I was on my electric-bike heading to work until I got hit by a car - more like thrown off my bike which has left me sore and bruised. It happened on 8/2/24
Thankfully nothing got broken or serious, but my future bills may end up eating a lot of my time. The reason I am writing now is because I am taking a short hiatus on this story and maybe my other stories - depending on the mood because some circumstances may end up taking more of a time than it should. With that, what is written down below is an "INCOMPLETE" chapter to what I was originally making and hope to update the chapter later once everything settles between myself and the person who hit me. Consider this chapter a test.
Also, these are broken fragments to the chapter and scenes for future chapters. Some are non-canonical and some are. Take your pick.
Please review and tell me what you think.
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Mark was left at his locker now that school had finally ended and for the moment, it left the Human-Viltrumite hybrid to let out a sigh of relief. Mark's day hadn't been easy, mostly because William would ask Mark different questions about the blonde who allegedly saved him from some street punks and about whether they've hung out since then. William was not the first to ask because there were a lot of people from school, people Mark never even talked to, come up to him and ask if they could know more about the superhuman blonde who saved so many people from yesterday's events. Mark of course had to come up with some lie to tell he and the blonde weren't as close some believed.
'God, I never thought lying could make me feel so tired?!' Mark let out an exasperated sigh. Was this also part of the job? Mark wondered to himself at how he'd need to keep up appearances to deceive everyone. Thankfully school was over, and Mark would just be left flying back home if he gets the chance, he still remembered he'd have to talk with Naruto about showing up to his school hours earlier.
"Hey, I heard you took a few hits on the chin for me."
That voice had certainly made Mark's heart thump a bit when he saw Amber Bennett walked up to him.
An attractive young woman the same age as him with brown colored skin and dark colored hair tied back wildly. She wore a casual outfit being a green jacket, an orange shirt and white jeans with green sneakers. She even had on a necklace and small, golden triangle shaped earrings. Her held her books up to her chest.
Amber was Mark's high school crush. And still was.
Again though, Mark felt his stomach sink when he realized he might have been staring a little longer than he should. He hadn't but in his panic, Mark tried his best to act casually. She said he took a few hits for her... remembering it now Mark did recall he allowed his apparent high school bully to punch him a few times. It hardly meant anything when he was as durable as his father now. But back to the topic in front of him.
"H-hey, Amber!" Mark stammered, biting the inside of cheek a little when he raised his voice just a little too loudly. Mark cursed at himself but held strong, grinning and trying to ease the funny feeling in his gut. "Yeah, but don't worry. I got this amazing new strategy in dealing with Todd. I let him hit me until he gets bored and goes home." Placing his books inside his locker and closing it, Mark saw Amber have an amused look on her face.
"Hm" Amber gave a hum, seeming to play along with Mark's made-up excuse. "Nice. He'll never see it coming. Unfortunately, neither will your face." Amber pointed out.
Mark laughed a little inside but the small bit of tension in his stomach was going away and left him more at ease. Mark just continued on with a simple shrug of his shoulders before closing his locker. "Meh, people always told me I was to pretty anyway."
At that, both Mark and Amber shared a laugh together.
Mark never would have imagined how easy it was to finally have a chance to talk to the girl he liked after all this time, and it certainly made his heart skip a beat. And to his surprise Amber made a suggestion of the two of them going to Burger Mart to have something to eat. A date? Mark's mind thought. Holy hell was this going to be a date!? Mark's teenage mind wondered at that and was more than ready to say yes before-
"Yo Mark!"
Naruto called out, just standing outside the school's entrance with a small crowd of students taking pictures. His appearance certainly gained Amber's attention when she understood who exactly it was standing not far from where she and Mark stood.
Grinning, the blonde waved out to his friend. He was still dressed in his black hoodie and orange joggers.
Mark completely forgot he agreed to join up with Naruto after school.
"Naruto?" Mark said, now a little uncertain.
"Did you get my text? I got some news you're not gonna believe!" Naruto grinned, waving his phone around.
His phone? Mark wondered before quickly looking and realizing he had his phone on vibrate the entire time with one whole message from Naruto. A simple click here and another click there, reading the large text before... wait... did that say Teen Team's HQ? Now Mark was really torn between going with the girl he liked to seeing the actual secret HQ to Teen Team.
Mark made a face. "Oof. Uh. Listen, Naruto I sort of have...
"It's fine." Amber said, stopping Mark and giving him an amused look. "I'll take a rain check. It's always best to keep your promises, Mark Greyson."
Waving off the crowd of students Naruto walked closer to the entrance, hearing what the dark-skinned girl said Naruto grinned. "Oh, I like her." Naruto commented, finally someone he could relate to when it came to keeping one's word.
Amber looked back at the blonde, eying the blonde and seeing those grey lines seen on his cheeks. There was certainly an appeal to them, especially with how bright his blue eyes were. "You're the mystery hero, the one all over the news." Amber acknowledged the blonde, calling him on his apparent status and power. Naruto gave a wave of his hand, dismissing that idea. It brought a whole lot of questions about what his connection to Mark was, Amber heard about the rumors spreading around school, but she hadn't really listened to them.
"I'm not a hero, I just did what any good person would have done." Naruto denied the idea of being like Mark who wore a costume. Naruto liked to believe anyone was capable of being a hero and doing something heroic even at the worst times.
"Minus the superpowers of course." Amber joked, getting a small laugh from the blonde and Mark who awkwardly laughed.
"My name's Naruto" Naruto introduced, offering his hand to shake hers.
"Amber Bennett." Amber shook the blonde's hand.
Mark was left seeing and hearing the short talk between the girl he liked and his good friend. It was a short discussion, few words but honest ones with Amber being the one to wave good-bye not before Amber gave Mark her number.
"I'll talk to you tomorrow, Mark." Amber gave a small wave and left the two.
"R-right, tomorrow." Mark said, grip tightening on that small slip of white paper with all digits written on it. He felt just a little bit giddy knowing he'd have a chance to talk with Amber again.
Seeing the girl leave Naruto looked back at Mark.
"You ready?" Naruto asked, which Mark nodded, tucking Amber's number away and allowed Naruto to grab his shoulder before teleporting instantly.
Faster than one could blink, faster than flying at Mach-10, there really was no way to easily describe how fast Naruto's teleportation was. And Mark knew speed when flying from one end to the world and back.
Where they teleported was the back of the Burger Mart where Naruto met Mark. Ignoring the burger smell in the air Mark couldn't deny how amazing they cut the distance between his school to his workplace - something that would still take a couple seconds.
"So cool." Mark whispered.
Naruto waved his hand and from around the corner Eve was there.
"Eve, this is my friend Mark." Naruto called to the girl with orange hair, deciding to reintroduce his friend properly.
"Eve?" Mark repeated when he heard the name before looking and seeing that Samantha Eve Wilkins was standing right there. The orange hair and beautiful face definitely made that clear as day when seeing one of the most popular girls in school just standing there behind the Burger Mart. In hand she held onto a drink, just casually sipping to the last sip where it was just air and ice crinkling inside.
"Mark, I'd like you to meet Eve, but you probably know her as... Atom Eve" Naruto leaned just a bit forward and whispered.
The half Human half Viltrumite most certainly did not know that one of the most popular girls from his school was Atom Eve from Teen Team.
Done with her sipping, Eve had an amused look on her face when she saw Mark connecting the dots in his head when he finally realized that Samantha Eve Wilkins and the superhero Atom Eve were the same person.
"Nice to meet you, Invincible." Eve whispered, bringing up her free hand to shake his.
Mark gaped, giving a look of betrayal from his blonde-haired friend.
"What? Why are you angry when I just told you her superhero name?" Naruto questioned.
At that Mark couldn't find himself to argue for the moment, sort of stumped when Naruto did just tell him in a big reveal that Eve was Atom Eve. Looking at her, seeing she wasn't angry and decided to shake her hand.
"Hi." Mark said.
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"I never recognized you before." Mark admitted.
One costume changed later, and Mark sported his yellow and blue superhero costume with the goggles.
Following alongside the Viltrumite was Eve wearing her brightly pink outfit and Naruto still wearing his black hoodie and orange joggers.
"No one does." Eve said, knowing full well the conversation like this was to be expected considering that - if not most new heroes would have the same reaction as he did. Naruto - even though he could do heroic things - did not count himself as a hero and he was perhaps the only person that was indifferent to Eve's revelation about how she told him she was the pink themed superhero. Her hero name nor her secret identity meant anything to the blonde. Eve continued on her conversation with Mark. "It's a psychology thing. If you don't expect to see a superhero in your school, you don't see a superhero in your school."
Together Naruto, Mark and Eve flew at a leisurely pace through the sky, from the speed they were going at they would reach Teen Team's hidden HQ in about twenty minutes or so depending on their speed.
Hearing Eve's explanation Mark hummed. "I even follow Teen Team on Instagram."
"That's us. Everyone's favorite fourth superhero team." Eve gave a snarky response.
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"It's a little complicated so I'll have to start all the way from the beginning." Naruto explained.
"We're all ears."
"Okay" Naruto clapped his hands, "it starts off one-thousand years ago before my people's history. It was where my version of mankind spent generations fighting against each other and their fear of the God Tree."
"The god what?" Mark found himself chucking a bit. Who the hell names a tree god?
"The God Tree" Naruto began, "it was a thing of worship back in the day but in actuality it turned out to be a parasitic alien plant that digs its roots deep into the planet's core and absorbs the minerals and life energy of the entire planet."
Now it took a serious and dark turn.
"For one thousand years humanity from my world have been fighting nonstop, waging wars and bathing the land in blood - something that the tree fed on too and grew stronger with every death that ever occurred."
"What humanity didn't know was that a race of godlike aliens called the Ōtsutsuki cultivated the God Tree, planting them on countless worlds and waited for eons until it produced a special fruit called a Chakra Fruit. Chakra being the source to my power" Naruto pointed out and continued. "And like the God Tree, the Ōtsutsuki were a parasitic race of humanoids. And while the God Tree continues to absorb the energy of the planet, it gets worse. It isn't just the life of the planet it's consuming, it's everything on the planet too like animals, insects and people alike which the Chakra Fruit doesn't just have chakra infused with it but also every last bit of genetic material from every creature that was alive. The Ōtsutsuki eat the fruit once it blooms and when they do, it doesn't just give them almighty power it gives them immortality and grants them evolution - an evolution that would have taken millions of years in less than hour for them."
The origins to Naruto's power were certainly unlike anything they've ever heard. Not some tale where he developed his superpowers, not some freak accident where he miraculously gained abilities, the true depth to Naruto's roots involved a race of alien invaders that wanted to consume all life on his planet.
"Wow. I- I really have no way to describe how crazy that sounds, Naruto" Mark commented, looking bewildered.
"So, they just go around planting more of these trees?" Debby questioned, "doesn't it seem counterproductive considering that they already have so much power and immortality to stack on it?" It certainly seemed to fit the goal any average villain would have done, and thinking about it what would the villain have done if they achieved their goal?
"It isn't." Naruto shook his head. "Even when they're that powerful they haven't achieved their intended goal yet." Naruto explained.
"And what goal would that be?" Nolan decided to speak, curious about these so-called aliens and wondering if this would be a problem to his future plans. The universe was a big place after all.
"To obtain Godhood." Naruto answered. "Ōtsutsuki have a doctrine that dictates they need to consume all life through the God Tree and continue to evolve passed what they already have. Remember, they've been doing this for thousands of years, constantly destroy civilizations and eating them just so they can evolve and obtain godhood. It was the founder of the Ōtsutsuki Clan who declared this because he obtained Godhood. And for thousands and thousands of years they just did what he told them, sacrificing worlds and getting stronger every single time."
Nolan paid attentively, fork digging into his food but still kept listening on what Mark's friend was saying. The idea that a species constantly getting stronger and evolving to get even more stronger sounded problematic. Yet the immortality and godhood sounded to ridiculous to believe.
"Then comes along Kaguya, one of the Ōtsutsuki meant to be sacrificed to the tree. It turns out that the God Tree was still young and need an additional source of chakra in order to mature properly. Let that sink in, the same God Tree that was already threatening to destroy the world was in its immature state. How crazy is that!? Anyway, Kaguya decided she doesn't want to be sacrificed so she ended up injuring her boss and would go on to eat the Chakra Fruit and gain all the powers - remember this is an immature fruit. And she was able to use her powers to enslave humanity casually.
'Hm. Not bad.' Nolan thought, somewhat impressed.
"Her story gets sketchy because many people called her a benevolent god, and some called her a demon. What is known is that is that Kaguya did find a lover and ended up having two children with a human man."
Nolan made a face. Something about that sounded wrong and yet he couldn't help but think that was somehow being directed at him.
Mark and Debbie were listening with shocked and taken back expressions.
"Her two children were twins named Hamura and Hagoromo, Ōtsutsuki-Human hybrids that were the only two beings besides Kaguya that was born with chakra just like her. From what I remember about the story, Kaguya hated the idea of sharing her power with anyone - even her own children because she believed chakra belonged to her and only her. So, in the end she tried to kill her own children."
"W-what?" Debbie gasped.
"Dude, that's messed up!" Mark commented.
Nolan remained silent.
"Right?" Naruto agreed with them, still not use to the idea that someone like that could be so horrible. "Again though, the story was always sketchy, but Hamura and Hagoromo were at the peak of their power, so they were able to fend off their mother. The difference to the story though is that most never knew that Kaguya merged with the God Tree and became the Ten-Tails."
"The ten what?"
"The Ten Tails." Naruto clarified. "A monster made entirely out of chakra, a monster said to swallow oceans, carry mountains on its back and would bring about the end of the world."
Naruto would explain further and further about the Sage of Six Paths and how he was the equivalent to Jesus Christ in Christianity. And Naruto would add in the fact that he too fought the Ten-Tails.
"Humanity would use chakra as a weapon and for one thousand years after the death of the Sage of Six Paths, they would constantly fight each other, growing stronger with every generation and develop special genetic mutations, techniques and adaptations. Even I'm an example to that." Naruto said. "I'm actually the descendant of Kaguya and the Sage of Six Paths, the clan I come from are the Uzumaki clan."
"Uzumaki" Debbie tested the word. "That's strange. I don't think I've ever heard you mention your last name before. All I've ever heard was just Naruto."
Naruto gave a silent look. "I never really thought about it." Naruto lied. Nolan knew it was a lie just from how his heart skipped a beat.
"Wait? Wouldn't that technically mean you're like a demi-god or something?"
Naruto shook his head. "That's a bit of a yes and no answer. It gets a little crazy because while Kaguya is my ancestor and her influence does still run deep even after one thousand years, the five clans that developed were completely different from each other because of how long it had been - genetic diversity and adaptation and whatnot. The Uzumaki clan inherited vitality and a strong life force from Kaguya. The way you can tell a full blooded Uzumaki was because they all had natural red hair. My mom married someone outside her clan so I would be considered a half-breed. But because Uzumaki genes are so strong, even if I am a half-breed I'm actually full blooded because I still inherited a powerful life force and vitality."
The talk explaining the Uzumaki clan was a little longer than initially believed, but it would soon be revealed that Naruto was the strongest out of his entire clan and that he would live far longer than an ordinary human and an Uzumaki altogether. It was a guess on Naruto's part, but Naruto surmised to himself that with the exotic amount of chakra and influences he underwent, it would be more than likely his chakra and vitality might allow him to reach four to five hundred years before age catches up to him. Though there were still other exceptions to that part as well.
A small fraction to a Viltrumite's life span, Nolan thought. Yet it could allow the boy to grasp just enough to see what will come along in those long years, if he lives. This whole talk somehow made Nolan see some sort of comparison. 'He would have made a natural Viltrumite.' Nolan acknowledged, brows knitting together as he furrowed them. Naruto was powerful and was ruthless if he could wipe out an entire planet.
"Naruto." Mark responded with a low voice, almost unsure what to say knowing his friend, perhaps his second-best friend would live that long.
"It's not a big deal. It's still a long way before I'm that old. Right now, I'm enjoying everything with what I have now. A nice dinner with friends." Naruto gave a smile, taking a bite of Debbie's cooking.
Nolan saw that Debbie and Mark weren't really handling the thought as easily and cleared his throat. "You were mentioning about what came after." Nolan continued the conversation.
"Right. Okay, now comes my generation one thousand years after. There were two distinct clans, the strongest out of the five descended to Kaguya. The Uchiha and the Senju. As it turns out, they have the purest connection to Kaguya and the Sage of Six Paths and when their powers are met the Uchiha would unlock a special eye mutation called the Rinnegan which gives divine powers to the one who's unlocked it. And let me tell you it was absolutely broken. The user could tear your soul out and memories, absorbing your power, see in six different directions, summoning powerful animals capable of demolishing countries, control over gravity and have control over life and death. Before Kaguya was defeated, she created a being called Black Zetsu who fooled the Uchiha clan into awakening the Rinnegan and resurrect the Ten-Tails. Every country from my world went to war - calling it the Fourth Great Shinobi World War."
"F-four world wars?" Mark gasped. If Earth's history was anything to go by, the idea of four world wars with super humans running around and blowing up the place would be unimaginable to think about.
Debbie was shocked to. But then something made her think about something.
"Wait, how old were you when this all started?" Debbie has to ask. It concerned her at how Naruto's life and culture was so brutal in comparison to the people of Earth, and it made her think more heavily on Mark's life. Yes, he may be a superhero and yes, he may be as strong as his father but that life and to what Naruto experienced were two separate things entirely.
"I was eight when I enlisted in the shinobi forces" Naruto explained, horrifying Debbie that his people would casually send children off to war. Nolan despite seeming concern was starting to feel impressed at how Naruto's people functioned. A warrior-like military culture. A strong one at that. Even Nolan hadn't entered the war effort until he was at least quarter to a Viltrumite's beginning age.
The more he explained the more it fascinated Nolan of what could be achieved if a Viltrumite soldier had discovered the blonde's planet. Though judging from the explanation it was impossible from the fact Naruto's tale constantly talked about different dimensions - meaning such a place was outside the reach of Viltrumite.
'It does make me wonder what sort of children he would have if he mated with a Viltrumite woman?' Nolan wondered. Nolan was no stranger to the rules of interbreeding with other species, Debbie being an example to that, but his Viltrumite DNA would overwrite any trace of human within his son and make him a pure blooded Viltrumite despite his heritage. From what Nolan could guess, Naruto's power was every bit as genetic as it was this magic space power. If what Naruto said was true about his people evolving and getting stronger with every generation born after the previous one, what would that mean for his offspring if such a union happened? Naruto's power despite seeming like magic was a part of him down to the genetic level. Naruto mentioned the fact his power back in the old days was drawn upon by the spirit and physical strength yet would develop specialized organs needed to be produced. It was a part of them. It grew to a question of whether a union between the species did happen, would that make them Naruto's offspring genuine hybrids between the two species? As far as genetics seemed, both were powerful in their own way - especially for the fact Naruto's kind did evolve with additional mutations that could last a thousand years or more without diluting.
Nolan prided himself in what the Viltrumite's were capable of. Yet it could not be ruled out. If it wasn't and his children did not inherit his power, it might not even be possible for Naruto to have children with a Viltrumite.
Nolan frowned a little. Thinking about this left a strange feeling in the pit of his stomach. Humans were frail creatures, despite the Earth having super powered individuals none could meet the strength of a Viltrumite. Yet humans were suitable in other ways, reproducing to create near perfect Viltrumites. Nolan's world was one thing, but the survival of his people came above all others. The Viltrumite glanced up from his meal and looked at the blonde. Mark cared about his blonde friend. Perhaps he could spare him if he joined in the takeover of Earth - that is of course once Mark agreed to his plan. Nolan was sure he would.
Thinking about that however, that made Nolan feel hesitant. He hated that feeling. Looking at his son and seeing his wife, Nolan felt things he'd never felt in his very long life as a Viltrumite. It should have been squashed. It was weakness. Nolan knew that but every time he saw his son, he felt proud. Every time Nolan saw his wife he felt his heart pace. He thought about her, her cooking and their small little moments of passion. Sadly, Nolan snuffed those feelings inside. He had to focus. He had to see the bigger picture of things.
Being caught up in thought Nolan lost himself in the mid of the story Naruto explained.
"The war started because of two people: Obito Uchiha and Madara Uchiha. The plan was awakening the Ten-Tails and become its Jinchuriki - a living container to house it and would grant them all that power. The plan was to reflect the Sharingan onto the moon and trap everyone in the world in a powerful illusion that grants a person their deepest desired world. But again, Black Zetsu fooled the Uchiha and instead resurrected Kaguya to the world which would also have the Sage of Six Paths to interact with the living world. Despite being dead for a thousand years, the Sage of Six Paths was able to cheat death because when chakra is at its peak in power it transcends death, and he became a living ghost."
It just kept getting crazier and hard to imagine, especially when Mark and Debbie were getting the basic summary about how chakra in itself could manipulate space and time, control life and death and from what Naruto said about his journey traveling was able to go back in time. It just kept getting crazier that a single source of power could make a person that powerful.
"I was given half of the Sage's power once we talked. He understood that once our talk was over, we would never see each other again. So, I fought his mother and defeated her. My world was left in ruined and most of the countries were gone. I was among the last few thousand shinobi still remaining with much of our population devastated. That's when I encountered more Otsutsuki after. I fought five altogether. Thankfully I was smart enough to train with my newfound powers and was able to kill four out of five. It was the fifth one that proved to trouble. And while I killed off his henchmen which were equal to Otsutsuki, it was the boss that beat me. He saw I was too much of a problem, so he used a Jutsu on me to cast me through space and time and I found myself here on Earth.
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I have a technique. It's called "Drown-a-Bitch no Jutsu"
Nolan snorted. "And what is that suppose-
Teleporting himself and Nolan, Naruto grabbed the Viltrumite from the back of his head and dipped it into a magma pool.
Naruto heard Nolan gurgle from underneath, the lava churned as much as his body thrashed, the only thing keeping him alive was his Viltrumite constitution holding out against the heat.
"Stand proud Nolan, you are strong." Naruto said before giving a thumbs up to the camera that he took with him, almost as if he accomplished something. Though it was more for Cecil who was watching and Debbie who was horrified to see what Naruto was doing to her husband.
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The way Nolan belittled the blonde so easily left Naruto scowling.
'This mustn't register on an emotional level.'
First was to discombobulate.
Clap!
Naruto slapped the full palm of his hands (hands strengthened through nature infused chakra) and bashed them against Nolan's ears. The man's eyes widen, ears ringing and blood spewing from them before Naruto delivered a series of super charged diamond hard knuckles along Nolan's abdomen, solar plex, then a few hits along the man's lower jaw.
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