Disclaimer: I own it all. Keep telling yourself that Risen, it might just come true. *Snorts* Yeah, right. Like that'll ever happen.
Author's Note: What's up all? Next chapter of The Devil's Blade here for your enjoyment. Again, it is filled with explanations, though there is a fight scene. Oh, and Naruto's sword's name is revealed. So go ahead, read on and enjoy. One more thing, this wasn't edited 'cause I'm tired and want to do something else, so whatever. I'll just edit it tomorrow or something.
Well, enjoy.
The Devil's Blade
An Epic reimagining of The Demon's Blade
By RisenInfection
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Three years before the Fourth Hokage's son was kidnapped, a more disastrous event occurred: The Kyuubi Attack. Hundreds of lives were lost, but the most important life lost was the then Third Hokage, Sarutobi Hiruzen, who sacrificed his soul to the Shinigami to 'kill' the tailed beast. This, however, is a lie.
Though the Sandaime did sacrifice his life and soul, he did not kill the Kyuubi no Youko, as that would be impossible, but sealed it away into a newborn child. The child's identity was kept secret, a decree established by the newly instated Fourth Hokage, Namikaze Minato, a decree that if broken meant immediate execution.
The Kyuubi attacked two days after successful peace negotiations with the Village of the Hidden Cloud, October Tenth. This day was also the day of birth of the Fourth's lost son, Uzumaki Naruto. What provoked the Kyuubi into attacking is not known.
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Act I
The Devil Swordsman
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Chapter 7
All Nightmare Long
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"Y-You... You are the Kyuubi no Youko, aren't you?" Naruto asked, stunned by the magnificent creature before him. He had never known nor guessed that such a beast could be inside him.
The Kyuubi only chortled at the title. Yes, that is one of my titles, but, it isn't my name.
Naruto schooled his appearance as the shock wore off rather quickly. "What is your true name then?"
You aren't ready to hear that, little devil. The Kyuubi answered though her maw never moved.
The swordsman's eyes narrowed slightly at the insult, but remained calm. "You said everything would be explained if I came to you, so start talking."
Grinning, the fox nodded its head approvingly. Straight to the point, I like that. Now, where to start...?
"You could try from the beginning, like how you came to be stuck inside my mind," Naruto suggested, not amused with the Bijuu trying to dodge his question.
Heh, alright then, Kyuubi lifted her head and began to ponder. Well, it happened on the night you were born. You were weak and unsubstantial then, but then again, appearances can be deceiving. An old monkey stepped up when I attacked and used that thrice damned seal to imprison me within your mind, though truly we are where your chakra pool used to be. I must say, you could even be a match for me with your sword and reiatsu.
Naruto bowed at the compliment. "Well, that explains how you're here, but what about my memories? Even if it is difficult for one to remember things as early as being born, my memories... are just not there, like they were erased, or locked away."
The Kyuubi nodded. Yes, I suspect something like that did happen, but, unfortunately, I don't have the answer for that. But I do have an answer for something else that you are thinking.
"You mean... you know who 'his Highness' is?" Naruto asked. For some reason, he felt that whatever this being was, it had something to with him.
Yes, I guess you could say I know 'who' he is, or rather, 'what' he is, the fox said as she stared down at the man.
"What do mean by 'what'? Is he not a being of this world, like you, made completely of nature?" the blonde questioned.
The Kyuubi looked down to the nasty, slimy ground, almost solemnly. He is a being not like me, made completely of chakra. He is divinity itself, a being that has defied death his whole life. You were right when you thought that a powerful being was imprisoned within those ruins. His Highness is like that of a God.
"I don't believe in Gods," Naruto stated forcefully.
Chuckling, the fox continued. Neither do I, but that doesn't mean that I don't believe there are beings of power in this world, you and I perfect examples of this methodology. But, still, this 'Highness' is not something that should be taken likely, nor those that follow him.
"You mean that there are others like him, beings of complete power?" Naruto asked, his eyes slightly widened at the revelation that there were more that followed 'his Highness'.
Yes, there are at least three others that are like his Highness, though all four are not complete, still incomplete. The beast explained. These four call themselves Gods and there are most likely thousands, if not millions, who would pledge their lives to these 'Gods', and would willingly die if it furthered the goals of the four.
Naruto narrowed his eyes in silent contemplation. "Then that would mean there are more monsters like Akihiro out there, following these things?"
Yes, many more. You need to know, that these four beings have been alive, even before your forebear, Oda Nobunaga, Kyuubi answered, looking to Naruto with curiosity in her eye.
The blonde looked down to the ground, his mind racing. The fox looked around the chamber as she heard Naruto's voice, his thoughts echoing off the walls of the dungeon. Naruto looked up again and stared into the Kyuubi's blood red eyes for a moment, as if trying to look into the beast's soul. "You... are a very old being, but you are still only considered young, too young to wield the power you have. You have seen and done things that would make others sneer and retch. You are considered a demon from the very pits of Hell, yet... there is still something in you that others would claim is human. You and I... are the same."
The fox only stared back at the blonde before snorting and breaking into mirthless laughter that Naruto could compare to tinkling chimes. You have a very rare and powerful gift, Uzumaki Naruto. This gift to read people... no, to read any living being by just looking into their eyes, it is something the humans called shinobi should have. A bright red light burst from the Kyuubi's cage, surrounding the monster within. Naruto grunted as he brought an arm to block the illumination from his eyes. You will go on to do many great things with your life. I am pleased that I will have a front row seat for the show and for that, Uzumaki Naruto I will tell you... my true name.
Naruto lowered his arm and felt his eyes widen at what he laid witness to within the prison of the Kyuubi no Youko.
My true name...
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The Hokage's Office
Ten Minutes after the Reunion
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"Damn it!" Minato exclaimed as he slammed his fist into his desk. He ignored the pain in his hand and looked up, staring into the eye of his only remaining pupil. Kakashi was as lazy as ever, his façade not showing a thing in his body language. His wife and the two other jounin had gone along with his personal guard, who had taken his returned son, Naruto, to the hospital after he started bashing his head into the floor and fell into a sudden coma. "You knew about this, didn't you?"
The grey haired jounin sighed and nodded. "Yeah, I found out back in Wave. If he had wanted to though, I think Naruto wouldn't have revealed his identity to any of us for as long as he wanted. But, then again, I don't think he expected you to be his father."
"That's just it," Minato said angrily as he leaned back in his chair. "He should remember me, Hell, he should remember Kushina more than me, but he didn't seem to remember either of us."
"I don't know what to say sensei," Kakashi spoke as he sat in one of the chairs in front of the Hokage's desk. "Maybe when he wakes up, you could have a proper conversation with him, like a father to his son."
The blonde man frowned. "You're probably right, but, there is still the matter that my own son is a mass murderer. I can't... I can't help but feel that I am responsible for that."
"Like you did after the Uchiha Massacre?" the Jounin questioned.
Minato nodded. "Yeah... I still feel guilty for that whenever I see Sasuke. If I hadn't ordered Itachi to kill them or if I had only stopped just the rebellious ones... perhaps he would understand that it had to be done."
Kakashi's eye narrowed. "But it did have to be done, sensei, Itachi said so himself. Besides, he was only doing what was best for Konoha. Sasuke will come to realize this once he's old enough to feel that honor."
"Honor?" Minato snorted. "What the Hell do we know of honor, Kakashi? There is no honor in what we do, there is no honor in stabbing our own in the back, and there is no honor in being just a tool. I realized this a long time ago. We as shinobi forsook our honor when we put on our hitai-ate. All shinobi know this."
"B-But, sensei...?" Kakashi began, but was stopped as the blonde raised a hand.
"I know, I know, I am aware of the hypocrisy in my statement, Kakashi. It doesn't matter though, that is only to incite strong feelings of pride in our current soldiers and our soldiers to be," Minato explained. He leaned forward and rested his chin on folded hands. "Sometimes, I wonder. If not for our earlier years when samurai ruled and the Rokudou no Sennin was just beginning his life, would we really be called ninja? As it is now, we are nothing more than mercenaries slinging around supernatural power."
Kakashi looked contemplative for a moment. "I... I can't answer that sensei."
"I know you can't, and didn't I tell you to stop calling me that?" Minato reprimanded with fake anger in his voice, a small smile on his face.
Kakashi's eye smiled. "Um... sorry?"
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Konoha General Hospital
One Hour after the Reunion
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A man with black hair and dark green eyes wearing a white doctor's coat sighed as he looked at the papers clipped to the clipboard in his hands as the Hokage's wife and two other kunoichi looked down sadly at a blonde man that ANBU had suddenly brought in. "As far as I can tell, Uzumaki-sama, there isn't much wrong with him physically, besides the head trauma, of course. But my chart's and med-nin readings are telling me that there is serious mental activity. I would say that his coma may last to tonight or may even span a year, I can't really tell."
"It's alright, Doctor Ashige," Kushina spoke as she watched her son sleep, the first time in sixteen years. "I'm just glad he has finally come back to me."
The doctor nodded. "If that is all Uzumaki-sama, I will come back in another hour or so to check on him."
"That's fine, go ahead," the redhead said, still not looking to the man, who bowed and left.
Anko stood and stretched. "Well, as fun as it is to watch blondie sleep, I'm pretty tired myself and I still have a report to write for Hokage-sama."
Kushina glanced at the purple haired woman awkwardly before turning back to her son. "Go ahead and go home Anko-chan, Minato-kun won't be expecting your report until the end of the week."
The excitable woman cheered as she hugged the redhead. "Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you. Now I can go get a drink... you want to come with Kurenai-chan?"
"No, but thanks anyways Anko," Kurenai dismissed the proposal with a smile and a wave of the hand. "I think I'd rather stay with Kushina-sama for now."
"You don't have to do that Kurenai-san, I'll be fine by myself," Kushina spoke, though her eyes were locked on her son, committing his face to memory.
Kurenai just waved her hand again. "No, no, I couldn't just leave you here alone, Kushina-sama." The red eyed woman looked to Anko. "You go ahead Anko, I'll see you later."
The special jounin just shrugged her shoulders. "Meh, whatever you say. If you change your mind though, I'll be at the usual haunt." Anko rubbed her hands together as she left the room. "Now to get some sake!"
Kushina looked to Kurenai, who seemed to fidget under the woman's motherly gaze. "You didn't have to stay, you know?"
"I know, it's just that," the brunette started as she looked over to Naruto, whose head had turned during his sleep. "Naruto-kun shared with me some of his past, and not only that, but he saved me. I feel like I owe him my life for that."
The Hokage's wife began to giggle hysterically at the statement. Kurenai had to raise an eyebrow at the change in the woman's attitude. "Is there something the matter?"
Kushina shook her head as her giggling fit ended, leaving her panting for air. "No, no, it's... well... having my son finally come back, and to learn that he is already wooing ladies, it's just too much." And she began to giggle again as Kurenai blushed.
"W-What's... with all the noise?" A soft, gravelly voice asked from the bed, making both women look to Naruto, who had a hand rubbing his head. The man slowly sat up, wincing as his eyes caught the bright white light of the hospital. Suddenly, his eyes widened, showing his mother that they were as red as blood, like a demon's, like... "Kyuubi?"
Both women wore shocked expressions at the mention of the demon's name, though Kurenai was left wondering what the blonde meant, Kushina took on a saddened expression. Immediately after Naruto's exclamation his door was blasted open as ANBU rushed in, surrounding the swordsman's bed, and were followed in by the Hokage.
Minato looked around carefully, trying to spot any sign of the monster from nineteen years ago, but of course didn't. Looking over to his son's bed, he spoke. "Jounin Yuuhi, will you give Kushina and I some time alone with our son?"
Seeing no room for argument, Kurenai acquiesced to his request. "Yes, Hokage-sama." She stood and left while taking a glance at Naruto, who was looking down at his hands, most likely thinking something.
When the door shut, the Fourth turned to the other blonde, his ANBU guards ready to move on his command. "Uzumaki Naruto, you are to be arrested and held at a maximum security prison on the grounds of massive manslaughter."
Kushina's eyes widened as she looked to her husband. In an instant, she was in front of the man. "What do you mean he's to be arrested? He's our son damn it! What the hell do you think you're doing?"
Minato sighed. "I've been asking myself that same question, but I have to do this. Naruto is the criminal and murderer known as the Devil of the Flood and the Thousand Man Slayer." He watched solemnly as his wife's eyes welled with tears, her body shaking from some emotion.
The redhead turned towards Naruto, who was still looking down, thinking. "Is this true? Are you... Are you really a killer of such infamy?"
Naruto looked up and into her eyes, staring as if he was reading her soul. "Yes... I am." This seemed to break the woman as she fell to her knees, a sobbing mess. Some kind of emotion ran through Naruto's body, but he paid it no heed as he looked to his father and stared into his eyes. The man's judgment was clouded by emotion, most probably a need to protect his son. "But isn't that the same thing you shinobi do... kill people you are told to. I am the same, except that I was looking for one strong enough to kill me.
"Though, if it eases your minds, the samurai I killed after that night, came to me, looking for a challenge. How they knew where I was, I will never know," Naruto explained. "Besides, you as a ninja do not have a say over me, a samurai. And even though I do not serve a master, the only people I could answer to would be all five of the Elemental Nation's Daimyo."
The Fourth was taken aback by the explanation. It was self-defense. He couldn't arrest anyone, especially not his son, who was just defending themselves. "But that doesn't explain why you all but slaughtered both the Nagatama Gang and the Black Earth Clan."
"The Nagatama Gang were sexually harassing several young women and I gave them a choice: leave with their lives or die. They chose the latter and I dealt judgment. There were two of your ninja there who witnessed everything," Naruto explained in a lax drawl. "The Black Earth Clan however... is another story. That day, I felt four energy signatures chasing after a weaker signature. The weaker energy signature was leading the four into a trap. For some reason, I felt I should give a helping hand. This led to what I think you've come to call as the Black Earth Incident."
"Then, I can't arrest you," Minato said after some time spent thinking. Kushina looked up to him with hope in her eyes. "Those two ninja you mentioned did something about you offering the Nagatama Gang a deal and if you hadn't killed the Black Earth Clan, well, this ANBU squad here would never have killed an assassin from Cloud and would probably be dead right now." The black ops soldiers bowed to one knee as Naruto narrowed his eyes, feeling for their energy signatures and recognized them as the same four who were chasing after ninja who saw after the explosion.
"We owe you our lives and our swords, Uzumaki-sama," one of the ANBU spoke, a kunoichi with long purple hair and a tattoo on her shoulder that signified that she was an ANBU Captain.
Naruto's eyes narrowed further. "Don't call me that, ANBU-san. Naruto will be fine, calling me by my surname makes me feel older than I am."
"As you wish, Naruto-sama," the kunoichi spoke, indifferent.
The swordsman snorted slightly as he looked to his parents. It was weird for him. He didn't know if he should trust them or kill them.
Trust them. The Kyuubi spoke in his mind. Naruto didn't respond, but he was left wondering just why he had awoken before he could hear her name.
"So... you... are my parents, huh?" The blonde teen asked looking to the two as his father helped his mother to her feet.
The Hokage rubbed the back of his head sheepishly. "Uh, yeah... I guess we are." Both smiled at their son, whose lips slightly twitched upwards.
"About earlier in your office," Naruto began, looking down to his metaphorically bloodstained hands. "I'm sorry I passed out... it's just that, when I saw you," he looked up to Kushina, "distorted images passed through my head and it brought unimaginable pain. I think... I think that my memories of the first three years of my life were either erased or locked away."
"By who?" Minato asked, concerned, Kushina nodding her agreement. Naruto seemed to think for a moment before looking at all the ninja in the room. The Hokage seemed to understand the gesture. "ANBU, set up a perimeter outside the room. No one is allowed in." The ANBU saluted before disappearing in lines akin to static as Minato and Kushina sat in the chairs around their son's bed.
Naruto nodded thankfully and settled his gaze on his parents. "I guess... that I can trust you with this," he spoke before sighing. "There is a very powerful being in this world who defies all logic and reasoning. He is eternal and is even more powerful than the Kyuubi no Youko, who I found is both sealed in me and for some reason in love with me."
"Is the Kyuubi... a guy?" Minato asked tentatively, hoping against hope his son wasn't...
The Fourth's son shook his head. "No, the Kyuubi is female."
Both Kushina and Minato were relieved by that and Minato felt both proud and appalled. Proud that his son was able to woo the strongest Bijuu and appalled because the one in love with his son was the strongest Bijuu. "So... you met the Kyuubi, huh?"
"Yeah," Naruto responded, "She's actually kind of nice once you've talked to her for a bit, that is if you don't mind looking up."
Ah, you're such a flatterer. The Kyuubi intoned.
Naruto looked down sadly. "But, this being I mentioned, he... he thinks himself a God. And I believe that he was the one that orchestrated this whole mess."
The Hokage seemed to think about something for a moment. "What... what is this being? Does he have a name?"
"The only one that I know of... is 'his Highness'," the swordsman answered. "But, that isn't the worst part. There are at least three other beings like his Highness, but they are not as powerful, but almost as old, his Highness most likely being as old as time itself. And the scary part, is that all four 'Gods' have literal hordes of followers, all most likely with power that is similar to my own."
"Don't you use chakra though?" Kushina asked.
Naruto shook his head. "No, I gave up chakra a long time ago, I think I was four. The energy I use is called reiryoku, my internal energy, and reiatsu, my external energy. It is, from what I've seen, a lot more potent than that of chakra. True samurai usually go through a process called Henkan, but, his Highness' followers have somehow overcome the three year wait and have spiritual energy far faster than anyone else."
"There has to be a weakness to that, right?" The Fourth questioned, curious about this energy his son used.
The swordsman nodded. "A major one that I've never seen before, though, I don't know how much of a weakness it really is. During Henkan, a samurai's chakra is converted to reiryoku and reiatsu, and the process lasts for three years. Throughout the process, a samurai must constantly train and meditate, so as to control their power. The meditation is actually for communicating with one's spirit.
"This spirit will live as their weapon of choice, hence why samurai only use one sword. The spirit of the sword will help you fight, granting one its power and knowing the name of your spirit is also beneficial as it would bring out a physical manifestation of the spirit, who will then help you fight, increasing one's own power tenfold, this in turn explains why we samurai seem to name our swords," Naruto explained. "But, these followers, I think that their spirit does not reside in their sword, but in their own bodies. And when they call on the spirit, they themselves turn into the physical manifestation of it. I've only seen one, so I could be wrong."
Naruto's parents seemed to be in a state of shock as they digested the information. "Does... Does that mean that you to have a spirit in your sword?" Minato asked as he looked over to a corner of the room.
The blonde swordsman followed his gaze and stared at his sword. "I do, but I wasn't the one that created her."
"Her?" His mother asked, wondering if these spirits have genders.
"Yeah, her," Naruto answered, looking longingly at the nodachi.
"Does she have a name?" Kushina questioned with a smile, Minato smiling as well.
Naruto nodded with a slight smile of his own. "Yeah, her name is..."
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Konoha General Hospital
Five Hours Later
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A woman with light blue hair dressed in a nurse's outfit walked down the empty halls of the hospital, a slight smirk on her pale face. She stopped at a door that was blocked off by ANBU, her destination.
She showed the two men her I.D. card and smiled. "The doctor sent me to make sure he's everything is normal." The two ninja nodded and opened the door for. "Well aren't you two just a pair of gentlemen." Her smile grew slightly as the two stayed indifferent to her flirting. "Ah, you both are no fun at all."
Once the ANBU shut and sealed the door, the woman's smile grew sinister as she faced the sleeping form of Uzumaki Naruto, her target. Her pink eyes glinted in the moonlight evilly as she stepped up to the blonde man's bed and sat on the edge. "You are a hard man to find, and from what I hear... an even harder man to kill," she spoke as she unzipped her top part way, showing a more than generous amount of her ample bosom. She reached into her blouse and pulled out a sheathed wakizashi that was missing its tsuba.
She unsheathed the blade, throwing the wood to the side of the room and began to stroke the side of Naruto's face. "It's too bad Master wants you dead, you would be a fun plaything, Naruto-kun. It doesn't matter anymore. The Master wants you dead and since that creep Akihiro was too much of a pussy, it looks like I'm the one who gets the honor of slaying the Manslayer." The woman brought her short sword into the air and then stabbed Naruto... who then melted away into nothing.
The assassin looked shocked before black steel met her throat. "You know, if you were a good assassin, you wouldn't have spent so much time talking and would've killed me before I had the chance to create that clone."
Looking to the side, the woman found Naruto, alive, in a set of white pajamas, the top left open revealing his chest. The woman then smiled and purred. "Oh, this is great. Now I really will get a chance to stretch my claws."
Naruto frowned at the statement before quickly bringing his sword from the woman's neck to his side, blocking a strike from another woman who looked exactly like the first woman: a clone. The assassin who he blocked faded to nothing as the one on the bed launched herself at Naruto, who dodged by jumping back and through the window to his rear.
The blonde was calm as he landed on the top of an adjacent building and brought his sword to a middle guard, catching the fake nurse's wakizashi in a deadlock. "Who the hell are you?"
The assassin smirked. "My name is Chuunaru Miyuki and I have come to kill you in the name of his Highness."
Naruto's eyes narrowed at the proclamation as he threw the woman to the side and watched her land gracefully, like a cat. "Just as I thought, his Highness really wants me dead, huh?"
"You have no idea," Miyuki spoke with a smirk. She raised her sword and rushed Naruto, rapidly swiping at the man, who had trouble blocking the close ranges strikes, though he had no problem dodging.
Blocking another swipe, Naruto caught Miyuki in a deadlock. "Tell me, just who the fuck is his Highness?"
Miyuki's smirk grew into a devilish grin. "Why would I tell a dead man something so important?"
Naruto sighed exasperatedly. "Because you might have valuable information that I need and it would just be a waste to not get that information out of you before I kill you. Does that make any sort of sense to you?"
The woman frowned as she was blasted back again. "It does. It means that I have to step up my game if I'm going to turn you into chunks." Miyuki then rapidly began to slash her short sword, blades of hot pink reiatsu flying at the blonde who used Sokudo to evade.
"Well, that wasn't the answer I was looking for, but at least I know I shouldn't hold back on you," Naruto spoke as appeared behind the buxom assassin, his sword slicing her in half. "Shit," Naruto cursed as the clone faded away. He brought his blade up and blocked a flying kick that sent the blonde skidding along the roof and on thin air.
Miyuki's eyes widened as she witnessed the impossible feat. "H-How the hell are you floating on air?"
Naruto just stared at her lazily as he swung his nodachi around in lax circles. "If you had gone through Henkan training, you too would know how to do this, one of the simplest techniques."
"Are you mocking me, you fucker?" Miyuki suddenly yelled from the edge of the building.
"Why yes I am, I'm glad you were able to grasp that insult," Naruto spoke, his lax stare and drawl finally getting to the woman.
Miyuki growled as pink reiatsu spiraled around her in a triangular formation. "I'll kill you, you son of a bitch, for his Highness." She grasped her wakizashi with both hands and cried out a name. "Manekineko!" She was then encased in the pink energy, much like Akihiro had been. The triangle cocoon shattered, revealing a humanoid, blue furred cat. The she-cat was now taller and had more defined muscles. Her outfit was shredded, leaving the assassin in torn pieces that covered nothing. Sprouting from her wrists were steel blue claws that stretched out at least sixty centimeters from her arms.
The she-cat snarled and quickly rushed at Naruto, who used another Sokudo to dodge Miyuki's swipes. The assassin landed on the side of the hospital using her claws and launched herself up the wall.
Naruto watched from his perch at the top of the building as the woman rapidly approached him. He leapt to his rear as assassin reached the apex of her climb, missing his head by just a few centimeters. Landing, the blonde moved his sword into a one-handed hanging guard. "That release of yours is pretty... unique," he said as he stared at her naked, furry form. He had to wonder for a moment why her skin had turned light blue as well.
Miyuki smirked, as much as a cat could smirk as she crossed her arms under her breasts, pushing them up further. "Why, thank you! I do like it and his Highness did bless me with a sexy, lean, feline form."
The blonde looked to Miyuki and stared into her pink eyes for a moment. "So his Highness can give you spiritual energy himself, huh? Interesting... now, why don't I show you... a true samurai's release." Black reiatsu suddenly began to spiral around Naruto, his eyes glowing with power. "Illuminate the Heavens, Amaterasu." The black energy around Naruto shot behind him and began to form a womanly figure behind him.
A black light shot from the blonde and forced Miyuki to cover her eyes to not be blinded. Looking up, the anthropomorphic cat felt her eyes widen. Behind Naruto was a vision of absolute divine beauty. The woman's black hair was very long and ornately styled and was dressed in a loose, ornate black and red kimono, her pale shoulders and an ample amount of cleavage bare to the world. Thick red tassels waved behind her with a large loop of the cloth hanging above her head like a sun. Around the woman's neck was black choker and set into her pale, beautiful, aristocratic face were a pair of glowing blood red eyes.
Miyuki was shaking in fear as both swordsman and spirit looked at her, both with glowing that shone in the darkness. "T-Th-That's a samurai's release?" It was getting harder to breathe, the woman realized as she fell to her knees.
"Yes, it is," both Naruto and Amaterasu spoke, the blonde's gravelly voice fused with the black haired spirit's soft, melodious voice. "And now, we'll show you, monster, why we are supreme in this world and the next."
The she-cat suddenly found herself in the air, flying over the Hidden Leaf Village. Naruto and Amaterasu just faded behind the would-be assassin, his sword slashing her downwards. The samurai was there behind her again, sending the woman back up
Again and again this happened until Naruto finally stabbed her, his sword lancing through her fur, flesh, heart, and spine. She looked into the two pairs of merciless, supernatural eyes, and instinctually knew that she was as good as dead.
"This is the end Chuunaru Miyuki. If there is a God you wish to pray to, do so now," they said unison.
Miyuki just grinned. "I don't need to. When I'm dead, he will just send more of us after you until you are six feet under. Besides, we Akuryou never truly die, as we just return to his Highness."
"Who is his Highness?" They questioned.
Miyuki smirked before spitting saliva mixed with blood in Naruto's face. "I'd rather die than tell you anything."
Both samurai and yuurei wiped their cheek, moving as one. "So be it." Naruto threw the woman off his blade and towards the hospital as black lightning-like energy danced around him and his sword. Reiatsu whirled around the blade as a sphere of the black reiatsu formed at its tip. Amaterasu laid her hands on Naruto's shoulders and sphere's size doubled.
"This is the end! Tensho-ryuu! Amaterasu Oomikami: Tenjitsu!" As soon as the attack was spoken, a large black beam of spiraling reiatsu shot from Naruto's sword, hitting Miyuki head-on, obliterating her as the beam blasted through the hospital destroying part of the building.
Naruto stood straighter, his nodachi at his side, the specter behind him mimicking his actions. "I think we went a bit overboard there, don't you think Amaterasu?"
The woman giggled slightly as she began to fade. It might have been Naruto-kun, but she wouldn't have learned her lesson if you had held back.
"Yeah, you're right," the blonde agreed. He snorted to himself. "You're always right, my Goddess."
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The Hokage's Office
Four Days Later
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Minato rubbed his head furiously as he looked at all the paperwork he had to do. It didn't help that villagers had witnessed his son flying and fighting a blue humanoid cat, or that the samurai had destroyed half of the hospital with a black beam of energy.
What the swordsman had been thinking, doing something like that over the village, he didn't know. What he did know was that his son had earned another title from the friendly neighborhood Elder Council: Mankind's First Disaster Walking. Oh, what fun it was to be the father of a man that could utterly destroy the village and everyone in it and not blink even an eyelash.
A sudden knock broke the overworked leader from his depressing thoughts. "Enter." He wasn't expecting the people who walked in however. "Ah, Naruto-kun... and you brought a couple of friends with you."
Zabuza grunted from Naruto's side as Haku blushed slightly from the other side. Naruto himself just looked bored, though there was a serious glint in his eyes. The swordsman sighed. "Father, you and I need to talk."
"About what?" Minato questioned, puzzled.
"The upcoming Chuunin Exams. With the recent assassin come to claim my life, I suspect there will be more, and with this... exam coming, I've no doubt in my mind so too will something even more dangerous," Naruto explained.
The Hokage's eyes narrowed in thought. "Does this have anything to do with 'his Highness'?"
Naruto nodded. "Yes, I believe so."
"Aright," Minato agreed as the three sat in front of him, "Let's talk."
Tranlation(s): Ashige - grey; Chuunaru - devoted; loyal: Miyuki - deep snow; Manekineko - beckoning cat;
Akuryou - evil spirit. These are the foot soldiers under his Highness. As their names imply, these beings are transformed by the reiryoku and reiatsu given to them. Their swords do not have spirits or yuurei, but instead the human himself becomes the spirit. Transformations vary and it is unknown how they come to be. It is theorized that a human who gains spiritual energy but does not undergo Henkan will transform into their yuurei, unlike a samurai, who will release a specter to fight alongside them.
Yuurei - phantom; specter; ghost; spirit. The physical manifestation of a samurai's sword and their. This specter will fight alongside the samurai, either physically or through lending power to the swordsman. It is said that there are three weapons that are not imbued with a samurai's own spirit, but with the spirits of Gods.
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Technique(s):
Name: Naruto's Walking on Air Technique
Type: No Rank, Supplementary
User(s): Uzumaki Naruto (Known)
Description: By focusing reiatsu under the feet, one can theoretically create a stable surface anywhere with enough traction to walk on, including air or water, as Uzumaki Naruto has demostrated.
Name: Tensho-ryuu! Amaterasu Oomikami: Tenjitsu! (Piercing Heaven Style! Sun Goddess: Sunlight!)
Type: S-Rank, Offensive, Supplementary, All Ranges
User(s): Uzumaki Naruto (Known)
Description: This techniqueis used within the unique and ancient sword style Tensho-ryuu and in conjuntion with the ancient nodachi Amaterasu. After creating a sphere of pure reiatsu and charging the technique, Naruto can fire this attack in a straight powerful beam that can vaporize and destroy almost anything, including humans or use it as area-effect attack that knock away and blind enemies with a pure light. If used as a beam, this attack cannot be redirected after being used.
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Author's Note: And that's it. Chapter over. Hope you enjoyed it. Oh, a couple things.
One: I spent a generous amount of time on this and hope it is up to par, but, finally, next chapter ends all this pussy bullshit with feelings, emotions, and other crap like that, hopefully. I might have to eat my words, though, which'll suck of course, but, meh, whatever.
Two: Yay, a little action scene which I feel was lackluster, but again, whatever.
Three: The Kyuubi was revealed, but Naruto didn't learn her name. What we did learn was Naruto's sword's name. Yes, I know, I'm just copying the Sharingan's techniques, but actually I'm not. Once we get to it, Amaterasu and the three unique weapons metioned above will come to play a major role in this fic, as they are going to be major plot devices to move the plot forward.
Four: I know no one can guess what the Kyuubi's name is, if you can, you can fucking read minds over the internet and I want to know how, but, I want to see if anyone can get who his Highness is, and just who his Highness is, not the three like him. If you get it, well, pat yourself on the back. I don't care if it's in a review or a PM. I might be generous enough to give you a reward though, so, whatever. And as for a clue, he was in what this is a rewrite of. Yeah, now I get to watch you all spin around for awhile. Yay.
Five: To those saying 'update soon', listen, or read as it were. While I don't mind it in your reviews and I am not one of those review hounds, I would like it better if you wrote something about the fic, why you liked it, why you disliked it, whatever. I like hearing other's thoughts about this and I could improve, especially in the suspense/drama genre. Anyways, whatever, you can just ignore this if you want.
Six: I have a Naruto/Bleach crossover idea that I've been working on for a little while. If you'd like to read it, tell me in your review, or vote once I put the poll up Saturday (Today) along with the title and the summary. It's going to be an Arrancar!Naruto fic, instead of the usual Shinigami!Naruto fics, though I think the former is steadily becoming popular. Well, whatever.
That's it, I'm out of here, sinners. If there is anything unexplained, ask me about it and I'll check it out and get back to you, unless I didn't explain it cause there needs to be mystery and something bringing you back for more. Alright, review and stay awesome.
'Til next time, RisenInfection, out