The Way of the Soul-mancer

Summary: Kabuto was always under-estimated. He was deemed a pointless person, a husk of potential unrealized. He'd show them all how wrong they were. With the knowledge of the intricate bloodlines, and careful cultivation, he'd show them the potential they would only dream of. Kabuto is a dark-grey character in this story, and expect Time Travel. Maybe a crossover at some point, but that remains undecided.

Chapter One: Potential Unrealized? Hardly.

Kabuto was annoyed. With Naruto having released Itachi from his bounds using Shisui's remaining eye, he knew they'd approach him. Luckily, he held a backup plan. He wasn't absurd enough to believe that he could face the Sharingan alone, even with the many upgrades he'd gained as a newly awakened Sage. He held several back up plans, one of which was ingenious.

'The Edo Tensei was upgraded to sustain itself beyond the death of its summoner, but even I cannot control entire armies of undead soldiers without brain damage... which is why my idea was brilliant.' He'd used the power of Edo Tensei to revive some no-name weak Konoha Shinobi. With him under his control, he had the Edo Tensei, ironically, use the Edo Tensei no Jutsu to revive his entire army. With the endless supply of undead chakra fueling the jutsu, Kabuto himself was unharmed, and could manipulate the entire army through the nameless shinobi.

'Even if I was to be placed under a Genjutsu, I'd only release the original Edo Tensei Jutsu, leaving the rest untouched from the release.' It was so simple, but it was brilliant that way.

Let it never be said that Kabuto didn't do things to his advantage either. With careful precision, he'd held the Edo Tensei'd original Shinobi under a powerful Genjutsu of his own, and had himself revived with Edo Tensei as well. Within mere moments of him killing himself, he'd been revived and was now able to wield endless chakra himself. Hell, he'd even upgraded himself beyond his former body, by mixing his DNA with Senju and Uchiha DNA. The result was glorious. His Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan, granted through careful manipulation and cloning of Madara's own chakra and blood, was also able to summon forth the Rinnegan as well. Since they were implants, even if he revived himself through Gedo: Rinnie Tensi No Jutsu, they'd still be in his head for use.

Now, he waited calmly. His control tag may have been nullified, but he could still see through Itachi's eyes to know that both Uchiha brothers were coming for him. 'They're in for a rude awakening.' His newly developed eyes came with many abilities, and Kabuto's regeneration was already powerful as is: It'd been further enhanced with the endless amount of chakra given to him. On the off-chance he felt overwhelmed, and if he was trapped in a genjutsu like Izanagi/Izanami if they did so as a last resort, he had a card as back up.

In the back of the cave, lay a coffin. The words imprinted on the coffin were 'Mikoto of the Shunshin'. With the same upgrades as Kabuto had given himself, she'd be unstoppable. It helped he'd implanted that as a final measure Genjutsu into the Edo Tensei nameless shinobi to do if he should be dispelled.

Sure enough, the cave wall exploded, revealing Itachi and Sasuke Uchiha. Kabuto grinned darkly, pushing his glasses up to show a lens flare. "Itachi and Sasuke Uchiha. The two final brothers of the Uchiha, teamed up at last... to kill little old me? I'm flattered. However... You'll find me far harder to kill." Kabuto removed his glasses, which held a small Fuinjutsu bound Genjutsu on the rim.

Itachi felt uneasy. This chakra... His eyes widened in horror as Kabuto opened his eyes to reveal the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan. "Sasuke..." Itachi muttered slowly. "This may be too difficult, even with our visual prowess." He never expected Kabuto to awaken an Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan, to say anything of Madara's own chakra in his system. Sasuke chuckled darkly in response. "You pathetic ninja, Kabuto. You stole from the Uchiha yet again. I'll kill you!"

Sasuke ran forward at him, his Susano'o flaring into existence to throw a hyper-punch at him before Kabuto should've been able to react. 'Foolish Sasuke-chan. The Uchiha originally stole many jutsu. I just returned the favor.' The grin never left Kabuto's face, even as the eyes shifted into the Rinnegan and he absorbed the chakra formed Susano'o fist.

Sasuke snarled wordlessly. Many of his jutsu needed chakra as a basis, and Kabuto's new Doujutsu absorbed chakra like he breathed air. Itachi frowned, now annoyed. 'What is it with supposedly legendary un-attainable Doujutsu showing up in the wrong people? Now Izanami is useless against Kabuto. I'll just have to seal him away with the blade of Totsuka and hope to return to save the rest.' Itachi called forth his ultimate Susano'o, readying his sword and shield.

Sasuke jumped back, joining Itachi as he too formed his ultimate Susano'o.

Kabuto stood there, crossing his arms, fairly annoyed. 'Does Itachi expect me to oh-so-obviously strike forward or something and get impaled by an eternal illusion blade?' He frowned, before smirking. Scales erupted around his flesh, as a purple ink colored his eyelids and surrounding skin. Four horns, two on either side, formed out of his head. Itachi chuckled darkly. "Die, like the snake you are Kabuto."

The sword swung forward incredibly quickly, but Kabuto grabbed it with his hands on either side of the blade, inhaling its chakra. The blade vanished, only to reform out of Itachi's chakra again at the waist of the Susano'o.

Kabuto smirked, his Rinnegan flaring slightly. "Snake? Humph. After careful study and training with the Snake Sage, I have evolved beyond the snake. I am now... a Dragon." Kabuto spread his arms wide, grinning madly. The Rinnegan flared brightly, as the Eternal Mangekyo's design formed from behind it in a dark purple color. Kabuto's own Susano'o sprang forth, the torso of a man being joined with four arms, plus the neck and head of a giant dragon. The color of the Susano'o was dark yellow in color, flickers of orange at the edges.

Itachi's Mangekyo Sharingan was detecting something disturbing. His visual prowess was incredible with Edo Tensei active, but the string connecting him to Kabuto wasn't chakra formed at all. 'What's going on? I'm completely certain it was Kabuto who revived us, but why isn't it showing on my Mangekyo?' Ignoring that difficult thought, Itachi's eyes narrowed as he studied the man's Susano'o. 'For only just possessing the Eternal Mangekyo, Kabuto has been remarkable to be able to summon Susano'o at all, let alone this merged, altered, evolved form. Disturbingly, his prowess with the Mangekyo is as high, if not slightly higher, then my own. The only thing is... How was he able to merge the activation of the Eternal Mangekyo and the Rinnegan altogether?'

Kabuto smirked, as he made a single hand seal. The Dragon's Head opened, revealing a single glowing orb. 'Yin-Yang Release: Orb of Judgement Jutsu!' The orb glowed, before releasing hundreds of senbon filled with micro-Paper Bombs.

Itachi raised his shield of Yami, standing in front of Sasuke's Susano'o. To his dismay, the senbon seemed to flicker right through the shield, and then bounced off of the Susano'o's inner chakra coating. Then, the senbon glowed. Itachi's eyes widened, before he whispered softly. "Izanagi..."

The cave erupted in a blast of pure energy, creating a pillar of light that ripped through the cave ceiling and into the sky. Kabuto remained unaffected, smirking. The light faded to reveal Itachi, panting lightly on one knee as one of his eyes turned a flat white.

Kabuto nodded to himself. 'I was correct. The Mangekyo requires both eyes to access the Susano'o without becoming chakra-intensive and damaging. Even Itachi's Ultimate Susano'o requires both eyes in any regard.' Sasuke roared in rage, through four sets of spiraling black fire filled orbs. Kabuto chuckled lightly, his Rinnegan flaring as his Dragon head's mouth remained open, the orb turning a light green.

The black orbs of death were inhaled into the mouth, absorbed into the orb. Kabuto smirked, before he made the same hand seal as before.

The orb glowed, and more of the senbon shot forward, hundreds of glimmering needles flying through the air. Itachi's remaining eye widened, before it closed. 'Forgive me, Sasuke... Konoha.'

Sasuke was prepared to die and join the rest of the Uchiha. Instead, Itachi appeared inside his own Susano'o, before kicking him straight out of the cave itself into the nearby forest. He stared in horror as the same white light pillar appeared, before vanishing to reveal Kabuto's Susano'o standing in front of Itachi. Itachi turned toward Sasuke, revealing his blind flat white eyes. "ITACHI!"

Kabuto chuckled darkly, as his Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan noted Itachi covered in glowing green chakra. 'His Edo Tensei is slowly regenerating his eyes, but the Izanagi is inhibiting that regeneration for more than enough time. I'm rather surprised at how intelligent Itachi was to push Sasuke out of the way. My Yin-Yang release can only be blocked by those using the inverted version of Yang-Yin release. Good. Itachi will be under my control without his Sharingan inhibiting my next Jutsu. Now to begin my back up plan.'

Kabuto made seven hand seals, before stopping on a hand seal that had his two hands clamped together. The Rinnegan flared. "Gedo: Rinnie Tensi No Jutsu."

A single needle of green chakra flung itself from Kabuto's Dragon Orb. It impaled Itachi in the chest, as the green chakra covered Itachi entirely. Itachi muttered weakly. "No... Damn you, Kabuto." Kabuto smirked, before a Chidori blade tried to attack him from behind. The chakra was absorbed by the green chakra field he'd had surrounding his body. He turned to see Sasuke snarling as his chakra attack was nullified again. "Sasuke... How I hate you, for what you did to Orochimaru. For what you inevitably did to everyone. Most of all, I hate you because you threw away everything for a petty ideal beyond your understanding. Such an absurd concept, to love what you betrayed, to act so irrationally... Perhaps you are like Naruto more than I thought. Going to use the 'Talk No Jutsu' on me?"

Sasuke snarled, his chakra calling forth natural lightning from above himself. Kabuto merely shook his head, chuckling. "Fool. Kirin doesn't work against Susano'o, and your attacks are petty at best. No, no. Let me direct you on how to use Nature." Kabuto breathed in deeply, his scaly skin glinting against the lightning above. "Sage Art: Inorganic Reanimation."

Originally, the Jutsu would have only revived the ground and surrounding rock into Kabuto's command. With a gaping hole leading to the sky and surrounding air however, Kabuto's jutsu extended to the very storm clouds above as well.

The world exploded violently, the lightning flaring around into a tornado shape, striking into a single pin-prick, while the surrounding Earth held Sasuke unable to move, his very chakra sapped away through his Rinnegan.

When it ended, Kabuto held Itachi by the throat, his Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan staring into Itachi's blind ones. "Sasuke is dead, killed by his arrogance. But you shall not join him. No, no. Your knowledge shall be quite useful, especially in chakra usage. I've improved myself drastically, but I had back up plans that you never thought about. I am an Edo Tensei as well, Itachi, and I am bound to the one who serves me."

Itachi's blind eyes widened in that regard as he whispered hoarsely. "You! You revived a nameless shinobi weak of will, and then had him use Edo Tensei to revive your army through him! That's how you were able to revive so many, and many with strong will! Then, implanting a Genjutsu as an order implanted through the Edo Tensei tag, you killed yourself to be revived immediately after the fact as an Edo Tensei, an Edo Tensei under the control of the nameless shinobi who's an eternal Edo Tensei under you! Why... How'd I miss something so simple?!"

Kabuto shook his head, smirking. "Cause you, like everyone else, were plagued by the fact that I was controlling your actions directly. You were too concerned by the one obviously playing puppeteer, that the obvious puppeteer was beyond your reach was beyond your understanding. You under-estimated that in my research, I would've imbued myself with the same powers I found desirable to keep. That was your downfall, and will be the downfall of Madara Uchiha and the rest of Akatsuki. While I don't mind the perfection of the Eternal Tusykiome... I can't allow myself under the rule of another when I've yet to discover myself first. Be grateful that I will save the world, even if not the way you envisioned it to be saved. Goodbye Itachi. Ningendo."

Itachi's body fell to the ground, the chakra sapped empty with the soul removed. 'I know so much from you now, and the chakra I've gained from you is impressive enough.' Kabuto didn't need to worry when the Jutsu Orochimaru made allowed him to keep the chakra elements of those bodies he'd taken, even when switching to other bodies. 'It's why he desired the Sharingan. A single body would have allowed him to keep the Sharingan forever. Luckily, I've succeeded for him.'

The empty cave was silent, but Kabuto raised his left arm upwards to his chest. The ground trembled, and opened, revealing Sasuke barely alive, his chakra nearly gone. Kabuto chuckled darkly, as he grabbed Sasuke's head. "Goodbye Sasuke. Ningendo." With Sasuke's soul gone, Kabuto bound the six Zetsu clones in the natural rock reanimation, before he sapped the other five of their chakra. The sixth he painfully ripped apart and absorbed into his own flesh.

'With Hashirama's very cells implanted in me with his very chakra, I'm far more powerful than even with the few cells I imbued myself with!' Kabuto chuckled darkly, waving his right hand outwardly. His Susano'o was re-absorbed into himself, and a coffin zoomed until it halted right in front of him. 'It seems I had no need with this one, but why not? I can add one more as my guardian.'

In a cave far away, a cave near the land of Wave in fact, a nameless shinobi of Konoha opened their eyes. His eyes were pitch black, and cracked in a way that showed the Edo Tensei was active but clearly not all there. The man muttered flatly, blankly. "Edo Tensei No Jutsu." After the Jutsu was cast, the man fell back down, as if asleep.

The coffin opened to reveal Mikoto Uchiha. Her black hair was now slightly silver from Kabuto's mixed DNA. Her eyes were the Eternal Mangekyo as well. She struggled against the Edo Tensei initially, but Kabuto just activated the third portion of the tag that redirected any other emotion besides loyalty away from the body. The mind was still an organ after all, and organs could be manipulated under the right conditions. Her face slackened, before she nodded in determination, her eyes glowing ominously.

Kabuto watched amused at how weak the five current great Kage were against Madara Uchiha. 'How interesting. However, I'm sure Madara's just playing along for now. His immense chakra and his sheer will would easily over power my own... If I hadn't already imbued myself with a vast amount of power equal to his own. Combined with the knowledge I know, and well, it's just too easy to make them play each other into my hands. Much like every other fool, brute power is not enough: You must be cunning enough to direct it as you will it so. Now then, whom to revive or kill? Mikoto is far stronger, and with her own set of Mangekyo abilities to boot. Heh. Shisui's beyond my grasp now, thanks to Itachi. However... Yes, the Four great Kage would be enough to control through an Edo Tensei link connector. With the knowledge I have though, they are sealed behind the Shinigami's stomach. Beyond my reach.'

"Mikoto Uchiha. Your ability over the Shunshin was legendary to be on par with even the powerful Hirashin no Jutsu, and was limited only that it was chakra intensive. Your Mangekyo abilities are even faster, designed to enhance your ability and idea that speed is above all. You can alter the very fabric of reality with your Mangekyo ability known as Guardian Law Jutsu, which acts like Izanagi for about ten minutes before your Mangekyo locks out for twenty minutes, and your second ability allowing you to freeze others perception of time for up to an entire hour on a single target. Being a specially designed Edo Tensei has only further these abilities ten-fold. Go forth, and kill Tobi. From there, I will revive him as well. Afterwards, give me the five current Kage. When the time comes, we shall deal with Madara."

Mikoto nodded, before she blurred out of existence. Kabuto nodded to himself, his eyes closing as he focused through Madara's and Mikoto's perspective eyes.

Madara was currently monologueing on how stupid and weak everyone was, while Mikoto was currently honing in on Tobi's chakra.

Obito Uchiha was not happy. Not that he was really ever happy then, but he was severely unhappy. Kabuto's Edo Tensei were being sealed left and right, and it didn't help that the majority of his Zetsu were being killed off by Naruto fucking Uzumaki, a happy go lucky idiot that he himself used to be like. Something was nudging at the edge of his mind though, and it bothered him... What was i- OH SHIT!

Obito activated his Rinnegan and repelled the moving dark missile that was a woman in her thirties shooting at him at speeds clocking at around 300 m/hr. She flew back at his huge burst of chakra, before halting herself in mid-air. She drifted down gently, and her hair settled in their usual design. Obito trembled in shock, horror... and a little fear. Back when Obito was around seven years old, he'd had a nightmare of a cousin named Mikoto Uchiha. She was absolute evil in his eyes then, and the fact that she was an Edo Tensei with a single eye that was an Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan, and another eye that was a Rinnegan, standing before him with the urge to kill... Well, he was quite happy he had a Mangekyo like 'Kamui'.

She glared at him, her eyes glowing. She didn't need to be controlled against the prick, which you'd find odd... unless you were in her position. When you suddenly find yourself alive again, and with all these new powers to fight against the one that manipulated her son to kill her family, clan, and you got the choice to kill him? You took that chance with both hands barred, no question. The fact that she thought Kabuto was cute, even if a little too pale for her liking, had nothing to do with it... Well, maybe a little.

"You dare fight against me, Madara Uchiha? Even as an Edo Tensei? How... pathetic." She growled darkly, her eyes glowing brighter.

"Cut the crap, Obito-chan. As if I wouldn't know the taste of your chakra anywhere... Well, aside from chakra that's similar to Hashirama-sama's own. Have you been perving on really old dead men? Never took you for a necrophile." She smirked.

Obito saw red. 'WTF?! I... I don't even... I'm still a fuckin' virgin! And you?! FUCK YOU!' He made a flurry of hand seals, before he blew an entire blaze of fire at the bitch, who just absorbed it all.

She sighed lightly. "You're an idiot to use a Jutsu against me at all, Obito. Is it my turn now? Good. Watch and learn how to really fight, you sucky faggot." (Kabuto sweat-dropped. 'I think she took a couple of Hidan's insults. I think he's swearing, and still alive, so how'd she learn them?')

She blurred, her eyes flaring. Obito couldn't even keep up with the woman, his Rinnegan still untrained. She blurred, attacking with the use of her far superior Shunshin Jutsu. Obito's Kamui was also useless, as the Rinnegan countered any Jutsu nearby, thanks to Mikoto mastering hers with the knowledge implanted.

When it was over, Obito found himself facing irony, and a lot of it at that. He was now chakra-less, being held up by his throat by Mikoto Uchiha in a very similar way to how he held Konan. 'Whelp, the saying's true: Karma's a bitch.' Mikoto smirked evilly. "Oh, Obito-chan. I'm not going to kill you. No, no, that would be too-" She tightened her grip on his neck, causing him to gasp out for the little air he could breathe.

"-Kind of me to do. No. I think it's best you take a taste of my Mangekyo Sharingan Technique: Guardian Law Jutsu. A silly name really, but a good one for it's my Guardian. With it, I'll place you under a Genjutsu Reality not unlike Tusykiome. Except... I will break your mind instead. I will force upon you thousands of lifetimes, fill you with more memories of fear, hatred, despair, and agonies to the point where your mind will slowly... crack and breaks like an egg." She giggled, her eyes glowing brightly, a blood red that promised pain. "Then, then you have my permission to die."

Obito's remaining eye widened, as the Eternal Mangekyo flared, and with his Rinnegan ripped from his head and crushed beforehand, the agony of the jutsu began its work.

Kabuto was surprised to see Obito alive and on the ground, Mikoto waiting calmly against the nearby cave wall. "He's gone. His mind was crushed under an endless weight of undying lifetimes of torture crushed into a single five second period." He nodded in affirmation, before he quickly slit the young Uchiha's throat. He ripped the Mangekyo Sharingan out, and implanted it into himself, where it merged with the current chakra elements, giving him Kamui to add to his list of powers. "Good work, Mikoto. Now then, once I revive him, we'll continue as planned."

After grabbing a nearby Kumo shinobi from their post, he warped back over to the cave and used Edo Tensei on Obito. With the young Uchiha revived, he told Mikoto to re-write his entire subconscious before he revived him completely with his Gedo: Rinnie Tensi no Jutsu. After doing so, Obito swirled away none the wiser, his mind having been ripped apart and remolded to fit Kabuto's Will.

Madara and Obito Uchiha stood on the precipice of plans that had been decades in the making. They stood under the rough form of the Juubi, whom they were barely able to control, even with their combined formidable will power. Naruto was currently trying to use his infamous 'Talk No Jutsu' and the rest of the Shinobi Alliance was now shrouded in Kyubbi's Chakra Cloak.

This was the scene that many would have witnessed for over an hour as Madara and Obito tried to handle the Juubi's immense power and will. Instead, a different scene happened. Obito's eyes blanked out briefly, before he made a sudden move of hand signs and muttered. "Gedo: Rinnie Tensi No Jutsu!"

The King of Hell formed, and shot a single green needle out into the air. Madara grinned, as he couldn't wait to feel alive again. Granted, he hadn't expected Obito to have enough will power to use such a concentrative Jutsu while controlling the Juubi, but such things did happen for the better. Madara sighed, as the green chakra covered his form. His soul had been stabilized into his body... Wait! When fully revived, his Rinnegan would fade! Madara cursed, as his eyes vanished entirely. Madara shunshined away, apart from the Juubi.

The Juubi roared in triumph, as Obito shouted in pain as he was overwhelmed. Obito exploded, as the chakra nature of the Juubi ripped apart the Uchiha from the inside in a gory scene, leaving a red mist of blood.

Madara cursed, now blind at the wrong moment. Then, a wave of chakra burst against him, and he was choking, gasping for air. His very chakra was suddenly siphoned away entirely, and he was held still by an incredible pressure from all sides. Then, a snake-like voice echoed close to his right ear.

"Well, well... Uchiha Madara. How the mighty have fallen. Without your eyes, your control over the Juubi is nothing once more. Luckily, my associate, the recently made Edo Tensei'd Mikoto Uchiha has a handle on the situation with her 'Guardian Law' Mangekyo Technique to enforce her will upon reality. As for me, well, I'm sure my voice tips me off."

He growled, darkly. "Kabuto Yakushi. You bastard." The snake-like voice chuckled darkly.

"You're one to talk, Uchiha-chan. With all your chakra syphoned away, and with my own medical technique cutting off your spinal cord from the third Vertebrae, you can only breathe and talk, but not move a single muscle. Ah, the wonders of medical science. The rest of the Shinobi Alliance is held under my associate's Jutsu as well, so they shouldn't move for a good hour or two under her vastly increased powers. More than enough time to deal with you, the Uzumaki brat, and any other major issue beforehand. Heh. In a war, it's not the one that's the strongest who wins: It's the one who comes out the most intact at the end. Enough chitchat, however. With your chakra gone, your... soul will be quite delicious in information, I'm sure. Ningendo."

Madara's body fell to the ground with a dull thud, as Kabuto pushed his glasses up his nose again with his other hand. Mikoto was the one holding him by the throat, which let go and dispelled herself, being a Kage Bunshin. 'Such vast knowledge on Jutsu and combat. A worthy goal, to absorb and release you, Madara.'

Mikoto clenched her teeth together, her powerful Mangekyo technique holding an entire Army for even seconds took a huge toll on her eyes, even in Edo Tensei. It eased quickly when Kabuto asserted himself through her link, adding his sheer will and knowledge into the mix. The will power and knowledge that Kabuto now held was more than enough to ease the strain on her eyes and brain, and she sighed in relief. "Thank you, Kabuto. Please, kill the Kyubbi brat. Holding both him and the Kyubbi is by far the most taxing. He's an idiot, but a strong-willed idiot."

Kabuto chuckled, but nodded. He ran forward, placing a hand on Naruto's stomach and head. Normally, absorbing even half a Bijuu would kill him if unprepared, but acting as a conduit to the Juubi would be child's play as an Edo Tensei. "Preta Path. Ningendo."

Simultaneously, all the Kyubbi chakra vanished from the army, Kurama vanished, and the mass of chakra was pumped into the Juubi directly. Naruto's soul was removed the body, not knowing it's final moments was a genjutsu.

The body collapsed, but Kabuto swirled into Kamui for study. The Uzumaki were known for vitality, and his chakra was so filled with energy that Kabuto felt he had to stop for a moment to collect himself calmly. He sped forward, using Kamui to flit through shinobi. He quickly killed and gathered select shinobi for study. They'd be highly useful, the Hyugga girl especially. He gathered the ones he considered taking, and then he returned back to the front of the army, where he summoned forth his Susano'o.

To be a bit over-the-top, Kabuto made his Susano'o split at the neck, creating seven long necks attaching to a giant Dragon Head. 'How fitting, that the Hydra be your undoing, ninja. Yin-Yang Release: Orb of Judgement Jutsu.'

The seven heads open wide, revealing seven orbs of pure white energy. Thousands upon thousands of needles showered the entire Army, before they all detonated in a single vast pillar of light.

Mikoto nearly creamed herself. While most of her negative emotions were filtered out of her system, she still felt lust and passion. She had a big turn on for powerful jutsu, especially destructive ninjutsu. She grinned widely, shivering lightly in a mix of awe and lust. Kabuto just destroyed the vast majority of the army, with none of the stragglers being above Jonin level. An army of thousands, reduced to a mere three hundred strong. What made her feel even more lust, was that she knew her own jutsu were available to Kabuto now, with her own chakra circulating his system after a quick syphon. 'My very essence is circulating throughout such a strong man.' She shivered again, licking her lips hungrily.

Kabuto shivered lightly. He didn't know why, but he felt he'd made a monster somewhere. 'Not my problem... Hopefully.' With the vast majority dead, and the Juubi now taking it's time to fully evolve itself. Kabuto appeared next to Mikoto, grabbing the tendril once connected to Obito Uchiha's skull. A quick 'squelch' sound, and it was connected at the wrist. Kabuto's eyes narrowed at how vast the chakra was, and at the sheer power of the Juubi. To say nothing of its will.

Of course, Mikoto's Doujutsu was more than enough to contain it, being a single-person fueled Eternal Tusykiome in its own right. Kabuto nodded to himself. 'At least for now. If I'm correct, the Juubi's power should quadruple at the very least when it achieves its ultimate form. At that point, I will need to intervene to seal the Juubi into myself, and then use Gedo: Rinnie Tensi upon myself to contain its power from snapping my seal tag that ties me to the world.'

Sure enough, the stragglers of the army awake from their genjutsu as Mikoto focused her entire mental strength on subduing the Juubi. The Juubi shifted, changing into a giant tree, with a large pink, pulsing flower at the top. Kabuto smirked, his lens flaring as he pushed it up his nose. 'So, Madara was correct. The flower will bloom, and with it, will cast Eternal Tusykiome upon the world... Not that I will allow that.'

Kabuto made a series of hand seals, focusing on a particular Jutsu he had in mind. 'Rinnegan-Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan Technique: The Seven Hundred Paths of Reincarnation Fuinjutsu!'

Kabuto's eyes flared as the might of nigh-infinite chakra given by the Edo Tensei was brought to form. Kabuto's chakra, being the color of Kurama's, extended into every single Edo Tensei that was sealed by the Shinobi Alliance.

Across the Elemental Countries, the sealed forms of the Edo Tensei flared, the seals glowing brightly. Gaara's Pyramid Fuinjutsu especially glowed a pale white as its immense power was brought to its limits.

Within the ground, deep within, the entire network of Zetsu that had been halted mid-production by Madara's now-gone will glowed brightly as their chakra was sapped and used as conduit for what was the largest Fuinjutsu matrix ever created.

Kabuto smirked, as the entire fully formed Juubi was ultimately ripped apart, its chakra and body split into hundreds of slivers across the world. Mikoto had long since stopped concentrating on her Genjutsu, in awe at Kabuto's master stroke. Kabuto explained quietly to her. "I knew of the Edo Tensei's weakness of Fuinjutsu. I wanted to use that weakness to my advantage. Why waste all of my concentration subduing the Ultimate Bijuu, when I can use my control over Edo Tensei to forcefully tear it apart into the sealed forms of the Edo Tensei for me to assimilate into myself? It was my ultimate plan: Let them waste away their army trying to seal away as many Edo Tensei as possible, strong willed Edo Tensei at that, and then use that very will to my desire to subjugate the Juubi under my rule. No human wishes to fade away, so their will to live will always be beyond the Juubi to control, especially after cutting it into slivers the strength of an average Chunin."

The remains of the Army heard every word, and they felt violated. The entire thing, the entire war, they had been played upon like pawns.

Kabuto smirked to himself. His plan was working. By slowly assimilating the Juubi to his will, he would be able to reverse the very essence the Rikudo Sennin had created: The consciousness of every Bijuu, and from there, the consciousness of the Juubi itself. Now, it would only take a matter of time, roughly a couple of months if he was correct.

He turned to the remains of the army, smirking coldly at them all. He rose into the air, his Rinnegan-Eternal Mangekyo combo merging to allow him to alter his would-be Susano'o into the complete form of a Dragon, with the body of a man stretching its arms wide. "Hear me, Alliance. Know this: I only spare you out of my whim. Should I have willed it; I could have cast Eternal Tusykiome upon the world and be done with it. I did not. I now offer you a choice, surrender the entire Elemental Countries under my ultimate authority within the next two months, or I shall obliterate you all myself. This is my only offer.

You took everything from me: my home village, my mother, and finally my identity. I have every right to strip you of your thoughts, but I shall not. Whether you keep your lives, is up to you."

Kabuto smirked, as his eyes flared brightly. The Dragon roared in triumph, it's heavy chakra exploding outward in a blaze of pure white energy. In the middle of the light pillar, Kabuto gathered Mikoto, and cast Kamui upon themselves.

End Chapter One.

A/N: What do you think? Review... Or don't. I just love this concept so I'll be writing it eventually. However, some feedback would be appreciative.