THE BLOOD ANGEL
CHAPTER 22: HEAVEN AND HELL
NOTE:... BY THE NINE DIVINE!!(Elder scrolls 4 quote) I'VE RETURNED!!! I bet everybody gave up hope.... I don't blame you... well I'm back for this chapter and I'll try to make it worth your wait. I'm a bit rusty so forgive me *cracks knuckles and neck* LETS DO THIS! THE LONG AWAITED NEXT INSTALMENT OF THE BLOOD ANGEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tip: You'd do well to re-read some of the previous chapters for a re-cap
Enjoy...
A small explosion riddled out from behind the central building at Konoha as Naruto smacked into the ground smoking, with blue aura fading off of him
Minato walked up to him and looked down at his son
Naruto gazed up to see the dark blues of the Shintengan
"That's only a fraction of the power my Shintengan" Minato said "You can barely see souls at your point... do you honestly expect to get anywhere at this rate?" he questioned his son
"Shut-it ass hole..." Naruto spat as he stood up "Just tell me all the forms of the shintengan... I'll figure them out myself"
"Stop being a fool Naruto..." Minato shook his head "It took me 19 YEARS to get to this point! you can't just bypass all of the effort and time it requires! You may have learned my Rasengan in less than two weeks but this is a completely different league you're getting yourself into!"
"If you're so damn powerful... why the hell did you let yourself lose to that BASTARD!?" Naruto roared as he activated his own Shintengan and a blue aura flowed from his eyes to his right hand. He reared the energy back and threw it at Minato
The energy smashed into Minato's chest and spread out behind him. It scorched and cracked the ground where it touched
Minato stepped back once from the impact and the attack faded
Naruto stood there panting
The Raikage looked up at Naruto "I bet you have no Idea what you just did... do you, Naruto?" His father asked
Naruto looked at him confused "what are you... talking about?" he panted
"You don't then... Learn this... what you just unleashed was not chakra... it was spirit energy. You're shintengan naturally pulls in this spirit energy from the world around you, amplifies it, concentrates it and unleashes the power in you favor and at your will." His father explained
"So that's how you did it..." Naruto said
Back inside the Central building all of he girls watched through the window to see Naruto and his father
"What do you think Naruto's gonna do?" Temari asked
"I don't know..." Sakura replied
"He'll probably push himself to the limit like always..." Ino added
Back out side Naruto tried again to draw spirit energy in and throw it at his father but just as the energy reached his hand his eyes widened as they throbbed and pulsated energy out "No... not now" he said just before his head began the accursed ringing again, the headache returning stronger than ever, as the pain flashed from his head to his arms and then hands. He grabbed his head and blood vessels grew around his eyes almost like the byakugan but the vessels traveled down his arms to his hands. The blood veins on the right side started to glow blue and the ones on the left side started to glow red
Minato's eyes widened "Wh-what in the world?! Naruto are you okay?!" he yelled running up to his son only to be knocked back by the force of chakra and power that began emitting from Naruto
Minato slid back on his feet and looked on at his son who screamed in agony
The five girls ran outside seeing their lovers problem
"MAKE IT STOP!!!" Naruto screamed in unyielding pain as energy started cracking and rippling apart the ground
The blonde jinchuuriki keeled over dropping to his hands and knees his left hand started to turn the ground red as his right hand light the ground up with blue light
Hinata activated her Byakugan and looked at her boyfriend only to see a red light in his left arm and a blue in his right "I don't get... I can't see his chakra network in his arms through that light and when I look at his left arm it hurts my eyes" She said
Ino and Sakura both tried approaching him but the power sent them both sliding back on the ground
"Don't go near him!" Minato ordered "It's too dangerous!"
Tsunade ran out back to see the commotion as two ANBU appeared in the area as well
"What's going on?!" Tsunade questioned
"I don't know! I've never seen this before!" Minato replied over the raging wind and energy "I think his Shintengan is going haywire!"
"WHY?! WHY DOES IT HURT SO MUCH?!?!" Naruto cried out, tears falling from his eyes. This pain was unbearable. Worse than anything else in his life
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Elsewhere in Iwa, Daignmone and his three demon generals, when The Blood Angel sensed a jolt of power far in the distance. It felt familiar yet different then what he felt when fighting Naruto before
"What's wrong love?" Sorayomi asked her master
Daignmone's eyes became covered by the shadowing of his hair as a sinister grin crossed his lips "Meheheh-hehehaha... Good job boy... you live to fight me again. Bring me the challenge I desire! I can feel you have the power!" He said loudly with an evil tone
"Who...in the flying-donkey fuck are you talking to?" Neruneia questioned
"Just a foe I thought I left dead... but I think he's alive still. And Stronger then EVER! Heheheheh" Daignmone cackled holding his arms extended out to the sides "What will your will your lines be boy; in this, our Chorus of Armageddon?"
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The fierce force around Naruto began to fade and his arms ceased to glow. Slowly the veins in his arms and face receded back to normal
"Its fading..." Ino said walking slowly closer to it
Naruto's scream also stopped as the energy faded away
Naruto collapsed to his stomach unconscious
"Naruto!" the girls all said as they ran to his side
Tsunade looked at Minato "What happened?" she asked
"I don't know... he was readying a Shintengan attack then this happened... I have no idea what just happened inside his body... something extraordinary though" Minato replied
Tsunade looked at the unconscious boy "I've never seen him express such pain before"
A couple dozen feet away Jiraiya stood in a high tree looking over the courtyard behind the central building. A concerned look plagued his face "Naruto... I hope this power won't the end of you..." he said to himself
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Later that night as the moon climbed into the sky, Naruto lay in his bed at his new home with Ino and Sakura watching over him. Outside the slightly open door was Temari who had her back on the wall and her arms crossed her eyes closed as she thought. Hinata and Tenten were peeking inside
"I want to help him..." Hinata said
"We can't do anything for him right now... Ino and Sakura are the one's who can help... if they even can..." Temari said sadly looking down
"There has to be something we can do... Aren't you concerned at all??" Tenten asked Temari. then she realized tears going down the suna kunoichi's cheeks as she grit her teeth
"You think I don't want to help...? I would if there was anything in my power I could do... we can't even protect that baka from himself" Temari said
"There is something you can do for him..." Minato said as he walked up the stairs "You can leave him to rest"
"B-But" Hinata stammered
"But nothin'... He's not going anywhere" Minato said seriously
"Fine. Come on. Lets go Hinata" Tenten said
"O-Okay" She agreed reluctantly as her and tenten went down stairs
"This is all your fault..." Temari said to Minato as she passed him and went down the stairs
Minato looked down "If only she understood the fact that this Kekkei Genkai evolves, in many ways... so many ways" He thought to himself
The Raikage looked into the room and at his son "Rest well my son... the road ahead of you is covered with thorns and blood... you'll have to be ready for it" he thought
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Elsewhere in the water fall village, A waterfall ninja charged forward at the demon Orin
"Lets go-lets go- lets go Shinobi. I'll break you like the others" Orin said menacingly
"You bastard I'll kill you!" The shinobi yelled
"I bet you wish you could... human cur" Orin grinned as the shinobi slashed a katana through him
Orin's eyes trailed down at the shinobi "What was that? Were you swatting a fly?" he grinned
The shinobi's blade had done nothing. His eyes widened "Monster..."
"Not quite" The demon grinned before his hand lit up with dark energy "They call me Orin the Phantom... Dark matter and the shadows themselves are my weapons"
The shinobi jumped back
"Fool!" Orin yelled holding his hand out "Dark Matter! Disintegrate him!" He roared
His hand shot out dozens of baseball sized blasts out. They scattered out and converged on the shinobi covering him in dark energy
"Now Human... Suffer and die" Orin said clinching his fist shut and the energy around the man crackled with a bit of electricity
"Aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh" the shinobi screamed in pain before the energy shattered like glass and disappeared. Not even a spec of the shinobi remained
Shibuki. the leader of the waterfall village turned to see his ally gone "No! Juro!" He yelled
"Pay attention boy" Cerberus yelled as he swung his fist down at Shibuki who jumped back as his fist smashed into the ground
"It's not that easy punk!" Cerberus said in a slightly different voice. Then a surge of energy shot down his arm and into the ground "Heaven Slashing Hellfire!"
A large crescent blade of fire that grew from the ground high in the sky and then very quickly shot out tearing the ground apart as it went
"Dammit!" Shibuki cursed as he formed hand signs "Water Style: Water Dragon" he yelled and from the large pond a water dragon tore from the surface and into the fire blade, biting down onto it stopping it as steam shot out everywhere
"Baka..." Cerberus said. just then the fire blade tore through the water dragon and straight into Shibuki, causing an explosion
Shibuki smacked into the ground
He watched as Orin walked up to him
"The master wanted you dead or alive... looks like dead will have to do" The demon said
Shibuki's vision faded, as his eyes closed "I'm sorry father... I couldn't protect our village... I was to weak..."
Cerberus picked up shibuki's body by the collar of his shirt
Grei formed a ball of dark energy in his hand and shot it out at a group of shinobi protecting a crowd of civilians
The sphere hit three shinobi passing through them and the group
blood splattered to the ground... there was a perfect circular tunnel going through the group
"Does it hurt having a part of body transported to another dimension... while the rest of you suffers before dying?" Grei said
The people fell over dead and only a few civilians were alive still
Grei formed a bigger ball that broke into three sphere's and each one floated over to the terrified civilians
"Shine(Japanese for 'die')" Grei said and the sphere's consumed the heads of the civilians and then disappeared as the now headless people dropped dead "Heeheeheeheeh-AHAHAHAHAH. Excellent!" he cheered
"Well our job here is done" Cerberus said as he walked up holding Shibuki's body "You've had you're fun now lets go"
"Understood" Orin nodded
"Okay... I'm not done just yet but whatever" Grei said before snapping his fingers and the three where consumed in a dark sphere and disappeared with it
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Somewhere on the continent, a certain Uchiha stood on a tree branch and stared off into the horizon "Something destructive is out there... two things... one felt almost familiar" Sasuke said to himself, Narrowing his eyes
He then disappeared in blur
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Naruto walked through a world of empty darkness. Every step he took would cause the dark ground beneath him to ripple like he was stepping in a thin layer of water
"Where am I.." The blonde asked himself as he looked around, a few seconds before a glint of light appeared ahead of him
"A light...? I hope that's not the light I think it is" He said as he began to walk towards it
After a short walk he came up to the light
The first thing he noticed was the black shintengan diamonds floating there in the pattern they would if they were in his eye with the light shining from behind it
"What is this...? The Shintengan?" He asked him self as he approached it. The shiny black obsidian-like Diamonds reflected his image
He stared over his mirror image in the center diamond "I don't get it... what am I supposed to do?"
'Understand...' he saw his reflection speak, but with a completely different voice... it was as if it was dozens of voices in one
"What..?" Naruto said in confusion "Understand what?" he questioned
'Understand...' His reflection repeated as it pointed behind him
Naruto turned to see the suffering and chained souls of countless Humans under a light, then another light lit up to the left, revealing the suffering souls of demons and the forsaken
The boy's eyes widened "What... I don't get it... why are there so many suffering souls?" he asked
'Understand...' His reflection repeated yet again before he turned back to look at it
"Understand WHAT?!" Naruto shouted
'UNDERSTAND!' his reflection yelled as the half on Naruto's left turned red and the half on his right turned blue
Naruto's eyes widened as his reflection turned into energy and then reached out of the black diamond and reached for Naruto
He tried to move but he felt his arms being restrained, he looked to see chains wrapped around both his arms and the chains lead to the human and demon souls "Why...?" he asked as his reflections hands grabbed his head 'UNDERSTAND!' It yelled again 'UNDERSTAND!'
Soon his reflection in the other four diamonds reached out and grabbed him
'UNDERSTAND!'
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A Few days had passed and at around noon on the third day Naruto fluttered his eyes open. He sat up looked around to Ino and Sakura cuddled together as they laid their heads on the bed from their chairs
He smiled softly "Thank you girls..." he said putting a hand on Ino's back
He stretched his arms and back and yawned "How long was I out...?" he asked himself "the last thing I remember is a red and blue light and immense pain..." he looked at his arms and hands
Ino lifted her head from the bed "Naruto... you're awake" she said before hopping up and hugging him tightly "My god you scared us..."
"I'm sorry Ino..." Naruto
"What happened?" Sakura asked as she rose her head up "Back there with that eruption of power?"
"I've felt the pain a couple of times since I first activated my Shintengan... it's like a headache but one that causes pain in my arms... my eyes burn, my arms feel like they're exploding, and my head feels like its being ripped in half..." He explained
"Why didn't you tell us?" Sakura asked angrily
"I didn't want to worry you guys..." He looked down
"Oh well you're okay and that's all that matters now" Ino said releasing her hug on him "I'll go tell the other you're awake. Tsunade wants to talk to you" she said as she walked out of the room
After a few minutes Tsunade walked in with the girls right behind her who all darted past her and dive tackled naruto with relief
"You're okay!" Hinata cheered
Naruto was buried under them "I was until you tackled me..." he mumbled underneath them, one of his arms out of the pile and twitching
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After a few minutes of that Naruto was sitting in bed with bite marks and kiss marks over his face and body
"Naruto can you explain to me what happened" Tsunade asked
"Not really... I don't know why this is happening to me..." he said looking at his arms "But I'll get through it and figure it out one way or another" Naruto said
"Good... and its time to take action... I've received a message... the Mizukage, Hokage, and Kazekage are all going to have a meeting here in Konoha. The idea behind this to form an alliance between the three remaining great shinobi villages and the leaders of the rain, grass and star. We'll amass our numbers and come up with a battle plan to fight the Blood Angel. We're getting ready for war"
"what about the waterfall village?" Naruto asked
Tsunade shook her head "The Hidden Waterfall village was destroyed. No survivors, the messenger sent to tell them of our strategy meeting returned with the information this morning" She said grimly
Naruto clenched the bed cover in his fist "Dammit... what did they do to deserve that..?" he cursed as tears began to fall onto the bed
"Naruto-kun..." Hinata said
"We'll stop him... Don't worry Naruto" Minato said, walking into the room "With a force like that I think we can manage"
"Right..." Naruto said still crying and looking down. He didn't really believe it himself
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Dark clouds filled the sky of Iwa as Daignmone sat on a rock overlooking the rock country. He held his hand out and looked at it as it crackled with red electricity which he released into the sky... disappearing in the clouds "The time has almost come... Soon the greatest war will be born... and I'll be at the head of it all" he grinned evilly, just before a dark sphere appeared behind him, revealing, Orin, Grei, and Cerberus who was carrying Shibuki
"Here you go boss..." Cerberus said throwing shibuki's body to the ground next to The Blood Angel
"Excellent work. I had no doubt that you would be successful" He said standing up and holding his hand over Shibuki's body before red lightning shot from his hand and reduced his body to ash
"If he wasn't dead already he sure as hell is now" Grei said
"Enough of this... we have things to do... empires to crush..." Daignmone said evilly "Oh yeah and beer and liquor to drink... oooo and women too hee-hee" he said with glee in his voice as he rubbed his hands together, as sweat beads went down the three other demons heads
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Night fell over Konoha. Tsunade had left Naruto's house and The blonde teen was in the bedroom with the five girls
"Then its decided..." Naruto stood up and looked at them "We're going to Iwa ourselves to stop The Blood Angel"
"We can't stop you so we're going with" Sakura said with a smile
"but this is no game..." Ino said "We're dealing with god knows what"
"Ino-kuns right" Tenten said "we'll be in trouble if we're not careful and plan out what we're doing"
"I can help with that" Hinata said "My Byakugan wont let anyone get within three hundred feet of us"
"Okay then" Temari said "Get your stuff together ladies and gentleman" she said standing up from the bed
"Me and Ino will take care of the wounded" Sakura said
"Right" Ino nodded
Minato leaned against the wall outside of the room as he shook his head "fools... walking right into deaths embrace..." he said and then sighed a puff of stress from his mouth before walking into the room
"You guys aren't going anywhere..." Minato said
"Don't try to stop us dad" Naruto said
"you guys aren't going anywhere... without me" Minato added with a grin as he crossed his arms. "I'll bring Yugito along. We'll need all the help we can get"
"Good" Naruto grinned
"Tsunade-chan's really not going to like this" Minato shook his head
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After Naruto and the girls got their gear and supplies ready they met with Yugito and Minato near the front gate, which was closed due to the recent Blood Angel incident
"Ready kids?" Yugito asked
"As we'll ever be" Naruto replied
"Good" Minato said "Be ready for the fight of you lives"
"Right!" They all nodded
Naruto stared into the sky "We'll stop him... we'll definitely stop him... Before this war even begins..." he thought
TO BE CONTINUED...
NOTE: I hope you enjoyed this update. It's been a while so if anyone's even still reading this thank you and I hope life's been kind to you. (I'll update as soon as I can)
-Later