A/N- Sorry about the misunderstanding of the Sharingan in this chapter. I have changed some things in this chap. You can find out by reading it. I'm an idiot for not looking through the manga before posting a chapter like this. Rereading the chapter I found the mistake I made with this chapter and I apologize for it. Sorry about that.
I recommend you people to read the first chapter to clear some things if you have not understood some of the things I described here.
Vizard or whoever you are: Naruto isn't show off, he is just testing his powers against the famous ninjas. He doesn't know the abilities of the others. Even if knew Nagato and some of Itachi's techniques, he has no knowledge about Uchiha Mikami, so he isn't charging headfirst like an idiot. Even if he is very powerful, he isn't invincible that he can end the war in milliseconds. The speed technique has its limitations and I will describe it in upcoming chapters. Every technique has weakness and that jutsu is no different from it. Just read and enjoy. Don't try to flame it.
Disclaimer- I don't own Naruto or trying to claim it from Kishi.
CHAPTER FOUR
Secret of the Sharingan
From previous chapter-
"WHAT?"
Naruto and Itachi shouted in shock seeing the thing in front of them. Itachi's eyes were big as saucers and eyes were shaking. This thing, in front of him shook his very foundation of the capabilities of Uchiha. Is this even possible to harness so much power through just normal Sharingan?
"Susanoo?" Naruto muttered slowly in shock. Not only it is the same entity he had seen with Sasuke but also resembles somewhat the Rikudou Sennin's figure. The Susanoo was completely covered with black flames. No! This was not covered with black flames, the thing was made of black flames and around the neck of the Susanoo shows the ornament Rikudou Sennin wore 'The Magatama Beads'.
"H-how is t-this even possible?" Itachi said with shock, "This is completely beyond my comprehension. Without the Mangekyo Sharingan?"
The Shodaime Kazekage looked at Naruto and Itachi confusingly. He couldn't figure out why these two were reacting like that? What's so special about the entity that Uchiha summoned? He only knew that thing was named Susanoo and Uchiha Izuna was capable of summoning it.
The elderly Uchiha smirked at the reaction of Itachi and Naruto. He knew it was completely different from what they've seen so far. Even his son Madara didn't get the chance to witness the thing that gave him the nickname. Unlike his son, he had been able to decode some of the secret things from the pendant of Uchiha shrine because of his most matured Sharingan.
"The thing is," slowly the elderly Uchiha explained gaining all attentions towards him, "every Uchiha has the power to use the Enton and the techniques of the Mangekyo Sharingan without activating it. So tell me, my young warriors…have any of you ever heard of the 'Night Ravens of the Black Sun'?" he questioned looking specifically at Itachi with his calculating eyes.
Everyone including Naruto shook their heads indicating it No. But Itachi's eyes showed a completely different story. His face had a surprised look in it. Nagato was also surprised hearing the name.
"Looks like someone recognized my meaning behind those words." Uchiha Mikami exclaimed as he looked at Itachi's face. "So what are your conclusions hum..? Itachi-kun?"
Itachi remained silent as he had no words to describe how he put these. He had nowhere to start. "Oi..Itachi-san! What the hell is he talking about?" Naruto asked as he didn't like this any bit. He came here to fight damn it! These useless things are delaying him more. He was getting frustrated.
"The Night Ravens," Itachi began, "the Night Ravens are the legendary summons that comes to those Uchihas who are worthy of it. I have read about it in the shrine and it was written as 'those who know the secret behind the Night Ravens, knows the full power of the Sharingan.' Actually I still don't understand the meaning behind those words." He admitted and looked at the eyes of the Uchiha progenitor and asked, "Perhaps you will enlighten us?"
The black haired Uchiha elder turned off his Susanoo as it was feeding on his chakra constantly. He also turned off his Sharingan eyes as he didn't think it will be necessary to remain it activated at the time of explanation. He looked at the younger Uchiha and smiled and said, "Ok, if that's what you want."
"Ok, just like Itachi-kun explained, the Night Ravens are the legendary summons. Actually, the night ravens are one of the oldest legendary summons existing in the world. It was also one of the personal summons of the Rikudou Sennin along with the Phoenix. These summons were practically given by the sennin to his eldest son as a gift. Since then it has been the summoning contract of the Uchiha clan. But I'm afraid we have stop a moment." Everyone got in thinking.
"So, some of you might think, if the night ravens were really the summoning contract of the Uchiha clan then why can't any Uchiha is able to summon it? And the answer is yes and no. Just as here Itachi-kun has said, night ravens only allows them to sign their name who are worthy of summoning it. Means only a true Uchiha can summon it and the Uchiha who signs the Raven contract learns the true potential of the Sharingan. As time went by, the Night Raven summoners started to disappear from the history of Uchiha clan because slowly slowly the clan started gaining arrogance. So Night Ravens were started to disappear from the minds of people."
Mikami paused for some time and looked at the listeners face and saw realization dawned on everyone's faces. He smirked slightly and then said, "Looks like you have started to piece it together." Gaining all the attention to himself. "Yes, I'm one of the summoners of the Night Ravens and from them; I've learnt the true power of Sharingan."
Everyone nodded. "But I've yet to explain the theory behind the Sharingan and the Night Ravens. You people must think what's so special about those night ravens that put them Rikudou Sennin's personal summons' list right?" He took a deep breath and started his explanation, "Actually…the Night Ravens have a very special ability. The ability to harness the Yin and Yang. Just like the toads knew how to harness Natural energy, the ravens have the ability to harness the whole basis of chakra."
Naruto's eyes widened hearing him say that just like the toads, there were other summons which can harness the Yin and Yang. Come to think of it, he did remember once the elder sage of Myobokuzan saying something about the great power of the eye and solar eclipse. Does this have to do something with the night ravens?
"According to the shrine written by Rikudou Sennin, the Rinnegan eyes are the eyes of manipulation of Yin and Yang. And the shrine said that the sage's elder son inherited the sage's eyes and powerful spiritual energy. So his elder son must have been able to harness some power of Yin and Yang. The Night Raven said that an Uchiha's true ability lies with the ability to harness the power of Yin and Yang. If an Uchiha can master those, he truly gains the true power of his eyes."
"But as time went on, the Uchiha became arrogant and they began to go towards the dark. Means they started to gain more power of the Yin release. And that's where the Sharingan's copy abilities came to light because of the spiritual half the chakra and the eye started to known as the copy wheel eye or 'the Sharingan'. But without Yang, the Yin alone can't complete the basis of Sharingan. And that's where the Mangekyo Sharingan came into view. The Mangekyo Sharingan gave the ability to harness some part of Yang release. From that alone, the upgraded eyes got the powers like the three most powerful jutsus known today. The Tsukuyomi, Amaterasu and Susanoo."
Itachi, Nagato and Naruto were beyond shocked. Itachi was more shocked hearing the Sharingan's secrets from the elderly Uchiha.
"So the power of the Tsukuyomi came from Yin release. It releases a very powerful spiritual energy to bend the senses of a human mind and a small manipulation of time itself. Amaterasu came from Yang release, a powerful physical attack of Enton. And the last and not least, the Susanoo, yes, this thing is only be summoned through both of the Yin and Yang. So if one eye can use Tsukuyomi, other must be able to shoot Amaterasu and if both the two eyes can work together after achieving the Mangekyo, Susanoo takes form in those eyes due to conjugation of Yin and Yang from both the eyes."
"But since Mangekyo Sharingan can only harness a small portion of Yang release, the user put more strain in the eyes due to off balance of Yin and Yang and so the eyes are started to get sealed, means in time the eyes lose its light. That can be same for the Izanagi as well. Since normal Sharingan eyes can't harness the Yang, Izanagi forcibly gave the eyes the power to use Yang and so the eyes lose its light. And then came the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan. Though I only know one person to achieve these eyes and he is my elder son."
"My elder son took Izuna's eyes as he was starting to go blind. I don't know how these new eyes can be used through different vessels but I do know that the Eternal Sharingan gave the eyes complete manipulation of Yin and Yang. And if you can harness that power, then you can do anything. You can make fantasy into reality and reality into fantasy. You can literary do anything like my son's space-time manipulation and many other abilities. But the Night Ravens said to me that if a night raven summoner is to gain the Mangekyo or even Eternal Mangekyo then, he will become same as a god."
Everyone's eyes widened hearing this. "What?" Naruto yelled. "Is this even possible?"
"Yes it is possible boy. Actually from the night ravens I've learned a thing no one's learnt. The thing is that everyone thinks that Sharingan was born from the Rinnegan but the actual thing is it's not true. It's born from something different. And like I've said, if a night raven summoner gains those eyes, his eye's power will become stronger than Rinnegan. Because a Night Raven summoner learns to utilize the Yin and Yang from the summons their normal Sharingan eyes become as strong as the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan, so gaining more power I mean by means of Eternal Sharingan, the summoner gains the Eternal power of the eyes. That's the true potential of the Sharingan. But unfortunately, a Night Raven Summoner's heart is so pure that he can't kill his most cherished person and in turn can't gain the Mangekyo. And also they had to give a promise to Boss Summon that he will use these powers to protect their precious people. That's why there is no Raven summoner who has achieved the Mangekyo Sharingan."
Everyone gaped at the words of the elder Uchiha. This was completely different from what they've heard before. A Sharingan's true potential is higher than the Rinnegan? Unbelievable! Itachi's eyes showed a different story as he processed the information. He had always tried to learn the true potential of the Sharingan, but he had never ever thought their eyes' potential was this big.
'To think Sharingan is more powerful than my eyes. Unbelievable!' Nagato thought shocked. 'So that's why Sharingan's abilities are way different than Rinnegan's. I had my suspicions if Sharingan really is born from Rinnegan or not and it turned out to be not the case.'
Naruto was thinking in a different line as he processed the information. There is something bugging him in his mind from the story between the Elder Toad and the Uchiha. He couldn't take it anymore and so quickly voiced his curiosity to the elder Uchiha.
"But what's the relation between the Night Ravens and the Solar Eclipse?" Naruto asked loudly.
Mikami's eyes widened. "What? How did you know that?" he asked hastily as he looked at the blond with calculating eyes.
"Huh..?" Naruto muttered confusingly but said nonetheless, "Um…the elder sage of Myobokuzan said about that. He was saying something like the Power of the Eyes and Solar Eclipse. By hearing you saying the power of the Sharingan, I have no doubt that the old geezer was saying about the eyes. And if the Sharingan is somehow related to the eclipse then the Night Ravens should have a relation with it too isn't it?"
Uchiha Mikami was shocked. He pointed at the young blond and said shakily, "Y-you are a-a sum-moner of the great Toads?"
Naruto nodded confusingly, "Yeah I am. Eor-sennin gave me to sign the contract when I was 13."
"It can't be. Then you must know the power of Sage Mode right?"
"Yeah. What about it?" Naruto asked.
"Boy you don't know what the true power of the Toads. Do you? Then I'll tell you. The toads are the earliest of creatures that have learnt to control chakra and unlocked the power of the nature. They have existed even before the Rikudou Sennin and have aided the sennin many times in battles and teaching of Ninshu. That elder toad you spoke about was the partner of the sennin in his prime." The Uchiha explained. "You should have seen their power in the eclipse." He muttered to himself.
Naruto's mouth fell in shock. Is this true? The toads were older than the sennin? Amazing!
"You wanted to know the relation between the Night Ravens and solar eclipse right?" He asked. Naruto nodded. "Okay…how do I start? Ohm…yeah..well the Toads from Gama no Kuni and the Night Ravens have been allies from a long period of time. So, whatever the night ravens know, the toads also were given the information and vice versa. You do know that the Chimera technique requires the eclipse along with the Heaven, Earth and Human conditions right? The Night Ravens have the similar ability. In the solar eclipse, their powers become beyond any power imagined. All the Ravens gather together and they transform to a new entity so big that they almost covers the whole earth making the world sleep in darkness. And so that's why they were named as the 'Night Raven of the Black Sun.' Do you understand what I'm saying?" he asked.
'Come to think of it, I never gotten to learn how to personalize summons as the Rikudou Sennin did. I've always wanted to summon the Phoenix and Night Ravens.' Nagato thought bitterly with his Rinnegan eyes blazing. 'And Jiraiya-sensei's toads were right in front of me. I truly had failed to create a better world Jiraiya-sensei envisioned.'
Naruto slowly nodded. His mind was on the verge of collapsing as he had received too much information about the world itself. He learned some things he didn't think possible before and it was making his head hurt. To think that the Uchiha clan had so much potential if they didn't go towards dark. He had seen the Phoenix summon of the Rikudou Sennin beforehand while fighting him, so he knew what the Uchiha elder was saying the truth. So it was no surprise that the Sennin could have another legendary summon such as 'Night Ravens'.
Naruto shook his head to clear away the thoughts as there was no time for drowning in thought now. He was standing in a war after all and he would have to win it. So much time had already been wasted; no one knew what Madara might have done in that time.
The blond looked at the raven haired elder Uchiha with determination in his eyes and signaled him, "Alright, time's over. Come at me with everything you've got."
All of the revived zombie ninjas prepared for battle. Uchiha Mikami shrugged his shoulders and made a hand seal and instantly his black flames Susanoo burst front. Itachi watched the Susanoo with content in his eyes, 'I have no choice. I have to use my Susanoo if my predecessor has resorted to his ultimate attack.' He thought.
Naruto spiky blond hair started swirling in the air as he watched the duo Uchiha came front with their respective Susanoos. Itachi's Susanoo was clad in the red flames and huge figure was covered in armor. Naruto watched fascinated the younger Uchiha's Susanoo as this was the first time he had seen Itachi's one.
Naruto carefully looked at the Susanoos and after sometime scowled seeing the things he thought were lost. The elder toad had said that the things he was seeing were lost in the history. "You Uchihas always have a trick up your sleeves huh…?" he pointed at the duo. Mikami and Itachi had confused look on their faces. "Don't tell me you are not realizing my meaning?" Naruto asked. They shook their heads no.
He sighed and pointed at their Susanoos and proclaimed, "I'm saying about those." All of them looked at the objects. "The Totsuka no Tsurugi, Yata Mirror and the Magatama Beads of the Rikudou Sennin." He said at last. Itachi and Mikami's eyes widened in realization. They had completely forgotten about them.
"How are you even able to use those things I'll never know but whatever.." Naruto said, "But…however I have my own spirit weapon though not original but effective." He exclaimed and took his sword in reverse grip. He closed his eyes and after a few seconds opened them and his Sage Mode first level activated. He took a stance and muttered, "Get Ready."
Naruto disappeared as soon as he said those words creating a huge explosion making the ground shake. Everyone's mouth fell in shock. Itachi's Mangekyo glowed even redder as he tried to locate from where would be the attack come from.
BOOOOOOOOOOOM….
The sword in the hands of the blond slammed on the Susanoo's Yata Mirror with a tremendous explosion as Naruto suddenly appeared in front of Itachi. The whole area shook violently from the power of the attack. The Uchiha startled with the sudden appearance of Naruto as he didn't think he would attack head on his ultimate defense. But the mirror held tight confirming its legends. Seeing that his attack was ineffective, Naruto quickly changed tactics and flipped back as the giant Susanoo tried to cut him with the original Totsuka blade. In mid air, Naruto spinned sideways and kicked on the mirror again with ridiculous force.
Again the mirror held tight but the force of the impact was so great that the giant figure couldn't hold and flew back several meters along with Itachi within it creating huge shockwave and dust clouds. Itachi and his Susanoo slammed on trees breaking several of it and lastly stopped on a huge rock making a large crater. Naruto still in mid air again vanished with a boom clearing the dust cloud.
Itachi couldn't believe his eyes. In his life, he had seen many things but this? How could a human being have so much raw power? A simple kick like that could do this? Unbelievable!
(A/N:- Naruto left a Kage Bunshin to fight Kimimaro as he is not so important at this moment)
The blond suddenly appeared behind the 'Wind Lord' and the man hadn't had the chance to defend and got kicked in the face with a strong force. A portion of his face immediately torn apart and he spinned in the air and flew back several meters towards Nagato. Nagato annoyed held his arms in the air and muttered
Shinra Tensei (Almighty Push)
The flying man towards Nagato got pushed again in reverse direction due to the strong gravitational push. Naruto again appeared before the flying man and kicked him in the back sending him flying upwards and again disappearing and reappearing above the flying Kazekage and gave a downward spinning kick again sending him souring towards the ground.
Booom…the Kazekage impacted on the ground with a tremendous force creating large dust clouds and shaking the ground. For all of this attack, the Kazekage would have been done for if he was alive; but because of Edo Tensei, the man rose to his feet as if nothing happened. His half blown face again regenerated itself.
Naruto came down from the air and stood smoothly on the ground looking at his opponents with a serious face. Itachi also disappeared from his place and joined with the others.
Suddenly Naruto's surroundings exploded with an earthquake followed by a large amount of black flames. The black flames immediately rose to fifty feet and surrounded Naruto making a sphere of flames and completely engulfed him. The heat of the flames was so great that the area that flames burnt became lava.
Enton: Kuro-en no Shinku (Inferno Style: Black Flame Vacuum)
Uchiha Mikami uttered after casting the jutsu on Naruto. Everyone including Itachi was shocked beyond words. The progenitor of Uchiha was truly living up in his name. He was really the master of controlling black flames.
'These flames are dangerous!' the blond thought looking at the flames as he was inside the sphere. His sage eyes carefully analyzed the flames and his eyes narrowed, 'the jutsu isn't name only, it is using the oxygen inside for fuel therefore making a vacuum for the opponent.' He concluded, 'I didn't know of any fire that can use oxygen for fuel. The Enton is really a special element.'
After a few minutes the flames started to spin and made a vortex. The atmosphere became dark from the heat of the flames and the whole area got covered in smoke. Then the vortex exploded with a ridiculous energy creating a large mushroom like cloud of smoke. The shockwave of the blast blew past the forest and few trees flew away. Everyone covered their faces with their eyes as the shockwave past.
'Incredible!' Itachi thought with shocked eyes. He had never seen anyone controlling the flames like that. So much power from a normal Sharingan? Unbelievable! He couldn't believe his eyes.
After a few minutes, the clouds cleared and revealed a giant crater of 200 meters radius. The flames were still there burning in the middle of the crater.
BUT, when they saw what was there made their mouth fell. There was Naruto standing above the flames as if he was flying without any injuries. Not even a single tear could be seen in his robes. He was standing there as if nothing had happened. The explosion was huge, then how did he survive the blast?
"How is this possible?" Mikami murmured in shock. "How did you survive?" he yelled to Naruto asking in anger. He knew that this level of attack wouldn't work on the blond but he had hoped to at least injure him some but this was completely out of his mind.
"The jutsu does what it is named. Even if you can use space-time technique, the jutsu doesn't let you escape so easily because it can hold onto the space you want to tear. Only an expert user of Jiku-kan Ninjutsu (Space-time Technique) can escape it but even barely. He will still be affected by it, but how did 'YOU' escape it so easily unscathed?" he yelled again with confusion.
Naruto jumped from his place and stood in front of them facing upwards. His spiky blond hair started flowing in wind giving him a heroic aura. He then looked at them and scowled and said, "I don't have time for describing every technique I use. I only say the name of the technique. Its name is Wapu Sokudo (Warp Speed) and it bypassed any transportation technique used by today's shinobi. It is my ultimate speed technique and this is all I am going to say and nothing else."
Uchiha Mikami growled in anger but didn't say anything. The Kazekage and Itachi also narrowed their eyes by the attitude of the blond shinobi. Nagato was simply emotionless.
'Though I said those things that doesn't mean his Enton is easy to bypass. If I can't stop those flames, I can't attack him head on. I need to form a plan. But how?' Naruto thought in an emotionless façade though inside was a different case. 'Wind and water combination can't counter the flames. These flames are legendary after all hence why it's said that these flames burn anything for seven day and seven nights. And I can't seal them away since he uses it pretty fast for me to make any seal. He is much better in controlling the flames than the Rikudou Sennin.'
'But first I need to finish off the others. They distract me if I try to attack the elder Uchiha. The special clones are out of options because they need huge amount of chakra and time and I haven't prepared them for this battle. This is really troublesome!'
Fuuton: Toketsu-fu no Soyokaze (Wind Style: Breeze of Freezing Wind)
The Shodaime Kazekage went through some hand seals and muttered the name of the jutsu. After a few seconds, the atmosphere started to cool down. Naruto startled from the sudden coldness of the atmosphere. He looked around and felt that some ice cold breeze touched on his cheeks. He shuddered from the coldness and to his amazement he saw that small ice particles had started falling down from the sky. The smoke that had risen from the heat of the black flames froze instantly and became ice. After a few minutes, the whole area got covered in ice. But the black flames didn't even budge. It was still burning.
The Kazekage again blurred in hand seals and muttered
Fuuton: Kori Ryushi no Tatsumaki (Wind Style: Tornado of Ice Particles)
Immediately there was movement from the ground. Suddenly the ice rose from the ground 100 meters high and started spinning rapidly surrounding Naruto. Inside, the blond looked at the tornado in amazement and wide eyes. The surrounding area became colder and more and more ice particles started building up and made the tornado even bigger. The tornado started moving in high speeds turning anything ice it touched and destroying it afterwards. After a few minutes, the tornado stopped and slowly dissipated.
The others including Itachi and Mikami watched in wide eyes and fascination as the wind attack tore everything around and making everything ice it touches. When the tornado cleared, they were able to see what had become of Naruto. To their shock, they saw a figure still standing there. But something was different about the figure as they couldn't see clearly due to the ice particles situated in the atmosphere.
After closer inspection, they saw what it was. It was Naruto who had completely became an ice statue as if it was sculptured recently by an expert artist. They can completely make out of the figure as the figures eyes were wide in amazement and he was backing away from the jutsu. Suddenly, the ice around the figure started breaking. Everyone precisely thought that Naruto was breaking free; but to their shock, the statue broke in several parts and fell to the ground in pieces.
Looking at the broken pieces what remained of one Uzumaki Naruto, the caster of the formidable jutsu muttered to himself, "That should do it." Since he could clearly say that Naruto is dead before their eyes.
Complete silence fell between everyone. To think that the one who was toying with them just now had fallen victim of one of the strangest jutsus? Unbelievable!
"He fell victim of his own medicine. What a waste!" exclaimed the elder Uchiha seeing the broken pieces. "But, it is a perfect way to go down isn't it?"
'But…but..something doesn't add up.' Itachi thought, 'it is as if…' his eyes widened and looked around to locate where he sensed clearly a chakra signature.
"GET OUT OF THE WAY!" he shouted at the Kazekage but it was too late as the man got sliced multiple times from some tiny chakra shurikens in several pieces. Itachi's eyes widened seeing as the pieces of the man also got sliced millions of times and at last nothing remained of the dead Kazekage. As if he was completely vaporized, the Shodaime Kazekage was completely cut down in cellular levels never to be summoned again.
'What the hell?' Uchiha Mikami mentally screamed. He looked around and finally looked at what seemed to be the origin. There stood Naruto in his glory with minor cuts in his cloths few meters from him. He could clearly see the small fog of chakra but could not determine what it was. After a few seconds, the chakra fog disappeared.
Mini Rasen Shuriken (Mini Spiraling Shuriken)
Genshi Rasen Shuriken (Atomic Spiraling Shuriken)
Muttered the blond slowly after destroying the body of the Kazekage and twirled his fingers round showing that he had cast the jutsus with his fingers. His eyes were still toad like and his cloths were flowing in the cold wind.
'What a jutsu!' Itachi thought, 'Naruto-kun, what have you become? Was this your full potential from the very start? If then, people of Konoha had severely made a mistake by underestimating your power.' Itachi couldn't believe his eyes. 'If he is this strong even in normal mode, how strong will he be if he uses Kyuubi power? I fear even thinking about that.' He shuddered in fear.
'That's the mini version of his nasty shurikens.' Nagato thought inwardly, 'Is this even possible? He has become far stronger than when I faced him. And he shot his shurikens with fingers. FINGERS!' he mentally screamed.
"That was a beautiful jutsu cast by the man." Naruto said addressing Itachi. "Super cold wind in combination with water molecules in the air, making an ice cold tornado which can turn anything into ice it touches. What a genius way to make a technique." He praised the already defeated warrior.
"He was really the 'Wind Lord of Desert'. Maybe that's why Gaara's sand was useless against him. Since water makes the sand heavier, he also can combine his ice wind with Gaara's sand and manipulated like the Sandaime Kazekage. And Gaara couldn't control the soaked sand I think." Naruto muttered to himself closing his eyes. "What a irony that, every Kazekage of Suna was gifted with the manipulation of 'Matter' no matter what method they use." He laughed a little in the irony. "Even Gaara's dad was famous for controlling the Gold Dust in his lifetime."
"What are you talking about Naruto-kun?" Itachi exclaimed in wide eyed, "You are even better than the man in controlling the wind. Instead you should be the 'Wind Lord'."
"Yes, you even can control the shape and nature of the wind shurikens from a distance. I haven't seen anyone doing anything like that." Uchiha Mikami said in narrowed eyes.
Naruto smirked to himself. He knew that he was better than the Kazekage in controlling the wind. But he didn't show his wind skills until the end. He looked at Nagato as he was thinking something.
"What are you thinking, Nagato?" Naruto asked smirking. "Are you thinking of summoning the Six Paths of Pain?"
Nagato scowled to Naruto. He muttered in irritated tone, "Nah..I can't bring the Paths now. I haven't even got the time to make them after my revival. I just have to fight by myself with this deterred body." He sighed heavily, "I want to go back to the dead as soon as possible. I don't belong in the living world anymore. Why did they bring back us just to fight a war?"
Naruto shook his head and sighed, "Yes, that's for the best. I can't believe I had to fight you people again. That bastard Madara." 'Ok I'm gonna fight with more fiercely now' he thought inwardly.
He concentrated his natural energy and his blue aura burst forth creating a huge shockwave. All of his opponents flew away from the force and the atmosphere became colder. The sky began darkening and the thunder clouds that assembled formed a figure in the sky and howled. All of them looked upwards and their eyes widened seeing the most supernatural thing they had ever seen in their lives. In the sky, the clouds had formed several hundred figures of wolves that are howling and between the wolves, some birds' figures also formed. After that small lightning started forming and the sky started roaring as well as strong gushes of cold wind started blowing.
'What the hell is this? What kind of power is that? Shit! Is this the full power of the kid? He has become even more dangerous. I can't believe I'm saying this but I'm now afraid to face him.' Uchiha Mikami inwardly screamed in terror looking at the sky and surrounding atmosphere.
'WHAT? What is this? What the hell are you doing Naruto-kun?" Itachi mentally asked shivering uncontrollably and started shaking in fear. 'There was nothing in this world that can scare me like this. His killing intent is so strong that even the sky is shaking. My God!'
'What the hell is this feeling? It feels like my feet are shaking in fear. I'm a God damn it! God doesn't fear anything. But why do I feel like running away from here? What the hell is Naruto doing?" Nagato couldn't believe his eyes looking at the sky. 'So much power! Is this even possible?"
Naruto opened his eyes and took hold of his sword tightly in his grip. A bluish energy started swirling around the sword and he took a stance. As soon as he readied his weapon, a dark color lightning fell from the sky and struck the earth where he stood. The icy plane swirled upwards when the lightning struck and everyone saw that the blond had vanished from their sight even before they realized when.
Itachi looked around with his Mangekyo ablaze trying to find the blond, but even with his superior eyes, he wasn't succeeding. Suddenly he felt a presence behind him and as soon as he tried looking back, a lightning fast kick struck him. The kick was so strong that a shockwave produced upon contact with the Susanoo and it tore through the armor and struck Itachi in the head. He flew away several meters and came to a halt.
Itachi was stunned. He was shocked beyond measure seeing that. He knew Naruto was strong but to tear through his strongest defense like that? It was fearsome and dangerous at the same time. Deep in thought, he hadn't realized that Naruto was coming down at him with a drop kick in super speed. An explosion occurred when Naruto's feet struck on the Yata mirror of the Susanoo and dust and rock flew upwards a hundred feet. When the dust settled, everyone saw that there was a dent in the mirror where Naruto had kicked.
Naruto looked at the dent mirror smiling in satisfaction. He had always wanted to test his strength in the Susanoo and by making a dent in it, he was more than happy with his results. He suddenly jumped back as the Susanoo's punch flew at him. He again dodged and flickered from view and appeared some distance away.
Itachi stood up and frowned. He had a feeling that something was wrong here. He could tell that Naruto was avoiding something. But what could it be? He again looked at Naruto to determine what was wrong and immediately found his answer. At first, he wasn't able to figure out what was wrong as Naruto was too quick to follow his movements. But as Naruto was standing there he figured out what was the problem. As he saw that Naruto's eyes widened in shock after seeing his eyes proved his theory.
Naruto was shocked, yes shocked. Why wouldn't he? He just let his guard down by looking straight in Itachi's eyes. How the hell could he forget that Itachi can cast Genjutsu with just an eye contact? He was just so engrossed in determining his strength in Susanoo that he had forgot Itachi's Genjutsus. For the entire fight, he had been avoiding his eye contact like a plague. He knew even if he knew how to dispel a Genjutsu and even if he had a few arsenals of Genjutsus himself, Itachi's Genjutsus were on a whole different level and countering them means trying to swim across the ocean. He prayed that he didn't get trapped in an illusion just now. But to his surprise nothing happened. Why wasn't Itachi trying to trap him in a Genjutsu?
Gggghhhaaaakkkkkkkk….
Naruto felt sick, sicker than when he swallowed meals of Ma in Myobokuzan. He grasped his neck as something was trying to come out from his throat. He opened his mouth wide and a head of a crow started squeezing out from his mouth. With some saliva, the crow struggled to come out from his mouth as Naruto felt like vomiting. His eyes rolled back on his head as the last part of the crow's body came out with loud flapping of wings. Naruto threw up and started coughing. After some time he wiped his mouth and looked at the flying crow in confusion that was trying to settle on his right shoulder.
The crow that came out from Naruto's mouth started hovering around his shoulders. The crow's left eye was strange. It looked like a four-star shuriken with a middle black round in the centre. Its shape reminded Naruto of the Mangekyo Sharingan.
Nagato and Mikami stared at the strange crow in confusion. They had seen many strange things in their lives but never like this. Mikami narrowed his eyes looking at the crow's left eye. 'Now that is strange. A crow can't have a Mangekyo Sharingan, can it? And what the hell it was doing inside the kid's body?'
"Gross!" Naruto billowed wiping his mouth over and over again. He had felt abit salty in his taste when the crow was trying to come out. He shuddered at the experience. He then looked at the bird in narrowed eyes and thought, 'It's the crow Itachi gave me that day. What is it doing out here?
Itachi closed his right eye and after a moment blood started flowing out from his eye. 'This pressure! I know it. It's Amaterasu.' Naruto thought. He prepared to dodge the attack but the crow flew away from his shoulder and stationed before him. Naruto stopped his movement and looked at the crow's behavior confusingly. As soon as Itachi opened his eye, the crow also opened his left eye wider and then nothing happened. No black flame was cast by Itachi. Naruto thought, 'What's going on?'
"So this is how it turns out.." Itachi muttered with his Mangekyo ablaze. "That crow.." Nagato started from behind Itachi and Itachi looked back at him, "It's yours, isn't it? What did you do with it?"
Itachi looked at Nagato and said, "It worked.." and muttered
Amaterasu!
"Ah..I see what you did." Nagato said smiling as the black flames covered his deterred body and he collapsed.
"What are you…?" Naruto asked in confusion looking at Itachi. He couldn't believe Itachi was controlling his body even in the Edo Tensei.
"I'm not in control anymore Naruto-kun." Itachi said looking at the blond. "I layered a new genjutsu on top of the enemy jutsu. With this, the Edo Tensei is canceled…the genjutsu is an order…to 'Protect the village of Konoha.'
"I rigged that crow…so that it would show itself, reacting to my Mangekyo Sharingan. Just in case…"
The elder Uchiha narrowed his eyes listening to what Itachi was saying. 'What are they talking about? Did Itachi-kun place the crow inside the kid?' Mikami stepped forward asked Itachi, "How's that work..?"
Itachi took a deep breath and explained, "I implanted something into that crow's left eye…the ultimate genjutsu of Uchiha Shisui's Mangekyo Sharingan..'Kotoamatsukami! (Distinguished Heavenly Gods)!' he looked downwards and said, "This genjutsu returned me to normal. Although it looks like the Mangekyo has faded away.
"Uchiha Shisui…", Naruto wondered. He remembered the name from somewhere else then it suddenly clicked, "Are you talking about the 'Shisui of the Shunshin', the most powerful genjutsu user of the Uchiha?" he asked.
Itachi was surprised that Naruto know about his best friend. He wondered where Naruto had learned about him. He answered, "Shisui's eyes create most powerful genjutsus, able to control an individual without them even noticing. I embedded the command 'Protect Konoha'…as a genjutsu into Shisui's eye…and in turn I embedded the eye into that crow and entrusted it to you, Naruto-kun. I never dreamt it would end up being used against me, though."
Naruto not understanding Itachi's meaning asked, "..Why did you have that eye? In fact, why did you give it to me anyway?"
Itachi looked straight into Naruto's eyes. Itachi's dark bands above the eyes are started to disappear as clear sign of nullifying the Edo Tensei.
"Self sacrifice..", Itachi muttered slowly, "a nameless shinobi who protects peace from within its shadow…that is a true shinobi. Shisui taught me that. He gave me his eye, trusting me to protect the village with it. He asked me to hide its existence and died silently. In order to prevent conflict over his eyes, he made it look like he destroyed his eyes and erased its existence." He took a breath and again started talking, "I helped him accomplish that. The last time I met him though…Danzo had already taken one eye. The other..I gave to you, who had the same ideals he had." Naruto's eyes widened slightly.
"If the brother I left behind ever became a threat to the village…as the keeper of the Shisui's eye, it would mean I betrayed his trust. You were the only one who could ever hope to correct this. You called Sasuke your brother Naruto-kun. This is why I felt that only you could stop Sasuke if the time ever came. I believed that Sasuke would transplant my eyes…in order to gain 'True' power, the Eternal Mangekyo. When that happened, the crow would emerge, reacting to my transplanted eyes..and cast 'Kotoamatsukami' on Sasuke..to 'Protect Konoha'. That was the plan anyway.."
Naruto narrowed his eyes listening to him. His eyes hardened. He asked, "Why didn't you use Shisui's eye on Sasuke in the first place?"
"I couldn't use it. At least, not then." Itachi said looking down. "Shisui's Mangekyo requires at least another decade to activate again. Discounting Senju Hashirama's chakra, unlikely as that is. Besides..there were things I wanted to do for Sasuke, with my death."
Naruto smiled a true smile and waved his left hand to the crow and the crow sat on his hand. "Itachi-san.." he said, "Thank you for trusting me..you don't have to worry anymore. You've done more than enough for the village already."
Naruto gave him a thumbs up and said in a confident smirk, " I will put an end to this war torn world. Leave the rest to me."
Seeing the confident smirk on Naruto, Itachi gave him a genuine smile, a smile never seen on the Uchiha's face. He said smiling to him, "I'm grateful…maybe you really are the savior of this world." Then his face turned serious and said again, "Naruto-kun, the genjutsu is not the only thing I placed on that crow….you will find out what in time."
Naruto was about to ask what Itachi meant by that word but suddenly had to stop by a voice in his head. The voice belonged to one Yamanaka Inoichi, captain of Intel division.
'Naruto..are you listening?...Naruto?' Naruto immediately responded, 'Yes Inoichi-san..I hear you. What happened? Why are you trying to communicate with our minds?'
'Naruto, you need to immediately come to the headquarters. Things have gone bad..very bad. I don't have time to explain it in details…but one thing you need to know. It concerns Madara and Sasuke.' Inoichi's sound was heard from the other side was very bad. It is as if he was in panic. Naruto's eyes widened. 'WHAT?' Naruto screamed in mind.
'No time for explanation…you need to come immediately…no….I need to go….' The connection suddenly lost.
Naruto''s eyes were wide as dinner plates. He couldn't believe what he had heard. Itachi was watching Naruto the entire time. He narrowed his eyes seeing the shocked expression on Naruto's face.
"Naruto-kun!..is something wrong?" Itachi asked casually. Naruto immediately shook his head and said hurriedly, "No time to explain. I need to go the headquarters right now. I'm entrusting you to defeat Nagato and Uchiha Mikami, Itachi-san. Do it for me."
Itachi nodded, "Ok..Naruto-kun. Leave those two to me."
"Thanks!" Naruto closed his eyes and concentrated. Instantly his surrounding space started to warp around him and instantly he vanished from sight with a loud boom and light dissipating from where he stood. A huge amount of dust blew from the spot.
Itachi's eyes widened in shock, seeing the incredible technique. 'It must be the Wapu Sokudo as he mentioned it. That was really the technique that far surpassed any transportation technique.' He inwardly thought amazed.
Nagato and Uchiha Mikami were also shocked watching the technique but had to dodge the swing made by Itachi's Susano'o. "So that's what come to it….huh..?" Mikami muttered. "So be it.."
Headquarters of the Allied Shinobi Forces-
It was a mess. Complete mess. The whole basement was in ruins. The buildings were on fire but not in ordinary fire, they were in black flames. Thousands of bodies littered in the place. Some were headless, other some were in pieces, and some were burning in black flames. Everywhere screams of terror and cries of pain. There were huge craters in the fields, huge claw marks and footsteps. The main basement was also in ruins. The windows were smashed, the walls were broken and the whole building was covered in black fire. Literarily, the whole place smelt of death and destruction. In the middle of the tower, in between the black flames a figure was seen crawling.
Tsunade couldn't believe what had transpired. One second they were discussing about strategy and the second they appeared out of nowhere and gave them a blow that was so terrifying that even the Death God would have trouble picking up the dead souls. Their whole base of operation was ruined. They didn't show mercy at all. They killed everyone in their sight. Especially that bastard. As everyone, she fought fearlessly but she was no match for them. How could she? They were three and she was alone. Only way she was even alive because of her 'Sozo Saise'. She bit her lips in anger but could not stand. She crawled towards the nearest dead body, the body of one Yamanaka Inoichi.
Suddenly, the space inside the room started warping and instantly someone appeared with a loud boom making the black fires flew few feet away. The figure looked around and instantly spotted her and quickly come to her aid. Though, she couldn't recognize the figure as her eyes were covered in blood. The figure quickly took her head in his lap and asked in a panicked voice.
"Ba-chan..Ba-chan…get a hold of yourself." Said a very familiar voice.
She opened her eyes and saw that it was none other than Naruto. "Narut-to..is that you? Y-you are lat-te.."
"What happened?" Naruto asked looking around. Tears glistening in his eyes he asked again, "Who did this?"
Tsunade tried to sit but didn't have the strength. So, Naruto helped her sit. She looked at him with tired eyes and said, "Madara and Sasuke appeared suddenly in the middle of the meeting and destroyed everything. They killed everyone...anyone in their path. They said that they were here to free Kabuto… and Madara also stated that without Kabuto, it is becoming troublesome to control the Edo Tensei. So, they freed him and the trio attacked everyone. Even Sasuke. He was the cruelest among the three. He didn't show any mercy. He killed everyone even ninjas from other villages. He was the one setting everything in black fires. I fought them for some time..but I was no match for them and got defeated. But I was able to survive because I used my 'Sozo Saise'."
"But…I couldn't save the others…because..I didn't have any chakra left to summon Katsuyu. They didn't even gave me the chance to summon her.." Tsunade sobbed.
Naruto gritted his teeth anger and sadness. 'Those two bastards…they are going to pay for what they had done. I will kill them one by one very painfully.' Naruto looked at Tsunade and saw that she had closed her eyes. Panicking he put his right ear on her chest and felt the heartbeat.
'Safe..she is alive. She is just unconscious. I need to take her to the medical tents along with others who are still alive perhaps.'
Kage Bunshin no Jutsu! (Shadow Clone Technique)
He seallessly created some clones and gave them order to find any survivors and bring them to the medical tents. He himself disappeared along with Tsunade to the medical area.
The Medical Tents-
The medical tents were unaffected by the assault my Madara and Sasuke. Their only target was the headquarters. The problem from the Zetsu clones had been solved by Naruto himself as he had the ability to sense negative emotions. It had been three days since the assault and Tsunade had gained consciousness after one day. She had immediately called for Naruto and said to him.
"Naruto..I remember. Madara and Sasuke said that they will be waiting for you in the Valley of the End. You have to show yourself there or else they'll destroy everything. That's what they said to me."
Naruto's eyes were shadow cast and he was clenching his fists. For some time he didn't say anything. After some time, he looked at Tsunade with fire within his eyes and said in a very determined voice, "If that what they want..then that's what they'll get it. I'm gonna show them what it meant to mess with a Namikaze and an Uzumaki. I will destroy what they hold dear most."
Tsunade sighed and said, "I knew that's what you were going to say. Alright I approve." She smiled.
Presently, Naruto was getting ready to go to the battlefield. His battle gear consisted of standard Konoha uniform with a red haori with black flames in it and black shinobi sandals. He sealed his sword inside his sleeves. His hitai-ate (Forehead Protector) was wrapped around his forehead and it showed the symbol of "Shinobi" in it indicating that it was indeed the hitai-ate for the allied shinobi forces. He was ready.
He entered the tent where Tsunade was resting. He saw that there were other two people inside the tent along with Tsunade waiting for him. They were Mizukage Mei Terumi and Yondaime Raikage A. Naruto looked at Tsunade confused and gestured what was all that about.
Tsunade sighed and said, "Naruto!..before you got to the battlefield, we need to discuss something to you. It's about the future of the world or simply put about Konoha. We three surviving Kages have decided that it is time to handover the mantle of our work to the next generation. So, I personally recommended for you to become the Rokudaime Hokage of Konoha after the war is finished. Since, Danzo wasn't voted by the Jounin's so the seat of Rokudaime is still vacant. You are to fulfill its role from now on."
Naruto was shocked beyond words. He, the Rokudaime Hokage? Finally he was closest to achieving his dream. Tears of joy flowed from his eyes and he hugged his surrogate grandma in affection. After sometime he let go and wiped his tears.
"Thanks..ba-chan. I'm gonna win this war and become Konoha's best Hokage ever. Believe it!"
He gave her thumbs up and instantly vanished. Looking at the spot from where Naruto had vanished, Tsunade closed her eyes and prayed, 'Kami-sama..please protect him. That's all I asked of you.'
FLASHBACK END
From chapter one-
Madara's sharingan spinned wildly and he growled in a very dangerous voice, "Brat, why don't we finish our cat and mouse game and start our match seriously. This is getting annoying!"
Naruto rolled his fingers in cyclic way creating more brightness in his white flame like aura and said calmly, "You are right Madara. I'm going to kick your ass right here right now. Believe it."
To be continued-
A/N- The fourth chapter is out. Enjoyed it? Find out what happens next in the upcoming chapters.
As I have already said, the next chapter will not appear hear until I get a beta. So no fifth chapter until then. When the story length will be over 100k, I will post a bingo book here describing about many characters and many new characters.
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