Disclaimer: Ahem! Why am I disclaiming that I claim this? *Looks over shoulder* When the hell did all those lawyers get here? *Cringes* Whatever. I, RisenInfection, do hereby solemnly swear that I own nothing of value, including the manga/anime series Naruto. Not that I really want to own it anyways, cause I'm just that awesome. Now I'm going to go cry in a corner somewhere.
Author's Note: A week hiatus and I have returned! Not as epic as I would hope though. And just so you know, I spent all day yesterday rewriting this chapter (it got kinda dumb once I read it for the first time) and writing chapters four and five. Now, I want to bring up a few of things.
One, to those who were looking forward to reading Tears of a Devil, it's under reconstruction... again. I seriously don't where I want to take it and each time I write it, I usually get Dante's attitude way wrong and feel that I am not worthy of writing in the Devil May Cry fandom, even if it is only a crossover.
Two, to those who undoubtedly feel the chapters are kind of short, if you don't mind reading a semi-short chapter, my updates will come a lot faster, maybe every Friday, especially because I'm planning to keep focused on this fic alone and set all my other projects on the back burner.
And Three, on topic of the chapter below, if you have read as many fanfictions as I have, you will most likely get subtle messages within. I don't really want to put up a legend, because I just want to believe that you'll get everything as it comes to you. Plus, it's better that I have you asking questions that I'll answer in future chapters. That's my philosophy, ask questions I already know the answer to, sit back and let them try find the solution, then somewhere down the line, give them the answer with another question attached. Pure win!
So, now that you have read that, you can read the fic below. Thanks!
The Devil's Blade
An epic reimagining of The Demon's Blade
By RisenInfection
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My first and last memories were of the academy in the Land of High Tides. Truthfully, I cannot remember anything further back from then. But at the time, I paid it no thought as I threw myself into my training, especially after I saw her, after I felt her. She was like a beacon of understanding, of care, and I wanted nothing more than to embrace her comfort and slay the fools who dared to oppose me.
I suppose now, that I have the chance to think about it, that I was selfish and greedy, murderous and unfeeling. But, that was what I felt... until the day I held her. I was nothing but a cowardly soul killing others to find my place in the world, until she whispered to me and guided me. Until she showed me what I could truly do, what I could become. We didn't meet until that day, though I still fell in love with her after she whispered to me...
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Act I
The Devil Swordsman
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Chapter 3
Red Waves
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He stumbled and fell to the ground, his aching body groaning in relief as he finally rested after the explosion. He had had to get away before anyone could see him. If he was caught he'd be dead within an hour.
Sighing, Naruto tried to flip himself onto his back so he could rest properly, but his arms and legs wouldn't budge. After two minutes of trying to will his sore body to move, he just gave up and closed his eyes. He remembered a time during training when he had laid in his bed, beaten and bruised, his body aching and raw from his first day of learning his former master's personal style. It had been the first day he had felt her, the first day he had held her in his hand. After that moment, his sensei had never trained him harder than those seven years of his life.
Exhaling, the blond began to drift off into a deep sleep, dreams of training and family passing into his hazy, clouded mind. Memories of past times keeping the nightmares of what he had done from his restful slumber, a small whispered nothing in his head easing the pain he felt.
Rest, my container…
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The Hidden Leaf Village
Two Years after the Black Earth Incident
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"No!" A girl no older than twelve with strawberry blonde hair shouted, her arms crossed in an 'X' over her orange shirt. Her eyes were squeezed tight as she continued to shout, "No! No! NO! I won't do another one of those stupid chores that anyone else could do."
Two other children, a boy with raven hair and a girl with bright pink hair, and a man with grey hair all sighed at the girl's antics.
The blond Hokage only rubbed his forehead as he listened to his daughter complain about the horror known as the D-Ranked Mission List. To his right, a tanned man with a scar across his nose admonished the girl and explained the ranking setup to her.
Finally feeling fed up as his daughter talked about the wonders of ramen with her teammates, the Fourth slapped his hand to his desk. "Kakashi!"
The grey haired man turned to the blond man and stood a little straighter, a real first for the usually lazy man. "Yes, sensei?" Hatake Kakashi asked in a semi-lazy drawl, his students staring at him like he grew another head.
"One, you don't have to call me that anymore," the blond said, his face wearing a small smile as he looked at his only student left. "And two, do you believe that Team Seven is ready to take on a C-Rank mission?"
Kakashi brought a hand up to his masked chin and thought for several moments. "Honestly," his students looked up to him hopefully, "no, I don't." And that hope was instantly dashed. "But, I think it would be an opportune time for them to test their skills in live combat." And the hope in their teacher was restored.
Minato nodded, thinking on the same lines of his former student. He raised his left arm and snapped his fingers. "Let him in." A pair of sliding doors opened to Team 7's right, an old man wearing raggedy, grey clothing and holding on tightly to a bottle of liquor stepped into the mission room. "Team Seven, meet Tazuna, your mission's objective." The three preteens looked to the Hokage with various looks of wonder. "Your mission is simple: you will escort Tazuna back to his home in the Land of Waves and protect him from danger as he builds a bridge there."
The drunken old man looked at the children before him and scoffed. "They don't look like much, especially the short, blonde one."
The strawberry blonde girl laughed boisterously as she placed her fists on her hips. "Stupid old man, what short, blonde... one... Hey!" The girl tried to jump and tackle the old man, but was caught by her lazy sensei.
"You'll have to excuse her, sir. Natsuko gets a little temperamental when she hasn't had her medication," the Jounin drawled, his single eye upturned in a reverse 'U'. "But despite that, if my students aren't able to handle a few bandits, I'll still be there."
"Yeah, bandits, right. Ahahahaha!" The old bridge builder muttered to himself before laughing as he left, the liquid in his bottle swishing merrily.
The room grew silent as everyone stared at where the man had stood, their expressions crying 'is he crazy?'
Shaking his head and ridding himself of his stupor, the Fourth cleared his throat gaining the rooms attention. "Team Seven, you have your orders, you're dismissed. Kakashi, I'd like to talk to you in my office... alone."
Kakashi nodded and turned to his team. "Sakura, Sasuke, pack for a week's travel. Natsuko, please try not to get into trouble before we leave. You can go now." His team nodded and left, the blond girl shooting a raspberry at her teacher as she exited.
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The Fourth sat as Kakashi entered his office, his hands folded before his mouth with his elbows on his desk. The grey haired man knew that pose, standing a straighter as he became serious.
"Unfortunately," the blond spoke, his voice sharp and crisp, "I believe that our client has lied to us about the true ranking of this mission."
"So are we dropping it?" The lazy jounin asked.
Minato shook his head. "No, the Wave is too impoverished to afford anything of higher rank than this. I will list it in the ranking system as an A-Rank mission, though I may have to make it an S-Rank."
"Why is that, sir?" Kakashi questioned, curious as to what his former sensei was thinking.
The blond man sighed and picked something off of his desk and handed it to Kakashi. The man accepted it and looked at it.
The object was a colored picture of a tall blond man's back. The man wore black samurai-style clothing and had a long sword, most likely a nodachi strapped to his back, the hilt looming over his head. It seemed the man was walking peacefully and didn't know he was being photographed.
Kakashi shook his head. "I don't know what I'm supposed to be looking at." He was handed another picture and the grey haired man felt his eye widen. The picture depicted what looked like hundreds of dead bodies scattered around the same road the swordsman was walking along in the other picture. Kakashi felt sickened as he took in the sight of blood, gore, and death. "S-Sensei, what the hell is this? What did this man do?"
The Fourth sighed again, rubbing away the coming migraine. "That man is the same man who committed the Nagatama Gang Slaughter three years ago and the Black Earth Incident two years ago." He watched as Kakashi's eye widened further. "He is also the reason why nine years ago a whole nation, filled with master samurai, fell off the map. We don't have a name for this man, just a few titles we learned of."
"What are they?" The lazy man asked in a soft drawl, his curiosity piqued. He hadn't heard of anyone actually being able to wipe out a whole nation by themselves, even if it was a samurai.
Minato stood and turned to the windows behind him, staring out at the village he swore to protect. "He is called the Thousand Man Slayer and the Oomizu no Majin: the Devil of the Flood. Watch out for him Kakashi, I don't want any deaths on this mission because of him."
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Outside the Leaf Village
Three Hours after the Mission Briefing
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"Ahahahahaha!" Natsuko laughed loudly with a smile lighting up her face. "I didn't ever think I'd be able to actually leave the village, not with dad and mom watching over me all the time, but I showed them."
"Keep it down, will ya, idiot?" Haruno Sakura grumbled. The boy in the back of the group, Uchiha Sasuke, only grunted as he brooded while walking.
"Ah, come on, Sakura. It's my first time outside of the village. I never get to go outside the village," Natsuko exclaimed as her long, spiky hair bounced while she jumped up and down ecstatically.
Kakashi chuckled at his student's behavior. "Don't think that they're still not watching you Natsuko, you have to remember that I am your sensei, after all."
Natsuko turned and smiled. "I didn't forget, Uncle Ka-Ka."
The grey haired jounin's only visible eye twitched at the name as his two other students and their client began to snicker at the name. "What have I told you about calling me that?"
Shrugging nonchalantly, the girl only smiled and laughed. "I can't recall Uncle Ka-Ka, you might have to refresh my memory... Uncle Ka-Ka!"
Sighing, Kakashi just knew this trip had gone from bad to worse, and they were barely a hundred meters from the walls of the village. He slapped his forehead, hoping that something right might just luckily happen.
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A few hours of walking later, the pink haired girl, Sakura, decided that a little conversation would do the group some good, even if it was informative. "Mr. Tazuna?"
"What is it?" The old man answered irritably.
"Your country is 'The Land of Waves,' right?" The girl curiously questioned.
Tazuna narrowed his eyes as he looked up to the sky. "What of it?"
The girl ignored his response and turned to her jounin teacher. "Say, Kakashi-sensei...? Are there any ninja in that country too?"
"Hmm..." Kakashi thought for a moment, remembering what the Fourth had told him and what he had looked up in the archives before he left for the mission. "No, there aren't any ninja there, but they don't really need any either as they have a natural defense of the sea surrounding the land. But, if I recall right, that at one time, maybe a decade ago, the country was protected by the Land of High Tides, a country dominated by samurai."
"Samurai?" Natsuko asked, her interest piqued by the simple conversation. Even Sasuke seemed curious, if his turned head was any indication.
Kakashi nodded. "Yes, but, I think they all died out somehow, leaving the Land of Waves to fend on their own."
"Hmmph. 'Died out' my ass," Tazuna grunted out, agitated for some reason.
The lazy man raised his eyebrow in puzzlement. "Is there something you would like to add, Mr. Tazuna?"
"Harrumph," Tazuna cleared his throat and his head from the haze of his alcohol. "Alright then, I'll give the little brats a lesson they won't forget for awhile. The story goes like this: One night, almost nine years ago, a child, maybe a few years younger than you three, up and killed everyone in the academy he lived and learned in, this included the man who taught him, Shiokaze Akira. In that same night, the boy moved through the small nation and killed over one thousand human beings, earning him the title of the Thousand Man Slayer.
"Those who were not on the island of the night of the slaughter were soon killed afterwards by the boy and left us of the Wave without protectors," Tazuna explained, sighing as he looked down at the earth below him. "He had another title that no one believed was true until that night; the Oomizu no Majin."
"'Devil of the Flood'?" Sasuke asked, disbelief written upon his pale face. "What a ridiculous name. Besides, there's no way someone younger than me can kill a whole nation."
Sakura nodded rapidly, agreeing with her love interest. "He's got a point you know, there's no way that that could've happened."
Kakashi, after absently noticing a small puddle of water, ruffled the pink haired girl's hair. "Ah, you shouldn't be so quick to judge, Sakura, Sasuke. There are those in this world that are more powerful than me and yet, younger than you."
The raven haired boy grunted and turned his head, continuing his brooding. But unknown to the others, Sasuke was boiling in his anger, anger that there was someone who, from the sound of the old man's story, was stronger than... him. The Last Uchiha came to the solution that if he were ever to meet this 'Devil' he would challenge and fight him, if only to test his own abilities.
The grey haired man could only stare sadly at his only male student, thoughts of how tough it must have been for the scion since that day. Those thoughts were immediately put on the back burner when he found a long, serrated chain about to wrap around him and saw him to pieces. Quickly and seamlessly using the Replacement Jutsu without the use of seals, Kakashi hid in a tree above the road and watched as the two assassins' from the puddle began to attack his students.
Deciding now was better than never he summoned one of his nin-dogs and gave it a scroll to take to the Hokage. If the Demon Brother's were the first to attack, than not only were Minato's suspicion's correct, but Kakashi just knew he was going to need some help, expected or otherwise...
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The Land of Waves
One Hour before the Demon Brother's Attack
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"Please? I'll do anything for you, anything you want," a blue haired woman begged and pleaded a man who was trying to look like a samurai, though he looked more like a punk with a sword than anything else.
"I'd take that offer, if I wasn't already working for Gatou himself," the man replied, a smug smirk on his tattooed face. "Though, I think I'll still..." the man never finished as his head fell from his shoulders, a fountain of blood spraying from where his neck used to be, a small amount of the red liquid dripping onto the woman's shocked face.
The woman, for her credit, tried her damndest not to scream and succeeded in not doing so as a black sword tip was pointed at her throat. It moved up to her hyperventilating mouth, before becoming a blur of black. It pulled away and was sheathed. The woman reached up and touched her face looking for any sign of damage and to her shock, found that the blood that had splattered on her was gone.
"A master of the blade can choose when his sword will cut and not cut," a slightly gravelly voice spoke a meter and a half before the woman, where a tall blonde man dressed in black samurai-like clothes stood, his sword sheathed on his back. "I'll take your request, miss..."
"Tsunami, my name is Tsunami," the woman finished for the man.
"Naruto," the man spoke again, which elicited a blush from the blue haired woman.
"A-And what would you like in return for your services, I can't offer you much, but I'll do anything to repay this kindness," Tsunami spoke nervously. Though the man was handsome, she really didn't feel up to rendering that kind of service to anyone.
The man didn't even seem to think before he answered. "All that I require is food and board."
Tsunami's eyes widened in an emotion she hadn't felt for awhile... relief. For some reason she ran up and gave the man, who was at least a half a meter taller than her, a hug. "T-Thank you so much."
Naruto's eyes widened at the contact, but he did not move the woman as she cried happily into his cloak. Once she was done, he stared down at her. "Where is your father now?"
The woman wiped her tears away with a smile. "He went to the Leaf to request a team of ninja to protect him as he built his bridge. There is only one road to the Land of Fire from the Wave though there is a secondary road that leads to our home. It's about two and a half kilometers from the main road, you can't miss it."
Nodding, the man was just about to take off, when the woman stopped him. "My father will lead you back to our home. I'll have a room and a meal waiting for you." The man nodded again and in a blur of black and yellow, he was gone.
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The Hidden Leaf Village
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Yuuhi Kurenai had been having a splendid day. First she awoke from a recurring dream of a young, roguish, blonde man who would sweep her off her feet and carry her off into the sunset. She just thought of it as a schoolgirl fantasy of the Fourth, though, strangely enough, the man's face was never visible to her and his words always came out rough.
Then, after her morning routine, she showered and dressed, made herself a small breakfast and left to meet her students of three months at their training grounds. She taught them and allowed them to train by themselves until noon, where they went to a small ramen shop called 'Ichiraku's' for a team lunch.
After the spectacular noodles and one of her students embarrassing himself once again, Team Eight headed to Hokage's Tower. Inside, she found her long time friend Mitarashi Anko receiving a mission from the blonde Hokage himself. The Hokage had waved her over, this being where Kurenai's day began to sour. After dismissing her students and instructing them to keep training by themselves for at least a week, the red eyed brunette found herself along with Anko in the Hokage's Office.
"While, the details I have given you so far are valuable, there is a piece of information that I must inform you of," Minato spoke to the two women as he handed them both a set of photographs. The photos depicted a tall blonde man dressed in black with a very long sword.
Anko, a purple haired Special Jounin, snorted at the picture. "Looks like he's trying to compensate for something, eh?" The woman only received two stern looks as her response. "What? That was funny!"
"Mitarashi," the Hokage spoke strictly, "While you may have a lighter mood on your own time, wasting mine with childish jokes will only leave you suspended without pay, indefinitely. Do I make myself clear?"
The purple haired jounin looked shocked then downcast. "Yeah, Boss, crystal."
Minato nodded as the woman grew a more somber attitude. "Good. Now, that man there has a reputation and two titles which concern me greatly. He has already caused two incidents which have had a great impact thus far. I have already explained to Kakashi the danger this man presents and now I am telling you. If you see this man, you will not engage him in open conflict."
"Sir," Kurenai began, "Is this why you are sending me?"
"Yes, Yuuhi, it is exactly why. You're Genjutsu skills will be able to throw him off and set him up for capture. But that is only your secondary objective, so don't try anything if you think you might be killed," the Hokage explained, his concern for his daughter outweighing his concern of the killer.
"Um, so just what are his titles, Lord Hokage?" Anko asked, her curiosity of the swordsman piqued.
The blonde man seemed sullen at this. "His titles are the Thousand Man Slayer and the Devil of the Flood."
The two women seemed shocked by this revelation. The Hokage looked at both of them for a moment. "That's it, you're both dismissed. Kakashi said that he'll wait for you at the border for three hours and then he'll move on. And remember, be careful."
Minato watched as the two Jounin left and stared at both the pictures of his family and the photos of the masked killer. 'I won't lose Natsuko, like I did Naruto. I won't put Kushina through that again. This, I swear.'
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Outside the Hidden Leaf Village
Ten Minutes after the Mission Briefing
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"So, Kurenai, you think this guy is all show, no real bite to his bark?" Anko asked as she and Kurenai sped down the same trail Team Seven had taken. Without her team, the two women were able to move much faster without the genin weighing them down.
Kurenai hesitated for a moment, mulling over all the information she had gathered about the blonde swordsman. "I can't answer that objectively, Anko. We have no clue who this man is or what he's after. All we do have is a rumor that he killed thousands of people. If we knew something more, I could answer that question."
The purple haired woman grinned. "Good old Kurenai, giving the honest, academic answer. If I had wanted that, I'd have asked one of those nerdy academy teachers."
This only earned the woman a glare that was made more terrifying by the brunette's eyes. "I'll give you my opinion if I ever see this man in action. But from the photos, I believe that the Hokage has a right to worry, after all, his daughter's life could be on the line. If I had a child, I would be worried too."
"Yeah, yeah, I get that, but you shouldn't think in the long-term, though. If you do, you'll end up an old hag before you reach thirty," Anko responded cheekily.
Kurenai smirked at her friend's attitude. It was always good having Anko around to lighten the tension during a high-stress mission.
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Forty minutes later, the two met up with Team Seven and their client, who brought them up to speed on what happened so far. Twenty minutes later, the group of seven plus the boatman who was kind enough to bring them into the country, were staring at a rather large bridge. Tazuna was proud as the three children looked at the work of cement and masonry with various expressions of awe.
"Told you I was a Super Bridge Builder," the elder man had said.
Making shore, the old builder thanked the boatman by his name for his troubles and the group made their way into a hazy forest.
Kakashi, one who always seemed to know everything, signaled to his fellow jounin. 'I have a bad feeling about this. Keep your guards up.' The two women nodded curtly to the man, showing they understood.
Not five minutes later, Natsuko, believing she was one-upping the Uchiha, who had called her a scaredy cat, threw a kunai into the bushes. Sakura admonished the blonde haired girl, especially after she found that Natsuko had almost pinned a white rabbit to a tree, the coddling like a child.
The jounin however, all had the same thought. Trouble.
A sadistic laugh sounded through the misty forest, scaring the genin and the old man. Hearing a distinct 'whirring' sound, Kakashi yelled, "Get down!" He tackled Tazuna to the ground as the two other jounin did the same for the genin.
Barely half a second later, a large sword embedded itself into a nearby tree, the sadistic laugh sounding once more. "Well, now, I guess I should feel honored." Someone dropped down from the trees onto sword and looked back at the Leaf Ninja. "Three Jounin? For me? And your all little Leaves? I do feel honored."
Kakashi stared at the large, tanned man before his eye opened in recognition. "You're Momochi Zabuza, the Demon of the Mist."
'Zabuza' turned and looked at the man who addressed him. "Ah, so you recognize me and by the famous Copy Cat himself. I am honored, Hatake Kakashi of the Sharingan."
Sasuke felt his eyes widen at the mention of his clans infamous Doujutsu. 'But,' he thought to himself, 'All the Uchiha are dead. How would Kakashi-sensei have my Bloodline Limit?'
"I see, so you know about that?" Kakashi questioned. He lifted a hand to his headband which covered his left eye. "Anko, Kurenai, help if feel I'm in trouble." The two women nodded and flickered into the trees. "Sasuke, Sakura, Natsuko, Triangle Formation around Tazuna, now!" The three genin showed no sign of hesitation as they obeyed their teacher's orders.
"Hehehehehahahahahahaa! Like a bunch of kiddies are going to stop me!" With that, Zabuza grabbed his large sword and flickered away. Half a minute later, the mist became thicker and heavier, limiting sight to a degree.
Kakashi pulled his forehead protector off his eye, revealing a red eye with three tomoe markings slowly spinning around the pupil and formed the Ram seal with his hands. Gathering his chakra, the jounin forced it from his body expelled a decent amount of the mist. Looking back, he found his shaking where they stood, terrified as a strong amount focused of murderous intent made itself known to the greenhorns.
"Don't worry you three, I'll protect you with my life," Kakashi said, trying to soothe their fear. It worked, for the moment...
"I don't think you'll be fast enough!" The Demon of the Mist declared as he appeared between the genin and their client, his sword held with one hand as the other held a one handed seal in front of his face.
The man was just about to slice the four to chunks before he was stabbed in the chest with a kunai knife.
Kakashi, for a moment, thought he had hit his mark, but, he didn't expect however for the Zabuza in front of him to melt into water. Turning as the clone splashed to the ground harmlessly, the jounin was suddenly split in two as the real Zabuza appeared. The grey haired man's student felt fear once more as Zabuza laughed.
Until he noticed what he had just cut through had turned to water. "What the..."
"Too late," Kakashi announced from behind Zabuza, another kunai knife at his throat. "Give up, and I'll make your death quick."
Zabuza chuckled. "I'll die... after you!" He suddenly turned into water.
Kakashi, on pure instinct, quickly crouched down, dodging as Zabuza's giant sword passed over his head. The large zanbatou slashed into the ground as Zabuza used his momentum to turn and mule kick Kakashi's crossed arms.
Dashing toward the lake the Leaf Ninja just splashed into, the large man stopped suddenly. "Makibishi spikes? How pathetic." He turned and back flipped into the lake.
Kakashi's head shot above the water's surface as he felt danger leave. "This water feels thick."
There was a sudden blur of movement behind him as Zabuza took advantage of the ninja's distraction. "Water Prison Jutsu!"
'Oh... crap,' Kakashi thought solemnly as he was trapped in a sphere of water.
Zabuza laughed at the shinobi trapped in his prison. "Well... I guess I should deal with the two bimbos and your little greenhorns, too." Making a one handed seal, three water clones formed from the lake and moved menacingly toward the genin. Kurenai and Anko blurred in front of them, a pair kunai drawn each.
One of the Zabuza's chuckled. "Well, look at this. I guess I'll get to enjoy myself after all."
"Yuuhi Kurenai, also known as Kurenai the Phantom," another of the Zabuza's listed, "and Mitarashi Anko, the Snake Mistress of the Leaf. I don't think either of you will be much of a match for me."
The last Zabuza snorted. "Let's just kill them and the target."
The three clones surged forward, coming to a halt as two of the threeexploded in a turbulent shower of water. The third, distracted by the fate ofhis brethren, was caught unaware. A tall blond man forcefully palmed his face, lifting his body off the ground, in an amazing display of strength. With his final moments among the living, the clone spat at his would-be exutioner.
Located at his back, an impressive sword sat, his black garbs swaying hypnotically with the wind.
"I don't think so," he hissed. His hands still clutching around the clones face. With a strong grip, and a cruel sneer, he brought his face towards his.
Soon after, the clone joined his brethren in a brutal death.
Looking up, the masked man's red eyes stared into Zabuza's hazel. He paid no heed to the gasps and looks of surprise each person in the clearing elicited. He was here for one thing. "You're next."
The Devil of the Flood has come...
Author's Note: You being down here means you're done, right? Well, yay! I have to say, I'm a little disappointed in this chapter, as we didn't see nearly enough of Naruto, and we didn't see how Anko and Kurenai would've freed Kakashi and/or defeat Zabuza. To tell you the truth, I did have a plan for them on doing just that. Also, and may dislike me for this, but I could have put the whole of the wave arc in this single chapter, but really, I feel that would just be too long and I kind of like the cliffhanger there.
Anyways, you know the drill, review, or don't, I really don't care, though I would like to hear your opinion on this. Thanks!
And before you move on to do whatever it is you do, I'd like to ask (as I don't think this would fit in a poll) if someone can tell me an energy, like chi, kinetic energy, reiatsu, etc., that would fit with Naruto. If you can, I'd like a brief description of it or a summary or something. It'd help me alot. Oh, and please don't give me the obvious answer of chakra, cause I don't think it would really work here. Thanks in advance!
Until next time, RisenInfection, out