Disclaimer: See Chapter 1.
Again, not really much to say, except thanks for all the reviews. The fight against Hachi continues, and things will pretty much be harder than the Gaara fight in the anime/manga. And I should have clarified this, but when I said Hachi's ear was fin-like, I meant something close to Kyuubi's ear.
On another note, I'm amazed no one commented on the Corpse Dolls. I mean, isn't it significant that Orochimaru can't summon the First and/or Second Hokage? Eh… enough of that.
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Answer to reviews:
Tellemicus Sundance: When the occasion calls for it, Hinata can be as lethal as a lioness staking her claim. It's just that being with the one you deeply care for varies from person-to-person. An example is the fic Shadow Leaf Dance on But that aside, Hinata can be aggressive when she's serious. In addition, I define the eight-headed serpent as Yamata no Orochi, another entity entirely. Just thought you ought to know!
Samael the Desolate One: Well, it's a good quote, so I don't care if it's irrelevant. And in regards to Sakura… depending on what you read or see, she can be eye-candy or not. More the often, it's the latter… unless you're bored and decide to look at Naruto Hentai… though I'd extremely confused why you would… unless… Ero-Sennin!! ERO-SENNIN!! DAMN YOU JIRAIYA, STOP CORRUPTING MY REVIEWERS!!
Mystic4 Gohan: Gaara isn't dead; he's just missing for the time being. He'll show up later. MUCH later.
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Chapter 8: Rise of the Dragon! The True Face of Hachi!!
Kakashi was concerned for his team, as was Kurenai and Asuma. And when the chakra pulse hit them, they stopped fighting momentarily. "Did you feel that?" asked Asuma.
"Hai," said Kakashi. "It felt similar to the Kyuubi… but it felt darker… more evil."
Kurenai glanced at the hole Gai made when he had kicked an Oto-nin through the wall. Seeing the smoke rising in the distance gave her that feeling. You know, the feeling you get knowing that something is happening to the one you care for.
Something bad.
"I just hope the Genin are okay right now," she said, catching a Suna-nin and an Oto-nin in a Genjutsu and slitting their throats.
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Sakura was prepared for many things. A date for Sasuke, Naruto trying to ask her out, her pummeling him, him saying "Just kidding, Sakura-chan". And right now, her death at the hands, or jaws, of the insane Kumo-nin/Jinchuuriki Ryunosuke Hachi.
She did not expect this.
Hachi's jaws were millimeters away from her stomach, but the Jinchuuriki had stopped. The reason? Uchiha Sasuke, the last of the Uchiha's in Konoha, had a Chidori buried in Hachi's draconic shoulder, and his other arm around Sakura's waist.
One second passed. Two seconds. Then Hachi let out a screeching roar and let go of Sakura, and his human arm flailed wildly, catching Sakura across the stomach, causing three small fine lines that slowly bled.
Naruto didn't see that coming, and neither did the others. He and the rest leapt over to see if Sakura was okay, and he voiced his concern. Only to gape, along with the others at what she did next.
Sakura was pretty much catatonic, until she saw Sasuke looking at her and asking if she was all right. Then she did something that shut him up and everyone else: She grabbed the sides of Sasuke's face and caught him in a full lip-lock.
Sasuke certainly didn't expect that, so his mind went on a temporary shutdown. After about twenty seconds, she separated from him and whispered against his mouth, "Arigatou gozaimasu, Sasuke-kun."
'Didn't see that coming,' thought Shikamaru, referring to the saving of Sakura by Sasuke, and the subsequent full kiss upon said Uchiha by said pink-haired kunoichi. Everyone, though, turned their attention to the snarling Hachi, whose draconic arm was bleeding from the shoulder. Within seconds, the blood that was leaking out ceased, and the wound healed itself amid the crackling of electricity.
"Uchiha…" growled Hachi, his human eye showing veins at the edges of white, "… you've been a pain in my tailed ass for the last time!" With that, he thrust forward his draconic arm, the appendage stretching out to grab Sasuke neck.
Sasuke and the others jumped aside and successfully avoided the projectile, then faced the deranged Kumo-nin. "Sasuke," said Naruto, "this guy has gotta go."
"For once, your right," said Sasuke.
"Okay, then! Let's go!" yelled Chouji, slamming his fist into the palm of his other hand.
"You seem eager," said Shikamaru.
"Yeah," said Chouji a little sheepishly. "I really feel like fighting him, for some reason. And…" he whispered this last part to his best friend, "… I really wanna make him pay for hurting Ino's mind."
Shikamaru was about to ask his friend how in the hell he got that last part of that sentence in his head, but he was cut off by Hachi yelling, "If you all are so eager to die… then die!!" And then Hachi exhaled a massive ball of fire.
Sasuke and Naruto quickly did the required signs, then exhaled, yelling "Katon: Goukakyuu no Jutsu!!" The Grand Fireball Hachi sent was intercepted by Naruto's Grand Fireball, and Sasuke's flew past to engulf Hachi in flames.
Sasuke, who knew that from doing the Chidori already, knew that he wouldn't be able to turn Hachi's Raiton Ninjutsu on him, so he settled for, "Katon: Housenka no Jutsu (1A)!!" The little fireballs flew into the inferno that was created by the Grand Fireball, and created a nice-sized explosion.
Hachi, however, was not impressed. Spreading his arms spread-eagle, he yelled, "Hijutsu: Karai Ryuiki (2A)!!", and shot a stream of fire from his twisted mouth. Naruto countered with another Grand Fireball, but while the fire cancelled out, the lightening shot through the fire and narrowly missed the blonde, who fell to the ground at seeing the white bolt. The bolt of lightening was then deflected back at Hachi by Neji, who had performed a Kaiten.
Hachi spread his wings and leapt into the air, successfully avoiding the lightening. Flapping them, he then glided down, his half-human half-dragon opening for another shot of either fire or lightening.
He didn't get the chance, as Chouji yelled "Ninpou: Nikudan Hari Sensha (3A)!!" Chouji expanded to the size he would when activating his Baika Jutsu, then pulled in his head, arms, and legs, like his Nikudan Sensha (1). But then, he suddenly had kunai attached to him, and turned from a rolling ball into a rolling mace. He impacted on Hachi, sending the Jinchuuriki backwards.
Hachi landed on his feet, and observed the numerous slashes inflicted on him. Healing them subconsciously, he shouted "Raiton: Byakurai (4A)!!" The moment he finished that phrase, he shot a bolt of raw white lightening from his mouth, the sheer force of it throwing his head upwards. Said bolt completely annihilated a section of the wall behind Temari and Kankurou, who by this time were conscious enough to dodge.
"Kamaitichi!!" yelled Temari, swinging her fan. The blast of wind caught Hachi, and forced him back into the wall, where Neji leaped into action. "Nishou… Yonshou… Hachishou… Juurokushou… Sanjuunishou… Rokujuuyonshou!!" With the final cry, Neji thrust Hachi up into the air, where Sasuke jumped into the air, turned on his side, and caught Hachi across the ribs, yelling "Shishi Rendan!!"
Hachi impacted on the ground, but it wasn't over yet. He was again thrust into the air, this time by one Uzumaki Naruto, who rained the righteous justice of his Uzumaki Naruto Rendan upon the insane Kumo-nin.
Despite having his tenketsu sealed, and being in massive amounts of pain, Hachi still got up from the attack, and was immediately faced with the threat of Hinata. Said Hyuuga performed, for the second time that day, Hakkeshou Rokujuuyonshou. At the final strike, Hachi was thrust upwards, and he landed on the roof of a building. Staggering to his feet, he yelled, "Is that all… you got!?"
"Just die, damn you!" yelled Naruto, as he leapt into the air and pulled out a kunai with an orange slip of paper on it. He flew at Hachi, who swiped at him with his draconic arm, narrowly missing the blonde Jinchuuriki. Naruto appeared behind him, saying, "Behold, the Ultimate Taijutsu Technique of Konoha…" He finished by shoving the kunai into the area below the base of Hachi's tail: his ass.
"SENNIN GEROSHI!!"
Blink.
Blink.
Massive sweat-drop. "A kanchou?" muttered Kankurou. Sasuke and Sakura couldn't believe the stupidity of their teammate. Even Hinata was somewhat discouraged.
Hachi, on the other hand, glanced behind and down at the blonde who had shoved a kunai up his tailed ass. With a snarl, he slapped Naruto away from behind him with his tail. Naruto, falling to the ground, grinned and muttered, "Boom."
Upon hearing the blonde, Hachi glanced down at the kunai. With his human eye, he saw two orange tags unfurl themselves from around the handle, and said eye had its pupil shrink in shock. "… Shit."
The first exploding tag went off, engulfing Hachi in flames, and setting off the second one, which demolished a part of the roof that Hachi stood on.
Sasuke blocked Naruto's fall with his body, and the two fell to the ground. Covering her eyes, Ino commented, "That was actually a pretty good move."
As the smoke began to clear, Sakura asked, "Is he dead?" When the smoke completely cleared, they saw that Hachi was not dead. But he was pretty messed up.
His draconic ear was drooping badly, and his wings were tattered and nearly falling off his back. His human arm was bleeding badly, and his tail was bleeding electricity. His draconic arm was now hanging off his shoulder, and bleeding blood and electricity. 'I didn't expect him to target the base of my tail… It has done considerable damage. I can't use my wings, and I'm losing blood fast…' With that, Hachi knew what he had to do.
Sasuke had just done the seals for the Grand Fireball, but stopped midway when Hachi started to twist and contort himself. Hachi leaned forward from the contortions, and grinned maniacally, his eyes slightly pointing in opposite directions. "Kekeke… What can you hope to do… against the son of the Dragon's Teeth?"
With that, he began to descend into his Jinchuuriki form even more. His wings and tail repaired themselves, as did his arm. The human side of his face began to shine with a poisonous yellow light, and his sandaled right foot burst from its prison to become a replica of its partner. With a loud roar, he gave off another chakra pulse, blinding everyone present.
When the light died down, everyone glanced at the Kumo-nin, only to wish that they hadn't.
Hachi's head had gone even more draconic. The right side of his face mimicked the left side; the webbed crest, the bushy dragon eyebrows, the fin-like ears, the dark red and yellow eyes with slitted pupils; with additions: He still kept a human nose, but beneath it, a spiky mustache in the form of the Asian Dragon whiskers shown proudly. They did not droop, but stuck out on the sides like a Bo staff held by hands with the knuckles up. His upper jaw jutted out slightly, but his lower jaw extended drastically, resembling a dragon's jaw, with both jaws filled with razor-sharp teeth. With the Asian Dragon beard, in the form of a three-pointed beard.
His human arm had turned into a replica of the other, as had his foot. On his chest, the reptilian plating stood out, and his wings were healed. In addition, he grew two more tails slightly below the one already there. All three tails were slightly longer, and all three tails had a wickedly curved spike that resembled the claw of a velociraptor. And the draconic parts of his body took on a slight olive green tone.
Hachi was no longer Ryunosuke Hachi, the Jinchuuriki. He had descended himself to become Sanbi no Hachimata-Hachi (R1); the envoy of the Hachibi, and the half-dragon of destruction
Hachi roared, a terrifying sounding that sounded like a tiger's roar mixed with a reptilian screech.
Everyone present was too shocked to speak, so Naruto voiced the word on their minds: "Fuck."
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Over in the stadium, Kurenai stiffened. There was that chakra pulse again, but it was a little stronger than before.
"What the hell is going on?" muttered Asuma, slashing at a Suna-nin with his trench-knives.
Over at the bottom of the stairs, Baki and Buki looked to the sky. They had felt it too, and Baki could only compare it to Shukaku, when it had last come out. 'Gaara… Temari… Kankurou… stop horsing around. We need you.'
"What do you think that was?" asked Buki.
"I don't know," said Baki. "And I would rather not know."
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Elsewhere, Ibiki Morino narrowed his eyes. That chakra… it was like a bad dream all over again. The Chuunin beside him panicked, and said, "Ibiki-sama, did you feel that?"
"Yeah," said Ibiki. "It felt like the Kyuubi."
"I knew it, I knew it!!" said the Chuunin, his eyes wide. "We should have killed the Kyuubi brat when we had the chance! Now it's coming for us!!"
"No."
"B-but, Ibiki-sama!!"
"Uzumaki Naruto is anything but the Kyuubi. And to kill him would be an insult to Yondaime-sama's memory. Plus," he added, "this felt more… more… bloodthirsty. I hope that this doesn't mean what I think it means…"
The Chuunin didn't want to answer, he only watched as the Kyodaija continued towards the village.
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Hachi twitched his three tails, and grinned down at the Genin below. Or as well as a dragon could. "The next step… in your annihilation!!" he roared, slapping his massive draconic hands to his chest. "But I don't want to kill you yet… I want you to despair… I want you to suffer!!"
Sasuke regained his voice first. "We are suffering… you're still here!!"
Hachi snorted and replied, "Witty to the end, eh, Uchiha? But I want to make you suffer the most, Uzumaki. By stealing your treasure…"
"I have no treasure," snarled Naruto. "Whatever I have of value, those damn villagers destroy!"
Hachi next words chilled everyone to the core: "Not all treasure is material possessions."
Naruto was about to ask what the hell he was talking about, when he caught Hachi glancing off to Naruto's left. He then subconsciously felt Hinata clutch him and then…
"Oh, no," he whispered. "Oh, dear god, no…"
"Yeeeesssss…" hissed Hachi as he crouched. He was going to take the one thing Naruto treasured above all else at the moment.
"Hinata, move!!" said Naruto as he leapt in front of her, as she realized what Hachi meant. At the same time, Hachi appeared in front of Naruto, his jaws open.
A flash of light, and Hachi sent a lightening bolt from his mouth that smacked into Naruto and plowed him into a wall. He then whispered, "Uchiha…", and promptly spun around, charging his draconic right fist with a Lightening Dragon Hammer, and let loose.
Everyone heard the sound of the impact. The impact of Hachi's lightening-charged fist slamming into Sasuke's sternum. It sounded like a thunderclap, and the lightening discharged, sending Sasuke flying into the remains of the wall Hachi had emerged from when he appeared as the Ichibi no Hachimata-Hachi.
"Sasuke-kun!!" yelled Sakura in shock. But Hachi wasn't through yet. He let loose a lightening wave that shocked everyone into unconsciousness. Chuckling, he extended his right tail to wrap around Hinata's prone form, and took to the air. "Light as a feather," he growled.
At that point, he was assaulted by a memory. Him watching Naruto fight Neji, he glanced off into the crowd, he saw Hinata, he saw Kakashi, he saw the Hyuuga leader and a small Hyuuga girl…
A mad grin spread across his terrifying face. "We can force her natural age farther… We can accelerate her aging… Yess… perfect… The strongest of the Leaf… the perfect brides of the Dragon…"
With that twisted thought in mind, he flapped his wings and flew towards the center of Konoha.
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Hiashi glared at the Suna-nin and Oto-nin coming at him. With the Byakugan activated, he thrust his palms forward, hitting both shinobi in the heart. When more came at him from all sides, he performed the Kaiten, sending them flying. He grunted as he stopped in the crater his Kaiten made, and leapt out of it to the front of the Hyuuga Compound.
Inside the Hyuuga compound, Hanabi watched as a Hyuuga elder handily took care of a Oto-nin that snuck into the compound. "Be warned, ruffian," said the elder haughtily to the corpse on the floor. "The Hyuuga is the strongest of the Leaf."
"Well then… How about… Tobikiri no Saikyo tai Saikyo (2)"
The elder didn't get the chance to find out where that voice came from before he felt a searing pain in his back and chest. Looking down, he saw the end of a tail poking out of his chest, where it had entered his back. Coughing up blood, he hesitantly looked up, to see a grinning demonic face.
"Himori-sama!!" cried Hanabi as she saw the elder beside her get dragged up to the ceiling, and looked up to see the body fall to the ground. Hachi landed in front of her, and grinning, a frightening look in her eyes, and reached out for her with his draconic hands, growling like a tiger that had cornered its prey.
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When Neji came to, he looked around to see that Hachi, Hinata, Naruto, and Sasuke were gone. He shook his head. Hachi was a monster, and he had taken his baby cousin. His baby cousin who was apparently the girlfriend of the Jinchuuriki of Konoha.
Neji cursed. He'd worry about Hinata's love life later. Right now, he had to…
He turned his head at the groaning of Sakura, who stood up shakily, followed by Kiba, Ino, Chouji, Shino, Shikamaru, and the Suna-nin.
Shino shook his head, feeling sorry for being so useless in this battle. "Where's Hinata-san?"
"That dragon-bastard took her," growled Neji.
"I'll gut him myself!!" snarled Kiba. But their thoughts were short at Sakura's cry of "Sasuke-kun!!"
She, Ino, and Chouji were removing the rubble that Sasuke was buried under. When they revealed his face, he had blood trickling from the corner of his mouth, and coughed up more. His eyes flickered open, and he whispered, "Sa-Sakura…?"
Sakura felt tears in her eyes, and soon uncovered his upper body. "S-Sasuke-kun… please…"
Sasuke chuckled, then coughed again. "This… is… some… screwed up shit. I'm not… supposed to die… until I kill Itachi… and rebuild my clan…" Another cough. "S-Sakura… if we had more time… I might have… taken you up… on your offer… eventually…"
Sakura smiled sadly, tears still steaming down her eyes. She held Sasuke's head in her lap, whispered, "It's going to be okay, Sasuke-kun… W-we'll get you out, and get someone to heal you…"
"Heh…" chuckled Sasuke, closing his eyes, and grasping Sakura's hand in his. "You've got… more important matters… to attend to. Tell Kakashi-sensei… what happened here… And tell the dobe… that I considered him… my bro… ther… and that… I'll see… him… again…"
With that, Sasuke softly exhaled, and lay still. His hand went limp, and Sakura still held him, crying softly now, with Ino crying into Chouji's chest, while he sadly held her. They knew. Shinobi rules be damned, they knew.
Uchiha Sasuke was dead.
Shino glanced over at the three, and spoke softly to Kiba, Shikamaru, and Neji, who were digging in the rubble for Naruto where he fell. "Uchiha Sasuke has passed on."
That made them stiffen. Sasuke was dead? But he was the last Uchiha. He…
"You fuckin' bastard!!" shouted Kiba to the sky. "Hachi, you fuckin' bastard!!"
Then they heard a groan, and Shikamaru and Neji pulled more rocks to reveal Naruto. Pulling him out of the rubble, they helped him to his feet, and they went over to the others.
"Sa-Sakura-chan…" said Naruto, before Sakura latched onto him and cried into his torn vest. Wincing in pain, he saw the reason why: His teammate wasn't moving. He wasn't breathing.
He wasn't alive.
He held her to him, letting her sob into his vest. Soon, his sorrow turned into rage, and he felt the familiar surge that came with using the Kyuubi's chakra. "Where… is he?" he growled.
Neji shook his head. "He took you both out, then he took us out, and then, he took Hinata-sama and left."
"Before I passed out," said Kankurou, "I saw him head that way." He pointed to the direction of the Hokage Tower.
Naruto nodded, and let Sakura go. "Shino… get them to the stadium. I'm going after Hachi."
Shino stopped Kiba from yelling, and nodded.
Naruto turned to the direction Hachi flew, his rage at Hachi, at Kumo, and at himself boiling over. 'Yoko, you know what to do.'
"Okay," said the Kyuubi, dripping bloodlust. "I wanted to have another go at that dragon anyways."
Naruto dropped to all fours, and let the Kyuubi chakra take him. In front of those watching, the chakra took on the form of a fox, and shone red, before outlining Naruto. "This is new," he said, hunching over, flexing his chakra tail and new claws. "I will kill him, for Sasuke, and get Hinata-chan back."
With that, he took off, like a hound of hell, towards the new bane of his existence. And the others followed soon after, with Sakura lingering behind, placing a final kiss on the cooling lips of her beloved.
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Hyuuga Hiashi had just taken care of a bunch of Oto-nin, when he heard the smashing of wood behind him. He looked up just in time to see Hyuuga Himori's corpse fall in front of him, the stomach torn open and a hole in his chest. He then heard the demonic roar, and saw the flying Hachi depart.
"Hanabi!!" He saw his youngest daughter, no, both daughters, wrapped by the tails of that demon. "Hinata!!" His fatherly duties made him see that in neglecting his eldest in favor of his youngest, he was about to lose both of them. He saw that the flying Hachi was heading towards the stadium, and he wanted to go, to get his daughters back.
And yet, these relentless bastards kept coming!
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"Kuchiyose: Yatai Kuzushi no Jutsu (5A)!!" came a voice, and a giant toad with two hilt-less katana's on its back slammed down on the Kyodaija, causing the snakes to shriek and disappear in a cloud of smoke. "Behold, ladies and foes beware, it is I, the Gama-Sennin of Mt. Myouboku, the one and only, Jiraiya, Lover of Women!!"
Said Sannin appeared on the head of the toad, with Ibiki, his Chuunin companion, and two giant snakes gazing at him with awe… mainly out of being stunned into stupidity.
'Orochimaru,' thought Jiraiya, glancing at the violet prison at the arena, where he knew his sensei and former teammate to be in. 'What the hell are you doing?'
He was about to greet Ibiki, when he saw something out of the corner of his eye. Glancing that way, he saw what looked like a giant bat flying towards the arena.
"Jiraiya-sama!!" yelled Ibiki, as he and the nameless Chuunin joined Jiraiya. "Did you see it?"
"Yeah. What was it?"
"I don't know," said the Chuunin, stunned that he was this close to one of the Densetsu no Sannin (3). "All I know is that Ibiki-sama says that it felt like the Kyuubi."
Jiraiya narrowed his eyes. That wouldn't go over well. But he couldn't do anything right now. "Well, right now, he have to stem the invasion." Then he saw a figure of red in the distance, and knew from the feel of the chakra that it was Naruto. He saw Naruto heading towards the arena, leaping from rooftop to rooftop, and assumed that he was chasing that bat-thing.
"Godspeed, Naruto."
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Kakashi had fried a Suna-nin and glanced down at Baki and Buki in his ANBU disguised, when he heard a yell. He and Kurenai glanced to their sides as an Oto-nin was thrown through the hole in the wall that Gai made. The Oto-nin rolled down the stairs, and hit the low wall at the end, with Baki and Buki jumping out of the wall to avoid the shinobi.
Kurenai was about to look through when at looked like a mixed between a winged dragon and a human (this is Hachi) flew through the hole and landed right next to the Oto-nin on all fours.
"What the hell is that?" said Asuma, his cigarette dropping from his mouth.
The Oto-nin scrambled to get away, but the dragon-advanced Hachi opened his draconic jaws, snarling, and latched his jaws on the Oto-nin's arm. The shinobi screamed, it growing higher in pitch, until Hachi pulled the Oto-nin's arm completely off the socket, with tendons and muscles trailing and detaching. The arm off the body, Hachi swing his head sideways, causing blood to fly.
Behind his mask, Buki felt his eyes widen. He didn't expect something like this to happen. And, he assumed, neither did Baki, who had gone pale, despite being a seasoned shinobi.
Hachi wasn't done with the Oto-nin, yet. He fell upon the nin's midsection, and tore apart his tunic, shredding the flesh below it with his teeth. The Oto-nin stopped screaming, and started coughing up great gouts of dark red blood when Hachi tore open his throat with his claws.
Kurenai was growing sick with the amount of blood the Oto-nin was loosing. But then she saw what she should've seen at first: An unconscious Hinata, and her little sister Hanabi, each wrapped in a dragon's tail. So she decided that she'd kill two birds with one stone: Rescue the Hyuuga sisters, and kill the demon that had them.
'Like I'd be able to kill that thing,' she thought bitterly, putting her hands in the Ram Seal. She vanished from view, and Kakashi and Asuma knew what she was doing.
Hachi soon found himself bound by a tree; it dragged him upwards and bound his arms at his sides, away from his mauled and dying meal. But in the mindset of a wild beast, he twitched his head up to glare at the appearing Kurenai, who had a kunai brandished. 'Magen: Jubaku Satsu (6A)… Success!!' she thought.
She was wrong.
She was yanked from her spot by Hachi's free third tail, and it pulled her to the ground. Her Genjutsu dispelled, she was now staring into the eyes of death, and Hachi growled, and reached for her with a massive draconic hand.
"Dynamic Entry!!" came Gai's voice, and Hachi saw him come at him. Snarling, he jumped into the air, taking Hinata, Hanabi, and the dying Oto-nin with him. Then he disappeared from sight.
Gai was helping Kurenai up. "Are you all right, Kurenai-san?"
"Yeah, for the most part," she said. Turning around, she narrowed her eyes and said, "I can't say the same for you… Buki-san."
Buki was silent, but removed his mask. "How could you tell Kurenai-chan?"
"Everyone was talking about how a Konoha shinobi became a traitor to battle. Naturally, your war-loving hide came to mind," she said, taking out a kunai.
Buki was about to do the same, when they heard a roar. Looking in the direction it came from, they saw the draconic Hachi, scaling the wall on the opposite end, with Hinata, Hanabi, and the nameless Oto-nin in tow.
"Katon: Goukakyuu no Jutsu!!" yelled Kakashi as he sent the Grand Fireball towards Hachi.
Hachi turned his head, snarled at the Fireball that was closing in, and leapt off the wall to the ledge of the Kage's box .
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Tayuya, Hokumon (4) of the Sound Four, watched as Orocjimaru-sama battle the Sandaime Hokage in a swordfight. It was Orochimaru-sama's Kusanagi verses the Sandaime's Adamantine Staff. 'That old fart will die for sure,' she thought.
She, along with her teammates Sakon, Ukon, Kidoumaru, and Jiroubu, were cast out of their thoughts by the sound of breaking tiles. They looked to see the monster that was Hachi, that snarled at the ANBU watching.
Orochimaru and Sarutobi stopped fighting to see the monster that used to be Hachi. "What in god's creation is that?" muttered Orochimaru.
The ANBU watching were stunned to see the glaring Hachi, and even more so, the Oto-nin at the crouched Hachi's draconic feet. The Oto-nin, still alive miraculously, weakly reached out with his remaining arm, large amounts of blood streaming from his mouth. Tightening his grip on the Oto-nin's head, Hachi lowered his head, and latched his draconic jaws around the hapless nin's neck.
Tayuya, who had never seen a creature like the one before her outside the violet wall, let alone a Jinchuuriki, winced at the sound of crunching bone. "What… the… fuck?" she muttered, as Hachi lifted his head up sharply, pulling up the neck of the Oto-nin with him. The gout of blood that followed rose up and landed across from the ANBU, and some hit the violet wall, causing it to hiss and steam. Then he threw the severed head at the ANBU.
When they saw the head land at their feet, one of the ANBU leaned to the side, lifted his mask at the mouth, and promptly vomited, spewing his breakfast on the sloped roof. The other said, "… Shit. We're gonna need serious back-up."
Ignoring the people staring, Hachi tore the headless Oto-nin to pieces. Blood and body parts flew everywhere, and blood dripped from Hachi's teeth as he tore the flesh from the Oto-nin's body.
"Jeezus," said Kidoumaru, going green. He didn't know that the human body could bleed that much, and he like to play around with his victims before he killed them.
Sarutobi was shocked by the carnage that went on. Luckily for him, Orochimaru was mesmerized, too. 'What is that thing?' thought the Hebi-Sennin. Then he saw the two girls, and narrowed his eyes. 'Why does that thing have the two daughters of the Hyuuga Head?'
At this point, Hachi was sick of people watching him, so he turned his head all the way around like an owl, opened his bloody jaws, and roared, sending a Byakurai attack as well. The attack slammed into the violet wall, and before their surprised eyes, the section of the wall cracked, and finally exploded inwards, creating a hole three feet in diameter. The lightening attack traveled to the other side of the wall, where it dispersed.
"I-impossible!!" stuttered Sakon, his visible eye widening. No one can penetrate the Shishienjin! No one!!"
"Well…" growled Hachi, his voice a fusion between his own and the dragon within. "You've never met me now… Have you?" Turning his head around again and facing Orochimaru, he grinned again, one that made Orochimaru grimace. "I see… you've fallen… for the Corpse Dolls…"
Orochimaru narrowed his eyes. "And how would you know…" Then it hit him. "You-you're that Kumo-nin that was fighting Uzumaki!!"
Sarutobi flinched. This was a bad situation that had gone even worse now. "So… you're a Jinchuuriki, too…"
Hachi chuckled, but turned his head at the sound of someone yelling his name. He grinned and said, "Ah… Uzumaki. How nice of you to join ussss…"
Uzumaki Naruto stood behind the two ANBU, in Ichibi no Kyuubi-Naruto (R2) form. His whiskers marks were wilder, and his canines lengthened into fangs. The tail twitched behind him and he muttered, "If you value your lives, please move to another roof, ANBU-san."
The ANBUs weren't about to argue with a Kyuubified Naruto, so they moved. "You're going to pay for killing Sasuke… and kidnapping Hinata-chan!!" Naruto yelled at Hachi.
Orochimaru couldn't believe his ears. 'The Uchiha is dead? … Sasuke-kun is dead?' The ANBU on the other hand, noticed the unconscious Hyuuga sisters that Hachi had. One tried to go, but his partner held him back. "Do you want to end up like that Oto-nin?"
"He was an obstacle…" said Hachi, twitching his free tail. "… And obstacles need to be removed. The strong live and the weak die. And he was weak. Pathetically weak."
Naruto said nothing, but swiped his hands at Hachi inwards, sending a wave of red at him. 'Kyuubi Wave!!'
Hachi snarled, and jumped into the air, the wave of red passing underneath him and slamming into the wall. "Catch me if you can, Uzumaki!!" he yelled, as he flew away. "But then… you can't fly!! Bahahahahahaa!!!"
Naruto snarled, and took off after the insane Jinchuuriki. Leaping from rooftop to rooftop, he chased the Kumo-nin, unaware that his beloved was beginning to stir.
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When Hinata came to, she thought that she was on the back of Gama, Naruto's summon, like she had been earlier. However, the wind through her hair made her think otherwise. Cracking open an eye, she saw that she was in the air, far above the village. Both eyes widen, she then realized that she was bound by a tail.
A dragon's tail.
That clinched it. When she saw her unconscious baby sister next to her, she was terrified for her life. "Hachi-san," she began, trying not to shake her voice, "let me and my sister go."
Hachi looked behind him, his yellow eye boring into hers. "You're awake. Gooood. And why would I do that?"
"We-we have done nothing to you," said she.
"Heh heh heh… and you won't… and neither will…" he trailed off glancing downward. "I guess Uzumaki gave up the chase."
'Naruto-kun?' She glanced downward to saw a red hand race towards her. It grabbed Hachi's free tail and tried pulling him down.
"Kyuubi Hang (S1)… success!!" growled Naruto as the indignant Hachi pulled him into the air. Retracting his arm, he found himself racing toward Hachi, and braced for impact.
He collided with Hachi, sending the two to the ground. Hachi maintained control, however, and began his climb back into the sky, while trying to impale Naruto with his elbow spikes.
Naruto had other plans, though. He glanced at Hachi's wings, then at Hinata. She understood, and nodded, distinctly knowing that the next few minutes were, in some way, going to hurt.
Naruto slashed at the membrane on Hachi's wings, causing Hachi to screech in pain and loose altitude. Hachi fly uncontrollably over the village wall, into the forest, crashing through some trees, and finally crash-landed in airplane fashion; head-first, tail(s) up.
Groaning, he lifted his head, only to have a tree limb fall on it, knocking him unconscious with a grunt. His tails loosened around his prisoners, and Hinata pulled Hanabi free.
"Hinata-chan!!" came Naruto's voice, and he appeared from behind another tree, apparently having fallen off during Hachi's impromptu landing. He run over to her, just in time to see Hanabi regain consciousness.
Hanabi held her head, and looked up at her sister. "Onee-san… where-where are we?"
"Outside of Konoha," said Naruto, looking to the wall over in the east. It would actually be easy getting them back to the village if he summoned Gamabunta. Then he'd be able to aid the village, and help push back Suna and Oto. Two more birds with one stone.
Piece of cake.
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Iruka and the other instructors of the Ninja Academy escorted the Academy students to the caves at the Hokage Monument. Seeing the smoke rising from the fighting, he was silently grateful for none of the fighting reaching the Academy. 'That would have been a problem,' he thought.
"Iruka-sensei," said Konohamaru. "Do you think Naruto-sousui is okay?"
"I'm sure he is," said Iruka, glancing backwards. 'Stay safe, Naruto,' thought Iruka. 'It would be a shame to see you die. Period.'
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Naruto was pulled from his thoughts by a hand pulling his head to the left. He turned to see Hinata kiss him full on the mouth, catching him by surprise, with Hanabi blushing and covering her eyes. "Arigatou, Naruto-kun," said Hinata, when they separated.
Then he felt Hanabi hug him around the waist, and he correctly guessed that she was thanking him, too. "Hey, anything for my precious people. Now what to do about…" he trailed off, upon seeing the spot where Hachi fell empty.
"Crap," he muttered. He picked up Hanabi, and he and Hinata jumped aside to avoid a ball of lightening, that hit the ground where they once stood. The explosion of electricity threw clumps of earth and sparks in the air.
Hachi dropped from the tree, his tail uncurling from around the branch like a monkey's. "You've… caused me great amounts of sorrow," he growled, flexing his injured wing, revealing the jagged tear it had. "I'm temporarily grounded… but I can use that time to horribly kill you all." He held the palms of his hands above each other, and then thrust forward, shooting another ball of lightening.
Which was dodged by our shinobi again. Naruto let Hanabi down, and rushed the enraged Jinchuuriki, who shot out his right hand. Naruto caught it with his, and jumped over it, kicking Hachi in his misshapen face.
Hachi fell backwards, but did a handstand and swept his tails at Naruto, who used his own chakra tail to block it. But Hachi used a clawed foot to catch him in the chest, and knocking him into the trees.
Naruto slammed into the body of a tree, causing leaves to fall. Through the leaves, he saw Hachi hold out his arms, and shoot balls of lightening from them. "Rai-tama (7A)!!" he shouted as the balls of lightening impacted against the tree.
Naruto had successfully leapt from the tree to another, and Hachi turned around to shoot another ball of lightening at him. This one, however, completely missed and caused a tree limb to fall, encompassing Hachi in tree leaves. Naruto watched as Hachi tore free from the leaves, and thought, 'There's got to be a real way to hurt him…' When he saw Hachi tear apart the branch with his tails, he remembered the damage he had done to Hachi before. 'Wait…'
He was pulled from his thought by Hachi roaring at him, and shooting out another Byakurai. He used Kawarimi on a nearby log, and reappeared next to Hinata and Hanabi. "I've got an idea," he said. "More exploding tags."
"But how are you going to prevent him from seeing them?" asked Hinata. "You did it once before, and I doubt that he'll fall for the same trick twice."
"Hurry and think of a way," said Hanabi quickly, brushing a leaf from her hair. "He's coming this way."
Naruto looked around. All these trees were in bad shape from the fighting, and the leaves were everywhere. Everywhere… "I've got an idea," he said. "But it involves me getting smacked around a lot."
Hinata wasn't sure what her boyfriend was planning, but if it worked, then all would be right with the world… at least, until her father found them together. Shrugging that thought aside, she hugged him and whispered, "Be careful, and don't die."
"I won't," Naruto replied, and jumped onto a tree limb, causing Hachi to look up at him. "Hey, Hachi!! If you're so strong, then how'd you get caught!?"
"What the hell are you doing?" asked Kyuubi, in his head. "Are you trying to get us killed?"
'No, just trying to get him mad,' thought Naruto, watching Hachi's eye flash. "Hey, bread basket for Ryunosuke Hachi!!" he yelled, before spinning around and dropping his pants.
Effectively mooning Hachi.
Hinata covered her sister's eyes and went red out of embarrassment. 'I love him, but he can be such an idiot.' Hanabi, on the other hand, asked, "Is he always like that, Onee-san?"
Hachi, on the other hand, was incensed. He thrust out his hands and opened his mouth, shooting balls of lightening and a Byakurai.
Naruto, seeing them coming, pulled up his pants and performed Kage Bunshin, creating ten of them. Naruto and him Bunshins jumped at Hachi, giving off war cries. Hachi crouched, and spun, causing his tails to hit Naruto and the Bunshins, sending them into the trees. The Bunshins flew through the tree leaves and hit the trees, dissolving in puffs of smoke.
Naruto knew, from what he gathered in his head, that his clones had done their part, and he had to do his. Hitting the tree, he slumped to the ground, but not until he attached a couple exploding tags to some leaves, which began to fall.
Hachi landed in front of him, and grabbed Naruto by the neck. "Dumbass," he hissed, grinning. "You made your own death wish. And just to spite you…" he looked to the side, "… I'm gonna have a little fun with your mate and her sister."
Naruto growled, and used his chakra tail to cut into Hachi's draconic hand. Hachi hissed in pain, and dropped him. Naruto jumped in the air, and said "Activate."
Hachi looked at Naruto to see leaves falling around him. The leaves were falling like snow, and glowing, too.
"Wait…" he growled, casting his red and yellow eyes at the leaves, then having them widen as one of the leaves turned over to reveal an exploding tag.
That was when they went off.
Hachi was consumed in an explosion that destroyed the trees surrounding the four, and sent up flames and smoke into the air. Amidst that, Naruto heard Hachi screaming, "Damned Kitsune!!" over and over.
He landed, and dispelled the Kyuubi shell around him. Immediately, he dropped to one knee. "That took a lot more out of me than I thought," he muttered.
"Naruto-kun!!" he heard, and looked up to see Hinata and Hanabi running at him. He stood to his feet, shakily at first, and embraced the two girls. "And that's the end of him," he said, his arms around both girls.
"That was a good move, nii-chan!" said Hanabi, looking up at him.
"Nii-chan?" asked Naruto, looking down. "I'm your brother, now?"
"Hai," said Hanabi. "If it weren't for you, then me and Onee-san would be his slaves." Shivering, she added, "He's a bad guy, and I don't want to serve him."
"Well, he should be dead…" said Naruto, looking at the blazing inferno. 'No one could survive that. No one!'
"You're not out of the woods yet, both literally and figuratively," said the Kyuubi, on guard.
"What?" asked Naruto, but the chakra pulse that hit them revealed his worst vision yet.
Hachi was in bad shape: His wings had their membranes torn, and were probably unusable, and he was bleeding profusely from his mouth and ears. His pants were torn and his arms were burnt, as were his tails. And he had grown a unblemished fourth tail.
"I will kill you all!!" he roared, running at them, only to be hit with a Jyuuken, in his chest and stomach. He glared at Hanabi, who had hit his stomach; and Hinata, who had hit his chest. "There is no point in delaying the inevitable… I was going to let you two live after I destroyed the village… but now, you must die!!" With that, he slapped Hanabi away, and grabbed Hinata by the throat.
He dropped Hinata as Naruto shoved a kunai with an exploding tag on it in his hand. In the meantime, Hanabi had been rescued from serious harm by a well-timed Kage Bunshin. "You okay, Hanabi-chan?" asked the Bunshin.
Hanabi was unable to answer as the Bunshin, and Naruto with Hinata vacated the premises as the exploding tag went off. They heard Hachi's roar of rage and pain, and they halted at a fissure before them. A careless misstep and an unfortunate rock fell into the darkness of the chasm.
"Long way down," whistled Naruto, as he let Hinata down after carrying her bridal style. The Bunshin did the same to Hanabi, and said, "What now, boss?"
"Hachi's probably mad as hell," said Naruto, "and we're stuck here. I'm already pushing it, even with Yoko helping me."
Hanabi was about to ask who Yoko was, when Hachi landed in front of them with a resounding thud. "You little shit!!" he snarled, pointing at Naruto. "Look what you did to me!!" He revealed his left hand, which had been mangled by the explosion.
Hinata leapt into action. Something had awoken within her. Whether it was because she remembered that Hachi was going to use her and her little sister as sex slaves, or because she wanted to prove that she wasn't weak, to her father and the Hyuuga Elders.
"Hakkeshou Rokujuuyonshou!!" she shouted, inflicting said blows upon the deranged Kumo-nin/Jinchuuriki. Every time she hit him, she guided him towards the fissure. Hanabi helped out too, by hitting him in his arms and chest after her sister was done, and before Hachi could recover.
Naruto and his Bunshin, seeing how close Hachi was to the edge, performed the necessary seals, and inhaled, then exhaled, yelling, "Katon: Goukakyuu no Jutsu!!" The Grand Fireballs collided with Hachi, knocking him backwards, and as he fell into the fissure, he roared, "Damn you Uzumaki!! Damn you Uzumaki!!"
Watching his form disappear into the darkness, Naruto let out a sigh of relief and dispelled his Bunshin. "It's over," he breathed. "Hopefully, that's the last we'll see of him."
Hinata nodded her assent. "Let's go back to the village. They might need our help."
Naruto agreed, when he felt it. "Not again," he groaned, and turned around to see a stream of fire and lightening erupt from the fissure.
Shielding their eyes, they watched as a form appeared, levitating in the center of it all like a reborn demon. "I give you credit," said the terrifying voice of Hachi, his eyes the only things visible, since his body showed as black within the column of fire and lightening. "You are the first ones to cause me to ascend this far. But now," he said, curling up, "it all… ends… here!!"
Feeling the waves of chakra he was giving off, Naruto pulled a little of Kyuubi's chakra, performed Kuchiyose no Jutsu, and summoned Gama. "Get on!" he said to Hinata and Hanabi, who immediately climbed on. He put his hands in the Ram Seal, and yelled, "Henge!!" Gama and Naruto disappeared to form a four-tailed yellow fox. "Hold on!!" was what Hinata and Hanabi heard before the fox took off running. And yet they heard Hachi's final cry: "KUCHIYOSE: GURANDO NONKI POU (8A)"
By that time, they had reached the walls of Konoha, and leaped over the walls. They sped through the village, just in time to see Jiraiya, Ibiki, and the nameless Chuunin, who shall now be known as Mumei.
When Jiraiya saw the fox stop in front of them, he shifted into a fighting stance and said, "Hold, Kitsune-san. We want no trouble, so you can leave in peace."
"Ero-Sennin, you baka!" came Naruto's voice, and the fox turned back into Naruto and Gama. "It's me!!"
Jiraiya ignored Naruto calling him Ero-Sennin, and raised an eyebrow at the state of his former apprentice. "What happened to you?"
Hinata, who had been helped down by Naruto after Hanabi, bowed and said, "We fought the Kumo-nin Ryunosuke Hachi. He is a Jinchuuriki like Naruto-kun, and has the Hachibi no Ryu within him."
Mumei widened his eyes. "Another demon brat? Where is he!?"
Naruto was about to answer when who showed up; but Kiba, Neji, and Sakura. "Hinata-sama, Hanabi-sama," said Neji. "Are you hurt?"
"Iie, Neji-nii-san," said Hinata, shaking her head. "Hanabi-chan, Naruto-kun, and myself managed to injure Hachi badly, but he kept coming back, and we just left him over there," she said, pointing to a distant rise of smoke.
"Are you okay, Naruto?" asked Sakura, looking over her teammate for wounds.
"I'm fine, Sakura-chan," said Naruto, feeling not too comfortable that his female teammate was looking him over. He didn't think that Hinata-chan was the jealous type, but there was no sense in taking unnecessary risks.
"What is he doing?" asked Kiba, no doubt referring to Hachi.
"I don't--" Naruto was cut off by an explosion. But not one in the village. He, Hinata , and Hanabi looked over in the direction that they had recently came.
A black cloud of smoke was rising from the area that had the fissure. Near the bottom of the smoke cloud, in the trees, they could see lightening sparking and crackling, like a thundercloud. And with the cloud came a whooshing, roaring noise.
"What the hell is that?" yelled Jiraiya over the noise.
"I don't know!" yelled Kiba watching as the black cloud rose higher and higher. "But whatever it is, it's got my senses going haywire!"
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The noise reached the Academy Students, and Iruka took it upon himself to see what that was. After making sure that the students were safe, he jumped on the Hokage Monument, onto the head of Sandaime. "What the…" he said, looking at the black cloud. And he could hear that whooshing, roaring noise
"Iruka-sensei, what's that?" yelled Konohamaru as he, Moegi, and Udon appeared.
"What are you doing up here!?" yelled Iruka. "Get back!"
"We need were sent to find you by one of the instructors," yelled Moegi, over the noise.
Iruka decided that it was a fruitless effort trying to get them gone alone, so he answered Konohamaru's question. "I don't know! But it's coming from outside the village!"
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By now, the cloud was higher in the sky, and Kidoumaru had his ears covered. And he was sure that at least some of the warring nin had stopped fighting. And yet there was that incessant roaring!
The roaring stopped.
All was quiet, except for his own breathing. He noted that Orochimaru-sama and the old Hokage had stopped fighting, and were now warily looking around. "Tayuya?"
"What, Kidoumaru?"
"You ever get that feeling that something where you something really bad's going to happen?"
Tayuya never got to answer. There was a low rumbling, that increased in volume, until…
A massive explosion went off, shattering windows in building, and causing the ANBU watching the six in the barrier to crouch out of instinct. Turning around, they saw a sight that they didn't want to see.
The black smoke cloud gave off another explosion, and this sent a large bolt of raw lightening their way. Sarutobi saw it coming, and spewed mud from his mouth, yelling "Doton: Doryuuheki (9A)!!" A large mud wall rose up, and just in time, too.
The lightening bolt smashed through the Shishienjin, pulverizing the violet walls and killing Sakon, Ukon, and Jirobou. The remaining nin there (the two ANBU, Sarutobi, Orochimaru, Kidoumaru, and Tayuya) gaped in shock at the damage inflicted, then even more so by what came next.
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A massive pair of bat-like wings appeared in the smoke, and a massive arm did as well. The massive hand fell into the trees and gripped the earth, pulling whatever was there out.
A massive leg, the leg of a reptile, positioned itself outside of the smoke, and a massive tail appeared out of the smoke.
In the midst of the spreading inky smoke, a pair of yellow eyes flashed to life, and the massive creature pulled itself completely out of the smoke. It lumbered through the short length of forest at it's size, and smashed through the walls that Naruto, Hinata, and Hanabi had gotten over.
And there it stayed. Around the size of the Hokage Monument, it's wings relaxed against it. It had spines going from it's neck down the length of its back, stopping at the trunks of the tails; the eight tails that grew and were now swaying, like a predator's.
It's head got the most attention. A crocodile-like snout, with the Asian Dragon whiskers below the nostrils, and a beard jutting from the lower jaw. The ears were the finlike ones Hachi had, as were the crest on its head. Its eyes were dark red, nearly black, with a yellow iris, and slitted pupils that showed an ancient intelligence, and the gleam of insanity.
It was… IT. The dragon of destruction. The creature of doom.
It was Hachimata, the Hachibi no Ryu.
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"We're in trouble, aren't we?" asked Konohamaru, transfixed in horror.
"It would seem that way," said Iruka, his eyes on the giant dragon as well. 'Not again,' he thought. 'Not another one of the Kyuu no Bijuu.'
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"It's come out," said Naruto, holding Hinata to him. "So that… is the true face of Hachi. That… is the Ryu no Kumo I heard about earlier."
"Hachimata," whispered Sakura, fear evident on her face. "Hachimata. We're all going to die."
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Translations:
(1A) Katon: Housenka no Jutsu – Fire Element: Phoenix Immortal Fire Techinque. This jutsu sends multiple balls of fire at a target. It is also possible to hide shurikens within the fireballs, creating an unexpected secondary surprise attack. For the most part, this jutsu is used as a distraction.
(2A) Hijutsu: Karai Ryuiki – Secret Technique: Fire-Lightening Dragon Breath. The user shoots a stream of fire out of their mouth, with lightening in the center of the fire, to deliver a double attack.
(3A) Ninpou: Nikudan Hari Sensha – Ninja Art: Spiked Human Bullet Tank. This jutsu is basically the same as the Human Bullet Tank, but Chouji wraps himself in kunai tied to strings to make it more damaging. The kunai also make him move faster since Chouji has more traction than in his normal ball form.
(4A) Raiton: Byakurai – Lightening Element: White Lightening. Hachi shoots lightening from his mouth, but in the form of raw lightening. Can only be used at one-tail or higher, as the chakra required is phenomenal.
(5A) Kuchiyose: Yatai Kuzushi no Jutsu – Summoning: Food Cart Destroyer Technique. The jutsu summons a huge toad in midair to crash upon a target.
(6A) Magen: Jubaku Satsu – Demonic Illusion: Tree Bind Death. With this jutsu, the user can make themselves disappear, allowing them to approach their target unnoticed. Once completed, a tree and roots will grow at the target's feet and restrict their movements. Once the opponent believes that they are captured, the user can then appear above their opponent from the tree's trunk and kill the target. In the Kurama clan filler arc of the anime, this jutsu seems to be quite versatile, with a wide range of variations on the standard nature theme. In addition to the disappearing and tree-growing effects of the jutsu, the user can produce flowers, seedpods, vines and multiple trees.
(7A) Rai-tama – Lightening Ball. The user shoots lightening in the shape of a ball. Depending on how much electricity is put into it, it can stun or kill.
(8A) Kuchiyose: Gurando Nonki Pou – Summoning: Grand Reckless Art. Hachi's last attack. Can only be used at four-tails and above. When used, the user takes the electricity in the air and combines it with their body, creating a body for the Hachibi no Ryu.
(9A) Doton: Doryuuheki – Earth Element: Earth Style Wall. The user spits out a stream of mud that quickly grows and solidifies into a strong, protective wall
(1) Nikudan Sensha – Chouji's Bullet Tank attack.
(2) Tobikiri no Saikyo tai Saikyo – Translates as "Best of the Strongest verses the Strongest". Also the name of a song by singer Hironobu Kageyama.
(3) Densetsu no Sannin – Three Legendary Ninja
(4) Hokumon – North Gate; Tayuya's designation among the Sound Four.
(R1) Sanbi no Hachimata-Hachi – Three-tail Hachimata-Hachi
(R2) Ichibi no Kyuubi-Naruto – One-tail Kyuubi-Naruto
(S1) Kyuubi Hang – My term for the attack Kyuubi-Naruto does when he uses the Kyuubi chakra to lengthen a limb and grab objects far away. Based off of Gundam Nataku's Dragon Hang (from Gundam Wing Endless Waltz).
One note: The name of the Chuunin with Ibiki, "Mumei" is Japanese for the word "Nameless". A bit of a pun, there.
Next time on Wrath of the Dragon: The Dragon has been summoned. The three shinobi villages are forced to combine their strength to battle this knew foe. And if that isn't bad enough, Hachimata tries to recruit Naruto to his side. Will Naruto join the insane dragon? Or will he go the way of Gaara? Hey… where'd Sasuke's body go? Next time on Wrath of the Dragon: Power of the Dragon! Triple Village Combo Attack!!
Whoo!! Longest chapter so far! Twenty-four pages in Microsoft Word, and 9,437 words by Microsoft Word word-count… a personal record! Read and review to see what happens next, and much more will be revealed next chapter. If you have any questions or comments, leave them in with the reviews. Now time for me to sleep… Good night… Zzzzzz…
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