179Naruto stood on the second floor of the dropship, staring at the bloodied grounder. "Bellamy really did a number on you. A couple punches to the face, broken ribs, and even shoved a nail in your hand." Naruto said, taking note of all the injuries Bellamy inflicted on the guy.
The grounder himself stood where he was bound by the wires attached to the dropship, glaring at Naruto. "Look, I'm sorry for what I said. I wasn't actually ever going to do anything that I said, I just needed to know you could understand me." Naruto said, but the grounder didn't calm down.
Naruto walked to the corner of the room and took out a wet washcloth from a bucket. He walked back over to the grounder, washcloth in hand. "Now, I'm going to unbind you as a show of my trust. Don't break that trust." Naruto said, and the man looked at Naruto surprised.
Naruto then unclipped one of the binds holding the grounder. The grounder responded immediately, rushing to his other clip and unclipping it before turning around and glaring at Naruto.
Naruto walked up to him and held out the wet washcloth. "I figure you probably don't trust me to clean your wounds," Naruto said, opening his hand so the grounder could take the washcloth.
The grounder stared at the washcloth, not knowing what to do. After a minute, he reached out and grabbed the washcloth, never lowering his guard the whole time. "Now I have some questions. If you think that the questions I ask could hurt you or your people in any way, feel free to not answer them."
Naruto said, and the grounder didn't make any indication that he agreed. "First, let's start off with an introduction. I am Naruto Uzumaki from Konohagakure no Sato. And you would be?" Naruto asked, and the grounder stopped nursing his wounds, looking at Naruto.
The grounder was silent for a while, before finally thinking. "Lincoln come Trikru," Lincoln said, and Naruto nodded.
"Trikru? I am guessing that is the name of your people. It's definitely a better name to call you people by than 'grounders'." Naruto said, and Lincoln nodded in agreement.
"Second, most people live by a code. Do your people live by one?" Naruto said, and the grounder nodded.
"Blood for blood." The grounder said, and Naruto nodded once again. That is very similar to how he lived all of his life in the Elemental Nations, so he understood.
"So, then I would have been right in assuming you weren't killing my people for fun, but rather you had a valid reason," Naruto said, and Lincoln nodded once again.
"You may see us as savages but we're not. You invaded our territory." Lincoln said, going back to cleaning his wounds with the towel. Naruto noticed the towel was getting really bloody walked over to the bucket and brought it to him.
Lincoln giving him an appreciative nod in response. "Ok, then I have just one last question. Then you're free to go." Naruto said, shocking Lincoln. Lincoln expected him to just keep him as a prisoner or kill him, and he figured giving away harmless information was better than being tortured and possibly giving away harmful information.
"Do you guys have someone leading you or is it more like a multitude of people," Naruto asked, and Lincoln looked hesitant to answer. It could be a harmful question, but Lincoln doubted Naruto could do anything with it, so gave it to him.
"The commander," Lincoln said, and Naruto nodded. Naruto stood up and grabbed one of the camp's jackets. Lincoln was on guard, ready to fight if it came to it, but was confused when Naruto handed him the jacket.
"It will be hard to get you out of here unnoticed if you look like you currently do. Put this on and then I'll get you out of here." Naruto said, and Lincoln took the jacket, slipping it on. "Come on, follow me and stay close," Naruto said, and Lincoln started to follow.
Naruto opened the hatch to the second floor, and took a quick glance, noticing there was no one currently in the dropship. He signaled Lincoln to come down and then looked outside the dropship, seeing everyone acting weird.
Naruto then saw Bellamy and a group of people sober and trying to calm the crowd down, since they were all high as a kite. "Shit." Naruto cursed, it would hard to get Lincoln out of her like this.
He turned to face Lincoln, seeing him by the latter. "Plans changed, take off the jacket," Naruto said, and Lincoln took it off. Naruto grabbed one of the knives on the dropship, making Lincoln tense and get ready to fight.
"Clam down," Naruto said, before using the knife to slit his pointer finger open, then stopping his healing factor from healing his wound. "Sorry, but they're going to have to think I beat the shit out of you," Naruto said, approaching Lincoln and wiping blood all over him.
Lincoln was confused by this but allowed Naruto to do it. Putting some trust in him because of all he's done for him. When Naruto was finished, Lincoln looked like he had been very badly tortured as blood covered almost every inch of his body.
"Alright, this should do," Naruto said, then grabbed some rope and tied Lincoln's hands behind his back. "Alright, everything is ready now," Naruto said, before grabbing Lincoln and leading him out of the dropship with a fake scowl on his face.
The instant they exited the dropship every that was sober noticed them and Bellamy approached him quickly. "What are you doing? And what the hell happened to him?" Bellamy asked, too naive to notice that the blood wasn't Lincoln's.
"What's it look like happened to him. He didn't want to talk, so I made him talk. Now, he's going to be sent back to his people as a message. You fuck with us, you'll share the same fate as this unlucky bastard." Naruto said, shoving Lincoln harshly, making Lincoln faceplant into the dirt, making his actions seem more believable.
Lincoln himself was internally commending Naruto with coming up with this plan. Bellamy looked at the grounder with a smirk, before patting Naruto on the back. "It's about time you came around," Bellamy said.
Naruto nodded, before walking to Lincoln and picking him up by the rope that has his hands tied. "Get up you scum," Naruto said, and Lincoln faked a growl with a nasty scowl on his face. "I'll take him far enough out until I know for sure the other grounders will find him. Then I'll return to camp." Naruto said, getting a nod from Bellamy.
With all that said and done, Naruto led Lincoln out of the camp far enough until he knew no one was watching them. He stopped, Lincoln stopping at the same time. "That was some good acting Lincoln," Naruto said, and Lincoln smirked at Naruto.
"And that was a good plan," Lincoln said, and Naruto laughed. He then untied Lincoln, Lincoln rolling around his shoulders and wrist to get the soreness of being tied up out of them. "Take this," Naruto said, causing Lincoln to turn around.
When Lincoln turned around, he was shocked to see Naruto offering the rope. "What would I need this for?" Lincoln said, and Naruto turned around, putting his hands together. Lincoln became even more confused.
"Tie me up, then take me to this commander. I want to talk with her and make an offer to try and make some piece between my people and yours." Naruto said, and Lincoln reluctantly agreed, tying Naruto up.
"I will take you to see the commander. But what happens to you once you meet her is not up to me." Lincoln said, and Naruto nodded. He wasn't worried about what the commander might do, because if worst came, he could just kill them all and return to camp.
"Well, let's go them. I'm guessing it will be a long walk." Naruto said, and Lincoln started to lead him to his commander.
The walk was long and silent, neither uttering a word, with no breaks in the walk. Two hours later, Naruto and Lincoln arrived at a sign that said no weapons beyond this point. Lincoln looked to Naruto, and Naruto shook his head.
"I don't have any weapons on me at the moment," Naruto said, but that Lincoln checked him anyways, finding no weapons. Lincoln nodded and the started walking, before turning around quickly and sending a quick jab to Naruto's face.
Naruto watched the jab come to him in what to him, felt like slow motion. Inwardly, he smirked. He could easily dodge or catch the punch and proceed to kick the ass of Lincoln. But Naruto understood why he was doing it.
Lincoln didn't want Naruto seeing the inside of their home, as that could be very dangerous to them. So, Naruto allowed Lincoln to punch him, as well as fake being knocked off his feet and losing consciousness when in reality, it felt like Lincoln merely flicked him on the forehead.
So, Naruto respected Lincoln's wishes and allowed for him to heft him up on his shoulders and carry him to wherever he was carrying him. Ten minutes later, after Lincoln talking to some of his fellow people, Naruto was locked up in a concrete room with a chain attached to his leg.
The only ways out was a metal gate which was locked as well as guarded by two Trikru guards, and a metal trapdoor on the roof, which was 15 feet high up in the air.
Naruto slowly opened his eyes, pretending to have just woken up from his unconscious state. When he awoke, he looked around the room and found Murphy in one corner, very bloody, obvious he was tortured, a group of Trikru warriors and one civilian looking woman staring at him.
Smiling in amusement, he looked at Murphy. "Been through the ringer?" Naruto asked, to which Murphy scoffed and sent him a glare. Naruto chuckled, then looked at the people who believed they had him held as a prisoner.
"Hello," Naruto said, giving them a one-handed wave. They didn't make anything obvious changes physically, but he could tell they were all shocked by his nonchalant attitude.
"So, mind telling me what's going on?" Naruto asked, and a man stepped up, glaring at Naruto.
"Lincoln says you wanted to talk with the commander, and also put in a good word for you. But before you can do that, you have to prove yourself." The man said and threw a knife on the floor.
"Whoever kills the other person first gets to walk free." The man said, before he and his men walking off, the woman staying behind and skittishly walked over to a corner and sat down. Naruto sighed, trying to make sense of everything happening.
"Just kill me," Murphy told Naruto, to which Naruto turned to look at him with a raised eyebrow. Naruto grabbed the knife and started fiddling with it. Spinning it around in his hand with the finesse of someone who's been familiar with weapons for years.
"Kill you? You know, that doesn't sound too bad honestly. After all, you still haven't paid your punishment for what you did for Charlotte yet. And I did tell you I was going to punish you for what you did." Naruto said, and Murphy tensed, thinking Naruto would be the knight and shining armor and choose dying over killing one of his people.
Naruto turned to the person sitting in the corner with a confused look on her face. "How about this, I'll leave your fate in the hands of the beauty over here," Naruto said, the woman not making in outside response to being called beautiful.
"First though, she, of course, needs to know of your crimes. So, I guess it would be story time. You see, back at our camp, there's this little girl named Charlotte. Although she is 15 years of age, she had a mindset of someone close to 10." Naruto said, the Trikru person making no outside reaction once again.
"Every night, Charlotte would have nightmares. The same nightmare in fact. And would wake up screaming. That nightmare happened to be of her parents being sentenced to death, seeing their dead bodies, seeing the face of Jaha, the one who sentenced her parent's to death, and finally seeing the face of Wells, Jaha's son. Who just so happened to be on the ground with us."
"All she wanted in her life, was for the nightmares to stop one day. And she would do anything to achieve that. Then, one day, a rather stupid man, told Charlotte if she slew her demons while awake, they couldn't haunt her in her sleep." This time, the woman made an outward reaction, a looking of recognizing on her face. Realizing exactly where this story was going.
"So, this little girl having an unstable mind because of these nightmares misinterpreted those words and killed Wells. Thinking that if she did, her nightmares would go away. She didn't even realize she was taking the life of an innocent person until after she did it and has regretted it ever since."
"After some explaining, everyone at camp had forgiven her. Well, except for shitbag right here." Naruto said, pointing to Murphy. "Instead of forgiving her, he decided she needed to be killed for her actions. So, he swayed some of his friends to his side, and they started fighting people to get to Charlotte, and kill her." Naruto said, and the woman sent a quick glare at Murphy.
"It got so bad, that Charlotte decided to kill herself over anybody else getting hurt anymore. Luckily, I got to her before she could go through with the action. Now, she lives with me and I see her as a little sister." Naruto said, finishing his story.
"So, what do you think I should do? Forgive the piece of shit who caused Charlotte so much pain. Or kill him." Naruto said, and the woman looked at Murphy with a glare.
"Blood must have blood." She said simply, and Naruto nodded. Murphy tensed, thinking he was about to be killed. Naruto stopped twirling the knife in his hand and looked at Murphy, who had fear written on his face, and looked like he was about to soil his pants.
Trying to put up a tough facade, glared at Naruto. "You going to kill me now? Avenge Charlotte?" Murphy asked, although his voice was a bit shaky. "If so, I hope it haunts you for the rest of your life, knowing you are a murderer."
Naruto sighed, shaking his head. "That's the thing, Murphy. I've killed thousands of people." Naruto said, shocking both Murphy and the woman. "Adding you to that very long list of people…" Naruto then quickly threw the knife, the knife sailing through the air and then embedding itself all the way to the hilt in the concrete just millimeters away from Murphy's face. "Won't way on my conscious at all."
The woman looked at the knife with wide eyes. To be able to put a knife into a concrete wall alone would be a great feat only few could do, let alone embed it all the way to its hilt. The precision and the strength Naruto used to throw that knife, was something that she hadn't ever seen in her life before. Something that made her very wary of him.
Naruto looked at the woman with a calculating gaze. "You know, I've been wondering something. Why are you in here with us?" Naruto asked, and the woman squirmed, though Naruto could tell it was forced. The woman in front of him was strong, at least to this dimension's standards.
"To call the guards once one of you kill the other." She said, and Naruto nodded.
"What's your name. I'm Naruto Uzumaki from Konohagakure no Sato." Naruto said, getting confused stared from both the people. Neither one having any clue to what Konohagakure was.
"My name is Lexa. Lexa come Trikru." Lexa said, and Naruto nodded.
"So, why you? They either don't care if we kill you, or they trust you enough to be sure that you could handle us both if it came to a fight." Naruto said, and Lexa's eyes narrowed.
"I guess it would be the first one," Lexa said, not liking how Naruto was questioning her, instead of Murphy. It showed that he was smarter than what they assumed him to be.
Naruto nodded slowly. "I would be inclined to believe that, I truly would, if not for the fact that the way you carry yourself as well as the look in your eyes, tell me that you a warrior. And a strong one at that." Naruto said, shocking Lexa as she secretly reached behind her and grabbed hold of a knife concealed in her clothing behind her.
"And another thing I find is that a lot of leaders tend to want to see everything first hand instead of hearing about it from her people. That's exactly what I think is happening here. So, I'm only going to ask this once, are you the commander?" Naruto asked, and Lexa looked at him shocked.
"I'm surprised you could decipher all that just by looking at that. Is it just you who is this perceptive, or are your people just as perceptive?" Lexa asked, her commander side coming to into the spotlight.
Naruto chuckled and waved her off. "You don't have to worry about that. I am the only one. But, it is expected of me. I was raised from the age of four to perceive these things. Unknown to most of my people, I was quite literally raised to be a weapon and kill hundreds of people. It just so happened that I became quite successful at that job, and hundreds turned into tens of thousands." Naruto said, shocking Lexa to the core.
"You say you have killed tens of thousands of people. But how would that be possible if you have lived in space most your life." Lexa asked, trying to get answers out of Naruto. Lucky for her, Naruto was feeling generous today.
"I'm going to let you in on a little secret. However, I'd rather not let shitbag over there hear me. So…" Naruto said, before using Creation of All Things, creating a senbon needle, then throwing them at Murphy with precise aim, hitting a pressure point that rendered him unconscious.
Lexa glared at him. "Outsiders are not permitted to have weapons in here. You should have dropped them all before you entered this place. We also checked to see if you had any weapons. How did you sneak those weapons in here?" Lexa said, giving him a fierce glare.
Naruto looked to her with a smirk. "I didn't sneak anything in here," Naruto said, getting a harder glare from Lexa. "Anyways, you wanted to know how I've killed tens of thousands of people while living in space for most my life," Naruto said, and Lexa nodded, but her glare didn't let up.
"Well, the answer would be, that I haven't lived in space most of my life. In fact, I've only ever been in space for a total of about 8 hours." Naruto said, and Lexa looked to him with an even deeper scowl.
"How is that possible?!" Lexa said, and Naruto chuckled, shaking his head.
"Sorry. That's for me to know, and you to find out." Naruto said, and then suddenly his stomach growled. "You wouldn't happen to have any food. Would you?" Naruto asked, and Lexa didn't even acknowledge what he said.
Naruto clicked his tongue. "That's about what I expected," Naruto said before reaching into his clothes and pulling out the scroll that withheld all his meat and berries. "Guess I'll get it myself," Naruto said, opening the scroll, and in a puff of smoke, some raw meat and berries appeared.
Lexa stared in complete and utter shock. Her mind failing to work at the moment. But was her mind was put into an ever-worse cluster fuck when Naruto let out a stream of fire from his mouth, cooking the meat.
Naruto took a glance at Lexa, smirking at her shocked expression. Usually, he wouldn't be showing off. But this situation was different. He needed Lexa to be wary of him, so she would take him seriously. Naruto then proceeded to eat his food, Lexa staring at him in shock and bewilderment the whole time.
Once Naruto was finished, he looked at Lexa. Feigning ignorance, he tilted his head in fake confusion. "What? Is there something on my face?" Naruto asked, inwardly smirking in amusement.
Lexa got out of her stupor and glared at Naruto. "How!" Lexa demanded more than asked.
Naruto smirked in response. "Again, that's for me to know, and you to find out," Naruto said, and Lexa growled at him.
"Then why show me? Why show me what you are capable of doing? Just to show off?" Lexa asked, an edge to her voice.
Naruto shook his head. "No, it's because I need you to take me seriously. Also, because I hope to make some sort of peace or seize fire between your people and mine. So, you could also see it as a form of trust." Naruto said, getting a scoff from Lexa.
"And why would we agree to something like that? We are doing just fine on our own." Lexa said, to which Naruto nodded. It seemed they were doing well.
"That's why I came here today. Because I wanted to discuss some things. What I want, is land. I realize that your people have attacked mine because we have invaded your land. So, I want land to call my own, so we can stop this fighting." Naruto said.
"And what would you give in return?" Lexa asked, intrigued. It was obvious to her that Naruto was hiding a lot of his strength, and was willing to bet that he was stronger than her, even if her pride would never allow her to admit it aloud.
"That's up to you. You tell me what you want. Food? Weapons? Technology? Name it." Naruto said, and Lexa seemed to think it over for a while.
"Okay. You want some land. I'm inclined to give it to you. But what I want in return is 20% of everything your people currently own and 20% of everything you create in the future. Also, I want you as one of my warriors. I can tell you are strong. That is my offer." Naruto inwardly smirked at this woman.
If not for the fact that he cared for some people in his camp, those being Clarke and Charlotte, he would say to hell with them and leave them. After all, Clarke and Charlotte were the only people he felt attached to emotionally. And he knew that Clarke would never agree to joining these people with them.
But at the same time, if he did join, he would be forced to bow down to someone hundreds of times weaker than him. That was something that would never happen.
"No," Naruto said, resulting in a glare from Lexa.
"You don't have a choice in the matter. You either accept, or you and your people die." Lexa said, and Naruto chuckled.
"Lexa, you've seen some of what I can do. But I will tell you right now, the power I've showcased you is only a sliver of what I can do. Where I come from, I fought people who could destroy mountains with their bare hands and came out unscathed. What do you think you could do?" Naruto said although he knew Lexa wouldn't believe him. Not yet anyway.
Lexa scoffed, refusing to believe something so ludicrous. Instead, she decided to give him an impossible task. At least, something impossible in her standards. "Fine. If you claim yourself to be so strong, then there is something you can do for me." Lexa said, getting a curious look from Naruto.
"Go on," Naruto said.
"There are people who live in the mountain," Lexa said, and Naruto nodded. He had felt them, although he couldn't pick out anybody worth mentioning as they all had civilian level reserves. But, with as many people in the mountain, as there was, there was enough chakra for him to sense.
"I want them dead," Lexa said, and Naruto rose an eyebrow.
"And please tell, why should I kill them?" Naruto asked.
"Because the people in the mountain are a big threat to not only my people but yours as well. We don't know much about them, but we do know some. For one, unlike us, they can't survive the radiation in the air, so they are forced to live in a mountain." Lexa said, and Naruto nodded.
"However, the radiation is still in the air, and slowly kills them regardless of them living in the mountain. But, if they take the blood of someone who can survive the radiation, and give it to themselves, it keeps them alive." Lexa said, and Naruto was a bit surprised at that. Sounded like some cliché plot if you asked him.
"So, they kidnap my people and take every ounce of blood from their bodies and give it to themselves to stay alive. The ones they deem not worthy of being what they call 'harvested', are turned into what we call reapers. They are cannibals who kill anyone they come into contact with except other reapers."
"Eventually, they will come after your people and do the same thing. After all, unlike my people, yours are weak, easy prey. They will come after you eventually. So that gives you every incentive to take them out." Lexa said, and Naruto nodded.
Sure, he was against committing genocide when it came to Trikru, but that was because they could help him. But these people in the mountain, they had no use to him. What would a bunch of people who can't step outside do for him? Nothing.
"You have one week to accomplish this task. If you don't, my people and yours will be at war." Lexa said, standing up and walking to the gates. As she got close, she called for her people, and they came, opening the gate for her.
Naruto reaches down to the thing keeping him chained to the wall, before ripping it in half. Shocking the grounders. "Ok, but I will only need a few days. The mountain men will be dead by the end of the week. Once that is done, we will discuss my end of the deal." Naruto said, walking over to Murphy and hefting him onto his shoulder.
"Well, have a good day," Naruto said, giving them a two-finger salute, before to the utter shock of everyone, he disappeared in a flash of yellow lightning, and no matter where they looked, they couldn't find him.
At the same time, Naruto arrived at his hut with a bloodied Murphy hefted over his shoulder. Clarke and Charlotte jumped, shocked when Naruto suddenly appeared in the middle of Charlotte's room in a flash of yellow lightning.
"Yo!" Naruto said, waving at the two of them. When Clarke saw the bloodied Murphy on Naruto's shoulder, she quickly stood up and rushed over to Naruto.
"Oh my gosh! What happened to Murphy?" Clarke asked worriedly.
"The grounders kidnapped and tortured him," Naruto said nonchalantly, shocking Clarke.
"How can you not be mad about this? Somebody tortured him!" Clarke yelled, and Naruto just shrugged.
"For one, because Murphy deserved it. And for two, because the torture he received was barely enough to be considered torture." Naruto said, and upon closer inspection, it looked like Murphy had only been beat and cut in a few places.
"I have to take him back to camp. But after that, I need to talk to you about something important." Naruto said, leaving the hut and bringing Murphy to the camp. He avoided everyone, and threw Murphy in his tent, not caring that Murphy hit his head harshly on the ground when he landed in his tent.
"Your lucky they aren't good at torturing people. The worst they did to you was rip off your fingernails." Naruto said to no one in particular before using Hirashin once again to appear in the hut. Clarke and Charlotte jumped, shocked once again when he appeared in the hut.
"How do you do that?!" Charlotte screamed, frustrated that Naruto kept scaring her, but also curious as to how Naruto kept randomly appearing the hut. Even if she knew that Naruto wasn't exactly normal, she was still shocked to see him seemingly teleporting.
"You'll find out soon Charlotte. For now, I need to talk to Clarke." Naruto said, turning around and walking into his room, followed by Clarke, who had noticed he was being more serious than he normally was.
"What's the matter? Is everything alright?" Clarke asked, worried that something may have happened. The fact that Naruto was holding a tortured Murphy just ten minutes ago, didn't ease her worries in the least.
"I met the leader of the grounders, or rather, Trikru," Naruto said, shocking Clarke.
"What?! When did you do that?!" Clarke yelled, instinctively raking her eyes all over his body to check and see if he was injured. Even though she was sure that any wound that could have been inflicted on him would have healed already.
"Well, Lincoln took me there." Seeing Clarke's confused face, he elaborated. "Lincoln is the grounder that was on the second floor of the dropship. I allowed him to tie me up and take me to his leader. She was actually a nice person." Naruto said, surprising Clarke.
"Anyways, her and I made a deal. I wanted some of their land, so we would no longer be at each other's throats, and obviously, she wanted something in return. I just thought you should know what she wanted in return before I do it." Naruto said, and Clarke gave him a look telling him to continue.
"Lexa wants me to kill the mountain people." Clarke became confused again but didn't get the chance to say anything as Naruto had already started explaining.
"The mountain people are people who can't survive the radiation on the ground. Unlike you and everyone else, they never evolved to the point where they could survive in radiation. Instead, they have to take the blood of people who have evolved and transfer that blood to themselves to survive."
Clarke was shocked by that. First about the part that the only reason that she and the rest of the 100 could survive on the ground was that they evolved to be able to survive in radiation. And secondly, that there was a group of people living in a mountain who were doing blood transfusions on evolved people to survive.
"Now, instead of making a deal with Lexa and possibly have people willingly give their blood in exchange for something like I did, they decided they would just kidnap her people and drain all the blood for their bodies and inject it in themselves. Eventually, they will do the same to our people, as honestly, our people are pitifully weak in comparison to Lexa's."
"But what about the innocents in the mountain? What about the children that might be in the mountain." Clarke asked, genuinely worried. Not just for Naruto, but also the innocent children that might be killed.
"Well, either way, if I kill them myself, or I don't kill them, they will die," Naruto said, shocking Clarke. "Without their soldiers, they won't be able to kidnap any more grounders or any of our people. So, they will slowly die of radiation poisoning." Naruto said, and Clarke's face became grim.
"So, if you want the land, you have to massacre a whole entire group of people." Naruto didn't make any facial expressions, just nodded. This seemed to anger Clarke. "So, you're alright with massacring these mountain people, but when it comes to Trikru, your completely against the idea," Clarke yelled.
"There's a difference, Trikru can be of use to us, these mountain people can't. The only thing the mountain people see us as is a fix to their problems." Naruto said, his mind already made up, and it wasn't changing.
"How? How can a group of people that have only killed our people, and tortured Murphy, be of any use to us?" Clarke yelled/asked.
"Because they have lived on the grounder for decades. Therefore, they have things we don't. They have steady sources of food, they know the land, and they own the land. Eventually, we will be able to set up trading with them and get the things we don't have, that they do." Naruto said, and Clarke knew she couldn't argue with that.
"Whereas the mountain people have lived in a mountain for decades and can't leave the mountain without safety suits and oxygen tanks. And if there suits so much as get cut on a stick from a tree, they die. How is someone who can't leave their home without a safety suit of any use to us?" Naruto asked.
Clarke's anger started to simmer, even if she still didn't agree with Naruto slaughtering hundreds of people. Although at the same time, she knew that this was what he was both raised to do, and what he has been doing for most of his life.
"Fine. But in no way does this mean that I am agreeing with you killing hundreds of people. But I also know that this was what you have done almost all your life and that that can't change. And since these mountain people pose a threat, I will let it slide this one time." Clarke said, and Naruto nodded.
"Well, I'm going tomorrow morning. Right now, I need to tell the same thing to the people at camp. I wonder what their reactions will be." Naruto said, the last part more to himself than Clarke.
"Are you sure? They will want to go with you, and I don't think it's the best idea to have them watch you slaughter hundreds of people." Clarke said, the last part coming out with heavy traces of venom.
"Don't worry, I will only be giving them minimal details. They won't know what I'm doing, but just that I'm making a seize fire against us and Trikru." Naruto said, and Clarke relaxed, but not fully as Naruto was still going to be killing hundreds of people. That fact didn't sit well with her.
"Ok, I'm not going to pretend to like this one bit, but I understand. Just promise me you won't die." Naruto snorted hearing that. He wasn't trying to be arrogant, nor would he start being arrogant, but he did know that he was the strongest man in this dimension.
The only chance they would have if killing him would be a weapon capable of mass destruction. Such as those atomic bombs he heard Clarke talking about before. Those seemed like they could do quite a bit of damage to people.
"I promise I won't get killed. You don't have to worry about that." Naruto said, easing her worries, even after all she had seen him do, she couldn't help but be worried about him. It made him happy that she cared about him enough to worry about him like that. Even if it did hurt his pride a little that she thought it a possibility that civilians would be able to kill him.
"Well then, you better get going," Clarke said, reaching up to leave a kiss on his lips before Naruto turned and left the room, and exiting the hut. Once he left, she sat down on their bed and stared at the floor. Contemplating the fact that the next time she saw Naruto, he would be a man that committed genocide.
Little to her knowledge, that it wouldn't be the first time he committed genocide. In fact, when he was 14 years old, and head of the ANBU, he was tasked a mission to kill a whole entire village. Naruto paid little attention to the reason why he was sent on the mission, as it was not his job to listen, but to follow orders.
And that was what he did. He followed the orders perfectly, and killed a whole entire village, leaving not a single witness nor survivors. He killed over 2000 people that day. And even to this day, he still did not feel regret for what he did.
It wasn't that he took pleasure in it or did it his own entertainment. But rather, he was a soldier. And a soldier followed the orders given to them without any hesitance or regret. And Naruto was the perfect soldier. He never questioned his orders, just followed them, no questions asked.
Although the Third Hokage Hiruzen Sarutobi acted like he didn't like how Naruto thought of himself, as just a weapon for the village, he knew that the third Hokage was secretly very grateful for the fact. As it gave Konohagakure a weapon so strong that in the bingo book, Naruto had a flee on sight order for everyone. Even all of the kages.
Unfortunately for Konohagakure, when Naruto was 15 Kurama broke him out of that stage, and Naruto became someone who followed his own orders more than the Hokage. This eventually led to him being the person to lead the Allied Shinobi Force in the fourth shinobi war. But even then, he still did not regret or feel guilty for the things he did when he was just the Hokage's lapdog.
And after tomorrow, he will have committed genocide for the second time in his life. This time on a much smaller scale, and also to ensure the safety of the people in his camp. Even if he didn't particularly care for them, Clarke did. Therefore, Naruto would protect what Clarke cared for. Even if it meant protecting the arrogant weaklings that most of the people in that camp where.
A few minutes later, Naruto was standing at the entrance of the dropship with everyone in the camp surrounding him, waiting for him to speak what he needed to. Bellamy and a few of his lackeys were at the front of the group, waiting for him to speak with a speculative stare.
"I'm sure you all know, that earlier this day, I sent a tortured grounder back to his camp with the message that if they attacked us any further, they would share the same fate as that grounder," Naruto said, and everyone in the crowd nodded, Bellamy and the ones that weren't high on the beans already have filled them in on what Naruto had did.
"That was all a lie," Naruto said, causing the crowd to go wide-eyed and Bellamy to glare at Naruto.
"What do you mean it was a lie?! What did you do?!" Bellamy asked/demanded, causing Naruto to smirk.
"Well, for one, the grounder was never tortured. The blood on him was my blood. I cut my hand and wiped it all over him. Secondly, he did go back to his people, but I had him bring him with me. While I was there, I spoke with the leader of the grounders, or rather what they are really called, Trikru." Naruto said, his expression changing to bored during the explanation.
"Why would you do that? What do we have to gain by conversing with the grounders?!" Bellamy yelled again.
"As I said before, they are called Trikru. And while I was there, I discussed with their leader about several things. The main goal, however, was achieving a seize fire between our people. Which will be accomplished, and all details will be released once I do the task they entrusted me with." Naruto said, and Bellamy glared at him.
"And what is this task?" Bellamy asked, gritting his teeth. He didn't quite like how Naruto was going off on his own and doing whatever the hell he wanted without telling him. But he also knew he couldn't do anything because he himself told his people Naruto was in charge of all external affairs.
"The task is not of importance, as if I told you, you would insist on participating. However, you would just get in the way. So how about you just sit here in the camp doing your job, while I do my job and go establish the seize fire between Trikru and us. I will be back by tomorrow." Naruto said as he walked off the jump ship, and through the crowd, figuratively and literally.
Many people, mainly Bellamy tried to stop him in his trek out of the camp, but try as they all might, all attempts to grab him would result in their hands going straight through his intangible body.
Unbeknownst to any of them, Naruto was using the Sharingan that he took from one Sasuke Uchiha after he tried to defect from the village. At the time, this Sasuke Uchiha was trying to defect to gain power and avenge his nearly extinct clan.
Naruto was ordered to bring him back to the village and was given permission to do anything he wanted to Sasuke. So, he took the Sharingan out of his eye sockets and put them in his own. With the help of Kurama, the eyes were mutated and turned into his own Sharingan.
Unlike most people who had a transplanted Sharingan, after the mutation, Naruto could use the Sharingan to the full extent to an Uchiha. And with Kurama's healing capabilities, the effect of blindness because of overuse of the Mangekyou was negated.
Any time he overused the Mangekyou, causing him to get closer to going blind, Kurama's chakra would fix his eyesight. Essentially giving him the Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan. He didn't use the Sharingan much, but he couldn't deny that it was a very powerful weapon.
After that mission, Sasuke was returned to the village, a sperm sample was forcefully collected from him, implanted into a strong kunoichi who then became pregnant, who went on to give birth to the first of the many people from the new Uchiha Clan. Each one of the Uchiha's bearing a subordination seal, making them completely submissive and loyal to the Hokage.
Naruto should know, as he was the one tasked with drawing the subordination seal on every single one of the Uchiha's born. After the Hokage was satisfied with the number of new Uchiha's, which in total was 10, enough for them to breed on their own, Sasuke Uchiha and all the Kunoichi who gave birth to the new Uchiha's were killed.
A dark and cruel history, but something Naruto didn't regret. He didn't see the point in killing the 10 kunoichis who each gave birth to one of Sasuke's children but did see the reason in killing Sasuke Uchiha. He tried to defect from the village, therefore deserved to die. And at the time, Naruto was 13, so he obediently followed his orders without question.
All the people in the camp were flabbergasted when their hands went through Naruto's intangible form, and some of those people left with scars that would give them nightmares from many nights after seeing the black and blood red eyes with a six-pointed pinwheel as a pupil that was Naruto's Mangekyou Sharingan.
No one in the camp could do anything but stand in place and stare frightenedly at Naruto's back as he left the camp, and out of their field of vision. If they didn't think it before, they defiantly thought it now. Naruto Uzumaki was someone not to be fucked with, and he definitely wasn't normal.
As Naruto left the camp and was in the middle of the forest, he stopped and lifted up his left arm. Out of a storage seal on it, came black ANBU shirt and pants, black shinobi sandals, a blood red ANBU armored chest piece, and a black cloak.
Finally, was his ANBU mask, and orange Kitsune mask, fitted with several seals to make it stick to his face, durable as steel, and hide his eyes when he wore this mask. He put all the clothes on, relishing in the feel of being in his ANBU gear once again.
Once all was done, he did the same with his right hand as he did with his left. Lifting it up, revealing a storage seal, coming out of it was a katana in its sheath. The sheath was black, revealing only the crossguard and the handle. The crossguard was a crimson red Uzumaki swirl, matching the black and red crimson handle in a cross-stitch design.
Attaching the katana to his back, the handle sticking out above his left shoulder, and he was on his way. Disappearing to the normal eye before one could even blink, running at sound barrier breaking speed.
If he was to run like this while carrying someone, their eyes would pop, and the g-force created by him running at such speeds would cause them to pass out, as well as quite possibly cause them brain damage.
In just a minute, Naruto would be at the mountain, and blood would be shed. A lot of blood. And there wasn't anything that could stop him. Especially since this would be the first time he would be able to release the frustration that has been building up in him for the past week. A shame none of the people who were about to be killed would put up much of a fight for him.
After this day, however, the course of which things are supposed to happen would forever be changed. Everyone, even Trikru, would know that Naruto Uzumaki was some not to fuck with and that he could kill them all just as easily as he was about to kill these mountain people.