Naruto no Rei

Ch. 1 – Happenings

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Predictibly, things have gone downhill in Konoha. Very far downhill. Somehow, the civilian council of Konoha had survived the massive pressure Naruto brought down when he was dying, and they had gone into session discussing their losses. The shinobi council had been called as well, and an ANBU had been sent, and walked in holding the hand of a shell-shocked Tsunade who's eyes couldn't stop shaking, helping her along.

They had managed to total the losses to their entire child population and seventy-five percent of the adult civilian population who had been in the buildings that crumbled when they did so. This left them with only about seven percent of their overall population remaining, with most of the village destroyed.

Their main concern was word of this getting to Konoha's enemies, as well as the giant trench that led someone from the border straight to their village, removing their advantage of being hidden in a large forest. Even the civilians knew that with their child population removed, they would have no way of holding their military strength once their ninja started retiring. This also went with the fact the academy had been destroyed.

To counter this simple fact, Tsunade ordered that hideaway shelters be built deep underground and be stocked for long-term use, most likely about two decades to train their new crop of ninja once the ninja they had retired, and hide the entire remaining populace in these shelters. Until then, they decided that they would repair the wall, and continue as if nothing ever happened.

Hinata had decided that she would defend Konoha from anyone that would attack it, if for no other reason, than for the reason that only Naruto would be allowed to finish the idiotic village off. Until the time came for her to act, however, she had decided she would simply train in the forest, and discover as many of Nisshoku's and Gesshoku's powers as she could.

Sasuke had been mostly crippled from the incredible pressure that was dropped on his wounded body, and he had scratch-like scars on his face. His arms were unusable, and they had planned to perform surgery to replace them. His legs were weakened dramatically, but still usable.

Kakashi was blinded in his right eye by the force of the hit impacting his brain enough to loosen the connection to his right eye. He now wore his hitai-ate over both of his eyes, and would walk about blind for the most part. He spent his time sparring with Maito Gai to sharpen his reflexes without the use of his eyes.

Sakura had somehow escaped the pressure unscathed, and continued to fawn over Sasuke, while Ino… had been watching her parents' flower shop at the time, when it had come crashing down on top of her.

All the genin who had gone on the Retrieval mission after Sasuke had up and vanished after news of Naruto's deaths got out, their whereabouts unknown and untraceable thanks probably to Kiba's knowledge of how to cover his tracks. All they had found was a note that had been left in an odd code.

As for Naruto…

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Many roars rang out, all of which evil and hungry. They were silenced quickly as one of the masked creatures cut the others down. It promptly began devouring the others, its hunger growing with each creature it ate. Its pale bloody hair glistening slightly with fresh blood. It continued to cut down the others of its kind, eating more and more quickly as it could.

The landscape was a huge desert, a seemingly perpetual night hanging in the sky above. The only notable land mark was a massive castle in the distance. As the creature ate, it began to change. It eventually changed into a giant black monster with spikes coming out of it, a large white mask with the perfected Shiki Fuujin in black covering the mask. It quickly began sinking into the sand, falling through to a forest below. There, it found many more creatures, very similar to it, only their masks had long spike-noses and no markings on the mask.

It noticed they all moved without any individuality. And it quickly took advantage of that. It began to eat them, its own, large kind. As if they were just food. And in the opinion of itself and others like it, that's all they were. And so, it continued to eat. As it did, it felt its power growing again. It began to eat faster…

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Chapter End

Again, boring. Can anyone guess what kind of Menos Naruto is right now?