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Chapter Nineteen
Mechi Kisaita. He was your typical non-ninja mercenary, who would use small bombs, arrows, or a scythe as a main use of capturing, or killing criminals too dangerous for capture. Also, there was one thing he hated the most other than criminals... and Jinchuuriki: his name. Because when both last and first name are rearranged they spell the first names of two of the most dangerous S-Ranked nuke-nin. But enough of this guy, since he was halfway across the globe.
No, we focus on one Uzumaki Naruto, chosen Hero by the Gods and Goddesses, descendant of the last Hero, Link, and former Jinchuuriki of the Kyuubi no Kitsune. Unaware that his team had gone on a mission and he was not there to get dragged along. Sure, such things could happen and he could get probation for not attending a mission, but... he also had that real challenging ordeal of being a hero. All of a sudden, several spikes shot down, creating a ring that then generating an invisible barrier. Epona whinnied, startled because of the suddenness of this situation thrusted upon them. Naruto hopped off the mare and calmed her down, but she kept panicking, especially since Midna gasped seeing a portal of twilight opening high above. And from this portal, came three black beast-like creatures, wearing odd masks that had a spiral from the edges going straight down to the center. The mask itself was gunmetal gray, but there were glowing lines that depicted the hieroglyphics of the Twilight Realm on it.
"Damn! What the hell are they?" Naruto yelled.
"Shadow Creatures! Naruto!"
Naruto dodged as one came charging up at him fairly fast. He dodged the swing of its dangerous claws, and Naruto unloaded one hard slash at it. It screeched in pain and attempted an attack, but Naruto stabbed it, and the creature fell to the ground with a defeated cry, and did not move again. Bits of black dust were floating around it.
"Naruto! If you don't finish them off at the same time, the survivor will just revive the fallen beasts!" Midna yelled floating high as one tried to claw her. They then turned their attention on Naruto, and came up at him, but he readied himself... and released a Kaitengiri. The powered blade sliced through them at the same time, and they both fell. The three beasts then explode into twilight. However, the clusters, as Naruto termed it, shot into the sky. He watched as it created the same portal, but instead of red, the portal was greenish blue... or was it a teal?
"What in the world... was that?"
"He must be getting stronger..." she muttered, before turning to look at Naruto, "Naruto, they are Shadow Creatures. Their demonic beasts of the Twilight... Link and I had to fight them constantly throughout our first adventure... they usually come in threes, fours, or groups of double the number five, and six. If you kill them like any other evil creature, the survivor will unleashed a deafening screech. That screech can literally revive its fallen comrades. They all have to be taken out at the same time, or, do what you did... whittle the number, then kill the last two at the same time."
"So... what do these things do? Other than be a very obvious sign that people are going to start questioning whether or not aliens exist."
She gave him a stern look. "Aliens do not exist..."
"What about you? People can mistake you as one if you were seen."
She opened her mouth, and then shuts it, lowering that finger she had up. "Fine... but... well... they appeared across Hyrule whenever these shadow creatures came. Sure, some people wondered what they were, but as soon as Ganondorf was killed, they all began to vanish one by one. But beforehand, the more portals that opened the more dangerous creatures littered the land. Lansing could very well regain his dark army..."
"And then a second coming would arrive. Well, this is really bad..."
Naruto sighed, before walking over to Epona, and got back on the now calm horse, and Midna floats next to him before taking a seat in front of him.
"Though, would be better if they just disappeared." The portal, as if hearing his wish, vanished. Naruto looked up as he heard the sound of a closing portal, but instead of really closing up, the thing turned black, and then vanished, as if under an invisible cloak. Not one to second-guess things unless tempted or otherwise, Naruto returned on his trip to Kikoru.
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"Like I want people to find out too early," he hissed, before putting away his hand-held mirror that showed the fight.
He immediately switched to his Tobi voice when Deidara came up to him.
"The Two-Tailed Neko has been spotted. Let's go Tobi."
"Tobi is a good boy. Hehehe."
Deidara sighed, wishing to have Sasori as his partner. At least he stayed quiet...
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He had made it to Kikoru's home, a day later. He had forgotten traveling by horse did cut time of, but still, the distance was long. The same can be told to Kakashi and his team, having run into three ninja who wanted to go after the actress, who was discovered to be the Princess of Yuki. Naruto would have known had he actually been home at the time the mission came up. Of course, Naruto then would not be given the chance to save someone else like him, who was a Jinchuuriki, and was being pursued by Deidara and Tobi of Akatsuki.
After delivering the letter and he returned to Epona, Midna tugged at him.
What is it, Midna?
Do you feel that?
Naruto then tensed. Yes... I do...
Midna growled a bit. It was faint, but she felt Lansing's energy spike, multiple spikes going to the far north. If she remembered of the map, it was a country that holds a village known as Kumogakure no Sato. At one instance, Naruto wanted to go and track down that energy spike. He was a ninja. But, he was sure to get his ass in deep trouble if he gone without any help. On the other hand, he practically has power that was the Master Sword and Midna on his side, who could bail him out with her magic. He may be a ninja, but he was also the chosen Hero, because of the Triforce bared on his hand.
"You feel it too."
Both screamed (in which Naruto screamed and Midna was still in Naruto's shadow so only Naruto heard her cry) and turned around... seeing Kururi. The pretty girl frowned. She had also felt that spike of magical energy.
"Kururi... right?"
She nods. "I shall come with you. I also do not like that feel of evil."
Now Midna and Naruto looked at one another. Naruto turned his eyes back to the girl, and extended a hand. She was helped up onto the horse, and Epona snapped the reigns, and both Priestess and Hero gallop off towards the far north. Midna remained quiet, within Naruto's shadow. You see, this unplanned travel led the two on a trail that Kururi told Naruto to use, which led them to Port City. From there, in the week and half that passed, they continued onward, heading into another country that to its left bordered the village where the rumored Otogakure was supposed to exist. Now, there was a day where they did get some rest, and Kururi decided out of the blue to teach Naruto another technique for the sword, the Kaze Kiwa (Wind Edge) technique.
"Naruto, the Kaze Kiwa is a wind-based technique that also filters through using your chakra source."
Naruto nodded, having understood. His element of course was Fuuton jutsus, after he had used one of those slips Kin told him about during their travel to find Tsunade.
"In order to release it," she lectured, "you must first be calm. Concentrate on the energy you gather, and draw it into the base of the sword you hold in hand. This is hard, yes, but if you do it right, you and then have a whirlwind of energy surrounding the blade itself. Upon so, thrusting it, you can catch your opponent off guard when a cyclone of chakra and wind energy leaps out to strike them down. That is what gives it the name Wind Edge."
Naruto nodded. Kururi demonstrated by channeling the energy inside of her, and drew it into her chosen weapon, which was an ornamental staff-like weapon. With a kyaa cry, she thrusts the staff in a lunge, and sent the cyclone of swirling wind forward. Naruto widens his eyes.
"See?"
"Yeah... looks hard."
"Trust me; it's going to be a useful technique once you master its use."
Naruto nodded, and got to work. While he did, Kururi did surprise Naruto by using a summoning technique and called one of those toucan birds from the tropical regions. The bird had a small scroll tied to its leg before it flew off towards the direction of Konoha.
"What was that?"
"Messages to send to your village leader, Naruto," she replied, "now then, keep practicing Naruto." She stood behind him, and held his hands in hers as she helped him with form.
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Three weeks of travel, and they were a mile away from the border that leads to Kaminari no Kuni. It was also around that same time that Kin, with all of her strength and skills, combined with her team mates, managed to overthrow an evil warlord, and saved Yuki no Kuni. The movie was also completed. How she stopped him was the use of the Rasengan, something Naruto had been teaching her lately. When the princess had asked Kin where she finds her strength, she had replied that her strength and devotion to protecting the innocent came from a young man who had saved her from her own darkness. Uzumaki Naruto. And that is how the princess was interested in one day meeting this Naruto. Kakashi and Team Seven had returned to Konoha after their travel, and had entered Tsunade's office.
"Team Seven reporting. Mission Complete," Kakashi says.
Tsunade looked up, and frowned. "Where's Naruto?"
"Well... a few weeks ago, Naruto delivered some ramen to this girl, Hena, who owns that Fishing Shack near the lake outside the village. When we went there, I brought Inuzuka Kiba with me with permission from Kurenai, because I had this feeling Naruto was not going to be there. I was right. Hena had asked Naruto for a favor, and Naruto replied, and had delivered a letter to her brother Kikoru, who had given Naruto a lantern. We decided to go on the mission, using Kiba as Naruto's replacement."
There was tapping on the window, and Tsunade looked behind her to see a toucan staying afloat, with a scroll in its clawed grip. "Lemme in," it squawked. Shizune jumped, but opened the window, as the toucan flew in and drops the scroll onto the desk.
"Hello. My name's Purrin! Message from Priestess Kururi," it said, before flying out the window and vanishing into the sky. It was a non-sealed scroll, which they found highly suspicious. She opened the scroll, and read the contents.
Hello Village Leader,
I am Priestess Kururi. I have a young man named Uzumaki Naruto in my company. We are currently traveling to Kaminari no Kuni, seeking after two chakra signatures. One of them, with my skills, belongs to S-Class Nukenin Deidara. The other one has a mixed energy signature, but he feels like two souls in one. It baffles me, but I have reason to believe they are going after something, which is why I am tracking down these two dangerous criminals with Naruto's help. If you wish to send back-up, please do so. Even with my powers as a certified Priestess, even I may not have the power to truly defend Naruto the Hero.
Priestess Kururi
"WHAT IN THE HELL!" Tsunade roared, which the entire village heard her raged cry.
"Lady Hokage-sama?"
"Naruto is in the company of a priestess," she said, with a calm demeanor, yet her voice was also laced with the anger she was feeling, "they are chasing down S-Class Nukenin Deidara of Iwa and another chakra signature."
Kakashi dropped his book, and Shizune had gasped.
"Kakashi! Gather whoever can go! Shizune, find a way to contact Jiraiya now!" Tsunade commanded, as she had a right of mind to kick Naruto's ass for doing something so stupid and dangerous. This was also means of probation if he ever did return alive... if he did. Of course while all of the commotion was happening, Kin had been helped onto a couch by Sakura and Kiba since she had fainted hearing the startling news.
Back miles away from Konoha, Naruto halted his horse as Kururi hops off and runs towards a fallen Kumo-nin. Naruto rushed over as well, switching his hat with another that did not have hid headband stitched to it. Kururi helped the ninja up, as he coughed weakly.
"Stop them... two guys with black cloaks with red clouds, and another who looks like a humanoid tiger... they're going to Kumogakure..."
"Rest my friend," she said soothingly, her hands lit with a soft warm aura to heal some of the more fatal wounds.
"Wait... Take me to safety... please," he begged. Kururi nodded.
Naruto suddenly brought this blade up and swung, cutting through a blade of chakra. The two halves strike trees and cause a miniature explosion.
"Well, leaving him alive did work... well, demon boy, it's time I got my revenge..."
Dropping down was a yellow and white-striped human crossbred with that of a tiger. For clothes were military-styled pants, and a black muscle tank. Everything else exposed fur, and dangerous-looking claws on his morphed feet, and from his clawed hands. There was this aura of evil that surrounded this man, and even Midna felt it. That feeling of imminent doom...
"Demon boy... you can't be..."
He smiled evilly. "I escaped, and now I get my revenge on you, demon!"
Touji Mizuki Cursed Form
While Kururi focused on healing the fallen Kumo-nin, Naruto defended himself against the revenge-driven Mizuki, who still thought he was the Jinchuuriki of the Kyuubi.
"Die already, freak!"
Naruto narrowed his eyes as he blocked the numerous melee strikes from the cat man's claws, before lashing out with Kaitengiri.
"Kage Bunshin no jutsu!" Naruto summoned several clones, and let them loose. Mizuki snarls and rids them all, only to get several kunai embedded into his chest.
Naruto glared at the man. "How did you escape?"
"From outside help. He wore armor that resembled lightning."
Darknut Kumo, he thought with a hiss.
Mizuki roars and leapt into the air, only to come down smashing his fist into the dirt. The resulting shockwave of torn earth spreads, destroying the other clones and nearly burying Naruto. He had used his Chakra Grapple to swing up towards a tree branch and over the wave. Kururi had, with ease, lifted the injured ninja and jumped up as well. Mizuki runs at him, and slams his fist into his gut. Naruto coughed, launched towards a tree. Mizuki's hands trailed through hand signs, before he exhaled a large fireball. Naruto stood his ground, wincing at the back ache and swung his blade up, cleaving the fireball in half, but caused it to explode.
Brushing past the flames, Naruto jumped at Mizuki who came at him, and he sliced across his chest. The man roared in pain as he fell. Naruto backflipped away from Mizuki, as the man forced himself back up. He snarled, as he turned to glare at the Hero. "You demon... you're going to die... I'm going to smear your brains across the trees!"
"Hate to disappoint, but the Kyuubi got ripped from me months ago. I haven't been a jinchuuriki ever since the start my Genin days," Naruto said with a smirk.
"LIES! YOU ARE A DEMON, BRAT!"
Naruto shielded against a wave of chakra he released from slashing his claws. Mizuki then buckled, and grasped his head. The potion that he drank earlier was now starting to affect his bodily functions.
"Wha... what's wrong with me!?"
"Heh, fool..."
A bolt of lightning strikes the ground behind Naruto, and he jumped back as Kumo's glowing eyes locked onto Naruto's cerulean orbs.
"That potion is a transforming potion... it's destroying everything that is Touji Mizuki, and reshaping you into a demonic form... the very thing you curse, you shall now become... a mutated beast."
He laughs were cold, as Mizuki screamed hoarsely to the sky, as his muscles bulged and grew. His body began to grow taller, as his upper half slowly transformed into a hulking behemoth psychotically addicted to steroids. The hands explode, as the fingers now hardened, becoming claws. The tail grew longer and thicker, the tip slowly growing a spike at its tip. His face slowly mutated to that of a tiger, the canines turning into saberteeth.
Kumo smiled. "Kill the boy." He vanished.
Touji Mizuki Mutated
The now demonic Mizuki let out a roar, and charged him on all four, since his legs turned lupine. Naruto cursed as he rolled to the side. He drew some Nin-ombs and threw them, using the explosion to distract the half man/half tiger. It did work... for a moment, before Mizuki roughly claws Naruto's torso. Kururi gasped, as she left the fallen ninja alone. The guy managed to get back up and to safety as she unsealed a bow. She pulled at the string, and gathered energy into the draw.
"Shahou: Kariya (Archery: Light Arrow)!" She released the string and the streaming bolt of light strikes Mizuki in the back before he could tear Naruto's throat. The beast howled in pain. Naruto got back up, using his hands to slam his boots into the beast's snout. Then, using his weight, applied pressure before jumping off, performed a forward flip, twisted his body and landed on his feet, sword and shield ready. Mizuki roared. But as he did, a blast of lightning shot towards Naruto. Had he not dodge at the last second, he could have been fried.
"Okay, that's new..."
Kururi still held the bow as she ran to dodge the attack the wild feral was letting loose. Naruto came up and halted his advance, swinging his weapon and slashing a long cut across his thick upper chest. But, he gets batted away and he lost his sword in the process. Kururi did a backward somersault, and just as she landed, a bolt of light is fired. Mizuki dodged it, and she cursed as she kept light on her feet. When Mizuki charged the priestess, Naruto managed to bash him in the face with his shield. He leapt over his shadow clone, and struck his skull with the blade. Now behind the feral, unleashed the combo attack, but the last kick was caught by the tail, and he's swung, sent crashing into Kururi.
Both teenagers immediately got up, Naruto pulling the girl into his arms as he jumped away from a full fledged take down.
"Naruto, when I land one of my light arrows at it, you go in and attack. He's nothing more than a dangerous beast, okay?"
"Sure..."
Naruto set Kururi down, and fired an arrow when Mizuki charged them. He howls in pain as the glowing bolt struck him right in the face, and he charged in, and swung the Master Sword across the transformed man's chest. Naruto jumped back when Mizuki regained movement and tried to claw the blonde's face. He heard something whiz by, and saw a light arrow. But it missed the target, and the lupine Mizuki roared, firing that mouth beam shot of his. Naruto felt he was in some sort of weird anime. He blocked with Gokumonken, but winced as Mizuki dodged out of a fatal slice along his neck. Kururi stunned him however with a bolt of light, and he decided to end this by thrusting the blade through the throat, and blood spewing out the back. He pulls back as Mizuki crumpled to the floor returning back to a human form. However, he lost about all of his muscle mass, and looked shriveled up, and dead.
-- Naruto's Status --
Collection: [Men's Wallet - 16,567 Total Ryo] [Midna's Headgear] [Naruto's Ninpod] [Tsunade's Necklace] [Horse Call] [Letters - 02]
Sword: [Kubikiri Hocho] [Master Sword]
Shield: [Konoha Shield]
Costume: [Hero's Clothes]
Ninja Inventory: [Ninja Pack - Kunai x35] [Ninja Pack - Senbon x60] [Ninja Pack - Nin-ombs x25] [Ninja Pack - Explosive Tags x15] [Toad Summon Contract]
Inventory Pack: [Relic Spinner] [Kagura] [Kaitouken] [Chakra Grapple] [Double Clawshots] [Mole Gauntlets] [Lantern]
Hidden Skills Learned: [Gokumonken] [Mikazuki no Mai] [Morigari no Kanketsusen]
Jutsu Skills Learned: Kage Bunshin, Sennen Goroshi, Kawarimi, Oroke, Harem, Shougekiha, Uzumaki Naruto Rendan, Fuuton: Rasengufuu, Ichi Ni Ko Rendan, Rasengan, Kenjutsu: Hasakikinan
Whenever I get bored, I tend to write odd one-shots. One such story you can find is "A Series of Different Naruto Doors". If you wish, you can PM me for a request on a specific Naruto one-shot of whatever you like. And if it's acceptable enough, I can get to work on it. And also, the people spoke: Hena's involved in the Harem. Sorry it took awhile, but I was out of town. I went to Wrestlemania XXV... now that I'm back home, I can resume this (and worry about college as well).