Legend in The Making

' ………..' thoughts

Prologue: part 2: The Great Battle part 1

Uchiha Kaito was staring back at his reflection; seeing the man he had become. He had come very far from being that little goofy kid, that some may have never believed that he was the chosen one. That once childish boy had become a handsome man who was the leader of his clan. He saw that he was still the same person except his features were more defined; he had fierce blue eyes along with dark black hair tied back in a ponytail. Kaito still had the same personality: humorous, yet kind and understanding.

Suddenly, a knock at the door stopped him from his train of thought. In came Namikaze Raiden, and Isago Tadaaki. Both men had been through a great deal with Kaito; after all, all three did grow up together and they had become the best of friends. Out of the three, Raiden was the one who still acted as a kid. His face was still as innocent as ever; he had bright blue orbs as eyes and light auburn hair spiked up with yellow highlights. This man was always known as the prankster, but on the battlefield, he was as fierce as ever. Now Tadaaki, he's a different story. Tadaaki was usually the most serious out of all of them and throughout their childhood together, he was always the rebel. But throughout the years, he learned to warm-up to others and his friends have found that he actually had a sense of humor. Tadaaki had dark brown hair with forest green eyes, which held knowledge well beyond his years.

"Lord Uchiha, we're here to finalize the plans for tomorrow's battle." Said Tadaaki

"Now Tadaaki-san, you know how we've talked about this; there's no need to use such formalities." Replied Kaito.

"Hahahaha!! That's like the millionth time he has told you that………..stifling a laugh, but yet, you won't listen. Some great listener you are. You probably didn't even listen to my great story on the way here." Raiden said as he laughed until his stomach hurt.

Tadaaki had a huge anime vein pop out and he cleverly replied back saying, "Well, at least I wasn't blabbing on and on about ramen; seriously is that what you always talk about. I sometimes wonder how you ever got married before the two of us. Actually, I wonder how your wife can even stand you!"

"WHAT! Say that to my face one more time and we'll see who gets the last laugh! That's right, right here, right NOW!!MWHAAA!! See I got the last laugh, so I win!!" Raiden yelled.

"That doesn't even make sense you baka!" Tadaaki argued.

"What did you call me you cold ice block!!" screamed Raiden.

Kaito always hated seeing them both bicker over something ridiculous. Deciding to stop them before a fist fight would occur, he said, "May we continue?"

Both figures turned to see their friend as if they had forgotten that he was in the room.

"Hehehe…sorry about that" Raiden embarrassingly answered.

"Of course, my apologies as well, but before I was interrupted by this baka, we need to make sure that all the preparations for tomorrow's fight are ready. Tadaaki knowingly said.

"Man, I swear you worry too much, Tadaaki. We already planned this flawless plan for the past 3 months!!" yelled the blue-eyed idiot.

"Hm…..I guess it wouldn't hurt to oversee if everything is ready; well then, we better go and check." said the Uchiha as he began to leave the room.

"HEY WAIT UP!!" Raiden screamed as he took off with Tadaaki following in swift pursuit after the Uchiha.


Screams of terror could be heard from around every corner. Fires quickly spread, as people began to evacuate from the chaos. Those who wished to fight for the greater good stayed, while others helped keep the villagers safe.

At long last, the villagers' hope came true; their three warriors had come to lead the battle, which was currently continuing at the moment: Ninjas versus the shadow soldiers and the dead ninja of the Dark Dragon. One by one, it seemed as if the resistance was gaining a disadvantage, until a huge explosion caused most of the dragon's soldiers to disappear.

Out on the scene came Kaito, Tadaaki, and Raiden, ready for battle. The Uchiha was currently overseeing the battlefield with his sharingan eyes when he saw that the West side was losing badly. He suddenly gave a nod to his teammates and each one of them jumped into the different directions they had agreed on.

The most defensive area was in the south and considering everything was fine, all of the three warriors had decided that they would split up; Tadaaki ran towards the East; Raiden to the North; and Kaito to the West where Kiyoto's castle stood.


Tadaaki's Battle:

The earth element user quickly ran toward the east where currently, Kiyoto's dead ninja army was popping out everywhere. He could see that all these dead zombies were once people that had life before Kiyoto decided to take them in, never to be heard from again.

A zombie suddenly came to attack a little boy that seemed lost; sand came up to block the attack as the kid cowered in fear. Seeing that no harm had come to him, Tadaaki came up toward the boy and calmly said, "You better leave; it's about to become pretty ugly out here." The little boy nodded and quickly ran off.

Soon enough more armies of the dead were coming up and Tadaaki and the others continued to fight back. Using his specialty, Tadaaki began forming handsigns for Earth Element: Raging Desert Sandstorm. The sand and dirt around him began to form into spears that were floating in the sky. Waiting for the moment to strike, he suddenly controlled each spear to land on its target, getting rid of half the army. The other ninja still continued fighting; each punch and kick showed how much determination they had.

The attack had come to no avail because more of the dead continued to come out. Using what time he had left before he would join his other teammates at the castle, Tadaaki tried to think of a strategy. He realized that someone behind all of this would have been able to control all these people, so in order to stop them, he would have to find the one controlling them.'

Tadaaki got onto all fours and began feeling the different chakra vibrations in the earth; he found a distinct one where he felt that this person was the one in charge of the dead. With a quick nod to tell them he was going, he left hoping that they would be able to handle the army for now.

A clearing came into view, and the redhead saw that his opponent was anticipating his appearance. The earth user knew who this was; Kiyoto's right-hand man, General Ryuu. This man was responsible for conquering all the lands for his master, Kiyoto and Tadaaki knew that he was not one to mess with. The general had this vicious appearance to him; he had a silver Mohawk with blood-shot red eyes. At the moment, he was standing in the middle of the clearing in a battle stance, waiting for the redhead to make the first move.

Taddaki started out by throwing some kunai and shuriken toward Ryuu, while the general blocked with his own weapons at a speed that was unbelievable. The earth user would have to make more of an effort if he had the intention to get rid of this pest. His next plan of attack would be to come to close range combat. Soon enough, his plan came to fruitation and he began by giving kicks and punches towards Ryuu. But unfortunately, the general was able to block all the hits with his amazing speed. Everything he (Tadaaki) tried, like roundhouse kicks could not even land a scratch on him.

"Hn……you make me laugh. Is this all you can do? I thought you were going to be a challenge, but I guess I overestimated you!" bellowed the silver-haired man.

"Don't you ever underestimate me……" Tadaaki growled.

"Well then, I'll just end this right now" replied Ryuu. All of a sudden, he began to transform into a three-horned demon with red skin. He looked very intimidating and his muscles showed a lot more.

Tadaaki, without thinking, charged right into the general's fire range, and right away, the red demon had shot out a blazing blue beam directly at the redhead. Luckily, the beam missed his heart by 3 inches, but she was still injured. Quickly, he decided to hide behind a tree to gain some time to think. 'Hm……alright, in order to gain the advantage, I would have to stop his beams and his speed at the same time' thought the redhead. Quickly, he grabbed out a scroll. 'Perfect'

"Where is the great warrior now?! MWHAAA!! Come on out, it will only hurt for a minute!!" yelled Ryuu.

Out came Tadaaki and Ryuu began to shoot everything in sight with his three horns. It was quite the scene. Without the need of handsigns, the redhead summoned up the dirt from the ground to use it as a defense against Ryuu's beams of doom. With each beam, the sand came to his rescue.

The redhead had wanted this battle to end earlier, but with no choice he would at least have to end it quickly. Summoning up all the dirt and minerals from the ground he began to form sand shards. In a quick motion, he began sending the shards directly at Ryuu. It seemed that none were taking any affect, especially the one that hit the ground and created a hole.

"Hahaha….how pathetic! This is one of our great heroes? More like a zero!" Ryuu said trying to stifle a laugh.

Suddenly, vines came out from the hole that was created and the general was stuck; his arms and legs were held back by the vines. On his face was pure shock.

"You were too distracted by my shards to notice that I had disguised one of my summoning scrolls as one. You see, I purposely made that hole and I pretended to have bad aim, just to fool you. Your own downfall was underestimating your opponent" Tadaaki said calmly.

"You forgot that my horns can still annihilate you so don't count yourself lucky!" the general bellowed.

"Actually, while I was hiding behind the tree, I was considering this feature and I came to the conclusion to using these vines. You see, they have the special ability to absorb my opponent's chakra."

"Now, it's time to end this…….." the redhead said.

Using the toughest minerals from the ground, Tadaaki was forming the sharpest and biggest shard in his arsenal. Getting into position, he aimed and controlled the shard to hit Ryuu directly in the chest. His rallying scream could be heard as he took his last breath. Getting down on all fours once again, he felt around for the vibrations of the zombies, but they were all gone.

'Good thing I got him at that time, I was beginning to run out of chakra. Now, I better start heading towards the castle' thought Tadaaki. But before he would, he decided to take a rest to heal and inspect his injury.


Raiden's Battle:

The blue-eyed ninja quickly ran toward the North. The region was known to be mountainous and rugged, so the defense would have to be pretty strong. At the moment, the shadows were fighting against the ninja. By observation, Raiden could see that each attack was not effective towards them. Everything they tried, like throwing shuriken would just go through them.

Out of this whole group, the auburn-haired ninja was able to spot the captain of the ninja. The captain was a white-haired woman with dark-gray eyes. She was known as Aiko and she was currently lying down on the ground. It seemed that she was injured and could not get up and to make things worse, a shadow soldier was about to give her the final strike. Aiko began trying to make her body get up, with little enough strength she was just able to raise a kunai knife up to try to defend herself. The kunai managed to reflect a light that quickly distinguished the shadow. Raiden managed to see what happen and came to the conclusion that the light was their enemy.

He swiftly came to Aiko's side and helped her up.

"I'm alright. I can handle it from here." Said the Ninja Captain.

"As far as I can tell, you don't look alright." Replied the auburn-haired idiot.

"I said I'm fine. Now about stopping these shadows……..she was cut off by Raiden……. "Yeah, we have to find a way to get enough light to stop them."

"Wow……..a genius like you figured this out?" Aiko sarcastically said.

"Yep! Alright so I think I'll be able to create enough light by using lightning." said the baka, who didn't realize that Aiko was being sarcastic.

"Your hopeless………….never mind……….so what's your plan?"

"Well….hehehe………I just haven't figured it out yet." Nervously answered Raiden.

"YOU DIDN'T COME UP WITH A PLAN YET?! IF WE WEREN'T IN BATTLE RIGHT NOW, I WOULD PUNCH YOU INTO ANOTHER DIMENSION!!" screamed the white-haired temptress.

"Don't worry, I got this…………..just get all the shadows in the same place and just keep them distracted, alright?"Raiden said as he ran off in the opposite direction.

"Fine…………" replied Aiko.

Thinking about the current situation, plus the fact that he still had to join Kaito at the castle, Raiden had to use his head rather than jump into action without thinking. 'Alright, now considering the fact that their weakness is light, how do I use my lightning to create such a source of light?' the auburn-haired ninja asked himself. 'WAIT! I got it!'

Raiden decided to make the handsigns for an invisibility jutsu in order to not get spotted by the shadows. At best, his only shot to create enough light would be to use lightning rods. Quickly, but silently, he created three shadow clones; the shadow clones would then go spread into different directions and plant a kunai in the ground, so in total, there should be 4 kunais in the ground.

Right away, each clone ran into different directions. Once each kunai was put into place, the real Raiden supervised the whole area making sure that Aiko was able to keep all the shadows in the same area. Seeing that all the preparations were ready, he summoned up his lightning and powered up each rod with it. Calling upon all his strength, he used the powered up rods' lightning to shoot up into the middle of the sky to create a dome of light. Right away, the shadows were screaming and disappearing. All the ninja in the area, we not expecting that one person could actually do that, but then again, he was one of the three warriors.

With a nod, the lightning-user ran off towards the castle. 'That was easier said than done. But I better get ready for the big battle'


Well, hoped you guys enjoyed the first part of the battle!! And be free to review!! :)

Coming up next will be the great battle that will determine everything!!

Preview:

Uchiha Kaito was currently scouting out the western side. Any minute now, he was expecting his teammates to meet him here. He knew that there was no way he could achieve this by himself, but what he did know, was that he would do anything to end this once and for all. From a distance, he saw Tadaaki and Raiden advancing near the castle. Kaito ow knew, that here was his moment; it was time for the battle to start.