"A G-Goddess! Wish! WHAT?" Naruto's voice rocked the sleeping city of Konoha.
"Oi not so loud boya, I bet my little sisters heard that from here." Urd remarked twisting a slender pinky in her left ear to remove the ring brought by his voice.
"W-what from heaven?"
"Actually they are living with their… other halves in a different dimension." Belldandy and Skuld were lucky, she mused. Keiichi and Sentaro really were amazing. Perhaps the only men she had ever known able to accept what their beloveds truly were and what it would mean one day. She smiled sadly, not noticing Naruto's questioning look. "Now then Uzumaki Naruto, it has been decided by Kami-sama himself that those who percivier in hardships far beyond that of normal, are to be given a wish." A coquettishly devilish smile appeared on her face as she slide up against him, a lavender nail running gently over his cheek markings to hold up her index finger in front of him. "But only one." Only to realize she was holding a very badly done scarecrow dummy in a orange jumpsuit. "Ara?" She looked about and realized the door was waggling gently in the evening breeze. There was a crunch of hay then another scream broke over this apparently not so peaceful village of the leaf.
"GET YOUR BEHIND BACK HERE YOU BRAT AND TAKE YOUR WISH LIKE A MAN!"
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A Jinchuriki's Goddess
Chapter Two: Ah! A Wish Brought From Loneliness!
By
Hibiki
Ah Megami-sama and Naruto are not my creations. Characters and Places used here are not my own. All rights to their owners Fujishima Kosuke and Kishimoto Masashi.
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Given the power flowing from him, Urd really didn't have much of a problem finding Naruto, racing over rooftops in some random direction. Thankful she had thought to being her trusted Stringfellow along, the broom wielding goddess flew side saddle as she slipped up next to him to stare with a look only her mother Hild, the Daimakaicho, could top… or an angry Belldandy.
"Hey. You. Stop. NOW." But Naruto was in full on 'Threatening Iruka Terror, Super Uzumaki Powerun' Something he only reserved from running from truly scary people... Or homework. Truly TITSUP was something even the racing broom was having difficulty with in the narrow confines of the tall city.
"NO~! Get away from me scary pedophile lady! No~! Leave my virgin ass alone! Wahh~!" Urd's first wish granting was truly not ending up like she would hoped. Okay she should have realized being THAT friendly to him, who was even less use to it than Keiichi was a stupid thing, but this kid was like Skuld. That Pre-Earth Skuld who yelled loudly and did things to absolutely annoy her.
"I'm NOT a PEDOPHILE! I'm a Goddess!" He dodged a bolt of lighting from her palm at his insinuation.
"And I'm the Hokage's left BUTT CHEEK!" With that rather… stupid remark he held up a crossed hand sign and with a puff of smoke the now twin blondes split up at the next intersection.
"That's not gonna stop me little boy! I'll get you and your little clone too OHOHOHOHO~!" The Broom Urd turned right while a second Urd slipped from her flying, on her own power, left.
"Aw Man! No fair she knows it too!" The two ninja cried out. At every fork in the road a new Naruto would take the other path. A new Urd would follow that. Soon it was a veritable mass of purple, silver, yellow and orange flying though out the city. Little sleep would be found in the old town tonight. As yells and screams scary laughs, kunai and bolts of lightning rained like a torrent through the town.
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Naruto, the original that is, was nearing his limit, he could feel it.
'Kuso! Even if this is kinda fun, I can't get through that shield of hers. I need to end this before I pass out! Dammit Dammit Dammit! Wait I know!" He grinned, his determination renewed. 'Okay scary goddess pedo person, follow me. I only hope my clones thought of this too!'
Behind him Urd panted slightly as she struggled to maintain so many divisions, but the smile on her face told a completely different story.
'Fun fun fun! Skuld hasn't been this fun in so LONG! I'm going to catch you brat~!' Yep Urd lost sight of her goal again. So Typical.
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It turned out his clones DID have the same thought. Nearly a hundred clones chased by an equal amount of small sized Urds came to the middle of the city.
"Which one is the original?" four or so called out. The Broom chased Naruto waved his hand. "Go for it!" And then came the most bizarre fight move Urd, Naruto, and the observing Sarutobi (With his orb) had ever seen. A quarter of the clones made a semi circle forcing the original and the other three quarters up before 25 purple blurs took them out, ever onward the clones and Naruto rose, sacrificing a chunk for the rest to propel themselves higher. Soon just Naruto and a lone clone remained, completely surrounded and rather high up in the sky. "Alright boss, good luck."
"Thanks I just hope the river is as deep as I remember right here." Four kunai gripped in his hand were all that remained of his once rather humble supply. "Okay I'm ready let's do this!" His clone and him hit the inertia point and began their downward trek. With a mighty yell the clone gave him added downwards momentum before dispelling.
'He's Crazy!' Rational thinking returned to the Goddess as she realized her mark was plummeting at her like a lemming. 'Oh spirits of the wind, hear my demand, and capture this child who-ACK!' She had to stop her spell as four glints left his hand in the moonlight.
With a force brought upon by faster than terminal velocities the four kunai streaked towards the lone broom wielding woman with untold force. As she was in the middle of casting a spell she had no chance to stop and cast a shield. However she was smirking and with a single swipe caught all of them.
"WHAT! No way!" Ten of the little pedo women caught him and sat him on the broom before returning to their mistress.
"Impressive. You thought of using the falling speed to help increase their cutting force. True, it might have, but I'm a system admin. Meaning I have to calculate things like speed, gravity, and the effects of the two combined all the time." Urd's ego began stroking itself leaving a confused ninja. "It was a simple matter of… huh?" What was that sound? Urd blinked when something soft and fizzing adhered to her forehead.
"I was wondering where those tags went. This is gonna hur-!"
"EH?" Was all she could get out when an explosion occurred. Like a giant purple firework Mini Urds were flung away in a brilliant display.
[BOOM!-f-f-f-f-frazk-k-k-k-k-lze!] (Trying to make firework sounds is troublesome. -Hibiki)
When all said in done two burnt figures sat upon a singed broom above Konoha.
"Crazy Goddess Lady! You okay?" Despite everything, Naruto's nature, the very reason (though forgotten) Urd was there, had kicked in. She coughed out some smoke.
"Yeah, my sister packs a lot more in one of her bombs that those silly little tags you ninja use. Still what were you thinking you brat? Throwing dangerous things around like confetti!" Some people could ask the same thing, Urd.
Voices began bubbling up from the town below.
"What was that explosion?"
"An Attack! We're being Invaded!"
"SOME ONE NOTIFY THE HOKAGE!"
'Uh-oh!' They thought together as it became clear their little romp had put the city on alert.
"Quick, over there!" Naruto pointed to the Hokage Monument and Urd went with it. Naruto's eyes went wide as the flying cleaning utensil (It's a good thing Stringfellow can't telepathically read his thoughts) hit speeds that left his body against hers and his head smooshed between her rather impressive endowments.
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"Why do you keep pulling away like that? Just relax." She commanded. They were sitting upon the fourth Hokage's head. Rather Urd was sitting, Naruto was fidgeting and blushing.
"Um… I-I'll try." First we was scared of her now he was flustered. She sighed. Her sisters never had hard times with their contracts, so why her? "S-sorry other than Ayame-neechan I don't deal with a lot of p-pretty women." Oh hohoho! Well now this one has a spark unlike that lame Keiichi. But it seems she was a little too much woman, huh? Easily fixed. With a clasp of her hands and a glow she began shrinking until she looked to him eye to eye. A 'thirteen' year old Urd tilted her head to get a better look at his face.
"Better?" He nodded astounded. "Still pretty right?" He went ramrod straight, looking away in embarrassment, scratching the back of his head.
"Y-yeah." She laughed (read: giggled) before getting serious once more.
"Okay now back to business. You have been given a wish, just one as I was so rudely interrupted on. If you wanted say, all the money you could ever want, Yggdrasil, our heavenly … What could I call it that you'd get? Think of it as a machine that acts much like a village council with my father, Kami-sama, being the Kage. Anyway Yggdrasil would provide more money than you would ever want. If you wanted to destroy the world, it could do that too." The look of utter horror on the child's face proved that would never happen. "Though we frown upon such wishes, and frankly Yggdrasil would never have allowed you to be selected if that was the case." Naruto crossed his legs thinking hard.
'I could ask for all the ramen in the world! I'd never go hungry!'
"And you would have rotting ramen piled higher than this mountain by the end of the week." He started at her words. "Just because you have all the ramen in the world doesn't mean you could eat it. Try better!"
'Can she read my thoughts?' Naruto shook his head. 'No she's right! I didn't think about the ramen spoiling… Maybe I could wish for all the ramen in the world and for it not to spoil? Oh maybe stay forever hot too!' Urd face faulted.
"Why don't you try thinking about something other than RAMEN." She growled out exasperatedly.
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It had become a twenty minute cuss and discuss as they worked through Naruto's more… childish desires. She felt she had leniency in this because he was only 13 after all, most people they helped had the amount of suffering he had by 25-30 or so, and had pretty confirmed life goals in mind.
"Why would you want to be Hokage without the skills, and the skills without mastering them yourself, didn't you tell Konohamaru there are no shortcuts?"
"I can't get rid of the three minutes it takes to boil, and I thought I said NO RAMEN."
"From my scans your going to get really tall as it is so making you grow extra would be bad for your health, just deal with being a pipsqueak for a few more years."
"I can't make Sakura love you, I can't effect someone's free will… well actually I guess I could, but it falls into that blow up the world sort of area. Wouldn't you want her to like you for you and not some drug or spell?" Yeah she was ignoring her many Keiichi/Belldandy love Goddess moments.
"No I can't pull the stick out of the Uchiha's ass. But maybe one of my Cheery Cordials (bad pun) would do the trick, I'll give you one when I go. Think of something you REALLY want Naruto."
It was now getting into some rather… painful requests.
"Sorry, your parents died knowing you were safe, and as such have passed on peacefully, it's against the rules both of heaven and hell to take that from them. As much as they love you, it's better they are where they are."
"The Kyuubi is bound to this world, and your soul. It would kill you if you wished it away, and put a massive imbalance to your planet."
Naruto looked down, his village had finally relaxed from the false alarm and was settling down again. From his vantage point the could see into many windows, at normal people's lives, wondering what they would want if they had his wish. He watched a little girl being carried by her father tucked into her bed lovingly. A husband and wife laugh in front their TV curled together on their couch. A brother and sister fighting with pillows, their large smiles easily seen even from this distance. It made him…
"Lonely." She said softly. That same smile was on her face from when she talked about her sisters.
"Yeah… You seem to know it… too." He hesitantly mentioned.
"Heh, guess my poker face isn't that great. Yes, I suppose you could say I am lonely, in a way." She leaned back, letting the night's starry sky bath her form. Despite being 13, Urd was always a healthy girl, and Naruto had to look away lest he bled nasally. "While I love my sisters and their boys, the people I met in Nekomi, and the goddesses I worked with. I always felt rather aloof. Because… don't be alarmed by this okay?" Before he could respond a beautiful white and black winged form rose from her back, bathed in an heavenly light that seemed to come from her very person. Somewhere deep inside him, something twitched sending a resonance though the boy's soul. Words unbidden rose form his throat.
"Half… demon." Urd's eyes hardened for a moment as his widened.
"I forgot the Kyuubi, a spirit turned demon would feel our power when shown like this. But yes, because of what I am… I have always been different from others. I tried to believe something different for so long, but it was my angel, World of Elegance, who forced me to accept it, and I love her all the more for it."
"She's beautiful!" World of Elegance giggled silently, gliding over and rubbing her cheek against his, making the whiskered blonde blush.
"She says thank you, and that she likes you." She blushed. Didn't that mean that somewhere deep down she liked the brat too? Now she was perturbed.
"I like her too!" Urd watched as lights began blinking off one by one in city. World of Elegance gave a small wave then retreated back into her mistress.
"Ara ara, it's getting late. I hope Belldandy isn't worried about me." Naruto's eyes grew sad.
"Yeah I forgot, you have people waiting for you. It's really sad. Because I like this, I'm not lonely with you here. If I could I would wish you could stay with me so I'd never be have to be lonely ever again... Oops."
You could hear a pin drop as his eyes rose up to meet hers, their faces pale.
"You didn't..."
"I think… I just did." Her forehead marking began to twinkle as his wish was translated, formatted and then sent upwards in a ray of light that entered a suddenly formed halo of clouds. Naruto was repelled back as she lifted from the ground little rocks and leaves flowing around her until triangle reabsorbed the beam and she lost her buoyancy and consciousness. Realizing she was falling backwards off the edge of the mountain he reacted instantly, jumping to his feet then over the side after her. "URD!"
Quickly catching up to her he wrapped his arms around her body and using his greater momentum swung his form to the bottom, insuring he would take the brunt of the fall.
'Gomen Urd, for everything. But it looks like you'll be able to go home after all.'
Two strong arms caught him and Urd, jostling them roughly, but to Naruto's amazement they landed alive and intact. Opening his eyes he looked to find a one eyed Jounin with pointy silver hair rather much like a scarecrow staring down at him.
"Ara ara, Nice catch Naruto." The Jounin's easy going voice broke over him.
"Are they safe, Kakashi?" Sarutobi questioned as he walked from the shadows under the monuments.
"Hai, Hokage-sama." Kakashi replied, setting Naruto down to walk on his own power.
"Naruto, Kakashi come with me please." He began walking back to the Hokage tower the two younger men falling in step behind him. As they walked, Naruto looked to the angelic, sleeping, girl in his arms, and could not help but smile. He really did feel bad about his wish all but forcing her to stay with him (if only he knew about Keiichi)… But knowing he wouldn't be alone… No matter how selfish, made him feel as if the entire world was only going to get better for him from now on.
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Well slow initial response, but as more interest popped up, the more I couldn't resist working on this story and the more ideas popped up for it.
We have the wish. See some Ninja vs. Goddess styled tag (sorta), and how this Urd ticks. Frankly as I read and or watch Ah Megami-sama I see moments when Urd should be happy, but her smile is almost… melancholy, even with Troubadour she never got that strong happy urge. Like Naruto is in Konoha, she was sort of an outcast in heaven. (Why I picked Urd though I could write Belldandy in an instant easily, Urd's harder for me to grasp) So… yeah, I think she's lonely. If you think metaphysically rarely do people wish to dwell in the past.
And no, Naruto doesn't realize Urd has to confirm the wish, since she's out (explained in chapter 3) he naturally assumed it went though (while it did as the story needs it too, I have a feeling people might ask about it).
You know Kakashi has some rather Urd like traits when I think about it. They are either going to like one another a lot or hate one another intensely.
Anyway read and review, the more reviews I get about my stories the more interested in writing that story I got the review about I become.
Next Chapter: Ah! The Ultimate Force no Jutsu!
Till then, See ya.
