Chapter Two: Spread of Darkness
Four years have passed since Naruto obtain the darkness, and four years of training with it had changed him He stood five foot eight, his lower body consisted of black combat boots, dark cargo pants. His upper body was dressed in a black long sleeved trenched coat with a vest under it that had chainmail integrated into it, both covering a black shirt that extended into a half face mask. He grew with the uses of the darkness. The dark entity helped him trained to use the serpents and its' own powers. He even provided additional help for him. Naruto remembered one night, two years ago, when a mob of villagers tried to ambush him on his way home. That was the night the Darkness gave him some new friends.
-(Flashback)-
Naruto was walking home from Ichiraku's late one night when he notices two guys following him. He took a left turn, hoping that the men were just on their own way home. It didn't work; in fact he could hear more foot steps behind him. He tried walking down other allies, hoping to lose his followers, but it seemed with every turn of the corner the amount of people increased.
'Only idiotic sheep wonder into a lion's den…' Naruto tried to give them one more chance to smarten up and took a right turn, no footsteps where heard.
Naruto made sure and looked back to see if anyone was still following him, no one in sight. Smirking Naruto turned around and started to walk, until he felt a powerful blow from a blunt object connect with his face.
"Thought that we give up on you Demon? Ha! No we just wanted to get you while your guard was down." The man said while more of the villagers came out of hiding.
"Good job, now let's finally get rid of this filth!" said a villager aiming a kick to Naruto's face.
The man's foot was an inch away from Naruto's face, and was suddenly caught. The man cried out in pain as Naruto's hand crushed his ankle.
"!", Naruto eye's turned fully yellow as the serpents shot out of his back.
But something was different about the serpents… all along their body was covered in long wicked blades. Naruto smirked as he took out two kunai's, held them in reverse grips, and charged at the horrified villagers. He roared once more before he began slashing at the villagers with his kunai's as the serpents shredded the rest that were further away.
Naruto jumped up and slash his kunai across a man's face. The man cupped his face in pain as Naruto landed on the ground and swiped the man's legs from under him. As he fell Naruto brought his kunai down on the man's chest and pierced his heart as well as slamming him on the ground. He looked up in time to see a man raise a club at him, only to be grabbed by the throat by the serpent. The serpent swung the man's body at one of the walls nearby and continued to do so before it slammed him down on the ground. The serpent raised the man up again; the man gripped the serpents' body that had wrapped around his throat, trying to free himself, but it only tightened. The man saw the other serpent hover over his head, he tried to scream, but as he opened his mouth the serpent plunged in. The man choked and struggled as the serpent thrashed around in his insides, but then long wicked blades erupted from the man and shredded him as the serpent removed itself.
Naruto grabbed another man with both of the serpents and slashed an X in the man's torso, and slashed his throat before throwing him aside. He was about to advance onto another villager when he felt a searing pain in his side. He turned around to see that one of the villagers had stabbed him. He used the serpent to wrap around the man's neck, forced the blades out of the serpent, and gave a forceful jerk to the serpent that ripped the man's head off.
Naruto jerked the kunai out of his abdomen and was about to relocate it to the base of another villager's skull when it exploded, causing him to go flying through a shop window. The explosion caused the serpents to recede back into Narutos' form.
Naruto knew that the force of the explosion, and busting threw the window, had broken his spinal cord. He could feel the bones mending themselves back together, but until his back was fixed he wouldn't be able to move.
He saw one of the villagers walk through the store and spot him. He gave a cruel smile before yelling out. "Hey over here I found the demon!" he turned back to Naruto and took out a kunai.
"Hehe! Not so tuff now are you demon?!" The man prepared to bring his kunai down, until an imp like creature puffed out of a black mist and grabbed the man, than repeatedly head butted him. The man tripped and fell backwards on the floor. The impish creature then drug the man out of Naruto's eye sights', he heard the sound of ripping flesh and the man's painful screams. The man's screams where not the only one's though, outside he could hear the villager's being attacked by a force unknown to him. He heard bones being broken by brute force, electrical zaps going off, explosions, and a strange sound that sounded faintly familiar to a hundred wood peckers.
He was brought out of his confusion when the impish creature walked up to him. It was the weirdest creature Naruto has ever seen in his life. He wore a dead cat on his head like a hat, and a strange, flag-like, toga.
"Well, 'ello Monkey! Nice to meet ya!" The creature even had a weird accent.
Feeling his back pieced back together Naruto stood and looked down at the two foot tall imp.
"Arigatou gozaimasu, but who and what are you?" he asked.
The imp gave Naruto a big smile before pulling out a top hat from who knows where and gave Naruto a bow. "The name's Jack, dear Monkey. And as for what we are; we're darkling's. Basically, we're your personal dark army!"
Naruto stared at the darkling for a moment, "…We? There are more of you?"
Jack smiled a bit before dancing around, "Of course there's more of us Monkey! 'ave a look for ya'self!"
Naruto turned around to see out the broken window and was shocked to see that there were six more of them. There were four different kinds of them. Two of them had clubs in there hand, and was oddly dressed like it was wearing a potato sack. One had something on her back, it was a long cylinder object made out of metal. Another set of two wore gentlemen's clothing with ripcord on their backs, and another one had on a white coat, had its hair in a spikey fashion with bits of electricity running through the strains of hair.
Naruto looked at the small army of darkling's, then to what was left of the villagers. Some of them had their heads smashed in, some had a thousand holes in them, others were nothing but burnt up body parts scattered all over the streets, and the rest looked like they'd been fried to a crisped.
Naruto looked back down at Jack, "The Darkness sent you to help me?"
Jack smiled back up at Naruto and nodded his head. "Hole in one, I'd say! E're here to help ya with ya trainin! And to smash some poor buggar's head!" the imp yelled ecstatically.
Naruto turned back to the darklings and looked at them for a minute, before raising his lips to smirk.
"Well, what are we waiting for? We got some smashing to do…"
-(End of Flashback)-
Naruto smiled as he saw the sun begin to set over the horizon. He looked down at Jack questionably, "Is everyone ready for tonight's hunt?" he asked.
"Corse e're ready for tonight Monkey. Can 'ardly wait till we smash the poor buggar's head in!" the creature exclaimed.
"Good, who are the target?" Naruto asked as he bit his thumb and go through a series of hands signs.
Jack pulled a scroll out nowhere, Naruto long gotten used to him doing so, and read off it, "Seems tha' be a camp 'bout fifteen miles out west. Nothing big, just a couple of bloaks that kidnapped some girl's."
"Bastards…Summoning Jutsu!" Naruto slammed his palm on the ground and was covered in a large burst of smoke.
When the smoke cleared Naruto was mounted on a large, black and silver mane, mountain horse. It had wisp of black mist coming off of it and its' eyes were glowing yellow; this was another gift from the Darkness. An summoning to the Dark Demon Horse clan.
"Let's not keep them waiting!" Naruto exclaimed as Jack mounted the horse and they took off toward their destination.
-(Thirty Minutes Later)-
Naruto slowed the horse as he and Jack came to a cliff that oversaw a bandit camp. Naruto dismounted the horse and viewed the area. He looked over the camp and saw that there had to be twenty to thirty bandits. Naruto mapped out the landscape of the camp and had a plan of attack ready.
Naruto summoned seven Brawlers, six Gunners, and three Kamikazes.
"Okay the Kamikazes will go in first and cause a distraction to lure out the bandits, which is where Brawlers and I go in an attack. If any of them try to make a run for it the Gunners will be waiting for them in a circle formation around the camp. Understood?" seeing none of the Darkling's object Naruto ordered them to move out.
Five minutes later Naruto was waiting mounted on his horse summon under a tree fifty yards away from the camp site. He was waiting for everyone to get into position. Not long after, Jack puffed out beside Naruto saying everyone was in position.
"Alright signal the Kamikazes to detonate the explosives." Naruto ordered.
Jack grinned viciously before letting out along whistle, not long after three bombs went off, alerting the bandits of an attack.
Naruto charged from under the tree and shouted the orders, "Brawlers advance!" Naruto yelled as he sent a pulse of chakra to his arm bracers and summoned a pair of hand held scythes (think of Dark Siders II Death's scythes), before charging into the fight.
The Brawlers and Naruto made little work of the bandits, as they massacred all those in the camp. Naruto dispelled the horse and started looked through all the tents as he fought his way through the rest of the camp.
He'd finally found the girls in the fifth tent and nearly went into a berserk mode. There were five girls, older then Naruto. They had been gagged, chained by their necks, and had their hands tied behind their backs. They had been badly beaten and their clothes had been ripped off, but what really set Naruto off was that some of them had blood running down their legs, meaning they had been raped.
When the girls saw Naruto they began to whimper in fear, thinking that he was another bandit. Naruto heard their whimpers and felt sadden; he raised his hands carefully and spoke in a low voice.
"It's okay… I'm not here to hurt you. I've come to take you all back to your village. Is it okay if I get closer to take off your bindings?" he asked.
The girl closes to Naruto hesitantly nodded her head and watched Naruto slowly stepped towards her.
Naruto knelt down in front of her and slowly took the gag out of her mouth, "Okay, now I'm going to take out a knife and cut the rope. Do not worry…" seeing the girl nod again, Naruto took out a kunai and sliced the ropes. He then took out a key he took off a bandit he killed and tried to unlock the chains around her neck.
The key worked and Naruto took off the chains, he then took out a scroll, and unsealed five sets of clothing. He put the clothing in the girl arms and spoke softly.
"I'm going to let you release the others and let you all get dressed while I wait outside the tent." The girl nodded as she took the kunai and key.
Naruto stepped out of the tent and waited for the girls to get dressed. While waiting, Jack came up to him saying that they had taken a prisoner.
"Why did you take a prisoner?" Naruto questioned.
"Cause this slimy fucker had three different smells of blood coming off of his lower region." The Darkling replied.
Naruto scowled and spoke in a cold voice, "Hold him there until I get the girls set up."
Naruto turned see the girl he freed stick her head out, "Ninja-sama w-w-we're r-ready to l-leave, but I don't think that we'll make it if we walk back to the village." She said.
Naruto nodded, "Do not worry you will not be walking, just give me a second and we will leave this horrid place." Naruto then went through a couple of hand signs and slammed his palm on the ground "Summoning Jutsu!" Naruto called out.
The smoke cleared away revealing a horse drawn chariot with two horses at the reins. Naruto turned back towards the girl, "Now can you get the others into the cart, also don't worry about the little creatures walking around the camp they're my summons and will protect you. Think you can get everyone inside?" The girl nodded and got the girls out of the tent.
As the girl got the others into the chariot, Naruto handed the girl two scrolls.
"This scroll has food and water in it for all of you; just push a small amount of chakra into it. And this scroll is used to kill any fertile egg cells, so that way none of you become pregnant." Naruto handed the scrolls over to the girl.
She looked down at the scrolls then back up at Naruto, before lunging at him and wrapping her arms around him, "Thank you! Thank you! Thank you for saving us!" she cried on his shoulder.
Naruto just wrapped his arms around the weeping girl and comfort her, "It's okay now, no one will ever hurt you again, now, get in with the others we'll be taking off shortly." Naruto said.
The girl nodded and before she closed the door, she said, "My names Eve, and thank you again for saving us."
Naruto nodded, "And I am Naruto Uzumaki, rest now and know that your nightmares have ended."
As soon as the door to the chariot closed Naruto turned towards Jack, "Show me where he is…"
Jack led Naruto over to where two Brawlers held one of the bandits by the arms. The man looked terrified as Naruto approached him. Naruto told the Brawlers to let him go, they pushed the man down onto the ground.
The man go up to his hands and knees and looked up at Naruto, he quickly bowed his head down and begged.
"Please don't hurt me, I'll do anything, please let me go!" the man begged.
Naruto face held a deep scowl and he spoke in a cold voice, "I bet that's what those girls said when you kidnapped them, I bet they got on their hands and knees and begged you to let them go back to their families, and what did you do? YOU FUCKING RAPED THEM!"
The man found himself being held up by the neck and saw the teen aged boy suddenly change into a demon. The boy eye's glowed yellow, his teeth became sharp, his hands turned into black claws, but what scared the man the most were the two serpents coming from the boy's back.
"I BET THAT THEY BEGGED AND PLEADED FOR MERCY BEFORE YOU GAGGED AND BOUND THEM! I BET THAT THEY TRIED TO PUSH YOU OFF OF THEM WHILE YOU RIPPED OFF THEIR CLOTHINGS! I BET THEY CRIED AND SCREAMED WHEN YOU DEFILED THEM! SCUM LIKE YOU DOESN'T DESERVE MERCY! THEY DESERVER TO BURN IN THE DEEPEST PART OF HELL!" Naruto tighten his grip on the man's throat before plunging his clawed hand into the man's stomach. Naruto then threw the man on the ground and ripped his claws out of the man's body. He watched as the man tried to hold his stomach closed and saw the river of blood spewing from his mouth.
"Please, mercy!" he asked.
The man looked up in horror as Naruto roared in anger and used his serpent to dissect the man in half. Naruto calmed down enough to let the darkness recede into his body. He turned towards the darklings and gave them their orders.
"I'll take the girls back to their village. Search the camp and take whatever there is, if you find anything to your liking, take them if you wish." Naruto mounted the driving bench and took ahold of the reins.
"When you're done report back on your findings. Maya, Kronos let's ride", Naruto called out to his summons.
-(Twenty Minutes Later)-
Naruto arrived at the outskirts of the village and stopped the chariot; he took out a flare gun and fired the cartridge into the air.
He dismounted the bench and walked up to the two horses, "Thank you my friends, tell that old horse hide, Gallon, that me and him will ride again one day…"
Both horses neighed, as if laughing, before they dispelled.
"Alright, I sent a signal flare out so the villagers should show up any moment now. And I promise that no one will ever harm you or anyone else in this village again." He said to the girls as they all got out of the chariot.
Eve walked up to him and gave him another hug, "Thank you again for saving our lives Uzumaki-san, we will forever be in your dept."
Naruto place the girl at arm's length and smiled at her, "Think nothing of it Eve. I will always help those in need." He said as he let her go.
Eve was about to say something to him when she turned to heard the distant shouts of the villagers. When she turned back around she saw that Naruto and the chariot had disappeared.
'Good-bye, Uzumaki-kun…' she thought as the villagers found them.