DISCLAIMER: I do not own Naruto or S-Cry-Ed
AUTHOR'S NOTES: Well guyz, let's see how the polls are doing so far.
Tenten: 7
Temari: 14
Hinata: 22
Sakura: 8
Ino: 4
Scheris: 2
Kanami: 7
Harem: 28
Well I see that the harems are staying ahead and are steadily increasing. Everyone should hurry up and cast their votes in because the next chapter I make my decision on who he hooks up with. Now let get this show on the road.
NEW ALTERS AND AKATSUKI ATTACKS
A week passed by since the invasion on Konoha and the death of the Third Hokage, so thing were starting to get back to normal. Sasuke went back to his usual mood, but with some strangeness to it though, Sakura went back to asking out the avenger 24/7, but not as much for some reason, Kakashi went to back to reading his smut, but he started to pay more attention to the former blond now and was wanting to test Alter as soon as he can. We then turn our gaze back to the new Alter user who is in a rocky landscape, we see that he is now in the stance taught by Kazuma and had his Alter out.
"Alright, new 'shell bullet addition' test, take four," he then positions himself towards a dummy he made out of piled rocks. He closed his eyes and calmed his breathing, he was wanting to add something more to his first stage, it was like Kakashi said 'the fundamentals are, well…fundamentals, and yours could be improved', in this case he needed to improve his fundamental of his Alter and come up with ways to use special techniques without using any bullets, but one that are just as powerful. He started to power his alter up, but not so much as to power to the second stage and tried to turn the materials he was breaking into the addition to his Alter that he had in his head. Once he was done, he dashed towards the dummy at great speeds, as fast as Lee.
If a regular person were to see this, they would seen Naruto standing at one moment and then in the blink of an eye, you see him crouched in a stance, pass the dummy. But there was a difference from what he had on his alter before, when he was in the standing the position, he had a regular Alter, but now he had a long, sharp orange blade with a zig zag black line in the middle of it, attached at the wrist and following outward toward the shoulder. (If you have played Guilty Gear X or any of it's sequels, think Chipp Zanuff's blade, only with the my description) once he stands up, the dummy slowly slides off in two, then once it hits the ground it then separates into sliced pieces.
"Heh, cool, now what should I call you?" he then looks intently at his new wrist blade Alter," hmmm, how about…Zanuff blade ( heh, get it)," he then proudly lifts it up to the sun and his it shine in the sunlight, getting a sort shine starting from the bottom to the end, ending with a sort 'ding'.
After being done with that, he powers down and sets off back to the village to get some breakfast," Alright, once I'm done with eating some breakfast, I should get back to that area and start working some more on some new Alter technique and additions. Hm?" once he runs into the village, he sees a little kid with a blue scarf and immediately recognizes whom it is.
The boy doesn't seem to notice the former blond beside him as he looks upon the Third Hokage's face, his grandfather," yo, what's up Konohamaru?" Naruto trying to sound as cheerful as he can for the boy, who turns to his 'boss' and tries to wipe away any tears he might've had," So, have the classes at the academy started up yet?" the former blond wanted to get the boy's mind off any negative thoughts.
"No, not yet. The building was damaged, so we're all going to help fix it," the hyperactive ninja nods at the boy," So what about you 'boss'? You training?"
"Yea," there was then a long moment of silence, the new Alter user then decided to break that silence," 'sigh' look here kid, I don't know if you understand, but… we don't have time to be sad. Everyone is working hard to rebuild the village right now; we have to work as hard as we can for the village. So I'm not the only one who needs to train hard, you need to as well, because we'll need all the power we can get so that we may be able to protect those precious to us," the little boy stood there, with his mouth open, but Naruto wanted to give him a bit of a push to get him in good moods, sorta," if you don't, I may take the title of Hokage right under you nose kid."
"WHAT?! We'll see about that 'boss', when I see you again, we'll have our duel to decide who will be the next Hokage," the grandson of the Third Hokage then ran off to train on his own, like is idol does. The former blond chuckles as the boy leaves,' at least now he's focused on something instead of just moping about,' thought Naruto.
"Well, now that's little affair is done, time to get the best food that ever graced god's earth…RAMEN," and with that, he vanished into to thin air, most likely using his speed to get to the ramen stand faster.
When he gets to the ramen stand, old man Icharaku and his daughter, Ayame, greet him when he sits in his usual seat," hey old man, give me ten bowls of beef ramen." (Sorry, couldn't get anymore creative than that)
"Right away," he then goes over to his kitchen and starts on his favorite costumer meal, but is has been awhile since he's seen him," so, what have you been up to Naruto?"
"Yea, what have you been up to?" Ayame asking the same question as her father with a warm smile; Naruto really liked these two, they never discriminated against him just because he houses the nine tailed fox, or more specific, Kazuma," you haven't come to the stand in a long time and we starting to get worried about you."
"Heh, no worries guys, I've been fine. And as to what I've been up to, I've been training my new Kekkei Genkai," the new Alter users says as he gives his foxy grin and pumps his right arm in the air midway.
The two were surprised when they saw him in the competition, but now that they knew about it, it didn't surprise them this time. But something was wrong," why would you need to train your bloodline limit? I thought you would have known all of its secrets, considering that you us it yourself."
Thinking of a good answer, he thinks back on the memories he had seen from Kazuma," well, not necessarily," he saw that they had confused looks," well, in my clan, as far as I've learned, each family member's 'Alter' is different. Whether they be like my 'Grand Breaker', or like sort of combat puppet, one better than the one we have to use with chakra strings," he remembered the fights the former Alter user had with his rival, Ryuho, and thought the fights they had were awesome.
"So, it's like how every person is different in their own way?" Ayame asks as she has a finger on her chin and thoughtful look.
"Yes, in a way your right," he then finally finishes up on his last bull," well thanks, old man, I gotta go and train my Alter," the former blond then laid his money down on the counter and left, waving the two goodbye and back to his training grounds.
After a bit of running, he started to sense something familiar. Broke from his train of thought, he hears scream, specifically two screams,' huh? What was that just now? I better go check, there might be someone in trouble.'
While he rushes towards the source the screams, inside the seal, the former Alter user starts to feel a two familiar Alter power signatures,' no way! I can't be, they died over a hundred years ago, there's no way they'd be alive, or in this world for that matter. Well, I guess all I can do is sit and watch what the kid does. I just hope we make it there in time,' Kazuma thought to himself without letting the former blond know his thoughts.
When he gets to the source, he is greeted by a group of thugs, most notably is that they seem to be the sort of thugs who torture people for pleasure. He then looks over to what their targets are, he sees two girls holding each other for their dear lives. One has an orange jacket on her buttoned up with tanned shorts and matching sneakers, she also has a large body of brown hair done up on a pony tail; the color of her skin is a bit pale like Hinatas and also has the same green eyes as Sakura. The other one has a blue tank top on with a white shorts with matching ninja sandals, her hair was short and an amazing blue; her skin was a good pink and her eyes matched her hair.
Deciding that these guys were going to do something horrible to these two defenseless girls, he decided to give these thugs their just deserts. At that moment he powered up his Alter and the surrounding area was dematerialized. The group of thugs we're surprised by the noise and looked frantically about, only to see carved out land marks around them, as if they've always been there which they weren't when they last saw the area around them. The two girls at first were confused as to what was happening, but then they both felt a strong power in the area, and did as the thugs did and looked around for the source.
"I think you guys should leave those girls, its obvious they don't want to play with you," at first the voice sounded serious, but quickly turned into a sarcastic one. The voice was booming out an echo in the forest area and they still couldn't find the person talking," man you guys are dense. You keep looking left and right, but have you even considered looking up, hehehe."
Everyone on the ground shot their head up to the tree branches, only to see a figure shaded by the sun, they couldn't see the persons face or his details with the way the sun was beaming down on him," what the hell do you want? Why don't you just run along, we have some fun to finish," the leader obviously said.
The blue hair girl could only stare in wonder,' who is that? This scene…it seems so familiar to me, yet I know this has never happened to me, or my sister. So what is going on here,' images in her head flashed for a brief moment, which served to confuse her more.
The brown ponytail hair girl had her own thoughts on the matter,' he's the one of the people I've been having in my dreams, is he here to rescue? Please, let him be here to save us. I don't want to die until I meet the other one in my dreams.' an image of a brown haired man with an eye closed, looking off in the distance from a cliff while the water waves crashes it side goes through her head slowly.
"I don't think I can do that, from what I can tell, you sense of 'fun' isn't like playing in a playground and singing happy, merry songs along the way," even though he was being sarcastic, you could tell he was not pleased that these fools were trying to hurt innocent civilians and that doesn't sit right with him one bit.
"Well, it looks like we got a hero on our hand here boys. What do you say we mess him up for messing with us?" they all give a loud 'yeah' to their leader," hear that tough guy, you aren't so tough once your go against all of us."
Deciding he's had enough, he looks directly at the leader's eye. Even though the leader himself can't see him clearly, he could have sworn his eyes flash gold all of a sudden and that started to scare him, what scared to the brink of him pissing his pants was what he said next in a low audible voice," fools…die."
In an instant, he was gone. They all frantically look for him, they then hear the two girls they were going to kill gasp, the leader looks to their direction and sees the shadow man in all of his glory (you've heard the description so many time, so you know what he looks like, only difference now is that he has the 'Zanuff Blade' out)," How did he get there?" the leader said in a frightened voice. Which would be his last.
"Hmph, it's not even worth my time to tell you what happened," the new Alter user snapped his left hand. The leader confused by it was about to ask, but then his vision started to split, before all the thugs knew it, they were sliced and diced into gory pieces. Before the two girls could see what happened, Naruto carried them both off before the gruesome scene could happen.
When he gets far enough, he sets them down. Deciding that he has had long enough after he powered down, he runs over to a tree and vomits so they can't see him do it,' 'pant' I can't believe I just did that…but it was for the sake of saving those girl and by the looks of it, those thugs have been doing that sort of thing for quite a while, so I guess it's better off this way.'
"Umm, excuse me sir, are you okay?" Naruto turns back after being done tossing his cookies on the forest floor and sees the orange jacket girl with a worried look on her face.
"Oh, don't worry, I'm fine. But what about you two, how are you two feeling? I mean it's not everyday this sort of thing happens," he really wondered how the village could not have notice these sort of events happen in the village, but Konoha is a big village and things like these are bound to happen every once in a while.
"Oh, I'm fine sir," the brown haired girl says with a smile and smile eyes.
"I'm okay, so how did you know where we were and how did you know we were in any danger? We could have been just scared of something else," the blue haired girl was wondering if this guy was their savior or not and wanted to know quickly by his answer," also, how do you have an Alter?" she saw that got his attention right away.
"How do you know about Alters?" the former blond thought he was the only one who had knowledge about Alters in this world, but here this girl just asked as if it was regular information.
"Because my sister and me her are Alter users," the orange jacket girl said, that made his eyes bulge out like saucers. These two girls are Alter users, but he needed proof; just to be sure they weren't pulling his leg," 'pause' prove it?" he said in a monotone voice.
"Well, uh, my Alter power isn't necessarily activated like yours is, but I can delve into peoples minds and emotions when I'm asleep," he got a doubtful look from the former blond," It's true, most of them revolve around strong people with strong emotions and lately they've been about you,' she finished with a bit of a blush.
"Huh?" Naruto asked intelligently.
"Well, like your exploits you could say, like when you fought Gaara of the sand," she then recited every moment of the fight between the said sand user and the new Alter user, needless to say Naruto was convinced about her, now it was the blue haired girls turn.
"Now what about you?" he turned his gaze to the blue tanked top girl.
"I can heal those around me, but not perfectly, it really drains a lot out of me depending on how extensive the injury is," she remembered the last time she used it, and was needless to say, she couldn't walk for an hour.
"Alright, Ill give the benefit of the doubt…you know, I never caught you names," he didn't even ask their names at all, and it did seem like they didn't come from any near by village, considering that their clothes were dirty and worn out from traveling.
"I'm Kanami, and this here is my sister Scheris," the girl name Kanami politely answered.
"Yo," Scheris simply said after the introduction.
'Hmm, where have I heard those names before,' the names they just used had caught his attention, it was in the back of his mind but he couldn't place. That's when the accidental demon lord voiced himself in.
'Those two are from my world and were alive when I fought against Mujo and sometime after, except Scheris, she died after she gave her life in exchange for Ryuhos," Kazuma remembered how it pained Ryuho to even talk about the girl and it pained him to see Kanami now,' but from what I can tell from these two, I'm guessing they are the reincarnations of those two. But it's pretty strange they know about Alters.'
'Hmm, if what you say is true, then maybe, somehow their past memories have sprung to the surface, albeit only a little bit of them,' the former blond quickly deduced.
'You may be right, anyway, if they ask any question about me, or why you look like you do now, then try to come up with a cover story, okay kid?' Naruto nods at his request and is back to reality, right where he left off.
"Well, I guess I should introduce myself then, the name is Naruto 'Shell Bullet' Uzumaki, and I'm going to be the next Hokage," the new Alter user announced proudly to them.
' 'Shell Bullet'? That's what the other person in my dreams was nicknamed and Naruto almost looks exactly like him, I wonder…I'll try to find out later now's not the time,' Kanami thought for a moment, the man here almost acted like the other man in her dreams too.
"So, seeing as how you guys look like you've traveled far, I'd have to guess you guys have nowhere to stay at, am I correct?" he got a surprised looks on their faces, but they then simply nodded.
"Hmm, I know it ain't much but why don't you guys sleep over at my place," he saw Kanami blush and Scheris had a dirty look on her face," huh? Oh, wait minute, no, I'm not trying to pick you guys up, I'm trying to give you guys my hospitality. Besides, you guys don't have any money I'm guessing and that you don't know anybody in the village, right?"
After that was said, they both hung their head down in defeat," uh, it's not our fault that we're broke, we can barely eat off the land we walk on," the blue hair Alter user said.
"Don't worry, you guys can stay over at my place as long as you want, no rent pay whatsoever," they both looked at him, but then the boy heard their stomachs growl, they both then got embarrassed look on their faces," hahahaha, I guess we better get you guys some grub to eat before we head over to my apartment. Come on, I'll take you two to the best restaurant in Konoha."
They nodded their head and followed the spiked hair brunette to the place that will save their stomachs from starvation. They arrive in a village under construction, seemingly recovering from a battle,' this must be what happened while Naruto was fighting Gaara, I feel sorry for the villagers here,' Scheris thought sadly, not only was Kanami able to have the visions, but she could transfer them to her sister as well to see what happened.
"Yo, old man I'm back, and I have two hungry girls here who need some good ol' ramen to fight off their starvation," Naruto said with his foxy grin as he talks to Ichiraku," oh, and give me twelve bowl of some pork ramen."
That made the two girls whip their head toward him and had one thought on both of their minds,' how can he eat that much?!' they were both answered when they finished their second bulls as Naruto finished his last one,' he actually ate them all!" the both thought surprised again.
"Well, come on, let's get going to your guys temporary home," he got a blank look from both of them," uh, okay, your permanent home," he was sweating bullets when they gave him that glare, but then when he said the last sentence, they immediately had big smiles on their faces.
'Score, free permanent pad,' the both thought as they gave each other a high five.
Before they could take another step, a certain perverted sage got in the way of their path," they said you like to eat ramen, I guess they weren't kidding."
He was surprised to see the toad hermit there," perverted sage?!"
"Perverted sage??" Scheris repeated; she then looked at the man Naruto called a pervert. When the old man looked at her and her sister, he then grew a lecherous grin on his face.
"Oh, and who might you be lovely ladies be?" his voice just screamed pervert to the girls and started to hide behind to rescuer. Getting the hint, Naruto glares right at the old hermit.
"Look here Jiraiya-sensei, if I find out that you have taken notes about these two, or try any way to take a peek, even a smidge, I swear I'm gonna take any dignity you have as a man and through them into a fire fueled by your books," he then pointed right at the old hermits crotch so he gets the hint. Jiraiya knew to take his student seriously when he uses his name with sensei in it, because if you don't, you have just dug your own funeral.
"Anyways, I've come to take you on one of my 'research trips," they all then proceed to his apartment as they talk.
"Hm? Why? Why do I have to go on a research trip with you, perverted sage?" he really didn't like the sound of it and it would cut the time on him training his alter.
"No, listen, this is no ordinary research trip," he paused for a bit as Naruto raises an eyebrow at," There's a woman I want to ask some question, so I have to find her."
"Look here, I ain't got time to do some perverted stuff with you, and besides if you haven't notice," the former blonde points back with his thumb showing to rising red chakra auras coming from two sisters," if you keep up with that act of yours, your going to be missing a head, if you know what I mean," Jiraiya then shuddered at the thought.
"Besides, I have to train," the old man takes his turn to raise an eyebrow," 'sigh' I need to train my Alter and add some elements and techniques to it," the former blond finished,' I need to make more techniques for the first stage, so that I won't have to rely on the second stage when I'm in a jam.'
Quickly thinking of a plan, he play on his students weakness, new jutsus," well, there is this one move that I know and I believe you can master it," Naruto whipped his head so hard to the old hermit, the girls believed he could have gotten whiplash," I see that's gotten your attention," the old coot said with a grin.
Deciding over his original training plans, he concedes defeat, the old perv knew how to push his button," 'sigh' alright, when do we go and this technique better be hella powerful."
"Oh, trust me brat, this jutsu is more powerful than the Chidori, and as for when, right now, meet me at the northern gate," that made Naruto get a grin on his face, he'll show up that jerk again,' heh, another thing I should keep in mind is about his rivalry.'
"Alright, Kanami, Scheris, let's go to my apartment, I need to pack up for the trip," the two quickly catch up to him as he walks off, leaving the old man behind to his own devices.
When they caught, they were about to ask a question, but he answered their unsaid question," you two will be taking care of my apartment while I'm gone. There is money under my bed that should last you the month," and so they left it at that.
When he got to his apartment, the two made complaints about how his apartment is, but he paid no mind to them. When he was done, he was about to leave out the door, but he then turned to the two and it looked like they wanted to say a few things first before he leaves.
Kanami was the first to step up," Naruto, please be careful, I feel that this trip will be a dangerous one."
"Thanks…hey Scheris," the blue haired Alter user looked straight at him," if you could, could you please do me a favor?"
Seeing as how he saved her and her sister, not only that, but also giving them a place to stay, she was more than obliged to do what he wanted. Regardless of what might happen," Sure thing Naruto, whatever it is, I'll do it."
"Thanks, I want to test that Alter power of yours and have it heal a friend of mine," she winces a bit, but she nods," here's his room number in the hospital, make sure no one is a around when you do it."
"Why?" that really did confuse her, why hide what she is.
"Because the people here think I'm the only Alter user of this world, in the competition of the chunnin exams, I said that my Alter was my Kekkei Genkai and that this particular one belonged to my clan and people think that I'm the only one of my clan," she was afraid where he was going with, which he confirmed," if word got out about you two, then enemy ninjas will come and try to pry the secrets of Alter power by dissecting you and I doubt you want that."
"NO," they both said at the same time, which made him laugh.
"Alright I'm off, wish me luck," and with that he left through the door and made his way to the gate that the old pervert was waiting.
"You ready to go Naruto," the old lecherous man asked with a grin.
"Yea, lets get going," they both then walked out through the gates of Konoha, in search of this woman Jiraiya is after. Unbeknownst to them, Itachi Uchiha and his partner Kisame Hoshigaki were just leaving Konoha and were in search of Naruto.
After about an hour of walking, the former blond was getting really bored of doing nothing but walk," 'long grunt' so you old pervert, there's one thing that's been bugging me," the old coot turned his head to the boy," why did you pick me to be traveling with you?"
At that moment, he stopped walking and paused before he answered," the Fourth Hokage was my apprentice, and your very similar to him in many ways. That's the only reason."
'Hm? Right, first he's an idiot old pervert, and then he's a serious old man with a burden on his shoulders. You really need to pick which personality to stay with old man,' Naruto thought, he then spoke to the old coot," well thanks for the compliment. Now let's keep going," they both then carried on their way, in search of this woman Naruto didn't know about.
Back in the dimension Kazuma came from, Ryuho has now ended the endless battles between the mainland and the lost grounds. He did so by using both his powers and diplomacy skill, he used his power to better demonstrate not to mess with the lost grounds and he used his diplomacy skills in order to smooth things out between the two lands. So now that the battles were over, what was left for him now? He couldn't go and find Kazuma, seeing as how his Alter power signature vanished twelve years ago, he always wondered what happened to his good friend and rival.
"Kazuma, have you really died? I would have thought you would've out lasted me. Despite how it may look like I'm healing, the power is slowing eating away at my body. In ten years or so, I'll die," he then left to the area where he first fought Kazuma; in way this is how their friendship and rivalry began. It calmed him, being in this place made him feel at peace.
'Ryuho… Ryuho… Ryuho… Ryuho…' a voice booming in his said, he looked around for the source, but couldn't find it,' Ryuho… Ryuho… Ryuho…' the voice became clearer each time and it started to scare him.
"That voice, it can't be… it can't be," tears started to come down his eyes, all of this started to make him think he was going," IT CAN'T BE," the voice he recognized it to was none other than…Scheris.
'Scheris, are you really alive? Or am I just going crazy from all the battle?' he thought as tears came down his face as he looked to the sky. He then noticed something strange; the sky was starting to crack like a mirror. Wiping the tears from his eyes to make sure it wasn't his eyes tricking him, the sky in his started to crack like glass. When one more crack happened, everything went silent and that's when all hell broke loose.
The sky broke and there in the broken glass stood the portal to the 'other side'. Great winds picked up, Ryuho trying his best not to be swept up in the current. He was about to go to his third stage, but it was too late as the winds picked him up and the portal swallowed him in, his body floating in it's depth, unconscious.
We are now back to the world of ninjas, where Kanami and Scheris are now in Rock Lee's room. They had no problem getting into the hospital, even though people gave them cold stares and muttering something along the lines of 'demon lovers' or something like that. They wondered what they meant, but they shrugged it off, they'll find out later sometime. Scheris wanted to keep her word and get to healing this Rock Lee as soon as possible.
Kanami was currently taking watch at the door after she had shut all the window visors, so that no one outside sees what happens," hurry up, I don't know how long we can stay in here and keep a secret about our Alters power at the same time."
"Yea, yea, keep your panties on sis," the sister gave her a good glare for a sec before she resumed her watch," you know just as much as I do that I hardly used my Alter and it hurts when I do use it."
"'Sigh' I know, just be careful okay," Kanami gave a concern looked to her blue haired sister.
"Don't worry, I will," she gave a warm smile to the concerned girl. Scheris then put he hands onto the bushy brow boy's chest and started to use her Alter," ETERNAL DEVOTE," the hand glowed and then sunk into the boys body. The pain she was going through was agonizing, considering the boy's injuries; this is to be expected.
In the portal to the other side, Ryuho's body begins to pulsate.
At the same time, Lee's body pulsates as well.
Slowly, but surely the pulsating of the two bodies begin to synchronize with each other. It's as if the two bodies, minds, and spirits are calling out to each other.
As soon as the injuries began healing, Scheris felt a powerful pull and pulled out her hands before it hit her. As soon as she did, the boy's body exploded in a silver light, blinding the two girls. As soon as the light died down, they both gasped, his body had changed.
His hair was no longer in a bowl cut, but it was now dropping down his face, in a sort of Dante style way. (Devil May Cry) His eyes were no longer bug eyed and were now more narrow, his eyebrows were no longer thick and now were nicely thin, his lips were no longer looked like a beak, but now was your normal type of lips. His build was the same, but his height had grown to Naruto's size.
His eye's started to flutter," uuh, what happened? Gai-sensei? Tenten? Neji? Are you guys there?" each question came out slowly and in a groggy voice,' what's going on? I feel different, what did they put in that stuff? I am never going to eat hospital food again.'
"Shhh," a voice came, telling him to be silent," you're alright Lee, you've just been healed, so your gonna need to rest," her face then came to his view. In an instant, memories upon memories were going through his head so fast. The images started to slow down and started to make sense, well enough sense, and then it came to him.
"Scheris," Lee said in a shocked and saddened voice. He now knew what happened, though hardly explainable, he somehow fused with this man called Ryuho and he fused with him, he was now one. All of each other's memories, powers, moves and beliefs, they were all intact as they fused together. But since he was in this world, he would still go by the name of Rock Lee, the gennin that will become the best tai-jutsu specialist, but now he also had another goal, defeat Naruto, the one who has Kazuma's power.
Taken back by the sound of the boys voice and how he knew her name was an equal shock," How do you know who I am? I never told you my name?"
He then sat himself up to better and saw another person he didn't expect to see," Kanami?" he said in same mixed voice as before,' What's going on her? How are those two still alive? It's been more than a hundred and fifty years since the both of them been alive,' he then pondered on it a bit,' of course, these two must be their reincarnations. If they had their Alter powers too, then it would explain some things, well the fusing part. Everything else is still a mystery, hmmm.' he was brought out of his thoughts as the blue haired girl started to talk.
"Hey, are you even listening? Anybody home?" Scheris asked while waving her hand in front of the 'former' bushy brow ninja.
Broke from his train of thought, he looked at the girl at first with sadness, confusion, and then realization. He looked straight at her and that made her get a shiver down her spine as he looked like that with…blood red eyes.
Softening his look as he saw he was getting her scared, he talked to with the politeness Lee would when he sees a beautiful woman, without the lovey dovey stuff though," oh, sorry, I just kinda dazed there. So, are you the one who healed me?" he gave her a big Lee smile.
She blushed a bit under the smile, something in her was telling her to give this man a kiss, but pushed back the urge," uh yea, umm, how are you feeling now?"
"Oh, I'm feeling great, thank you. If it wasn't for you, I'd might've been here for quite awhile," he then jumped off the bed and looked around the room for his clothes. When he saw them, he knew that he needed to get something new. Being fused not only gave him some good combat knowledge and memories, but it also gave him more sense if he didn't have it before,' sorry Gai-sensei, I need to differentiate myself, I don't want to do the whole 'Holy' thing again.'
As soon as he got them on, he turned to the two girls room," How rude of me, I haven't introduced myself, the name is Rock Lee, it is a pleasure to meet you all."
'Hmm, something weird and he's avoiding my first questions. I guess we'll have to just go with the flow for now,' with that though done she gave her own smile," hello, my name is Scheris, no last name though. We're orphans."
He got a sad look on his face, but nodded and turned his face to the next girl," and my name is Kanami, it's nice to meet you Lee. Naruto must be a real good friend of yours if he wanted to heal you as fast possible."
He then looked right at her," Excuse me Kanami, but would you mind telling me what where Naruto has gone, I would like to…Thank him myself," Scheris felt something was off when he paused, but just shrugged it off, maybe he did want to thank him.
"He went on a research trip with an old man named Jiraiya," Kanami said with her bright smile.
"Oh," he looked down, defeated,' damn, that's not enough, I need to know where exactly he is, or at least what direction he went,' he then heard running in the hall. The two followed what he was doing and opened the door to see Sasuke running as if his life depended on it.
Lee felt something was going on and it involve Naruto, and that was all he needed to go and follow the last Uchiha, steathfully, because he felt that his sensei was also tailing the avenger. The girls could do nothing to stop him and looked at each other with worried looks on their faces.
'Just you wait Naruto, when we meet again, we'll find out who's truly stronger. And I will try and find out why you have Kazuma's powers one way, or another,' Lee thought to himself as he kept a good distance from both Sasuke and Gai.
Back with Naruto and Jiraiya, the two rest up near a temple," hey pervert hermit, just what kind of student was the Fourth Hokage anyway?" that was the one question Naruto had bugging him at the moment.
"Well, it wouldn't be an overstatement to say he became strong thanks to my tutelage and since you're going to be receive my teachings, you're super lucky," the white haired Sannin said with pride in his voice.
"Uh-huh," the former blond felt a little skeptical about what he said.
"What, don't believe me? A good teacher raises a good apprentice, that's common sense," the old man said in a 'matter of fact' voice.
Naruto asks out of pure curiosity," so, who taught you to be so good then?"
"Me?" he then proudly says his answer," by the Third Hokage, of course."
"What? When? When you were a kid or something?" he only got a nod from the old man, by his looks, he expected the former blond to do something stupid. But he didn't see anything happen, so let out a disappointed sigh when nothing did," so what did you have to do for your gennin exams?"
"Hmm, since Kakashi taught you stuff, you went through the bell training, right?" the boy then nodded his answer, remembering that little incident made his butt hurt a little bit, seeing as how his sensei poked him real hard in the ass.
"'Sigh' I was the one tied to the log," the former blond had a sad look on his face at that time.
"What? You too?" that surprised the old man, if only a little considering how is student acted, well used to anyway.
Naruto looked at him with a confused look on his face," you too? What do you mean by 'you too'?"
Quickly catching himself, the old man tries to change the subject as quickly as possible," ah, forget it. Come on, we have a ways to go," he remembered how he too was tied to the tree pole, albeit a little different.
"Alright, if you don't want to say anything about, I'm not complaining. So yea, let's go," they both head of to their destination, in search of the woman who Jiraiya knows as Tsunade.
When they arrive in a lodging town, they see that there are many things happening, many strange event to be exact," this town sure is strange."
They both then proceed to a hotel which Jiraiya pays a room for them both," hey, Naruto," the former blond then looks at him," this is where we'll be staying for the day."
"Huh? Why? We can still keep going and find this woman your searching for sooner," the boy said in a complaining voice.
"An apprentice must follow his teacher's orders," the old pervert quickly replied.
"I just want to learn that technique quick and be done with it," the old man was starting to piss Naruto off.
"And that is what makes you my apprentice," Jiraiya bending his head down to the boy, considering his own height," hm?" he then notices something walking out in front of the entrance of the hotel.
What it was, was one sexy ass woman with a small one-piece blue dress. Jiraiya was at a loss, his pervert senses going out of whack and just wanting to do naughty things with this woman as she looked at him and winked.
"Hey, Naruto," the boy looked right at the old pervert, the old man then handed him the key and left in a dash. Yelling back as he went off," go to the room, mold some chakra, train, and go to sleep," and with that he was gone, leaving a steaming Alter user behind.
"DAMMIT OLD MAN, 'sigh' mind as well get some rest and then go somewhere to train on my Alter afterwards," he then headed up the stairs and searched for the room. He found the room with no problem and put his backpack down in the room and plopped himself on the bed for a bit.
After a long hour or two of playing poker with three clones he made, he decided it was time to go out and train his Alter, but someone then knocked on the door of the room,' hmm, I don't think it's the old man, the energy signature is different. 'Shrug' mind as well see who it is,' he then got up to see who was at the door.
'Hmm, Sasuke? Wait, he's not 'that' big, but he has the Sharingan in his eyes, so who could this guy…' he then thought back to what the avenger said to him when Haku had put him a death like state, that he wanted to kill his brother,' this guy must be his brother, the one that Sasuke is seeking revenge against.'
"What do you want?" the former blond said in a cold voice.
At first, Itachi wasn't sure this was the boy they were looking for, considering his height, hair color, clothing, but he went and looked a the key detail quickly and knew this was their intended target.
"Well, I guess this is look of him is to be expected from the boy who hold the nine tails within him," Kisame then makes himself known by appearing from the side of the door. Naruto then puts this guy under the name of 'shark face', incase he wanted to just piss him off or anything else later.
'How do they know about Kazuma? Well not him exactly, but how do they know I even have him?' this started to get Naruto on edge as the two just stand looking at him like he was their prey.
"Naruto, you're coming with us," the Sharingan heir says in a calm, monotone command," let's go outside."
Then a grin appeared on the new Alter users face,' I can tell these guys ain't chumps, fighting them might help me evolve my first stage even further,' the then starts to step out in the hall of the hotel.
"Hmm, Itachi, it would be quite annoying if he moved around, perhaps we should cut off one or both of his legs," the shark man said with a sadistic grin on his face.
'Like hell you will,' the former blond was just standing, but he was ready to go into action at a moments notice.
The cool-headed Uchiha stood there, contemplating his answer to his partner, but he just stood there silent. Taking as it as a yes, the shark man steps toward the boy," then I shall do it."
'That's right shark face just keep getting closer, and when you do, I'll power up and use my 'Dragon's Fang Impact' on you with enough power to turn your insides into shreds,' Naruto stood their, acting like he was afraid of what's to come, the blue skinned man didn't know what was going to come.
But Itachi finally spoke," it's been a long time…Sasuke," and low and behold, the avenger stands at the end of the hall.
Like his brother, he gave a silent pause before spoke just two word, with malice and hatred in them," Itachi Uchiha," he says slowly.
'I knew it; this is his brother, Itachi Uchiha. The man whole killed his whole clan and spared only Sasuke,' this made his suspicions confirmed as they continued to talk.
Kisame looks back on the young Uchiha with his shark like grin," oh, the Sharingan and he looks very similar to you Itachi. Who is the kid, huh?"
"My little brother," the older Uchiha simply replies.
"I heard the entire Uchiha clan was killed…by you," now Naruto knew his sources were correct when he overheard Kakashi talking about the incident awhile back. (Not going to flash back on that)
"Itachi Uchiha," the young Uchiha says with more hate and anger," I'm going to kill you."
The older Uchiha simply turned to his little brother with his eyes closed, which Sasuke mimicked. They stood like that for a second before they both opened their eyelids to reveal their Sharingans, although Sasuke's wasn't perfected yet.
"Like you said," the air around the avenger started to lift his hair a bit," I hated you, detested you, and just to kill you, I've…" he then starts to charge up his new technique he got from his sensei, the Chidori," I've survived," he then charges in to kill his brother with the assassination technique he learned," I'M GOING TO KILL YOU."
But Itachi just stood there, waiting for the boy to get close enough. He then simply caught the technique, sending the attack away from him, while also making a hole through the apartment Naruto was in.
'Okay, I am not paying for that,' the former blond said as he looked at the damage done by the Chidori. He then looked back at his rival and sees that he can't get out of the older Uchiha's grip. He sees him tighten that grip and Sasuke wincing at the pain being felt by the pressure of it,' gotta do something,' Naruto then charges up his chakra to do his Shadow Clone jutsu.
Kisame see this and takes his opportunity to use his sword special ability. During this, Sasuke tried to get free, but Itachi snapped his wrist, thus making the young Uchiha cry out in pain. Just as Naruto saw this, he was about to use his energy to summon his clones, but Kisame simply slashed down with his wrapped sword and all of the chakra the former blond built up was gone.
"Surprised brat, my Samehada can shave…and devour chakra," the shark man said with pride in his voice as he explained his swords abilities," you know, it would be annoying if he used one of his petty jutsus…perhaps I should cut off an arm as well, before I take out the legs."
"Heh, like I'll let you," the former blond said in a cocky voice as he powers up his alter," Chakra is not the only power a human has shark face," this surprised the two as he darkens in colors and that the contents of the rubble from the blast of the Chidori explode out of existence.
"Huh? Impossible, well no matter, I'll take that arm, NOW," he took his wrapped sword over his head; trying to stop the boy from doing anything they don't know. He then brought his sword down on the boy only to hit something orange in color, he then sees that it looks like a gauntlet with a blade attached to it.
"Heh, like it? This is the power I gained from 'friend'," he say the word in emphasis to make them catch his meaning, which by the look of the shark mans face, he does. But the older Uchiha only raised an eyebrow," I gave the arm a name, it's name is 'Grand Breaker', and the blade you see on it is my 'Zanuff blade'. Now are we just gonna stand here all day, or are we going to fight?" he said with a cocky grin.
But the two were interrupted as a new competitor stepped in," so what took ya, you old pervert?" Naruto asks with a lazy tone, as the person reveal so to be Jiraiya
Completely ignoring his student, the old man does his thing in front of the two criminals," Jiraiya the man does not allow women to simply seduce him with their beauty. When you become great like me, women will go crazy over your beauty," insert many pose shots of him from different side.
They all just stare at the stupidity of the old man,' you have got to be kidding me, even I could come up with something better than that,' Naruto thought as he narrowed his eyes at his stupid sensei.
"You know that little speech of yours is down right stupid, right? You got excited from a simple wink from the woman. I don't think you should be showing off like that right now, you perverted hermit," the new Alter user said as he was trying to fend off the blade on his Alter arm,' man, this guy has some power. Now I know I'm not up to his level, 'sigh' oh well. At least that pervert is here, I can just let him take care of them…for now.'
"Come on, now. Don't call me that in front of people," Jiraiya said while scratching the back of his head while holding the woman that he went off with on his shoulder.
"Shut it," the former blond said in a serious tone," more importantly now, would mind getting these guys off Sasuke and me here? I know you can tell these guys aren't just some chumps."
'Hmm, good he know when to retreat when necessary, he also know how to gauge opponents and be sure to hold out long enough for reinforcement, all the while he had a cool head. Maybe once I get Tsunade to come back, I can give the information about his skill and have him promoted to chunnin like that Nara kid,' Jiraiya thought as he felt proud to have student like the Fourth Hokage once again," sure thing brat."
"Hehehe, so this is the great Jiraiya, who was praised as one of the legendary Sannin, huh?" the shark face got back his grin once he got over the shock of this new development of the kids arm," even if you an extreme lover of women, I knew that we couldn't hold you off that easily."
'Hmm, so they knew who he was all along? How long have these two been tailing us,' thought the former blond as he looked at his situation.
"Well that's not my true identity or whatnot…" but he was cut off as the sword-wielding maniac spoke.
"It seems like you have dispelled the gen-jutsu from that woman," Kisame not the least impressed by this old man.
Jiraiya then locked eyes with Itachi; they both paused for a few moments in silence. Jiraiya then place the woman on his shoulder against the wall," you're a disgrace to all men, using your eyes to hypnotize a woman to separate me from Naruto."
'I kinda already figured that out, but why is the question. Why go through the trouble of trying to separate us,' although he felt he already knew the answer to his question, he just didn't want to admit it.
"So you are after Naruto," now that Jiraiya confirmed it by saying this, Naruto still didn't know why they were after him specifically. But then it hit him.
'They're after Kazuma, but why? Surely they don't intend to free him and enslave him. If there is a way to free him, I'd do it in a blink of an eye, but not at the cost of him being controlled by someone,' the former blond was scared for his tenant. Kazuma, in way, became like a brother to him and he'd be damn if they take him away. With in the seal, Kazuma couldn't help but feel the same way.
"It's no wonder Kakashi knew of our plans," Itachi thought back to his battle in Konoha and how Kakashi revealed their plans to other jounins in the area," I see now. You were the source. It is an urgent order by our organization, Akatsuki, to take Naruto with us."
'So this group by the name of Akatsuki want me and Kazuma, this is not good, if their after someone like me then wouldn't that…' realization dawned upon him again,' Gaara, they're after him too I bet. I just hope he survives who he encounters, maybe once we get a Hokage back in our village, then I can make the recommendation to go and warn Gaara,' though in a way, he wasn't the only person Naruto was worrying about. The other person he was worrying about as well was the sand kunoichi, Temari.
Naruto then pushed off the blade with some of his Alter power and Kisame backed off a bit, they all stood there in silence until Jiraiya spoke," I will not hand Naruto over to you."
"We'll see about that," even though those words came out casually calm from Itachi, it voiced the old pervert to challenge them.
"Very well, I shall get rid of you both here and now," he stood up properly, accepting the little challenge from the Sharingan heir, but a voice, coming from our favorite avenger (he's still an ass though), trying to stop anyone from killing his brother.
"Don't interfere…" the young Uchiha painfully got back up to his feet,' no one is going to kill my brother except me, I'm an avenger and I will be the one to claim his life.' He then looked straight at his brother with hatred in his eye," the one who will kill him, will be me," he said as he announced his thoughts and vow to everyone present in the hall.
'Sasuke, you need to let that anger go, or it will consume, trust me, I've seen it with the memories I've seen through Kazuma's eyes,' Naruto thought back on when Kazuma showed him the fight between him and Mujo, how that creep went and betrayed, hated, and stole just for power
The older Uchiha, only turned his head slightly with his back turned the younger Uchiha," I have no interest in you right now."
That set off the avenger and snapped his wrist back into place, he then charged in with the fixed hand turned into a cocked back punch," SHUT UP."
Itachi simply side kicked the boy and sent him flying toward the end of the hall, having him crash into the wall at the end. Naruto was about to move in to help his friend up, but Sasuke wanted none of it and declined. He gets back up once again and repeats his vow one more time. He then charges once again, recklessly, and tries to punch the old Uchiha in the face, but is blocked and then countered by a backhand from him, and once again sent flying back to the same wall. Naruto was starting to get worried now for his friend, but if he interfered now, he would break the young Uchiha's honor and he didn't want to be the one to do that.
"I'm not through yet 'pant'…this is my battle," the avenger tries his best to get back the energy he had, but his body is too damaged to do so.
"Very well," Itachi then walked over to his little brother slowly, making each step seem like death is coming for him.
Jiraiya was about to stop him, but Kisame got in the way," you heard him; this is a battle between those two. Let's not interfere."
When Sasuke saw that his older brother was in front of him, just staring, it got him pissed off," BRING IT ON, YOU ASS," he then tried to tackle him, but the older Uchiha kneed him in the gut, stopping the avengers attack. From there, it was a plain beat down, pure and simple, and Sasuke did not like the pain he was feeling one bit.
Naruto was watching the whole thing go down, but he didn't want to use the power of his Alter. If he did, there would be needless destruction and lost lives, so the only thing he could do was watch, as his teammate gets beat down to an inch of his life. He then sees that Itachi pick up his younger brother and pin him to the wall and say something only he can hear. The next thing that happened was Sasuke screaming at the top of his lungs, he knew that Itachi had done some sort of gen-jutsu on him, seeing as how he just had him pinned.
"Being cruel, as usual. He used Tsukuyomi on his little brother," the shark man still had the grin on his face as he hears the cries of terror from the young Uchiha. Sasuke, after his last scream, falls unconscious under the Sharingan heir's hand.
"Stop it already. Haven't you had enough fun, you sick bastard," Naruto barely keeping his voice from yelling and has a lot of hatred in his tone. Deciding he's had enough, he charges in with his Alter fist cocked back, Kisame then follow the boy and tries to stop. This gives Jiraiya what he needs to do a specific jutsu and quickly goes through the hand seals.
When they stop for a moment to see what's going on, they see the walls, ceilings, and floor turn into something that look like some creatures innards," what the hell is this?" the former blond asks himself.
"'Ninja Art: Frog Mouth Trap'," Sasuke is then pulled in and stuck onto the wall, while Kisame's feet are getting trapped into the floor," your out of luck, Kisame, Itachi. You're inside my stomach now. I summoned the esophagus of a gigantic frog from the Myouboku Mountain's Inn. You two are wanted criminals anyway, so I'll turn you two into food for this rock frog."
The two Akatsuki members see that they are at disadvantage and Naruto felt disgusted with walking around in something like this.
"Hey, Naruto, Stay still," the former blond then turns his head to Jiraiya," Don't worry, this is my technique."
"Kisame, come," the Sharingan heir commanded the shark man, who struggle to get out of the flesh like bindings, once he does, he runs with Itachi to escape the fleshy prison.
"It's useless, no one has ever escaped this before," as they run, Jiraiya pushes down on the flesh and the walls begin to close in on the two who are running. Once they leave his sight, an explosion occurs seconds later after he had the walls close in on them. The perverted hermit then runs to see what happened, followed closely by Naruto.
"Tsk, they got away," the former blond then goes to the hole that has remnants of black flames. He just looks at them with confusion, knowing that if he touch the flame, even get too close to it, something bad will happen," well, let's see how Sasuke is."
He seals the black flames first, before he releases the nasty jutsu he has on. The body of the young Uchiha falls out of the fleshy wall and Naruto catches him while Jiraiya dispels the jutsu,' damn, he's out of it. It's like he has no soul now, whatever it was he saw, it really traumatized him.'
Out of nowhere, a kunai came flying in and hit the other end of the wall, opposite of the hole. Naruto then hears a familiar voice," DYNAMIC ENTRY," it turns out to be none other than Mito Gai who just now, gave a good jump kick to Jiraiya. After he had done the kick, he soon realizes he kicked the wrong guy.
To say the least, Jiraiya was really twitching in the face at the green clad ninja," oh, uh, well, um…I'm sorry I hit you; I was in a hurry and forgot my mirror, hahahahaha. I was used my forehead protector as a mirror, but it was blurry, and I mistook your rugged face as that of an enemy and I let my burning youthful spirit take over, and I carelessly…I'M SORRY," now Jiraiyas face show pure anger.
"Is that supposed to be an apology?" he was really pissed to say the least by the unexpected attacker, know as Gai.
"I'm not good with words, hahahaha," the bushy brow jounin said nervously.
"'Sigh' forget about it for now, take Sasuke to a medical squad now," Gai gives a 'yes, sir' to him," his arm and ribs are broken. Also, he took a psychological attack from a dou-jutsu and was knock unconscious," he saw that Gai had a grim face on.
"Hey, old pervert, is he gonna be okay?" he was now getting really worried about his rival.
"It looks like he has taken heavy psychological damage," Jiraiya said in a serious tone; Naruto looks back at the avenger and feels worthless not being able to help him at all during the fight.
"Damn it, what the hell…what did that bastard to do Sasuke, perverted hermit?" he clenched his fists in anger," we've got a new plan. I was unable to fight back there because of my power, but I'm going to find those jerks and kill them this time. They want me right?! Then I'll go to them."
"Heh, even if you go to them right now, you'll only get yourself killed. Their level and yours are too different," the former blond knew he was right, but it just made him mad that he couldn't do anything," I barely got them away from you back there."
''Sigh' I know he's right, even if I go to my second stage, that Itachi might still be too much for me,' he then resolves himself back,' that's it, I will master all the powers of my Alter and get more power,' the then looks straight into the old perverts eyes," you're right, but that doesn't mean I'm gonna crawl in a corner and wait for them to get me."
"That's all I ask, we just need to get you stronger," he then turns his head to the young Uchiha," I'm sorry Gai, I thought I took his feelings into consideration, but I should've help him earlier."
"Kakashi was affected by the same jutsu, and he's unconscious now. We don't know when he'll regain consciousness…" he still had the grim face he had on before.
"Kakashi-sensei?!" he couldn't believe he sensei was in the same condition.
There was a long silence and Gai started to think upon his favorite student, Lee," when a student is injured, from the bottom of my heart, I wish that she, the medical specialist, was here," little did he know of Lee's condition now, and that he's watching them from afar, out of their scope of sight.
"That's why we're going to look for her," that surprised the both of them.
"Wait, are you…are you talking about," Jiraiya then got a big smirk on his injured face.
"Yes, I'm talking about 'her'. A Sannin like me, the healing specialist and slug tamer, the woman with the word "gamble" on her back, Tsunade," Gai's face was priceless at that moment.
Off in the distance, Lee is watching the two go their separate ways, off in search of Tsunade," soon Naruto, we shall see which one of our new Alters is more powerful. Besides, I got nothing else to do in this world," with a bit of a chuckle, he quietly follows from a distance, waiting for his opportunity to fight.
AUTHOR'S NOTES: well that the end of this chapter, so review on this later. I hope you guys don't mind I made Lee like Ryuho, I'll keep some of Lee's quirky personalities behind, anyway the reason I picked him to fuse with Ryuho is because in a way they're alike. Like their stances, the way him and Naruto met was like Ryuho and Kazuma met, and that their strong beliefs in doing the right thing, so those are the basic reasons I picked him to fuse with Ryuho. With all that said and done, see ya guyz.
ShadowDragonGX