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The thirteen-year-old boy stood stiffly as he felt the teleportation pull him from the Arthra to non-administrative planet 195, where the ship’s sensors had detected a major unknown source of magic. The many trees grabbed his attention as he scanning around and once satisfied that none of the natives were around hidden from the sensors nearby, he reported,
“This is Enforcer Chrono reporting in, has the target started moving?”
“Ah, Chrono, are you happy that the Captain finally gave you a solo mission?” The voice added a giggle at the end as Chrono tried to control his scowl, he should not let distractions get to him. Even if no one can see him, it was the principle of it. Then again, a couple of worlds did have magic that would let them hide from Mid-Childa mages. That had been an interesting scenario to deal with at the academy.
“Amy, has the target moved?”
“No, it has not, it is 500 meters from your position. However, we have noticed a few bursts in energy, however, nothing new has appeared.”
“Understood, do I have permission to engage?”
“Captain Lindy has given you permission to use your discretion, just try to avoid contact with the locals.”
“Have you finally determined what the signal is finding?”
“It seemed like a summoning device, but it seems to be more of a storage device, I wish I had access to the Infinity Library right now to double check but I suspect this might be the first time the power has been accessed.” He took off while she complained, avoiding flying to keep himself less noticeable, his hand clenched around a card. The trees definitely seemed as if they were planted to confuse outsiders. Fortunately, it seems to more to distract away from something else besides where the target was. It almost seemed like it worked because he had magic, if it wasn’t a non-administrative planet, he would have suggested someone come and study this phenomenon. At least nothing seemed to be around, thus his travel was unhindered.
“I’m sure of it now, Chrono, the signal is coming from a device that has both storage and sealing capacities, it seems that it is supposed to drain energy from the captured target to boost someone else.” Amy explained as he kept his focus in front of him, it seems that perhaps a weapon was being tested today. If that was the case, then this was important to determine how strong the weapon was. Because if this signal was a controlled attempt and it did not reach the threshold for danger, it was out of their hands to do anything except to leave as quickly and stealthy as possible. However, with only one being probably there, it seemed unlikely, unless they really expected problems.
Four minutes after reaching the planet, he felt an odd magical aura in front of him. “S2U, battle form.” The card transformed into a black staff as he positioned his hands on it while hiding behind one of the larger trees. “Any other signals, Amy?”
“Yes, there seems to be an area effect engaged, however, it does not seem to do anything to sensors or even react to them.” Amy commented as Chrono could image her stare at the screen while taping her cheek.
“I’ll keep my guard up.” Peeking around his hiding spot, he noticed a shorter child standing there, grinning, with a rolled-up scroll on his back.
“Amy, I found a child and a scroll, though there is a building nearby, was the signal coming from the child? Or the building?”
“It seems like the scroll and the child are reacting to each other. Unless the two are a decoy but that would only make sense if they knew about us. Wait, don’t go out there! Two more people are coming in, much weaker signals.” Amy warned.
“Understood.” Chrono watched as the first person appear, the grin on the man’s face forced.
“…I found you…” the man declared as Chrono took in the sight that he was worn out from his stance and his breathing.
“Hey, I found the nose-bleeder.” Chrono stared at the boy while the man yelled at him.
“Amy, it sounds as though the boy has people looking for him, still not enough information to know if it is because of the scroll.” As he kept listening, it seems that the boy, whose name was Naruto, was told by a Mizuki that if he found the scroll and learned a technique off of it, he could graduate from somewhere. The man flinched at the explanation and then shoved the boy away right before sharp weapons slammed into him, pinning him against the building.
Chrono watched as the attacker appeared, his eyes glued to the scroll as the other man was pulling the weapons out of him. “It seems that someone tried to trick the boy into getting the scroll. The scroll seems to have forbidden techniques on it.” The one named Mizuki mentioned how a demon fox was sealed inside Naruto, as Chrono clenched his staff. This man loathed and feared the boy. “It seems that the boy has been quite neglected if this Mizuki is to be believed.” He theorized at Mizuki’s continuation of the story, especially if someone was watching them and not acting to protect the child. Unless the watcher was a considerable distance away which meant the protection around the boy was inadequate.
“Chrono, the signal is starting to increase rapidly!” Amy worriedly informed him as Mizuki grabbed a giant throwing weapon and started spinning it rapidly.
“Iruka is the same!! He actually hates you!!” Mizuki exclaimed as Chrono identified the other man as Iruka. He could see the boy’s fear start to transform into rage, and if Iruka was only here to protect the scroll…
“Nobody will ever accept you!!” Mizuki continued as he pulled back to hurl the weapon as Chrono took off from his hiding spot. “That scroll was used to seal you up!!” The weapon sped away from Mizuki as he grinned manically.
“Round shield.” The large throwing weapon found its path intercepted by the newly created shield in front of Chrono, who was standing in front of Naruto.
“Who the hell are you?” No one moved as Chrono kept his staff at the ready, though he did notice that Iruka was a few steps closer than earlier, it seems that Mizuki was lying or Iruka had a recent change of opinion about Naruto.
“For you, it doesn’t matter, you first threaten someone that seems to have suffered for your safety and then attempt to kill him. I cannot allow you to succeed.” Chrono was cycling through his options, as he did not know how fast this enemy was, after all, Iruka had nearly reached Naruto with a bit of injuries, though they seemed mostly superficial.
“You think a fancy weapon can protect the demon? He’ll destroy you with your back turned!” Interesting, he was either trying to get Naruto to run, or get him to waver.
“No, this boy would not. If he really was a demon, it sounds like he would have attempted to have killed everyone in the area already.” He heard the gasp behind him as Mizuki narrowed his eyes at him. “And yes, I can defeat you without worry.” The glare got hotter as Mizuki started to move his hands in front of him.
“Stinger Snipe.” S2U spoke as a magical blast of blue energy flew from it as it rushed at Mizuki who quickly vacated the branch he was on, which found itself obliterated.
“Too bad that missed,” Mizuki mocked as he landed. He grabbed the second large throwing weapon on his back as he sprinted toward Chrono while spinning the weapon while grasping it in the middle, as Chrono smiled and waved his staff in front of him. The energy missile had finished circling around and rushed back towards the group. Right before Mizuki reached the two, the blast slammed into his back, dropping the man with a gasp. Chrono turned around to see Naruto and Iruka in different states of shock.
“This is Chrono, has the increased spike of the energy passed?”
“Yes, though the energy is still pretty high. Does the child still have the scroll?”
“Yes, he does, I’ll try to get the scroll away from him now.” He responds as he turned back to Mizuki, making sure he was not attempting to play possum.
“Chrono, I suggest that you try to convince Naruto to come with us, it does not sound healthy for him there. And if this demon is dangerous, we should be able to neutralize it.” The captain ordered, at least she took the situation with proper decorum, he thought.
“How did you do this?” Iruka questioned as he moved closer to Naruto, who was still sitting on the ground, either that or he could throw sound as a distraction. He determined that Iruka did not consider Mizuki a threat and thus slowly turned to the other green vest man while lowering his staff. He knew that the man would probably be the largest obstacle and he had to hurry, he doubted his presence would go unnoticed by the watcher.
“It is a technique similar to what you call ninjustu, I assume, I use this to channel the attack,” he gestures with the staff while explaining. “Can you now answer one of mine? Is this Nine-Tailed Fox sealed by a technique on the scroll?” The man hesitated but did not respond, he did not know if it was his age or the village the man was a part of keeping from answering. “I see.” Turning away from the man and looking at the similar aged boy, “You’re name is Naruto, correct?” The one questioned nodded rapidly. “I believe I know someone that could remove this Nine-Tailed Fox from you without hurting you. But you would have to come with me.” At that, the man started to hunch up.
“Wait, the Kyuubi could destroy mountains with one of its tails, you can’t let it out, there was a reason that our Hokage couldn’t kill it.”
“Something that can destroy mountains easily is something within our ability to deal with. Trust me, Naruto, we would not do anything to let this Kyuubi control you or injure you.” Naruto’s eyes went wide as Iruka rocked back on his heels at the statement. He glanced at his device, as he thought, “S2U, scan the information on the scroll.” The device flashed a weak light in response. While he knew that it was not something that was completely true, something that powerful would be difficult to subdue, however, the seal seems to be working, thus it would not be a problem, especially if they had the information on how the technique used.
“Could you teach me how you did that awesome justu?” Iruka closed his mouth as Naruto blurted out his request.
“You are talking about Stinger Snipe?’ Chrono clarified as the boy nodded furiously.
“I probably cannot,” he saw the boy look down, “but I know a few people that could and will ask them to.” He hedged as moved his gaze to Iruka, who slumped at Naruto’s question.
“The signal has dropped to below danger levels, good job Chrono.” Amy commented as Chrono smiled. He watched as Iruka grabbed Naruto by the shoulders as he gave him a stern look before instructing,
“Have you ever thought he might be just like Mizuki, you can’t trust people just because they say they’ll be nice to you.” Chrono noticed how Iruka had positioned himself so that if he tried something, the man would see it. Naruto started to scratch the back of head before looking up at the man.
“His eyes aren’t like Mizuki and the others, they’re warm.” Iruka stiffed as Naruto looked back at the ground.
“Naruto, are you sure that you want to go?” Iruka questioned as he gave Chrono another look over.
“Of course, Iruka, I’ll get to learn awesome techniques and show everyone, besides…” he paused before looking Iruka straight in the eye, “if they can take care of the Kyuubi, I can finish what the fourth started. Doesn’t the Hokage do whatever it takes to protect the village?” Iruka smiled as he ruffled his student’s hair. Chrono finally transformed S2U back into its card form.
“What would you do with the Kyuubi if you removed it?” Iruka asked as he kept his hand on his student’s head.
“It would be stored in a magically seal that would be kept away from everyone, besides where I am from, the name Kyuubi means nothing. I doubt anyone will come here and thus never know why it is important. We should probably go, as it seems that some others are coming, and it would be better if the least amount of people saw me.” Iruka hunched his shoulders and glared at the boy.
“Hey, Iruka, tell the old man I’m on a super-secret training mission and I’ll be back after getting the fox taken care of.” Naruto helpfully added with a smile, which caused Iruka to sigh and scratch his forehead under the protector.
“Naruto, you surprised me yet again, and I’m proud to call you one of my students.” His jaw dropped at the comment as he started to rub at his eyes.
“Chrono, are you ready to go, I’m picking up a few signals heading in your direction swiftly.” Amy explained as Chrono put a hand on Naruto’s shoulder.
“Naruto, we need to go now.” He nodded as he turned his gaze to the scroll.
“Naruto, I’ll tell the Hokage, don’t go around pranking them.” Naruto stuck his tongue out while taking the scroll off and handing it to Iruka. Once the transaction occurred, Chrono grabbed one of his hands. Four others jumped into the area wearing masks with animals on them as the two flickered away and back to the Arthra.
“This is Enforcer Chrono reporting in, has the target started moving?”
“Ah, Chrono, are you happy that the Captain finally gave you a solo mission?” The voice added a giggle at the end as Chrono tried to control his scowl, he should not let distractions get to him. Even if no one can see him, it was the principle of it. Then again, a couple of worlds did have magic that would let them hide from Mid-Childa mages. That had been an interesting scenario to deal with at the academy.
“Amy, has the target moved?”
“No, it has not, it is 500 meters from your position. However, we have noticed a few bursts in energy, however, nothing new has appeared.”
“Understood, do I have permission to engage?”
“Captain Lindy has given you permission to use your discretion, just try to avoid contact with the locals.”
“Have you finally determined what the signal is finding?”
“It seemed like a summoning device, but it seems to be more of a storage device, I wish I had access to the Infinity Library right now to double check but I suspect this might be the first time the power has been accessed.” He took off while she complained, avoiding flying to keep himself less noticeable, his hand clenched around a card. The trees definitely seemed as if they were planted to confuse outsiders. Fortunately, it seems to more to distract away from something else besides where the target was. It almost seemed like it worked because he had magic, if it wasn’t a non-administrative planet, he would have suggested someone come and study this phenomenon. At least nothing seemed to be around, thus his travel was unhindered.
“I’m sure of it now, Chrono, the signal is coming from a device that has both storage and sealing capacities, it seems that it is supposed to drain energy from the captured target to boost someone else.” Amy explained as he kept his focus in front of him, it seems that perhaps a weapon was being tested today. If that was the case, then this was important to determine how strong the weapon was. Because if this signal was a controlled attempt and it did not reach the threshold for danger, it was out of their hands to do anything except to leave as quickly and stealthy as possible. However, with only one being probably there, it seemed unlikely, unless they really expected problems.
Four minutes after reaching the planet, he felt an odd magical aura in front of him. “S2U, battle form.” The card transformed into a black staff as he positioned his hands on it while hiding behind one of the larger trees. “Any other signals, Amy?”
“Yes, there seems to be an area effect engaged, however, it does not seem to do anything to sensors or even react to them.” Amy commented as Chrono could image her stare at the screen while taping her cheek.
“I’ll keep my guard up.” Peeking around his hiding spot, he noticed a shorter child standing there, grinning, with a rolled-up scroll on his back.
“Amy, I found a child and a scroll, though there is a building nearby, was the signal coming from the child? Or the building?”
“It seems like the scroll and the child are reacting to each other. Unless the two are a decoy but that would only make sense if they knew about us. Wait, don’t go out there! Two more people are coming in, much weaker signals.” Amy warned.
“Understood.” Chrono watched as the first person appear, the grin on the man’s face forced.
“…I found you…” the man declared as Chrono took in the sight that he was worn out from his stance and his breathing.
“Hey, I found the nose-bleeder.” Chrono stared at the boy while the man yelled at him.
“Amy, it sounds as though the boy has people looking for him, still not enough information to know if it is because of the scroll.” As he kept listening, it seems that the boy, whose name was Naruto, was told by a Mizuki that if he found the scroll and learned a technique off of it, he could graduate from somewhere. The man flinched at the explanation and then shoved the boy away right before sharp weapons slammed into him, pinning him against the building.
Chrono watched as the attacker appeared, his eyes glued to the scroll as the other man was pulling the weapons out of him. “It seems that someone tried to trick the boy into getting the scroll. The scroll seems to have forbidden techniques on it.” The one named Mizuki mentioned how a demon fox was sealed inside Naruto, as Chrono clenched his staff. This man loathed and feared the boy. “It seems that the boy has been quite neglected if this Mizuki is to be believed.” He theorized at Mizuki’s continuation of the story, especially if someone was watching them and not acting to protect the child. Unless the watcher was a considerable distance away which meant the protection around the boy was inadequate.
“Chrono, the signal is starting to increase rapidly!” Amy worriedly informed him as Mizuki grabbed a giant throwing weapon and started spinning it rapidly.
“Iruka is the same!! He actually hates you!!” Mizuki exclaimed as Chrono identified the other man as Iruka. He could see the boy’s fear start to transform into rage, and if Iruka was only here to protect the scroll…
“Nobody will ever accept you!!” Mizuki continued as he pulled back to hurl the weapon as Chrono took off from his hiding spot. “That scroll was used to seal you up!!” The weapon sped away from Mizuki as he grinned manically.
“Round shield.” The large throwing weapon found its path intercepted by the newly created shield in front of Chrono, who was standing in front of Naruto.
“Who the hell are you?” No one moved as Chrono kept his staff at the ready, though he did notice that Iruka was a few steps closer than earlier, it seems that Mizuki was lying or Iruka had a recent change of opinion about Naruto.
“For you, it doesn’t matter, you first threaten someone that seems to have suffered for your safety and then attempt to kill him. I cannot allow you to succeed.” Chrono was cycling through his options, as he did not know how fast this enemy was, after all, Iruka had nearly reached Naruto with a bit of injuries, though they seemed mostly superficial.
“You think a fancy weapon can protect the demon? He’ll destroy you with your back turned!” Interesting, he was either trying to get Naruto to run, or get him to waver.
“No, this boy would not. If he really was a demon, it sounds like he would have attempted to have killed everyone in the area already.” He heard the gasp behind him as Mizuki narrowed his eyes at him. “And yes, I can defeat you without worry.” The glare got hotter as Mizuki started to move his hands in front of him.
“Stinger Snipe.” S2U spoke as a magical blast of blue energy flew from it as it rushed at Mizuki who quickly vacated the branch he was on, which found itself obliterated.
“Too bad that missed,” Mizuki mocked as he landed. He grabbed the second large throwing weapon on his back as he sprinted toward Chrono while spinning the weapon while grasping it in the middle, as Chrono smiled and waved his staff in front of him. The energy missile had finished circling around and rushed back towards the group. Right before Mizuki reached the two, the blast slammed into his back, dropping the man with a gasp. Chrono turned around to see Naruto and Iruka in different states of shock.
“This is Chrono, has the increased spike of the energy passed?”
“Yes, though the energy is still pretty high. Does the child still have the scroll?”
“Yes, he does, I’ll try to get the scroll away from him now.” He responds as he turned back to Mizuki, making sure he was not attempting to play possum.
“Chrono, I suggest that you try to convince Naruto to come with us, it does not sound healthy for him there. And if this demon is dangerous, we should be able to neutralize it.” The captain ordered, at least she took the situation with proper decorum, he thought.
“How did you do this?” Iruka questioned as he moved closer to Naruto, who was still sitting on the ground, either that or he could throw sound as a distraction. He determined that Iruka did not consider Mizuki a threat and thus slowly turned to the other green vest man while lowering his staff. He knew that the man would probably be the largest obstacle and he had to hurry, he doubted his presence would go unnoticed by the watcher.
“It is a technique similar to what you call ninjustu, I assume, I use this to channel the attack,” he gestures with the staff while explaining. “Can you now answer one of mine? Is this Nine-Tailed Fox sealed by a technique on the scroll?” The man hesitated but did not respond, he did not know if it was his age or the village the man was a part of keeping from answering. “I see.” Turning away from the man and looking at the similar aged boy, “You’re name is Naruto, correct?” The one questioned nodded rapidly. “I believe I know someone that could remove this Nine-Tailed Fox from you without hurting you. But you would have to come with me.” At that, the man started to hunch up.
“Wait, the Kyuubi could destroy mountains with one of its tails, you can’t let it out, there was a reason that our Hokage couldn’t kill it.”
“Something that can destroy mountains easily is something within our ability to deal with. Trust me, Naruto, we would not do anything to let this Kyuubi control you or injure you.” Naruto’s eyes went wide as Iruka rocked back on his heels at the statement. He glanced at his device, as he thought, “S2U, scan the information on the scroll.” The device flashed a weak light in response. While he knew that it was not something that was completely true, something that powerful would be difficult to subdue, however, the seal seems to be working, thus it would not be a problem, especially if they had the information on how the technique used.
“Could you teach me how you did that awesome justu?” Iruka closed his mouth as Naruto blurted out his request.
“You are talking about Stinger Snipe?’ Chrono clarified as the boy nodded furiously.
“I probably cannot,” he saw the boy look down, “but I know a few people that could and will ask them to.” He hedged as moved his gaze to Iruka, who slumped at Naruto’s question.
“The signal has dropped to below danger levels, good job Chrono.” Amy commented as Chrono smiled. He watched as Iruka grabbed Naruto by the shoulders as he gave him a stern look before instructing,
“Have you ever thought he might be just like Mizuki, you can’t trust people just because they say they’ll be nice to you.” Chrono noticed how Iruka had positioned himself so that if he tried something, the man would see it. Naruto started to scratch the back of head before looking up at the man.
“His eyes aren’t like Mizuki and the others, they’re warm.” Iruka stiffed as Naruto looked back at the ground.
“Naruto, are you sure that you want to go?” Iruka questioned as he gave Chrono another look over.
“Of course, Iruka, I’ll get to learn awesome techniques and show everyone, besides…” he paused before looking Iruka straight in the eye, “if they can take care of the Kyuubi, I can finish what the fourth started. Doesn’t the Hokage do whatever it takes to protect the village?” Iruka smiled as he ruffled his student’s hair. Chrono finally transformed S2U back into its card form.
“What would you do with the Kyuubi if you removed it?” Iruka asked as he kept his hand on his student’s head.
“It would be stored in a magically seal that would be kept away from everyone, besides where I am from, the name Kyuubi means nothing. I doubt anyone will come here and thus never know why it is important. We should probably go, as it seems that some others are coming, and it would be better if the least amount of people saw me.” Iruka hunched his shoulders and glared at the boy.
“Hey, Iruka, tell the old man I’m on a super-secret training mission and I’ll be back after getting the fox taken care of.” Naruto helpfully added with a smile, which caused Iruka to sigh and scratch his forehead under the protector.
“Naruto, you surprised me yet again, and I’m proud to call you one of my students.” His jaw dropped at the comment as he started to rub at his eyes.
“Chrono, are you ready to go, I’m picking up a few signals heading in your direction swiftly.” Amy explained as Chrono put a hand on Naruto’s shoulder.
“Naruto, we need to go now.” He nodded as he turned his gaze to the scroll.
“Naruto, I’ll tell the Hokage, don’t go around pranking them.” Naruto stuck his tongue out while taking the scroll off and handing it to Iruka. Once the transaction occurred, Chrono grabbed one of his hands. Four others jumped into the area wearing masks with animals on them as the two flickered away and back to the Arthra.
Did Iruka have enough information to let Naruto go or at least enough trust in Naruto for it?
Did the description of the story work well?
The fight went okay and the was the glazing over work?
