Naruto and Dante dashed at mundus leaving after images behind. The three of them engaged in a deathly battle destroying everything in their path. The room became a mess. There was holes everywhere. The once beautiful room was now in shambles.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Naruto and Dante double teamed mundus not giving him any chance to retaliate or cast any spell. Dante played the role of attack while naruto supported him. The two fought together in perfect synchrony.
Naruto wrapped his chakra tails around mundus leg and pulled, throwing him off balance, and giving dante the opportunity to attack. Dante crashed into mundus chest with a meteor drop from Ifrit causing mundus to fall out of the sky and to the ground.
Naruto and Dante double teamed mundus not giving him any chance to retaliate or cast any spell. Dante played the role of attack while naruto supported him. The two fought together in perfect synchrony.
The whole room shook from the impact, causing tremor. Cracks spread across the whole ground.
"Enough!" Mundus bellowed. His flapped his his dust causing a huge gust of wind as he hurriedly flew back up into the air.
After going back and forth with naruto and dante mundus body was now covered in cracks.
If this was to keep up there was no denying that he might end up losing this battle.
Mundus third eye eluded a blinding eye causing Naruto and Dante to tighten their grip on their weapons in anticipation of the attack. The next moment a thick light beam shot out of mundus third eye like a railgun.
Naruto and Dante prepared to either counter the attack or dodge it. But, shockingly though, the attack didn't hit either of them. Instead, it zipped passed the two of them surprising them.
However, It only took a few seconds for realization to hit them.
'That's?' Naruto and Dante turned around to see the been of light heading for Trish. Naruto immediately responded. His body shattered the sound barrier covering the distance between him and the light beam within seconds.
"Naruto, wait!" Dante tried to stop him but it was already too late for that.
Naruto appeared between Trish and the incoming light beam with purgatory already in full swing. The eight tails coiled around it increasing it explosive power.
"NOT ON MY WATCH!"
Purgatory connected with the thick beam and the sound of glass shattering could be heard followed by an explosion kicked up a dust cloud.
The next second a figure shot out of the dust cloud and smashed through a few pillars before creating a dent in the wall.
"Naruto!" Dante tried to stop him but it was already too late for that.
Naruto spat out blood as he collided with the wall. His whole body was covered in blood. In his right hand he held what remained of purgatory or what remained of it, which was just the hilt and guard. The blade had shattered in the previous attack.
The chakra cloak surrounding his body had mong since faded. His vision was blurry. He could barely see. His body fell from the dent he created to the ground like a rock. But Dante managed to catch him before he hit the ground.
"Naruto, are you okay? Why aren't you healing?"
"Dante? I don't know why. My chakra was suddenly cut off after that last attack" Naruto said reached out a hand to touch Dante's cheek.
"But why? Why do you have to go so far for her? I thought you hated her" Dante asked. He was completely at a loss right now. But what puzzled him the most was why naruto wasn't healing. He always heal never he got injured whether he wanted to or not. So why wasn't it working now?
"I'm sorry. I just couldn't help it. My body moved on it own." Naruto said before coughing uo blood. His entire rib cage was shattered. He tried calling on his kyubi chakra cloak but it wasn't responding almost like something was preventing it from doing so.
"No, it's okay. Just stick with me. You'll be alright" Dante reassured as he held him in his hands. Although his voice sounded demonic, the fear and worry he felt could be heard in his tone.
However, Naruto shook his head and said "It's alright, Dad. I'm just glad. Meeting you and mom has been the greatest thing to have ever happened to me. You taught me what it means to be loved and cared for. I'm sorry for not being of much use when you needed me the most"
"No, you are not. I'm glad to have called you my son. So don't leave yet. I still have a lot of things I haven't shown you yet" Dante pleaded with blood running down his eyes. He couldn't afford to lose him. Not now. Not after everything they had been through.
"D.. don't..wo..worry about me...Just tell...mo..mom.. that I..lo..love her"
His voice faded at the end of his sentence before his whole body went limp. His eyes lost their shine causing dante to panic.
"No, no, no, no. NARUTO!" Dante shook him praying to whatever god was out there to save him. But all he got was silence. He boy he once knew and treated like a son was gone.
"I told you emotions makes humans weak. Now you see, his compassion for his enemy became his downfall. It's a shame that devil's don't cry. I would have been more than happy to see your tears. But never would I have though that he was your son" Mundus laughed after watching the entire scene take place. But inwardly he had been anxious.
He never thought that the day would come when he would face a pair that would prove to be as formidable as sparda himself.
This fight has caused him a lot and it would take him a long time to recover from it.
Seeing dante still cuddling Naruto's dead body gave him a sense of deja vu as he said.
"Yet another one you care for dies. Take comfort in the fact that the two of you almost succeeded in defeated me"
"..."
"What was that I couldn't hear you" Mundus asked when he saw dante whispering something. Was he planning to surrender now? Well it's already too late for that. There was no way he would let him live now after all the damage he had done to him.
"I said... SHUT UP!" Dante roared and a demonic fire dragon burst out of his body and crashed into Mundus pushing him back. The damaged of the demonic fire dragon's attack caused parts of his body to fall apart revealing a black liquid substance squirming inside the statue.
"You! Impossible" Mundus roared when he saw dante hovering in front of him. His aura now was a far cry from a few moments prior. How can his power continue to grow?
Dante glared at mundus with hatred as he said.
"For your crime against my family. Not even your soul will remain"
Meanwhile...
Drip Drip Drip...
The sound of dripping water echoed inside a large flooded room. This was the sound that Naruto awakened to.
When he opened his eyes he found himself floating face up in a large dark room flooded with water that was at waist level.
His whole body felt numb and heavy like lead. His head was the only part of his body that was responding properly.
The room he found himself inside was dark and barely lit so he could only make up little features about the room, not that there was much to begin with. It was just a square shaped room with plain moist walls on all sides.
However, on the far end of the room was a gigantic cage spamming the entire half of the room.
"Where is this place? The last thing I remembered was dying in Dante's arms. Is this what hell looks like? No. I've already been to the underworld. Did I get sent somewhere else? Or is this what heaven looks like?"
"Neither" A dark voice answered prompting Naruto to look up to the large cage where a pair of huge slitted red eyes where now staring at him.
"Long time no see, kit"
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