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Chapter 8
An ANUBU wearing a wolf mask appeared n puff of smoke before the Sandaime kneeling before him.
"Sir all remaining citizens young and old have been evacuated to the safe zone!"
Fixing his wristband armor the Third eyes never left the fox, acknowledging the fact at those who made it out and those who did not for he knew at the back of his head that there were some people who could not foresee the nine tails attack on the village hidden in the leaves.
"Good work, but what about our guest on the horse?"
"We couldn't find him sir…he disappeared and we found one of the younger Chuunin ninja unconscious under a pile of rubble, we suspect that he saw him last." The masked ANUBU looked at his hokage waiting for a moment for the Sandaime to respond.
"I see…" He was quickly in his thoughts, 'So whoever that was in village left without a trace. I wonder…'
A ninja nearby interrupted his thoughts, "Look on the Hokage Monument!"
All eyes diverted from the fox to where a stone replica of the Yondaime was. There on top the fourth stone hair stood none other than Minato with his robe flapping in the wind as he stared coldly at fox.
Sensing the young Yondaime, the fox turned roaring at him showing his bare fangs at him, Minato was unfazed than frighten, on the contrary he was annoyed than anything else in the world for various reasons too.
"So, you finally noticed me, you stupid fox."
With eyes, flaring it charged its Tailed beast ball at the young hokage. Minato scoffed at the attempt making a hand sign with his kunai in hand. The fox let the great energy ball flew through the air heading towards the blonde at rapid pace. Unfortunately, much to the annoyance of the fox but relief to the village the energy ball begin to be swallowed by his space-time technique.
Shikaku and Chōza stood afar amazed that the energy ball was disappearing. "It stopped the Nine-tails attack…that was time space barrier that was performed!"
"It's Minato alright. About time that man showed up and joined the fight." The others nodded
The nine-tails roared in fury while the third barked everyone to move and attack the Nine-tails before it could do anything else.
With Minato Now
His blue eyes narrowed as the fox let out an unearthly roar into the night sky, 'I have to let the third know why this is happening before it too late!' Behind him the mask figured appeared, sensing him from behind, the Yondaime struck his kunai to impale the man but to his horror, his hand moved through him instead of hurting him. The masked figure grabbed his wrist.
"Now you'll face me!"
The world began to spiral out of proportion as the young blonde began to be sucked into the masked man technique.
'Not on my watch, you're not…'
He teleported away before the masked man could send him far away from the village he looked at his hand. It was grabbing nothing but air; he nodded his head impressed with Minato quick thinking.
"Teleported right out of my hands…the next time we meet he won't be so lucky." He started to laugh hysterically, "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA… I have special treat for you Minato…"
On a grassy plain
Mei groaned as her eyes opened to a grassy area. She looked around her area, she saw a nearby shack nearby but mostly trees and shrubs; she tried to get up only to find that she was suspended about 100 feet in the air with her arms tied behind her back with a thick piece of rope wrapped around her midsection holding her in midair. She struggled only to find her wrist and ankles were bound.
'Great…my arms and legs are tied that's just fantastic...' She tried screaming only to hear a muffled shriek come out of her throat, 'Gagged me to? This is just great not only did that little bastard drugged me but he has some nerve of tying me up leaving me in unknown area…when I get my hands on him he is dead!'
She sighed behind her gagged mouth
'Naruto please be safe…I do not want to lose you…'
All of sudden the atmosphere started to become disoriented above the captive kunoichi. Mei growled as she saw the masked man directly above her, he leaned on the trunk crossing his arms looking at the furious red head.
"Are you comfortable my dear?" A growl was the only response he got from his captive, "How silly of me of course you're not."
He went standing sideways to the tree that Mei was currently tied too, he ripped the medical tape from her mouth as she released more growls at him.
"You're not getting away with this, Minato will stop you!"
"Well that a laugh only problem is…I PLANNED THIS TOO CAREFULLY!" He smacked her across the face causing the kunoichi to gasp in pain and more growls at him. "
Minato will not sacrifice a dear friend which is why I brought you here. You see my dear Terumi; I know the Yondaime will not dare to attack me if I had one of the mothers of his children as a bargaining chip so…"
"You went after me because you knew that I would not be to mold chakra after I given birth to defend myself, which is why you went after fox that was sealed inside Kushina for the same reasons."
"I'm impressed you're the first person to put two and two together but I'm it's a little too late." She gritted her teeth but soon enough they felt a familiar presence not far from where they were. "Ah…he's arrived…watch me as I break your precious husband of your son Naruto…" He taped Mei lips again earning a muffled shriek from her.
He disappeared from her view as Mei dropped her head in sadness, she couldn't bear the thought of Minato or the village being destroyed especially her son, tears already began to form as she began to weep.
'Minato please…make it through this…'
10 minutes into the fight
Minato and 'Madara' were duking it out, kunai's were everywhere on the once grassy field, shurikens were sparking off each other as both men were throwing at each other seeing whose weapons would strike the first to end the weapons toss struggle. He already had on this chain on his wrist so Minato knew he had to be careful.
They had a brief conversation with each other before fighting and Minato wanted to know before they engaged in mortal hand-to-hand combat if he really was Madara. The masked man said he was, however at this point Minato didn't care he really was or wasn't but one thing he did know was that he had to defeat this powerful foe here and now.
The Yondaime screeched to a halt panting for breath as he looked at his opponents. He held his kunai sideways to his face gripping it tightly, 'If I teleport back the village, he'll just follow me there! Not to mention we already have our hands full with the nine tails and adding him to the equation is only going to result in more chaos that is already chaotic. But if he is Madara than he can't summon the nine tails for that long anyway…' he sighed, 'Guess I'll just leave it up to the Sandaime to end the fox there while I finish him here…'
"There is no hope for you or your damned village."
They charged at each other ready to strike however, Minato could not strike him down for he went right through him.
'Ok this technique is really starting to get old…' 'Madara' moved his wrist ensnaring Minato with his chains. Minato was quick to think as he teleported away from his trap. The masked man growled at him as they ready themselves to attack again.
"Grrr…screw you and your flash technique Minato."
"I can say the same thing about you, not solidifying your body! So I guess that makes us even!" He ready his kunai as he thought, 'He makes his body intangible to negate my attack but he solidifies to counter attack…hmm…my only shot is to trade blows with him, but that is a huge risk for him so the only option for the both of us is to strike a second earlier to win.'
'Minato thinks he figured me out, I know but I still have an ACE up my sleeve…'
He made a few hand signs, which made the fourth attack him on cue. 'I got to get him now!' A spiral of a ball began forming as he charged to the mask man,
"RASENGAN!"
'Madara' smirked behind his mask, "Fool…Summoning Jutsu!"
"What the!" His eyes widen as he saw a familiar woman in front of him appear in front of him, the Rasengan came only centimeters close to Mei face as her chest began to rise quickly. The blonde jumped back at least six feet away clenching his fist dispelling the Rasengan as he looked into the red heads terrified eyes.
"YOU COWARD! Use a defenseless hospitalized woman to shield yourself from fighting, that's a low one 'Madara' a low blow!"
"Who ever accused me at fighting fair Minato?"
"Let her go! This between you and me leave Mei out of this!"
"I'm afraid I can't do that…" He grabbed her by the hair pulling back to him. The Hidden Mist Kunoichi yelp muffled as she felt the pain in the back of her head, to make matter even worse 'Madara' held a kunai to her neck, "You have a choice Yondaime, you can stop me and save your precious village and let the mother of Naruto die or you can save her and let me go free! Either way Konoha will be destroyed!"
Mei sadden green eyes looked at Minato raging blue ones, 'Minato…'
'This is just great not only do I have to choose between him and Mei nevertheless, I need to keep him from hurting her too what shall I do?'
'He knows he can't go after me without hurting Mei and he can't stop me at the cost of losing his son's only mother, I have you now Minato!' An evil idea then hit him, 'Maybe I can kill two birds with one stone, if I summon the nine-tails here than I will have it use it's beast tailed bomb to destroy the two love birds, it too brilliant to fail!'
'Madara' suddenly pushed the Mist kunoichi away from him as he twisted his wrist encasing Mei to more bounds as the chains wrapped around her bound arms even more.
'What's he doing?"
He squeezed the life out of Mei as she let out a cried muffled scream of pain, just as Minato was about to teleport he made the grave mistake of Freezing when he heard, "SUMMONING JUTSU!"
There what stood in front of Mei was none other than the Kyūbi fox before her standing on its hind legs revealing it true height. Mei was now trembling with fear as she saw the towering fox roar into the night sky. For the second time in her life Mei was truly, frighten beside the fact that the current Mizukage was being a little bloodthirsty punk at the time. For obvious reason she was scared one: she was tied up and about to blown to smithereens by the fox chakra, two: she had no chakra to break her bounds due to giving birth; and finally three: she felt guilty for being a tool to help the masked man take down her beloved friend.
"Go nine tails destroy your target!"
Mei eyes widen in fear as it began to charge its bomb, Minato gritted his teeth as he dashed for the helpless kunoichi. When it finally finished it bomb the fox chucked the deadly energy ball towards a tearing Mei. 'Goodbye Minato, take care of Naruto for me…' She closed her eyes waiting for her death to come as she prayed making peace with herself, seeing her life flash before her within the moment, 'Naruto…I'm sorry…
"MEI!"
LXD: I'm going to be that guy and stop it right there. Sorry for the wait but college has taken its toll and bombarded me with tons of homework and as Shikamaru would say, "It's a drag." Well this has been your first monthly update of Twist of fate so leave a comment, opinion, statement or review to see how the story is progressing thus far. Thank you to those who are supporting this fan fiction until the next chapter. Tally-ho!
