Author's note – Kishimoto Masashi owns Naruto while Guyver is written by Yoshiki Takaya.
I make no claim to either, I am merely playing in their sandboxes.
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Chapter Sixty-Two
Demon Lord
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Kyoka (as he/they considered themselves during their fusion) grunted with effort as he towed the wildly-struggling demonic being into the gathering storm-clouds, intent of dragging it away from his family.
"YyOoUu WwIiLlLl DdIiEe FfOoRr TtHhIiSs IiNnDdIiGgNnIiTtYy!" Moryo roared using the four heads that Kyoka wasn't gripping, then he snapped his wings open. The sudden deceleration yanked him out of Kyoka's grip… leaving one head in Kyoka's arms and a neck leaking purple blood and chakra.
"DdIiEe!" Maryo screeched, then he fired a barrage of plasma spheres at Kyoka. Kyoka dropped the severed head before he rolled and dived, then he looped upwards into the clouds, the enraged Demon Lord following him.
#What's the plan?#The part of him that was Kurama briefly unfused enough to ask, then both of them re-fused to dodge a slicing wave of chakra. A second wave was briefly visible as it cut through the cloud some distance away and both parts of the Warrior smirked at the proof that Moryo had no clue where they were.
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Moryo snarled as he sealed off his broken neck, then turned his attention back to the clouds around him. Another couple of slicing attacks failed to elicit any response, so he began to bank and…
…screamed with agony as a powerful beam slammed into his back! Had he not changed course, it would have sliced straight into his spine.
Spinning with the impact, Moryo fired a barrage of lightning-splinters back where the attack had come from, but there was no sign of him hitting anything.
"WwHhEeRrEe AaRrEe YyOoUu, LlIiTtTtLlEe BbUuGg?"
His answer was a blast from below that sliced through the outermost portion of his left wing.
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Kyoka flexed as he flung himself into a twisting climb, his sensors penetrating the heavy clouds as if they were the clearest mountain air. Pulling open his left chest-plate, he let one of the four lenses arrayed underneath accumulate power, then he spun to face Moryo and unleashed the blast before releasing the armor plate and spiraling away onto a new course before the counter-attack could reach him.
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Moryo hissed in pain as yet another beam slashed at him, this one scoring him across his ribs. Every attack had come from a different direction, as if his enemy was spiraling around him like a hawk harassing a pheasant.
Moryo opened all five mouths and fired a single blast of energy, hoping to show where his target was, or at least blind the damned thing long enough for him to wreak his vengeance.
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The clouds lit up in a blinding flash, distracting Yomi for a split second, but it wasn't enough and he managed to avoid the red beams fired at him.
"Once Lord Moryo returns from killing your leader, you'll all die screaming for mercy!" He gloated as he dived into a roll that carried him away from the attacks aimed at him.
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Moryo screamed from four mouths as the latest attack scythed through one of his necks, causing a second head to fall and vanish far below. The only advantage the attack gave him was that the beam had seared the wound closed even as it inflicted it.
Rage overcame the last of his control and Moryo twisted into a whirling spin, sending gouts of lightning and fire in all directions.
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Yomi laughed triumphantly as he triggered the explosive tag that he had managed to slide under a loose branch earlier, sending the darker-colored enemy cartwheeling through the air. Although the armour itself had managed to survive, Yomi knew that the concussive effect of the blast would have caused the wearer serious internal injuries.
"You cannot win!" He shouted. "Lord Moryo will soon…"
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Hinata blinked, then shook her head before staring at the scene before her again.
Yomi's corpse lay on the ground, his head crushed by one of Moryo's heads, albeit one that wasn't actually attached to the Demon.
"What the…?" She whispered, then her attention snapped to Hoki, who was twitching slightly.
"Fu!" She shouted as the Jinchuuriki slowly dropped the shield. "I need your medical kit NOW!"
As if to punctuate her sentence, the clouds above them suddenly lit up in waves of red, gold and purple.
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A shape blurred past Moryo and his remaining four heads all smirked predatorially.
"TtHhEeRrEe YyOoUu AaRrEe!" He rumbled even as he flipped into a dive, his tattered wings pushing against the air as hard as he could in an attempt to catch the being who had given him so much trouble and rend him limb from limb.
"NnOoWw YyOoUu DdIiEe!"
The tumbling figure in front of him didn't react.
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Kyoka let himself tumble as if out of control as his sensor spheres examined the form descending towards him, shredded wings propelling it through into a dive far faster than anything that size should be able to achieve.
Below him, the ground raced towards him at high speed and Kyoka prepared himself, focusing on his grav-sphere. Rather than simply push against gravity, he would have to push against something far more solid…
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Hinata inserted the snapped quill into Hoki's throat, allowing him to breath through it. On the other side, Ino was applying poultices and padding to prevent the nicked vein in Hoki's neck from erupting and causing him to bleed out in seconds while Fu generated as much medical chakra as she could to sustain him.
Only Shion paid attention to anything other than the injured shinobi still struggling to breath as she turned and looked up to the clouds, her eyes briefly flashing in their odd kaleidoscopic pattern as they focused on the small shape dropping towards the ground and the larger shape that erupted out of the clouds after it.
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Moryo's eyes all focused on his target as it grew larger, then suddenly he looked beyond it and realized the danger that he was in. Reflexively, his wings snapped open…
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Kyoka pulled open both of his chest-plates and let the eight lenses gather their energy before unleashing the blast in a precisely-targeted barrage.
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Shion gasped as eight lances of energy sliced into the Demon that her mother had died trying to seal away.
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Moryo screamed in pain as all but one of his heads were severed, as well as his wings, tail and front paws. The shock sent him spinning and below him, the unforgiving ground raced rapidly towards him…
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Kyoka put all his energy into the gravity orb and his speed dropped at a rate that would have killed anyone without Guyver armor. As he slowed, he activated all four of his arm-blades and swung his arms up, slicing deep into Moryo's body before their relative speeds sent the dying Demon past.
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"NnOoOoOooooooo…"
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The impact almost knocked Shion off her feet as Moryo's descent ended with the formation of a new crater, then Naruto came to a halt above it before unleashing even more energy at the Demon, firing beam after beam at it for almost a full minute. When he stopped, the entire world seemed to hold it's breath, then he slowly descended, drifting over to land before her. As he did so, his reinforced armor dissipated to reveal his normal armor which in turn shattered and faded away even as his feet touched the floor.
"Uuuuh, I hope I don't have to do that again soon." Naruto groaned as he staggered and Shion caught him, slinging his arm over her shoulder in an attempt to support him.
"…thanks… 'nata…" Naruto mumbled and Shion stared at him, then she sighed.
"We do not look alike." She protested, but her heart was no longer in it. "Hinata-san, how is Hoki?"
"Alive." Hinata said with satisfaction. "And he's going to stay that way. Once we get him to Konoha, Lady Tsunade should be able to heal him up so he can talk again… assuming that she has allowed Inoichi-sama to help her over that phobia of hers."
Shion sagged in relief, then she gasped as Hoki vanished in a cloud of smoke.
"Stasis scroll." Ino said in explanation. "No time will pass for him until we pull him out again. Means he won't feel any pain until it's time to get him healed."
Shion slowly nodded, then she sighed. "It's over. My task is complete, Moryo is no more. What do I do now? All my training, all my experience… none of it means anything now."
"You could always just go back…" Hinata suggested and Shion shook her head.
"Before we left, I had a vision, showing me I would not return." She said. "I told the guards to take their families and go elsewhere. By now, the Shrine will be deserted."
"I have an idea." Naruto said quietly. "Just inside the walls of Konoha is the Uzumaki Mask Temple. It'll need a guardian, someone who is willing to look after the place, protect it and learn about it. Interested?"
Shion nodded. "Yes, but you said Uzumaki Mask Temple? Do I have to become an Uzumaki myself?"
"Is Fu getting another sister?"
Naruto shrugged. "Maybe. We'll see once we get back to Konoha."
"Uzumaki Shion…" The Shrine Priestess mused. "…I can see it."
A snore interrupted her and she fought down a giggle as she realized that Naruto had dozed off.
"Let me take him." Hinata commanded and Shion relinquished the sleeping ninja into the Kunoichi's arms, then stood out of the way as Hinata busied herself in getting Naruto into a sleeping bag.
"You know, you and her really look alike, if you ignore the color thing." Ino said and Shion sighed.
"I suppose there are worse people to look like."
Hinata paused to shoot Shion a look comprised of equal parts irritation and amusement before returning to her self-appointed task.
"By the memory of my father, that was tiring." A new voice said and Shion blinked in shock as a golden-orange fox with multiple tails trotted up. It looked up at her, then it looked round. "You coming out, sis?"
"I already ammmm." A large insect buzzed as it flew past before settling on a tree branch.
"Whabuhuh?"
"Kurama, Chomei, please stop startling our client." Ino sighed as she pulled out a comb. "Shion, meet Kurama of the nine tails and Chomei of the seven tails."
As Shion watched in bemused shock, Kurama trotted over to Ino as she knelt down, then he sighed with pleasure as she began grooming him.
"…nine tails?" She repeated, then she gasped. "He's a Biju!"
Kurama snickered before closing his eyes and relaxing into the long sweeps of the comb through his fur.
"They both are." Ino explained without slowing down. "Kurama's Naruto's Biju partner while Chomei works with Fu."
A small snore sounded from Kurama and Ino giggled. "He loves being groomed. Cheers him up like nothing else."
Shion simply stared in bemusement.
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"So… you're the Kyuubi no Kitsune?" Shion asked tentatively as the moon shone down from among the sparkling stars and the nine-tailed fox sighed.
"Yeah, you can call me that. Those I respect get my name, but at the moment, you don't have it."
Shion fought down the almost-instinctive surge of anger that rose at his dismissive tone.
"Then what can I do to earn it?"
The fox gave her a measuring look, then lay down again.
"I can sense emotions, you know."
Shion blinked at the topic change.
"Just negative ones, though." The fox continued. "Fear, hate, anger, jealousy… lust…"
"Lust?"
The fox smirked. "It's a corrupt form of love combined with greed. You give it off every time you look at the brat."
Shion blushed. "I… in a vision, I saw him as an adult…"
"Tall, long blond hair…?"
Shion nodded. "And wearing an odd hat with Fire written on it."
"So, he gets his dream." The fox mused.
"My visions show what might be, not what will be." Shion countered. "…and mostly they show me how I am about to die unless something changes."
The fox winced.
"…I'm going to get some sleep." Shion finally said as she rose to her feet. "Goodnight, Kitsune-sama."
"Kitsune-sama… I like that…"
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Author's Note - No, I didn't forget about Moryo's army... I have plans for that...