The Chronicles Of Zero

// 3rd POV //

Kunais appears between the fingers of Zero's right hand and a folding fuma shuriken in his left hand.

Ayane: He can make kunais and shurikens appear from nowhere !!! Who are you... no what are you really, Zero Akatsuki.

Zero: Who knows? I wear so many masks that I don't know who I am anymore.

Kasumi: Masks? What do you mean?

Zero: Well that's for me to know and you to find out.

Zero : [ Azure Striker: Dance of the Lightning Blades ] (Aoki Raigeki: Inazuma no Odori)

Azure lightning bolts surround each of his weapons, then he throws the large shuriken towards the two women with force, who avoid it by dodging over it only to notice that their opponent is no longer in his original position and that only residues of lightning and azure crystal remain.

Suddenly they feel danger behind them and turn around only to find themselves face to face with kunais charged with azure lightning coming straight at them then.

Having managed to avoid the explosion in extremis, they notice with surprise that the surprise attack came from Zero who has his shuriken in his hands, which he fold and put it in the satchel attached to his waist behind his back.

Ayane: Who would have guessed that he was trained in the art of ninjutsu, although his data indicates that he is a simple martial artist coupled with being a swordsman.

Kasumi: Now I understand why he said he wore several masks.

This time the young man makes a tachi appears and ties it on his waist.

Zero: I ask you one more time, let me pass, please.

Kasumi: Ayane maybe we should let him through, I have this feeling that we might regret not accepting his proposal now.

Ayane: Sorry, but we have received our orders not to let anyone enter the barrier.

Zero: I see, I wish we hadn't gotten there, and thanks for trying Kasumi-hime.

Kasumi: Hime ?!

Suddenly an oppressive aura is released from the boy's body putting the two women under unbearable pressure. Ayane runs towards Zero with her two kodachi draw followed by Kasumi, while Zero moves into position battōjutsu with his eyes closed.

Zero : [ 8 Leaves 1 Blade: 4th Form: Luminous Ogre Slash ]

Zero draw his sword, and the blade creates a horizontal arc of light releasing a great deal of force, which when the two women tried to block the attack they were pushed back for several meters, almost making them almost faint, so much the power behind this strike was powerful.

Ayane looked at our hero, sheathed his sword and repositioned himself in battojutsu position, shocked by his monstrous strength. As a ninja, she has already met her share of powerful beings. But to see a youngster of barely 17 years old having the same level of power leaves her perplexed.

The two Kunoichi look at each other before nodding their heads and resume their assault this time they are each surrounded by an aura. Ayane is surrounded by a purple aura and Kasumi by a pink aura surrounded by sakura petals.

Zero attacks them again using [ Luminous Ogre Slash ] but when the strike hits their target he feels no contact as the two silhouettes in front of him are only after-images.

But the young man's eyes followed his two attackers, allowing him to see them attacking his right and left side. Immediately he takes the scabbard at his waist and counteracts the attack of Kasumi's sword on his right and uses his tachi to stop the attack of Ayane's two kodachi on his left.

Zero: Not bad but it takes more to stop me.

Each sword hit received by the young man is cancelled with precision using the sword to counter and the scabbard to deflect. While using the Darkslayer-style [Air Trick] to his advantage to stay out of the way.

Ayane decides to uses one of her most powerful ninpo while Kasumi tries to save her time by putting more pressure on her attacks against Zero. The latter seeing their strategies being put in place decides also to uses another technique from his arsenal.

Zero : [ 8 Leaves 1 Blade: 4th Form: Luminous Wheel ]

Zero projects a wheel of light from his tachi, cutting towards Kasumi who was not expecting a circular saw make of light coming straight at her.

Having managed to occupy the kunoichi for a few seconds, Zero copies Ayane's hand sign and movements perfectly with his Sharingan managing to perform the same ninpo as her when the two attack clash, since Zero's one was more powerful it's overwhelming Ayane's one and strike the kunoichi dealing some damage to her.

Kasumi: Ayane !!!

The brunette joins her companion while our young protagonist takes a little distance by using [Air Trick].

Zero: It the end.

Says the youngster. He is sheat his tachi back in his scabbard when all of a sudden the landscape around them changes and they find themselves under the full moon in the high grass.

Zero: My blade will cleave ignorance and light the way.

Then he moves at breakneck speed behind the two women, striking damaging slashes 3 times. With that opening, he rapidly slashes all of the targets in a raging blaze of fury

After slashing enough, Zero calmly sheath back his tachi with an after-effect final strike. Creating a great shock wave burning and electrocuting everything within the target radius which make the moon turn red, after having announced the name of the technique.

Zero: [ Termination Slash - Dawn ] (Tsui no Tachi - Akatsuki)

When the shock wave disappeared the two women found themselves on the ground. As for Zero, he turns back into his appearance with his school uniform with his tachi still on him. Then he takes out two vials of healing potion and walks towards Ayane still on the ground and takes her in his arms and opens the vial.

Ayane: Huh...What is... it?

Zero: A healing potion, I'll help you drink it.

Ayane nods her head and drinks the potion and her wounds are immediately healed.

Zero: ... I am sorry it came to this.

Ayane: Why are you sorry? It was more our turn to apologize.

Ayane: You knew...

Zero: You are not the only one who can gather information. I'm pretty good at reading the situation when I need to and the timing was too perfect for it to be a coincidence that you were here at that very moment.

Ayane: Hah... I'm supposed to be the Master of the Hajinmon sect of the Mugen Tenshin clan and I got beaten by a young man.

Zero: Don't beat yourself about this, I am a special case among others.

Zero says to her with a smile what makes the young woman blush.

Zero: Now it's time for the punishment.

Ayane: Heh?! What do you mean by that?

Zero: What it means. I lost a deal of time because of you, I don't intend to leave without taking a payment appropriately.

Ayane: What do you want?

Zero: I want you and Kasumi to work for me. You will be paid graciously.

Ayane: Only that? You're not going to make me your s.e.x slave or taking me to be your concubine?

Zero: What, you thought I was going to ask you this kind of thing? in this situation? although I have to admit you are a beautiful woman, I already have my hands full with other girls. But I still have room for an addition or two so if you want to join I'm fair to all my girl.

Ayane starts to blush embarrassed because she thought that Zero is going to ask her something indecent, this sight makes him giggle a bit.

Ayane: Playboy, but I'll think about your proposition on another date. Ahem, and I don't see any problem serving the heir of the Akatsuki clan, as the Master of the Hajinmon sect, my clan is at your disposal, my lord.

Zero(thought): I only wanted two kunoichis, I get a whole clan, really my luck.

Zero: I'm looking forward to this, try to regain your strength, and be prepared to take any enemies who may try to escape.

Ayane: Yes.

Zero gives a kiss on Ayane's forehead which make her blush more and then lets her rest on the ground and goes to Kasumi and makes her drink her potion. When Zero is about to leave Kasumi holds Zero by the svelt of his uniform.

Kasumi: I beg you to reconsider your decision my Lord, the enemies inside are too much even for you, let wait for reinforcements.

Seeing Kasumi being concerned about his security makes a smile appear on Zero's lips which makes her blush, without saying anything he gives her a kiss which surprises her but instead of parting away from Zero, she returns the kiss with a passion which surprises Ayane.

Zero separates from the Kunoichi.

Zero: Don't worry Kasumi-hime, I'm not the kind of guy you can beat easily, I'll be back, I promise.

Kasumi: Take care, my lord.

Our hero gives the kunoichi one last kiss and without wasting any time he enters the barrier, leaving the two women alone. One shook her head still blushing and the other looking at the young man who had just come to kiss her leave for the battlefield.

Ayane: We were very much beaten...

Kasumi: It seems I warned you...

Ayane: I know, but I was ordered to test him.

Kasumi: By whom?

Ayane: The patriarch of the Akatsuki clan to see what he's capable of, and...

Kasumi: And?

Ayane: ...I wanted to check something, it turns out I was right. He has the potential to become someone like... not even surpass Master Ryu.

Kasumi : Zero-sama, surpassing Dragon Ninja Ryu Hayabusa-sama

Ayane: For someone his age, young Master Zero seems to have a lot of combat experience. Just this fight shows us that he didn't go at full strength against us when we gave all we had, I also feel that he has already killed and many times, given the aura of death that emanates from him.

Kasumi: Please be safe my lord...

// Zero POV //

After entering the barrier, the landscape around me changes, and I find myself in a kind of desolate land, the sounds of explosions, shouting and fighting can be heard, I headed straight there.

I arrive in front of a battlefield with several shinobi girls fighting against a half-monster half-human creature named Yoma. I can recognize most of them: Team Hanzo, Team Hebijo, Homura Crimson Squad, Team Genssen, Team Zodiac.

And on the other side, a group that I know very well, since they are one of Gregori's elite teams, SLASHDØG, and they are facing demons and fallen angels.

On a stone platform is a tall, sculpted man, whose muscular body is apparent even when fully clothed. He is wearing a formal outfit consisting of a red coat with black trim, trousers of the same colour, a blue and green shirt and scarf. He is blond and bearded and has a long scar on his right eye. Supervising the fighting surrounded by black-covered shinobi with a spider emblem on them.

Zero (thought): The black spider clan and Dogen together? OK, now it's getting weird.

Suddenly my skill [Mind Eyes (true)] activates at its highest level of alert, my body moves by itself, my sacred gear [Odd Eyes Driver] appears but with a completely different appearance than last time. Instead of only the jewels of the glove being white, the dragon scales on it have turned white too and sneakers made of the same material as my gloves appear at my feet.

And I unleashed a powerful elbow in front of me that came into contact with something that turned out to be a ninja from the Black Spider clan who was invisible and wanted to attack me by surprise.

Haku: [Devour]

Having one of my limiters always switched off plus half the strength that was taken from the ninja, without knowing what happened to him, he becomes a cloud of blood.

Then I put my feet in an arc, then swing my arms in parallel and unleash a double punch to my right.

Zero: Haō Sekkō (Tyrannical Crooked River)

Who comes into contact with another ninja of the Black Spider clan who was also invisible, who even if he has managed to get into a defensive position also becomes a red cloud of blood.

This little massacre attracted the attention of the fighters around but above all of the other black ninja equipped with heavy armours who came running at me in a group.

Zero: Oh, you come close to me, after seeing how your comrades died you will come close to me.

Ninja 1: If we don't come closer we can't kill you.

Zero: Oh, come closer then.

When the group comes about two metres away from me my inner chunibiyo can't help but appear, because the situation is so conducive to recreating a cult scene.

Zero: Ze Word, time stands still.

I activate [Chrono Stasis] and the time around us stops. I make the giant spectral arms of my Devil Bringer appear and start walking slowly towards the group, and my sacred gear became red.

Zero: 1 second has passed

Arios : [Charge] [Charge]

Zero: 2 seconds have passed

Arios : [Charge] [Charge]

Zero: 3 seconds have passed

Arriving in front of them, I take a deep breath and begin to beat each ninja in the spirit of Dio Brando

Zero: Muda Muda Muda Muda Muda Muda Muda Muda Muda Muda Muda Muda Muda Muda Muda Muda Muda Muda Muda Muda Muda Muda Muda.

After I finish my rush of punches, my spectral arms disappear.

Zero: 9 seconds have passed, time goes back on

Time resumed its course and the scene that followed and how can I say gruesome. The armour of the ninjas began to disintegrate at first, then sounds of broken bones echoed throughout the battlefield, making some people squeak.

Zero: Muda

// SLASHDØG POV //

After having put the last renegade fallen angel out and defeated the last demon, the SLASHDØG team hear a voice that sounds familiar to them. Only to see one of their new acquaintances Zero transform an enemy ninja who was invisible into a cloud of blood with a double punch equipped with his sacred gears that seems to have evolved since their last encounters.

???: *whistling*, the little guy seems to have grown stronger since the last time we saw each other. I wonder how he's progressing like that? he doesn't belong to any Organizations, nor has he even been recruited at the Nephilim institute but he is evolving at a speed, it's borderline monstrous.

say a handsome young man with brown hair dyed in point and grey eyes called Samejima Kouki.

???: Um, his sacred gears have evolved since last time, according to Azazel he is responsible for the energy surge detected in Kuoh a few weeks ago, I think it must have something to do with that.

answer a beautiful young biracial woman of Japanese and European origin doing her Eurasian, she has long blond hair that is tied with ribbons and tied in a braid that looks a lot like a crown, her eyes are heterochromia with a blue right eye and a black left eye named Shigune Nanadaru.

???: Fu~ fu~ if we were not on a mission I would be happy to freeze those vermin who dare to get in the way of my cute little brother and me.

say a very beautiful young woman with a fine and voluptuous silhouette, long blond hair and sapphire blue eyes which glow brightly for some reason. Per her status as a magician, she is dressed in a witch's dress with a coat and a pointed witch's hat named Lavinia Reni.

???: You don't have to worry for him, Lavinia, Zero is a resourceful boy, remember during our mission in America he managed to stand up against these ghouls even surrounded by them.

A young man with black hair and pale grey eyes who is also the leader of the team, Tobio Ikuse, answers her.

???: Lavinia has been very protective with Zero since their first encounters, she hasn't stopped sticking to him at any moment since he told her that he wasn't afraid of Absolute Demise and said she looks cool and beautiful.

A beautiful young woman with light brown hair intervenes. She has a slim and voluptuous silhouette, with rather large b.r.e.a.s.ts which are normally hidden by her clothes called Natsume Minagawa.

Lavania: Um, I was also surprised, I always expect a negative reaction from people when they see my sacred gear for the first time but not him, he seemed interested in Absolute Demise like a kid seeing a wonder before him, but what s amazed the most it's when he asked me to teach him my magic.

Kouki: Hoh, so how did it go?

Lavania: He learned everything I knew in just one week.

Kouki: Ge?! What's this kid made of?

Tobio: It's not for nothing that Azazel holds him in high esteem.

Jin: Wan

Tobio: Even Jin seem to like him.

Zero: Za Word, time stands still.

The team turns to watch Zero disappear and then reappear behind the ninja group while doing a pose putting his hand on his face and slips it to put his hair back.

Zero: Muda

And at that very moment, the ninjas begin to lose their armour and then their limbs break off one by one as if they had received violent impacts at high speed.

Kouki: Okay, now I'm afraid, I don't know how he did this but he looks more and more like a monster than those demons.

// Team Hanzo POV //

Asuka and her comrades fight a horde of Yoma to protect an important scroll that she had to take to safe places with other Shinobi groups from other schools but fell into a trap.

The author of this is none other than a former enemy of the Hanzo team and the Crimson Squad, Dogen, who was an investor in Hebijo when Homura and her Crimson squad was still part of their schools only to be betrayed later for his interests.

Thinking they had taken care of him, Team Hanzo and Crimson Squad were surprised to see him again and this time accompanied by an army of black ninja bearing the logo of a black spider, which their senpai Daidoji said they called themselves the Black Spider Clan.

But he is also accompanied by people with black angel wings, fearing that they lose this fight, a group of 2 men and 3 women appear on the battlefield and confront these beings who seem to be named Fallen Angel. During their fights, some kind of demons appeared but were soon put out of action as well as the Fallen Angels.

As for the Shinobi, they confront the Yoma as for the black spider clan ninja they seem to be waiting for something or someone.

Asuka: We've killed many, and many more appear and it goes on and on.

Asuka slices Yoma after Yoma but more come. When all of a sudden several blades cut the Yoma who was next to her into pieces.

Homura: If you have the strength to complain use it to kill those Yoma, Asuka.

A Yoma jumps in the air over the two girls but is impaled by an ice spear.

Yumi: Pay more attention to both of you.

Asuka: Nice save, Yumi-chan

Just at that moment the three girls are joined by Miyabi and Leo and all 5 finish off the remaining Yoma and are joined by the rest of their group who were fighting elsewhere.

Ikaruga: Asuka, are you all right?

Asuka: I am fine.

Ginrei: Leo-sama we found the source and it's just as you predicted.

Ryobi: What do you mean by "source".

Leo: The source of the Yoma's apparitions is indeed caused by this person. The former leader of the black spider clan, Obaba the witch.

The leader of the Zodiak team points to an old woman who looks like a witch next to Dogen singing something ominous in front of a crystal ball when all of a sudden she shouts at her subordinates and a group of ninja rushes towards a given direction.

Suddenly a boy appears behind the ninja group doing a pose putting his hand on his face and slips it to put his hair back. And in an instant, they all laid dead as if they had been hit by a truck, with their armours destroy.

Zero: Muda

Yumi: This person...

Yozakura: Someone you know Yumi

Yumi: He's the grandson of one of Granpa Kurogage friend and rival and also a childhood friend.

Ryona: He seems strong, I wonder if he can afflict me the same pain if I ask him.

Ryobi: Shut your mouth up, your damn m.a.s.o.c.h.i.s.t sister.

The twin fight stops on the spot when they hear a voice that makes their backs sweat.

Obaba: Oh, I would have thought these old monsters would have sent the dragon ninja but they sent you, you are more dangerous than we expected, Heir of the Akatsuki clan.

Zero: It's been a long time since I've heard of this title, and to answer your question, witch, Ryu Hayabusa doesn't need to be here to take care of you black spider clan, I'm more than enough.

Obaba: Oh, you're talking big kid, let me be the judge of your arrogance, come to me, creatures of darkness, Shadow.

Then all of a sudden a black material comes out of the body of the ninja of the Black Spider clan and turns into Shadow.

Ninja 1: Aaaahhh

Ninja 2: Please obaba-sama... Aaaaahhhhh

Miyabi: She sacrifices her subordinates.

Hibari: These creatures...Huh...it's disgusting...

Yagiyu: Don't look at them, Hibari.

Homura: What are these think to look more ominous that the Yoma

Shadow ninja 1: Guahhhh

Shadow ninja 2: Aaaahhhh.

// Zero POV //

Obaba: Ahahah, come at me my loyal puppet

Zero: ...

Obaba: What's up the grandson of the "Black beast of Kyoto" you are already throwing in the towel.

Zero: *murmurs*

Obaba: What did you say?

Zero: I say I'm good to beat the shit out of you, [Daini Dankai Kete Kaijo] (2nd level of seal raised)

More pressure is released from Zero, and his hair becomes white and the pupils of his eyes regain their blue colour and cross-shaped from.

Obaba: Nani?!

Yumi: Akatsuki-kun?!

Zero: People like you who only use other people's lives as a pulpit to reach their end makes me sick, head my words, you won't get out of here alive, kuso bab

Obaba: Destroy this kid and get me the scroll back.

The army of shadows head straight at me

Shadow ninja 1: Guahhhh

Shadow ninja 2: Akaiiiiii.....

Shadow ninja 3: Guahhhhhhhhhh

Shadow ninja 4: Akaiiiiii .

Yumi: Akatsuki-kun.

Asuka: We coming to help

Yumi and Asuka are about to come to me.

Zero: Don't come you two, continue your mission.

Yumi: But...

Zero: It's an order.

Yumi: Understood, but you have to come back alive.

Yumi and the other shinobi withdraw, making a smile appear on my lips.

???: Oh, you are crazy to face this horde of shadows just to protect these people.

Zero (thought): I always thought that in my lifetime I wouldn't accomplish anything extraordinary, but now that I have the opportunity to do something I won't hesitate. Call it madness I don't care, I am tenacious enough to have faced death many times and come back alive.

???: I like your style kid, let me lend you a hand in this quest of your, it's a contract.

Blue light comes down from the sky, making everyone looks at me. When the light arrives in front of me it reveals a tarot card with the moon arcana on it, I put my hand on my tachi.

Zero: PE R SO NA

I draw my sword cutting the card in half, producing a sound of broken glass, creating a halo of light around me, and a silhouette appears behind me, while my eyes glow a bright blue colour, and a voice his heard.

???: "I am thou... Thou art I... From the sea of your soul, I come... I am Tsukuyomi. The madness in my right hand, the tenacity in my left hand... So now, who am I going to break first ?!

Zero: It's Sho-time, Tsukuyomi.

To be continued...