Sounds Like War
Four weeks have past since Naruto defeated Morfa, and Naruto seems to be back to his old self. For about five minutes before hearing that his brothers are missing with Kurenai and Asuma. From that point Naruto has become very disobedient towards every Jounin who was ever in charge of him, because he is dead set on finding his brothers. The only Jounin that could even come close to keeping him under control is Anko, but even that is limited. Tsunade even looked at one report from Kakashi about Naruto not only disobeying him, but even flipped him the bird. Simply put the boy was becoming more and more like Jigoku than a Konoha shinobi.
Meanwhile inside the Konoha Hospital's record room, Shizune was looking over two files. Naruto's and Jigoku's medical records, which unsurprisingly is filled with more injuries inflicted on the staff than anything on them. Despite the fact that the two have constantly refer to each other as brothers there is no solid proof of them being brothers. The most obvious is the fact that they don't have the same blood type. Naruto's blood type is B while Jigoku's is O. Their eyes are completely different, Naruto's blue eyes and Jigoku's red eyes. The only similarity they have in their eyes is that Naruto's are starting to slit much like Jigoku's which is believed to be a side effect from their Kekkei Genkai. Their hair colors both of which are uncommon in regard to general public are not alike at all. Everyone was thrown off when they found out that Jigoku's hair was actually purple instead of black since it was so dark. Regardless the only thing they have in common is their Bloodline limit which is beyond all shinobi skills or any other Kekkei Genkai.
Shizune has read up on nearly every Bloodline limit and found no match from any. Not only that, but this Berserker bloodline goes against everything about how a Kekkei Genkai is defined. Most if not all use chakra the only exemption to the Berserker was apparently when they created Chakra blades which can be used by any shinobi, but from what she could gather is that those were applied as a means to help the Berserker to adapt to their constant change into their move dangerous form. After seeing Naruto go into Battle Clad in front of her very eyes and then seeing Jigoku turn into a demon ninja (see chapter 17 Goodbye for description.) and then into his own Battle Clad form. The structure of Battle Clad is obviously similar to both, but the key difference is that they seem to reflect the two warriors personas. Naruto's Battle Clad form is basic yet you could feel a sense of security when he is around you in that form. The way he fights in that form shows that Naruto is lacking in shinobi skills, but his skills as a fighter is superb with an aggressive yet defensive feel at the same time. Jigoku on the other hand has two vibration blades on both of his arms that are away from each other by at least thirty degrees. His dreads turned into spikes that are flexible and are just as deadly. The way he fights reflects his bloodlust and viciousness. Just being around him makes even the toughest of shinobi feel not only threatened, but also as weak a newborn child.
Four weeks earlier, and about then minutes later. Deep in the forest where Naruto and Morfa fought. The severed arm of Morfa started to go into a spasm. As it moved violently foam started to form from the stubby end. Soon enough the foam turned into the upper portion of a woman. That woman was Morfa who has unbelievably survived. She looked around the area and saw the scorch marks of her chakra blasters as well as the scorch mark of Naruto Devastator that she is on top of.
"Well, what do you know? Looks like I'm closer to being immortal than that Snake-breath pedophile Orochimaru. This I can definitely use to my advantage," said Morfa as she continue to reform herself.
Back in the present with Shizune, she decided that it was time to see exactly what the Berserker Bloodline is truly capable of. She managed to get a sample of both Naruto's and Jigoku's blood packs. She went into a research room that had two lab rats as well as many research equipment. Her thoughts are scattered with the prophecy and the Berserkers role in everything. As she gets started with her experiment, Kin saw her with the blood samples.
"Shizune-sensei what are you doing in here?" asked Kin as she entered the research room causing Shizune to jump.
"Kin-chan! Don't scare me like that!" yelled Shizune.
"Sorry about that, but what are you doing?" apologized Kin.
"I'm curious about the Berserker bloodline and its abilities," answered Shizune as she took a syringe and drew a small amount of Jigoku's blood sample. She then injected it into one of the lab rat. Then she took Naruto's sample and place a small portion under a microscope.
"Why did you inject that rat with human blood?" asked Kin not understanding since introducing human blood into an animal should kill it. (No idea if that actually happens, just roll with it.)
"I'm want to see if the Berserker bloodline can be passed down in an indirect way," answered Shizune.
"Why?" asked Kin.
"I remember when you told Tsunade-sama about your encounter with Riskoe with Naruto. You said that he claimed that Naruto and Jigoku are the first two pure bred Berserkers remember," explain Shizune.
"Oh we're more that that little girl. We Berserkers are blessed with great power by the First Berserker. Those he attacked, he turned into warriors like him. Then our gift gradually developed into an actual bloodline. Many feared our power and wished for our extinction, but I've survived and found out about the first two pure bred Berserkers,"
"Yes I remember," answered Kin.
"Well after hearing your story, I'm curious as to why the Berserker Bloodline has just recently become an actual Bloodline limit. It might be possible that it's not a Bloodline, but a mutation, or maybe the next step in human evolution," explained Shizune.
"Or maybe a virus still," replied Kin.
"What do you mean?" asked Shizune as she turned away from the microscope.
"Take a look at that rat," answered Kin as she and Shizune looked at the said rat.
The lab rat was behaving very aggressively, lashing at the other rat that tried to escape the first one. The infected lab rat cornered the second rat and lunged at it. The attack was swipe and deadly, the uninfected rat was doomed when the infected rodent slashed it in the head with a powerful swipe. Its head split open and blood poured out. The second rat dropped dead as the first one started to move away from the corpse, but kept its eyes on it. Suddenly the body of the dead rat moved and the head started to heal. The revived rat lunged at the infected rat with the same viciousness of the first one. Kin and Shizune watched in horror.
"This.. This is impossible. How could these be happening?" said Shizune watching the two rat try to tear each other apart.
"The Berserker blood increases the rats natural abilities and raised their testosterones. They see each other as a threat and desire to kill each other," muttered Kin.
Elsewhere, in the Sand village Naruto along with Shikamaru, Lee, and Tenten were sent to aid the suna-nin in guarding a strange artifact while some archaeologists investigate it. The haven't seen the artifact since it is in Suna territory, in fact the only reason they're there is because the archaeologists wanted extra protection. Despite the fact that Suna had Gaara, a Jinchuriki and the new Kazekage, the archaeologists felt a lot safer with a Berserker protecting them. As expected from the Konoha nin they reacted to this mission in various ways. Shikamaru complained about it being troublesome, Lee was…… well Lee.
Tenten was excited to be in a mission with Naruto around. After seeing Naruto in two different lights, Tenten sees Naruto more as great friend rather than someone to impress. On one hand, Naruto is a good friend who will give up his own life to help others, but at the same time he is an unstoppable force that has not found the immoveable object. Shikamaru once commented about that trait about Naruto never being there, but suspected it to be something he picked up from Jigoku. Just hearing that madman's name sent chills down to the very core of Tenten's soul. Naruto's so-called Aniki,the man who despite not being a ninja has struck fear in the hearts of Konoha's Jounin and Anbu. Hell even Anko is wary of him.
For Naruto this was a waste of time for him. He couldn't believe how he got assigned to a mission that meant nothing to him. He rather be out in front of Mt. Guyot charging into an army of Blood-Warriors with nothing but a butter knife than being here. Sadly for him, he has to be a guard in the desert fill Wind country. He tries to remembers one of his Ni-san's lessons about patience, but then again Berserkers are not known for patience.
"That's it!!" shouted Naruto startling Lee and Kankuro, who was supervising the two Konoha Genin. "This is nothing, but a fucking bullshit mission! I'm out!" continued the blonde Berserker as he started to walk away from his post which was the cave entrance the artifact was hidden inside of.
"Hey squirt!! You can't just leave. You work for us until this artifact has been fully excavated," scolded Kankuro trying to sound threatening. Ever since Shikamaru's squad appeared, the Suna-siblings have been a little wary of Konoha's unofficial Warrior of Mass Destruction. Gaara is still shook up from his battle with Naruto when he was in Battle Clad form. He asked Temari to explain more about Naruto, only for his sister to cower in fear remembering her encounter with the young Berserker.
No! Stay back! Get away from us you MONSTER!!
"You want that puppet of your shoved up your ass so far that it comes out of your gut?" threatened Naruto. This caused Kankuro to back down, since he's not in the mood of suffering before dying. After that Naruto went off to find Shikamaru or Gaara to get himself out of the mission and back to more important matters.
Meanwhile, the archeologists are busy studying the artifact. They were being watched by Shikamaru, Gaara, and Temari. The artifact was about eight feet in height and three feet in width. It was circular with a hole in the center. It's diameter is at least ten inches. The artifact appeared hollow, but in truth it was very heavy. There was a clear screen like object forty-five degrees right of the hole that was made out of a material similar to diamond.
The archeologists were amazed by this thing. The artifact is quite simple, yet still interesting. Just then Naruto entered the area to have a word with Shikamaru or Gaara. One of the archeologists turned to see Naruto and stopped taking notes on the artifact and started taking notes on Naruto instead. Naruto ignored the archeologists and headed straight towards Shikamaru. For Shikamaru this is something he both knew would come and fears it. He has been told by many that Naruto has become more rebellious and will do anything to get what he wants. What Naruto wants more than anything else is to find his brothers.
"What do you want Naruto?" asked Shikamaru. 'Like I really need to ask,' he thought.
"I want out of this mission. I can't just stand here knowing that Aniki and Ni-san are out there. I should be out there looking for them, not here roasting my skin babysitting a bunch of eggheads playing with some rock," answered Naruto with his tone rising.
"Naruto, we are sent here for a reason. So just deal with it will ya. That is a direct order from your team leader," commented Shikamaru.
"But you're the leader of a team doing nothing," countered Naruto. "Sure it might seem important enough for Konoha, but only because we're being paid just so the science geeks can study this rock and me along the side. As much as I don't want to undermine your authority. I will continue to do everything in my power to get my ass back into the thick of battle," he added.
"What?" whispered Temari as she watched the Berserker challenge the genius slacker.
"I'm in the mood to bust some heads and right now I can't think of anywhere else better to do just that than Mt. Guyot," stated Naruto.
"Well consider this as a formal reprimand. You'll relieve Lee and Kankuro, then you will remain on sentry duty until I see fit to rotate the shifts. Understood," ordered Shikamaru.
"Yeah. Whatever. But it still changes nothing……" said Naruto as he turned away and headed towards where Lee and Kankuro are.
Later that night as everyone was starting to turn in except Naruto, who was stuck with sentry duty. The artifact was starting to glow a faint red hue, the glow and the artifact started to change. The red hue split into six glowing forms of energy. The six glows soon took on the forms of Silhouettes of six animal like creatures. One was a medieval dragon, the second was a griffin, the third was a minotaur, the fourth was a naga, the fifth was a phoenix, and the last was a floating leviathan. Just as soon as the six creatures were formed the burst out of the cave.
Naruto, feeling the burst of power headed towards the area and saw the six strange glowing creatures. The creatures were destroying the area around them with brutal savagery. They stopped their assault when the minotaur sniffed the air and spotted Naruto watching them. With an earsplitting roar, the minotaur charged towards Naruto with the intent to kill him. Reacting quickly Naruto flipped over the minotaur, but was caught off guard by the naga tackling him from behind. Naruto hit the ground and rolled to the right to avoid the phoenix that shot a stream of fire at him. He stopped rolling to see the leviathan dive down towards him. Wasting no time Naruto back-spring off the ground and lunged forward as the great serpent crashed into the sand.
As Naruto was fighting the creatures, Shikamaru and the rest of his team heard the sounds of battle along with Gaara and his siblings to the dig site. They arrived to see Naruto fighting the creatures, yet he did not go into Battle Clad. The creatures moved swiftly and were fierce with no remorse. As many of the archeologists ran for their lives, Naruto continued to battle the six unknown monsters. The shinobi tried to come to Naruto's aid, but the dragon and phoenix set up are fire wall to block all of them.
"What the Hell are those things!?" yelled Tenten as she grabbed some shuriken, ready to strike if possible.
"I have no idea. I've never seen any of these things," answered Temari as she got her fan ready to blow the flames away.
"Naruto-kun is in trouble. We have to help him!" yelled Lee as he rushed towards the flames only to be held back by Kankuro.
"He's right, but how do we face these things?" asked Shikamaru. "We don't know anything about them or why they are attacking,"
"I say we attack first, ask questions later," argued Kankuro as he let Lee go.
"Do it, but I want them alive!" ordered Gaara.
Four weeks earlier, the Hyper-Blood Team 5 minus Zenclaw found the location of Naruto and Morfa's battle. They stood in the middle of the area, grouped together.
"So this is the area Dr. Minakami felt the powerful wave of chakra," stated Tol-ZX.
"Yes, and judging from these scorch marks. It would seem that something with a powerful chakra blast attack was responsible for this damage," said Thrashzerb.
"A Berserker?" asked Elegon looking at the destroyed area.
"Not this one, look over here this is a scorch mark made by the Berserker's Devastator. This one is different, maybe a Vacore model," answered Blasker.
"But that's impossible!" yelled Thrashzerb. "One puny little Vacore couldn't have that kind of power," he argued.
"You're Thrashzerb, the ONLY Blood-Warrior that could ever be this powerful is me and that when I fire all of the chakra beams at once," reasoned Tol-ZX.
You are correct Tol-ZX.
"Dr. Minakami…..?" said Tol-ZX. As he soon as he heard his master's voice a huge transparent image of Minakami appeared above them. The Hyper Bloods kneeled down in respect to him.
The power that was present here is indeed highly disturbing. I have looked over all of our Blood-Warrior records and have found no creature that could match you power Tol-ZX. I believe that whatever this thing is may be some unseen mutation or even a whole new abomination that the world is not ready for.
"A mutation?" asked Blasker.
Yes, a creature that has found a way to elude even my telepathic abilities. A creature that may even be aware of what is going on around it.
Before Minakami could explain even further, Elegon was yanked away from the group. He gave out a gargled yell for help. The others turned to see their teammate dragged into the forest where his screams of terror came to an halt.
"ELEGON!!" yelled his team.
Whoever you are release Elegon at once!
With that command the forest was being lit up in flames. All they could see was Elegon's shadow along with something latched onto him. In an act of desperation Elegon sent a shock of bio-electricity to show the attacker's face. It was Morfa who latched onto Elegon and is draining him alive.
Morfa! What the Hell are you doing?! Release Elegon at once!
"I'm afraid I can't do that Doctor. You see I need Elegon in order to recover from my battle from Naruto. Even as I speak Elegon and I are becoming one and not in a good way for him. As I have soon discovered that the modification you have done to me. My body created side-effects that are beneficial to me. One of them is that I can absorb the body of any Blood-Warrior and turn it into energy as well as acquire their own unique abilities like Elegon's Electricity," explained Morfa as she completely fused with Elegon's body.
"Elegon……" whispered Blasker as he watch another of his teammates die in front of him.
"You sick Bitch…. I'LL SEND YOU STRAIGHT TO THE PITS OF HELL!!" yelled Thrashzerb as he fired out a stream of ice at Morfa. Morfa avoided the attack by leaping into the air. Suddenly Blasker's bio-darts flew at her, the darts hit her, but she was not harmed at all.
"That's an impressive attack Blasker. I'll keep you in mind as my next meal. Until then stay alive for me!" yelled Morfa as she flew off laughing.
Back in the present, Naruto was reaching his boiling point. He was being overpowered by these six creature. Finally he snapped, as the dragon and phoenix sent streams of fire at him. Naruto stood there for a second and then lunged out and grabbed the leviathan and swung it at the naga and minotaur. The dragon tried to attack Naruto, but Naruto delivered a right cross that send the dragon flying into the griffin. Soon Naruto turned and crossed his arms as the naga, minotaur, and the griffin charged towards him. Naruto then used his Sho-Kaze-Ken and the three creatures swirled around in the air. Naruto along with them, as he created a Kage Bushin. He extended his right hand for the shadow clone to spin his chakra to form the Rasengan. He hurled himself to phoenix that was nearby. He tore right through the left wing completely off the body of the fiery bird. As soon as he touched the sand, Naruto back flipped when the naga charged at him. Naruto, then grabs the naga's spine and yanked it out of the naga. Afterward Naruto dashed to the minotaur and grabbed it's jaw. Suddenly Naruto ripped right off the minotaur causing the beast to stumble back. Spotting a saber from the cave that was thrown around during the battle, Naruto seized the weapon and ran towards the remaining creatures. The minotaur was holding its now destroyed mouth in agony only to later feel the cold metal as the saber sliced it into four pieces as Naruto continued towards the others. The leviathan lunged at him only to be impaled by the saber, then it was pulled from the leviathan's head. Naruto cut the griffin's gut open as it flew overhead and the intestine spewed out as it flew. Naruto glared at the dragon as it glared at him, then the dragon burst into flames and flew into the saber. Naruto looked at the sword and noticed the change, but didn't care.
The flames died down for everyone to see the damage done as Naruto walked towards Shikamaru even more aggravated than before.
"Can we go home NOW!" growled Naruto.
Preview:
Losing control of his increasingly short temper, Naruto has finally decided to go to Mt. Guyot to find his brothers. Meanwhile inside Mt. Guyot, Rio comes face to face with the ruler of Kekkei Kage who knows of Rio's ambition. Morfa makes her way to the mountain lair as well to make good on her promise of absorbing the rest of the Hyper Blood team. As these events unfold will the secret behind the Berserkers and the prophecy be revealed? Next time on Naruto Bad Blood: Dance with the Devil.