Disclaimer, I do not own Naruto in any way, shape or form, nor do I own any elements from the Anime "Naruto"
But I did nail Masashi's mother last night, like a bi-
Right, story mode…
*cough*
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Day 3- The first Gauntlet
Naruto observed his surroundings quickly. He was in what looked like Konoha except the streets were completely filled with random civilians. Naruto paused as he realised something chilling, as soon as he stopped focusing on their faces he forgot what they looked like. He also couldn't give a name or memory to any of the people walking around when he did look at them.
Feeling a little uneasy as Naruto remembered all the unpleasant experiences he'd had as a kid in crowds; Naruto felt a little relieved nobody seemed to have noticed of him for the moment.
Looking around Naruto was beginning to wonder if he'd have to wander around looking for Tenten when he found her. The first thing Naruto noticed about her was that she too was extremely uneasy looking and she also looked depressed as well. Then Naruto started to hear the whispers start up as he walked closer to her down the street.
"Did you hear? She's a Kunoichi!" Someone in the crowd whispered to their friend who replied in kind.
"Yeah, what were they thinking?! Kunoichi have always been weaker then proper Shinobi who actually train."
"Beats me! I feel bad for her teammates though, how could they put up with a dead weight like that when they'll end up in dangerous situations"
Naruto felt himself get angrier and angrier at the crowd as his sharp hearing picked up everything the townsfolk muttered to themselves. It seemed Tenten also heard it too as she visibly wilted and walked a little faster through the crowd.
Naruto was about to head over to Tenten and wake her up from the nightmare when he felt a firm hand clap down on his shoulder. Naruto looked behind him and sighed in exasperation; the entire crowd had stopped staring at Tenten and was now glaring at him, just his luck.
Incoming Battle!
Faceless Ones!
HP: 200/200
MP: 250/250
Naruto ducked under a swipe from the man who had grabbed him and slammed a now flaming fist into the man's jaw sending him flying backwards, the crowd drew in closer and Naruto realised why such high level bad guys had such low health.
There were a lot of them.
But then Naruto grinned, if they outnumbered him, well he'd just have to even the odds wouldn't he?
"Tajuu Kage Bunshin!" Naruto yelled out making his signature handseal. Kage bunshin puffed into existence all around the street's rooftops, all of them wearing the same grin as Naruto underneath their masks.
The fight had begun.
His clones leapt from the roof tops onto some of the faceless tearing at them with either blades of shining violet or flaming fists, and slowly the crowd dispersed as more and more of them were cut down by the aggressive blondes.
Naruto sliced at one of the Faceless grinning as he surveyed the carnage, if this was the toughest the level threw at him then-
Something black slammed into him and Naruto was sent flying backwards into a store window shattering the glass.
Getting up from the clothes stand he'd landed on Naruto hissed in pain as he plucked out glass from his shoulder. He looked behind him and then he saw it, a group of faceless ones had backed up away from the carnage and made a formation, than the front row of faceless ones all reached out a strange motion as if tracing a circle in the air. Strange symbols appeared similar to the ones one people's forehead, except these symbols were a sickly purple rather than a blood red, and as Naruto studied the symbols more some part of him realised that they were not simply jutsu. Just then the circles flashed white and a wave of Shadow globs shot out and destroyed his clones.
Then the front row of Faceless ones drew back into the formation and the second wave had their spells charged up
Naruto scowled as wave after wave of shadow globs cut down his Kage bunshin, making a handseal he realised he'd have to be careful since he had weaker troops then his opponent, and they couldn't think for themselves. Sighing in exasperation Naruto tugged up his mask and readied himself,
Today sucked.
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Street after street Konoha was turned into a warzone. Strange masked blondes ambushed large formations of shadow wielding faceless ones. Naruto had begun to get better at tactics and was now coordinating large formations and ambushes of shadow clones. He was pushing through the streets slowly but surely.
Though his enemy had the upper hand his Kage Bunshin were far better guerrilla fighters since whatever ability these 'faceless ones' used it took time to set up before the crushing waves of shadow globs could be sent out at his troops. Naruto had been using it to his advantage, with a small diversion of 5 clones charging at them before a veritable army of clones would drop down on the unsuspecting creatures from the rooftops, using flaming fists and poisoned blades to decimate the creatures.
Naruto had been trailing after Tenten; catching glimpses of her as she wandered around a seemingly random path. After a few more skirmishes with the faceless Naruto found himself in another street thankfully it was deserted except for Tenten and some guy with eyes that looked similar to Hinata's. Sighing in relief Naruto pulled down his mask and dispelled his clones before walking over to the pair.
"-Kunoichi have always been weaker then Shinobi, but you've set a new low!" Naruto heard the boy say coldly to a rapidly tearing up Tenten. "I know now; it has been your fate to be weak. As if I could ever marry someone like -"
SLAP!
The sound of hand meeting flesh rung throughout the street and a moment passed where Tenten glared angrily at the pale eye boy. Naruto whistled, none of the other nightmare victims had fought back. The black-haired boy growled angrily before entering a stance,
"You've made two mistakes you weak, pathetic, little girl! First you assaulted a Hyuuga, and second…" The boy's eyes flared up and Naruto realised he had a Byakugan. "You did it in my field of Divination!"
"2 palms, 4 palms, 8 palms," Tenten started screaming in anguish as the Hyuuga's hand's blurred. Tenten stumbled backwards and he continued to count. "16 palms, 32 palms- 64 pa-" The boy was cut off by Naruto's foot slamming into his face.
A -60 floated up in the air and Naruto growled angrily.
"Who the fuck do you think you are," Naruto said flames hissing to life around his fists as he glared at the Hyuuga,
"I'd ask you the same, you just attacked the Hyuuga prodigy," Neji hissed before glaring at Naruto "I am Neji Hyuuga the most talented ninja in the branch family." He rubbed his cheek were Naruto's foot landed before.
"The names Naruto, Naruto Uzumaki, and I'm the guy who's gonna kick your ass for hurting your teammate like that!" Naruto declared hotly and Neji's eyes lit up with anger.
"And what would you know! You've never had to deal with a weakling like her! Neji spat glaring at Tenten "She's just a burden on the team, someone I, Lee, and Gai must protect and coddle constantly." The colder crueller part of Naruto thought of Sakura at that, but Naruto pretended not to notice the similarities.
"Then help her get stronger dumbass, that's the entire idea of gennin teams," Naruto said rolling his eyes "And now I've stopped caring about what you have to say; so I think I'll just kick your ass and move on." Neji took in the boy's ragged appearance; there were slices and cuts in his clothing and two large chunks of his shirt missing suggesting the boy had been seriously wouned at some point shortly before they met.
Neji laughed.
"Your fate is to lose here Uzumaki; you wouldn't be able to beat me even if you were fresh, but look at yourself; you're worn down and weakened. You wouldn't last a minute, you should give up, and go home before you get hurt." Neji's said a mocking smirk on his lips. Naruto's eyes hardened into blue flecks of ice as he tugged up his now slightly torn mask over his face, and drew his sword.
"I'll give up when I'm dead." He hissed out and started running towards Neji signalling the beginning of the fight.
GAUNTLET START!
Warm-up Boss Hyuuga Neji!
HP: 440/500
MP 100/100
Naruto leapt at Neji yelling a fierce battle cry before a jyuuken strike slammed into his neck ending his life.
Neji smirked and was about to say something mocking before he abruptly dodged underneath another attack from behind as the first Naruto exploded in a puff of smoke. Neji used his momentum and swept out his leg behind him in the same motion as he ducked. Naruto quickly jumped, dodging the attack, he then sliced at Neji with his sword and the Hyuuga prodigy leapt away.
"You cannot defeat me," Neji said smirking cruelly. "These eyes see all, including any tricks you might have."
"Right, everything," Naruto said rolling his eyes as suddenly a clone flew down from the sky his sword pointed at Neji. The boy had nowhere to move in time, and Neji cursed before he simply slid around the poisonous blade and tapped the clone in the forehead dispelling it.
He then ducked under a slice from Naruto who had leapt at him, and reached under the blonde's attack and tapped the Blonde's arm a small -100 flew out of the attack and Naruto's arm flopped down.
He hissed in pain and leapt backwards. Noticing his useless arm Naruto grit his teeth before the shadow clones he had in reserve dropped their henges everywhere and started rushing Neji.
Naruto checked his health bar, Neji was at 440 Naruto was now at 400. Naruto scowled before looking over and seeing his clones were getting destroyed by Neji's one-hit kill attacks and the Hyuuga clan's all-seeing eyes.
Naruto thought to himself, quietly and wondered how he could defeat Neji with just one arm when the boy could see pretty much see any attack he made. Naruto thought to himself before awkwardly making a seal by forcing his numb hand into the motions.
"TAJUU KAGE BUNSHIN!" Naruto shouted and flared his chakra,
The street was filled with the kage bunshin who all nodded at Naruto and rushed forward while the blonde readied his blade.
Neji demolished the last of Naruto's first wave of clones while Naruto grinned,
"So those eyes see everything do they?" Naruto asked and Neji smirked
"Are you admitting you've lost now? If you give up I won't hurt you too badly." Neji said and Naruto merely laughed.
"Oh, no I just realised your dojutsu's biggest weakness." Naruto said as he grinned foxily. "It doesn't matter if you see my attacks, it just matters if you can dodge them or not!" just like that hundreds of clones were picked and thrown by other clones, their swords outstretched in mid-air, Neji's eyes widened as his hands blurred again.
Every strike was flawless, every strike was accompanied by a puff of smoke, but the constant barrage left him with nowhere to run, eventually when the smoke from the destroyed clones clouded Naruto's vision he was rewarded with the sound of metal cutting into flesh. Eventually Neji emerged from the smoke furious, covered in thin slices and cuts, with a nasty stab wound in the Hyuuga's arm.
Neji started coughing, and Naruto grinned even more.
"Like it? I call that move Poison clone barrage!" Naruto said and Neji's eyes widened.
All the poison in his system started to act and Neji started losing 5 to 10 health every second. With a wordless snarl he launched himself at Naruto who despite his useless arm dodged the now weakened and much slower attacks effortlessly.
Neji scowled as Naruto continued to dodge his attacks with barely a thought. Neji then leapt away seconds before a clone stabbed him in the back. Sighing in relief Neji realised danger at the last second and barely dodged an attack from another clone who moved into the Hyuuga's landing spot before he'd even landed.
Before he could counter attack Neji realised another clone was about to slash off his arm and he leapt away.
Slowly all the clones that had launched their brethren at Neji, gathered up and attacked him before he could counter attack or properly escape, wearing the Hyuuga down bit by bit.
Spinning around with a snarl Neji screamed in fury and threw a kunai at the real Naruto who laughed as ducked under it. Only then Naruto realised his folly and saw the explosive note that was on the kunai, time slowed for a second, and Naruto raised his hands over his face.
BOOM
Naruto's body flew from the explosion and Neji smirked before a final -5 knocked off his dwindling health and hundreds of swords pierced his body, even as his appearance started to melt into black tar and his true form was destroyed by the amount of attacks.
His job was done.
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Naruto woke up with a start and looked to his health.
10/500
Uncorking the health potion he had used earlier, he was unable to restrain himself and downed the remaining Liquid and sighed in relief as his health returned. Naruto's arm slowly regained function and all the damage from the explosion was reduced, he still felt sore all over and the black eye, bloodstained mouth, slice on his cheek remained.
Getting up slowly Naruto looked over to the black tar puddle and sighed, he'd have to remember to not get cocky next time a plan worked or he'd bite it for real.
Suddenly his vision twisted and Naruto gasped and knelt to one knee.
Gauntlet warm up completed!
Next stage!
Naruto found himself in a rather strange scene, Tenten was looking rather beat up trying to hold her ground, as two green blurs brushed past her sent her flying to the ground.
One of the blurs stopped and Naruto rubbed his eyes to make sure he wasn't dreaming, or was dreaming the right dream since he was in a nightmare.
"Fuck I hate my job," 'Rock Lee' muttered to himself in a fairly demonic voice before 'Gai' appeared before him,
"YOSH LEE-KUN YOU MUST REMAIN IN CHARACTER EVEN IF WE DID GET THE SHORT END OF THE STICK." He shouted and Naruto's eyes drank in the sight as he found he couldn't look away (as much as he wished he could.)
"you're rig-" a glare cut off 'rock lee' and he sighed miserably before continuing "You're right Gai-Sensei! If I don't get into character soon enough I'll…er… I'll run 40 laps around Konoha!"
"And if you pass out during your 40 laps I'll do 1000 inverted pushed ups!" Gai shouted
"And if your arms give out during your inverted pushups I'll do 2500 squats… on stilts!"
"LEE!"
"GAI-SENSEI!"
"LEE!"
"GAI SENSEI!"
The fake two green beasts of Konoha completed their infamous routine with the dreaded hug S-ranked Genjutsu.
"Now then! Tenten! Your flames of youth are lacking! I'm afraid you simply have no potential at all!" Gai said gravely, while Lee nodded sadly.
"I'm sorry comrade but Gai-sensei is right, you do not have flames of youth. But do not be sad, you've done a bit better than pretty much all Kunoichi."
"LEE! You musn't mention that, it'll just make things worse!" Gai shouted before Tenten coughed out something and the green beasts leaned in.
"Wh- what about Tsunade?" this did make the two demons in disguise pause and 'Rock lee' looked over to 'Gai' who shrugged.
"The-fuck are we supposed to do about Tsunade?" 'Lee' hissed to 'Gai' as they huddled away from Tenten,
"I don't know! I didn't design her nightmares if I did would we be cosplaying the green and stupid twins?" 'Gai' hissed back before the two beasts saw Naruto standing there in shock.
"Are you guys real?" he asked shakily,
"What? No! we're in a nightmare obvious-" An elbow in the side shut 'Rock Lee' up
"Of course we are my youthful friend!" shouted 'Gai',
"No, I meant are do these two people actually exist in the real world?" Naruto said and 'Gai' sighed,
"I guess? I don't know really; but these are the brat's teammates in her mind so they'd have to exist in some form, it'd all depend on her perceptions of them really." 'Gai' explained,
Naruto sighed before brightening up, "Well they aren't as bad looking as those blob monsters; I mean damn those guys are Uuuuuuuugly!" Naruto laughed shaking his head.
"Wha?- HEY" Rock Lee said "I'll have you know us Liquid Nightmares are well respected in the demon world!"
"Are you blobs?" Naruto deadpanned,
"Well… yes but that's-
"And you're monsters, so Blob monsters." Naruto finished for 'Lee' and the not-so-green beast of Konoha swore explosively.
"That's IT I'm not bantering with someone as immature as this idiot, 'Gai' you do it!" 'lee' said making air quotes at the word Gai. 'Gai' meanwhile rolled his eyes and looked over at Naruto and Chuckled.
"I like you! Shame I'll have to kill you soon, but hey, that's the problem for working for someone; you can't call the shots. Sorry brat, nothing personal." The fake Gai said with some genuine sympathy. Naruto shrugged before tugged his mask on, entered his combat stance, and flared his fire fists.
Boss Gauntlet stage 2!
Boss fight! Twin Green beasts of Konoha!
Rock Lee
Hp 1000/1000
MP 0/0
Gai
HP 2000/2000
MP 100/100
Before Naruto could even react a blur shot forward and slammed into him dealing 50 damage. Naruto screamed as he was slammed across the clearing only to be attacked again and found himself in a painful parody of a Tennis match.
Knowing he was doomed If he didn't get away from the trap he was in Naruto drew his sword and started to spin rapidly in mid-air, gathering momentum. The purple streak slammed through Gai's shoulder shaving away 200 health with the extra moment and weight behind the attack. Landing on his feet behind the two green beasts Naruto made a hand seal and filled the clearing with Kage bunshin who attack the two beasts.
Blurs shot through the clearing and Naruto glanced up at his health.
HP: 250/500
Scowling at the fact he was halfway to dying in the first 10 seconds of his match Naruto knew the situation was dire. The two Green beasts were too fast for his clones and it was all they could to stall for time while Naruto desperately thought of a plan.
Thinking quickly as blurs flashed through the clearing and demolished shadow clones, Naruto had an idea and grinned.
"Alright you bastards let's see how well you fight without knowing where your opponent is!" Naruto said and filled the clearing with shadow clones again before dispelling them and making a massive smoke screen.
Rock Lee and Gai paused in their onslaught as they coughed in the chakra dense smoke, Naruto now was left with a problem.
He had no idea how to attack the two.
Naruto sighed before he made another shadow clone army. This time his clones flung their partners into the air above the smoke screen, the airborne clone army drew their blades and started spinning filling the air with purple bullets that were about to slam into the smoke cloud
"Poison Clone missile shower" Naruto said grinning, who needed accuracy with hundreds of attacks?
In the smokescreen Gai heard a whistling sound and realised it was some sort of attack heading their way.
"Lee out of the smoke now!" he shouted and dashed out of the smoke just in time, Lee who was less experienced wasn't fast enough and a clone slammed into his side before dispelling leaving a massive wound in his left side and a gigantic -500 floated up into the air from the wound.
Naruto grinned foxily under his mask and filled the clearing with shadow clones again, the intelligence he had now was really helpful. Naruto would never neglect that stat ever again.
Little did he know it wasn't the stats that gave him his ingenuity.
Naruto quickly went through several ideas as the now half healthed Lee wasn't nearly as fast as he was before. He was still too fast for Naruto to fight one on one but he didn't have to.
He was going to use that attack again in more fights it might be cheap but it was devastating against faster opponents like Lee or Gai. Naruto thought as blurs shot through the clearing.
Suddenly Naruto choked as an iron grip latched onto his throat.
"Unfortunately, brat you being the only one of your clones sitting out and meditating gives you away," Gai said choking the life out the blonde.
Naruto gasped for breath and barely made a kawirimi, a clone took his place just in time as Gai jerked his hand roughly and broke the Clone's neck, dispelling it.
"Ahah! What a youthful opponent! He made a clone Decoy, but… where one is he?" Gai wondered aloud not fazed in the slightest.
Naruto hid behind a tree gasping for breath and holding his neck gingerly, the mask covered it up but the skin underneath was tender and raw from the iron hard grip of the taijutsu expert.
"Too close." Naruto said scowling, being overestimated was dangerous since they'd hunt him down with greater ferocity. Still Gai had unwittingly given him an idea…
But if Naruto couldn't think of some new attack fast he was going to die!
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Gai grinned as he felt a presence dash away from the others, the boy had fled after his best attack failed miserably.
"Lee take care of the real one! He's trying to get away!" Gai shouted and Lee nodded and grinned with an uncharacteristic malice running in the direction Gai pointed to.
It didn't take long for 'Lee' to find Naruto gasping for breath and Lee dropped down in front of the Clone user who whimpered at the sight of the green beast.
"So, this is it then?" he said not bothering to stay in character, a maniacal grin stretched over his face Lee drew a kunai menacingly.
"I'm not gonna lie, I'm gonna cut you up before I kill you, I'm going to enjoy your screams," he said; a cruel tone entering his voice.
Naruto backed away until he ran out of tree branch and bumped into the tree trunk.
"I can't die here!" he said desperately trying to think of something, looking around desperately. Lee laughed before stabbing his kunai into the boy's arm and twisted, enjoying the screams. Cabbadon would reward him and his partner for ending the once chance the world had!
Then the Blonde popped in a puff of and Lee's eyes widened.
He turned around just in time for a clone missile to slam into his face obliterating him in a critical hit.
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Gai's eyes widened as he felt his partner's presence vanish.
What happened? the boy should have been weak! There was no way-
A trap, the one running away was a trap.
Gai swore and decided he was going to end this now.
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Tenten finally regained consciousness, and saw Gai fighting off masked shinobi, she tried to get up to help but groaned and sat back down, Gai's, Lee's, and Neji's words echoed in her head.
Maybe they were right and maybe she was weaker then them, but she had a goal damnit! She had to prove to the world that kunoichi had as much potential as shinobi!
"Fuck this" She swore vehemently and despite her muscles screaming in agony she went to help her sensei.
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Naruto smiled, he had his clones spread out around the clearing in fake meditative trances while he mimicked the pose but with several fake meditative clones watching over him. The trap had worked and he was down one enemy, then he saw something that made him want to start screaming were it not for the fact he would've blown his cover.
His fucking target, the tart he was supposed to rescue was now stabbing his clones and providing ranged support for the most dangerous opponent he had fought yet.
"I'm gonna fuck up that old bastard Higurashi's other leg after this" Naruto muttered "Oh please save my daughter" he said in a gruff falsetto "I'll fight you and make you rescue her!" he said scowling, "drop everything for me right now including the fate of the world," Naruto muttered some more before shaking his head, he'd have to save angry rant for later, right now he had a desperate fight to win.
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Gai couldn't believe his luck, he had been just about to burst into his true one when the girl the blonde was supposed to be rescuing burst into the clearing and started helping Gai.
Now the boy couldn't attack him anymore and now it was just a matter of time before the little brat ran out of chakra and clones and was the last presence left.
He smirked cruelly making sure to move fast enough that Tenten didn't see the uncharacteristic expression on his face.
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Naruto desperately ran through his arsenal wondering how he would be able to deal with Gai and Tenten.
Kunai/shuriken, Poison sword, clones, henge, kawarimi, fire fists, potions, not much in the way of non-lethal attacks, Naruto realised bitterly. He had another gaping hole in his abilities along with the saddening lack of long range attacks.
He was now at 100 health and Gai was still at a staggering 1800 and Tenten…
It was a terrible situation because now he couldn't aim at Gai because the man was too fast to get ahold of and he couldn't just spam missiles or shower them because Tenten would inevitably get hit.
Damnit he needed a way for Gai to-
Be predictable…
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Gai felt it, a small change in the air and saw a group of clones huddling together and channelling chakra into something big. Wondering what on earth else the brat had up his sleeve Gai decided he didn't want to know and slammed into the group smashing each clone in the face dispelling them all before Tenten screamed out a warning and he realised he had fallen into a trap.
He gathered his youkai just in time for a barrage of poison clone missiles to slam into him.
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Naruto sighed in relief, the bluff had worked and Gai had walked right into an ambush, it was a good thing too, if he hadn't or Tenten used range attacks he'd be unable to use that tactic again and after baiting the man didn't work Naruto would've had to give up and start coming up with a getaway plan.
It was then he felt two separate explosions of Youkai and he buried his face into his arms and screamed in frustration.
Stage 2 True forms!
Liquid Nightmare
HP 500/500
MP 100/100
Tank
HP/MP 5000/5000
Naruto vaguely wondered why the 'Tanks' HP was the same as his MP before deciding he'd use clones and figure out why as they poked and prodded the enemy.
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Tenten was more confused and depressed than ever before, she had felt devastated when she saw Gai get cut down by a barrage of clones. But as soon as she'd finished thinking she would never see her sensei again his body had melted and formed into some sort of nightmarish beast.
It was a vaguely humanoid form with two legs and a body, but that was where the similarities ended. The creature had four gigantic and heavily muscular arms, it had no discernible head or face just a ball shaped body. Its skin was pulpy red and looked like skinless muscle. What was the most disturbing was the fact that the ball had no face and just a massive mouth ringed with teeth and a trail of blood from the mouth showed it enjoyed its food raw.
Tenten stared at the monstrosity as it grabbed clone after clone and squished them one by one as it roared inhumanely. Then she felt a hand latch onto her shoulder and twisted around.
"Hey don't attack I'm on your side!" the blonde haired boy whose clones she had been fighting a moment ago. Tenten took another look at the beast that was once her sensei before narrowing her eyes.
"Why should I believe you?" she hissed, "You're trying to kill my sensei, you killed Neji!" she said glaring at the boy, drawing a kunai ready to throw.
"Arra, arra, you could say I'm a demon hunter of sorts. That's not your sensei, just a demon wearing his skin; don't you remember him and Lee acting strange before I showed up? That's because it wasn't them it was demons acting as them." Naruto held up a hand before Tenten could respond "Yes Neji, Lee, and Gai are safe and sound right now, but I'll need your help or for you to at least not get yourself killed until I deal with the demons here alright?" Naruto said and Tenten hesitated until 'Lee' burst into the clearing.
She would've screamed had the blonde boy not clapped a hand over her mouth.
It was some sort of nightmarish demon with eyes all over it's body, but what made her scream was the fact it dropped a familiar thing on the ground.
Lee's headless corpse, she could see right inside and realised dimly it was completely hollow inside.
Tenten fainted.
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Naruto quickly dragged Tenten away from the fighting as he made more clones to reinforce the main group, he now had to deal with the two massive demons in the clearing.
His last move had been very dangerous, since clones had no I.Q. and couldn't form words and could only follow the plan Naruto had when he made them. Naruto had to approach Tenten himself.
If she had stabbed him at this health….well he'd be dead.
Quickly getting away from the fight Naruto placed the unconscious weapons user against a tree and oversaw the fight. Luckily unveiling their true forms seemed to have reduced the demon's critical thinking skills because neither of the two took notice of one Naruto acting strange.
The tank was tearing through his forces effortlessly, grabbing, biting, and squishing clones with almost every move he made. Meanwhile the Nightmare was enveloping clones as they tried to stab him crushing the unfortunate clones in his deathly embrace before they could attack him.
The one nice thing was that at least he had almost no health compared to the tank. Naruto thought wryly.
Naruto sighed to himself before getting an idea, it'd be bending the rules of the game but he'd have to kill one of the demons.
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Suddenly a puff of smoke surrounded the Nightmare and he paused in his rapid expansion as he crushed clone after clone as he enveloped them in his slime.
The smoke cleared and the air was filled with clones, all with their glowing black blades drawn, the demon smiled inwardly, if they thought an all-out attack on him would work they were wrong; he would just envelope them all in his embrace.
But then he was filled with great pain and he realised the clones were all throwing their blade at him.
Shrieking as his skin was pierced by hundreds of blades the liquid nightmare hissed and sputtered before eventually his health was emptied and his form gave out and melted into a liquid tar.
One demon down one to go.
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Naruto grinned under his torn mask and fist pumped, he'd also realised that in his true form the tank had no sensory capabilities making hiding Tenten easier than before.
Now Naruto was left with the issue of the rotund beast that was literally a force of nature at this point.
Humming to himself in thought Naruto paced back and forth. The Tank was too aware and quick for a shower small enough that it wouldn't hit Naruto or Tenten, it wouldn't fall for a bait and shower either since Naruto had just done that. Normal attacks didn't pierce it's skin…
Naruto swore and kicked a rock, out of all the jutsu he had gotten Fire-fists were useless Naruto realised angrily. He would have to consider getaway options or at least change the fight's location.
He really had to start thinking his abilities through!
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Tenten awoke and saw the blonde from earlier pacing back and forth angrily like a caged tiger, he muttered to himself, she caught some words dimly as her hearing dipped in and out.
"-stupid of me, honesty I can't even touch most of my-" "-Out of options-" the boy scowled.
Suddenly Tenten couldn't suppress a groan as her back let her know exactly how much 'Gai's' special training from before felt and the boy's head snapped to her.
"Hey there," he said awkwardly and Tenten closed her eyes,
"Hey" she said.
"Soooooo, funny thing, the big demon, I can't finish him…." Naruto said, finding something interesting with the tree next to her. "Got any big jutsu or attacks that would actually hurt the bastard?
Tenten sighed, she just didn't have to strength for this.
She should've known waking up today was a bad idea.
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The Tank stomped on a group of clones and popped all of them, while at the same time all four of his hands snatched out and grabbed clones before either tossing them into his mouth and absorbing their chakra into his youkai or squishing them.
Every movement was a death blow to one of the clones, not a single muscle or attack was out of place. Then he felt it, a change in the wind and the tank rolled backwards and found the entire air was surrounded by clones. Huffing to himself he summoned up a shield wincing as he used some of his life-force to power it, the corrosive red shield incinerating all the clones who were unfortunate to land on it.
Huffing for a second as pain flared through his body the tank felt a flare of chakra and twisted around only to find a fierce and battered Tenten glaring at him over a massive summoning scroll
He tried to bring up a shield to block whatever the kunoichi meant to do but felt his body give out. The tank realised that the clones were a diversion too late.
"Summoning jutsu! Gigantic Iron ball!" Tenten yelled and a massive ball that easily filled the entire clearing slammed into the tank squashing him into a fine paste.
Nobody even notice the -10,000 that floated up from his body.
Naruto fell down onto his knees exhausted, the entire fight had dragged on for far too long for his liking he glanced over to Tenten and was about to open his mouth before a familiar message popped up.
Gauntlet stage 2 finished!
Next stage!
Naruto was about to cry he was sure of it.
"What the fuck is a gauntlet" Naruto mumbled to himself and another message came.
Hint: Gauntlets appear in advanced characters or extremely powerful character's nightmares, they are a set of boss battles that are activated one after the other each boss representing one of the person's greatest fears. Bring health potions!
Hint: the Hint system will now only appear when you summon it, try it now!
"Fuck you."
The hint system didn't respond to that apparently.
Naruto sighed as his vision twisted again and he found himself in another forest clearing however this one was far away from Konoha since Naruto couldn't even see the walls that had always poked into his peripheral vision.
It was a strange feeling and Naruto felt a little queasy being out of the village, he narrowed his eyes and slowly tried to adjust to the feeling.
Naruto then observed the scene in front of him and raised an eyebrow. Tenten was standing in front of some sort of blonde lady with massive… stores of chakra.
Naruto wasn't too mesmerised by them since he'd stopped being attracted to looks alone back when inner had blown his mind and-
Right, ignoring that; that little tidbit goes in the filing cabinet in his brain that has his treatment of him in his childhood, his questions about his parents, and his feelings on being a jinchurikii; the one Naruto never opens.
Getting back on track Naruto looked over and saw the lady wave away whatever Tenten said and take a slug from some bottle she had belted on her hip. Sighing as he realised there was probably a difficult fight ahead of him Naruto pulled his mask over his face, and walked up to the pair.
"-please Tsunade-sama it's not safe here, there are demons in the forest, I saw them myself!" Tenten said and 'lady Tsunade' laughed.
"Oh please you fangirls will say anything these days to get my attention," Tsunade said smirking as she turned away, while Tenten growled.
Childhood idol or not, nobody called a fangirl. Fangirls never trained, never cared, and got killed in their first mission like the fools they were.
"I am not a fangirl, and that's not what's important, we're in danger right now!" Tenten yelled out, Tsunade only laughed more at the bun haired Kunoichi. Naruto chose to make his appearance deciding he should probably stop Tenten before she assaulted what he was pretty sure the final boss of the level.
Call it a hunch.
"Yo," Naruto said grinning under his mask at how cool he looked. Not realising who he was the spitting image of at that moment. Naruto turned over to Tsunade who was drooling a little, keeping an eye on her Naruto looked spoke.
"Mou, Ten-san who is this?"
"Who? Who?! You mean you can't recognise Tsunade the slug sannin? Arguably the most powerful Kunoichi in the world?! Someone who's saved Konoha, and by extension your sorry ass as well?!" Tenten shouted out, Naruto laughed and apparently only got one thing out of the mini rant.
"Wow, slug sannin?! Jeez I thought the fourth had a bad moniker," Naruto said chuckling, Tenten made a weird noise that caught in her throat. Naruto turned serious "I take by your big knowledge of Tsunade here she's important to you?" Tenten blushed,
"Y-yeah since she's one of the strongest Kunoichi she's a good motivator since she's proof everyone is wrong about kunoichi." Naruto nodded at that when Tsunade decided to speak.
"Mmmm you are so cuuuute!" she squealed out and latched onto Naruto, Naruto jumped backward out of her grip and back-pedaled.
"Oi, oi! What are you doing? Get off me demon!" Tenten turned around and scowled, and Tsunaded sniffled.
"Naruto she's not a demon-"
"WAHHH NARUTO-KUN IS SO MEAN!" Tsunade cried out and Tenten turned around incredulous, Tsunade was currently crying out tears in rivulets comically.
"Wh-what? She said unbelieving of the situation.
"Ummmm, does this mean I win?" Naruto said scratching the back of his head,
"I know I've lost" Tenten said trying to not have mental breakdown that Tsunade was currently acting like… like a….fangirl.
Tsunade stopped crying suddenly and a strange light entered her eyes.
"Mmm Naruto, you're so sexy when you treat me badly" Tsunade moaned, she then lowered a shoulder strap and squeezed her two… *cough* assets together while she blushed lightly.
Tenten was aghast, Naruto didn't care, he would've blushed like a tomato before, but he was in combat mode, he was not going to be distracted by a pair of, hypnotising… large… breasts….
A mixture of a smack to the back of his head and Tenten's ball shrivelling glare at him made him stop and re-enter combat mode.
"Don't think I didn't see where your eyes wandered!" Tenten growled out, "Don't stare at Tsunade-sama!" Tenten ground out and Naruto held up two placating hands.
"Hahaha I was just….. erm… Inspecting her for hidden weapons! Can't be too careful with these eldritch abominations! You know!" Naruto said.
Tsunade meanwhile was gushing over Naruto much to Tenten's disgust.
"Please, stop acting like a fangirl Tsunade, you're embarrassing yourself, and me, and kunoichi everywhere come to think of it." Tenten said with a rapidly diminishing reverence/
"Psst Tenten" Naruto whispered and she shot him a look
"What?" she hissed back
"I never really explained why I'm here but I'm actually in your mind; basically a big bad demon trapped everyone in their worst nightmare and I have to free them." Naruto explained and Tenten stiffened.
"So Tsunade acting like a fangirl-"
"Yep"
"and that means she's a"
"yep"
"and that means we have to fight her"
"Yep"
"you do realise we're-"
"I can take her," Naruto said grinning, as he drew his blade. Tsunade seemed unworried.
"Naruto-kun you're sooo cooooool, your sword is glowing, are you going to attack me? Are you going to thrust your big, hard, weapon inside me?" Tsunade cooed, smiling seductively.
"…." Naruto froze as he was readying himself and just stood there for five seconds. "Thank-you, now I think I can't ever stab a bad guy ever again without thinking dirty." Naruto said shuddering lightly, Tenten rolled her eyes and drew out a kunai.
Tsunade meanwhile had taken her chance to wrap herself around Naruto squirmed trying to get out of her grip.
"Wah? HEY! Get off me-MMMMPPHHHH" Naruto jerked back when 'Tsunade kissed him roughly. That was it! no more being nice. Naruto shoved the older woman off of him none too gently. Annoyingly she didn't care.
"YES! I got Naruto-kun's first kiss!" Naruto sighed in exasperation; he'd always wondered why Sasuke hated his fangirls.
Ignorance was a sheer beautiful bliss.
"Afraid to disappoint I've already had my first kiss." Naruto said wiping his lips and glancing at Tenten, She seemed to have entered some sort of catatonic state and had dropped her kunai. Naruto felt a little like she was overreacting but then again considering most girls at this age…
An image Sakura punching, Ino screaming, and Hinata fainting, floated through Naruto's head…
Yeah Tenten was fairly normal.
"What!? Who!?" Tsunade barked out breaking out of her 'seductive' act.
"Sasu-nobody you should know about!" Naruto said saving himself just in time. "Now stop goofing off and show me your true form Demon! ...Wait….if you're a demon, doesn't that mean you're actually a dude!" Naruto shouted pulling a disgusted face. "The Hell is your probl-"
"You're soooo cute when you're flustered, just like how I like it!" 'Tsunade' said licking her lips.
"Stop that it's not working, you're obviously a demon! Now take off the fake breasts go into your final form so I can beat you up!" Naruto growled.
"Fake? Hahaha tell me; do these look fake to you?" Tsunade said lifting up her top and flashing Naruto. His face turned a peculiar shade of red before he twisted around and swore.
"Like I said, not falling for it, now stop!" He growled out while muttering to himself, "don't turn around, not a pervert, don't turn around, not a pervert."
"Fine, but only cause I Liiiiiiiiike you!" 'Tsunade said and Naruto turned around and winced.
"Now don't say I didn't warn you little mortal~" Tsunade said a lilt in her voice before with a flash of light a demon stood in her place.
Except not the usual kind, in fact it was a different…. Er model from the usual sort. The demon was the size of a normal human female but that was where the similarities ended. Her skin was purple, and her hands ended in wicked looking claws.
Her eyes had long fluttering eyelashes and full pouting lips but where a normal woman would've had hair she had a pair of horns jutting out of her forehead and purple fire that fell down like normal hair would.
Oh yeah, she only wore what resembled a bikini made out of fishing twine.
Naruto sighed to himself and rubbed his temples, he wasn't sure if this was better or worse than the demons that made Naruto want to claw his eyes out.
"You are so cuuuuute, little mortal! My name is Vashaan, and I'm going to beat you into submission," she cooed lightly, "Then I'm going to show you a fun time." The succubus finished with a wink.
Boss Battle! Final Gauntlet boss!
Vashaan the Succubus
HP: 1500
MP: 8,000
Naruto ignored the flirtatious Succubus and made a familiar hand-seal with a cry he flared out his chakra and clones puffed into existence around him.
"Let's do this!" Naruto shouted. The Succubus merely smirked and waved her hand, strange seals appeared at her finger tips this time tinged blue and ice bullets shot out of her hand straight towards the original Naruto.
Naruto let them hit him and was dispelled revealing he was a clone.
Vashaan raised an eyebrow as with a puff of smoke the air was filled with clones about to attack her. Vashaan merely raised her hands and her eyes stated to glow a rather dangerous looking purple. Suddenly a massive orange ring of symbols appeared around Vashaan in a circle.
Then Fire flashed out of the runes and all the clones where instantly incinerated in rush of fire.
"I'm sorry to say but your little tricks are no use against my magic" Vashaan said smiling, "but making solid clones of yourself, there's some potential there" Vashaan said moaning lightly and she rubbed her-
Naruto stopped looking at her and hid inside a hole as several clones hid themselves in a similar fashion.
"Alright she's shown her magic can shield her, and I don't have any attacks that will get through that… I have to distract her somehow and get her to waste it and then hit her…." Naruto muttered to himself as worked through a plan.
"C'mon Cutie stop throwing clones at me and come out to pllaaaaaay" Vashaan's head poked into the hole Naruto was meditating in and he shot up in the air.
"Ho- How did you find me?" Naruto asked desperately buying for time
"Oh? I can sense innate magic potential, and you have a looooot~ Those little clones have none so I could find you with my eyes closed." she said with a wink "You'll make such a wonderful slave, I could feed off the magic inside you for a long time!" she grinned toothily and Naruto smiled to himself.
"You, know… I don't really want to fight anymore." Naruto said, unsure of what to say next since he was new to the concept of sexual innuendo. "I can think of some interesting things we can do with my clones instead," Naruto said grinning and Vashaan looked surprised.
"Oh? Now, now aren't we naughty~" Vashaan smirked slowly wagging her finger back and forth, She walked over to Naruto and put her face close to his. Their eyes met for a brief second and they were about to kiss, Naruto desperately silenced the part of him that reminded him of Inner.
Just about as their lips were about to meet Vashaan's eyes widened and she coughed up blood as several clones jammed their Assassin's blades into her chest, almost stabbing Naruto through her.
"Gotcha" Naruto said smirking staring into her eyes. Vashaan's face grew thunderous and Naruto's eye's widened as 3 yellow 500s floated up from her wounds. Her eyes started glowing an ominous green and Naruto gulped.
"I knew I should've gone for four clones."
Naruto jumped to the roof of the hole and pumped his legs in a mad dash, getting out just in time as a corrosive acid gushed out melting everything it touched.
"YOU! YOU LIAR AND YOU CHEAT!" Vashaan's voice echoed out and Naruto swore before he made more clones to reinforce him.
The poison should be deep in her system so he would just had to stay on the run for long enough for to die to that. But as Naruto looked behind him and saw Vashaan fly out of the hole and murder his clones with but a gesture and two shadow beams he realised that would be extremely difficult.
Making more clones and sprinting away as fast as he could Naruto jumped up to the trees and ducked in mid-air as a shadow beam shot out slicing through a clone and narrowly missing him.
"I WILL MAKE YOUR DEATH SLOW AND PAINFUL!" She screamed and Naruto remembered an old saying as he sliding under another shadow beam. 'Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.'
Naruto sense screamed at him and he grabbed a tree branch and swung himself around just in time to avoid the succubus's claws from taking out a chunk of his flesh. Naruto landed on top of the branch and then kawarimi'd out just in time to avoid Vashaan's claws again.
The Succubus growled as her claws sliced cleanly through the log that now stood in her future toy's place, she then winced as the strange poison flowed in her veins and throbbed painfully. She was feeling weaker by the second and if she couldn't finish off Naruto fast enough she was in for a rather humiliating death.
Vashaan then realised both of them had forgotten about something important, a cruel smirk adorned Vashaan's face. She knew exactly what to do to catch her new toy.
Naruto looked behind him and saw the demon had gone, sighing in relief he turned around only to find himself facing Vashaan. Naruto jumped backwards and did not squealing in an embarrassingly high pitched voice. Then Naruto saw what had happened and his face turned from embarrassment to anger in a second.
Standing in front of him was Vashaan holding Tenten who was struggling against the succubus grip futilely.
Vashaan held a claw up to the girl's throat and grinned a perverse grin as she looked Naruto in the eye "Hold up there little mortal, one more step and I slit the girl's throat." A weird rope of dark energy entwined itself around Tenten trapping her and then the succubus used her free hand to grope the girl.
"Ohhh you have a nice growing body, I might just take you as a little toy as well as blondie, after we're done here of course." Vashaan squealed out with a malicious glint in her eye. Naruto started to breathe heavily, a red energy growing in the pit of his stomach, he hated…. hated rape.
Red energy grew stronger as Naruto's inner hatred exploded out in a cloak and Vashaan's went from a malicious joy into fear in a second. Vashaan whipped her head around to Naruto and gasped in horror.
"What!? …this power, Y-you have a demon's youkai!" Vashaan gasped out. Naruto glared at Vashaan making eye contact, she watched as the blonde jinchurikii's eyes turned from their ocean blue hue into a bloody red with slits. "How is this even possible, y-… you're stronger than I am!" Vashaan admitted backing away from Naruto.
"Let her go."
"Ye-yes whatever you say!" Vashaan stuttered out and Naruto actually felt surprised, he didn't expect asking would actually work.
"I apologise for any trouble I have caused you, I beg mercy and forgiveness for my aggression towards you!" Vashaan said kneeling over, as the Kyuubi's power manifested more and more.
Tenten meanwhile could scarcely breathe as the raw hatred and malice filled the air, the air was stifling hot and the power coming off her apparent saviour was both incredible and terrifying.
"Kill them all, make them feel terror in your mere presence," a voice whispered in Naruto's ear and Naruto then realised he had grabbed Vashaan by the neck and lifted her into the air. Without even thinking about it his hand begun to squeeze and Vashaan choked.
Time slowed down and Naruto realised he couldn't hear anything at all as he held Vashaan her purple eyes staring desperately into his own. She squirmed but she knew she was going to die in a second.
Karmatic moment
Kill Vashaan the Succubus?
Yes/No
A moment passed the whispers in his head growing stronger and Naruto's face darkened with hatred, why shouldn't he kill the bitch? It would only be fair, and who cared about doing the right thing anymore, look where it had gotten him! He was trapped with nobody who gave a damn about him one way or the other, he had had a terribly childhood and hey, why did he even like Konoha in the first place?!
Then he remembered something.
Naruto remembered Inner smiling at him, the texture of her lips,
And the fact that right now she would be ashamed of him.
Who the hell was he right now? Not himself that was for damn sure. Ever since this adventure had begun Naruto hadn't been himself, he had killed fake Kakashi and Sasuke without a thought, even though they were demons, shouldnt he at least be sickened about being forced to do that?
Who the hell was he the past few days? Someone succumbing to the Kyuubi's influence, right now that's who.
Naruto growled angrily, he wasn't going to let that be him, he was going to forge his own path. He was a future Hokage Damnit! And no weird ass rules or the fact he was in a near hopeless situation would bring him down and take away his fighting spirit! If nobody cared about him, well then damnit he'd make them care or die trying, that was his nindo way!
He was Naruto Uzumaki and meant something to him, it meant he wasn't going to let the Kyuubi do as it pleased!
And with that thought the cloak around him faded away in an instant and he dropped Vashaan as she gasped for breath and stared at Naruto in wonder.
You chose to spare Vashaan!
Karma + 15
Corruption + 5
Naruto vaguely wondered what corruption was before he looked down and realised Vashaan was crying. Tears of blood though, but Naruto got the feeling that was normal for a demonness.
"You…. You spared me?" Vashaan asked weakly and looked up at Naruto, "Why? You're a demon, like me! We don't spare each-other! We… we kill each-other and devour the body." She said as bloody tears poured down her cheeks. Naruto winced and realised before his sudden epiphany he would've killed Vashaan without a thought, even without the Kyuubi's influence.
Naruto looked down at her again and felt a bit awkward, he had no idea what to do with a crying woman, much less someone like Vashaan
"I'm not like that," he paused after that unsure of what exactly he should say. "Just because people call you a demon," Naruto began as he realised what he should say.
"It doesn't mean you have to be one, live life away from them, or if you can't, prove them wrong. Laugh in their insults, make friends even as you know they won't laugh, spit in the face of your fate if it decided you were going to become its bitch." Naruto said to himself, half telling it to Vashaan half realising it for himself.
Tenten walked up to Naruto and sighed to herself,
"So I guess I proved the nightmares right huh?" she admitted while watching the pair Naruto looked over to her confused
"Whaddaya mean" he asked quirking an eyebrow.
"Well I couldn't do a thing against her when she grabbed me, but you didn't even need to fight her!" Tenten said in a mixture of depression, awe, and slight jealousy.
"Well I was kinda getting my ass beaten for the majority of the fight, you're taking this out of context, and more importantly." Naruto said "I wouldn't have been able to take out the Tank from before without your help." Naruto grinned and pulled down his mask, enjoying the feeling of fresh air on his face.
"Let's get out of here" he said and a wry smile came to his face
"It's been a loooong day."
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Disclaimer: The Canadian Honeybadger apologises for the lack of his usual "wit", randomness and sarcasm. He is extremely drained and mentally exhausted from this chapter, and will be a little more serious in the following summary, also rather adult topics are brought up so if you are faint of heart or kind of a pussy.
Suck it up, buttercup *grins*
Well.
This chapter was the textbook definition of constipation.
Sorry for the crudeness, but dear god this fucking chapter, 9,000 words and counting. (cuz I'm writing the summary) I don't know why the bigger stories have chapters like this, its not fun to edit or even fucking write chapters this long. The smaller chapters are way more fun and are like little tidbits of writing, LIKE PARTY SNACKS.
So if there is a distinct lack of my usual random humour you guys know why, this chapter was fucking way too long to write, oh and most of it wasn't even planned out, too :P. I pretty much borrowed from Kin Tsuchi's ideas so mega props to you.
This is the last 9000 word chapter you should see from me. The only reason it was this long was because I wanted a hard level for Naruto and several bosses was a good way of illustrating that.
Heck I tried a lot of new things with it. The biggest one being the combat.
Before Naruto was kinda just running around and beating dudes up but here and maybe in the future he'll be more like Code Geass R1 and the focus will be more on the tactics and what crazy plan Naruto has ready.
So tell me guys, Light Yagami/Lelouch Lamprouge style 'combat' or Dragon ball, Naruto, style combat? Or maybe a mix to keep things interesting….like maybe Kin's idea of clones being banned on certain levels….
And another idea stolen from my new favourite reviewer, yay,
I'm also a bit depressed right now because I finnaly reinstalled Neverwinter nights 2 played the Mysteries of Westcliff campaign and realised that the only character I liked,
Was a bitch, a frigid, unfeeling, almost psychopath.
And the game never addressed that shock reveal, just like how in the main campaign nobody ever points out that Kalack-cha probably is considering suicide considering how many things in life he had just had torn away from him in literally a week.
If you havn't played Nwn2 that was a bunch of gibberish so I'll move on, (or maybe write a little for nwn2 in the future, I'm considering it)
I am planning on starting up another fanfiction, it'll either be Soulcaliber, Naruto crossover, or NWN2, I'll put up a poll after I post this mega-chapter, so put in your thoughts and vote! I want to write something you'll guys appreciate.
Oh yeah and you might've noticed a lack of music suggestions, the two people who mentioned it were neutral and didn't like it ( a lot apparently D: ) so I decided to get rid of it. So if you want boss music, sad OSTs just go to immortalmage's channel. (it might be up, it might be down, Youtube keeps flipping between the two but if its up check him out, he has amazing stuff)
Finally I mentioned a rather nasty topic in passing but I felt I'll address here and now and save someone the awkwardness of saying it. Naruto hated, HATED rape.
I do too, this is more my thoughts then anything else and I'm going to say it here and now. Even though it probably would be some characters worst nightmare I will not ever write a rape, or imply rape, or even acknowledge it exists in this story.
I hate it, its gross, ruins any humour I felt when it's mentioned in a story, and generally speaking its tasteless as hell. This is me saying on the record that there will be no mention of rape in my stories (Yes I know "You smell like soup" has mention of it, but I was young, wrote like crap, and when I get around to giving it a facelift it will not have it in there) In short: Rape; No. no ifs, buts, or negotiation. Drug use is meh; and I don't see myself using it (in a story) unless there's a good reason. Over abundance of gore; again meh I'll use it when its appropriate both in serious and non-serious contexts but generally speaking there won't be much of it.
And No, no lemons either you pervs, I MIGHT (biiiiiig MIGHT) mention characters have relations of that nature in stories, but I can't see myself writing "he thrust into her deeply, and she moaned under his-" yeah no. I'll be honest Lemons are kinda gross because I become self-aware and realise somewhere somebody is writing this stuff instead of doing something else, and then I realise I'm reading instead of writing or practising, or doing homework, or yadda yadda yadda.
And Lemons are awkward as hell to write, its like posting a video of yourself on youtube mashing two dolls together and making sex noises (non ironically).
Isn't this such a fun topic to read about! :D
Lastly swearing is something I'll do without any seconds thought (outside of the usual editing bs) I swear, people swear, and it isn't usually that awkward, so there will be f-bombs and s-bombs but only if they are needed or make sense, there isn't going to be random swears "cuz it mekes me scuxx brue"
Again sorry about the entire "No-fun-badger" today, I'm just tired and with a serious author's note come's a golden opportunity to address this "No-fun-stuff".
TL;DR
Which combat style do you guys want me to use, careful planning and tactics, a full up fight scene with the combat being the focus, or a mixture of the two where some parts tactics, some parts not?
No more big chapters
No more music suggestions
I will not acknowledge or reference rape in stories
Lemons are gross to me and I will not write them
And there is a poll about a possible second fic alongside this one (I'm not gonna pull a neon zangetsu here and write a million at once just two, that's my unnofficial rule so keep that in mind)
NOW REVIEW REPLIES! YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY-cough
Erasels: hahaha, ha, ha ,haaaaaa. *sniff*
*sobs uncontrollably*
Just kidding, since you hated it so much and you were the majority vote (the only one) the music thing got the boot. As for throwaway characters if I do, its by accident, I've kinda tossed away Sakura in the background but she'll be back. (sadly) as for vagueness, well I thinks its because I'm sexy, and since I'm sexy, being mysterious and vague is like a second nature, and thank you for the review, these keep the story going and even mindless "I like this" reviews make me happy for a few hours.
As for debuffs, think of it as trimming, less crap in the way so theres more room for better. :D
Random Gai: I'll reply to all you're reviews in one big go so to save space,
The fact that you thought my story is good enough to review all the chapters probably made my day, like really thanks dude, the positive feedback I've been given has really fuelled the story and helped me with not just writing but pretty much any issues I have in life as well.
And sorry, Naruto becoming less bright and cheery is gonna be a big part of the story, so he will be a dick, he will be sarcastic, selfish and a complete jerk at times. But he will still be Naruto (if I write well enough) and he'll still be the lovable, knuckle-head, who would give his life for his precious people, just I havn't rescued any precious people (Sakura doesn't count) for him to act all defensive about.
And inspiration for the fight scenes…just happens, I actually want to know what your favourite fights and why, cause that'll change the answer, some like the Naruto vs flying demon was spontaneous (and awesome fun in my opinion) some were planned and were either okay or awesome too. Some were a mixture.
Cheers!
Kin Tsuchi: ….
Kinky, figured Taya-chan was the kinkier of the two sound nin girls (not counting gem-filler-lady) guess I was wrong! :D.
I really want to debate the entire revival thing with ya, but it'd end up taking up the whole reply or making the replies longer than the actual chapters so I'll let off for now. And dayum someone else has read as much as I have, think my favourite fanfiction has to be "The great romantic" and "Out of the unknown" both have their issues granted but the quality of writing and characters is just so high I don't care.
And if the story gets into the hall of fame community… maybe your ass will become a 'thing' like Itachi-pocky...
Okay, I know you said you weren't stalking me, but how, HOW, did you know what I was going to write before I knew it, I was in that stage where I was getting ideas for her nightmare and I was panicky because I was hitting a mental blank. Then you pretty much gave me the entire chapter and I was like "duuuude" she knows. She knows.
Well my challenge to you. Is. WHOS NEXT! No handy-dandy foreshadowing as excuses now! If you can guess who's next your either stalking me, or are…like mind linked like from KOTOR games or some shit.
Also weird obsessive rant aside (yay my random persona that overuses brackets is coming back) thanks for the suggestions, I was legitimately lost until you came along and gave me pretty much the meat of the chapter aside from the last bit. (that was all me! :D) and you also finally gave a thorough analysis of who Tenten is (or would be considering she's never expanded in canon) Tenten is my favourite ch- UH I MEAN I AM SUBJECTIVE IN THIS STORY AND HAVE NO FAV CHARACTERS WHO I MIGHT GIVE A BREAK DUE TO THAT.
… anyway thanks! You're legitimately my favourite review or one of them at the very least, so uh…
Yay! Gold star! Ribbons!
I'm looking forward to your reviews pretty much every time I make another chapter, :D
Twisted Pxl: Yeah I did forget, sorry haha, but to be fair Kin also guessed the reasons why and that was the entire surprise twist was that Higurashi was kinda douchy but with good reasons,
Either you already had that scene planned or something, but wondering what would her nightmare be. I would suggest a humorous theme like Gai and Lee stopped screaming Youth or Neji stopped ranting about Fate,
Well if it makes you feel any better you were spot on over here so now I'm acknowledging your foresight, but obviously you're not stalking me because Kin would totally stalk people ;) (I'm doing this thing where I can make fun of my readers in other replies and get away with it because they don't read other peoples replies!)
OTHER obsessive rant aside you can pretty much see Kakashi's nightmare already, there's pretty much no way I'll be able to do something surprising and not-retarded now. So Kakashi dream gauntlet?
Yeeeeep.
Thanks for the review! I've already mentioned it but the positive feedback literally makes my day, it means a lot to me and it makes me giddy that the story has taken off the way it has.
Lewis the King: Nothing to apologise for man, just the knowledge you've read this story liked it enough to come back to it, sign in and give positive feedback makes me ridiculously happy!
Alright last two things to mention
1: I am my own editor (you should know this I bitch about it almost eeeevery chapter) so if there are spelling mistakes, grammar mistakes, or something looks like something somebody under the influence of several drugs wrote I apologise. Editing dragged on forever with the long chapter and I went over everything either 3 or 4 times.
Except the ending, it didn't get a final, final look over because I got to the end of Gai's fight and was too tired to care anymore…
Sorry!
2: if I didn't reply to your review I am terribly sorry, this reply thing is already 1000 words long and I like going in depth with stuff, if I replied to every review I had it would take me all night and the replies would be longer than the actual chapters. Due to me waffling on, just one thing I want to make clear:
Do not think I do not appreciate your reviews guys, even small ones like "I like your story man" make me ridiculously happy and fill me with pride, so even if that's all you want to say then that's fine I love the knowledge that people like this story enough to review it and it keeps me going!
That's all!
ONWARD TO…
Stat changing, levelling up, inventory management, exposition, maaaaaybe some angsty bits…
ONWAAAAAAARD!