Disclaimer: Naruto is Masashi Kishimoto's property. I am not Masashi Kishimoto.
AN: No author's note!
Chapter 3: The death of a legacy
Hey Shisui! You free?"
"So you didn't forget?"
"Of course I didn't! I am offended that you would even think that!" Kakashi pouted under his mask.
"So take me out for ramen Kashi nii!"
"How many times have I told you not to call me that? And why do you even like that wretched thing?"
"No backing down now! You said you wou-"
"Ya ya I know. I am not backing down, it's just that I don't like that thing."
"Ichiraku's ramen makes the best ramen in the world you know!...Kashi nii!" Shisui finished with a hint of malice in his voice.
The whole world stopped. Kakashi and Shisui also stopped in their tracks. One could hear the distant rumble of the sea. The nearest sea being a 100 miles away.
"WAIT YOU LITTLE -!!" And thus started a game of tag between the two brothers.
Three ninjas with Konoha forehead protectors rushed through the rainforests of the Fire country. Covering hundreds of metres in a matter of seconds, they appeared to be nothing more than green snakes. The colour green because of their green vests.
The ninja in the front with silver hair stopped and signalled his subordinates to stop. He casually grabbed four kunais from his kunai holster. A second later four Iwa nin who had barely touched their teenage years were lying in pools of their own blood. The moon, who had rested her head against the chest of a rather blackish cloud looked down to observe it's own great beauty in the red mirror that her father earth had just bought for her. The red mirror reflected the green snakes that had created her one last time.
With their blurring speed the three ninjas covered hundred of metres in the matter of a few seconds. They were nowhere near Konoha. But the borders between Fire country and the Kusa dominated border areas of earth country were considered to be safe. Safe as in shinobi safe. Which means not much safe. All three shinobi were pretty drained. And after they had gone out of their way to help in the front lines earlier that day, they needed some rest. The rain forest didn't allow even sunlight to penetrate the thick canopy. The moon was pretty helpless. The fact that the moon seemed to be cover in a blanket didn't help the three shinobis.
The silver haired nin in the front wondered whether the sky was a mother who was trying to make her daughter moon sleep. The father cloud was singing a lullaby in his rather hoarse voice, but it worked just fine. And the lightning? There it was! A crack in his poetic observation. It couldn't be helped really. He was not designed for this. And he was also not designed for seeing in the dark. So he fell back and let the man with blood red eyes take the lead.
The red eyed man sure was annoyed. He didn't show it for the sake of professionalism. But the silver haired man was his best friend. He just knew things. He found out from the red eyed man's wife that they were in the middle of a super serious conversation about whether to gift their son a soft toy or a battery powered toy car for his second birthday. When asked why not both, she replied that they didn't want to spoil their child. The silver haired jounin would have had laughed had they been in someplace safe. Safer than the shinobi safe. This explained a lot about the Uchiha male's attitude when he had urged them to help a Konoha battalion in a tight spot, even though it was not a part of their mission description. Though their help had been useless since backup had been called for anyway.
The three ninjas suddenly reached for kunais in their kunai holsters and parried off a few kunais that were directed towards them. All of them reached for the ground and stood with their backs to one another. The white haired man applied a decent amount of force to the muddy ground beneath his feet and jumped toward a banyan tree. He kicked an Iwa nin in the chest and his foot that had been covered in some white, luminous and chirping material, went right through his ribcage. The remaining two Iwa nin, now aware of who they were fighting tried running away into the woods. But his blade that had been chirping with a similar white light beheaded both of them in a single blow.
The Uchiha man also engaged three opponents. But since he was a down to earth guy, he decided to stay on the ground. He was faring quite well against them with his sharingan. Another Iwa nin tried to take him down from behind. But his wife stopped the earth spikes with a mud wall. She chose to use the mud wall as a guard and dug a tunnel from her position behind it to use the head hunter jutsu. But the Earth country nin, too experienced in such basic earth style ninjutsus had already sensed it coming and moved a few paces backwards and threw a kunai towards the kunoichi who had just emerged from her tunnel. Two hands suddenly popped out of the ground from behind the Iwa nin and pulled him inside the tunnel. The kunai crashed into the lady and she burst into a puff of smoke with a pop sound. The woman had already emerged from behind the man and used her kunai to dig into the top of the head of the Iwa nin. But it only turned out to be an earth clone. The kunai that had been thrown by the man earlier, burst into smoke(this time with lesser density) and the man emerged from it and leaped towards the top of the mud wall in hopes of reaching the Uchiha man with only one jump and using the acceleration due to gravity in his favor. He was halfway across when the silver haired man jumped from above and drove his blade through the Iwa nin's stomach and into the upper surface of the mud wall. The Uchiha woman used the distraction to her advantage and jumped on top of a nin's shoulder his husband was fighting. When she jumped away she was carrying the head of the Iwa nin. Her husband also managed to catch two remaining Iwa nin with his fireball.
Fire is said to be one of the basic necessities of mankind. It symbolises a new beginning. It symbolises hope. But the silver haired man and the woman were anything but hopeful when the fireball's brief light confirmed their suspicion of other enemies being present in the trees. Three dozen anbus atleast. The Uchiha man had already known of course.
The silver haired man jumped towards the ten anbus who had Iwa marks carved on their masks, symbolising their rank of anbu captains. They were happy enough to have had drawn out the ninja who was feared across nations , leaving the other two to their subordinates. They engaged the Uchiha couple in hopes of getting a pair of sharingans for their village. The Uchiha woman was either not an Uchiha by birth or had never awakened her sharingan.
The silver haired man parried of ten kunais with his blade which had already taken three of the anbus as it's prey and was still thirsty for more plasma. The Uchiha couple on the other hand was fighting gracefully but was getting dominated over. The man with the priceless bloodline limit started resorting to ninjutsu in hopes of killing the Iwa nins in bulk. But they had caught on to the fact that he was low on chakra and concentrated on dodging his jutsus. Of course a few occasional casualties were unavoidable.
Some 30 meters away his better half was fighting against half a dozen Iwa anbus. A dog masked anbu used the numbers to his advantage and landed a kick right below the Uchiha insignia on her back which launched her midair. She used the momentum to carry her forward, took out her sword and dissected a cat masked anbus head into two vertically, using the force of gravity as a Newton booster. She fell on the ground with a thud, not expecting her victim to be an earth clone. Another man, seeing this opportunity tried to jump on her from top of a tree, but was thrown metres away when the owner of the sharingans kicked him to the side of his ribcage. He lay lifeless because the broken ribs had most probably pierced his heart. An Iwa anbu started weaving hand signs and a few giant mud spikes emerged from where the Uchiha male was about to land from his brief flight. As graceful as the Uchiha was, he slid down one mud spike like he was skiing, put his feet at the base of another spike and jumped again. A spike suddenly stretched and stabbed him in the abdomen. He barely managed to prevent himself from sliding all the way down and somehow released himself, only to fall on the ground from atleast ten meters above it.
The silver haired kage level ninja now more enraged , ran off towards the anbu operatives who had joined their captains against him. They did quite well to save themselves from getting eliminated all at once. So the Konoha jounin started exterminating them one at a time. The four remaining anbu captains stood in the back and threw occasional kunais and ninjutsus at him. But he managed to dodge them quite efficiently.
The Uchiha woman stooped over her husband and picked him up over her shoulder. She started walking towards the direction of Konoha like she was taking a stroll in the park. The anbus weren't going to have any of that. A cat masked anbu put her sword through her at such an angle, that it penetrated her uterus and damaged a kidney as well. She got out of her daze and realized what she had been doing. But it was already too late. Another anbu kicked her in the face, the force of which carried her back to the center of the circle that twenty anbus had formed around her. She screamed. Screamed in despair and not in pain. Screamed like a person who had just realized that he had nothing left.
The silver haired man rushed past the anbus around him in a flash. He never knew that he could have such feelings. Feelings that urged him to kill every one of the anbus around him and drink their blood. He felt thirsty for blood. A thirst that could only be quenched with blood. He stood guarding his best friends like they were his own blood. He could easily outrun even the fastest of ninjas. But like hell he was going to abandon his friends. His team carried secret knowledge about the Kusa shinobi forces. So there was no chance that he would let his best friends be tortured for information. He could beat the anbus alone. He would beat the anbus alone. He ran off towards the cluster of anbus ahead of him. Two anbus suddenly emerged from the ground and both used their kunais to stab his kidneys. The silver haired jounin dissipated in a stream of lightning which the two kunais conducted and the two anbus got paralyzed immediately because of the high voltage. The silver haired, masked man jumped from above and squashed their heads with his feet like they were watermelons. He returned his attention towards the cluster of anbus before him. But the captains were not there. Something in his mind asked him to look back. He did. And when he did he wished he hadn't. One of the three remaining anbu captains was standing by his best friend. The one with sharingan. The anbu was standing with two almost spherical, bloodied orbs in his hand. His friend's eye sockets seemed eerily empty. He screamed in agony. In desperation. And above all in rage. He moved so fast that the anbus couldn't even see him. He kicked the captain so hard that he went airborne. A large fireball incinerated him even before he could land. When realization dawned upon him that he had just destroyed his best friend's eyes along with the anbu captain, he screamed again. This time in horror. He felt for the first time in his life what it meant to be helpless. His eyes almost leaked some water. No! No! There was no way he was going to lose here. No way he would let his friends die. And no way that anbu near the tree who was snickering constantly would live to see another day. He charged in towards him. When something caught him by his sleeve and pulled him back.
How? Just how had it all ended like this? It was all his fault. How had he not seen this coming when he had asked his teammates to go out of their way to fight off an entire Iwa battalion when it was none of their business? The genius in him knew that he couldn't possibly fight off his enemies with his highly depleted level of chakra. Not when a dozen Kirigakure anbus had joined their allies against him. The genius in him knew that he couldn't outrun them while carrying his friends. The genius in him knew that even if he did outrun them, his friends would still bleed out. Dying slow and painful deaths. The genius in him knew that his best and only option was to do what the female Uchiha had asked him to do. To release them from their agony once and for all. He desperately searched for any ideas. Any idea that would save his friends. Blank! Blank! His mind was blank! Useless! Genius huh?! WHAT GENIUS?! A genius that couldn't save his friends? He was furious. Furious at himself. And furious at his friends who had the audacity to ask such things of him. He would have retorted. He would have had his dogs wet all the doormats of the Uchiha couple's house for this. But the genius in him knew that it had to be done. Always the genius. The Uchiha male asked him to take some money from his pocket but then realized that he had brought none along. The Uchiha wife feigned disappointment and them took some money out of her own pocket. Then she smiled and asked him to take it and buy her son a soft toy as well as a battery powered toy car. To which the Uchiha male retorted by saying that it was not only her son but their son.
Obito and Rin managed to sit up despite their pain. They looked into each other's eyes and blushed. They kissed one last time. Kakashi impaled their hearts at the same time with his blade and put them out of their misery.
Kakashi was sure he would have woken up the entire Konoha had he not been sleeping in the outskirts of the village on a tree by his mother's grave. Nightmares were nothing unusual to him, but this dream had been the worst one till date. He had just dreamt of his father's last mission and put himself in place of his father and his teammates in place of Shisui's parents.
AN: I swear I am not a sadist. Well, not too big a sadist. XD
Writing this chapter was a real challenge since never before have I tried to put action sequences into words. I hope the content was not too graphic. Thank you all for reading. It'll really make me happy if you review. Thanks again.
Author out!
