A Naruto Sequel: The End Of The world

Chapter 7

The scout team, having tidied the abandoned base they found of bodies they began making their way home. Since they began theorising the involvement of a humanoid in the slaughter they uncovered there was an uneasy, fearful even, tension among them. Himawari simply started into the distance with her incredible eyes, hoping she could find something, anything to distract her from what they had seen. She seen small bands of demons, simply wandering or sometimes eating. This was the first time anyone had found anything even suggesting the presence of the humanoids since Kurama told the survivors about the kage summit. Himawari couldn't help but think back to how much Boruto wanted to find one and punish it for everything it had caused, a bittersweet memory at best. So it was clear why Himawari was looking for a distraction and look for long enough and without doubt you'll find something.

Far away, but not so far that the others couldn't see it, orange lightning struck into the ground.
"That light, colossals…" Shuhei said, the idea scared him but he felt safe at this distance. Convenient for the team, the demons weren't even in the same direction that were heading. Despite this, Himawari focused her eyes towards them. She could see it, it was a very small band on survivors. There couldn't have been more than twenty of them, the Kōyō had a little over one hundred, but some of them seemed to be a bit older than the the Kōyōs oldest members. Himawari felt something in the pit of her stomach, she watched as they helplessly through their paper bombs at the metal colossals, as she watched them flee.

"We should help them!" Himawari turned to her comrades, angry and guilty. Her comraders were shocked partly because Himawari was not normally this outspoken but mostly because the idea was mad.
"Himawari… we can't. As much as we might want to it's too risky" Tokuma advised, pulling his ink bird up to meet hers.
"He's right, the Kōyō is counting on us to get these supplies back we can't risk the mission." Inojin backed him up, but he clearly was more upset by the fact. Himawari wanted to argue back but she had nothing, she just growled at her comrades. She knew that Boruto use to feel the way she felt now, wanting to save every survivor they found. Sometimes she wondered if that's how he died but those thoughts were too painful. She just continued to watch the group, she watched as the giant demons toyed with them even if they dodged an attack the small explosion would send them hurtling through the air. Her chakra began to flutter, her whiskers thickened and widened, her hair dancing in the strong red chakra. Shuhei began to move away from her, he couldn't believe what he was seeing.
"Himawari, calm down." Inojin said smoothly, but she ignored him.

She could see an older woman, the oldest person she'd seen since E-day running towards a younger boy who was simply lying in the dirt crying in fear. A large demon swung its arm down at the boy and the woman put her body between them. Himawari couldn't bear to watch, but at the same time she couldn't look away from them either. Before the demon struck them it was struck by an enlarged human fist. Himawari gasped, her chakra calming. The others new she was still watching and they couldn't help be curious and concerned. From her reaction, she didn't see someone die but she seen something she wasn't expecting. Himawari didn't see where she come from, but now there was a large dark skinner woman going to toe to toe with the large metal skin demons.
"Chocho…" Himawari muttered.

"What?! What did you just say?!" Inojin flew closer to his friend frantically.
"It's Chocho. She's there! She's alive!" Himawari turned, tears in her eyes. Tears of joy for a change.
"Who's Chocho?" Both Tokuma and Shuhei asked, not in the same words. They weren't met with answers Himawari and Inojin just kept looking at each other in shock. Eventually however Inojin turned to their comrades.
"She was a member of my Shinobi squad before E-day she had family in the hidden cloud and was visiting them that day, Shikidai and I just assumed she died there." He explained, Tokuma went to ask another question, but the answer to that one was clear.
Inojin and Himawari's ink birds both turned to fly towards the demons. Shuhei and Tokuma reluctantly followed after them.

At their camp, or what was left of it Chocho continued to push back the demons in her giant form. She wasn't strong enough to defeat them but she could still defend herself from them. She grabbed one of the demons and threw into another then bringing her arms back to strike away another demon lunging at her. She felt her strength beginning to fade, outnumbered and outmatched. She heard the cries of her comrades and continued to fight on but deep down she wasn't sure if she could win. She shoulder charged into a demon, knocking it down to the ground before picking it up and using it as a flail against the others before chucking it across the open wasteland. However the demon span round, landing on its feet not far from Chocho and lunged back at her. Taken aback Chocho brought her arms to her defence but the hit never came.

Chocho heard a crash and felt a shake in the ground. She looked from behind her arms and seen a giant fox chakra avatar.
"Lord seventh?!" She exclaimed.
"Chocho, stay back we have this!" The fox head turning back, allowing her to see Himawari inside.
"Himawari?!" Surprised to see her young friend inside the chakra she watched as Himawari killed the demons with one blow each, like they were nothing. Chocho shrunk down to her normal size awestruck. She turned to see her comrades being defended by two ninja whom she did not recognise but the third.
"Inojin…" She gasped, watching the young blonde fending off flesh demons with his ink weapon. She partically expanded one of her arms as she approached to assit when a large metal skin fell to the ground behind her, blowing her off her feet.
"Sorry!" Himawari shouted down to her friend, having accidently knocked a demon in her direction with one of Kurama's tails. Having defeated the colossal demons Himawari faded her chakra avatar, reverting to her nine tails chakra mode, landing next to Chocho.
"Hey, are you ok?" She asked, Chocho nodded in response. Himawari smiled, shrugging her head towards the others as they both ran off to assist them.

After the battle, Inojin and Chocho shared a very happy embrace. Immediately afterwards she embraced Himawari, with laughs all around. Chocho's people approached, nervously at first.
"It's ok, these are my friends. They are- were from the hidden leaf" Chocho seemed nervous herself, all of her people were looking too her.
"How many people did we lose?" She asked reluctantly.
"More than half, including Gee." One of her people answered, reaching to Chocho placing something in her hand. Chocho was on the verge of anger filled tears, but Himawari spoke out before she could break.
"Come on, come with us." She placed a hand on her older friends shoulder, smiling at the others as she did so.

Back at the Kōyō, Sarada stood in her makeshift office looking over the maps she had sprawled over the desk in front of her. She had the approximate location of their current settlement on it, she looked over everything that was on the map but these were old maps from before E-day. She would be lucky if anything on these maps was even similar to what it was back then. She sat back down onto a chair, reaching into the weapons pouch at the base of her back. She pulled out a small bit of folded paper, unfolding it as she did so. The paper was a photograph, of herself when she was younger alongside her genin team. She brought other hand up, caressing the faces on the photograph. She stared at Boruto, Himawari's older brother when she suddenly flinched buckling over in pain and dropping the photo to the ground. This wasn't one of the panic attacks she was victim to, this was something different. She found her breathing becoming more erratic. She reached back into her pouch, taking out a small white bottle. She arced her other hand towards a glass of water, missing it at first but catching it the second time. She took two pills from the bottle, tipping them into the glass before preceding to swallow the pills with as much of water as she could.

"Miss Sarada we've spott-"Jinsho knocked the door, entering shortly after. Sarada quickly hid the bottle behind her body, and concealed her accelerated breathing.
"Sorry, did I interrupt something?"
"No it's ok Jinsho, I was just lost in my thoughts." An ill prepared lie if there ever was one but he didn't seem to notice.
"Em, we just spotted the scouts on their way back but…" He trailed off awkwardly.
"But….?" She inquired.
"They've brought ninja back with them."
"What?" She asked, shocked. Sarada made her way outside with Jinsho, finding a lookout. She reached out for his binoculars. She inhaled sharply and began to tear up.
"Oh my god, it's Chocho"