Ch 2: The skull queen and girl of the stars. WTF is going on.

HF : Wow, this is my first story and i'm surprised how quickly I got favs and follows. Thank you very much. And for those that had commented, I'd like to respond to a few.

TJ231 and KOJ : Thanks man on the tip, I try not to switch from he to I, it happens by accident when i'm writing. Though I'll look out for it more.

Bankai777 : You'll see.

kyrogue23: Well, your about to find out.

DragonPony022: ...Damn. Impressive thought process.

eniox27: I like your idea of Noob fighting style. Though if i try it is to be seen.

NecrorexSparda Juubi-No-Kishin: You'll see, also I hope your omnisenses are correct.

Now my oh so dear readers, you'll finally be getting some action. I hope you like it. Now onto the formalities.

Disclaimer: I don't either franchises. I wish I did, but I don't. "Takes out tissue"

"Speech"

'Thoughts'

"Demon/Large summon's speech"

'Demon/Large summon's thoughts'

Now onto the fun part. Quiet on the set...Action!

"And I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know."

― Mitch Albom, For One More Day

"Wha...What the hell!?" Naruto couldn't believe what he was seeing.

Our blonde protagonist had been traveling on the road out of the ghost town for a few hours. It had been a boring trip with nothing noteworthy. He was starting to think that he was too far away to catch up to this 'skullgirl', and would likely see only another destroyed ghost town with the skullgirl long gone.

That was not the case. At least, not completely so.

The town was in ruin, but was not empty in the least. The town was overrunned with the living dead. The dead forming a ring of rotten flesh, bones, and bluish white etheral flames. Inside said ring were 2 individuals engaged in combat.

One a girl looking barely in her teens. Her greenish-blue hair was set in 2 pigtail like braids. She was wearing dark green dress with a yellow star in the middle, a red satchel, green boots, and an eyepatch with a star on it over her right eye. She was holding 2 objects in each hand. In her right hand she was holding a stuffed toy bunny with sharp teeth, in its mouth it looked like it was...holding...her missing eye. in her other hand she held a short butcher-knife like sword.

The woman standing across from her staring her down with glowing red eyes looked way different. For one she looked to be in her early thirties. She had long deep dark red hair stylized to cover only her left eye. She was wearing a strange get up, a long royal dress that left her shoulders uncovered, and left ample view of her cleveage. Around her neck she wore a golden locket. She was also wearing a crown, some strange accesory around her hips, and had 4 strange golden accessories sticking from her head, 2 holdin what looked line a line of jewelry. Oh...and she had skulls floating around her.

'Guess we found this 'skullgirl'. Yami chimed in.

'Yeah, what should we do?' Naruto asked.

Naruto was no cowered by any means. But looking at the mass of rotten flesh shambling around. He wasn't sure charging in was the best of idea's.

'We'll wait. We'll analyze their fighting styles, and probably kill the skullgirl if she's weakened when the fighting is over.' Yami stated methodically. His voice sounding gleeful when he stated they'd kill her.

'Wha...kill her? I don't think I can.' Naruto stuttered out.

'Oh don't be a party pooper. Just watch, don't interfere.' Yami sounded dissapointed.

With the inner conversation over, Naruto decided to get closer to get a better view of the fight. He stealthily he got tto the top, he saw that their was none of the dead their. He decided to sit near the edge of the building to get a good view of the upcoming fight. He noticed that the 2 were starting to talk, so he enhanced his hearing with chakra to overhear the conversation.

"Queen Nancy Renoir, it is a pity that you fell to the skullheart. You were an advocate of peace, and now...your nothing more than the puppet of the skullheart." The eyepatched girl started.

"..." The queen gave no reply of even listening. She just continued to stare at her.

"Heh...You're not even in their, are you?" The girl asked. " Don't worry," She pointed her swords at the queen. "I'll put you out of your misery."

After she said that she dashed towards the queen at high speed, with star like after images following her path. When she reached the queen she slashed upward, aiming to decapitate her opponent. Though the quuen seemed to dodge it with ease. The queen took multiple swift steps back, after making a good amount of distance between the two launched a multitude of flaming skulls towards the girl. Though she just cut them down with her sword when they came within range.

When all of the skulls were sliced down, the girl charged at the queen once more. She tried for an overhead swing, only for it to miss. She then used the momentum of her attack to try a slash to the side, almost hitting the queen only for one of the undead to to take the blow. This continued on for a little longer until the queen decided to try to end the fight. The queen slowly raised her hand up and snapped her fingers.

As if waiting for their que to attack, the horde of undead sprang into action. They charged towards the girl to overrun her with their numbers. She responded by beginning to spin, until she started to like a miniature tornado. That out of the tornado shot out multiple of stars that helped cut down multiple of the undead. When she stopped spinning/shooting stars of death, she ran into the horde, cutting down any in front of her or got too close.

'Well she's dead' Yami said simply.

'What do you mean!? Shes cutting the dead down like nothing.' Naruto was shocked at yami's statement.

'Look closer dumbass.' Yami informed.

Looking closer Naruto noticed what yami was talking about. Each time the girl would cut down the dead to reach the queen, they'd simply reconnect to their bodies later on, or combine into a stronger monster. She was just wasteing her energy. But that wasn't the only thing he noticed. He noticed that the queen was completely still, looking like she was focused on controlling the undead.

'Shit, we gotta help her!?' Naruto thought distressed.

'Are you crazy? What we gotta do is wait this out. Wait ti'll the girl eventually gets overwhelmed with the dead. Then when the queen is sure shes won and lets her guard down, we slit her throat.' Yami said, not caring if the girl live or dies.

'But she'll die!' Naruto argued

'So?' Yami said in an uncaring tone.

'Wha...What?' Naruto was shocked to hear yami's reply.

'Who cares. Our life is the only thing that matters, that and fighting. Anyone else can just eat shit and die.' Yami said this as if it was the most obvious thing in existence.

Naruto wasn't sure what to do. On one hand he could risk his life and help the girl, something yami was against. Or stay and wait for a sure kill. Looking on the fight once more, seeing the girl fight on with the unendng mass of death, he made his choice.

He started to send chakra throughout his legs to strengthen and reinforce them.

'What're you doing?' Yami asked, hoping Naruto wasn't doing what he thought he was.

'Sorry.' Naruto simply said.

The next thing Yami knew was that Naruto has leaped of the building, using the edge to propel himself towards the queen.

'Goddammit Narutooooo!' Yami yelled off in Naruto's mind.

The queen hearing something near her started to turn her head until...

"Drop kick!" Naruto yelled out, as his foot smashed into the queen's head. The force of the kick made the queen's head snap to the side, producing a nice, loud cracking sound. Her head twisted at unhealty angle. He had snapped her neck.

"AAAAAAAHHHHH. Oh god... I killed her!?" Naruto yelled out in fear at what he'd done.

'Well, that was unexpec..'

'crrrrrrrrckkkkk' The sound of the queen's setting its self back in place had interrupted Yami.

"Oh...I'm fucked aren't I?" Naruto said his thought aloud.

"Kid what the darn are you doing here!?" The green haired girl yelled out. Seeming to have gotten to his location after he had interrupted the queens focus, and allowing the girl to get close.

"Oh, I'm here to he.." Naruto started until he noticed a very large, very sharp bone being shot at him.

Quickly he formed a handsign. Then the bone hit him, blood flying out, the tip emerging from his backside. propeling him backwards.

"KID!?" The girl screamed out. The death of a child in front of her horrifying her.

'Poof.' Until what she thought to be the boy that had helped her poofed into one of the walking dead around them.

"Wha...what the fudge?" The girl didn't understand what was happening.

"As I was saying until I was rudely interrupted, I'm here to help." Naruto finished, now standing behind the girl.

"What the..how did you get there?" The girl asked, wondering how he could switch himself with the dead.

"Let's just say it's one of my abilities." Naruto simply said. " Now I think we have some more pressing matters." Naruto pointed towards the queen who looked just as fine as when the fight started.

"Yeah...guess we do. Just don't get in my way." She informed.

The duo then rushed towards the queen. The girl was on the offensive, continously slashing at the queen, while Naruto was set on distracting or hitting the queen when she wasn't looking. Eventually Naruto started using his shadow clones, bringing out only 2. They were surrounding her, attacking in turns or all at once. With Naruto's help the girl was able to get in a few slashes, even cutting of one of the queens arms, though strangely enough their was no blood.

"Enough!" The queen yelled, ending her long silence. Her voice sounded strange, like someone else was speaking over her voice. "This ends now!"

Suddenly the surrounding then started to float towards the queen. The duo decided to back off, hoping to stay clear of any attack the queen was planning. The dead started to surround the queen, forming a mountain of rotten flesh, until it started to take shape. It started to take of a human, though a few stories larger. It soon towered over them,,

"I was right...I'm fucked." Naruto confirmed his earlier statement.

"Stand back, I got this handled." The girl then was shrouded in sparkling light. The rabbit she was holding started to form around her. giving her a type of neck guard with bunny ear like wings. Her hair was now loose, set into a princess style with a star like tiara. Her sword was now a golden longsword. And the eyepatch was now gone, revealing her other eye.

She then flew with a cosmic like explosion propeling her. Her sword cutting through the undead giants hands blocking her way.

"Huh, seems like I was unneeded." Naruto said in a dissapointed tone. " Maybe I should stay out of this...Nah, that'd be boring. Though I'll definitely need a boost." Naruto realized.

'Oi, Yami. Can you give me a kyuubi power up.' Naruto asked.

'And why should I, you completely disregarded what I said.' Yami replied.

'Aww, don't be like that. Remember, if I die, you die too.'

'Fine, but on one condition. I want more...freedom.' Yami simply stated, sounding slightly menacing.

"Sure Yami." Naruto agreed without thinking. The prospect of battling this undead behemoth, and his trust in Yami making him not realize what he was agreeing too.

'Alright than, 1 kyuubi power up coming right up!' Yami yelled.

Naruto was now surrounded in a vortex of blood red chakra, that soon started to take shape. He was within bubbling red shroud, forming 2 long rabbit like ears, and 2 tails. Naruto's whiskers were much more pronounced, his eye's were now glowing red. His hands now had sharp claws, and he was now crouched on all fours. Though the thing that Naruto noticed most was the feeling of rage and malice.

"RAAAWWWWRRR" Naruto let loose a monstrous roar that let loose a shockwave.

He then charged towards the behemoth, aiming to climb up it. From the skies The girl noticed the boys change, but was too preoccupied with not being swat out of the skies by the behemoth. She was trying to get to the head where the queen resides.

Naruto was making it up the behemoth at amazing progress. With the behemoth too preoccupied to notice Naruto with stopping the girl, Naruto went up with nothing in his way. Soon he reached the head of the behemoth, the mouth opening up to a cavern. Inside the queen was half submerged in a pile of undead. Her head leaning forward, like she was unconcious. Most likely she was seeing event's through the eyes of the behemoth, and had to be out cold to control it.

Naruto had one shot before she noticed he was their, and if she did, he'd be an easy target to strike inside the beast. Yami started to focus all of the chakra of the cloak to Naruto's right hand. Naruto pulled back his right arm, and clenched his claw hand so tight blood dripped down his hand. The cloaked hand forming the head of the kyuubi.

"Nighty night miss" Naruto began.

Blockbuster:" Kyuubi's Wrath!" Naruto uppercuted her with the full force of the cloak. The red chakra launched her up, snaping her neck once more. But this time, the red chakra invaded inside her, messing with the connection of queen Renoir and the skullheart. With the connection dissrupted the behemoth started to fall apart in large piles. Soon all that was left was a large mound of corpses.

The girl was shocked by the fall of the behemoth. she was floating back to the ground slowly, looking around for any movement. Soon she noticed some corpse being moved a bit aways. Out of the pile popped out Naruto, with only a little blood running from his head. Just a few feet away laid queen Nancy Renoir, seeming to be struggling to move. Annie started to walk towards the queen, planning to end this.

"Par...Parasoul, Umbrella. I...I'm sorry" The queen started to mumble out. Naruto was surprised to hear the queen talking like a normal person. "I..I just wanted the war to end...To be able to protect you, to give my children a world of peace." she started crying. She had control again.

Annie was looming over the queen, about to finish her off. Naruto was exhausted, but felt he had to do something. He ran in-between the 2, raising his arms to protect the queen.

"What are you doing?" The girl shocked that I'd help the enemy we were just fighting.

"Stop, she's got control again, she isn't going psycho." Naruto protested.

"She needs to die! It doesn't matter if she's in control now, the skullheart will take control soon enough!"

She started moving forward, coming to move him out of the way. But was stopped by the queen speaking.

"St..stop child. I'm a danger to the world...to my family." She started, openely crying, tears pouring down her face. She didn't want to die.

"What about your kids, Parasoul and Umbrella. Don't you want to see them!?"Naruto started, not wanting to give up on the women. Not wanting to take away someone else's mother.

"Child, Theirs nothing more I want. I want to be with my family, to see my dear daughters grow up, watch them fall in love, be at their weddings. But...I can't. The skullhear has turned me into a skullgirl. As the girl said, I'll lose control soon, and I'll be a danger to them. I don't want that. So I need to die." As the queen went on her tears were starting to dry, she was coming to accept her fate.

Naruto couldn't argue with her. She was a danger, It was by pure luck that Naruto was able to reach her and get the hit he did. He wouldn't be able to that again.

"Though child, if you could fulfill a dying mothers wish," The queen pulled off her locket, placing it Naruto's hand, smiling at him, "could you please give this to parasoul. She's the queen of the canopy knigdom, and will be in our castle in the capital. I want her to have one final thing to remember me."

The locket opened to show a family. On the left stood a mustachioed man with pinkish red hair. Next to him sat the queen holding a baby wrapped up in a blanket, maybe Umbrella. And to her right stood a red haired girl with amber eyes, likely her daughter Parasoul.

"I will." I said, feeling numb, but accepting her last wish.

"Thank you... Just tell any guard that gets in the way say "The queen has sent me to give her last message". She hugs Naruto in a motherly hug, happy to be able to give Parasoul something one last time. " So, we should probably end this now." she said towards the green haired girl. Which was returned with a solemn nod.

As the girl raised her sword the queen spoke, " Before i'm gone. may I have your names." smiling in a motherly way.

"N...Naruto" He chocked out.

"Annie." The girl said solemnly.

"Thank You Annie, Naruto." She said. Annie then thrusted her sword into her mid-section, where the skullheart lied. The smiling queen burst into etheral flames.

It was over. The queen had passed on, and the skullheart was destroyed. For now.