AN: So… I'm a dirty liar, I'm just starting this a day after I said I'd put it up so, ehh shrugs sorry I guess.

Oh before I forget I said I'd do my best to grant a request so… Wana10, what 'dya want? Leave your request in a review cuz I have no idea how to do PMs.

Disclaimer: OS owns nothing

"Normal" spoken word

"Italics"thoughts /emphasis on words/ written word/ flashback

"Bold" Kyuubi/Dormin spoken word

"Bold italics" Kyuubi/Dormin thoughts

"Everything" Colossus names

Slaying Mountains

By OS

Part 2

That place…began with the resonance of intersecting points…They are memories replaced by ens and naught etched into stone. Blood, young sprouts, sky- and the one with the ability to control beings created from light…In that world, it is said that if one should wish it one can bring back the souls of the dead… But to trespass upon that land is strictly forbidden. Excerpt from the tome "wanderer and the colossus" (kudos to whoever can guess where the title came from)

"Well small one, in order for us to grant your wish, thou must accomplish a request of ours"

"show yourself! Who are you!?"

"I am Dormin"

Slaying Mountains

"So thou art mortal small one, I had sensed something different"

He turned his piercing blue eyes to the sunroof in the dome.

"I heard that in the ends of the world, there's something that can control the souls from the dead"

"Thou heard correctly, we are known as Dormin"

"She was willingly sacrificed for her village "he said sadly, gesturing to Yoi's body, laying on the altar.

A disembodied chuckle "Her soul? Souls that are once lost can not be reclaimed… Is that not the law of mortals? However, it may not be impossible." "Really?" he asked with some excitement. "Of course that is only if thou manages to accomplish what we askest." "Anything, what do I have to do?" the young man said with conviction, standing straighter as he did so. "Look upon the idols that stand along the wall. Thou art to destroy all of them." Naruto immediately jumped on the nearest statue, pounding upon it with the butt of his sword, and gnawing on it to no avail. "Those idols cannot be destroyed by the mere hands of a mortal" "then what should I do" Naruto said falling from his perch on the first idol

"In this land there exist colossi that are the incarnations of those idols. If thou defeat those colossi… the idols shall fall." "Alright, I'll do it!" Naruto said pumping his fist in the air. "Heed this however, the price you pay may be heavy indeed." "I don't care" He said looking at Yoi's face.

"… Very well" Naruto felt his attention being drawn south, past the altar "Raise thy sword to the light, and receive the ability to both slay and find colossi" Naruto raised his sword and the light from the grand hall's sunroof seemed to condense on it and give it an ethereal glow. Naruto heard kinaga getting restless, he looked down to find that humanoid shadows were coming out of the ground "what're those!?" "Those are the souls of heroes long past, hold thine sword to the light and disperse them" Naruto did what Dormin said and the shadowy figures dispersed into particles and were absorbed back into the floor.

"Raise thy sword to the light and head to the place where the light gathers, there thou shalt find the colossi thou art to defeat… now be on thy way"

Naruto walked out onto the balcony beyond the altar and raised his sword up in front of himself, Ignoring the glare from the sun in his eyes, he noted that the reflected light seemed to be pinpointed south, between two small hills. (quick AN: The lands at the end of the earth are way bigger in this fic, so Naruto will be spending more time there) Naruto whooped, and jumped down off of the balcony and started running south while whistling for Kinaga. When the white steed was galloping past him, Naruto jumped and pulled himself into the saddle, Kinaga not missing a step. After hours of riding south, Naruto stopped near a tall tree, surrounded by grass and with a small pond of water. Getting out of the saddle he told Kinaga,

"Rest, we'll be setting off again soon."

With that, he shot down a fruit from the tree. After eating it he felt… stronger it was hardly noticeable but it was still there he was tougher. While walking back to the tree trunk, he unsheathed his sword and studied it; it had taken on an ethereal glow, and felt lighter in his hand.

Naruto sat with his back against the tree, trying to contact Kyuubi. Closing his eyes, he cleared his mind, so that he could reach into the part of his mind containing the seal.

The blond wanderer found it impossible to breathe. He opened his eyes to find himself completely submerged in fluid, thicker than water. His eyes widened, his heart rate sped up, and his mind was running a mile a minute. The sunshine haired adventurer immediately shot off swimming along the corridors he knew would lead to his tenant. On the home stretch, his lungs were past burning for air, and he was fighting to stay conscious, he was ready to swim into the seal chamber and see what had become of Kyuubi, when he was met with a glowing purple wall with tendrils of blue and red interspersed through it. Just as he was going to explore it further, he came to the conclusion that it was chakra, while he processed this thought, he inhaled some of the liquid, the last of his air escaped his mouth and his eyes rolled into the back of his head and he passed out.

When the wanderer awoke, it seemed an hour had passed, and Kinaga was nosing his face. He swung himself into the saddle, and mentally berated himself for passing out, vowing to get to the bottom of things; he continued his wild ride south. After some more hard riding, checking his sword the entire way, with one extra break. Naruto made it to a short flight of stairs, where he dismounted kinaga and climbed about fifty feet of cliff in a round about way. (if you've played the game, the climbing tutorial part before the first colossus) As he crested the cliffs to find a scrubby plateau, he felt a rumble and almost lost his footing, he fell into a sturdier stance, one hand almost touching the ground. Naruto looked up and to his right, just in time to gaze upon the colossus. It was a giant, lumbering bearish looking thing with hooves and more prominent features made from what looked like stone. Covered in fur, nit had stone armor on its arms and legs, stone rings around it's biceps, and stone rings around it's chest and abdomen that held up what appeared to be platforms. Its face seemed to be made from stone and housed in a thick mat of fur, it carried a huge stone club in its right hand that, to it, had some heft but was effortlessly carried. Our protagonist now understood why Dormin had called this thing a colossus, it was practically a walking mountain, how was he supposed to beat this?

"Hold thy sword to reflect light onto the colossus and it's vitals shall be revealed."

"Oh… Dormin, is that you?"

The voice was gone.

"Well, I guess I better do that then"

As Naruto placed his hand on the sword, he felt a rumble and electricity shoot up his arm, he got an impression of a word

"Valus"

Shaking off the feeling, He held his sword so that it reflected light on the colossus, the light concentrated on the top of it's head, right between the ears. Naruto grinned… but it faltered as he sheathed his sword

Shaking off the foreboding feeling, he took off running

The ecstatic young man whooped and jumped into the air clapping his hands, before his feet had kissed the dirt, his bow was in his hand, and he'd nocked(am I right with this term? I read it in a book somewhere) an arrow, he pulled and released the string, and with a whistle and thunk, the arrow had embedded itself in the beast's back. The colossi's eyes turned from peaceful blue to fiery orange and it swung its club at him. Naruto rolled to the side, gathered his feet beneath him, and made a wild lunge for the mass's club barely managing to get a hold of one of the grooves that were sticking out of the face of the club. After the colossus had hefted its club up, our hero scrambled to the top of it, he threw himself at the great wrist bracers of it's arms, managing to seize a decorative ring. Naruto dragged himself up the beast's arm to a platform just above it's elbow, jumping from there to it's right deltoid muscle. Clenching, white-knuckled, to the fur of his opponent, Naruto scaled the moving, protesting, mountain that he was supposed to slay; finally making it to the vital point, with some trepidation; he unsheathed his sword, and made a mighty leap into the air to drive his sword hilt deep into the giant. Naruto fought to pull his sword from the beast. He did, and with a hollow roar of pain and anguish, the colossal creature died. Naruto tumbled to the ground, shaking, and upon hearing an unfamiliar noise, turned around to find that his slain foe had started to turn black, he realized, with a queasy feeling that the black originated from the stab wound that he had made. Then he saw the tentacles.

"Oh crap"

Was all that came to his mind as he saw, heard and felt the jet black projections of morbid energy coming for him. He started to run, his heart rate increasing with his pace running faster and faster till he felt like he was moving at the speed of light.

He made it to the top of the chasm that he'd climbed what seemed so long ago.

"Kinaga!"

He screamed as he threw himself off the edge, looking back momentarily to see that the source of his mad flight had come closer to him in his momentary hesitation at the top of the canyon.

"Run that way, that way" he yelled waving his arms in the general direction of the temple.

He hit the ground. He landed some fifty feet down, pain lanced through his ankles, and he knew without the cushion of chakra that he'd enjoyed before he came to this accursed place, that he'd hurt himself.

Pushing the white-hot bolts of pain that drilled throughout his legs and back, he rolled to his feet and ran down the stairs to Kinaga. He noticed something black in his peripherals. All of the air was forced out of him and his body was in unimaginable pain, every nerve, every synapse, firing off signals that screamed agony. He couldn't scream because his lungs were hurting too badly from the initial shock of the tentacles. Through the continuous torture that his body was enduring he felt something foreign worming it's way into his stomach. Before he could even form a thought about this development, he passed out.

He thought he was dead. He saw a tunnel of light, yet he knew he was alive, he was still in pain.

All he could hear were the sounds of his own labored breathing….

Slaying Mountains

AN: So… I would've had this done at around 7 but my sister's a jerk. Short chapter, whatever.

Anyway, next time Naruto fights at least another colossus, I promise. I have no idea when the next chap will be released

I want your opinions on two things.

First, do you think that Naruto should start having conversations with Kinaga. He wont talk back, but I think it'd add depth to the relationship

Second, the colossi aren't going away, but I think that Naruto should speak to them, what are your thoughts?

Oh up next, might go back to Konoha and see how Sakura's doing. And depending on how many Colossi Naruto fights, Kyuubi might fix the "problem" so we'll see how that goes. leave your input in reviews.