Scarlet Curse
Chapter 3 - Chikara's Silence Shatters: Burn Amaterasu Burn!
I do not own Naruto in anyway
Hey everyone. Sorry about how late this update has came out. I've been really busy with my job and college and, well, life in general. So, speaking of that I want to say that I'm going to be updating less often for a while. Maybe one a month. Again this is because of college and jobs and stuff like that. However to make up for the longer waits I'll try to make huge chapters. Hopefully around 15,000 to 20,000 words per chapter (After this one). Anyway, I hope you enjoy and please remember that if you think you know who Chikara's mother is please PM me so I can put your name in the contest.
update - 10/20/14 - I changed the name of the jutsu in this chapter. I feel as the new name is more suited than the previous one.
We had been walking for about ten minutes. The village gates a good distance behind us."Okay, let's get the pecking order down here." I stopped and looked over to Anko-sensei. She pointed to herself. "I'm the main leader, I have overall call on all situations." She then pointed to Seion-sensei. "Seion-san would be next, if I'm out for any reason then he's takes order." I saw Anko-sensei then point her finger toward the Uchiha-san. I saw him gain a huge smirk. "Then Chikara-san is next." I saw Hinoko-san and Uchiha-san snap their heads toward me. It only made sense. I had more experience in combat and had completed another C rank mission, while this was their first. I saw Hinoko-san step forward.
"Anko-sensei, why does the ice bitch get to be next in line? Shouldn't someone with actually comunationation ability be team leader." I saw Anko-sensei tap her chin, like she was in thoughtful thinking.
"You know you're right." I saw Hinoko-san smile. "However," And there it goes. "Chikara-san not only has more skill than you or anyone else on your team, minus Seion-san, she has also completed another C rank mission and tell me this girly." I felt Anko-sensei's aura gain a sinister tone. "When the time comes can you kill without a single thought?" I saw all the genins faces pale. They all slowly turned their heads toward me.
"Y..You're telling me that the ice bitch as k...killed?" I looked at Hinoko-san dead in the eyes. I saw her shudder and look away from me. Maybe she feared me now. Not liked I cared, she couldn't do a thing to me.
"Anymore arguments?" I saw no one make a move. "Good let's go." We all started to move again. With Anko-sensei and myself in front with the genin in the middle and Seion-sensei in the back.
Two days later
I stopped next to Anko-sensei. She turned and looked to the group. "Okay, we are near the mission location." I saw her pull out a scroll. "The mission is to look for a artifact. It supposedly has the ability to change peoples minds." Genjutsu for civilians. That's all I need. "It says that it is a necklace that is a circle with paintings of a black and white vortex." She snapped the scroll shut and pulled out a map. "Gather around." We did, she started to mark the map into four sections. "This is the map of the area. Since we have a large group we will be splitting up. My self and Seion-san will take a section by ourselves, same with you Chikara-san." I heard a light growling coming from Uchiha-san.
"Why does she get to go by herself?" I saw Anko-sensei glare at him.
"Because she has a lot of experience in forests." How does she know that? "She can take on any bandit without trouble unlike you three who will have problems." I saw Seion-sensei shift positions.
"Anko-san, I think that my team is not ready to go alone. They will need someone more experienced to protect them. I will go with them." I saw Anko-sensei frown but nod.
"Okay, we'll split the areas into thirds then." I saw her mark the map. "Study your area and keep your radios on. Leave when you're ready. Be back here in by evening of four days, with or without the artifact." With that I saw her hook up her radio to her ear and then disappear. I followed her actions.
I jumped through the trees. I was thinking of how I was going to find something as small as a necklace in such a large area. I made the clone sign. 'Kage bushin no jutsu.'. I scanned over the fifty clones I made. I gave a nod and they all vanished from my sight. They knew their orders and would dispel when they found it. With that done I pulled out a scroll and started to read about make your own jutsu, a subject meant only from elite jounin.
Two days later
I sighed as my clones had not found anything yet. I had already read through all of my scrolls and I had nothing to do. I couldn't train because I had to be in top shape. All I had to do was sit there in my tree and wait until my clones found something or something interesting came to me. I heard a muffled scream. Well, come to me it is. I took off silently toward where I heard the scream.
I landed above a small line of people. Four men with large swords that would intimidate a normal person, but I knew Zabuza's sword so I was unimpressed. Two men in front and two in back. Between all of them was three women and a young girl about my age in rags and chained to each other.
I narrowed my eyes. I wanted to intervene but that was not part of my mission. I scanned over the girls once more and found something familiar about the girl. She had chocolate brown hair, her body was extremely petite, her eyes were a light shade of green. I could tell that she was only barely alive, probably only given enough food to survive. I started at the girl and suddenly she looked up directly at me.
Thats… Thats impossible! No one except jounin should be able to sense me and this girl did. I had to get answers and I needed them now.
I let out the slightest amount of chakra and unsealed my bow and quiver. I notched the first arrow and pulled back. I activated my sharingan and took aim at the closest man near the girl. I released the arrow and saw it shred though the target. I saw the chakra in him fade. "What the hell!" I saw the men take hostages with the three older women. I saw them trying to see through the dense forest. I ran behind one man and notched another arrow. I pulled back, slightly lighter, and released. I saw the arrow fly and stick into the man's head. I saw one man put the blade closer to a woman's throat.
"Whoever the hell is out there come out now or I will kill her." I notched another arrow and started to run. I jumped and released the arrow. I saw the arrow fly perfectly into the man's arm making him drop the blade. I quickly notched another arrow to kill the last man, who looked like the last grunt. I released the arrow and saw it fly right into the man. Right after he slit the woman's neck. I already knew that she was going to die. My sharingan told me that but I didn't care. She held no importance to me. All I cared about was the girl, which she was left alone. With three men dead and one, the leader, disabled I jumped down.
I slowly walked out of the dense foliage. I saw the man attempt to grab his sword but I could tell that it was too heavy to wield with his one arm. I slowly walked up to him and punched him in the face, knocking him out.
I slowly walked to the girl in chains. I saw her and the rest of the women try backing away and trying to stay away from the body chained to them. I looked at the girl in the eyes. I saw her eyes widen. "Chi-chan?" I stopped in my tracks. There was only one person who called me that and she was dead. I looked closer at the girl. Her brown hair. Her green eyes. Everything hit me like a ton of bricks. I forced myself to swallow.
"J" My throat hurt from saying that one letter. "Jihi-c..chan." I saw the girl smile with tears in her eyes.
"Chi-chan!" I saw her attempt to stand but fell down of the chains. I quickly made my way to her and cut all the women from the chains. I saw Jihi-chan turn to them. "Nami-san, Aka-san, this is my best friend Chikara-chan." I nodded my head toward the women. "Chi-chan why are you here?"
I took out my canteen and drank some water. Once down I offered it to the others they refused. I took in a deep breath. Talking felt weird. "I'm a ninja now." I saw Jihi-chan's eyes widen.
"Has it been that long?" I nodded.
"I'm on a mission, looking for a necklace." I rubbed my throat. "Jihi-chan, what's going on? I thought you were dead." I saw Jihi-chan look down.
"I don't want to talk about it right now." I saw all everyone shiver and glare at the unconscious man. Everything locked into place. I kept silent about it though. Jihi-chan would talk about it when she felt ready. My thoughts went back to the first time I meet Jihi-chan.
Flashback - Six years ago
I had just finished hunting a rabbit and was walking down the darkened streets. I had my bow and quiver strapped to my back and my hair covering my sharingan.
I turned a corner ran into someone. I dropped the rabbit as I landed on the ground. I looked up to see a girl running away with a dead rabbit in her hands. Figuring it was someone else who hunted I picked up self up and when to grab my rabbit until I saw it was missing. I snapped the pieces together and started to chase after the girl who just stole my food. I easily caught up to her as she was only a civilian. I tackled her to the ground and pinned her down with my legs. I saw the girl was about my age, had brown hair, and green eyes. I just started at the girl before grabbing the rabbit off the ground where she had dropped it. "You shouldn't steal from people." I kept my one eye glare at the girl.
"Fuck you." The girl started to struggle but I was too heavy for her to shove off. It was then I noticed that she was extremely skinny.
"You're starving to death?" The girl stopped struggling and she had tears in her eyes.
"What do you care? I'm just an orphan. Just leave me alone." I stayed on the girl though. I kept staring at her. For some reason I felt like helping this girl.
"How about we share?" I saw the girl look at me wide eyed.
"Why would you..?" I shrugged. I really had no idea myself.
"In matter a fact how about I show you how to hunt, then you can have constant meals." I saw the girl quickly nod. With that I got up and we started to walk, me leading her to the training grounds. "My name is Chikara Uzumaki by the way."
"Jihi no clan name." I nodded. For some reason I felt like Jihi would play a huge part in my life, not just now but far into the future.
Flashback end
I sighed and walked to the dead males. I pulled out the arrows in their bodies and put them back into my quiver and resealed my bow. I saw Jihi-chan walk up to me. "Chi-chan, I hate to ask you but we need your help again." I looked around and saw no enemies. "Our group was just a small section being moved to be sold. There is a large camp of slave traders up ahead. I know I have no right to ask you to help but…" I noticed as Jihi-chan's eyes grew darker.
"I'll do it. Just show me where it is and I'll take it out." I saw Jihi-chan nod and then look to the two women.
"Do you two want to come." I saw both women look at us.
"No, we just want to get away from this place as fast as possible. Sorry." With that the two women took off in some direction but I didn't care, they were not my responsibility. I turned to Jihi-chan.
"Jihi-chan, let's go." I saw Jihi-chan nod and we slowly started to walk toward the camp at a civilian pase. As we were walking I thought back to how Jihi-chan and I got separated in the first place.
Flashback - Two months after first meeting
I was sitting in our apartment. Well, it was mine but Jihi-chan lived with me and we traded off hunting duties so it was really her's as much as it was mine. We had just finished dinner and we were sitting on our little well worn out couch with nothing to do since it was night time. "Hey, Chi-chan." I looked over to Jihi-chan.
"What's up Jihi-chan?" I was her look at me or more specifically my covered eye.
"Why do you wear your hair like that? I mean everytime you go to shoot your bow you switch your bangs to the other side." I forze. I had not told Jihi-chan of my sharingan yet. Would she hate me? Would she tell other people about it? I looked Jihi-chan deep in the eye to see for any reason to lie to her. All I saw was curiosity and loyalty. Not as a master and a student but as two sisters. I took a deep breath.
"It's because of what Naruto did to me." I saw Jihi-chan gave me a confused look.
"What did you mean? Everyone knows he sealed the Kyuubi in you." I looked at the ground.
"No, he did more than just seal Kyuubi in me." I shifted my bangs to show Jihi-chan my sharingan. I heard her gasp at the red three tomoe eye.
"Is that sharingan? H..How you're not an Uchiha? Your tou-san was Namikaze and your Kaa-san was.." I glared at Jihi-chan. I felt my tomoes spin.
"Please, I'd rather not have people knowing who my mother is. They could be listening to us right now." I saw Jihi-chan slowly nod. Her eyes never leaving my red one.
"Who's eye is it?"
"Madara's." I heard Jihi-chan gasp again.
"The evil warlord that brought forth the fourth ninja war!" I nodded. I saw as Jihi-chan felt back into the couch with a huff. "Nothing is ever simple with you is it?" I smiled a little.
"If I was simple then I'd be so boring." We both started to laugh. After a few seconds I flipped my hair back. I settled back into the couch right next to Jihi-chan. "So, are you going to join the academy next year with me?" I looked over to Jihi-chan to see her thinking.
"I guess so. Even though being a combat ninja isn't really my style I'm good at tactics and hopefully genjutsu." I nodded. I knew that Jihi-chan hated full out combat and would rather think her way out of things, and even when it all went to hell she would want to make sure the least amount of people died, thus her liking of genjutsu.
"Well if you want I can start to help train you." I saw Jihi-chan look at me and nod. "Good, well we should go to sleep…" Just then we heard a knock on the door. Normally it was fine when someone knocked but it had always been daytime and I had my gear one. Right now we had nothing but our PJ's on. I looked at Jihi-chan and shook my head. Something about this didn't feel right.
We quietly made our way to our bedroom with all my gear. Halfway there we heard the door being kicked down with no effort. That meant shinobi. This was bad. We quickly made our way to the bedroom and slammed the door shut.
"She's over here!" A heavy male voice cut through the door. I heard two sets of sandals clacking on the floor. I had just grabbed my senbon holder and pulled one out when the door was broken down again. I saw a man in a with a tan flack jacket, with a huge beard and bald head. Another man walked in after him who was a normal looking guy with the matching flak jacket. Both had one thing that scared me the most, an Iwa headband.
I threw a senbon at the bearded man but it got stopped by the jacket. I heard the man chuckle. I during the chuckle I saw Jihi-chan take a taijutsu stance next to me. "What's this two brats?" I saw the man pull out the senbon and snap it. "Which one's which?" I saw the normal lookng guy study us.
"The target is blond you idiot." I saw the bearded man glare at the normal guy
"Well what do we do with the other one?" I saw the normal guy give Jihi-chan a creepy glare.
"Let me handle her. You deal with the target." I heard the bearded man grunt. Then he slowly walked toward me while the other man walked toward Jihi-chan. I wanted to protect Jihi-chan but I couldn't as a jounin level ninja was attacking me.
I was barely able to dodge as I uncovered my sharingan. I saw the jounin wait just a second. I used that second and pulled out another senbon and threw it at his head. I saw it hit and bounce off the headband. The man chuckled again. I dodged another fist but felt pain in my stomach. I looked down and saw his foot planted there. I nearly doubled over in pain but forced myself to stay standing. If I fell then Jihi-chan would have no chance.
I heard a shriek from my side. I looked over to see Jihi-chan being held down by her throat by the normal looking guy, however, he had a evil glint in his eye. I felt something thin wrap around me. I looked down to see ninja wire holding my arms at my side. I saw the man I was fighting holding the end of the wire. He sat down next to me with a sigh. I looked over to him with a curious glance. The man noticed me and gave me a sad look. "Ah, I am sorry to say but your friend will never be the same." I heard a tearing sound from where Jihi-chan was and saw the ninja holding the cloth that was once Jihi-chan's shirt. I went wide eyed at struggled against the wires holding me.
I saw Jihi-chan's tears spilling out of her eyes. I watched as the ninja tore off Jihi-chan's pants. I continued to struggle against the wires, I soon felt blood running out of cuts the wires made. I felt a stinging pain, however, it was not from the cuts but from my left eye. I let the feeling take over and felt more chakra flow to my eye. Suddenly I saw the man on top of Jihi-chan ignite into black flames.
I heard screaming come from the disgusting man as he was slowly burnt to a blackened corpse. I let the chakra recede back and saw the flames go out. The wires holding me gave some slack and I got them off with a little struggle. When I finished I looked over to Jihi-chan but saw she was gone. I looked to my side and saw the bearded man was also gone. I quickly tried to get up but felt lightheaded. I lost my vision for a second and fell down on my butt. I closed my eyes and tried to get a grip on the vision. After a few seconds I could see correctly.
My first instinct was to run after Jihi-chan but I knew she was already out of the village by now and since I hosted Kurama-sensei they would not let me leave the village without a very very good reason. With that I sat down and waited for someone to come and see what the chakra spikes were.
Every since that day I swore to myself to silence until I saved Jihi-chan. I only cared about training to get stronger until I could protect everyone important to me, even cutting off all emotions. I looked over to Jihi-chan who was walking while looking at the ground. I could see a far off look in her eyes. I have no idea how bad she was treated since she was taken but now that she's back I will make sure she is never hurt again. No cost is too much.
I saw Jihi-chan turn her head to me and point forward. "The camp is ahead. Please wipe out all of the men there." I nodded.
"What about the women?" I saw her look away.
"Many of them are too broken. Too many." I nodded and took a deep breath. With that I took chakra from my weights. I planned on taken out the camp with one jutsu. I launched upward into the trees and started to move forward.
I got to a large clearing and saw over twenty tents sent up in seemingly random positions. Every so often there was a fire pit and near each pit there was a cage full of women in rags. I felt rage pulse through me. I felt a little bit of Kurama-sensei's chakra mix with mine. I couldn't help but smirk. These beasts were finished. I did a set of handsigns 'Suiton: Daibakufu no Jutsu' I formed a massive whirling vortex in front of me, it was almost the size of the trees in the area. I could sense the panic in the bandits. I did not care. I released the wave and watched as the wave ripped and tore apart not only the tents but also every person in its way.
After half a minute the water finally ran out. I looked at the once filled clearing that was now a torn path of raw mud and blood. I was about to turn back to get Jihi-chan but was stopped when I felt a decently large chakra reserve, about ANBU level. I looked back to where the camp use to be and saw some large humanoid thing rise from the mud.
I activated my sharingan and saw the figure was indeed the source of chakra and was in fact human. They had huge muscles that made the Raikage look small. I saw him look around and then he suddenly looked at me then just disappeared, without any chakra usage. I jumped back as my sharingan saw him punch the branch I was on. I saw the man more easily now.
He was as muscular as I thought, quite obvious as he did not have a shirt on. He had small gray shorts on and he had a huge black mane of black spiky hair. The oddest thing about him was the metal helmet with two squares where his eyes were. I saw his muscles straining from just standing there. I looked him in the eye to use my sharingan but only saw the black pits from the helmet. I jumped back as he smashed the branch I was standing at again. If I did not have my sharingan I wouldn't have survived the first attack.
I glared at the man. This must have been the leader because if anyone was stronger than they would have survived to. This meant that this was a one on one battle and I was only barely while I doubt I could even injury him under all of that muscle. Suddenly I felt a gentle tug in my head. "What the hell." I was going to retort but had to dodge a sudden overhead smash from the muscle bound freak. "Uzumaki, what the hell is that?" I kept my sharingan eye on the man.
'A bandit leader, and a good one at that.' I heard Kurama-sensei mutter something.
"I see. Uzuamki, with your current body you will die." I jumped back from a combo set from the brute. I suddenly felt intense pain in my stomach. I looked down and saw his fist planned deep into me. I felt blood run out of my mouth. He was so fast that sharingan can't keep up with him. I felt my limbs lose feeling. "I will not die!" I felt a searing pain in my right eye. I wanted to close my eye but couldn't. Suddenly I felt the world around me distort and bend. My vision was slowly fading but for some reason the brute stayed in focus. In fact he was looking around to.
Soon the world distorted so much that we were only surrounded by darkness. Suddenly I felt an insane amount of pain in my right eye as I felt liquid run out of it. 'K...Kurama-sensei, what is th...this?'
"This is Tokoyami no yuganda sekai. This 'world' is made of total darkness such as the name applies. The purity of this darkness is fatal to all, even Kami-sama, so I forced your right eye to evolve to the mangekyō sharingan." I took it all in and thought for a second.
'Then why am I and mister muscle over there not dead?" I heard a dark chuckle.
"Total darkness is more subtle than that. You slowly fade into the darkness when you are here. It takes time about ten minutes before you 'die', no heaven, no hell. just emptyness." I paled at this.
'How long can I be in here then?' I was legitimately worried. I left Jihi-chan all alone.
"With your mangekyō sharingan about thirty seconds longer than normal. If you had eternal mangekyō sharingan then about another two to three minutes. If you had the perfect rinnegan then about twenty minutes total." I let that sink in. Even with eyes that were thousands of times more powerful than the rinnegan you could only last twenty minutes in this world. "However, this jutsu has a major drawback." I waited for the worse. "You can only use this one time every few weeks as this makes your right eye completely blind." I sighed slightly. That was one big annoyance. "However, I can repair this damage. However use it before I repair your eye then it will damage your eye so bad that even I couldn't heal it even with that cursed Senju's help." I knew he was speaking of Tsunade Senju.
'Let us go then and leave him to his fate.' I felt a mental nod and felt more pain in my right eye as the world of nothing bended out of my view and the real world bend into view. I felt air enter my lungs and realized that I didn't breath in the Tokoyami no yuganda sekai. I looked around and saw that I was in the same exact place as before except it took me much longer to realize this because, as Kurama-sensei said, I was blind in my right eye.
I slowly moved around in the area for a little bit to get use to the change in depth perception. After getting it mostly down I started to tree jump my way back to Jihi-chan. When I got back I saw Jihi-chan sleeping against a mossy tree. I walked over to her and shook her shoulder. I saw her slowly open her eyes and stare right at my eyes. I saw her slowly go wide eyed. "Chi-chan, what happened to your right eye?" What did she mean right eye? My eye should be normal except I'm blind.
"Wait, what is wrong with it?" I saw her stare at my right eye with my left.
"It's completely red, like your sharingan but without the tomoes. or pupil " Did my eye have chakra still running through it? I couldn't feel if chakra was going to my eye. I laid down next to Jihi-chan and closed my eyes as the sun rays warmed my face.
"I had to use a new kinjutsu I made. It uses my right eye and forces it to a mangekyō sharingan state. Unfortunately, this also temporarily blinds me." I saw Jihi-chan go wide eyed. She suddenly grabbed me and hugged me. I felt my shirt getting wet as she buried her face into it.
"I'm so sorry Chi-chan. If I knew." I her sniffle. "If I knew it would cost you your sight." I gently put my arms on her shoulders and pried her off of me.
"Jihi-chan, what part of temporary don't you get?" I saw Jihi-chan blush at her mistake. I smiled gently at my old friend. She sat back down here she was originally and we both just sat there in silence. Neither of us really needing to say anything to each other. We both already knew what happened in our time away. I was hated by the civilians and she was, well, even I won't guess at the horrors she's been through. After awhile I noticed it was getting dark.
"Hey, Jihi-chan." I saw Jihi-chan slightly shift her head toward me.
"What is it Chi-chan?" I pointed to the sky and the rising moon.
"It's getting dark out. Do you have a place we can stay?" I saw Jihi-chan give me a questioning look.
"What do you mean? Where have you been staying?" I pointed up into the trees. I saw Jihi-chan give me a motherly look.
"Why have you been sleeping in trees? If I know you, which I do, you have a tent pack." I looked away from the gaze. She always did this to me. One moment she's my friend, then my sister, then my mother. Sometimes she confused me on why she acted liked like that but after awhile a grew to enjoy the feeling.
"I didn't want the hassle of putting it up and taking it down. Why does it matter? I can't get sick anyway." I saw Jihi-chan give me a sharp glare.
"Because I said so! Now set it up." I gave Jihi-chan a glare myself but got up and started to put up the tent.
After the tent was sent up we went inside and went to sleep or tried in my case. I just couldn't believe that Jihi-chan was really alive and with me right now. I always imagined the moment we would meet up again and our lives going back to what it once was. That was when I was still young. I knew our lives would never be like the past. Me with my ninja training and other such things and then Jihi-chan with the horrors that she had to suffer through. I then remembered I was actually on a mission right now. I would have to report to Anko-sensei in the morning about Jihi-chan. With my plans for the morning set I closed my eyes and let Jihi-chan's breathing lull me to sleep.
I woke up when I heard shuffling of footsteps outside. I heard a low whisper. "Hey, you think anyone is in there?" I heard some clanking metal. Someone shifting position I think.
"Maybe, let's find out." I quickly pulled out sendon from the holder on my leg and held them in position to fire. The instant that flap opens I was going to rain a metal storm on the intruder. I heard the zipper being pulled open slowly, almost noiseless, whoever was doing this had a lot of practice. As soon as the flap was open I heard something shift next to me. I looked over and saw Jihi-chan waking up. I flashed my sharingan and put her into a sleeping genjutsu just as I threw the sendon on the intruder. I heard the man scream. I deactivated my eye and looked over to the bandit.
He had multiple sendon sticking out of him, all slightly left of vital areas. I missed the kill because of my blindness. I ignored the annoying thought and dash using what little space I had and shouldered him out of the tent with myself. As we landed I gave the man a solid punch to his head and saw him go limp. Dead or out cold, didn't matter to me.
I slowly got up and looked around. I saw no one else around. I activated my sharingan to look for chakra signatures. I saw a signature standing in the tree just of the rim of the clearing. I looked closely at the figure and saw that they had ANBU level chakra and I could tell they were suppressing the chakra, if the dark colour of it was anything to go by. I looked up to the figure and gasped as I saw a pair of blood red eyes looking back at me. There was only one other person to have the sharingan and that amount of chakra. I mentally calmed myself from the person's gaze. I had no chance against this monster.
"Hmmm… So you're his child. Ironic." I saw the figure jump down and walk into my actual vision. He stood with a gray high collar shirt with no sleeves and dark pants. I saw his sharingan morph in the eternal mangekyō sharingan. I then saw his left eye morph into a forcibly matured rinnegan. The sharingan red blocking out the purple that's suppose to fill the eye. Before stood the most dangerous criminal in the entire elemental nations, said to be able to face Naruto head on and tie, something that Madara could not even do, Sasuke Uchiha.
I slowly started to back toward the tent. I need to get Jihi-chan and get out of here. No one in the immediate area could even hold a candle to him. I as I made my way I saw him smirk. "Trying to get your friend and leave?" I felt my blood run cold. I looked back and saw Jihi-chan standing out of the tent with another Sasuke standing behind her with a sword put to her neck.
I turned back toward the real Sasuke, at least I think he was the real Sasuke. "What do you want?" I saw Sasuke smirk again.
"I want two things, one of them I can get now the other I have to wait." I stood stock still. I may not be able to handle him for long but I would die so Jihi-chan could escape. I slowly sent chakra to my sharingan and morphed it to the mangekyō sharingan and started to fuel Amaterasu for a instant release. "One of them will be you." I got into my taijutsu stance. Sasuke however didn't even react to this, like I wasn't a threat, which I wasn't. "The other is my son." I slowly widened my eyes. Sasuke was after his son? So he was after Mugen-san, but why? Nevermind that, he was also after me and that's more important that Mugen-san. "However," I focused on Sasuke again and saw his stare directed at me. "I want to test those eyes of yours, or well, eye." I felt my mangekyō sharingan spin. "Here's the game." I heard saw the clone Sasuke and Jihi-chan stand perpendicular to me. "I will use Amaterasu and you will block it with yours. Should you fail, well, your friend could due without being burnt to death." I glared at the monster before me. I had to accept, he would kill her anyway, at least I had a chance this way.
"Ready, begin!" I saw black flames speed out of his eye as did my eye. The two flames collided and and screeching noise was made. I saw bits of black fire shoot off and land of the ground but I soon ignored it and solely focused on the jutsu to keep my friend alive.
I had no idea how long it had been but I was running out of chakra, while Sasuke barely looked winded. I saw my flames slowly start to fade and draw closer and closer to Jihi-chan. I saw in her eye that she accepted that she was going to die and closed her eyes. I felt tears slowly fall out of my eyes. I had one ace up my sleeve and to use it now. I looked inside myself and felt for Kurama-sensei's chakra.
I slowly added his chakra to my system. I felt my chakra recharging from this. I was back at full but I knew Sasuke could keep this up longer than I could. I slowly added more and more yokai to my system. I felt the initial release state take over. "I can not lose!" I saw as my flames gained a red tint to them and slowly push back Sasuke's, still too slow though. I started to add more yokai to my system. I felt myself go into one tail state, but this felt different than before, more complete. I looked around me and saw that, instead of a red fox cloak covering me, it was golden and took a monstrous shape. I ignored it for the moment as I need to save Jihi-chan's life. I added all the chakra I could to my sharingan and saw the flames lose their red tint to turn to pure golden colour.I felt a huge surge of power and channeled it all to the jutsu. "I WILL NOT LOSE!" I flames blew past Sasuke's and consumed not only him but most of the forest behind him. I watched as the golden flames consumed all to nothing. I stopped channeling chakra and yokai and saw the flames disappear as did my golden cloak.
I felt weak. So, weak. I saw my vision slowly start to fade just as Jihi-chan entered my vision.
I opened my eyes and felt a thing watching me. I slowly not up and saw I was in a place of absolute whiteness. There was nothing I could see in any direction other than white. I slowly got up and stopped as my vision swam. "Careful Uzumaki, no one has survived what you just have achieved." I spun around as I heard Kurama-sensei only to see nothing. I then focused on the white around me and noticed that it was not actually white but a very pale purple.
Suddenly I saw three large rings with tomoes on them move into my vision. "What the hell is going on?" I heard a deep rumbling as the ground shook.
"You are standing on my eye Uzumaki." I looked around more carefully and noticed that the tomoes and rings were indeed focused on me. I used some chakra and ran away from the black objects. "Yes, Uzumaki, all your questions will soon be answered. Just keep running." I did as the voice told me. I was running for what seemed like hours when I noticed something tan coming into view. Knowing I was getting close to my destination I ran faster.
I reached the tan stuff. I stepped on it and felt a very solid surface, very different to the… eye… I was standing on. Nothing could be this big. Could it? It was easily hundreds if not thousands times bigger than what Kurama-sen…. Kurama should be. I started to run of the new surface.
After running for what seemed like hours I could finally feel gravity taking effect. I let it do it's job as I felt the wind hit my face. After a little bit I started to get worried. I was still falling and still saw tan and now only tan and I was pretty sure I hit terminal velocity. I just sighed and let my mind wander.
I noticed something white reach my eye again. I was about to grown but noticed that it was different than before. I used some chakra and sution manipulation to slow down. I hit the ground with a soft crunch. I saw it was snow. Where the hell was I that there was snow? "Your mindscape." I thought about what he said. It made sense, in a way.
"Where are you Kurama?" I heard more rumbling, coming from the object I just left.
"Kurama was never here." I paled. If Kurama was never here then what the hell is in the seal!? What the fuck did I have inside me!? I ran as fast as I could away from whatever the fuck this thing was. After a few minutes of running I looked back and saw what I was standing on.
It was monstrous, looking just like my golden chakra cloak. It huge, just like I though, several thousands times bigger than what Kurama would have been. I was spread arms and tails wide open each connected to chains that meet up at five different locations. I noticed that one tail was actually waving free unlike the nine other tails. In front of me was the Juubi, the monster sealed inside of me.
Translation List
Jihi - Mercy
Nami - Wave
Aka - Red
Tokoyami no yuganda sekai - Distorted world of everlasting darkness (This is the justu I talked about at the start of the story. I would like to thank my friend again for thinking of this jutsu)
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