Hello everyone I am back for the new year!
Give or take a week...Anyway this is the newest and 3rd chapter of this story. Filled to the brim with both insanity and then well...uh...even more insanity. I'm not going to give some long and exaggerated excuse for my absence other than that I have been busy. Life does come before writing after all. Anyway onto the disclaimer!
Do you own either Nuraihyon or Naruto because if you do then I would have to wonder why you guys are reading this and not writing your own stories. I mean I know writers block can be bad and everything but think of the legions of fans who would hunt you down if they realized you stopped writing there favorite series? So no I do not Own Nuraihyon or Naruto I do however own a Klondike bar which I would be willing to trade for either or both (you guys could just split it I guess...) Anyway...Onwards!
Fear the New Age
Chapter 3-0
The power of Fear
It was a few days after the test that Naru finally awoke. Apparently the clan had been in a bit of a tight situation with Konoha during the time she was out. With the Hokage apparently asking for them to take on a mission that would be suited to there 'abilities.' The clan however wished for Naru to wake up before making any moves not wanting to jeopardize whatever she had planned accidentally. Having had several said experiences in the past with the fiery red head literally glaring them to death. After this happened...several more times... they got the message. Needless to say this whole mess made Konoha a bit angry after all a newly signed in section of there forces was disobeying it's commands.
So here Naru was outside the council chambers of Konoha preparing for the veritable storm of annoying questions that would soon pester her without end.
With one final breath she pushed open the doors ignoring the various glares of anger or curiosity.
She took her seat next to both the arubume and Inuzaka clan heads one staring at her with curiosity and the other looking at her with indifference. The council room stayed that way for a time before the doors opened once again to the Hokage and his advisers Koharu, Homura, and Danzo. They trailed in taking there seats before the Hokage spoke.
"We are here today to discuss the reasons that the newly instated Nura clan has disobeyed direct orders to take a mission for this village before we start would the Nura clan head please introduce herself and give the reasons for her clans refusal of orders." Inwardly the aged hokage was smirking wondering just what sort of reaction her name would get from the council members and if any of them could help answer some questions about her, he still wasn't convinced that this woman was little Naru he might not have proof but neither did she.
"Very well" Naru spoke well getting up from her position causing all eyes to immediately turn on her. She was in her youkai form (not that they knew she had another one) oddly enough most of the thoughts going through the other clan heads minds were mostly in sync.
'How the hell did she get her hair like that?'
Well except for Shikkaku Nara.
'Troublesome'
Naru continued wondering just what would happen when the words left her mouth. "My name is Naru Uzumaki Nuraihyon and I am the 13th heir of my clan."
"Impossible!"
"She's Dead!"
"That demon whore is long gone!"
"Shes back Kill her!"
This is why 9 out of 10 hidden villages did not let civilians on a military council. Soon though the shouting was ended by a rather large burst of killing intent. Most shinobi heads immediately looked toward the hokage and waited for the inevitable and predictable "SILENCE!" that would soon follow only to realize...
The killing intent wasn't coming from the hokage...
There next to Naru stood two figures one was obviously a shrouded Nura clan member. He wore a dark robe with white lines running across that some ninja recognized as seals the man was pale as if he never got much sunlight but besides that you could see no more of him.
The other person however shocked and floored even the hokage! As standing there was the unmistakable form of Yuuhi Kurenai. She was garbed in a similar outfit although it seemed more elaborate and was the inverse of the other one Parts of her robe seemed to shift between plain fabric and armor that reinforced vital areas showing that the unorthodox armor looked like it could hold up. Her hood was down allowing the council to see her face and a few of the shinobi started noticing a difference between this and the old Kurenai where the old one was serious about her job at all times this one seemed a little laid back. To sum it up you could look in her eyes you would then immediately see the difference.
She was more confident.
Gone was Yuuhi Kurenai rookie jonin and ANBU member this was Yuuhi Kurenai seasoned killer.
It scared most of the council members to see such a radical transformation. Nor did it help that around her there seemed to be this constantly dark presence radiating from her engulfing them all.
"Kurenai what is the meaning of this!" the old hokage shouted wondering why one of his kunoichi was protecting the one who 'kidnapped' her.
"She is doing her job hokage-sama" Naru spoke as if it was plainly obvious and everyone in the room didn't miss the fact that the suffix seemed a bit strained.
Being the old fool that he was Homura chose then to speak up. "You will address the hokage with the respect that he deserves!" He spoke with the confidence of one who was never wrong and always victorious.
Naru began to chuckle at that which thoroughly unnerved a few of the council members. "Like you all treat him with respect?" her voice was full of mirth as if this was the best joke she had ever heard. "Don't lie to yourselves I know much about this village and its activities." she shot a quick glance at Danzo who picked up on it and nodded back. "I know none of you have ever and I mean ever treated the hokage with respect even the clan heads occasionally talk behind his back under the knowledge that he will never hear there words through his own deaf ears!" she stopped her rant for a second and looked straight at the hokage. "Respect and loyalty are things that must be earned surely you do not expect to receive my full loyalty and support right off the bat?"
"Enough we have gotten off topic here however I would like a more detailed explanation of why my kunoichi is standing across from me protecting you." The hokage looked and sounded a bit agitated over the whole conversation about his incompetence.
"Like I said in one of our previous conversations hokage-sama" she spoke the suffix again strained. "She has become an honorary member of our clan quite a high ranking one in fact. As for the reason she here well that's simple." She paused and mentally grinned at the reaction she was going to get from her next few words. "She happened to be walking by well I was discussing the guard detail I wanted well coming here and well...She volunteered." at this point Naru looked up to were Kurenai was and as if to confirm it Kurenai nodded.
"Guard detail?" Shikkaku Nara questioned "you sound like you were preparing for an attack?" This caused a few others to perk up as he was right it had sounded like that.
"Don't be so over dramatic." Naru retorted "as a member of this council I am entitled to have my own private security forces. there just here as an extra measure I'm sure some of you are just as paranoid as I am." She spoke with a tone that said the subject was closed even if Shikkaku wanted to question more.
"Fine" Shikkaku spoke up "but one more question "When you introduced yourself you said your name was Naru more to the point an Uzumaki Naru." he drawled on everybody already seeing where he was going with this. "The thing is though...I find that hard to believe after all she is supposedly dead." Everyone in the room was alert now hoping to find an answer to the enigma that was this new clan head.
"You should know better than anyone Shikkaku supposedly and are, are completely different words." she stopped here and grinned for a second. "But now that were on the topic of my alleged death why don't I tell you all a story." Naru stood up and slowly moved to the center of the room as if to allow all who were in the room to see. She grinned evilly before a flash of black enveloped her and she turned into a form the hokage instantly recognized there stood a little 8 year old Naru a kunai in her leg and a fist sized wound in her gut that was letting blood flow out of her at an alarming rate.
"h-h-help me...please...somebody...anybody...old...m..a..n...jiji..." The picture was so enthralling that nobody noticed how it seemed to be drawing them in and how the familiar landscape of the room was slowly changing to one of run down streets thunder storms crackling in the distance they didn't even notice how the rain felt on there bodies only Kurenai realized as a genjutsu master that she could feel it.
The poor little girl dragged herself through the street trying to find shelter and causing herself to bleed out faster. Slowly but surely she reached a lamppost and set her back to it crying all the while. Why were they doing this to her? What had she ever done? Was she going to die here? Finally after sitting there for a few moments more she collapsed but the picture around them didn't dissolve. The form of the now certainty dead girl disappeared in a flash in the same way that it had appeared and the hokage felt the hairs on his neck rise as he turned around to see that same little girl wounds still upon her staring at him before collapsing on him. It took Sarutobi's years of shinobi experience not to flinch at well... the experience. The dead girl turned her head before looking at him.
"Why...why...why...why...why...where...were you?"
The aged hokage could only start a response "I-I-was..."
The little girl continued on as if he wasn't answering.
"why...why...why...why...WHY...WHY...WHY...WHY...WHY!"
Suddenly in a shriek the girl exploded in yet another flash of black revealing the older demonized form of Naru sitting on the table near the hokage kicking her legs out playfully.
"Yes indeed Hokage-sama I think my younger self said it perfectly...Why?"
The hokages mind was swirling 'Younger self? How can she have such an accurate depiction of what happened that day and the location and blood trail were exactly the same as in the report left by the Inuzaka trackers but then what happened? If they both really are Naru...then how is she here? And why is she so old?'
The council itself was still shocked for all there different opinions on Naru each one of them had just saw a little girl murdered in cold blood. A little girl who couldn't fight back...
"It doesn't matter I suppose I long since stopped caring about such small chapters in my life and moved on you should all be thankful for that..." Naru trailed out.
'Small?' was the only thought that went through everyone's head at that comment.
"but as you were saying before" Naru continued as she walked back to her seat.
"I believe we are getting off topic." she smirked as she said this and loved the look on everyone's faces when they remembered why they were here in the first place.
Sometimes for Naru it paid to be a manipulative evil mastermind for her movements as one of her various shogi opponents would go on to say always had a purpose or a meaning she left nothing wasted.
To her everything and everyone had a use.
Not to say she was completely heartless but she long since lost her compassion for the human race.
Youkai on the other hand well she had a more optimistic and generousness view for those who were a part of her extended family.
Granted she was always prepared for an attack...
Somewhere a dead undead headless monk sneezed in his grave.
All laws of reality would deny the fact that this ever happened.
"Now then..." Naru was grinning at her victory over the hokage and the council even if they didn't realize it yet.
"What was this mission about?"
Everyone in the room was still mentally overloaded from all the things they had just heard and viewed. To fully remember just why they had come to this meeting in the first place.
Sometimes shock and awe were two very useful things.
Fear the New Age
Chapter 3-1
Aftershock
Rain.
Lots and lots of rain.
If you ever asked about the weather in Ame they could usually answer you in one word.
Rain.
It was almost always a given that things at the very least every day would be mildly damp from the mist. If not drenched from the likelihood of rain.
And yes as you had probably guessed the first thing Naru and her team experienced in the country was just that.
Rain.
But before I go any further I should probably turn back the clock.
Lets say...a week.
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Konohagakure~The demons den
One week earlier...
Naru walked into her newly purchased club The demons den seeing how some of the more 'normal looking' or disguise capable youkai were currently serving drinks to both keep up 'the front' and to help down pay the huge fortune this thing had cost her. Naru would never admit it but the place looked nice and was a huge three story building with a sign out front labeling it as having just opened. Because Naru needed the money the place served as both a bar and a secure indoor hot springs with the upper floors being there more for looks than anything else. Still this place had nearly anything you could ask for. It contained a bar that ran through the center of the building with seating along the sides. In the back rested a secure hot springs and pool. The place all around was dimly yet comfortably lit (at least for youkai) and even had a few additions that weren't on the blueprints.
It seemed whoever had owned this building beforehand had been in some shady operations himself as it had three underground floors each the size of a small warehouse with a labyrinth of tunnels connecting them. Once the youkai had set up shop and found these 'additions' that were being converted into a dojo a meeting room and even holding cells respectively. Various smaller youkai ran around the place carrying building materials as they scrambled to fix the place up. They had even managed to dig a large tunnel that led straight from Konoha to the Nura clan home and vice versa it was amazing what could be done in just a few days with demonic powers.
The demonic red head passed by most of this to the back of the club before heading down the stairs and through a few subsections passing an interrogation room that from the sounds of screaming were already being put to use. Curious Naru entered wondering just what had happened in her time away that called for such actions so soon.
She hadn't officially scheduled those activities to start until next week!
Inside she found Kurenai, yes Kurenai! stabbing a blade into some poor chunnin's hand as he cowered on the floor. Blood soaked the floor and ran like a river down a nearby drain. The room itself was white and in Narus personal opinion bland but it was an interrogation room after all. The place was filled with cheep white tiling (because they could no longer afford the expensive stuff) and overall look like you would expect an interrogation room to look like. Standing therefor a few seconds more taking in the whole scene Naru stared in awe at Kurenai for a few seconds trying to figure out what had just caused such a drastic change in behavior.
She hadn't planned on having her randomly torturing people until next Thursday!
"Kurenai may I ask what you're doing?" Naru spoke in a tone that seemed almost childishly curious. Kurenai immediately stopped her 'interrogation' to turn around in look at her having what seemed to be an almost embarrassed face on about the whole situation as if she was a child having been caught with her hand in the cookie jar.
"Uh...Naru-Sama...umm...well you see its kind of a funny story really..." Kurenai trailed off here as if trying to figure out how she was going to explain this whole situation to her sotaichou. "You see I was with Anko walking back from a bar and we split up to head are separate ways and well...Anko was really drunk and before I was out of earshot I heard struggling so I ran back to check up on her." She paused here her voice filled with barely subdued rage to glare at the chunnin who still lay cowering and rocking on the ground holding his bleeding arm."When I got there well I found him trying to undress Anko who was unconscious on the ground." Naru knew where this was going. "At that point while I kind of just snapped and got really angry all of the sudden I beat the crap out of him and dragged him back here..." She drawled off finished with her tale.
"Okay" Naru stated simply as if this was a completely normal occurrence.
"Wait just like that you're letting me off the hook? No strings attached?" Kurenai was obviously shocked at how little Naru seemed to care about the situation.
"No this sort of stuff happens all the time when you're surrounded by a clan of demons. I'm really glad for you however Kurenai giving into the temptation like that. You are becoming more and more a part of the family day by day." Naru ended her speech with what what seemed to her a positive tone.
Kurenai finally seemed to realize what she had been doing and suddenly felt wrong as if this wasn't right. But another part of her disagreed with that and told her that this was all completely acceptable and that she should do things like this more often. Despite herself she couldn't disagree with the latter opinion even if another part of her knew it was wrong.
Naru stared at her for a few moments before giving her a shooing motion for her to get back to work. "Go on it's all perfectly fine he is a horrible creature after all. He wanted to harm your friend." She stopped there before smirking. "Oh and next time you use the room write it down on the sign up sheet so others don't come in here with somebody else trust me that can get... awkward... " She spoke in a playful tone but did lean out the door and pulled out a clipboard that she than threw over to Kurenai who without any idea of what else to do signed it before tossing it back to her. Naru then nodded for her to continue.
Kurenai suddenly turned back to the man sharply and sent him all her killing intent along with a Youkai enhanced death glare that projected a genjutsu on him. He began shaking furiously on the floor as if having a seizure. He knew he was in a genjutsu and desperately tried to dispel it but couldn't as he lacked one newly required element to breaking one of her jutsus. Youkai.
Since she had been 'reborn' according to some of the other clan members she had talked to they had told her that she should practice with her youkai and see what she could do with it.
One thing led to another and soon she had learned a few new techniques one of which she was currently practicing on the man in front of her.
As a genjutsu specialist Kurenai drooled at the thought of creating nearly unbreakable genjutsu and with her new abilities it was possible. So here she was ruthlessly sending images off everything the man cared about being destroyed in front of him. Kurenai was even starting to see why Anko loved her job so much.
It was just so fun to tear down someones world! And with that one more realization dawned on her.
She was starting to like being a demon.
There was just so many perks!
With an amused grin Naru quietly left the room not wanting to disturb her captains 'fun time' anymore then she had already. Silently she was glad that Kurenai was starting to 'give in' earlier then she had expected making all her future plans that much easier. Heading back down the hallway she eventually came to a stop outside of what appeared to be a break room with a large rectangular table in the middle. The room was only slightly less bland then the room she just came from with a few red stripes lining the walls. The lighting around here (along with most of the underground complex) was almost completely knocked out with the clan members resorting to lanterns and candles to light the various pathways and rooms. All in all to them the place just felt homey. Surrounding the table various youkai were in a shouting match over who got the hot springs first which as all arguments within her family did devolved into an argument about who the better youkai was.
Naru held back a sigh.
Her family truly was an odd one.
She coughed a bit gathering everyone's attention, it wasn't even a fraction of a second before all the conversation had stopped as they turned to there leader.
You never ignored an order from the savior of your race.
"I need Shuruki, Banto, Moko and Kappa to follow me where heading out of town for a little assignment." Naru spoke forming a bit of a grin being the clan head she didn't get out often even if she was the leader of the night parade they all worried after her like she was the most fragile thing in existence. The three she had spoken of stepped up towards her. Shuruki looking the same as always except for the newly replaced cloak that resembled those seen on Kurenai in the council chambers.
Seeing as how Naru did not want much of anything about her clan coming out in the open most of the members could be seen wearing these around Konoha and although the strange garb garnered looks it did not freak out the majority of the villagers with what was below.
Banto was a large youkai dressed similarly to Shuruki he had semi-long charcoal hair that obscured his brown eyes his skin that could be seen was mostly cracked and gray all and all he was more round then tall and if folded up could resemble a boulder or something of the like. And despite his looks namely that of a massive sumo wrestler he was very talkative and playful often joking around with some of the smaller youkai during his free time.
Moko in contrast was skinny and tall he had spiky dark blue hair and tan skin he always walked around with what appeared to be a permanent look of boredom on his face. He was serious most of the time except when talking to his fellow youkai or friends. Naru once thought of him as a switch he could be deadly serious at one point and then attack you with an inflatable raft the second your back was turned. He trained religiously often skipping out on social activities. He too was dressed like the others.
And then there was kappa oh kappa unlike the others he did not wear anything but his green and orange garb and seemed to have a shell attached permanently to his head. He was never to serious and was always playful especially around water. He was old Naru knew that how old she did not care to ask but he was always child like. His skills with anything water related however were unparalleled and with where they were heading she would have picked no one else to watch her back.
The group of four left the room as she motioned for them to follow following as they began to walk out of the underground complex through the tunnel they had dug back to there clan home. Naru spoke up.
"Were going on a little trip to Ame."
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Nura clan home~Armory
If one were to look at the average Nura clan members attire they would come to a singular conclusion that they were dull and uninteresting simply from the color scheme.
They were dead wrong.
Despite the fact that each creature underneath those robes was a fearsome demon that had at least once in there life terrorized humans in ways ranging from theft and vandalism to full blown massacres they were always almost armed to the teeth.
And in some rather unfortunate cases that could be taken quite literally.
Don't ask.
So it was here that the party of five geared up for the five day long trip to rain country. Grabbing anything from explosive tags, to bo staffs, to katanas they took it all.
Never let it be said that the Nura clan never had something for just about every occasion.
"Scuba gear check, explosive notes check, banjo check, demon pills check..." The kappa listed off going through everything he had packed.
"Scuba gear? Cant you breath underwater?" Moko asked legitimately curious.
"I just like the flip flops."
"Oh" Moko responded as if that answered the ultimate question of life itself.
"Quiet" Shuruki spoke sharply and the two immediately shut up Shuruki's ability to glare someone to death was a well known ability of hers that was constantly proven time and time again by the stupider members of the clan.
It didn't help that Naru did nothing to stop her besides saying 'stop' and even then only half halfheartedly. Everyone knew that Shuruki was bribing Naru somehow for the leeway to do what she wanted.
Many more clan members died via death glares in the pursuit of Shuruki's 'get out of jail free card' so to speak.
"So what exactly is our mission?" Banto asked curious about why they would be heading all the way out to the land of rain.
"Sabotage" Naru spoke the single word as if it were a gift from yami-sama itself. "A new village power is sprouting up there after the defeat of its previous ruler Hanzo. Are job is both recon and I especially like this part 'destruction if deemed a threat to Konoha or fire country.'"
At this the rest of the party grinned destruction and mayhem were a youkai's favorite pastime.
For the group of demons this was going to be just another Tuesday.
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Valley of The End
A few hours later...
"Are we there yet?"
"No."
"Are we there yet?"
"No."
"Are we there yet?"
"NO! Shut up Kappa!"
"This would be so much faster if we used kappa travel..." Kappa mumbled beneath his breath the others in his party not hearing him.
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Amegakure~Border
Present
So where was I?
Ah yes the rain.
Naru and her group moved there way through the various canyons that surrounded Ame as stealthily as you would imagine a group of demons could. Various shinobi patrols interrupted the mind numbing monotony of the rain as the group quickly ducked down into a nearby alcove to avoid a group of ame-nins.
'Dammit its the same group as before!' Naru cursed in her mind this wasn't just a patrol this was a search party. Silently she whispered to her team. "There looking for something whether it's us or not be careful we still have two miles to go before we reach the dam." The night before they crossed the border the group had discussed infiltration tactics and more importantly how they were going to 'sabotage' the village they were infiltrating. As luck would have it Kappa had come up with the solution himself.
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"The dam." Kappa spoke up finally as he had stared at a nearby tree as if entranced by it.
"What?" the rest of the group spoke simultaneously as they all looked at him in shock.
"The dam if we blow it that would provide us with more cover during our infiltration and do a fair bit of damage to the village as well not to mention give me an advantage in the fight." He pointed to a point on the map were a dam was holding the majority of a river back that ran straight through Ame. The rest of the group looked at him as if he grew another head although Naru realized he was always good at tactics when it came to anything water related.
Moko chose then to speak up. "Uh yeah I guess that could work" he said rubbing his head sheepishly
"It's settled then." Naru said decisively. "Well hit the dam tomorrow."
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So here the group was carefully concealing there tracks from there maybe pursuers.
"Shit!" Naru cursed as another patrol passed them by they were getting more and more frequent and closer every time. Eventually they found what earlier they had marked as a safe zone according to the map (which hadn't been updated since the time of the Sennin) there was a cave that would lead them the rest of the way to the dam. Ending just a little upstream of it on a cliff. The group entered being no less cautious now that they were out of the open. Adjusting well to the dark the party continued at a wary pace until they reached the exit and caught sight of the dam.
It was your standard affair for a dam with what looked like turbines to provide power to the nearby shinobi village. Keeping to the cliffs the group slowly crawled there way to the dam before splitting up the explosive tags in there bags and moving on there separate ways.
It was a half hour later when the group rejoined itself on a cliff from which they could see both the industrial village and the dam that powered it. With a grin on her face that would have sent most creatures running away in fear. Naru looked to her family an equally unnerving grin on there faces as well.
Forming her hands into a seal Naru spoke. "Lets give Ame a wake up call."
The dam burst into flames at points and began to crack quickly as the force of the water that had once powered the village became its destruction. With a resounding and final 'CRACK' the dam gave and water came bursting through carrying with it rather large pieces of the prison that once held it as it flew through the river bed and into the village itself. Still grinning Naru and her party sat back to watch the destruction for a few minutes more...
8 minutes later...
It was odd to see a village like Ame that was supposedly so adapted to rain that it could live with it throughout the year non stop without problems to be so well...flooded. From their vantage point on the nearby cliff above the city the demon party of five surveyed the disaster idly wondering if this meant that the demolition part of their job description was taken care of. Entire streets were filled as debris and carts flew through the streets with currents becoming like wrecking balls themselves as they smashed into doors and shattered the windows of any unfortunate building in the steam punk style village. The water level had risen to the point where crashing waves could hit the top of two story buildings and completely submerge small houses. Civilians had all gone for higher ground and the party could see several large clusters of them on some of the taller buildings.
Despite all this Naru could only wonder one thing.
'where are all the shinobi? If this is a military village then shouldn't they be out here helping to evac the survivors?'
It was at about this point that things started to go wrong.
Before the group could even react seven cloaked strangers appeared in the air above them.
One of them obviously the leader spoke up.
"Konoha-nins you are trespassing inside this village! State your intentions and then be killed."
'Well at least he's honest.' Was Narus single conclusion to that sentence. Quickly Naru flew through a string of hand signals to her comrades before taking a step forward.
"Oh us? Would you believe us if we said we were a humanitarian group sent here to aid you?"
The lead figure simply narrowed his eyes before stretching out his arm.
Shinra Tensei
There was a blast and the edge of the cliff that the group was standing on was destroyed. Without any other choice the group leaped down to the raging torrent below barely managing to stay on top of the current by using chakra.
'thought not.' Naru then charged up the current before leaping into the air.
Fear the New Age
Chapter 3-2
Of gods and demons
It was soon that Narus question about the missing shinobi had been answered well it appeared more than a few of them had been caught in the surprise attack quite a few survived and came out of hiding to support the mysterious 'leader' as Naru termed him.
Naru jumped to the side of the 'river' she was on to dodge a passing cart on its deceptively deadly journey. The 'leader' shunshined down just above the water to meet her as he pulled out a kunai with his left hand before raising his right and shouting.
Bansho Tenn'in
A force started to inexplicably drag Naru towards him as he raised his kunai to gut her. Naru disappeared in wisps of black before she could meet her end by the pointy knife.
'So he can control gravity?' Naru smirked this would be fun.
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Banto panted as he jumped from creature to creature dispersing the large pierced animals one after the other As the strange lady with the orange hair dew summoned them as if this was some giant petting zoo.
'Uhhh! The summoner herself looks weak but I can't get to her if she keeps sending all these creatures after me!' His thoughts were cut short as he jumped back onto the water as an octopus like monster. He ran forward intent to beat the thing within an inch of its life before a cylinder of water inexplicably flew up and surrounded the creature for a few seconds before rapidly collapsing in on itself killing the creature. He looked over to were Kappa was engaged to another opponent and nodded his thanks to him.
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Moko stared down at the six armed man in front of him completely ignoring the destruction around him as he noted halfheartedly that although the being in front of him was obviously living he didn't seem to really be alive judging by his own blank stares.
Sigh...
Why did he always get the weird ones?
Moko raised his arm up as if holding an invisible sword before slashing down happily and easily slicing off one of the mans many arms.
Only to watch it grow back again.
Sigh...
This could take a while.
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Kappa however was taking on more than his fair share of the enemies taking on as he dubbed the purple haired lady, the creepy long haired guy, an old guy, and that other random fat guy.
Because of the water surrounding them Kappa had the home field advantage.
Hell you didn't even want to mess with Kappa when he was near a sink.
Currently he had a whole flooded village to work with.
Using the water as a weapon itself he dragged his opponents below the water using a cyclone before using a tendril of water to grab them all by the legs and incapacitate them holding them under the water.
'Well that was easy.' He thought before looking over to see Banto running at what appeared to be a large octopus. Creating a cyclone of water around the creature he crushed it and nodded to him before looking back at were his own fight was only to see that the purple haired lady had escaped.
Deciding to be serious for a few seconds Kappa patiently waited for an attack.
He would have been decidedly less serious had he known that she only had drenched origami paper to work with.
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Naru took in her orange haired and squiggly eyed opponent before a voice rang out through her head.
"Naru if you can try to keep that body in tact and take it with you" Hagoromo spoke.
"Whhhhyyyyyy?" Naru drawled out legitimately curious.
The old fox spoke in a teasing tone. "Why Naru-chan don't you want a new body for one of your generals?"
"You do know he is my enemy right?" Naru asked like she was talking to a eight year old.
"Not the soul that is currently inhabiting the body but the previous one he looks just about ready to rebel. Trust me I have some experience with things like this if you free him he'll be loyal to you add in the binding process and well..." Hagoromo trailed off certain that the conclusion was obvious.
Throwing aside the obvious question about how she knew the signs of a soul that wanted to rebel Naru focused in on her new goal.
The capturing of a new general.
Her internal dialogue was interrupted as her soon to be general took advantage of her momentary distraction.
Cursing at herself for forgetting that she was in the middle of a battle Naru back flipped onto a nearby building to avoid the shinra tensei that had been sent at her.
Deciding to get serious Naru pulled out Tenshiki before slicing through the air sending black tinged blasts of wind back at her opponent seeking to distract him long enough for her to get behind and immobilize him.
He simply raised his hand and with a few more shinra tensei's stopped all of her attacks before they could reach him.
Cursing at the abilities of her opponent she jumped quickly to the side to avoid another shinra tensei.
Her opponent narrowed his eyes again before shouting out.
Bansho Tenn'in!
'Dammit! not again but wait I could...' quickly forming a plan in her head Naru let herself get dragged forward to her opponent before halfway to she quickly raised her sword at him and quickly sending a few more of those deadly wind crescents she loved so much.
Eyes widening her orange haired enemy quickly released her and prepared to use shinra tensei to stop them.
Only for Naru to appear behind him in black flames and grabbing his arms and twisting them behind his back using her own opponent as a shield for her own attacks as she used his body to absorb the deadly blades of wind.
She let go of one of his arms to quickly knock him out with a chop to the back of the neck.
Only to find out it didn't affect him.
Shocked at this Naru wasn't prepared for what happened next.
He quickly gathered his wits and used his leg to quick her as he canceled the passive jutsu that allowed him to move on air as they fell into the current below them.
As they struggled for control in a fight that had resorted to punching and kicking the other as they were helplessly dragged along with the current.
This went on for about a half minute a kick to the groin there, a punch to the face here.
All concepts of advanced techniques were forgotten in this instinctual struggle.
Finally the orange haired man gathered enough sense before quickly twisting around so that his back was towards the surface and using a particularly strong punch to get her to loosen her grip momentarily before using his other hand to create a shinra tensei that used her as a springboard simultaneously sending him to the surface well shooting her further down into the ground.
The Orange haired man coughed up the water he had swallowed in his trip down the improvised river. He jumped to a nearby roof and stared down at the water for a few minutes before turning around.
Only to find a blade stabbed through his chest.
Turning his head to look back he noticed the drenched red head standing there her hair for once not at her sides but instead hanging down to one side. There was a fury in her azure eyes that seemed to glow demonically. Suddenly the blade in his chest seemed to heat up and before long he was shaking uncontrollably.
Staring at the form of the man in front of her Naru asked her shadow. "are you sure this will work?"
"Of course it will work! Don't you trust us?"
Currently the semi sentient sword was taking a crash course in human biology as it searched for nerve clusters and shut them down using the black flames that coursed through it.
Of course shut down in this case meant burning.
Finally he- no it collapsed as she had long since stopped calling the creature in front of her human.
It just didn't know when to go down!
Hagoromo apparently an expert on possession all of the sudden told her that as long as that other soul was in control of the body it would take nothing short of crippling it to stop it.
So she did the next best thing.
She cut off all it's motor functions.
Grabbing the body and hoisting it over her shoulder Naru quickly shouted out to her allies using her youkai to enhance her voice.
"Were leaving! This missions done fall back and regroup at the gates! Kappa I need you to open a portal!" She took off leaping across the rooftops towards the front entrance to the now flooded and nearly destroyed village.
Eventually they all reached the gate and Naru noticed that Moko's hair and arm seemed to be well from what she could smell burnt and that Banto was panting heavily well holding what appeared to be a giant rhinos horn over his shoulder.
"Souvenir." was all he said.
Kappa however seemed to be perfectly fine and was using a water to create a portal out of here to a large source of water as close to Konoha as possible. Soon the watery gateway was complete before they all rushed through just happy to get away.
Well all of them accept Kappa that is.
Fear the New Age
Chapter 3-3
Wrecking job completed?
Having dropped off there soon to be ally in a cell underneath the demon's den Naru dismissed her group to go make a report to the hokage.
She took her time and slowly walked through town earning odd glances and the occasional whispers.
"I heard she's a demon!"
"Didn't you know they say her name is Naru! Isn't that the same one as that demon brat they killed a few years ago?"
"Well if she is a demon well just have to show her our Konoha hospitality and kill it like we did the other one!"
"When will these demons learn that they can't mess with Konoha?"
'Pathetic' Naru thought as she journeyed through the streets. 'There just as arrogant and dumb as they were the day they were born!... Humans' She loathed the word and she loathed the fact that she ever was one or that she was remotely related to them still. She remembered constantly asking Hagoromo if there was anyway to kill the human part of her when she was younger only to be disappointed when the answer was an amused 'no' she had grown since then and well she didn't accept the part of her that was human she had learned to live with it.
Currently is was locked in the deepest corner of her mind scape even more guarded than Hagoromo's cell.
She also remembered the day she had learned of her parents.
She would be lying if she didn't say that she had a bit of hero worship for her dad Minato 'Namikaze' Nuraihyon. The twelfth heir of the clan and although at the time that was little more than a title with no demons around to lead and his demon blood thinner then a needle he had still managed to overcome his disabilities and slaughter entire armies of humans! He even managed to take down Hag-chan in less than 20 minutes! According to the clan library that was a new record!
"HEY!" Came the angered and obvious response to that statement. "I had just managed to get out of hell! That fight was rigged! And technically I haven't died yet! See? No new tail! The fights still on FUC...-"
Naru cut the rant off before she could go on any more and made a mental note to torture her later for insulting her hero and father.
Her mother Kushina Uzumaki however was a different story although she was human she was still a good fighter and had managed to take out some other large groups of humans via slaughter. Which was always a plus in Naru's book. Well she didn't hate her mother by any means in fact she was one of the few humans that she could somewhat respect she did wonder how her father had fallen for her. Not that she was complaining of course. Her father could never be wrong.
He had even managed to bring back there clan to its full strength through her with his dying breath!
She was proud to be of use to his final plans.
Breaking out of her thoughts Naru realized she was at the hokage tower and decided to head up and enter the normal way passing by the secretary who seemed to like her for some reason.
Maybe because she actually asked if she could use the door?
Walking into the office Naru noticed a few off things about it.
First there was a new furnace installed.
Secondly the Hokage was currently using a shovel to throw massive amounts of paperwork into said furnace.
Seeing that they both had one common foe Naru chuckled evilly watching the papers destruction with an odd sense of joy and happiness.
The hokage seemed to realize he was no longer alone as he quickly spotted Naru and a large anime sweat drop formed on his head as he quickly shunshined back to his chair.
"Don't worry Hokage-sama I too know the evils of paperwork your secret is safe with me." Naru spoke with a chuckle.
Coughing awkwardly the Hokage did a quick seal and the furnace disappeared.
"Oh uh don't mind that the fourth had that installed for uh... emergency situations were one might I don't know need a furnace for uh... burning things." The hokage made the quickest excuse he could think of.
Naru was now grinning.
Her father thought of everything!
Gaining control of herself Naru got her mind back on track.
"I just came here to tell you the mission to Ame was a success and give you my report."
By now the Hokage had controlled himself as well. "So how did it go?"
"Like I said the mission was a success we managed to infiltrate Ame despite its heavy security we then discerned it as a threat..." That was a lie they had all just opted out for full blown slaughter before even leaving fire country but it had been a threat in the end. "We managed to destroy the dam which was the villages main power source..."Naru was interrupted.
"Wait you destroyed a dam?" The hokage asked curiously.
"Well you did say any means necessary... and we did send the village back to the stone age with massive property damage soooo they most likely won't be a threat anymore." At this point Naru was rubbing her head sheepishly and Sarutobi felt really old.
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flashback
The sandaime sat in his chair as Minato and Kushina gave there report about the Iwa army they were supposed to negotiate a cease fire with to evacuate the civilians.
They were both rubbing there head sheepishly.
"Well you see..." Minato started. "We got there and prepared to offer them the scroll but then this soldier made a rather rude comment about Kushina here...and well I kinda-accidently-killed-him."
He rushed through that last bit.
"Soooo I kinda had to use this new technique I invented and well...problem solved surprise! I guess this makes up for missing your birthday last month doesn't it jiji?"
The Hokage could only stare.
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Sighing at the fact that he needed to retire again. The age old Hokage let her continue with her report.
"Anyway we engaged who I can only guess was the kage of there village."
At this the Sandaime seemed to choke on air.
"Anyway I'm pretty sure he's dead soooo can I have the rest of the week off?" Again a lie but saying they brought the body of a nearly indestructible kage level force of nature here to become a loyal servant to her would probably not go over so well.
At this point the Hokage wasn't sure if he should immediately start trying to making peace agreements with Ame or applaud Naru and give her the week off.
But the mission did call for demolition if necessary.
And he supposed killing the leader of a village did account to some type of demolition.
He just wasn't sure which.
Putting on a forced smile he agreed to her 'vacation' and sent her off before she gave him a heart attack.
By demolition they had meant destroying a few barracks or armory's.
Not full blown destruction of a village and it's leader!
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Konohagakure~ demons den
12 minutes later...
Walking into the cell that held there prisoner Naru took a moment to examine him currently he was covered in just about every single restraint they could think of seal or otherwise. From a strait jacket to chakra suppressors he had it all. Like she had done with Kurenai Naru started to draw various circles and symbols across the ground with an ink brush she unsealed. According to Hagoromo The binding process would expel whoever had there soul currently inhabiting there body. It should also allow whatever was left of the other soul to come out and heal itself merging with the new soul she was bringing back up from purgatory.
Just add time and presto one more extremely loyal S-ranked demon-nin added to her family.
After a few minutes Naru was done and not taking the chance of him waking up Naru activated the seal.
A blinding flash of red encompassed the room and an ungodly scream echoed from the being in front of it as its soul was ripped out and replaced by a new one.
Naru thought it was the most beautiful sight she ever saw.
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Ame~at the time
Pain screamed.
He screamed like he hadn't since the time he had lost Yahiko.
Konan hearing the obvious distress rushed into the room.
"Nagato! Whats wrong?"
So shocked by a sudden revelation Nagato didn't even notice the slip.
"It's...It's Yahiko Konan I...-we lost him.
"What?"
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Back in Konoha~13 hours later
Yahiko opened his eyes realizing that was the first time he had on his own in years. He noticed that someone had gone through the painstaking process of removing all those chakra conductors.
He sat up thinking about the past. Well he hadn't been in control of himself or really even alive to be honest he had been aware and he had watched what his body had done.
With a scream that echoed that of his long lost friend he fell over and collapsed.
Idly realizing that it was the first time he had been able to do that in years.
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Inside her mind scape Naru stared her shadow down as they both moved in a dance clashing blades to improve her rather poor style with a blade.
Naru repeated the mantra in her head calling out her moves in her head before making them. 'Left, right, parry, duck, stab' the two eventually became a blur of movement as they practiced Narus first sword style. Well she did learn the basics of the sword long ago she had never truly mastered it which just seemed wrong now that she held such a great sword.
"With any luck you'll be mediocre in no time!" Her shadow yelled at her enthusiastically.
Great sword, horrible sense of humor there was no way that thing was her shadow!
Having gotten tired of there now several hour long session Naru and her shadow stopped and left not a word being said between the two for once. Narukage went to annoy Hagoromo as was her new duty when not doing anything else and Naru went to go sit back up in the cherry tree.
Idly thinking how great things were going for her lately.
Sometimes it was great to be the queen.
Fear the New Age
Chapter 3 end
Start! Omake 1!
Of days long past
Minato 'Namikaze' Nuraihyon was many things.
To Iwa he was a butcher.
To his wife he was a husband.
To Konoha he was a kage.
But never did he consider himself a coward!
Well others may despair and run away from the enemy to end all enemies, he stood firm And never gave ground!
And thus he named the end of days in its true name.
Paperwork!
Today he would defeat it and become a legend!
"Let's see I'll put the furnace there and a paper shredder here oh and a trap door for my secretary here..."
he had it!
Quickly gathering a measuring tape he rushed out to his waiting room and through the secretary up off her chair before measuring her to find the dimensions he would need.
The secretary didn't even move out of shock.
Finally getting what he needed and scribbling it on his hands Minato rushed off to have it built.
The next day
"Hokage-sama I have your reports right here!" the secretary spoke cheerfully as she walked in.
"Oh yeah that's great" Minato spoke as if slightly annoyed "Say could you move just a little over to the left you are left handed right?" he asked.
"Uh yeah what does that have to do with anything though?"
"Oh nothing just that it would make sense if you were left handed that you would go thought the left door instead of the right one which oddly enough you seemed to have used." He paused here. "Care to explain why you went against the laws of nature?" At this is eyes glowed an eerie blue that seemed somewhat demonic to the poor secretary.
She could only stutter as she tried to figure out what she had done wrong.
"Never mind it doesn't mater just go with the flow next time OK?"
"Uh yeah sure whatever Hokage-sama."
"Anyway could you just take a step about a half meter to the left will you?"
Doing so she was about to ask why when the floor gave out beneath her and she took the newly installed one way chute straight to the T&I department.
He sighed kicked back and put his feet on the desk before picking up a phone and calling old man jiji.
"Hey yeah old man... yeah I figured it out."
Smirking the whole time as all he got out of his predecessor was silent awe.
Sometimes it was good to be the king.
Yay it's done I finally decided to get around to posting this thing. Between all the stuff that been happening I haven't had much time for writing but I had to get around to this. What kind of author would I be if I didn't? No wait don't answer that. Am I just going off randomly saying things that make no sense? Yes! So I found out how addicting skyrim was rest in peace free time. Rest in peace.
Again I want to thank all those who reviewed. And are sticking with it despite it's faults.
So thanks again to...
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Oh and to you miss Juubi of Kitsunes of the 34th! (are there 34 of you guys? Seriously I would hate to have 34 all powerful foxes ruling the earth one would be bad enough but 34 come on! I mean seriously!)
I see your demon pirate ninja joke and then I shoot it in the knee!
With regards
Isee.