Yo. I'm back hoping to make a release before summer. My schedule should be evening out soon, about a month at most, after the AP exams. This means that I can up my writing again and get some work done. I don't want to take too long with this update so here goes nothing
Lone Wolf Returns- Chapter 5
Just What is Going On?
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(LAST TIME)
In a dark cavernous room, a pair of eyes, green as jade and framed by messy blond tresses, slowly opened from their nearly three year sleep.
A voice sounded throughout the cavern, sounding as if there were two voices speaking as one "It SEems THAt we weRE deSTIned To mEetoNE moRe time..."
"STARRK!"
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"N-Naruto?!" questioned the Kazekage, his eyes nearly falling from his head.
" It's been a long time Gaara."
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"B-but... that not possible... Naruto has been dead for three years! WHO ARE YOU REALLY!" demanded the now enraged red head. There was no way he would allow this imposter to desecrate his first friends memory.
Stark sighed to himself; he knew this would be the likely reaction. It's not every day that somebody you knew for a fact was dead came back to life. "Well then, allow me to elaborate upon the situation, despite how troublesome it'll be. When I died I became consumed by my negative emotions, my feelings of betrayal, hatred and loneliness overcame my soul and cast it into an abyssal afterlife. This realm is known as 'Hueco Mundo', or Hollow World and is inhabited by creatures known as Hollows, the remains of souls that gave into their negative emotions in death. Hollows are monstrous beings of hunger and aggression, seeking only to devour all that they see."
Gaara found himself more than a little skeptical at his explanation. It went against every religion and belief that he had ever heard of. He relented to making his apprehension known until this 'Stark' had finished his explanation.
"Hollows lose their heart upon creation and it is replaced by a fathomless void of hunger that can only be slacked by devouring other Hollows or the souls of the dead before they pass on. This is symbolized by the Hollows hole, the physical representation of their lack of heart. I spent my first three hundred years in Hueco Mundo as a mindless raging hungry monster that devoured everything in its path."
"By the time I was able to retain my intelligence I had eaten several tens of thousands of hollows. I became so powerful that my very presence was enough to kill most hollows before they even reached within a mile of me. I became alone once again, forced to separate myself from interaction lest I kill those around me. So I trained."
"I trained to become the strongest Hollow so that if I ever made new precious people I could protect them. But I never did. I wandered the land and found few that could stand up to my very presence and even fewer who I could get along with. In all my time I had found one group which could have accepted me. I had saved their leader from a large scale attack, but the group viewed me with distrust so I left them. Loneliness encroached upon me after some time and I fell into depression."
"In my wandering I was viewed with fear for my Spiritual Pressure, how we of the dead measure our power, and I became an entity of respect. I was reborn upon my creation as a Hollow and found it only fitting that I would be given a new name as well. They began calling me Coyote Stark, after my blank wolfish appearance. They referred to me as the Lone Wolf of Hueco Mundo. I became revered and feared on a level comparable to that of the God King of Hueco Mundo."
"Eventually, after about four thousand years my soul had grown so strong and my loneliness so great that my soul actually divided itself to bear my burden. I was no longer as lonely because I had Lilynette with me" Stark intoned as he gestured to his smaller partner.
Gaara had to admit, if this was a story then it was a rather well crafted one. His eyes glistened with emotion as he told his story, giving further credence to the fact that he truly believed the story he was telling.
"Not long after her inception, we were approached with an offer to join a group headed by a rogue Shinigami." At this point Gaara's eyes widened imperceptibly. So there were some close points with modern religion. "We joined but it wasn't what we wanted. The group was ragtag and was barely cohesive. Many members hated each other. Few people among the group were actually good people, only two to my knowledge. We were given human forms again, hoping to maximize our power. In the end we were betrayed again; the leader was only using us as a backup battery should he need it. "
"Upon my second death I met the Shinigami King. The First Shinigami, the one who originally sealed the Kyuubi inside of me as a child. He spoke of how I deserved as second chance to right the wrongs done to me. I accepted" finished Stark.
"If all that you say is true, why do you not have the same appearance as Naruto Uzumaki before his death?" Gaara had many questions, this was one of the few he felt was least explained by Stark.
"That is simply because a Hollow who gains a human form will become what they most wanted in life. For example, when I was reborn in human form, I was recreated exactly as you see now. My 'average' appearance indicates my wish to belong, to have a place I can call my own, while my long hair and stubble represent represents my wish to be free in whatever way I wish. The Jaw Bone is what is left of my mask which hatred of my betrayers and my wish to 'bite back' as it were. Even my seeming older body represents my wish to have been taken seriously. Lilynette is the representation of everything that I had missed in my life that I wish I could have been. She is loud and childish because I wished that I had been able to retain my own childhood. Even her body represents all that I had desired; the chance to just be a child."
"..." there wasn't much that could be said to that. Stark could see that Gaara was still dubious about believing him. He knew he had one more option, though it wasn't a very pleasant choice it appeared that it was required.
With a low sigh, Stark began to reach upward. Gaara tensed at this action but let the former Espada continue. Stark brought his hand towards his face and quick jerk, plucked his eye out of his socket. Gaara's eye widened dramatically but before he could exclaim his disbelief, Stark crushed his eye which dispersed into many particles (I realize this is Ulquiorra's ability but I am taking liberties here).
Before Gaara's own eye, he viewed everything of Starks life; from the death of Naruto Uzumaki, to the resurrection of Coyote Stark into the Elemental Nations. He saw everything, and as he did tears flowed from his eyes. His first friend was truly back.
He couldn't believe it. He was back. All the horrible things that had been going on could be stopped now with the presence of such a powerful entity as Stark. The atrocities caused by Konoha could be ended. His friend...
...could be happy.
"Let's get you back to Suna, Gaara. Your siblings are very worried" said Stark, before he helped Gaara back to his feet.
He was just about to sonido back to Suna when Lilynette signaled for him to stop.
"Ne, Stark, what was with the fire power back then. When you took out those Akatsuki guys you really didn't need to use so much power."
Stark looked contemplative for a moment before he responded, "Lilynette, you can feel it can't you? The very atmosphere is saturated with Reiryoku. It's underestimated the amount that would be drawn in from the air."
Now that he mentioned it, Lilynette could feel allot around them. It was subtle but it was omnipresent as well. It just felt so natural she had barely even noticed it.
Before she could speak more, Stark continued, "I also have noticed an occasional spike in my own Reiatsu levels at seemingly random points. I believe it to be caused by the fact that we are no longer beings of pure spirit, causing an imbalance in our on reserves and leading to sporadic control at times. I'll have to work on getting control back, man this is going to be such a drag. I wish I could just go sleep."
No sooner had stark uttered the last sentence then he found a foot firmly planted in his face. The owner of said food soon added insult to injury by yelling, "YOU CAN SLEEP IN SUNA YOU LAZY BUM!"
Stark merely grumbled as he straightened his body once again before he grabbed onto the struggling Kazekage. He sends one last small glare at the bossy pseudo teen and then disappears in a blur of sound along with Gaara.
Lilynette sent one last scathing glare in the direction of her partner before leaving in the same manner just as the team from Konoha crested a nearby dune.
The Konoha team was not happy in the slightest, having been shown up by a supposed unknown and unimportant delegate. They all had one thing on their mind.
There was going to be hell to pay when they returned to Suna.
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Hey guys. Im terrible sorry for the long wait once again and i hope to be able to start writing with some semblance of continuity soon. I cant wait till that time and i hope i havent angered any readers with my constant hiatus'. Thanks for your continued reading and i cant wait to read any reviews you guys might have.
I HAVE ALSO DECIDED THAT I WILL NOT BE DOING A HAREM! I KNOW SOME OF YOU WILL BE DISAPPOINTED BY THIS BUT LOOKING BACK ON IT I JUST CANT SEE STARK WITH A HAREM! HOWEVER! I WILL BE MAKING USING THE INFORMATION FROM THE POLE FOR SOMETHING ELSE! YOU MOSTLY VOTED THAT YOU GUYS WANTED TIA AND NEL TO BE PART OF THE HAREM AND SO I WILL USE SOMETHING I HAVE BEEN TOYING WITH TO ADD THEM IN. KNOW THAT THIS WONT CHANCE THE DIRECTIONS I HAD PLANNED FOR THIS STORY AND THAT THEY WILL JUST BE HAVING A DIFFERENT PART THAN I WOULD HAVE GIVEN THEM!
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