AN: Hello, everybody! I'm finally back to update this story! It's rather long, almost as long as the first chapter, because my ability to write a chapter with a specific amount of words is basically nonexistent lol.
So, have fun with this chapter full of cliches, some poor attempt at being deep and complex, and 'epic' battles!
Note: There's a shout-out/reference to one of the most awesome Naruto fanfics I've ever read, another one for DBZ fans and a visual novel involving a bunch of gods sitting on thrones and imposing some almighty Laws on their realities along with long fights and overblown feats. Have fun finding out!
The tension in the council room was, Hiruzen understood, almost palpable.
As he stood on his chair in front of the council, he took a quick look at the group in the room he was in.
Naturally, like all council meetings, all the parties required to attend were called, even if he himself didn't really like any of them;
There was the Shinobi council, composed of the heads of the various clans in Konoha; Hyuga, Aburame, the Ino-shika-cho trio, each representing their own clan. They are the people Hiruzen has the largest amount of trust as a whole in the room, ANBU included.
There was also the usual Civilian Council, consisted of civilians whose job is mostly to deal with the economy, medicine, basic necessities like water and electricity and so on. Honestly, Hiruzen believed that they shouldn't be told about matters directly involving the few topics about the threats against the village. Then again, such secrets can always resurface and get discovered in the most complicated or annoying manners, so he decided to just roll with it. And that was also partly the reason why he didn't get to execute them when they broke his law and Naruto's status as a Jinchuriki was exposed to the adults at the very least; that secret could have spilled out one way or another via double agents or information leaks and the likes. They are mostly kept updated about the latest news so they might not offend someone they shouldn't, but the more important matters such as assassination and infiltration missions are obviously out of their control or right to know about.
Next, were his so-called Advisors, consisting of Danzo and his previous friends, Koharu and Homura. Quite extreme in their judgements nowadays thanks to the tragedies the village suffered from such as the Hyuga incident and the Kyubi disaster in general, and the losses the village took since then, and while he feels quite apprehensive of them, he can't just ignore their opinions or order their executions. An advisor with a brain is better than some yes-man when it comes to large-scale political problems. The trio might get on his nerves from time to time, but as long as it doesn't result in a disaster like the kyubi attack or the destruction of a clan like the Uchiha clan's massacre, then he can let them be, for the moment.
And finally... He looked in front of him towards the biggest threat his senses were warning him about, even as that happy smile was on her mouth, almost asking him to treat her like a princess. Almost. Like she hadn't just broken into Orochimaru's barrier, like she hadn't killed the Snake Sannin in what seemed to be a few minutes at most.
Dangerous... This was his opinion of her, and he was sure that the shinobi were having similar idead, and maybe even the civilian council are feeling the tension in the room as well.
He assessed her one more time, from her body and curves, accentuated by her strange choice of clothes that emphasised them, down to the smallest details such as the shade of her blue hair and the skin that seemed to be white. Her eyes was another thing that caught his attention. Metallic-blue eyes with dots spinning around.
'Almost like the Sharingan...' he ever-so-slightly narrowed his eyes at that, his face a mask of neutrality and something he was so used to doing in these meetings. He wasn't an idiot; he knew that there were unique Dojutsu out there outside of the Sharingan and Byakugan, and maybe even the fabled Rinnegan. Bloodlines were quite varied, and could mix in the most absurd manners under the right conditions, so while it was highly unusual to find a new Dojutsu, it wasn't so improbable. That was what he concluded.
But still, seeing one of them right in front of him, one with such similarity to the Sharingan in appearance at least was quite abnormal even to him.
'And presumably, she defeated Orochimaru with them? Ah, can't rush into conclusions. Though I have to find her timing quite suspicious.' he chastised himself while he kept his focus on the area around him.
One last time, his senses focused on the new variable in the room, and he noticed the next strange anomaly from her, the strange energy that seemed to leak from her, quite different to the natural feel of chakra he was so used to. Quite unique and strange indeed. Maybe a new bloodline that changes the way chakra feels? No matter. He can only get the chance to have more time to see this new possible threat and analyse her in a more detailed fashion, and maybe have Danzo help him as well later.
'I guess I will do that. Better work with him in this situation than ruining both our efforts by mistake or petty infighting.' an almost-unnoticeable look to Danzo and an equally subtle look from him was all what the two needed to communicate and state their agreement towards this new entity that was sitting in the same room as them and the known stronger members of the village.
Moments later, he deemed it fitting to start the meeting. The ANBU were hiding themselves well in the room, the civilians aren't noticing anything, alongside Seren, though he would have to assume she can at least feel their presence, a person capable of defeating Orochimaru would require that amount of skill at the bare minimum.
'Everyone is in their positions, both civilian and shinobi, and they seem to understand the importance of the situation. Even the civilians with their penchant for going on a rampage everytime Naruto is mentioned, are clearly understanding of the village's predicament...' ignoring the feeling of disappointment and shame as he remembered the death of Naruto, he looked intently as he spoke, his voice so sharp and commanding any weaker person wouldn't be able to refuse him even if they had to.
"Welcome, everyone, you have been called here to discuss the latest development of the Suna and Oto villages' invasion that occured just yesterday. Please keep your questions to a later time." his voice almost echoed in the room, and he could feel the tension spiking even more, with only Seren looking almost casual even with her attempts to make a serious face at his voice. He was almost confused at her poor attempt.
'Is she seriously unable to hide her intentions? Her bored attitude is so obvious. Or maybe, that's her point?' his eyes narrowed just barely at her, her serious face almost open like a book to him, and he could feel just from the atmosphere around her that she wasn't even worried or interested. No, she is interested, but it seemed more like an interest a puppet controller shows while controlling their puppets with invisible strings.
Indeed, extremely dangerous. Almost like a kid, her attitude felt like to him. A kid drunk on power, on top of that. That was his newest conclusion of her, and he believed that the shinobi in the room had reached similar views even if most of them toned down her threat level by a few magnitudes.
"As you know, our dear home was attacked during the Chunin Exams by none other than a collaboration of our... former ally, the Suna village along with the Oto village, an attack orchestrated by none other than Orochimaru himself."
He stopped for a moment as they took a few seconds to gasp, for the civilians who didn't know the preparator, or inhale deeply, for those who knew and were pondering what he would say next.
"Luckily, the Will of Fire in our being is something that would never disappear, as we stand victorious. As you can see." he gave a small smile to the audience around him as most of them gave smiles of their own.
"And even while we had suffered few causalties, as regretful as it is, we have won, and our enemies are either dead, in the jail or have managed to run away with their tails between their legs. And as for Orochimaru... he is dead."
It was clear to him that the shinobi and the civilians alike were surprised by Orochimaru's death from their reactions, the civilians even more so, and he could see the doubt in his shinobi, particularly Danzo and his advisors about it.
He couldn't blame them, as Orochimaru was quite slippery and hard to corner, and even Hiruzen was still wondering if Orochimaru had not managed to escape somehow, but that can be dealt with later...
"Now, to give credit where it is due, I think I need to state the truth, if it isn't probematic, Seren?"
The blue-haired woman simply smiled, seemingly ignoring the alerted looks sent her way, and he took it as his cue to speak.
"I guess that introductions are in order." he gave a small wry smile, his bemusement clear to these who can understand him, "This woman is Seren, and she is the one who killed Orochimaru. Treat her well."
The reactions were more blatant than before, as the civilians gasped loudly, while the ninjas were barely whispering, and Hiruzen could see that Danzo was gripping his staff a little more forcefully than before, no doubt raising the threat of the woman in front of him by several magnitudes.
"I- is this for real?" "How?" "Are you serious, hokage-sama?"
Just as he expected, it was natural for them to also state such questions towards him. Some things are simply too shocking to be taken so casually.
"Yes, I am honest. She did kill the Oto's leader, Orochimaru. Isn't that right?"
"Yes, Hokage-sama. I did, indeed, kill Orochimaru."
Her answer with the same smile finally seemed to bring these meetings to their usual state since the Kyubi attack... and the screaming and screeching began.
"N-no way!"
"This is unbelievable!"
"Am I having a fever dream?!"
"Orochimaru? Defeated by this woman? This is too ridiculous!"
Such lines were stated, usually by civilians, but some of the less composed shinobi were also doing the same. The majority were mostly shocked by the news, while some were enjoying the absurdity of Orochimaru being killed by what looked like a woman in her thirties.
'And there goes that serious atmosphere. Well, it was fun while it lasted.' Hiruzen didn't bother with shaking his head at the madhouse the council meeting turned into. This was completely within his expectation so far, and Seren...
'She seems to be amused by the reactions she is getting.' he mentally told himself, seeing her expression almost breaking in an amused smile, clearly enjoying the spectacle.
Now, he should give them time to calm down before he started talking to Seren (AKA wordplay and subtle interrogation), and gain insight on who she really is...
'Man, this meeting is quite amusing.' Seren told herself as she was sitting alongside the dreaded 'Council of Doom', as she mentally called it, feeling the seriousness that consumed the room disappear the moment Hiruzen told them that she was the one who killed the Snake Sannin.
Ever since she was given the request (demand) to follow Hiruzen into the council room after a day of the invasion's ending with Orochimaru's death and the capture and/or escape of his living soldiers, along with Gaara's defeat at the hands of Tenzo, the guy with the Mokuton genes injected into him, she had stayed in the guest room of Hiruzen's choosing while under the surveillance of ANBU as he finished the few remaining problems of the invasion.
As she was now hearing the exclamations and surprises of the council about her killing Orochimaru, the glee she felt towards the situation was clear in her eyes.
'Indeed, this is how they usually act in the few times I spied on them, particularly when Naruto or Sasuke are involved.' mentally nodding, she heard Hiruzen finally speak as the bout of excitement went down.
"Still, as much as I am thankful to you," she could almost feel the skepticism in his tone. "I believe it wouldn't be much of a problem to answer some simple questions? For one, I would like to know who you are, where you are from and what you were doing in the village. It's quite rare for capable fighters like you to stay unnoticed for so long."
Seren hummed for a second.
"In reverse order, I was simply passing through when the invasion occured-" she started 'I might be tweaking the truth just a tiny bit, but who cares really?'
Most of the clan heads appeared skeptical of her words - no one simply happened to pass through a ninja village. If you had no legitimate business, you were turned away at the gates or captured if you start causing trouble.
"-and I don't call any particular land my home-"
Now it was just confusing for the council in its entirety. It was the obvious assumption that she was from a ninja village, prehaps a rogue one. But with her statement, they realized that they need to reconsider their opinions about her.
"-and as for who I am, you may call me with my name, Seren, and if you are pondering about wether I am a part of a clan or not, then I guess you can say I belong to the clan of Chaos Eaters, though I'm the only belonging to this clan as far as I know."
The mention of a clan, and her being the only one was clearly giving an interesting reaction from them, and while some were being subtle, some... not so much.
Seren looked around her, her eyes moving just slightly to see the various reactions; some were looking with apprehension and suspicion, and others were clearly looking at her body at the idea of a bloodline, and their lust was clear in their eyes.
"A unique bloodline, you hear! Maybe Uchiha-sama can use her to avenge his clan!" "Right!?"
Her high senses allowed her to easily pick the whispers between the civilians and shinobi alike, before Hiruzen continued the talk as she focused on him, "If you have no home or land to return to, then could I persuade you to stay in Konoha for the near future? You've, after all, done us a great service yesterday, and I believe I speak for us all when I say that we'd like you to continue performing such services to our humble village."
It was his best bet for now to hire her as a mercenary to the village, as it would allow him to keep an eye on her while halting the access to anything risky or sensitive, and even Danzo and the rest would agree on this move since Konoha had been attacked by two other villages. If she didn't accept, then he has the authority to tell her to leave the village to either watch her from a farther distance or leave her alone.
The mystery of who she was, her skills and her clan would remain hidden, and he would most likely regret it, but he can live with it if she didn't bother him and his village.
It was at that moment that something happened that would shape it all - Unknown to Hiruzen, someone had already decided that their village really needs a new S-ranked ninja to fight for it loyally, and he was not going to take a 'No' for an answer. Not when he believed he had the power to make it happen. With that, Shimura Danzo, the one called Darkness of Shinobi, looked towards the woman in front of him, his Sharingan eye behind the bandages activated -Shisui's Mangekyo Sharingan eye targetted towards Seren- and decided to implant a single and simple suggestion: Accept the deal, and fight for Konoha.
Maybe, had it been a different scenario, where Konoha didn't lose the Kyubi Jinchuriki, and if the invasion happened in a more better fashion, he wouldn't have that, and he would have simply left her to her vices until he got a better grasp on her and her abilities, but that was not meant to be.
The loss of the Jinchuriki -the so-called Demon Brat- was a devastating blow to the village, even if the majority of the population loathed the idea, and Danzo knew that the moment the other villages knew of the death of their Jinchuriki (especially with the strange disappearances of other Jinchuriki), they might go against Konoha, and the result might be much worse than this relatively tame result.
And thus, he felt the need to protect his home in any way necessary, and this was one golden chance, as his chakra pulsed just slightly, and the compulsion was sent towards Seren.
What happened next was beyond what any of them had expected...
The moment the compulsion reached her, Seren fell on the ground, her head clutching her head as a migraine started to form, a feeling so similar to the sensation of rage and hatred she felt when she ate Kurama.
Accept the deal, and fight for Konoha.
What?
Accept the deal, and fight for Konoha.
This is... a compulsion? A genjutsu? Mind control?
Accept the deal, and fight for Konoha.
'Shut up. You're annoying!'
Her eyes roaming even as her body stood up, looking towards them, until her eyes made contact with Danzo, her sense of danger pointing towards him-
Her body immediately reacted, the intense migraine and growing compulsion making it annoying to focus her senses to the max, but that did little as she easily reached him, the others still sitting on their chairs slowing down their reactions to the rapidly escalating events. Only Hiashi who was just besides Danzo tried to rise and stop her, but he was a fraction of a second too late, and Danzo's body connected with the wall, his neck almost painfully grabbed by the alien woman, his eyes widening.
Had Danzo's need to secrecy require to hide his stolen eye all the time, he might have mounted some defense, but he couldn't, and in the end, Seren ended up with her hand ripping off Danzo's Sharingan eye, finally stopping the headache and the compulsion... and she broke Danzo's neck along with slicing his bandaged arm for good measure.
Just like that, Danzo, a man who lived for so long in this deadly world of wars and fights, died in an anticlimatic manner, his crimes exposed, and his moment of hunger for power being the last thing his friends saw of him...
The room paused for a few tense moments while everyone struggled to get back on the same page, trying to absorb what just happened.
Seren on the other hand, simply looked at the eyeball for a moment before swapping it with one of the many in Danzo's arm (while time "froze" to her) and eating it.
Sighing, she relaxed, giving a smile of enjoyment at this turn of event, and the new experience her encounter with the art of Genjutsu gave her.
Hiruzen exhaled, glad that her immediate reaction was not anger and rage, but apparently sick satisfaction.
"I assure you, that man was not acting with my knowledge or consent-"
"Hokage-sama!" Hiruzen's attempt to salvage the situation was cut off by none than Hiashi, who had not let down his guard ever since Seren had first moved, but in fact, he only got more guarded sonce his attempt to stop her. His Byakugan was active, and his body was extremely tense as he kept his face towards Seren.
"Her chakra! It's purple! And just right now, there were hints of red in it before she killed Shimura-dono!"
Almost as one, all the shinobi burst into a flurry of movement. Hiruzen, the clan heads and the ANBU leapt to their feet and prepared for combat, while the civilians panicked even further and huddled in the corner behind the shinobi who surrounded Seren. In their minds, that was the obvious thing to do.
For these who fought against the Kyubi, and any Bijuu for that matter, it was a common knowledge that a human's chakra was blue, and a Bijuu's chakra was red. Even with the purple chakra in her system, it wouldn't be unreasonable for the ninja to assume that it was just the two types of chakra mixing and resulting in such change. Now that they realized -or, believed they did- the nature of the woman in front of them, and a standoff ensued.
'Hm? Red? I guess the Mangekyo trying to control me resulted in my Ki changing? Is it because I have the Bijuu's body that this happened?' thinking to herself, she looked at the assembled shinobi, each of their hands holding their weapons or a kunai at least.
"So, you are a Jinchuuriki." she heard Hiruzen state, more to himself from the look in his face, even as his grip on his kunai hardened.
Closing her eyes, she sighed for a moment before opening her eyes, now no longer a metallic blue, but a golden yellow as rings formed in it.
"Hm, your opinion is quite wrong, Sarutobi Hiruzen. While I have a Bijuu's chakra, I assure you that I am not a Jinchuuriki. If you want me to be pretentious, I can say that I am something more than that..."
It was then that they felt her power spike, a glowing purple aura manifesting, as a large figures made of pure energy started to form each three times as bi normal adult human, all attached to her body.
A rhinoceros beetle with six wings resembling insect tails, along with a seventh actual tail appearing from where its abdomen was supposed to be. A bipedal slug with a slily body and long six tails from its behind. And finally, a fox-looking entity that had prominent nine tails as they lazily moved around.
The three energy constructs along with Seren looked towards the shinobi, who had realized who these creatures are.
"So, you are the one who caused the disappearance for the Jinchuuriki of Taki and Kiri's missing one."
"Correct." Seren simply smiled at Hiruzen's deduction, and she saw his face get harsher.
"Did you kill Uzumaki Naruto as well?"
"That? You're giving me too much credit, really. Yes, I killed him, but I only finished that Uchiha's job. Nothing more, nothing less. Had he not tried to betray his teammate, I wouldn't have bothered with killing him. I guess I could have simply healed him and left him to his devices, but I'm not so nice when I have such a chance to get a Bijuu. Still, there's no reason we can go our way if you wish. I have no interest in killing the lot of you, except in self-defense but that is a given. The only thing needed is for you to be amicable."
Hiruzen inhaled deeply at her answer, his choice made.
"Then I'm afraid I can't do that. You should know by now that I must deal with you, not only as an enemy of the village, but a war deterrent as well, along with you upsetting the balance of power with your actions. Bijuu are vital deterrent of wars, and not only did you mess that, but you have somehow taken multiple ones in your body. Unfortunate as it may be, you should understand what this means, isn't it right?"
She blinked at his statement, almost surprised by his opinion, "Are you seriously planning to attack me now? You think you actually can pick a fight with me right now? In your current states after the invasion?"
Drawing her gaze across the assembled council, she saw that, for the most part, they were determined to support their Hokage and had no intention of backing down. While the Jounin Commander (Nara Shikaku) along with the civilians were sending frantic abort signals to the Hokage, they had clearly been overruled.
A wide smile graced her lips at that, "Even when I gave you an out and I showed you a fraction of what I can, you desire my power. I would have left you alone if you did the same, but now..."
Her whole body changed to what seemed to be a mass of pure ki (chakra, they thought), and the sheer power started to fall on them.
"I guess it's time for my lunch, correct?"
It was at that moment that Hiruzen noticed the sheer hunger this woman seemed to possess, her mouth almost drooling, her expression looking like it was from a predator more than a human.
He braced himself as she took a step-
His eyes widened as she was suddenly in front of him, her face so close it was almost everything he could see. One moment she was a few meters away, then she just so close. She had just moved so fast even he couldn't comprehend such level of speed.
He jumped back, his hand with the kunai moving to slice on her neck- his body wasn't responding. He couldn't feel his body moving. No, he...
'I- I can't feel anything!'
This was absurd. Too absurd even for him. He couldn't comprehend it.
Bit he had no more time to ponder as her mouth suddenly grew, and his head was swallowed in its entirety.
And that was the end of Sarutobi Hiruzen, the Professor, the Kami no Shinobi, the Sandaime Hokage.
For the rest of the shinobi who could keep up, even barely, they watched what happened in horror, the way Seren had not only sliced their beloved Hokage's head, his lower body spilling blood as it flew for a few seconds and hitting the wall before Seren had swallowed the decapitated head.
"Now, that hit the spot!" she stated with glee, looking towards the rest of the body and was about to move when her body froze.
"Hm?" her eyes looked to her side seeing that despite his hesitation, Shikaku was prepared to fight and had used his Shadow Possession Jutsu at her, while Inoichi had already made the handsigns for his clan's body possession jutsu, targetted at her.
From the memories of the many shinobi and kunoichi she ate, this level of teamwork and skill was insane, but it was ultimately futile.
Ino had entered her mind, and was immediately and violently thrown out of it, the memories of Kurama and the other Bijuus making it easy to stop such a weak attempt (by her standards and level at least), and he was ejected with a groan from his real body as bruises started to form on him from the backlash of his technique.
Her ki flared, with brilliant light, erasing her shadow and cutting off Shikaku's technique, and tanking the multiple Jutsus that were thrown her way by the rest of the shinobi.
"Bansho Ten'in." a huge pull was felt by Hiashi who was already moving into close range, throwing him off as his body flew towards her body where a large mouth appeared from her torso and all the way to her neck, opening with rows of teeth that swallowed him whole and killed him.
"How dare you!" Akimichi Choza enlarged himself, rage consuming him as his body destroyed the relatively small room, his gigantic fists about to turn her into pulp-
He got sliced in two via a thin yet incredibly dense ki sword, blood gushing like fountain and covering her along with the rest of the shinobi who tried to mount a defense against her.
"Choza!" Shikaku yelled, his shock at his friends' death distracting him for only a moment. A moment he could have used to escape with the injured Inoichi while ordering the rest to retreat if they could.
That moment of distraction resulted in him being captured, with his chakra drained thanks to the Rinnegan's Preta path, losing unconscious before he was swallowed whole along with Choza's body.
"And the Ino-Shika-Cho trio is finally dead! Mm, not a bad taste." Seren licked the small amount of blood on her lips with an almost-aroused expression, before looking around her.
By now, the majority of the clan heads and the shinobi who started fighting her in the meeting had died and their corpses eaten. The memories were a bit annoying to deal with, but nothing like the other thousands of beings she had absorbed, much less the memories of the Bijuu.
"Hm, so I now know how to use that body possession technique of Inoichi, and the Shadow techniques as well thanks to Shikaku. Ah, I also killed that Kurama clan guy? I forgot they existed honestly." murmuring to herself, she flew just a dozen meters in the air, looking at the village from above, seeing the panicked looks of the citizens, wondering what to do next.
She was currently content, and she was in the mood to just relax and enjoy herself, maybe kill Gaara and consume Shukaku while at it? Decisions, decisions...
"...an! You woman!" she was awakened from her momentary self-made distraction by the voice of someone she heard plenty during her stay in this world, and looking down, her suspicion was confirmed as the owner of that arrogant and haughty voice made himself known in all his 'duckbutt' hairstyle as his eyes looked at her, ego clear in them as the Sharingan in them flared to life.
'Heh, forgot this guy was still alive. Wait, didn't he go fight Gaara and Shukaku yesterday? How did he survive that? Maybe Tenzo came earlier than I expected? Yeah, that must be it.' she mused to herself before deciding to humor him.
"The great Uchiha Sasuke graces me with his presence, what a great day!" she didn't bother hiding her humorous tone as she descended in front of him, only a dozen meters away from him, "How can I help your greatness?"
"Tch. Mocking me now, aren't you?" ah, there it is, that scowl he was so fond of, "Are you the one causing this destruction?" he pointed towards the devastation of the Hokage tower and the blood on her body.
"And what if I was?"
"Marry me then, woman!" he stretched his hand as if commanding her to obey, an expression of unrestrained lust and hunger for power clear in his eyes.
'Oh, almost forgot this is a bashing reality' she reminded herself, "And what if I refuse? Do you think you can defeat me after I killed all these many high-profile ninja?"
The scowl on his face would have rivaled the Super Saiyan Arc Vegeta's own scowl if she was honest, "This wasn't a request, whore. I deemed you fit to be my wife! And I think you need a reminder of one thing: I am not them."
"Misogyny and elitism now? How cute. If I was as weak as the normal civilian I would be terrified. Why don't you prove it?" she spread her hands as if welcoming him to do so.
His eyebrows twitched in rage, "You!"
A fireball was unleashed by him, fuelled with his anger at this woman who was mocking him!
Only for it to do nothing. Fire engulfed her, for sure, but her body was not charred, her hair was not damaged, and her clothes weren't even burned or tattered by the heat.
"Wha..." he could only look in shock. He wasn't really doing his best because he felt it was beneath him to, but to see her completely unharmed... "How!?"
Seren only smled wider, "My turn."
In a second, she was right in front of him, her hand slapping his face and throwing him into a building. His body slammed on the wall, cracking it as he felt the air leave his lungs, gasping while he fell on the ground.
"H-how, dare- dare you!" he glared as he stood up.
"See, Egotistic Prince?" Seren's smile never left her face, ki flaring to life in her fist as she clenched it hard, "That's what you get for not listening. But, since I know you have trouble following directions, I'm gonna give you one last chance. You. Me. Hard as you can. Are we clear?"
After all, if your best can't even injure me, what chance do you have in defeating me or your brother Itachi? He didn't hear that phrase, but it was the same regardless as far as he was concerned.
he felt molten rage consuming his body as his Sharingan's third tomoe started to manifest, "Crystal."
Lightning crackled in his arm, growing more intense than he had ever tried before, chakra being pumped to his arm so hard it almost consumed it entirely. His speed accelerating as he ran, a speed that would have given Rock Lee quite the trouble, he shoved his Chidori towards her, where her hand intercepted and a clash that cracked the ground under them resounded, electricity flaring even higher, along with Seren's ki colliding for barely five seconds that seemed like an eternity for him.
But while his effort was formidable, even exceptional by his age and by the standards of his world, he was simply no match to the power-monster that was Seren, and all she needed was to use just an extremely small fraction of her power, to crush his Chidori along with his hand, and he was flung far away, his body moving like a ragdoll as it hit the ground multiple times. And this time, he could no longer muster the strength to stand up once more.
"No- this, this can't- happen..." his arms felt shaky as he tried to force himself to stand up to no avail, "I can't... lose... my clan, must be avenged by me, this is... the only... way... to... satisfy my heart..." but it was not fated to be, as darkness threatened to consume him, his Sharingan already deactivated due to the strain his body was feeling, trying his best to keep his eyes open looking at his enemy.
"Uh, you're really making me feel bad with this speech you know?" Seren couldn't help but look at him with pity at his dialogue, especially when it contrasted his previous attitude and he was for a moment looking like his canon-self.
'Geez. I expected him to mutter something like "that's impossible!" or something. Not some deep speech about his life. I was planning to eat him, but doing it right now would leave some bad taste... even though I had basically snuffed the lives of many others who weren't as bad... Heh, selective morality of my race sure is amazing and scary.'
"Well, I guess I can give you a little gift for now. A perfect and happy life." with that, she had decided to use one of the techniques she had gained by killing Itachi.
Tsukuyomi.
Sasuke, focusing on her, fell under its influence, transported into a dream no different from reality, where he avenged his family, and restored his clan, his mother being revived where she showered him with her love, just like he always wished to happen since the massacre that robbed him from everything he ever loved...
In reality, Sasuke lost his consciousness with a smile on his face, that never left even as Seren ended his life, consuming his now dead body.
"There goes my care about him. It was certainly... strange." Seren muttered to herself as she shook her head due to the bout of strangeness she experienced in the last few minutes.
She took a moment to focus, finding out that the civilians were rioting around her, seeing Sasuke's unconscious body and fearing the worst, while shinobi and kunoichi alike were clutching their weapons, but it was clear they knew where they stand against her from the shaking of their bodies.
"And, I am not feeling the urge to kill all of you." she sighed and decided to simply leave the village for now.
She flew, almost lazily, under the frightened watch of the population before accelerating, and leaving the perimeters of the village for the moment.
"Well, that just sucks. Eating people is more fun when I don't feel the urge to be sentimental." she joked to herself, wondering what to do for now. She surely won't be eating humans for a while, "Thanks for that, Sasuke," she dryly commented to no one.
"I guess I should then go visit Kumo then? Or maybe relax in Yugakure? That village was famous for its hotsprings. Maybe one migh-"
A loud sound resounded, and the world blurred in her eyes as she suddenly found herself facing the ground, before the sensation of pain made itself known.
"-t help. Ow. What the?"
Her eyes widened as her ki flared as she immediately inspected her injuries as they were already healing.
'Okay, a broken arm, probably concussion, and my left hand is blown to bits... What?'
Who the hell could even hurt her in this worl-
The feeling of raw ki made itself known as a ball of dense energy collided where she was just a second ago, causing a large crater to form.
"What the..." she looked above towards the direction of the blast...
"How dare you..."
She heard a growling voice state, before it yelled in rage.
"How dare you take away my revenge!? How dare you give the Teme that kind of ending!?"
'Oh great, it's Naruto.' she told herself as she looked more intensely towards her attacker.
Not even three years and he's already back, as a DBZ entity to boot.
'Let's see who you are then...'
Finally, she managed to get the details of his appearance, and Seren had to admit that she felt quite annoyed.
"Oh, great, out of all people he gets reborn as him."
Wild haircut? Check. Large muscular physique even by normal DBZ standards? Check. A shirtless dude? Yep. And, he has white pants with a red sash, along with a large ferocious aura wildly rampaging around him with that intense glare.
Oh, and his hair was also taking a yellowish green color.
It was obvious who this guy was.
"Fantastic, he was just reborn as Broly. And not even three years had passed. Did he really need to appear on the day I killed Sasuke of all people?"
She couldn't hide her annoyance at the development, completely ignoring the fact that she had just managed to speak clearly in the world where time seemed to stop for only her and this new Naruto reincarnation.
Standing up, her body fully healed -thanks Namekian cells, and Fieza's mutant race as well- she avoided another blast that would have probably vaporised her lower body with extreme prejudice, creating a large explosion of energy reaching dozens of meters and killing all wild life in there.
Broly-Naruto growled at her, unleashing a loud roar as he charged headfirst, almost blindingly fast to her eyes as she had time to only create her incredibly dense ki sword to slice at him-
The sword practically broke as it made contact, barely grazing him as he gave her a punch that would have exploded her head had she not focused her ki to protect herself.
"Ugh!"
Pain exploded in her head as she felt herself thrown away into the sky, her momentum almost causing her to be thrown into space by sheer force alone.
'How annoying! Well, my head is my Achilles' Heel when it comes to pain. Why did this guy even appear now!? And- wait. Did I just hear my own voice while time is basically-'
She didn't get any more time to ponder about it as the Legendary Super Saiyan was already in proximity, his hand glowing as a thin blade appeared-
'He- he can control his ki?' she thought in surprise, barely avoiding her head chopped off her body, but she couldn't avoid the kick that followed towards her stomach causing her ro plummet into the ground with a loud crack.
"Ouch." Luckily the pain was much weaker than when her head was brutally punched, and her new Ki body was already healing the damage, though she noticed that Naruto's ki was clinging to her body and hampering the process for just a moment.
'For Megami-! Okay, I need to improvise. Now, what should I say to stop a Naruto who reincarnated as Broly, who also seemingly took lessons in self-control? And wow, that is one phrase I never believed I would think of.'
Seren wracked her brain for the attosecond Broly seemed to stand in the air menacingly, the same scowl and furious expression still on his face as he crossed his arms.
Well, time for bravado then.
Putting her hands on her hips, she took rapid lessons from the memories of the many kunoichi she had consumed in her years staying in this world, a smile on her face as she hid her worry with the best casual attitude she could muster.
"Geez, do you really need to be this harsh from the beginning, Broly? Or maybe, should I call you Naruto? Why don't you tell me what your problem exactly is?"
Seren gazed at him confidentally, "After all, killing Sasuke shouldn't be the only reason, correct? Surely you have a bigger agenda than just that? After all..." her eyes narrowed just slightly, highlighting her grinning expression, "If you don't care about Sasuke, or the... Teme, as you like to call him, you won't care about me killing him, am I right?"
For what felt like an eternity, which was probably only a few seconds in reality, the two looked at each other before he gave a wide grin, seemingly relaxing, but it was clear to her that he wouldn't hesitate to blow her up in any moment if she lowered her guard.
"That's correct. Seren, or maybe you'd like being called Chaos Eater?"
So he heard what she said in the council room? Or did someone tell him who and what she was?
"Let me guess; the Shinigami of this world did tell you about me? Or did you do some research?" well, might as well take the chance to get more information if possible.
"Who knows? Maybe he did? And if you want to know why I want to kill you so much..." energy spiked from his body, "it's to make sure you won't kill anymore of my precious people."
That sounded so freaking pretentious to her.
A ninja who was supposedly as strong as a Jonin from when he was six years old, let himself be beaten by weakling civilians who he could have knocked unconscious (or used the Oiroke Jutsu to K.O. them right away), gets backstabbed by a guy who was so much weaker than him, and gets reborn as a Saiyan who exterminated an entire galaxy.
And he's now preaching about precious people to an alien whose main diet consists of eating people after he basically blown so many planets and killed who cares how many.
"Who are...?" Seren raised an eyebrow at that, "Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down? I killed too many people to keep track of."
Naruto growled at her, his hand stretched towards her as energy crackled forming a dense ball. "Mitarashi Anko. Your killing of Orochimaru ended her!"
A wide beam of dense ki was unleashed, not so different from the Kamehameha, too fast for her to avoid, so she did the best next thing:
Seren transformed into her Super Saiyan form, though she called it Super Chaos Eater really and unleashed her own ki beam with as much power she could push into it.
Her hair changed from purple to a metallic blue as ki exploded from her body, waves of energy destroying the area around them and turning it into dust as the two beams clashed in the center.
Grass was flattened before it turned to ash, trees were broken into countless pieces before even these were also became nothing but atoms flying in the air, and heat exploded, consuming the area in an inferno of flames and plasma, something she noted in her mind.
'So this world isn't immune to the effects of ki battles with this high intensity, good to know.' she groaned as she felt her body slowly getting pushed back, the weight of Naruto's wild ki still being too much for her even at her current power.
It was quite absurd if she was honest, but that was what defined Broly's power in DBZ and DBS, in that it was always so much higher than anyone else he fought and that he kept growing even stronger by time.
Naruto's look became more intense for a second, his Broly appearance definitely increasing the ferocity of the sight, as ki exploded from him in an even higher level, "Grrr... DIEEEEE!"
His ki swallowed her blast in its entirety, her body coming next as the sheer power pushed her into the space, her body rapidly disisntegrating.
"Fuck... He's truly a monster!"
From her legs to her torso, from her arms to her chest, her body was ripped apart as the sheer destructive power he unleashed threatened to erase her entire body, her ki rapidly draining to an absurdly low level.
But even as her body was being destroyed, now only her neck and head remaining intact for the next few moments, she still felt the urge to resist with all her power.
'There's no way I will let you kill me. I refuse this! I would be the one to survive this first true fight of mine, and you will be the one to be killed!'
Seren's face expressed anger and determination as her eyes morphed, the yellow of her Rinnegan appearing in what could be her last moments.
She knew that this was her last chance to turn the tables. She doesn't know if she would survive if his attack completely erased her body, and she isn't going to risk it by pulling a Perfect Cell, even with her new physiology as a ki entity.
His raw energy was too much for her at the moment, so she might as well see how another approach might just do the job. Luckily, the Rinnegan has the best ability to use in this scenario, she believed.
'If a fight between raw power doesn't work, let's see how this goes then!'
Energy around her bent, the Preta path's modified Absorption ability hungrily sucking the sheer amount of dense ki hammered towards her, her own reserves rapidly filling up, and with them, her body as it slowly started to heal.
Ki was remaking her body as it reformed, feeling better than ever as the blast continued for what felt like minutes before it finally died out.
Seren gave a sigh of relief, thanking Megami that her gamble worked, her body now fully fixed, and she had survived Naruto's (Broly's) first serious attack.
She took a second to see where she was, and she found out that she was pushed completely out of the earth, piercing the sun and exiting it from the other side, and she could still feel Naruto's energy, always intensifying as he no doubt noticed her regeneration, vibrating as if he demanded of her to return and fight him so he could end her.
'So what should I do then? I can simply blow up the planet, but that would not be satisfying to me. Not to mention I still want to enjoy my stay for it more, and he would definitely stop it. I can also try to ambush him when he's defenseless, but I really doubt he would allow himself to be.'
The alien woman simply smirked at the only option she saw remaning: fight this monster and kill him with all her power.
"Very well, Naruto! Let's see how you can deal with this then!"
With that, she flew as fast as she could towards the planet where Naruto waited, his hand taking a very familiar handsign as the feeling of Chakra appeared, and Seren's eyes widened as twenty Shadow Clones of him appeared, each holding a highly dense rotating orb of energy, similar to the Rasengan before they threw them at her.
'Shinra Tensei!'
Gravitational power of an intense magnitude hit them all, pushing away the orbs of ki and chakra from her, and halting the original Naruto's charge along with his clones.
'Gogmagog!'
From her body, large locusts and beetles measuring in the hundreds came to existence, moving rapidly towards the multiple Narutos and latching onto them.
A technique she just made using the Aburame clan's techniques as the base, along with infusing them with her gluttony and hunger. 'Evil' insects more numerous than anyone could imagine, desiring to eat and consume greedily on the bodies and energy of her enemies.
Just as their job described, the insects started feasting on the chakra and ki alike from the bodies of their victims, the only reason they weren't eating everything down to the bone being the sheer sturdiness of the bodies that Naruto and his clones had as he tried to blast them.
"So annoying!" another violent pulse of ki had destroyed many of the insects from his body, but many more simply kept coming at him.
Seren didn't believe for a second that this alone would defeat him, so she had decided to finish the job herself, her Preta path activated as she used her own Shadow Clone jutsu, creating an equal number of clones, each with their Mangekyo active, and six of them having the Rinnegan eyes, representing one of the six paths.
Amaterasu was unleashed on the heads of the clones, slowly eating at their remaining energy and bodies as the insects continued their job, while the main Broly had to deal with the Preta path's Absorption along with the Human path and the effects of the Tsukuyomi.
'He's seriously terrifying, this guy.' she told herself as she saw Naruto almost breaking out from the genjutsu by sheer will and power, resisting his soul being absorbed while still suffering a rapid drain of his energy even as his physical power almost crushed the two clones.
This just means that she needs something to help her get past that absurd durability and tough body he has, and she knew what can help her in that, something that could give her some measure of the same durability and power, but isn't as difficult to obtain for her.
In other words...
"What are you-!" Naruto managed to throw away Seren's clones and kill them, finally stopping the attack on his soul and mind, but he was too slow to stop her hand that was now full of teeth and mouths to enter his own mouth, drinking and swallowing his saliva and just the slightest bit of cells that could be taken from him, consuming them as his (Broly's) DNA spread to her.
'How dare!' he opened his mouth, a blast of ki from inside vaporizing Seren's arm completely, but the damage was already done, and even as he kicked her to the ground, her body flared with power, rapidly regenerating as if nothing happened.
"Heh, it was quite the struggle, I would gladly admit." she looked at him as his clones were dispelled, and a casual blast of him killed the remaining insects that tried to reach him, her eyes pulsing with power as her total energy increased just slightly, but she could already feel the difference.
He loudly roared, his power skyrocketing even further as he rapidly rushed at her, closing the distance in less than an attosecond as he brought a brutal punch to her face.
He knew by now that long range attacks won't work, neither would his jutsu or usual ki blasts. So the best option was to just hit her with his body until she lost! No need to care about distance or size, or numbers or stamina. He would only need to kill her quicker than she can absorb his energy and stamina!
The world around them had long become a hellish inferno, heat easily reaching the temperature of the sun as the wind combusted into flames and became plasma, the ground melted into magma before that also got vaporized as the two started to clash once more, no need to even breathe as the world was unable to catch up to their speed.
Seren had no chance to avoid Naruto's attack on her face, too fast for her to avoid or retreat, or even try to block with her arms, so she had decided to just pull a similar trick to the one she used on an alien she fought in the first month since she met Megami and got reincarnated.
Her head just slightly enlarged, large amounts of ki, condensed into an extremely thin spear, had appeared from her open mouth and colliding with his fist head-on.
Naruto's fist hit her mouth, almost popping from the other side as she barely stopped it from making a hole throught her head, her blood spilling from her mouth - But Naruto didn't get out of it unharmed, as her spear pierced his fist, causing his blood to finally enter her mouth as she absprbed it, getting just the slightest bit stronger with every drop.
Knowing that this was her golden chance, she used it to speed up her Preta path's Absorption along with using teeth, now sharper than before due to ki, and sinking them deep inside his hard flesh.
"Seeereeeen!" Naruto raised his other hand, but she intercepted it by hers, as her rapidly regenerating ki immediately materializing an even thinner and sharper string of pure ki, circling around and binding his fist and drawing blood as his energy kept dropping.
"...!"
Realising just how bad the fight had became, in a moment of clarity, he had decided to get away from the alien woman in front of him, ki enemating from his body as he tried to jump away, even if it meant the loss of his arms in return.
'Not a chance! Human Path! Gogmagog!' Seren's hand had already grown taller and made contact with Naruto's head, his soul being pulled towards the grip of the three-eyed woman, as insects latched on his body and wounds, feasting on his remaining energy and insides.
Pain was rapidly making itself clear to the reincarnated Legendary Super Saiyan, and he realized that this was the end. There was no trick he could play against her now. Shadow Clones would get dispelled the moment they came closer, his energy blasts would be absorbed, and physical close fights were clearly a mistake.
"I should have... killed you from the start... without giving you any warning..." his energy was feeling so low, and he was sure he wouldn't be able to keep his transformation any longer. His hair was already flickering between his yellowish green color and the original black color. His body felt quite tired, more than he ever felt before as it started to revert back to his less muscled form, only his unbreakable will barely halting the process, but even with all the optimism he had as Naruto, he knew it would not be enough for so long.
'Indeed, you should have done that. I would have been killed right away if you did, and I really doubt even being a ki entity would have saved me from that.' Seren didn't say anything towards him, but he understood it from the look on her face even as his fists were barely still attached to his body.
His power had finally got emptied, his body no longer able to keep up his transformation at all, as his hair turned back to his original black hair, and his body lost the large stature and huge muscles it had, reverting back to his natural and weaker normal Saiyan form, no longer able to resist the pull as his soul had finally separated from his body.
Naruto Uzumaki, reborn as Broly, had finally experienced his second death.
His body was immediately covered in a sphere made by Seren's ki, protecting it and her from the unbearable heat that could now incinerate the corpse in seconds.
The flow of time resumed normally, as Seren finally relaxed, looking at the soul in her hand for a moment before absorbing it.
Biting on the fist still stuck inside her face, she cut it off finally, swallowing it down to the last cell. The insects that were eating his body were eaten by her next, and the remaining body followed as not a drop of blood remained in the ki sphere when she finished.
She took a moment to look around her, seeing as the fire and plasma finally stopped roaring, and she noticed that she was currently in the center of a large hole reaching almost a few hundred metes in diameter.
Smoke was still rising from the ground, and she could only shake her head at the sheer destruction this battle had done.
Although the battles in the series always ended with massive craters if not the destruction of the planet at worst, there was just something amazing yet disturbing when seeing the laws of physics pushed beyond the extremes as plasma formed with her every step, when the atmosphere exploded with heat with any serious amount of movement.
'Maybe someone wished from the Dragon Balls to limit the damage ki battles result in? Though I guess there is a limit to how much damage can be limited then? If that is true, then that can explain why Vegeta's Final Flash required him to change the trajectory, because he basically overloaded the limit, while other casual blasts did nothing really except causing a bunch of craters? Either that or the Earth had the ability to Zenkai itself.'
Seren finished her musing with humor as she stretched her senses, feeling that surprisingly, life still existed on the planet.
'Quite shocking honestly. I can feel the chakra of each of the villages. Kumo is alright, so is Konoha, despite being the closest to the damage area. Though I bet that every one had already sensed this wave of power and destruction...'
Yes, she could indeed feel that. Kurama's emotional sensing ability told her about the panic many people were feeling by now, and she knew that they would be coming towards this area in moments, or days. It depends on distance and their skills really.
"So, what to do next?" she murmured to herself, before noticing the heat her body was giving, quite intensely as well.
"Oh, great. Forgot the arousal thing, this is way more intense than I ever felt before. Is this what happens when I eat someone as strong as Broly? And I am sweaty as well."
Resisting the urge to play with her body that very second, she decided on her next move.
"Okay, first, go into hiding and satisfy this body, then go into the hotsprings of Yugakura. And maybe consume a man on the way... or a woman... or a large wild animal... Eh, they all would taste great to my appetite."
With a mental shrug, she gently flew away, before speeding up, leaving anyone who would have reached the area in confusion and fear as they ppndered on who or what had caused such a massive amount of destruction.
AN: End of chapter! With this, the journey in the Naruto world had basically reached the final stages. Next chapter I would return to the DBZ (or more accurately the DB) world. Enjoy this until I make another chapter for this (or my other fics, really.)
Thanks for reading!