Inside the ruined Hidden Rain Village, Neji stood on top of the remains of a building, gazing at the place with his Byakugan. He had battled his way through the horde to get there in hopes that the higher vantage point would aid him in the search for his teammates, but what he saw was truly shocking.
Below the village was a chakra network. The network looked to be in use, showing that whoever or whatever the owner of the network was was in battle, heavily using it, almost as if it had trouble feeling its chakra. Neji blinked and rubbed his eyes to make sure that his eyes were not playing some kind of trick on him.
What Neji saw next was a welcomed relief. It looked like Shinji, but his low chakra level signalled him as a group of shadow clones was running along the emptying streets. After all, all of them seemed to be taking a toll on the horde's numbers.
Neji waved and called out. "SHINJI! I'M OVER HERE!"
He then called back. "HANG ON! WE HAVE CLONES OUT SIDE THE WALLS! I'LL DISPEL SO THAT ONE OF THEM KNOWS WHERE YOU ARE SO THAT HE CAN SUBSTITUTE WITH YOU!" Neji was about to argue that such range with the substitution jutsu was impossible, but the clone dispelled and Neji soon found himself outside one of the village walls.
Neji stood, dumbstruck. "Will Shinji and Naruto ever stop making the impossible possible?" Neji soon refocused himself when he saw Karin.
Meanwhile, with Shinji…
The boy was inside of his own mind, right next to Kurama's cage. The beast looked to be asleep, but in truth, its mind was in control of Shinji's body. The thing's animal sense would give it an edge on staying alive against the SEELE long enough for his clones to get his friends out of there and, right then, that's what he needed. He had just got the memory of Neji. "Good. That just leaves Kimimaro."
In the outside world…
A stage two fox shroud four-tailed Shinji was on all fours, rushing at the faceless SEELE in a mad dash to try to slash it with his claws. The SEELE stretched its body into a crescent moon shape, avoiding the tailed beast-controlled body's savage attack by a mile. The SEELE's long, rubbery arm then stretched out and whacked the fox shroud-covered boy, sending him flying back words.
Shinji's body slid along the ground, damaging it before it crashed into a building, making it fall upon it. The SEELE groaned in pain for a moment, almost like the damage to the village was becoming so great that it was starting to feel it.
Kurama jumped out of the village and into the air. Shinji's body was unharmed thanks to its chakra acting like armor and boosting the boy's power to heal. While in the air, it fired off a low-powered Tailed Beast Ball Blaster. It was about three times the size of Shinji's body, but where it lacked in size, it made up for in speed.
The SEELE quickly stretched out its arms and grew them to giant size and, unbelievably, it caught the Tailed Beast Ball Blaster! Kurama was falling to the ground and its fox shroud-covered face took on a 'What the hell, now?' look.
The Tailed Beast Ball Blaster, the ultimate power of the tailed beasts and the most destructive attack known to the world had been caught like it was some kind of baseball.
The SEELE looked smug, even if it didn't have a face as its giant arms threw the ball back at its sender. Kurama quickly countered by firing off a lower-powered Ball Blaster.
When the two Tailed Beast Ball Blasters hit, they exploded, completely levelling the village center that they were in, covering the place in smoke. When it was over, the village center was nothing but a hole in the ground.
The SEELE reformed, making sounds of pain as it did so. "Good. He's dead, and none too soon. My body is so damaged that I can no longer ignore the pain that I feel when more of it is destroyed. Plus, catching that energy ball surely took a lot out of me."
The SEELE's faceless head then turned sharply to his right where he heard a roar and backed away in shock, for Kurama was digging his way out of the ground now with a fifth tail. The new tail didn't change the fox shroud, signalling that the only change was that it now had more power.
The beast's tails then all pointed at the SEELE before lasers fired from all five tips.
The SEELE bent and stretched its body to avoid the laser strikes. After all, it was easier for it to avoid the strikes than to remake its avatar.
Kurama saw that the Nine-Tails Beam attack wasn't working so it, so its fox brain decided to go for something more destructive. It then let out a roar that released a shockwave of destructive force. The whole village was shaking, but most of the force was on the SEELE.
Its avatar body was pushed off the ground and all the way back. The avatar body of the Seele flew over the village walls, making it vanish in a poof, like when a clone dispels. Before the SEELE could form a new body, buildings all over the village were falling.
Kimimaro, who was miles away, about to face a horde with two bone blades, felt it as he was shaking and holding his ears. The horde all held their heads and screamed. The sound waves were hurting them. Then, their heads started to explode, covering the area and Kimimaro in their purple blood. The buildings around him started to fall.
When it stopped, Kimimaro looked around to see that he was in the middle of a wreckage, untouched by all but the horde's blood. The pale-skinned and haired man could only say one thing. "To day must be my lucky day."
On the other hand, Shinji's clones weren't so lucky. All of them dispelled.
Within his mind, the boy got a flood of memories and quickly opened one of Kurama's eyes and looked into it with his Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan. Kurama's eyes flashed with the Sharingan, signalling that a genjutsu had been cast upon the fox demon.
In the outside world, two tails of the fox shroud vanished as it reverted to a three tailed stage one with Shinji back in control. The boy quickly stood up and used the fox demon chakra to make another army of shadow clones.
As the clones vanished, the SEELE reappeared five feet before Shinji. The Seele was stumbling, cursing at Shinji. "DAMN YOU, BOY! DAMN YOU AND YOUR STUPID MOTHERFUCKING FOX! DAMN YOU! BOTH GO GODDAMN HELL!"
Shinji followed his body's basic animal instincts which were boosted by the tailed beast chakra in use and dropped down on all fours like a fox.
Shinji swung his right arm out in an arc, sending out a tailed beast chakra arm. The chakra arm stretched and punched the SEELE, but unlike before, the Seele was moving too sluggishly to avoid the high-powered bitch slap, so the Faceless monster was slapped by the large chakra arm, sending it flying across the village.
Shinji had to make a choice: wait for the SEELE to reappear as he surely world, or chase after it to throw it off its game. Fuelled by animal instinct, he chose to chase after the monster like an animal hunting its prey.
Meanwhile…
Kimimaro had made his way out of the wreckage and to the village gates. The rain was falling as he quickly opened the gates, got out and then reclosed them, just to see what looked like Shinji, Neji and Karin.
Shinji smiled. "Good. You're out. Now, I'll dispel so the boss knows that he's got the go ahead to shatter the heavens, if you know what I mean." Shinji – now revealed to Kimimaro to be a shadow clone – then vanished in a poof of smoke.
The memories of the clone entered the real one's mind. So, Shinji stopped mid-run to see the SEELE back on its feet, heading for him. Shinji's hands quickly went through the Summoning jutsu seals before he slammed his hands on the ground.
In the Leaf military Eva bay…
For the last two years, both Naruto and Shinji had been trying to find a way to free the human souls that were trapped within the manmade demons, but alas, nothing seemed to be working.
But, that didn't matter, for a worker who had his back turned to the monsters heard something, then turned around quickly to see that Eva-01 was missing. "It's been summoned! That's not good!" The worker then ran off. He had to tell Tsunade that the thing was in use.
Back in the rain, when Shinji's hand hit the ground, he called out, "SUMMONING JUTSU! EVA-01!" A large cloud of smoke then covered the area and, when it vanished, the SEELE looked up with its eyeless face to see the purple manmade monster Evangelion Unit-01!
The purple monster's mouth was open in a grin, almost as if it was happy to finally awaken from its two year slumber. In its plug, Shinji smirked as the five minute clock appeared.
Shinji then made his eyes glow which made the arms of his Susanoo to appear right under Eva-01's own arms. Through his will, Eva-01 made the Ram hand seal while the Susanoo's arms made the Snake seal. Finally, Shinji used his own hands to make the bird sign.
Ram, Snake and Bird – three hand seals being made at once by one person. The boy's eyes glowed as he screamed out, "SHATTERED HEAVEN!" From the under atmosphere, a meteor half the size of the village came crashing down and it was rocketing.
Outside the village, Neji and Kimimaro grabbed on to Karin who used Flying Thunder God to bring them back to the Leaf.
As the meteor crashed into the village, it was engulfed in flames, ash and dust as the remains of the fallen shinobi village were burned and crushed, transformed into nothing more than ash and dust.
The SEELE stood in the middle of it, fading away. His body was too damaged to hold him together and he had used too much chakra in the battle. He did not have enough power left to leave and find a new host body. He would die soon, and he knew it. Two years of planning had been for naught. The boy had won, yet again.
In his last moments, the SEELE said one thing. "Fuck you boy! Fuck you and your stupid fox demon, and your mother! Fuck her too!" After that, the SEELE finally completely vanished. The Village Hidden in the Rain, the anchor that held him in the living world, was no more, and so was he.
Shinji soon blacked out from chakra exhaustion. As the rain put out the flames, Eva-01 fell lifeless in the middle of the carnage with a smirk upon its face. The purple demon was back in action. The purple beast couldn't be happier.
When its internal battery finally powered down, the Evangelion vanished, leaving Shinji lying in the middle of a creator that was once a ninja village. The boy who destroyed it was soundly asleep. He would awaken in a few hours from now, thanks to Kurama restoring his chakra and health. Once awake, he would use Flying Thunder God to return home and give his report on what happened, but for now, the boy had earned his rest.
There were still 14 more SEELE out there, ready to strike, and once more, the foxes of light and darkness, Shinji and Naruto, would be ready to stop them like they had two years ago this very day.
In Lady Tsunade's office…
Karin, Neji and Kimimaro just appeared through Flying Thunder God.
Tsunade, having grown used to her grandchildren and friends teleporting in and out of her office, only asked one thing. "Where's Shinji?"
Karin then spoke up. "He summoned Eva-01 to use Shattered Heaven on the Hidden Rain to end the monsters."
Tsunade then said. "OK." Then, a couple of seconds later, it sank in. "HE USED WHAT?!"
End of arc one!
jboy44: "Well, everyone, that's the first arc. The major events that happened: Eva-01 reappeared. Shinji showed that he can use Shattered Heaven. Shinji finally used a Version 2 fox shroud in combat. The Hidden Rain has been wiped off the map. Finally, the first SEELE has died.
"Join me next time for the start of arc two: The Terror of the Twins!"
