Time was something Naruto lost track of, only he did notice his body was more toned than it was ever before. He felt stronger, faster yet there was part of him missing, the part that was native and innocent.
The innocent that was taken piece by piece with each monster he killed, with each one that was killed by his hands. The more blood that had stained his hands, these hands he never thought that he would ever have to see covered in blood.
He was in the middle of cleaning his blade, slowly looking at the face he could see in the steel, his own face. The face he could barely even recognize his own face at this point, it was like he was staring at a stranger at this very moment.
Someone that had killed many demons down here, one that killed more monsters without even blinking an eye. He had to do what he did to survive, something he had hoped that the others would not hate him for in the future.
"Still alive are you, I am surprised that you have survived a whole year down here, how long can you truly live on for? I wonder what you have learned so far, that this place only the strong survive and only strong will win." The voice had returned.
"I have learned that, because I will get out of here no matter what I must do. So, tell me just why you are helping me? If this is just some kind of test, then end it because I do not have the time to deal with you." Naruto countered, showing his dislike of the voice.
"My, my what a little foolish brat you are. You, think that I am helping you? No, I am not helping you, I am just using you to help myself. So, run and hide because it does not matter. If you want to make it back home, then you must be the strongest there is here. The strong rule here, the weak just playthings like you are." When the voice went silent, Naruto could hear footsteps coming closer to him.
Naruto rushed at the next wave of enemies, cutting them down one after the other till he noticed one stronger than the rest. This one was stronger than any of demons he had killed so far, it was huge in size. Two black bat like wings coming out of its back, two large horns on his red skinned face. He could tell the monster's body was body, body for war and killing with large claws for hands.
The old him would have feared this monster, scared to even be near it let alone fighting against it. The old him that would want to talk things out before even having to fight, the old him that was died and forgotten.
Naruto jumped in the air above the monster, redrawing Yamato to strike three times in the blink of an eye. When he landed, he figured his attack had hit home yet he found out the hard way they did not hit hard enough, he got lunched forward due to sharp him to his back. He landed on his face before rolling over to his back.
He dodged the next attack before kissing his teeth due to the pain that was rocking his body, he pushed it aside to quickly get back up. Once he was back on his feet, he quickly dodged another powerful blow, his eyes watched the demon only to see it was a raging beast of strength. If he were going to win, he would have to outsmart this monster, something he did learn to do very well over the years.
Flames were covering his body, his flames turned almost golden before he rushed to the side of the demon. When the demon rushed at him again with blind rage, Naruto jumped up above it before using his blade to aim for the demon's head. Yamato, covered in his golden flames, had cut one of the two horns off causing massive pain to rock the demon's body.
Naruto landed on the edge of one of the hellish cliffs, his eyes looked down to see how far it went and he did know he would not want to fall from this height. It gave him an idea of how to beat this monster. When it turned around to rush at Naruto once more, he jumped up again only to aim for his wings this time around. Naruto was able to cut one of the massive wings off but as the demon started to fall from the cliff it had grabbed Naruto's right leg.
The two of them slowly started to fall, Naruto using his blade to cut his leg free from the demon's hand. As he gained his freedom the two of them started to hit rocky edges, which caused him to scream in pain, with each hit and with each new layer that he had landed on, the pain was growing too strong for him to bear.
When he finally landed, he could see demon had kept falling deeper due to its size, he could not even stand simply due to the pain. He could not even figure how many bones he had broken from this fall, just that he wanted to scream it all out.
His eyes slowly started to see a black almost fading door come to his view, the door was fading in and out like it was not even there. He did not know if he was seeing things due to the pain or if there really was this door that had appeared in front of him.
Naruto while his eyes started close, he forced them open to see someone walking over to him, it was someone walking out of the door. This woman was extremely beautiful, she had long purple hair that went down to her nicely rounded rear. Two beautiful red eyes that were looking down over at him, his blue eyes stared back.
She was wearing what looked to be purple mixed darker purple full body outfit, it highlighted her perfect curvaceous body. The outfit really showed off her large breast to the world without showing any skin at all, the suit covered every inch of her skin, leaving none to be seen by his eyes. She was wearing a cloth-like purple mask, which was tied to her bodysuit, even so she walked over to him.
He looked at her legs, before looking up at her face even if he could barely manage the pain, he refused to die. He refused to die to anyone before he got back home to everyone, he would fight her if he had to.
"Young, yet strong? Could you be the one that kills me one day?" The woman asked, "My name is Scathach queen of the land of Shadows." She spoke, her voice was strong yet gentle to his ears which he just stared blankly back.
"Do you want to live or die, this gate is the one that leads you to the land of shadows, the land of the dead. So, tell me young one? What do you want? Is your will finally at its end, or do you have to will to push forward?" she simply asked.
Naruto just yelled while he forced himself to roll over to slowly get back up, he placed his hands on the ground and used them along with his knees to get off the ground and, the pain was hurting so badly while he was healing.
The only thing that was going through his mind was to live, to see everyone again to tell them how much he cared about them. He pushed even harder to stand back to his feet, once he got there, he had fallen back over if it was not for her catching him. He could tell there was a smile underneath her mask, something he did not understand why.
"What should I do with you then? I need you to get stronger if you are to kill me, so you better get ready for me to beat your ass into the ground." She warned him before he closed his eyes, unsure to why she wanted him to kill her.
"You sure he is still even alive down here?" female voice asked.
"Yes, Lady he is alive, and we will find him because I don't want to deal with these ladies if he is died." Dante replied.
When Naruto reopened his eyes, he could see he was somewhere else, he did not know where he was anymore. This place was no hell, it looked like a bedroom which looked almost royal like, something very fancy.
"Looks like you are finally awake?" A voice caused him to look over to his right.
He could see her sitting at the desk, she was wearing only a small red nightgown that barely covered anything and ended just a tiny bit passed her rear. He could not move his eyes because even if he were still young, she still was beautiful.
"I have taken you to the land of Shadows but do not worry, you are not died. Soon, you will have to go back to hell. I will also help you get out of hell, so there is no need to worry, it will cost you. My payment is for you to get strong enough, to prove that me saving you was not for nothing." She explained before standing up.
"Why do you want me to kill you, why do you not want to live?" He simply could not understand.
"I have l lived extraordinarily long time, yet age does not kill me nor does not eating. I was once normal person, yet I won too many battles and won too many wars, even gods feared me. No one that I met could beat me, no one that I met could kill me. So, what is the point of live with I will always out live everyone, to never know what death is?" She countered back.
"Even if you outlive everyone around you, you can still make moments in life that give you the reason to keep moving forward. Every time you meet someone, every time you try something new out there. I will have you train me, yet I will give you new reasons to keep living by time I am done training under you." Naruto promised.
"You talk a big game, yet how much do you think you can back up?" Scathach slowly walked over to him, moving her hips side to side.
"I never go back on my word, which is my way of living. So, my promise is my word, I will save you in the end and I will not kill you. Nothing will stop me from keeping my word to you, nothing will be allowed to kill you off dattebayo." Naruto smirked.
Akali was in the middle of training, barely could stand yet she refused to give in. She still was taking all the blame for him being gone, nothing they said to her changed that, yet she could hear footsteps behind her.
"I don't want to hear you telling me to take another break again Ahri, not now." She spoke without even looking back.
"Then it is a good thing I'm not the fox, why are you acting this way?" The voice caused her to grow shocked, she did not think he would be here.
She looked to see a man in a blue full shinobi body suit with a sword on his back, even with the suit you could tell this man was very well toned. His eyes were the only thing that suit did not cover, leaving no other skin showing. His eyes almost white, with little bit of his brown hair showing yet she did know this man very well.
"Shen why are you here?" She could barely ask her once sensei.
"We were took you were training yourself to near death due to blame, so we were asked to help you out of it." She looked at him funny when he said we.
A woman walked over from behind Shen, she looked to be a tall, slim, and curvaceous young woman. She had short brown hair with emerald-colored eyes. She was wearing dark red lipstick that showed off very well to the world, along with a golden headband with a gem in the center of it.
She was wearing one of her lonian dresses, which was different shades of purple, with golden lines that ran through her entire dress. The dress did help push her large breasts up, showing them off more than she may would want to.
The last woman that walked over to him which caused her to just glare over at her, unlike how she looked peaceful at the first woman. This woman was a slender pale-skinned woman with long dark hair that went down to her slim hips, her eyes were sea green like.
Her robes were a mix of what you could call battle attire with a mix of elegant, the colors were red, pink, black and silver. She also had blades that were flying around her, which would be the first thing you would notice about this woman. These two women looks would cause them to stay out in the village, their looks and their outfits truly did not fit the shinobi lands.
"Karma it is nice to meet you, but you Irelia why are you here?" she asked, her eyes staying on Irelia.
"It is nice to meet you as well, but Irelia felt like she needed to guard me. More importantly what happened to cause you to go this crazy with training, it is unsafe for you." The woman spoke softly.
She started to fill them in on what was going on, even if she did plan on yelling at her friends for calling them here. She did not want them to be here, not that she disliked them, it was just that she wanted to be alone, alone to think about what she failed to do.
"You think you failed him, even if you did fail him but it would be all four of you had failed not just you. If he was died, then you may have failed but he is not died from what your friend Dante had told you." Shen simply pointed out her flaws.
As quickly as the night sets and the new day begin, yet Naruto was already back in hell, yet he was not alone this time. Scathach was there, she planned to get him out of here before training him, she could not have him be knocked out while demons were around them all the time.
"I can hear fighting yet, why not check it out?" He asked, he just earned a nod from the lovely woman.
The two of them slowly moved to see what the fighting was, when they looked, they could see Dante fighting against a group of demons himself. Beating them back without much work at all, he started to take down the next wave.
He watched as two women, one having long blonde hair wearing what looked to be black leather tanktop and leather shorts, the other one was wearing white shirt along with shirt shorts. He had never seen these two women nor the other young man with short white hair.
When Naruto got closer to them, he just smirked because he was glad to see Dante again. The thought had hit him, he wondered how Dante would think of how he changed, would he hate him for doing the things he had to do to survive, or would he understand?
"What took you so long, it felt like years down here." Naruto joked, causing the group to turn around.
Dante was slightly stunned by the fact that Naruto was the one that found them, not just that but also Naruto's new look was the biggest reason that stunned him. "Vergil?" He shook his head to look again, "Naruto, you damn brat where have you been?"
"So, this is the kid we have been looking for and why does he have that sword?" The other man asked, anger showing in his voice.
"I gave him the sword that is why, yet what happened to you? You seem quite different in looks and in your eyes as well." Dante asked, the joking side was gone.
"I did what I had to do to survive, many things I have done, and I would done more if I did not find you." Naruto started to fill them in as they were walking.
"The name is Lady, damn kid you already have gone through hell." Lady looked over at him.
"You can just call me Trish or Dante's babysitter if you want." She joked at the end.
"The one whining one is Nero, he's also a hot-headed idiot at times." Lady added.
"This lovely woman is Scathach and my new sensei, that side how do we get the hell out of this hell hole?" Naruto asked, he wanted to be free already.
"It will not be easy, also it will not be fast. At least you are not doing it alone anymore, so just follow me and we will get out of here alive. There a group of women crying their eyes out about you, so stop keeping them waiting." Dante spoke before leading the group.
How will his training going?
Will the girls hold up till naruto is back?
