Disclaimer & Author's Note: I do not own anything Naruto or Zelda that is mentioned in this plotline. All I own are original characters, items/weapons/jutsu/ect. I also own the characters Hishiro Fox and Hishiro Shi, both whom are twins in a forbidden love situation...
Chapter Twenty Eight
The last Lizalfos fell to Naruto's blade with a scaly cry. Sword falling from its loose grip, it broke into dust as the creature explodes into black ash. Naruto sighed in relief. "You okay Isaribi?"
"I am fine," she replied, holding onto the kunai she was given.
"Can I have the key?"
They had been traveling through some corridors, sometimes back tracking. They found a compass and a map of this... dungeon... and so far, they found a second key, the first having been used to open the door to get said map. When she grabbed the key from her robes and handed it to Naruto, Naruto unlocked the pad and it along with the chains crash to the ground. Naruto opened the door, and they rushed through, into a room with ankle-deep water. The door behind them slams shut, and is sealed off. Naruto felt something wrong in this room, and he cautiously trekked to the center of the room. All of a sudden, he cried out when a hologram of Lansing emerged, and he had jumped back. Midna emerged from Naruto's shadow, and the two stood there, on guard.
"Hm... so, there's Amachi's little girl," Lansing cackled.
"Amachi's girl?"
"Oh, didn't you know? She works for Orochimaru!"
Naruto and Midna's eyes widen, as they turned to face Isaribi, who was shocked that this... person, knew that she worked for Amachi, and by proxy, Orochimaru, the man who did this to her.
"You work for Orochimaru?"
"Against her will of course, but now... she'll join Amachi!"
Lansing suddenly threw something at Isaribi, and it impacted her forehead. The medium-sized gem embedded itself into her forehead, and she cried out as an aura of black sprung around her, burning away the bandages revealing the scale portions of her body.
Lansing cackled evilly as the hologram vanished.
"Shit, now what?"
"We can't kill her... I have questions for her..."
All of a sudden the water level began to rise, until Naruto became buoyant. Midna looked at Isaribi, who began to transform, showing off traits of that of a Zora. Before long, the transformed girl zipped through the water. Naruto was completely at her mercy right now.
"Damn it!" Naruto cursed before he got yanked under water. Midna shouted out his name, but Naruto was struggling to get away from the entranced Isaribi. He threw his fist at her, but she dodged. His movement underwater was sluggish, that he was unable to attack properly.
Naruto broke the surface of the water, only to get dragged back down by the girl.
"Naruto-kun!" Midna cried out, before she dove under. She pulsed some of her magic into her ponytail, and formed the fist which she then swung, and slugged Isaribi in the stomach. Naruto swam to the surface and broke through, gasping for air.
"Damn it!" Naruto cursed. Isaribi snarled, and swam back a bit before she brought her hands together, and formed a watery globe of bluish white energy. Isaribi then thrusted her palms before her, sending the energy ball at Naruto. Midna grabbed Naruto with her hair and flung him out of harms way and she dematerialize into twilight, before reforming once again.
Naruto gasped for breath as he surfaced again. "How the hell can I get rid of that crystal that's on her forehead? How...?"
He noticed Isaribi speeding towards him once again, and he tried to lash out a kick. She dodged and came smashing at him form behind sending him under one again. This time, Midna grappled Isaribi before she could get a chance to swim or try and drown Naruto once again. She flung the girl and she crashed face first into the wall. There was a shattering of glass, and it appeared the broken remains of the crystal fell from her forehead. Triggering the water level to sudden drop down, until it was at ankle deep length once more. Naruto sputtered and coughed a bit, as Midna flew to him. He was soaking wet, and tried getting some of the blonde wet locks away from his face.
"That was easy... hoping to try and drown you..."
"She's quite speedy underwater, but not until you grabbed her... quick thinking Midna."
She smiled. Naruto then remembered Isaribi, and rushed over to the girl. Her little transformation had receded, but now, she was unconscious, and hurt.
"Now what?"
"Hehehe... so, the little brat's alive after all."
Naruto and Midna spring into action, the blonde drawing his sword. Standing there from a small cliffside was what looked like a humanoid male. His skin was greenish teal, and he had fish-like gills and fins lining the sides of his face, forearms, back of the legs, and webbed feet and hands, complete with sharp small claws. The eyes had no pupils, and were a full yellow red. There was a bit of upper body muscle, and as he leapt down, Naruto and Midna made out scale-like armor fused into his being. A short tail descended form behind, with a long spinal fin lining the column. The tail end was finned, yet was curled a bit with a sharp stinger. The shoulders have what looked like bone marrow made into pauldrons, with hollow skull-like indentations made into its surface.
"And who the hell are you?"
"Amachi's the name... I worked for Orochimaru, but thanks to Lansing, he's giving me the power which the snake would never grant upon me. Look at me! With the research used on that failure of an experiment, I have become what Orochimaru failed to do using the DNA fo that creature Lansing called a River Zora."
A toothy grin crept among Amachi's face, before a pillar of water blasted right at them, sending them back.
"If you don't mind, I'm taking the brat with me... I still have plans for you boy, and Lansing will gladly reward me for killing the Hero of Time!"
Naruto got up, but Amachi suddenly skated across the water, dragging the unconscious Isaribi with him before he suddenly dove into a hole... which sealed shut with an iron grate.
"Damn it!" Naruto cursed.
"Naruto, stop it! We'll find her and rescue her, okay..."
Naruto growled, but agreed.
The gates slide open, and Naruto looked to the door before him. With a nod, the two left, continuing to explore, and also locate and rescue Isaribi from the man who called himself Amachi.
=0=0=
"No signs of Naruto..."
"Damn... why does this always happen to Naruto?" Anko swore.
"Because he's Naruto. Ever since Kyuubi had been ripped from my friend, he's changed, and so has the village to an extent."
Anko chuckled. Shino was right about that. Ever since the stupid fox had been stolen by some evil nut job plotting eventual world domination, Naruto had changed, and now, he and Hinata are tied to some weird fairy tale fate which has happened centuries ago before either time.
"Well, this sound like some elaborate story concocted by fate... bah..."
"But what about..."
"Naruto will be fine. He has that imp girl with him... as for the mission, we would have no clue on how to complete it without getting ourselves swallowed up by those whirlpools that now surround our target island."
Ino, Shino, and Anko were right now, back at the village, with the Hishiro twins, whom were currently engaged by the lips... something that still brought a giggle to Anko when the words "forbidden love" came to mind. Still, Naruto was a member of the Leaf, and they would have to search for him...
=0=0=
Naruto sliced upward with the Master Sword, ripping through the third Chu Worm once it was Clawshot out of its protective Chu Jelly sphere. The worm shrieked before death claimed it. The faint roaring of the waterfalls continue to echo within this expansive cave-like room, where Naruto could not see anything within the inky black of the giant hole. There are only a few expansive stone platforms jutting up from the darkness, and Naruto did not want to find out how deep said giant hole was.
Naruto sheathed the sword and clasp the shield to his back again, and takes a look around. From where he began, the door there led back to his small struggle with a controlled Isaribi before she was kidnapped. The few Keeses that flew around here had been killed fairly easily using the Clawshots. He continued to hop across carefully.
"Naruto, wait."
Naruto stopped.
"What is it, Midna?"
"See that?"
"Yeah?"
He was looking at what looked like a red jewel flat against the surface of the wall, surrounded by a golden grate ring.
"Clawshot mark..."
Naruto pulled it out, and fired it. The claw flew through the air, until it latched onto the mark, and he was reeled toward the wall, where his boots impact the surface. Above, there was a walkway of stone that connected across like a bridge. There, he fire the second Clawshot, and manages to grasp the tangled vines and is reeled up, before Midna quickly helped him over the edge. She retreats back into his shadow as he heard two wet splats. Chu Jellies. He merely stepped on them as he walked toward the door facing west. Once going through, he saw a large chest hugging the wall surrounded by two lit torches, burning bluish green embers. He walked over to it, and then, he managed to open the chest, and reached inside.
[Naruto obtains the Vacuum Gust. This strange device works off the user's chakra and can generated a vacuum of wind, or generate enough wind-based chakra to fire.]
He took out what looked like a full forearm gauntlet. Its size was the same as one Mole Gauntlet; however, the barrel end was like a small-medium sized electric fan. In fact, it looked like some sort of arm-attached fan. Inside there was a slim cylinder cannon where his arm can easily slip inside, which he placed on, and his hand grasped around a handle, his index against a trigger button. The color scheme of this oddly designed item was an overall mud brown, the barrel of the fan and the fan propeller was green, with a yellow nose nozzle. Decorating the outer cannon casing, were various wide vents. On the top was an oval red jewel, glittering gently.
The resounding slam of an iron barrier alerted Naruto that he had just now fallen into a trap.
Drip...
Drip...
Drip...
He heard that dripping sound, and saw what looked like Chu Jelly falling from the spiked ceiling. Soon a short cascade emerged, until a giant Chu emerged from the ceiling. He looked at it, seeing how easily this jelly monster towered him. It looked like a living walking giant teardrop flipped upside-down. It surface had... eyes... googly-looking eyes, and this weird smile that looked painted on. Its color was more of an ice blue. It wiggled and jiggles a bit, before Naruto jumped back as a short burst of static electricity radiated off it. The thing then moved towards him with that creepy painted smile. Naruto ran far away from it, until it managed to actually JUMP, and try and crush him. He thankfully avoided that fate. However, a shockwave of electricity raced across the floor, which he barely managed to leap over. Naruto looked over at the giant Chu, as it moved towards him again, but this time, that electrical aura faded away. He rushed at it, trying to cut at it but he only manage to make slices, which then heal up fast. He gets blasted back by a forceful tackle by the Chu, and his back slams against the locked door.
"Damn, that hurt..." He yelped as the thing jumped towards him again, and he managed to avoid the collision, but got shocked from the aftershock of the wave.
Naruto, what about that thing you got? Midna spoke to him.
Naruto opened his eyes once his body regained mobility, and ran back as the Chu slowly rebuilt its electrical aura. The Vacuum Gust... He lifted it up, and focused some chakra into it, before pulling the trigger. The fan began spinning, drawing in air, as the vents allowed excess heat to escape. Well that didn't work, as it had jumped dat him again. Duck, dodge shockwave... it lost its aura this time, and he pointed at it again. This time, he saw it had an effect. The thick pillar of slime began to whittle away until eventually, the thing was top-heavy and began to wobble back and forth, trying desperately to stay upright. Naruto jumped back as it wobbled at him and its heavy weight sent it crashing to the ground.
Naruto jumped at it, and stabbed the blade right into it. The thing let out a reverberating growl crossed with a drowning scream. The boy rips the blade upward, sending slime flying, before it regrew more slime and stood back up again. This time, it pumped downward, generating thicker mass towards its column and the tentacle-like feet.
That's how you get rid of it...
The Chu generated its electrical field once again.
"Damn, this is going to be long..."
The thing spat out several globs of blue Chus at Naruto, which then formed into several Jellies, but some became miniature versions of the giant Chu complete with electric aura. He swung immediately, but Midna felt a buzz while Naruto was electrified for striking the Blue Chu. A Blue Chu Jelly leapt into the air and smashed onto his back. Thankfully, the shield was all it struck. Still, it did hurt hitting the floor face first. He managed to jump back to his feet and release the Kaitengiri, shredding through several Chus that jumped at him. The rest got reabsorbed when Naruto dodged the slam from the giant Chu and shockwave.
"Damn..."
He produced Needle Bombs, and flung them. The explosions only caused it to jiggle... before jumping at him. He got crushed this time, and a cry of pain echoes through. It jumps again, but Midna emerged, and save him by flinging him out of harms way. Naruto rolled as Midna dodge the attack herself. Getting to his knees, he held out the Vacuum Gust, and began to suck away at the support column of the beast. Midna flies next to him, as the thing lost its support and collapsed. Once more, Naruto lays down a series of sword attacks, before the last stab... send him flying back from an electrical buzz. It regained more mass once again, and this time its mass thickened even further.
Damn it! Naruto cursed in thought.
Naruto once again brought the shield up, blocking a bolt of lightning the giant Chu fired from its slime-like mass. He jumped away as it leapt up into the air to try and smash down on him, and jumped yet again to dodge the ground shockwave of electricity. He began sucking away at the slime when the aura dissipated, dodging any Chu monsters it summoned. Before long, it crashes as its main support topples the top-heavy beast, and he wails at it with the Master Sword, until the creature let out a death moan... and explodes, coating the entire room in jelly. Naruto and Midna both were flat against the wall from the initial explosion, covered in the slimy gunk.
"Oh... gross," Midna moaned.
The iron gates recede, allowing them to exit, while another treasure chest emerged next to the first one. Naruto walked over to it, and opened it, finding himself another Small Key. Pocketing the key, Midna follows Naruto back to the door, as they return to the previous room, but this time walk across the chasm, to the other door which they unlock, and go through. In this room, there's an overgrowth of crystals, and a small yet large pool of water in the center of the room. However, the room itself is two stories high. There are various cliffside for foot platforms, and there were Ice Keese, which was a surprise to Naruto, and skimming on the water heading to him were red and blue hoppers. Naruto easily took them out.
Naruto decided to get a good look around. The overgrowth of crystal spanned a large crystalline-like surface along the wall before him, which branched off toward the right onto the first large cliffside, which contained a treasure chest. He saw several points where he could safely climb via jumping with the aid of the Chakra Grapples. His shadow shifted, before Midna emerged.
"Naruto... you see that crystal there? If we had Iron Boots, or any sort of conductive metal, you can then get a magnetic grip and walk along the wall."
"Hm... well I am a ninja and ninjas can run up walls and stuff, yet I haven't really gotten the chance of learning the Tree Walk exercise..."
"Well, better figure out a way then, Naruto-kun." With that, she disappears back into his shadow.
"Shit... I think I rather get through the non-chakra ninja way..." He walked towards the center, looking around for another way to get to that ledge, when he spotted something in the water. He ran to it, and picked up what looked like sheets of metal. Once again, Midna emerged.
"Hm, Midna... can you use your magic to cut these?"
"Ah, I see... take off your boots."
He nodded, and walked out of the pond, and took them off. Midna instead of cutting took the two small sheets of metal and managed to use her magic to fuse the metal to the soles of the boots. It took about a minute, but Midna managed to perform the task.
[Naruto received back his Boots which the soles now have conductive metal inside.]
Naruto slipped his feet back into the boots, and walked around. They felt a bit weighed down, but nothing too movement-constricting. He walked over to the crystal... nothing.
"Wha...?"
He blinked twice, before he decides to flare out some of his chakra. Suddenly he felt weighted down to the crystal, and saw some sparks arcing around the soles of his boots. He cut of the chakra, and the energy pull disappeared.
"...!" He did it again, and this time he stuck to the crystal. He grinned, as he walked up the wall carefully, and maneuvered over the cliffside. Cutting off the chakra, he was no longer sticking to the growth of smooth crystal, and fell. Granted he flipped to land on his feet, but he was now next to the chest, which he opened.
=0=0=
Inside the living room, Shi walked in, and saw Fox had a perverted doujin in his hands. She walked over, and Shi grabbed the doujin entitled Honey and Sweet from her brother's hands.
"Hey."
"Fox, they're back."
"Eh?" Fox got up off the couch, and looked down the hall as the ninjas form the Leaf returned, unsuccessful in their search for their missing partner, "so, where you able to find Naruto-san?"
"No, he's still missing," said Anko.
Shi walked over, with a tray of cups and a pitcher of tea.
"While you were gone, we took a look at the island. Storm clouds now gathered around it, yet there is no rain... it's like... something evil was emerging."
And somehow, the little gaki is tied in with all of this weird bullcrap, Anko thought, accepting the tea from Shi.
=0=0=
The stalagmite cracked and fell to the ground after Naruto swung onto the next wall platform. He sighed in relief.
"That was a close call..."
He looked around again. He was only three platforms from the roof. Looking at the map using the compass... he was no where near the supposed location of the boss. In fact, from where he was, he was about seven rooms away, and he was going in the opposite direction.
"Damn..."
However, there are two doors in the room he was currently in. The door that would take him to the supposed boss location was above him, but the door had no ledge. Then, the door before him across the wide gap had a door under a wall ledge. This room led to a dead-end, but there's a chest laying in wait inside that room. Right now, he could not afford to pass any of these chests. Like in the Temple of Lightning, the door had a giant lock, and he had to use this large key in order to open it. He knew that the same situation occurs in this temple/dungeon. He took out the grapples once again, and released the whips, latching around one stalagmite, and swings across the wide gap. Once there, through the door he finds himself in a room with currently rubble burying the short hallway. With the Mole Gauntlets, he digs his way through the mound of hard dirt, soon breaks out the other side... and falls through a breakaway floor.
Vacuum Gust... it's technically similar to that of the Gust Jar in Minish Cap, but is situated as an arm-based item/weapon. We're actually getting close to the end of this story... just... four/five chapters left.
-- Naruto's Status --
Collection: [Men's Wallet - 14,456 Total Ryo] [Midna's Headgear] [Naruto's Ninpod] [Tsunade's Necklace] [Horse Call] [Letters - 02] [Key #1337] [Dark Crystal]
Sword: [Kubikiri Hocho] [Master Sword]
Shield: [Konoha Shield]
Costume: [Hero's Clothes]
Ninja Inventory: [Ninja Pack - Kunai x40] [Ninja Pack - Senbon x60] [Ninja Pack - Nin-ombs x25] [Ninja Pack - Explosive Tags x15] [Toad Summon Contract]
Inventory Pack: [Relic Spinner] [Kagura] [Kaitouken] [Twin Chakra Grapples] [Double Clawshots] [Mole Gauntlets] [Lantern] [Fishing Rod + Box] [Vacuum Gust]
Hidden Skills Learned: [Gokumonken] [Mikazuki no Mai] [Morigari no Kanketsusen] [Kaze Kiwa]
Jutsu Skills Learned: Kage Bunshin, Sennen Goroshi, Kawarimi, Oiroke, Harem, Shougekiha, Uzumaki Naruto Rendan, Fuuton: Rasengufuu, Ichi Ni Ko Rendan, Rasengan, Kenjutsu: Hasakikinan