Chương 95: Chapter 95 Uninvited Guest
Naruto looked at the machine that kept Yagura in his chemically induced coma. He looked to the clone at his side.
"Is the seal ready", asked Naruto.
Yes, the seal will keep the three tails at bay while you sift through his memories. If any of Obito's residual memories are in place, you can find them", said the clone.
Naruto nodded as the machine opened. The clones began to ink the seal into Yagura's flesh as Naruto shifted to his eldritch form. Naruto put his hands to Yagura's head and began to look through his memories. He found what he was looking for. While Obito was in control over Yagura left over memories from him were left in Yagura's mind. He was able to watch Obito as a child, he was immature in his youth.
He saw the boulder that crushed half of the boy. The first meeting with Madara. Then he saw something interesting. It was a tree, a very large tree, made from the cells of Hashirama. There was little left of the memories on this tree but it gave Naruto an idea, one that could give him an advantage over the eldritch forces of the universe. He could not find the location of this tree, but he was sure he could replicate it somewhat. He took his hand off Yagura's head and closed the machine. Yagura would have to remain in this state until Obito's control over the previous Mizukage was purged away. For now he only had to wait. He decided to move forward with his idea near immediately. He shifted back to normal before thanking the clones and disappeared in a flash.
He reapeared in the labs where Herbert was currentally working on some kind of prostetic arm that wold fold away to reveal a gun that ran on chakra. He got the idea from Sasori who told them what the leader Pain was capable of. So far he had not gotten it to work.
"West, I have information", said Naruto.
"I'm all ears", said Herbert without looking away from the arm.
"Residual memories from Yagura showed that the Akatsuki have access to a massive tree, it grows an arm of the member known as Zetsu, seemingly only the white part of him", said Naruto.
"Sounds interesting, you want us to take it over for our own purposes", asked Herbert.
"I don't know where it is. I was thinking of replicating it somewhat", said Naruto.
Herbert turned around to look at Naruto. He wore his mask but Naruto knew he was smiling.
"Really, well now this is quite the surprize. How do you propose we do that", asked Herbert.
"I think you already know the answer", said Naruto.
Herbert began to laugh.
"Good, I'll begin moving the Danzo tree to a larger area. See what I can do", said Herbert.
Naruto nodded.
"Once it's moved we will need some of Zetsu's cells to begin the process", said Naruto.
"Leave that to me", said Herbert.
When Naruto disappeared Herbert conjured a clone.
"Go find Sasori and Deidara, I got a job for them", said Herbert.
Sai finished reading Danzo's journal. He put it to the side. Over the past few days Sai changed. His once pale skin was tinted a sickly green, a side effect from the reagent now flowing in his veins, the strangest thing was his fingernails. They curved inward painfully and became hollow, like a syringe. They dripped a green glowing fluid, he tested it the first day. It worked similar to the reagent, and brought back mindless dead to life. Sai tested on those not eaten by the undead that roamed the halls. He looked back to his masters Journal before commanding the countless undead to come to him. He looked at his army.
"We are going to leave. This journal showed me some old ROOT hideouts in the Land of Fire. We will prepare there, protecting Konoha from its enemies, even itself if necessary", said Sai.
The undead husks moaned, hissed, and growled their answer. Sai left to go to the exit that lead far outside the village. The zombies followed him. When he got there he climbed the ladder and crawled up. He threw ink into the air where it became a vast set of green leaves, melding to the trees around to hide the undead from the sight of the guards around the walls. It was night. The zombies came out quickly, twitching and leaping as they followed Sai. over five hundred rotting corpses would be seen, but Sai hoped that he would get out far enough fot the leaf to ignore him. And none would take on an army.
They headed to the nearby tunnels to hide better. Their exodus to the hidden base was a long journey, at their speed it would take days. Three days to navigate the tunnels alone. Sai brought little with him. Ink, notes, and whatever was left was taken but it had been very little. He looked behind him at the zombies that followed. Sai would be the leader for a new ROOT, one under his command. After reading Danzo's journal, he understood his master, and would carry on his legacy. It was apart of the Will of Fire for the apprentice to inherit his masters goals and dreams after all.
The genin teams at around a table. A feast was prepared for their training the next day. Conversation and general catching up was shared between the friends. Though soon the dinner took turn for the worse. The doors closed by themselves as the room seemed to dim.
"Quite the occasion isn't it, and now that you are all here I believe it is time to speak"
Everyone turned to see the Shadowed man, drinking the strange black fluid from a wine glass. Naruto glared at the deity.
"Why are you here", asked Naruto.
"Experiments have been done, the tests begin soon. The pieces are in place. You are to be groomed into a proper form", said The Shadowed man.
"Who are you", asked Kiba.
His mouth began to change as his lips fused together leaving him without a mouth. He found he could not move from his seat as he frantically touched where his mouth once was.
"Please feral one, keep your tongue to yourself while I speak to my future body", said the Shadowed man.
Kiba's mouth returned and he began to breathe heavily.
"I can be civil, it has been so long since I have had good conversation over a decent meal. Most of my kin are rather beastly, mindless creatures I loathe to associate with. Even the intelligent ones like Hastur is rather apathetic toward me as a whole"
" Everyone this is the Shadowed man, he's the one who is causing nearly everything going wrong with the world", said Naruto.
The Shadowed man lightly bowed his head.
"Charmed I'm sure, though you give me to much credit boy. I merely act according to my nature. I am not called the crawling chaos for nothing"
Naruto's eyes widened for a split second before the Shadowed man lifted his hand that was much to long. He held it to Naruto's forehead, and turned his hand as if opening a lock. Naruto flinched and clutched his head as he stared at the man at the foot of the table.
"As I said, the experiment is finished, only the test remains. As such I permit you to know who I am, it is now irrelevant if yo know who I am or not. Never say I have not done you any favors. Allow me to introduce myself. I am Nyarlathotep, the Crawling Chaos, God of a Thousand forms, The Black Pharaoh, King of the Desert and may other names and titles"
No one spoke. Nyarlathotep lifted his hand.
"You may now speak"
Shikamaru looked around before voicing his thoughts.
"What exactly are you", asked Shikamaru.
"Everything and Anything"
"Thats not an answer", said Naruto as he glared at the Outer God.
"It is as close as your frail minds could understand. All you need to know is I am a God"
"Like Cthulhu?", asked Shino.
Nyarlathotep produced an echoing laugh, it was soft yet deep.
"No living hive, not like my nephew. I am much much stronger than him. Consider this analogy, you are a newborn child, Cthulhu is a full grown man, I am a Kage level ninja. That should show you the difference of power between us my boy"
"I find that hard to believe after seeing Squid head", said Kiba.
"Believe what you wish feral one, it makes little difference, tough If you do not believe me, why not ask our gracious host", said Nyarlathotep as he made a presenting gesture to Naruto.
"He's not lying. Cthulhu is a Great Old One, Nyarlathotep is an Oter God, those who gave birth to the Great Old Ones", said Naruto.
Nyarlathotep took a sip from the black liquid.
"I must say boy, your blackened tears are quite exquisite, do you know why they are black. You cry memories of the damned. Most of those poor souls were forgotten long before you even shed those tears, but still sweet none the less. For every tear spilled the memories of someone wicked is lost to them. Even those who are ded lose memories they never knew they had. It is not my idea, just a consequence of those beautiful eyes, how do you enjoy y gift to you, after all I helped you with the seal ", said Nyarlathotep.
"Why are you here", asked Naruto ignoring his previous comments.
"Many reasons", said Nyarlathotep.
"Don't, just don't. Answer me or..." said Naruto before he was interrupted by the lights dimming.
"Or what, you have no advantage against me. Even your precious Necronomicon, or should I say my Necronomicon. Remember, the book started as a part of me, even after the other gods wrote in it, I remained in control. Even if their is a page you could use to defeat me, or foil my plans, I can push it back further into the books infinite pages. You have nothing"
Naruto sat down. Nyarlathotep smiled.
"Do you know what will happen when you and I become one an the same, it really is fascinating. Slowly I will eat away at your body, cell by cell, atom by atom. Your and I become one and the same as your conciousness ebbs away into nothingness, it will be as if you never existed. Your memories taken, just like the memories of those locked in your blackened tears"
Nyarlathotep drank the black fluid again before he set the glass down.
"It must be an interesting situation to know the hour of your death. Were it not for me you would be irreversibly insane at this moment"
Nyarlathotep looked quickly to Hinata. As if she said something. She sunk deeper into her chair as he smiled.
"I can read your mind my dear, I admire your spirit. But I find your attempts at mentally insulting me rather answer your unasked question, I treat people this way because for me you are but my entertainment, every now and again you prove to be useful. On average you both individually and collectively mean very little to me"
Hinata looked to the ground. Nyarlathotep then turned to Choji.
"For one so outwardly calm there is a fire burning in you. The metaphorical cocoon of your clan, such strength may get you far, though I promise you, that idea of yours will fail. No matter how large you grow, you will not squash me like a bug, as you say"
Nyarlathotep chuckled as he turned to Shino.
"And your mental reaction to that old metaphor I find humorous. Though to me, you are all bugs, under my magnifying glass. Burning you, choosing who lives or dies if I wish. If you were not so unimportant a race, I might just do that, but you are unimportant and barely noticable as a species", said Nyarlathotep.
He looked to Ino who was shaking, this made Nyarlathotep smile.
"You more than most are greatly effected by my presence thanks to your mental prowess with your abilities granted by your clan. Only you and my future form sence what I truly am, consider it a small mercy this shall be the only form of me you shall see for some time"
Nyarlathotep lifted his glass and drank the unending fluid. He turned his head and somehow pointed to both Sakura and Sasuke simultaneously with one finger. No one knew how he did it, but he somehow did.
"And finally, you two. I know you still harbor fear for me. Why, you have nothing to fear. I decided that now was as good a time as any to reveal myself, let you know exactly how dire your teammates situation is. Though should he prevail in defeating my nephew, you will be spared. Though more than likely your sanity will be forever altered. If he fails, well then at least your pitiful race will have interested me in it's last moments, take solace in that"
"Enough. Tell me why do you need me, what do I have that you don't", asked Naruto.
"Nothing, well that is not entirely true. You do have one thing I can not gain by my own power. With it, I will gain something else. Something that will give me an advantage over my bastard father Azathoth"
"You want to still exist when he awakens", said Naruto.
"No, though I do wish it could happen. Alas it is impossible, though you are close. With you and me becoming one and the same, I will instead have the next best thing to surviving the fade", said Nyarlathotep.
"And what would that be", asked Naruto.
"That is for another day. Until then I must excuse myself. I honestly wish you the best of luck my host, prove you are worthy to be form number One thousand and one. Soon my nephew will awaken from his fifty thousand year slumber, and walk the earth once more. And I shall watch from above, as the starless sky that is not there, watching to see if you can obtain the unobtainable. Enjoy your meal It will be some time before we meet again, until then. I shal be waiting "
Nyarlathotep faded. Everyone let loose a breath they did not know they held. They looked to see Naruto, his face contorted in rage and shaking rapidly. He closed his eyes and took a deep breath.
"I should go. We'll begin your training tomorrow", said Naruto.
He got up and quietly left the room as everyone focused on his forced calm. As soon as he got out of sight he started to shake again and his fist punched the wall. It cracked. His hand was now clawed, and his shadowed tails that were not there lashed out in anger. Had the tails really been there, there was no doubt they would destroy the walls.
"Damn", said Nartuo.
He breathed heavily. All the memories remained, they would never go away. For so long with the memories locked in his head, he believed he had a shot, a very slim one. To escape his fate against the Shadowed man. Now. There was nothing he could do. From the very beginning he was Nyarlathoteps puppet, giving Naruto false hope only to pull the wool from his eyes. The entire time he was putting on a show for the demented Outer God, who Naruto KNEW was right now watching his reaction with glee. Naruto sighed. He looked up, as if Nyarlathotep was looking down at him.
"It changes nothing", he said to the invisible force above him.
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