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Terekineshisu Shinobi
Chapter VIII
Cutting Off The Roots
Harry woke up to the blaring lights of above. 'Am I in a hospital...? Dammit.'
No thanks to the blaring white lights, and the white hospital walls... Even his clothes were white! He was going to have a panic attack Zangetsu twitched in her sheath on his back, which prompted him to calm down.
"I see that you are awake, Kiri-san." said a gravelly, old voice, at the entrance to his room.
He instantly turned around, and unsheathed Zangetsu, and settled into a stance. He then felt kunai settle at his back, barely feeling any space on his back untouched by the kunai.
"Kiri-san, let's all settle down. I am merely the Sandaime Hokage." The Sandaime stated, which prompted everyone apart from Harry to settle down. He merely lowered his sword, and relaxed.
"Sandaime-sama, can I ask, why are you here?" He asked, curiously, and vaguely defensively. To be honest, he still felt uncomfortable at the moment - since he had a feeling of dread. It was probably, a human reaction to being outnumbered, he guessed.
"Terekineshisu Shinobi, I do not answer to questions... Especially at the moment." replied the Hokage, coolly.
The teen barely held back his snarl, and the reflex to attack them all. He couldn't do it, even if he could beat all of these ANBU members, and that was a big if, then he would have to go against the Sandaime. Which would be impossible.
"But, I have a request for you, Terekineshisu Shinobi. You have to investigate an old comrade of mine, the one responsible for your teammates near kidnapping. You should feel lucky that your female teammate was with you... Otherwise, she would have been kidnapped as well."
Harry knew that the Hokage, had stuck him into a wall, but said monotonously, "What do I get in exchange? You know what I am capable of."
"A clean slate for your crimes against Iwa, the opportunity to kill the one responsible, and a good sum of money. This is an S-rank mission for a reason."
Harry then added, "And protection for my comrades."
The Sandaime nodded, grimly. Just as Harry got up to get his gear on, he said, "I am sorry. This for my village, and my people. I hope you understand."
"I do." Was all he answered.
After he got all of his Shinobi gear on, he immediately noticed a folder marked: 'Operation: Kill The Roots'. Hn. It seemed as if even in dangerous situations, Konoha still wanted to be dramatists.
He opened the folder, there was a map of Konoha (which he soldered into his brain), with a red marking written over it: 'Root HQ'. Then there was a number of entry points, with each varying amount of enemies to encounter at the entry. Then there was the number of enemies if he took a specific entry point.
He hurried through the window, and launched himself at a nearby rooftop. He landed in a roll, and continued on forwards, leaping across the rooftops, successfully gaining access to a entry point - the one with the most amount of guards at the entry, since he figured that the less enemies that he encountered, in the interior, the better.
Harry certainly didn't expect to meet ten ANBU at this particular entry point. All with wickedly sharp tanto.
He pulled out a group of ten kunai, and launched them at the ANBU. Two hit, in the neck, and the other eight dodged. He grimaced, but it was better then what he had hoped for.
The teen, launched himself at them, pulling out Zangetsu in his right hand, and a kunai in the left.
One launched himself at Harry, as well, holding his tanto in a reverse left hand grip, which he feinted with a slash to his stomach. Luckily, Harry knew a feint when he saw one, and unloaded lightning chakra on his kunai, and threw it right in the ANBU's face.
It hit it's mark, and the man's head exploded into a shower of gore. Harry wasn't surprised to see that his teammates didn't react to the deaths, since in that folder, he had been reported to not be shocked at Root's coldness towards death.
They all sprung at him, their tanto's slashing downwards, with Harry rolling out of the way, just in time so that the one behind him attempted to stab him in the back with a wind infused sword.
The teen grimaced, one of his advantages had been nullified. He muttered, "Push."
They were all sent flying, with Harry taking advantage of their instability, as Zangetsu slashed through them, with blood spurting out, of their now lifeless bodies.
He suddenly jumped to the side, turning around mid-air, and saw the leader of Root, standing behind him.
He called out, "Where is the rest of your organization, Danzo?"
The bandaged man replied, with a smirk, "So you finally decided to challenge me, Terekineshisu Shinobi?"
"I had to eventually." Harry answered, with a neutral expression.
"How about we make a bet, you and I. If you defeat me, you gain leadership over Root, and if I win, I gain your whole entire team." Danzo bet.
Harry wasn't sure about his chances now. If only the Hokage had given him reinforcements.
"...I accept." It was suicide, but Harry needed to test out his level. His only objective after gaining his memories back, was to beat, and come to the top... Just like he had in his old world.
Danzo lunged at the teen, with Harry barely managing to block the wind infused kunai, with Zangetsu. He activated his lightning chakra into his kunai, and threw it at Danzo, forcing the man to leap away.
The man cut in, "Futon: Rushing Blades!"
Harry rushed to dodge the wind blades, and cut through them with Zangetsu. He leapt at Danzo, and threw a lightning infused kunai at the momentarily shocked Kage-level Shinobi.
It lodged itself into the man's abdomen. The man merely smirked, much to Harry's shock, and unclothed his bandaged arm. Harry was shocked to see ten Sharingan eyes, in his arm.
"You'll never win. My Sharingan will determine this." The leader of Root stated, coldly.
"We'll see."
"Slaying Moon: Hollow!" The teen intoned, to which Zangetsu transformed into a black curved blade with a white guard. He felt much faster... Fast enough to counter that goddamned Sharingan... Hopefully.
He leapt at Danzo, who was surprised by the teen's sudden burst of speed, and the man swerved to the side, and launched fatal wind infused shuriken at the teen's back.
His speed, apparently also increased his reaction time, and he jumped up, dodging the shuriken by an inch, and exclaimed, "Destroy!"
The shuriken immediately destroyed themselves, with a cloud of smoke. Harry cursed, normally he would love these conditions, but now he had given an advantage to the man.
"Good fight, Terekineshisu Shinobi."
"It's not over, yet, Danzo. I am not leaving my teammates to you!" He stated, resolutely.
Luckily, Harry had guessed perfectly the amount of smokescreen, he had put out, and immediately leapt out... Right into Danzo's trap.
Suddenly, a fire unleashed itself on the telekinetic, who barely managed to dodge, but he noticed something. It went right up to the sky, which caused a thunderstorm.
He smirked, and reached up to the skies, not controlling the dragon that was up there controlling the clouds, but instead directed it.
"Kirin." He uttered, inventing the name on the spot. The dragon seemed to approve of the name, and Harry directed it to the horrifed Danzo.
The lightning dragon flew at Danzo with a shocking amount of speed, and the man couldn't dodge.
Harry fell to the ground, the dragon catching him on his back flying back on the ground, before the dragon departed.
Harry shakily stood up, and walked over to the leader of Root, only to see, that the man was bloody, and injured, but alive. That dragon should have killed him.
"Shocked? I am shocked that a dragon would be so obedient to you." Danzo commented.
"How the hell did you survive?" Harry demanded, hotly.
"I have more then ten Sharingan, Harry-san." The man revealed, to pull of his bandages on his face, to reveal that he had another Sharingan, and that his wounds had been healed.
Harry only had one option.
"Tsuhiri."
The blinding light appeared around his form, and healed all of his wounds, and increasing his chakra networks - for the moment.
He sprung forward the combination of Tsuhiri and Hollow mode, making him much faster, and stronger, with his healing factor near godlike. But it came at a cost... He had a time-limit. He had only five minutes before he would succumb to exhaustion.
Harry swung the electrified kunai that he wielded, and he stabbed forward, just as Danzo prepared a shuriken.
The dragon suddenly appeared behind him, Zangetsu flying and cutting off the Root leader's arm. Harry smirked, as his Raiton infused kunai cut into the man's stomach.
"Checkmate." He called out.
"Not yet, Harry-san."
No. No fucking way. That man was still alive.
"It seems as if you have forced me to activate my trump card, Harry." stated Danzo.
This was obviously a last stand, for the two of them.
"Mokuton: Mokobu!"
"Oburai!"
And the world exploded - the balls of concentrated chakra managing to force out, the entire bridge around them.
Harry fell forward, his exhaustion from using Tsuhiri and Hollow, making him lose all sensation in his body.
"It seems you lost, Harry-san..."
"Fuck." He cursed. His energy levels and chakra levels left him, without his techniques, but he noticed one thing - that Danzo was in the same shape. His Sharingan had been forcefully removed from his skull, leaving a massive pool of blood, forming around the man.
The teen forcefully stood up, his arms and body having massive gashes, injuries, and cuts. An after effect of that Mokuton technique, he bet.
He found Zangetsu, in his hand, and he threw it to the side, the sword clattering to the ground. He was getting desperate. He held out a kunai, and readied himself into a stance, forcefully ignoring the pain that exploded around his body.
"Let's dance, Danzo."
The Root Leader jumped at Harry, with a surprising amount of speed, the telekinetic barely managing to block the punches sent at him by the councilman. He jumped away, only to throw the kunai at the man, which forced him to sidestep.
Harry leapt at the man, and kicked the man in the gut, sending him flying. He stalked forward, just as Danzo jumped up, and started limping away. It seemed as if that kunai had hit him after all.
Apparently, he had enough energy for one attack.
His fists suddenly glowed green, and the teen stumbled forward, the sudden grasp of energy staggering him. It apparently took a lot out of him, forcing energy out of his body.
"Danzo... It seems, that I own Root now."
The man widened his eyes, and staggered forward even faster. The teen didn't let him get the chance.
"And also... Nobody, I said fucking nobody, can take my friends from me!" He growled out, his voice taking on a deeper, more primal sound.
It ended in a single punch, Danzo Shimura's body disappearing, in glow of green.
Suddenly, he felt immense pain to the back of his head, and the world turned black.
Zabuza had barely left his favorite brats out of his sight for two weeks, and since then, Harry had fought an ANBU, and Danzo fucking Shimura, in one week, and then Haku picked fights with everybody.
He scowled, as he stalked forward, many moving out of the way from the fearsome shinobi. He moved his way towards the hospital, where he suspected that Harry was being kept... At least, he hoped so. The man couldn't put it past Konoha, to kidnap the boy, and hold him for a ransom.
Then again, many hidden villages would do that... Especially, if they heard of Harry's bloodline.
As he arrived at his destination, he rudely burst through, and immediately demanded, "Where is Harry?"
The nurse seemed surprised, but immediately checked her files, answering cautiously, "He isn't here. He was discharged, yesterday."
"By who?" Zabuza asked, quickly archiving that detail into his brain.
"The Hokage... He must have a good reason, Kiri-san." answered the nurse, who must have seen the man's features tighten up.
Zabuza crushed down on the anger that overcame him, and merely thought, 'My infiltration skills need some work, but if I can get past the ANBU, get into the Hokae's filing cabinet...'
He glanced down at Kubikiribocho, before he got an idea.
'Let's see if Chōjūrō wants another sword to handle... Kubikiribocho is way too big, and noticable for a mission like this.' The former ANBU mused. He absently leapt a wall, just to see where the battle had taken place. It was obvious that Harry, and Danzo had fought here, since the residual chakra of lightning and wind, two rare elements, at least in Konoha, were here.
And there was the fact, that the landscape, and the bridge were utterly destroyed played a part in his deductions. Then there was the fact that a massive golden dragon, was for all intents and purposes, in front a portal.
"DRAGON!" He yelled, brashly. The man barely cared about his own life anymore, but he needed to get back his student.
The beast turned around, and declared, in an unknown language. Then he continued, "You do not understand the tongue of the Ryu, mortal. You have interrupted the ritual. The punishment for that is death, but I have a feeling that you have a reason, mortal."
Zabuza asked, "Have you used my student, in your ritual?"
"Death's boy isn't needed in this realm, anymore, mortal. He is needed in another, to absorb souls in the name of his master." The dragon answered, regretfully.
"When will he be back, Ryu?" He demanded, his earlier anger being reanimated, in a single sentence.
"Death estimates, in this realm's years two and a half years." The dragon responded, after a few minutes, of silence.
"And where is he going?"
"I shouldn't say, but I will anyway." The golden dragon stated, before he continued, in a fearful voice. "One where the gods play chess amongst eachover, where demons run rampant, and one where humanity isn't at the top of the foodchain, it is one where, a balancer is needed, before the storm."
"For the Apocalypse runs near, with his army of lieutenants, that can destroy cities in a single flick. That is where, Death has sent him."
Harry glanced around, nervously. He definitely wasn't in Konoha. Or the Elemental Nations for that matter. He was in a city, a rather large one at that, in his half destroyed clothes, which revealed a lot of his body. Only his trousers were salvagable.
He shrugged, and walked out of the shadows, many people gasping at his bloody form. He chuckled darkly. It was what happened, in a battle.
He managed to find a map of the city, which was called, 'Kuoh.' Definitely a japanese-like name, Zangetsu whispered into his ear. That was worrying, because he had memorized the whole entire map of the Elemental Nations, and there was no town or city called, Kuoh.
It meant either that he was in another country, or another world. He looked around, notcing that nobody had chakra. Which he supposed that meant that he was in another world.
Which sounded, even his head, extremely insane. Not that he was going to reveal that to anyone.
Suddenly, someone snuck up behind him, and heaved him into his arms.
"Get back to school! And get cleaned! Fightning punks isn't supposed to be bloody!" exclaimed the policeman, behind him.
"I don't go to school anymore." Harry deadpanned.
It made for a funny scene, despite the fact that one of them was covered in blood.
"I don't care! Now get to Kuoh Academy, ya brat!"
"I'm not a brat!" He retorted. "Old man! Get off, or I'm screaming 'pedophile'!"
"I don't care! I have to do this so many times, that nobody gives a shit!"
"Fine! I'll get to this school." He finally succombed to the old man's demand. Anyway, it would make a decent spot to garner information about this world.
When he had finally actually gotten to this school, he had discovered that people had assumed he was a fifteen year old.
'Sorry, but you're a year off the mark there...' He mused, absently. It had been a while since he had gone to school, but luckily, it seemed as if the first day wouldn't be too hard... Well he hoped so.
It seemed as if there wasn't a problem with a non existent birth certificate, which made him raise an eyebrow. It seemed as if this town, (or country), had a problem with birth certificates.
When the entrance to the school finally came to his sights, he found himself amongst number of students, which made him scowl. He absolutely hated crowds.
Harry stalked forward, blatantly ignoring everybody, around him, and mentally sighed. This was bound to make him insane. Luckily, the school made for a rather beautiful sight.
When he finally noticed the massive billboard, which held up a massive paper, which sorted students into a year category, he noticed that he was in first year. Meh.
He stood with his classmates, probably seeming standoffish, whilst most of his class laughed together, did jokes... It vaguely reminded him of his Hogwart years. No time to ponder on long lost pasts.
Harry looked up, finally to see a rather beautiful (he had been saying that a lot, hadn't he?) girl with glasses, to which he immediately recognized as a figure of authority.
It could tell itself, by how most of the students, quieted down. There were still a few fools that kept on talking, but the girl ignored them in favor of speaking.
"My name is Sona Sitori, and welcome to Kuoh Academy. We hope you all do well. As some of you may know, this school used to be a girls-only school, but last year, we have now opened it up to become a unisex school."
That was curious, to say the most about that. He wondered why, it was a girls-only school, since they went out of fashion, years ago. And seeing how they wore short skirts. Which would encourage perverts.
Luckily, he had gotten over his hormones, so he wasn't about to go all Icha Icha on their ass. He shook his head, discreetly. Don't remind yourself of those memories!
He absently followed his classmates, knocking over a small, petite girl.
"I'm sorry...?" Harry said, as he helped her up.
"Koneko." She answered, quietly.
"I'm Harry." He stated. He walked ahead of her, and followed his classmates.
When they entered the classroom, he was put next to Koneko (luckily, since nearly everyone was looking at him fearfully), to which he sat down, and then pointedly glanced around the English classroom. It was a plain white classroom, with many accessories, being practical stuff.
He barely swallowed his sigh. It seemed as if, he would have to get into the criminal buisness, since he had no job. He absently frowned, and concentrated, on his plans.
He may have set his mark on the Shinobi World, but this world seemed peaceful. Which meant, that if he caused a few heists, here and there, he would set his mark, quickly.
But, before any of his criminal activities happened, he would have to get through, his second most hated thing in the whole world: school.
AN: I seem to have forgotten about Akatsuki... At least, that is what you think. I haven't forgotten about them.
This may seem obvious, but hasn't anybody noticed how selfish my Harry is? He doesn't care about anyone else, apart from setting his mark upon the various worlds he visits.
This is going to be remarked upon, further on. But I like how I have portrayed Harry, in this, since I feel that he is what I planned on him being: a anti-hero.
One thing that was consistent in my other fics, was that the main character were... Mary-Sueish. Basically, overpowered, and too good (in a moral sense).
Now, he's not too powerful (at this point in the fic), and has moral problems, which I feel like many people would have, if they could manipulate lightning, and had telekinesis.
Well, at least, it's what would have happened to me.
I think that's enough of my rambling, and I welcome you to the multi-crossover of the fic. This world-hopping thing, is going to be explained, don't worry.
Well, peace. Hope you like the chapter.