《Rose of Thorns and Blood》Chapter Sixteen
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Massacre inside the Waterfall~
(Narumi) "Now mongrel, lead us to the entrance of your village" i ordered Shibuki who was affected by the sharingan genjutsu, just a look and most people get entrapped, although Shisui doesn't need eye contact to do it, we followed Shibuki until we reached a cavern behind the giant falls, there he led us to a pool of water among many.
(Narumi) 'hm, so a pool of water is the entrance to the village, huh' we jumped into the water and dived until we found a hole in the bottom, we followed it and swam for quite a while
(Narumi) 'this is the only entrance? civillians can't pass through here, it seems they only made one exit, what foolishness, they are really isolationists, Shibuki being out of the village was a rare occurrence, if it is like this i have to say it will be quite some time when someone comes to investigate' we swam until we reached a large lake, we surfaced and walked out, our clothes minus Shibuki were instantly dry 'ahh the wonders of Fuuinjutsu' we reached a cliff and overlooked the village from it 'village? More like a city, I can even see a rural area, it seems they are auto sufficient, hmm, I can see the hospital, residential area, market, industrial area, and the leaders building, there is also a big tree a bit far from the village in the middle of a lake, I can also see some signs of fighting in a forest in the western side, hmm 500 ninjas are fighting there, I can also sense 10 thousand ninjas far to the west, in the mountain range, they are probably the rain village missing-nin, Saru told us to interrogate them as to why such a massive force went rogue, but if my theory is right..."
(Shisui)"hmm, the Hokage requested us to capture the jinchuuriki, capture the hero's water, gather information about the rain village and kill everyone here, now how should we go about it?"
(Narumi) 'hm, shisui must be testing us he is not an upper s-rank for nothing' "it's simple sensei, we collapse the only exit, one of us should take Shibuki here, he will know the location of the jinchuuriki and the water, the other two should attack the camp and interrogate the leader and we need to kill those who are in the battlefield, we can also use the seven tails to attack the village, a genjutsu should be enough, job complete~"
(Shisui) "nice plan, now who should go where?"
(Naruto) "I can handle the camp"
(Narumi) "I will go with Shibuki"
(Shisui) "then that leaves me with the battlefield"
(Naruto)"oh it seems another batch of ninja came to the frontlines, it seems your work has increased sensei"
(Narumi) "enough talking" Narumi put her hands on the ground and the mountain behind them collapsed, destroying the only exit "let's go Shibuki" she jumped and disappeared with speed the talk jonin following her from behind.
(Naruto) "Even so they build this village surrounded by mountains, they are completely closed off, I can sense no other exit, they are really stupid" he vanished in a vortex.
(Shisui) "hah, this mission will be a pain in the ass, atleast Narumi will be the one to slaughter the village, i never liked killing innocents" he did a shunshin heading towards the forest.
The front lines were in a forest where ninjas were fighting for dominance, thousands upon thousands were there, the city was to the east, and the farms were in the south east, two important locations that the rain ninja wanted.
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It was chaos, weapons and jutsu were flying chaotically, people died like droves, the smell of decay was great, and the sounds were gut wrenching, shisui arrived in the middle of the horde, unsheathed his tanto, and with impressive speeds slashed the jugular of a taki ninja, just then another shisui came from his shadow and in a straight line killed anyone that was close, the original disappeared like a mirage, this happened five more times, with shisui showing his mastery over shunshin, only his afterimage was seen as he murdered everyone, similar to Minato killing almost a million shinobi just 10 seconds , soon he killed more than a hundred without them even noticing, he jumped in the middle of the battle as the ninja finally took notice of him and the bodies that littered the ground.
"Who is he"
"A konha-nin"
"Sharingan"
"No way that is shisui, I though he died years ago"
The enemies from both waterfall and rain stopped and circled around Shisui, their weapons drawn, and their poses ready to strike, shisui was known as a s-rank, there are a lot of ninjas in the world, but most can't even reach a-rank, they are rare and at most a village has a hundred of them in a generation, they can take on hundreds of weaker opponents, however an s-rank is the cream of the crop, there are at most 15 s-ranks at any given time in a generation, they are in a different league altogether, they are masters of every ninja field, incredibly hard to defeat, they have the manpower of thousands, thats what they were facing, the waterfall ninja didn't even have an a-rank were scared beyond belief, numbers didn't work on these monsters, only quality, the rain were also scared as only their leader Suien.
(Shisui)'hmm they are not attacking, well just a little genjutsu will do it'
Shisui had such control over illisions that he could directly influence people's minds and feelings, while not to the extent of his kotoamatsukami, he could induce rage and bloodlust, and he did just that an area genjutsu that affected the whole forest, all around him the enemy charged forward intent on ending his life, they were so vicious that they pierced each other with their weapons, they finally manage to reach him, but suddenly he dispersed into shadows, the floor opened, and like a terror film a maw opened in the ground like an Eldrich abomination filled with teeth and a void, all of them fell and the maw closed, their screams of terror were heard from them in the distance, the illusion ended and all of the ninja who were still standing in the initial positions dropped, a pool of blood forming in their neck, shisui returned his tan to to the sheath in his back.
(Shisui)" *sigh the distraction from the genjutsu was enough to cut all of them down, or most of them, I guess my body can't catch up to my skills as a ninja, a few years of training can remedy that"
Some stragglers were fleeing in terror of seeing the monster, they thought they were eaten, but then their comrades started falling dead, they fled as hard as they could.
(Shisui)"better deal with them"
He did one handsign and extended his hands forward, small fireflies surged forward from his palms.
(Shisui) "fire release: parasitic immolation" the small fireflies spread in the forest at breakneck speed, hundreds of thousands of them.
They reached the enemies quickly, planting on them and putting them on fire, leaving only ash behind to be scattered by the wind.
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(Shisui)' it is done, I am not such a skilled sensor as the twins but I can get the job done'
Naruto appeared in a vortex, in a vantage point, he extended his hearing so he could catch some conversations.
(Kirisame)"are you sure this hero's water will help us?"
(Murasame)"shut up, it has to"
(Hisame)"yes, one sip will increase our chakra by ten"
(Suien)"we can also capture the jinchuuriki, I heard they made one 12 years ago, with the water and bijuu on our side that bastard will pay, we need to capture that wimp Shibuki or one member of his council, they know the location of what we seek"
(Naruto)'mhm, narumi's theory might be correct after all, there are some numbers here 5 thousand, hah I am lazy~ i think one technique will do it' his chains dug deep in the underground.
(Naruto)'wood release: bamboo spikes' hundreds of thousands of bamboo shoots sprouted from the ground impaling all of the ninja there besides the leaders, it was gruesome seeing people impaled in the anus, people without arms or legs, stabbed in the abdomen, eye, head, everywhere in the body, it was so unexpected that these chuunin level ninja didn't even realize before it was too late, the ground was drenched in blood, bones and entrails, the victims were put in horrifying positions.
(Naruto)'a popular torture method back in Narumi's world, growing bamboo while the victim stays above the little sprout, in three days the. victim is completely pierced by it, mother nature is scary, I guess I need to thank her for giving me this idea, even so many people back there underestimated mokuton way too much, what Yamato could do just scraped the scope of this chakra transformation'
The four ninja went outside to see the carnage, just then chains came from the ground and restrained them.
(Suien) "w-what is this I can't mold chakra"
(Hisame)"w-what happened to everyone?"
(Naruto)"can't you tell I killed everyone" Naruto said in a mocking tone.
The ninja looked around and their eyes locked on a blonde haired teen, he was very handsome with sun kissed blonde hair with red tips and teal colored eyes.
(Murasame)"are you the one release us, right now!"
(Naruto)"ah I don't have the patience for this" 'human path' from the chains their souls were extracted and any information went to his mind, only the woman Hisame remained.
Naruto looked at the woman with a lecherous grin.
(Naruto)"now... You are probably wondering why did I leave you alive?" She tensed.
(Naruto)"it's simple I am in need of a woman right now"
After an hour the jonin kunoichi died died from mutilation and rape, all of her holes were brutalized and semen were being poured out of her holes, a terrible site.
(Naruto) 'Un, narumi was correct as always, this faction was loyal to Hanzo until some months ago when Pein attacked and killed his family, including his 4 year old granddaughter, gm this faction went rogue after he went killing everyone who supported hanzo, they came to this village to get the tools to kill pein, too bad~ even so pein preaching about peace he is so influenced by revenge that he kills 4 year olds, what a hypocrite, at least Narumi wants chaos, she doesn't hide her nature behind pretty words, her actions says it all, at least she cares about Konoha and the uchiha clan to some extent'.
Narumi was walking around the forest to the north side.
(Narumi)"so both that water and the jinchuuriki are in that tree?"
Shibuki did a slow nod.
(Narumi) 'I sense fighting up ahead, the Ame ninja sent a force to flank them from the north side, but they got intercepted huh, I can use this to my advantage'
They arrived in near a river where they were fighting, 50 men from Taki being overrun by a larger Ame force.
"Damn this is no use, we are being overrun"
"Don't give up hold on"
(Shibuki) "that's right we mustn't give up hope, I got some help from konoha" Shibuki arrived went through a series of hand seals and in his hand appeared a blue sword made out of water, and started cutting down the enemy, deflecting kunai thrown at him, and avoiding all jutsu masterfully
(Shibuki) "Narumi-hime help us!"
(Narumi)"hai" bones protruded out on the underside of her fingers, sharp and black as night 'We were kind of lucky that Itachi never saw what hit him that night, his exhaustion, coupled with his eyes deactivated and the dark of night, he thought it was just simple kunai.'
She went toward at supersonic speed, dilacerating any Ame ninja that went in her way, she hit them right in the chest, the attacks were so brutal that she dislodged their ribs and sometimes their lungs, trachea or heart would come off, or even sometimes she would completely cut the upper half of a person, and the chest to the head would come flying off.
Soon Shibuki and Narumi finished their opponents and stragglers that were running away.
(Narumi)'un, most of these are cannon fodder, even if they are considered chuunin or jonin, they are nothing special, I will probably be more entertained in the chu un in exams, tthese guys were proficient in bukijutsu, they knew a ninjutsu or two, and knowing onii-chan he probably wouldn't care about fights at all, he is lazy and has a lazy battle style, he will end the fight the quickest way possible, just so he could laze around, even so I underestimated the strength of cano n naruto, at age 13 he could probably beat a no name jonin quite easily, and with the kyuubi helping him I don't even think pre time skip Kakashi could beat him, I mean one tailed chakra cloak increased his strength and speed by a hundred fold, even then Naruto from the last is terrifying, he could have a chance to beat us, but we are getting stronger and stronger'.
The group of ninja from Taki who survived cheered on as I put them on a quick genjutsu over them, like clockwork they sat down and waited.
(Narumi) "Now let's go retrieve the hero's water"
After sometime they arrived in the tree, there they found a girl about Narumi's age and two in chest shorter than her, she had green hair, bronze skin and orange eyes b-cup breasts, and a nice backside, narumi licked her lips.
(Narumi)'Fuu, by the end of this day I will make you mine'
(Fuu)"Shibuki-sama what are you doing here?"
(Shibuki)"there's no time to explain, suffice to say the village is under attack, I need the hero's water" he entered a chamber where a lake resided, the water had a brilliant sapphire color, there was a shrine in the middle where a bottle with the same water was.
Narumi made a discreet clone and it melded in the shadows.
Shibuki reached for the bottle.
(Shibuki)"With this we can win!"
(Fuu)"but Shibuki if you drink that your life force will decrease" he put a hand on her head and patted it gently.
(Shibuki)"don't worry, it is a small price to pay for protecting the village, after this let's celebrate our victory, it will be a festival"
(Fuu)'Shibuki, you are so kind to the villagers, but i, I guess they are only mean to me, what did I do wrong?'
(Shibuki)"I am going now, wait outside I will be right back" He disappeared in a shunshin.
(Fuu)"I believe in you, after all you are the only person who cares about me" she mumbled under her breath.
(Narumi)"hello, my name is Narumi Uzumaki" Fuu finally took notice of the beauty that was following her leader.
(Fuu)"my name is Fuu, do you want to be my friend?" Both started walking outside the tree talking to each other, they became fast friends who somewhat shared burdens, Fuu quickly found another precious person, after being mistreated for so long, being kicked out of stores, starving living on the streets, not having a bed to sleep on the cold nights, having to learn to walk and read alone, being ostracized and only being cared by Shibuki, who couldn't do much due to his cowardness to go against the council.
(Narumi) "while our early years were tough, most had forgotten their grudge on us, I don't know your situation and why they hate you, but we had a demon split and sealed on us..."
(Fuu)"heh I can't wait to meet Naruto, he seems cool".
(Narumi)"trust me you'll like him very much, he has such an easygoing personality and is more approachable than me, in Konoha i don't have many friends, my looks make me somewhat unapproachable, while I have many acquaintances my only true friend is Hinata"
(Fuu)"what about the uchiha clan and your village leader."
(Narumi)"they are more like family members than anything else".
(Fuu)"you are lucky, i only have Shibuki"
(Narumi)"hey you have me now"
(Fuu)"true" she smiled happily
(Narumi)'My clone has put the survivor of the Taki shinobi and Shibuki in Kotoamatsukami, they met with Shisui and Naruto, they believe with Shibuki and the help from Konoha was enough to destroy the enemy, now we can enter the village safely' a time layer Shibuki, Shisui and Naruto arrived with the survivors of Taki.
Shibuki returned the water inside and went back.
(Shibuki)"Men we were able to send our enemies to hell! We have avenged our fallen today and destroyed all of their force!" The survivors cheered on "now it’s time to give the news back to the village, it’s time to celebrate".
(Narumi)'as expected kotoamatsukami is scary'
(Naruto)'be careful imouto your sadistic side is just under your skin'
(Shisui)'she could have already destroyed the village, what is she planning by giving them false hope, and why didn't you put the girl in a genjutsu already? What are you planning Narumi' he saw the green haired girl GI e looks of admiration to Shibuki 'I see, you are far crueler than your mother, she just killed and tortured and was done with it, but you, everything is a psychological game huh, you are not satisfied with physical torture, but mental as well'
(???) "H-h-he-lp m-m-me P-p-plea-se c-c-cho-mei"
Behind the seal Choumei the seven tails awakened.
(Choumei) 'who is calling me, no human knows my name' the seal disappeared from his vision and just an expansion of water in a dark setting was left for the bijuu.
(Choumei)'this is not the seal someone pulled me here' he looked around and only darkness was met before him.
(???)"p-please i-i c-can't t-take t-this a-anymore"
Choumei lowered his head and there were small chains holding up a girl about eight years old she was tied up and had small bruises all over her body, a white liquid was flowing from her private parts the peculiar thing was nine small tails from her back and the fox ears.
(Choumei)"this chakra, although small, is that you kurama?"
(Kurama)"PLEASE! SAVE ME FROM THIS HELL!" her small body thrashed around, but it was useless, it only bruised her tiny body more, she was hysterically crying, her eyes darting around, showing a painful look of someone who was ready to give up on life.
(Kurama)"PLEASE! WHAT DID I DO TO DESERVE THIS? CHOUMEI PLEASE SAVE ME, FATHER, PLEASE FATHER SAVE ME!" she started crying even more, being controlled by indra's, her elder brother transmigrant, being sealed in humans who committed despicable acts, the Uzumaki were demons in human skin, when she thought Mito died, she would be put in a better container, and hopefully find the one her father mentioned, but Kushina was ten times worse than Mito, she learned that the wife of the Shodaime Hokage, Ashura, her gentle and kind elder brother's reincarnation was just a weak branch member, Mito was an eighth Uzumaki blood, it was already diluted so much, that she didn't show much of her sadistic side, and her sons and daughters didn't inherit her traits, only a bit of longevity and chakra, but Kushiba was 'royal blood' and a 'pure blood' her rotten side was shown quickly to the nine tailed beast, and her children took a step further, she thought that they were the ones from the prophecy, having the eyes of her beloved father and the chakra of her elder siblings, they loved each other unlike the sons of the sage, but why did they had to inherit the cruelty from the Uzumaki?.
(Kurama)'where did this cruelty came from? how is it possible for someone with the same eyes as him be so cruel for their own satisfaction, father please save me'
(Choumei)"Kurama!" Choumei tried to reach her but it was too late he was already back in the seal.
(Choumei)"DAMN! WHAT THE HELL?" 'how is it possible, she has a human body? She didn't even have most of her chakra, and her wounds, bijuu don't get lasting injuries like that, I need to get to the bottom of this, we may not like each other very much, but she is my sister,i-'
(Narumi)"heh" Choumei turned around and saw a sinister sight, a girl about 15 years old by her height, had a cross between arrogant and insane smirk, her royal purple eyes with slitted white pupils looked right at him from behind the seal, she did a creepy eye smile, the last he saw was purple rings in her iris closely resembling his father eyes, before his consciousness disappeared.
Shibuki led Fuu to the festival they were holding in celebration of winning against such difference in numbers, although their force was cut in half.
During the whole time people were glaring at her, and whispering hurtful words, this would have happened in Konoha if Narumi hadn't cut the problem by the bud before it escalated, most of these people weren't even affected by the demon, but prejudice goes far.
(Narumi)'hmm it is time' they were in the central square, enjoying the festival 'Shisui is already in the farms and Naruto is on the industrial area of the village'
"Shibuki-sama why did you bring this demon to the village, I heard the enemy also came after this bitch"
A fat council member spoke out loud, the people around stopped and watched the commotion with dirty looks at Fuu.
"Yes throw her out"
"She doesn't belong here with noal people"
"That's right"
They started booing and throwing food at her.
(Fuu)"i-i should probably be going thank you for inviting me, Shibuki-sama" she said with a strained smile and closed eyes so they couldn't see how much pain the villagers gave her, she started running away, but was manhandled by Shibuki and he dropped her in the ground.
(Shibuki)"not so fast demon"
(Fuu)"wha-"
(Shibuki)"I have put up with you for 12 years, but it was all wasted, a thousand men are dead because those rogues were looking for you"
(Fuu)"S-Shibuki-sama, w-what are you saying? A-aren't we friends?"
(Shibuki)"Why should I be friends with a demon like you" Fuu shoulders dropped, at the pain of betrayal stung deeper than the loneliness she always felt, she was ready to give up on life when
(Narumi)"that's enough" Narumi arrived between Fuu and Shibuki and the villagers, her Stan e was a protective one
(Shibuki)"huh?"
(Narumi)"Fuu-chan isn't a demon, she is a sweet girl who cares a lot about life and nature, you people disgust me" Shibuki started getting irritated 'it seems my genjutsu on him is working wonders, he always cared about her, so I had to change his feelings'.
(Fuu)"Narumi-chan"
(Shibuki)"Get out of the way!" A dragon of water formed and attacked her she made the same dragon and they splashed in the middle, the water made a distraction for him to slip up and with a kunai he stabbed Narumi in the heart.
Narumi fell down right in the lap of Fuu, she was coughing blood, and her beatings slowly stopped.
Fuu had her eyes widened and her body frozen in seeing her friend die.
(Shibuki)"hah, she helped in the protection of the village, but she protected you demon, she deserved to die!" He started laughing.
(Fuu) "NOOOOOOOO, YOU WILL PAY" The crowd stopped laughing when Shibuki head disappeared and his body fell into the ground, the head appeared in the mouth of Fuu as she suddenly appeared some meters ahead of the body, her skin was blood red, she had a black aura of intense bloodlust and rage, it was pure black, her face had white eyes and mouth with crooked teeth, Shibuki's head was in between her jaws, she then crushed the head with her mouth and spit the remains on the floor, the mob was stunned in fear, just then an exo-skeleton formed in her back, resembling a beetle, she surged forward slaughtering anyone close.
In a near building atop a water tower Narumi smiled, atop a chime Naruto was watching the fight and nodded, shisui atop a windmill heard the commotion and scratched his head.
(Narumi)'this is the signal, although my clone acting was very corny it did the job, my genjutsu increased the rage from her and her bijuu, she already jumped to six tails, now let's slaughter them all' she picked a bone from her elbow and disappeared through the night.
She appeared in the main road as people were fleeing the enraged jinchuuriki, the crowd of people looked at her as she started to dance, slicing the population with precision in areas where they wouldn't die quickly, limbs were being cut of as the civilians and ninja died in a pool of their own blood, bodies having their guts spilled out, people dying of shock, her methods were brutal, she could instantly kill them, but she left them in the ground with an injury they could not heal, they bled out and died.
She burned the whole market area, burning whole families inside, not even children were spared as she cut their bodies, burned them, or pierced them with her bone.
A kid was crying he was six years old was crying seeing his parents dead on the ground.
(Narumi)"ara~ kiddo aren't you going to run?"
He kept crying, narumi frowned, she slashed at his wrist and his hands dropped in the ground, the child was shocked at seeing the hand, but soon pain surged and he screamed as blood started falling on the ground, he picked his hands on the floor and tried to reattach it.
Narumi chuckled
(Narumi)"it doesn't work like that boy" she diagonally cut his skull his top head fell in the ground showing his eyes and his nose, while his body showed his open jaw and spinal cord.
(Narumi)"Now it is time to go to the hospital I have already destroyed the council, the school, and most of the population, the city is burning, the farms are burning and the metallurgy and industrial area is destroyed, only the hospital remains, the reason why shisui and Naruto didn't want to go here is.."
The hospital was mostly empty there was a ninja here and there, she killed most of the permanent patients and finally arrived in a wing.
(Narumi)"delivery, recovery and nursery"
She arrived in a room containing dozens of newborns, a small chain pierced their legs one by one they were stringed together crying, she did a small d-rank fire jutsu, cooking the babies alive, their skin melting, and they finally became charred corpses.
(Narumi)'nothing I haven't done before, many children died in the second world war, I was witness to many of them and I had to kill a handful as well, killing dies get easier with time, you become more and more animalistic, losing your sanity in the process and it gets easier and easier until you don't feel anything anymore, no guilt, no sadness'.
After an hour, and commiting unspeakable acts she fled the hospital before it exploded in a bijuudama, she safely stopped in a hill where Shisui and Naruto were waiting, the three watched as an enraged seven tails destroyed the village.
(Narumi)"any survivors?"
(Naruto)"no, all of them are trapped in the city fire, the others are already dead"
Narumi entered the tree and got to the shrine, she sealed the bottle and the water in the pool in two different scrolls, under the pool was a crystal.
(Narumi)'hmm so the water that came maturely made contact with this crystal and it became the hero's water, this thing transform nature energy into chakra huh, and the sudden expansion shaves decades of life expectancy from a normal person, with this we have a secure source of hero's water to produce, but where did this come from, it seems kind of alien, perhaps an artifact from some clan beyond the stars like the otsutsuki?'
The village was completely destroyed and in the center was Fuu, she was in a coma from using too much bijuu chakra, Shisui picked her up and the team headed towards Konoha.
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