Tap! Tap!! Tap!!!
"Kid, wake up" Dante gently shook Naruto awake after tapping him several times. Seriously just how deep of a sleeper is this kid? Didn't he know they are inside enemy territory?
Naruto stifled a yawn and stretched out his body, audible pop sound was heard followed by a refreshing feeling. He rubbed his eyes sleepily. Dante bent down in front of him with a hand in his shoulder.
"Did you sleep well?" A voice asked behind him jokingly.
It was then it occured to him that they were still inside the demon castle. Naruto looked at the sky outside and asked.
"How long was I asleep?"
"A few hours" Dante replied nonchalantly from his position on the edge of the bed.
Naruto turned to look at him in disbelief. "That long? Why didn't you wake me?"
Dante shook his head and said. "I was the one who said we should rest before we continue, and you did just that"
Naruto stood up hurriedly with a look of panic on his face and said "We have to keep moving. We can't afford to waste time, according to you"
"Alright." Dante sighed before turning to look out at the passage that had revealed itself after he used the guiding light. "Let's get going"
Naruto followed Dante down the dark passag they had opened previously using the guiding light, they came to a narrow platform above the main hall they had been to before, with a gap separating them from the door on the others side of the narrow platform. They long jump across the gap and entered the door into a room with a Divinity Statue and an upper floor which had a door. They jump up to the platform and proceed through the door, reaching a circular arena with a closed gate. In the middle of the spacious rooftop with an hemisphere shaped stained glass dome.
Naruto look up at the clear sky and then the surrounding walls. "We have finally reached the top of the castle"
Seriously just how huge was this castle that it took ages for them just to get to the rooftop?
"Seems like it. Felt like it took forever" Dante replied while glancing around. However, he sensed that something wasn't right.
Boom!
What was that?!
They turned around when they heard a small explosion behind them.
Naruto eyes flashed with a strange glint when he saw the huge form of the phantom climbing over the wall surrounding the rooftop.
"Web head! You finally showed up!"
"Great this idiot again" Dante rolled his eyes at the phantom. To him the phantom was no different from a sheep trying to act like a wolf. But at the end of the day it was just that, a sheep.
Phantom jumped and landed in from of them with magma burning all over it body. It roared at them and said "Recess time is over humans. Here there's plenty of room to get real nasty. This time, there is no holding back"
Naruto grinned cockily as he took a step forward. The red chakra cloak already taking form around his body but this time he has five tails waving behind him instead of the usual three, it took almost he has hurt to push out this two extra tails. "Took the words right out of my mouth"
"Dante?"
Dante shook his head when he heard Naruto's eager voice and expectant tone and said. "He is all yours"
Naruto quickly closed the distance between him and the phantom and swing purgatory in a wide arc.
"Die!"
Purgatory countered the strike with one of it front legs and a huge gust of wind exploded outward with them at the centre.
"Don't disappoint me, Spidey!" Naruto roared as he pushed the phantom's leg and charged at the spider again attacking with lightning fast moves that it could barely react to. The phantom was like a leaf in a storm unable to do anything but get kicked around. The difference between five tails and three was already displaying itself.
Like before, it is completely vulnerable to attacks on his abdomen and mouth, which Naruto capitalized on. The special thing about his chakra cloak was that he could extent it like a part of his body, so all it weakness were open for him to exploit.
Sparks flew everytime the two clash against each other, sending out small gust of wind. Naruto maneuvered through phantom's attacks, sometimes blocking those he couldn't avoid.
Dante watched from the sidelines like before, being the only spectator And witness of their battle.
'The kid really has grown up' Dante exclaimed as he watched Naruto fight fearlessly against the phantom. And the crazy part was that he was winning.
Naruto pinned the phantom legs down with his tails incapacitating it and leaving it vulnerable to his attacks. The cloak weakened visibly after the round of attacks, one of his tails receded back leaving him with only four.
'Shit! Not yet! not now!'
Naruto cursed when he felt a drop in his power. Although the five tails could give him a massive power boost, he could only use it for three minutes, after that he will slowly lose his cloak form.
The phantom noticed this and used this opportunity to free itself from the weakened chakra cloak. It leaped into the air hoping to smash Naruto with into meat paste with it body.
"You are mine!"
"Naruto! look out!"
Boom!
Dante appeared beside Naruto like a gho and pulled Naruto out of the way in the nick of time as the phantom landed on the glass dome shattering it under it weigh. The phantom fell into the hole and impaled itself on a pointed statue holding up a great sword.
"That was close" Naruto's heart skipped a beat when he heard saw the shattered glass dome.
Even as it felt agony from being impaled it turned to look at Dante looking down on it from the roof with naruto. It was now that the demonic aura around him felt familiar
Just the thought of what would have happened if Dante hadn't arrived on time caused his heart to grow heavy.
Even as it felt tormenting pain from being impaled it turned to look at Dante looking down on it from the roof with naruto. It was now that the demonic aura around him felt familiar.
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