped out of the bathroom, and as he did, Sakura slipped in hastily behind him, eyeing his outfit before shutting the door.
Naruto went downstairs, to be greeted by Kakashi, lazily turning his head to check out what Naruto was wearing, "Nice threads, where did you get them?" asked the open pervert behind his book.
"When you have a lot of free time, sometimes you have to have hobbies, right, pervert?" Naruto said, trying to get Kakashi annoyed.
"Yup!" Kakashi said happily, "If you want, I could lend you one of my books..."
Naruto backed away startled, "I'm going to pass on that one."
"Suit yourself." said the lazy man plainly, "It's your turn to watch the bridge builder, Naruto."
Naruto nodded and left with Tazuna to the bridge.
Tazuna looked at his companion and asked, "Where did you pull those clothes out of? A scroll or something?"
Naruto covered up his actions with a simple, "Sure, why not?"
Water Country's Near-Finished Bridge: 9:15 AM
Naruto had been working for a while on the bridge, while guarding the client simultaneously. Metal clones were very helpful, as Naruto used them to gather scrap metal from the bridge's construction, as well as work on the bridge.
After the group had learned about the attack, Naruto formulated a plan with the bridge workers. He would replace them all with clones the next day, so they wouldn't be killed, while they prepare an army to battle in the case of a failure. A simple plan that resulted in minimal casualties, only Tazuna would be present the day of the attack to stop the bridge from falling apart during the battle.
Naruto went back to work, fusing pieces of metal together.
Water Country's REALLY CLOSE-to Finished Bridge: 5:00 PM
The workers all left, after achieving more in the time Naruto had been there then they had any other WEEK. As the workers waved Naruto and Tazuna goodbye, the pair looked at the work completed that day.
"Naruto, you did great! Now all of the workers can stay alive." praised the old man, "You have done more for this bridge than anybody else, building it, protecting it, and protecting the workers. You truly are a great Ninja."
Naruto was blushing from the praise, but laughed it off, "Yeah! I am great!" as the duo walked back to Tazuna's house.
Central Forest: 5:25 PM
Naruto had left Tazuna's house to train his new seal in the forest. Switching the seal by means of the eye, Naruto watched the effects.
The gauntlets he had been wearing, while previously white, they turned black and spiky, with ruby lightning and fire designs. His hands glowed an eerie green, wispy smoke rising from them. Forming armor from the gauntlets produced a dark armor, spiked in various places, but very form fitting. Where a shining helm once was, a face-mask took its place. The mask was pitch black, with ruby-red flames curving inwards to the right eye. It was jointed at the Jaw, with a covering of overly long teeth. Out of his shoulders sprung small spiked-guards The torso was muscled, with the Symbol of the eye showing up on the abdomen.
Naruto's lower body had the same form-fiiting armor, but the shins were covered in vertical blades, with the kneecaps protected by spikes. The boots were lightly plated, with spurs in the front and back.
A vertical flame ran up the entire right side of his body, and also ran up from his right arm, spiraling around it. The gauntlets' fingers had taken on spikes at the joints, pointing outwards. Turning his hand over, Naruto saw where the flame originated at, in a spiral at the center of his hand, sending tongues of flame down the undersides of his fingers, and the main flame through the wrist.
Clenching his right fist after looking at hit, Naruto produced an eastern-european broadsword, and watched the black metal it took its shape. Where a standard broadsword had cross-guards, this one had draconic wings. The blade itself was black, and had a dragon's head image in the metal of the tip, with the wavy pommel making up the tail. Naruto remembered the form of the sword, so he could use it later. After all, it was bad-ass.
In his left hand, Naruto produced a shield to match his sword. The shield came from his left forearm, and shaped itself into a dragon's folded wing. At the top of the shield was a dragon's head, opened and roaring.
All in all, Naruto loved the outfit, so decide to tell Stormbringer about it by going into the Ethereal plane, "Phase" he said, drifting into the Ethereal Realm.
"Nice duds, Naruto. Try corrupting the blade and shield, it draws out the latent power you subconsciously placed in them. Now go away, loser." said Stormbringer rather rudely, as Naruto went back to his standard realm.
Focusing his chakra into the blade and shield, Naruto uttered, "Corrupt".
The blade of the sword began to shimmer red, until it caught on fire, spewing its flame from the cross-guard. The shield began to look rather scaly, until the dragon's wing looked rather real. The shield unfolded itself, and turned into a pair of wings.
'Holy shit!' thought the boy, as the wing proceeded to beat, raising him into the air, 'Hey! I can see Tazuna's house from here!'
Controlling the wings with his mind, Naruto brought himself back down to earth, before dissipating the chakra, returning the armor, sword, and shield to his gauntlets.
He switched out his seals again, and walked back to Tazuna's.
Tazuna's Pad 5:45
Naruto came back to the house, to join everybody in an early dinner, as they had to be rested for tomorrow's battle. Naruto said goodnight to everyone, and went to bed.
End of Chapter 10
Did everyone like the extra long cliffhanger? Some people might accuse my of overpowering, but I personally think its just awesome to have such cool weapons. After all...If you have a SHORT life, live it to its fullest. Merry Christmahanukwanzaka!
-Johnhamsta