Raki just kept staring at the yellow fox head. It seemed to be calling to him begging him to touch it, to take it for his own. He started to slowly inch towards it but suddenly Clare's hand shot out and grabbed Raki's shoulder. This put him out of his trance and he backed away from the display case. This all went unnoticed by the priest since he closed his eyes and put his hands together in prayer. Clare also felt compelled to go and take the jewel but when she saw Raki start to walk towards it, she snapped out of it and grabbed him to wake him up. They looked at the fox charm and went into shock when they could have sworn that someone was staring right back at them. Someone with deep blue eyes that seemed to start to turn red.
"This is boring when are we going to get there" whined naruto. They had been walking for two days and were starting to get a little testy. "Quite naruto before I bash you're skull in, tear it out, and use it for a teapot!" Sakura had to listen to naruto all day and was going to kill him.
Sasuke on the outside was calm but he was thinking to do the same except he was going to use his skull for a mixing bowl instead of a teapot. Jiraiya didn't feel one way or the other as he was to busy thinking on the nice girl he had peeped on before Tsunade had caught him and beaten the living crap out of him. But it was worth it. The platoons had already gone ahead and were awaiting their arrival but because they had to wait for Jiraiya to be ready they had a late start. "I see it, I see it!!" Naruto yelled as they neared the valley.
It was the same as the one in the claymore world except the tower was taller and thinner and there was a forest to the west. When they approached the gate it was much taller than the one in the claymore world because shinobi can jump very high. When they entered the town the people started rushing away and going inside their homes. The ones that were brave enough to stay where they were stared at naruto.
This reminded naruto of his childhood and he wondered why they seemed to hate him. Suddenly a crowd of young girls started rushing towards them. Sasuke hid behind Sakura, Sakura started cracking her knuckles, and Jiraiya opened his arms and rushed towards them. They ran over Jiraiya, past Sasuke and Sakura, and were attacking Naruto. The rest of the team were in shock that the girls were ignoring sasuke and heading for naruto instead. Naruto however was simply trying to breathe under the weight of a hundred girls on him.
"A little help here!!" Naruto shouted the others finally rushed in and replaced Naruto with a straw dummy. They spent the next two hours running away from the girls and towards the tower. When they did reach the tower they were exhausted and Naruto had to ask: "What was up with those girls are they insane?" Sakura agreed "Yeah what the hell were they thinking?" Jiraiya said "Why did those girls have to hurt me so what does naruto have that I don't?"
Sasuke didn't say anything but was thinking "Do these girls think that naruto is hotter than me, wow do I feel depressed?" Hello there may I help you asked an old man in yellow robes. Then he saw the konoha hitai-ate on Naruto's head and exclaimed "You're the konoha sannin aren't you the ones the others said were the best in the village!" "That would be us" Sasuke said emotionless.
"Yeah were here to see a man named…um…" Naruto then took out the missions scroll and said "father Berthold, wow sounds like the name of an old geezer to me" Naruto finished. The priest smiled at that and said "Well then how may this old geezer be of service?" They all sweatdropped at this statement and Sakura bashed naruto in the head and accused "baka". "Well then let's get down to business come with me" the priest said but stopped when he saw the others were looking around the place suspiciously. "What appears to be the problem" he asked the group.
"Well you see when we came into town a group of girls came out of nowhere and Naruto here" Sakura said and pointed to naruto. "Oh I do apologize, our youth can sometimes get a little overexcited, and they rarely see any foreigners." The priest said. "But why Naruto?" Jiraiya said. "I'll explain later please come with me we have much to discuss." And with that they walked towards the tower taking shortcuts and avoiding any girl they detected. When they got to the tower the priest rushed them to another floor and into a room.
"We thank you again for coming, we have our own military but we are afraid that it might not be enough and we live in an enclosed area so there is no place to run should there be need." "There's no thanks required we are simply doing our job" Sasuke replied to the priest. "Well even so we greatly appreciate it" the shinobi noticed that the priest was nervous about something, and it didn't seem to be about the attacks. "We were attacked about a week ago by a rogue shinobi,our men captured as he was about to break in to one of our rooms and the interrogation squad has been talking to him and they have recovered a startling bit of information." The priest continued "He said that where he has failed the others shall succeed, he then proceeded to tell us about akatsuki and orochimaru and then committed suicide using an explosive tag attached to himself which injured one of our soldiers."
The priest shook his head and said "We have heard of them and we fear that we do not have the power to stop them should they turn there full attention on us, which is why we have called you konoha shinobi here to assist us, we have heard that konoha has the best shinobi in the world and they say you are the best of them all I hope that you are as good as the rumors say." The group took all that in and felt a surge of pride at the priest's words.
Maybe that was his intention, to make them feel that they absolutely had too complete this mission for the pride of their village. But they weren't idiots; they knew now why the priest was nervous. With their shinobi super heightened perception they saw the priest glancing at naruto as if he was in the room with a wild animal ready to prance. "Hey old man don't look so tense I don't bite" Naruto yelled out. "Oh yes, I'm sorry, its just that I've never sensed such demonic power coming from a human" Naruto winced at this "you're a jinchurriki aren't you only one of the tailed demons could possibly have that kind of power." The priest looked at naruto expecting an answer Naruto merely nodded his head and the priest seemed to relax somewhat "good I thought you were a demon by that massive amount of chakra you have, I'm not really a fighter and I'm definitely no match for a true demon."
After that the priest told them about how there society works and how naruto has a different aura compared to the rest of them. He also explained how they all had demon chakra and that was why they could stand up to the shinobi villages. "And now I would like to show you something, something that you must guard at all costs even if it means that you must sacrifice one of us to do it." The priest said this in a grim voice and walked them all to a room on the 7th floor.
He put in a combination on the door and opened it to present a display case holding jewels that shined even though there was little light in the room. There was one that was a baby blue bracelet with a person that had green wings, a gold and silver key, one with white and red markings in the shape of some sort of skull mask, one that was white in a hexagrammal shape, and the last one was a necklace with a miniature sword attached to it and a strange marking on it that looked like a fork with three prongs on it. Naruto looked at the last one with greedy eyes it looked so nice. He wanted to take it to keep it away from the world and kill anyone that came too close. He felt the kyubi start to stir up inside him and quickly started to suppress the urge to take the amulet.
The others seemed to like the amulets but they didn't look like they were going to kill for them. He looked at the necklace again and nearly jumped out of his skin when he saw someone staring back at him. Someone with glowing silver eyes and another with pure black eyes that looked like darkness itself and while that happened he could hear kyubi say. "So it's finally begun I am so going to enjoy this" and he started a laugh that Naruto would never forget.
BOOM!!! Suddenly a huge crashing sound was heard and a soldier starting the alarm. "They're here the akatsuki are here guard the amulets bring the woman and children to the shelters!" With that the shinobi rushed towards the front gate and overlooked the scenario there seemed to be an army of them but from what they were seeing they were mostly starving ninja not much of a threat. But the four knew that this was merely the calm before the storm, these were just pawns to test the front lines ensuring that it was safe for their leaders to reveal themselves.
"Cowards" they mumbled and proceeded toward the oncoming assault the local soldiers were pretty good fending off the invaders with only a fraction of their forces but they wouldn't be a match for an S-ranked criminal. He spotted some of the anbu fighting and recognized one of them to be Hinata slicing apart a rain of kunai and another to be Shino sending his bugs toward the source of the kunai. Naruto rushed over leaving behind a few kagebunshins. Sakura saw Neji and Tenten and started to blast her way towards them. Sasuke spotted choji and shikamaru and set a course to them through the hundred guys in his way. Jiraiya saw lee and Ino and summoned up a frog to charge toward them.
Meanwhile in the claymore world…
After Raki saw the eyes he thought he heard someone say "it has begun" then he felt woozy and the room was getting dark but he didn't fall over or stagger. And as soon as it had started he felt normal again. Crash!!! Just then they heard a huge noise in the distance. "There here the yoma are here!" At these words they rushed towards the gate and saw the large wave of yoma rushing the gate.
They were ordinary yoma nothing special but they were merely pawns to weaken the front lines. The real assault would come after the wave was destroyed. Clare and Deneve immediately charged the front line while Raki took out a bow and arrow and started shooting the yoma. Miria and Helen stayed in reserve waiting for the real assault to happen.
Off in a distant world that isn't either of the two the battles are taking
Place a cloaked figure watched over the worlds through what looked to be like two crystal balls. There were many of the spheres all were arranged on a shelf inside what looked like a dark cave but only those two were lit up and on pillars. "So I guess it's finally time eh?" "The man then took a fighting stick off a shelf and walked out of the
Cave. "Will the world fall into darkness or go towards the light, either way…"
the person then smiled and said "I suppose I could always destroy this existence and try again."
REALLY sorry about the late update but between school and th sories i'm reading it was hard to put any time into it
I hope this chapter was good I think I actually did pretty well.