Naruto Fan Fiction / Crossover With Non-anime Series Fan Fiction / Mobile Suit Gundam 00 Fan Fiction ❯ The False Apocalypse ❯ The Night Nothing Killed ( Chapter 24 )

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Naruto and his new master are captured by Danzo and sent to his private interrogation room. What has ignited this move? Later a mysterious child strikes a Zate dead with ridiculous ease. Who is this child and what does he have against Kyle Katarn?

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The False Apocalypse

The Shinobi Saga

Chapter 24

The Night Nothing Killed

“So who are you taking us to, Sandaime sama or the council?” Nazomishi inquired, acting clueless to the matter as they were prepared to be moved.

“We are not at liberty to discuss that.” The clearly Root Anbu stated hoping the demon would cooperate long enough to get to Danzo. Both captives were bound and blindfolded before being lead off to only God knows where, flanked by three Anbu. It took nearly ten minutes to arrive in a massive complex utilized by Danzo and the `former' training grounds for the Root Anbu Black Ops. Neither of the captives had a clue where they were or what path they took to get there although Nazomishi had some idea of what kind of place he would end up at.

Bound to poles in the middle of a massive circular room lighted only by a few candle stands in the corners, their blindfolds were removed. Opening their eyes both looked on as Danzo entered the room along with four squads of Root soldiers.

“Danzo teme, let us go or the third will hear of this!” Naruto screamed in anger. He wasn't that familiar with Danzo but he knew enough from his sensei's ramblings to know he had been a thorn in Konoha's side for far too long.

“Don't be so optimistic, demon. Your usefulness has come to an end.” Not paying attention to the squabbling, Nazomishi analyzed the area noticing the room surrounded by chakra restraints and various barriers. The place was sucking their chakra dry and at an alarming rate. He could tell by the place it was being drawn out that seals on the poles were responsible, in addition to the massive barrier seal on the floor surrounding the poles where they were tied.

“Why you, I swear I'm going to kill you!” Naruto screamed trying to free himself from the ropes. The ropes stretched and threatened to snap but simply refused even with Naruto's demonic strength.

“Naruto! Calm down, your antics will only make your chakra drain faster!” Nazomishi screamed just barely able to control himself. It was infuriating being in a situation where you wanted to remain calm but your mind told you to do otherwise.

“…?” `Damn it he's right they are draining my chakra.' Naruto paused, realizing Nazomishi was right. It was draining his chakra and the struggling was making it worse. `Damn it!'

“So you noticed, you can thank the third for that one. I'm sure you've seen his vast seal library with all the research you've done on them.”

“…” Nazomishi remained quiet, attempting to read Danzo's mind and discover a way to shut off the seals.

“It's no use trying to read my mind, fool. I have seals in my bandages to prevent that sort of technique.” Danzo drew a black sword out of his cane as he stepped over to the two captives, dragging the blade across the skin on Naruto's neck. Something in the cane dispelled the Genjutsu in an instant, revealing Naruto's more demonic limbs.

“So you actually did it. FOOL!” Danzo withdrew his blade from Naruto's neck with such speed it split the skin as he went to strike Nazomishi's face with the blade. Naruto's wound sealed up immediately while Nazomishi's skin just barely broke thanks to his metallic body.

“Do you realize what you've done!” A sadistic smirk appeared on Nazomishi's face as Danzo grew furious. The reaction infuriated the Root leader as he went in for a killing blow, thrusting his blade deep into Nazomishi's abdomen. The blow went clean through Nazomishi's body, shattering part of the pole where he was bound. Blood seeped from the wound as Naruto watched in shock.

“You're the fool” Nazomishi mocked, spitting blood at Danzo as Naruto looked over at him in shock that he would still mock the man who had them bound. In response Danzo twisted his blade in Nazomishi's gut drawing more blood from the massive wound. After a few moments of savoring his captive's pain Danzo withdrew his blade while diverting his attention to Naruto who's chakra had already been drawn down far enough to reduce him to one tail.

“You won't find so lucky a fate, demon. Were you still a Jinchuuriki you could have been of some use to me. Oh well, I can find a better you for you, but first I have to break you.” Danzo was about to strike Naruto over the face with the side of his blade only to notice that his blade had eroded into a useless state.

“You what did you do.” His cold stair left the blade and was sent to Nazomishi who's wounds were already starting to seal up.

“It's why I called you a fool, I can be defeated by no blade, my body absorbs the metal, sealing any wound you make.” The sadistic cackle coming from Nazomishi as he waded his way through his words displayed the pleasure he took in Danzo's ignorance.

“Bring me another.” Danzo demanded in anger as he motioned for one of his subordinates. “Tell me, why didn't you put up a fight? Did you think escaping here would be an easy task?” Danzo asked as his subordinate bowed next to him offering up his blade.

“Naruto, hold on.” Danzo raised his visible eyebrow wondering what Nazomishi would do as he watched the metal user's wound complete it's healing process. The air in the room begin to become heavy, seeming to pull everything toward the still snickering warrior. This energy started to become visible in the form of a strange blue vortex which started spinning around Nazomishi dragging in several root members while Danzo stood firm against the ground mounted with chakra. Plates flew from the wall and boards were ripped from the floor. Many splintered and became nothing more than sharp projectiles within the hurricane of energy. After about ten seconds the energy had climaxed and everything that had been sucked into the vortex was violently thrown into the walls, knocking out several of the Anbu and mutilating several others. Noticing Danzo was unaffected by his use of the Force Nazomishi used it to enhance his strength, crushing his binds with little effort.

“How did you do that?” Danzo stated shocked that anyone could break such bonds. No man had enough chakra to break such a bond after spending so long having it drained. Sure Naruto could have pulled it off if he had more tails but these seals would have drained most of it away before they would have broken like that. Only Tsunade had enough natural strength to break such a bond.

“You cannot bind a Zate.” Nazomishi raised his arm and shredded Naruto's bindings to pieces setting him free.

“Why are you doing this Danzo? You're betraying Konoha!” The old man scoffed in response.

“Tch… betraying Konoha. My boy, I am Konoha. The third was soft. He could never see that I was what it needed.”

“But attacking it just before a war, you're insane!” Naruto screamed, growing increasingly infuriated with the war hawk.

“Calm down Naruto! I don't like it any more than you but we can't have you flaring your chakra all around town. Calm down or, run to Master Yoda, we have to mask our chakra, we cannot reveal our power to Akatsuki. ” Nazomishi screamed with urgency. They had no choice with the power Naruto wielded he would be a beacon for Akatsuki to attack. Such a flare in chakra could force their hand. That was the last thing they needed.

“You should listen to your master. I can see the bloodlust in his eyes but still he holds his place, calculating the best time to strike, a true Shinobi trait. But that won't save either of you, this compound is covered in my own private army. Even if you managed to escape me, you won't find surviving this place an easy task.”

“Naruto…” Nazomishi held out his left arm as a katana appeared in Naruto's hand with a brilliant flash of light. “Secure an exit, Take care of any Root in your way. No Ninjutsu, that's an order.Keep your chakra under control, but whatever you do don't take on the whole compound. If it comes down to it escape to Master Yoda.” Nazomishi told Naruto mentally.

“Right!” In a burst of speed Naruto charged towards the door skillfully slashing his way through two opposing Roots as he reestablished his Genjutsu.

“No stop him you fools!” Danzo commanded as his minions offered up little resistance to the power of the Hanyou.

“You should pay more attention to me.” Nazomishi said with a smirk as he summoned a lightsaber. Danzo raised his arm towards a corpse using chakra strings to grab a blade and enter a battle position.

“And what do you intend to do with that, throw it at me?” Nazomishi flicked his violate lightsaber on with a snap hiss and finally a buzz.

“A chakra blade… How did you acquire that?”

“Like you need to know.” Nazomishi leaped at Danzo using the Force to enhance his speed to Shunshin levels. Danzo swung his blade to defend as he retreated a few steps back. Much to Danzo's surprise his blade evaporated on contact with the unparalleled energy of the violate blade. Another stroke was barely avoided by Danzo who could barely keep up with the flashy weapon. With a twitch of his thumb the Root leader used a chakra string to flip a nearby kunai from the ground towards Nazomishi's gut. It was easily chopped away, leaving the molten steel to freely fall to the ground. It had given Danzo just enough time to Shunshin to another corner of the room.

“You wanted to know why I let you capture us? I wanted to know how far you would truly go before turning your back on Konoha. I should have had you assassinated a long time ago.” Nazomishi stated with his back turned to the old man. This move annoyed Danzo deeply. It was spoken in a tone of superiority, a tone that the Root leader could never forgive.

Danzo shook his head, looking down upon his opponent and rammed his blade into the ground. “I'm stronger than the Third, there's no way you can defeat me.” Danzo reached his left arm towards the bandages covering his face grabbing them ever so carefully. “Not now anyway.” Danzo pulled at the bandages around his face only to find his arm frozen in place just before revealing his eye. Nazomishi's outstretched arm was the only indication that he had done anything.

“You, what did you do to me. Release me.” Danzo screamed as he struggled to free himself of the invisible grip.

“Not so long as you have that eye.” Nazomishi replied with malice in his breath. He knew all too well how powerful that Genjutsu could be. With it Danzo could do damn well anything he wanted with the Zate so long as he didn't appear to be pulling the strings.

“So you knew…”

“I am no fool Danzo, I'm not about to let you control my mind. You would kill us all.”

“...” Danzo stood wondering how the hell a child could know of his eye much less it's ability. “You can't kill me. If I die all before my meeting Root will descend upon Konoha and annihilate it without a second thought. Even now your clumsy demon is setting of every trap in the building. They will know immediately.” Nazomishi smirked at the comment knowing there were ways around such a failsafe.

“I may not be able to read your mind but I am smart enough to have spies. Just die.” A horrific sound crackling sound burst forth from Nazomishi's fingertips as lightning threw the war hawk into the wall in pain. His bones became visible as the lightning flashed violently, the room filling with the tortured screams of pain. A maniacal grin appeared on Nazomishi's faces as he upped the voltage and with one final wave of the arm threw the electrified Danzo to another corner of the room combining the force push with the force lightning to throw an electrified orb of force energy to finally quench the life from Danzo's pathetic body.

“Never underestimate a Zate.” Nazomishi muttered to himself as he looked around the room for the seals that bound his ability to use chakra. He soon noticed that the effect had begun dissipating since Danzo's death. Finally free to use chakra without the added drain Nazomishi summoned a scroll and placed it over Danzo's corpse. With a quick series of hand seals the body was `tagged and bagged leaving him free to go. He looked over the body one final time before sealing it away thinking over the violent death he gave the monster. A tear trickled down his face with the realization that he had lost it, that wisent his way to use the dark side so frivolously or with such…pleasure. Even when he seemed under control Zansatsu was still pulling his strings. He needed help and he wasn't sure who he could actually turn to.

---Soon after Nazomishi had left with Naruto---

Jiraiya and Tsunade had spent several moments gathering their things. The two walked slowly feeling like they had the day free of any troubles. The complex was huge but it only took them about fifteen minutes to walk the length of the room to the exit seal on the other end.

“Do you think it will go well? I mean, this is the biggest battle since the last Great War. Not even the first Great War saw this many Shinobi from all sides in a single battle.” Tsunade asked with concern. Memories of the last war haunted her still. It was scary to think such a fight would happen again.

“You may be right. Don't worry, everything will be fine. You've seen the strategies, Tsunade. Everything will be fine. As long as there is good to fight for we will be fine.”

“Since when did you become such an optimistic?” Jiraiya laughed at the remark, glad he had been able to spend some real time with his teammate again.

“Seriously…the day the elder toad said I would train the man who would change the world. Since that day I've tried to find one who would change it for the better. Now I truly see what he meant. It's Naruto. That boy…”

“I know what you mean, for him to be that powerful at his age… It's astonishing.”

“You of all people should know I wasn't talking about power. No, that was Orochimaru's way. He wouldn't be doing any of this if he didn't care. People hate him and still he cares for them, even if he's never met them. Even if the Zate never showed up, he would have become something great. If only Minato could see him now.”

“Yea well…” The two had finally arrived, Tsunade paused as Jiraiya took a moment to open the gate. As the path became clear both personalities darkened as they noticed a squad of Anbu. `Root eh… I should have know he was watching the town close enough to notice a seal like this.' The Anbu noticed the seal change into an entrance way to a massive room having yet to notice who would step through the gateway. Their orders were to take anyone to leave though the entrance directly to Danzo for questioning.

“…Lo-Lord Jiraiya, Lady Tsunade” It was definitely stunning to see the two legendary Sannin leave through the gate. One of the Root gulped not likening where this was going.

“I'm sorry but I have orders to escort you…”

“You can tell Danzo to shove it!” Tsunade stated in anger, screaming just quiet enough not to make a scene.

“We have orders to use force if necessary. We ask that you do not resist.”

“There were guards at the other gate as well?” Jiraiya asked, noticing the captain of the squad flinch just noticeably. “Where is Naruto?” Jiraiya continued in a more concerned tone.

“We have orders to…” The bloody remains of the Root captain were soon strewn upon a nearby wall, shredded by the thousands of sharp hairs of Jiraiya's head. Strand after strand whipped around like snakes, taking each victim with quiet and deadly precision.

Against two Sannin…one was lucky to end up as a red smear on the wall while the others were ripped asunder by a pissed medic with an excessive need to use a chakra scalpel and disrupt the chakra stability in mid slash. The instability of the chakra scalpel in their bodies lead to one thing, massive gashes instead of clean cuts. The small massacre was cleaned up quickly thanks to Jiraiya's sealing abilities, leaving things as if nothing had happened. Once done they moved quickly to alert Sarutobi to Danzo's treachery.

--- A few moments after Danzo's fight ---

Master Yoda's Holopad alerted him to contact. The green master calmly used the Force to pull it from its place inside his robe and activate it in his palm. An image of Nazomishi standing in the middle of a war tattered room appeared in the blue hologram above the disk.

“Treachery has there been, Master Nazo?” Master Yoda could sense the urgency in Nazomishi's mind even through the Holopad. Something had definitely happened.

“I'm afraid So. Danzo was waiting for us to leave and took Naruto and myself to his compound. I sense Naruto has cleared an exit and is on his way to you. I will be there shortly. First I need to deal with a little cleanup here. It doesn't seem like the whole compound was alerted to my fight, just this sector and Naruto took them down. Contact San-Mi Hadel. I need her to shape shift into Danzo and fast. They will be wondering what happened and from what I gathered from a straggler there's a meeting in about thirty minutes.”

“Send the vice captains I will, use to these jobs they are.”

“Good, I'll report back as soon as possible.”

“Something is troubling you Master Nazo?”

“You know me too well… It happened again, even with my seals at full power I… I don't use the dark side like that. I never use that kind of malice to perpetuate it. It felt so wrong but I enjoyed it. I'm afraid he's getting stronger. I've had my clones working night and day on a better seal but nothing yet. Even the resealing work on my array is going badly. This could ruin everything.” Nazomishi was disappointed in himself. He had reformed every seal on his body to cope with any weakening they had undergone. The fact that it hadn't helped as much as he hoped had him really down.

“Worry not, meditate, calm yourself, relax, once over this war is focus on this we can. An immediate threat I sense this is not. Be careful and avoid such temptations then fine you will be. Like all the Zate a powerful will you have, underestimate it you must not. Be mindful of the Force and suppress your anger. A permanent solution it is not but get us through this war it may.” Yoda replied with his ageless wisdom. He was right. Under normal circumstances such an action was looked down upon but at the moment suppressing the inner with the Force with the only immediate solution.

“Thank you Master Yoda, I will. Naruto should be there to see you soon.”

“Have him see a Kaoru I will.”

“Good, I'll go see the Hokage and have the interrogation division's cleanup crew get to work. That place will need one hell of a cleanup after the team is done with it.

---One HourLater---

The cleanup crew had just arrived at Danzo's Root complex. One grinned at the sight thinking that Danzo had it coming to him while another took a few moments to admire the handiwork. In a sadistic sort of way several of them found new respect for Naruto's abilities after hearing that Naruto was the one cleared the initial path from Danzo's interrogation room. Nazomishi's seals had done a great cleanup job but they could tell. They were good, really good. They could tell where every bloodstain was and where every body had fallen. Sarutobi cringed a little when Ibiki informed him of how gruesome the scene was and how much the cleanup team had loved it. They certainly had a high level of respect for `good work' and that massacre defiantly fell into the category. The interrogation squad was definitely not Sarutobi's favorite division. Their personalities always seemed to creep him out and their hobbies were worse. (Honestly they creep me out too…How about you? If that doesn't then you probably need to see a psychiatrist.)

Ibiki's interrogation cleanup crew had their work cut out for them. The mess left of the Root Anbu was a frightening one. A hundred Root members laid strewn throughout Danzo's former complex. It took nearly two hours for them to have the area looking like normal. Crossbeams and pillars lay strewn throughout the complex; some burning, others crushed beyond recognition, a few shattered with a rain splinters displayed on a wall pinning four Roots, no longer recognizable as a former living organism. It was a true bloodbath by anyone's standards.

---Flashback---

Outside of Danzo's hideout Root members were silently making their way to a meeting room within the complex. The wooden fortress, supported high above a massive pit to underground caverns provided the perfect place for them to sneak in and out without being noticed. (Just think of the place where Danzo keeps on meeting Sai, with lots of circular platforms over deep holes and pillars coming up the center… perhaps like a wooden version of StarWars Episode One where Obiwan and Quigon fight Darth Maul.)

Lined up along the lengthy runways facing one large circular runway with a large pillar behind him stood 'Danzo.'

“Your orders Danzo Sama.”A female root member kneeled at his feet. She was apparently a commander in his forces. Behind her stood a line of nine Root with highly decorated masks and behind each of them stood a group of ten more. Some newer recruits looked around cautiously, wondering why the interrogation group was missing. Perhaps he had sent them on a last minute mission. They had of course captured the demon brat earlier. That had to be it.

“You are all here?” This statement seemed uncharacteristic of Danzo but the man decided to answer anyway.”

“Yes sir…I assume you still have the interrogation still working on the demon?”'What the hell? He can always tell when we're here or not, maybe he's just getting senile.'

“Good…” Danzo raised his cane and began his announcement. “Today you will stand down and await trial for treason against Konoha.” The Root members looked at him with disbelief on their faces, though their masks wouldn't permit it to be shown. “Or you will die.” With this last statement Danzo's image began to fade, mutating into the form of a dark green Clawdite with a simi-spiky head. She held agreenlightsaber and wore black robes. Seven other Zate members unleashed their lightsabers, shutting down their cloaking generators while clinging to the wallswith chakra.

The Root Anbu reacted as trained, precisely and emotionlessly. Many drew blades and burst into action only to becut down by the superior lightsabers. A root member slashed down a pillar and enhanced his strength with chakra to throw the wooden pillar at Sanosuke who used a Force enhanced punch to utterly crush the pillar, shattering it into millions of wooden shards and killing nearly ten Roots in a single strike.Blood quickly flooded every inch of open standing space.

Several charged Windu only for a mysterious force to throw them aside many with a few landing on wooden ornaments protruding from the pillars. Thosewithin the villagewho could not sense the Force were completely unaware of the massacre due to the nonexistent use of chakra. The only ones who could…were the ones destroying the members of Root. A blast of force lightning from Rei eliminated several more while starting several fires for her to manipulate to no end. By the end of ten minutes the entirety of the Root Anbu force had been utterly crushedand annihilated by the might of the vice captains and their immediate underlings.

---End Flashback---

The Captains were walking through the Hokage's building, heading towards the his office when Nazomishi's Scouter turned on with a report from Rei.

“Master Nazo.” Rei Began with her report.

“I take it that Root is finished?” Nazomishi replied, pleased things had gone so smoothly.

“Yes sir, they were weaker than anticipated, most were Chuunin level at best and the Jounin couldn't understand the Force enough to stand a chance.”

“Tell the others they are dismissed for the moment. Have them deliver a message to the squads.” Nazomishi had just moments earlier received some good news from one of his five blood clones he had roaming around the Shinobi world.

“Sir?”

“One of my blood clones just finished my new line of Scouters. Have everyone including those applying for the new squad four drop by my apartment sometime tonight. Make sure your not seen.”

“It finished them that quickly?”

“Hey they're not that complicated. I just needed to make sure they worked properly before making a hundred of them.”

“Does that mean I get a new one?” She asked with excitement, always loving to get new toys.

“Red?” Nazomishi inquired knowing it was her favorite color.

“I love you.”

“I know you do.” The other captains looked at him strangely, even Naruto who had been walking around with them since reporting to Master Yoda. Well at least it was something to get him out of the funk he was in.

“What?...” Nazo's eyes shifted around between the other three. “So I'm dating her, so what?”

“Been dating her for a standard century you have.” Master Yoda commented playfully. Naruto's eye twitched a bit at that one… how on earth anyone could take things that slow. A FREKING CENTURY!

“You did all that stuff to get me with Hinata and all this time…”

“It would seem Master Nazo has commitment issues that he does.”

“Wait… I…Uh…you're not going to live this down are you?” Yup, their relationship was a strange one although what everyone short of Rei herself was unaware of was the customs on her planet. For some odd reason on her home planet… this was normal. (More details later) The one thing only Naruto knew was that at this very moment, Kyuu was laughing her head off.

---12:13 that night---

That night was dark and moonless, the sky was clear as crystal as if space itself had cried out every last drop of misery from the day. Kyle Katarn, a seated member of the Third division of the Zate walked home this night admiring the few stars he could actually see from this metropolitan part of Konoha. It was just past midnight when he finished a meeting with Windu on the events with Root's treachery. Lucky for him his years as a Zate had him use to nights with under six hours of sleep.

`Such a nicenight between two bloody days…'He thought unaware he was being watched. A strange short boy stood atop an electrical pole watching as Katarn walked by. The boy could hardly be five feet tall with a loose fitting cloak absorbing his body, as one would wear clothing in a desert for protection from the sun. His hair was a very light blond so pail it could be considered white if one didn't pay enough attention. As strange as his hair color was his face could ask a thousand questions to which there would be no answer. Eyes a light purple but withdrawn and detached from the world as if so deep in meditation that he were caught in a trance. His expression never changed as he watched Katarn pass by, noone wouldhave known that he even noticed Katarn if it weren't for the turn of his head fallowing the former Jedi's movements.

Like a phantom he faded from existence appearing behind Katarn, his sudden presence bringing the Jedi to an instant halt.

“I feel wisdom in you.” The boy spoke in an emotionless tone as if he were a child raised in Root from day one. Kyle was confused by this, this boy suddenly shows up behind him with no warning and says something like that? It was strange, a child with enough skill to sneak up on a Jedi was rare but this clearly took the cake from all he had encountered before. The worst part was the horrific feeling that came with him.

“Some have called me that; there are many so much more so than I.” Kyle spoke trying not to startle the boy into a brash course of action. Something frightened him about the boy, he couldn't feel anything in him, as if his soul were completely hallow of feelings, and immune to the all penetrating power of the Force.

“What is it to exist?” The boy asked in the same emotionless tone, which was further creeping Kyle out. And where did a question like that come from? What is it to exist….how the hell was anybody suppose to know that, even Yoda couldn't answer that one, at least… not without one of his cryptic answers that could probably be used to answer any question.

“Well…To exist I guess is to live and…” A strait, double edged blade found its way through Kyle's stomach as his eyes opened in shock. His body bent over in pain, falling limp over the boy's shoulder. Horrified shock was blatant in the barely living eyes of the Zate.

“There are only two absolutes, we will be born and we will die, it will only end when all has died. To exist is to die. This is the only true existence.” The boy pulled his blade out of Kyle's stomach as he rolled the body off of himself. The removal of the blade caused more damage. Kyle died as the blade slit his heart killing him instantly.

“Those who think otherwise are always first.” The words faded into the night as leafs began to fly around the boy who soon faded from existence leaving the dead body of a Zate as the only evidence that he had ever been there.

Next chapter: The Great Shinobi Massacre

Chapter notes: Wow that was a difficult rewrite. It was original 8000 words but I really got Danzo all wrong and practically rewrote the entire chapter. Then I had to take out some stuff that didn't really fit with the plot anymore so look forward to the next chapter. The great Shinobi massacre begins.