Author's note : Sorry for the late chapter but I began to make a plot so I had really little time to write this chapter. Like always, thanks for reading this chapter and if you have any interesting idea about the plot, the pairings or anything concerning this fanfiction, don't hesitate to share it with me ! Enjoy the chapter ! Also, please give me ideas about which world he will go next, thanks !
Days, week or months ? I don't know how much time passed since she... died. However, what I know is that the time has come to destroy them. I studied them during this time, I saw them destroying human villages and feeding their corpses to their queen. Talking about her, she was weak, weaker and uglier than the other chimera ants. After some time I could observe her giving birth to the second royal guard, well it was how they were called at least. Then, the third came and it was soon the time for their king to be born.
I felt it from killometers away, this king of theirs will be stronger than any kages, smarter than any being, so without wasting a single moment I ran towards their nest and I was there in less than a second. Observing the birth of a king was unpleasant, I was bathed in his malicious aura and I didn't like it... and generally when I don't like something I get rid of the problem.
It's why, I followed him while hiding my presence in sage mode. When we arrived at a palace I stopped to follow them and decided it was time to prepare the place of our fight. I first used earth manipulation to make a cave so huge a normal human couldn't see its end. Next, I created something ressembling ruins with huge pillars installed everywhere. I needed to prepare my entrance in this world, I needed to prepare everything to make sure I was accepted without any doubts about me from these 'hunters'... I need to show them that I am a true predator to be accepted and change things in this world.
What I did after that was to use chakra to unconsciously make the king and his future opponent fight there. It wouldn't have worked on people born with chakra but these people didn't have any chakra in their bodies and one characteristic of chakra is to attract things without it. Of course, a huge quantity of it is needed and its quality has to be perfect, so nature chakra had to be used.
I didn't know how much time passed as I sat meditating in this place however, I finally completely filled it to the brim with nature chakra and I could already feel two rather stong auras, one weaker than the other but it was so rafined that it even impressioned me, the other was just raw malicious energy leaking from the king.
"An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a life for a life. You will lose your king today."
'But before that I need to see the wielder of such an aura fighting against this king.'
I observed the white haired old man as he summoned an huge statue of some kind of god with many hands and made the king pass through the roof of my cave. 'So... he value speed over strenght but the strength behing this blow was really overwhelming compared to the other three hunters I saw.'
The fight was truly magnificient even if the old man was badly wounded and the king totally fine. When this white haired man lost one arm and one leg he continued to fight and depleted all his energy in the killing move which destroyed a huge part of my cave but the nature chkra was still there and prevented me from being detected. The king was still alive after this move and walked with pride in his eyes as he explained why he was the winner. 'Bullshit... what is this old man going to do ?'
"?!" I was truly surprised as I saw him trying to pierce his own heart while he taught the king, who was now named Meruem about his ignorance. Not wanting him to die, I willed the shadows to stop his hand and without wasting another second I dashed to the King's right side and punched him in the face.
Surprised, Meruem was sent flying through dozens of stone pillars. After stopping his flight, he stood up and looked towards me and asked, "Who are you, human to interfere in my fight ? Are you, bored with your life ?"
Not answering, I simply pointed towards his back where one of my clones was. When he saw it behind him he was surprised and used his nen to jump backwards but another clone was under the earth and took his feet. Being unable to move, he received a kick infused with chakra which sent him flying towards me.
Waiting him to approach a little nearer, I created a resengan however, not with chakra but gravity. My gravity rasengan was pitch black with a simple small purple dot in its centre. Around it, purple and red waves of energy danced while emanating power beyond the king's understanding. Upon contact with his body, the rasengan exploded inwards and disappeared during a few seconds, absorbing the surrounding air until it expanded outwards, engulfing everything in a fifty meters radius.
When the black sphere disappeared, there was a neat crater and an extremely wounded chimera ant. Looking towards me, the king asked without his pride any more, "Who are you, human ? To held such power... and to win against me without even trying... I am now understanding what the old man said... I really don't know anything about you, humans."
Stopping my hand from cutting his head at the last moment, I said, "My name is Naruto and I believe that I am the strongest human. And I also believe that you know what the winner has the right to do in a fight ?"
Seeing him weakly nodding but without a hint of fear, I continued, "Normally I would have killed you, King of chimera ants since I have to take revenge. However, I have another idea. I will let you live for now, but remember it well Meruem. I will return one day and if I learn you did anything against innocent people, I will torture you and your race for eternity. I will make you live through something worse than hell itself. Moreover, when I will come back I will need you and this old man to do me a favour. Understood ? Ah right, I will have to mentally torture at least your cat underling. She needs to learn her place, risking to anger me by killing a person I saved is not a good choice."
Nodding a second time, Meruem secretly thought about why Neferpitou angered such a man. She must be crazy, he thought as he swore in his heart to not disobey this man's orders. 'King ? Strongest ? Sigh... These titles hold no power in front of such a man... I can't even see an end to his power... it's like his aura is filling all this cave to the brim and fighting against the walls to go outside... and he doesn't even show a sign of using his nen. I really don't want to die for angering him. But what will he do to help this old man survive ?'
Curious about it, Meruem observed this man as his coat began to shine, Naruto who appeared to be in his twenties , was using all the nature chakra in the cave to heal the old man. When he recovered all his senses as well as his lost limbs, he was truly surprised and said, "Who are you young one ? I don't think you are a hunter ? Right ?"
Slightly smiling towards him, Naruto answered, "You're right, I'm not a hunter. I am simply a traveller passing by who saw a good fight and wanted to let you both live as it would be a waste to die with such power."
Looking surprised, the old man could now see a huge crater with the king lying inside with blood flowing out of his mouth. Bewildered by this fact, he asked with seriousness in his voice, "Are you the one who defeated him ? And if so, why are you letting him alive ? I'm sure you are aware of what he did to countless humans."
Losing his smile, Naruto said with a guilty voice, "I did worse than him in my life, old man... so if I killed him for his mistakes, it would be hypocrite of me. Moreover, I need both of you to help me in the future, it's why I let you two live. By the way, my name is Naruto, and yours ?"
Not wanting to inquire more on what Naruto said, he answered, "I am called Netero, and I am the chairman of the hunter association, I don't know what help do you want me to give you but I believe that you should hurry as I will not live for long as I am reaching the end of my lifespan."
"Don't worry, Netero. I have all the time I need. So, you two, listen to me. As you already know, my name is Naruto ! New ruler of this universe ! And you are my first underlings, your work on this planet will be to rule humans and other intelligent beings alike. I want peace to rule the world, I will return when the time is right and bring you back with me. It might take weeks, months, years or even decades but I need you to be ready when I come. Moreover, I gifted you with a chain of shared fate which is present around your soul. It means that you will not die until I, myself disappear or want you to die. Lastly, by living with this chain of fate, you are representatives of my new rule over this universe... so you have to be strong, strong enough to overwhelm any enemies... and like I said to Netero before, don't believe I am a saint or something like that, I did things worse than you can imagine." Pausing for a few seconds in my speech, I declared, "However, I decided to repent for my sins by taking the empty throne of God in this vast universe and making all this madness stop. All these wars without reasons, all this corruption taking root inside intelligent beings's heart... I really have enough of that."
Looking towards the wide eyed Meruem and Netero I was asked a simple question by both of them, "So... you are not from this world ?"
Amused by their question, I simply nodded and said, "In fact I'm not even from this plane of existence. Millions of years ago I destroyed all life on my world due to its deep corruption but after years of living in a devastated world I gave back its rights and life appeared once again... however, only non sentient beings were given back their life since I meditated for millions of years to make it as pure as it can be. After a long time I asked myself if I had to give humans a second chance and decided to go along with it. However, I didn't let them live in my world but on different worlds throughout the universe... However, like always after millions of years of meditation in my world, I opened my eyes and was welcomed by wars, incensed fights and deaths everywhere. Enraged, I decided to finally take this empty throne and rule over this universe in hope on stopping all this misery you inflicted upon yourself. Basicially, I am here to corrige your mess."
Not even a second after I said my words, the two people were kneeling in front of me while saying, "We''re sorry great one to have angered you and hope for you to lead us on the right way."
Smiling, I opened my mouth and said, "No need to kneel in front of me, you are my first two underlings. My only order is for you to grant peace over this world and to be ready for the day I will come back. Don't talk about me to other people, or at least don't say anything important about me, I hope you understand. Now, I will have to go."
Willing space to distort around me with a pulse of chakra, I opened a hole through it and disappeared from this world, of course not before observing Gon fighting against Neferpitou. 'First one, I think that it was one of the easiest... there are surely worlds in such a shape that it could take me years to repair it, sigh.'
Author's note : As you already read in the chapter, I decided to let the chimera ants live but of course I have good reasons to do so. Firstly, I need Meruem to live in this story as he will be important later on... Secondly, Naruto destroyed his own world and killed billions of people so he can't take revenge on someone just because one of his underlings killed a girl he didn't really know but just happenend to save. Moreover, I decided that Naruto had to leave the hunter x huntr world for now (he will return there later on...) , so if you are kind enough to give me ideas on which world he will go next, I would apreciate it.