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Psyche! To my readers I will not . I will keep this story, but I will write a different version of it. You can expect a different version of this story within a few weeks at the most. I'm not sure when I'll put it up. Well on with the show.
Chapter 9: Wars of the mind.
Naruto charged at the snake sannin swinging both swords to try and slice his head off. The snake was faster than Naruto thought and ducked the shot. The blonde then brought up a knee up and nailed the snake man in the stomach and sent him into a tree.
Naruto grinned, but that faded when the enemy ninja turned into mud.
'A clone?' Naruto thought, 'then where is he?"
At that time the tree burst and a snake freak jumped out of the way and shoved his fist into Naruto's face. The blonde was sent flying into a tree. The blonde rose up from the crater. He cracked his neck and opened his eyes. He saw the snake guy heading straight at him. Naruto reached out with the force and grabbed him. Orochimaru snarled as he found himself clutched by an invisible force. He then grinned slightly.
"I must say," the pale man said, "You're doing well for someone who's only killed mercenaries and a few missing nin."
"Well," Naruto said, "I don't normally fight people on your level. I've been training, but I haven't mastered my full powers yet."After saying that Naruto unleashed a blast of force lightning making the snake man scream in pain. Naruto then sent him flying with a quick force push. The Dracula reject caught himself and then charged again. Naruto jumped back and avoided another punch. Naruto swung one of his light swords and cut off the man's arm. He then spun and stabbed the sword thought the man's chest and then threw him into a tree. Naruto then focused and the colors around him seemed to turn a light gray. Then he unleashed a huge blast of energy that crushed the snake man in the ground.
Naruto panted slightly as he felt the exertion from using such a strong force power. The blonde then got up and ran for his life. He ran up to his friends. In his distress to help his friend Naruto didn't notice the snake man rise up and then out of his mouth came another snake freak only with his arm.
He smirked at the distracted Jinchuuriki he thought, 'So the bingo book didn't lie. He is much more powerful than I thought. I might as well use this to my advantage.'
Meanwhile Naruto was checking over Sasuke and asked, "What happened?"Sakura answered, "I'm not sure…that freak bit Sasuke's neck and-Look out!"
Naruto spun around just in time for the snake weirdo to sink his teeth into the blonde's neck. The blonde screamed out in pain as he felt his the teeth break his skin and as a dark an malevolent chakra flooded his body.
Orochimaru looked down at Naruto's neck and saw what looked like the image of three small balls of flame.
'The curse mark of hell,' Orochimaru thought, 'This should be interesting.'
Naruto fell down and then blacked out from the pain.
Sakura looked in horror and then yelled, "What did you do to them you freak!"
"I gave them something to remember me by," Orochimaru said with a dark smirk.
The snake sannin then dodged to the right to avoid a large mouth full of teeth and a huge spiky tail from Hitomi who looked none too pleased about her master being hurt. Before the monster fox could attack again Orochimaru sank into the ground leaving no trail.
Hitomi then picked up her master while Sakura took Sasuke. The two then headed out to try and find a safe place where the three could rest. Sakura and Hitomi found it in a large hollowed out tree.
Sakura and Hitomi set them down. Sakura went to get some washcloths. She soaked them in water and placed them on both boys' foreheads since they were both running high fevers.
After that Hitomi laid down for a nap while Sakura took out a kunai and stood guard over the two.
Meanwhile in Naruto's mind…
Naruto groaned in pain as he rose up from the ground. The boy looked around to see that he was in what looked like a large city. He looked around some more and saw that snakes were everywhere. On the ground, trees, and the large metal vehicles. He also noticed that were dead soldiers everywhere and a few crows here and there. From the memories he had he knew this was called New York.
Suddenly a voice said, "Come child. We must speak."
Naruto followed the voice. He the Kyuubi. The large red fox was sitting in what looked like a large tower that was freakishly tall. He got from his memories that this was called the Empire State Building. He also found that what looked like a giant black Cobra was wrapped around the building at the moment it was asleep.
"So you're Kyuubi," Naruto said looking the great demon over, "I have to say you are impressive. Now where the heck am I?
"Hello child," the great fox said smirking slightly despite all the snakes, "welcome to your mind. So this is the form my new jailor has taken. I must say I'm impressed. From a weak brat you've grown into a powerful warrior. I'm glad for that."
Naruto looked at the fox and said, "Glad to know. Now what the hell is going on here?""It's that seal that stupid snake put on you," Kyuubi said motioning to all the snakes with it's head, "Apparently the seal was made to corrupt the mind of the person with it. The receiver would be given incredible power."
"Interesting," Naruto said, "but there is usually a price for such power."
"Smart boy," Kyuubi said, "The wearer of the seal would have to be completely loyal to whoever gave him the seal. On top of that the seal would eat away at the body. Apparently the man who gave you the seal didn't care for what would happen to you."
"So how am I supposed to get rid of the damn thing?" Naruto asked. Understandably he wanted to get rid of the damn seal as fast as possible.
"From what I can tell," Kyuubi said, "you'll have to defeat the mental representation of the seal. I warn you know it won't be easy."
"If everything was easy," Naruto said as he turned to walk away, "life would be boring and anticlimactic."
With that Naruto then started running. The blonde jumped up and started running up the side of the building with using the biomass in his legs. While running Naruto was using the force to find where the source of the vile chakra was. After a few minutes of running he found it.
And boy did he wish he didn't.
The source was what looked like I a giant snake pit in the botanical gardens. Inside of it slept a large white three headed hydra. The three-headed beast was currently asleep. It's three heads laying on it's two crossed front legs. It's back rose steadily as it snored softly.
Naruto gulped slightly. He then walked up to the sleeping monster.
He had a feeling that attacking this thing straight away would be a very bad idea. The blonde looked around and noticed a few things. There were all kinds of weapons spread throughout the area. Guns, missile launchers, even what looked like a tank and a helicopter.
'That was convenient,' the blonde thought.
Naruto then made his way to the machine gun and picked it up. Naruto then took careful aim at the creature's left head. The blonde then unleashed a haze of bullets. The sound of the impacts filled the gardens followed by a scream of rage and pain.
The Hydra rose up in anger and glared at Naruto who looked up nervously.
"Who dares try to hurt me?' the giant hydra spoke in Orochimaru's voice.
"Who do you think you legless iguana?" Naruto asked still aiming his gun at the large hydra, "Now I'm only going to say this once. Get off of me and out of my head you ugly three-headed worm!"
The Hydra looked at the boy with a blank look on it's face for a few seconds before laughing out loud. It even began pounding the ground with it's scaly fist onto the ground a few times. It breathed a few times to calm himself down. After a few seconds of calming down the hydra looked down at Naruto.
"How do you plan on making me leave boy?" the Hydra asked.
"Like this!" Naruto yelled as he unleashed a few more rounds into the Hydra's middle head.
The Hydra roared as the bullets pierced it's flesh. The reptilian beast then rose up and all three heads shot out at Naruto. The blonde ditched his gun and jumped up on the monster's back. His hands were then shifted to the muscle mass setting. The blonde raised both hands and then brought them down hard on the hydra's back. The head cried out in pain, and shook itself as it tried to shake the blonde off.
Luckily for Naruto he had shifted his hands to the claw form and then sank them into the snake's neck. After the shaking stopped Naruto shifted one arm back to normal and shifted the other back to it's blade form. He then stabbed the sword into the hydra's neck. The blonde then ran down dragging his sword arm along with him until he reached the base of the neck.
The middle head then rose up and came down trying to chomp down on Naruto. The blonde dodged to the right to avoid getting chomped on. What did get chomped on was the third head's neck. Naruto landed in between the hydra's shoulder blades.
The blonde watched in a mix of fascination and horror as an acidic substance leaked out of the middle head's fangs and actually burned away at the right one's neck. After a few seconds the head then fell down and collapsed onto the ground.
Naruto gulped before saying, "Note to self avoid the teeth."
The middle head growled after seeing it's folly. The middle head growled again before launching itself at Naruto.
The blonde jumped up to avoid the jaws and then had send out a force push to stop the left head from chomping on him. Naruto then formed his claw hands again and launched himself with the force and sank his teeth into the left head's nose. The blonde then held on as tight as he could as the head shook with all of it's might. The hydra then brought it's claws and tried to slash Naruto off. Naruto felt this coming. He then focused the biomass in his hands and then launched himself off. The claws then sank into the monster's head.
The blonde took advantage of that. The blonde rolled as he landed and grabbed a missile launcher that had been lying on the ground. The blonde then took aim and fired. Given the fact that weapons like this don't exist anymore the Hydra didn't know how powerful missiles are. Because of this it didn't even bother to try and avoid. The blonde unleashed five missiles on the left head. Each one going higher and higher on the throat until a missile reached it's head and exploded.
"Heads off to you snaky," Naruto said.
The last Hydra head just looked at him blankly and said, "That was terrible."
Naruto hung his head and said, "I know…I never really did have a good sense of humor."
The Hydra took advantage of Naruto's momentary shame and fired a huge blast of acid from it's mouth. Naruto managed to pull himself together just in time to use the force to hold off the acid for a few seconds before jumping to the right.
The hydra growled slightly as it saw it's pry had gone. Suddenly the air was filled with the sound of spinning blades. The helicopter rose up from the ground…with Naruto in the cockpit. The blonde then unleashed missiles on the hydra. Apparently though this one had learned. It knew to dodge missiles. The large monster moved it's head with serpent like grace and avoided the projectiles aimed for it's skull. After dodging a few it fired a huge blast of acid that melted the side of the copter.
Naruto jumped out and activated his chameleon skin to hide.
The copter crashed to the ground exploding into a blast of flames and shrapnel. The hydra growled out before turning it's head.
Big mistake.
Naruto, in his chameleon skin, snuck into the tank. He then took over the controls and took aim at the hydra. Sadly the tank couldn't aim high enough to shoot the head. Naruto decided to make due. The blonde then fired the cannon that took a huge chunk out of the hydra's side. The monster roared in pain as it's flesh and bone were destroyed.
Despite it's agony the monster spun on it's heel and then spat another blast of acid that Naruto was actually smart enough to jump out of the tank to get away from. As Naruto was in midair he was then struck by the hydra's tail and was knocked into the wall.
The hydra smirked for a moment. That soon faded however as it was suddenly hit with a huge blast of force lightning making it scream in pain. The monster fell to the ground in pain. Naruto groaned and cracked his back and arms as he felt a few dislodged bones reset themselves. The blonde then decided to end this whole farce.
The blonde then focused his biomass. The black tendrils covered his arms. The blonde then held out both hands and aimed at the hydra's last head.
The blonde then cried out, "Devastator: Critical Pain!"
Naruto fired a huge blast of biomass from his hands. Since the hydra was currently immobile it was unable to move it's head from it's current spot. The result was the head being completely obliterated.
Everything stood still for a moment.
Then the hydra erupted into purple chakra. All the snakes were sucked into it. Actually everything was being sucked into it. Cars, pieces of concrete, and it even started to suck in Naruto. The blonde saw what was coming. He shifted his left arm into it's whip-fist form and shot it out into a nearby wall to try and hold on. The boy then turned his right arm into the claw setting and jammed it into the ground. He even focused biomass into his legs so they could gain a grip on the ground beneath him.
After about a minute of the black hole experience it stopped. The entire mindscape was completely snake free. Good thing too Naruto was getting sick of reptiles.
Meanwhile in the real world…
Orochimaru suddenly doubled over in pain.
"Lord Orochimaru!" one ninja with a headband that had a musical note on it cried out.
"I'm fine," Orochimaru said, "Just a little pain that I'll get rid of soon."
With that Orochimaru left heading for his lab to do some experimenting. As he did he thought, 'Could someone have actually…nah! They couldn't have. No one is able to remove my curse mark.'
Back with Naruto…
Our blonde hero groaned slightly as he rose up from his position on the ground. The blonde rubbed his head in pain. He then growled out slightly as he walked out of the hollow tree. He was greeted with the sight of Sakura, Hitomi, Lee, Shikamaru, Ino, Chouji all standing their ground against three ninja with musical notes on their headbands.
There were two males and one female. The first mail had a long sleeve purple shirt with the sleeves freakishly long. The second guy had spiky black hair. The girl had long black hair.
Well most of them were standing. Lee looked battered and bruised.
Naruto's eyes widened when he saw Sasuke. He was currently standing with a sound ninja on the ground with his foot on the sound nin's back and pulling back on his arms. What really freaked Naruto out was the fact that Sasuke was radiating a dark chakra and had dark markings on his body.
Sasuke looked up and saw Naruto.
"Well look who woke up," Sasuke said with a smirk.
Everyone turned to see Naruto standing. Hitomi barked happily at seeing her master was all right.
"Naruto," Sakura said, "Something's wrong with Sasuke. When he woke up he had this evil aura around him."
"I can tell," Naruto said, "I can sense it from here."
At that moment Neji and Ten-Ten decided to show up.
"Lee," Neji scolded, "What were you thinking? They're our enemies this part of the exam.""Lighten up Neji," Ten-Ten said rolling her eyes, "Now what are we supposed to do about this?"
Sasuke just ignored them and started to pull on the sound nin's arms again.
"Sasuke," Naruto growled out, "Stop this now. We have what we need so just let him go."
"I don't think so dobe," Sasuke said, "This guy insulted me. I plan on making him pay. With this power I'm invincible."
Sasuke then tried to put more pressure on. Before he could though he started to choke. He looked up and saw Naruto was holding out his hand.
Sasuke released the sound nin and put both hands in a ram seal before saying, "Kai!"
The sensation of being choked continued.
'What is this?' Sasuke asked, 'Kai! Kai! This is no genjutsu…this is real!"
Sasuke choked more and was then lifted up off the ground. Naruto's eyes were locked on Sasuke. After a few seconds of suspension Naruto swung out his arm to the right and Sasuke was slammed into a tree. The blonde then brought swung his arm down and Sasuke face planted on the ground out cold. The black markings on the avengers body slowly receded.
"Invincible my butt," Naruto growled as he looked at the prone form of his teammate.
"Now then," Naruto said as he crossed his arms and glared at the sound ninja, "What should I do with you?"
"Thanks for taking care of that nut," the spiky haired sound nin said, "Now I get to take care of you!"
The sound nin held out his arms, and Naruto was quick to react. The blonde held out one arm. Suddenly the sound nin cried out in pain as he felt something grab his arm in a vice grip.
"Zaku!" the mummy man yelled out, "What's wrong?"
"My arm," the boy groaned out, "He…He did something…I…I can't feel my arm!"
"Can't feel it huh?" Naruto asked with a smirk, "Well then…does this hurt?"The blonde then clenched his fist and Zaku cried out in pain as he felt the bones in his arm twist out of place. The boy fell to his knee clutching his arm in agony.
Everyone looked in shock as they saw Naruto break a guys arm without even going anywhere near him. These were their thoughts.
Chouji: 'How did he do that?'
Ino: 'How did he do that? And why was Sasuke-kun acting like a blood crazed nut job?'
Shikamaru: 'That…was too troublesome for words.'
Kin (female sound nin): 'Oh this is bad. He took down Zaku and didn't even touch him.'
Dosu (mummified sound nin): 'What is this guy?'
Zaku: 'I'm gonna kill this guy for what he did to my arm!'
Ten-Ten: 'Dad was right…he is tough.'
Lee: Incredible. He flames of you are so strong that he doesn't even have to touch his enemies to inflict damage. I must tell Gai-sensei about this.'
Neji who had his Byakugan active: 'There's no way. He didn't waste any chakra. Apparently those abilities rely on those secondary chakra coils in his body.' (Check the first chapter if you don't get it.)
Sakura: 'I don't know why…but I feel happy that Sasuke was smacked around like a rag doll.'
Sasuke was still out cold so my guess his thoughts were: 'Must kill Itachi. Must kill Itachi. Must kill Itachi."
"Now then," Naruto said turning to the mummy man," since your friend here is probably going to have that arm of his reset I think it would be in your best interest if you and you the little girl over there start moving."
Dosu stared into the blonde's black and red eyes and gulped loudly. He could see and feel the bloodlust from them. Plus the fact that the boy's eyes were actually black and red gave him this scary look. I mean really who wouldn't be scared if a pair of black and red eyes stared at you.
"Kin," Dosu yelled, "Grab Zaku. Let's get out of here."Kin gulped and picked up her spiky haired teammate and then the two vamoosed. After they were gone Neji and Ten-Ten jumped down.
As soon as they did Ten-Ten stormed up to Lee and yelled, "Lee! What the hell were you thinking! You just jumped in and took on three enemy nin? You could have been taken out of the exam. And from the looks of it you used that Jutsu! You know you're only supposed to use that in case of an emergency.""Ten-Ten," Lee groaned as he got up, "I found Sakura fighting for her life. Like any youthful comrade I tried to help her. Unfortunately my flames of youth were not hot enough to defeat them."
Ten-Ten sighed and then turned to Naruto before saying, "Thanks for helping out my boneheaded teammate.""Not a problem," Naruto said smiling, "We already have our scroll, so we don't have to fight you."
"Naruto why did you do that to Sasuke-kun?" Ino asked the blonde boy with a slightly upset look on her face before turning to Sakura and saying, "Why didn't you stop him."
"Wow," Naruto said, "a while into this career and you still have yet to broken of your fan girlishness. Sakura you can give her an explanation to why you didn't help duck butt down there. As to why id did it I saw the look on Sasuke's face. He was actually enjoying hurting that guy. If you weren't so damn obsessed with the guy you would have actually seen the fact that he enjoyed hurting that guy. If he enjoyed hurting him…how do you know he wouldn't enjoy hurting you."
Ino was silent as she heard that.
"Now then," Naruto said, "I suggest we head to the tower in a group. Given how some of the teams are I highly doubt that these guys are incompetent enough to actually try and attack us if we are in a large group."
"Fate will determine how stupid our enemies are Uzumaki," Neji said causing everybody to roll their eyes at the boy's view of things.
"Now I suggest we head out before fate boy over there causes us all to either die of boredom or before his emoness causes Ino to become his fan girl," Naruto said making Neji and Ino glare at him.
Cut!
Omake 1: Sasuke questions about his character
"Now is suggest we head out before fat boy over there causes us all to either die of boredom or before his emoness causes Ino to become his fan girl," Naruto said making Neji and Ino glare at him.
(Cut!) Isom yelled from his chair with a megaphone, (Great work today people! Let's break for lunch! I need you guys to get in character for Ultimate Swordsman, and will someone please get me some coffee!)
Naruto stepped offstage and grabbed a bottle of water before taking a swig.
"Naruto," Sasuke said, "Do you really think I'm like that?"
Naruto turned to his friend and asked, "What do you mean?"
"What I mean," Sasuke said, "is why does everyone like it when I'm evil and emo? I mean I'm not always like that. I mean I'm good in Ultimate Swordsman and in Wrath of the Gods. How come in every other one I'm a jerk?"
Naruto rubbed his chin and thought, "I guess it's a fan base thing. Some people like it when someone that they see as emo is…well…emo. I guess it would contradict with how you looked in the book and in the show.""Yeah," Sasuke said shaking his head, "I just don't see why I have to be a-"
(Hey you two!) Isom yelled getting the two boy's attention, (You can talk after we're done shooting! Now go get in costume!)
"All right! All right!" Naruto yelled, "Sheesh being an author/director you think he'd be more patient."
Naruto then cried out in pain as Isom's megaphone smacked him in the back of the head.
(I heard that squirt," Isom said with an annoyed look.
