DISCLAIMERS! HOO-RAA! It's Deidara's turn!
Deidara: Why me? Un.
Please do it for me.
Deidara: But I don't want to.
If you do it, I'll get Pein to give you a day off.
Deidara: OH HELL YES! UN! I NEED TO GET AWAY FROM THAT MONSTER OF A LOLLIPOP!
Tobi: *starts sniffling* That...That was mean, Deidara...
OH MY GOD, HE DIDN'T USE THE HONORIFIC "SENPAI"! DEIDARA, YOU FUCKED UP BIG TIME!
Deidara: Oh shit, un. I'm sorry, Tobi! Don't cry!
Tobi: *starts bawling* TOBI IS SAD! *runs off*
NICE GOING. Now Pein is gonna have your ass on a silver platter. Or is there a mouth there, too, hmm?
Deidara: There ISN'T!
Do you kiss your own ass with that mouth?
Deidara: SHUT UP!
I'm just sayin'. If there's a mouth there, you'd probably use it to kiss your own ass.
Deidara: SHUT THE MOTHER-FUCK UP, YOU DIPSHIT! UN!
Did you and Hidan switch lives?
Deidara: I SAID SHUT THE—
Pein: Deidara, did you make Tobi cry?
Deidara: Y-Yes, un...
Pein: I see...Sharingan him.
SIR, YES SIR! *Sharingans Deidara* There you go.
Pein: Thank you. *drags Deidara off*
I better go check on Tobi. *goes to Tobi's room* Tobi, are you OK?
Tobi: Tobi is sad. Go away, Aaron-senpai. *is in emo corner*
Tobi...it's okay...
Tobi: Why was Deidara-senpai so mean? :'(
He's like Konan; He PMS's every once in a while.
Tobi: What's PMS?
You'll learn when you're older. Now how I about I get you a day off so you can see all the happy candy stores?
Tobi: Candy? TOBI WANTS CANDY!
All you have to do is do the Disclaimers. Disclaimer-san would like that.
Tobi: Okay! Tobi is going to do disclaimers because Tobi is a good boy! Jinso-senpai does not own Naruto, Naruto Shippuden, or any of the characters affiliated with them. If he did, he would give TOBI TONS OF CANDY IN EVERY EPISODE! YAY! Jinso-senpai does own Aaron, May, Rich, the elves, Cryptus, the Stranger, and Evil TOBI! YAY! CAN TOBI HAVE CANDY NOW?
One sec. * walks out in the hallway* PEIN, IF YOU DON'T GIVE TOBI THE DAY OFF, I'LL FRY YOUR ZOMBIE ASS LIKE MY MORNING BACON!
Pein: *yells back from office* Okay, okay! JEEZ! Tobi, you have the day off.
Tobi: YAY! TOBI IS A GOOD BOY!
Pein: *is still yelling from office* Why does he need the day off?
I'm giving him candy as a pick-me-up.
Pein:...*still speaking from office* God help us.
Whatever. Tobi, Let's go get some CANDEH!
Tobi: YAY! TOBI IS A GOOD BOY! *runs out the door with Jinso*
Pein:...Enjoy chapter 32.
Rule 26: If you push someone off the deep end, be prepared to get pulled in with them.
Normal POV
"Oh yes, it will be interesting." Aaron told the doombringer.
"LET'S MAKE THIS MORE INTERESTING..." Cryptus suggested.
"How?" Aaron asked interestedly. Cryptus raised his head and roared. Dark flashes popped out on the ground, and there stood an army of skeletal warriors, picked right out of their stony graves for battle.
"WITH MORE FOES OF COURSE." Cryptus said.
"Good. I was hoping you weren't rusty." Aaron said with a smirk.
"CREATURES OF THE SHADOWS! DESTROY THE LIGHT, AND LET DARKNESS TAKE ITS PLACE!" The dragon shouted with a mighty flourish, letting the undead fighters know what to do. They all charged, their jaws and joints clacking and rattling like a house during an earthquake, their soulless, blank eyes staring, and their weapons raised.
"JUST KEEP THEM BUSY FOR A LITTLE BIT LONGER!" Aaron ordered. His friends leaped into battle, letting out a might cry of war. They ran straight into the crowd of skeletons, and began hacking and slashing at them. Aaron stayed in his meditating pose as they fought and fought.
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They were still battling the forces of darkness. By now, the shinobi were tiring out, but the undead kept coming. They had no life; no soul; no energy. Therefore, they could never get tired. Aaron noticed the drop in their energy and became irritated.
"DON'T GIVE UP JUST YET!" He told them. With that sentence, he sent yet another glowing ball of light into each of them. They were revitalized; renewed, and full of new energy. They kicked it all back into gear, going at a faster speed than normal while Aaron was still continuing his technique. They fought for many hours. No one knew when it was day and when it was night. The sun was gone, so only the moon shone. She lay in the night sky, without her lover. They had always paralleled each other, and thus, were perfect together. But now that her lover was gone, she had no one. So she wept each day, never leaving the place where he was. Aaron felt sorry for her, and tried to think of ways he could do something while the fight raged on. He spent the minutes thinking and pondering while collecting his energy. Maybe he could free her lover. Bring them together once more. But how? After what could have been three days, he heard a voice. It sounded faint, like the voice of a small child a few yards away. It was soothing, and he listened intently.
"The orb lies below the heart, as well as her lover. Free him, and set the two together once more." It told him gently. The voice reminded Aaron of a distant memory that he could only tell was from when he was maybe one year old by how faint it was. He was inside a forest. Not the forest where he had been lost; on his homeworld, Ra'drith. A young girl, maybe fourteen called from behind him with a gentle voice. Aaron had walked over to them.
"What's your name?" The girl asked. She was the same girl the sweet voice had belonged to.
"A-Alren." He said timidly.
"Well, I hope we can be friends." She told him. The young boy brightened up at that thought.
"Really?" He asked.
"Really." She assured him. They seemed so far away now. Were they still alive? And if they were, did they remember him? He tried to focus more on that memory.
"What's your name?" Aaron asked her.
"Kyuubi. I hope you can remember it." It was Kyuubi. So she had known who he was all along. He shook the thought from his mind and woke from his stupor. He started trying to match the voice he had heard with another one, but he could only think of one voice: his mother's. He snapped out of it once more and focused. Saving the world was more important right now. So he continued meditating; sharpening his mind, body, and soul.
Time skip of awesomesauceness: 2 hours later (third day of fighting)
It was finally time; a glowing image of a person stood to Aaron. Cryptus' forces were nearly defeated. He got out of his meditating pose and landed on the ground.
"CRYPTUS!" Aaron shouted.
"YOUR TIME HAS COME!"
"OH REALLY? MY TIME HAS COME? TELL ME, WHAT IS MY TIME?" Aaron grinned.
"The dawn of a new day." Cryptus looked and saw the image standing next to him. He was shocked.
"YOU COMPLETED THE THIRD STAGE?" He asked bewilderedly.
"Yes, yes I did." Aaron answered smugly. Then he stood in a ritual stance.
"I call upon my ally; my predecessor; my mentor..." He began.
"ILLYON! LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE OUT AND REVEAL A NEW DAY AS YOU EMERGE FROM THE SPIRIT WORLD!" Aaron then shouted. The image beside him, which looked like a crash test dummy, except without the sign on the head, and having full limbs and connecting body parts, began to glow. Its form slowly changed to that of the sun god, Illyon. He wore an animal fur cloak, basically all tribal clothing, When it was fully formed, Illyon looked at Aaron and studied him.
"So you are my reincarnation..." Illyon said blankly.
"I am." Aaron told him.
"I can see your capabilities and personality in your eyes. I am proud to have someone such as you be my new life."
"And I am honored." Aaron said back. Then Illyon looked at Cryptus.
"Hello old friend." He said with a smile.
"ILLYON, IT'S YOU?" Cryptus asked.
"Yes it is. I can't believe what's happened to you."
"WHAT HAPPENED CANNOT CHANGE. I AM WHO I AM NOW." Cryptus told him. As he said those words, he realized the severity of his actions. Cryptus realized that he could never amend for everything he had done. Aaron saw his expression, and realized that he had figured it out.
"OLD FRIEND, I WILL SEE YOU IN THE SPIRIT WORLD." Cryptus said as a final goodbye. Illyon nodded with a sad smile.
"I wish this didn't have to happen, but it must." Aaron said gloomily with a sigh. He held his hands forward. Illyon walked up to him and merged with his body, causing his hair to turn into flames, his eyes and skin to glow, his hands and feet to turn into fiery claws, his legs and arms to catch on fire, and his chest to have the insignia of the sun god. Then Aaron started floating up in the air. He held his hands out, and directed them right below Cryptus heart.
"SOUL BEAM!" Aaron shouted. A magnificent and deadly laser erupted from his palms and flew towards Cryptus at unbelievable speeds. If you had slowed time down, you could see small tears coming from both Aaron and Cryptus' eyes. The laser burst into Cryptus chest, and the dragon's breath started hitching. Everyone watched in shock. Aaron had done it. A small orb of light burst out of Cryptus, and flew up into the sky. It then grew bigger and bigger, changing back into the sun. Cryptus began to shrink as he was breathing his final breaths. Then he lay on the ground defeated, back into human form. Aaron went over to him.
"I'm sorry it had to be this way..." He said. Cryptus smiled a weak and bloody smile.
"Don't be." Cryptus said back. Now that he was human, his voice had changed from raspy and evil to a friendly and semi-deep voice. It sounded like silk, his voice.
"I chose this path, and yet you tried to save me. That is all I could ever ask for." His eyes started closing as he spoke. And with a heaving breath, he said his final words.
"Thank you..." All movement left his body. Cryptus lay there with a sad smile on his face, his eyes staring into the distant sky, dreaming of a different life. Tears fell one-by-one from Aaron.
"My dear friend, if only I could have rescued you..." Everyone looked at Cryptus' body. He had black spiky hair, tan skin, and blue-green eyes. In fact, they were the most brilliant shade of any color they had seen besides Naruto's. He wore green and brown tribal-like clothing, and had moccasins on his feet. Aaron gingerly picked up Cryptus' dead body, and carried it a few feet away. He closed his eyes, and a memorial tomb made of light appeared in front of him. Aaron then walked inside and set Cryptus' body down. He walked back outside. While they had been fighting, many villagers had come to see who would win. They cheered when Aaron had killed Cryptus, but were angry when he had buried him.
"He now rests in a proper grave." Aaron announced sadly. They all walked back to the village, with the civilians trailing them. When they got back inside the gates, everyone came to them cheering loudly. After many people came up to Aaron and asked "How did you do it?"— to which he replied "It was hard."—, a civilian shouted out.
"A proper grave? Why would you put that thing inside a grave? It was a demon; a MONSTER!" Aaron eyes started glowing red in fury (like a mongoose's).
"A monster? He was a monster?" He began to ask emotionlessly.
"HE WAS A MONSTER! HE THREATENED TO KILL US ALL!" They shouted at him.
"Really? Tell me, do you know what true loss is like?" Aaron asked them.
"Of course I do! THE DEMON BRAT KILLED MY BROTHER!" They yelled. The person who was yelling was a man with a gruff voice.
"First, NARUTO IS NOT A DEMON. Second, no, you don't know what true loss is." Aaron told them.
"Have you ever had a friend who became so corrupted that he went down a path that would ultimately end in his death, and there was nothing—" He spat that word out with such venom that he could have been mistaken for a cobra.
"—You could do?" He asked them, sending out waves of killer intent. Everyone started to back away from him.
"Has your best friend ever tried to kill you because their mind had been twisted beyond all belief?" Aaron asked, starting to sound sickeningly manic.
"Have you ever found yourself wondering whether or not they're worth fighting for?" Aaron continued. There was silence.
"You have never had any of those things happen to you." He said in his coldest voice. The voice was cold; like ice. It felt frigid enough that it could make Hell freeze over.
"Cryptus was not a demon. I should know. I know of the demon world, and every youkai in it. They would never bring harm to an innocent child," He gestured to Naruto.
"Nor would they be so cruel to a woman who had her whole life thrown away by a traitor." He gestured to Anko.
"You are the demons." Aaron continued. The citizens began to get spastic about what he had just said.
"Demons, the things you fear will get you in your sleep, don't even harm a child. If you ever wish to see what a demon or a monster looks like, go home and look in a mirror." Aaron told them. They all began yelling at him.
"Cryptus was a friend, NO, more than a friend. He was a friend since the very beginning. And you have the GALL to call him a demon? You are lucky that I have not called upon the gods to smite you all!" He spat at them, increasing his anger and killer intent.
"IF I EVER HEAR ANYONE, AND I MEAN ANYONE, CALL CRYPTUS ANYTHING BAD, I WILL PERSONALLY GIVE THEM A ONE-WAY PLANE TICKET TO HELL!" He shouted.
"Who do you think you are, telling us what to do?" A civilian retorted.
"The only person in the universe with enough power to turn your greatest fears and worst nightmares into reality, the reality which you will have to live through EVERY. DAY. OF. YOUR. LIFE." Aaron finished, spiking his KI through the roof. The shinobi from heaven had gone back, seeing that the battle was over.
"I have to rest now, because I'm almost out of energy. I will be asleep for a week. DON'T THINK YOU CAN TALK ABOUT CRYPTUS WHILE I'M ASLEEP. I will have my friends be listening to see if anyone is talking bad about him. They will tell me who is and isn't and who did and didn't. Once they tell me your name, your fate is set, and you WON'T be able to escape it." He told them mercilessly. Then he stormed off to a house he had bought when he first came here, leaving enough KI for the civilians to start gagging and begging for air.
YAY! I FINALLY FINISHED THE CHAPTER! I went to the Melting Pot last night, and it was SO good! I'm glad that the one-month anniversary of All the Birds of Akatsuki was yesterday, because I also got a video game. It's a DS game, but so what? I play DS; nothing wrong with it. I thank you all for reading so far, and reviewing. YOU STILL NEED TO THOUGH. Otherwise, Aaron will turn your greatest fears and worst nightmares into reality. *cue dramatic lighting* REVIEW! BWAHAHAHAHA!
Until next time,
Ja Ne! *disappears in a soul beam which knocks you out* BYEEEEEE!