He was Naruto freaking Uzumaki damnit! Future Hokages wouldn't let things like video game rules and World enslaving monsters stop him from saving his precious people! Even if he had to crawl through their personal nightmares!
I do not own Naruto or- oh fuck me this chapter is going to take a long time to edit, I'm spotting really bad errors while writing this…holy shit guys I'm not even looking as I type! THAT'S BADASS bet you reading are so jealous of my amazing typing skills! Or wondering what the hell I'm on about…
Was I right?
*Achem* -or any other character's ideas or concepts from the anime.
XXXX (Code Geass soundtrack Stories)
The first thing Naruto noticed was that his arm and legs felt extremely sluggish again, the second thing was that he was at the ninja academy.
For a brief second Naruto wryly thought that if Sakura's personal hell was the academy She might have more in common with him then she thought. He then looked around the school and noticed how it seemed to be walled in by trees which grew so close together they formed an unpassable wall… subtle. It also was extremely foggy and every-time he looked at the trees at the edges of the clearing, they seemed to shimmer in and out of his focus. Naruto vaguely wondered if the fact the Academy was in a forest rather than in the middle of Konoha had to do with Sakura's nightmare or the game-mind-world thing being lazy.
Hint: You have now entered a Nightmare! Story quest dreams are different from side rescues or side quests, you have to complete several levels before defeating a boss and days may pass before you finish! Don't worry however this dungeon is short and you are in a stasis similar to the un-trapped during these missions. We've also included a temporary companion to assist you in this quest.
At this Sakura popped into existence right next to Naruto with a sudden crack and a smell of burning ozone.
"SHANNARO!" She screamed and looked at Naruto and he realised vaguely that this was not his Sakura.
"I'm inner-Sakura, you must be that Naru-creep she's always whining about!" Inner Sakura said rather loudly she looked over Naruto again before bonking him on the head.
"STOP ASKING ME OUT DAMNIT!" she screamed before turning serious "Now we have to go save Sakura from her inner demons because-I've-been-holding-them-back-for-years-so-she-doesn't-know-how-to-deal-with-them." The rather crazed mind entity said this so fast Naruto could just barely catch what she said.
Naruto didn't even have time to ask how she knew all this or why she didn't even question him being in Sakura's mind before she grabbed him by his coat collar and dragged him into the school.
How could cute sweet innocent Sakura have such a bipolar demon in her head?
XXXX (Battle music Battle of Rose)
Naruto felt Inner Sakura stop after they entered the hall and she whispered in his ear.
"I hope you're ready because we got some of Sakura's inner demons headed this way." And Naruto straightened up and nervously got into a combat stance. Then the mounting tension was destroyed when more words forced themselves in his head.
A battle is going to begin soon! Battle is very simple in Naru mode, jump and avoid enemy attacks and attack till their Hp reaches 0.
Naruto watched as several rather large and imposing figures came out of the darkness… they were…
Rather brutish looking academy students?
Academy Bullies lvl 2
Hp ?/?
Naruto started to laugh and Inner Sakura scowled.
"Idiot! Just cause they look like kids doesn't mean they're as weak as them!" and she dodged as one of them shrieked and threw himself at her in a crazed attempt to attack.
Naruto stopped laughing and nodded; he grabbed the arm of one and grunting in exertion he lifted the surprised jerk up and slammed him into a wall, a floating 20 flew up and the creature shrieked before vanishing in a cloud of smoke, and a brown bag dropped down.
Naruto picked it up and it vanished and reappeared as a rather dirty kunai.
New item acquired!
Rusty holdout Kunai!
Naruto wondered why on earth an academy student would smuggle a real kunai to school and why he didn't use it to attack Naruto; before it appeared in his hands and a glint entered Naruto's eyes.
This could be fun.
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It wasn't fun, because Naruto quickly found out he couldn't use jutsu. On the first floor Naruto and Inner Sakura encountered several bullies which they both dispatched fairly easily even without shadow clones.
"Hey crazy-Sakura-chan how are you so good at taijutsu when the normal Sakura was kinda bad at it?" Naruto asked as he deflected a clumsy attack from a rather fat toadish looking bully. Naruto swiped at his eyes with his rusty kunai and the demon popped in a white cloud of smoke.
"You have to learn the hard way when you're on your own fighting dozens of these jerks" Inner Sakura said before punching another kid in the face a white puff of smoke reminding Naruto of kage bunshin.
"Sakura has problems?" Naruto asked ever so tactfully a vein throbbed under Inner Sakura's eye,
"Just….shutup…" she growled and slammed a particularly viscous kick into another bully's sensitive area.
A rather sharp crack sound came from that and the words critical hit! 50 dmg! floated up.
Naruto wisely chose to shutup seeing that.
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It was after a few dozen fights in strange hallways that were made with no real direction in mind that they arrived at a staircase leading up. Naruto saw this as an opportunity to catch a break and talk to Inner Sakura some more.
"Hey Crazy-Sakura-chan, er… no offence but why do you exist…" Naruto mentally slapped himself even he had enough tact to know that sounded like a really mean insult. To his surprise however the mind entity merely laughed lightly.
"Haha you're direct, don't worry I get what you mean." The mind entity waived away the misstep easily "You know how Sakura was bullied when she was a kid yeah? Well I was made as a sort of defence mechanism of to help her deal with the negative emotions and shit when she thought about it. I've spent years fighting off these little twerps I usually stick to the lower floors though, the rooftop can be dangerous. But that's just when I stay here, most of the time I watch what Sakura does and bug her about it" at this a dry smirk made its way onto the phantom's face and Naruto laughed lightly.
"Guess she's not too happy about that then huh?" he said grinning, and Inner-Sakura grinned back.
"Nope, she isn't"
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The second floor was a little more difficult than the first since now there were ranged bullies who threw rocks and other debris at the pair. However they progressed through the hallways and classrooms intermixed with one another at random with little difficulty and didn't even take too much damage.
With the fighting behind them once again they stopped for a quick break in front of the stairs up.
"Naruto, why do you fight?" The question caught Naruto off guard and he looked over to Inner Sakura,
"Because I have to protect my precious people that's why!" grinned the boy and Inner paused at that.
"Is Sakura one of those people?" she asked nervous for some reason.
"Huh? Yeah! Like Old-man-hokage, Teuchi, Ayame, and Kakashi-sensei too!" Grinned Naruto before he scowled a little "…and I guess Sasuke, even though he's a bastard!" Inner Sakura seemed to deflate a little, but Naruto didn't notice this and rambled on, "Oh right and you to!" he grinned at inner and she froze.
"M-me?" she spluttered blushing
"Yeah! You're pretty tough inner-chan! And you didn't even yell at me when I said that stupid thing downstairs! Normal Sakura woulda bopped me on the head for that one," Naruto said rubbing the back of his head sheepishly before a thought occurred to him "Oh right! Sorry about that as well, since we're talking about that"
Inner Sakura was shocked, being a mental apparition of a 14 year-old girl left with nobody to talk to, nobody to relate to, but this boy….
Tears filled her eyes and she smiled.
"You're my precious person too Naruto!" The fact that he was her only one cemented that as well. The two teens then stopped as they realised how close they were to one another. Backing away with red faces the two teens were half grateful when a Bully ran around the corner and screamed loudly before attacking…
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The third floor was a nightmare, unlike the last two floors this one had deadly traps hooked up that when Bullies tripped did fatal amounts of damage and Naruto and Inner had to be careful not to trip any for fear of death.
This added in with the fact that there occasionally rooms filled with crowds of bullies meant the 3rd floor was either filled with intense fights or stressful hallways with traps and occasional bullies.
One floor filled with gruelling fights later and Naruto was feeling a little worn down while Inner Sakura felt exhausted. She collapsed against the wall and groaned softly when they finally found the stairs leading to the rooftops.
"Inner chan… You okay?" Naruto asked worriedly stopping and crouching down to talk to Sakura at eye level,
"I'm fine…just not used to….fighting this long…." Inner Sakura said in-between huffs. Suddenly the world shifted grey and words appeared above Inner Sakura's head.
KARMATIC MOMENT
Will you force Inner Sakura to stop and catch a break! If she goes on to the boss in this state she wouldn't last long, but she might make a good distraction…
Naruto shrugged he was going to make Inner stop anyway, fighting tired like that was going to get her killed.
"Hey howabout I go ahead and you rest up, there's no sense in you getting killed for no reason right?" Naruto suggested softly, Inner Sakura scowled and bonked Naruto's head but it had no force behind it and Naruto knew it was playful.
"I…can….still….fight…." She said holding onto Naruto's arm Naruto poked her nose and she half-heartedly swatted at his arm before glaring at him, Naruto grinned.
"You would've bitten off that finger if you were at 100%" Naruto laughed " now sit back here I'll go take care of the final boss and turn Sakura back to normal she'll need you to help her out after she's awake after all!" Naruto grinned and Inner Sakura sighed.
"Fine, but….when I'm better….I'll catch up…." Inner Sakura hugged Naruto suddenly. "Don't die" she whispered breathlessly into his ear and Naruto stiffened before Inner let go blushing lightly.
Naruto got up and took one last look at Inner Sakura who smiled lightly and mouth 'go' sharply and he nodded and cleared his thoughts of the mental apparition.
Boy this awkward not-romance but kinda-romance stuff was confusing.
KARMATIC MOMENT COMPLETE!
You chose to leave Inner Sakura behind possibly saving her. +10 karma
XXXX (silence)
Naruto stared at the door to the roof of the academy this was it, this was the final fight before he woke up Sakura and freed her from her nightmare. With a shuddering breath wondering what awaited him inside Naruto gripped the doorhandle and pushed it open.
Naruto found himself staring at a rather odd scene, Kakashi was fighting Sakura on top of the roof while a group of bullies stood in a line and jeered at her, sitting against the roof was Sasuke who had a scowl on his face and dark eyes glimmered with disgust.
Looking over it again Naruto realised it was wrong to say Kakashi was fighting Sakura, he was beating her.
She barely could stop his attacks and was sent flying after a heavy punch got through, the crowd of bullies jeered at her and Sakura teared up. She looked over to Sasuke for help but he snorted and turned his head to the side,
"Pathetic," he whispered and somehow everyone heard it and laughed while Sakura whimpered and cried. Even Kakashi was laughing and it was at this point Naruto had enough.
"HEY! What do you assholes think you're doing?!" he shouted in rage, his slightly torn jacket fluttering in the wind as the entire group quietened immediately. The bullies seemed ready to jump Naruto and (though they didn't know it) get destroyed immediately after doing so before a laugh broke the silence.
Sasuke was laughing, a short, barking, dark, chuckle that sent shivers down Naruto's spine, Sasuke never laughed but Naruto knew if he did, it wouldn't sound like that.
Sasuke got up from his seat and looked over Naruto and then cocked his head.
"So if it isn't the dobe, come to save the little pink haired weakling." He said mockingly, "I don't see why you would bother she's so weak and useless even her own teacher hates her." At this Kakashi nodded.
"She's so useless I can't even believe she passed her first year as an academy student, never-mind the genin test." Kakashi said and Sakura let out a choked sob at that, the bullies started laughing which enraged Naruto further.
"SHUTUP!" Naruto yelled stunning the group into silence "Sakura is not useless! She's my friend and I'm not letting bastards like you treat her like she is. The only weaklings here are you!" at this Naruto drew his rusty kunai out and got ready for a fight.
"N-Naruto please run, you can't beat Sasuke…. He's too strong." Sakura whispered and Naruto growled.
"Be quiet you're being rescued! You aren't allowed to protest, you just nod along and cheer for me!" Naruto shouted "You're my precious person Sakura and don't you ever forget what that means!"
A slow clapping reached Naruto's ears and he saw Sasuke had walked forward;
"Brave words for someone who's about to die!" The Uchi-jerk laughed at that "Go!" he shouted and at that the bullies and Kakashi surged forth.
Kaka-bully lvl 3 MINI BOSS
Hp ?/?
Bullies lvl 2
Hp 25/25
(Boss battle music unfinished battle)
The bullies being closer reached Naruto first and just like in the hallways only with more freedom being on a large open roof, Naruto easily slid through their slow attacks and stabbed and punched his way through the crowd.
A puff of smoke accentuated each thrust of his kunai, each punch he made, and every kick he twisted into. Naruto felt a rather gleeful feeling in being the strong one in a fight for once.
However as he slammed twisting kick into the chest of the last bully Kaka-bully leaped in front of him and the fight began.
Kaka-bully was a lot stronger than the bullies but the first thing Naruto noticed was that Kaka-bully was a lot weaker than the real Kakashi.
"You know, the real Kakashi would have beaten me by now, but I supposed a shitty watered down version like you wouldn't know anything about him huh?" Naruto taunted as he ducked under a slash from Kaka-bully's own gleaming Kunai.
"Shutup!" Kaka-bully his and slammed his kunai into Naruto's after a few seconds though, Naruto's kunai broke and Kaka-bully's own kunai slammed into Naruto's chest.
"NARUTOOOO" Sakura screamed and Sasuke started laughing. Kaka-bully chuckled under his mask and said mockingly.
"Looks like all it took for a weakling like you was a 'watered down version' huh?" Naruto mumbled something and Kaka-bully leaned in closer "What was that? Couldn't hear you through your gasps of pain?" he said chuckling.
"I SAID YOU'RE WRONG!" Screamed Naruto suddenly and he slammed his fist into Kaka-bully's face sending the rather sad imitation of the scarecrow into the ground.
Naruto hissed in pain as he pulled out the kunai and watched as a -25 floated up from the wound before it closed and Naruto's health went down to 75.
"How? I stabbed you!" wailed Kaka-bully as Naruto advanced growling angrily.
"Please! I didn't mean to hurt Sakura! DON'T KILL ME PLEASE!" wailed Kaka-bully and Naruto stopped.
"The real Kakashi wouldn't beg." Hissed Naruto and he threw the Kunai into Kaka-bully's only visible eye and the inner demon screamed. It's skin turned a pitch black colour and so did it's clothes before it elongated and turned into a similar looking creature to the one from monkey-anbu's nightmare before with a final wail it melted in a puddle of black goo. Slowly almost mocking a number this time bigger and bright red flew up
CRITICAL HIT: 100 damage!
A brown bag flew out of the goo and landed in Naruto's hands
Congratulations mini-boss has been defeated!
Rewards
Kaka-bully's mask!
200 exp
200 monies
Hidden reward:
Gleaming Kunai!
Item lost: Rusty holdout Kunai
Naruto grinned as he equipped the mask and new weapon and looked over to Sasuke and Sakura who were stunned in silence.
Sasuke started laughing however, breaking the rush of relief Naruto felt.
"Well done! WELL DONE!" he laughed again and clapped Sasuke-bully's confident smirk turned into a crazed grin. "However if you think you've changed the fact you're going to die" He drew some shuriken out of his pouch, "YOU'RE WRONG!" he screamed and threw shuriken at Naruto in a wide circle.
(Boss battle music Dark impetus (mysterious stranger battle) )
Final Boss!
Sasuke or the Uchi-jerk
Hp 100/100
Mp inf/inf
Naruto stepped into a gap of the range attack and duck and rolled under a large fireball sent his way. Sasuke charged at him while he was dodging however and Naruto blocked a heavy punch Sasuke threw at his jaw. Naruto then slid underneath another rather badly-thrown (for Sasuke) punch and stabbed him in the arm.
A minus -10 floated up and Sasuke lost some health. He jumped backward and returned to his shuriken throwing and fire spewing pattern before charging again at Naruto. This time however his punch was met with a kick to the face which sent the Uchi-jerk stumbling before Naruto charged and impaled Sasuke on his Kunai a -50 popped up and Naruto Jumped back ready for Sasuke to charge again.
"You know the real Sasuke wouldn't repeat his tactics like that," mocked Naruto a foxy grin on his face though it was hidden by the mask he now wore.
"SHUTUP" yelled the uchi-jerk and Sasuke jumped backward and this time sent several fireballs at Naruto who leapt to the side to avoid them.
However some shuriken were sent flying at Naruto hidden by the smoke and he grunted as they slammed into his chest taking away 15 health.
Naruto sucked in a breath and ducked under a flying kick from Sasuke who had tried to take advantage of his weakened state.
"How's that for a new tactic?" Taunted Sasuke he then kicked Naruto in the face when the blonde turned around to retort leaving him at 50 health.
Naruto recovered and did a back flip off of his hands and landed on his feet and growled realising he was at half health.
"I don't see why you would throw away your life for a weakling like her!" taunted Sasuke who motioned towards Sakura who was trying to get onto her knees to fight the Uchi-jerk with Naruto. "Just give up! Even if you win there's no real prize for all this, unless you think this bitch would put out!" Sasuke laughed at that and Naruto scowled.
"Give up," Naruto hissed out and charged at Sasuke, who yelped and spat a fireball at Naruto,
Naruto however simply jumped over it and landed behind Sasuke who turned around just in time for Naruto to stab him in the neck without even looking in the Uchi-jerk's direction.
"On making me give up!" Naruto finished dramatically and Sasuke grunted as his health slowly ticked down to 0.
The apparition hissed before it turned into a silhouette the same way kaka-bully had and started to melt, then suddenly it gave a bloodthirsty grin and gave Naruto the middle finger as it melted.
"Watch your back, because the next one of us won't go so easy on you!" it hissed out its features becoming more and more liquefied by the second.
"fuck you and the horse you rode in on!" the vulgar demon now free to act however it wanted then turned to Sakura "And fuck your liiiiiiittlle biiiiiitch tooooo!" the hissing black inner demon slowly melted until finally all that remained was its arm out stretched in a middle finger which melted into the black puddle and then it was quiet.
(Silence)
"NARUTO!" yelled a voice and Naruto turned only to receive a flying tackle hug from inner Sakura who had just arrived. "I got here just as you stabbed the thing in the neck!" laughed Inner breathlessly "I can't believe you won!"
Naruto grinned sheepishly under his mask rubbed the back of his head, "I was just doing what I had to, you two are my precious people!" Naruto laughed before turning to Sakura.
"Are you okay?" he asked and helped up to her feet as her health returned.
"Naruto…..I can't believe you did this…." Sakura said quietly, suddenly her mood shifted and she bonked Naruto over the head "YOU IDIOT I WAS SO WORRIED ABOUT YOU!" she yelled and gave Naruto a tackle hug very similar to the one he'd received from Inner Sakura.
"Mouuuu Sakura why do you always hit me….why do both of you always hit me on my precious head?" whined Naruto rubbing the top of his head, he felt glad everything had worked out, but a niggling doubt thought something important was missing from the scene. Naruto mentally shrugged and shoved the doubts to the back of his mind.
And all was well.
"FUCK OFF"
Or not.
(Vegeta's sacrifice theme extended)
The puddle that was the Uchi-jerk rose up and formed into an inner demon, it foamed at the mouth, which like the other demon Naruto saw was a vertical slit that took up its entire head filled with razor sharp teeth.
Hidden boss
Sakura's inner Demon
"I'M GOING TO KILL ALL OF YOU MOTHERFUCKERS" screamed the creature and it charged up a beam of dark energy, it poured every ounce of energy it had in the one attack before it screamed and sent it out.
The sickly purple beam shot forward and was about to hit Naruto when Inner jumped in front of the petrified boy and took the hit.
-100 health.
…
Inner fell to the ground with a thump, a gaping hole in her chest.
Naruto's eyes turned red and his fangs grew.
An unspeakable desire to kill filled him and he was surrounded by a red glowing cloak. Sakura stared at Naruto dumbly unable to comprehend what was happening to her friend.
"I'm going to kill you" Naruto hissed his demonic red eyes burning into the inner demon.
He shot forward and as a crimson blur sliced through the inner demon in a single flash that sliced the creature almost completely in half from the waist up. He didn't stop there and slashed at the creature again, and again, screaming in fury as the demon stumbled backward.
It gave a terrible scream as numbers flew up rapidly and with a burst of light the creature vanished leaving the enraged Naruto sitting there growling, slowly the terrible rage in Naruto subsided and his eyes returned to their ocean blue and the red aura of death and destruction vanished.
A few seconds of silence passed and then the unwelcome words appeared.
Congratulations you WIN!
(Kingdom hearts ost Sora's sacrifice extended)
Defeated boss Uchi-jerk and Inner demon!
Rewards
Item acquired: Rookie of the years pants
Item acquired: Shuriken (throwing item)
Jutsu unlocked!
Jutsu learned: Shadow clone
Jutsu learned: Substitution
Jutsu learned: transformation!
Jutsu Available: Great Fireball!
Exp: 500
Monies: 1000
Naruto felt numb, until a small choking gasp reached his ears and he ran over to inner Sakura hoping that maybe she still counted as in his party, maybe she'd be okay somehow!
"N-…Naruto" she smiled weakly and coughed out blood "yo-you won right?" she asked and Naruto stared through tear filled eyes trying to comprehend her state.
"Yes… I won" he said his voice shaking, his whole body shaking as he cradled inner Sakura in his arms.
"Go-…..Good Sakura, tell her she has to be….strong….fight her own battles now since I…." Inner Sakura whispered lightly a blood trailing from her mouth not finishing her state and her eyes filled with a strange emotion.
"I want…you to come closer…." She whispered, and Naruto complied bringing his face millimetres from Inner's.
Without hesitation Inner Sakura closed the distance and kissed Naruto.
He stiffened but didn't pull back; instead he pulled her into him and held her in a tight embrace. Somewhere in his mind Naruto realised he tasted blood but he didn't care. He continued to kiss Inner until she weakly pushed him away and smiled.
"I wa-want you to re-remember me, don't forget about me….and don't forget who you are…." Tears poured this time from Naruto's eyes unrelenting.
"I won't, I swear I won't!" sobbed Naruto.
"I mean it!" Inner said "Nobody has acknowledged my existence, not even I did I just assumed I was another part of Sakura….then you came along and made me feel like more, like a real person, like I mattered please…I…." She trailed off and a strange cold feeling filled Naruto as if his insides had been replaced with ice.
Tear-filled ocean blue eyes met vibrant passionate green, a smile touched Inner's face and slowly the green dulled down. Then she vanished into strange golden particles, the golden shimmers of light floated in the air and slowly drifted off to Sakura's mind to become part of the girl again.
"I won…" Naruto said feeling empty
Since he won why did he feel like such a failure?
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AND STOP
Dear god 4,333 words not counting this summary! That's a lot for me, but enough ego inducing fun, let's talk beeeessnuiiiiss
What didja guys think of Inner? I tried to thrush out her character more this time treating as a separate entity rather than a gag that is only done once or twice I was really unsure about how to do her death as well since I either have it really affect and change Sakura, or Naruto. Since Naruto is a permanent character I figured I might as well throw in some romance. It was kinda rushed but then again the two didn't exactly have much time, and plus Naruto was really Inner's only friend. So I tried my best with the limited time, lemme know what you guys think.
Things are also gonna be pretty awkward between the two next chapter huh? I mean with making out with a part of her mind in front of her gotta be kinda weird now.
Weird story, I hated Inner Sakura on my first draft because she had no personality, and now she's alright but a little rushed, then again one chapter of screen time…
This is going around my mind too much now.
Anyway this is just the beginning we haven't even gotten to the fun part of this series, the meat as it were, the fillet, the….. yeah I'm out,
Point is things'll get better when we can move onto characters who are emotionally broken, like Kakashi, or Sasuke, *evil masculine squeal* uuuuohoho I cannot wait for them, those chapter will be so much fun!
But Alas Naruto has to grind now, and I have to go take my pills so until then I bid you
Adieu~
Oh right, sorry for any mistakes I have in here, I'm doing my own editing and even though I am trying my best I'm pretty sure there are some mistakes in grammar, flow, and spelling here and there. I'll try to fix them up as I go and with a few edits but that'll take time.
Also its 2:30 Am in here and this is usually when I make the garbled mess instead of making sense of it for you guys.
So please tell me what you think of my garbled messes and review!
Also tell me what you think of story while you're talking about that too.
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