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Reality Viewing: Naruto the Charming Assassin Charmer
-Chapter 8-
"Just a little more and… there!" Lala exclaimed happily as she pulled out a cable from the coolant tube with a little grabber claw at the end holding a clump of gunk before reattaching the line and putting the screen back on. "Okay guys, it's all good now."
"That's great honey, good job." Sephie said with a smile, though remained hiding behind a dull-faced Rito along with her daughter and the boy's sister. She wasn't the only one hiding either as Nana head was only just visible from the side of her bed and Yami had surrounded herself with her now steel hair. "Why don't you start it up then? I'm sure everybody is real eager to get back to the show."
"Right away!" Not thinking much on her friends and family's reactions, the peppy pinkette smiled brightly and pressed the power button before plopping down next to Rito.
"Damn."
Kabuto didn't have much to say to his own bad luck. He never assumed that Naruto, Kakashi, and some random unknown would even have a reason to visit the hideout to start with.
'Well, nothing blown up yet.' Momo thought as she and the other girls slowly peaked out from their cover. After seeing none of the signs that usual preceded one of Lala's inventions exploding, they soon settled down back in their seats to watch the 'show'.
Even though he was angered, he couldn't help but grin to himself. The irony of the entire situation, the fact something outside of his calculations was happening, and the way it was one of the two people in the world he admired the most, were all something he found funny.
Naruto Uzumaki.
"He admires Naruto?" Nana asked with a raised brow. "Why would a bad guy admire a good guy?"
The person who inspired him to change himself, to make his own unique identity, was the one that was bringing him down now. One of the two people he wanted to fight the most, was also the one who would more than likely be killing him while he was unable to truly fight back. It was irony at it's finest that one of the few people he respected as an enemy, was the enemy that would take him down.
"Ooooh… okay now I get it, respect of character." The petite pinkette said while the rest of the room nodded in agreement.
"Hah... heheh... just a little more time is all I need. In just a little bit, I'll have absorbed the Sound 5's DNA..." Kabuto looked at the tube in his arm dripping the harvested genetics into his body. The changes his body was undertaking nearing it's end, and soon allowing him the chance at escape.
"That is still disgusting," Mikan said, unable to stop herself from shivering from watching Kabuto mutate as he transfused more blood and such into his body.
"Indeed." Yami said with a nod, barely suppressing a shiver as the lighting made Kabuto look slimy. Though this didn't stop her from writing down and sketching everything she was seeing for Mikado and Tearju, since she had no doubt the pair would find it all very interesting.
He couldn't win in a straight fight.
"The villains rarely can, that's why they usually resort to underhanded methods such as kidnapping, blackmail, or bioweapons… Well, that and the whole their super evil and junk." Momo said with a shrug.
Once again the rest of the group nodded in agreement, but due to their focus on the screen none of them noticed Yami clench her fist at hearing the word 'Bioweapon'.
Not against the combination of Naruto and Kakashi, two of the strongest leaf ninja alive, not when the two of them had worked well together for so long. Either one of them were threats to him on their own, with Naruto being stronger than him and Kakashi being around the same level as him. Together their combined power would make it obvious who the winner was going to be, and with an unknown, with unknown powers, he didn't know what he could do other than try to escape.
"Yeah, Yami-chan is pretty awesome." Lala said, smiling brightly as she hugged Yami tightly, earning a impassive glare from the shapeshifting assassin.
"Kabuto."
"Naruto-kun... it's been awhile, you've grown stronger since the last time I saw you." Kabuto looked to his right side, towards the door.
They had arrived.
"You've gotten way more ugly."
"Understatement." Mikan snorted with a giggle that Momo, Nana, and Sephie shared.
Naruto's retort was expected, though Kabuto still laughed at the way it was delivered. As perfect as the body he was making for himself was going to be, even Kabuto knew that what he was doing to himself wasn't making him pretty or handsome. He saw Kakashi and the "Yami" girl come into the room as well, both on alert.
"With Orochimaru-sama dead, and Sasuke gone rogue, I believed nobody would bother coming to this base. It seems I was mistaken, then again..." Kabuto trailed off as he looked at the girl, who turned her hand into a sword and lowered her body. It was her fault that he had been found, since his men had stolen her ship and taken it.
"In hindsight, that was a pretty crappy move for someone who was trying to stay incognito." Nana said with a roll of her eyes.
"Agreed, though it sounds more like his men acted before reporting to him, likely because they never seen anything like my ship and didn't want to risk it being gone before they finished reporting it in." Yami stated, her mind automatically breaking down what she was hearing to deduce the missing facts.
Because of that, Naruto had chased down the ship and come right to his doorsteps. "... I guess it doesn't matter. I would rather not die here... I have information to trade." Kabuto offered.
Information was something every ninja could appreciate.
"Oh man, creepy guy is gonna barter his way out." Momo groaned in annoyance while Yami frowned.
A kunai cut his face as it went flying by him, sticking in the wall, and causing his blood to leak down his cut cheek.
"I'm not interested." Naruto spoke with his arms crossing, keeping his distance from Kabuto.
"…Or not." The busty twin muttered with her brow raised in surprise.
Kakashi placed a hand on Naruto's shoulder, before he looked towards Kabuto.
"Orochimaru is dead, what information could you have that we could find interesting?" Kakashi questioned. While Naruto wasn't interested in the information, gathering it anyway could be worth something later.
Kabuto was a spy master, there was no telling how useful it could be.
"Ugh, come on people, make up your mind!" Nana exclaimed, tired of the back and forth already.
"It's not like it really matters what they choose, Yami will probably just kill him as soon as she has the opportunity for stealing her ship." Mikan stated, knowing that was how her friend used to be and, in some ways, still is.
Said assassin simply nodded in agreement since that is exactly what she, and no doubt her other, would do in this situation.
"Akatsuki's next move, and information about a coming war. I've been watching Akatsuki's movements, and had snakes watching their true leader. I'll give all my information, in exchange, I want to be captured alive. Fair trade, or am I wrong?" Kabuto teased them, and Kakashi looked at Naruto. The look on the young man's face showed confliction, since everything Kabuto spoke sounded very possible.
…
…
"Wow, and here I thought it couldn't get anymore serious." Momo muttered while everyone else stared at the screen with hanging jaws at the bomb drop expect for Yami and Sephie, as neither were strangers to wars (The former having been hired to assassinate opposing leaders or such and the latter having helped negotiate between warring factions).
"I don't think I want to watch this anymore." Lala mumbled as she snuggled into her mother's side. Up till this point she'd been holding onto the hope that this would be the only super gory/disgusting/horrible part, but at that statement the pinkette had the distinct feeling that it was only going to get worse.
Wrapping her arms around her daughter, Sephie hugged her tightly while rubbing her back in a comforting manner. "You don't have to if you don't want to Lala, nobody's forcing you to watch."
"Here," Rito added as he held out his cellphone and a pair of earbuds that Mikan handed him towards the pair. "You can watch some MeTube on this until the bad parts are over."
Smiling gratefully, Lala happily accepted the device and in a just a few moments she was oblivious to the world around her as she watched random kitten videos.
Naruto frowned.
War, the true Akatsuki leader, and all of that useful information for Kabuto's safe capture? The deal sounded fair at first, were Kabuto himself not such a twisted person.
'Damn,' Yami thought with a frown since now it was all but guaranteed that she wouldn't be able to kill the ship stealing bastard. 'Not unless they somehow have a way of getting information out of dead bodies.'
"Ino's Dad... he can get information out of dead bodies... right?" Naruto whispered to Kakashi, knowing of the Yamanaka clan's special jutsus.
…
'Why do I feel like someone somewhere is mocking me right now?' The transforming assassin thought as her frown deepened.
He knew that the Torture and Interrogation unit had been gathering information from corpses, but he didn't know if that included memories.
"Uh, I'm pretty sure he's talking about morticians and no, that's not how they work." Mikan said with a shake of her head.
Kabuto frowned, hearing the whisper.
That didn't bode well for him if they could take that information from his corpse, because then he really had nothing that he could trade for his life. He would have to think quickly if he wanted to survive this, something that he could offer that they would be interested in.
"Yes." Kakashi answered as he lowered his body, and Kabuto saw the Raikiri spring to life in his hands.
"Wait, what? They can actually do that?" Mikan muttered with wide eyes. "Is that even possible."
"It's not impossible," Sephie said, getting the brunette's attention. "The R&D divisions of the devilukean empire have delved into such a task before with varying degrees of success. It is incredibly tricky, but with the right knowledge and preparation doable."
"So much for dead men tell no tales then, huh?" Momo said jokingly, though her voice had just a hint of nervousness in it, but who could blame her? The idea of someone being able to just kill you and steal all your memories would leave anyone unnerved.
"Kabuto's chakra signature is changing, he won't be able to mold jutsu until his body gets used to the changes." Kakashi spoke as his sharingan looked over Kabuto's changing chakra. With the chakra amount and quality changing so drastically, the man wouldn't be able to properly mold his jutsu.
Seeing as he was strapped to a chair, and his body in a weak state as it was undergoing change, now was the perfect time to kill him.
"And now he's officially boned." Momo stated. "Only question now is who'll actually kill him. I've got ten bucks-"
"He stole my ship." Yami stated as she inched closer to Kabuto.
He had to die.
"-Twenty bucks that its Yami." The busty twin raised her bid before even finishing her sentence, holding up a twenty to show she was serious.
"Kakashi, he already has that cool lightning technique ready and we've seen the damage it can do." Nana stated while pulling out some money as well, not willing to pass on a chance to possibly one-up her sibling.
"Yami." Mikan said simply while forking over a few bucks, only really doing so to show support to her friend. Said friend also threw in a handful of cash, though it wasn't much as she didn't bother much with earth-based currency other than to buy taiyaki.
"I'll go with Naruto, he seems to hold a bit of a grudge towards Kabuto for some reason as well." Sephie said while handing over a stack of bills.
"Are we really bidding on who kills a guy? And where did you even get that from?" Rito asked, the second question directed towards the queen, only to get no response to either.
"I didn't steal your ship, my men did that, and I believe most of them are dead now. As interesting as I find your ship, I've been in this chair for awhile now." Kabuto told Yami the actual truth. He had been so busy absorbing the DNA and chakra of others, increasing his own future might, that he hadn't had the time to steal anything. He had his snakes watching people, but other than that, he personally hadn't left the base for awhile.
Yami kept inching towards him.
"Yeah, sorry dude but I don't think she cares." Momo said to the screen while tallying up all the bids on a piece of paper she'd gotten from Yami.
Naruto entered Sage Mode and tensed himself.
"We'll deal with Akatsuki-"
"You need me, Tobi is building an army of Zetsu... their numbers are in the hundreds of thousands. If me, you'll have access to the Impure World Reincarnation. We, together, can easily wipe out the Akatsuki with an army of immortal warriors. I can even bring your parents... well I guess since the Fourth Hokage is in Death's stomach he's out, but I can even bring your mother back." Kabuto spoke up quickly, but forced himself to speak calmly. He smiled darkly for a second, knowing he got a reaction.
…
No words were spoken for several moments as everyone but Lala naturally took in what the man just said with gaping jaws, even Yami.
Snapping out of her shock first, Sephie's lips curled in disgust at what that man was offering, especially after reading over the basics of the Impure World Reincarnation. 'Sacrificing innocent lives to rip souls from the afterlife and force them to fight for you? What kind of despicable person would even think of creating such a technique?'
To even suggest such a thing was one of the most heinous and despicable crimes she could imagine, and this man was actually trying to barter with it. She wasn't the only one to think this either as everyone else in the room quickly gained similar expressions once their shock wore off.
Naruto was an orphan from birth, so having the chance to meet his mother had to be something that boy wouldn't be able to resist. A love starved Jinchuriki like Naruto, and Kakashi as an experienced ninja, would both be drawn to his offer. The ability to know for certain that they could win the coming war, and Naruto getting his mother back, would promise his own survival.
Naruto had a reaction.
'He has no family?' Yami thought as she looked at Naruto.
"Did your other honestly just notice that?" Momo asked Yami incredulously, who simply shrugged in response.
"In my… her defense, she had other things to worry about at the time."
Yami's eyes widened as she felt something primal in her, and she broke out in a cold sweat when she saw the look on Naruto's face become downright murderous. The orange rings around his eyes turned red, and his yellow eyes became orange. His bar pupils even gained slits down the middle of them, as the whisker marks on his face grew thicker.
'He's mixing Senjutsu chakra with the Kyuubi's power?' Kakashi noted when he saw familiar changes in Naruto, mixed together with Sage Mode.
"That sounds like it could be a very dangerous combination." Yami muttered as she mentally compared what she'd learned about both the Kyuubi and Senjutsu so far.
"Terrifying would be more astute wording in my opinion." Nana said with a shiver.
Did Naruto even know what he was doing right now?
'... This killing intent... I've never felt something so... It feels like I'm standing in front of...' Yami didn't even have words for it. She knew one thing though, Naruto was angry, and he was so angry that he looked like he was seconds from ripping Kabuto a new asshole, right then and there.
"Couldn't have summed that up better myself." Momo stated with an approving nod.
Naruto growled.
"Naruto."
"Did I strike a nerve Naruto-kun? If you kill me, then you'll never see your mother." Kabuto spoke, and Naruto grit his teeth.
"I almost pity him," Yami said, causing everyone to look towards her in confusion before she added with a tiny smirk. "He doesn't even realize that all he's doing now is digging himself deeper into his own grave."
"I don't want to meet my mom, if it means somebody has to die... and I don't want to win a war, if it means sacrificing so many people. If a war comes, then I'll stop it... and one day I'll meet my mom. I don't know how, but I feel it right-" Naruto shouted as he hit his heart with his thumb. "-here!" Naruto exclaimed boldly, before he extended his palm and glared at Kabuto.
'He is a good man,' Sephie thought, smiling softly as her respect for Naruto skyrocketed. 'I hope he has a counterpart in this world, it would be nice to meet him face to face.'
Kakashi looked at Naruto.
With pride.
"... I'll tell you about your mother when we get back to the village." Kakashi spoke up, and Naruto smiled at him.
"Thanks."
Kabuto reached up-
Kakashi used his Raikiri and infused it into a kunai, before he flung it at Kabuto in the blink of an eye. Kabuto lost his hand that he was reaching up, the entire arm getting sliced off by the kunai.
"Denied!" Momo called out, only feeling a little queasy at the bloody scene now thanks to the prior ones desensitizing her a bit. Plus it helped that she was making herself picture the whole thing as more of a movie rather then a real life situation.
"Guh!" Kabuto grunted in pain as his arm became a bleeding stump. He gripped his fist and prepared to try his hardest to fight back. Using his free arm, he started to go through one handed signs to try and summon a snake. "Gah!" Kabuto gasped in pain.
Yami ran at him and cut his hand off at the wrist before he could finish weaving his signs, having learned from watching Kakashi that he needed to finish them before he could unleash his jutsu.
'That's what you get for stealing my ship.' Yami thought vindictively.
Naruto started to slowly walk towards Kabuto, until he was standing right in front of the seated man.
Naruto took a calming breath.
"I feel sorry for you Kabuto..." Naruto stated to the man.
"... You... what?" Kabuto whispered as those words started to dawn on him.
"Yeah, hate to admit it but I'm with the creepy snake dude with that one." Mikan said, her brow raised in confusion
"You don't even know who you are. I hate you, but I really hope that at least in the afterlife... you'll be able to learn who the real Kabuto is." Naruto looked down at the man with pity filled eyes.
Suddenly Kabuto's profile popped up on screen, surprising all of them (Except Lala who was now watching a clip of someone called Zack King doing 'magic').
"Oh… wow, now I kind of feel bad for the guy too." Nana muttered as she read over the information, which included a very detailed overview of Kabuto's childhood.
"Same here." Momo said in a rare show of complete agreement with her twin.
Naruto lifted his hand up, and without a clone, he started to form the Rasengan in his hand.
Kakashi smiled when he saw that.
Naruto had grown so much.
"... This brings back memories... the first time you beat me, you used that technique. You pity me, but I'm jealous of you... despite being foolish, you're always so sure of who you are. I guess if I have to die... this isn't the worst way to go."
Yami didn't say it aloud, but she felt a degree of respect for Kabuto at that moment as most would just continue to cower or plead rather than accept that they were going to die.
Kabuto looked down, before he looked up into Naruto's eyes.
He accepted his own death, and he smiled for a brief moment. He saw the bright yellow light of the Rasengan in Naruto's hand light up the area around them.
"Rasengan!"
Kabuto closed his death and let his life flash before his eyes.
'So that's the kind of person... that Kabuto is.'
Upon seeing his entire life, Kabuto gained his answer.
Once again silence filled the room as the screen turned to its buffering sequence, the group too lost lost in their own thoughts to say anything.
-End Chapter-
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