Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.
A/N: Well, enjoy the longest chapter to the date! And don't think that I am making him too powerful. He can beat asses of many, but he still isn't on the level of Madara or Pein. I personally consider them better than Hashirama Senju even. Madara has knowledge and experience of around a century added to his Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan. Pein has Rinnegan.
Chapter: 9
As soon as the genjutsu faded, he activated a seal on the back side of his right hand. In a flash of yellow, 5 more Naruto were standing with him. People recognized the flash and looked up at him with wide eyes.
"I will have my revenge, Konoha." He whispered, the twisted expression on his face never leaving. But his voice was carried out with the wind and heard by everyone. He could see the confusion in their eyes. As soon as the words had left his mouth, all the Naruto's left in the all too familiar yellow flashes.
Flashback….
After a month in Kumo….
'A stroke here, a stroke there, and another here, a bit of twist here…. And finally, he had successfully recreated the Hirashini. The most difficult part was to modify the summoning seals. He had to manipulate them in such a way that he could summon something from this world itself, instead from another dimension. He made it like this so that Konoha may feel the despair of being destroyed by their favorite fourth Hokage' jutsu. He was going to modify it even more in the future. His study in fourth Hokage' jutsu's effect had finally paid off.
Other than that, he was also making blood clones. Though, it was admittedly a slow process. Just like last time, he had to wait up to get back to full health. Thus he was going to make just 6.
Flashback ends….
He had given each of his clones a job to do. One would go to the Hayuga compound. Another would go to the kage-tower. Third would be going at the Anbu head-office. Fourth would go to the forbidden forest and break down the barriers that stopped the beasts from getting inside the village. One would remain with him and the last-one was keeping a watch on his sister. He didn't want any unfortunate incident happening with her. Though, she was an immortal, he knew that even she could be killed. He himself had killed some of them.
He himself started to throw fire jutsus and made earth spears to rise from the other end of street to this, destroying anything in their path as they approached. Even though he didn't have an earth affinity, he still knew a few things about it. Not at the level of his lightning, fire, or wind affinity, though.
Soon enough, he was being surrounded by a good number of ninjas. He didn't pay them much attention. He kept blasting them apart if they came in his way. He was enjoying listening to their cries of pain and horror.
With clone 1 at Hayuga compound….
He moved out of the way as a few shuriken passed him by. He ducked and weaved through the barrage of kunai thrown at him.
Sidestepping a palm strike to his chest, he jabbed his middle and index finger in his attacker's throat and ripped it out, spilling blood.
"What is the meaning of this?" He heard but didn't answer and ducked under another strike to his head and lashed out with his kick. He was awarded with the man flying away from him.
He then calmly looked at the man that had questioned. He saw Hiashi Hayuga standing with his eyes blazing his Bykugan, the veins near his eyes bulged.
Naruto clone calmly stated "Welcome Hayuga-san, today I shall be the executioner of Hayuga."
If he was unnerved by Naruto clone's statement, then Hiashi didn't show it. He merely narrowed his eyes and looked at Naruto, and then he laughed out loud. Naruto clone knew that even if the man was acting like he didn't care, this same man could cripple him for the rest of the fight. He didn't want that. He had to keep the Hayugas busy.
By the time Hiashi's laughter ended, there were at least another 50 or so Hayuga standing beside him. Naruto clone patiently waited as he had to tackle all the Hayugas and stall them from entering the main battle as long as he could.
"I admit you are good boy, but do you really think you can stand against as many Hayuga as here are right now?" Hiashi retorted with a sneer. "And have you forgotten the control seals placed on you?" he added.
"We shall have to see that, wont we?" Naruto clone said with a smile.
"Take him down!" Hiashi exclaimed.
Most of the men and women gathered there charged at him. For a normal human, they were just a blur. He side stepped the palm strike aimed at his head and jumped backwards when a chakra charged kick came at his ribs. He deflected and parried all the strikes. Deciding to get the job done as fast as he could, he took out his hirashini kunai and started throwing it at the enemies one by one. He slashed and slammed into them with an assassin's precision and a trucks power. One by one they fell due to shock of seeing the signature jutsu of the fourth. 7 were already dead by the time others gathered their thoughts. They started to defend against the onslaught but were failing miserably. He was stopped by a few 'Kaiten' known as the ultimate defense of Hayuga. He easily changed his targets by throwing his other Kunai at others. He had tied ninja wire to his kunai. It helped him recall them back.
Unfortunately for the Hayugas, their relaying only on their clan's jutsus was turning against them. Most of them were trying to avoid his kunai, but sadly didn't manage. There had come at least another 30 or so after the first 50. He had taken down those numbers to 12. But he guessed that they were the top of the Hayuga. He again threw a Kunai, but was surprised when the Kunai was deflected with another kunai….
With Naruto clone in the Anbu head office….
There were at-least 100 Anbu. He had to take down as many of them as he can to lessen the backup that would go for Hokage' safety. He knew that it was not possible to hide from so many while tearing into them at the same time. Deciding to take as many out as he can with the element of surprise, he started firing a barrage of resengan into the meeting. He saw them stiffen and start erecting mud walls or start to sunshin out of the place. He missed most, as he had expected. But, he still got at-least a dozen or so. Cries of pain and agony filled the cavern that the Anbu office arena was located in. Many of those caught in his blind charge were left without a limb or two. Blood was spilled on the floors and the bits of torn appendages could be seen lying everywhere. Those that were still alive were struggling to get back on their feet. He used sunshin to get to the entrance of the cavern and blasted a modified version of the resengan. It was with a wind element added to it. He created it with both of his hands. He also had three shadow clones guarding him while he did so. As soon as he was ready, he threw the condensed ball of chakra in the ninjas charging at him. A few of them managed to get out of its path while some failed. As soon as it made contact with one of them, it detonated. Most of the walls were blown to bits. Even more blood and gore was present when the red haze created by it disappeared. The roof had become unstable and he decided to get out as most of those alive would be outside.
When he appeared outside in a small sonic boom, everyone's attention was drawn to him. Out of the 100+ present before his impromptu entry, only 70 or so remained. Even then, they were not to full health. Many of them had torn cloths visible. Some had bloody wounds on their bodies that were still leaking blood.
"Who tha fuck are you!" someone said.
"Is this some kind of invasion or something?" another asked.
"You dare attack Konoha!" someone from behind cried in outrage.
"I am Naruto Uzumaki-Namikaze, Son of your beloved fourth Hokage and the container of Kyuubi no Yoko. I will be the demon that Konoha wanted." The clone said.
"That's impossible! If you are the demon brat, then you can't attack Konoha; you are bound by a multitude of seals! And you can't be son of the yellow flash, he never had a child!" another of them said.
Naruto removed one of his kunai and stabbed it in the right eye of the person that had tried to sneak on his from behind. The man screamed in pain and dropped down. With a small jump backwards, Naruto jammed his foot in the unnamed man's neck, snapping it killing him instantly. Naruto identified a few of them that he had seen and worked with for assignments. There was Yugao Uzuki, Kakashi Hatake and the genjutsu mistress of Konoha- Kurenai. There were few others as well.
"I know of whom you are Naruto. But, why do this? Or has the fox actually managed to influence you? Didn't you swear to protect this village? And how did you even overcome those seals on you, I wonder?" Kakashi asked wanting to stall time and formulate a plan. As of now, he was the most experienced among the Anbu here, thus it fell on him to lead them.
"Trying to stall for time, eh Kakashi?" Naruto spoke in a mocking tone. Both Anko and Kakashi had a better understanding of his abilities and he knew that they wanted to make sure that they could take him down. Kakashi stiffened inside himself, but didn't let it show.
"But, I shall humor you. I never swore to protect this village; I had sworn to destroy it instead. Why should I protect it, when it gave me nothing but nightmares?" as Naruto spoke, his tone was oddly calm, no-one knew that he was just a clone, and no-one ever would. Being a clone, he didn't feel the overwhelming hatred; instead he just had a task that he had to complete at any given cost. It didn't mean that he didn't have feeling, though. They simply didn't make him prone to any kind of emotional trauma. His first objective would be what his creator set out for him. He continued with a sickly sweet smile on his face.
"When I was 5, I had my first taste of a beating down given by shinobi, beaten to a bloody pulp, shocked till my nerves were on fire. That is what I see of Konoha, monsters disguised as humans. But, that is beside the point. Before they started to beat me, they spoke of how I would be turned into a weapon by Konoha. Now, how could I let Konoha control me if they were giving me such treatment? So I decided, I would show them what a monster can do. How fitting it would be to have these monsters killed by a true monster. How ironic it would be to have them killed by what they prided themselves in." As he finished this, Kakashi had charged at him from below the ground. Before the Kakashi from below the ground could strike him though, he vanished in a flash of yellow and appeared beside next to one of the Anbus. Naruto killed the man before he even had a chance to realize. Everyone looked at him in shock. Naruto threw a kunai in the neck of the Kakashi that had jumped out of the ground, dissolving it into mud.
"How the hell do you know that move?" Kakashi whispered as he appeared a few feet away from Anko.
Everything was so still that Naruto easily heard him.
"Ah! The Hirashini, you mean? It is real pathetic compared to my actual speed. But, I am going to use this to mock you. As you have always revered this technique, I will use it to destroy you. This is the irony that I was speaking of. As for how I know it, well, it's not difficult enough for someone who has been inventing seals since he was a 6 year old." Naruto spoke with a smirk on his face.
'This is impossible… When did he learn to make seals? How did we not know? And he is holding back! What the hell! If we can't take him while he is holding back, we are as good as dead.' Kakashi thought. Though, others weren't thinking far from his thoughts. Kakashi removed his headband, his Sharingan blazing as all three tomoes spun.
Naruto looked at him directly in the eye. He was going to fight with a Sharingan user, and a jonin that relied heavily on genjutsu. He could take them head on. He knew that, but they didn't.
He felt the familiar tug on his chakra when the foreign chakra tried to enter his chakra network. He just smirked.
"It is useless." He said.
"What do you mean?" Kakashi asked. He had hoped to put Naruto under a genjutsu and quickly end the fight when Naruto didn't avert his gaze. But it seemed that Naruto had a defense against genjutsu as well. He knew that it eliminated his and Kureni's advantages. Well, he still had the predictability, but when fighting a technique like hirashini, it didn't give much advantage anyway. Kurenai on the other hand was pretty much useless. But, he pretended that he didn't understand.
"hmhmhm, do you take me for a fool? I have been hiding my ability to negate any genjutsu for a long time. So, your feeble attempts to put me under one are useless." he said with his smirk still in place.
Kakashi's worst fears were being confirmed. Naruto had held back, a lot, while most of his own techniques were known to Naruto. He had used most of his techniques against Naruto in spars.
"But, how is that possible?" Kakashi asked, actually curious.
Naruto raised an eyebrow and spoke mockingly "Do I look like a moronic villain who would spill all his secrets to his enemies? Puh-lease."
"Dance of the crescent moon!" He heard from behind him. He simply raised his sword and vanished. He intercepted Yugao in her charge and kneed her in the gut. He side stepped a charge of snakes and electrocuted them with a ball of lighting. They puffed in smoke and vanished. He saw Anko attacking him from right, while some anbu descended on him from above him. Naruto threw a kunai above the anbu and appeared there and slammed a chakra drill in the anbu's head. It tore through the anbu like a drill breaks through concrete. He again vanished from the spot and appeared near another of the anbu and swiftly cut his head with his sword. He kept switching his sword and the Hirashini kunai expertly. He avoided Kakashi and Anko as they were the best players here. He killed others as he dodged and weaved through attacks.
He saw Kakashi come at him with the lightning blade technique of his. Naruto smirked and kicked on the ground, hard. Several stone spears rose from the ground to impel Kakashi. Kakashi had to let go of the lightning blade as he felt ground shifting. He jumped out of the way of the spears. He again closed in on Naruto with another lightning blade as the air was filled with the noise of birds chirping. Naruto had known the weakness of this technique. Only someone with real Uchiha blood could use the full potential of the Sharingan eye and eliminated the tunnel vision generated due to sudden increase in speed. Naruto decided to clash his wind drill against the lightning blade. He raised his left hand and a tunnel of wind-blades formed around his hand. It had a sharp visible tip. It sent ripples through the air. Kakashi saw the wind attack that Naruto had created and immediately knew that it would win over his lightning blade.
'Shit! He has some kind of wind attack of a similar level of my lightning blade. But, if I can hold over for just a few moments, then I will give others a chance to get him.' he thought.
But his plans were foiled when Naruto merely redirected the blow to Yugao who was slashing at him from his backside. Kakashi's hand got multiple cuts when their hands connected. When Kakashi had passed him, his hand met with Yugao's sword. His quick thinking saved him from losing his hands completely, but he still lost his fingers except thumb. Since the lightning blade was still active when it connected with the sword, Yugao got a nasty shock as the sword was completely made of metal. Naruto jump-kicked both of them in head and vanished in a yellow flash as another Kakashi emerged from below his previous position. He saw the Kakashi attacking him vanished in a puff of smoke. Naruto had to again jump vanish with another yellow flash. He was saved from receiving a snake bite. It would have definitely destroyed him as he was just a clone. He decided to take it up a notch. He had already planted hirashini kunai in the surrounding area. Thus he rarely needed to throw one around. He easily reached upon the moderately large (25-30ft long) snake with the markers that were closer to the snake. He charged an electric ball in his left hand and fired it down the snake's throat. With a large hiss and a bit of thrashing, it puffed out of existence.
He started flashing around and throwing shuriken in every direction. It was difficult for most of them to stop him from doing so. Naruto killed at least another dozen or two in this manner. The only left by now were the most experienced and better anbu, except Kurenai. As soon as he had entered, he had erected a fuin-barrier to stop ninja from sunshining out of the field. A few had tried doing that when they saw that even likes of Kakashi and Anko were struggling against him.
Kakashi and Anko were able to keep themselves and Kurenai and a now moderately recovered Yugao safe. Kakashi was having help from his Sharingan and Anko had her hebi taijutsu style that worked with precision and speed.
"Mud-river jutsu!" he heard Kakashi exclaim. All the ground beneath him started to rapidly turn into mud. He simply applied chakra to his feet and stayed over the mud. He charged at them with enough speed to give them trouble. Anko and Kakashi both charged at him together. He directed Anko's attacks at Kakashi and Kakashi had trouble predicting and keeping up with his movements. For him, it was like fighting Gai. But, the difference was, Gai was nowhere near as strong as Naruto. Every blow that connected made him flinch. It felt like his muscles were on fire and would snap any given moment. Finally, it happened and his left hand wrist got broken. He had no other option but to back off and start using jutsus. Anko wasn't fairing much better either. Luckily she didn't feel as much pain due to her deflecting strikes rather than blocking them. Naruto wasn't giving them much chance to properly attack. She realized that all of them were severely outclassed. Even summons were proving ineffective.
Kurenai and Yugao had fled to go and bring some reinforcement, while this happened. They had run as fast as they could and made it past the barrier that stopped them from leaving the fight behind them.
Anko got another idea. 'When big doesn't work, go small and subtle.'
She shunshined out of Naruto's range and rapidly performed her signature move "shadow snake hands no jutsu!"
Many smaller snakes emerged from Anko's sleeves when she performed the jutsu. She sent them at Naruto. Naruto casually sent waves of wind blades at them and dispelled them. He saw the trick in this attack. Some of the snakes were coming at him from under the ground. He could easily feel their chakra flow. He jumped and back-flipped while punching the ground and sending fissures through it. The next moment he was near Anko in a yellow flash. He tried to break her neck with a quick chop, but the special Jonin proved nimble and dodged. He had to leap back out of the way of a water spear that attacked him from behind. Another Kakashi emerged from under him and trapped him in a water sphere. His moves were restricted and he couldn't breathe. Kakashi sighed as he spoke "Are you the one that caused all the havoc Naruto?"
Naruto smirked and dispelled in a shower of sparks. Lightning traveled in the water and electrocuted Kakashi. Luckily Kakashi had removed his hand fast enough, that it only gave him mild shock instead of frying him from inside out. Another Naruto appeared out of the ground below Anko and attempted to drag her below. Anko side-stepped the attempt and quickly performed a mud-prison technique. Naruto sunk below the ground again and appeared near Kakashi who was performing a fire dragon where he had been hiding. Naruto flashed out of the danger zone and appeared behind Kakashi and kicked him in the back of his neck. Naruto threw a kunai which embedded itself in a log as Kakashi had performed a last minute substitution. Naruto had been able to identify whenever his opponents have swapped themselves with a clone. Being able to see chakra network had its perks.
Once that was done, he had tried to take the fight close to the actual enemies as subtly as possible. He suddenly substituted himself with a stone that was close to a tree and blasted the tree. He saw Anko jumping out of there and threw a kunai at her. He quickly formed a resengan and appeared next to her and slammed it in her thigh.
Anko screamed in pain as her thigh was torn apart. Chunks of her flesh blew apart and blood freely flowed from her wound.
"Ankooo!" Kakashi screamed. He charged at Naruto with blind fury but failed to harm him. Kakashi knew that he was very low on chakra and needed rest. They had been fighting for over an hour and unfortunately, Naruto didn't even look winded. He once more cursed Naruto for having both Uzumaki bloodline that gave abnormally large chakra reserves and the added bonus of being a jinchuriki that boosted his chakra reserves even further. Naruto saw that Kakashi was down to his last drags of chakra. Kakashi put his arms on his waist and suddenly brought his left hand to his mouth. Unfortunately Naruto just then kicked him in the face from the side. Kakashi had barely bit on a fourth of the solider pill and felt that much of his energy returning. Naruto didn't let up his assault and forced Kakashi's chakra gates to open. Kakashi screamed from having his gates forcibly opened. All the chakra that he had gained from the pill was spoiled by going to his limbs as there wasn't much. Finally Kakashi fell unconscious, exhausted. Anko who had been on the side line had henged in a small snake after cauterizing the wound with a small fire jutsu. She had been waiting for the right moment to strike. She attacked right when Naruto was going to finish off Kakashi; she used her final resort technique that she had thought of only for her previous sensei, Orochimaru. She used the suicide technique to kill both Naruto off and die with him.
The snake bit on Naruto's neck and….
With the clone near the forbidden forest….
It had taken him almost 30 minutes to just get the location of all the barriers. Or at least he hoped. Or else, it may cause some problems in removing the barriers. He put up the majors that were required. He didn't have time, and thus had to do it the hard way. He didn't have the complete idea of what kind of barrier was used. He could see some of it. He guessed that most were hidden and some were even gown deep underground since the creation of the forest. He started killing the bigger animals and made a few shadow clones to start carving a bigger version of the nullifying seal on the ground using the blood from the animals that he killed. In twenty or so minutes, he was done. He took a deep breath and started to channel chakra through the blood seal. He knew that such a feat would need a lot of power; it would almost drain him after making the clones and chakra wasted in killing the animals. After another thirteen minutes, sweat poured down his body, his feet shook. He could feel the killing gaze of several animals on him. He had almost finished his job. The array was about to activate.
With a bright flash of dark green, the blood on the floor vanished. A silvery dome of chakra surrounded the whole forest that stretched for miles on ends. And like a piece of art, it shattered. A whistling sound was heard as the barriers came crashing down. He looked at the animals that had shown themselves. He still had one last thing to do before he was dispelled….
With the clone nearing the kage tower….
His job was simple; attract the attention of the Hokage and Danzo. Tree would be definitely there. He hoped that most of the higher level jonin were not here. He could take care of them, but in a fight with the kage level shinobi like The Hawk and The Professor, he couldn't take any chances. He started making loud noises by destroying nearby buildings and killing any who came in his way. He had killed almost 13 chunin and a few genin. When he saw Sarutobi appear outside the kage tower in a swirl of leaves.
'Shit!' cursed the clone, for accompanying Sarutobi were more men than he had expected. But that wasn't the problem. Oh no, no! The fucking problem was who some of them were. One was Danzo on Sarutobi's right as was expected, desired even. On his right was tree. But to Sarutobi's left were the two unexpected people that had him cursing. To Sarutobi's immediate left was Jiriya the toad sage, and to Jiriya's left was the greatest medic ninja ever- Tsunade the slug princes. Other than them, there was Saiken, the replacement king of Konoha. He had really chosen a bad timing. He had not counted two S ranked nin to be present in Konoha. He had even considered the slim possibility of Jiriya, but Tsunade was not in his mind at all.
He had to preserve and take them to the real one. He discretely sent a shadow clone disguised as a hawk from behind him to the original.
"Who the hell are you, brat! And what do you think you are doing! Do you want me to pound you into the ground?" Tsunade yelled at him.
"This is Naruto, Tsunade." Sarutobi said with a completely neutral face.
"I had expected something like this would happen. I always knew that council was making a wrong decision in forcing him to go through the root program." He added.
"So this is the brat? Well we can just kick his ass and be done with it, right?" she said.
Tsunade had no idea of what Naruto was capable of. She had not been in the village for past many years. The only reason she came was because her sensei, had accepted her request to teach students to be medic nin as well. There was going to be a different program set for them. She had come back just yesterday night and hadn't gotten a good night's worth of sleep. She was already snappish due to this and then some moron thought it prudent to start throwing jutsus and destroy buildings left and right.
"He is not just a brat Tsunade; I think he would beat any of us, if we went one-on-one against him." Jiriya said.
Tsunade stared in shock at him, not believing a word. She looked at her sensei for confirmation. Sarutobi nodded with a grimace on his face.
Danzo stepped forward and said "What is the meaning of this 345?" his voice was deadly calm.
"What the fuck do you think, War Hawk of Konoha? I am getting my revenge. I won't need any help; I shall enjoy destroying you, all of you, one-by-one, bit-by-bit."
Danzo used ram seal and tried to activate the seals on Naruto's body. When even after a full minute nothing happened, he again tried to do the same, with same results.
"Why aren't the seals working?" Danzo thought out loud.
"hmhmhmhm…. Seals not working, are they Danzo?" Naruto clone asked but it was more of a statement.
"What is going on, Danzo?" Sarutobi asked.
"Somehow he has overridden all of the seals, even the failsafe that were planted in them." Danzo replied.
"Wondering how I did it, are you? After all, you never gave me training in fuinjutsu." Naruto clone said with a smirk.
"Well, I shall humor you. I have trained myself in every aspect that could hinder me unable to use my chakra and made counters for it. Not just my chakra, but also the Kyuubi's." he added with a sinister glint in his eyes that wasn't missed by any.
"How did you do that though?" asked a curious Jiriya. Jiriya was very confident that with the likes of himself, Tsunade, Sarutobi, Tenzou also known as tree, and Danzo; they wouldn't have much trouble keeping up with Naruto and subduing him. He was really curious how Naruto managed to remove the seals though.
"Ah, the so called seal master of Konoha is curious." The clone sneered.
"Hey brat, I am not just a so called seal master, I AM a seal master!" Jiriya spoke irritably.
"Is that so? Then how did you never noticed any abnormality in my seals? Then again, I never gave you reason to doubt me, did I?" Naruto clone mused out loudly.
"Still, I would have to say that I am disappointed with the seal master of Konoha. You and Danzo were beaten by a toddler in fuinjutsu, how laughable." The clone added.
"Why you-" Jiriya stated in irritation.
'Well, yeah; I was one upped by a child, but he doesn't have to rub it in my face.' thought Jiriya.
"What happened, the cat got your tongue?" clone asked mockingly.
"You said that you are alone, who else is causing havoc in the village then?" Even the Hokage wanted to know more of what was actually going on. They could hear the sound of screams and blasts in the background. They wanted to know more before entering the fray and starting their offence.
"You would want to know that, wouldn't you?" Naruto clone said.
"It's another of my inventions, a different kind of clones." He added.
Before anyone could ask any questions, two bodies in Anbu uniforms appeared closer to the kage tower. It became clearer who they were as Yugao had her mask on and Kurenai had none. Yugao's mask was well known, the cat mask.
"Hokage-sama! We have been attacked by…" Kurenai had started to speak, but her words died down in her mouth as she saw Naruto standing opposite to the group.
"Naruto…" she barely whispered.
"What do you mean, Kurenai?" Danzo asked.
"N-Naruto was th-there when I fled from the Anbu head-office. H-He slaughtered most of them. Only Anko and Kakashi are left standing. I-I came to ask for backup." She said, still not believing her eyes.
'Naruto was here, means that he has already killed both Anko and Kakashi.' Kurenai thought in shock.
"So, my clones are almost done with their jobs, eh? Then I think it is time we start the PARTY!" Naruto clone yelled the last bit.
A huge amount of KI was released from him. Both Kurenai and Yugao, who were already pretty beat-up, fainted on the spot. Tsunade quickly grabbed them and vanished in a shower of leaves. Jiriya had summoned the toad elders, Ma and Pa. Naruto could tell that he was already preparing for the Sage-mode. Jiriya's eyes were turning blue and losing the pupil. Small green marks started appearing on his face. Naruto could see all this, but didn't pay much attention to it. Tree was standing beside Danzo, his chakra starting to flare slowly. Sarutobi had lit up his pipe once more. Danzo had started to remove the bandages on his arms to show the multiple eyes on them. There were total 10, five on each. Danzo removed the eye-patch covering his left eye, it revealed another Sharingan. Danzo's hands were paler shade compared to the rest of his visible body.
Naruto had to duck under an uppercut that suddenly came at his face and tried to attack with a jab in the neck to the attacker that was Saiken. Saiken again was replaced with a small pebble, showing his mastery over the move. Naruto then had to jump back from the sudden smoke that started to fill in where had been. He decided to not take any chances, and activated the hirashini seals on his body. He became a blur and started to attack them from all sides. The reason he had been waiting before attacking was simple. He wanted to plant several kunai and hirashini seals that would wear off in 10 minutes.
Now with the temporary advantage of speed, he tried to attack and take them out as fast as he could. He had to again disappear in a flash as a crater was formed in his previous position. He saw that it was Tsunade that had come back. He threw a Kunai at her as she was the easiest to kill in his current enemy list and weakest among the sanin. He was surprised when it was deflected and he appeared almost 10 feet in the air. He quickly substituted with a log a few feet away from the kage tower. All the while he had to fight off a mental fight as well. It seemed that even though he could negate power of a few Sharingan, 10 were just too much.
"We have seen Hirashini enough times to know the drawback of it, brat!" He heard Tsunade say.
"Well then I shall need to show you a few other things as well, ne? But that will come later." The clone said. It couldn't really show the true extent of Naruto's skills until he had taken the fight to the real one.
He again disappeared and appeared close to Jiriya who suddenly leapt out of the way of the resengan that he had thrown. He was surprised to see that Jiriya could actually keep up with the speed of the Hirashini purely by himself. His eyes were electric blue and his body had bulged a bit. Naruto clone was then pelted with fast and powerful kicks and punches that it thankfully could keep up with. Since it had more or less all of the originals powers, it had also gained the inhuman strength the original had. The clone wanted to keep this part secret until he could get a drop on them. Slowly but surely, the clone was receiving damage, but so were they.
Jiriya had already figured out that Naruto could keep up with his strength. Even with dodging the trees trying to impale him from below, the clone was able to keep up with them. Jiriya was also losing the precious time that he could stay in this form. His muscles were already under too much pressure. Deciding to pull of the stoppers, he prepared for his more devastating attacks. He knew that they were in the middle of Konoha, but this area was already deserted and he had to subdue Naruto before Naruto could get back at the safe places for the citizens. So he considered that a little property damage was nothing.
"Pa some oil! Ma some bullets!" he exclaimed.
"As you wish Jiriya-chan!" one of the toads on his shoulders said.
One of them fired a stream of thick oil at Naruto. It was then lit up on fire by Jiriya and then fueled and further developed by the air bullets by the other toad. Naruto had to flash out of the way of the fire ball itself and then keep flashing out of the way from the fire bullets created by the air bullets. It was following wherever he flashed to. It was admirable how well Jiriya could control fire element.
Naruto then decided to start throwing attacks as well. He started off with chakra drill at Jiriya. Jiriya ducked and then was joined by Tsunade who tagged against him. Tsunade was shocked that someone could actually keep up with her and Jiriya in terms of strength.
Jiriya fired off his favorite attack "needle jizo!" and Naruto clone was going to be pelted by them when he again flashed near a rock. He got kicked in the stomach and was blasted backwards but held out due to his strength. He saw that it was Saiken, who had been forgotten till now. The Clone cursed himself for forgetting and being caught off guard.
He didn't get much time to curse as both Jiriya and Tsunade were coming at him once more. He side stepped Tsunade's punch to the head and had to duck under a tree branch that had suddenly sprouted from the ground. All of them were shocked to see that. He knew that it was Danzo. But he didn't know the how.
"What the fuck! How can you use Mokuton? That's a part of Senju bloodline!" Tsunade screamed at Danzo but still kept her focus on Naruto.
"I have implanted some of Senju DNA sells within my arms like Tenzou. They also helped me improve the Sharingan eyes that I have on my hands." Danzo said.
Naruto clone was thankful, as soon as he had heard it; he saw the eyes turning from 3 tomoes to a shuriken pattern. He was in deep shit, and he knew it. Sarutobi meanwhile had decided that he would go ahead and clean off the clones.
They were also moving towards the location of the original. They could hear the booming laughter of the original.
The clone heard this and smirked inwardly. Well, the original would have less to worry about if he could just get one of these out….
With the original….
He had started to blast things, but he kept his attacks precise and to the point of need. He didn't have any need for unnecessary loss of chakra. He still had a soldier pill, though, just in case. Soldier pills had ill effects on Jinchuriki as their body was forced to generate too much chakra than normal and it was put under too much strain. Even one pill was enough to put a jinchuriki in bed for a month. He was lucky to be an Uzumaki and also have the advanced regeneration of the Kyuubi. He could easily use one pill, without any repercussions. But, the second would be just like for any other jinchuriki.
During his destruction, he got the memories of the clone at the Hayuga compound. Only Hiashi was left alive from the main fighters of the family. He was impressed that someone had actually managed to take out his clone even if it was not going at full strength. They all had to wait till they could see the start of the original's fight with the kage level shinobi, or it was the last option and needed to complete the task. This particular clone had not used anything more than the Hirashini and few of the forbidden jutsus. Soon enough he got the memories of the clone from the forest of death. It had successfully taken down the barriers that kept the animals within the forest. It had also leaded them at the safe points where there were more than enough jonin, chunin and genin trying to keep the animals at bay. After another 10 minutes of waiting he received the memories of another clone that he had actually expected far sooner. It was from the Anbu division. The stupid clone had actually managed to take down most of the Anbu but was taken down by Anko's suicide jutsu. It had taken out Kakashi's Sharingan eye with a shuriken. It had aimed for kill, but the suicide technique had already kicked in and thrown his balance off. Even the power of the throw had been nothing. It had been like the shuriken had been mistakenly dropped, next to no power at all. But, luckily it had embedded in the eye-socket. By the time someone gave Kakashi any medical attention, the eye would be forever lost.
He heard a rustle of leaves and saw Sarutobi appearing 20 or so feet away in front of him.
"So, you are another of the clones." Sarutobi stated as he started preparing hand-signs for his jutsu.
"Naruto was immediately on alert and started going through his own sequence of one handed signs. He finished first and threw a hot white string of flames from his right hand. It was similar to a water whip, but it was made of fire. He directed the flames at Sarutobi. Sarutobi leaped over the flames and finished his sequence with a slam on the ground. He yelled out "Summoning technique: Monkey king Enma!" in a puff of smoke, a giant monkey the size of the Hokage tower appeared. It turned into a staff and launched at Naruto.
Naruto ducked and shot at Sarutobi with a resengan in hand. He appeared next to Sarutobi in a flash of yellow and plunged the sphere into Sarutobi. He was aware of the switch made by Sarutobi, but gave no indication of noticing it. The Sarutobi turned into mud and tried to drown him in it. Naruto again appeared near a fallen sealing of a store and jumped over a kick aimed at his head. He brought out his sword as Sarutobi summoned the transformed monkey king to himself. Sarutobi attacked him with a swipe to his head. He ducked and back pedaled as he had to avoid another jab to his neck. He started throwing wind gales at Sarutobi, who in retaliation used mud bombs. Sarutobi sunk into the ground and vanished. Naruto waited for Sarutobi to appear, which he did with a swipe at his kneecap. Naruto jumped up a little and slashed with his blade. A razor wind blew at Sarutobi's half buried form. He was replaced by a log and Naruto had to again jump away from the electric ball that was launched at him.
He used wind manipulation and formed a hemisphere of wind-blade around himself. They randomly started to shoot off at Sarutobi. Sarutobi jumped and switched his tactic and from using jutsus with hands to using them with his staff. He started to channel chakra in the staff and it started to shoot reddish-green beams that blew as soon as they touched the hemisphere surrounding Naruto. Naruto took advantage of the fact that the Hokage had gotten old and wasn't on par with him anymore.
He slowly started to gain ground. Both he and Sarutobi knew what was happening. Even though he had been hit with the staff multiple times, he had not been on defensive. He had scored just as many if not more hits on Sarutobi.
"You can't be a clone. A clone, as powerful as it may be, it would not have taken blows from my staff and still lived. You are the real one. How cunning of you." Sarutobi said with frustration evident in his voice.
Naruto smirked, but it vanished as he saw the staff transforming into monkey king and it jumping at him. He had to avoid being crushed by the giant ape while still holding off Sarutobi. He started throwing multiple resengan at the ape, but either they were dodged or blocked. The monkey king was known to have body as tough as a normal dragon's. Naruto decided that he would have to see just how much punishment it could take, as he had to get rid of it, quickly too.
He prepared another resengan and compressed it to a baseball's size. He then proceeded to add wind element to it and keep it compressed. As soon as he found an opportunity, he slammed the attack in the spine of the ape. It screamed and backhanded him. Naruto quickly gained his balance and avoided a fire dragoon thrown at him by Sarutobi. He looked up and saw that the monkey king was in intense pain and glaring at him in hatred.
'Well, normal dragon's skin is not as tough after-all.' Naruto dryly thought. He had used a significant amount of chakra in that attack. It had enough power to make 100 feet deep and 5 feet wide hole in earth. But, the attack had barely managed to pierce the skin and contact the inner tender muscles and spine. He was sure that he had at-least temporarily disabled the giant ape since he saw it vanish in a puff of smoke.
Suddenly a loud bang was heard as both Sarutobi and Naruto glanced in that direction. They saw that others had arrived. Tsunade looked pretty beat up. Her clothes were already torn in places. Her upper shirt was barely clinging to her body. She didn't seem to notice or care, though. Then there was Jiriya. He was smoking and looked like he had been through a shredder a few times. His skin showed a reddish tint. He had cuts all across his bare chest and face. His face was swollen near his eyes. Even his hair was cut in places. His pants were half torn. Then there was Danzo. Danzo had three of the eyes on his right hand closed. His face had blood flowing all over his left side. And the last one to appear was The Naruto clone. It was singed in many places. Yet it had a smirk plastered on its face. Both teams slowly joined forces and now it was four against two. Sarutobi concluded that Saiken, and Tenzou must be either dead or out of the fight for now.
Naruto and the clone started preparing their bigger attacks as they created three lightning clones each. The lightning clones attacked the opposition as both Naruto and his blood clone started to prepare a resengan. Once done, clone started to put wind and fire elements into it, while the real one started to put Kyuubi's yokai into the resengan. Once the attacks were prepared, they vanished in a yellow flash and appeared thirty feet away from their previous position.
"WRATH OF A DEMON!" they yelled. The energy built up in the attacks suddenly doubled and the balls of spiraling chakra and yokai were at least as big as they were tall. They launched the attack. It rocketed at the group as the lightning clones dispelled themselves. Others watched in horror as the chaotic balls of energy merged together and started tearing everything in its path. In the blink on an eye, the attacks impacted the area where the Konoha shinobi were. Naruto had teleported as soon as the attacks had been launched. It had taken them almost 3 minutes to prepare and launch the attacks. The clone had already dispelled due to low chakra.
As soon as the impact happened; a loud boom was heard. A blast happened that could be seen even from 10 to 15 miles away. He panted as he had used a considerable amount of his reserves in a single attack. His clone had already dispelled. His clone had used the Dojutsu during the fight. It had understood the working behind the attack that Danzo had used on several occasions to save himself. It required the sacrifice of the Sharingan eye, provided that it was Mangekyo. It enabled the user to turn illusion into reality and keep it up for a minute. It allowed the user to raise an undefeatable shield that would save him against any attack.
Unfortunately for Naruto, though, the enemies were still alive, as he could still feel their chakra. Everything in the 300 meter radius of the blast was nothing but a pile of ashes. The smoke soon cleared to reveal a crater that perhaps went at least 50 or so feet deep at the center. On the opposite side of the crater, he could easily make out the figures lying or struggling to stand on their feet. He couldn't say that he himself was in any better condition. He had used almost 2/5th of his chakra in that single attack. And there was only one clone remaining that was helping Nina. He was now completely on his own with only 1/5th of his reserves remaining. He saw a flash of blue coming from Tsunade.
He used his wind manipulation and flew over the crater and when close enough, he threw a kunai and flashed 20 feet away from the enemies who had regained their footings. But it seemed that he had failed to be on time, as all of his adversaries looked in good condition, at least in terms of chakra. All of them had around 85% of their chakra back, indicating the use of soldier pills. Tsunade looked as good as new. The only plus was Danzo. All eyes on both his hands were closed, showing that they were out of use.
"So, ready for round two?" Naruto asked, without showing any sign of exhaustion, he had to make them believe that he was still at top shape.
Sarutobi looked around himself. There was literally nothing where the attack had landed. He knew that the only reason he was alive was whatever technique Danzo had used. He had been aware of the fact that the Sharingan eyes had been absent from the victims of the Uchiha massacre. Many had thought that it was Itachi, but Sarutobi had his doubts. They were now confirmed. He was aware that even a summon would not have lasted against an attack of this caliber. Either dispelled, or killed. Even Enma had been hurt by Naruto's attacks. One single hit had rendered Enma useless in a battle.
But, he was aware, even with the huge chakra reserves, Naruto possibly couldn't have much chakra left. Now was the only time to attack and end this. If they killed Naruto, Kyuubi would come back in next decade or so. At least they would have a chance to stand against it, and prepare for the inevitable. He could see himself making the same sacrifice that his successor had made. He could only hope that the people would know not to consider the child as a monster. He hoped that they would learn from their humiliating defeat at the hands of a demon they created.
'It is time for you to come out once more Kyuubi.' He thought to the demon inside him. Kyuubi had been watching all that happened with barely disguised interest. Just like its container, it had not expected the two extra S ranked nin to be present. Yet, it didn't say anything as it had utmost confidence in its host. It heard the thoughts of its container and couldn't help but grin.
At once, on an unsaid signal, all of them started to perform hand-signs. "Summoning Jutsu!" four simultaneous shouts were heard. There were giant puffs of smoke as they finally performed the summoning jutsu.
First to be revealed was the toad boss summon – Gamabunta, then there was Katsuya the boss summon of slugs, followed by monkey king Enma who looked as good as new once more; and at last there was the boss summon of crows - Densei.
Naruto needed a little more time to finish his hand-signs as it was a modified version of the summoning contract. But, by the time the other summons were revealed, Naruto had finished his hand-signs. With a yell of his own, Naruto performed the summoning jutsu.
"From hell's gate of malice - I summon thee!" a pillar of fire rose above the grounds and reached the height of mountains. Everyone ran away from the fire that rose and waited for the fire to subside. They had heard of what Naruto had said, and the impressive display of fire wasn't soothing their worries.
A giant eye opened. It was almost 30 ft. high, a fourth of the total height of the tallest of the other summons. So much malice was spread in the air that the only reason why all the others were even alive was because of their summons. The summons were quite resistant to the KI.
The eye stepped out of the fire, followed by another eye. A giant mouth then came out. And slowly but surely, their worst nightmare stepped out. The Kyuubi no Kitsune was back….
The gate of fire faded back. The crater that had formed by Naruto's attack was filled with a river of molten earth. The Kyuubi stood proud, 250 feet tall and 700 feet long, half on the molten earth and half on the ground. Naruto knew why Kyuubi looked just this much; as it was smaller than what it had been the first time it was released. It was because the amount of power Kyuubi had in the real world depended on the amount of power he could put up. And right now, he really needed to conserve power.
He could feel the rapid drain on his already low reserves. This is why he had a soldier pill ready. He had to put his own chakra for summoning Kyuubi as Kyuubi's own chakra would not work. He quickly consumed the pill. He felt intense pain in his core, not enough to show it, though considerable for an average shinobi to cry out. He felt his core pushing out as much power as it could. Within a minute, he was back to at least his 70 to 75%. He did this while the Kyuubi was still coming out of the gate and he was on its head.
Once out, Kyuubi spoke….
"Ah! You even prepared dinner for me, eh Naruto. I already like my summoner." And then booming laughter was heard.
The boss summons trembled in fear, but still stood their ground. Abruptly, Kyuubi's laughter stopped. Its mouth turned into a devilish snarl. The depth of its voice changed "Did I not tell you that I like cooked meal?"
"Yes- Yes, you did. But don't fuss so much, you can cook them easily enough. And where would the fun in that be for you anyway." Naruto replied.
Angered at being called food, the boss summons charged with their summoners still on their heads. This had been the plan all along for Naruto and Kyuubi, knowing they couldn't keep Kyuubi out for long. Make them do mistakes and finish off as many as they could. Naruto knew that anyone other than him could not stand on Kyuubi. And he couldn't afford another of the bigger attacks that he had in his arsenal. So, with a deep breath, he took off of Kyuubi's head and watched as it started firing demon fire bullets at the headstrong Gamabunta. Bunta started to dodge, as self-preservation kicked in. Katsuya sarted to fire slime out of his mouth and throw it at Kyuubi. Kyuubi's eyes twitched as it incinerated the slime into molten gooey mass. The only reason it was not attacking with its bigger attacks was because it would also force Naruto in putting equivalent amount of the yokai. It started to chase after the toad, intent on eating at least one of them, especially the toad. Its tails swished as they blocked a barrage off sharp feathers. It retaliated with throwing a swarm of hardened hair on its fur. They were as pointed as a needle. The airborne crow boss flew in a loop to evade the attack. Their fight continued, as the other summons joined forces against the Kyuubi.
All of the shinobi were once again on the ground and staring. Naruto could see their anger and shock, even fear to an extent. They had doubts, he could see.
He had decided that he would kill Danzo at the very least before leaving. He could feel the significant drain on his chakra. He knew that Kyuubi couldn't stay for long, and even then, it only had a limited amount of options without forcing Naruto into chakra exhaustion. He had counted at least 20 minutes of Kyuubi in the battle. It would leave him with roughly half or even less of his chakra as he had regained only around 75%. He activated his lightning armor and flashed at the opponents in a trail of yellow lightning. He first reached Jiriya. They were in a taijutsu match as Tsunade soon joined in. He had already dropped all the training seals on his body. He started to put more power and pour a bit of chakra to get the desired effects. His control enabled him to use the similar way of fighting that gave Tsunade her legendary strength.
Naruto surprised them by this as he hit Tsunade in the stomach and Jiriya on his thigh. It had the added effect of electrocuting them as well. He was switching between his lightning armor and then fight without it. It gave him speed bust that he needed and didn't give them the idea that he may actually have something akin to the lightning armor. He had to then change targets as both Danzo and Sarutobi started to throw jutsus at him. Deciding that it wasn't a big secret anymore, he used his lightning armor to its full effects. He vanished and appeared next to Danzo and tried to kick him in the shin. Danzo barely dodged the attack. He turned around and fired a resengan at Sarutobi, who was approaching from behind. Sarutobi ducked and grabbed Naruto's outstretched hand and slammed his knee in Naruto's stomach, only for the Naruto to explode and the Sarutobi to be replaced by a log.
Naruto was once again on Danzo who started attacking him with poisonous roots attacking him. He dodged them and fired concentrated resengan beam that tore through Danzo, only for Danzo to vanish and reappear with his left Sharingan eye closed. The look on Danzo's eye was murderous. He snarled and charged at Naruto. Naruto knew that Danzo expected him to use Danzo's so called fallen emotional state. But, Naruto knew better. He saw that all others were fighting with his supposed clones, fighting. He had made two lightning clones to help out. He waited for Danzo to come closer. When Danzo attacked him and tried to grab him, he immediately knew something was definitely wrong. He had seen what a suicide jutsu could do to you. He had seen Anko kill herself in order to take out his clone. Naruto let a small slip in his moves, and Danzo immediately grabbed him and performed a one handed seal.
Naruto had switched as soon as Danzo started to prepare the hand seal. He saw 5 meters of are around Danzo get absorbed into him and Danzo turned into a wooden dummy. Small plants started to grow on the dummy within seconds. He got a punch in the gut for being distracted. He coughed up some blood and again fully activated his lightning armor. He started to attack all three of his enemies as he saw Jiriya turn into sage mode once more while Sarutobi finished the lightning clone. This happened all the while the beasts were fighting in the background. Crow boss was already gone as he had heard Kyuubi speak rather loudly. He had barely a few minutes left, 7 at most. He had already used the pill and was on less than 30% of chakra. He started to duck and weave through the attacks aimed at him. He had to be extra careful of Jiriya. Jiriya had access to unlimited nature chakra for around five or so minutes. He couldn't get Kyuubi's yokai for next 7 minutes. To his misery, he won't be able to use much of Kyuubi's yokai for more than 10 minutes. He couldn't even relay on yokai as Jiriya may use a seal to stop him from using the yokai. He would need a significant amount of chakra to reverse the effects of the seal.
He was startled though, when another two figures came to his help. Nina and his final blood clone had come and were attacking Jiriya. They could take down Jiriya's time in sage mode and perhaps even take him down for the count. He had enough power to keep both Sarutobi and Tsunade on their toes.
Swipe, parry, a jutsu here, a jutsu there and Naruto was gaining on his adversaries. Kyuubi was already gone. Jiriya had a stump left on his right hand. Naruto had switched with his clone on the right moment and used his modified resengan beam to cleave through Jiriya's neck. Unfortunately, Jiriya had caught on it and used a kawarimi while trying to get out of the way. Jiriya still got his arm severed though.
Naruto decided that it was time for him to leave. He appeared a few hundred meters away from the remaining shinobi.
"Remember… Shinron… That is what I shall be known from here on." He said.
He quickly grabbed Nina by shoulder and they again disappeared. The other clone who was still around 30% of its original strength also disappeared as the job to look after for both Naruto and Nina fell on it.
Sarutobi looked at the unconscious form of his student Jiriya as Tsunade immediately took Jiriya's side and started to heal the stump on his arm. Since Naruto had deemed it fit to leave nothing of the original arm, she couldn't help re-attach the appendage. She cried as she held Jiriya's broken but breathing body closer to her bust. Sarutobi couldn't help but smile sadly at them. At least Jiriya was alive, and his biggest wish to feel Tsunade's bust was fulfilled, though, he was unconscious.
He then looked over the destroyed land of Konoha. There was nothing but ashes, raging fires and the broken villages of Konoha. He would have to completely lock down Konoha. He didn't want other villages to know of Konoha's destruction. He had to keep it under the wraps for as long as he could.
Sarutobi looked up at the skies as small drops of water started to fall….
'We did get our punishment, after all….' He thought with sadness.
