A Ninja's Worst Nightmare!
Chapter 8: Interventions
Summary: Naruto faces off against Shen in the forest, fighting to save his friends while Nightmare and Siegfried continue their battle, that happens to be heading towards the barrier that contains Orochimaru and Sarutobi!
Shen charged at Naruto with great speeds with his sword ready to slash! "Your mine!" Shen shouted as he swung his sword at Naruto! Naruto barely manage to dodge and he jumped off the branch and landed on another. Shen missed Naruto and sliced right through the tree that Naruto was on!
"No...No way." Naruto got out as he saw the tree fall to the ground below. Shen griped his sword harder and spun around quickly while swing his sword to create a huge gust of wind so powerful that Naruto had to put his arms in a X to stop himself from blowing away!
But when Naruto look pass his arms he saw Shen right in front of him with his sword ready to slash him! But Naruto was quick enough to dodge most of the attack, but wasn't fast enough to avoid getting slashed in the ribs! Naruto fell on his knees and Shen was lifting his sword over his head getting ready for downward slash, but Naruto rolled off the branch and grabbed on to the one underneath.
The attack manage to cut off the branch that Shen was on and he jumped down to the one that Naruto was on. "Prepare to die." Shen said darkly as he walk towards Naruto. Naruto was thinking of a way to save him and his friends, then he remembered Jiraiya's training and wiped some blood on his side with his thumb and made some hand signs. "I need the chief toad's help! This guy isn't human, he's like...a demon!" Naruto thought as he slammed his palm on the branch, "Summoning Jutsu!" Naruto shouted and a smoke cloud appeared, but all that appeared was Gamakichi, a small orange toad.
"Oh it's you, what's the big deal calling me here?" asked Kichi.
"Oh come on!" Naruto shouted with a anime vain on his head "I need chief toad to fight this guy! Not pipsqueak toad!"
"I not a pipsqueak toad!" Kichi shouted back, "You better not be insulting us amphibian! Bleh!" Kichi shouted as he stuck out his tongue and Shen was not in the mood to watch this unfold. Naruto saw Shen's sword coming down and grabbed Kichi and jumped to another branch. Kichi looked at Shen and saw his mutated face. "Whoa! What's the deal with him?" Kichi asked.
"I don't know, but I need to stop him from hurting my friends!!" Naruto shouted and Shen began to laugh again. "Ha ha ha ha ha! Your still thinking about that?! If you are than you better hurry! Because my water is still crushing your little girl friend as we speak!" Shen explained.
"Gotta think of something, gotta think of something!" Naruto thought as he remember a move that Kakashi used on him, so he pull out a kunai and wrapped a explosive tag around the handle."Shadow Clone Jutsu!" Naruto shouted as several clones appeared. The clones charged Shen and Shen merely smirked at the attempt and readied his sword.
The clones surrounded Shen and charged him. Shen swung his sword to the left and took out the clone on that side and then swung his sword to the right and took out the clone on that side. A clone charged him from the front and Shen stabbed his sword into it's stomach and another clone was coming! Shen tried to pull out his sword, but the clone held on to the blade with a smirk on it's face. The other clone came and kicked Shen in the face, but that only pissed Shen off as he tore his sword out of the clone that held his sword and then slashed through the other one.
After Shen got rid of the last clone, he stabbed his sword into the branch and looked around for the real Naruto. All of a sudden, Naruto appeared behind Shen crouching down with the kunai in his hands! "Leaf Village Secret Finger Jutsu! A Thousand Years of-" Naruto was shouting but he was cut off by Shen's kick that hit him square in the face that sent Naruto flying back and then he slid and rolled on the branch before crashing into another tree and fell on his stomach while holding his head.
Shen started to walk towards Naruto and kicked off the kunai with the flaming tag that Naruto drop off of the tree. He continued walked and shortly after the tag went off and a big explosion happened. "That was truly pathetic," Shen said as he continued walking to Naruto while Naruto struggled to get to his feet, "You should have used a Jutsu that didn't that many words." Shen advised as he got to Naruto and lifted his sword, getting ready to behead Naruto!
"And now...you die." Shen said coldly, but then, "Sand Shuriken!" shouted Gaara as he shot several sand balls out of his arms and it hit both Naruto and Shen, but Shen received more hits. Shen whipped his head around to see Gaara with his body covered in sand and he now looks like a raccoon.
"You...Must you get in my way?" Shen asked with seething anger.
"I'm going to kill here, not you or anyone else will spill blood here!" Gaara shouted as he reeled back his arms. "Sand Shuriken!" Gaara shouted again as he swung his arms forward and many sand balls shot out of his arms! Shen turn his body around and slashed down some of the balls with his sword, meanwhile Naruto used the distraction to escape from behind Shen and left to formulate a plan to take out two blood thirsty teens.
After all the sand stop coming, Shen rushed at Gaara and leap from his branch and landed right next to Gaara and slashed him! But because of Gaara's sand armor, Shen was unable to reach Gaara's real body. The two clashed as Shen used his sword while Gaara used his arms to battle each other. But because Shen was smaller now because of Gaara's raccoon form, he was able to dodge more hits and he was more agile as he jumped around Gaara and slashed each time.
"Enough of this!" Gaara shouted as he raise his hand at Shen, "Sand Coffin!" Gaara shouted as sand wrapped around Shen! Shen struggled to break out, but he couldn't as he rose into the air. The sand started to cover his face, his left eye also turn yellow! "Sand Burial!" Gaara shouted as he clench his hand and the sand that cover Shen exploded, but instead of Shen's lifeless body fall to Earth, he was floating in the air with wings on his back! Also he his body had morphed into a more demon like appearance! He turned into his Full Nightmare Form.
Shen then descended to another branch and glared at Naruto (With Gamakichi on his head) then shifted his glare to Gaara (in his Shukaku mini form) "Which one? Shen asked as he shifted his glare at both demon containers. "Which one of you, shall I kill first!?" Shen shouted as he let out a demonic roar and destroyed the branch he was on as he jumped off of it!
Back at the village...
Nightmare and Siegfried continued their battle as they neared the battle arena and a purple barrier that was on the roof of the lookout tower. Siegfried was being pushed back as Nightmare continued his relentless assault, Siegfried parried a slash as he jump off the roof and landed on the highest roof in the arena with his back to the barrier.
"You're mine!!" Nightmare shouted as he brought down his sword! Luckily, Siegfried brought up his sword and block the attack. The force of the attack, crushed the roof where Siegfried was standing! Siegfried struggled to keep balance as the roof he was standing on gave way, Siegfried then threw Nightmare's blade off and jumped back, getting closer to the barrier.
"Hm? Who the heck are those two?" asked a ninja with six arms as he held the barrier along with his teammates.
"Does it matter? They can't break through this barrier!" exclaimed a ninja with silver hair and purple lipstick. Completely oblivious of Nightmare's and Siegfried's powers. However the ANBUs that was trying to get into the barrier was aware of the two's powers.
"Wh-what the.. Who are those two?" asked one ANBU.
"I don't know...but those two are powerful...maybe more powerful than First and Second Hokages!" said the ANBU in the front.
"Hraaaah!!" Nightmare shouted as he brought down his sword and Siegfried manage to roll out of the way as Nightmare's Phantom came down on the barrier, the ninjas holding the barrier expected the blade to catch on fire and burn the Azure Knight, however, because of Phantom's power, it was able to rip threw the barrier!
"Impossible!!" Shouted both ninjas as Siegfried brought his heel to Nightmare's back and sent him inside the barrier and he quickly followed after him! The ANBUs saw the opening and tried to get in as well, but the ninjas quickly re-closed the barrier.
Inside the barrier, Sarutobi had Orochimaru in his grasp and was trying to pull out his soul, however, Orochimaru was being stubborn and tried to kill the Third Hokage with his Kusanagi in his body. Enma, the Monkey King and Sarutobi's long time friend did his best to hold the blade.
Sarutobi was in bad shape, however he wasn't going to let that stop him to fix his mistake that he made a long time ago. "Why don't you die you old fool!?" Orochimaru shouted, Sarutobi was about to say something, but then all three of the ones inside of the barrier then heard the clashing of metal!
"How!? How was someone able to get in this barrier!?" Orochimaru thought as he looked in the direction of the sound.
Meanwhile with Siegfried and Nightmare...
The two warriors clashed in what seemed to be a forest, however the two were to preoccupied to notice that as they continued to parry each others blows. Nightmare swung his blade horizontally, Siegfried saw the attack coming and jumped back, but that left him open for Nightmare to plant his foot in Siegfried's gut and sent him flying into an opening. There Siegfried saw a human-like money with several snake's wrapped around him, a old man that was holing on to a young man with very pale skin. However, Siegfried had little time to react as Nightmare came bursting out of the forest with his blade coming down! Siegfried jumped back as Nightmare slammed his sword into the roof again and destroyed it.
As Siegfried jumped back towards the two men, he thought they would move, however they didn't, Siegfried wanted to tell them to get out of there, but Nightmare came charging again slashing his blade. Siegfried manage to dodge some attacks, but Nightmare then again brought his sword over-head! Siegfried could afford to take another hit like that, so he jumped to the right, see that he was too close to the old man and the paled skinned one, he had to grabbed the old man and pull him off so he would get his arms hacked off.
"Watch out!" Siegfried shouted as he grabbed the old man in time as Nightmare cut the arm that held Orochimaru's soul (Which neither Nightmare nor Siegfried saw) and both sides whipped back to each ninja. Sarutobi expected to die, but strangely he didn't. However for Orochimaru, when his soul came back, it also seemed to pull back something else from Soul Edge and soon as his soul came back into his body, his arms began to burn! "Arrrgggghhhh!!!!" Orochimaru screamed as he lost feeling in his arms! "Curse you old man what did you do to me!?"
Siegfried quickly jumped off the old man as Nightmare charged at him, not wanting to drag the old man into his battle. Siegfried raised his sword to block the imcoming hit, but the hit threw him off balance and that left him opened for Nightmare to slam his right fist into his chest and send him flying into the forest. Orochimaru arms were burning as his arms became limp and fell to his sides. "What did you do to me you old man!?" the Snake Sannin asked again.
"I sealed your arms, now the ways of ninjutsu are now out of your diablocial reaches." Sarutobi explained as he got to his feet and after Enma pulled the Kusanagi out of him, he was feeling alright in a sense, but that was what puzzled him, he was supposed to sacifice his soul to seal those arms. What happened that made it so he came out still with his soul?
Then Orochimaru's arms began to burn more causing him to scream in pain. The ninja with purple lips that was holding up one corner of the barrier pressed his hands against the sides with his face in great concern, "Lord Orochimaru!!" he shouted as Orochimaru stopped screaming, "Release the barrier, we must fall back!" Orochimaru ordered as his ninja lowered the barrier.
Sarutobi heard him and quickly got into a battling stance. "Your not getting away this time!" The Third Hokage shouted as he rushed Orochimaru, but then he was stopped in his tracks as something prevented him from moving. To be more precise, his feet was unable to move, because there was a web sticking him to the roof!
"You're not getting anywhere near Lord Orochimaru!" Shouted the six armed ninja as he leapt to his master's side along with the other three. The big ninja and the purpled lips ninja moved the Snake's Sannin's arms over their necks and jumped off with them. But the ANBUs who were waiting outside out the barrier quickly jumped after them, however the six armed ninja once again spat out a web from his mouth and it caught the ANBU that went after them and they fell back down to the roof.
Sarutobi ripped his feet out of the webs and grabbed Enma after he turned into a staff and slid out of the snakes that held him in place. When he looked to see how far Orochimaru gotten, he was already far away. 'Damnit! I can't let him slip through my fingers again!' Sarutobi thought as he heard metal clashing in the distance and remembered about the two warrior early and quickly left in the direction of the clashing. The ANBUs saw their Hokage run off and they quickly followed him after releasing their comrades from the 'sticky' situation.
Meanwhile with Nightmare and Siegfried. Siegfried was at a disadvantage as he took that punch that Nightmare gave him and now he was on the defensive, Nightmare then sword was coming from the left of Siegfried, on reflex, Siegfried moved his sword to defend. However the force of the attack was powerful enough to knock the sword from Seigfried's grip, and now he was at Nightmare's sword's tip. "Now...It's time to die Siegfried!!" Nightmare shouted as he was about to stab Siegfried, but then a staff came crashing into the side of his helmet and he stumbled. "What the!?" Nightmare said as he whipped his head to see Sarutobi, who was in the position of after a throwing position. "You dare get in my way!?" Nightmare shouted forgetting about Siegfried momentarally, allowing Siegfried to sprint up and grab his sword. Nightmare saw Siegfried run for his sword, but then the staff poofed to smoke and a large monkey latched on to Nightmare restricting his movement. "What!? Where did you come from!?!" Nightmare shouted as Siegfried grabbed his sword and the monkey let go and transformed back into a staff and returned to Sarutobi, as he and Siegfried stand side-by-side.
"You don't have to concern yourself with this, old man." Siegfried said to Sarutobi and Sarutobi scoffed. "Just because I a an old man doesn't mean I can't fight, this man is releasing an evil aura and I can't let him harm my village!" Sarutobi shouted and Siegfried was about to protest, but Nightmare charged them! Sarutobi reacted by using Enma to block the attack, however the attack affected Enma! "Sarutobi! This man's sword...It's generating a evil aura!" Enma shouted. "So his aura manage to affect his sword?" Sarutobi asked. "No! The sword is the source of the aura!" Enma shouted, "What!?" Sarutobi shouted as Nightmare pushed down on Enma as Enma began to feel the affect of Phantom's aura and began to lose energy.
But lucky for them, Siegfried came to the resuce as he swung his sword at Phantom and knocked it out of it's deadlock with Enma, the attack also knocked Nightmare off balance allowing Siegfried to swing his sword and slash Nightmare across the chest! Nightmare stumbled back then Sarutobi thrusted Enma forward and Enma extended to crash into Nightmare's chest and Nightmare flew back and slammed into a tree! Siegfried seizing the chance, charged at Nightmare wanting to bury his sword into his chest lowered his blade so it was on the same level as Nightmare and thrust his sword at Nightmare, but then Nightmare grabbed the blade with his right hand. "You can't get rid of me that easy!" Nightmare shouted as he lifted Siegfired's sword overhead, but then it left him open to attack as Sarutobi came in and slammed Enma into Nightmare chest again!
The force of the attack made a hole in the tree behind Nightmare, then Siegfried then spinned and slammed the flat edge of his sword into Nightmare and sent him flying through the tree and off the roof! Nightmare fell into the forest that was behind the arena and crashed through several branches and crashed into the ground with a lot of force. Nightmare staggered to his feet using his sword to steady himself. "Damn...At my condition, I can't Siegfried now... I have to get Shen and recover." Nightmare said as he did his best to run off into the forest.
Back on the roof, Siegfired was about to jump off to purse Nightmare, but the ANBUs got in his way. "Please stand aside! I must slay that monster here and now!" Siegfried pleaded, but the ANBUs didn't move. "You can't pass. We have some questions for you and if you don't surrender, will have to use force." One of the ANBU said as Siegfried saw all of them in a battle position. "Then you have my apolgizes." Segfried said as he got ready to fight, but The Hokage intervine. "Stop! Let this man pass!" All of the ANBUs look at him, "Lord Hokage, are you sure?" One of the ANBUs asked and Sarutobi nodded. "Yes, this man has no intention of harming our village in anyway, but that other one, he does and this man seems to have some personal business with him. So young man, you may go." Sarutobi said as he bowed. "And thank you for helping us against our enemy. You are welcome to come back to this village." Sarutobi offered as he stood up straight.
Siegfried quickly bowed and left to chase after Nightmare and jumped off the roof to a lower on then jumped into the forest. Then all of the Jounins that was in the arena met up on the roof to see if their Hokage was alright. "Lord Hokage! Are you alright!?" Might Gai asked as Sarutobi was resting and tending to his wound. "Yes Gai I am alright. How are we holding up in the village?" Sarutobi asked. "We seem to be pushing our enemies out." Kakashi confirmed. "Alright, then let us drive our enemies out of our home!" The Hokage shouted, "Yes sir!" The jounins shouted as all of them left the roof to clear the village of their enemies.
Meanwhile in the forest...
Shen was in his Full Nightare form and was staring at Naruto and Gaara. "Which one of you? Which one should I kill first!?" Shen shouted as he swung his sword. He looked at Naruto who tensed at his glare, then he turned to Gaara he seemed a bit frightened, but it eas replaced his excitement. "Okay, I'll kill you first Gaara!!!" Shen shouted as he leapt off his branch an charged at Gaara with his sword, Gaara retaliated by using his left sand arm to block against the sword and forced Shen off. Shen however recover in mid air because of his wings and did a down ward slash with his sword and Gaara countered by using both of his arms to block the attack.
Naruto watched the battle from the side-lines as Gaara and Shen attacked each other and tore up the enviroment. "Naruto..." Sasuke said as he got to his feet, his curse mark was activate and was on the left side of his body, "Take Sakura and get out of here." Sasuke said as he pointed at her, the water had lessen and she slid to the base of the tree. "Get out of here, I will try to buy you guys some time if they see you two trying to escape." Sasuke said as he took a few steps forward. Then Gaara lifted his left arm extended his fingers. "Sand Coffin!" Gaara shouted as his sand warpped Shen, "Sand Burial!" Gaara shouted as he clenched his hand together and the snad exploded! However Shen was still standing, weakend but still standing.
"No! You take Sakura and leave! I'm still in better shape than you!" Naruto protested, but Sasuke refused to listen, "No! I won't let my comrades die in front me while I stand by and do nothing. Not again." Sasuke said as he had memories of when his entire clan was slaugther in front of him. "If I die here, then this was as far as I was supposed to go. Now go get out here with Sakura!" Sasuke said, but Naruto didn't move, all he did was smile and stood up.
"No, I'm going to protect you two. I'm not going to run, remember? I made a blood oath to never run away!" Naruto shouted as he made a hand sign, "Now just make sure that Sakura stays safe! Hraaaarrggghhh!!!!" Naruto shouted as his chakra surrounded him, "Mutli Shadow Clone Jutsu!!!" Naruto shouted as he made clones that filled the entire forest!
That Jutsu caught the attention of both Shen and Gaara as the look from their branches at the thousands of clones that surronded them. "Where? Where is he getting of this power? Gaara asked himself as Shen looked at the clones in amazement and shock. 'Impossible! He didn't even use the Fox's Charka!' Shen shouted in his mind as Naruto got ready to take out both teens. "Okay now get ready to witness my awesome attacks from Naruto's Ninja Handbook!" Naruto shouted as several of his clones attack Gaara and Shen. The clones rushed the two de-formed teens as other clones got behind them with a kunai and a explosive tag on them. "Now this is what I meant to do! Leaf Village Secret Finger Jutsu! A Thousand Years Of Death!" The Nauto clones shouted as they shoved the kunais into the back sides of Gaara and Shen, however, they weren't fazed by attack and used their tails to destroy the clones.
"PATHETIC!!!!" Both teens shouted as the Narutos look on, and smirk. Shen and Gaara looked at the Narutos with anger for being mocked, but before they could do anything, the tags went off and the two were covered in smoke! When the smoke cleared, Gaara's sand armor was severely weaken, while Shen reverted back to his Nightmare Form (Only hi Right arm and right side of his face is transformed) 'Damn that bastard, he attack my weak spot!' Both teens thought as they tried to regroup but then Naruto unleashed his next move, "Okay! Time for my next move!" Naruto shouted as all of his clones converge on them, "Na-ru-to! Uzumaki Barrage Two Thousand Combo!" All of the clones shouted as they lifted both teens off the ground and the pummeled both of them all over their bodies. After the attack, Gaara and Shen fell to the ground below. On the way to the groud, Shen crashed into several branches and flopped off of each one then crashed into the ground while Gaara just crashed into the ground.
Shen tried to move his body, but he was at his limit. Gaara's Sand Burial took a lot out of him and then Naruto's attack drained him of his last ounces of strenght and he was losing conscious. "Damn...How could I lose? How could I lose...to a fool? A...Fool...with...friends..." Shen said as he passed out. Gaara however, still had power left and then morphed into his Shukaku form! (Same as the anime, would waste time with this)
Meanwhile in another part of the forest...
Nightmare was running throughout the forest trying to find Shen, but couldn't find him. 'Where is he!? He couldn't have died! I still can feel his sword!' Nightmare thought as he stopped to pin-point Shen's location, but he didn't find him, he found instead Siegfried's aura following him. "Damn!" Nightmare swore was he continued running. 'I have to lose Siegfired first. I will reclaim Soul Edge's next host later. As long as his sword stays intacted he'll be fine.' Nightmare thought in his mind as he ran to the exit of the village.
With Siegfried...
Siegfried was running with all his might trying to catch up with Nightmare after years of absentance, he wasn't going to let Nightmare get away. A few years back, Siegfried suddenly sensed that Nightmare simply vanished. Siegfried had a feeling that Nightmare didn't die, so he went searching for him, he searched for years but the trail was very cold and Siegfried could only pick up very little information about the Azure Knight's disappearance. But one day, a cloaked man told him that the creatue escaped to another dimension. Siegfried at first was skepital, but then it was the only thing he could go on. He futher question the man and the man told him he knew of a way to teleport him to where Nightmare had gone. All Siegfried needed was The Spirt Sword, Soul Calibur and he had to focus on the Cursed Sword, but before Siegfried could question the man more, he vanished. With the only lead he had, Siegfried went back to the Forrbbiden Santuary and retrieve the Sprit Sword and did just what the man told him and focused on Soul Edge.
He focused on his sense and search for any trace of Soul Edge and after minutes of searching, he found it! As soon as he found it, a blue sphere surrounded him and he vanished! Now that Siegfried was so close to ending Nightmare once and for all, he wasn't going to lose him, however more ninjas just out of the forest. They weren't like the ones he saw back at the arena, these had black ninja masks on and a sound note on their head bands. "Stand aside!" Siegfried shouted but none of them listen and attacked Siegfried. With no choice Siegfried had to kill these ninja in order to get to Nightmare.
Siegfried got his sword into position for attack and when the ninja got close, Siegfried swung his sword and slashed down his body, then horizontally slashed another ninja. Then Siegfried was surrounded by the remaining ninjas, Siegfried then did a 360 slash that killed all of the ninja. Siegfried then tried to focus on Nightmare, however he was gone. "What!? Wh-where did he go!?" Siegfried shouted as he ran ahead to see if he could sense Nightmare ahead, but he completely lost his trail. "Arrrrrrggggghhhh!!!!" Siegfried shouted in frustration as he slammed his sword into the ground and made a big impact.
With Nightmare...
Nightmare was gaining distance when he sensed Siegfried fighting small spirits and increase his speed then he remembered how to hide his dark aura and he did just that and then he got outside of village. But before he left, he turned at the burning village, "All this time in this pathetic place, and not a decent soul collected." Nightmare said as he turn his back on the village, "That's the last time I'm listening Shen!" Nightmare grumbled as he resumed his flight from Konoha, detrimine to get Soul Edge's next host back!
A/N: Finally! You people have no idea how long this took me to complete! And I have to say that this is the longest chapter that I have typed in my entire life! Would kill any of you guys to leave a review?! Now on to different things. Sorry if I made Nightmare or Siegfried out of character, but that's how I made em.
Next chapter is: Captured!
Shen is founded after the Funeral for those who died in protecting the village by an ANBU squad and brought into Hospital. His sword is also brought back but there is an...incident with it and Shen escapes his room and starts killing people while looking for his sword.
Also Nightmare follows Naruto and Jiraiya and battles with Akatsuki members Itachi Uchiha and Kisame Hoshigaki!