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Wakfu: Chronicles of the Lost Ninja

-Chapter 14-

-Last Time-

"Hey, I'm still here, aren't I?" Naruto asked back with a raised brow, making the elf-girl blush lightly in embarrassment for forgetting about him. Picking up a pair of vials, the whiskered teen held one out towards his fellow blonde. "So we're gonna follow after them?"

Sighing once more, only this time in defeat, Eva nodded as she accepted the potion. "Might as well, everyone else has already."

And with that, they both took a drink.

-And Now-

The instant the liquid passed Eva's lips the world seemed to blast apart with everything violently twisting and turning around her in a vortex of motion. Just as quickly as it started though, it all stopped and the Cra found herself slowly standing up from a kneeling position atop a large glowing rune.

Inhaling sharply on reflex, she quickly shook off the disorientation she felt from the teleportation and took in her surroundings as she got up. Clearly she was no longer was she in the Haven bag nor was she back at the Baker's village as all she could see around her were barren sandstone cliffs and old decrepit structures.

"Whoa! Man, what a trip," Naruto said with a chuckle as he wobbled a bit beside her, still feeling just a little bit dizzy from the transportation. "That was so much more fun than the Gyaku Kuchiyose no Jutsu."

Naturally not knowing what he was talking about, Eva chose not to comment on it and instead asked a more pressing question. "Where is everyone else?"

"Probably ran off ahead, Ruel did seem in a big hurry and the others aren't exactly the patient types." Naruto said with a shrug, to which Eva nodded in agreement with a sigh.

"Yeah, that sounds about right, which means we have to follow after them," The Cra muttered under her breath. Normally such a task would be easy for her, but this area was pretty much impossible as the enclosed rock walls prevented her from using her enhanced sight and the constant breeze disturbed any tracks or scents she could have followed. "Naruto, could you possibly use that sage mode of yours in a short burst? Just long enough to figure out which way they went."

"Oh sure, just give me a minute." Naruto said with a nod before going completely still with his head bowed. After a while, his eyes gained an orange outline before just as quickly dissipating while Naruto reopened his eyes and pointed in a seemingly random direction with a frown. "They're about five hundred yards that way."

"Is something wrong?" Eva asked, noticing the sudden bad mood her fellow blonde was in.

"McDeek, that man is practically oozing with greed, hunger, and deceit, plus his lifeforce feels odd… metallic almost." Naruto said, his eyes narrowing as he stared in the direction he felt his friends were at.

"Oh, well that sounds fantastic," Eva muttered with a sigh, before pausing as her brain registered a certain fact of the blonde's statement. "Wait, you can feel other people's emotions?"

"Somewhat, but most of the time they feel dampened, like holding something with thick gloves on," Naruto explained before motioning to his back. "We can discuss it more later, we need to catch up with those guys and find out what's up with McDeek, hop on."

"Uh, I can walk on my own you know." Eva said with a quirked brow.

"This will be much faster Eva, trust me." Naruto said while motioning to his back again.

Knowing that he could be just as stubborn, if not more so, then her charge, Eva rolled her eyes in exasperation and reluctantly climbed onto the whiskered teen's back piggyback style. "Alright, I'm on, happy now?"

"Yep." Naruto said with a wide grin before both blondes suddenly vanished in a static blur, followed by a high-pitched scream in the distance that rapidly faded away.

-Two Minutes Earlier, Stroud Residence-

Inside a large home filled with various treasures, weapons, books, and other such things Amalia, Yugo, and Dally were excitedly digging around in the piles of items.

"Man, who knew Ruel had such a lavish home." Amalia said as she flopped into a large cushioned chair with a jeweled chalice in hand. "I always thought his place would be some rundown dump that he never cleans up. You know, just like himself."

"Well it does make sense in a way, Ruel's always collecting valuable stuff and he's never willingly paid for anything for as long as I've known him. He had to be doing something with it all of it over the years." Yugo said while he and Dally meddled around with a pile of weapons.

"True," The princess said with a nod before suddenly shivering as a familiar euphoric sensation flashed through her briefly. At the same time, unnoticed by the girl, the scar on her side flickered with a soft green glow for just a few seconds. "Naruto's on his way, and he probably has Eva with him."

"You think they'll be mad that we didn't wait for them?" Yugo asked a little nervously while Dally started sweating, both gulping when they remembered Eva's anger during the Demonic Rose incident.

"Meh, not really," Amalia said with a shrug as dropped the chalice and stood back up. "I've ditched Eva before when she was acting like a stick in the mud. She'll be annoyed and a bit grumpy, but otherwise she'll be fine."

"Okay, and what about Naruto?" Dally asked, making Amalia pause as all of them remembered Naruto brutally taking down Vampyro and his ghouls.

…

"…Anyone want to go see where Ruel and McDeek ran off too?" Yugo asked quietly, getting nods from his two companions before the trio started booking it in the direction they'd seen the old man and courier go earlier.

At the exact same time, Naruto and Eva seemingly appeared in front of the mansion-like building, a trail of dust and a high-pitched scream following after them a few seconds later.

"See, I told you that it'd be faster." Naruto said with a grin as Eva slowly climbed off his back.

"I'm pretty sure my stomach… just got introduced… to my brain." The Cra wheezed, her whole body trembling from adrenaline and excitement form the sudden thrill she'd just experienced. "That was the fastest I've ever gone… in my entire life."

"You okay Surudoi-chan?" Naruto asked while sheepishly scratching the back of his head.

Taking a few deep breaths to help calm down, Eva nodded as she quickly managed to get herself to stop shaking and relax. "Yeah, just got me by surprise. Give me a little more warning before you do something like that next time, got it?"

"Yes ma'am," Naruto said before turning his attention back towards the house. "So, are we gonna knock or just barge in?"

"Probable going to have to bust our way in. I'm betting this is Ruel's home and Enutrofs are notorious for making sure they don't have any visitors." Eva said with her bow drawn, looking over the entire area carefully before locking her gaze on a small dog house as it started shaking.

"Yip! Yip! Yip! Yip!" A small blue dog with a spiky black and translucent blue flames surrounding its head barked loudly as it charged out at the pair, stopping just a few feet in front of them.

"A flaming puppy, cool." Naruto said with a grin as the dog growled at them as viciously as it could.

"No, not cool Naruto, that's a guardian pet. They are incredible dangerous because…" Eva started to say, only to be cut off as the dog started glowing brightly before being engulfed in a massive cloud of smoke. When it cleared, it revealed that in place of the tiny little dog that had barely reached halfway up Naruto's knees was an absolutely monstrous sized canine that could swallow both of them whole without effort. "They can do that."

Blinking in surprise at the sudden size change, Naruto craned his head slightly in order to look up at the dog's face as it growled down at them. "Huh, neat trick."

Snarling angrily, the blue canine lifted one of its paws high and swung down with the intent of crushing the two that intruded upon its master's home. Rolling out of the way of the attack, Eva formed an ice arrow and was just about to fire at the beast's face, but stopped when she noticed Naruto hadn't budged an inch.

At first she thought that he was frozen in shock or something, but then quickly dismissed it when she noticed the relaxed, almost bored, look on his face as he watched the paw descend. A second later she saw why as, to the shock of both her and the dog, Naruto's arm shot out and stopped the attack cold.

Then, whilst the canine was frozen in surprise, the whiskered blonde grabbed the limb with both hands and, with barely even a grunt of effort, flipped the entire fucking canine over his shoulder and smashed it into the ground behind him. Shaking it's head from the impact, the dog slowly sat up and growled fiercely…

*Smash*

…So Naruto did it again…

"Grrr…" *Smash*

…and again….

*Smash*

…Then one last time just for good measure.

"You may be big doggie, but your slower than a fish in syrup. Now be a good boy and go FETCH!" Naruto yelled before spinning the dog around rapidly and hurling it straight into the air.

"AAAROOOOOooooooooo…" The canine's howled as it flew in a massive arc over the rocky terrain, rapidly shrinking away into the horizon before finally crashing down with a distant *thud*.

"Ah man, I almost beat my record." Naruto said with a frown, shading his eyes with his hand as he stared at in the direction the dog flew, thus missing the dumbfounded look on Eva's face.

'By Cra, that had to be at least a mile, and he barely even looks winded!' The blonde thought with slightly bugged out eyes as she could only just barely make out the slight irregularity in Naruto's breathing. 'Just how strong is he?'

This was something that she'd been wondering ever since Naruto had first awoken, and that curiosity had only skyrocketed every time he showed off more of his power. Solid replications of himself, physical transformations, insane strength, equally absurd speed, elemental manipulation, energy manipulation, and that sage mode of his. Never had she'd seen such a diverse set of abilities, not even by Huppermages, and she had a feeling that was still only scratching the surface.

"Whelp, that was disappointing, thought he would put up more of a fight," Naruto muttered, snapping Eva out of her thoughts as he dusted his hands and walked towards the front door. Giving the wooden slab a once over, the whiskered blonde rapped his knuckles against a few different parts of it gently.

Hearing a swift hollow echo after each tap, he nodded his head before stepping back and lashing out with a kick that knocked the door clean off its hinges and crashing into the wall behind it.

Stepping inside the now open entrance, the blonde couldn't help but let out a low whistle at the horde of valuables inside. "Man, I figured Ruel was a bit of a horder after seeing the inside of his bag but this really takes the cake."

"Meh, it's normal for Enutrofs, unless they have absolutely no other choice they will never give up an ounce of their wealth, and even then they will only go the absolute minimum. It's why most tend to look like homeless bums." Eva said with a shrug as they strolled inside, her eyes locking onto the trails of dusty footprints that covered the floor. "On the plus side, it certainly makes it easy to tell which way they went."

Following the trail further into the house, the pair soon found themselves at a large stair case that went deep into the ground with multiple pictures and shovels decorating the walls. Just as Eva was about to start walking down them however, Naruto grabbed her arm and pulled her back.

"Hold up a sec, something about this doesn't sit right with me." The whisked blonde said with a frown, grabbing a bejeweled chalice that was laying on the ground nearby and tossing it down the stairs.

*Ting* *Ting* *Ting* *Ti-click*

On the fourth bounce, Naruto and Eva heard a soft clicking sound before all the stairs flattened out into a slide and the 'decorative' shovels popped out on mechanical arms and started swinging wildly. In just a few seconds the golden cup was crushed repeated before falling into a pit near the bottom of the stairs, at which point the staircase itself reset like nothing happened.

"…Naruto, you mind-"

"Hop on," Naruto said, allowing the Cra to climb on his back once more before wall-walking all the way down the stairs. "It's a good thing Ruel didn't expect a shinobi from thousands of years in the past that can walk on walls, huh?

"I'm pretty sure nobody would expect that Naruto." Eva said with a good-natured roll of her eyes, quickly hopping off his back once they reached the bottom.

"Fair enough, so how much farther do you thi-" *Boom* Naruto was cut off midsentence by the sound of a muffled explosion beneath them as the ground shook. Looking down, Naruto sighed while rubbing his forehead. "Well… either McDeek just revealed his true colors or Dally had too many beans for lunch again."

Eva couldn't help but giggle briefly at her fellow blonde's statement despite the possible seriousness behind it. "Then we better hurry and catch up to everyone else, otherwise we'll miss all the action."

"Alright, but from now on we're taking the express route." Naruto said, causing Eva to look at him in confusion.

"The express route?" She parroted with a tilted.

The smirk she got in response was not comforting what-so-ever.

-Meanwhile-

'This is bad! This is very, very bad!' Ruel thought as he ducked out of the way of a blast of golden energy fired at him by McDeek, who was now many feet taller and had his legs replaced with a smoky red mist in the rough shape of a tail. The pair were currently inside a massive vault filled to the brim with kamas and various other gold items.

Not far away, Yugo, Dally, and Amalia laid on the ground knocked out cold covered with bruises and mild burns.

It turned out that McDeek himself was the culprit behind all the robberies, and he was merely posing as a courier in order to flush out potential victims by spreading the tale of his own misdeeds. The reason for this is because he is an adaptive genie, a being who is the living example of 'you are what you eat' and, much to Ruel's unending horror, had an insatiable appetite for gold.

"Hahaha! You can run all you like you old fool! But you will never get away from me!" McDeek cried as he fired yet another blast that Ruel narrowly dodged. "I can see you getting tired already! Soon you will be nothing but a bloody smear on the wall and I will be free to gorge myself on these delicious kamas!"

'Gah! Think Ruel! There has to be some way to beat this monster.' Ruel thought to himself as he ran, only to snap out of his thoughts with a yelp as he mistimed a dodge and got half his arm frozen by a blast of ice magic as a result. Reacting fast, the old man used the shovel in his other hand to shatter the ice off before the magic could soak into his flesh before using the weapon's hooked side to grab a support beam and slung himself out of the way of yet another golden blast.

Then, whilst McDeek flew past, Ruel swung around behind him with his momentum and wrapped his legs around the genie's throat as tight as he could and hooked the handle of his shovel in his mouth like a bit.

"Gah! Sfry olth copher aren'th you! Buth don'th thinf you fan holth me liketh this forever!" McDeek yelled out as he tried to reach back and pull the old man off.

'Ugh, he's right,' Ruel thought with a grimace, he could literally hear his muscles screaming at him for a rest. Of course, it was only natural considering he was struggling against a twelve-foot flying man literally made of gold. 'Ugh, if only this were some kind of story or fairy tale, then someone would conveniently bust in here at the last possible moment and… hey, what's that noise?'

McDeek seemed to be wondering the same thing as he stopped thrashing around as a muffled grinding sound echoed through the room. A few seconds later, both of their attention was brought towards the ceiling as it started cracking up and chunks fell to the floor.

"Whath the fu-"

*Kraka-boom!* "SURPRISE!" Naruto yelled as he and Eva burst through the ceiling, the latter clinging to the former's back once again. The whiskered blonde crashed feet first into the floor hard enough to create a crater several inches deep.

Taking in the situation around him in just a few seconds, Naruto scowled heavily when he saw his friends battered forms before glaring at McDeek's stunned form.

Snapping out of his surprised stupor, McDeek shook off a still dazed Ruel and smirked at the new comers madly. "Well, well, if it isn't the two late guests to the party."

"Well, well, if it isn't one ugly Nōtarin (Dumbass) asking for a beating." Naruto retorted while cracking his knuckles.

"Hahahaha! Oh please, like you could ever hurt me!" The genie laughed mockingly while tapping his chest, causing it to clang metallically with each tap. "I'm made of solid gold thanks to my diet! It is practically indestructible!"

"Oh really?" Naruto asked with a raised brow before smirking as his eyes gained the trademark orange tint and golden toad eyes of sage mode. "Then you won't mind if I test that out for myself will you?"

Scoffing loudly, McDeek floated closer floor with an arrogant smirk and proudly displayed his bare chest for the blonde. "Go right ahead you pathetic fool! Give it your best shot! I'm telling you there is absolutely no way you could-"

*Cla-SCREEEEEEECH* *Crash*

…

…

"…H-how…" McDeek muttered as he stared down at his chest, or more specifically the gaping two-foot-wide hole that now existed in his chest, leaving his literally gold bones and organs out in the open while equally gold blood drenched Naruto's fist which was still hovering in the dead center. "This… i-isn't possible… I'm…"

"Made of one of the most malleable metals in existence. You really should have gone after something like steel or iron," Naruto said with an almost saddened expression on his face. He didn't like killing and hadn't intended to kill McDeek, but unfortunately it seemed he'd severely overestimated just how strong the genie was. "There's a reason gold armor isn't really a big thing after all."

"Ighdgkjfjejog…" McDeek tried to speak but all that came out was a garbled mess as he weakly grasped at his chest. From the wound, Naruto, Eva, and a somewhat recovered Ruel watched as the genie's skin lost its natural hue and changed to a shiny gold.

Giving off a strangled yell upon seeing this, the genie floated around the room looking for his missing piece. Spotting it on the far side of the room embedded into the side of a giant fractured gem, he started to float over to it as quickly as he could.

By the time McDeek reached it though, the only parts of his body left unchanged were the upper half of his head and his hands. Despite this, he still managed to grab the chunk of his chest and give it a few feeble tugs in one last effort to save his life, only for it to end in vain as the transformation finished and his eyes were forever frozen in gold gilded terror.

For a few moments his body remained airborne as the last vestiges of his magic faded away, then with a loud screeching clang he fell to the ground, the missing piece of his chest still firmly locked in his grasp.

McDeek was dead.

"Damn," Ruel said lowly after a long silence as he checked on Yugo, almost feeling pity for the foolish man… almost. 'Now I'm actually glad Yugo is knocked out right now. He did not need to see this.'

"Are you okay Naruto?" Eva asked seeing the sadness on Naruto's face. She was a bit disturbed at seeing someone die like that, but thanks to her military training she was able to shrug it off for now and focus on her friend, who still had the same sad expression on his face as he dropped out of sage mode.

Shaking the drops of liquid gold off his hand, Naruto nodded his head slowly and calmly said. "I'm fine."

"Great, then that means you both can get to work fixing THE GIANT HOLE YOU MADE IN MY HOUSE!" Ruel yelled while pointing to said hole, snapping Naruto out of his saddened stupor.

"Alright Irezumi(Stingy)-Jiji, alright, I'll get right on it." The whiskered blonde said with a roll of his eyes before leaning over to Eva and mock whispering. "Better not tell him what we did to the door or the dog."

"Hoi! What did you do to- *Crackle* Huh?" Ruel started to yell at the now laughing blondes, only for all three of their attention to be taken by the sound of something breaking. Following it to it's source, the trio were just in time to see the gem that McDeek's chest piece had fractured crack even more before shattering completely, revealing that it had in fact been hollow…

"What the hell… is that a kid!?"

…But not empty.

-End Chapter-

AN: Before any of you ask, that last scene is the introduction of an OC character that is in thanks to a friend of mine who has been helping me with this story as an editor and idea soundboard. If it wasn't for them, I doubt my chapters so far would be even half as enjoyable as most of you have found them. Now, as for Naruto killing McDeek, that's like I said. Naruto overestimated just how strong McDeek was (Which honestly by Naruto's standards isn't that tough since at this point the blonde could probably break a steel girder with just his pinkie) and underestimated how much damage a sage mode powered hit could do to him. Thank you for reading and please review.