Blink
What happens when an
unstoppable force meets an immovable barrier? Things break. Things like Time.
Another take on Kyuubi and the Shinigami's seal. One-shot.
Kyuubi wanted two things.
He wanted to live, and he wanted to be free. Free to do whatever he wanted, to
go wherever he wanted, and to do it whenever he wanted.
But there was a problem. Some
little human had sealed him in a another human, just a baby, really. And Kyuubi
found it diverting for a time, so he didn't bother trying to escape, at first. It
was entertaining, seeing the world through the limited eyes of a mortal.
When the boy was six, the
great demon, the strongest of them all, decided that he was done. It was no
longer as interesting. Every day, the boy went to class, and was mocked and
ridiculed. It was repetitive. So one day, while Naruto was walking to the
Academy, Kyuubi decided to leave. Instead of pushing his chakra through
the seal as he normally did, he thrust his power right up against it.
But that seal! The seal of
the death god himself. It was strong. Kyuubi found himself thrown back into his
cage. The evil kitsune snarled, and threw his entire strength into it. As the
lord of all demons, his power was infinite. His strength was immeasurable.
But the seal of the Shinigami
was immovable, and indestructible. Created by one of the divine beings, it
could never be marred, or broken, or even bent.
And so the unstoppable
force of the Kyuubi hit the immovable barrier of the Shinigami's seal. For a
few minutes, Kyuubi battled, pushing on relentlessly. Then he noticed.
Naruto was walking to
school. It was a normal day, at least for Naruto. People cursed him and glared
as he passed. Mothers called their children in.
Naruto scuffed his feet as
he made his slow way to the Academy. Dust swirled around in the air, making him
cough to clear his throat. His stomach began to ache again, doubtless from that
stupid weird writing that occasionally glowed there.
Naruto paused to look up at
the sky, wishing that he could be as free as Shikamaru seemed to think the
clouds were. Naruto slowly relaxed, feeling calmer again. Like the whole world
was pausing with him to enjoy the moment. The silence was absolute.
Then Naruto noticed a bird.
Hanging in the air, mid-flap. Naruto waited, but nothing happened. The bird
just stayed there, in mid-air.
He looked around quickly. Nothing
moved. Children who had been on their way inside their respective homes were
frozen in their tracks, the mothers stopped in the middle of their lectures
about the evil orange child.
Naruto ran up the street to
the Academy. The students gathered there, milling around outside as they waited
for class were absolutely motionless. Not a single movement. Not a single
sound.
Walking inside, Naruto saw
Iruka frozen as he looked through his planner, preparing to teach class.
Unsure of what was going
on, Naruto tried using the genjutsu dispelling technique he'd learned in class
the other day.
“Kai!”
Nothing changed. Still,
everyone and everything was completely still. And then, a sudden tingle passed
through him, like a rush of cool air.
Everything started up right
where it had left off. The sounds of children shouting and laughing filled the
air. Iruka turned a page of his planner. Kids ran inside to get ready for class
to start.
Utterly confused, Naruto
did the only logical thing, and promptly chose to ignore all that had just
happened.
Kyuubi was confused. Not as
confused as Naruto, since he was quite a good deal older. But this... this was
new. His strength was limitless, but it couldn't break the seal. So the seal
must also have infinite strength. But that didn't explain why it had frozen
time. And even if it did, it didn't explain why time didn't then also stop for
Naruto.
What was going on?
Momentarily distracted from his goal of escape, Kyuubi contemplated the strange
situation that had just passed.
“Naruto, you fail!”
The blonde sputtered and
protested. “But I got three bunshin! That's enough to pass, right?”
Iruka shook his head.
“Naruto, those were the worst bunshin I've ever seen. We can't let you graduate
with that. Maybe next year...”
Mizuki leaned over to
Iruka. “Hey, maybe just this once, I mean, he's been trying really hard for
years...”
“No! He must have these
skills before he can graduate! Letting him out before he learns that basics
would just get him killed!”
Naruto left the bickering
chuunin, walking away slowly, his feet gradually turning to a familiar path. The
trail that led to the Hokage monument.
The demon decided that it
was worth a try. After all, if it happened again, that would confirm his
suspicions, and mean that Kyuubi had a power that no other being had ever
attained.
Grinning to himself, the
demon fox pushed with all his strength against the seal.
Naruto felt his stomach
grow warm again, and the faint ache, like he had eaten too much ramen, come
over him once more.
And, just like last time,
everything stopped. The slight breeze that had been blowing halted with an
unnatural suddenness. The leaves of the nearby trees halted in mid-sway. The
squirrels froze in place. Birds hung in mid air, and stopped mid-song.
Just like before,
everything jerked to a standstill, and an eerie silence pervaded the
atmosphere. Not even a breath of air made the slightest sound. Only Naruto's
breathing, and the sound of his pulse disturbed the deafening quiet.
And just as suddenly,
everything returned to normal.
Confused, Naruto just shook
it off again, and continued up the trail.
Kyuubi roared in utter joy.
This would be worth any amount of time trapped inside the boy's body! The
power! The terrible, absolute power to stop time.
It was just as Kyuubi had
worked out. When an unstoppable force met an immovable barrier, time stopped. Because
the unstoppable force had to crush the barrier, but the barrier had
to stop the force. With reality unable to resolve itself, existence ground to a
halt, until the paradox ended, until Kyuubi halted his push of limitless power.
And so even if Kyuubi
couldn't be free, at least he could guarantee his life, via the life of his
container. Because as soon as a threat appeared, time would stop, and the
threat, be it a ninja, or a tree, or Kami himself, everything came to a halt.
Everything except Naruto,
because he was attached to the force, and Kyuubi, because he was the
force.
Howling in laughter, the
fox looked forward to the days ahead.
Mizuki smiled as he dropped
into the clearing where Naruto was diligently teaching himself jutsu from the
Forbidden Scroll.
“Great job, Naruto! Let me
see that, now, and I'll give you your hitai-ate!”
Iruka jumped into the
clearing, landing in between Mizuki and Naruto. “No! Naruto, Mizuki is a
traitor! Whatever you do, don't give him the scroll!”
Frowning at the
interruption, Mizuki decided to handle things the old-fahsioned way. He threw a
giant shuriken, aimed straight at Naruto.
The blonde, wide-eyed in
fear, couldn't move. Iruka jumped to take the hit, and then stopped.
Naruto recognized this by
now, and not knowing how long it would last, made the most of it. Forming a
clone, he threw a kunai at the shuriken in mid-air, which, once broken from its
place frozen in time, fell to the ground with a dull thud. Then the
clone threw a kunai at Mizuki.
Granted, he was aiming to
kill, but it was not until the kunai sunk deep into Mizuki's eye, penetrating
it in a squirt of optic fluid, and piercing into his brain.
Iruka never was quite able
to figure out exactly what happened, but managed to comfort Naruto nonetheless,
and promote him to genin once he saw the perfect kage bunshin.
“Don't blink! Don't blink!”
The ninja from Iwa held
their eyes open with their hands, realizing their certain doom. They couldn't
blink. To blink was to die. Even not blinking wasn't a guarantee of life.
Because he was here.
The son of the Yellow Flash, even more terrifying than his illustrious father. Because
he moved in the blink of an eye. If your eyes closed, they would not open
again. And as his reputation spread, the Blink seemed to only increase in
power.
Only one thing was certain.
That Konoha's elite mercenary, also the next in line to Hokage, was blindingly
fast. So fast that no one ever saw him coming. One moment everything was
fine, and the next there were kunai everywhere, and bodies exploding in bloody
pieces.
In the blink of an eye,
entire armies were annihilated. Thus, the nickname.
The ninja next to the
speaker blinked, and time stopped.
Naruto slowly sauntered out
from the trees, and stuck a kunai into the heart of each of the enemy ninjas. Then,
with the same casual pace, he walked back out of sight.
Suddenly, every ninja fell
to the ground, dead or dying.
“You... fool... I told
you...”
Kyuubi could not help but
howl with insane laughter every time he did it. His power was perfect. It was
god-like. This was better than anything Kyuubi could ever have hoped to
accomplish in the world outside of the seal.
What happens when an
unstoppable force meets an immovable, invincible barrier?
Kyuubi laughs.
And that's a wrap. Just an
idea that's been floating around for a while. And before anyone says anything,
let me say this: I know that the physics wouldn't allow this to happen. It's a
story, and this is just how I liked it best.
If real physics were
applied, Naruto would not be able to move, either. This would be because A) his
body would be frozen, B) the air surrounding his body would be frozen, holding
him in place, and C) even if he was able to move, despite the air being frozen,
he would die instantly, because he would be moving at an infinite speed (moving
any distance in 0 seconds would mean a constant over 0, which is infinity)
which would mean he would burn up in the air much like meteors do in the
earth's atmosphere. Not to mention that since he would be moving at infinite
speed, his mass would increase infinitely (since, as the Theory of Relativity
or something states, mass increases as the object approaches the speed of
light) thus instantly crushing the universe into a singularity, because
infinite mass means infinite gravity which means everything would fall
infinitely fast towards that point.
Thus, the end of the world.
Alternately, when Kyuubi
did this, he could have annihilated the universe in a second way. If the time
freeze affected everything, it would stop him, too. Which would prevent
him from ever stopping in using his infinite power. Which would mean that time
would stop, forever, everywhere. Which, while not technicallt destroying the
universe, is basically the same thing.
Anyway, enough rambling.
Just let me know what you think of it, yeah?
-demonicnargles