A/N: To whomever reads this:
I'm on the verge of retiring once and for all.
These site issues are doing my head in and now they've gotten worse, not only did everything break yesterday, but now I and countless other uses aren't receiving email notifications for anything fanfiction related on the Web side of things. I don't like using the app -too old fashioned- and I literally have no idea if anyone can see this chapter, and I won't be able to look at reviews initially without going the long way round through the log in page, but rest assured, I'll see them eventually it. I've already started posting a lot of my stuff on A03 -same pen name- but even that feels pointless, as I get next to no feedback over there.
So, screw it. Posting this and hoping for a miracle.
In other news depression's starting to hit real hard these days. Like a sledgehammer paired with concrete. Sometimes I wonder why I do anything at all. can't claim to understand what's going wrong with my head anymore. I don't even know why I'm feeling this way! One moment I'm fine, then my mood craters for a few hours, then I'm back again for a bit, and the cycle repeats. On and on, round the bend, forever and without end! Its rather annoying; as though I've become a prisoner in my own mind sometimes. Sure, what's one more mental problem on the pile. Not like I don't have enough, what with already being this old. Feels like every day is a battle sometimes. Meanwhile, my doctor insists that I'm fine. Take a health walk he says. Go fishing. You'll be fine.
*siiiigh* Right. Suuuure. Don't bloody feel fine, doc.
As ever, I own no quotes, references, quotes, themes or memes! They're simply tributes to legends far greater than I.
I'm just an old man who writes as a pastime. I don't make any money doing this, not a single cent.
Time and feedback will determine if this remains a story. Simple as that.
In other words...its up to YOU, the reader. Do let me know~!
I'd say this chapter reflects my current mental state.
I'm bloody broken right now, inside and out.
Oh, and references to THAT scene in Jujutsu Kaisen.
"Throughout heaven and earth, I alone am the honored one."
~?
Delirious
"Heeeeeeey! Its been awhile!"
Marika absolutely froze.
Impossible.
She turned away from the Erdtree, unable to believer her eyes. There he stood, his body spattered in crimson, shoulders hunched, golden hair stained half red with blood. A maddened blue eye peeked out at her in the low light the other hidden behind those tawny tresses. He shouldn't be alive. Shouldn't be standing.
Yet there he was, smiling.
"You're dead." she scowled at him. "I caved your head in."
"You did!" Naruto lifted some bloody hair from his head to reveal the crimson dent in his scalp. "See? It really hurt! She could see the wound, but It was far smaller than she remembered, and growing smaller -healing!-for every instant she looked at it. "I gotta thank you for that!" he dropped his hand and grinned at her as though she were the most beautiful woman in the world. "I've never been able to regenerate from something like this before. Kurama kept telling me I could do it, ya know? Easier said than done, am I right?!"
'...he's rambling.' Her brow furrowed. 'Is he drunk? High? Did I break him?'
All valid questions, all equally invalid in the face of that merry, deranged smile.
Naruto didn't look angry. Far from it. She sensed no ire in him. If anything, he seemed downright...
.
..
...delirious.
"I figured it out on the verge of death!" the battered blond brayed, laughing softly. "What're the chances?! The reason you're going to lose is because you didn't chop my head off!"
"Me? Lose? I think not." she hefted her hammer over her head. "Our battle has just begun."
"Has it?" he tilted his head."Maybe? Yeah! Maybe so! Hey, that reminds me...!"
He still had both hands hidden behind his back, hiding something.
With an almost lazy toss, he whirled and thew it her way.
Marika caught it with one hand.
Godfrey's head stared back at her, eyes wide, mouth agape in its final moments of horror.
"He put up a good fight." the still-delirious-Naruto grinned. "A reeeal good fight."
Marika balked at her husbands's head, at him now, her fury mounting.
...what have you done?"
"I changed the game! Nothing simpler!"
He lunged at her. She tried to block him. Mistakes were made.
Clenched knuckles barreled up under her chin with impossible speed.
Naruto's uppercut smashed her clear through the Erdtree and out the other side. And then? Then there was pain.
A/N: And scene. Hope you like it. Its probably the last thing I'm going to post for awhile until this site gets fixed.
As ever, reviews are the fuel that sustain me. Without them I cannot write a single word. Simple as that. Working nearly all hours of the day keep me absurdly busy, as such, I can't bring myself to write something folks don't like.
Aaaand there we go. As ever, reviews keep me alive. Without them, I cannot write. So...in the Immortal Words of Atlas...
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...you can go bite me with that sentimental crap. I stopped feeling fear a long time ago. Now...I feel nothing." He tilted his head. "Can you make me feel something, I wonder?"
He took a moment, regarding the black knife in his hand. A flick of his wrist tossed it over his shoulder.
"I don't need this to kill you. Fight me, Godwyn."
"Come on, then! WINNER TAKES ALL!"
Radahn rushed him on the right, Malenia on the left.
He caught them both by the throat, smashed their heads together, and flung them across Caelid.
Radahn plowed into the dirt, creating a canyon. Malenia was not so fortunate.
She had half a second to blink before golden knuckles filled her vision.
"ISN'T THIS FUN?!"
He punched her clear across the continent and into the ocean.
Naruto palmed his face and started to laugh. The noise rose louder still, echoing into the air in a wild cackle.
"You never learn." his laughter cut off in a sigh. "Really! And I thought Kaguya was arrogant!"
He stamped a foot down and shifted his stance, blocking the bridge.
"YOU! SHALL NOT! PASS!"
"You will KNEEL before me-
He took their head off with a single swing.
"Can't properly kneel to a corpse now, can I?"
EDIT: Hope this made you smile, and have a great day!
Warm regards,
~Nz.
R&R~!