The trial of darkness part 1
"Okay so the gang's back together" Naruto said twirling Excalibur around "I agree however, that doesn't mean our mission is complete" Asuna said "That's right Nekane is still suffering from the Burn cloud jutsu used on her" Kaede said looking at Kotora "Hey don't look at me" Kotora said "I know you did it because you're a ninja" Kaede argued "Under orders, beside I can't peform that jutsu because it is a mix of fire and wind Jutsu, I can't do wind jutsu because it would destroy my chakra network by increasing the intensity of my fire chakra burning my network thus destroying it" Kotora said "it's true and Naruto can't perform lightning jutsu because of his wind affinity, however Naruto could do wind Jutsu but he was with us in Mahora" Sakura said. "Then who has both wind and fire affinities that don't affect each other?" Asuna asked "I don't know" Naruto said.
That night Naruto became feverish and saw a vision of a great cave filled with lava and swords.
"Welcome Guardian Knight of the Wind I am the avatar of Excalibur. You may call me Calibur," spoke a knight in silver and blue armour, "As for why you are here. You must endure the trial of darkness against the elemental knights to advance to the next stage. They will be in the order you have mastered with the first being fire." "Brilliant," Naruto said walking into the fire chamber.
Setsuna and Kyuu worried as Sakura examined Naruto "He has a fever but resting well" Sakura said smiling "Thank goodness" Setsuna said "As long as he passes" Merlin said ominously "Passes? Passes what?" Asuna asked "The trial of darkness. The last technique he has to learn is darkness. The fever and sleep is an indication that the trial has commenced" Merlin said "WHAT?" Chisame said "Look I know about trial and passed when that little brat decided to learn the magica erebra" she said "I know only this time there is no help from the outside" Merlin said sadly "Minato was barely able to survive it" Kushina said "I know and hopefully Naruto will survive" Ayaka said hugging Kushina.
Naruto stoond in the cavern "I'm not liking this" he said picking up a scimitar, "Oh by the way these knights will be represented by your friends" Calibur said "Oh, come on make it harder for me" Naruto said "I hate sarcasm. NOW BEGIN" Calibur said as a red and orange clad Asuna walked out smiling "Come on blondie" Asuna said swinging her sword over head bringing it down to meet the sword in Naruto hands breaking it. "Let me guess I have to find a sword connected to the element to beat you?" Naruto asked after throwing the handle away "Pretty much" Asuna said as Naruto picked up a katana. "Goodie" he said slashing away at Asuna only to have it break again.
Sword after sword broke from Asuna's blade "50 down, want to make it 51?" she asked mockingly "Think Naruto" he said to himself looking around "A sword related to fire" he said as he spotted a sword in the lava. He picked it up and swung it at Asuna destroying her blade and ripping her armor "Yield" Naruto said holding the white hot blade to Asuna's throat. "Very good, now go onto the earth element" Asuna said leaving in a pillar of flames while behind her was a portal to a sandy canyon.
Kushina was worried because she had gone through this with her husband and now she was going through it again with her only son. "Please be safe," she said sadly holding his hand. "Get some sleep," Nagi said appearing behind her. "I'm afraid that if I sleep he'll fail," Kushina said as tears flowed down her cheeks. "Tell you what. We'll do what we did last time. We'll take turns watching him so go get some sleep and I'll wake you when there's a change," Nagi said. "Thank you Nagi. You have always been a good friend" Kushina said leaving
Naruto walked into a sandy canyon "Now why would there be sand here unless...oh no" There standing in front of him was Gaara in his genin outfit "Naruto Uzumaki to pass this stage you must find the correct sword and pierce my sand defense" Gaara said "Great nothing can get pass that!" Naruto said swinging his sword against the sand shield causing pieces to chip off "That doesn't make sense" Naruto said. He then applied greater force and bigger chips fell to the ground "Oh come on" Naruto grunted in frustration "When I find that sword I'm going to pierce your shield and whack you on the head" Naruto growled. Gaara looked dumbfounded "Is this guy for real?" he asked as two more swords were found in his grasp as he crossed his fingers. "No Jutsu" Gaara said sending a lash of sand at Naruto breaking the swords "HEY!" he shouted scampering "How did you become the Knight of Excalibur?" Gaara asked "Okay think you have to find the earth sword but how?" Naruto said.
Soon the floor of the canyon was littered with sword fragments and handles "Now will you give me a hint?" Naruto said stepping on something, "A rock in the shape of a sword" Naruto said picking it up and twirling it "Now like I said before I'm going to hit you over the head and make sure you don't get up METEOR BLITZ!" Naruto said performing his earth attack on Gaara, slicing through the sand wall and cutting Gaara's nose "I told you that I would pierce the shield and hit your head" Naruto said slaming the rock sword onto Gaara's head knocking him out before leaving to the next area.
Naruto stepped into a mist covered lake "Okay so someone with water abilities" Naruto said. "Greetings Naruto-kun" a voice said. He did not know who was in front of him due to the heavy mist "Who are you?" Naruto asked. "Silly, it's me Nimueh" she said "You don't sound like Nimueh!" Naruto growled. "Oh, but I am just a bit...older" Nimueh purred as the mist started to disappear to reveal an grown up Nimeuh wearing a revealing blue swim suit, short navy board shorts, her mage jacket and a pair of goggles. "Eyeing my looks huh Naruto-kun?" she asked. "What will Setsuna think huh?" she giggled "But first time to get wet" she said shooting water arrows. Naruto quickly picked up a sword to deflect the arrows, but the water constricted the blade, breaking it and then hit him.
Great I'm guessing the sword of water can only fight water," Naruto said before picking up a familiar clever like sword. "This is," Naruto said. "Zabuza's clever," Nimueh said. "I don't get it Excalibur shouldn't know about this," Naruto said. "Excalibur took elements of your life and recreated them. The canyon, Gaara, this misty lake and the sword you hold all came from you mind," Nimeuh said. "So I'll face my friends and loved ones huh?" he asked. "I guess but that does not mean the way Excalibur portrays them will be the same as they are in the real world," Nimueh said. "Shall we?" Naruto said swinging the Zabazu's blade at Nimueh who gracefully dodged it.
Soon Naruto had abandoned the clever for a sword in the water. "Why dump a powerful sword for that one?" she asked. "Simple," he said swiping at her cloak, "This is the element sword." "But it's covered in...Rust." "That's right! When a metal object is left in a wet area the metal becomes rusted making this is the sword I need." "Very well done my friend. Now go the wind arena awaits," Nimueh said kissing his whiskered cheek, "See ya."
The wind arena was a floating island covered in swords and grass surrounded by a spiralling pillar of cloud. "Okay so a floating island inside a tornado," Naruto said. "Of course my special fox," a voice said. "Oh brilliant," Naruto said as he saw Setsuna in her Nekomini maid outfit. "So you're my next challenage huh?" "Of course," Setsuna said lifting up into the air. "You don't need to attack me with the blade just find it," Setsuna said dive bombing him. He soon picked up a sword as Setsuna become parallel with the ground. He lifted the blade as Setsuna swung hers. The two swords collided and knocked Naruto's into the tornado. "Now what," Setsuna taunted "I'm regretting this already," Naruto said picking up another sword "With your fighting style I won't be able to defeat you and pass," he said. Setsuna smiled at this "What a pity that would be." "This is so weird I need to find the...sword," he realizing he knew the location to the wind sword all along.
Naruto ran at Setsuna, flipping throught the air, disarmed her and then held the blade to her neck. "How did you know?" she asked. "The only thing I could think of relating to wind is flight. So you gave me the sword's location straight away but I had to decode it first," Naruto said "Good, now the lightning sector is waiting for you," She said opening a gate.
Naruto soon stood in a sword covered valley with two massive statues. "No it can't be!" Naruto said alarmed. "This is." "The valley of the end where we fought." "Sasuke!" Naruto growled. "Hello dobe. Find the sword and strike me with it." Sasuke said "Again why is it this easy? All I have to do is find a sword and hit you." "Before I reach the second cursed seal level," Sasuke said "Okay now it's harder!" Naruto gulped.
"Begin" Sasuke said throwing both kunai and shuriken at Naruto. He dodged them by performing flips, slides and jumps. "Where is that sword?" Naruto asked as a bolt of lightning struck the ground. "Great now it's going to storm...it couldn't be that simple could it?" Naruto said looking to where the lightning once again impacted the ground. "Oh yeah it isn't" Naruto grumbled rushing off. On the ground Sasuke had black flame tattoos crawl across his right arm, "I better go now. I don't want to make it too easy now do I?" he asked scaling the sheer rock face of the cliff.
Naruto was now on top of the sword covered cliff, "Hey why weren't there any swords down there?" he grumbled before looking down to see water. "That's why" he chuckled, "I'm an idiot, but Sasuke isn't." Sasuke made it to the top with black flame tattoos over half of his body "Time's nearly up Dobe," Sasuke growled before stalking over to him. The lightning struck again; Naruto could feel the heat and static from it. "Man, that was close but it gave me the location to this element's sword: Sasuke's kusanagi charged with Electric energy. Got it," Naruto said throwing a sword at Sasuke to slow him down. "Nice try loser," Sasuke said as the other half of his body was engulfed by the black flames of the curse seal "Blast I have to get that sword now," Naruto said before a flash of lightning hit
Naruto bolted getting hold of the sword as Sasuke's tattoos spread until his skin was black. "JUSTICE TECHNIQUE: THUNDERSTRIKE!" Naruto shouted throwing the charge of energy at Sasuke who dodged it. "That was weak Dobe not to mention you missed!" Sasuke laughed. "Did I?" Naruto asked as the bolt started to rebound off the other swords hitting Sasuke point blank. "Nice move loser. Now go to the next elemental zone."