Chapter 7
Time of Bane
Summary: Naruto made a chance discovery as young child, rising to become a powerful and respected figure… one who would be known throughout the lands, he would become a bane to all who opposed him, becoming a legend.
Helltanz's notes: About the crossover facts I will detail what I use and it doesn't really matter just yet except for magic.
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Chapter begin
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Hi no Kuni, Konohagakure no Sato, Ninja Academy Sight of Part One of the Chunin Exam
"I'm Mitarashi Anko the proctor of the second exam." The scantily clad, though quite voluptuous woman declared striking a pose.
The blonde shook his head how very foolish she was being. "Enough,"
"Eh, I heard you were here," She remarked annoyed before turning to the chunin would bes, "Heh so many of you I'll cut the number in half," The psycho announced, considering the way she was fingering a kunai several people were quite right to recoil in nervousness. "The second exam will be held in Konoha's forest of death training ground forty four." She practically sang while grinning like a homicidal loon.
Naruto stared blankly at her causing her to shudder and spasm, she quickly got her act together and briefed the shinobi on the task at hand after Naruto cancelled his illusion school attack.
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Hi no Kuni, Outside Konohagakure no Sato, Hidden city of the Fallen, Tower of the Harbringer
Naruto examined the land beneath the tower, that thin layer of soil, in this case thin being a relative term, obscuring the city of the fallen from view.
"So nice pad." Complimented the Demon of the Mist in a rather jovial tone.
"Zabuza-sama." Exclaimed Haku appalled at his poor manners, the blushing girl went to get the tea that had been boiling.
"Haku come on it isn't like were Samurai." He shouted with a grin. "Besides were just battle buddies hanging out, right."
"Zabuza is correct such strict adherence to propriety is reserved for fancy dinners." Stated the blond, for once his robes hanging open revealing the pale flesh underneath, a physical manifestation of magic's taking its tithe, it was this pale flesh and his abilities that earned the name Goryo, thought a ghost of past wars.
"Naruto any thought of building your own military, I mean you have a ton of space here enough for a whole ninja village." Commented the infamous ninja. "enough weapons to."
"I am neither a general, nor a Kage Zabuza." Stated Naruto in reply, still overlooking the ground.
"Tch, not from the tales about your participation in the war of the moon." Commented Zabuza. "So get over the modesty already." He commented.
Naruto stared. "Hmm, that was a fluke, I spend most my operations alone, or on squad based combat, leading samurai… or ninja doesn't appeal to me. I merely did what was necessary."
Zabuza rolled his eyes. "So no plans for an army?" Zabuza exhaled noisily. "Man you are one of a kind." He announced
"Most those of my kind have… unique mental states." Naruto remarked
Zabuza blinked stupidly. "What?" Zabuza exclaimed.
Haku returned with tea.
"Though I am well versed in the shinobi arts, my kind's true practice is some thing far older, much more obscure and much greater steeped in the arcane powers than the chakra you wield so easily." Stated Naruto elaborating. "Kekai Genkai are an element of bygone times, both mine and Haku's are controlled beneficial mutations of the power I wield as easily as you wield chakra."
"Wait
you have a blood line limit." Exclaimed Zabuza blinking
again.
"Yes, though I have not seen fit to activate it in years.
The ability I was speaking of beforehand, the predecessor to chakra,
is commonly termed magic." Naruto continued on unconcerned. "Magic
is more powerful but infinitely more dangerous than kinjutsu you
shinobi may ever wield. Demons like the biju are remnants, things far
worse exist, a higher force the Daemons are on such example, the
majority of the creatures serve one of the four major deities of
chaos. Others may serve one of the lesser gods, and some even serve
mages, like myself. Those that serve the deities of chaos typically
go out and attempt to recruit mages to their god's service or
destroy them." The blond turned. "Magic affects its wielder
typically in two ways physical and mental."
"So these Daemons
try and kill you, I mean you said you weren't religious." The
demon of the mist commented.
"no
for the most part Daemons will not attempt to attack me openly.
Another ability is when I kill something I get its power of the
Immaterium, its only substantial gain if its something
powerful."
Zabuza blinked.
"A demon, some one with a strong will, any number of things, have the presence needed to gain power. The god who opposes me is Slaanesh, so Khorne mostly tries to help, as he would term it." Stated the blonde.
"Help from a god that must be nice." Muttered Zabuza with a whistle.
"You misunderstand, or rather do not understand the gods of chaos. Khorne is bloodshed, hate, rage, war, murder, these are his dominions, his idea of helping some one is sending them enemies to overcome to make them stronger, or something else so they can fight harder. Make no mistake he might from time to time give other aids."
"So
those are the two major ones Slaanesh and Khorne?" asked the ex
swordsman of the mist.
"The other two are Nurgle and Tzeentch."
Commented Naruto. "I don't have such a problem with those two.
Nurgle is god of disease and decay something that cannot touch me,
but also god of destruction which I reek in spades. Tzeentch is god
of schemes, manipulation, sorcery so as a mage the destruction I cast
puts me in his good books as well."
"So what did you do to piss this Slaanesh off?" inquired Zabuza listening carefully.
"Not
so much I pissed him off, but that I annihilated one of his temples
after they attempted to seal my magic, in the resulting bloodlust I
unsealed the sword of Khaine, an ancient god of blood and war, among
other things, the resulting magic unsealed my own reserves, and the
in turn sent me into the killing frenzy which annihilated the
temple." This was of course the short version, Naruto calmly
omitted the fact he had been eight when this occurred. "Khaine is
also the patron of the Shinobi that existed before the cataclysm."
He added remembering an excerpt of a passage from one of his books.
"Albeit Shinobi before cataclysm were much more impressive, though
smaller in number a single shinobi could annihilate a city with one
technique."
Zabuza stared wide eyed he gave an admiring whistle.
"I
particularly remember one such technique Shattered Sky that looked
useful to convert into a pure magic harnessing attack." Commented
Naruto off hand.
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Hi no Kuni, Konohagakure no Sato, the village proper
The village was peaceful, well as peaceful as it could be with all the whispering going around concerning the Chunin exam.
Haku had volunteered to go an pick up the groceries. Naruto was assisting… it was his house besides the grocer was a tad paranoid around new people.
"Whose there?" Demanded the man shifting around eyes scanning everywhere expecting an attacker to make a move at any moment.
"Relax Sari," Naruto told the scarred and balding man. "I thought to introduce you to my new resident since she'll be coming for groceries." He commented blandly.
The man's eyes hadn't left Haku for a second.
"Can she be trusted?" He inquired slowly shifting his eyes away.
And that was how Haku's first meeting, and subsequent interogation, with ex ANBU captain Sari Senju went… paranoid SOB.
The two left the shop and walked down the street.
"He'll get used to you, eventually," The magic user remarked bored.
There was a minor spike in killer intent as the walked by a hotel oddly in that it was responsible for housing the forigien guests the intent it was focused on Haku. The native of the land of mist turned looking up in surprise.
"Ignore those jealous people, worring about them only will cause problems later," He remarked.
"Jealous?"
"Even Shinobi have a habit of assuming about a
situation." The blonde stated not evening having slowed down as he
spoke.
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Naruto sighed leaning against the tower wall, the second task had begun, so he had five days of boring days of waiting for the chunin wanna bes, if it was up to him it would be a three day test.
Haku was beside him insisting he eat more.
The blonde magic user was more interested in evalutating the Chunin hopefuls, and by hopefuls he meant the majority of them were dope heads.
"Hey are you sure we can't just auto fail most of these imbeciles." His colleuge demanded from beside him, "that way we can just proceed to the death match."
The elusive blonde frowned mildly, Anko herself had been wondering that question as well however while such a solution would be enviable they were to have no such luck as it was not going to be accepted as 'impartial' his entire reason for being here in the first place.
Concerning of the rash woman, an ANBU came barrelling in that Anko was going in pursuit of Orochimaru.
'That moron,' thought the blonde
'Why the Devil is he here?' Wondered the konoha special Jonin.
"The chunin exam can not be interuppted," Naruto stated standing,
'Even if this interferes with my own goals I am currently under
contract, besides this involves more than likely his obseesion with
that bloodline rather than our mutual project,' The magic user
mused as prepared to issue his next set of instructions, "You will
contact the lord Hokage ANBU will remain in constant radio contact,
all reserves will be brought up to insure nothing interferes with
this text should you spot Orochimaru before the Hokage arrives coral
him and reinforce the position but do nothing stupid," Goryo turned
to his house guest, "Haku if you could assume command of the Chunin
and insure the saftey of the participants I would appreciate
it."
"Hai Naruto," She responded in mild surprise.
"Asahina," He snapped to the Konoha special Jonin who had complained earlier,
"Hai Goryo-sama," the man responded stammering at first,
"You will find Konoha's team seven, and insure they reach this
tower,"
"But that will be,"
"You will not question me,
Orochimaru's desire is to seize the Sharingan he must not be
allowed to suceed in this endeavor, I will not tolerate
insubordination, the saftey from outside interference is our primary
object go now." He snarled bearing elongated canines to the man who
recoiled at the killer intent emerging as Naruto fingered his sword,
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The blonde snarled as he set off, it would see the sage of snakes was managing to obscure scrying spells, and by extension the Hokage's crystal ball.
A minor annoyance to be sure considering the situation but still an annoyance the blonde could have really done with out, given the present situation though one who was one friendly terms with the snake sannin, mainly due to a shared mutual goal again mainly due to a joint wish, in this case being self preservation, he did not desire Orochimaru to gain the sharingan.
Then again he wouldn't mind if the blood line dropped into obscurity for all the trouble it caused… particualry for him in some cases.
He set off a rather accelerated pace, Orochimaru however had made a mistake hence why his precaution was only a minor annoyance. The dew on a leaf projected the person he wished to find, and leaves pointed the way.
The question was the options he had available to an extent Orochimaru still outclassed him in the variety of ninjutsu at his disposal however the blonde's magic did easily bridge that gap with area of effect spells, and illusion magiks that would make most genjutsu masters orgasm in delight.
Sadly for that line of thinking there weren't very many Genjutsu masters who were worth the thought of orgasming, of course considering magic has surpressed the blonde's sex drive he didn't have much to worry about, distration wise, when the image of Yuhi Kurenai flashed into his head, it still however didn't tone down the disgusting factor concerning certain other genjutsu masters.
A wave of magical insects demolished a tree infront of him as he slid into the grove, his magic glimmered from under his palms and interuppted Orochimaru's 'battle' with Anko and the brat Uchiha in the form of a pair of tornados, the sage of snakes did not looked pleased at the interuption.
"This is the Head Proctor of the Chunin Exams target located commence convergence on my position,"
"Goryo," Announced one of the ANBU captains, "We are currently engaging a bunch of mutant freaks we might be a bit." The man announced before closing the line.
So it would seem the founder of the village of the sound had brought reinforcements, another problem and worse than that such infiltration likely meant he had help outside the usual suspects.
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Chapter conclusion
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Helltanz's notes: Crossover wise that's proably all I'm going to mention instory for a bit.
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