章 26: Unavoidable Meeting 2...
Chapter 12.5 - Unavoidable Meeting 2...
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Clash. Aquaman and Orm are currently on a stalemate as both of them were able to attack and counter each other's moves. Orm takes advantage of his mid-range weapon, Poseidon Spear to keep Aquaman away from him but Aquaman neutralized the reach advantage easily since he is a much better fighter than Orm. But since he can't use his left hand that effectively, he can't land a meaningful attack against Orm.
Orm once again aimed to impale his brother's head, only to be blocked by the metal hook that replaced Aquaman's left hand. The King took advantage of it as he punches Orm directly on the face that send him flying a few meters. He landed with his back lying on the ground.
'Why does brother always beats me at anything? Why!?' Orm thought. Atlantean citizens knew him as Aquaman's brother, and will always be. His brother is always ahead of him several times… in strength, fighting prowess, marrying a beautiful wife whom he also has feelings for… and also as a King who is respected by the entire Atlantis. Even if he is always standing side by side with his brother, he is still nothing more than a shadow… someone who is bound to serve his brother his entire life.
"It's over." Aquaman stood on top of him, glaring towards him as if he is a pathetic bug below his feet. True, they rarely have fights as brothers, and they do always respect each other's opinion. But in the end, since his brother is a King, his opinions don't matter at all. That's why he plotted everything. He wanted to overthrow his brother from the Kingdom, became the King, and stole his wife away from him. And he will make himself the most renowned King in Atlantis history. And there is no other way for doing so than eliminating the entire human race… the sole duty that all of the previous Kings don't have the guts to do so.
"You're right. And you've lost!" Orm quickly picked up the Poseidon Spear and fired it at the Thermo Reactor's Control, destroying it and its circuit. Aquaman got surprised after seeing that his brother is willing to go this far. But his thinking is halted by the lightning attack from the Poseidon Spear generated by Orm. The King is thrown a few meters away due to the attack with pained expression on his face.
"The tide is against you." Orm said as he approached his near-unconscious brother. "The reactor can't be shut down."
On the other hand, Green Lantern and Batman landed outside of the glacier where the Thermo Reactor is located along with the battling Aquaman and Orm. After seeing how the heat still continued to rise as the icebergs and glaciers continued to melt wherever they look…
"We're too late!" Green Lantern exclaimed.
"Not yet!" Batman quickly replied as the two heroes ran inside the hidden passage within the glacier to locate the Reactor.
Aquaman stood up after barely dodging another attack from Orm and landed another right straight on his face. The King aims to stab Orm with the blade from his left arm's hook but Orm managed to parry with the Poseidon Spear. The skirmish between the brothers continued.
Batman and Green Lantern saw the battling brothers and as much as they want to help, they need to take advantage of the situation seeing how Orm got occupied with his battle against Aquaman. The heroes quickly approached the Thermo Reactor. Batman quickly looked for the controls of the Thermo Reactor but since it is already been destroyed by Orm earlier…
"No good! I'll have to go inside the reactor and manually shut it down." Batman explained to Green Lantern.
"Inside?" Green Lantern replied in surprise. "That's too dangerous!"
"Your ring! Can it protect me?" Batman said without wasting any time.
"We'll find out." Green Lantern replied as he enveloped Batman with the green energy created from his Lantern Ring. Batman quickly opened a part of the reactor and started crawling inside it. They don't have much time left to spare. It's all or nothing.
Orm continued to fire lightning attacks from the Poseidon's Spear while Aquaman dodged the attacks. However, Orm saw Green Lantern doing something on the reactor. He quickly aimed his spear towards Green Lantern to knock him out.
"No! Get away from that!" Orm shouted as he fired the lightening from the tip of the spear. Green Lantern saw it however, since his Lantern Ring is already at use as Batman's armor inside the Reactor, he has no way to defend himself against the incoming lightning attack. If he got hit, he knew that he can take the attack but he will lose concentration and drop the Lantern energy that envelopes Batman. And who knows what might happen to the Dark Knight after it.
However, the Shinobi arrived on the last second right behind Green Lantern and sharply threw a kunai with explosive tag to the approaching lightning, creating a massive explosion that blew Orm for several meters away.
"Right on time!" Naruto smirked to himself.
"Always arriving on the last second. You better do something about that tardiness of yours." Green Lantern said to the Shinobi.
"Blame one of my Senseis for that." The Shinobi replied.
"Orm, stop!" Naruto and Green Lantern heard the approaching Aquaman beneath the smoke and rubbles. The King leaped up high and attempts to stab Orm with his left arm hook's blade.
"I knew you'd defend them!" Orm took advantage of the airborne King and fires the Poseidon Spear to Aquaman.
"Shit!" Aquaman, with no means to maneuver himself mid-air, got struck by another lightning strike from the Spear that knocks him down to the ground almost unconscious. He has already been hit by that lightning several times in their fight and it has already severely weakened him now.
After seeing Aquaman's weakened state, Orm takes advantage of it and aimed to impale Aquaman one last time. "You can no longer dodge me this time. Die brother!" Orm thrusts the spear forward however…
"Not in front of me you freaking bastard!" Naruto appeared right beside him and punched him on his face with his usual strength and not equipping any Chakra or using his Uzumaki heritage enhanced strength that he gained thru training in the dimension rift. After all, even before acquiring all the power-ups like Sage Mode and Jinchuuriki forms and his training with Juubi Kurama, Naruto already has impressive strength parameter that is above your regular Jounin-level Shinobi. Orm is sent flying and pinned against the wall of the iceberg in a split second right after the punch landed on his face.
"Hokage…" Aquaman looked towards the Shinobi.
"You've done enough. Let me handle him for now." Naruto said as he approached Orm.
Orm quickly recovered himself from the sudden attack of the Shinobi. He quickly looked towards the newly arrived teenage kid who is looking towards him in a cold glare.
"How dare you attack me, you useless human!" Orm charged with his spear, aiming to impale the Shinobi. Naruto just dodged easily and gives another right hand straight punch to Orm. This sends Orm being pinned again on the exact same location where he landed from the first punch.
"Are you satisfied now?" Naruto asked with serious expression. The Shinobi can see the miasma surrounding Orm getting stronger and stronger. The Weiss within Orm must have already consumed a lot of negative energy from him. However, the miasma is still only visible for him so Aquaman and the heroes cannot see it at all.
"Satisfied? I can't be! Not until I beat the hell out of you! All of you!" Orm yelled as he again fires lightning Magic from the Poseidon Spear. But Naruto easily dodged it an in a flash, reappeared right in front of Orm and punched him on his solar plexus, leaving Orm gasping for air. The punch also breaks Orm's armor as its broken pieces falls to the ground.
"Why are you doing this Orm? Do you really hate your brother so much that you're willing to kill him?!" Naruto roared towards Orm.
"I hate him! I hate everything about him! I hate his existence! That's why I want to kill him!" Orm said in pure rage as he attacks Naruto with the Poseidon Spear with Naruto parrying it with a regular kunai without even trying. "He stole everything from me! He is acknowledged as a King and Atlantis treats me only as his useless shadow! Even if I try everything by my own, I will always end up as an inferior one against my brother! If only he didn't existed… if only he didn't existed… then I will become the best! Not as someone who is living behind the shadow of my brother!"
Aquaman stood up after hearing Orms words. He didn't know that his brother has such emotions hidden deep within him that he is not telling anyone the entire time. This makes the King angry. This made him think that Orm is simply deceiving him the entire time until he found the perfect opportunity to take over Atlantis.
"If you're that angry against your brother, why do bend your anger against the surface dwellers?!" Naruto shot back as he kick Orm away, pinning him once again against the wall again.
"Because all of the previous Kings of Atlantis are weak and gutless, including my brother!" Orm replied as he got up. His body is now starting to ache all over due to the beating that he is receiving from the Shinobi. "All of them treat humanity as a threat, yet they don't want to lay a hand against you surface scums! That's why I am just doing what the other Kings should have done a long time ago! Eliminate the surface world to protect Atlantis! That way, the people of Atlantis will acknowledge me after removing the threat! And I will be known as the greatest King of Atlantis and surpass my brother!"
"So you want to wipe out the entire surface world just to be acknowledged?" Naruto said seriously. "Then you really are not worthy to become a King, you idiot!"
That instance, Superman, Wonder Woman, and the Martian also arrived on the scene. After defeating the entire Atlantean fleet, they quickly rushed over to help if needed. They saw Green Lantern and Batman shutting down the reactor manually. So they quickly turn towards Aquaman who is watching how the Shinobi reasoned out with his brother. Superman and Wonder Woman attempted to attack Orm and help the Shinobi however, Aquaman halted their advance silently by stretching his right arm to his side horizontally.
"A human lowlife like you will never understand me!" Orm replied as he blasted another lightning attack towards Naruto. However, Naruto disappears from his current location. And much to his surprise, he saw Naruto leaning down in front of him…
"Yeah! I don't understand and I don't want to understand!" Naruto kicks Orm's gut upwards, sending the Atlantean airborne. Naruto then uses Kage Buyo (Leaf Shadow Dance). This movement is used by acting as a shadow of the opponent who is in vulnerable aerial position. This move by itself is harmless, but it is usable as a stepping stone for a great many powerful Taijutsu moves… specially on the Taijutsu attack that Naruto is about to perform.
"A King is someone who shoulders the responsibility not only his people, but everyone else! He is the guide for everyone so they can also take the proper path and dreams that they want! The King should be the one who inspires everyone! If you want to become a King for the sole personal reason of wanting to be acknowledged, then you have no right to become a King!" Naruto said fiercely while thinking about the previous Hokages… Then he started performing his Taijutsu maneuver.
Both Orm and Naruto are now airborne with their bodies lying horizontally in the air with Naruto behind Orm. The Shinobi grabs the collar of the armor at the back, spins himself in the air to give a powerful downward kick to Orm's stomach. Upon inflicting the first blow, Naruto spin around and rise again for further assaults with multiple but random combinations of punches and kicks. Since the fall is increased in velocity with each blow, the damage when one is eventually struck to the ground is inconceivable. And with one final move before Orm landed on the ground, Naruto spins and gives another downward kick in the stomach, making Orm cough blood. Naruto leaps away after the last attack as Orm is pinned to the ground, creating a 20-meter wide, 2-meter deep crater.
"That's my NAMIKAZE RENDAN (Wind Wave Combo). It's my own variation of Sasuke's Shishi Rendan." Naruto said to himself. "A brother figure for me have told me once before. 'The village will not acknowledge someone who just because he became a Hokage. Someone became a Hokage because the Village acknowledged him. Don't forget your comrades who fought the same side with you.' The reason your brother became a King is because Atlantis acknowledged him. If you force to be acknowledged on your own alone while leaving everyone else suffer, then you don't have any right to become a King."
The heroes are silent while listening to the Shinobi's statement. Too silent that even Batman who is still inside the Reactor who is manually shutting it down was able to hear Naruto's statement.
"Those are the same words that he told me during the Alien Invasion." Superman muttered.
"And those words further verify who that kid really is." Aquaman said without looking towards Superman.
"Do you really think that Atlantis will acknowledge you after you wipe out the surface world? Do you really understand why the previous Kings don't want to wage a war against humanity? If you can't answer that, then get this thru this thick skull of yours. The Kings values peace and safety of his people. So the Kings will not wage a useless war against any country! And Atlantis will only think of you as a Barbarian King who will execute anything even if it costs billions of lives. Is it really the way you want to be acknowledged by your people?" Naruto shouted towards the near unconscious Orm who lying in the middle of the crater.
"All… that I ever wanted… is to be acknowledge as who I am… not just as a shadow of my brother…" Orm said while breathing heavily due to the damage of Naruto's attacks.
"Then all you need to do is look for another path where you can be acknowledged as who you are, not by over-throwing your King." Naruto replied. "Because you cannot acquire peace if you continuously yearn for war. Remove the darkness within your heart and start moving forward."
"After all I have done… that's impossible…" Orm replied.
"It is possible." Aquaman replied as he stood beside the young Hokage. "You're still my brother. But that doesn't mean that you can get away with all of this easily. You will still need to pay for your crimes."
"I see…" Orm said while looking towards Aquaman. The King then picked up the Poseidon Spear.
"I believe this is mine." Aquaman said, still with a glare towards Orm.
"Yes. I lost… as always." Orm said, realizing that he is slowly drifting into unconsciousness. Superman, Wonder Woman, the Martian and the Shinobi then ran towards Green Lantern and Batman.
"Hurry Batman!" Green Lantern said. The Dark Knight on the other hand has been able to finally found the valve that can cool off the heat from Thermo Reactor and he has been able to twist it with all his strength. The event immediately cools down the Thermo Reactor.
"It shut down! You did it!" Green Lantern greeted the Batman who getting out of the Reactor. He is also greeted by the other members of the Justice League present in the venue.
"No. We did." Batman replied to the group.
"Hey Shinobi." Wonder Woman approached Naruto with a smile. "Those words that you have said earlier… I can't believe that someone of your age can possibly say that. And the fighting technique that you have used to take down Orm is marvelous. Now I can say that I really do believe that you are someone special from the world where you came from."
"Not really." Naruto scratches the back of his head in embarrassment. "I'm just like everyone else."
Batman approached Superman. "He will definitely become a vital member of the team." He said in a low voice that anyone can't hear.
"Yeah. That's why we need to tell him as soon as possible about us inviting him to join the Justice League." Superman replied.
"And the threat is over…" Aquaman, who is still standing near Orm's near unconscious body, spoke.
Naruto then sensed something different towards Orm. "Oh no! The Weiss!" Naruto muttered.
"GGGWWWAAAHHHH!" Orm started to yell in pain as his body is now emitting a very thick, condensed black fog that is visible for anyone.
"What's happening Orm!?" Aquaman asked sharply, thinking that Orm may have another ace up his sleeve.
"No. That's the darkness residing within Orm. It is the darkness that he hid within himself for a long time… the darkness that made him do everything that happened!" Naruto respond, much to the surprise of the heroes. Naruto, with the current inevitable situation on hand, got no other choice but to tell these heroes what actually is going on. But he will need to be careful on his words for the heroes not to know the existence of the realm called Nifheim. He will tell what they need to know, but not everything.
"You mean Orm is being manipulated the entire time?" Green Lantern asked as the Justice League prepares for another battle.
"I don't know the specifics but that darkness ability is to stir you with negative thoughts and emotions, making the dark, hidden feelings in your heart surface and before you knew it, you are doing it on your own. Orm already has a gap in his heart, making this darkness take advantage of it. So Orm is not technically manipulated. His darkness just pushed him to do all this." Naruto explained vaguely.
"Then why does the darkness within his heart is materializing now?" the Martian asked.
"I don't know… but…" Naruto thought about the Edo Tenseis. Once the revived corpse has been able to meet a proper closure for his emptiness, the Edo Tensei jutsu will dispel themselves. After seeing Orm seemingly fill the gap within his heart due to the battle earlier, the Weiss might have loss the space within Orm, allowing him to materialize and revive as his own entity in this world. "Maybe the darkness within Orm's heart is filled after the battle, pushing the darkness away within him and allowing it to materialize right in front of us."
The miasma continues to spread throughout the glacier as Orm continued to shout in pain. The Weiss within him is now starting to materialize on the outside world and Naruto cannot do anything but to grit his teeth in anticipation.
"Why does it seem like you know a lot about this thing?" Superman asked as he also took his battle stance.
"Experience, Superman." The Shinobi replied without looking back. "And besides, you should be familiar with this aura. We have already fought something like this after all."
"Don't tell me…" Superman looked towards the Shinobi in surprise.
"Yes… It is the same as that of the Demon we have fought several weeks ago… When this thing materializes, this will become a powerful Demon like the one that we have fought before." Naruto answered.
"And it seems like this one is a lot more sinister and powerful than the one we fought before." Batman said as the glacier started to shake violently, making several ice debris fall on top of them.
"Hera…" Is all that the Princess of the Amazon could say.
The miasma has been able to finally pour out of Orm completely as it leaves Orm's unconscious body falling on the ground. Aquaman caught his brother's falling body while looking towards the materializing miasma with full of anger.
"How dare you manipulate my brother?!" Aquaman muttered in rage.
"Everyone! Let's get out of here quick! The entire glacier is about to collapse!" Superman shouted. The group started to run outside the glacier as it collapsed and bury the materializing Weiss.
The group is now standing a few hundred meters away from the collapsing glacier where the Thermo Reactor is located. However, the materializing Weiss has been able to channel it's miasma through the cracks of the destroyed glaciers. Then, the miasma gathered together and compressed each other in mid-air. The black fog started forming into a certain demonic figure…
The demonic figure is about 15-foot high, its figure is somewhat skeletal with oversized bones that seemingly covers the vital parts of its body. On the middle of the skeletal features are indigo-colored toned muscles that somewhat symbolizes its unknown nature of strength. Its arms don't have hands, but instead it is composed of three gargantuan claws each. Behind it also employs large demonic wings with claws on its protrusions. And its head also has two large horns spawned on both sides, the horns rivaling the size as that of his claws. And the power that oozes out of his body can be felt several kilometers away…
The very moment that the demonic being materialized, the sky on the North Pole where Naruto and the others currently were darkened with thick black clouds that reaches the horizon in a few seconds and multiple lightning started to strike down the glaciers relentlessly. The glaciers where they are currently standing are shaking along with the other glaciers around them. The Shinobi and the Justice League can feel enormous power within the floating demonic figure that is looking down towards them like insects.
"So it has finally materialized… that Weiss…" Naruto muttered to himself.
"It's a lot smaller than the Demon that we have fought a few weeks ago… but its power… I can feel it is on an entirely different level than the other one…" Superman gritted his teeth.
"Does this mean that the Demon that we have fought last time also materializes in the same way?" Batman asked without looking.
"Yes. That's just my theory but most probably." Naruto replied vaguely.
"And according to what Batman told us before, it cannot be defeated by any ordinary means. That thing can only be defeated by beating it down to pulp first before being sealed away?" Wonder Woman asked as she took her fighting stance.
"That's right. However, since this guy is a lot more powerful than the first one that we have fought, then it will be a different story." Naruto answered. Then…
"Finally… Ningenkai…" The demonic figure spoke with full killing intent. "My stupid host has fed me a lot of negative energy… Now I have regained my full power once again…" The demonic figure then looked towards the superheroes. "I never thought that humans have such hospitality… even going out of their way just to provide me an early meal like these rats…"
"It has sentience unlike Lullaby?" Naruto said with Batman and Superman thinking the same. He then shouted towards the demonic figure. "Who are you? What's your objective?"
"You rats don't have any right to talk to me!" The demonic figure releases a powerful aura that creates a powerful gust of wind that blows the heroes away, except for Naruto who applied Chakra on his foot to stabilize himself. And much to Naruto's amazement, the Weiss created a 300-foot wide crater below him just by releasing its demonic energy against them even if it is levitating several meters above the glaciers. "I am the great Archfiend Skull… and I will be the new ruler of Ningenkai!" (This Weiss appearance is technically Summoned Skull/Skull Archfiend of Lightning from Yu-Gi-Oh Card Game. For an overview of the image, simply type 'Summoned Skull Anniversary Pack' in Google Images. I just changed its name to make it sound a little cooler.)
"You don't want to talk to me yet you still reveal your name? You may have sentience but I can see that you're an idiot." Naruto grinned while glaring towards the Weiss.
"Shut up Ningen!" The Archfiend Skull growled as he fired a powerful demonic beam towards Naruto….
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Nifheim… Within the Runaway Spirit Squad' Chief's Office…
"Finally… Archfiend Skull has materialized…" Fiore smirked evilly while watching the scene on a monitor.
"Capture Level 45… Archfiend Skull is a lot more powerful than Lullaby… This monster has enough power capable of leveling an entire country in an instant without even trying. Now then… with this, we can determine what the Chosen Child can actually do or even eliminate him if we have an opportunity to do so." Lune said while watching in an amused expression. "I believe even those heroes who are with him will not even stood a chance against Archfiend Skull… Hn?"
"I believe that as well, Lune-sama." Fiore replied. "Let Archfiend Skull prepare the welcome party of Vintage in Ningenkai!"
"Yes. Show your power to against the entire world!" Lune grinned evilly while watching the battling Shinobi and Archfiend Skull.
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Maijima Town… The town where Naruto and the Norse Goddesses lives… a certain girl is looking above the sky as she can feel a very powerful demonic presence that has just appeared out of nowhere…
"What is this feeling…?" Tenri Ayukawa muttered. "It's much more evil and powerful than the Demon you called Lullaby, Diana…"
"Indeed. A Weiss has respawned once again." Goddess Diana spoke within Tenri. "And this is a lot more powerful than the one that Naruto have fought before… just what is actually happening in Nifheim? What happened to the seal that was created to bind the Weiss?"
"What are you talking about, Diana?" Tenri inquired.
"That's nothing." Diana avoided the topic. "However, it looks like my Goddess power that was awakened within you gave you some ability to sense if something is wrong. I'm glad to know about that."
"I guess we share the same body… so I somehow acquire that power from you without me even knowing." Tenri replied.
"That's normal. If someone has a Goddess within them, they should also feel if something is wrong… like what you have sensed just now." Diana clarified. "But one thing is for sure. Something is definitely wrong within Nifheim… and the Ningenkai will be affected by it… greatly…"
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On some other random parts of Maijima town…
"What's happening? What's this uneasy feeling?" Shiori Shiomiya said as she stopped reading her book for a moment and stare outside her room's window.
"Why does my body feel heavy all of a sudden?" Ayumi Takahara muttered while looking around in wary as she is resting on her own room.
"Why do I feel like this all of a sudden?" Yui Goido, who is currently taking a bath, said as she stopped washing herself.
"Are you also feeling this weird presence, Luna?" Tsukiyo Kujo asked her doll beside her as she stopped combing her beautiful hair in front of the mirror.
"Apollo? What's this presence? It's terrifying…" Kanon Nakagawa asked her reflection while resting on the backstage.
"Something is terribly wrong, Kanon… I don't know what's happening… but whatever it is… it's definitely not good." Apollo replied seriously. "This is the 2nd incident that another powerful Weiss appeared in Ningenkai… That simply means… that the seal that binds the Weiss has been broken…"
"Weiss… Seal?" Kanon muttered in worry. "What are those?" However, Apollo didn't reply and just disappeared from the reflection. "Just what is Actually happening?" Kanon said to herself while looking outside the window.
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"I can feel it… Another Weiss has been revived somewhere..." Urd said as she is standing at the temple grounds, looking at the sky…
"And it is a lot more powerful than the one that Naruto have fought before…" Belldandy replied as she is looking around beside Urd.
"Do you think that this has anything to do with the Atlantis problem?" Keiichi asked the Goddesses.
"I don't know." Belldandy replied. "But if it does… then Naruto will be caught right in the middle of it again…"
"Naruto…" Skuld looked at the sky with worried expression. "Please come back as soon as possible… I'll never forgive you of you got hurt… you dummy…" She said as she clasped her hands in front of her chest as if she is praying.
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Somewhere in Japan…
"Yusuke… Were you able to sense it?" Yoko Kurama said as the group stopped walking.
"Yeah… I can feel it… an S-Class level Demon appeared somewhere…" Yusuke said.
"And that's not all… It seems like the person we are looking for is fighting with it…" Hiei smirked.
"Then what are we waiting for! Let's go!" Botan materializes her staff and flew away with the Three Kings of Makai uses their blinding speed to follow the presence that they have sensed.
"We're coming at you… Shinobi kid!" Yusuke said with a confident grin…
-Scene Change-
Naruto uses Shunshin to evade the demonic beam that was fired towards him by the Archfiend Skull. The Shinobi then sharply threw a Hiraishin kunai directly targeting the Weiss's head. Archfiend Skull just flicked the kunai with its claw as if it is nothing, making the kunai flinging above his head. However, Naruto took advantage of it as he flashed directly to the Hiraishin kunai in mid-air with his right hand, and in a split second, returns it to his pocket and drew a kunai with explosive tag. And he used the left hand with Uzumaki strength to aim for an overhead punch against the Demon, but Archfiend Skull simply dodged it by moving sideways.
With his target now out of range, Naruto tried to maneuver himself in mid-air for another attack but the demon reacted by attempting to kick Naruto away. Naruto blocked the kick with his left arm but he is still sent flying due to the force. The impact actually sends shockwaves for several meters. While skidding to the ground due to the impact, Naruto threw the kunai with explosive tag towards the Weiss. However, Archfiend Skull casually caught it like a simple toy.
"A pathetic toy like this won't even scratch me, puny human!" Archfiend Skull glared.
"Is that so?" Naruto smirked under his Kakashi-mask after landing on the ground. "BAKU!" Naruto yelled after a single hand sign. The explosive tag attached in the kunai exploded violently that somehow surprised the demon. Naruto applied a lot more Chakra on that explosive tag to create a much powerful explosion. The dust from the explosion cleared and Naruto saw Archfiend Skull with its demonic wings spread apart in mid-air, his arms that caught the explosion has burns. However, due to the Weiss physiology, the damage started to regenerate right away.
"What can you say? It scratched you, bastard!" Naruto grinned, as if taunting the Demon.
"Shut the hell up!" Archfiend Skull roared as he prepared to attack the Shinobi however, he then noticed multiple small talismans with weird insignia floating around him after the dust from the explosion cleared, resembling sakura petals. The talismans seem to be drawn towards him and stick directly on his flesh and skin. After all the talismans have already been stuck on his flesh and skin, Archfiend Skull wondered what kind of trick does the Shinobi plan to do…
"NINPOU: GOJOUKI BAKUFUDA (Ninja Art: Intersecting Exploding Talismans)!" Naruto yelled the jutsu's name as all the talismans attached on Archfiend Skull's body exploded at the same time, creating multiple but simultaneous explosions that shakes the entire place. Each talismans destructive power is similar to the first exploding tag that Naruto used against the Demon and the simultaneous explosion shakes the glaciers of the North Pole, as if a high-magnitude earthquake is occurring.
However, the unique part of the jutsu is that after the talismans exploded, the talismans will continuously summon another set of exploding talismans and each talisman can summon 10 additional explosive talismans to explode repeatedly, creating serial converging explosions. And each talismans explosive power that will be summoned after its successive explosion will be much powerful than before. Thus, each explosion covers larger area than before each time a new talisman is summoned and it will only stop if the user of the jutsu will deactivate it. (The same jutsu that Tobirama Senju used against Rikudo Obito from Chapter 639 of the Manga).
"GGGRRRAAAHHH!" The Demon yelled in pain as the seemingly nonstop explosions continue to hurt him.
"What is that?!" Batman shouted towards the Shinobi as he is struggling to hold his ground due to the shockwaves of explosion.
"Just brace yourselves and take the entire Atlantean Army away from here as far as possible!" Naruto yelled back. "That attack will temporarily hold the Archfiend bastard back! Go!"
"I will not be going anywhere!" Aquaman replied. "That monster manipulated my brother so I will beat that thing with my own hands!"
"You can't!" Superman fiercely replied. "Your job as a King is to ensure your soldiers safety! Only you can guide them!"
"Superman's right." Wonder Woman said while also bracing herself from the shockwaves of the explosion. "This is no longer your battle anymore."
"Alright. Lantern and I will go with Aquaman to take the Atlantean Army away from here." The Batman spoke. "Superman, Wonder Woman and J'onn will provide Shinobi back-up in fighting that Demon. We'll be back as soon as possible!"
The Justice League agreed with the plan. Aquaman, Green Lantern and Batman started sorting the Atlanteans away by gathering them together and dropping them several kilometers away in the sea thru Green Lantern's Ring with Batman pointing the coordinates and Aquaman commanding the wounded army. The three other heroes flew beside Naruto while bracing the continuous explosion that is now literally shaking the entire North Pole. The explosion now expanded 3000 meters wide while in mid-air and still continues to expand in every passing second. However, Naruto knew that this will not be enough to defeat the Demon.
-Mindscape-
"What are you doing shrimp!?" Juubi Kurama roared towards Naruto. "You're fighting a Demon more powerful than that Lullaby but you're just fighting as a Jounin-level?"
"What's wrong with that? I need to hold this Demon back for now so the Justice League can send the Atlantean soldiers near here away. And also I want to know what the abilities of this thing are before executing the proper way to defeat and seal it. Maybe we could get some other information regarding Weiss as well from this battle." Naruto explained.
"Whatever. If you fight as a Kage-level or above, you could easily take down that thing, regardless of its skills and weakness. You're the only one who makes things harder than it looks like… just like on how you fought those soldiers earlier in Shodaime Hokage's level." Juubi Kurama replied.
"Yeah. But we have reinforcements here." Naruto said pertaining to Superman, Wonder Woman and the Martian beside him. "They'll do the beating and I'll do the sealing."
"Keh. Do what you want. I'm going to sleep." Juubi Kurama snorted. However… he feels that something odd is about to happen… he doesn't know why… it maybe just a gut feeling… but he can definitely tell… something is about to happen… "Don't let your guard down kid…"
-Mindscape Out-
Naruto then felt the sudden increase in power of the Demon that is still within the explosion of Gojouki Bakufuda. Then…
"RRRAAAWWWRRR….!" Archfiend Skull roared while releasing powerful demonic energy in form of a semi transparent dark orb that surrounds its body. The energy orb created from Demon energy expands further to disperse the continuous explosion created by Naruto's jutsu. The Weiss is now levitating mid-air as he removed the energy sphere with few bruises and damage from the jutsu, albeit it is now regenerating rapidly like that of Lullaby. Its demonic wings are lightly flapping on his back and now, he currently has a demonic axe on his right hand. Archfiend Skull is now continuously emitting high amounts of demonic energy from its body. Seeing how the Weiss was able to easily disperse a powerful jutsu like that, Naruto dispelled the Gojouki Bakufuda.
"This thing really is a lot stronger than Lullaby." Naruto muttered to the heroes beside him.
"Lullaby… Do you mean the giant Demon we fought before?" Superman asked as he glared towards the levitating Demon.
"Yes." Naruto nodded in response. "The jutsu that I have used against this guy just now is more than enough to knock Lullaby out. However, this thing simply shrugs it off."
"Alright. So all we need to do is to give this Archfiend Skull a beating which is more damaging than what we did on Lullaby." Superman said and the Shinobi responded with a nod once again.
"We'll have that covered." Wonder Woman said as she prepared to attack.
"Prepare your sealing powers while we create an opening for you." J'onn said as the heroes flew directly towards Archfiend Skull.
"Wait guys!" Naruto replied only to fall on deaf ears. "Damn. Superman should have realized that this thing will simply shrug off physical attacks and regenerate easily when its body is damaged!"
Superman charged directly with super-speed directly towards the Demon. The Weiss simply fired a demonic beam towards him and he barely dodged it. The Man of Steel then pulled his right hand and aimed for a right straight punch, only to be blocked by Archfiend Skull's arm. But Superman followed up another punch with his left hand and hit the Demon on the face, creating powerful shockwaves and sending the Demon flying down the glaciers. The Demon managed to balance itself before landing violently on the glaciers, only to found Wonder Woman's lasso wrapped around him. The Princess of Themyscira pulled the Demon and slams it on a mountain-sized glacier violently with her super-strength, destroying the glacier in the process and burying the Demon within its debris.
Archfiend Skull charged another powerful demonic energy that disintegrates the debris of the destroyed glaciers that buried him, shaking the entire venue. He stretches both his left and right hand and fires demonic beams to Wonder Woman and Superman in a split second. The blast caught the two heroes off guard and hit directly, sending them flying on their own. J'onn then uses his intangibility powers to appear right behind the Demon and attempts to mind-hack the Demon. However, the rage of the Demon is too much for him to take and he is the one who got affected by the Demon's mind rage. Seemingly stunned after the ordeal, the Martian is sent flying as well by the Demon with a swipe from its tail.
Wonder Woman get-up on her feet and dashes towards Archfiend Skull in blinding speed. Archfiend Skull saw this and also dashes directly towards Wonder Woman on a much faster speed than hers, surprising the Princess. Both of them met half-way and attack each other, creating another earth-shaking shockwaves, only to end up with Wonder Woman stumbling several times on the ground before hitting another glacier with pained expression on her face.
Superman flew and fired his Heat Vision towards the Demon. The Weiss sensed this and fired his own demonic beam from its eyes towards the incoming Heat Vision. The two beams collided. And after a few seconds, Superman's Heat Vision got over-powered and the demonic beam blasted Superman away. The Martian then also dashed towards the Weiss with his super-speed while shape-shifting into a hulk-like creature mid-way. The Martian landed several powerful punches with matching shockwaves to Archfiend Skull, but the Weiss caught his fist with its left hand and fired a demonic beam against him from its mouth, making the Martian pinned on another glacier, reverting him on his usual form.
"Amusing… THIS IS AMUSING!" Archfiend Skull roared after the skirmish as he roared while releasing powerful demonic energy. The darkened sky started to flicker some lightning, then it became a literal massive thunderstorm that covered the entire half of the North Pole. The lightning hit the heroes and they all yelled in pain from the attack while the other lightning struck the glaciers, creating large trenches on its wake.
"I knew this wouldn't work!" Naruto glared towards the Demon as he saw the massive destruction that it is creating while dodging multiple lightning. Naruto then drew a Chakra Sword (The same Chakra Sword that Naruto used in the Shippuden 4th Movie,: The Lost Tower) and channeled some Chakra into it, making it look like a glowing long sword with 1.5 meter in length. He then used Shunshin to stop the Archfiend Skull on casting the demonic lightning.
Archfiend Skull saw this and stopped his lightning attack. Naruto landed right before him on a split second and swung his Wind Chakra infused-Chakra Sword to the Demon's head, only to be blocked by the Archfiend's massive demonic axe. Naruto pulled the sword away again, and swung it again towards the Weiss while the Archfiend Skull did the same. The weapons clashed mid-way, creating a shockwave that creates a large crater beneath the two. Naruto then uses Kenjutsu techniques while Archfiend Skull battles with his axe mastery. The two weapons deflects, blocks and attack each other while continuously creating shockwaves each and every time. The speed of the two combatants continued to increase and they start moving on random locations while clashing in blinding speed.
Naruto can actually just use his destructive jutsus like Fuuton: Rasenshuriken against the Demon since the Rasenshuriken's billions of tiny chakra blades can cause physical damage on a cellular level as those blades' attacks every cell of the body, on top of the already impressive destructive power of the jutsu will be more than enough to give massive damage to the ever regenerating Weiss. However, he decided to hold back for now since the Justice League might got caught within the range of the jutsu's destructive power and effects
As Naruto and Archfiend Skull continued to clash their weapons to each other in blinding speed, Wonder Woman and the Martian flew towards Superman as three of them takes some damage due to the battle against the Weiss and they watch how the Shinobi battles the Demon. However, due the speed of the two combatants, only Superman can actually catch up with their movements with the Martian and Wonder Woman barely following them and they can only the clashing metallic sounds. Each time the two weapons clash, it creates shockwaves and trenches on the same location where they collide and also leaves a small crater every time.
"What an amazing battle…" Wonder Woman muttered.
"To think that the Shinobi can fight against that Demon on equal grounds…" The Martian spoke emotionlessly.
"He compliments his abilities and powers with skills… I can't believe it…" Superman said with his eyes wandering in random directions to follow the movements between Naruto and the Weiss.
However, Naruto suddenly stopped his movements after sensing powerful presences approaching their location… They are trying to suppress their power… but as a trained Sensor-Type Shinobi, he can feel huge amounts of power within those beings… something that he never thought that he will encounter in this world aside from the Goddesses and Nifheim denizens.
'Who are they? Why are they heading here?' Naruto thought as he quickly distanced himself away from Archfiend Skull and immediately look towards the direction where he felt the approaching presences. He automatically concluded that those presences are heading directly on where they currently are because of the events happening on the location. 'Are they after the Justice League? Or this Weiss? Or possibly… after me?' Naruto gritted his teeth in wary.
"Why did you distance yourself away, puny human?" Archfiend roared towards the Shinobi. They are currently around 50 meters away from each other. But the Shinobi ignores him while looking worried in a specific location. "Don't ignore me!?" The Demon shouted as he swings his demonic axe towards the Shinobi's direction, creating a massive pressurized air slash directed towards Naruto.
Naruto sensed it and quickly dodges away from the 20-foot high pressurized air slash. The air slash passed through the Shinobi however, the wind blade created by the attack created a 15-meter wide trench on the glaciers, stretching as far towards the horizon with unknown depths… Naruto narrowed his eyes after seeing the destruction created by a single swing from the Demon. It is just like a weaker version of the damage that the Sword of Nunoboku can produce if it is swung lightly while in its sealed form and around the same power of his Rankyaku on his current state…
The heroes got surprised after seeing the Demon's destructive power with a casual swing of its demonic axe. They knew that if they got hit by that kind of attack, it would definitely put them in serious trouble.
"Such destructive power just by swinging his axe… yet the Shinobi parries it earlier like a regular weapon…" Superman said.
"And it seemed like he doesn't seem to care about it." Wonder Woman said as she saw how Naruto look towards a specific direction without even being surprised from the Weiss' attack.
"I believe he sensed something far more troubling than the one he is fighting right now. However, I tried to sense it but I can't sense anything." The Martian spoke.
"I don't know who they are… what their objectives is or anything else about them…" Naruto muttered as he is still looking towards the direction of the presences that can possibly arrive anytime from now. "…So I better wrap things up here as soon as possible so I can confront them just in case." He said with his Chakra Sword clad with Wind Chakra still on his hands. "If I can't attack him with my destructive jutsus, then all I need to do is to attack him with powerful, smaller scale jutsus." He concluded as he dashed towards the Demon.
"That's great! Come and entertain me more!" Archfiend Skull also dashed towards him. The Demon pulled his axe behind his back for a powerful swinging attack while Naruto pointed his Chakra Sword in front of him using his right hand, parallel to his face. Naruto then executed the same sword style that he used against General Brak…
"HIRAISHINGIRI (Flying Thunder God Slash)!" Naruto executed his powerful Kenjutsu move, an attack that consists of three concurrent arching blades close on the enemy from all sides to create a prison, allowing no chance for defense or evasion that bends the laws of physics. Due to the speed and seemingly simultaneous slashes, the Weiss were only able to block the first slash and the two other slashes landed, creating a massive X-shaped wound on the Demon's chest. And since Wind Chakra is the one used on the attack, even if the Weiss is physically immune to physical attacks, it was able to cut through neatly like a hot knife slicing butter. The slashes created three powerful pressurized wind blades intersecting on the same point that neatly sliced nearby glaciers that extended on several hundreds of meters.
"GGGRRRAAHHH! What kind of power is that?!" Archfiend Skull roared. "But it is all nothing! I'll just regenerate and…"
"As if I'll give you enough time to regenerate!" Naruto roared as he took advantage of the range. He pulled his right hand with Chakra Sword away, and charges another attack with his left hand… "FUUTON: RASENGAN!" Naruto slammed the Wind-infused Rasengan directly on the intersection of the X-shaped wound on the Demon's body created by Hiraishingiri before it could regenerate. The Rasengan slammed the Demon on the glaciers, transformed into a large sphere of Wind Chakra similar to the size that the Rasenshuriken used against Edo Tensei 3rd Raikage and skidded several few hundred meters away, creating another trench on the glaciers.
The Chakra Sphere created by the Rasengan dispersed, displaying the Demon bathing on his own violet-colored blood with few chunks of flesh missing on its body in the middle of a 400-meter wide crater. Naruto then uses Shunshin: Geppou to kick the air as his stepping plane to quickly reappear a hundred meter above the bloodied Demon.
"Time to perform my own original jutsu!" Naruto yelled as he channeled very high but condensed amounts of Chakra on his right hand. But the Chakra being channeled is very dense, making it visible to naked eyes, technically like basketball-sized blue flames. He gripped his right hand and let the huge amount of chakra envelope it and changes the form of chakra to wind element. (The same way on how Natsu Dragneel equips his hands with flame while preparing to attack.) Naruto then uses Shunshin: Geppou once again to dash from mid-air towards the Archfiend in blinding speed…
"Ikke! FUUTON: SENPUKEN (Wind Release: Tornado Fist)!" Naruto slammed his right fist forcefully to the Demon's chest that literally shakes the entire area and creating powerful shockwaves. The Archfiend cried in pain while vomiting massive amounts of its own blood due to the attack. The crater where the attack is executed also expanded to few hundred meters wider. The power of the punch clearly surpasses Sakura's punch with Byakugo activated during the 4th Shinobi World War.
However, the true power of the jutsu is when the Chakra enveloping the hand is released. After a split second that the punch landed, Naruto released the high-density Chakra to his opponent's body and it transforms into a tornado with the tip drilling the same location where the punch specifically landed for several seconds. This will push the opponent away from the user of the jutsu and along with the impact of the attack and the power of the drilling tornado, inflicts massive damage that could kill any regular Shinobis in an instant. However, since the punch happened with the Demon lying on a crater, the tornado created by the attack simply drills the Archfiends body deeper, deepening the depth of the crater.
Naruto leaped away as he watched on how the tornado created by Fuuton: Senpuken drilled through the Demon's body. Then he prepared to seal it after receiving massive amounts of damage from his attacks. The Justice League members who are present on the location cannot help but watch the battle in awe as the tornado created by Naruto's last jutsu creates gust of winds that they could even feel even on a distance. The tornado dispersed in a matter of seconds and Naruto saw the Demon lying on the ground with large, gaping hole on its body aside from the massive damages on other parts of its body. The Weiss body is now starting to regenerate but due to the large damage, it has having trouble regenerating itself.
However, much to Naruto and the Justice League member's surprise, Archfiend Skull stood up and dashed towards the sky despite his current physical condition. The Demon is now breathing heavily and is too weak to fight back even if he is regenerating gradually. The Demon stopped right beneath the darkened sky and extended his arms on both sides…
"You may have beaten me, puny human… But you cannot kill me!" Archfiend Skull yelled. The Demon then charges huge amount of demonic energy within his body. "This is my ultimate power… I'll eliminate you all, including this part of the planet! I will disintegrate your existence! This will destroy my body but I'll regenerate anyway so I don't care!" The lightning once again started to struck down on the glaciers as the power of the Weiss continued to rise again.
"Oh no! If he destroyed this part of the planet, this will cost an ecological imbalance in the world!" the Martian spoke.
"Not only that! We'll also be disintegrated along with it!" Wonder Woman gritted her teeth.
"I'll need to stop him!" Superman stood up even if is still weakened due to being hit by the demonic beams. The demonic beams are magic after all, and he is vulnerable to it. He prepared to fly and drag the Demon out of the orbit before it destroys the North Pole.
"So you want to go down the hard way!" Naruto said as he charges Fuuton: Rasenshuriken on his hand. The heroes once again felt the same powerful gust of wind that Naruto have used against the Alien Invader's Mothership. He can now shot the Rasenshuriken since its expansion will no longer affect the heroes. After all, his target is already several thousands of meters above the ground. However…
"REIGAN!" A powerful blast out of nowhere passed through the Justice League and Naruto. The energy blast directly hit the Archfiend Skull before it could finish casting its powerful demonic spell.
"This power… the Three Kings of Makai!" The Archfiend Skull yelled as the attack slowly disintegrates his body back into miasma. Then, the energy sphere expanded into several hundreds to thousands of meters, shattering the dark clouds that enveloped the sky. "NNNNOOOOO!" Is the last yell from the great Demon before turning into miasma once again…
The energy sphere continued to expand further while creating shockwaves that shakes that shakes the entire location. The glaciers started to break due to the sheer power of the attack that disintegrated the Weiss. Superman, Wonder Woman and the Martian braced themselves from the power created by the attack. While Naruto, on the other hand, is glaring towards the direction where the attack called Reigan came from…
"So they're already here… the presences that I have felt who are approaching here earlier…" Naruto said seriously.
On the highest standing glacier, there stood three individuals while emitting powerful Reiki from their bodies… Each one of them is looking towards him with passive expression. And then, the person in the middle of the two, with brushed-up hairstyle, beige-colored gi, and teenage appearance, spoke with a confident smile on his face…
"We have finally found you… Kaguya's descendant." He said while pointing his right thumb on his chest. "The name's Yusuke Yurameshi. Nice to meet you… Shinobi kid…"
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