Conquest of The Emperor: World of Naruto Chapter 2
"H-h-hello s-s-sir I'm F-f-field Marshall Axurhotep of the Grand Empire's Dawn Guard. I b-b-believe I would be a great asset to your organization." Field Marshall Axurhotep said. "I c-c-can offer you the funding f-f-for any project."
Pain looked through his astral projection at the wretched child before him, never drawn charka, so nervous he couldn't stop stuttering and to ashamed to even raise his eyes to those around him but he did offer something that could help advance his plans.
"How much funding can you offer Akatsuki exactly?" Pain asked…
ONE MONTH EARLIERNaruto Uzumaki was having a fit full sleep haunted by the same nightmare that had plagued him the past few days A boy his age stood before him wearing a chain mail shirt under an open leather jacket, there was a large gaping stab wound in his right lung right through the armor. He started drawing circles on a chalk board and recited the same poem he had said the past five nights:
"My father staked him through the heart
My grandpa took his head
They stuck him in a box of leaches
Still he is not dead."
The warrior fell over and began coughing blood, Naruto moved to help him but the warrior just drew a winged serpent coiled around a clenched fist in his own blood. Then Naruto woke up with a jerk.
"Naruto it's been five nights already could you just stay asleep?" The jerk said.
"Sorry pervy sage," Naruto said. "But I had the nightmare again."
"A guy recites poetry while dying of a chest wound," Jiraiya said. "Very creepy now go back to sleep."
Thousands of miles away in a desolate cave situated in the land of spring a group of three dozen snow ninja were examining their meager spoils.
"Harada this is embarrassing." One of them said to their leader. "We should have just given up when the princess re-took the throne and those leaf ninja took out our top three guys."
"I'm not going to quit," Harada said. "We took over this country before we can do it again."
"We had to abandon Yukigakure," One of them said. "What's the point?"
Harada jumped on the other man and put a kunai to his throat.
"Killing him would be a waste of manpower," a strong voice said from the entrance. The snow ninja turned to see a man in his late thirties in a brown uniform. "Allow me to introduce my self I am Colonel Wulf. I have been sent here by Field Marshal Axurhotep to recruit you into the Dawn Guard of the Grand Empire."
"I have never heard of you." Harada said.
"We are new to the area," Col. Wulf answered. "The Emperor seeks to bring order to all that is and Field Marshal Axurhotep believes your great talents are being wasted here. Acting as bandits because the new ruler thinks her self above using you the snow ninja, one of only three villages that value technical ingenuity. You have the finest armor and fantastic weapons and yet you are treated as pathetic and unworthy of attention by the so-called great shinobi nations. But the empire has noticed you and we shall conquer this world and give you governorship of not only the land of spring but the surrounding countries as well."
"We're in," Harada said. "For now."
"Then we shall take you to more hospitable accommodations," Col. Wulf said as he pointed outside the cave. The shinobi looked to see flying machine's hovering above the cave entrance. They suspended by propellers on top and had a second smaller propeller on the tail. Most of them were open with wide spaces in them but two were slightly smaller and had strange apparatuses on the sides.
"What are those?" Harada asked.
"Serpentarius class troop transport helicopters and Aries class gunships," Col Wulf said.
"As I told you the Grand Empire values technical ingenuity, shall we depart?"
Harada smiled as he boarded the helicopter. "This could be the start of an interesting alliance," he said as the other snow ninja came to join him.
The helicopters flew swiftly through the night sky invisible to the towns and farms bellow. They landed in a fortress surrounded buy thick walls deep rivers and more of the strange apparatus that had been mounted on the helicopters.
"What are those things on the walls?" Harada asked Col. Wulf.
"Guns and rockets." Col. Wulf said. "They are effective weapons."
"Are we in the land of rivers?" Harada asked.
"Yes the Village of Artisans were tired of the financial neglect their feudal lord demonstrated so when field marshal Axurhotep offered to bail out their financial hardship and raises the standard of living they were more then willing to allow him to replace the daimyo as head of the country. Working with them will not be a problem will it?"
"No," Harada said. "But it seems to me you guys are trying to recruit the best weapons makers in the world and from the look of your men you're all weapons users your selves."
"We would prefer not to give up that particular advantage." Col. Wulf said. "And it is in our mutual interests to join forces."
"What's to keep them from double crossing us?" Harada asked.
"It's not in their interests." Col. Wulf said. "Now come it is time for you and Kenuichio, the leader of the Village of Artisans, to meet the Field Marshall face to face."
Harada couldn't believe his eyes the 'Field Marshall' he was agreeing to work with was a sixteen year old boy.
"Is this a joke," Harada said.
"You can't expect us to work for a child?" Kenuichio asked.
"I understand your frustration," Marshall Axurhotep said. "Being asked to serve under a less experienced officer is undignified, but tell me was starving in squalor while all your allies, allies who owe their lives to the weapons you made them, ignored your troubles and left you to starve or hiding in a cave stealing scraps like dog any less dignified. Would you both be willing to swallow your pride and in exchange I will bring the other nations on this continent to their knees and you shall be kings within the Empire…. Or you can go back to your caves and rotting huts."
The two high-ranking shinobi looked at each other.
"I'm in," Kenuichio said.
"Me two," Harada responded.
"Excellent," Axurhotep said. "The first task I would like the two of you to do is collaborate with my chief armorist on weapons design."
"Hang on I'm not going to give away my clans secretes to anyone." Harada said.
"You do realize that the collaboration will result in both of us getting even better weapons then we have now?" Axurhotep pointed out. "And you will get to know a lot about my weapons as well."
Harada thought it over for a minute. "Alright, I think we can work together." He said. For now.
ONE WEEK LATERCol. Wulf was on the move. Talking a Libra class troop carrier plane he and his men would airdrop along with heavy equipment and overthrow the Fang country. He had with him a battalion of his own men and two squads from the Empires new hidden villages. He had his Lieutenant Colonel commanding the take down of the neighboring Claw country
"Let's hope the new armor you made holds up to the job." Col. Wulf said.
"The materials you supplied together with the artisans skill and my own people's technology makes that armor indestructible." the snow-ninja assured him. "The progress we made was incredible."
"The progress one can make by sharing knowledge will always be grater then what one can get by hording it." Col. Wulf said. "We're approaching the drop zone." The Imperial Dawn guardsmen prepped their parachutes as the snow ninja got their wings and the Artisan Ninja got their kites on." The Libras opened up their hatches to drop paratrooper's flying ninja, and airdropping Leo battle tanks onto the Fang country's capital.
As the first waive of attackers landed they took out the guards on the wall with a wave of bullets. The guards rushed out of the fortress to meet the attackers only to be mowed down by guardsmen's machine guns or frozen in ice by the snow ninja's ice bombs.
"I want that door open NOW," Col. Wulf ordered.
An artisan ninja took his sword pointed it at the door to the fortress.
"Celestial dragon strike." the ninja yelled and the fortress door crashed down as a dragon made of charka burst forth from the sword. The Imperial forces rushed through the opening and massacred the daimyo's men.
Col. Wulf personally broke into the Daimyo's bed room looked him right in the eye and said:
"This country has been annexed by the Grand Empire your services as head of state are no longer needed." Then he drew a gladiolus sword and took the Daimyo's head.
At the Hokage's mansion in the Land of Fire Tsunade was looking over the field report from the ANBU Black ops.
"This can't be possible," She said.
"What is it Lady Tsunade?" Shizune said.
"Forces calling them selves the Grand Empire have just taken over the countries without shinobi villages." Tsunade responded. "And they did it in just two hours."
"Which countries did they take over?" Shizune asked.
"Almost all of them," The Hokage answered. "The ones that buy off protection from countries with minor shinobi villages, the Land of Water and the Land of Earth were taken over so fast that the Ninja had no chance to respond."
"But won't they try to free their allies?" Shizune asked.
"No, that's why those that have protection from the Villages hidden in the Leaf, Sand and Cloud were sparred." Tsunade explained. "Who ever did this knew we were the only ones that would respond to an attack on a country we agreed to protect."
"Can't we lend aid to the countries that have been attacked?" Shizune asked.
"Which one?" Tsunade responded. "The reports indicate that the attackers have stationed over a thousand troops in each country, anyone we send would be highly outnumbered and then the troops they placed in the other countries could retaliate when the village is undefended. According to some eye witnesses they just dropped out of the sky."
"Then what can we do?" Shizune said.
"Increase security around the borders and watch the sky's." Tsunade said. "And I want to talk to Shikamaru and get his opinion on the situation. The way they placed their troops we can't attack one without being overwhelmed by counter attack by the others, where did they come from?"
Naruto was upset the pervy sage was supposed to be training him instead he was hitting on girls in a bar. The girl didn't seem all that interested. Then Naruto noticed eight men walk into the bar. Each was carrying a strange weapon and they were dressed all in brown and on their arms was a symbol depicting a winged snake coiling around a sun. The similarity to the symbol drawn in blood in his dreams was enough to make him very nervous. He was about to warn Jiraiya when one of the men spoke up.
"Naruto Uzumaki and Jiraiya the Toad sage," The man said in a deep commanding voice. "Last night this country was annexed by the Grand Empire as a result foreign shinobi are no longer permitted to enter the country, I must ask you to leave." Naruto got ready to attack but Jiraiya held him back.
"If that's the case will go," Jiraiya said.
"Pervy sage those guys have the same symbol as the one in my dream!" Naruto said.
"Naruto the symbol you described was a winged snake coiled around a clench fist these guys have a winged snake coiled around a sun." Jiraiya said. "It's just a coincidence."
Naruto and Jiraiya left and headed out of town
"I don't think it was a coincidence," Naruto said.
"Neither do I," Jiraiya said. "They were way to agitated when I described the symbol from your dreams."
"Where are we going now?" Naruto asked.
"Back home to the Hidden Leaf Village." Jiraiya said. "Things are going to get very interesting."
Back in the Land of Vines Marshall Axurhotep was in an important meeting.
"H-h-hello s-s-sir I'm F-f-field Marshall Axurhotep of the Grand Empire's Dawn Guard. I b-b-believe I would be a great asset to your organization." Field Marshall Axurhotep said. "I c-c-can offer you the funding f-f-for any project."
Pain looked through his astral projection at the wretched child before him, never drawn charka, so nervous he couldn't stop stuttering and to ashamed to even raise his eyes to those around him but he did offer something that could help advance his plans.
"How much funding can you offer Akatsuki exactly?" Pain asked.
"M-m-my c-c-current discretionary fund is nine hundred million ryou." Field Marshall Axurhotep stuttered. "A year."
"NINE HUNDRED MILLION A YEAR" Kakuzu said. "How is that possible?"
"Th-th-th-the Emperor is a master of ec-ec-economics." Field Marshall Axurhotep said.
"I say we let him in," Kakuzu said.
"You're to easily swayed by money." Hidan said. "He doesn't have the talent to join Akatsuki."
"Why not test him." Deidra said. "I heard these grand empire men have some nice explosives I wouldn't mind seeing how they could improve my art."
"Very well," Pain answered. "If he can retrieve the One Tail from the hidden sand village he may join Akatsuki."
"Th-th-thank you sir." Field Marshall Axurhotep said.
Pity Pain thought that money could have been so useful, but at least this way when he dies His Grand Empire will go to war with the Wind Country and not us.
A/N Please review and give me feed back or I may not keep this series going.
