Disclamer in another language: No poseo el Naruto o Mortal Kombat.
Every day was so boring to Shikamaru. Nothing changed. He would sleep as long as he could until his mother came in, shouting as if there was a war going on. He would get dressed and leave for a team meeting. No matter what, he could always predict what was going to happen. Having a high IQ didn't always give you benefits. That's why he enjoyed looking at the clouds. No matter what he did, they were always unpredictable. Plus, they seemed really comfortable to lie upon. Nothing ever surprised him. Until today that is.
Shikamaru watched with wide eyes as sharp blades ran along Naruto's arm and disappeared into his elbow, only to reappear at his wrist. He had seen some similar things like that, but the blades were dull and it was four times as big.
This was beyond what he could predict. Naruto had once again surprised him. The first was when he defeated Hyuga Neji and even then Naruto did something beyond his calculations. He shook his head. This wasn't the time to be watching with his mouth agape. He noticed that Naruto didn't activate this until now when he looked he was in trouble. This either meant he forgot about it or that was his last resort. If it was the latter, he had to be ready in case Naruto can't beat that strange boy. Anyways, it seemed Naruto was running out of tricks.
As if Naruto heard his mind, he flickered out of sight and reappeared his metal arm crashing into the side of the boy's neck. There was a grinding sound and the shouts of the boy. Naruto held on as the boy constantly hit his metal arm which produced no results except for a couple of dents. Then, the sound of the grinding stopped and was replaced with the sound of cutting flesh. And screaming, lots of screaming.
The boy's arms beat upon Naruto's arm even more furiously than before as blood, skin, muscle, and pieces of tendons/ligaments went spewing out as the blades dug into his neck. Naruto knew that if he continued, he would kill the boy and cut through the jugular. However, the boy's hits were not wasted. Naruto's arm had started to have more dents in it than the amount of wrinkles the old man Hokage had. 'funny, I have time to think about other people when I might die any minute now.
"CECI,", Naruto called, "I need that second weapon, now!"
"…Understood. Weapon concealed in crevice where the gastrocnemius would originally be in your prosthetic leg. Releasing weapon."
Naruto ripped his arm out of the boy's neck and jumped back. He watched as plates that seemed to resemble the two parts of the calf muscle moved to the sides and a small rod was pushed out. Naruto reached back and grabbed it. It was very peculiar, not a weapon he has ever seen before. It was a silver rod that was hollow at both ends and filled in the center. On the surface were three buttons. Naruto quickly pushed one of the buttons and waited for the activation of the weapon.
One second…
Two seconds…
Thre-
"CECI, why is this not working?"
"…You did not correctly activate. You must-… incoming projectile!" Naruto was able to look up briefly from his weapon to see a whip heading his way.
He rolled to his side and raised his dented arm to shoot. But just then, the other whip wrapped around his hand and started to pull him toward the boy. He tried to resist, but he was tired and losing.
'Crap, if I don't think of something soon, I'm going to die., thought Naruto as he looked for anything that could help.
He suddenly went backwards and fell on the ground. The whip stopped pulling. He looked at the boy who had a confused and panicked look on his face. "Wh-What's going on? I can't move!"
"Shadow Possesion Jutsu, successful.", said Shikamaru, his hands relaxing from the hand seal. He stood up and let all his muscles relax. Just like he expected, the whip relaxed as well.
"You bastard! Let me go!", the boy yelled, struggling to get out.
"Naruto, hit him now!", ordered Shikamaru. Naruto nodded and said to CECI, "How do I activate the weapon?"
"… Each button releases a different type of energy weapon. However, to activate it, you must add energy, both chakra and electrical, to it."
Naruto thanked CECI and did what she said. He pressed the same button again and a bright blue energy blade popped out. It hummed with energy and little sparks jumped all over it. He smiled at the power his new toy was emitting.
"Naruto!", shouted Shikamaru. Naruto's head jumped up and saw the boy almost out of the jutsu. Naruto immediately ran toward him and got ready to decapitate him. He's going to win!
Of course, he didn't. The boy broke out of the technique at the last second, and with a roar, smashed his whip into Naruto's face. Naruto stumbled to his side a bit, dropping his weapon due to him being disoriented from the hit to the temple.
"I have had enough! DIE, BASTARD!", the boy screamed at the top of his lungs before stabbing Naruto before he could stand straight. Naruto knew he was in trouble. His armor was for kunais and shurikens, not another armor's attack.
The whip sliced into his heart and burst out his back. Naruto coughed up blood, his vision growing dark. He thought he could hear Hinata cry his name in the background.
In his armor, CECI noticed a disturbance. "Warning, seal around bijuu's seal breaking. Bijuu attempting to leak corrupted energy into system. Taking precautions. …. Negative, corrupted chakra too strong. Attempts fail. Seal destroyed"
Outside in the real world, the boy was laughing as he threw the defeated Naruto to the ground. "I don't care how many tricks you have! You still can't beat me!"
Hinata attempted to run over where her fiancé was, but Jirayia held her back. "Wait, don't go. It's too dangerous!"
She tried to squirm out of his grip, yelling, "Let me go! Naruto-kun is in trouble! Let me go!" But Jirayia's hold didn't loosen. Hinata felt tears run down her face as she increased her futile attempts to break out of the man's grip.
That's when she felt it.
To her, everyone has a different feel of chakra. It can tell a lot about a person. Like Shikamaru's chakra always seemed slow and lethargic. Naruto's chakra felt like a wall. The amount that he had was near Hokage level. It was as if he was trying to be a shield for everyone.
But this chakra was nothing like she ever felt. It gave off so many dark feelings. The owner of that chakra was evil. The chakra felt like it wanted to kill, massacre, rape, dismember, burn, and mutilate all at the same time, and not just one person but everyone it met.
She froze as the chakra washed over her. She shakily looked at the source and was shocked.
Naruto, her idol and crush, was the one emitting the chakra.
She nearly cried out as a red chakra started to cover his body. But adding to her surprise, the wound that boy made was healing. It closed up, leaving none of it behind. There wasn't even any scar tissue.
Naruto clutched his head in pain. He heard three voices inside. One was his. Another was CECI, at least he hoped. She was saying something. It was like, "Corruption 1%"
And that other voice, where had he heard that voice before?
But he couldn't remember. The headache was too painful. He felt like the entire world was on the side of his head, crushing it. Then, he passed out.
A huge wave of the red chakra exploded from Naruto, sending everyone flying a few feet. The boy managed to land on his feet, but fell backwards. He struggled to get up and managed to get into a sitting position. His eyes widened at the scene. "The fuck?"
That ninja was there, the one with the robotic parts. But, he was covered in some type of red energy. It looked like a fox. His eyes were red and slitted. In Naruto, CECI said, "Corruption 11%"
But he didn't have time to get over his surprise. Two more tails came out, one on each side of the first.
"Corruption 31%"
The boy stood up and yelled, "I told you already! I don't care how many tricks you have! It's still going to end the same!"
He was sure he could still beat him. Until a fourth tail came out.
Naruto's skin was lacerated with little cuts all over his body. The red chakra expanded into a sphere as his skin began to rip off. The sphere grew dark from the malevolent chakra and Naruto's blood.
What the boy saw after the sphere dissipated nearly made him shit his pants.
A red fox, made of blood and red chakra with four tails, stood there growling at him. He shook in fear as his scanners began to pick up energy that went off the charts. A couple sparks jumped over the four-tailed fox that were an eerie red.
He clenched his fist. "No! Fuck you! I'm not going to lose from someone like you! I'll kill you!" He shot out a whip, only for it to stop when it hit the fox's blood-red hide.
'No damage?, the boy thought. Before he could formulate a plan, the fox suddenly lashed his claw out. His arm lengthened so that it could reach the boy. It hit him in the shoulder and two things happened. One, the armor broke around where he was hit, cracks going up his arm and breastpiece. Two, he found himself flying from the hit.
He landed hard on the dirt. He managed to get up, even with the pain in his arm. He was angry. Iron Man's apprentice was kicking his ass. He wanted to lash out with his whip again, but one of his channels opened up and a voice came through.
"Enough, Nazo. You can't beat him.", the voice said.
"But, Whiplash sir-" He was cut off.
"No! I said enough. Retreat for now. We have all the data we need."
His hand clenched in anger again. "…Fine, sir." He then left the fox, who happened to be preoccupied with something else, and started running back.
Jirayia cursed. For the seal to let out four tails of the Kyuubi's charka was bad and meant something. Either the seal has been getting worse than he thought (which was highly unlikely since Naruto wasn't able to use its chakra last time he saw him) or it's been tampered with. Whether it was for good intentions or bad didn't matter. What mattered was if someone didn't do something, this part for a hundred miles was doomed. And if the seal got worse…
Luckily, he was afraid of this when Orochimaru put the Five-Pronged Seal on him and made his own seal that should suppress the Kyuubi's chakra for a little bit. It was a simple seal that would absorb any chakra leaked out, including the Kyuubi's, while using that chakra to activate another seal. It was a double-layered seal that he created. The other seal would then place a six-pronged seal on top of his. If it worked, the Kyuubi's chakra shouldn't be able to get out. The new seal might wear out due to the constant battering from the Bijuu's chakra, but hopefully he could do something about it then.
But first, he had to stop the Kyuubi-Naruto from moving. He looked at the group to see who could help. Hinata was too much in shock to help. Shikamaru wasn't as surprised for some reason. The other two were barely affected. 'Seems Orochimaru may have done some 'training' to them. But from what he read on the mission briefing, they are genjutsu specialists. Not useful on someone who lost their mind to an evil beast. So who to choose?
"You, Nara, can you use your Shadow Possession Jutsu on Naruto?"
Shikamaru looked over, a glint of fear evident in his eyes, "M-Maybe. But as of how Naruto is right now, I'm not so sure how long I can hold him."
"Just give a couple of seconds."
"R-Right." Shikamaru got on one knee and made his clan's hand seal. "Shadow Possession Jutsu!" His shadow shot out and met with Kyuubi-Naruto's shadow. It instantly froze. Shikamaru immediately yelled out, "Do it now! I can't hold it for much longer." As if to prove him, the Kyuubi-Naruto swung his arm down momentarily before being frozen again. It let out a huge roar.
Jirayia ran over and took out his seal. He nearly had a heart attack when the Kyuubi-Naruto swung his head to look at him before freezing again.
He slapped the seal on the stomach and jumped back. The effect was instantaneous. All the chakra began to recede into the seal as a new seal formed. When the chakra was off his head and arms, they all gasped at Naruto's condition. His skin was gone.
Naruto fell to the ground, blood spilling everywhere. But no one ran over. Everyone but Jirayia was still shaken from what just happened.
"What… What is this?", a voice yelled out.
Jirayia looked at the source and was surprised and relived to see Tsunade. He yelled, "Tsunade! We need your help! You have to heal this boy!" Tsunade stood still.
'Oh wait, crap. Tsunade's still afraid of blood. Then he saw her apprentice come up. "You heal him before he bleeds out!"
Shizune being surprised would be an understatement. But she ran over and began healing Naruto and recovering his skin.
"This isn't good.", she said.
"What is it?", asked the white-haired sannin.
"I can heal his skin, but he's lost a lot of blood. He needs a hospital now."
Jirayia nodded before taking one look at the boy, who seemed to have trouble just breathing, and stood up and made some seals.
"Kyuchiyose no Justu!", he called out before slamming his palm on the ground. A giant toad poofed into existence. Jirayia told his group to get on and picked up Naruto. He looked at Shizune and Tsunade. "I don't know why you're here, but if it has something to do with Naruto, you best come with."
Shizune nodded and grabbed her frozen Shishou's hand and pulled her to the giant animal.
Everyone was inside the Naruto's hospital room, all looking at Jirayia for an explanation. Jirayia sighed. Why did something like this have to turn out into something so difficult?
He explained it all to the group, all about the Kyuubi. Tsunade and Shizune were just shocked by the fact that it was this boy. Everyone else was appalled by the description of the beatings. They were surprised as well, but they seemed to care more about the boy than he thought.
"Besides that, I don't know what happened or what those metal things are. I think they might be armor on his arm and leg and the rest just broke or something.", Jirayia said, tapping on the metal.
"No", Hinata whispered, drawing everyone's attention.
"Oh, did Naruto tell you what these are?", asked the male sannin. She nodded. "And?"
She hesitated. Was it okay to tell them this? But she felt like they needed to know, especially the one that caused all this.
"It isn't armor. They're prosthetics."
"Prosthetics? Why would the boy need prosthetics?", asked Shizune, repeating Jirayia's action on the metal. Jirayia began sweating. 'Wait, it wasn't because of that, was it?
Hinata pointed a finger to Jirayia. "Because that man threw him off a cliff."
All surprised eyes turned to Jirayia who was sweating even more.
"His arms and legs were torn to shreds and his head took the impact. He would've have died except Naruto's new teacher saved him and made him these prosthetics and the suit you saw before. He's responsible for doing this to him.", she said angrily.
"That's enough, Hinata!"
Everyone turned to the voice. "Naruto-kun?", Hinata said quietly, surprised.
Naruto did a little stretch before looking at the sannin. "He may have caused all this, and I do hate him for that." Jirayia winced. "But, without him, I'd never meet Tony, who I actually have to talk to right now." He attempted to stand up, but Tsunade pushed him back down. "Oh no you don't. You need rest."
"And when did you become suddenly qualified to be a medical person?", Naruto said, pushing her hands off him.
Hinata went over to him. "I agree with Tsunade-sama here. You need rest."
Naruto grumbled but complied. "But, I'm still talking with Tony now." He made a few one-handed seals and pointed his palm toward the wall across from him. A seal appeared, creating a digital portal. A 45' TV screen came out of it and placed itself on the wall.
He made another portal from which a remote came out. He pointed it at the TV screen and pressed a few buttons. In a few seconds, life appeared on the screen.
It showed an empty chair, but soon a man occupied it. It was Tony, but he had bloodshot eyes. He grumbled, "I thought I told you I was busy so don't contact me. Did something happen or something?"
Naruto glared at Tony and he immediately sat upright, realizing something did happen and it was not good.
"Don't tell me that you don't know. I just got attacked by someone that called himself Whiplash's apprentice. You mind explaining?"
Tony's red eyes widened in surprise. "No, that's not possible. Whiplash, he died. I saw him."
Naruto was surprised as well. "Wait, if you're not fighting Whiplash, what were you doing?"
"Well, umm, you see…"
A voice came out from outside the screen. "Tony, I'm going to press resume if you don't come now! We have to finish our Mortal Kombat tournament!"
A tick mark appeared on Naruto's forehead. "While I risked my life and nearly died, you were playing MK?", he yelled.
"Well, you see…"
"No, I don't see. Just no. I thought I should tell you about Whiplash and that I'm making a new suit."
"What? What's wrong with your old armor?"
"It's not strong enough. It can withstand kunais and maybe some jutsu, but not against Whiplash and his apprentice."
Tony sighed. "Fine, just send me the blueprint when you're done. I'll check it for you."
"And again, no. You guys keep adding stuff I don't know about, so this time it is a solo project. Goodbye."
Before Tony could say anything, Hinata went into the screen. Tony nearly jumped back at the sudden entrance of the girl.
Hinata bowed and said, "Thank you so much for saving Naruto. If it wasn't for you, he wouldn't be here today."
Tony was surprised at the thanks but returned a smile. "Don't mention it. And who might you be?"
She stood back up. "I'm Hyuga Hinata, fiancé of your apprentice."
Tony's eyes bugged out. Naruto called out behind her, "Power off … now."
"Wai-", Tony managed to say before the screen went blank.
Naruto ignored the questioning looks on everyone's but Hinata's face and said, "Well, it seems I need to go shopping for materials."
"And clothes. Yours was destroyed in the fight."
"And clothes. Meet you back home, guys!" He activated his suit and jumped out the window. Jirayia turned to Tsunade. "And we have something to discuss as well, Hime."
Tsunade groaned. This was going to be a long day.
END
Please review. Unfortunately, I am abandoning this story. I just thought I should finish the battle with Whiplash's apprentice. But I do want someone to adopt it. Not adopt it and start over. Someone who will continue the story for me. Please?
