Chapter 76 The Hounds Cometh

It was late, and thus far Naruto had yet to sleep. Something felt off. In his unsleeping stupor he rose from his bed and began to trek the halls of the Shinigami. The clones went about there usual buisness. Naruto ignored them as he made his way to his office. Once there he decided to do inventory yet again to calm him. As he went through the objects he heard a scratching. He quickly turned his head to the corner of the room only to see nothing. His eyes narrowed. He got up from his chair and walked up to where he heard the sound again, his time from the other side of the room. When he looked he saw that in the corner there appeared to be shards of glass. Very small shards. He walked up to examine them.

He swept it aside as he looked again at the wall trying to see why the glass shards were there in the first place. After a moment the Scratching sound could be heard yet again, this time in the room next to his. He ran. Once in front of said door he opened it to the side. For a brief moment he could have sworn he seen something in the corner of the room, but when his eyes focused there was nothing.

He looked to the few clones who were working. Snapping his fingers to get their attention.

"Check the base out, I think there is something here", said Naruto.

The clones nodded. Dropping what they were doing they left in random directions. Naruto went as well. He grabbed a kunai and held it incase he needed it. He walked around the rooms, noting that as time went on it became deathly quiet. Then he heard a sound.

It was a crashing sound. The instant he heard it memories from one of his clones entered his mind. Immediately every single clone stopped before simultaneously turning there head to the source. One by one they all walked slowly there. The real Naruto meanwhile started an alarm. In mere moments the sounds of the sirens bellowed throughout the base. The first to arrive was Sasuke.

"Whats going on", asked Sasuke.

"Someone, or something is in our base", said Naruto.

Sasuke nodded. After a few moments Sakura, Herbert, Xel, Dr. Shino, Amaru, Kin, Sasori, Deidara, Minato, Kushina and Konohamaru came. After explaining the situation to them they all left to search the base with several clones to accompany them. Naruto was searching with Konohamaru.

"And you say you found shards of glass", asked Konohamaru to which Naruto nodded.

Konohamaru put his hand to his chin as he began to think on the situation. Suddenly more memories hit Naruto's mind. Every clone was now heading to the location. It was the hangars on the upper level. Once there Naruto created more clones to guard any exits or entrances.

The room was massive, containing the Sky Villages flying crafts. Naruto and Konohamaru made there way through. They walked carefully until they made it to the wall. Naruto sighed.

"This is getting us nowhere", said Naruto.

Konohamaru nodded.

"Whatever we are dealing with is either really fast or...", Konohamaru's eyes widened. Naruto looked at him with confusion. Naruto noted he wasn't looking at him, but behind him. Naruto slowly turned his head until he saw what it was Konohamaru did. In the corner of the room, smoke started to billow. Naruto's eyes widened as he looked at the smoke and noticed that within the smoke, there was movement.

"The Hounds of Tindalos", said Konohamaru.

They slowly backed away from the creature.

"Now wold be a good time to run", said Naruto.

They shot off wasting little time. The scratching sound came again, in a rhythmic beat much faster than before. It was chasing them. Naruto turned his head for just a moment to see the thing.

To call the creature that chased them a hound was like calling a sun a big fireball. Not nessicarilly inaccurate but a massive understatement. The creature was some demented hybrid of bat, hound, and insect. It was noticeably very thin, unnaturally so. What was noticable is that as the thing moved shards of glass would periodically fall from it, after a moment it became apparent the thing was coated in glass. Naruto almost stopped when he saw a reflection in the glass. The horrible looks of something human, but not quite. These were no normal Hounds of Tindalos, the refection showed what happened to them. An entire lifetime reflected into the world. As if the sands of time froze into the strange glass coating by some malevolent intelligence. Instantly Naruto realized what was happening. He turned to Konohamru.

"Whateley is controlling them", said Naruto as he ran faster.

Konohamaru did not answer He did not need to, he merely looked back and saw the reflection of the child of Yog-sothoth in their glassy bodies. He turned back around and ran faster.

Naruto created clones to slow the hound, though as soon as they were created they fell, it barely slowed the beast down. Though they accomplished their purpose. In an instant the other clones with his allies got the information. It would not be long until help would arrive. Naruto turned again. The Hound was gone.

He stopped, as did Konohamru reluctantly.

"Careful, any sharp angle is a portal to them", said Konohamaru.

Naruto nodded. It was good the room was so massive, the corners separated far apart. Though as that happened some of the flying crafts began to smoke. Naruto's eyes widened. They could use the corners in the crafts as well, effectively allowing them to come as they pleased.

Naruto wasted no time. He shifted forms. Once in Eldritch form he used every Dojutsu he had simultaneously. The combination of which allowed him to see the hounds crawl from the corners. Finally help arived in the form of Sasori and Deidara.

"What is going on", asked Sasori.

"Hounds of Tindlos, they hunt time travelers. An sharp angle is a door for them to come and go as they please, these are not normal hounds, very very dangerous. Wilbur Whateley is controling them", said Naruto.

Sasori nodded. Naruto had told both Him and Deidara about Wilbur Whateley, he knew the dangers. Sasori looked around the room. Dozens upon dozens of the Hounds could be seen. Sasori took out a scroll summoning his favorite puppet. Deidara crafted several bird like constructs to attack the Hounds. As they neared one of the birds exploded. Shards of glass flew everywhere.

"There not so tough", said Deidara.

As that happened the air grew denser. Naruto looked with his Byakugan to see tiny metal dust flying around. Sasori has using his Kazekage puppet. Metal dust formed into spears and with a flick of his thumb, Sasori commanded them to attack the hounds. The glass shattered. So far between metal spears and exploding clay, everything seemed to be going well, until another hound appeared this one not made of glass. Naruto's many eyes widened as the glass shards flew to the free hound, surrounding it once more in the glass armor. Narto smiled. While it was becoming obvious that the glass was Wilbur's means of controlling the hounds, attacking them would not kill, but free them. And while the glass could just reattached to the hounds it did leave one weakness.

Naruto shifted back to normal.

"You may want to cover your ears", said Naruto.

He began doing hand signs, different ones for each hand. Then he grabbed his forearm.

"Y'Golonac Scream", said Naruto.

The fanged mouth appeared on Naruto's hand, which got a shocked look from Deidara. The mouth then screamed. The hounds stopped. Naruto focused as he slowly adjusted the frequency of the scream until the glass started to crack and break off the hounds. He poured more and more Chakra into it. While the glass did crack, it did not shatter.

Naruto focused. Instantly a red aura appeared around him and though his eyes did not change they began to glow red. His teeth became fangs and his appearance more feral. He began to push Kurama's chakra into the sonic attack. The glass shattered. But he did not stop. He poured more and more of Kurama's near infinite chakra into it until the shards became a fine powder, and yet he still didn't stop. He continued doing so for longer and longer. Everyone behind him had backed away from the awful sound, covering there ears. Even those who had just arrives, the only one not effected was Xel, which he was quite proud of. By the time Naruto was finished he shattered the glass on a molecular level, rendering it useless. He dropped the Jutsu and his appearance slowly turned to normal.

"What the hell was that", asked Deidara.

Naruto turned to answer him,but as soon as he did so he fainted. Minato grabbed him before he hit the ground. Looking around the Hounds still remained, and they were glaring at them.

"We're boned", said Herbert.

Some of the hounds walked forward smelling the air. It's long hollow proboscis wiggled around as it searched the area. Though they were no longer under Wilburs command, the Hounds of Tindalos were still very dangerous, and there were dozens of them.

Konohamaru acted fast. It was risky, but there was little choice. He had been concentrating hard for what he was about to do and just enough time had passed for it to work. He created a bubble of psionic energy around them all, with no sharp angles for the Hounds to enter.

The Hounds moved around the bubble, seemingly smelling it, but with their horrific visage it was hard to tell exactly what they were doing.

"Cover your ears again", said Xel.

As soon as they done so, Xel began speaking in the tongue taught to him by Father Dagon, the Tongue of the Outer Gods. The Hounds immediately stopped to listed to the sound. They seemed entranced by it. After a few moments they walked away, disappearing in any corners they could find. After a few moments Konohamaru dropped the shield.

"What was that", asked Konohamaru.

"I invoked Yog-Sothoth, they will not return for some time", said Xel.

"Quick thinking Xel, I may have to just stop calling you fish stick", said Herbert.

"I will have to read from the Necronomicon to see if this This situation can be prevented. The Deep Ones invocation should hold long enough", said Konohamaru.

And with that he left.

"With the excitement done with, I shall return to my studies", said Sasori as he sealed his prized puppet.

"Same here", said Dr. Shinno.

"Well that could have gone a whole lot worse", said Sasuke as he looked at the cracks in his glasses.

As he looked the cracks in his glasses began to fix until they were good as new.

"If only you knew", said Xel as he looked at the remaining glass dust on the floor.

Wilbur smiled, the hounds had fallen but what needed to be done was. He watched through the viewing portal as Konohamaru went to get the Necronomicon. Wilbur watched with bated breath as Konohamaru raised a platform, moments later he grabbed the Necronomicon. Wilbur smiled, now he knew where it was. Wilbur closed the viewing portal. He walked the room reading his own incomplete Necronomicon. After a moment Hidan walked into the room. Wilbur looked at him in disgust.

"Come on fuck face, we got you your partner", said Hidan.

Wilbur snorted as he closed his book and strapped it to his side. He followed Hidan. When they entered the main chambers Wilbur looked at the white haired man with red eyes. He wore an oversized high collared coat. What was visible was covered in bandages. Wilbur examined this man, feeling disgust by being partnered with some human.

"I am Wilbur Whateley, Son of Yog-Sothoth, and what shall I call you"

The man nodded as he examined Wilbur before answering.

"I am Hiruko, master of the Chimera Technique. A pleasure to meet you"