I…will…not…rest…in…peace…
Hellllo my readers it's me again, who else would it be?
First off let me say thank you for all the suggestions I have gotten for my story and for all those who voted at my poll. I will soon have another poll up and running soon with another equally challenging question but I'll save that for the poll.
And allow me to apologize for being so late in updating. I know I have ragged on some authors for taking a year to update BUT now I see where they were coming from.
All my readers will be delighted to know that I have picked a character for Triple H to be. I nearly kicked myself when I didn't think of him earlier, a candidate so perfect I should have considered him from the start. And for those who are wondering yes there will be hammers. He will appear later on in the story…but not in this chapter. Ooooooooooooooooo, now whose evil.
Just to let you all know this story will deviate in from the canon a bit but it will still be good I promise.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, yeah I nearly forgot that I am going to be doing another character that was a favorite in the WWE, (sound of glass breaking in the background) LET ME GET A HELL YEAH.
Rest…In…Peace…
Neji Hyuuga immediately activated his Byukagan slid into his Jyuuken stance and waited for this new and apparently powerful Sasuke Uchiha to attack, meanwhile Sasuke was pacing back and forth looking literally like a caged beast. Sasuke stopped and began walking slowly and with a purpose towards the Hyuuga, Neji couldn't believe it when Sasuke stepped within his field of divination and kept on coming and immediately went on the attack.
The battle began with both fighters throwing fists, in Neji's case fingers, but it seemed that even when he landed critical hits that Sasuke would just jolt then keep coming.
Neji sealed as many Tenketsu as he could then leapt back to survey the damage. At first he grinned seeing many vital chakra points closed, then he blanched as a pulse of chakra flooded the Uchiha's system. At first the chakra points just loosened then they opened completely.
Sasuke wagged a finger like a disapproving parent, "uhuhuh. Not this time Hyuuga, this time your precious Jyuuken doesn't save you."
Sasuke raised his hand to his mouth and blew on the palm. A serpent of fire burst from his hand (think Voldermort) and hissed as it beheld Neji then rushed forward intent on devouring its pray. Neji dodged and tried to out run the serpent, and then Sasuke jumped in. Not content with letting his pet have all the fun.
Neji was admittedly having a hard time dodging the serpent and Sasuke at the same time. Finally the serpent had Neji cornered, 'No choice, I have to use it,' Neji thought. Spinning in place he expelled chakra from all points in his body creating his Kaiten. The serpent crashed into the dome exploding against it. Neji stopped spinning and panted for a second; raising his head he scanned the battlefield.
Sasuke had dropped from sight even from his Byukagan. Neji got out of the corner he was in to the middle of the field.
Suddenly four pillars of flames burst up from the ground around him, Neji glance around wildly for the Uchiha. Unfortunately he did not look between his own two feet, the ground cracked and Sasuke's arm shot up from the ground grabbing Neji around the throat in a powerful grip. Neji jabbed franticly at the arm gripping his throat and constricting the air to his lungs.
Soon Neji's jabs became limper; Sasuke glanced at Naruto who looked down in satisfaction a slight smile on his face.
"Brother, take him for a last ride."
Sasuke grinned beneath his mask; he had been waiting for this. Hoisting Neji off his feet he choke slammed him onto a special exploding tag which went off the moment it touched it blowing Neji almost thirty feet into the air. Sasuke appeared beneath him and brought Neji down like a hammer on an anvil.
The sound Neji made when he crashed to the ground was a sickening smash. Sasuke stood surveying his conquest while retightening the glove on his right hand.
Neji twitched in the crater his body had made but other than that he stayed still.
"Winner, Uchiha Sasuke."
Naruto leapt over the railing and went face to face with his brother. Sasuke stood raising his arms and brought them down as flames danced around the two. Naruto nodded in approval and they both leapt up to the balcony. The crowed was awed by these two; the strength the Uchiha displayed was magnificent. The ninja's who were present had never seen anything the level of that fire serpent jutsu and without hand signs; and those that knew about the curse seal were slightly worried at Sasuke's choice of animal shape.
Kakashi watched his pupil who moved now more confidently although less arrogantly along the balcony towards him.
Closing his book he glanced at the mask, "A little early for you to be worried about masks don't you think Sasuke?"
Sasuke smiled slightly, "It's actually to keep the fan girls away, and they won't know it's me till I am at least ten feet away."
Kakashi and Sasuke chuckled, "Well it's nice to know that your time with Naruto was well spent. I will admit your strategy was something I had not thought of at first, I was planning on teaching you my Chidori; the beginning form for my Rakiri. Although I am curious what was that fire serpent all about."
Shikamaru's fight was about to start and Sasuke turned his eyes back to the field, "I'll tell you a little later this looks interesting."
Both turned their eyes back to the field.
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(I AM NOT GOING TO REITERATE ALL THE FIGHTS PLENTY OF OTHER PEOPLE HAVE DONE THAT, THE FIGHTS REMAIN THE SAME!)
Shikamaru forfeited claiming chakra exhaustion, Kankuro forfeited to Shino. It was time, all eyes turned to the final two contestants, whom everyone was sure would rip each other apart.
Gaara looked straight at the black clad form of his nemesis as those cold red eyes burned right back into his own teal colored ones. Naruto walked slowly to Gaara and they stood barely inches apart. For a long moment there was absolute silence then both disappeared, Gaara in a swirl of sand Naruto in a swirl of dead leaves, and reappeared in the middle of the arena in the same position.
Naruto stepped back removing his coat and dropping it to the ground, then slowly removed his hat in the same manner. Gaara stepped away about ten steps and prepared, the cork popping from his gourd and sand beginning to swirl out of it.
Naruto suddenly motioned the new proctor to his side, "I request for your own safety proctor you had better stand on the balcony."
Genma was about to argue when he saw the look in Naruto's eyes, "Very well."
Genma leapt to the railing of the balcony, several ninja looked at him questioningly, "hey I am not about to get between those two alright."
The answer seemed to answer most of the odd glances because one look at the two combatants and most agreed. Nobody wanted to be within the arena when these two were using it.
Genma raised his hand and the arena held its breath, "BEGIN."
(If I wanted to be really evil I would end it right here but I'm not)
Gaara immediately sent his sand at his opponent but stopped when Naruto raised his hand.
"A moment if you will, our battlefield is not yet prepared," Naruto said with a cold grin.
Naruto knelt and began a long chain of hand seals which ended in one nobody recognized. Slamming his fist down a rumbling sound was heard and then something suddenly an erupted from the ground blinding the audience.
DDDDDDDDOOOOOONNNNNGGGGGGG.
A black smoke seamed to cover both contestants and the field, and then flames seamed to weave patterns inside the smoke. Then an awful shrieking sound of metal on metal began to tear at the audience's ear drums, people held their ears and watched in awe as something began to rise out of the smoke, it seemed to grow larger and taller as the shrieking continued.
Lightning flashed from the sky and struck whatever was inside the smoke and for an instant a gigantic structure was illuminated.
The smoke began to settle and as it did every last soul in the arena wished they could look away from the hellish structure that now surrounded the two monsters. The battlefield if one could call it that was at least sixty feet high covered by a steel mesh, barbed wire entangled roof. The walls were solid chain links and at random one side of the wall would light up and become red hot or would be electrocuted.
It also had two levels divided at thirty feet. The upper level's floor was made out of regular wire mesh and a white platform beneath it. (Think of the pyramid in Mortal Kombat Armageddon but smaller) There were stairs that lead up to the second floor extending down to the ground from all four corners.
The four roof corners had a hideous four headed statue attached to them looking in; at random these statues would shoot out balls of flame or bolts of lightning. The outer sides of the corners were spiked and horn shaped. There was only one door and Gaara and two druids were standing at the only entrance.
Naruto stood in the center of the hellish panorama fire and lightning burning the air around him. Around him were four pillars which formed the secondary under which even two ninjas could fight comfortably. The pillars were wrapped in barbed wire which was designed to tear and puncture.
To the ninja's who understood engineering the whole battlefield was custom made for injury. A single mistake and a ninja would find himself at the mercy of cold hard or hot or electrocute steel.
Naruto walked till he was face to face with Gaara once more. Gaara looked intimidated by the demonic structure before him and its grim maker.
"Gaara," Naruto began, "this cage is actually a sentient creature, a special favorite of the Death God. It will purposely try to destroy one of us until a sacrifice is made. This is our battlefield Subake no Gaara; Hell in a Cell. The only battlefield fit for two monsters."
Gaara stared straight into Naruto's eyes mother screaming at him to destroy this being no matter where he had to do it. 'Kill him, kill him, kill him, kill him, damn it KILL HIM.' Gaara snarled at him, "It doesn't matter where I will KILL YOU."
Naruto turned and strode straight into the cage, Gaara following him. The druids closed the door and stepped away, the door seemed to melt away into the surrounding area. Naruto turned and grinned at Gaara, "Oh yes, and by the way the cage is particularly fond of souls as a sacrifice."
The entire crowd gasped, the ninja from Suna looked on horrified; their trump card was locked inside a demonic cage. The audience, already frightened by the demonic aspects of the cage, was now on the edge of their seats, a death match was on. Temari and Kankuro looked at each other in suspense, Gaara had never lost but against something like this they had no idea what would happen.
The fake Kazekage looked at Sarutobi, "You don't seem to be too disturbed by this monstrous apparition Hokage-sama, and I hope you won't allow this to go that far."
Sarutobi frowned knitting his eyes together, "I have no idea actually of how far young Naruto will take this, he may be bluffing but then again he may not be."
Orochimaru had to resist the urge to grit his teeth; his trump card had been successfully aced by the young Kazama. Without Gaara it would near impossible for the plan to go on, the Sand ninja's had to be thinking the same way. They would probably abandon the plan at the first sign of trouble. Orochimaru decided to just wait and see whether or not Gaara would win or not. If he didn't well perhaps he could at least still have his revenge on his old sensei.
Naruto immediately jumped to the second level and stood staring down at his nemesis. Gaara pooled sand around his feet and rose to the second level. Gaara's sand suddenly sprang forward trying to crush him. Naruto leapt out of the way and went through five hand signs, green energy crackled in his hand.
"Death Coil."
A green like skull formed around his hand and he threw it straight at Gaara. The skull impacted the sand and exploded in a green shower of sparks leaving burnt sand behind. Naruto quickly threw another as Gaara's sand swept towards him. Leaping on top of one of the pillars for the second level Naruto was suddenly forced to dodge as one of the statues came close to roasting him.
Gaara's sand was quick but could not stop the lightning bolt which exploded through his sand wall. Gaara was thrown against one of the pillars and bounced off like a rag doll his sand armor cracking for the first time. Naruto quickly capitalized jumping from his perch into a leg drop straight to the back of the neck of Gaara. This drove Gaara's face straight downward into the unforgiving steel floor smashing the sand armor on his face. Naruto had realized what no other ninja facing Gaara had. His armor was weak against lightning.
Gaara tried to get up but Naruto wasn't about to let him get the advantage, grabbing the back of Gaara's head he threw him right back down to meet the steel again. By now blood was trickling down Gaara's face as he rose to his feet only to be met with a big boot straight to the skull which introduced his back to the steel. His hands and face now bloody Gaara gritted his teeth in pain, lashing out he caught Naruto in the chest driving him backward into a pillar.
Gaara felt strength coursing through his body as Shukaku and the insane priest fed his lust for blood. With a scream of rage the sand swirled around him forming two massive sand made, claw-like arms around his own. Naruto stood wiping the dust from his shirt staring at the monstrosity that was forming, green energy again formed around both hands this time. Gaara leapt at Naruto with insanity in his eyes. Matching green skulls met him in midair but did little more than slow his momentum.
Naruto suddenly realized he was standing on the edge of the upper platform; Gaara's charge would undoubtedly carry them both over the edge. Naruto prepared himself for the pain as Gaara's massive arms and body now impacted his own. Both fighters were catapulted off the edge locked in each other's arms; both fighters suddenly realized they were headed straight at a red hot cage wall a millisecond before they impacted it.
Then as the fell and burned along the side of the cage straight down a lightning bolt struck them both apart. There was nothing to stop there fall, Gaara's sand did its best but it could not stop Gaara from dislocating his shoulder and bruising a few ribs along the way. Naruto fared little better, both were writhing in pain.
Up on the balcony the ninja's friend and foe watched in horror as these two monsters tried to rip each other apart.
'No please don't give in little brother, please you have to survive this,' thought Temari.
'Just a little while longer and it has to begin, Suna cannot risk there trump card like this, Sasuke thought.
'Dear heaven how is either of them still standing,' thought Kakashi.
Back inside the cage Naruto had not moved and was lying on his back. Gaara with an insane look in his eye began trickling his sand towards him when to his horror Naruto sat up. Naruto immediately jumped away to form a plan. Gaara sent both sand claws after him but his sense tingled and he had to leap away as a fireball sailed into the spot where he was standing.
Gaara looked savagely around but all sign of his enemy had vanished. Then he felt it as did the entire arena, a power similar to his own and grinning he looked up again but what he saw was not what he wanted to see. The crowd stared in horror as red chakra began swirling around the Kazama heir. Red energy seemed to flow around Naruto as he released and formed the power of his beast. His eyes grew brighter and the red consumed his entire eye. The energy swirled upwards towards the heavens and formed the head of the dreaded fox.
The foxes head grew more intense as a long forgotten killing intent washed over the arena. The foxes head seemed to swivel and glance at the crowds and ninja's, a demonic voice seemed to laugh, "YOU THOUGH YOU WON…YOU THOUGHT IT WAS OVER…NOTHING IS OVER…"
The crowd shrank back as the foxes head seemed to shrink back down into Naruto forming a fuax body of a red fox around him. Gaara's transformation started to carry him further over the edge. Sand now encased his entire upper body and his eyes were now Shukakus.
With a roar of rage the two beasts flung themselves at each other. A solid blow from Gaara forced Naruto against the cage, and Gaara held him there as he burned. Naruto gritted his teeth and sent a red chakra arm straight at Gaara smashing him backwards into one of the pillars.
By this time even Shikamaru was riveted by the duel, "Dear heaven there trying to kill each other."
Asuma glanced down at his protégée and couldn't help but agree. The two warriors were back on top of the second level exchanging blows, every ninja there began to realize that this would boil down to who wanted to live the most, who could take the pain.
Naruto had blown Gaara back against one of the pillars again and this time he had no intention of letting him breath. Down on all fours he ran straight at Gaara dodging both sand claws as he leapt into a flying clothesline. Gaara's skull and back cracked against the harsh twisted wire; falling to one knee he grasped his head in pain.
Naruto grabbed the fallen raccoon and began slamming him repeatedly against the stone pillar. The sand began to fall away and suddenly Naruto through Gaara back on the back of his neck.
**CRUNCH**
The whole stadium winced at the sickening crack as Gaara's neck nearly snapped in half. Shukaku was almost unable to keep up with the injuries its vessel was taking but the insane priest kept egging him on.
"You fool stop while we are all still alive!"
"No, no, no, no, no, no, we cannot be stopped we will kill him, kill him, kill him, KILL HIM…"
Gaara tried to get back to his feet but Naruto was not down grabbing him in one chakra arm he hurled Gaara right at the side of the cage that faced the balcony. The chain bounced his body off and he was caught in midair by the same claw and hurled against the opposite wall. By now Gaara's sand armor was gone and his face was a literal bloody mess.
Some ninja's were calling for the proctor to stop this brutalization, but Genma answered, "How the door disappeared?"
It was only then that everyone realized this truly was hell in a cell.
Gaara's bruised and battered form was slammed into all four walls before being planted a sickening CRACK on the second floor. There he laid still his injuries too extensive for Shukaku to heal or to force Gaara back to consciousness. The crowd was silent, the red energy surrounding Naruto faded and he walked slowly to the fallen form of his enemy. Kneeling in the stance Naruto said, "It is done."
Suddenly a chilling cold swept over the arena and the unearthly form of the Shinigami appeared over the fallen Gaara.
The Shinigami gazed at his young warrior, "Is this the one,"
"Yes my lord."
"Very well."
Naruto stood and placed his hand over the seal on Gaara's shoulder.
"Nehmen Sie den Herrn die Dunkelheit als Deinen Retter an."
Inside Gaara's mind
Gaara dodged another blow from the insane priest as Shukaku tried to heal him faster.
"You little Imbecile, how could you lose to someone like that I'll kill you myself you little brat, he screamed.
Suddenly an ominous voice interrupted the priests ranting, "Not anymore."
The priest froze and looked toward the voice; "No, no, no you can't be here," Gaara managed to look up and froze as he saw his enemy at the entrance to his mind.
Naruto gazed at the sickening sight of the priest beating on Gaara and his frown deepened.
"Sorry priest, but purgatory is over NOW YOU GO TO HELL."
Naruto extended his hand and a red glow emanated from his palm. The priest backed away from the glow but its light was drawing him inwards towards that awful light.
"No, No, No, you can't do this no one can do this you will never…NOOOOOOO!!!!!!"
The final scream of the dead priest echoed throughout Gaara's mind.
Gaara felt his mind clearing; the oppressive presence of the priest was gone. He managed to get to his knees when a hand appeared offering him help. He looked up at the figure off his enemy; the eyes were no longer hate filled or ready to destroy him at any instant. They were understanding and almost kind. He took the hand and as he did he felt free. He looked around, the sandstorm that usually was his mind had calmed to a gentle desert landscape.
Gaara looked around as he could feel sleep stealing on him, Shukaku's voice soothing him, "Sleep little one, he will watch over us."
Gaara looked again at his savior, "How can I thank you Kazama."
Naruto folded his arms over his chest, "listen as you rest."
Real World
The ominous figure of the Shinigami hovered over Gaara's form the tainted soul of the priest flowing out of Gaara's mouth until it was over. The crowds stood in horrified fascination, the ninja's on the balcony were completely silent.
Temari had one hand over her mouth as her little brothers soul was ripped from his body. Baki's mind was racing, 'Dammit how the hell do we salvage this."
The Shinigami finally looked up from its completed task, "It is done."
The Shinigami faded away and the cell door reappeared, the two druids motioned for their fellows and together they brought a casket too the door. The druids began singing their dirge as Naruto slowly carried Gaara's body down to the steel door and laid him in it and closed the lid.
The unearthly procession made its way to the door as Naruto walked behind. The cell began descending into fiery pit from whence it came. Naruto turned as the door which had let Sasuke and him into the arena and made the slashing motion across his throat as he intoned those immortal words, "Rest…In…Peace…"
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Well what do you think? Good. Bad. Don't care. Okay things are really going to heat up next chapter I promise. And no Gaara is not dead; it's going to be something better. How would paring him and MANKIND sound? Just asking nothings definite yet I just need to know what ya think.
Anyway … here we go.
Rest…In…Peace…