Chapter 2!
Sleipnir34: Naruto doesn´t have any healing abilitys so the queen will still die. Also a new Queen is created by the King mating with other species to create a new Queen. Though i have no intention of creating other Chimera-ants. Naruto merely will save the ones he likes and say screw the rest.
Nen and Neferpitou!
It was several days since Ponzu had become a „Pet" to the Fox-like Chimera-ant and she was happy that Naruto (he told her his name after his meeting with the queen) had kept his promise to her. While she could not leave the hive or even his room, she was treated good and even got a friend in the Chimera-ant Bat.
She still hoped that the message she passed on through her bees had found a hunter and reinforcments were coming but when the Ants got exterminated she would fight tooth and nail to keep atleast Naruto and Bat save.
Currently she was sitting on Narutos couch trading fashion-tips with Bat while Naruto was off to a meeting. She wondered if something was happening.
„Naruto wait!"
Naruto stopped from walking to his room and turned around to see Colt approach him.
„What do you need Colt?"
Colt had a serious look on his face as he approached Naruto. He wondered what was eating away at the serious first Squadron-leader.
„I need you as back-up Naruto. Rammot has told me how Cheetu and Hagya kill humans for fun and leave the corpses behind. I need you to help me keep control of the discussion and if necessary force them into complying."
Naruto merely gave a nod before the two marched of to meet the two Squadron-leaders. It would have taken them a while to find them if not for an Ability that Naruto kept secret from the other ants. Due to his former lifes experiences in sharing his chakra with others Naruto was now capable of feeling the status and whereabouts of every single Chimera-ant created by the Queen.
As such he was easily able to find Cheetu and Hagya in one of the lower parts of the Hive. He also knew that Flutter and Hina where there too. On the way another Squadron-leader called Peggy also joined them. Naruto didn´t mind Peggy much due to his more rational approach the Penguin never killed unless necessary.
Entering the room the four ants occupied Naruto looked at the four:
Despite his ruthless approach towards human-life Naruto quite liked Cheetu and the Cheetah-ant could be described as one of his few friends
Flutter was to him a complete drone that blindly followed Hagyas orders and was therefore completely ignored by Naruto.
Hina was like Cheetu another Ant which Naruto liked. If Cheetu was like Kiba Inuzuka in his mind than Hina would be Ino Yamanaka. A fashion-obsessed girl whos main concern was her body-shape. She was also one of the only ants which Naruto knew had killed not a single human.
At last his eyes came to rest on Hagya. He utterly loathed the Lion-ant, it´s superiorty complex, complete disregard for any life but his own along with his treacherous attitude reminded Naruto badly of a mix of his former teacher Mizuki and Sasuke Uchiha.
„You misunderstand us. Mine and Hagyas division fulfill our required amounts. We simply have fun in the remaining time."
At Cheetus words Naruto and Colt got some distain in their eyes. Peggy though spoke up first.
„But, how can you simply waste the precious food for the Queen?"
„Precious? Don´t make me laugh. You can find it everywhere. We simply clean up some of the garbage. Do you mind?"
Naruto had to seriously stop himself from caving in Hagyas skull. Colt and Peggy too didn´t look happy about his words. He saw that Colt viewed the fight already as lost and simply tried to get a small result.
„Do you know that there are sometimes Raritys?"
Naruto really didn´t like Hagyas eyes after Colt mentioned that. He could literally see the greed in them.
„You are speaking about the food with the especially strong life-force? I personally never saw that before.
Very Well. The specialtys we will give to the Queen. Tell that Rammot and tell him to calm down."
Colt and Naruto both looked sceptically at Hagya before walking off. Naruto saw Hina winking at him and that Cheetu was following them.
Naruto first listened to Cheetus and Colts talking before he slowly walked back to his room. He would need to make sure Ponzu was safe now that Hagya was becoming greedy.
Naruto had just been taking a nap when he suddenly felt it. Yunju who was having his base in the drug-factory was suddenly in a battle along with his subordinates.
Concentrating he tried to find out what was happening but they were to far away for the telepathical part to work so he merely kept his eye on the three ants life-force. Given that it was two officers along with a Squadron-leader he didn´t expect much to happen, which caused Naruto to be astonished when he felt first Mosquitos then Centipedes life-force disappear from his senses.
Naruto though became even more alert when he felt Yunjus life ending. Since his rebirt as Chimera-ant this was the first time a Squadron-leader was killed.
He frowned when he felt Hagya and his divison move out in the direction of the factory. Deciding to wait and watch he sat upright on his bed. His eyes glanced towards the foot of the giant bed where Bat and Ponzu were currently sleeping. He was glad that he saved the green-haired girl from the other ants.
He waited a few hours until he finally felt the first Soldier of Hagyas division death. If he remembered right his name was Baro. He continued listening until he got a complete shock, within a single moment almost twenty Soldiers were wiped out including an Officer called Frog.
Narutos attention though was drawn to the door when a soldier called him to a meeting with Colt.
Naruto just was on his way to Colt when he suddenly felt a aura of pure Death. He quickly ran towards the Food-preparation chamber until stopping at the door.
Inside the room were Rammot; Pig and a female Cat-like Chimera-ant that sent the deadly aura out. Naruto was almost stunned, the last time he felt something like that had been when he first met Orochimaru. He watched as they dragged off Ponzus friend, quickly following them he winced when the Cat-like Ant opened his head and manipulated him into speaking about Nen.
„Neferpitou.
The Queen gave me that name. Call me from now an Neferpitou.
We don´t need that one anymore. Feed him to the Queen."
Naruto watched as Neferpitou walked towards him. The Cat had an almost curious look on her face when she sniffed at him.
„Meow? You are not one of the Royal Guard? How come you are so strong?"
Neferpitou looked at him curiously while Naruto silently mustered her before answering.
„My name is Naruto and i am a Squadron-leader along with being the Queens personal bodyguard. Your name is Neferpitou?"
„Meow, that´s right! Nice to meet you Naruto, meow!"
Despite her deathly aura Naruto almost had to smile at her cat-like character. It was quite cute and he would defintely keep an eye on her.
Naruto looked curiously at the power flowing through his body. It was a few hours ago that he let himself be hit by Rammot to awaken his Nen-ability.
He was very happy to know that he could use many chakra-based abilitys through Nen.
He used Enhancer to copy Tsunades super-strength. His Transmuter-ability was used to copy Sasukes fire and lightning style. Conjurer was of course used to re-create his beloved Shadow-clones. His Emitter ability was used for Rasen-shuriken but he had zero ability as manipulator.
His most special power though was his specialist-ability which allowed him to use Kuramas Golden chakra-cloak.
He watched how Neferpitous new human-puppet fought against the lower ranked Soldiers so that they could train their new abilitys.
As he turned around to return to his room he suddenly got a big feeling of dread. Looking around he found that the feeling got stronger in the direction of the Queen.
What the hell was the Queen giving birth to?