Creator of Alchemy

Chapter 24

Naruto couldn't help but worry as they made their way closer and closer towards the Dwarf's location underground. He wasn't worried for the fight ahead of him but more so of how Lust, Gluttony, and Ling were, if the Dwarf really had summoned them back then he definitely worried for their safety.

"Do not worry Naruto, we will rescue the homunculi. And if we cannot then you will find a way I am sure" Itachi said as he caught up to Naruto at the front of the group.

"I know, doesn't mean I'm not going to worry. Though it seems like I don't have much time to worry as we have company" he said before he frowned at something he felt ahead of them and quickly summoned a wall of sand to block a shadow from decapitating them.

"Ah Pride, the last homunculus that hasn't had their ass kicked or been killed today of course you're here" Naruto said with a frown as the childlike form of Pride stepped out of the shadows with a glare on his face.

"Father sent me here to rid him of you all. You have proved to be more trouble than you are worth. Father has assured me even I drag you back as limbless stumps he can keep you alive long enough to fulfill your only useful role of a sacrifices!" Pride yelled before even more of his shadows attacked, making Ed and Al transmute walls to block the others from the attacks that were slowly chipping away and occasionally breaking through his sand wall.

"Someone needs to take care of this brat! We can't stay still like this with the eclipse coming soon!" Ed yelled as Naruto groaned before Itachi patted his shoulder.

"Go. We can't be slowed down like this. I'll create a wall of Amaterasu fire alongside Pride, they'll keep his shadows away from you all and keep him focused on me while you all escape" Itachi said while Naruto nodded, already knowing that Itachi can more than handle Pride, even more so with Pride being in an angered state.

"You heard him! When the sand drops run to the left side of the room and keep going until I tell you when we can slow down. I'll stick to the back to keep ups safe from any stray shadows" Naruto ordered as everyone nodded and he sent one last look towards Itachi to make sure he was ready.

Itachi nodded with a serious look in his eyes before he looked forward, ready to go. Not wasting any time Naruto quickly lowered the sand in between a gap in Pride's attacks. That small gap was all Itachi needed as the black flames of Amaterasu burst up around him and Pride, allowing them to run ahead.

"Fire isn't going to work against me I can regenerate my body!" Pride yelled as he tried to run through the fire with his shadows poised to attack before he roared in pain as the flames clung to his face, only stopping after he used his shadows to slice off the parts that the fire was sticking to, allowing him to regenerate the lost parts.

"Oh my, you are fast to be able to cut off Amaterasu's flames before they spread to your whole body" Itachi said before he unsealed a familiar black chokuto, the very same one that use to belong to his brother Sasuke.

"So they left you behind. How quickly humans are to leave one of their own kind to a slaughter. I'll have you know I was the first homunculus that Father created, if you think I won't kill you then like the pest you are then you underestimate me gravely" Pride said, his should rising behind him as he glared down Itachi.

"You definitely fit your sin that is for sure and that will make things easier as pride goeth before a fall after all" Itachi said before he disappeared in a burst of speed. Itachi knew already that trying to kill Pride over and over again to drain his stone would waste too much time.

Thankfully he had a technique in mind for the homunculus that would subdue him without wasting much time.

Itachi was a bit impressed at Pride's speed as he had to dodge and block strikes from the shadow tendrils, as from what he heard from the Truth, was the homunculus' real body and not the child shaped husk it inhabited.

'If I am going to use that on him I need to send the sensations to the real Pride or else I doubt it will work' Itachi thought as he activated his Rinne-Sharingan, which with what Naruto mentioned, would allow him to use it with worry of going blind.

Not like that would have stopped him.

'Those eyes. They're the same as that man's!' Pride thought in shock before Itachi chuckled.

"I'd keep on my toes around someone like me and keep your eyes on me!" Itachi said before stabbing his sword through the eye of Pride's childish body and thankfully the scream of pain from Pride proved hurting the husk seemed to hurt him as well.

'A' Itachi thought, memorizing the sensation with his eyes before he jumped back, avoiding Pride's shadow before he tossed up his sword and ran through the hand signs.

"Fire Style: Great Fireball!" he yelled as he spewed a torrent of flames through an opening in Pride's shadows, the light of his fire making it hard for Pride to create a shadow to defend with.

'B' he thought, memorizing the sensation with his Rinne-Sharingan again as Pride screamed in pain again as the fire burned his container.

"You homunculi claim to be perfect beings but you haven't shown anything to me of how perfect you are. Your father sent you out to be killed, knowing Naruto would kill you without a second's hesitation. Is that really someone that deserves the title of father?" Itachi said as he narrowed his eyes towards Pride while the homunculi used his shadows to escape the flames as best he could.

"Why should I care when father doesn't! I am not a pitiful being like you humans so just die!" Pride yelled, launching a barrage of shadow tendrils at Itachi before he held up his hands to block them only to shock the homunculi as the shadows were beginning to absorb into him until Pride quickly cut his shadows off.

"I can absorb energy, which your attacks happen to be made out of" Itachi said as he was a bit surprised that he could absorb Pride's shadows. Though it did made sense as the shadows were constructs made of a philosopher's stone.

"Your pride in everything you are will lead to your downfall and as long as it is a concept that makes up your being you will never escape!" Itachi yelled as he dashed through the shadows, weaving through them while absorbing those that got close to him.

Pride tried to block Itachi's strike only to scream again as Itachi cut off his arm and kicked him down to the floor.

'C' Itachi thought as he memorized his last moment before he had to start again to create the loop. "Suffer in an endless loop. Suffer in Izanami with your useless pride" Itachi said in a cold tone before he stabbed his sword back into the same eye that he started the cycle with.

'A1' he thought as with the cycle completed he watched Pride and all of his eyes gloss over, the illusion taking hold of Pride until he gave up his pride or until his stone ran out. Though he banked more on the latter.

'Good luck Naruto. I'd rejoin you but I feel it's best to look after this one until the end of this so he doesn't become freed like Envy was' Itachi thought before he stabbed chakra rods into Pride's legs, arms and chest to keep him pinned down before he sat down and crossed his legs next to Pride and pulled the sword from the homunculi's eye.

It was better to be safe than sorry. Making sure Pride was kept from play was important. The Dwarf is to be Naruto's fight and he had faith he could handle it. This was Naruto after all.

-Naruto-

Naruto growled in annoyance as his group was once again stopped as a golden tooth psycho had stopped them with numerous 'Fuhrer candidates'. Before being stopped he was relieved to see Itachi having taken Pride out with Izanami but this had just ruined the mood.

"I'm done with this. I'm going ahead. I won't be stopped any longer. You guys catch up when you can" Naruto growled out as his Rinne-Sharingan spun in his eyes while he walked forward towards the golden toothed man.

"Candidates! Stop him and everyone else! Subdue Fullmetal and the armor but kill the rest!" the man yelled as three men charged towards Naruto only for them to phase through him before he dashed forward out of the room.

The speed of the Swift release left leaving behind only an afterimage of him as he didn't have time to waste dealing with pest after pest after pest that tried to slow him down.

"Naruto the eclipse is nearing. You need to hurry now" Truth said as Naruto sped through the corridors before he entered the area that he felt the Dwarf located in.

As he dashed into the room he used his Rinne-Sharingan to scan the room before he glared furiously as he saw the Dwarf holding Lust's stone in his hand, her body turning to ash from her stone being removed.

He also noted that Gluttony was currently fused to the floor while Ling panting in exhaustion as he struggled to stand up right all while the Dwarf was smiling smugly as he seemed to be in the motions of eating Lust's stone.

"Let go of her! Dynamic Entry: Swift Variant!" he yelled while he flew at the Dwarf faster than the monster could react, leaving a sonic boom behind him as his feet collided with the side of his face.

The force was thankfully enough to make the Dwarf drop Lust's stone while he flew to the opposite side of the room where he became fully embedded in wall.

Naruto kept his eyes looking towards where he sent the Dwarf flying while caught Lust's stone and quickly sent energy into as to speed up her reforming. It seemed to do the trick as her body regrew in a sudden flash of red lightning. "It's okay Lust I was able to get here just in time. I am going to send you, Gluttony, and Ling somewhere safe so he can't absorb you all" he said as Lust nodded and she was sucked into a vortex of Kamui.

He didn't waste any time using Kamui to absorb both the embedded Gluttony and Ling into his Kamui dimension. He frowned as he heard the Dwarf pulled himself out from the wall before looking over to see the powerful glare on the man's face.

"You are quite the pest. I had hoped Envy and Pride would at least delay you a while longer. I was about to absorb my three rebellious sins and you had to get in the way. Thankfully I at least had enough time to absorb what was left of Sloth's stone" the Dwarf said as he glared at him while transmuting a staircase to help him down from the wall.

"I figured that is why you called back the homunculi. Bulking up a bit in hopes that it will help you against me?" Naruto asked as the Dwarf narrowed his eyes with a scoff.

"I do not need their stones to face a pest like you. I merely wanted them out of the way so none could betray me like the other three have so far. I have no need for them as soon my plan will come into fruition and you will be done for" the Dwarf said, his tone not cocky or arrogant but more of a 'matter-of-fact' as if that was the only way things could go down.

"We'll see but it all depends on if you can survive until then" Naruto said as he ran towards the Dwarf. He knew this time the Dwarf's defenses would be ready for him as Naruto coated his arms in the Lava release's chakra mode.

Naruto narrowed his eyes as he used his arms to melt though the transmuted attacks the Dwarf sent towards him wave after wave of stone pillars, metal spikes, and iron cannons that fired off cannonballs.

After he batted away and blocked each attack from the Dwarf he frowned, expecting a bit more from him before he appeared in front of him, poised for a kick only for a solid barrier to block him.

He was able to at least use the barrier as a kickboard to avoid the Dwarf's attempt to grab him before he skidded back away from him. "The Dwarf's barrier is powered by the energy released by the tectonic plates. As long as he is leeching off of it you'll need heavier attacks to get through it" the Truth said as Naruto nodded and summoned a Rasengan in his hand.

"Well that is a nifty barrier you have. I wonder though," he said as his Rasengan evolved into a Rasenshuriken "how it will handle something heavier than a simple kick" he added before he rose the Rasenshuriken above his hand, transforming it into a Lava Rasenshuriken.

He didn't give the Dwarf any time to react before he threw the Lava Rasenshuriken at him. He couldn't help but smirk as the Dwarf tried to attack it and block it only for the blades around it to cut through everything he tried.

The Dwarf didn't even have enough time to try and avoid it before it crashed into him, exploding in a massive dome of lave that nearly filled the entire room. By the time it died down Naruto frowned as the Dwarf was still standing, only at least he was able to deal some kind of damage as the Dwarf's form had changed.

His body was now composed of black liquid of sorts with multiple eyes open on his body. Whatever damage he dealt was enough to make him discard his Hohenheim skin.

"Naruto. That golden tooth man summoned the sacrifices! Ed, Al, Hohenheim, Izumi, and Olivier are traveling though my realm to you. I can't stop them" Truth warned him as he quickly looked up to see all five of them fall down from the ceiling around the Dwarf, who used his new liquid body to create tendrils to bind them.

"Just in time. Now with the eclipse I can absorb God!" the Dwarf yelled as he slammed his hand on a pedestal he transmuted next to him.

Naruto, in his rage at Olivier being put in danger alongside Izumi immediately transformed into his Kurama cloak, as at the moment it was the easiest to access since his Ten Tails Sage Mode cloak was always a bit more difficult to access.

He tried to quickly hit the Dwarf with an instant Bijuudama only for him to summon a shockwave. Naruto could feel how the shockwave had drained the energy underneath him, most likely draining the energy of the tectonic plates and sending the Bijuudama flying back to explode behind him.

It was too late.

He fell to his knees, the energy of the nationwide transmutation circle already pulling at his soul. 'T-Truth. I-I will save you' Naruto said to the Truth just as he felt his connection to the being sever while falling to the ground making sure to cast Izanagi on him and his other paths just before he lost consciousness.

"…uto!...aruto!...Naruto!" a familiar voice yelled, waking him up as he opened his eyes to see Olivier staring down at him with a worried look on her face.

"Olivier? Olivier! Thank goodness you're safe!" he said as he hugged her before quickly jumping back to avoid an attack fired at them.

"Oh great, you survived. I could have sworn I absorbed your soul" the Dwarf said, his voice coming from a younger form that looked almost like a lighter blonde and angrier form of Ed.

"Izanagi. I've never used it so I didn't know how to exit it and turns out prolonging it for however long absorbing the Truth took paired with me passing out before hand was more disorienting than I expected" Naruto said as he helped Olivier up to her feet while he looked around quickly to see how everyone else was.

He frowned as he saw the front of Al's armor was destroyed and the rest of it starting to crack, Ed's automail barely holding together as he tried to transmute to fix Al only for his alchemy not to be working. Izumi tried to help them both but her alchemy also seemed not to be working. Hohenheim though, alongside Al, seemed to be the worse for wear as he was on his knees with his arms spread out as. From the burns on the ground around them, he seemed to have protected them all from one of the Dwarf's attacks while he was unconscious from Izanagi.

"Ah you really are a cockroach like the rest of your race. But now with the souls of every soul in Amestris and God inside me you will be squashed like one!" the Dwarf yelled as Naruto narrowed his eyes with a smirk.

"You might have the Truth in you but I'm not sure how long you'll have the souls of Amestris" he said as ten wooden tendrils burst from the ground and combined into one that wrapped around his arm. "Ten crests of blood in ten cities. I went to each one and planted a seed, a seed that ties into the nature energy of the world itself. Its life force. And with it I will set those souls free!" he yelled as the root started to glow gold like his cloaked form.

The Dwarf tried to launch the miniature sun that he had formed in his hand previously at Naruto only for it to fade as his stomach grew and he started to look like he was about to throw up. "You bastard! I'll kill YOU!" the Dwarf yelled before his mouth opened up and a torrent of souls flew up through the ceiling.

Once the souls had stopped the Dwarf had quickly turned his attention back towards him with a powerful glare on his face. "I still have god in me! It is more than enough to end you!" the Dwarf yelled he summoned a black and purple electric orb in his hand.

"Stay here Olivier. I have to fight all out so I can't have you caught in the crossfire" he said as he looked her in the eyes before she nodded, fully knowing what his 'all out' was and what it could do.

"I haven't taken this form since I had to defeat a psycho from the moon and another from an alternate dimension so I might be a bit rusty. Though it's all in the instincts so I'll still be able to kick your ass" Naruto said before his form exploded in a burst of silver fire.

As the harmless fire drew back into him he smirked at the reminiscent form. His Ten Tails Sage Mode wasn't that far off his Six Paths Sage Mode only his horns weren't in the form of his hair and actual horns that now grew from his forehead. His coat had also grown longer like his Kurama Cloak mode. With the Shinju fueling the mode now it took a silver color with ten Truth Seeking Orbs floating behind him.

He didn't even have to react or order his Truth Seeking Orb to defend him from the Dwarf's attack, allowing it to harmlessly bounce off of it which sent it flying up and through the ceiling. "You say you have God in you, let's see how it fares against another god" Naruto said as he disappeared in a burst of speed too fast for the Dwarf to follow before he was sent flying through the ceiling as Naruto hit him with an uppercut, creating a second hole to the surface.

"Stay down here. I fear things are going to get disastrous. Go back and meet up with Itachi as with Pride having been absorbed by the Dwarf he can help get you to my other Paths" he said as Olivier nodded before pulling him in for a passionate kiss that she broke after a good few seconds.

"Stay safe. I won't forgive you if you die or lose" Olivier said as he nodded with a smirk.

"I promise I'll be safe, you do the same" Naruto said before he flew up through one of the holes in the ceiling.

The second he emerged from the hole he narrowed his eyes, dashing towards the Dwarf as he seemingly was trying to absorb the souls of the soldiers around them to create more stones to keep the Truth in check.

"I won't let you take anymore souls!" he yelled as he threw one Truth Seeking Orb at him to interrupt, the orb transforming as it flew into a drill which pieced the barrier around the Dwarf and stabbed through him causing him to roar in pain. "Soldiers of Briggs and Central! Evacuate the courtyard now! I cannot ensure your safety if you stay out here!" he yelled as thankfully the soldiers got the idea and quickly retreated without any hesitation.

The Dwarf quickly turned his attention back to him and went on the offensive causing him to use a Truth Seeking Orb to defend against a torrent of energy that the Dwarf tried to push him back with. "You will not get in my way! I have absorbed god! Your attacks cannot hurt me!" he yelled as he tried to pull the Truth Seeking Orb out of him only for it to transform and wrap around his chest.

He only seemed to get more enraged once he realized he couldn't destroy it which made Naruto smirk as his theory about them had been right. "Your barrier couldn't destroy it as its compound is a constantly changing combination of every element and sub-element so I doubt you could either. And good luck trying to block this point blank" Naruto said as he held out his hand, channeling chakra to the Truth Seeking Orb wrapped around the Dwarf before it glowed bright and exploded in a massive explosion.

'Point blank C4 explosion I at least dealt some damage' he thought as he reformed the Truth Seeking Orb he destroyed in the attack and watched as the smoke died down to show the Dwarf down on one knee as his body seemed to slowly regenerate the damage he caused.

"Let's see how much it takes for you to let go of the Truth!" he yelled as he transformed all of his Truth Seeking orbs into a set of nine Super Tailed Beast Rasenshuriken and a Bijuudama Rasenshuriken for the last before he threw them all at the Dwarf.

The explosion from the combination of the attacks was enough to fill the massive courtyard of the Central Command building causing him to take to the sky to avoid being caught in it all as well.

Once the explosion died down he landed back on the ground and sent a burst of wind to clear the smoke and to see how the Dwarf had held up.

"N-No! I h-have God in me! I w-will not lose to s-someone like you!" the Dwarf yelled as all that was left of him as his torso, half of his face and head, and one arm. He was about to yell something again before his body pulsed and his mouth burst open with the Truth's Eye opening from it before another one opened up on his stomach.

"God doesn't seem to like being in you. Face it, all of your plans failed and you are done for" Naruto said before he stopped in front of the Dwarf and held his hand over the Truth's eye on his stomach. 'Return to your realm' he thought as he plunged his hand into the Dwarf's stomach and pulled out the glowing white energy of the Truth before it faded from his hand.

"No! I-I won't let you kill me!" the Dwarf screamed, his voice breaking and quivering as he desperately tried to crawl away with his one arm as Naruto summoned his Truth Seeking Orbs again.

"Your stone is drained," he said as kicked the Dwarf onto his back and stabbed down a Truth Seeking Orb rod into the Drawf's palm "the Truth is gone," another rod into the center of his torso "and your plan for Amestris failed" he said adding another rode through his throat. "Even your homunculi abandoned you" he continued while adding a rod through his shoulder. "You were done for the second you threatened my loved ones" he finished as he shot the other ones directly through the Dwarf, going through his elbow, head, and wherever else that would keep him pinned.

"You die as you were born. A Dwarf in a flask!" he yelled as he plunged his hand down the Dwarf's mouth before pulling out a small one eyed ball of fuzzy black energy and the Truth's eye opened up below them.

"The Truth is a harsh but fair judge. He will judge you for your crimes and all the wrong you have done" he said as arms of the Gate rose up from the Truth's eye and pulled the screaming ball down into the eye before closing.

He couldn't help but smile as he fell to his knees and eased out of his transformation, the realization of it all finally being over hitting him like a ton of bricks. The Dwarf was dead and his homunculi were taken care of once and for all.

'You earned your peace Naruto. Consider our agreement fulfilled. Use your powers as you see fit, after seeing everything I have the utmost faith you won't abuse them' the Truth said as Naruto smiled and turned towards Olivier as he saw she, his paths, and the others had made their way up to him.

The sight of Olivier being safe made everything he went through worth it.

-Epilogue – Four Years Later-

Naruto smiled as he watched an eight year old Nina press her ear up against Olivier's seven month old pregnant stomach, excited for the prospect of having a sibling. Ever since the Dwarf was taken care of things had been a bit hectic the first few years but things were just now settling down.

Apparently though, during his whole scuffle with the Dwarf, Al's armor had broken but not before the younger Elric had sacrificed his soul to return Ed's arm to him via Alkahestry that apparently May had taught him.

Of course Ed being Ed had done something that only he had done before. Ed bargained with the Truth and won Al's body and soul back in exchange for all of his alchemy in the form if his own Portal of Truth.

In the end he was glad the two boys had gotten their bodies back.

"Daddy! I felt the baby kick in Mommy's stomach!" Nina said excitedly as he smiled and pet Nina's head as Olivier smiled at him.

It didn't take long for them to become officially married, rings and everything, a year or so after everything ended. He was even allowed to bring a few people from the afterlife to the wedding as well from his mom, dad, and even Sakura. At the end of the ceremony Olivier's life officially became tied to his, rendering her immortal and as a little wedding gift the Truth even allowed him to spread the immortality to other family he decided like Nina or now their future child.

She hadn't retired from the military, not that he would ask her to, but she was on maternity leave for the time being. Which left him to be the commander of Briggs as well as the role everyone had forced him into.

"Fuhrer, sir, I'm sorry to interrupt you but we have to be going" one of his 'bodyguards' said as Naruto sighed and stood up.

'Why did I have to agree to this job? All I wanted to do after this was relax with my wife and build a family but everyone seemingly decided to shove me into this role…I can't wait until I can pass it on to Olivier since this is more her thing' he thought as he stood up and kissed Nina's forehead, Olivier's belly, and Olivier before straightening the blue jacket that was part of the uniform he was forced to wear.

"Nina you help your mother out while I'm at work and if you need anything you know how to reach me" he said as Nina gave a playful salute before he left the house.

A part of him understood why they decided for him to be Fuhrer since he was the oldest being on earth. Plus through his years he had made allies with the Ishvalans so returning their land and helping them was easy enough. He even had Scar and Miles as representatives of the Ishvalan people to speed up the process.

Plus with Ling hosting Greed it made Xing a permanent ally. After the Dwarf was killed he let Ling, Lust and Gluttony free from his Kamui. Ling went back to rule Xing as future emperor while Lust and Gluttony stayed with them nearby.

Lust, with Olivier's approval, was actually his secretary while Gluttony stayed behind to keep guard over Olivier and Nina as well as be a friend for Nina at times.

All in all he didn't mind all that much if that meant he could have some peace after it all was done. With everything the Dwarf had caused he figured he could put up with some bureaucracy if it meant that in the end there was peace for his family and future children.

-Chapter End-

I know, late again but with this being the final chapter I wanted to spend a lot extra time on it as the fight with the Dwarf was really difficult to write as I wanted to get it right.

I honestly really loved this story so to see it finished feels odd but fulfilling. Thanks again Noctus of The Thousand Blades for this challenge and I hope it came out as well as you hoped it would.

In the end I feel like I resolved everything rather nicely and the fight with Itachi and Pride and Naruto and the Dwarf ending nicely. Izanami was odd to write but also fun.

I hope you liked the Epilogue, Naruto becoming Fuhrer is something I can honestly see everyone deciding on given the display of power along with him being the oldest being alive.

Yes Ed and Al got their arm and full bodies back like canon as I honestly couldn't leave that out so I tinkered around to do it off screen since with the way I changed things there was no way it would happen like in canon.

I plan to have my Bleach story fill this story's slot in the main week with another story being posted in the 2nd Week set.

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