First Arc: Sharingan Arc

Chapter 4: A Massacre: 5-Tailed Beast Unleashed

Ryuchi finally reached the top of the mountain and entered the temple. He looked around at the gold colored interior and fancy looking design. There had been spiraling stairs to both sides of him that led up to the balcony which looked back down onto him. At the far end of the room there was a giant bowl in the floor with a raging crimson flame in it. Ryuchi ran upstairs and to the rail that looked over the fire.

"Ok, I hope this works…for Firu's sake." Ryuchi mumbles to himself as he drops the large scroll down into the flames.

The fire flashes from orange to white and green and the face of a demonic dog appears for an instant. A loud screeching howl sounds as the bowl launches out two rolled up scrolls in different directions. Ryuchi runs down two the lower level again and picks up the blue trimmed one with a character on it.

['Seal']

He looks at it for a second then throws it over his back and runs to get the orange trimmed one with another character on it.

['Release']

He lays the orange one out in front of the bowl and begins to read it. The fire turns white and green again and becomes violent spitting sparks in every direction. He opens the satchel while continuing to chant and throws in the bag of dirt and vial of water, making the fire dance passionately. Ryuchi pinches his thumb with his teeth and draws a line of blood across the orange-trimmed scroll. The bowl then launches a column of green flame upward shattering the ceiling and piercing the sky. Shinobi from both sides stopped warring and looked up at the temple.

Ryuchi pulls the glass jar filled with red chakra out of the satchel and glances at the label: Kyuubi, he reads to himself. He tosses it up and runs back to the entrance to hide behind one of the large stone pillars. The red jar shatters as it lands in the bowl and the fire turns into red and green chakras, separating slowly. The red chakra begins to form into the face of the nine-tailed for and the green chakra looks like a vicious dog. The two chakras roar as they collide and send a massive wave of green and red chakra all around in a ripple effect.

Ryujin and Ryushin stood back to back, surrounded by enemy ninja. One charged at Ryujin whipping at him with a flail. Ryujin slashes the shinobi and sends him flying back into the others, smashing them through a wall. After killing several enemy ninja he changes his Seringan into Ultimate Seringan and looks up at the inferno temple.

"Ryuchi…" he whispers as the temple explodes and a ring of green chakra spreads in every direction. Firu comes stumbling from around the corner, holding his face. He takes several more steps and collapses before Ryushin.

"Brother, look here…" Ryushin called over.

Ryujin runs over and notices that Firu doesn't have his eye cloth on

"What happened? Where is Ryuchi, and your mother?" Ryujin questioned.

"Sir, I don't know. Last I saw Ryuchi; he was running home to check on mother and everyone else."

"We need to get you some medical attention. Something to cover your eyes…"

"No, sir it's ok…" Firu said as he moved his hands from his face.

He opened his eyes and looked up at Ryujin.

"Wha…how did..?" Ryujin was startled by this site.

"That's not the only thing…" Firu smiled a little

Firu stared at Ryujin and transformed his eyes to Sharingan.

"Sharingan!?" Ryujin's face changed from concern to confusion and anger.

"We'll talk about this later boy," Ryujin said strictly, "take this, head to the temple and find your brother."

Ryujin hands Firu a kunai knife and short sword and Firu runs off toward the temple.

"You saw that, right?" Ryujin asked

"Yea" answered his brother

"Obtaining eyes means he's come into contact with a user of the forbidden jutsu arts"

"Not just any forbidden jutsu, but the kind which someone can be executed-"

The ground shook heavily and began to crack. Large amounts of steam came up from the cracks as they began to lightly glow white. The clouds got really heavy and shot bolts of lightning down to earth. The brothers looked around until their eyes connected. They both knew what was going on, but where too scared to say it. Now the skies started raining down with flaming meteorites and the earth shook heavily again.

"WHO DARES SUMMON ME…" a demonic voice questioned with command

"Kokou…" they both whispered as the ground beneath their feet grew hotter.

At the center of the village shinobi from both sides stood confused as the quakes threw them off balance. The ground began to collapse and buildings fell apart. Shinobi fled in every direction cowering like children. A massive crater formed at the center of the village filled with pieces of structures and rubble and a giant, a white dolphin like head with sharp horns reached out of it. The crater began to burn and everything melted filling it in with lava. The lava slashed up and rained down as a giant beast emerged. As the lava rained down it caused more fires as it burned buildings and people. The completely white beast was glowing. It resembled a 15 foot pentahorned stallion and was surrounded by red chakra that just spilt off of it.

[This is the five tailed beast, (Gobi) Kokuo. Each of the five tails represents one of the five basic chakra elements: Earth, Fire, Lightning, Water, and Wind. Kokuo is represented by Illusion or Genjutsu if you will. Courtesy of Dyrones on the narutofan site forums.]

Kokuo spread its five tails like a peacock and the earthly elements got much more violent.

"Ryujin, what the heck is going on!?"
"Kokuo has changed brother. His chakra, it's possessed!"

Itachi appears before Ryuchi with his Mangekyo Sharingan. Ryuchi looked at him for a second and his eyes turned blank.

"Forget you were ever here. Run to your father." Itachi said expressionless.

The boy is paralyzed with fear until Itachi disappears. He then drops to all fours, sitting on the ground shaking. Ryuchi's eye begin to tear up as the fear grows stronger. Even while possessed by the Mangekyo Sharingan, his Seringan gave him a small glipse of Itachi's power. Ryuchi stares at the ground in anger now and his Seringan eyes slightly change adding a second small triangle, perfectly symmetrically laid on the other side of his iris. He suddenly feels a huge increase in energy. His head whips back towards the entrance of the temple and he launches upward sprinting towards his father..