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NaruLemon Stories: If it feels as if we're still in the prologue still… well we sort of are. This first part is mainly to set up the future events and get through the first 12 episodes of UBW.
atengawchok: sorry to tell you this, but Naruto won't be sleeping with anyone else. Naruto sleeping with Hinata was done purely for plot, (stops to think about it)… mostly for plot.
Shining Batista: "it's always nice to see a Fate crossover that doesn't follow the 'Naruto is a ridiculously strong servant' shtick."… *Nervous sweating.
Not sure how you got that idea when I said, "Naruto has full control of the Kyuubi."
Naruto will be a bit OP, but then again a majority of the servants in UBW are nerfed (Gilgamesh, Medusa, Artoria[for the first part, Sasaki, Heracles if you count Illya as a weakness). That's not to say that he won't have any problems with them, and he likely won't be able to overpower some of them if they went all out. But in this fic he's smart, well… knowledgeable, and he will have points in which he will struggle to take down his enemy.
But if your worried about an MC that curb-stomps everyone then gets in his way, that won't happen here... mostly, I hope.
Wasabi: The link between Sakura and Naruto is simple, but it's not particularly obvious until I state it, which I will, but that will come later on.
As for what that link is?… well, that would be telling.
As for Sakura summoning Naruto/Yami-Naruto, I've already stated that "Naruto has no need to be summoned." In the first chapter, so Sakura will not end up summoning him.
"Wake up to Reality," Normal speech
'Look at me! There's nothing in my Heart anymore.' Normal thought
"Rasenshuriken!" Jutsu/technique/title
"It all started on the day of my actual birth. Both my parents failed to show up" Flashback/Quote
"I find your lack of faith… Disturbing." Demon talk/Anger/ Something important.
12/23/2022
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or Fate. They belong to their perspective owners.
Part 1- Rain
Chapter 4- Obey
Shirou screamed out a war cry as he leaped out of the top of the stairwell, striking down on the twin pair of hollowed skeletons that stood at the landing of the stairs. As they collapsed to the grown like a puppet with its strings cut loose, disappearing from which they came from.
XXX
(In the Chemistry lab)
"This is the best, this is how a first-rate master does things," Shinji laughed out, as the corrupt limelight of the powerful bounded field cast outside, illuminating the room in a vile crimson.
"Maybe I'll go check out Emiya's either husk after this is over," he mused.
Suddenly, his servant, Medusa, turned her head in surprise. Her chains clattering resounded throughout the room as she manifested them within her palm, preparing for a fight.
Gaining the attention from her master, and sorely ruining his good mood. "What is it Rider?" He asked, as suddenly, the door to the room slid open.
"Huh? Hey, what's the deal?" Shinji asked in confusion, as he got up from his previously sitting position. "How are you able to move?" He demanded, everyone within the school should be paralyzed right now.
The sound of slow footsteps reverberated around them.
"Stay away, damn it…" Shinji said, slightly fearful of the approaching figure. "I'm warning you, you'd better stay away!"
But the terrifying figure only continued to approach.
"What the hell?" Shinji yelled, moving around slightly, as the figure cold eyes bore into his very soul.
All of Shinji's confidence came to a halt in that very moment, as he fled to the other side of the room in terror.
"Rider!" He shouted, as the purple haired servant lashed out.
XXX
(Some time later)
"Tohsaka, where's the field source?" Shirou asked the girl next to him, as he observed the many skeletal figures standing at the bottom of the stairwell.
"Right over there! The classroom up ahead!" Rin said, as the undead creatures that obstructed their path rushed towards them.
"Damn, these things are persistent," Shirou said, as he struck out with the reinforced pipe he used as a makeshift sword. But nothing seemed to bring the figure down for good, as he even went as far as to try and kick the figure down from his own elevated position.
"Run out, damn it!" He cursed, the familiars never ending onslaught seemed to continue on forever.
"Shirou, stand back!" Rin told him, as he readied a shining blue jewel within her palm.
"Ein Körper…ist ein… Körper!" she chanted, as it was then that the jewel within her palm glowed.
Sending it out at her undead foe, it detonated within a shower of cool blue, then engulfed her enemy in a foul blast.
And as the dust settles, revealing nothing within its wake, they were quickly able to pass. But what they saw outside the cursed outside room surprised them both.
"Shinji!" Shirou said in a mixture of both anger and surprise.
As the seaweed-haired boy laid curled up on the floor, clearly frightened and muttering to himself.
And as the boy tried to leave, he was quickly kicked into the floor by the tohsaka heir.
"Don't give me any of your excuses!" Rin told him. "I will make you pay for what you've done, no matter what."
"Y-You've got it all wrong! You're wrong! You're wrong." Shinji stuttered out in fear. "It isn't me! It isn't me! It isn't me!" He repeated over and over.
"It isn't you?" Rin questioned in confusion at the boys words.
"Take down the field right now!" She ordered, as she pointed both her index finger and thing at the boy. "If you say no, I'll blow your sniveling face clean off!" Rin threatened.
But all she got was more of Shinji's shocked responses. "I'm telling you, you've got it all wrong! It's not me! I'm not the one who killed—"
"Shinji!" Rin interrupted him, jamming her fingers closer towards his face, as the boy screamed out in a panic.
Shirou turned to the open door of the chemistry lab, as he walked towards the classroom.
"Tohsaka!" He shouted back at the girl, who appeared to be slightly torturing the frightened boy. And as the girl neared him, he once again called out her name. "Tohsaka, over here!"
And what they both say would have frightened any normal person down to their very core.
Rider's mutilated body laid strewn about along the wall, as her arms were pinned in such a way that she was left crucified in place. Her blood was spread about on the floor, as her broken neck then twisted in impossible angles.
"She's dead…" Rin muttered out in shock, as the servant's body withered away into gray dust. The powerful bounded-field that surrounded the school, dissipating in her wake.
XXX
Dust flew about the air as the blast of mana that exited out of Rin's fingertips shot directly beside Shinji as the big screamed out in fear.
"Looks like you survived by allowing your servant to be killed," Rin assessed. "… but if you saw the killer's face, then it'll be you next," she reasoned.
"T-That wouldn't happen!" Shinji stuttered out. "I don't have a servant! I'm not a servant anymore! You two are the ones who still have a target on their backs!" He told them, as shirou brought out more of the unconscious students that suffered Shinji's attack.
"That's true. Even if you still have your Command Seals, you're no threat." Rin told him back. "Gnats can't kill anyone."
"G-Gnat?" Shinji stuttered out. "You're comparing me to a gnat."
"Be thankful I'm only comparing you to a pest!" She rebuffed. "Well, if you saw who did it, answer me. Right now, that is your only value to us."
Shinji looked down, remembering the petrifying events that happened previously that day, as he clutched his head in pain, he then screamed out.
"What kind of servant was it that took out yours?" Rin questioned.
Shinji recoiled upward, as he screamed out, "How should I know, moron?!" Before he grew an eerie smirk. "You're the ones who should be scared."
"Because you're the ones it's coming after next!" Shinji yelled cryptically, as he ran out the back entrance of the school.
Leaving both Rin and Shirou in confusion at their unnamed adversary.
XXX
(Later)
"It is the sixth day since the war commenced." Kirei Kotomine, the head priest said.
As the brown haired man turned to towards the kneeling and panting seaweed-haired boy that now lay pleading on the floor of the church halls.
"You are the first to make their way here." He told him, as the boy leaned his head upward to face the man. "Then you are withdrawing from the war, boy," Kirei asked.
"O-Of course I am!" Shinji yelled through gritted teeth. "You want me to die? Without a Servant, I can't kill anyone, and I'm no longer a Master!" He roared.
"I-I'm just an ordinary human," the boy stuttered out in fear of what he'd previously witnessed. "I'm just a victim in all this! It's unfair to have people coming to kill us, when we can't do anything!" He said.
To which the priest only gave a small chuckle at the boy's disposition.
"What? Do you have a problem with that?" Shinji demanded.
"Of course not," the priest replied smoothly. "You are the first to withdraw from this war, and the first to use this church's services since it was founded," Kirei said with a mock bow, much the young master's displeasure of his words.
"What? You're saying I'm the only one to be kicked out?" Shinji questioned out in shock. "When my grandfather finds out about this, what will he say?"
And with that arealization, he screamed out. "This is all you people's fault! You stuck me with that crappy Servant, Rider!" He roared.
But the priest only raised an eyebrow at the boy's frustrations.
"Oh? Then Rider was if no use to you?" Kirei questioned.
"Damn right!" Shinji bellowed. "After all I did for her, she went and died like a dog!" He griped. "Any other Servant would have been way more useful!"
And with Shinji's word's Kirei began hatching a plan. This boy still had the Will to fight, that was a powerful thing.
And while it was true that the young Matou wasn't all that powerful, another body could be useful. Especially when he considered the extra servant he possessed.
Shinji, with Archer, would surely to draw attention, attention that would be taken away from him.
Unknown to the priest schemes, the seaweed-haired boy continues with his wailings.
"Damn it, I did exactly as Grandfather said!" He cursed, "My preparations were perfect! But those bastards all got in my way! It was two against one! I didn't stand a chance with those odds!"
"Yeah, it wasn't my fault that I lost." And with that realization, the boy began to stand up from his previously kneeling position. "Their Servants were better than mine, that's all!" His hand began to form a fist. "Always looking down on me with those smug expressions! Crap. Crap. Crap. Crap…" he repeated over and over, striking down his knee with each word he spoke.
That was until a diligent hand made its way onto his shoulder. As the priest lent down just enough to whisper into his ear.
"Then you're saying that you still have the resolve to fight?" Kirei questioned, shocking the boy, as the man grew an eerie smirk. "Then you are most fortunate
...There happens to be one available Servant."
XXX
(The next day)
Tired and worn legs pushed Shirou onward, his destination was so engraved into his legs that it seemed he was heading there in autopilot.
His endeavors to locate Caster's master, another master within their school, hadn't proved fruitful. He and Rin had suspected Issei Ryuudou, a fellow class member and good friend of his, to be the master of the elusive caster based king be information they got that Caster had taken refuge within Ryuudo temple. But after seeing that his friend didn't possess any command seals, their only lead had faltered.
When he tried to inform Rin on their information after school, she was nowhere to be found. That's why he stopped in his tracks when he saw the hidden figure in the distance.
"Tohsaka?" He questioned.
And after he slowly walked up to her, he called out to her once again. "Hey Tohsaka, what are you doing here—" his questioning was interrupted as the aforementioned girl quickly grabbed onto his scarf and dragging him into a nearby alley.
"T-T-Tohsaka, w-w-wai—" he stuttered out as the girl pulled him along, as the Rin pushed him against the wall.
"Be quiet. If you cause a scene, he'll spot us." Rin told him in a hushed whisper.
"Who will spot us?" Shirou questioned, but the girl only ignored him.
"Move. Go on further." Rin said, as the girl continued to push him harder along the wall.
Shirou's face light up in a bright flush, as he felt the brown haired girl's body push up against him. "T-Tohsaka, Y-Your—"
"I said keep quiet," Rin interrupted him, as she dragged him to the corner of the alley.
"There. In front of Sakura's house." She said, "See that weird guy standing there?"
And she was correct.
As a man with golden blond hair, with a white button-up shirt over a set of leather jacket and pants, stood out in front of the large building.
Was he some sort of foreigner?
"He's been watching that Matou house for a while," Rin said.
And it was then that Shirou realized just where his legs had taken him.
Sakura's house.
Rin's voice knocked him out of his thoughts, as she pushed him back into the alley. "Look out," she whispered.
As they watched the blond foreigner walk past them, they both heaved a sigh of relief.
Watching his retreating figure, they both exited the alleyway.
"I wonder if he's the guy who was talking to Sakura earlier," Rin mused.
"To Sakura?" Shirou questioned.
Rin nodded, "Yeah, it was before the war, and it seemed like he was asking Sakura for directions," she said.
Before a thought struck, the girl as Rin hastily backed away nervously, pointing an accusatory finger at the boy.
"W-What are you doing here?" She squealed.
And a look of realization dawned upon Shirou's face, "Well I… I guess I just accidentally made my way over here," Shirou said bashfully, as he turned towards the Matou residence.
Rin understood, as a somber look etched itself across her face.
She quickly hid her feelings, as her visage changed into a teasing grin as she crossed her arms.
"What's with that evil grin?" Shirou asked.
"Nothing!" Rin replied teasingly, "But that makes sense. Instead of looking for other Masters, you're more concerned about the underclassman who always comes over to help you…I think i understand you a little better Emiya-Kun."
"Don't be stupid," Shirou waved her off. "When I came to report to you about Issei, you'd already left," He told her, drawing Rin's attention once again.
"Anyway, Issei is clear." Shirou said.
"What? You already checked him out, Emiya-kun?" Rin asked surprised.
"I did, Issei isn't a master," Shirou confirmed. "If you don't believe me, I don't really care," he told her.
Rin only shook her head, "No, I believe you. You aren't the kind to lie, Emiya-kun. If you say Issei is innocent, he's innocent," she said.
"But how did you find out?" Rin asked.
"Obviously I made him take his clothes off," shirou replied instantly, too fast for his brain to think on what he was saying. "I took off his too and checked if he had any Command Seals."
Leaving Rin gapping at the boy's words.
But it was then that Shirou asked the question that had been plaguing his mind.
"Tohsaka, why are you here?" He asked.
And the girl only looked away. "I was… worried about Sakura, too," she whispered softly. "Well, we're just acquaintances, but…" she trailed off.
"I know, according to Fuji-nee, her grandfather called her in sick for school every day since that night she ran off," Shirou said. "She might be at home right now." He whispered softly, remembering that day.
"Oh?" Rin whispered again, lost in her own thoughts, as she turned away.
"Tohsaka, you're leaving?" Shirou asked, but the girl continued to walk away from him, and soon he made to follow.
Suddenly the girl stopped in her tracks. "There's something I want to asked you," Rin said abruptly.
"Huh? What is it?" Shirou asked.
And Rin took a deep breath, and began to ask him, "Um, hypothetically… how do you think someone would feel growing up, if she'd been given away for adoption to another family. Without any say in the matter?" She questione.
"Emiya-kun?" She asked once again, turning her head slightly to face him.
"She would feel one way or the other. If her new home is nice, she wouldn't complain, and if it's not so nice, she would... right?" He answered.
That only seemed to make matters worse.
"I see… I guess you're right," Rin muttered. "Why am I even asking such an obvious question." She said, as they continued to leave the area, while they went to come up with new plans to deal with Caster.
XXX
(Matou residence)
They crawled around like an infestation, as pain shot through her spine.
They writhed around, twisting and squirming around each and every knook and cranny within her body. Her legs, her arms, her skin, and within her very soul.
Sucking in a sharp breath, her magic circuits flared within a white-hot burning sensation.
She wanted to scream. She wanted to cry out, she wanted to do so many things… But she couldn't, she refused.
Refusing to give her grandfather that satisfaction.
He wouldn't listen if she did, that was how it had always been. If she cried out now her grandfather would only strike her down, and emphasize her weakness by intensifying his locusts control to make them even more painful.
Agony shot through her… as she stayed silent.
This was the only small bit of satisfaction she could recieve in this endless cycle of torture. As the worms corroded through her skin once again.
They wanted her to retaliate, to show some bit of backbone so they could once again beat her down as a part of their sick and twisted machinations.
And yet they also wanted her to be obedient? Wanted her to comply, to conform to their expectations.
She was weak, she was defenseless, she was unable to change this fate.
It was already set in stone that this would be her life till the day her body gave out.
"…No." the voice said through her mind. She only barely heard it through her pain.
What was it talking about? What was its purpose for saying something so outlandish?
Was it that a small part of her wanted to fight back? Was that it! Had she truly gone crazy enough that a small part of her subconscious manifested itself.
"…Soon." It told her, a precursor for events to come.
Events in which the Holy Grail Wars would never be the same.
End Chapter.
AN: Originally, I planned on writing another chapter of bloodshot, but I had some writers block on it, I couldn't formulate how well I wanted to write some of the scenes, and I only ended up writing 800 words in. Event I just decided to write this.
...plus I got into fate/go, procrastinated a bunch and felt this wouldn't take too long to write.
This chapter was rather short, only about 3k words or so. But this chapter was mainly to push the plot forward.
I decided to go with these three canon scenes, because they set up important events that will come into play later. Their reasons were rather simple:
1.Rider's death.
2.Shinji getting Gilgamesh
3. Some of Rin and Shirou's interactionInfo on Sakura/Caster (originally I planned on using another scene but this one I felt played out better).
Don't worry, the next chapter will pretty much be the point in which it will diverge from canon, it will also be the chapter Naruto shows up for the first time.
Next chapter: it will be a pretty climactic end to the first part of the story. And our favorite blond haired protagonist will finally show up.
Oh, and Merry Christmas or Whatever.
I probably won't get another chance to say that becuase I won't be posting till next week. Maybe longer since I think I'll be working on something for the future.