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!
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Oh yeah happy new year everyone! I hope you all have a wonderful 2014, if you want to have lots of fun in your free time, just reread this story over and over again! OH! And give me lots of money so I can buy…er better writing equipment! *cough* yeah that!
Right greedy rant aside! Happy new-year!
(silence)
The kunai in his hand was sharp and not bright enough to reflect light, just the way he liked it. He dodged under another swipe from his opponent and plunged into his skull. Bah too easy, if ninja were this weak nowadays he'd consider going out of retirement to show the young-uns a thing or two. Then a scream broke the air and he turned frantically to his home, running as fast he could.
No, they couldn't hurt her, she was a good ninja she should be able to get out…
His daughter struggled against her captor as he held a kunai to her throat.
A memory flashed by of the same thing happening to her mother, he let out a strangled yelp and the nin drew his kunai across her throat, a crimson spray…
He broke down and sobbed as he watched his daughters lifeblood exit her body, sobs renched his throat and he looked up to his hated enemy, Black hair in a familiar Mullet made itself known to him.
"YOU! But, I killed you!"
"That's what you think," the man sneered and threw his kunai into the broken man's skull.
Day 3- Business of the Damned
(Pirates of the Caribbean OST "Jack Sparrow")
Naruto awoke the same way he always did; he had a fleeting moment of pure peace, of serenity, he had thoughts swirling absentmindedly in his head and he may have been about to reach an epiphany about life itself, Naruto was slowly coming too as he realised he had just figured out the point of life it was-
BZZT BZZT BZZT
And just like that everything was gone, as if someone had just flushed it all down the toilet.
Naruto grunt smacked the sleep button on his alarm clock and rolled over to the side that was when he heard a knock on his door.
"Go away, lemme sleep!" he shouted still not quite fully awake.
"Naruto open the door we have to go save Sa- whoevers next!" shouted Sakura on the other side.
"I don't wanna, so lemme sleep!" he shouted back rolling over,
"Naruto I swear if you don't start getting ready I will hurt you!" yelled Sakura and Naruto snorted before putting a pillow on top of his head and drowning out the sounds of his pink haired 'lady'-friend.
A smile made its way onto his face and Naruto was about to go back to sleep and forget all about his troubles, his eyes drifted slowly closed and his entire body relaxed in pre-
BZZT BZZT BZZT
"I WILL SHOVE A KUNAI SO FAR UP YOUR ASS-"
…Naruto er, after waking up…. went about his morning routine…
"BUT NOT BEFORE I-"
*cough*he showered and… oh for god's sake just timeskip already
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After shouting several expletives at his rather unfortunate alarm clock Naruto finally got dressed in the clothes he acquired yesterday.
Primary weapon: Gleaming Kunai
Damage 15-20
A finely made Kunai, though other then it's high craftsmanship there's nothing rather out of the ordinary about it otherwise.
Throwing weapon: Shuriken
Damage10-15
Ordinary Shuriken, meant for throwing at the enemy to distract or to cause light damage.
Mask: Kaka-bullies mask
A rather well cared for half mask, it adds mystery to the wearer and there is a hidden hole for Ninjutsu to pass through uninhibited and food when one must maintain mystery but eat at the same time.
+8 Cha
+5 Nin
Legs: Rookie of the years pants
These black pants are padded on the inside to help the wearer block attacks with his or her legs without getting hurt. They also are only given to the Rookie of the year and have minor seals that help the wearer use his/her chakra.
+5 End
+ 4 tai
+ 2 nin
+ 2 Gen
Chest: Black shirt
A standard issue Black Shirt (No stats)
Feet: Ninja sandals
Standard issue ninja sandals (No stats)
Naruto spent five minutes looking over his orange jacket, it was torn, dirty, and had no small amount of blood, he wondered vaguely whether it was his blood or-
Right don't think about that not now. Naruto pretended it was his from when Kaka-bully had stabbed him and left it at that.
Whoevers blood it was, was a moot point because Naruto knew deep down inside that the beloved orange coat was unsalvageable, he sighed before putting it down, maybe he'd be able to get another one in his next mission if he was lucky.
Sighing he went out of his little room and into the kitchen where he saw Sakura sitting patiently hold a mug of tea. Naruto vaguely wondered where she got it before going to make some cup ramen.
"So uh, what're you doing here this early?" Naruto asked while pouring water into his kettle.
"It's nine…" Sakura said sipping her tea demurely, "and besides we have to start early right? Rescue as many people as we can?"
"Bah my shadow clones are helping out all over town right now so nothing is gonna fall into disrepair what's the rush?" Naruto grinned.
"Baka, what about our ninja patrolling our borders? What about the other villages? And we also have to free everyone before that demon gets free." Sakura said massaging the bridge of her nose, of all the people to be chosen to free everyone…
"I think his name was cabbage-don or something" Naruto supplied 'helpfully'. Sakura resisted the urge to face-palm or smack the saviour of the world; no matter how tempting it was to just reach over and…
"Mou Sakura why are you raising your arm," Sakura eeped and tried to hide her embarrassment by changing the topic.
"Right so what's the next objective say?" Sakura asked ignoring Naruto
"But what about-"
"Next. Objective." Sakura grunted out and Naruto raised his hands passively
"Sheesh alright Sakura,"
Naruto entered the menu and then his journal
Main objective
Rest at apartment
Shaking his head Naruto wondered if the thing was broken before exiting the menu.
"Same as before Sakura, rest at apartment," Naruto said and the pinkette sighed to herself.
"Maybe you have to leave the apartment before we get our next objective," she said wonderingly, Naruto grinned,
"Well I just finished off my breakfast so let's find out! We'll think of something if it's broken." Sakura nodded as they left Naruto took notice of the +10 influence floating away from Sakura but wisely chose to keep that to himself.
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Naruto closed the door and locked it before he turned to Sakura, he was about to ask what to try next when a message came.
Objective complete: Rest at apartment
Main quest updated
Saving…
Done
New objective: go rescue
Naruto scratched his head and looked over to Sakura
"Did you catch any of that?" he asked, Sakura nodded
"Yeah, I think that's the nin-gear store owner, it's not too far from here, pretty close to that ramen place you love and Ino-pig's flower store." Sakura explained, before going into thought, "We should rescue Sasuke-kun first though!" Sakura then thought to herself "and then when I free Sasuke-kun he'll love me and ditch Naruto!"
"No thanks, I tried going to a high level area before I was ready before, not really happy to try that again," Naruto said before opening his map, his tongue sticking out of the corner of his mouth. His eyes went unfocused for a second before returning to their normal gleam and Naruto grinned.
"I know the way c'mon Sakura!" Naruto shouted and rushed off, not seeing her angry scowl.
"If he won't rescue Saskue-kun…" Sakura thought to herself, "Then I will!"
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(Silence)
Naruto grinned when he saw a decently sized shop this was it,
"See Sakura? Toldya I'd find it….Sakura?" Naruto looked around worriedly,
"Sakura!" he shouted out and nothing, the silence bugged him every time he entered the village proper. It was creepy, Naruto didn't try questioning the reason why music seemed to play everywhere when this all began. It made his head hurt trying to think about it.
(Castlevania Aria of sorrow OST forbidden Area)
"Hello again young one" An all too familiar voice hissed out and Naruto whirled around in with a snarl etched on his features,
"Where's Sakura-chan?!" he yelled and pulled out his kunai threateningly, the creature seemed only to be amused by the actions though.
"I haven't done anything to your missing friend," The creature said a mocking chuckle escaping it "But I have been watching your progress and I must say; …I've been amused." The creature chuckled again but this time seemed to be slightly less threatening than before.
"Glad I could amuse you." Naruto scowled before his vision shifted again and he entered a cutscene.
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"In time I will rule the world, no, I will rule the universe in all its glory and splendour." The creature hissed out, "But fate has chosen a champion to fight this and it has, in its arrogance, chosen a worthless brat like you. Though I do sense an energy coming from you… one that I haven't seen in a long time." The creature drew back its hand and slammed into Naruto's stomach, Naruto gasped for breath and the screamed as an agony ripped through him like never before.
"Ahah! One of my kind has been sealed within you, I might've known had you not been chosen to…" The creature halted in its thoughts. "The nine tails? In a barely grown brat like you?" The creature was getting angry.
"It seems I underestimated how wily fate could be sometimes," The creature hissed "I'll leave you a gift, it seems you may be a threat to my plans after all."
"Wait!" shouted Naruto and to his surprise the creature listened and stopped out of amusement more than anything else. "What happened to the other villages?" Naruto asked "And the minor non ninja ones and the ninja's patrolling outside."
"Ah a fair question, one I will answer for free, even though it is a bad habit to answer pest's questions…" The creature chuckled "I've teleported the ninja patrolling back into their homes or where the last slept here in the village. As for anyone who was outside of their home, I teleported them back into the last spot they slept that was secure, I can't risk my only source of sustenance now can I?" The creature chuckled, "Now if you do not have any more unimportant questions to ask I'll leave you a gift before I go."
The creature faded out of existence and in its place a rather angry looking inner demon growled. Naruto grunted as his vision shifted and he found himself staring at the inner demon.
(Kingdom hearts 2 OST tension Rising)
Under attack!
Inner Demon lvl:8
HP 80/80
MP 200/200
Naruto jumped backwards just in time to avoid a slash from the ebon coloured claws as the creature shrieked.
Throwing some shuriken that hit the creature for -10 Naruto pushed chakra to his hands and fire erupted from them. Naruto looked at his hands looking them over, so this was his new jutsu…
Naruto pulled out his gleaming Kunai and went into a fighting stance, the fire burning around his hands somehow not harming his weapon.
The Inner demon shrieked again and charged at Naruto, this time he blocked its first attack with his Kunai and barely brought it up in time to deflect its other hand before the creature ducked down and its strange spade tail nearly impaled Naruto had he not jumped backward.
Naruto cursed and ran up one of the walls on the street they were on. He tossed more shuriken at the creature leaving it at 60 health, before leaping down behind the creature and stabbing it in the back with his kunai. Naruto then slung himself onto the creatures back and held onto its neck and kept stabbing it, an inky black blood spurting out of the wounds.
Two -20s floated up before the creature shrieked again and stabbed Naruto in the back with its spade tail, taking away 25 health and Naruto felt a bit nauseous.
Ignoring the fact he probably had been poisoned Naruto stabbed the creature again this and cursed as it slid off a piece of chitinous growth on its back only dealing 15 damage.
Naruto expected the creature to try stabbing him again and got ready to dodge. The creature however simply unfolded its massive wings on its back and lifted into the air.
Naruto yelped as they soared into the sky the wind buffeting his face as he held onto the kunai he jammed into the creature's shoulder blade with his right and its neck with his left hand. In this situation neither of the two could attack and the creature flew through the streets of Konoha shrieking. It was at this point Naruto was extremely thankful he had a mask as he probably would've swallowed a bug or something at this speed.
Naruto summoned as much strength as he could and with one flaming hand pulled the kunai out of the creatures shoulder with a brutal twist making it shriek again.
Holding on for dear life Naruto inched his kunai forward slowly as they flew through Konoha street then Naruto saw an overhanging sign and grit his teeth.
The Inner demon saw it too and flew up to his and Naruto grunted as he slammed into the building losing 60 health and purple -10 floated up and Naruto was feeling extremely nauseous as poison surged through his system.
Realising he was only at 45 health Naruto brang his kunai forward again and brought it to the creatures neck, a shot of pain lanced through him and Naruto lost another 10 health to poison.
With a final yell Naruto slashed the creature's throat and a yellow 100 floated up as the creature gurgled and they lost altitude rapidly. Naruto yelled as they approached a rather old and musty apartment building and they slammed through one of the upper floors the old wood giving way to their weight and thrust easily. Naruto remembered them slamming to the ground and luckily the Demons rapidly cooling corpse took most of the damaged and skidded on the floor which sent Naruto flying into another wall before everything went black.
XXXXX (Moby Everything that rises)
The first thing Naruto felt was a massive headache the pain seemed to ripple throughout his entire body and Naruto awoke to find himself only on 5 health.
Congratulations! You win!
Exp 1000
Monies 400
Naruto groaned when the words forced themselves into his head again, did the hint system ever give him a break?!
Looking around Naruto saw the rather messy body of the Demon on the ground, all that he could recognise was the wings sticking out of a pulpy mess of Black blood and gore. Where in Sakura's level the creatures would just melt into puddles of tar, it seemed their corporeal bodies would not clean themselves up.
Feeling more than a little queasy, not from the after effects of the poison, Naruto resisted the urge to puke in case it lost his health and he died from something as ridiculous as throwing up. It seemed that in the 'Level' world getting hit would only reduce his hit-points before healing, here it would actually hurt like a real wound and the health meter was only a gauge then anything else.
Naruto on a second observation noticed a brown bag floating next to the rather disgusting mess and Naruto went over and picked it up.
Item found: 5x health potions, 2x antidotes.
Hint: health potions are healing items that will restore health, you can drink these during combat and they will restore a portion of your health, however you can only drink one health potion every 30 seconds.
Antidotes and other items can cure status affects such as poison or paralysis, but they do not restore any health.
Naruto wondered if he was really lucky or if this was all planned out to teach him how to use health potions before he shrugged and drained one of the red bottles. Naruto swished it around in his mouth experimentally was expecting them to either taste like the best thing in the world or the worst but they only tasted like a slightly thickened sugar water. Not really great but not unpleasant.
However the feelings he received next were very pleasant as a +100 floated up and every part of his body that ached or groaned were silenced and a gash on his hand sealed up before his very eyes.
Naruto grinned happily under his mask and then looked around, the old building had been condemned ages ago, it had happened back when he was still in the academy. He then shrugged to himself mentally, the building was a good distance away from everything Naruto cared about so of course he wouldn't know much about it.
After exiting the large building via the new entrance he had 'created' with the inner demon, Naruto made progressed toward the Higurashi shop without further incident. Trying to quell the nervous feeling in his stomach Naruto entered the building.
The first thing that hit him was the smell; the entire shop had this floating aroma of weapon oil and musty, smoky smell that Naruto presumed came from the forging the owner must have done. The shop was a modestly sized store with weapons and various ninja tool hanging off the right wall of the room. Then two more stands of similar weapons, however on the left side of the room armour's, masks, and other ninja necessities hung or stood in place.
At the very end of the store was the store counter simple glass with Kunai and shuriken underneath, almost this stores version of chocolates at the counter of a supermarket. It was there Naruto saw a man with a rather large build sleeping on the counter, his face twitched and beads of sweat ran down his forehead indicating his dream was probably unpleasant.
The man had rough brown hair and a rougher beard that looked less like the man wanted a beard, and more like he couldn't be bothered to shave. He wore a dusty brown heavy duty apron over a plain shirt with a collar, which Naruto realised meant the man probably made his own weapons.
Wondering how he figured that out Naruto realised it was the extra points in intelligence he'd selected. Before Naruto cleared his mind of these thoughts and steeled himself for whatever waited for him in the man's nightmare
Gritting his teeth Naruto touched the now familiar red pentagram on the sleeping man's forehead.
And once again his vision shifted and everything went black.
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Naruto felt his vision swirl and grunted as he found himself in a familiar street of Konoha, there standing in front of him was Higurashi. He was fighting some sort of foreign ninja using a hammer in his right hand and a kunai in his left. Before Naruto could make a move or even alert the man to his presence Higurashi kawarimi'd with a log and appeared behind the unfortunate kunai fodder and slashed the enemy nin's throat with his kunai. If he noticed the 100 damage floating up he didn't acknowledge it.
The man turned and regarded Naruto with a bone-chilling stare and Naruto felt a little nervous, this man seemed far more in control of his nightmare then Sakura had.
Naruto then realised he had forgotten completely about Sakura and mentally kicked himself… hard. Rallying his quickly derailing thoughts he looked over to his target.
"Uhh…hi!" Naruto stammered out "I'm…. uhh…. here to rescue you…" Naruto said realising that the man was far bulkier when he was standing; the man was like three times bigger him!
"Hmph, I don't care what you're trying to do. Stay out of my way." The man grunted before hefting the hammer onto his shoulder. Before Naruto could reply or attempt to stop him the man dashed off towards the Higurashi shop.
Then Naruto heard the sound of fighting and battles and realised that the man was currently tearing up the enemies that were meant to slow down Naruto. He started running after the man cursing under his mask.
What kind of shop keeper was this?!
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The first thing Naruto realised was that the man needed no help with clearing the level, even though there were no bodies it was painfully obvious that there were lots of fights throughout the five streets that were meant to be 5 levels for Naruto to clear.
Scorch marks on the walls, shattered earth that Naruto suspected was from Higurashi's hammer, and the sound of battle and screams which were quickly silenced let Naruto know that Higurashi was just as dangerous as he looked.
It was after a few minutes of sprinting through the wreckage Naruto found himself staring at the Higurashi shop and he realised it was almost completely destroyed, amongst the wreckage was a scene which would forever imprint itself in his mind.
A man looking around Higurashi's age with a strange haircut and covered in horrendous burn scars, held a girl with mousy brown hair done up in buns by the throat.
Higurashi just stood there frozen in terror as the man looked over at Higurashi triumphantly.
"So, Higurashi? Doesn't this feel nostalgic?" the man Chuckled lightly watching Higurashi break down in front of him. "Granted, last time you didn't break down in the most pathetic way I've ever seen in my career, you just upped and used that suicide jutsu on me in rage," at the last part the man's voice seemed to freeze over with malice. The girl hung limp in his grip in a way that seemed wrong to Naruto as he watched in horror, as Higurashi started hyperventilating, Naruto then realised tears were streaming down the man's face.
"Ooh, are you….crying? wow that's kind of pathetic, I mean murdering your little bitch daughter would be bad, but even when I broke your little slut's neck in front of you on your wedding you didn't shed a tear," the man laughed in a rather broken way that made Naruto's neck hair stand on edge. "Well, well I must say this is quite a treat, the great Garen Higurashi the killer of Iwa's Blademaster sobbing like a little bitch right here, I wish I had some sort of snack with this show," the man started humming to himself and dropped the girl rather unceremoniously, her body crumpled and rage started building in Naruto.
This man was one of the worst bastards he had ever seen! Worse than Mizuki, worse than Gato! Slowly Naruto grit his teeth and unconsciously stated a red energy started funnelling through Naruto.
The man's head snapped towards Naruto immediately, and his eyes narrowed, "Oh my, another little leaf brat to murder right in front of Higu-chan" the man said in sing-song quirking his head to the side, a deranged grin stretched across his face. "I hope you've made peace with yourself little boy, I was one of Iwa's greatest ninja here before this little blubbering fool used a suicide move on me." He sniffed and a mock hurt expression crossed his face, "I had a family back home too, but then you leaf bastards took them out in a bombing run without a second thought. Of course that set me free and I realised something" an obscene, broken smile stretched across his face "People are so frail, so easily broken, I mean look at the little bitch over there, one little twitch of my hand and her neck snapped like cheap plastic, dead just like that, one move and phht" at this the man made an exaggerated motion.
Naruto started growling as more and more red chakra fuelled through him, the very air was dropping in temperature around them but the crazed Iwa-nin didn't take notice of the rather dangerous turn Naruto's mood was taking.
"And you know, mentally we're the same, one dead family and boom, I'm an insane sadist, I started killing leaf citizens, leaf nin, heck I even started 'killing' trees with katon jutsu!" the man made air quotes at killing, "-AND that how I learned the meaning of friendship!" He paused for a second "No, wait that's how I killed lots of people and was feared throughout Konoha!"
"What's your name?" Naruto asked his slitted pupils narrowing and widening quickly.
"Hmm? Its Kumata, why?" he said looking miffed at being interrupted mid-rant.
"Kumata…" Naruto tested, "Just wanted to know before I killed you." He said bloodlust burning through his veins before with a guttural, unnatural roar he flew forward a red toxic aura surrounding him.
(Greatest battle music of all time: Exorcist)
Boss-fight Kumata the Blade-master of Iwa!
Hp: 400
Mp: 120
Naruto flew forward and the deranged nin yelped before a tanto burst into existence in his hands and he blocked Naruto chakra claws barely in time.
Naruto gave out a scream of rage before slashing at the man wildly, a volley of attacks clashed against the man's blade and he started to get nervous.
Slowly his sword got weaker and weaker, until finally the man managed to leap away and he stared for a moment at his burnt forearms and he realised his blade was now melting.
Naruto gave another scream of rage and the man yelped before shifting into a new form,
New Form! Liquid Nightmare!
Unlike the other Inner-demons Naruto had fought before this one had several differences, its black flesh bubbled and roiled as if it was liquid, it had massive horns sprouting out of its head. Lastly and most disturbing was the fact it's entire body was covered in eyes all of which opened and closed at random.
Naruto was unconcerned and simply roared again before slashing at the creature again, while the creature wailed and flew away desperately Naruto vaguely realised it was only out of reflex and his claws had passed through the creature without harming it.
Ignoring that part of his brain for the moment Naruto flew again and the fight was on, Naruto continued slashing wildly at the creature who recovered from its fear ant merely watched as Naruto swiped again and again in a flurry of kicks and slashes from the Blonde who was becoming more and more feral looking with each desperate rage fuelled attack.
Finally a moment had passed from his last attack and Naruto breathed heavily, momentarily fatigued. It was then the creature acted and it slashed at Naruto with it arms, instead acting like claws the liquid flesh flew at him like a whip and Naruto yelped as the attack sliced through his mask and left a scar on his upper cheek.
Jumping back Naruto realised he was letting the Kyuubi overtake him and calmed himself down, he had to find the creature's weakness or he'd lose this by attrition.
It was made of some sort of fluid so brute force or physical attack wouldn't work, maybe jutsu would then. Naruto wished for a moment he had put some points into fireball jutsu before looking around the ruined shop desperately for something that would be useful. Then out of nowhere Naruto's eyes focused on the sword that the dream Ten-ten had held. It had a white guard, and a striking black blade, but what made Naruto look at it twice was the purple aura around it. Grunting as another whip sliced his cheek and he was poisoned Naruto leapt over the creature and grabbed the Katana.
Acquired item!
Assassin's Blade
Dmg: 25-30
Enchantment: +5 venom damage
A well-made Katana with several malicious looking runes carved into its red hilt, the black blade made to not reflect any light only adds to the dark aura surrounding it. However it's blade is shorter than most Katana blade's and is the perfect size for you.
Naruto didn't even acknowledge the new information before dashing forward and slicing at the creature, his hands bursting into flame adding more damage to his attack.
A -40 flew up as his corrosive blade sliced through the creature's stomach and it hissed in pain before leaping backwards. It then opened its obscene vertical mouth and a beam of darkness shot out, Naruto screamed as the attack slammed into his shoulder and shot out, leaving a baseball sized hole in his shoulder, a -60 flew up and Naruto dropped to one knee, breathed in and out raggedly.
He then looked up and saw the creature had flown up to him and was about to decapitate him with its claws. Naruto brought up his blade and blocked the attack before rolling back; wincing at the wound in his shoulder.
Throwing some shuriken and watching annoyed as they passed through the creature Naruto found himself wishing he could make kage-bunshin or at least a fireball! Making a mental note to avoid impulse purchases in the future Naruto decided to make do with what he got.
Dashing forward Naruto slid under the creature's legs and sliced its leg, the cut hissed burned as a -25 flew up out of it.
Naruto then flipped to his feet and swung wildly at the creature, it tried to block his attacks but even its claws melted right through the blade as the purple aura around the sword hissed with each strike.
-20's and -10's flew out rapidly until the creature fanned its wings and the sent Naruto flying with the gust. Performing a handstand and recovering Naruto yelped as the creature pushed the attack and dodged desperately as the creature pushed the attack.
It was a contest of who could hold the advantage long enough to kill the other. Naruto grunted as he ducked and weaved through the creature's untrained, yet fast and deadly attacks. Naruto didn't even notice the beam of darkness gathering in the creature's mouth until it was too late and the Nightmare blasted it out and missed barely the beam hissing passed by Naruto's ear. The beam still grazed Naruto's unwounded shoulder, leaving a nasty burn on his arm.
Hissing in pain Naruto saw the attack left the creature open, and he slashed out its throat, his venomous blade nearly decapitating the creature as it somehow managed to howl. It stumbled backwards as it dropped down to dangerously low health.
Naruto gasped for breath he was in a similar way with only 20 health left after the beam and the flurry of attacks he tried to avoid.
Both combatants eyed each other and knew this was their final attack, a dark beam grew in the creature's mouth and Naruto charged up his fire fists.
Charging Naruto kept an eye on the creature's attack Naruto. For a few seconds time seemed to slow down for Naruto, Higurashi knelt by his daughter's body sobbing incoherently, the wreckage of what was once the blacksmith was now scarcely a few waist height walls. The Nightmare seemed to roar in triumph as it launched its attack.
Naruto ducked under the assault and slid forward barely in time to avoid the attack, he then used his momentum to pull himself to his feet and slam his blade into the creature's chest. Slowly a floating -80 flew up and time resumed its normal pace. Naruto watched as the creature wailed before melting into tar.
It was over; the most difficult fight of his life was over.
But looking over the blacksmith holding his daughter's body, Naruto realised dumbly that it had only just begun.
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Holy, fucking, shit.
This chapter was really weird, the stuff I planned to be awesome and epic took me ages to write and dragged on forever. But early on the fight with the flying demon was complete improv. Fun fact Higurashi's has five different versions that I all scrapped until I got this one, I'm STILL not really happy with the fight but it'll do and Naruto got a cool sword that I pulled out of my ass when I realised he didn't have anything non-physical to spam at the liquid nightmare. (another improve boss)
Sorry about the lack of replies to comments or updates, the chapter took longer to write then I thought and then Christmas hit and I got a tablet! YAY! But that means I got a new thing to do late at night and that meant slower updates.
But luckily we're getting more and more characters out and more dialogue the next chapter. also nobody asked this but Naruto can use Shadow clones, but only outside of what the 'game' deems combat because he hadn't put any points into it.
Lastly I watched the rock lee vs Sasuke/Naruto fight before the exams, (I was Listeneing to Rock Lee's theme with Christopher Walken saying "more Cowbell" in the background before that) all I can say is that I think most fanfiction writers have better dialogue then the bloody dub, hell the entire thing reads like a fanfiction where the villain (sorta Sasuke) gets romanticised and op without even trying, oh and Sakura is so dumb it renders me speechless.
Rant aside I'll reply to your comments the best way I can, I have this little rule, that I can only reply to reviews after I've posted a chapter, that way I stay motivated with the thought that all you guys think I've died and hate me for leaving this unfinished.
(Don't worry I always come back to Naruto fanfiction after a few months of some other fandom phase if it comes to it.)
Now before my author's comment gets longer then my actual chapter let's begin!
Zimbolical: Hey dude its oaky I just wanted at least one review so I knew if the story was popular with you guys or not! And as far as new abilities go *evil laugh* there will be many! :D
Kin Tsuchi: If you are the real Kin I want you to know you have an excellent ass! *achem*perving on fictional character aside, I justed needed one review to get an idea of what people thought, I know reviews come slow (trust me I know).
Sorry about the lack of cowbell- (SNL skit don't ask) I mean moral choices but there will be more as Naruto interacts with more and more people and he has to start making decisions. There is a big one coming up though!
As far as repeats and grinding goes Grinding will be done with the civilians and repeats…I've addressed that with the guys asking just about that. Naruto will get bloodlines! Though when and which ones are going to remain a mystery MWAHAHAHAHA.
*cough*
Anyway thanks for the positive words ^-^ now go have fun and try to get locked in the fourth's coffin! You'll have a chance to survive that way!
Temairine: You have no idea how much me getting Naruto's development right means to me. I read Scorpion's disciple and realised how terrible Naruto usually in fanficition, he's never "Naruto" he always "evil! Naruto or dark! Naruto" which really is just lazy, no offence to anyone who uses that. SO THANKYOU SO MUCH! You made me a happy writier!
Again I addressed the thing about reviews with the others, just needed one yadda yadda,
Thank-you for the in-depth review man, I can't wait to show you guy's the parts I'm looking forward to so much, I still haven't written the part I was so excited about but it's coming!
Sinister Bowser: The game is in fact… completely and utterly made up! :D, really it's a blend of Kingdom hearts, Legend of Zelda, and elements of Devil may cry, (mostly I think its angel mode, where you and enemies die in one hit) this is ironic as I don't care for devil may cry, don't much care for Zelda, and have not played a KH game in years.
Penguinrocks: Thanks man! Every bit of encouragement helps and I'm glad you like the story!
TheFatController: Don't worry this fic won't be abandoned I sometimes ditch Naruto for a while, but after a few months I start reading new fanfictions, get hyped, write my own, so on.
I love the game fics too! There isn't enough fully realised ones that are well written, (well there's three which is a lot for a topic like that but…SHUDDUP LOGIC) I also dislike Sakura compared to pretty much every other character she's boring and one dimensional, and the one dimension she has is unlikeable. But she still deserves a full character and not BASH!SAKURA like I see some stories do *rolls eyes* thanks for the review man! (don't worry about the ranting, I do it all the time)
10000 fists: The more you say the more I like. While I wouldn't say I've been clear and thorough *cough* the attribute system *cough* I'm happy someone understood what I wrote! and as far as crack, yaoi, (starting to sound like a fun party now) I know they get more reviews just needed some direction as to what you guys thought! And fuck the flamers indeed! Especially the attractive female ones! …maybe the attractive male ones; if I ever start experimenting! (unlikely sorry guys, I like big butts and I cannot lie)
Thanks for the kind words man, you made this story go on and were one of the guys that made me keep writing )^_^
Remzal Von Enili: Well this is a small spoiler I can let loose, the 9 are trapped in Jinchurikis (it only now occurred to me you could be referring to the jinchuriki's but whatevs) who are asleep, however if they were outside of their hosts, they would be asleep.
Phillipindustry: That!... Is a secret! MWAHAHA. I really want to tell you guys because it will be a long time before its addressed so I'll say this.
Not right now, no.
Kffs: Thanks! I hope I don't disappoint! And the reason they are long is because my dick is- *censored*
Achem sorry about that, my lawyer advised me that it is unwise to make dick jokes to reviewers. But in all seriousness I feel like the game world has a few plotholes that need to be answered directly and I like going into detail, I hope it doesn't bug you :P
Random Guy: Hey Guy (not real spelling I know, it bugs me too!) how's Rock Lee? Again replaying is a soopah seecrit! Look to Phillips reply for the long answer ;)
Sancria: Thanks! The idea for the nightmares just hit me out of nowhere and I've been itching to do either a game styled fic or a chuunin exam day styled fic (without the slowly declining sanity of the author bit…I'm already batshit insane!) and as for a time limit, I'll be honest…
Nope not really, I'm surprised you picked up on the idea so quickly though, while in reality there would be a time limit, its not gonna affect the story aside from it being mentioned here and there to add pressure.
Er… then this would take away from the affect..
DON'T READ THAT!
….damnit
Anyway that's all for the reviews. PHEW!
I'm not sure if I'll be able to keep replying to every individual review so please don't be mad if I miss yours, all of you guys are special to me and I love you equally (lies) so don't be afraid to review.
Also 2 questions for you guys, I'm curious as to who you think the next person will be and why I rescued Ten-ten's dad so soon.
Also what do you think of my music thingy? Should I stop because it bugs you guys or do you guys like it?