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Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters here that belong to Naruto that I put into this story except for my own OCs. Neither do I own any of the character in any of the crossovers I do. I'm just using them in this fanfiction and I have no money so don't bother suing me. You'll just lose money instead of gaining any. And remember to leave a review!
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The Winner Is... –
Hunrok Delmo husband to Carline the queen of Metal sat in one of the small meeting rooms of the palace with Tseng Rockcus the command of the Turks. "He finally shown himself again." Hunrok said putting down the report he was given by Tseng. The report came in a short while ago from a Metal trader, the news stations would also be on the scene soon enough.
"The Butcher has defeated most of the Leaf nins leaving the best that the village had broken. They all have broken bones and some will never be able to fight again. The strange thing is that from the old reports on him he usually kills not just crippling thm," Tseng said.
"There's more then one way of breaking a foe you know," Hunrok said. "Seeing the best of their village laying in beds in a body cast will do wonders for their moral. And those who saw him fight, will be shaken to their cores. I have seen him fight before, his style which he created himself is a ferocity that's both graceful and vicious."
"Butcher from the reports that are coming in, he wanted to see how weak he had become after resting his blades after the death of your son in law," Tseng said. "And since no one knows where he came from or what he looks like trying to stop him at the border will be all but impossible."
"He'll show himself when he wants to and we'll only find him when he lets us. That's why he's the strongest of the eastern lands and now learning that Naruto is his rivals son wants to test his strenght against the western lands," Hunrok said. "But I do know something about his past. He's from the former Empire of Szaalenden, the land without heroes."
"He's from there?" Tseng said his eyes narrowing as he knows about that land and its people.
"Yes he was before the empire fell that is," Hunrok said. "I tell you what I know from the bits and pieces that I have managed to piece together. There is a tale told in the Empire of Szaalenden, when it was still at war with a powerful dark enemy called Wischtech the Emperor sent 14 champions to stop the onslaught, though not all would complete the journey. Throughout their excursion, three of the champions died and four turned on their comrades. The seven heroic men who remained, defeated and punished the traitors and accomplished their mission stopping the enemy's army from reaching the empire. The seven men returned home lauded as saviors, and were awarded the title of "The 7 Heroes," while the traitors' names were forever shamed and referred to as "The Lances of Betrayal." This story was simply a fable. The "Seven Heroes" in the story, were cowards who fled upon seeing the enemy force. The "Lances of Betrayal" were those who bravely pushed on to complete their mission. However, upon making their way home, they were ambushed and slaughtered by the cravenly deserters to take from them the honor and glory of achieving the quest. Unbeknownst to the treacherous group, however, one survived, his name was Ascheriit."
"Five years later the empire faced another enemy force from the Kingdom of Gaze looking to expand its boaders. During that time when the call for the Seven Heroes to take arms again was when Ascheriit strike. One by one he killed off the so called heroes who grew corrupt with the power they gain from their lies. In the end their lies came to light along with their corruption had caused from using bodies of bloodline holders to strengthen their bodies to taking what they wanted. The Emperor ask Ascheriit to lead the army to fight against the army of Gaze as he and his three friends were the real heroes and he was the only one left who could raise the moral of the army. Once it was revealed that they been following and calling the traitors as heroes, which he agreed to. When the two armies met to open combat, was when Ascheriit did the one thing none had expected. He threw down his sword and walked towards the enemy soldiers. 'I fought to save this land once before only to be turn on by those who ranaway, my name along with the other three I fought with known across this land as betrayers. The only reason why I now being hailed as a hero is not because I reveal the seven as what they were but only because they need me to save them once again. I'm not going to save this land again, seeing what the people I fought for are like, calling anyone who say that they did something without anything but their own words. Those of you who want to become heroes all you need to do is to kill the one who are and say that you did what they did and the people of this land will buy it as they did with the seven that I killed.' With those words he left the field of battle as the enemy forces let him pass though their ranks, then launch their attack on the now moral shaken Szaalenden army."
"They did manage to drive the invaders out but only after a long ten year bloody war that left much of the former empire a wasteland. The reason why was because after the words for Ascheriit spread through the land, the soldiers fighting had no will to stand up and lead a charge for fear of being backstabbed. The commanders of the army began fighting among themselves as they all thought that the others once they won a battle would kill them and take their glory. Which is why the empire fell apart into ever shifting factions and why the land doesn't have any heroes as all fear that someone will just kill them and name themselves as a hero."
"And that was just around forty years ago, just around the age that we think Butcher is," Tseng said seeing where his king was getting at.
"I heard that tale first hand from a man with his face covered with bandages saying he came from Ascheriit escaping the war there just before I met Carline," Hunrok said.
"You think that Butcher is Ascheriit?" Tseng ask.
"Maybe or maybe not," Hunrok said. "All, I know is that to make someone like Butcher is, something needs to happen to make someone into someone like he is."
"At least the Leaf has been broken. With so many Leaf nins crippled the remaining nins will be hard press to keep up with what missions are coming in. The drain from caring for the cripple nins should also weaken them," Tseng said.
"Which will make things much easier once, Naruto takes his revenge on the village," Hunrok said. "Also are you sure that the Butcher is the Butcher?"
"You could potentially find someone of Butcher's height, and train the imposter to imitate Butcher's voice and speech patterns. But you can't counterfeit a fighting style. Not to the extent that you could imitate it perfectly in a real fight," Tseng said. "The report says that the Leaf nins who had fought Butcher before all say that while he isn't as fast or strong as he use to be, the fighting style is the same."
Hunrok nodded. A fighting style had to be ingrained at the reflexive level to be of any use in a serious fight, as fights often progressed too quickly for the people involved to consciously think about what they needed to do. Because of that, they were as individualistic as fingerprints.
"There is also another thing," Tseng said.
"Yes what is it?" Hunrok ask.
"The World Government is sending a ship to meet Naruto and hope to make Metal apart of their political organization," Tseng said.
"They always do that when there's a new heir of Metal," Hunrok said remembering the last time the Marines came in the hopes of making Metal apart of the World Government. "Ever since Caline's great-grandmother had summon, Hardstone to destroy their HQ when they tried to 'liberate' Metal during the war. What was left of the World Government have been trying to rebuild themselves back up. With how badly their forces were destroyed and the Absolute Justice the Marines followed at the time many of the countries that were with them left. I'm surprise how they managed to last this long." (1)
"They're sending a captain Smoker here with his crew here to meet with Naruto," Tseng said remember what the report said about the man. "Smoker is a muscular bluish-gray haired man. He has a very distinct trait of always being seen smoking two cigars at once, as well as having many cigars on hand strapped to his jacket, which has the kanji for "justice' written on the back."
"Only a captain this time?" Hunrok ask.
"In the Grand Ocean there has been a raise in pirates after Gol D. Rogers the Pirate King started the Great Age of Piracy after his execution. There is also the actions of Revolutionary Dragon who is trying to topple the Government as well. All the other high ranking officers are busy dealing with the problems boiling up to come to Metal," Tseng answered.
"So true but with all the evil that they have done in the past, it's about time that they fall," Hunrok said.
"I agree with that," a six foot young woman of twenty-eight years said as she enters into the room. She has a muscular physique that did not cost her her femininity. She was still slender and quite attractive but lacked the smoldering sex appeal and massive cup size that women like many of the women of Metal possessed. She had short brown hair cut in a page boy's style. The only odd thing about her was the cold, stern, and disciplined look in her eyes. She was dress in blue jeans that showed off every curve on her shapely legs and ride up her soft rear and a blue business shirt that clung to everything.
"Sam when did you got back?" Tseng ask.
"I finish the mission early so, I came back. I do need to meet the prince after all," Sam said.
"Good. You can be the one he fights when he trains," Hunrok said.
"Isn't that a bit much?" Tseng ask. "Sam is the strongest warrior alive right now."
"No she isn't?" Hunrok said.
"Really who's stronger then me?" Sam ask her king.
"Gono is," Hunrok answers.
"Yeah that's true," Tseng said.
"Well he is a Neanderthal," Sam said as no matter how hard she trains, she can only take it so far. Neanderthal's on the other hand were already stronger then a human without training. A warrior Neanderthal while a very rare sight to see given their peaceful ways, are the most feared of foes on the battlefield. With the most advance tech and alloys at hand a Neanderthal warrior could create weapons and armor that could stand up to just about anything. Gono did that with armor and an axe that couldn't be effected by chakra of anykind and are all but unbreakable. He as with all others of his kind can't be effected by mind trick jutsus, which she had to admit some of those foes she had frought almost had her a couple of times using mind tricks on her. She really would like to be able to see pass all of that and see her real target.
"Also Butcher is back and is heading to Metal," Hunrok said.
"Butcher? He's still alive?" Sam ask. She had heard about him before but she was just a small girl when he had hanged up his blades.
"He wants to test himself against my grandson," Hunrok said. "He went and single handedly defeated the Leaf Village."
"Don't worry we can take him," Sam said. "The Leaf is strong but only by the Eastern Countries standers."
"Don't forget, Sam that our king came from the East," Tseng said.
"Even at my age, I'm still good enough to give even someone at your level a hard time," Hunrok said. "Butcher on the other hand is just a plain killer."
"Killer?" Sam ask.
"You are a trained warrior but Butcher on the other hand is just a plan killer. Where you hold back he doesn't, where you avoid bystanders being caught in the crossfire he doesn't. He doesn't care who he has to kill to finish a mission he just kills, if he has to kill hundreds just to make sure that one person dies he does and has before," Hunrok said.
"I'll inform the others about Butcher," Tseng said. "But even he would think twice before taking on fighters who are at a much higher level then what he's use to fighting."
"You would think so," Hunrok said.
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The School –
The office door swung open from the inside and out stepped a very beautiful, very busty, school vice principal. Evelyn wore her blond hair up in a bun, she also wore a pair of the thickest lensed glasses Xania had ever seen. But with the body that stood holding up her beautifully polished face, she could have passed for a cover of one of those Hentai books written by that Leaf nin. Big would have been an understatement. Her white blouse struggled to retain itself as it was stretched across her massive bust. The blouse had many buttons; however, none of them could be buttoned. If that blouse was buttoned it was beyond anyone's vision. Or perhaps they were simply hiding behind the bottom of her dark green jacket, which she wore to compensate for the blouse which wouldn't button up. The jacket itself seemed to be in the same boat as the blouse. Only three of her jacket's buttons could be done, all of which were well under her bust line. The buttons stopped at her waist, where an equally dark skirt began to hug her curvy hips.
"Yes what is it Evelyn?" Xania ask having just return from the schoolyard.
"Strawberry and her friends have the princes nametag and are heading for the main building to try to lose the other girls after them," she answers. "They're also getting the attention of everyone else who are after the prince as well. And since the prince gave the okay to fight over him, it's going to be an all out warzone."
"Better give heads up to the guards," Xania sighed as things always break during these kinds of a chase.
"I'll say," said Momo head of the tech lab of the school. Wearing a loose heavy blue robes, loose white pants, leather gloves, boots making sure that no skin showed but her face. The omnipresent scholar's cap with two long red braids that hung down to the ground, a pair of small glasses that sat on her nose completed her look. She unlike many women of Metal didn't like showing off her body. Because of her loose fitting clothes its hard for others to judge what kind of body she is hidding underneath. "I already taken the lead and have the labs locked down. I'm not going to have the lab be wreck by rampaging students looking for a boy to dance with... again."
A loud crash was heard somewhere in the building, followed by many more.
"Too late," Evelyn deadpanned as students began battling each other for the prince's nametag.
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Across the street -
A pub which is where many Delmos stop by, the pub was known for its find food and cozy atmosphere. It was open all hours, and there were usually a couple of regular customers hanging around in the lobby, ready to bend the ears of visitors from other parts of the land. It was a good place to meet people and hear the latest city gossip. People were elbow to elbow at the table, laughing and swigging back various colored beverages or stuffing their faces with food.
"Alright are all the bets been counted?" Kim Possible ask to her three crew members with her at a table. She and the rest of her crew were grounded until the ship was tuned up and restocked.
"It's all been counted," Alison said.
"Whoever wins will get a big payday," Elizabeth adds.
"With so many teams after the prince its tough to pick which team will win," Kelly said. "Which team is the one everyone thinks is going to win?"
"It depends who's betting. Most are betting on the girls from their homelands to win," Alison said.
"I wonder if the school is going to be a mess again?" Kim ask.
"Well there are those new rules set in place to stop the girls from causing too much trouble," Kelly said as a loud boom could be heard from the nearby school.
"So much for that," Elizabeth said looking across the street as more booms and crashes could be heard coming from the school building.
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Out at sea -
"Make Sail!" With the command, the captain of a wooden sailing warship, started a bustle of activity. In seconds hundreds of sailor climbed high above the rolling deck. In minutes they unfurled huge sails to harness the power of the wind. On board, the ship carried everything the crew of about eight hundred needed for a voyage halfway around the world. The sea were the main trade routes, so the country with the strongest navy ruled the world. That was until the invention of the airships that made trading faster for light trading goods while the sea trade now deals with big and heavy trade goods. Life for the ordinary sailor on board a warship was very hard. They faced death from battle, accidents, and disease, and his floating home was damp, dark, and crowded.
Tashigi Ensign a Marine officer serving under Captain Smoker. She's a skilled sword fighter but has poor eye sight and tends to drop things or knock something over. She's currently reading the file they have on the Metal prince Naruto that the HQ put together. She still couldn't believe that she was going to Metal one of the Super Powers of the World, with the money from the metal trade and the powerful army and nins, made them a powerful country. They could afford the latest ships and airships, unlike with the World Government as their ships are but for a few are out of date ships and only a half a dozen airships at the ready.
Reading the ships menu for today, Tashigi would have never guess that the food was one of the attrations of joining the Navy. Meals included, rotting, stinking meat; biscuits riddled with maggots; cheese so tough that sailors carved it into buttons for their uniforms. The drink was just as bad. The 'fresh' water soon turned to green slime, and the beer kept a little better. Meals tasted bad because it was very hard to keep food fresh. Voyages could last years, and there was almost no refrigeration on most of the Navy ships. The ship usually carried live animals for food, but their meat, milk, and eggs were mostly reserved for the officers. Meat for the seamen was stored in salt, which made it dry and very tough. The salt worked by locking up the water in the meat. The microorganisms that rot meat need water to live, so salt protected the meat from spoiling. Bread went stale or moldy so instead the navy issued hard biscuits made of flour and water. Despite all this, shipboard food was probably better than the food sailors enjoyed with their families at home.
She wished that their ship could have a freezer so that she and the rest of the crew wouldn't have to eat hard biscuits, but money is tight all around. (2) They shared their biscuits with rats, maggots, and weevils. They called the maggots 'bargemen', joking that the biscuits was the barge, and the maggot was sailing it. Rats were easy to identify, and you'd notice one if you bit into it. The other two were less noticeable. One sailor said, 'Black-headed maggots were fat and cold to the taste, but not bitter, like weevils.'
'At least with the new can goods we're eating better then what sailors use to eat,' Tashigi thought to herself as canning food only started about ten years ago.
"You're first time to Metal?" Smoker ask to his second.
"Yeah it is," Tashigi answers.
"It be my fifth trip there," Smoker said. "You do remember the rankings of the Delmo's right?"
"Yes," Tashigi said as she began to list them out. "The Black Delmos are the lowest ranking of the kunoichis but are the greatest in numbers, in charge of carrying out simple missions, mass attacking using hand-to-hand combat and the administration of the castle and surrounding city. All Delmos start as Black before choosing whether they go up in rank or stay the same rank or just be non nins, making many women in Metal former Black Delmos. The Purple Delmos are train in using charka to increase their speed making them invisible to the naked eye. They serve as massagers between the towns of the country. The Yellow Delmos serve as the city guards protecting the people. They are train with body weights making them very powerful in combat. The Pink Delmos are responsible for maintaining the equipments for missions. And they're the healers. The Green Delmos are specialize in using long range throwing weapons and sneaking onto targets. The Blue Delmos are the middle-ranking kunoichis. They carry weapons and perform security duties such as defending the city and castle against intruders. The Orange Delmos are train to be weapon expects who can hold all of their weapons on them using the hidden weapons jutsu which uses a lot of charka to be use. The Red Delmos are the castle guard who are trained like the yellows in making their bodies strong. But they wear body armor making them the only ninjas who wear armor. The Silver Delomos are the Hunter ninjas to recapture any run away ninjas and are information gathers. The Gold Delmos are the elites who specialize in S-ranked missions and black ops. And the White Delmos are the commanders and royal family personal bodyguards. They are responsible for the smooth operations of the kunoichis forces and missions."
"Good," Smoker said. "We can't have a mix up like what happen with princess Kikko."
"Yeah," Tashigi said remembering what she heard about the officer who mistook a White Delmo as a lower ranking Delmo. "So what does the people of Metal think of us?"
"Little much, which is much better then what they thought of us before," Smoker said. "They remember too well what the World Government was like when the Tenryuubito's were still around."
"But that's was over a hundred years ago," Tashigi said.
"Yes but one of the Grand Generals of Metal was alive at that time and she always voice against us to the queen," Smoker said. (3)
"Hinako the Fire General," Tashigi said remember from the file they have on people of Metal of interest.
"She remembers too well what the government was like when the Tenryuubito's were around. Those were the people who are allowed to live in the Holy Land of Mariejoa as they were the descendants of the twenty kings who established the World Government. However, due to their connection to the World Government, they constantly abuse their power and look down on the people below them, referring to them as commoners. They're disconnected to the point that they wear glass helmets over their heads to prevent from even breathing the air of the common people. The Tenryuubito have various rights and privileges not held by many other people in the world. In particular, they are able to buy people, who have been captured and put into slavery and their actions are overlooked by the World Government. Which was the reason why when the sister of the queen of Metal of that time was sold into slavery and was killed by the person who brought her started the war between Metal and the World Government," Smoker explains.
"Even so all of the Tenryuubito's had been killed during the war and the riots that happen after the war," Tashigi said. "We're not like what we use to be."
"Expect that there are still people in the Government who still follow to the letter Absolute Justice," Smoker said. "Because of that and that we still trade in slaves is the reason why Metal doesn't want anything to do with us."
"Then why are we going there?" Tashigi ask.
"Since there's a new heir to Metal there's some hope that we'll be able to make good relationships with Metal through the heir," Smoker said. "And since it's the first time that there's a male Delmo, we need to see how powerful he is."
"Didn't the countries that are connected to us send girls for the engagement?" Tashigi ask.
"Yeah but since the prince's grandmother the queen is making the cuts who stays in the engagement, she will already know what we're up too," Smoker said as Fleet Admiral Sengoku hopes to have someone friendly to the government through that. (4)
"Will we see some Neanderthals?" she ask never having seen a member of the branch of the family tree before.
"In Metal there is a close tie between the Neanderthals. As you know they're dedicated hunter-gatherers, and have no developed concept of agriculture. Despite this, they are still technologically advanced, possessing computers, airships, communications and biological recording instruments, which is where the rest of us had gotten the tech stuff from," Smoker said. "Oh yeah remind all the crew not to talk about religion when meeting a Neanderthal."
"Why?" she ask.
"The Neanderthal have no religion and no concept of religion. This is not due to a simple disbelief or worldwide atheism. The Neanderthal never had a religion to begin with and never saw a reason why to ever have one. Prior to contact between humans and the Neanderthals they had no concept of a creator; an afterlife or souls had never occurred to them. They do not understand how we humans can possibly believe in the stories our religions tell and are sometimes frustrated with some of us insistence of the truth of their beliefs. Nevertheless, the barasts do accept religion as a part of who we humans are. They also do not believe that the universe had a beginning and do not adhere to the Big Bang theory. Instead, they believe the universe has always existed since without religion to tell them there was someone who started everything," Smoker said.
"But religion is meant to save people," Tashigi said.
"Yeah but only if they needed to be saved in the first place," Smoker said. (5)
"How long will it take for us to get to Metal?" Tashigi ask wanting to talk about something else.
"Once we get to the outpost on a island off the coast of Rome, we'll leave the ship there and get drop off on the mainland. There we'll take the train to Metal," Smoker said. "Which will take about five to nine days depending on the sea from here to there, then only four days by train."
"I wonder what he's like?" Tashigi said to herself thinking of the prince. She had read and watched the news reports on what the prince's life was like when he was living in the Leaf Village.
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Back at the school -
The front of the school's main doors flew open as a ragged form came out limping. For almost half an hour the school building had been a warzone as girls fought over the prized name tag of the prince. Each of them giving their all as they fought each other, as Naruto said that it was ok for them to fight it out. The Delmo's and guards mostly stood by and watch the fight only breaking it up when it got too far out of hand or when one of the girls tried to use a weapon. The hallways of the school were littered with the bodies of the young girls who fought over the nametag. The Delmo's and guards were busy helping the girls to sick bay or those who know how to use healing jutsus healed the girls.
"I got it," Ino smiled as she was the only one left still standing from her group. Hinako had stayed behind the group when Hinata and Toph were getting beating by a large group of girls at the other side of the school when everyone was running and fighting, trying to find who has the nametag. She, Sakura and Tenten had gone ahead and after fighting all out, she gotten the nametag out of the pile of bodies. Somewhere among the fallen were Sakura and Tenten who had fallen during the battle, she had gotten lucky to have ended up underneath a pile of downed girls during the fight and when she pulled herself out most of the fighting was already over with.
"You need to step out of the gate to win!" the redhead teacher Ranko shouted out.
"Right!" Ino said as she walked over to the gate as fast as she could.
She never made it as the form of a beaten Mai punched the back of her head knocking her out.
"I win," Mai smiled as she crossed the finish line. (6)
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Author's Notes –
1 – Marines following the rule of Absolute Justice will be noted to display some or all of the following views:
1. Anyone connected to criminals, no matter who they are, can be arrested even if they have not done anything. Even if the criminal is family, they must be captured or killed.
2. All individuals noted to have done illegal activities or criminal acts will be reported to Marine HQ and issued bounties, based the known information on their threat level. Regardless of the circumstances.
3. Raising the Jolly Roger, mentioning, or being associated with pirates can be taken as a criminal offense.
4. Any country caught harboring pirates can have further actions taken against them.
5. Destroying an island to eliminate a problem is an option.
6. Innocent lives can be taken to prevent the possibility of a criminal escaping.
7. Any Marine who hesitates to take action against a criminal as ordered can face punishment.
8. Slavery is ignored as it is seen as an effective means to handle criminals.
2 - After their total defeat at the hands of Metal, the World Government is short on everything since their fall from power.
3- The ranks of the army of Metal
Private
Lance Corporal
Corporal
Sergeant
Officer Cadet
Lieutenant
Captain - Almost all soldier's from this rank upwards are as strong as a eastern land Sannin level nin.
Major
Lieutenant Colonel
Colonel
Brigadier
Major General
Lieutenant General
General - note all generals have a title once they raise to this rank.
Grand General - only four grand generals can serve at anytime.
4 - The new World Government is like that in Fullmetal Alchemist.
5 - Religion is only needed only if people needed to be saved from themselves, if they don't need a higher being to tell them what's right or wrong when they already know what's right and wrong. The sad part is that many people need religion because if they wronged someone before they die like mistakingly getting the person killed they can rest their minds that when they die that get their just rewards from god. Because the thought that when a person dies and there is no after life and the person will never get their just rewards after death would haunt a persons mind.
6 - From my count of the vote's Mai team wins.
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