AN: Hello everyone. Wow. That is all I can say. The response to just the first chapter was massive and I really appreciate it. The comments were awesome. So many of you have such excellent questions and comments it is hard to pick my top three to respond too. But even if I don't respond to your comment I do read it and I appreciate everything everyone says. In addition, I noticed a few of you were curious about what the hammer she wields looks like. The closest I can describe it is a black version of Poppy's hammer in League of Legends.
Anyway, enough rambling, let me dive into these excellent comments:
BlackMagic99: Currently I would rank her high Genin to low Chunin. Eldritch god or not, it is impossible to suddenly become kage level in only six years, despite what other fanfictions would have you to believe. First one has to condition your body into tip top physical shape, which is impossible for a young child since their muscles and bones are still growing. So while she may have some powers of an eldritch god, she does not have the body to channel them.
Pravus369: There is always a comment that makes me wince and go "Damn spoilers!" Somehow you got my idea for her powers nearly perfectly. But while her powers focus largely around insanity, there will be a few more quirks.
Edelhart: While I do not consider myself a weeaboos, I do apologize for naming the language English. And fyi, I read the manga, I haven't watched the anime since the Pain fight. I will make sure not to use English in the future since I can see how that can affect the story negatively. See flamers! This is how you make a criticism with facts and humor!
But enough of the questions and on with the story!
Chapter 2
Dawn of Madness
(Konoha – Academy Exam Day)
Mito frowned as she put on her dark purple jacket, flipping the black fur lined hood over face. The hood obscuring her face in shadow.
Today was the graduation exams and the graduate tournament. The genin tournament was one of the many changes that her father had implemented in his reign as Hokage. Instead of a simple physical exam and sparring for the physical aspect of the graduation exam, a tournament was now held. Each child could use their techniques and weapons but were not allowed to inflict serious harm.
She was looking forward to it, since it was finally time she showed the greatness of her god to the world. While she was nowhere near her father's level or even that far above genin, she was leagues past most of her classmates and was finally able to show it off.
It had taken her years to simply be able to lift the hammer gifted to her by the old one, and another year after that to get a style down to use it. Maces were rarely ever used in the elemental nations, the only recorded cases being in Stone country, but bo staffs were frequently used.
So she decided to combine rudimentary hit and smash with the complexity of a bo staff style, creating her own style of combat.
The result was a flurry of hard strikes and twirling attacks that could either sting or break bones in a second.
By the time she mastered her chosen weapon she only had one more year to go for graduation so she prayed to her god to send her more abilities to learn.
To her delight the god taught her how to empower herself through the energy of the old one. She had christened the energy Insanity, since over using the abilities could send her into a rage, transforming her into a berserker that only calms down after everything around it is dead.
While there was a time and place for overwhelming destruction and bloodlust, she had to learn precise control of the new energy bestowed upon her. It would not do for her to fly into a rage every time she used it.
"Today I will finally show my strength!" Mito whispered to herself, pulling on two dark leather bracers that had storage seals inscribed on them that she had stolen from her father. They each contained one of the weapons bestowed upon her by her god.
Walking out of the house she ignored the fact that her father had not even bothered to say good luck to her before heading to work. While some families would be watching the event the Hokage was "far" too busy to spend time with his children or cheer them on.
Besides she thought cynically to herself, he would only cheer on Naruto anyway.
Shaking her head of her thoughts she contented herself by thinking the only one she really wanted to acknowledge her was the old one.
Her family meant nothing to her anymore.
Lightened by that thought she dashed forward, jumping over roofs until she made it to a large building situated near the Hokage monument.
Arriving at her class room she entered while looking around. It appears she was one of the first to arrive. The only ones in the room were Shino and Sasuke.
Nodding at the one of the few students she could stand, she sat next to Shino, opening a textbook on Genjutsu and proceeded to ignore the rest of the class.
Despite the aid of her god she did not have a large chakra pool. While this restricted her from ninjutsu this made her perfect for genjutsu. She was looking forward to spreading insanity through her illusions.
"Good morning class!"
Startled, Mito looked up from under her hood as she noticed that the room had filled with students and that Iruka-sensei had arrived.
Putting away her book she listened to Iruka.
"Today is the day of the genin exam, as I am sure you all are aware. The exam is comprised of three parts. First a written test, then the graduate tournament, then finally a jutsu demonstration. Of course for extra credit you can demonstrate an ability outside of these three areas."
Finished with his explanation he took out a stack of papers alongside the assistant professor Mizuki and distributed them to the students.
Picking up her pencil she began writing each answer. Many of them were hypothetical questions on what if situations to determine the thought process of the student. While there was no "right" answer on each question one would be graded by how effectively they would perform in the situation.
This test was not to determine their mental ability, but rather their thought processes and strategizing ability.
It was clever, but she had trained her mind as much as her body over the years to resist the strain of madness that her powers granted her.
And so she began to write the first answer.
(One Hour Later)
Walking out of the classroom and into the training field behind the building she glanced at her fellow students. While most of them were civilians and had barely trained at all, some of the students had the potential to serve as slight challenges.
Shifting her eyes to the Uchiha and her brother, one standing sullenly at the corner of the yard in the shade while Naruto was happily talking to a few of the other clan kids.
They would be her fiercest competition in the tournament.
However, she was no longer going to hold back on either, she had read in her studies that a ninja or warrior was best underestimated, so she had stuck to the middle of the pack, just above the civilian kids and right under the clan kids.
She would be underestimated by everyone, especially her first opponent.
Looking at the tournament board that was set up, she noticed she would be fighting 2nd against a civilian kid. She wouldn't bother memorizing his name.
As she looked at the tournament bracket she also noticed a few families of the competitors starting to arrive. The Yamanaka, Inuzaka, Nara, Aburame and the Akimichi were the only clans in attendance. The remainder of the Uchiha clan, Hyuga, and her father were nowhere to be found.
It honestly didn't surprise her.
Ignoring the spectators she turned to watch the first two matches.
Luckily for her the first two matches were rather one sided, with her brother beating his opponent easily and Shikamaru using his shadow possession jutsu to force his opponent out of the combatant circle.
"Mito Namikaze and Jiro Utsuchi" Mizuki called, Iruka still grading the previous exams.
Walking into the circle she examined her opponent before sighing. He was obviously a civilian who thought a shinobi life would be glamorous and easy. The kid still had some baby fat and barely any muscle growth. If she remembered correctly this kid also bullied other civilian students due to the fact that his father was a wealthy business owner.
"Prepare to lose girl! As a man I cannot lose!" The idiot called out in a poor attempt at intimidation.
Rolling her eyes, she retorted "Try to last longer than five seconds."
"Begin!" Mizuki called.
"Hey what do you mean only five se-"The boy stated angrily before getting hit in the stomach by a large obsidian hammer, throwing him far outside of the competitor's circle and onto the ground, gasping for air.
"Pathetic. Not even a second." Lilith muttered underneath her hood before resting the large mace on her shoulder.
Mizuki blinked at the hammer, wondering where it had come from since he had never seen Mito use it. Making a mark in his file to inform Iruka about it he called out the result "Winner, Mito!"
Nodding her head at the judge she walked off the field, ignoring the speculative looks from a few of the more intelligent clan kids.
(Shikamaru POV)
Shikamaru frowned as he watched the mysterious second born child of the Namikaze demolish her opponent with a strange weapon. It looked to be an oversized hammer mixed with a bo staff.
But the question was, how did she draw it so fast and why had no one in the class even known she used a weapon in combat. He could easily tell that Mito had been hiding quite a bit over the years and it frustrated him.
While he fully admitted he was probably the laziest person in Konoha he didn't like not knowing things. Especially things regarding the people around him.
However, Mito was an enigma, always in the middle of the pack in grades, never dropping or raising a single space in the standings, never showing anything other than the fact that she had an abnormal amount of strength. Which made sense now that he thought about it. That weapon could not be light.
Turning to Naruto, who was standing near him, he decided to ask the brother for any information "Hey Naruto. Since when did your sister get a weapon like that?"
Naruto looked confused, which surprised him, "I don't know. Mito has always been distant from me and tou-san. I am not sure why. She would always train separately so I didn't know that she used a weapon like that. But who cares she isn't that strong. Just look at her scores." The spiky blond said with a snort, as if he didn't care about his sister.
Shikamaru frowned. So not even her brother knew anything. Turning to glance at the hooded girl he could not help but feel that something was going on here.
Troublesome.
(Mito POV)
Mito leaned against the wall of the school house, well aware that her actions had gained the interest of her fellow students as well as some of the adults. She wanted this tournament to be a statement of her strength, so that any jonin sensei would not underestimate her.
She intended to bleed this village dry of anything it could teach her before going rogue and show everyone the power of the old one.
Breaking out of her thoughts she looked at the field to see Sasuke defeating Choji and marking the end of the first round.
"Next up for the start of the next round, it is Kiba Inuzaka against Mito Namikaze!" Mizuki called, after finishing altering the board, showing that the brackets had entered the quarter finals.
"Hmph! This will be easy! Right Akamaru?" Kiba bragged to his puppy, who barked happily in reply.
Mito didn't respond and simply stepped into the ring.
"Ready?" Mizuki asked, looking at the two combatants before swinging his hand down "Begin!"
Kiba immediately charged forward, ready to use his clan's signature bestial taijutsu before had to severely change course as the enormous mace came dangerously close to him before he dodged.
'Damn she swings that thing around as if it was made of paper!' Kiba screamed inside his mind as Mito brandished the mace again for another swing.
"…That dog. It is important to you right?" Mito asked as she focused on the white puppy, who was currently looking for an opening to attack.
"Yeah, Akamaru is extremely precious to me! Why?" The dog brained academy student asked, preparing to attack once again.
"No reason. Just wanted to make this fight a lot simpler that's all." Mito muttered before dashed forward and swung her mace over the dog, barely dropping her attack a centimeter from the scared puppy.
"Hey! Akamaru!" Kiba screamed, about to dash forward before Mito pressed her hammer slightly into the soft hide of the small dog.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you. Why don't you surrender quietly and no one…or animal has to get hurt?" Mito asked casually, as if she did not care that she was currently threatening a puppy.
"You bastard. How can you threaten Akamaru!" Kiba snarled, but not making any actions to continue the fight, knowing that in a real situation he would be forced to surrender.
Mito shrugged "The same way you can send such a small dog into combat. If you aren't prepared for such a glaring weakness to be used against you there's no point in even being a ninja." She muttered, repressing her instinct to simply squish the dog underneath her, just to see the despairing expression on her opponent.
Kiba snarled once more before calling to the uncomfortable referee "I forfeit damnit."
Mito smirked before raising her hammer from Akamaru "Good boy." She taunted before walking off of the ring.
Mizuki frowned at the actions of Mito, while he wanted to disqualify her for her actions he couldn't. Taking hostages was a valid strategy but he never expected to see it from a twelve-year-old. The last time something like this happened was when he was still an academy student and Itachi Uchiha used the same tactic against another Inuzaka.
And look what happened to the Uchiha.
Marking another note in his clipboard he called for the next two contestants.
The rest of the quarter finals went uneventfully, leaving the last four contestants remaining: Mito Namikaze, Naruto Namikaze, Sasuke Uchiha, and Shikamaru Nara.
While she was slightly surprised to see the lazy Nara in the semifinals she figured he had an almost unfair advantage with the small size of the competitor ring.
Mizuki stepped back in front of the students and announced the first semifinal fight "Sasuke Uchiha vs Mito Namikaze!"
Mito stepped into the ring, facing one of the last remaining Uchiha. This was one of the few students in her class that could give her a challenge.
Glaring underneath her hood, Mito gripped her hammer into the stance she had made, one hand gripping the long handle right beneath, the other stretched in front of her and her legs spread wide in a horse stance.
Her opponent narrowed his eyes at the stance before smirking "You should just give up; you may have surprised the weaklings you fought with that hammer but I will not be as easily defeated."
She smirked back, deciding to up the intimidation factor she applied a genjutsu to the shadows of her hood, making it seem as if darkness was emitting from under the cloth and a creepy Cheshire grin appeared.
She had long since learned that the fear of the unknown was much more terrifying than any illusion. No one had seen her face so using that mystery to reinforce the illusion made it all the more disturbing.
Mizuki gulped at the image before swinging his hand down "Begin!"
Sasuke took the initiative and dashed forward, preparing to unleash a devastating combo before his opponent could put up a guard.
However, Mito saw through the tactic and swung her hammer to impede his dash before using the momentum from her swing to continue the attack with her mace.
Sasuke narrowed his eyes as the hammer he had narrowly avoided swung around once more from a graceful arc that Mito followed. Dodging another swing he noticed how the momentum from the large hammer never stopped, continuing to flow seamlessly into the next attack, creating an almost unblockable series of blows.
Glancing behind him he noticed the limit to the field was rapidly approaching as he continued to weave through the lightning fast strikes.
Knowing he had to act fast Sasuke jumped to the edge of the arena and flashed through handsigns
"Gokakyu no Jutsu!" Sasuke called out as he expelled a massive ball of fire from his mouth.
Mito widened her eyes as the massive fireball charged towards her. While Sasuke had not made it hot enough to seriously injure her it would definitely take her out of the fight.
Gripping her hammer tightly she decided it was time to make a statement that her hammer was not just a heavy hitting weapon.
'Oh gods of old bless my weapon with your devouring maws!' She prayed as the hammer faces glowed purple and had a design as if mouths were opening.
"Consume!" She shouted as she swung the hammer at the rapidly approaching jutsu.
As the Warhammer passed through the jutsu the maws ate away at the chakra empowering the fireball, absorbing the entire jutsu into the mace.
Smirking at the surprised expression on Sasuke's face she gripped the weapon and pointed it at her opponent, "You didn't think I just used this weapon because it was powerful did you? Living with a seal master has its perks. Seeing as that I can learn whatever I want with seals. This mace has many seals engraved into it, each with a different effect."
Sasuke regained his almost permanent arrogant look before saying "So you have a fancy weapon. It won't help you." With his taunt he reached into his back pouch before flinging several shurikens at Mito before charging forward behind the deadly streaks of weaponry.
Mito narrowed her eyes at the taunt. Her weapon was a gift from the true god. She would teach him!" Growling lightly, she spun her mace around, the handle knocking the metal stars away before she side stepped, and grabbed the extended arm of Sasuke.
Sasuke widened his eyes as the hand clamped down upon his arm, he could not get it out of the hold. What kind of crazy strength did this girl have?"
"Say goodnight Sasuke!" She called out as she swung Sasuke like a rag doll onto the ground before slamming her mace down after him, barely missing his head and implanting the weapon into the ground next to him.
Sasuke stared wide eyed as sweat poured down his forehead as he saw the hammer land so close to his head.
Unknown to him but his eyes shifted from their normal obsidian to blood red with one tomoe inside the pupil.
She snorted "Like that could have helped you." Lifting the hammer up she looked at the shocked Mizuki and audience and called out "Well? Are you entertained?"
Mizuki shook his head out of his surprise before calling out "Winner, Mito Namikaze!"
Smirking she looked under hood at her brother who was also standing open mouthed in surprise at her victory against his supposed "Rival." Passing next to him on the way back into the shade she muttered "Don't get too cocky against me dearest brother. Or you may end up missing a few limbs in the process."
Applying another genjutsu she conjured two glowing slitted purple eyes under the hood to glare at Naruto before walking away.
The next fight was rather pathetic in her opinion. The fight started with Shikamaru sending out his shadow bind a few times before just forfeiting since he was "low on chakra."
More like he was just too lazy to continue.
Soon after the disappointing semifinals match Mizuki came forward "And now the finals of the Pre Genin Tournament! First we have the predicted rookie of the year and known favorite to win Naruto Namikaze!" He announced to much squealing from fan girls.
Mizuki waited for the enthusiastic students to finish cheering before continuing "And as his opponent we have a dark horse in the tournament, sister to our other finalist Mito Namikaze!"
She received much less applause as she stepped onto the stage but it didn't bother her. She was used to the spotlight always being on her brother.
Mito sank into her stance and felt her excitement grow. She had waited for this moment for a long time. To finally show her brother who was truly stronger.
Naruto was also excited for this battle. He did not know why he rarely saw his sister or the fact that whenever Minato came over he ignored her, but perhaps he could finally grow closer with Mito after this battle.
And perhaps Tou-san could acknowledge them both!
Mizuki glanced at both siblings before swinging his arm down "Begin!"
Mito decided to take the initiative and charged forward, swinging her hammer down with lightning force upon where Naruto was standing just before.
Naruto laughed lightly "Too slow! Now it's my turn, Kage Bushin no Jutsu!" Nearly twenty duplicates of her brother appeared around her.
Narrowing her eyes at the solid clones she decided to use another aspect of her weapon that she discovered. 'Oh old ones, bless my weapon with your Ferocity!'
"Extend!" She cried out as the head of her weapon shrank and the handle transformed into chains, creating a ball and chains.
One Naruto taunted her weapon "And what will that do, if you hadn't noticed there are twenty of us and only one of you!"
"Quality over quantity dearest brother!" She said mockingly as she started to spin the weapon rapidly.
"Charge!" One Naruto yelled out as all twenty duplicates charged forward, each pulling out two kunai.
"Raagh!" Yelling out in exertion she swung her transformed weapon in lightning fast arcs, destroying many of the clones before they even reached her.
However, as they got into melee range she was forced to dodge their attacks while simultaneously control the weapon to continue dispelling the shadow clones.
Rapping her chain around the leg of one of the blonds she smirked when he didn't immediately dispel.
"Found you!" She exclaimed as she dragged her opponent closer, spinning around she slammed her heel into the stomach of the blond, narrowing her eyes when instead of the satisfying feel of hitting idiotic blond she instead hit the ground as Naruto disappeared into smoke.
"Ha got you!" the real Naruto exclaimed as he slashed upward with his kunai, forcing Mito to dodge away, but the tip of the kunai ripped the hood off her head, displaying the smooth blond hair that ended in spikes at the nape of her neck.
It was the first time many in the class had actually seen her without a hood.
Glaring with her luminescent purple eyes she transformed her weapon back into a Warhammer and hit Naruto back with the handle and charged forward, prepared to slam the heavy weapon into her brother.
"You shouldn't hide your face sis! It looks fine!" Naruto encouraged with a smile, much to her irritation.
"Shut up brat and take this seriously!" She snarled, trying to hit the elusive blond.
"Why would I? I was trained by tou-san personally there's no way I can lose!" Naruto bragged arrogantly, causing her to narrow her eyes in anger.
While she did not care at all about her father it angered her that the brat bragged as if it made him better than her.
She would show him the strength of her gods!
'Oh gods of old, bless me with your wisdom!' She intoned inside her mind, the familiar buzzing inside her head returned and her eyes gained a glint of insanity as she dashed forward at Naruto, much faster than before.
'Fast!' Naruto only had time to think before he had to roll away from the strikes that rained down upon him from the empowered Mito.
Whenever he tried to escape or cast a jutsu Mito would be there, forcing him to block or dodge the heavy but fast swings from his opponent.
Jumping away from the almost berserker like strikes from his opponent he grit his teeth. Most of his abilities were too destructive for a small tournament like this. His father had mostly taught him taijutsu and chakra control as well as rudimentary control over the Kyuubi's chakra. His only move he could use in this situation. While on the other hand his opponent had a vast variety of moves that could be classified under "Non-permanent injury." With her heavy weapon focused techniques. In addition, any light jutsu he used would just be eaten by that strange fuinjutsu technique that allowed her to eat away Sasuke's fireball.
Mito smirked as she saw the hope starting to die in the eyes of her brother. While she knew he would be much more dangerous without the rules in place by this mini tournament she relished being able to dominate and destroy her brother like this.
She decided to end this now, before her brother could figure a way out of this bind.
'Oh old ones, I beg of you to increase your offering' She prayed, feeling the buzzing transform into the feeling of something crawling inside her skull as the eldritch god's empowered her.
In a blink she appeared in front of the still contemplating Naruto and with a savage grin slammed her hammer into his stomach, though not hard enough to deal any permanent harm. The force of the blow sent her brother sprawling outside of the competitor's circle.
Everyone in the courtyard, including the parents of the competitors, were stunned to see the Hokage's "Prodigal" child defeated by the relatively unknown sister.
Cold eyes glared at Mizuki as Mito calmed down from using the beginning stages of Insanity.
Getting the message Mizuki cleared his throat before announcing:
"Winner! Mito Namikaze!"
AN: And that's that for the second chapter. I have been thinking about where to go with this story and I think I got a path selected and locked down. But I have a problem. What will her summons be? I do not want to use a normal animal due to her connections with the old ones so that leaves me with a dilemma. After thinking about it I decided to use World of Warcraft creatures as an inspiration but that still leaves me with a few options. I am down for many of them but I think I'll set up a poll for it to let everyone choose.
1. Twilight Dragons: A twisted experiment by the Black Dragon flight under the orders of the Old Gods these dragons specialize in twisting the minds of their opponents with insanity and use overwhelming force with their fire as well.
2. Faceless Ones: An old race of unknown origins known to serve the old gods and work alongside anyone who fights in their name. Known for their use of dark magic as well as fierce melee combat skills.
3. Sithilids: An insectoid race completely devoted to their master the old gods and come in many varieties. Known to use various weapons including poisons and their own bodies against their foes.
While I know that using something so heavily from WoW could classify this as an xover I do not believe it deserves that classification due to the fact that it will likely be one of the only influences from the game. If anyone has any other suggestions that relate to the old gods I would love to hear them as well.
My usual rules apply, one vote per person and if you are a guest try to make your entrees unique so I know you're not spamming or something.