Naruto Shippuden: Peace No more
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Chapter 3: War
"I am Genkou Uchiha... Where is Sasuke Uchiha?" Genkou demanded. Naruto stared in shock at the Mangekyō Sharingan. He had always believed Sasuke and his immediate family were the only people to have Uchiha blood in them. Now there was this Genkou Uchiha.
"What makes you think I would tell you?" Naruto yelled.
"It's this village or Sasuke. We will tear the village apart to get him..." Genkou said.
"Uchi! He has friends coming!" Geist said sounding worried.
"Geist! Sanno! Hold them off so I can have a talk with the Hokage. Meet me at the planned spot." Genkou said dashing at Naruto, and grabbed him by the collar. He sped off taking Naruto with him.
Geist and Sanno stepped to the center of the gates to block the oncoming ninja.
"Which one do you want?" Sanno asked, looking at the 3 ninja coming closer.
"I want to fight the white haired guy! There may only be one white haired ninja in the world!" Geist said angrily as he took his hood down. His hair was bright white, a shade that seemed to look like metal. While he looked childish, he had extremely pale skin. He looked like a ghost. "HEEEEY! Why do you get to fight two?" he shouted at Sanno angrily.
As Geist complained, Kakashi formed hand seals and unleashed a water dragon from a spring underground. The dragon whipped at the two criminals. Sanno quickly created a lava dragon that collided with the water dragon, destroying the water dragon. The water burst into steam, and flew at the three ninja. The three Konoha ninja quickly jumped to the side. After almost being burnt to a crisp, they made it through the broken village gates.
"You shall pay for what you did to the village!" lee shouted to the two ninja. Sanno looked to the leaf ninja with anger in his eyes.
"I'd love to see you try to make us pay..." Sanno growled.
"Hey... Sanno..." Geist started. ",is the green guy wearing a caterpillar?"
"*ick*..."Sanno sounded as he was astounded by his team mate's stupidity. ",yes...he is wearing a caterpillar..."
"Can I even punch a caterpillar? What if it is poisonous?" Geist wondered with a hint of fear in his voice.
"Well figure it out. I'll fight the white haired ninja, as he seems Ninjutsu based. You are out Taijutsu guy." Sanno said trying to sound reassuring, but came off with a lot of hate in his voice. It was obvious Sanno did not care for Geist at all.
"Ok!" Geist yelled and dashed into battle. Charging straight at lee, he drew back his fist. As it closed in on lee, he suddenly froze in place as lee threw his guard up.
"Are you wearing a caterpillar?" Geist suddenly asked, very nervous. Lee looked shocked, slightly dropping his guard to stare at the criminal ninja.
"What? Are you serious?" lee said absolutely shocked. "no! This is a special training body suit that increases my training ability and-"
Geist suddenly punched lee in the face, sending lee back quite a ways. Neji dodged just in time to avoid getting his by lee as he "flew" by. "I think you're lying!" Geist yelled with a hint of playfulness in his voice. "guess I can only punch where the caterpillar isn't!" Geist smiled as he ran to Neji.
Neji activated his Byakugan, which seemed to bother the attacking pale ninja. 'he is childish, yet very strong. Unless he is just acting that way to make us underestimate him...' Neji thought as Geist got closer. He quickly dodged a fist and hit a Chakra point on Geist. Wincing from the pain, Geist jumped back away from Neji. Quickly rolling up his sleeve, Geist saw a small bruise mark from Neji's strike.
"Little bastard... You bruised my arm..." Geist said in wonder at the attack. He then came in to attack Neji again only to get a palm to his chest. Geist flew through the air, and rolled as he landed. Then Geist hit the ground, Neji smiled smugly, thinking he had already won. The smile quickly changed as he realized Geist was rolling to avoid injury, and Geist quickly sprung up.
"Impressive... See you wear a weighted cloak..." Neji observed as he rubbed his wrist. The strike took a lot of strength to launch him. More than it should have taken to launch anyone his size. The strength needed was for someone 12x bigger.
"Yup! You found me out!" Geist smiled as he took his cloak off and dropped it to the ground. As he let go, Geist grew almost half a head taller from slouching so much. The cloak then struck the ground, and created a crater in the ground with a 40 foot diameter. "Uchi won't like that I took my cloak off, but when I tell him about you, he will be impressed!" Geist explained with traces of excitement in his voice. "I'm ready to fight now..."
"Lee! I could use your help!" Neji shouted. But lee was knocked out.
"I'll give you one last chance to tell me where Sasuke is..." Genkou threatened.
"Go screw yourself..." Naruto responded in a threatening voice. Genkou chuckled at the rage pointed at him. 'god...he sounds like Sasuke..." he grimaced as he thought.
"You may need help with me... The whole village may be needed to face us..." Genkou stated. He closed his right eye again, gathering the Chakra for Amaterasu. Naruto quickly summoned 14 shadow clones. 12 for a shield, 2 for the Rasen Shuriken jutsu.
Genkou prepared himself, and opened his right eye. The black flame, Amaterasu, launched from his eye at Naruto. Utilizing an old tactic, the two clones by Naruto threw him into the air. Genkou had to close his right eye as Amaterasu back-lashed. Looking up, he saw Naruto getting closer to him. Smiling slightly, Genkou used a substitution jutsu at the last second. After clearing the area, he saw the huge explosion of the attack. One that would have surely ended him.
"Damn... I really hoped I wouldn't have to use Susanoo..." Genkou murmured as he crouched in a tree. Naruto looked around, trying to find Genkou. When Naruto stopped moving, Genkou smiled, thinking the brash ninja had given up.
Suddenly though, Naruto looked up to the exact spot Genkou was. 'he looks different...' Genkou thought as he tried to figure out what he had done.
Naruto was in sage mode.
Naruto jumped straight at the tree Genkou was hiding in, with a Rasengan suddenly in his hand.
'I see. Before when he was using that attack, he was my ability... To see it he could make the battle longer. He wants me to die I guess...' Genkou thought as he jumped away from the branch just in time. The tree exploded and the shards of it scattered like the tree was hit with a tornado. Genkou smiled as he made hand-seals. When he landed, he bit his thumb and hit the ground, summoning a giant hawk. Genkou jumped onto the massive hawk's head, and stared down at Naruto.
"Ah... Genkou..." the hawk said, sounding disappointed. I was hoping it was Sasuke..."
"That's who we are here to find..." Genkou mumbled.
"I can summon too!" Naruto yelled, doing hand-seals. He hit the ground, and summoned Gamabunta. Gamabunta looked to he hawk, and saw Genkou.
"Were fighting Sasuke again?" Gamabunta wondered. "I thought he was in the village, restrained?"
"In a way, he still is. I have no idea who this is..."Naruto answered. He stared at Genkou as Gamabunta stared at the hawk.
"So... Is Sasuke hidden away in the village, or is he walking around in broad daylight?" Genkou asked.
"Fuck you!" Naruto retorted. Genkou smiled and Naruto angrily frowned. Bringing his hand back, he gathered a Rasen Shrunken jutsu into his hand, and threw it at Genkou. The hawk Genkou rode on darted into the air, dodging the Rasen Shrunken with no trouble. Gamabunta looked into the air. He followed the hawk with his eyes closely.
"You ready, boy?" Gamabunta said looking at the hawk.
"Massive thunder god jutsu?" Naruto asked, smiling. Gamabunta nodded, and allowed Naruto to sit on his head and gather natural Chakra again to make sure he was prepared for this attack. After a brief moment, Gamabunta jumped into the air. Seeming to fly himself, he got close to the hawk.
Naruto took one of his dad's special kunai, and threw it. The kunai shot for Genkou's face, forcing Genkou to move so it flew past him.
"Wow. A kunai to kill ME?" he whispered, feeling very insulted. They had spent all that energy getting up to him, only to throw a kunai? It was either a stupid tactic, or-
In a flash, Gamabunta and Naruto disappeared. Genkou's eyes widened as he looked quickly for them.
"My eyesight isn't that bad yet..." Genkou whispered before hearing Gamabunta roar with laughter above him. Looking up just in time to see Gamabunta's sword swipe down at him and the hawk.
The blade connected with Genkou, then the hawks head. Both went crashing to the ground with immense speed, with Gamabunta falling behind them. The hawk slammed into the ground hard, and poorer away in a blast of smoke. Naruto and Gamabunta hit the ground with a semi-smooth landing. Gamabunta smiled as Naruto chuckled.
"That was a great idea chief toad!" Naruto laughed. He dropped sage mode, no longer needing it to fight.
"He wasn't so tough." Gamabunta laughed. "Sasuke as much harder. It took an hours to fight him..."
"Yeah!" Naruto giggled.
In the distance, they heard unwanted movement.
-With the others-
Kakashi stood facing Sanno with quiet observation. Both were waiting for movement to start their fight. Sanno knew a lot about Kakashi, but Kakashi was in the dark about Sanno. The only thing he knew about him was his ability to use lava jutsu.
"So what are you three here for?" Kakashi asked, standing perfectly still. He wanted to get an idea as to why they attacked.
"Our leader on this job is Genkou Uchiha. He wants Sasuke dead. However, Genkou is also one of us... Geist, Genkou and I have been a mercenary ninja team for 3 years. It was Genkou's turn to pick the mission, and he felt it was time to get revenge." Sanno answered. Kakashi showed a range of emotion to Sanno's trained eye. The mention of Genkou's last name struck shock and confusion. Sasuke being mentioned as the target of revenge did the same. Sanno smiled slightly to see the show of confusion in a ninja. He also took this time to attack.
Sanno reached in his cloak quickly and pulled something out lightning fast. Kakashi reacted by quickly lifting his headband. When he didn't see a flux of Chakra, he noticed Sanno had pulled a cigarette out, and lit it. Kakashi internally sighed by the false start.
Sanno took a drag off his cigarette, and his hand went to work on hand seals. "fire style: smoke dragon combustion!" Sanno yelled, and blew the Chakra concentrated smoke out of his nose that formed into two dragons that went right for Kakashi. Kakashi jumped forward to dodge the dragons and go for Sanno. The dragons started to glow before they exploded in a burst of fire. Kakashi got his arms caught slightly, and got shot into the air from the burst. Sanno quickly formed hand-seals. "earth style: earth bullet!"
As chunks of earth launched into the air at Kakashi, he made a series of hand seals as fast as he could. "earth style: earth barrier!" a shield of soil came up and took most of the hits from the attack. By the time it broke, Kakashi was on the ground, and back away from Sanno. He formed hand-seals, and held his hand out. Lightning Chakra appeared in his hand as he waited for the earth barrier to break down. As soon as it crumbled, he made a dash for Sanno. "lightning cutter!"
Sanno made hand-seals fast, and raised his hand. A barrier of lava came up too fast for Kakashi to react. Kakashi had to throw his hand and jutsu into the lava, or he would have run into the wall of lava head first. He knew this wasn't going to end his way. The lightning cutter seemed to break through the barrier of lava. Yet when an intense wave of burning pain hit him, he jumped back. His hand was slightly on fire and covered in third degree burns. Kakashi winced as pain traveled up his arm at an alarming rate.
"Give up... Tell me where Sasuke is." Sanno demanded.
-With Naruto-
Naruto turned to see Genkou standing up. His body showed no sign of injury from Gamabunta's large sword. Instead, his body was surrounded in a familiar jutsu. Genkou was surrounded by the protection of Susanoo. He was breathing heavily and seemed to be sweating. He remembered when he fought Sasuke, who used Susanoo. Sasuke later said that using Susanoo made him feel like every cell in his body hurt. He could only assume that Genkou felt the same thing.
"Do you want to know... Why I will kill Sasuke?" Genkou murmured, not able to gather his breath. Blood trailed down his face from his mouth.
"Go ahead. But I'm not letting you get to him..." Naruto said as Gamabunta turned to face Genkou.
"I'll spare you a long story... I am a clone of Sasuke..." Genkou started. Naruto's eyes shot open at the unexpected info. While it surprised him, it explained why he sounded and looked a little like Sasuke. "I am a failure though. When Sasuke killed lord Orochimaru, I went into discontinuation. Kabuki left to try and become something he wasn't, and Sasuke knew nothing of me. Without my needed medications in the tube... I was not finished. But I have a massive amount of Chakra. Though my body is weak, and my lungs are failing. I vow to kill Sasuke. I vow to do so before my body fails me..."
Genkou dropped Susanoo, and started to walk toward Naruto. Naruto jumped off of Gamabunta's head, and stared at Genkou.
"I can handle this, chief toad..." Naruto stated as he started to walk to Genkou.
"You sure, boy?" Gamabunta asked.
"Go!" Naruto yelled, turning and looking at Gamabunta. Gamabunta saw a mixture of emotion in Naruto's eyes. Hatred, pain, confusion, and one Gamabunta was surprised to see. Sorrow. Gamabunta vanished in a cloud of smoke, knowing Naruto had to do this on his own.
"Orochimaru brain-washed you..." Naruto started, as he continued to walk toward Genkou. "you think that you worshiped Orochimaru... But did you ever meet him?"
"Of course! I'd see him through my tank. I was taken out to receive memories even!" Genkou yelled. "don't think you can change my mind!"
"He made you think all this. You don't want to kill Sasuke... You have no idea what you're talking about..." Naruto said as he got closer. He was about 27 meters away from Genkou at this point, and could tell Genkou was fighting his sickness and what Naruto said.
"Fuck you..." Genkou whispered. He did hand-seals quickly, and brought up his right hand, with only his index finger sticking up. "fire style: fire jet jutsu!"
From his mouth at his fingers distance erupted a massive jet of fire that was blue rather than the usual red. The flame hit Naruto just as he threw up an instinctual Rasengan in the way. Both jutsu exploded due to the massive amount of Chakra needed for both. While Naruto flew off due to the explosion, Genkou was pushed back due to his distance from the actual collision of power. As he stopped sliding, he felt a pain in his gut, and threw up blood.
"I need to finish this... Or I'm going... To die here..." Genkou murmured as he started to run in the direction that Naruto flew, fighting the pain his body gave him as it protested his running.
-By the Gate-
Naruto flew in thru the trees, and landed feet away from Kakashi. Naruto's arms were bare of all clothing, and burnt badly. Naruto saw Kakashi's burnt hand and smiled.
"And we call ourselves the fire country..." Naruto smirked. He looked to his other Side to see lee out cold and Neji standing in his fighting position, facing Geist. "this sucks..."
"NARUTO!" someone screamed from the village gate. Leaf ninja and the enemy both looked to see Sasuke. He was wearing a one piece outfit like the one he wore during the Chuunin exam a long time ago. This one had longer leggings and no sleeves. His seal marks were very visible, rather than usually hidden by wraps.
"Sasuke..."Kakashi murmured.
"Remove my seals!" Sasuke yelled. "it's the only way I can help!"
"Excuse me!" Geist yelled. Sasuke looked to him with a very annoyed look on his face.
"What the hell do you want?" Sasuke demanded.
"Why do you look like Uchi?" Geist asked in a childish voice. Sasuke looked at Geist with an awkward look on his face. Sanno smacked his forehead.
"You're having trouble with this, Neji?" Sasuke smiled.
"Shut the hell up. You try fighting him." Neji replied, never taking his eyes off of Geist.
"Sasuke! Now!" Naruto yelled as he got up, and ran for Sasuke. Sasuke took off at Naruto, internally happy about getting his seals off, but worried about who he would have to fight.
"Stop him, Geist!" Sanno yelled.
"But he looks like Uchi!" he started as he stood still. "I can't fight him."
"God dammit!" Sanno screamed as he started to do hand-seals. Kakashi used his speed to crash into Sanno to stop his hand-seals, sending them both to the ground. "Geist!"
"Fine! I'll attack the Hokage!" Geist yelled and almost disappeared from his utterly amazing speed. Neji guessed his path, knowing that if he was moving fast enough, he couldn't dodge. He caught the slightest bot of movement, and kicked as Geist went past him, hitting him in the stomach.
Naruto and Sasuke got to each other, and Naruto quickly began to do hand-seals. He bit each finger on his hands, and touched both arms at the forearm, and the seals poofed away. Sasuke quickly removed his forehead protector, and Naruto pressed both bleeding thumbs to the seal, making it disappear also. Sasuke got an evil look on his face, and stared at Naruto with hate in his eyes. Naruto responded to this by looking absolutely terrified. He started to back up, feeling weak from all the Chakra it took to remove the seal.
Sasuke instantly took off at Naruto with killing intent in his eyes. Naruto stood, frozen in terror. Sasuke pulled his hand back, and pushed it forward to deliver a killing blow to Naruto. Kakashi and Neji both looked on in horror. Sanno was speechless, not knowing why he would betray his leader, unless the stories about Sasuke's unrivaled hate were true.
Sasuke's hand came forward with lightning speed, and Naruto closed his eyes, waiting for the killing strike. He felt something poke his forehead, and slowly opened his eyes to see Sasuke standing there poking his forehead like Itachi all over again. He had a huge smile on his face that looked like Naruto's signature smile.
"Got ya." Sasuke beamed. "idiot"
Sasuke spun around quickly and shot a chicory spear at Geist, who dodged it with ease by rolling away. Sasuke smiled, seeing he would have to go all out. That his fellow ninja were not as weak as he feared. That he was going to get to test how rusty his skills were. Sasuke quickly ran to Geist, and activated his Sharingan. Geist, who had never fought an Uchiha and knew nothing about them, ran into battle. Sasuke instantly activated the hypnosis effect of his Sharingan, and made him use a jutsu. Seeing wind Chakra, he quickly used a fire jutsu. He formed hand-seals and fired a great fireball jutsu at Geist, who was convinced his jutsu would win. It however, ended badly as his defensive wind jutsu he suddenly used was overpowered, absorbed into the fire, and exploded in his face. Geist launched backwards, falling into unconsciousness.
Sanno looked at Sasuke angrily. He knew they couldn't beat Sasuke. Wherever Genkou was, Sanno knew he was weakened beyond the point of beating Sasuke. Even with the Mangekyō Sharingan.
"Amaterasu!"a voice yelled from the trees. A large blast of black fire shot right for Sasuke, before it was absorbed by Sasuke's Sharingan. Genkou jumped from the trees to fight Sasuke. As the two faced each other, Sasuke looked shocked to see someone who could have been a twin. Sasuke cringed as he saw a special curse mark on Genkou's hand that could have only been one of Orochimaru's.
"Genkou. We must leave. There is no way you can beat him. He has all his Chakra and I can tell you need medical attention." Sanno insisted, still looking at Sasuke, who glared at him, then back to Genkou.
"Fuck you!" Genkou yelled.
"Then forgive me..." Sanno said as he quickly ran to Genkou, whose Sharingan had lost most of it's appearance, showing it's blindness and Genkou's weakness, and kicked him in the stomach. Genkou bent over, threw up blood, and collapsed. As he fell, Sanno caught him.
Sanno ran to Geist, grabbing him up, and looked to them. "we will return..."
"Sasuke! Stop them!" Naruto yelled. Sasuke stood there, watching as Sanno got a scroll out to reverse summon the two unconscious ninja, and run by himself. Sasuke allowed him to reverse summon the two, and put the scroll away. As Sanno was about to leave, Sasuke mouthed something to Sanno. Sanno's eyes grew wide with shock, and he slowly backed up as Sasuke's eyes turned to their Mangekyō form, and launched black fire at him. As Sanno disappeared quickly, with hunter ninja speed, Sasuke turned to the others.
"You let them get away!" Naruto yelled. He struggled to stand, feeling weaker every second.
"I want to fight that Genkou guy. I want to see how strong Orochimaru's clone of me is..." Sasuke said. He helped Naruto up as Neji did the same for lee, who was still out so he had to carry, and they started for the village. Kakashi was just burnt and in pain, but could still walk. "for now, You need medical attention..."
-in the forest-
Sanno ran, thinking deeply in his mind to what Sasuke had whispered to him. Though he didn't think he could believe it, he knew he had to check. The two unconscious ninja he sent back to their base would be fine while he checked to see if Sasuke had told the truth.
'He needs new eyes. Madara's lab is...' he said as he started to remember what Sasuke had mouthed. It could have been a trap, but for Genkou's sake, he hoped it wasn't.
A/N: That's the next chapter! Sorry it took a day longer. I had no patience for writing, as I am quitting smoking and get frustrated very easily. I promise the next chapter to be on time or earlier if I have any say in my mood, which I'm getting under control. Read and review!
~lord-maiku!
