AN: Anything related to DMC or Naruto does not belong to me but to their respective owners.
Sorry it too so long to get back into this but life interfered, with college, and many other things. But now I have a bit more time on my hand so I will use that time to write this story! So without further interruptions, I present to you chapter 4!
Naruto May Cry
Chapter 4: Mallet Island II
Location: Demonic Chessboard
"You have got to be kidding me." Said Shikamaru.
He entered a door earlier and stumbled upon this empty room, with the floor resembling a chessboard. Then chess pieces appeared on the board.
"I remember reading about them. They're apparently chess demons." Shikamaru said.
Suddenly, some of the pawn-type chess pieces started to move toward Shikamaru. One of them flashed red and then swung both its swords at the black-haired boy but luckily, the boy was able to avoid the blow.
'Guess I'm going to have to fight them.' Shikamaru thought.
Then, one of the horses jumped and flew three spaces down like L, landing in front of Shikamaru. It then lifts its head up as it tried to skewer Shikamaru with its horn but the boy had used a kawarini to get away.
'Damn. It seems that they also have the movement properties as in real life and also have their own attacks as well. So troublesome.' Shikamaru thought as he analyzed the chess pieces, 'If I am to defeat them then I'll have to memorize their attacks, avoid them and go straight for the king.' Shikamaru added.
He then began to run around, avoiding various attacks as he heads for the king. He then takes a knife and was about to slash the king piece when it suddenly switched places with the huge towering rook piece and knocked the Nara back with a force field.
'Just as I figured, the rook can switch with the king as well. Damn, this isn't good at all. There's no way I can defeat a whole set of chess pieces by myself. Wait, that's it!' Shikamaru thought as he then came up with an idea.
"Devil Arm: Shadow!" Shikamaru whispered
Then his shadow turned into a humanoid being, standing next to Shikamaru.
"What is it master?" Shadow asked.
"I want you to split yourself into replicas of these chess pieces." Shikamaru ordered.
"As you wish." Shadow said
The demonic shadow then split itself into exact copies of the chess pieces like his master had commanded.
"Now that I have my chess pieces ready, let's go." Shikamaru said with a grin.
Location: Hall of Angels
Meanwhile, Gaara was walking down a darkened hallway with statues of winged armors on the walls.
"I wonder how the others are doing." Gaara whispered.
"Those armors, they look quite familiar." Gaara said as he looked at the armors on the hallway.
He then felt something and turned around only to see nothing. He took a breath of relief and continued to walk. But unknown to him, none of the statues were in the hallway anymore.
He then heard the footstep of armor and turned around gripping his sword, only to see nothing again.
"Damn I must be losing my mind." Gaara said with a sigh.
He turned around and started to walk when he was suddenly stabbed through the gut by a white lance.
"The intruder has been eliminated." The armor said as it spoke in a ghostly voice.
"I wouldn't be too sure to say that tough guy." Gaara chuckled.
He was still alive much to the surprise of the living armor. The said armor tried to pry its lance off Gaara but was unable to as the boy gripped it with his Shukaku Bringer.
"Don't assume that I'm a normal demon slayer but trust me pal, I'm far from normal." Gaara said.
He then pulled himself off the lance and to the armor's surprise, the wound healed instantly. Gaara then glared at the demon and then with his Shukaku Bringer, pierced the armor with its own lance multiple times before sending it flying away.
Gaara then turned around and saw three other winged armors waiting for him
"Really? Can I just go through one room without being attacked?" Gaara asked annoyed.
One of the armors flew toward Gaara and lunged its spear at the one-tailed jinchuuriki but said jinchuuriki was able to avoid the attack by jumping in mid air. Gaara then took out his sword and swung it down only to be blocked by the armor's wings. The armor then pushed Gaara back with its wings.
"I don't have time for this. Desert Funeral." Gaara said.
He then performed one of his trademark techniques as sand flowed from his Shukaku Bringer and then engulfed the armor he was fighting before crushing it.
He was about to go after the other two when he sensed another one of the winged knights come from behind with its spear. Gaara grinned, grabbed the lance with his Shukaku Bringer and then smashed the knight into the others. Before the winged knights could recollect themselves, Gaara rushed at them and performed a chakra enhanced version of the Streak attack that Nero had taught. The attack destroyed all three armors in one single blow.
"Nero-aniki told me about these things. Apparently they're Bianco Angelos, armors created from fragments of dead Nelo Angelos. Question is though, how could a bunch of hanyous get their hands on them?" Wondered the one-tailed jinchuuriki as he saw the armors disappeared in a mix of light and white feathers.
He then shrugged as he could not come up with an answer and he simply headed for the door down the hallway. He opens the door and entered a room that was barely lit up.
Location: Nethervoid
"So what's up with this room? Someone turned off the lights or something." Gaara asked as he looked around.
He then saw a mass of shadow form itself into a copy of himself, grinning at him.
"A doppelganger." Gaara frowned.
"You got that right." The doppelganger said with a smirk before punching Gaara in the face, sending the boy flying about into the other side of the room.
"You wanna play tough guy? Fine by me." Gaara growled.
He then took out his Blue Rose and fired three high-speed shots at the doppelganger. The said doppelganger grinned and then caught all three bullets with his teeth.
"You've got to be kidding me." Gaara said in disbelief.
"Snatch!" The doppelganger yelled out and imitated Gaara's attack as his own Shukaku Bringer extended itself toward the red-haired demon slayer.
Gaara was able to dodge the attack and then rushed toward the doppelganger. He swung his sword but the doppelganger was able to block it with his own sword. The two then began to clash with blinding fast sword strikes.
"Desert Upper!" The doppelganger yelled out and then knocked Gaara back with an uppercut from his Shukaku Bringer.
However, the blow caused Gaara to crash into one of the numerous round windows that were in the rooms and also caused light to enter the darkened room. But what was most surprising was that it made the doppelganger in its tracks.
'I see, so he's afraid of the light huh?' Gaara noticed as he got back up.
Gaara grinned darkly and then rushed at the doppelganger and swung his sword but the shadow was able to block it with its sword.
"Not so fast! Exceed!" Gaara then said.
He then revved his sword, turning the blade orange, and thus making his sword even stronger. Gaara then used the increased strength of his sword to overpower his doppelganger and knocked it back near one of the round windows.
Gaara then quickly ran toward the window where the doppelganger landed next to and swung his sword at it 5 times, causing it to break apart and shine light, causing the doppelganger to scream in agony.
"Limp Bizkit!" Said Gaara and then unleashed a fury of punches at the doppelganger before knocking it in middle air with an uppercut from his normal arm and then knocking him back across the room with a punch to the face using his Shukaku Bringer.
"So the light does make you weak after all. I guess this means you won't be much trouble after all, copycat." Gaara taunted the doppelganger with a smirk.
"Don't get too cocky punk." The doppelganger replied in its demonic voice as it got back up, "I am just as strong and fast as you and that last attack was a lucky break. You won't be so lucky from now on punk." It added, glaring at the red-haired boy.
"Luck? Well then, let me show you how lucky I am." Gaara said with a smirk as he stabbed the ground with his sword and then revved it up, "Bring it on." Gaara told his doppelganger.
Location: Torture Coliseum
After fighting hordes of demons on his way, Chouji found himself in an empty large Roman-like Coliseum. It felt tremendously eerie as there were no signs of life and skeletons of dead bodies on the floor. This caused the Akimichi heir to gulp.
"What is this place?" Chouji asked nervously.
"What is this? A puny human has entered my domain?" A booming voice groveled from out of nowhere.
"Who…who's there?" The Akimichi demon slayer asked as he looked around for the source of the voice.
Suddenly, a large triple horn grey-skinned demon came out from the roof of the coliseum, crashing onto the ground on both feet. He was extremely tall, easily as tall as a skyscraper, and it also had red eyes.
"I actually thought the human would look more impressive but instead, all I see is a boy that is short and fat." The demon bellowed.
The fat comment caused a vein to appear on Chouji's forehead, as this was a taboo word to him and everyone from his clan,
"Don't you ever call me fat again, you ugly-looking monster!" Chouji yelled at the demon.
"How dare you call me ugly, you fat piece of shit!" The demon roared.
The demon swung his right fist at Chouji, hoping to splatter the boy all over the arena. However the demon was met with surprise, as Chouji was able to block the blow with his arms. Chouji then grabbed the demon's fist and sent the demon flying about ten meters, crashing onto the stands. The demon got back up and grinned at his prey,
"Hmm. I was wrong after all. It looks like you might be entertaining than I expected, HUMAN!" The demon said and then let out an immense roar that shook the coliseum.
'This guy's blow nearly crushed me. Looks I'll have no choice but to use this.' Chouji thought.
He then took out a small plastic box that contained three pills of different colors. He then took the yellow pill and swallowed it.
Location: Demonic Chessboard
"Finally, I destroyed them all." Shikamaru said, panting heavily as he was on his knees.
It took him close 30 minutes but he had finally defeated all of the relentless demonic chess pieces thanks to his Shadow devil arm. Suddenly, a red door appeared in front of him.
"A door huh? Why do I have a feeling that this is going to get troublesome." Shikamaru said.
He got back up and then opened the door and walked into a Sunken Opera Room that was empty.
Location: Seductress' Opera Room
"Doesn't look to bad." The Nara youngster said as he looked around the room.
He walked into the middle when he was suddenly by bats. The bats then formed into a beautiful nearly naked red-haired woman with red eyes.
'A succubus.' Shikamaru thought as recognized the form of the woman.
"Welcome sir. Is this your first time?" The succbus asked in a very seductive and nearly hypnotic tone, like a siren.
"Yeah it is." Shikamaru said with a grin.
"Well then, I'll make sure you have a wonderful time. In fact I'll treat you so good, you'll never want to leave." The red-haired woman said with a sultry smile as she walked around the Nara, tracing her finger along his chest.
"Sounds really wonderful but I must decline. You see I'm dating this troublesome Sand woman and if she learned that I was fooling around with another woman, she would kick my ass." Shikamaru replied with a smirk, "Besides, I'm a demon slayer and I don't do demons." Shikamaru added with a glare as he summoned Shadow instantly.
"Is that so?" The woman asked as she then walked a couple of meters away from Shikamaru. She then breathed on one of her hands and electricity flew from her mouth to her hand, engulfing it, "Well c'mon then, sugah." The succubus told the boy who had now become her opponent.
"I knew this would be a drag." Shikamaru said with a sigh as he prepared to fight his next opponent.
Meanwhile, Anko, Sakura, and Naruto were walking around. Their mission was to look for the demons that escaped thanks to Mizuki.
"So how the heck are we supposed to find these demons anyway?" Anko asked.
They have been walking around for the past 30 minutes and have found no trace of demons around.
"Don't really know. Would you know how to find demons Mr. Uzumaki Naruto?" Sakura asked the blonde jinchuuriki with a smirk.
"Just got to smell them." Naruto replied nonchalantly.
"Smell them?" Both girls repeated with a bit of disgust.
"Or you could find them by any of sign of strange activity like this." Naruto added on and pointed to in front of him.
The girls turned to the direction he pointed at and found that a part of the forest was frozen
"That's definitely unusual." Anko said.
"And I bet you the reason why is because of a demon. Let's go sexy ladies." Naruto said with a wicked grin as he walked toward the frozen area.
"I am so going to kill him as soon as this mission is over." Sakura said, growling at Naruto's remark.
"Not if I get to him first." Anko said as she shared the same sentiments as her friend.
The trio arrived at the source of the frozen spot. In the middle of it all was a giant three-headed ice dog that was guarding his territory. It saw our heroes arrive and quickly threw a huge block of ice at them but Naruto was able to slice it down effortlessly with his sword.
"LEAVE NOW MORTALS! YOU ARE NOT WORTHY TO SET FOOT HERE!" The demonic ice dog roared.
"Wow. I never seen a talking mutt before. In a dog show, you would definitely win first place." Naruto chuckled, as he taunted the demonic dog.
'He's taunting a demon?' Both girls thought as they had sweat drops in the back of their heads.
"YOU DARE A MOCKERY OF ME?!" The dog growled in anger.
It then swung one of its paws at Naruto but the blonde demon slayer was able to dodge it effortlessly.
"Easy fido. How about I take you for a walk huh? C'mon boy, let's go." Naruto said, treating the three-headed dog as if he was just a puppy.
"YOU WILL REGRET THESE FEW WORDS." The dog said.
"Ha ha ha, it's showtime. C'mon!" Naruto said as he got ready for the fight.
To be Continued…
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