Yes, most of you know me as a writer of funny/bizarre stories when I do write. Yet this idea has been stuck in my head for a long while now. I wanted to see if I could successfully write out a true epic, a long length story. ( much like the ones Roku manages to churn out with ease. ) I hope you enjoy the show.
A broken man stumbled into a clearing in the midst of Demon Country forests. His face torn to shreds by one of the jutsu a tracking hunter-nin had used on him. The man cursed, he shouldn’t have been such an idiot as to let the ninja come within a few yards of him. Bleeding heavily from his wounds, the man fell forward onto the ground...and the ground fell with him. The false layer of earth caved in, dropping the man over a hundred feet into one of the deepest and darkest chasms he had ever seen. As he landed, his hand touched a grey projection. Instantly, there was light flooding the chasm.
The man was too tired to think. Too tired to do anything but die. Yet the writing on the wall caught his eye...and as he read it, his face broke out in a maniacal grin. He drew himself up, determined to live. For this was going to be the instrument of his revenge...
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The office of the Tsuchikage, six months later.
The Tsuchikage was nearing an apoplexy. This was the fifth letter of this sort he had received in the last month alone. It was just the same as the others. It threatened Iwa ! The writer had dared to threaten Iwagakure! Unforgivable. What sort of a maniac was this writer ? The Tsuchikage felt it was his duty to find out.
Tsuchikage: ANBU ! Get in here !
???: Geez, you don’t have to shout so much. Bull-headed idiot.
Tsuchikage: Shut up ! Don’t think I’ll let you off because you’re my half-brother !
???: I know. I thank God every day that I didn’t have to suffer meeting you until I was nineteen. Imagine the pain of having you as a brother, Nero.
Nero: Emperor ! That’s it ! You’ve crossed the line ! Feel the –
Emperor: Your ANBU have arrived and are looking at you rather strangely. I suggest you give them whatever you wanted before they classify you insane.
Nero: *glares* ANBU. Take this letter to the Tracking Division. I want you to find out everything you can about the person who wrote it. Catalog his chakra signature, if the residue is left on it.
Emperor: “Catalog” ? “Residue” ? Wow, Nero. I didn’t know you knew such big words.
Nero: -___-“
Emperor: Anyway. I'm not interested in your stupid quest for this crank, whoever he is. If you want to waste your time, do so. I have other work to do.
Emperor smiled, before sinking into the floor of the Tsuchikage's office before dissipating without a trace.
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The Tsuchikage and his envoy moved through the valleys surrounding Iwagakure. His platoon of ANBU, with experienced trackers in their midst, had managed to pick up a trail that led to the writer of the letter. Now, the Tsuchikage just hoped the man was strong enough to withstand all the tortures he had planned for him before dying.
An hour later, they finished their search at an old cottage. A man, his face covered by a steel mask, wearing samurai robes stepped out of the forest, as if expecting them all along. His mask twisted, somehow, into a grin as if it was part of his face.
Nero: You are the man who dared to threaten Iwagakure ? Come with us to jail, peacefully. Or else...
???: Or else...what ?
Nero: My ANBU will give you a slow and painful death.
???: What ANBU ? You mean the ones blown to pieces behind you ?
Nero: What-
Pulling out a black rectangle with a red circle etched on it, the man closed his hand around the object. With a sudden, deafening boom, the ground under the Tsuchikage's ANBU escort exploded, nearly taking the Tsuchikage with it, who managed to avoid it solely due to experience.
Nero: *thinking* Impossible ! I didn’t even sense any chakra from the exploding tags, or whatever he used !
???: Surprised ?
Nero: How did-
???: Something I picked up after nearly being killed by a slimy liar of a Kage who sacrificed me because of a botched mission. But I don’t need to tell you that, do I ?
Nero: Impossible ! You can’t be-
???: And why not ?
Nero: But you-
???: Died ? Apparently not. Your assassins failed, Tsuchikage-sama.
Nero: It doesn’t matter ! I will take you down !
???: You’re welcome to try...
With a roar, the Tsuchikage flung himself into the battle. The fight taking place in an isolated valley, there was no one to witness it. Yet if they had, their view would have been obscured by the massive clouds of dust, but they would not have missed a huge grey cloud, as if from a truly massive explosion, overshadow the dust entirely and rise up like a threatening spectre...
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The Tsuchikage woke, his head swimming with pain. The last he remembered, he had been about to launch his devastating flames at the man, before a sudden sharp light blossomed and he was rocked by an explosion...Now all he saw was white walls with an antiseptic feel to them.
Nero: Ughh...where am I ?
???: Safe in my secondary hideout. You pretty much destroyed the first one. And what’s more, I’ve implanted a special creation of mine into you.
Nero: Why you basta-
The Tsuchikage stopped mid-sentence and began writhing in pain, his mind blacking out from the stress, his body feeling like it had been tossed into the heart of the Sun.
???: Ah, there it is. Each time you do something I don’t like...you feel as if your insides have been ripped out of your body. Neat little thing.
Nero: What...do...you want from... me ?
???: Isn’t it obvious, Tsuchikage-sama ? Your village is going to be the force that carries out my plan to destroy you and the Ninja World itself...
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To be Continued. What is the plan ? What did the man find ? Who is he ? Will the Tsuchikage go along with it ? Is there no hope for the Ninja World ?
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One: All bad things must begin somewhere...
A broken man stumbled into a clearing in the midst of Demon Country forests. His face torn to shreds by one of the jutsu a tracking hunter-nin had used on him. The man cursed, he shouldn’t have been such an idiot as to let the ninja come within a few yards of him. Bleeding heavily from his wounds, the man fell forward onto the ground...and the ground fell with him. The false layer of earth caved in, dropping the man over a hundred feet into one of the deepest and darkest chasms he had ever seen. As he landed, his hand touched a grey projection. Instantly, there was light flooding the chasm.
The man was too tired to think. Too tired to do anything but die. Yet the writing on the wall caught his eye...and as he read it, his face broke out in a maniacal grin. He drew himself up, determined to live. For this was going to be the instrument of his revenge...
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The office of the Tsuchikage, six months later.
The Tsuchikage was nearing an apoplexy. This was the fifth letter of this sort he had received in the last month alone. It was just the same as the others. It threatened Iwa ! The writer had dared to threaten Iwagakure! Unforgivable. What sort of a maniac was this writer ? The Tsuchikage felt it was his duty to find out.
Tsuchikage: ANBU ! Get in here !
???: Geez, you don’t have to shout so much. Bull-headed idiot.
Tsuchikage: Shut up ! Don’t think I’ll let you off because you’re my half-brother !
???: I know. I thank God every day that I didn’t have to suffer meeting you until I was nineteen. Imagine the pain of having you as a brother, Nero.
Nero: Emperor ! That’s it ! You’ve crossed the line ! Feel the –
Emperor: Your ANBU have arrived and are looking at you rather strangely. I suggest you give them whatever you wanted before they classify you insane.
Nero: *glares* ANBU. Take this letter to the Tracking Division. I want you to find out everything you can about the person who wrote it. Catalog his chakra signature, if the residue is left on it.
Emperor: “Catalog” ? “Residue” ? Wow, Nero. I didn’t know you knew such big words.
Nero: -___-“
Emperor: Anyway. I'm not interested in your stupid quest for this crank, whoever he is. If you want to waste your time, do so. I have other work to do.
Emperor smiled, before sinking into the floor of the Tsuchikage's office before dissipating without a trace.
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The Tsuchikage and his envoy moved through the valleys surrounding Iwagakure. His platoon of ANBU, with experienced trackers in their midst, had managed to pick up a trail that led to the writer of the letter. Now, the Tsuchikage just hoped the man was strong enough to withstand all the tortures he had planned for him before dying.
An hour later, they finished their search at an old cottage. A man, his face covered by a steel mask, wearing samurai robes stepped out of the forest, as if expecting them all along. His mask twisted, somehow, into a grin as if it was part of his face.
Nero: You are the man who dared to threaten Iwagakure ? Come with us to jail, peacefully. Or else...
???: Or else...what ?
Nero: My ANBU will give you a slow and painful death.
???: What ANBU ? You mean the ones blown to pieces behind you ?
Nero: What-
Pulling out a black rectangle with a red circle etched on it, the man closed his hand around the object. With a sudden, deafening boom, the ground under the Tsuchikage's ANBU escort exploded, nearly taking the Tsuchikage with it, who managed to avoid it solely due to experience.
Nero: *thinking* Impossible ! I didn’t even sense any chakra from the exploding tags, or whatever he used !
???: Surprised ?
Nero: How did-
???: Something I picked up after nearly being killed by a slimy liar of a Kage who sacrificed me because of a botched mission. But I don’t need to tell you that, do I ?
Nero: Impossible ! You can’t be-
???: And why not ?
Nero: But you-
???: Died ? Apparently not. Your assassins failed, Tsuchikage-sama.
Nero: It doesn’t matter ! I will take you down !
???: You’re welcome to try...
With a roar, the Tsuchikage flung himself into the battle. The fight taking place in an isolated valley, there was no one to witness it. Yet if they had, their view would have been obscured by the massive clouds of dust, but they would not have missed a huge grey cloud, as if from a truly massive explosion, overshadow the dust entirely and rise up like a threatening spectre...
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The Tsuchikage woke, his head swimming with pain. The last he remembered, he had been about to launch his devastating flames at the man, before a sudden sharp light blossomed and he was rocked by an explosion...Now all he saw was white walls with an antiseptic feel to them.
Nero: Ughh...where am I ?
???: Safe in my secondary hideout. You pretty much destroyed the first one. And what’s more, I’ve implanted a special creation of mine into you.
Nero: Why you basta-
The Tsuchikage stopped mid-sentence and began writhing in pain, his mind blacking out from the stress, his body feeling like it had been tossed into the heart of the Sun.
???: Ah, there it is. Each time you do something I don’t like...you feel as if your insides have been ripped out of your body. Neat little thing.
Nero: What...do...you want from... me ?
???: Isn’t it obvious, Tsuchikage-sama ? Your village is going to be the force that carries out my plan to destroy you and the Ninja World itself...
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To be Continued. What is the plan ? What did the man find ? Who is he ? Will the Tsuchikage go along with it ? Is there no hope for the Ninja World ?
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