You may have heard it plenty of time, so I'll simply put it in few words and get on with the story. English isn't my first language and I am only learning it from books. SoI apologize for the pain/strain on your eyes after you are finish reading all these words below (that is if you decided to go on this quest).
This is my recreation of how the fight between the Sage & Jūbi might have been.
'I have lost my family Taiki-san but I don't want our next generation to go through the pain & grieve that we have suffered. I beg of you to please save us from that monster and from the circle of hatred we all are surrounded with'. Her face, her words, was the fuel that was driving him forward.
The earth shook beneath him as a great ball of energy came towards him while he manages to get away in the nick of a time. He pulled out his katana and slashed it in air while flowing chakra through it which resulted in a wave of pure chakra flowing through air towards Jūbi. As the wave approached closer it got bigger until it was quarter the size of Jūbi when it impacted it. The impact sent Jūbi stumbling and dazed for few moments.
The Sage was now out of breath fighting a monster like Jūbi for three days straight. There came many moments when he almost gave up but then he remembered the promise he made to her … the last promise as she took her last breath, 'I will end this circle of hatred, I will bring peace to this world. I will make your dream a reality. Even if that means I have to fight a God, I will defeat him, for this world, for you and for the love you & I have for it'.
He knew he was at his limits. After all he WAS fighting a God. A beast that knew no limits to its power and after fighting it for several hours he came to a conclusion, the thing he was fighting could not be defeated. Atleast not in the literal sense. Suddenly he remembered the words his sensei once said.
"Taiki-san the anger is the root of many problems, it clouds your judgments and it's your enemy but you cannot defeat this enemy, you just contain it with your self-control. That's the way of defeating it."
His eyes shined with a glint of renewed hope & determination 'Arigatou-sensei' he thought with a smile on his face. He now knew how to defeat this monster before him. Now he just had to devise a plan to contain this monster in a container. He had no qualms on the 'container' part because he had already decided that he would sacrifice himself to contain the beast, the problem was how to get closer somehow to make a physical contact with the beast.
He flashed through the memories of his current fights while dodging the pieces of earth thrown by Jūbi. He saw the opening when he saw Jūbi making a Tailed beast ball. He noticed that the time between making and throwing a ball was enough to get near that beast, only possible problem between him and the his goal would be the ten tails swinging wildly. Suddenly an idea came to his mind, as the tails are the extensions of its body that means the sealing would work if he came to contact with the tails too. Then he waited for the right time while hardening his grip on his Shakujō.
When the huge beast showed the sign of making another beast ball he ran and struck his staff on ground, sending loud sound waves towards beast. Suddenly the Sage disappeared and reappeared near the Jūbi. The Jūbi swung its huge tail to knock the Sage of but he quickly jumped and continued running on one of its tail while flowing chakra through his feet and making handseals for the sealing, just as the Beast was going to fire the humongous chakra ball on its own tail to obliterate the mortal who dared to oppose its rule, the Sage made the final handseal and touched the tail which resulted in completely immobilizing the God.
The huge chakra ball gradually faded away into nothingness while the beast began to tremble, emitting chakra bursts. The Sage knew that this was the deciding moment. The fight between a mortal & God was coming to a conclusion. It was now the war of wills. The one with the greater will will conquer other. As the beast was pushing all its might, just to break the seal placed on it, the man who was responsible for it was pouring all its chakra to break the resolve of God. Suddenly the beast began to tremble furiously while a thick stream of chakra began to flow from its body into the Sage's stomach. He cried with pain but didn't let go the hand which was on the tail of that beast. Gradually the beast began to fall and after few moments, there was only a mortal living in that valley while a corpse of a God lay beside him. The Sage looked towards heaven and said "I am a mortal yet I defeated a God, you throw another God and I promise that I will defeat it too. There will be nothing between me & her dream. You have witnessed what I am capable of!"
Suddenly he was hit by a sheer amount of pain and fell down on ground unconscious.
Darkness. There wasn't a single thing in view but despite that, he kept going forward without any fear, just a hint of curiosity. Somehow he knew what the end of this journey would result in. As he was walking, he saw a huge cage with a beast looking at him with feral expression. He looked at beast with a look of pity and said, "Jūbi, you were just a monster, I had to defeat you. Rest assured if there could've been any alternate way I would've gladly chosen that.". The beast's expression remained unchanged it continued glaring at its container.
The Sage waited for the beast to answer but when he get nothing in reply, he nodded, "hmm, if this is going to be this way, so be it! You are my prisoner and I am your jailor. Nothing less nothing more". He turned back and started walking away when suddenly a loud voice boomed, "Mortal! you dared to oppose me and I despise you for that. Bear in mind, a God cannot die. I will live even when this world dies. But you have defeated a God. We are also bounded by rules. One of which, compels me to give some powers of mine to you as a reward for the victory over a God like me. But remember this, you cannot imprison me forever. I will come back one more time and you won't be there anymore. The peace you are seeking is nothing but a fools dream."
The Sage calmly stared at the great beast while listening to its words. When the beast was finished he smiled faintly, "If establishing a peace is a fool's dream then I will remain fool for the rest of my life".
The great beast was shocked at the Sage's words. It had never seen a person with such a unique dream & the resolve to fulfill it like that, "You are different mortal, tell me, why you want to establish peace? What will you gain from it?".
The Sage stared at his prisoner, "From the day I was born until this day, the war had killed countless innocent humans, because of you there is no happiness in world, only fear, anger and hatred. I want to establish peace, so that humans can live their lives peacefully".
"So that means you don't have any personal agenda behind all of this?" the beast asked with a hint of amusement behind its voice.
"No, I am just a friend, fulfilling a promise I made to another friend" the Sage said without any hesitation.
"You intrigue me mortal, since the creation of this world, I have never came across a creature like you. Despite of my hatred towards you I am going to give you more of my powers than I am obliged to, as a sign of my respect to you for defeating God like me but don't forget I am only doing this while I am caged inside you. Your emotions are affecting mine because of this cursed seal. As soon as I am released from this seal, my instincts will come back and I will return to the task given to me, spreading chaos."
The Sage was surprised at the huge change in beast's emotions but he accepted the gift and bowed his head, "Arigatou". The Beast nodded while returning to the darkness of cage, "Now leave!"
The Sage opened his eyes in the real world and looked around his surroundings. There was only one word to describe it, chaos. He sighed sadly at the utter destruction caused around him by Jūbi but a sudden feeling of contentment filled his heart, the war is over, people can live their lives without having to fear all the time from the ten tailed monster coming and destroying everything. His …no, their dream has just become reality. He also came to realize one more thing, a precence of a new power in him.
A power so immense that it had no limits. It felt like a sea of chakra, flowing, raging against his own. The fascinating thing was that it was mixing with his own chakra resulting in a chakra so potent that its true potential was out of his imagination. He felt scared, scared of the power he now commanded. He came to realize the gravity of situation. The position he now held in this world was no less than the monster God he just defeated few moments ago.
'I cannot fell a victim to this power, I have to control it, to use it for the betterment of humanity'. His resolve hardened when he remembered the promise he made. A promise worth to give his whole life for. His chain of thought was broken when a he heard a chirping sound. A small bird landed on his shoulder while chirping with what seemed to be a happy tone. He smiled at the bird and looked around him once more 'No! I won't fell a victim to this power, I am the one who will command it, not the other way around! I will bring peace not destruction'. He decided to test his new power.
He stared at the barn land before him and struck his staff down once while pouring his new chakra into the ground. Suddenly, all the stones & rocks which were thrown by Jūbi, started to fly back into the ground making the land before him evened while a stream of water started to pour out from the ground as grass began to grow and in few moments the land before him was looking nothing like a place where a mortal & a God fought few hours before.
It looked like a piece of Eden. Even the animals killed by Jūbi during the fight came back to life as his chakra spread like a wave in ground. He was surprised to say the least, not only at the power but at the level of command he held now. There was literally no limit as far as he could think. Bringing back the dead one was a clear demonstration of it.
Another thought which was now haunting him was, 'what now?'. His dream was fulfilled, the world was free but was there true peace now? Probably not ... not yet. He started walking while thinking along the same line. As he approached the stream of water he gazed upon the reflection in the water. All of his thoughts came to a halt because he was staring at his face, particularly to his eyes or what they used to be. His black pupil were now purple with the rings filling it. He was getting worried at the new changes. A new power & a new set of eyes. What is happening to him? What were these changes ? Was the monster inside him affecting him? Was he turning into a monster himself ?
All of these question were answered by a voice inside his conscious, "Mortal! I am the one who gave you these powers, so that you can try to fulfill your foolish dream. So be thankful that you got these powers".
He was surprised at the voice of Jūbi inside him. So that means you can hear my thoughts. He said aloud. "Yes I can hear your thoughts, look into your memories and see your insecurities, you are an open book to me". He nodded and thought 'Good, than it means you DO know why I'm doing all of this and what is the importance of my dream to me'.
The Jūbi roared with anger, "Do you take me for a fool, yes I DO know the importance of this foolish dream of yours otherwise I wouldn't have given you my powers. I just want you to realize that your dream is impossible to achieve even if you have the power of God!"
The Sage chuckled, 'I accept your challenge Jūbi and I will show you that nothing is impossible. After all, you were believed to be unbeatable a few hours ago yet I, a mere mortal stand before you as your jailor'. The Jūbi roared but said nothing in reply.
After his light conversation with Jūbi he started to train with his new powers but before going to the nearest village he had one last problem to deal, a very huge problem namely the titanic body of Jūbi. As he was thinking of different way to dispose its body suddenly a voice filled his mind,"Even if you have defeated me, I am still a God and this is a body of God! You cannot erase it from existence even with my power".
The Sage was now perplexed, he couldn't hide it simply due to the humongous size of it, unless … his train of thoughts suddenly came to a stop. 'Yes, that would be the best course of action' he thought.
'You may be right that I can't destroy your body but I can make it a symbol for the people what the hatred, anger and power would do to a person when they are combined' he addressed to the Deity in him.
With that final thought he clasped his hands said the words which would change the world for the rest of its days, "Chibaku Tensei!" he shouted with all his might.
A glowing dark ball formed in his hands and suddenly huge chunks of earth suddenly began to fly in air as the gravity itself seemed to obey his command. Every single thing before him started to fly up and form a sphere around that ball as the ball seemed to compress them and then it happened, the titanic body of Jūbi moved a bit and then slowly it started to fly up to until it met the ever growing ball of matter but unlike other matter it only remained stuck there and didn't get affected by the pull.
After few more moments passed, the size of the ball became so large that it blocked the sunlight of the whole land around Sage. That was the moments he thought it was enough and gathered all his power once again and shouted, "Shinra Tensei" with both his hands pointing at the ball. With those spoken words he finally put his mind to rest. It was over.
He trained with his powers for few more days but there was simply no way to see what he couldn't do, he could raise the dead, he could create the things from nothing … he was literally a God himself.
He decided to go to the village after that training period to give them the news of the defeat of Jūbi (much to the irritation of a God inside him).
He spent many days in the village teaching them the importance of peace which they happily obliged with, afterall he was the destroyer of a God, an unimaginable power flowed through him. Who in his right state of mind would challenge such being!
He decided to continue this work, spreading words of peace, he knew it won't be easy but after one have defeated a God, nothing seem unattainable. He knew that Jūbi wasn't the only thing spreading chaos. There were some people who were posing as its followers and their sole purpose was to rob and kill other people for simply money are even for enjoyment … they were like Jūbi but without its power only ist hatred and malevolence.
Many days have passed and his journeys took him to a beauitful land surrounded with forests and waterfalls. His mision is still incomplete but he hasn't given up.
There came few obstacles along the way between him and his dream but no one stood a chance before a 'God' which was what he was now known as, much to his dislike but he never asked anyone to call him by any other name because now he understood the reason and the power behind that word. People needed someone to guide them, to show them the right path of life, a life where peace was the sole element governing their lives and if that means he has to pose as a God to show them the path of peace, so mote it be!
A/N: How was it ? Did you like it ? dislike it ? or simply hate it :?
I'll really appreciate any hints on improving my writing.
Thank you for going through all this mess.