Another Path

Chapter 14

Hey guys, I finally tried Beer and I have to say that….I hate it. I am totally not a drinker. Here is the next chapter….

The two washed up on the beach, both unmoving because Amaru was in a bit shock at being still alive while Naruto had lost most of his chakra in that last attack, plus he was dog tired. The others sighed as they dragged the two near the forest and set up camp.

That night, Naruto was eating feverously as he had regained a lot of strength back. He and Amaru talked a bit about going to Konoha and she agreed like last time and she even agreed to the seal, now she is just waiting for her power to reveal itself.

Fu watched as Amaru kept glancing at her oblivious boyfriend and sighed. Naruto was so clueless sometimes. She could see the guys just chuckling at Naruto's cluelessness and decide to talk with Amaru. Walking over to the girl, Fu asked, "Hey, can I talk to you?" The girl nodded they went in the forest to talk.

Shikamaru sighed as he muttered Troublsome under his breath and Kakashi could not help but chuckle. If things went well, Naruto would have two girlfriends….or Amaru would be dead. He nodded to Gaara and had him spy on the girls in his own way. Gaara created his third eye made of sand and sent it after the girls.

As soon as she thought that they were out of earshot, Fu rounded on Amaru and smirked. "So, you have a thing for my boyfriend, right?"

"W-what!" Amaru stuttered with a blush.

"Come on, I know you like him, after all he did help you no matter what happened. I would grow a crush on the guy too."

Amaru sighed sadly and nodded. She was probably going to die now thanks to a jealous girlfriend. Well that was until she looked at Fu's face that had look of pure amusement on it. "Amaru….normally I would be against this, but I have noticed that quite a few girls are going after him and if what Gaara has told me is true. Then his sister, Temari, will be going after him as well."

"What are you trying to tell me?"

Fu smirked and said, "I don't mind anymore, in fact I will let you hook up with him as well, YOU just have to tell him that you like him. I am saying this because it could be fun to be in a SMALL harem. I will probably let Temari in if she wants but that will probably be all."

"Are you sure you are ok with this?" Amaru asked, a little uneasy, not sure if this was a test.

"Yeah…but just wait until you get to Konoha to tell him." Fu said. "I will make sure he understands when you do confess to him. I will be right there…..we have the link after all."

"Oh right, the seal link. That sounds very useful now!" Amaru smirked.

"Yup, but if we are going to be in this harem together…" Fu trailed off as she leaned in and gave Amaru a kiss on the lips. "Just to give you a taste of the future. I already kissed Naruto." Amaru blushed and nodded as they headed back to camp. The sand eye then disappeared.

Back as the camp, Gaara had a bit of a nosebleed. Shikamaru raised an eyebrow and asked, "So?"

"Amaru defiantly has a thing for Naruto and Fu just told her it was ok….saying that her, Amaru, and my sister are going to be in a harem with Naruto. Amaru and Temari just need to confess to Naruto is all. That and Fu just kissed Amaru." Gaara explained to the other two in their small group, making Kakashi giggle perversely and Shikamaru choke on the food he was eating.

"Troublesome."

Hmm….Jiraiya-sama is coming to Konoha soon…I wonder what he would do with this situation. Kakashi thought to himself. He looked over to the blond Shinigami and shook his head. Naruto was in for a real surprise.

Konoha, a few days later…

They were finally home, of course Gaara, Yagura, Fu went back to their own villages. Along the way, Kira kept switching to Fu and Amaru's shoulders. She knew what was up, that was for sure and she could not wait to see the face of her brother figure. They asked her if she had a human form and she said yes, but she only used that form in a real fight. Speaking of a fight, once she recovered from her shock at Naruto's insane attack, she almost pecked his eyes out! After a while she got bored of hurting Naruto and just talked with him and the other for the rest of the way back.

They were now in the Old Man's office with Kakashi informing the old kage of what happened on their side. Naruto also had to explain his side since the group was split. The Hokage was proud of his ninja. They had succeeded in their mission and prevented another war from breaking out.

"I am very proud of you all. With Shikamaru's quick thinking, you all were able to quickly dispose of their water forces. Though I thought Yagura would be dead Naruto." The old man gave Naruto an odd look.

Sighing, Naruto explained, "Well to put it shortly, the kid was possessed by the demi-hollow of the second Mizukage…the one who started the Bloodline Wars. That was force onto Yagura at a young age; that is why he looks young still….he never aged through that process. You could say that it extended his life. He decided that he wanted to live a normal ninja life and gave his position to Mei Terumi…..my god mother." At the end of that, the old kage fell out of his chair.

"I see." He said, suddenly back in his chair. "I guess Kushina was right, her best friend is still alive."

"Kushina had a best friend out of the village?" Kakashi asked.

"Yes, back when Whirlpool was still around." Naruto answered for the old man. Kakashi nodded.

"Now, I want written reports of these events later, especially from you Naruto." The old kage spoke in all seriousness." Everyone bowed and left, except for Naruto and the girl he brought along with him. Sora already knew what was going to happen, so he just left, not really caring either way.

"Ah, I didn't see you there." Sarutobi chuckled. "So what can I do for you?"

"Old man, I would like her to be my final team member. She is a doctor and with some training, she could be a great medic nin."

The old hokage raised an eyebrow before nodding. "I guess we could make this work. After all, you are going to need another teammate for the Chuunin Exams coming up. She is the girl you were looking for on the mission wasn't it."

"Yep."

"Well, I am sure I will understand more once I get the report." Sarutobi said as he made Amaru part of Naruto and Sora's team.

"Thanks old man." Naruto said as they left.

The next day…

Like Sora, Amaru now lived in Naruto's home. Now, they were walking the streets of Konoha, having Amaru familiarize herself with this new place. They were walking through the park when Naruto noticed that Lee was running up to them, but there was something different about him. The guy wore a white version of his green clothes, a small bracelet with a cross on it and he had a serious expression on his face.

"Hey Lee, what is up?" Naruto asked with a raised eyebrow.

Lee brought up a hand and pointed right at Naruto. "I CHALLENGE YOU!"

"To what?" Naruto asked.

"To a hollow destroying contest!"

"Huh?" was the intelligent reply.

Lee sighed and said, "I am like you, I have the ability to use Spirit energy, but unlike you I cannot not use Chakra. I am a Quincy!"

"Ok…"

"They were an old enemy of the Shinigami but I hold no such hate." He then held up what looked to be a small piece of white candy. "This is hollow bait, with this I will issue this challenge."

Sighing, Naruto replied, "You are not going to take no for an answer are you?"

"Nope, and before you ask, I have no clue what this is called, nor how many hollows will appear, we just have to destroy them." Lee explained as he crushed the candy looking thing. At first, nothing happened, but then a few inhuman roars over took the village and everyone froze. Now normal civilians can't see hollow but since they are in a ninja village, they heard the roars. The ninja, however, where freaking out as they never expected to have hollows in the village. Once the Hokage heard the roars, he cursed, hoping Naruto could handle these as most of his ninja were useless against these things.

Naruto started counting these things and lost count after 35 as they just kept popping up. He looked to Lee and said, "Your nuts, you know that."

Lee smiled while declaring, "Time to kill hollows!" He said as spirit energy formed around his arm and he shot it out to a nearby hollow in a shooting an arrow motion.

"Greaaat." Naruto deadpanned. He then turned to Amaru and Kira who was on her shoulder. "Help protect the villagers….." Naruto then ran off, leaving the two to protect the people in the park.

"Well, seems that we get to have some fun today!" Kira announced.

"Are you nuts!" Amaru said, a little panicked.

"Don't worry, I got your back!" The little raven said as she flew off her shoulder and her form shifted into that of a human. Kira was now at the height of Naruto. She had black hair that grew to her butt, a black skin tight shirt that showed some of her C breasts, black pants, black battle shoes. She also had her wings and her eyes were yellow. "Now let's go kick some ass!" Amaru nodded as they charged at some nearby hollows.

Nearby, Naruto and lee where doing the same.

At the academy…

Shikamaru, Choji, and Sora were resting in the recess area when they heard the roars. "Troublesome….I just know this is Naruto's fault somehow."

"Or they are just here for an attack." Choji commented as they got up.

"Doesn't matter as we got to protect the kids!" Sora growled as he hollow jumped down to them.

"Such a wondrous smell! You have so much spirit energy surrounding you!" it yelled in a crazy voice as two more appeared next to it.

"Yep…his fault." Shikamaru sighed as he dodge a swipe of one the hollows. For some reason, he felt really strange. He landed in a shadow of a tree and its shadow warped around him, then shot out to the hollow charging at him. The hollow was impaled and then disappeared. "That's new." He commented as the shadows surrounded him, protecting him. This was a very interesting power.

Shikamaru observed how Choji was doing and he raised an eyebrow at what was happening. Choji was dodging the hollow that was attacking by using his meat tank attack to roll out of the way. Then the hollow bashed Choji into a tree. Shikamaru was going to help him but the shadows held him back, as if telling him to just watch. Choji got back up but his arms were covered in a black leather like substance with a red strip in the middle. Choji used all of his strength and punched the hollow to pieces.

While that was going on, Sora had his own battle to win. He knew what to do though as he took out his sword and called out its name for the first time. "Raze the forest, Kyuubi!" The sword the monk carried around went up in flames as it changed his arm in a demonic one and he shredded the beast up.

With Gai and the rest of his team…

Gai froze when he heard the roars. "No!"

"What is it sensei?" Neji asked.

"Lee has challenged Naruto….he is using a power he never used against you Neji. He is testing himself and Naruto with their spirit powers. Lee called those hollows here."

"Crap…" Tenten replied as she saw five hollows jump into the training field they were in.

Gai quickly took out four of them with pure taijutsu as thye four were small and weak but he was caught off guard and sent into some trees.

"Gai-sensei!" his students yelled but he was knocked out and could not hear them. Neji growled and charged the remaining hollow. He noticed as he charged, spirit energy was collecting around his hands. Soon the spirit energy formed gloves that had wicked looking claws on them. He smirked as he used his 64 palm attack on the beast, gashing it up and making it roar out in agony. It didn't last as it regain some of itself and swatted him back to Tenten, who he noticed had an odd shaped sword in her hands. (a mix of Kaname Tosen and Komamura's shikai)

"Tenten, where did you get that sword?"

"Dunno, it just appeared like those gloves of yours."

"Right." Neji then thought it over and said, "Naruto said we have to destroy the mask….so I will steer it by slashing at it and you come in for the kill since we don't know the extent to our new powers just yet."

"Good plan!" She yelled as they charged it. Neji slashed off one of its arms and and put a few more gashes in the chest. They backed it up against a tree and Tenten to that to her advantage. She jumped up and stabbed the freak in the mask and slashed downward. The beast quickly disappeared in a yellow light.

"Come on…we need to find the others….Naruto and Lee are going to need help." Neji announced and the two quickly got Gai and took off

The Ramen stand…

Kiba and Shino were eating when they heard the roars. They knew roars like this thanks to their mission with Naruto. "Oh that can't be good." Kiba got out after choking on his ramen.

"We should protect the villagers and head to Hinata….she will require our assistance." Shino stated as they got up and paid. As they rushed through the streets of Konoha, they were stopped by a pair of hollows. Kiba and Akamaru attack first but they were batted away like flies. That was when something weird happened. Kiba landed next to building with the puppy crashing into him…literally. The two glowed for a moment before Akamaru merged with Kiba. The dog lover howled in pain as he body change and when it was done, he had become a temporary werewolf.

"Damn you hollows!" He said with two voices as he and his dog become one but still two beings. Kiba rushed up to the hollow and ripped it to pieces with a nasty grin of his face.

Shino rose an eyebrow at his teammate's new form but had to pay attention to his enemy as he had to keep dodging it. His bugs were freaking out as they could not eat its chakra and they would just die against it. That is when he glowed with spirit energy for a few second before he noticed he was standing on a huge version of his attack bugs. "Interesting." He then fused with it and melted into the ground and then reappeared beneath the hollow as the huge bug swallowed the hollow whole.

A bit shocked by this new power, Shino just stared into space a bit before Kiba woke him up and they headed for Hinata.

Hyuuga mansion…

Hinata fell to the ground, utterly exhausted from her training with her father who sneered at her. "Weak. You are a failure to the clan!"

"I am sorry father." Hinata mumbled.

Hiashi was going to continue when he heard the roars. That was when about 10 of those foul beasts appeared in the Hyuuga's training grounds. He growled as he and the other Hyuuga's went to attack the beasts that were invading their home. Many of the Hyuuga's were beaten quickly while the stronger one's fair a bit better. Hiashi, however, was fighting the leader. It was an ugly tentacle hollow with a female voice.

While this was going on, Hinata was tightly holding on to a small book that her mother had given her as a child. The book was small, colored brown as it was worn, and had a familiar six petaled flower on it. As she was watching her father fighting the odd hollow, her book was glowing with spirit energy. Then the hollow shot out a strange green goo that covered most of the area.

Everything was covered except her as there was an orange shield in midair. It died down to reveal 6 fairy like creatures hovering around her. Her expression was priceless as she was gaping like a fish.

"HEY! Stop gawking at us like an idiot!" yelled a warrior looking fairy. "We will tell you our names later as we have to kill that hollow before your zombiefied family comes after you!"

"R-right! What do I do?" asked a freaked out Hinata.

"DIE!" the hollow bellowed.

"Argh! Useless like you ancestor!" the anger one yelled again. "Just say this." H esaid as he whispered the attack in the girl's ear.

"Alright." Hinata said as she calmed herself, but was losing it again as she saw her family slowly get up and walked zombie like to her. "Koten Zanshun (Solitary Sacred Cutting Shield) I reject!" She yelled out as the angry one turned into a streak of light that cut right through the hollow, killing it. The other hollows saw this and went to attack her only for them to get ripped a apart by Neji, Tenten, Kiba, and Shino.

"Come on Hinata, we got to help the others!" Neji called. She nodded and followed.

A few minutes later, Hiashi and the other woke up. He wonder what had happened and if his daughter was alright. An elderly Hyuuga hobbled over to the clan leader and told him what he had seen. Hiashi and the other were shocked and started to rethink their opinions of Hinata. Hiashi looked to the sky and thought. You were right….she is not a killer….she will be a healer. I am sorry my love.

Flower Shop…

Sakura and Sasuke were at Ino's family flower shop. Of course Sasuke was dragged there. When they heard the roars, they rushed out to see hollows attacking everything in sight. They saw Naruto and Lee…or at least they thought it was Lee, killing of the hollows like there was no tomorrow.

A bull like hollow was charging at the three ninja on the ground. Ino just pull her hands up as if to stop the beast. In that moment of panic, an old part of Ino's bloodline woke up. The beast stopped moving, frozen. There was a faint glow around it. Ino stared for a few second before she moved a hand and it moved a bit with her. She then smirked evilly as she made the beast claw up its own mask.

While that was happening, the Uchiha was fighting two hollows at the same time. He had to dodge feverously if he wanted to stay alive. Thanks to its quick movement, he gained all three Tomas in his Sharingan. That was when they both punched him into the air and he burst into a green flame. When it died down, he was floating above them with huge black angel wings and his Sharingan was now green instead of red. He smirked as a jutsu came to mind. "Chaos Style: Grand Fireball." He blew out a huge fireball the two…they never had a chance.

He looked over to Sakura to see her throwing out her new attack, the Sakura blizzard but it seemed there was barley any effect on her gremlin like enemies. That is when her attack changed as it blew up into a storm of pink sakura petals. The storm of petals when straight through her enemies leaving them nothing but cut up slabs of meat.

"Awesome." He smirked. He then saw Sai run across a bulding as he was surrounded in ink that was forming a suit on him as he killed off hollows one by one. (think like vemon) He shook his head, this had to be Naruto's fault.

With Naruto and Lee…

They had made it back to the park and that Kira and Amaru were kicking ass. They paused when they saw Amaru with a blade.

"Walk the path to Dawn, RIKU!" Amaru called out as her blade turned to that of a bat wing like blade with a small white angel wing branching off the tip of the blade. She held her blade like Riku does in Kingdom Hearts.

Naruto smirked they took out the Hollow like nothing after that. He then noticed that Kira was in her human form and blushed a bit. He shook his head as he had to concentrate on the battle at hand.

He and Lee were now back to back in the park, surrounded by a small army of hollows. "So Lee, how much you got?"

"76, you?"

"Same." Naruto replied. "Looks like there are a lot left. Think you can handle this?"

"I might have trouble if one more shows up." Lee smirked.

"Oh? Your fighting?" Naruto laughed and was about to attack when the hollows were taken out by all their friends.

"LEE YOU IDIOT!" Tenten screamed as she bashed him over the head. "Issuing a challenge like this was stupid if you don't know how the bait works!"

"Also, I can't believe you took the challenge Naruto." Neji said out loud making everyone glare at Naruto as well as Lee.

"Um….why is the sky cracking?' Sai asked, pointing to the sky. They turned and paled as a giant hollow walked through the crack. The other hollows in the area saw this and began to combine to form another giant hollow.

"Oh shit….two Menos Grandes…" Naruto said out loud.

"So how do we beat them?" Sasuke asked.

"I don't know." Naruto got out as the others got whiplash turning back to him.

"What do you mean you don't know!" Ino freaked.

"Well, I had a lot of trouble with the Adjudas hollow back in wave and it was a step above these guys." Naruto replied, making the members of team 7 pale. Naruto looked up to see that two hollows had noticed him. They opened their mouths as a glowing ball of energy formed. "No….guys move!" Naruto yelled.

They are ran for cover but never noticed that Naruto stayed. He activated both his swords and blocked the ceros just in time as they crashed down on him. He may have saved himself but not the area around him as he was now in a crater.

From the entrance of the park, the Hokage and most of the ninja population were watching in awe as Naruto was fending of two of those giant monsters by himself. Of course he did notice that Naruto's friends all gained odd powers and were quite useful. He watched on as Naruto fought tooth and nail to defeat these beasts. The rest of the ninja population watched on as Naruto fought, hoping he would win for if he didn't they were screwed.

In the forest surrounding the park, Danzo and his men were watching intently. Some of those powers that Naruto's friends have gained gave him some ideas for his dark bloodlines. He smirked as he watched his hollow brothers try and kill Naruto.

Mindscape…

Naruto was suddenly pulled into his mindscape. "Is this really the best time?"

"Indeed it is. I am giving you access to my Bankai." Zemnas said.

"Oh?"

"You are powerful enough to handle his bankai!" Cronos boomed.

"Alright then….thank you." Naruto said as he disappeared.

As soon as he was gone, Xemnas turned to a figure laying on the ground. "This is only possible thanks to you."

"Oh I know that, but this is Hard work." The figure said as he fell asleep. Xemnas just rolled his eyes, muttering something about lazy inner hollows.

Back in the real world…

The jonin senseis just arrived to the group of spirit powered ninja. "Where is Naruto!" Genma yelled over the loud beams of energy that the Hollows were creating.

"He is the one that they are firing at!" Amaru answered.

Yugao looked worriedly at where Naruto was at…hoping that her sensei's kid survived this. She looked to Amaru as she had been told that the girl was now part of their team and she smirked a bit. She could tell that the girl had a crush on their favorite blond.

Naruto suddenly smirked from his spot as he gather some more strength and used his large swords to bring the beams back at the hollows while yelling, "BANKAI!" There was an explosion of power at the park was blanketed in pure power and everyone except the hollows fell to their knees. The hollows, including Danzo, just felt a bit uncomfortable at the power that Naruto was now emitting.

As suddenly as it came, it was gone. Those near Naruto slowly got up to see that his clothes had changed to a black Organization XIII clock and he had two pink energy beams jutting out of his sleeves. His other blade was now strapped to his back. He quickly jumped up high and run up the hollow closest to him and when he was at the mask, he struck. He made his pink blades grow to about ten feet before he slashed in an X formation. That killed the first hollow he had cut up its face into four pieces.

He then noticed that the other hollow was ready with another cero attack. Xemnas told him what to do with this and he created a large blackhole that sucked in the cero like it was nothing. He then got an idea as he used the energy of the cero and created a new Rasengan. "CERO RASENGAN!" He hit plunged the new Rasengan into the mask of the remaining hollow. It twisted the masked like nothing before and destroy it.

Naruto dropped down to the ground, panting on his knees as he friends and the ninja all came to see if he was ok. He slowly got up as his form and his friend's forms went back to normal. "Well…that was new." Naruto said, making all the ninja face fault as they was the first thing he said to them.

Amaru and Kira ran up to him and hugged him as tightly as they could. He smiled as he hugged back. "I am glad you two are alright."

"Baka…don't go blindly charging in….without me!" Kira said as she light bopped him on the head before shifting back into her raven form. Kiba and every other guy was surprised to see that the new hot chick was actually the little raven that Naruto tagger around with.

Amaru backed away from Naruto with a smiled. "Now would be the best time!" Fu said through the link. Amaru nodded and said, "Naruto….I love you!" Naruto had a 'deer in the head lights' look at this information as she leaned in and kissed him.

Through the link he heard Fu say, "Heh, finally. It is ok Naruto…we are creating a harem for you." His eyes widen some more at this info.

"What! Are you sure!"

"Yes…now just enjoy it…..I will see you later my love." Fu said as she cut the like with a smirk. Shibuki wondering what was going on but too scared to know why.

Naruto now understood and leaned into the kiss. Kiba growled and said, "Man…some guys have all the luck." The guys laughed at this while Ino, Sakura, Hinata, and Tenten glared a bit.

Corny, maybe but I like it. Yes I am a bit of a dork so I don't care. Tell me what ya think…REVIEW!