Naruto no Rei

Ch. 4 – The war in Kyouga Town

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Naruto walked the dirt path toward Kyouga town, stalking hungrily toward the unsuspecting town. As he approached, a sea of black appeared out of nowhere. He recognized the beings in the black as Shinigami, a lot of them. No less than a hundred. But not one of them bore the mark of a Taichou (Captain), or even Fukutaichou (Vice-captain/Lieutenant). So his now basic thinking dictated he simply attack them all, kill them all.

And what a massacre it became. While there were some on the front lines who were able to fight, he was able to beat them down. He started by charging the very front of the Shinigami wall. He cut down the fool that met him half-way, continuing on to slash through the ambush. They surrounded him, but there weren't enough of them attacking him at one time to breach the defense of his arm and tails parrying the attacks, while he himself attacked the closest other enemies he could. As he fought, he became covered in blood.

Ten down and he picked up the pace, channeling the strange energy he had developed into his feet, finding that doing so let him move short distances very quickly in a single step. This aided him in his massacre as he cut down Shinigami, men, women, even a few Shinigami students seemed to have followed the warriors to this bloodbath. Naruto's sword began to glow, and he jumped back, slashing the sword down in a reverse grip, and through the ground, letting loose an even bigger shockwave than when he'd "fought" Kakashi.

This one was fifty feet tall, twenty feet wide, and tore through the Shinigami almost as quickly as he could step about. He continued attacking, noticing more Shinigami joining the battle, starting to salivate as his feast grew and grew. The battle couldn't even be called that, it was clear that these were the lowest of the low in the Shinigami world, and as he fought, he found this to be truer and truer as the fools seeking glory came, giving him more and more food.

He fought and fought, murdering countless Shinigami, until finally, at a grand total of three-hundred and ninety-six Shinigami killed, the flood ended. The dead bodies littering the road, invisible to normal people, made Naruto's mouth water. He quickly began devouring the Shinigami, his strength growing with each devoured Shinigami. After eating eleven he gained his third tail, another line from his first now spiraling around the new one. After twenty-two more it happened again. Thirty-three after that he gained his fifth tail. Sixty after that he gained his sixth. A hundred after that he gained his seventh. And a hundred and seventy devoured Shinigami later he gained his eighth tail. He turned, mask and body bloody from his meal, only to see two things he was hoping to not see.

A Fukutaichou, with a Taichou right next to it. The Fukutaichou was Male and had a huge girth, while the Taichou was very slim, and female, carrying the look of an assassin on her.

"You know, we don't tend to have any trouble here since we dealt with the Arrancar situation, but you've made quite a ruckus, with your massive rise in power." The taichou said, Naruto growling with his only slightly advanced basic knowledge. "However, even if those tails mean your four times as strong as you were when you took on the fools you devoured to reach that strength, you aren't anywhere near strong enough to bring me down."

Naruto growled threateningly, the big Fukutaichou stepping forward. "You pitiful Hollow, you reek of poverty! Don't you know that if you don't have money, you can't be happy? You should just die so that rich people like me don't have to look at your ugly poor face." The pudgy man said, drawing his sword and pointing it at Naruto. "I'll kill you myself!" The man charged Naruto sluggishly, and Naruto charged him quickly, roaring the whole time. The man brought his sword down, as Naruto brought his sword across. The man smirked as the blades dead-locked, about to say something, when Naruto's tails ran through his large stomach. The man's mouth opened in a shout, which died down not seconds after it started from the lack of strength in the man's body after a small while. Taking advantage of the momentary shock, Naruto quickly began eating the man's front quietly, before letting him drop forward to be finished after the Taichou was dealt with.

"Hmph. I always told him that his carelessness would get him killed. He always assumes that things will work out for him just because he had a lot of money, now look at him." The Taichou said, looking at Naruto indifferently. "Come on, show me what you can do."

Naruto charged forward, attacking the Taichou with his sword, the Taichou dodging out of the way. Naruto used his new step to appear behind her and slash again, only for her to use her own version of his step to appear behind him. On reflex his tails went to stab her, but she stepped away before they could. Naruto's sword began to glow, before he slashed horizontally, sending out a huge distortion that destroyed everything it came in contact with. Naruto sensed the Taichou coming down on him, but he stabbed forward, stepping up next to where he was, timed well enough to catch the Taichou's sword arm.

She shouted quickly in pain, her arm falling uselessly off her shoulder, gripping her shoulder in pain. Her distraction cost her, as Naruto took that opportunity to run her through on his sword, stabbing her with his tails to be sure she died. He growled happily as he saw her drop, stepping to her fallen Fukutaichou and finishing his body. He then came back to her and devoured her as well.

He felt his power rise significantly as he finished devouring the Taichou and Fukutaichou, feeling his last and ninth tail grow in, all the tails having a single red line spiraling from base to tip. He roared in triumph, his original voice joining in this triumphant shout. He promptly skipped over Kyouga town, the Shinigami satisfying his hunger, heading straight for his vengeance.

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Chapter End

Alright, I'm sure that at least a few people are wondering how the hell Naruto, a simple Hollow, ridiculously powerful he may be, was able to fight and devour three-hundred and ninety-eight Shinigami, including a Taichou and Fukutaichou.

Well, I know that those two specifically tend to both underestimate their opponent, as well as attempt to make their opponents underestimate them. Naruto has a beast mentality to be the most efficient as possible in obtaining what he wants, and since he's unable to underestimate people in that state, he killed the Fukutaichou with a trick most people wouldn't think of, tails usually being for show when weapons aren't attached to them.

With the Taichou, he had to actually use a strategy, and this is the inconsistency because he had to use an intelligent trick. The main reason he was able to kill them was because he beat and devoured them before they had a chance to become more than incredibly fast and skilled Shinigami by releasing their swords, which is due to how he had no desire to do anything but eat them, while they cared about defending themselves, and quite frankly, in the show, when they get hurt, they get so distracted that something as fast as Naruto could and would kill them quick as a whip, which he did.

Hope that explains everything. You probably won't like the next chap, it oughta be kinda boring.