Into the Mist

Naruto was outside of the restaurant and watched the cloud of mist.

"There's a strong source of magic power coming from within the cloud...and it's not those pathetic fire mages." Kurama said. Naruto's eyes narrowed before channeling magic energy into his eyes.

"Mokushiryu no Byakugan!" He yelled. His irises and pupils disappeared as if they were fading into his sclera before becoming a shining white. He stared at the cloud of mist and he began to view things as if he saw them with X-Ray vision. He saw their skeletons, their muscles and the magic circulatory system.

He saw people moving within the cloud. The three fire mages and one other. From the way their skeletons were structured, he could tell that they were all male. The non-fire mage, being the one who was not a part of the trio on one end of the mist cloud was very large, at least six feet tall and was obviously well built given the size of his skeleton. He could see their skeletons moving. The blonde saw magic flow through their bodies shot out of the three mages' hands, but the unknown suddenly performed a Requip and took the strikes with the flat of the large blade he had summoned.

The thing that intrigued the blonde Dragonslayer was that even though all of this was going on...he couldn't hear what was happening within the mist cloud. He could see it all, but he couldn't hear it. It was as if somebody had muted the entire world within the mist. His eyes widened when he saw the sword wielding man suddenly move with extreme speed, speed that Naruto could barely follow, even with his advanced eyesight. The man sliced off their arms in a few steps.

The blonde could that the men were in extreme pain from the way they were running about like chicken's with their heads cut off before they actually became like that. The sword wielder swung his sword and beheaded the three fire mages in one fell swoop. Naruto looked down at his wrists where the storage seals for Ascalon and Excalibur lay.

He could tell from the way that unknown mage wielded his blade, the way he could manipulate the the sword of that large a size as if it were any other sword showed that he was a skilled swordsman. He looked back up to see the man return the blade to the pocket dimension using Requip before looking at the dead bodies. Naruto lowered the power of his visual prowess so that he could view the man's musculature and saw that the swordsman was grinning widely by the way his facial muscles tugged upwards. Naruto cancelled his flow of magic to his eyes before blinking as his irises and pupils returned.

"He's a Requip mage." Naruto stated. The fox costumed cat blinked.

"Really now? Well if he uses Requip then you can finally have somebody to teach you how to use those swords of your mother's." Kurama said. The blonde nodded before walking towards the mist cloud. He entered it and looked around. The mist was extremely thick and suddenly he felt movement to his left and he summoned his wind blades to take the hit. Naruto went skidding backwards before he heard a chuckle.

"Interesting. So you were able to sense me even within the mist. You hold promise, brat...too bad I'll have to kill you." A male voice said. Naruto blinked.

"No silence?" Naruto asked.

"Silence is only effective on those outside of my mist and only affects the user. I like to hear the screams, so I don't mute anything, but my own movements within the mist." The voice said. Naruto's ears twitched before he ducked beneath a horizontal slice and jumped away. However, he felt the magic energy behind him.

It was a good thing Acnologia taught Naruto how to sense another's magic otherwise he would have been screwed. He quickly summoned wind blades out of pure instinct and blocked the upward vertical slice that aimed to cleave him in half. He then pushed off of the blade and landed a few feet away from the area where he was attacked.

"I'm not here to challenge you, sword wielder. I am in need of a teacher you see...I have been able to use them, but I do not have a technique. I lack the proper instruction to use my blades to their full potential and from the way you took down those fire mages with such ease, especially when wielding such a large blade like that, you are obviously a master." Naruto said. The voice chuckled creepily, but Naruto and Kurama remained unaffected by the man.

"Oh you managed to see through my mist. HaHaHa, well I must admit, you do have some skills with the blade as shown by how you blocked my Kubikiribocho with mere wind blades. You have promise, brat. Let me see your swords and I will see if you are worthy of being my student."

"I am worthy...Do not take lightly of the fact that I am younger than you..." Naruto's eyes snapped open as he revealed the eyes of his draconian father. His magic power spiked, "Because I am more powerful than you will ever know." The man chuckled at that.

"My, my. Such strong magic power in one so young, but you still haven't shown me your swords." Naruto remained silent before tapping the seals on either wrist and Ascalon and Excalibur appeared in his hands. The man's breath hitched, a sound which caught Naruto's ears.

"You know of my blades?"

"Where did you get those? Only few mages have ever been able to get their hands on Ascalon and Excalibur." The man exclaimed. Naruto twirled the blades in an expert fashion before stabbing them into the ground causing the two blades to erupt into gold and silver flame. Naruto tightened his grip on the swords as he withdrew the flaming weapons.

"They are the swords of Merlin. Swords able to slay the dragons themselves. My mother was a mage who was able to use these blades." Naruto said. The man chuckled at that before the mist became less thick and Naruto saw the man in front of him, the dead fire mages before him. The man was rather muscular and was six feet tall like Naruto had assumed. His skin was a dark tan colour. He wore a black, sleeveless shirt with matching black pants.

He wore a pair of black boots. He had vertical, alternating dark blue and white stripes on his leg warmers and wrist warmers. He had bandages wrapped around his lower facial area and neck. A black headband was worn around his forehead. His hair was brown and spiky and he had coal black eyes. The large zanpakuto, the Kubikiribocho, was held lazily across his shoulder with one hand.

"I've trained myself to use the blade, but I am still not a master. Though it is a blow to my pride, I require a teacher. I would like you to be that teacher." Naruto said. The man chuckled as he stabbed his blade through the already dead body of a fire mage and stuck it into the ground.

"I will teach you if you pass my test. Come with me." The man vanished in a swirl of mist, Naruto and Kurama doing the same except they vanished into the wind. The mist cloud died down and the crowd gasped when the mist disappeared to reveal the dead bodies of the criminals...and the missing bag of money they had stolen from the Onibus Bank.

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