Grim Reaper of Iwa

Chapter 14

Sorry this took so long but I can say that I am FINALLY done with Tomb Raider and Borderlands, yeah I beat them both finally. Whoot!

Anyway, this chapter will have quite a few crossovers since I didn't feel like making a bunch of OCs. Enjoy.

"AH! SPIDERS! KILL THEM! KILL THEM NOW!" a girly voice shrieked in fear.

"You must be joking." A man's voice asked.

"Ok…this is just getting weird." Another woman's voice deadpanned. "I just hope that blond idiot is doing better than we are."

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Said blond was currently in another part of the massive prison that was Iron Country's version of the Chunin Exams. After their run in with Konoha's Team 7 and then getting cut off from them when the prison shifted once more, they pressed on.

They soon found themselves in another house setting that they met that acid freak in. In face it was the very same house, but just another floor altogether! It was maddening that they weren't getting anywhere fast.

However, what put them more on edge was the fact that other than Team 7 and the team that the Acid Freak had killed, they had not run into any more teams.

That brings us to this point where they wait for another Prison Freak to make their move. After all, the area they were in was incredibly quiet. Way to quiet for their tastes.

Then they heard a noise. It was a noise most foreign to the ninja. To them is sounded like a mix between a Fire Jutsu or a Wind Jutsu. Then it came so quick they had no time to prepare. A giant machine came out of the wood work of the house, blasting the floor apart before an arm like appendage grabbed the blond and flew off, but not before it shot a rocket where Haku and Kurotsuchi were, making the house area fall apart as they fell into yet another part of the maze they were in.

For a moment, Naruto thought he saw a part of the Labyrinth they were in. He saw all the inner workings of this giant place. And it was indeed giant. Hundreds of cubes that held the different areas.

But, the blond and his captor were not going to any of the smaller ones, they were heading into the largest one there…right in the middle of the labyrinth, where if he was correct, he saw a tube like structure leading of the place. Just his luck though that he had to get rid of the thing holding him and then find his friends and then somehow get back to the area they were heading to.

None of that mattered for the time being because he was suddenly thrown into a building once they were inside the largest cube like structure. Fighting through the mental cobwebs that formed, Naruto took a look at his new surroundings. The building he crashed into was nothing like he was used to.

It was miles higher than he was used to…at least that's what he thought anyway. It was a large metal building that reached up to the sky with an absurd amount of glass windows. In fact, there were more of them, all around him! This was some village alright, hell it was probably more than that, he just didn't know what to call it.

Hear the strange whirling sound again, the blond looked up to see his attacker and was positively miffed as to what this being even was. It was a large metal humanoid boar. That was all he could really describe it as. Red and black paint in all the right places to make the creature look as scary as hell.

"O….k." Naruto ventured. "Just what the hell are you?"

"You will speak to me with more respect, Child of Sin!" Its voice, obviously male, spoke with a raspy metallic voice.

"Oh? Sorry about that, but since I have no freaking idea who you are, I really have no reason to respect you. It is earned, not gained." Naruto deadpanned. "Wait, the hell do you mean 'Child of Sin.'"

"You are a child of this sin steeped country. A child who uses the body's forbidden energy, the very energy that only God possesses and should be the only one use to determine your fate!"

"Who told you that load of crap?" Naruto asked with a disbelieving look.

"We of my land, the land free of the poison you have with your body, teach everyone these simple rules." It said. "I was sent here to exterminate your kind with my army, but your primitive ancestors fought back, not caring of their terrible sin! You all destroyed my army, ME THE GREAT GENERAL RO!

"I was the last to survive the battle with your sinful kind, both so called Ninja and Samurai alike. For that, I was sent to this ever changing prison as my punishment. Not I seek to release myself of this sinful place while killing off the occasional ninja that comes down here to take this 'Chunin Exam'. However, you boy, I caught you energy reading and knew I had to destroy you. You energy reading is vastly more that the simple insects sent to this dreadful place."

"Oh, and what is so special about me that I needed a welcome like this?"

"You are like the first one we sent to this lands, the one who failed to destroy the Great Beast of Sin and was changed for it. The one you people call the Sage of Six Paths. He took the Great Beast of Sin into himself, the ultimate sin where you shall be damn to hell for all eternity! You boy, have one of the Beast's hell spawn within your body."

So…that metal thing knows I am a jinchuriki and that I made myself into one willingly? Dafaq? "Yeah well, I didn't ask to be made a jinchuriki." Naruto growled out. "My so called dad sealed it within my body a few minutes after I was born! And just so you know, we are not always seen as equal humans within our own land! Sometimes we are just seen as weapons!"

That seemed to calm down the boar like…thing. So much so that the boar's face split open to reveal…a really fat guy within. The man's eyes looked sad at what Naruto had told him. "I am sorry young one. For the higher ups in this land to creature your kind without your consent, that is horrible. However, this changes nothing young Human Sacrifice. I shall aid you by putting you out of your misery!"

The 'face' closed up once more and if the blond was correct, the hands of this thing turning into strange weapons that had cylinders on the side. The hell were these things supposed to do?

"MOVE!" Screamed Kyuubi's voice within his mind. He did as told and was thankful for it because where he was before exploded.

That is new!

"Idiot! Those things are forms of guns! His hands are modified guns, things that shoot high speed projectiles. Use those ninja senses of yours to see the damn bullets and dodge of them!"

"Right," Naruto said as he dodged and weaved around the bullets. He would ask the fox later about how he knew this information, but didn't have time right now.

"DIE!" The boar man screamed as it's face opened up…the mouth anyway, to reveal another cylinder only far larger! After that, it shot out a large beam of energy where Naruto used to be once more. "Stop fighting boy! I am trying to hell you!"

"The hell you are!" Naruto shouted back. "Scorch Style: Rising Sun!" With that, Naruto created a scarlet orb of intense flame and shot it towards the boar man and thankfully it hit, creating a large explosion of sorts.

However, he was not prepared for the man to be there still, not even harmed and laughing at him. "THE HELL!?"

"Foolish child. I came here prepared. How do you think I survived this long? I created a device that my superiors felt that was unnecessary. It negates all chakra and stops your elemental attacks, making it so that you can't touch me with them!" The boar man laughed.

"Ah….crap."

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When Naruto was taken and the thing that took them blasted the floor apart, Haku and Kurotsuchi had fallen into a strange area where the floor was bouncy. It looked like another cave setting but this bouncy material was all white and it was all over. They had no idea what was underneath. And the felling they were getting from this place told them they didn't want to know.

"You ok Kurotsuchi?" Haku asked.

"I'll live, but we need to find Naruto and get the hell out of this place, it is starting to piss me off."

"I agreed, but this place is creeping me out." The ice user commented, a shiver going up his spine.

"Oh grow some balls girly boy." Kurotsuchi replied with a roll of her eyes.

Before Haku could retort, a heavy Russian accent interrupted them. "So, you have come to my prison? I guess that means I have to kill you as well." The two ninja looked up on a ridge to see what looked to be a man in a strange but heavily cracked armor. It looked old and worn down too so there was no shine to it. The same could be said for its hockey like mask, however, it was broken near the right eye, letting them see part of the man's old face. His black hair long and messy as it went down his shoulders. The most noticeable feature of the man was his choice of weapons. On his wrists, were two long whip like devices.

"Mind telling us who you are buddy?" Kurotsuchi asked bluntly.

The man chuckled, but it was old and raspy. "I have not used my name in a long time. You may call me…Anton Vanko….or as some called me, Whiplash." He said as the whips crackled to life with electricity.

"That's new." Haku claimed as he readied his senbon and Kurotsuchi, her kunai.

With that, the two knew they had no choice but to fight, so they made the first move and rushed the man.

The man, despite the metal mask on his face, scoffed. He maybe old, but he could take on a couple of teenagers. Ducking under their well-timed strikes, he sent his electrified whips at them.

Haku narrowly dodged the whips by jumping in between them with ease….even though it was close. There was something he noticed, it was the whips were generating so much heat that they burnt up his senbon, making him drop them. This was not good.

Kurotsuchi was not that lucky. While she may be good, she was still vulnerable to being attacked. Yes, she had been trained by one of the best, but no one was invisible and this area they were in was hard for her to maneuver around. She bounced a little too high and the whips got her by the arms, electrifying her while Whiplash threw her to the ground, making her bounce around while screaming in agony.

Haku growled. This area was going to be the death of them if this battle kept on going. This Whiplash guy must have been used to this type of environment and they weren't….he needed to do something about it before it was too late.

Now I know what other people have to deal with when I use my Ice Tundra technique. The only way to fight right is to get rid of this bouncy crap. Haku nodded to himself before looking back to Anton.

Said man just blankly stared back at Haku. "You realize you can't win, correct. My whips will be your undoing."

"Screw you!" Kurotsuchi weakly growled out as she slowly got back up, her body smoking from the whips' electricity.

"You really have a mouth on you girl. Maybe that's what I should strike next."

"Feh, you can try, but what makes you so great and terrible that they sent you down here? Higher level ninja could easily kick your old ass." Kurotsuchi asked, knowing Haku had a plan, so she was stalling for him. Out the corner of her eye, she saw that she was correct, he was forming hand seals behind his back.

The man stepped out of his fighting stance as he stared at the ceiling, his one visible eye clouded with old memories. "Not much, just tried to kill the last member of a family of thieves and liars. I used his tech to try and kill him and then used the tech of a rival of his…both ended with me losing…the second time I thought myself dead due to blowing myself up….only the armor took most of the damage and I survived…somehow.

"After that, I was put back into prison, my body heavily scared. It was then that I decided that if I was still alive, I could escape…maybe try again or use my second chance to live again. I chose the latter, but I was chased into lands quite savage and then I found myself in these lands. It was all a blur and then next thing I knew I was here…in the ever changing prison…for years." Anton told them. It was a harsh tale for him, but he wasn't going to tell them everything.

"Well, Karma is a bitch and I look like one." Haku stated, "Ice Style: Heavy Nitro Dagger!"

"What!" Anton shouted as the air got drier as a large 'dagger' made of super cold ice formed in midair. In reality, it was no dagger, it looked more like Zabuza's old blade. Which was something he could have used, but chose not to. He was not sure if this was going to work anyway.

The large dagger was then release from its midair flight as Haku released his control over it, letting it fall to the ground, which then pierced the bouncy material and went straight on through.

They didn't hear it hit the ground, they heard something far worse. They heard the scream of some sort of animal as it wailed in agony before going silent. Obviously dead.

It was deathly quiet for a few minutes before the 'ground' they were on started to shake violently as they heard a screech of another animal of some kind. Then it went still for a second before thousands of small spiders rushed out of the hole made by the ice dagger.

That was when all of Haku's bravado was replace by childish fear. "AH! SPIDERS! KILL THEM! KILL THEM NOW!" his voice shrieking like a girl's as he ran around in circles, waving his arms in panic.

"You must be joking." Anton sighed in disbelieve.

"Ok…this is just getting weird." Kurotsuchi deadpanned. She never knew Haku got like this with spiders….now she had dirt on him…heh. "I just hope that blond idiot is doing better than we are."

At that point, the 'ground' they were on shattered, making all three combatants fall to the ground, which was not that far away. Still, what was on the true ground was absolutely terrifying. Much larger spiders roamed around.

"WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON!" Haku cried, catching all the spiders' attention as they turned to the group.

Not too far away from the Iwa Ninja, Anton rolled his eyes. "Way to go. You got their attention.

"Yes…thank you humans. Now we can feast….it has been such a long time since we had the flesh of humans. We have had to resort to eating each other for sustenance." A loud booming voice stated as a far large spider made its way toward them.

"Who or what are you?" Anton asked, clearly not afraid to die to this….thing.

"I have forgotten my name…it has been such a long time. I do remember my old caretaker's name surprisingly. He was a gentle soul who loved monsters like me. His name was...Hagrid."

"Sounds like a fool. Now if you don't mind, I have a couple of kids to be rid of." Anton stated as he turned back to the teens.

That was a big mistake because the giant spider's family didn't take to kindly to their master being insulted. They rushed the man, tearing the metal armor apart as if it was made of wet tissue paper. Soon, they dug into his body, but he never screamed out in fear or agony. No, he was laughing insanely.

"Ha ha, you lose! Ha ha!" he told the two ninja as he was devoured alive.

"We are so boned." Kurotsuchi deadpanned as Haku screamed in terror.

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"Argh!" Naruto shouted as he was thrown into another building even with his smoke form activated. When the smoke and debris cleared, it revealed a clearly beaten up Naruto with his right sleeve rolled up to reveal a new contraption on his metal arm. An Aegis Shield. Foldable of course to easily conceal it but it was still useful.

He had his Claws out as well. He thought about using the Claws of Hades, but he had no interest in having the soul of General Ro in him. The Death Scythe would just get in the way with this battle. So the claws in his fists would have to work.

By this time, the boar man was not using both of the hand like guns on both of his hands. No, he had switched it up. On his left hand, it had turned into a ten barreled machine gun, clearly consisted of both hands. On his right 'hand' was a large sword, fashioned from the tusks of the boar's head. It was a deadly combination and due to the chakra stopping tech that he was using, Naruto was having a hell of a time against this freak.

Blocking shots from the gun with his shield, Naruto jumped high as he run up a building. "HA! RUNNING UP A BUILDING WON'T SAVE YOU BOY! I CAN FLY, REMEMBER?" Ro shouted as he blasted upwards to strike at the blond.

Naruto pushed off the building and twisted in midair as he brought his shielded claw down on the tusk sword while stabbing into the gun arm, destroying a few functions.

"So you can fight for real!" Ro laughed before he grabbed hold of the blond and threw him away into another building. "It is good to know that you don't rely on your unholy powers!"

Naruto ignored the man as he sailed through the air. He caught hold of an empty flagpole, flipped around on it a few times before he flung himself higher into the air. Once the ascent was slowing down, he once more started running up the building.

"Run as high as you want little sin! There is no way for you to kill me!" Ro shouted as he too started to ascend.

By this time, Naruto had reached the top and jumped off, free falling. Naruto smirked as he saw that what he did, stopped the boar man in midair. "Perfect." He muttered as he thrust his shielded claw outwards, letting serrated spikes protrude from it. "Reaper's Fall!"

"What the hell?" Ro asked himself. His eyes widened once he noticed the weapons and Naruto's position. "No!"

Ro tried moving away, but he was not fast enough. Naruto was moving at terminal velocity and he had no chance. So he did the only thing he could do and that was move a little to the right. That saved his life, if only barely, because as Naruto came down, the claw struck first, ripping right through the machine gun arm with ease and then the spiked shield struck. It destroyed the shoulder and everything else it touched, ripping and tearing every piece of metal and flesh it touched.

"ARGH!" Ro screamed. The tusk sword discarded as the metal arm cradled the left side of its body. Despite the shredded metal, Ro cared more about his human parts…which were bleeding profusely. "Ugh! You little bastard…I will….i will kill you!"

"You asked for it." Naruto replied as he used his real genjutsu smoke form to safe return to the ground.

"I think this fight is over." A loud and powerful voice rang out, freezing General Ro in his tracks.

"Oh fuck, the warden!"

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Despite Haku's fear of spiders, he was making quick work of them as in his panic, he was fling iced senbon all over the place, killing off a few hundred, but they were still coming!

Kurotsuchi was have some trouble as well, even though she had gotten better with the Explosion Release, there was only so much a small amount of them could do to a horde of spiders.

"Haku, we are going to have to use one of our new combination jutsu."

"WAH! WHICH ONE?" Haku screamed.

"The explosive one." Kurotsuchi grinned with a dangerous look in her eye.

"WHATEVER GETS RID OF THESE SPIDERS FASTER!" Haku cried as they both started the hand signs back to back. The spiders, small and large alike, saw this and charged at the dou for the final assault, hoping to get a meal.

"Ice Style!"

"Lava Style!"

"Hot and Cold Pressure!" The duo was covered up by a large sphere of chakra that began to grow Ice and Lava all around it, steam rising from where the two contacted. It looked like a mini planet about to explode. And it was despite all the spiders stupidly rushing it and then getting fried for their troubles.

"Pressure Release!" That was it for the spiders as the mini planet like sphere exploded in a massive explosion, racking the area they were in, making it shatter in a few places as it begun to fall apart.

When it stopped, there stood Haku and Kurotsuchi on their hands and knees, the needed amount of chakra to keep them safe from the back lash taking its toll on them. "That's why we have Naruto for this combination…" Kurotsuchi panted.

"Please tell me we got them." Whined Haku, not caring about his exhausted state.

"Most but not all young ninja…but this is where you will die for harming my family." The giant leading spider replied as its smoking and heavily burnt form rose from the ashes of its family. Then two larger spiders arose as well. "My strongest children will help me."

"AAAAHHHH!" Haku screamed in fear as he nearly wet his pants….if he hadn't already done that in the first place.

"Mother of fuck." Kurotsuchi cursed under her breath as she looked for a way out. This not something she wanted to fight. Looking around, she saw the inner working of the Labyrinth they were in. There was a far larger one than the others and it had a rather large hole in it. That must have been where Naruto was taken to. Well, it is a good lead. "Haku! Make an ice bridge to that large cube in the middle!"

"Already on it!"

"Huh?" Kurotsuchi asked, noticing that Haku's voice sounded a bit distant. That is when she saw that he had already made and was running away for dear life, screaming all the way. The spiders had just noticed this little fact as well, so before they could utter a word about it, Kurotsuchi ran after him. "I'll teach you to bitch out on me!"

The three remaining spiders stared at the scene blankly, wondering what the hell just happened.

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There stood the warden, on a flag pole looking like a badass. He was a tall, lean-built middle aged man who look stoic but his voice said that he was pissed off. He had pale skin, high cheekbones, stubble, and long ragged black hair with brown highlights. His attire consisted of a tattered white dress shirt with an upturned collar and cuffs, black pants, low-heeled boots, and a long, amorphous black overcoat with a burgundy highlight that flares out into ragged ends. He wore brown-tinted, semi-transparent wraparound sunglasses.

"Oh man….do we have to fight you as well?" Naruto asked, not sure how this guy fought or if he even wanted to.

"No young ninja. I am the warden of this prison and I am a little surprised that the current leader of the Samurai is using my idea for the Chunin Exams. I was the first to implement it after all."

"Who are you?" Naruto asked.

"My name is Zangetsu and I was the original leader of the Samurai." The man dared. "Before you ask how that is possible, it is because we don't age in here…Me and the Prisoners stay here…forever."

"Whoa…" Naruto replied in awe.

"Screw you old man. I was doing this child a favor and killing his kind!" Ro weakly shouted.

"Hmph." Zangetsu grunted as he disappeared and then reappeared on another flag pole, this time with a large sword in a shape of a meat cleaver and it was covered in blood. "The people of your land are stupidly intolerant." He voice before the boar man exploded in a shower of blood.

"Holy shit! You are good!" Naruto shouted.

"Thank you, but shouldn't you be getting to your team?"

"Oh right." Naruto replied sheepishly, but before he could move, he heard screaming from above. Looking up, he saw Haku running down an ice made bridge. Kurotsuchi right behind him, looking mad as hell. "Oh boy."

"That your team?"

"Yeah, but they look like they went through hell, wonder what happened."

"I can guess." Zangetsu replied as he pointed to the ceiling to reveal three large spiders. "I had forgotten Aragog was in here."

When Haku and Kurotsuchi where near him, Naruto saw that they were burnt and tired while Haku look pretty shaken up. "Wow, you guys look like you when through hell and back, what happened and why is Haku like that?"

"Spiders. Spiders! SPIDERS! SPIDERS!" Haku wailed as he waved his arms around frantically.

"Yeah, what he said. He was brave against some whip wielding loon, but bitched out when the Spiders appeared. We had to explode the area we were in to survive the spider attacks." Kurotsuchi replied before looking Naruto over. "You should talk, you look like shit as well."

"You should see the other guy." Naruto replied, pointing to the bloody and twist remains of General Ro.

"Holy shit!" Kurotsuchi shouted.

"Yeah, I didn't finish him, the warden did." Naruto deadpanned before he pointed upwards. "Oh and are those the spiders you tried to escape?"

"AAAAHHHHH!" Haku cried once more.

"Yep." Kurotsuchi whine tiredly but getting ready for another fight.

"You three have fought enough, I'll take care of this myself and then guide you on your way….all I want to do is go back to sleep." Zangetsu said as he stared the three large spiders slipping and sliding down the Iceway Haku and Kurotsuchi came in with. Point his sword their way he shouted, "Getsuga Tenso!" A large wave of chakra came out and easily obliterated the three remaining spiders.

"Whoa…" the three genin replied in awe before Haku threw up his hands and shouted, "YOU MY HERO!"

"That's nice, now I assume you three have the mind, body, and soul keys?" Zangetsu asked, getting nods from them. "Then you need not search for the last. All you need is the knowledge of how to acquire the final key. Everyone needs a mind, a body, and a soul to live. But to survive as a warrior, Samurai and Ninja alike, you need Heart!"

Naruto blinked at that as he and his teammates took out their keys. That was when he noticed that keys could connect and if he was correct, it formed the kanji for heart! "Connect the keys!" he ordered. They nodded and he found that he was right!

That was when Zangetsu smiled and the key glowed for a moment before it thrust itself in the ground and turned, making an unlocking sound out through the whole area. With that, the ground underneath the three ninja rose up and kept on going, through the sky, up the tube structure, and up to a small room where Mifune and Misa stood smiling.

"Welcome back."

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Yeah, I am done with this chapter, it took too long for my tastes. I hope you liked it and if not then that is your own problem. I have to go to work soon and I am not in the mood. If it really needs it, i will fix all the little mistakes later.

Now, I know what story I am doing after I finish Breaking the Titan's curse and these ideas aren't for sometime, but tell me, which would you rather see? A Naruto/Borderlands 2 fanfic….or a Naruto/Tomb Raider fanfic based off the new game.

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