Chapter 3: Moving forward
Sorry about the long delay, life started to pick up again and I was busy. I have a bit of free time now so I thought I'd write something. Hope you guys like it!
This is the first time I'll be writing in years, I hope it comes out well and that you all enjoy it! Leave a review and I'll be sure to read it and respond, hopefully filled with some positive criticism (although any review is a good one), I really need to learn how to write better haha :) The story takes place in School-Live! and follows our protagonist, who has been trying to lead a normal life after living for hundreds of years. Watch as his world flips and he has to once again protect those that become precious to him!
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Chapter 3: Moving forward
"Eh?! What do you mean they changed the school's name?" Naruto shouted from surprise. "It was called Kurama High School even up to a few years ago, wasn't it?"
"Yes Naruto-kun, it was." Megumi started, "But they decided to change the name to Megurigaoka High School two years ago. The Board decided that it would be better to change the school's name to something more appropriate than a mythical demon."
"I still liked Kurama High School better." Naruto grumbled with a frown. The only thing that had pulled him into enrolling for this school was its name. Now even that quality about it was gone. 'Sigh, well at least the school still looks the same.'
The five of them, which composed of Naruto, Megumi, Yuki, Yuri, and Kurumi, had prepped up the third floor of the school to use as their living quarters until Naruto's "teammates" came back with some help. The five of them sat in the now "School Living Club" and had just finished their dinner meal of pork ramen, courtesy of Naruto Uzumaki.
Yuri had decided to do the dishes for the night and was busy cleaning the bowls in a bucket of water in the club room. Kurumi had decided she would check out the other two floors beneath them, to make sure there were no zombies left to bother them. Naruto had sent a clone after her just in case, hidden of course, and the two were currently exploring the school. Megumi and Naruto were sitting at the table and talking about this and that to catch up with one another's lives. Naruto kept his part short, telling the woman that he worked as a businessman and was currently on vacation when the incident happened. Although this wasn't the truth, he couldn't actually tell them he was wandering the world eliminating powerful opponents. Yuki was sitting at the opposite end of the table, doodling something.
Naruto remembered how distraught the pink haired girl had been. Although she had put up a mental wall after the initial meeting on the roof, she had broken down when they entered the school. Naruto had found the girl crying to herself in one of the unoccupied rooms on the third floor shortly after the group had entered the building and was confused on what to do. He was planning to comfort her with some ice cream, 'Because everything gets better with ice cream' he had thought, when the other three girls also entered the room. After a brief chat, the four decided to make the School Living Club and told Yuki the news. Yuki had seemed unwilling at first but, with some helpful advice from Megumi, smiled and accepted the School Living Club's invitation. And thus the club had been set.
Coming back to the present, Naruto noticed Megumi-san staring at him with a frown on her face. "Naruto-kun, you okay?" the descendant of Sakura said.
"Ah yeah, my apologies Megumi-san. I seem to have zoned off a bit." Naruto replied. He seemed to zone off a lot more these days. He used to be able to think back on his past while remaining in the present, but as the years went by, he was having a harder time multitasking. "What was it you were saying?"
"Geez, making me repeat what I say." Megumi said, before sighing and continuing, "I was saying that we should set up a room for the night. And before you get any dirty thoughts, no I didn't mean for you and me. You will remain guard Naruto-kun while the girls and I get some rest. The girls will get tired soon and it would be a good idea to have a room set up before Kurumi-chan returns. I believe I saw the necessary materials in one of the rooms down the hall, thanks to your team. Yuri-chan also seems to be finished with the dishes so we might as well start now." And with that the woman stood up, walking out of the room.
'She definitely has some similarities to Sakura-chan.' Naruto thought, 'Both are very haughty yet kind and diligent. I'm sure she'll be fine for a while. In fact, all the girls here seem like they'll be okay for the time being.' With that thought, Naruto got up to help Megumi-san set up a room for the night.
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'Huh, what's this?' the clone thought. He had been trailing Kurumi as per his boss's request, but was surprised when the two stumbled upon what seemed to be a basement. 'I don't remember anything about there being a basement in this school.' Naruto had traveled all over the school the one year he had attended it, and was sure he had seen everything the school had to offer. Yet such a room had missed his notice. 'The girl sure has some good instincts, to be able to find a room even the boss wasn't able to.'
The girl raised the metal gateway, sort of like the way a garage door would open, and slid inside. The clone shunshined inside as well before the gate closed behind the two. Kurumi was flashing a light into the hallway behind the metal door when he appeared behind her. Not noticing the clone's presence, Kurumi continued down the hallway, looking at the lone door at the end of the long hallway. Secretly, the clone flipped a switch that the girl had overlooked, turning on the lights inside the hallway. The girl jumped from the sudden burst of light and rubbed her eyes before continuing down the hallway. Naruto's clone stayed close. This room had not been cleared out beforehand and there could be possible dangers lurking.
Luckily, the two made it to the end of the hallway and into a new room without any problematic encounters. The room inside was astounding. The white walls and floor were covered with what seemed to be mountains of shelves. At the end of the room, a large refrigerator sat, its low hum the only sound in the room. The clone was so astounded by what was in the room that he was almost caught off guard when a shovel swung towards his chest. Luckily, the clone was still aware of his surroundings and took a step back as the shovel swung in front of his body.
"Hey you, where did you come from?! Sneaking up on a girl isn't proper manners. And shouldn't you be back with the others? What if they get hurt!" The girl yelled at the blonde clone. The clone was definitely surprised to see he had gotten caught. He had hidden his presence and even had a slight genjutsu over himself to make it harder to be seen. The fact that the girl had noticed him was a miracle. 'Yup, good instincts' the clone thought as he put up his hands and made a small smile. "Sorry about that Kurumi-chan but don't worry about it. The boss is with the others right now so they're safe. I just wanted to make sure you would be okay."
She stared at him a while longer with a confused look. "Hmph," Kurumi said as she turned back around, "whatever. I'm going to go check what's in the fridge down there. Hopefully there'll be some food since we'll definitely need some of that." With that, the purple haired girl was off, walking towards the fridge.
The clone pulled out a "horde scroll", a special scroll made by the boss himself to store large amounts of items. The clone went around opening all the cabinets, surprised to see that they were filled with everything from emergency blankets to medication, and walked back to one side of the room. Once the girl was far enough away, the clone opened the scroll and poured a small amount of chakra into it. There was a large poof and all the cabinets were empty. 'Good thing the boss gave me a scroll. I would've had a problem trying to get all this stuff out without one.'
The clone then went to the fridge where one Kurumi was staring inside with wide eyes. The clone wondered what could have caught the girl's attention for such a large period of time and also peered inside. What he saw made even the clone surprised. The fridge was filled with all sorts of microwavable and dried foods, from udon to mashed potatoes, from canned peaches to Kool-Aid powder packets. And best of all, there were ingredients to make ramen! The clone was so mesmerized that he forgot the girl was watching and poured some chakra into the scroll. Poof! All the food in the fridge was gone and Kurumi looked shocked to see the mass amount of food disappear. She then turned around and punched the clone in the stomach. The hit was light compared to Megumi-san's earlier on and the clothing took the brunt of the force, but the clone still took a step back from the shock. The hit was nowhere near enough to dispel him though.
"Where'd all the food go?!" the girl shouted. "I know you have something to do with this! The lights turning on in the hallway, the creepy feeling of being followed, and now this? Where's the food, damn it!"
'Oh shoot,' the clone thought as he saw the girl trying to set him on fire with her eyes. Had she been a Uchiha that may have been possible. "Sorry Kurumi, I didn't mean to scare you or anything. But hey, I got everything packed up so let's head on back up, yeah?" the clone said trying to diffuse the situation.
Kurumi didn't seem too happy with the situation but decided to just go with it, walking past the blonde to leave. "I'll be heading back first, stay back and don't follow me, I can take care of myself." The girl said as she left the room.
The clone scratched his head as he thought about the situation. 'Well, boss told me to follow her so I can't just wait here. But she knows I'm there even when I'm being stealthy.' The clone placed a strange mark on a nearby cabinet that faded away before walking off towards where the girl had been. The girl was scary but not as scary as the boss would be if she got hurt.
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It had been a few hours for the clone since the boss had left and he was getting pretty bored. Sure it had been pretty fun going around the mall and hording everything, especially the reactions from the two girls that he had been getting, but now, sitting in a room babysitting the two, he was getting super bored. He had thought about leaving to check out the few places they hadn't gone to like the theater and the elevator control room but the girls hadn't wanted to leave. So, here he was, thinking up ways to relieve his boredom.
Just as he was thinking about setting up traps for his amusement, he heard the sound of multiple footsteps headed towards their direction. Noting that the girls were fast asleep on the couch, he stood up and opened the door to see who was coming their way. It wouldn't be good if there were any zombies he missed.
"Keeah!" The clone jumped back into the room as he heard someone scream nearly right next to him. Pulling out a kunai from his sleeve, the clone walked back up and looked out the room, noticing that there was a woman on the floor with a few tears in her eyes. A woman with nearly a dozen people behind her leveling random objects towards the blonde like they were weapons.
"Lower your weapons!" one of the men ordered, seemingly the makeshift leader of the group, making the eclectic group lower their weapons. "Seems we have another survivor. I'm glad to see you are alive as well…"
"Naruto Uzumaki." the clone added, stashing his kunai back in his sleeve and sticking out a hand, one that the man took and gave a strong shake. "I'm glad to see you guys too. I thought I was going to have to babysit forever!"
"Babysit?" the man asked but before he could get a response, there was a large puff of smoke from the room behind the blonde man, causing him to cough and look around to find the boy no longer there. Perturbed by the situation but acting his role, he stood up straight and walked into the room. What he saw made his jaw drop.
Half the room was covered with all sorts of random items, ranging from food to clothes to gardening supplies. On the other half, the room was bare except for a sofa and two girls, who seemed like they had just woken up and were staring at him.
The man mustered up what composure he could bring out and beckoned his motley group in before walking up to the two girls to introduce himself. Watching the situation play out, the clone saw things were working out and dispelled, the only thing marking his exit being an apple poofing out of existence from a nearby cabinet.
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As the knowledge flooded into Naruto's mind, the blonde smiled being content that the girls were safe for now. On his end he had convinced the group to settle down for the night in one of the empty study rooms while he would be sleeping in the School Living Club main room.
Soon he could tell the girls were all asleep, including Megumi-chan who had taken a bit longer to convince to rest than the others. As the girls slept, Naruto made a clone to keep watch over the school as he left the premise through a window. After seeing the medical supplies the clone brought along with the emergency plan Megumi-chan showed him, he knew there was still stuff for him to do that night.
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Naruto stood in a dark cave far underground. A place that no one could get to without the Hiraishin or a rocket and a billion tons of dynamite. He stood before a giant pale statue, which seemed to act as a tree with the branches spanning out from it and white bodies hanging from the branches. Naruto really did not like coming here but this time he had to. He had to make up for the mistakes he had made that day. He pulled out a couple scrolls and made a few clones, each one taking a scroll and going off to one part of the room. At an unspoken word, the clones released all the bodies within the scrolls, revealing hundreds of incapacitated undead students and teachers along with one young lady. The clones then each pulled out medical supplies and began injecting the bodies with the medicine found in the school basement, causing the zombies to scream out before going limp. Naruto made a few more clones to speed up the process and to heal the wounded people now coming back from their "undead" state.
He himself then left the area, walking over to the giant statue itself. He took down countless bodies growing from the tree and sat down in the midst of all the pale figures. Sitting still, he began to harness nature chakra to enter Sage Mode while focusing exorbitant amounts of chakra to his eyes. Finally opening them, one could see that the blonde's eyes were now purple with concentric circles rippling out with a dark yellow shade around his eyes. Cursing to himself about using techniques that he had planned to never use again, Naruto made a few hand signs while arms popped up all around his form, touching each of the bodies.
The blonde closed his eyes once more and mumbled something under his breath. He felt the energy being sucked out of him, performing the forbidden technique. If he had not carried a near infinite amount of chakra he knew this would have probably killed him. As he felt the technique end, he felt a surge of sleepiness that almost made him faint. Instead, he chose to teleport back to the school and fall asleep, never opening his eyes to acknowledge the deed he had done.
That's all folks! How was it? I wrote half of it way back when and the other half now, is it noticeable where I left off? Anyways, yeah, I decided to change my mind about some decisions I made earlier on in the story and this is what came of it. Tell me what you all think, I need to know how I can improve as a writer. I tried separating the paragraphs so that they weren't blocks of text, was I effective at doing so?
Have a great Christmas and New Years everyone, hopefully I'll be able to post again soon. Until then!