Naruto growled at the demon as a well spring of rage rose up from his chest. He was confused, frightened, and generally didn't have any idea on any level what the hell was going on, and this demon was taunting him! He wanted an explanation, but that desire was quickly being replaced by a desire to kick its red ass!
“Listen up, Horny,” Naruto all but hissed between his teeth. “You're going to tell me what's going on before I kick your ass.”
The reaper growled. Literally. A deep rumbling reverberated across the chamber as the monster readied its scythe. “You will call me REAPER! While I may be your servant, and you will learn to respect my might!”
“Bah,” Naruto scoffed and he dropped into a fighting stance. He was naked and didn't have any weapons, but that just meant he had to start with the big guns. “You're not that hot, Horny. I've seen better. Hell, I've fought better and kicked its ass!”
The demon roared and charged him with its weapon held high.
Crouching down Naruto held out his hand and quickly began to move his other around it, focusing charka, or rather the strange energy he was being fed by the dungeon heart, into his hand and forming it into a highly energetic but contained ball of pure energy. Looking up he grimaced. The room was too small! It would take only a few seconds for the sphere to form, but he didn't have a few seconds!
With a roar the demon brought his scythe around cleanly cutting the arrogant keeper in half at the waist. He smirked. Maybe now the kid might have some damned...
His eyes went wide when, in a burst of smoke the two falling halves of keeper exploded in a pop into a neatly bisected lump of stone. Hearing the sound of footfalls behind him he flipped around to defend against what ever trick the Keeper had for him, but he was too slow.
“RASENGAN!”
Horny cried out in agony as the naked blond slammed a sphere of pure mana into his chest. He could feel it ripping into his flesh, drilling into him, shredding the very being of his existence. The pain was too great for the elder demon to even react.
Naruto smirked as the demon was throw into the wall with enough force to crater it, making the dungeon shutter slightly under his feet. Almost comically the demon became unstuck from the cliff face and fell backwards onto the ground with a thump.
As the demon rose to it's feet, Naruto bit back a curse. That attack had taken a lot of of him and while he might, and the big word being might, be able to form another Rasengan, it would probably exhaust him in the process. As much as he hated to admit it, he was already feeling weak kneed. Expecting another attack, Naruto fell into a defensive stance. What he didn't expect was for it to laugh.
“Wonderful!” the demon cried out. “I see I am truly blessed by the Dark Gods! Bahahahaha!”
Naruto blinked. “Um, what?”
Horny smiled, but it was not the evil, fang filled smirk he'd been expecting. It was an honest smile. “Keeper, you may color me impressed. That was marvelous! It is not often that I am threatened with death, and that spell was enough to threaten even me. Good show!”
“You're glad I almost killed you?”
“You didn't almost kill me,” Horny corrected, “But you surely did threaten me and that was enough. I thought I'd sworn myself into the service of a weakling. You are most assuredly not weak, and if you have the talent to back up your power, then this might actually be fun.”
Naruto nodded slightly. He guessed he could understand that. This demon didn't want to serve a weakling, kind of like how Gamabunta refused to be summoned by a kid until he proved himself. He guess it made sense.
“So are you going to tell me what's going on or not?
The monster smiled. “Very well, where do you want me to start, Keeper.”
“Well, you could start by telling me what a 'Keeper' is.”
Horny scowled. “I can see this is going to take a while...”
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