Hello! This chapter will be a segment involving Konoha and Naruto's relationship with them. As stated in a previous chapter, Naruto still keeps in contact with people in konoha and I want to add a segment with that involved. There will also be a bit of a small fight but nothing major. Just want to try writing one. Please leave a review on what you think. Also only some of this is cannon to this story. Hope you enjoy!
"Speech"
'Thoughts'
"Kurama/spirits/beasts talking"
"Jutsu"
Lush green trees and the smell of fresh air invaded the boys' nostrils as they walked through a forest. After yesterday's events, Naruto had convinced Aether to take a small break and come to the Elemental Nations. After some persuasion, Aether finally agreed to see his best friend's home. So, after hiding Naruto's vision, telling Diluc to cover for him, and sending a message to Tsunade, the two set off with his Hiraishin, which took them to a forest. To Naruto, this visit served 3 purposes, to give Aether a break, to see his friends from Konoha and to investigate the reports of creatures that seemed to resemble hillichurls appearing around the village.
After venting and crying, Aether's heart felt a lot lighter. He was still worried about his sister but the assurance that his best friend will be there to look after her until they can safely reunite put him at ease. So, Aether accepted Naruto's offer to go to the latter's home and unwind for a bit. Despite this, he was currently deep in thought.
Unknown to most, there were two parts of the abyss order. The well known one that wanted to destroy Teyvat and the Archons was the greater one, with more than a hundred times the manpower, created by someone who believed the abyss to be a great power. On the other hand, the lesser one was created and led by Aether, his old travelling companion Dainsleif and the lazy cavalry captain, Kaeya Alberich. They tried to oppose the greater abyss order by putting blocks in their plans. While the greater abyss order possessed the most bodies, the lesser abyss order was arguably more skilled and powerful, even with their low numbers. After all, having more Abyss Heralds on their side will always help. Despite the power gap, their numbers kept them from doing much.
Aether was broken out of his musings by a snap near his face from Naruto. Looking up, he was met with the sight of a giant arch with the gates blown open. "Are you going to help or join in?" At the question, Aether clenched his teeth and summoned his sword. "Ok then, I'll join my team. See if you can stop the breach."
Aether shook his head, "No way! I'm helping you this time!" With that, Aether ran through the gates, followed by Naruto, who quickly jumped on a roof and scanned the surroundings while directing Aether towards any stray monsters. A hillichurl here and an mitachurl there were all they could find, but they knew better. As they ran towards the center of the village, the number of monsters and the sounds of fighting could be heard.
*Meanwhile*
"Chidori stream!" Sasuke's voice was followed by the electrocution of all the strange masked monsters around him. A "CHAA!" by his teammate told him that a few more monsters had been killed. Even though he was missing a hand after his battle with Naruto, he was still a formidable fighter with his EMS and Rinne-sharingan. However, he could use them in their base forms here, because only Naruto and Itachi could keep up with his speed when using their final forms. As another beast was slashed in half through its shield, the lightning god swung his sword and the lightning coating it flew off in an arc, leaving a wave of destruction in its wake. The speeding arc was dodged by his sensei who was currently doing his own handsigns.
"Suiton: Surryodan no jutsu!" the copy ninja lowered his mask and spit out a large amount of water from his mouth that took the shape of a dragon with yellow eyes. The dragon then jumped on to his enemies as the arc of lightning connected with it and shocked all of the monsters. Hearing the sound of metal cutting through the air, Kakashi quickly used a body flicker and electrocuted the axe wielding monster behind him. He may have lost his sharingan but that didn't mean he was weaker. In fact, he felt better than ever, and his new eye was working quite well.
While the boys were using all sorts of lightning and fire style jutsu, Sakura was busy with her fists. Despite being the weakest at the start, she had learned quite a lot under Tsunade, growing up to even surpass her in medical knowledge (though Naruto, Kakashi and even Sasuke still preferred to ask Tsunade for some reason). Like her team mates, she was currently beating up the monsters that had showed up out of nowhere, when Saskue's Kusanagi blade flew past her and stabbed a monster in the head. Looking back, her eyes widened when she saw Sasuke about to get hit by an axe wielding monster.
Sasuke felt something cutting through the air behind him and smirked. Narrowly dodging the axe, he turned around and caught the handle of the incoming executioner's blade and pulled it out of the monster it had just killed before throwing it through the skulls of 2 others and towards Kakashi. The masked jounin also smirked and kicked the flat of the incoming blade, sending it towards one of the annoying furry things floating around the battle with a shield and randomly casting spells. The blade damaged the shield but bounced off, but an orange flash appeared near it and the blade changed its direction, slicing right through the shield this time. Naruto stood up with his blade and smiled at his teammates who did the same before they casually walked up to each other, nodding at the crow resting on a branch.
"Been a while Dobe." Sasuke addressed his rival with a smirk. Now that Naruto was here, they might be able to shift the battle in their favor.
"It has, hasn't it? Hope the others are faring better." Naruto responded with an identical smirk. He missed his brother in spirit.
"You said you would visit every few months you know?" Kakashi's carefree tone sill hasn't changed. "And just so you know, the others have Itachi and Tsunade with them. We lured the majority of them over here with us."
"That's good! And just so you know, this was my visit! I also brought a friend if you don't mind! He's over there!" Naruto pointed at Aether who was currently slashing through some hillichurls before sending an arc of wind towards them. The poor hillichurls were running around trying to find the attacker.
"Anyway, what do you say Sasuke? Should we double team this?" Naruto's question was met with a smirk and a "hn" from Sasuke, which prompted him to smirk back. "Anyway, how about you guys and Aether go join the other group then?" With that, Naruto grabbed Sakura, Kakashi and Aether with a chakra chain, and flashed away to the second group before flashing back to Sasuke in a second. He had also left the executioner's blade with them for safe keeping.
"So, Naruto, have you gotten stronger?" Sasuke asked as he raised his left arm's stump. "Are we doing this like we practiced?"
Naruto scoffed and took off his jacket. He then raised his own right arm, Mirroring Sasuke. "I guess we'll see."
Both friends closed their eyes and smirked as a blue and red chakra burned away Naruto's prosthetic before becoming a skeletal version of his arm burning with chakra. A purple arm from his Susanoo did the same for Sasuke. Opening their eyes, Sasuke's EMS and Rinne-sharingan glowed with Naruto's six paths sage mode. "Cut the genjutsu Itachi!" With that, the two smirked before they disappeared in a burst of speed.
Up on the Hokage mountain, the second group was sheltering the civilians. Looking around, Aether couldn't believe the abyss order would do something like this. He walked up to a man with red eyes and tapped his shoulder. When he looked at him, Aether said, "We need to help them! They won't survive that many monsters!" He was worried about his best friend after all.
The man chuckled and said, "Don't worry about them. Together, Naruto and my brother are unstoppable." Frustrated at Itachi's words, Aether ran to the edge of the monument, fully ready jump into the battle, but the sight before him made his jaw drop.
2 blurs, one purple and one orange, were racing through the hillichurl ranks, vaporizing any enemy unfortunate enough to get close. Abyss mages were desperately firing spells, some dismissing their shields and activating their higher level spells. Between all this, the purple blur disappeared, and in it's place was an abyss mage who looked confused before getting killed by the orange blur. Meanwhile, Sasuke had jumped into the air and thrown his sword covered in the black flames of Amaterasu, which burned the abyss mages near it, and somehow used its recoil to get launched even further up . Another switch, and Naruto appeared in his place with a plain black shakujo in his hands. While he was falling, Naruto covered himself with a dense layer wind chakra as he lifted his weapon over his head, also charged with wind chakra, ready to deliver a blow on the Kusanagi while purple chakra surrounded the area around them and all the abyss mages. With a roar, Naruto focused the majority of the energy from the fall into his weapon and brought it down on the sword, a moment before he hit the ground. The impact spread and enlarged the flames, which spread everywhere, towards the purple chakra of Sasuke's imperfect Susanoo. A moment later, Naruto let released his hold on the wind chakra covering him, which let loose a wave of wind that further enhanced the effects of the Amaterasu around him. Before they could reach the Susanoo, eight black orbs appeared and shaped into a dome with Sasuke inside. Before the flames could hit Sasuke, a truth seeker orb appeared in front of him and formed a wall which blocked the flames, the smile he wore never leaving his face. As the orbs returned to Naruto, he saw that his best friend was also smiling.
The brothers in spirits were currently standing in front of the hole that the monsters were coming out of. "So, this is where they are coming from?" At Sasuke's nod, Naruto asked, "So wanna go kick some ass?" At Sasuke's deadpan expression, Naruto grinned jumped into the hole, followed by Sasuke. He could have sworn heard Aether somewhere, but he paid it no mind. Covering themselves with wind and fire chakra, both Naruto and Sasuke landed on the floor of what looked like a large plaza. Their landing blasts already killed the majority of enemies, but they were shocked at the what they saw. Ruin guards, graders and hunters, all numbering in the thousands among other deactivated Kahenri'ahan technology. However, unlike the ones in Teyvat, these looked brand new. "Are they planning an invasion or what?" Naruto questioned aloud.
"What ever it is, we can't let these things roam free. We have to destroy them. Naruto, we'll have to use that." Sasuke said quietly. Naruto, however, spotted a small glint in his eye. The same one they both got, when it was a sure victory for them. He knows what jutsu Sasuke was talking about, but it needed some preperation.
'Kurama! Do we have the chakra for it? And what about the other tailed beasts? What do they say?' Naruto asked his partner in crime.
"We say yes" Came the 8 seperate answers. While Minato and Kushina were both frightened at the appearance of the other tailed beasts, they watched on about what Naruto and Kurama meant.
"Ok then." Naruto took a deep breath and placed a hand on Sasuke's shoulder "Let's do it Sasuke!" The Uchiha could feel the powerful chakra of the Biju flowing into his body as both him and Naruto activated their avatars. This time however, Sasuke's susanoo acted as an armor to a figure made of lightning and Naruto's normally 9 tailed fox, now had 3 heads, 6 arms and three times the number of tails.
Sasuke summoned Indra's arrow and Naruto summoned both Yin and Yang Rasenshuriken. This left Aether, who was currently watching them after following them down the hole, flabbergasted. He knew his friend was strong, but this? This was another level entirely. Suddenly, Aether was picked up by one of Kurama's tails and placed next to Naruto.
With a roar, the brothers released their attacks. Just before they hit, they shouted out the name of the jutsu. "Rikudou! Shinra Tenkyo!" The effect on the landscape was devastating. Everyting was destroyed, leaving only a crater behind. The army, vaporized. The plaza, evaporated.
Aether was both terrified and awestruck. Never had he thought that his friend was capable of this. "Close your mouth before you get flies in there." At Naruto's cheeky remark, he closed his mouth with a cough. Both Naruto and Sasuke came out of their avatars and lost their right and left arms respectively. Naruto looked at it for a second before turning to the others and smiling.
"Anyways, let's get out of here, shall we?" With that, Naruto grabs both the boys with his chakra chains and teleported to his nearest Hiraishin marker, which just so happened to lead him to his room in Dawn winery. Hearing footsteps, Naruto quickly sent Aether back to Aether's own bedroom and returned in a within second.
Not a second later, the door was opened by none other than Diluc and, surprisingly, Jean. "Naruto? Didn't think you'd be here this early? What happened to your clothes? Also-
"What happened to your arm?!" Apparently, Barbara was also present. In the blink of an eye, she appeared near the blond male, who yelped, before grabbing and checking his arm. "Oh no! How did this happen? Here, I'll try to heal it! Hold still!" She tries her best but soon realizes that it's impossible and hugs Naruto while crying apologizing that she can't fix it.
Diluc and Sasuke were both trying to hold laughs, Minato was chuckling, Kurama and Kushina were hollering, and Jean looked shocked at their reactions.
Naruto soon recovers from the shock of Barbara's words before hugging her with his left hand and leaning down to her ear. "It's ok Barbara, It's ok. It'll be fine, see? It doesn't hurt or bleed. So please stop crying." Barbara eventually calmed down and Naruto let go of her, oblivious to the blush on her face, and walked to his bed. "It was just a prosthetic so don't worry about it ok."
He turned around and sent chakra to his arm in a specific specific pattern for a specific jutsu, which made it reappear with the bandages and everything around his forearm, complete with the white sun mark. "See? Good as new!" Showing her the prosthetic, Naruto began to comfort her and assure her that he was fine. Knowing her, this may take a while.
After a fully assuring Barbara that he was fine, Naruto asked Diluc and Jean to take Barbara away while he has a talk with Sasuke. Said talk was him teleporting the Uchiha to Konoha and returning with the Executioner's blade. Afterwards, he had a bath and went downstairs for dinner, this time with Jean and Barbara, who looked a bit better. While eating, Naruto thought about what he saw and decided to tell Dainsleif to investigate.
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There we go! Another chapter done!
So Naruto's polearm is going to be Hagaromo's staff and it will be quite strong (I mean it was literally made of a truth seeker orb). I also wanted to include this chapter as a filler episode and shhow why Naruto doesn't want Barbara seeing his wounds. Basically, she gets sad that she can't heal the wounds. Also the only cannon things in this chapter are the powers shown by Naruto and Sasuke. The chapter after this will pick up from where the last one left off. Also based on the responses, people seem down for a Naruto x HSR fanfic so I'll make it next, so please expect some delays. Anyways, that's enough yapping and I hope you enjoy!
