Back with Chapter five of Not Everything Has To Be Ghostly. And I'm very surprised by all the positive comments this story has received so far. None the less I will keep doing my best to provide you all with the best content I can. Anyway just so you all know, Sam will be in this story. She's just not here yet. Have I decided to make her a future pairing for Danny?
Not entirely sure about that one. But considering the plans I have for her, we shall see. Now somebody in the reviews asked me if I could introduce Naruto into the story. Now let me just say this, Naruto is extremely powerful. Nobody, not Pariah or even Dan Phantom could beat Naruto at his full might. But don't fret, Naruto will make an appearance in the story. Just very far down the road, like very far.
Also I want everyone to keep in mind. This story, while it is a Naruto and Danny Phantom crossover, keep in mind, the universe is the DC one ;) Anyways before I reveal too much, lets just go on with the story.
I own nothing, not Naruto or Danny Phantom
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Screams echoed throughout the gymnasium as students scrambled for the door. Tripping and pushing one another out of the way, all in a desperate attempt to escape. Now what had everyone so terrified I bet you're wondering? Well sitting in the middle of the gymnasium was a massive Ghostly Dragon, it's mouth opened and it let out a horrifying roar.
Danielle gritted her teeth as she had her arm behind her, slowly moving Gaara farther and farther away from the Dragon. She couldn't transform, not here, right now. And it didn't help that her parents had to catch the damn overgrown iguana's attention by shouting at it. What surprised Danielle a bit is that while she could hear all the other students scream in fear, she hadn't heard Gaara utter a single word. She cast a quick glance back at him to see him staring at the beast with a fixed expression.
"Gaara we need to leave, my parents will hold the creature off." Danielle said, trying to convince her crush to leave. He seemed reluctant, like something inside him wanted to stay and fight the creature. But what could he do?
"Yeah I guess you're right." Gaara muttered sourly before taking off towards the exit.
"Good" Danielle said. "With Gaara out of trouble, I can now look for a place to transform." She was about to run off into the hallway before the shouting of her parents stopped her.
"Take this you Ectoplasmic abomination!" Jack said, having pulled an Ecto pistol from somewhere in his dress suit and began firing at the beast. The Dragon growled as the rounds from the Ecto Pistol hit its body. The weapon was a mere prototype at the moment, so to the Dragon it didn't hurt that much, just merely caused a bit of a stinging sensation. The Dragon breathed a stream of fire at Jack, hoping to roast the larger man. Jack rolled out of the way as the fire passed him, a table behind him had been reduced to firewood.
The Dragon was about to attack Jack again when it felt something shatter against its cranium. And by the feel of it, a liquid was now making its way down its back. The Dragon glanced over to see Danny glaring at it, it had been him to throw a glass of punch at the beast.
"You can add, trying to set my dad on fire to the list of why I would never date your shallow self Paulina." Danny smirked. The Dragon snarled, the inner popular girl didn't like that comment one bit.
"I wouldn't date such a puny nerd anyway!" The Dragon roared, its voice a deep baritone.
"You've got a real manly voice there Paulina" Danny smirked. That was the wrong thing to say apparently as the Dragon twisted sharply and lashed out with a massive kick. Pain raddled Danny's body as he went flying through the gymnasium and ended up crashing through some snack tables.
"Danny!" Danielle shouted before glaring at the Dragon. First Paulina had to ruin her date, call her flat chested and then hit her brother! She was going to enjoy this. "Going Ghost!" Danielle's body became engulfed in a white flash as she transformed into Danielle Phantom. Danielle raced at the Dragon, fist raised and ready to bash the creature. The Dragon moved its head to the side and Danielle barreled past it.
"Now there's two Ghosts?!" Maddie said. First there was a Dragon Ghost and now what seemed to be a teenage female Ghost. And the two were battling it out! If the situation wasn't so serious, she'd be over the moon with joy. After all this is what she and Jack had been studying for years now. But to fight the Dragon and possibly the Ghost teen, they would need some of their bigger weapons. Thankfully one Ecto-Bazooka was in the trunk of the vehicle just in case of emergencies.
Danielle twisted sharply, avoiding the Dragons claws that could have possibly shredded her to ribbons. She flew forward and kicked the behemoth in the face. The Dragon's head snapped to the side. The beast glared at Danielle before it did something completely unexpected again. The Dragon head butted Danielle. Danielle grunted at feeling the impact of such an attack. Her little body compared to even the cranium of the Dragon. To Danielle it felt like a small vehicle just hit her full force.
Danielle felt her body collide with the wall of the gymnasium. "Ouch, she took the phrase, using your head, just a bit too seriously" Danielle muttered as she clamored back to her feet.
"PUNY GHOST GEEK WON'T RUIN MY NIGHT!" The Dragon roared and a column of fire sprang from its maw and headed towards Danielle. Her eyes widened, she wouldn't be able to dodge the attack in time, it was moving to fast. So Danielle did the only thing she could think of, she threw her hands up in an attempt to shield herself from the oncoming flames. Little did she know, Danielle was unconsciously channeling Ecto Energy in her hands.
Her body became engulfed in the Ghostly Fire. The Dragon smirked viciously, it's prey couldn't have survived that. As the Dragon turned to leave, it stopped when it heard a familiar voice.
"What I'm alive?" The Dragon snapped its head back towards the voice. To its surprise, shrouding the Ghost Girl was a shield made of Ecto Energy. "Well half-alive that is."
Danielle stopped the channeling of Ecto Energy and stared at her hands in wonder. She had never been able to do something like that before. Did she have more abilities that she didn't know about. Well considering she's only had these powers for a little over a month, it wouldn't surprise her.
"We've got to stop meeting like this." A familiar voice caught both Danielle and the Dragon's attention. They turned to see the stranger from the mall. Danny, dressed in his full disguise, had already landed on the last hand sign needed for his Jutsu. "Kanton: Honsenka No Jutsu" Danny fired a volley of Fireballs at the Dragon. The Dragon roared in pain as the Honsenka Jutsu impacted its body and pushed it back.
Danny had noticed the Honsenka Jutsu wasn't as big as he hoped. Looks like he had a lot more practicing to do with that Jutsu as well. Danny suddenly heard a strange humming behind him. Danny looked to see his mother holding a rather large weapon in her hand.
"Eat this Ghost Freak!" Maddie fired the Fenton Bazouka. A vibrant green blast of Ecto Energy spewed from the chamber of the weapon. Danny's eyes widened behind his mask and he leaped out of the way. His own mother tried to shoot him too and take out the Dragon! She was so not getting a Mother's day card.
The Dragon grunted as it was actually pushed through the wall of the Gymnasium. Brick and plaster of the wall gave way as the Dragon was pushed to the outside and onto the nearby Football field. Danielle knew she had to chase after the Dragon and stop it. But leaving her mom with this super powered stranger wasn't something she wanted to do. Danielle gritted her teeth, the Dragon was the bigger priority at the moment. She just hoped this unknown wouldn't do anything to her mother. With that, Danielle flew off after the Dragon!
"Hey, watch where you're shooting that thing!" Danny complained, his fist raised in a comical manner. Both Fenton parents had their weapons pointed at Danny now.
"Hold it right there Spook!" Jack said, his Ecto Pistol glowing with energy and ready to fire.
"Do I look like a Ghost to you?" Danny did a quick spin to show off his costume. "Not surrounded by that Ecto stuff of theirs, no tail, can't walk through walls or anything like that."
"But you fired a volley of Fireballs from your mouth." Maddie said, her weapon still trained on the disguised teen.
"And?"
"No normal human can do that!"
"Look" Danny resisted the urge to pinch the bridge of his nose in annoyance. "I'd love to sit here and argue my case on how I'm not a Ghost. But I need to help that Ghost girl out there fight a Dragon so this is where I say my farewell." Danny's hands quickly flew through a few hand seals.
"Stop!" Maddie and Jack both fired their weapons at Danny. Both never hearing him utter the name of his Jutsu. The spot where Danny was standing exploded as the blasts from the Ecto Bazooka and Pistol impacted, creating a small shower of dirt and broken tile parts. But once the dust cleared, it showed that Danny had vanished!
"He's gone." Jack stated the obvious, looking around the destroyed Gymnasium to see if the disguised teen was still around.
"Who was that?" Maddie asked, the answer she got was a slight breeze of the wind that had swept through the hole in the wall made earlier by the Dragon.
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"You don't know how long I've been wanting to do this Paulina." Danielle said as she bashed the Dragon across the cheek. The Dragon stumbled back and growled in anger. Danielle flipped in the air and brought her foot down on the Dragon's cranium, causing the might beast to kiss the ground. Danielle followed suit and was about to continue her assault but the Dragon's tail smacked her hard. Danielle tumbled through the air and hit the Touchdown post. Danielle shook the ringing from her ears, that hurt.
Danielle shook the daze off her and focused back on the Dragon. Only for her eyes to widen in fright. The Dragon had lifted up one section of the stands above its head and was grinning at Danielle. With a mighty roar, the Dragon chucked the massive Football stand at her. Danielle focused on the only power that could save her at the moment as she was too frightened to move. And thankfully, just before the stands collided with her, Danielle's body had turned intangible. The stands passed through Danielle and broke in a tangled mess of steel when it hit the ground.
"This is getting out of hand, don't you think?" Danielle whipped her head to the side to see the stranger standing next to her on the Touchdown post.
"Who are you?" Danielle asked, completely ignoring Danny's question.
"Me? Well If I had to give you a name, just refer to me as.." Danny stopped for a moment, trying to think of a cool alias he could use.
"Itachi" Danny heard his sensei say.
"Itachi? Isn't that the name of your older brother Sensei?"
"Correct and besides I feel like my brother deserves a bit of a tribute. And what better way to honor him than using his name as your alias."
"Itachi" Danny finally told Danielle. "You can refer to me as Itachi."
"Itachi huh?" Danielle questioned, she had never heard of a name like that before. Before Danielle could continue the conversation, both Danielle and Danny leaped to avoid being roasted by the Dragon.
"I'm getting sick of this Dragon." Danny said through gritted teeth. While he wanted to hurt this annoying reptile, he knew it was Paulina under there. So he couldn't exactly try and exterminate the creature.
"That makes two of us." Danielle said.
"I've done some research on the Dragon before us. We have two options to defeat it. We could beat it until it loses consciousness or we take off the amulet around its neck. If we choose option two, the Dragon should vanish and its human host shouldn't be harmed."
"I like option one to be honest, the host is a bit of a bitch." Danielle said while cracking her knuckles.
Danny shrugged, he had no problem with either option. "Let's beat down this overgrown iguana."
With that, both Fentons charged the Dragon. Danny was sprinting across the field, coming in low while Danielle had taken to the sky. The Dragon growled, its chances at killing its prey looked very slim now. Danny leaped and kicked the Dragon across the face. Due to a bit of Chakra enhancement, the Dragon flew and crashed into one of the remaining Football stands. Danielle, still floating in the air, concentrated. Earlier she had unknowingly channeled her Ecto Energy and formed a shield to save herself. She had no doubt she could probably use the energy for offensive purposes as well.
Danielle's hands were shrouded with Ecto Energy as she focused on her attack. Throwing her hands forward, a blast of Ecto Energy fired at the Dragon. The Dragon roared in pain as it was hit from the blast.
"It's not done yet." Danielle watched as Itachi leaped into the sky, his hands going through those weird motions again. "Kanton: Gokakyu Jutsu" The same Fireball she had seen him use at the mall, this time it was surprisingly much bigger, sailed from Itachis lips and slammed into the Dragon.
Danny and Danielle watched the fire caused by the Jutsu burn the beast, both could hear its agonizing roars. After a few moments, the fire died down and the roaring stopped. Once the fire was completely gone, it revealed an unconscious Paulina. Her dress had been slightly burnt, with a few holes here and there. But it was still in tact and so was her modesty. Danny reached down and snagged the amulet off her neck. Danielle watched Itachi for a moment, what was he thinking?
"Here" Itachi suddenly said, handing her the amulet. Danielle was surprised, she thought he was going to take off with it. "I'm sure you can find a better place to dispose of this than I can." With that, Danny decided he may as well take his leave. The dance was obviously over and he was a bit tired.
"Wait!" Danielle shouted, catching Itachi's attention. "Thank you for your help."
"Glad to be of service Miss Phantom." With that, Danny disappeared using his Chakra enhanced speed. Danielle smiled, she had little to doubt she may be working with Itachi again in the future.
Danielle glanced down at the amulet. "Back to the Ghost Zone with you."
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(With Gaara)
Gaara tossed and turned on his bed, hours ago he had called Danielle to find out if she was okay. Gaara had offered to take Danielle out, to make up the fact that the dance got ruined by.. a Dragon.
Now we find Gaara asleep on his bed, having used some of his parents new found wealth to rent a hotel room. Sweat dribbled down his forehead and his eyes were closed, the young man was currently sleeping. By the way he was tossing and turning, it seemed he was having a dream.
(Dream)
Gaara found himself standing in some sort of massive sewer. This couldn't be right though, the last thing he remembered was falling asleep on his bed. Gaara took in his surroundings, first off the sewer he was in was massive, at least the size of the grand hall or something. The sewer was dimly lighted and he could feel the water almost curling around his ankles as he began to walk.
"Come this way Gaara." A voice said. "Quickly for we don't have much time."
Gaara didn't know why but he felt compelled to follow the voice. He took off in a sprint, it was surprisingly easy despite the amount of water he was treading through. As he ran towards the darkness, it seemed to be moving on its own. The closer Gaara got, the farther away from him it moved. After what seemed like forever, Gaara finally decide to stop in his sprint. There was nothing here, so where did that voice come from?
"Am I losing my mind?" Gaara muttered.
"No, your mind is in perfect condition actually." A voice said, this time from behind him. Gaara's eyes widened, he recognized that voice. After all that voice sounded similar to his own. Gaara turned around to see himself staring back at him. But his copy was dressed differently than he. There was a gourd on his back and his body was covered in prestigious robes. On his hat, there was a Kanji.
"Kazekage." Gaara said before shaking his head. How did he know that word? What was a Kazekage?
The other him smiled. "Ah so it seems you recognize the attire I'm wearing. I guess that's a good start."
"What do you mean? Who are you?" Gaara asked.
"At the moment, that's too much to explain. I don't have a lot of time at the moment to even explain who I am or why you exist. What I can tell you Gaara is this, big changes are coming to Amity Park. You must be ready to help Danny when the time comes." Copy Gaara said.
"What does Danny have to do with this?"
"YOU ANNOYING BRAT!" A rather loud and high pitched voice squealed from the darkness behind the other him. The other Gaara looked annoyed as a giant eye seemingly materialized from the darkness. It was a bright gold color and shaped like a star. "WE DON'T HAVE TIME FOR THIS, JUST REMEMBER ALREADY!" The voice screamed and a huge gust of wind hit Gaara in the chest, propelling him away from whatever monster lurked behind the Kazekage.
(End Dream)
Gaara jolted away and quickly ran to the bathroom. Flipping on the light, he stared at himself and was trying to breathe.
What kind of dream was that? What did that other him mean that big changes were coming to Amity Park? Gaara splashed some cold water on his face before walking out into his bedroom. He stared at his cellphone on his desk, the phone contained info on how to contact his parents. After a bit of thinking, he decided he would give them a call. Despite how late in the evening it was.
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(One week later.)
The last few days had definitely been crazy and full of adventure if you asked one Danielle Fenton. After the whole incident with the Dragon, she was then tasked with the challenging tasks of getting her grades raised in school. If fighting Ghosts on a nightly basis wasn't enough, she had gotten a D on her last test and was forced to have to do a make up project.
She got stuck with having to do research on some Gorilla at the local Zoo. And that's how she met Skulker, the Ghost Zone's greatest hunter. He had tried to hunt and capture her while she was completing her school assignment. Danielle found his obsession with hunting and wanting her pelt on his wall a bit too creepy for her liking. But she was able to defeat the hunter and send him on his way back to the Ghost Zone.
Danielle also hadn't seen or heard word from the enigma known as Itachi as of late. She couldn't really figure out what he was. Whenever he was around her Ghost sense didn't go off so that indicated that he wasn't a Ghost. So what was he exactly? Was he a meta human, like the ones she's been hearing about on the news. Or was he something completely different. All Danielle could figure out so far is he didn't seem to want to cause harm to innocent people. So she could live with that for now, but she was determined to figure out more about him.
Danielle found herself walking up the stairs from the lab, the Ghost Portal was working efficiently and no Ghost seemed to be trying to breach it. All in all, it seemed like today would be pretty smooth sailing. Imagine though Danielle's surprise when she walked into her kitchen and seen her older sister, Jazz and notorious bully, Dash Baxter in the kitchen.
"Dash" Danielle said, she almost dropped the drink she was holding in shock. "What are you doing here?"
"I'm tutoring him." Jazz answered her little sister. "Since he refuses to do his own homework."
"Homework is for wimps" Dash said with a shrug. "So Jazz, will you be coming to my party? You can have your sister over there come too if she wants, it'll be the perfect place to show the both of you why I'm the King of Casper High."
"King huh?" Everyone heard a familiar voice ask with a chuckle. "More like an inflated baboon with an ego to match. But by all means, don't let me ruin your fantasy."
Everyone looked towards the stairway to see Danny Fenton standing there. Dressed in a black leather jacket, grey undershirt and his usual black jeans. Danielle and Jazz noticed his usual vibrant blue eyes that contain a bit of mischief were dull today.
"It's not like you'd understand royalty anyway loser." Dash said back with a sneer. "Since you and your loser friends are at the bottom of the chain at Casper High."
"You forget this loser can put you on your ass though." Danny said, a rather cruel smirk found its way on his face. Before Danny had Chakra, he could always take Dash on in a confrontation. Now he could absolutely destroy the meathead if he so desired. Within his subconscious, Sasuke was wondering why his descendant seemed to be in a rather foul mood today.
Before Dash could retort, Jazz beat him to the punch. "What's got you in such a foul mood today Danny?"
"Check the calendar and you tell me."
Both Danielle and Jazz looked towards the calendar and their eyes widened. It was that day today! No wonder their brother seemed to be in a foul mood.
"What day is it?" Dash asked, not understanding what the big deal was.
"It's that day Baxter." Danny's voice had dropped to a whisper. Dash was confused for a moment before his eyes filled with recognition. He remembered that tone of voice. He remembered a few years back, he had insulted Danny on this day and had received a rather nasty beating from the male Fenton. But even through his thick skull, he understood he deserved it. Today was a day that meant a lot to Danny.
"Hey man.. look I forgot." Dash started to say but was interrupted when Danny placed his hand up.
"It's alright, I didn't expect you to remember Baxter. A lot of people at our school have forgotten." Danny said before making his way towards the front door of the house.
"You going to pick out flowers?" Jazz asked.
"Yeah."
"Can you pick two out, one from Jazz and me?" Danielle asked her brother.
"No problem." With those words, Danny departed out the door. The three were quiet, not really knowing what to do or say now. Danielle felt sad though, it was a day of grieving for her older brother and she had no way of helping shoulder some of his pain. The silence was broken by the sound of her father calling from the basement.
"Danielle are you here sweety?" Jack asked from the lab.
"Yeah dad!"
"Come down here, I've got something I want to show you!"
Danielle complied to her fathers wishes and began making her way down the basement steps. She entered the lab and found her father holding what looked to be a vaccum cleaner?
"What's that father?"
"This is my latest invention in the field of Ghost Hunting technology." Jack said rather proudly while showing off his invention. "The Ghost Weasel, it collects ambient Ghost Energy and fires it right back into the Ghost Zone."
Danielle decided to ask the million dollar question. "Does this invention work dad?"
Jack gave his daughter a rather arrogant smile. "Now why wouldn't it, I invented it after all." With that, her father pressed the On button on the machine.
Danielle ducked for cover as everything within the lab was sucked towards the Ghost Weasel. The Fenton Thermos ended up clogging the device. Jack pulled on it but no matter how hard he pulled, it wouldn't come out of the device.
"Looks like I'll need to retrieve the Fenton Unclogger." With that her father disappeared, off on his journey to find it. Danielle took a closer look at the Ghost Weasel.
"You know Dad, you could have just pressed." Danielle pressed the button and the Fenton Thermos fired out of the Ghost Weasel. But as fate seemed to enjoy messing with her, it hit the On button on the Ghost Portal. "The reverse button."
From out of the portal, an unknown Ghost emerged from the portal. The Ghost had a white mullet, dark shades on its eyes and was wearing a lab coat. The Ghost was laughing like a maniac. "Child! You have freed me from the Ghost Zone. I am Technus, Ghostly Master of Science and Electrical Technology."
Danielle's eyes narrowed and she summoned up her Ghost powers. In a flash, she transformed. "I don't think so buddy, I refuse to let you use the technology in this lab to take over the world!"
Technuses eyes widened in realization before a grin stretched on his face. "That's a great idea child, you should consider tutoring!"
"Dammit" Danielle muttered. Then the battle between the two had begun.
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(With Danny)
Danny felt the wind caress his face as he leaned against a hard surface. In his hand, Danny held a few flowers.
"I can't believe it's already been over eight years since that day huh?" Danny spoke. "Some days I wake up and wish it was a dream. That none of it was real."
The wind swept a few fallen leaves and carried them away. Who or whatever he was speaking too didn't retort to Danny's statement.
"My life has been a wild ride as of late, would you believe I'm the descendant of a powerful Shinobi from a forgotten era?" Danny chuckled. He looked down at his free hand and clutched it into a fist. "I have this power and I feel like I can do great things with it."
Silence was still greeted Danny.
"I hope you're proud of me and who I've become over the years. I miss you and hope I can see you again someday. Rest easy now." With those final words being said, Danny placed the flowers down and wiped a stray tear away. Danny began making his way out of the area.
The place Danny had been in was the local cemetery of Amity Park and he had placed a full bouquet of flowers on a grave. There was a name engraved on that tombstone that Danny would never forget.
Sam Manson.
Gone but will never be forgotten.
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I think that's where I'll end this chapter. So Gaara didn't have a big part in the fight with the Dragon obviously. I kinda did that on purpose. But don't worry everyone, as you can tell he will soon be playing a major role in the story soon enough.
And whaaaat? Sam is dead, what happened? What could be the cause of such a tragedy? But here's a question to keep everyone on their toes. Do the dead, ever truly stay dead? Keep in mind I did mention she will have an important role in the story. But what role could a dead character be helpful with? Well read and find out. Till next time!
MasterOfTheUnknown.