The Reaper chapter 6
First off, I'm so happy that you are all sad, it means that the story
Actually came out like I hoped…sorry to make you guys cry though lol
Sorry all, but Naruto isn't going to be destroying Konoha anytime soon, if he did there wouldn't be much of a plot…sorry to all who wanted to see the village in flames…
Also, I greatly apologize, but my computer did something in the last third of the chapter so spell check couldn't work. Sorry about and mis-spellings and grammar mistakes, and this chapter also has my first real fight scene, not like the slaughters Naruto had to go though…
Rago Dragovian – Well, Nami had to die to act as a step for Naruto to change character, he cant turn into the kind of character I want with a sweet innocent 'sister' acting as his conscience. Basically, the hokage cuts off Naruto's arms (which he regenerates) and Naruto is then attacked by Kakashi, Kurenai and Asuma all gang up on Naruto and are able to kill him. Hope that answers your question
JuanG- Nami is kinda dead, so we won't really be seeing a lot of her, and yes he will work for the death god if that is what you mean.
Tashio- yeah, hes gonna be like Gaara, but more in control. Ninja are too cool to freeze up in the face of death…or something like that
Hoyt- no the seal didn't break, its only a bigger badder version of what happened on the bridge in the Zabuza arc, just replace Sasuke with Nami.
9999 hits combo- he is going to be more of an emotionless character, I cant really see anyone bouncing up form being hated all your life/mob kills your best friend or sister/betrayed by the only other living person who believed in him/having a demon fox constantly degrading you…
cight- I haven't really thought of what to do with the scar, but that does sound interesting…
Arganaut- well just reads the chapter… don't want to give it away too early ;)
Shinigami-chan- sorry but I got tired of typing…and I had school work to do…sorry
Any way, on to the story, enjoy!
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Naruto was floating in what appeared to be infinite darkness. He was currently a mix of emotions, anger, sadness and raw rage, at the village and at life. The voice inside his head was panicking, curing at existence, as usual, thought he was the centerfold of the insults, things like 'YOU COULD'T HAVE RUN AWAY BAKA?' and 'GOD DAMN YOU, YOU STUPID MORTAL, NOW WE ARE STUCK TOGETHER FOR ALL ENTERNITY!' rang though his mind, but he ignored it, but then he realized what the voice was saying….he was dead. This information overloaded his brain and all he could do was cry, for Nami and for himself.
He sobbed and soon noticed a large white orb was floating in front of him. Looking at the orb he saw his worst memories come to life. His eyes widened when he saw a particular bad memory, him trying to make friends with some of the other boys in his class, but then they all beat him down. He also witnessed the first time he went to the playground….
Flashback
A young Naruto was walking along the streets of Konoha, having nothing to do. The caretaker had kicked him out for the day and said she hoped he never came back. She muttered something about a demon or something like that, but it didn't really matter.
He accidentally overheard 2 ladies talking about a new playground that had opened up a few weeks ago that sounded really fun. There was a slide and swings and a big sandbox.
Naruto ran off to where the ladies were talking about and as soon as he arrived, he could barely keep some control and go play, but he knew better looked around to see if any of the grown ups were watching him, but the only man there was incredibly obese, and the remains of dozens of chips bags littered the ground around him. His apparent son (a boy who was equally obese) was trying to play on the teeter-totter, but no one would play with him, and they all called him mean things, like 'fatso'.
Seeing this as a new opportunity to make friends, he ran over and asked if he could play with the rather chubby boy. Said boy looked up with tears in his eyes, "Really…you want to play with me?"
Naruto nodded his head in the affirmative and soon Naruto got on with Choji. However, a few seconds after he had gotten on, a massive fist slammed it self into his small frame, sending him flying off and into the metal supports for the jungle gym.
"Damnit, what have I told you son, that boy could have killed you! Don't you have enough common sense to look after yourself that was the… food stealer I told you about! He was probably trying to act friendly so he could steal all our food!"
The fat boy turned his now cold as ice eyes towards the blonde and, as father and son, both of the fatties sent 2 huge arms into his gut, sending him skyward, and after 20 feet, gravity took its effect. Hitting the ground he was knocked out. Choji then ran over and spit on the boys hair then ran off with his father to go get some barbeque.
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Crying, he remembered how hurt he had felt, and when he had gotten up, it was already night time… he had sobbed all the way back to his apartment.
The orb then started showing another horrible memory, and trying to look away, he just couldn't, it was like his eyes were stuck to the floating orb.
Flashback
Naruto had just had one of his frequent talks with the hokage and was positive and happy at life. He had received the news several days ago that he was going to be a ninja, and the old man had given him a list of supplies that he was to get, some textbooks and pencils, blank scrolls and…a set of shuriken and kunai! He actually got to use shuriken and kunai, it was so awesome.
He decided to go to one of the markets and pick up his books and scrolls first, he was so exited. He arrived at the bookstore and causally looked around before entering. Inside he found himself surrounded by scrolls and books; he looked around and found the book he was supposed to buy, "Chakra for beginners" and "Tactics, a ninja's greatest weapon"
Skimming though them, he was fascinated but the diagrams and pictures. This was loads better than his previous way of learning about how to be a ninja, he would just usually listen to the jounin instructors who would teach their students basic concepts, but it was highly dangerous, as the Jounins would usually find him and beat him till he had broken all his bones and was covered in blood.
He read a few paragraphs and just couldn't wait to read this when he got home. He went up to the store owner and placed the books on the counter. Hoping against all hope that this wasn't one of the people who hated him for some unknown reason, but his luck was that of Tsunade's, and the owner gave him one look before slamming one of his thicker textbooks across his face. Falling down to the ground from the force of the impact, he rubbed his sore cheek and looked up into the hateful eyes of the shop owner.
Coming out form behind the counter, the man started kicking the poor boy in the ribs, breaking several until the boy tried to run. Grabbing onto his color, the man brought him back.
Several minutes later a heavily bruised and battered Naruto had managed to escape the store, and was currently limping back home. Tomorrow he would try the weapons shop.
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The next day, a young blonde entered the weapons shop, the distinctive bell ringing thought out the store. A tall muscular man entered the shop, followed by that girl from the orphanage; her name had something to do with numbers. The girl sneered at him, then resumed to work. The man had yet to show emotion, and simply asked, "What do you want?"
"Ano…I need a set of shuriken and kunai please, here is the money…"
Counting the cash, the man pulled out the weapons the boy had asked for.
"So, you wanted one set of Kunai and Shuriken…right?"
"Yes sir…"
Pulling off the string connecting the knives, the man flicked his wrist and suddenly one of the knifes was lodged in the boy's stomach.
"GAHHH" The boy fell to the floor, trying to stop the bleeding by covering the wound with his hand. Laughing manically the man started throwing al the weapons the boy had asked for.
"YOU SAID YOU WANTED ALL OF THEM…HAHAHAHAAHA"
"So…me…one…pl…ease…help
Tenten felt a little bit of pity for the poor blonde, but that was squashed completely when she remembered what the shop owner had said about him. With cold eyes, the girl turned her back on him, leaving a pair of pained confused blue eyes following her.
Now completely sobbing, Naruto could only watch as he experienced all the most painful moment of his life. Little did he know he was being watched, and the watcher was grinning.
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Shinigami had always been cursed to the afterlife, forever entrusted to judge the incoming soul, and what a tiresome job that was. While his younger brother, Kami had risen to ultimate power. He always held a grudge against him, and with good reason. He never got any peace, whenever he was done judging a soul; five more took its place. But that would end soon…very soon. His little…experiment was going perfectly, and he took one more look into the portal to the special dimension he had sent the boy into.
The boy was perfect in everyway for his means, for starters he had the greatest of the demons inside of him, and if he controlled the boy, he controlled the fox. That fox had just about as much charka that he needed to create a body for the mortal world. Another reason was the boy was filled to the brim with emotions; the death god had done this personally. Setting up the orb that showed all of his memories was a stroke of genius. With the boy sobbing and cursing the world, he would be so much easier to manipulate.
He watched as the boy was forced to watch another memory, bringing out even more sobs. The being grinned, the boy was ripe for the plucking; soon…very soon…he would get his revenge.
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Naruto was still watching the memories, screaming out at his pain, it this what the after life was, watching your nightmare over and over? Covering his face with his hands, the poor boy sobbed even more.
"Why….why cant I….just be accepted…why must (sniffle) I always …..be alone…"
Suddenly he felt an arm snake across his shoulder, and looking up, he saw Shinigami. The deity had 2 large red horns, jutting out of his forehead, as well as loads of spiky white hair. He also had spiky teeth, which gave him a very intimidating look.
"I accept you Naruto…" followed by a spiky toothed grin. The boy cringed slightly at the smile, but never the less, tears till ran down my face.
"No you don't know one does…..it's like I'm cursed to be alone forever. The death god just looked down at him.
"What would you say if I could help…remove all the pain?"
"Remove …all the …pain?"
"Hai, I accept you Naruto, you are a very special boy, with a great destiny. I can help you get rid of some of the pain, if you serve me…"
"Y---you really….accept…me?"
The death god pulled the boy into a hug, and while Naruto was shocked that he had another precious…person? Oh well it didn't matter, the tall monster-thing accepted him, and that was all he needed. With Naruto unable to see his face, the Shinigami grinned on of his own trademark grins; it was all going according to the plan.
"Okay…Ill do it…"
"Excellent…now then as Death god I will soon send you back to the human world. Now then for starters, I will change your appearance, I can the mortals thinking I'm soft and bringing little children back to life…"
The Shinigami snapped his fingers and Naruto's hair started turning silver and all the baby fat burned off his face. Soon his muscles were growing and with every passing second, he felt even stronger. The Shinigami smirked at the changing boy, and pulled out a sheet of paper. All over it was writing that Naruto couldn't understand but the death god saw his confusion
"It's a Contract, and all it says is that you will serve me, in return for power and for me and several others accepting you…"
Naruto bit his thumb and smeared the blood across the place he was supposed to, and instantly the scroll rolled up and went back inside the Shinigami's sleeve.
"You, Naruto, are now my second in command, no mortal has ever ascended to your position. You are to follow my every order without question, do you understand? Good, now then, I shall return you to your world…oh and before I forget, you will ignore Konoha; those worms are beneath you now."
There were several reasons for this statement, but The Shinigami didn't fell like letting the boy into the loop yet, no it was still far too early.
Suddenly Naruto remembered didn't know what to call the death god, and he didn't want to piss it off, that would lead to a world of hurt, quite literally.
"What should I call you?"
The death god grinned," Call me…Shinigami-sama"
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Several hours later, a young boy woke up in the middle of the clearing. Looking around he noticed he was covered in blood and there was evidence of great destruction around him. Looking at himself, he noticed a gaping hole in his stomach, but the red light was already starting to heal it, but for some reason, he couldn't feel the pain…
The voice in his heads had been unusually silent, and this bothered him. But he could care less really, he remembered how it wasn't even real, but he still couldn't help but feel like something was in there, in the blackness he was in, only it was watching him. At one point, he had thought he had seen a fox head staring at him, but when he had looked again it was gone.
Shrugging he got up and looked around, there was nobody around for miles, but he still checked. Finally he strode over to a nearby pond, and looked at his reflection. He was stunned, so it wasn't a dream, his sliver hair was swaying in the breeze, and his face looked different and he was ripped. He went over and punched a tree; just to try out his newly strengthen muscles. A huge dent was formed, and Naruto grinned.
Suddenly he felt like he needed to be somewhere, and started running off to what seemed to be some random direction. It was like his sprit was being pulled that way. As he was running he noticed that he was headed for some cave, and it looked really scary. Still, he felt like he should be in there, and headed down the entrance.
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The Shinigami cursed, and the cursed again. Apparently the fox's charka was not enough to set him free from this accursed prison. He looked down at the soul in front of him and grinned, then grabbed it and swallowed it. He would have to think of something, as his servant was coming down the cave. For now, the boy could simply be his hands in the mortal world, doing whatever he told him to do, from killing some of the more annoying mortals, particularly the ones who would kill thousands, giving him headache judging the souls, especially that snake freak, oro something…, to collecting the lost souls.
But one thing was for certain, he would need help, so the thought of the boys first mission came to mind, yes…yes that would work, why have one servant, when he could have nine.
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An exhausted Naruto finally stopped near what looked like a huge pile of rocks. Again, something felt like he should remove the rocks, that something was behind them. He proceeded to use his new strength, and it took awhile, but he was finally done. What looked like a large grated door had been covered. The figure of Shinigami slowly appeared behind the door.
"S-Shinigami-sama…"
"It is alright Naruto, now then listen. I want you to go out and bring to me 8 other children, much like yourself. We are going to get you some…friends."
The young boy was ecstatic about finding friends; he was finally going be able to have the childhood he had never had. And so with that he set off, to faraway lands, in hopes of gaining his own group of friends.
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One year later, a group of children, 3 girls and 6 boy, were walking into the mouth of a cave (I will do introductions to the other kids I later chapters). Most of them were afraid and some were indifferent, but they all trusted the silver-haired boy, so they followed him. After they had reached the Iron Gate, they stared wide eyed as the Shinigami formed.
"Shinigami-sama, I have gotten 8 other children like you asked…"
"Good…now then, I just need all of you to sign this sheet of paper…"
A small contract fell down form the ceiling, and soon all of the other children had bitten their thumbs and smeared their blood across the scroll. The contract then disappeared in a puff of smoke.
"Now then children, lets begin our training. Though, you may need your sleep. A hole ripped open into the wall, and the children looked down. It looked like a hallway, and their names were carved onto 9 doors, they all got their own rooms! Some ran immediately and opened their doors, while other took their time and opened them causally, though they were burning with excitement. One kid stayed behind, "Naruto, you have done well…soon, all of you will become incredibly strong, and soon, you will be able to begin my work. But for now, and the next 5 years, you must begin your training. I would suggest going to sleep…"
And obediently, the boy went over to his room, laid down on the nice comfy bed and fell asleep.
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The next day, the nine children lined up in front of the Iron Gate, awaiting instructions. The Shinigami formed and one of the children asked the obvious, "Uh Shinigami-sama, why are you always behind that big gate?"
The death god replied, "I am only able to enter the mortal world though this gate, it is what separates the world of the living and that of the afterlife. No one but you 9 know of this gate, and unfortunately I can not open this gate without…certain object I wish for you to gather. But that is in the future, now then for your training, you will each receive one of my nine weapons, and you will train with that weapon until you master it, understood?"
"Hai Shinigami–sama!"
"Good, now then, you will revive my sword Naruto…" and instantly, a huge sword began forming itself and emerging from the gate. Soon it was completely outside, and what a sword it was, at least 5 feet long, the huge sword came with a sheath to be worn on one's back. Slowly walking over, Naruto tried to pick the sword up, but his eyes widened when he felt the sheer weight of it.
"I'm supposed to master THIS?"
The death god grinned, "Did I mention that a god's weapon is usually made for a god, not a mortal. Still with enough practice, you should be able to use it."
As the Shinigami began passing out the weapons. One boy got an axe, while another got a huge war hammer. One girl got a bow and arrows, and another got a deadly spear. A trident was passed out to another, while the Shanghai's knives were given away to another boy. The last girl received a staff, and the last weapons were chains and they were given to the last boy. Scrolls were also given out, so they could begin training right away.
Each child marveled at the detail on all the weapons, and the extremely sharp blades. Struggling to carry the weapons to their own personal training dojo, eager to start training with their own weapon.
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The following day, 9 children could barley get up in the morning, their arms killed them from practice yesterday. But still, they were content; they finally had something like a family.
Naruto had woken up and walked over to the Iron Gate that held Shinigami-sama. When he went over, a ghostly hand suddenly shot itself into his chest, only it wasn't hurting like he had expected it too, it felt warm , and then he passed out.
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The Shinigami stood face to face with Kyuubi. Laughing at the creatures antics, mainly cursing and desperately trying to get past the bars and declarations like 'Ill rip your ghostly arms off'.
After he was done laughing at the fox frustration, the death god spoke up,
"Well, I'm sure that you that when the boy signed my contract, it meant that I control him, all of him, including you."
DAMN HIM!
"yes, and just to keep in mind that I have you on a flesh and blood leash…
The Kyuubi just growled and launched himself at the bars of his cage.
"You idiot, I helped that mortal create those bars, you truly can't believe that you can break free, do you?"
CURSE YOU, AND THAT BLONDE HAIRED MORTAL!
"Alright, well, as your first….order….I command you to fuse with the boy."
NEVER
"Well, I think you fail to see that I can just as easily make you suffer, and you can't even reach a few feet from your cage."
The fox growled in annoyance, as it knew the death god was correct.
"So, I command you to fuse with the boy now"
The fox once again tried to break down the bars that imprisoned it, but to no avail.
Sending out a bolt of lighting from one of his fingers, the Shinigami was beginning to get annoyed.
"I gave you an order fox, and I expect you to do it."
Knowing that the Shinigami was in complete control of the situation, and that he was helpless, it was wise no to piss off a god. So reluctantly complying, the demon fox agreed
….FINE, SO BE IT
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As Naruto woke up, he realized that he felt strange. He looked up to the massive iron gate and saw the death god.
"Naruto, I think it is time that you figured out why you were hated…but first, I would suggest getting your friends.
And so, after about 20 minutes of explaining, Naruto's face was scrunched up tight. Suddenly he gave of an inhuman roar and all the other children flinched. They still trusted Naruto, and would follow him to the ends of the earth, after all, he had probably lived the worst life of all of them, and they respected him for it. Some of them were actually planning suicide before the sunny silver haired boy and helped them get over their problems and pasts.
As Naruto began sobbing, 9 small bumps began forming, and in seconds, 9 fox tails erupted from his backside. Screaming in pain, the other children could only watch as red charka began swirling around him. The tails waved in the air, and soon after, the red charka receded back inside him. He passed out and was lying in the middle of the stone floor.
Some of the braver kids rushed forward and picked him up and took him to his room. The others trailing behind, but still worried for their friend.
Back inside the metal gate, the Shinigami grinned, it was all working out so perfectly, soon his servants would be unstoppable and when they grew strong enough, he would finally be able to break free and cause as much destruction as he pleased throughout the human world. He could hardly wait; soon…soon he would order his servants to gather the Biju…
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Time skip, 5 years….
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Nine figures were sited around a large circular table. They were all wearing matching cloaks; however, these aren't the nine you are thinking of. No, instead this group had been formed years before Akatsuki was formed, The Reaper Organization.
Each wearing solid black cloak with a hood covering their heads (think organization 13 from kingdom hearts), their faces hidden by the shadows, they awaited their orders from the Shinigami. The table had been clustered around the huge grate iron door, and the cave had been made into a base, with many hidden rooms and practice rooms. They had been trained here for six years under the guidance of their master, Shinigami-sama. Each had a particular weapon strapped to his or her back, ranging form axes to tridents. They had gotten rid of their last names, and had created their own code names for missions.
The Shinigami's form slowly filled the grate iron door. A malevolent grin adorned its face.
All nine members stood up immediately and waited for their own personal orders.
The Death god began belting out its orders, and one by one the nine members disappeared into smoke, leaving one last one. With a huge sword strapped onto his back, the figure looked up to the face of the Death god, patiently waiting for his command.
"Mercy…..I am sending you to eliminate a local crime lord, his name is Heifuu Daijin, and is located somewhere in mist. He is killing off the thousands of citizens in mist, and is giving me a headache. After he is dead, I want you to return for a ….special assignment.
Mercy nodded and disappeared in a puff of smoke.
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(Keep in mind MercyNaruto, it might get kind of confusing, sorry)
Wearing his black cloak (think organization 13), with his face covered by a special jutsu that made sure no one could see it, even people with Dojutsus couldn't see though. His black as night cloak complete covered his body, and a large strap ran across his chest, attached to the massive sheath on his back. He only needed the huge sword on his back to kill anyone Chunin and under. He had studied a vast amount of jutsu, more than any other of the now-twelve-year olds. Some blamed it on favoritism, while some of the more observant ones could tell it was because of his huge chakra capacity.
He had learned all his Justus like all the others had, by stealing the Forbidden scroll of whatever village they had come from. He still remembered that night…
Flashback
A young 8 year old Naruto was running at top speed towards Konoha. The orders from Shinigami-sama still in his mind,
'You are to infiltrate your old village and copy down the forbidden scrolls. You are to pull back if you get in nay sort of fight. I do not want any casualties."
He looked off into the distance and saw the lights form the houses in Konoha, lighting it up like a Christmas tree… in the middle of a huge forest, it was pathetically easy to find.
He snuck up to the gate. He figured there would be Hyuuga guards, so he would have to be careful. He pulled up his facemask a little more, it was cold outside, and he felt bad for Majoko, having to go back to snow after living in a warm climate…
He thought about it, there would be no way to get in with those guards watching every inch of the perimeter, so he would have to use a distraction that hopefully worked. Even if he got inside but got caught it was game over, though not many people would suspect an 8 year old attempting to steal the arguably most precious item in the village.
As he was setting up the explosion tags, he couldn't help but let his mind wander. Reminiscing, he sent a hateful glare towards his ex-village, gods how he hated them, all of them. Sighing he knew he would get in trouble with the death god if he caused too much chaos and risking his life would be pointless when he could come back even stronger and crush the village under his thumb.
The timers were set, he knew he only had one shot at this, if he was caught…he swallowed and shook his head, no, he wasn't going to fail. He had learned this trick from one of his friends, he had killed several merchant outside the city, without mercy of course, they were Konoha merchants after all.
He had carried the bodies over (he didn't really know enough about charka to be able to seal items) He had pulled out some spare headbands from rock that he had 'found' and set the bodies up as rock Nins. He placed the explosion tags near the bodies and set the timer. When the sentries got here, all they would find was a pair of careless rock Nins who had tried to attack Konoha, but had blown themselves up, accidents happen after all.
3-2-1-0 running at top speed towards the wall, he could only hope that the distraction on the other side of the village was enough.
It turned out to be, and he was able to sneak inside the village, and immediately started running towards the hokage tower, he had mere minutes before anbu swarmed over the village and those damnable Inuzukas caught onto his scent. He managed to scale the tower on the outside, and climbed into a nearby window. He paused by the open glass door as he watched several guards head out the front door. This was almost too easy.
He opened the door a slight crack and listened in on the hall, trying to sense if anyone was coming. He silently declared the hall clear of guards and ran up the stairs. As he was going down, he heard a pair of Chunin come tearing though the hall. He pulled out his ninja wire and four suction cups.
The Chunin passed though the stairs, the hokage had to be informed, a large explosion had been set off north of the village and enemy bodies had been found nearby, blasted into bits, but the head bands had been found , it could be a possible attack. They were hurrying so fast they failed to notice a small boy, laying down on a set of string, holding up his chest and legs, with the string connecting two of the suction cups.
As soon as he was sure they were gone, Naruto jumped down and ran off towards the scroll room. Just his luck, 2 guards were standing there ready for anything. He cursed and used a pathetic henge; it was the only Genjutsu he knew. He transformed into a flash grenade and waited patiently as the guards noticed it. One of them sprinted over and prepared to though it when Naruto released the henge, sending a kunai at the man's neck.
Managing to stab the poor man in the neck, effectively killing him instantly, he darted own the hall, with the other guards hot on his trail, all he had seen was puff of smoke and his partner on the floor dead. The man was surprised when he fell for Naruto's other trap. The unfortunate man broke the trip wire and the net fell down on top of him. Completely vulnerable, Naruto snapped his neck and afterwards, he had stacked the 2 bodies inside a broom closet, and proceeded to break into the scroll room. Inside he found the scroll and began to madly copy down everything onto his own scroll. He wrote it down word for word, as it was useless to him if he just summarized.
As he was copying the scroll down, the ANBU were already piecing together the bodies and trying to find out why the stone Nins were attacking. Security had been raised to code blue, possibility of an attack. It was going to be tougher to get out than it was to get in. Luckily, Naruto had set up a second distraction, for just enough time to escape.
Copying like a mad man, Naruto finally finished and raced out of the nearest window, as he was free falling, he snapped his fingers.
Elsewhere a massive explosion erupted towards the east side of the village. Immediately all Nins went to their respective posts, several teams of ANBU already sent out to investigate. Speeding away, Naruto disappeared into the night…
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He had learned his favorite jutsu after thoroughly reading the scroll, Kage Bunshin no Jutsu. He had improved onto the technique hand had quite skillfully mastered it. Along with all of the other jutsu's on the copied-scroll, this had included Katon, Doton, and Suiton techniques, along with loads of sealing jutsu's, with which he had become the groups seal master and was currently working on his own power seal mark, similar to Orochimaru's mark, without the mind affecting parts. He finally reached Heifuu's sea-side mansion in mist, and what a mansion it was, at least 10 stories tall, the thing was huge. This guy's relatives must have never worked a day in their lives…
He quickly knocked on the door, and one foolish lackey opened it, and before he could scream, he was beheaded. Steeping over the man's bloody carcass, he started killing everyone in the house sparing no one. He had been ordered to kill Heifuu, but Shinigami-sama loved massacres. It also helped build up his fearful reputation, and intimidation and the battle of the mind was a half the battle anyway.
So he began slaughtering the cooks, servants, maids and any unfortunate guest that happened to cross his path. He had completely wiped out the first floor and set onto the second floor. He hadn't spoken or showed emotion (not that anyone could se his face); he was simply doing his job, killing.
The second floor was the living stations for all the guards, and soon the alarms were rising all over the place. Dead bodies of men still holding whatever weapon they could find littered the floor, blood soaked walls and heads stuck to the walls with kunais were common. Stabbing a man in the chest, Mercy side stepped a man trying to cleave him with an axe, only to find he no longer had arms. Then he died from a kunai to the heart. His companions tried to run away, but running was pointless, as the cloaked figure was always there in every door way, and soon the remainders of the guards were surrounded by exact copies. The slaughter continued as he killed off the rest of them, and then set his eyes upon the stairs to the third level, ready to kill even more.
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Heifuu Daijin (Corrupt Millionaire) was very nervous, alarms had been going off all over the mansion and for some reason, and none of his guards on the lower levels were answering his calls. His wife had been long dead, and only his son was left of his immediate family. The old man was notorious for having the greatest monopoly on medicines and drugs to mist, and made millions every week. Of course, he could care less about the state of the village, he was far too busy counting his money and resting comfortably in his massive mansion. He had been sure the thugs he hired would be able to take out some of the more irked villagers, but apparently he was wrong. He pressed the button on the intercom and called to phone on floor nine, but all he got was a horrendous scream, followed by the sound of a disconnected phone.
Heifuu made the decision to try and escape while he could, and pressed the button for his 'secret weapon', 3 jounin missing Nin. He laughed at the poor fate that his attacker had, no one could defeat these guys! He pressed a secret button behind one of his bookcases and stepped into a secret elevator. He waited and finally reached his destination, his private boat harbor, filled with yachts and many other kind of boats. He went over to another secret door and used the key that was hidden in his pocket. Inside were the quarters of another few missing-nin, and his personal escape boat. He knocked on the Nins doors and got a kunai pressed against his neck. One of the Chunin missing Nin sneered at the sight of the fleeing cockroach.
"What do you want?"
"Hurry up and get in the boat, we are leaving now."
"Why should we leave, just because a few alarms went off?"
"Just shut up and start doing you Jutsu damn it!"
Rolling his eyes at their employer's cowardice, the Nin climbed onto the boat. One missing Nin from Suna began making hand seals and shouted out his Jutsu,
"Fuuton: Erai Ichijin (great gust of wind) a/n yes I do realize that the name sucks, I apologize
Wind swirled around the man's hands and soon the boat was pushed forward at tremendous speed. Heifuu gave a breath of relief, he had gotten away, or so he had thought…
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Mercy was currently battling his way up the levels, with little or no effort, and finally made it to the targets office. Sending a flurry of shuriken, the various maid strewn about were taken care of, after all this was the ninja world, no one could tell if someone else was a potential enemy or not. But it was regardless, he just simply killed everyone who got in his way without mercy, hence the name. He had been born into a world without mercy, so why should he be merciful?
He knocked several times on the office door, and slowly opened the door. Instantly a flurry of kunai headed straight at him, impaling him in all his fatal areas. A ninja smirked and casually walked over to the now dead body, and spit on the cloaked figure's face, "Some challenge you were, turned out to be…" But that's when the 'dead body' erupted into smoke. Stunned the traitor had barley seconds to evade the incoming sword that was intended for his head.
Pulling out his own sword, they began a Kenjutsu battle. Stabbing ducking a weaving, Planting his sword of the ground, Mercy jumped up and gave a savage kick to the cheek, followed up by several thrusts, which were easily deflected by the nin, who in return used his own sword to keep Mercy busy while he dropped down and knocked the boy off his feet. As he was falling down, he tried to strike when he was venerable, but Mercy was able to twist so he evaded the blade. Lying with his back against the ground, he could only roll over to dodge the blade the man kept stabbing into the floor. Finally, after the man got his word stuck for several seconds, Mercy was ale to get to his feet.
Mercy attempted a used a slash only to have it blocked by a smirking jounin, "Kid your good…but I'm better!" And the man began making one-handed hand seals,
"Doton: Daibanjaku kuriichaa no jutsu" (large rock creature)
The Nin spit out a pebble that soon multiplied and grew into a huge rock monster, complete with a huge rock club. With the cloaked boys strength concentrated on his sword, he would be defenseless and completely open for attack, and if he chose to defend himself from the jutsu, then he would have an opening to stab the guy in the back.
Mercy glanced over his shoulder at the creature swinging his club high, ready to crush him, and for his glance, he lost a few inches in the sword lock. He remained silent as he watched the ex-rock ninja smirk, and he turned around and blocked the creatures club with his sword, but that was all the other Nin needed and sent his sword straight though the cloaked figures stomach.
Except the guy didn't bleed, only turn his head and look at the stone Nin, before turning into puff of some. Once again speechless, the Nin barley felt the sword run its way through his stomach, before he coughed out blood and died.
Letting the body hit the floor, Mercy was ready to head down the secret elevator when he felt a hand grab his shoulder and a fist slamming into his cheek.
'Not another one…make that two…"
The missing Nin from kumo who hit him was already getting ready to attack again and his comrade was preparing hand seals.
As he tried to defend him self for the man going on the offensive, he could only watch as the other one finished and shouted out his technique,
"Doton: chichuu gankutsu terepooto" (underground carven teleport)
Suddenly the office they were in was replaced with rocky walls with several stalactites and stalagmites growing out of the ceiling and floor. . The other rock Nin smirked, "you may have killed off that other guy, but you are trash to us!'
The kumo Nin only smirked in agreement, and then sparks started shooting off his fists.
"With my unique taijustu technique, you'll be paralyzed in seconds, consider this over."
Mercy just remained quite and glanced over at the rock Nin, then back to the charging kumo Nin, who disappeared, then reappeared in front of him. Trying to block the electric attack with his sword, Mercy's arm suddenly wouldn't move and generated tremendous amounts of pain.
"Baka, don't you know metal conducts electricity? Time to finish this…"
Mercy could only watch as the man charged up his jutsu again and charged again. Mercy as able to dodge by diving behind one of the many rock structures in only to find that he was stuck to one of the rocks, and more floated over and stuck to him, their immense weight holing him down. The rock Nin was smirking triumphantly, "Heh, you fell into my trap, I control these rocks with my charka, meaning I can change their textures and weight. Eat this!" The kumo Nin dodged out of the way as several stalactites grew out from the ceiling and stabbed into the trapped Mercy.
Blood dripped down onto the rock surface as the rock missing Nin laughed, and the kumo Nin chuckled, the stalactites had all stabbed him in instant kill spots. They receded as the two were ready to join the boss, when they heard the whistling of kunai in the air, managing to doge they could only stare as the wounds the stalactite had inflicted repaired them selves before their eyes, and in seconds, he was completely healed.
Grinding his teeth, the kumo nin activated his paralyzing jutsu, but suddenly found he had no left hand, and looking at the bloody stump, and another copy of the cloaked figure with a bloody sword in his hand. The clone took another swing with his sword; effectively cutting off the man's other hand.
No longer a threat, Mercy turned his attention to the now terrified rock Nin.
"w-what are y-you?"
"Death" And with that the Nin found he couldn't move, probably due the amount of killing intent Mercy was giving out. He could only watch as the sword impaled it self into his head, killing him instantly.
With both Nin's dead, Mercy collapsed onto the floor. It had taken all his skills to survive against three lower level jounin but he did it. But he still had a job to do, and he hobbled over to the elevator and hit the button with his fist. The elevator moved to slow for his taste, so he split open the bottom with his sword and free-fell down the elevator shaft.
He soon landed and stood up. He noticed the man's footprints in the dirt leading to a seemingly normal rock wall. Taking in every detail, Mercy located the rock that you pressed to open the wall. Soon afterwards he took chase to the target.
He managed to find the secret harbor, and could feel that a jutsu had been used to get away
'Kuso, more missing nins…'
Making hand seals, Mercy shouted out the name of his jutsu,
"Taju Kage Bunshin no Jutsu" Instantly a few hundred clones appeared and belted out a,
"YES SIR!"
Mercy just pointed outwards towards the open ocean. Several seconds later a massive amount of clones charged, using their charka to walk on the water. They also began pumping charka to their legs, and soon they were zipping along, catching up to Heifuu.
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One of the missing Nins on the speeding boat looked behind them, and started to panic. What looked like an army was following them. A missing Nin from mist began making hand seals and smirked, "Bakas, don't they know they are just sitting ducks for a water jutsu."
"Suiton: ootsunami" (Great tidal wave)
A huge wave began forming and plowed though a huge amount of clones, bringing them down to the bottom. The Nin who cast the jutsu hopped off the boat and told the rest to keep going to Heifuu's personal safe house, he was going to take care of Mercy.
"Humph, I have heard of you, you're the guy who always kills his target, said to be really strong huh, Ill see about that." Making another set of hand seals, he shouted out his technique while the clones pulled out their swords.
"Suiton: Chigatana Yori Fuchi" (bloody sword form the depths)
A massive sword emerged from the oceans surface, handle coming up first. Mercy ground his teeth, these Nin were getting to become annoying, 4 jounin in row was immensely tiring. Still, he had to kill the millionaire. He decided he might just have to rely on Ninjutsu, as the missing Nin held the upper hand, completely surrounded by endless water.
Both fighters stood still, until a fish jumped out of the water to get away from a predator. With that both fighter charged with their swords.
Mercy found out fairly quickly that the Nin was physically stronger than him, and that the sword could control water easily, as the sword would send in water spikes to constantly attack him from behind, which kept him always on the defensive. Retreating, he mentally he sent an order to about 20 clones too attack His clones charged, but soon they were shred from the Nin's water attacks. He was burning too much charka water walking, so Mercy began making his own hand seals,
"Doton: Doryu joheki" (Earth flow rampart, jutsu Yamato uses to make the waterfall) an island began forming underneath Mercy's feet, and even more appeared under his clones feet. A small archipelago had formed. The enemy Nin stumbled on the water and after he was stabilized he pointed his sword at one of the Mercy's clones and suddenly a tower of water shot up and completely destroyed the clone. The clones charged, their swords at the ready, but the Jounin was just too strong.
Mercy ground his teeth and he and his clones began making even more hand seals,
"Doton: Doryudan" (Earth dragon bullet)
A few large dragon heads appeared out of the small islands and began shooting mud balls at the jounin, who just smirked and shouted out,
"Suiton: Suijinheki" (Water encampment wall)
The wall of water compeletly surround the enemy nin, but at a price, for a few seonds he could not see, and that was all Mercy needed.
"Taju Kage Bunshin no jutsu"
When his shield subsided, the jounin eyes widened, he was staring at what looked like a thousand clones. Cursing he was forced to use his trump card.,
"Ninpou: Kuchiyose no Jutsu"
The Mercys got into defensive positons, and waited for the signuture puff of smoke, only none came. Thinking thast the nin had failed the technique, the army of clones began charging at the mist missing nin. Suddenly a huge tentacle broke the waters surface and destroyed a hundred clones, followed by a another tentacle. Apparently the nin could summon some kind of octopus. The tentacles were decimating his forces, and they were flexible enough to avoid all of his attacks.
The monster's head broke the surface, and the Jounin who kumped onto its head smirked, the cloaked figure had no chance.
A plan was forming in Mercy's mind, but it would require time, something he didn't have a lot of. He ordered several of his clones to hold back and begin forming a specific jutsu. The rest of his clones would provide a distraction. Several of his clones on the front lines began making their own hand seals,
"Katon: Kayru Endan" Several dragons made out of flame headed for the octopus's head, but the creature was able to use several of its tentacles underwater as propelers and use them to leap out of the ocean. When it came splashing back down, a huge wave was formed and destroyed at least a third of his remaining troops. He recived a mental notification from the sepcific clones he had set aisde that they were done with the jutsu he had asked for. He gave the order to wait for his command, and watched as the monster octopus squirted a huge amount of acidic ink, destroying the last of his clones and several of the islands. It turned it attention to Mercy and tried to grab onto him using its tentales.
When it realized that the boy was just to fast, it used it's suction cups to grab some boulders from the bottom of the sea. Flinging them at the islands Mercy was standing on, it geatly reduced his ablity to mve form island to island. Naruto quickly began making hand seals and shouted out his technique, "Katon: Kayru Endan" His flame dragon flew at the octopus, which smaked one of its tentacles into the water, sending a spray of seawater to extinguish the attack, but with the creature concentrated on the dragon, Naruto had begun a new set of seals,
"Raiton: Dendou Shiruwan" (Electric spark discharge)
Sending electricy though the immediate area, the octopus was forced to jump out of the water again, but this what Mercy had wanted.
"Doton: Daichi shiruwan" (earth soup bowl)
A huge bowl of rock appeard from underneth the monster and captured it, and a huge amount of water and levitated it in the air. The octopius was too large, so it got stuck and was unable to move. The jounin was stunned, this jutsu was incredible! He watched as Mercy jummped onto the rim of the bowl and shouted out his next technique,
"hi eremento: doraiaisu ko" (ice element: dry ice lake)
Slamming his hand onto the waters surface, the water in the bowl immediatly turned into unbreakable ice. The entire monster was covered, and the jounin was up to his neck in frozen water.
Mercy put his hands in the recognizable hand seal,
"Kage Bunshin no Jutsu" About 20 clones were formed and each ran around so they complely surrounded the nin and his summon, then each pulled out about five expolsion tags.
His eyes widening, the poor man could only watch as the ice was coverd in expolsion tags. Mercy spoke up, "Game over" Then jummped of the rim. As he was falling he detonated ther tags, causing a huge expolsion killing the nin and the giant octopus. As he watched shards of ice and dirt and globs of blood fall out of the sky, Mercy thought of an idea, and took out a sealing scroll and began the nesasary hand seals, Mercy sealed the dead octopus's body into the scroll. It was enough food to feed the nine of them for monthes.
Resuming his chase after Heifuu, he began once again running on top of the water. With his ninja speed, he was able to catch up to them fairly quickly. One of the chunins was shocked when he saw the cloaked fiure running after them, his speed creating a wake behind him. Suddenly he stopped and the force caused a huge tidal wave to crash into the small boat. Suddenly, Mercy was inside the boat, seeing as he used the wave as a distracion, with his huge sword ready in his hand. Cringing in fear, the trio of men could only watch as the killer raised his sword…and cut of his own arm?
"what in the…" Using is now bloody stump, Mercy coverd them in blood, using killing intent to make sure they stayed still. Suddenly, Mercy grabbed one of the chunins and threw him into the water.
Surfacing and sputering water, the chunin was just about reayd to attack when his eyes widened and he let out a horrible scream. He was quicly pulled underwater, and alll thatw as left was a red cloud in the ocean. The other chunin and Heifuu just stared and finally understood why he had covered them in blood, sharks were attracted to blood….
Mercy just looked at his victms, who knew they were dead. He regentrated his arm in a few minutes and hit the bottom of the boat with his sword, causing it to begin to splitin half. Mercy then made some hand seals and whispered his technique, "Ninpou: Kiokuryoku toushaki"(memory copier) He put his index and midle finger to Heifuu's head, copying all of the man's memories concerning his fianances, such as his bank asccount passward and where all of his cash was.
Since they did their orders out of what Shinigami-sama said, they didn't get a lot of cash, of course there was sometimes a reward for some of the people they killed, but it wasent enough to support all of them for food, ninja supplies and personal items. Besides, its not like dead guys have a lot of use for money, and funds where as useful a weapon as a kunai, bribey was common in the ninja world.
Stepping off the boat, Mercy looked over his shoulder and watched as the boat began to sink, with the chunin trying to water walk to get away, the rich bastard was trying to cling onto him for support. This ultimatly kiled both of them, as several huge sharks came up and began a feeding frenzy, and soon all that was left was two red stains on the surface of the ocean, the only evidence that there was even a murder there.
Disappering in a puff of smoke, Mercy left for home.
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Hey everyone, hope you enjoyed this chapter
And introduction to the members of the reaper organization will be in the next chapter. Also Naruto's/Mercy's special misson.
As for why I wrote narutos nmae as mercy for at least half the chapter is beause it his code name, so in missions he is reffered to that, but when is back home, its just Naruto.
Please read and review, thanks!