Naruto frowned as he looked down, at the gathering of warriors. The entire nation of Toads considered skilled enough for combat had gathered. It seemed that the reconnaissance toads had discovered masses of hidden forces hidden in the area waiting. Naruto frowned as he continued to see images, devastation, and the village in ruins. For a moment he saw a bloodied Dimiter fighting a massive man in ancient armor, and then a flash of Kakashi, he was moving fast, bolting away from some kind of explosion. Then in a flash something came down and blackness consumed the visions and he assumed that whoever was showing him the battle was lost to the darkness.
His frown deepened as something called out to him, it was definitely from the deepest bowls of his soul. The evil creature within had been trying to manipulate him for days now, it had so far failed utterly. He sighed and then looked to the sky hoping he was ready for this. He knew whatever lay ahead would test his skill beyond anything he had done before; he could feel it deeper than he had ever felt anything before.
"Of course…if you want, I could remove all obstacles…none could slow your stride with my power…" The shadowy hiss of the Kyuubi-Naruto rang like a gong in his head. Naruto's frown was cool and solid as he looked straight ahead, waiting to move out.
"Don't be so foolish! I will help you! I can give you the power to save your loved ones…all you need to do is agree and we can stop it now!" Naruto knew better than to listen to the voice's honey sweet words, the same words that could corrupt the pure in to madness and vile deed. "I will show you then…something you need to see."
Naruto shook his head and let his breath seep out in slow words."No…I will do this the right way." He muttered powerfully as the voice faded and he frowned as the massive array for the summons was powered, glowing in preparations for the sending to Konoha.
With a roar, the toads called out and Naruto found himself drawn into the massive shouts. It was impossible not to be swept up it was an inspiring sight. He was going home. Naruto, the newest Sage. Naruto, one of the People.
"TO WAR!"
Naruto: Visions of Immortality
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.
Arc 1: Shadow Wars
Chapter 3: Devastation! War at the Gates! Konoha's Final Hour?
Destruction, mayhem, death, pain, loss…all of this was obviously hanging like a dark cloud over the village hidden in the leaves. The assault by Pein, Konan, and Drake had left the village in ruins. God realm had used a powerful wave of energy, literally wiping out the village in a single undeniable stroke. Few crawled from the ruins of the attack, for a moment Pein mused that he had even rid himself of the troublesome Drake, but his musing were ended as the massive warrior stepped from under some ruins, his armor destroyed, and discarded. Instead, a traditional Akatsuki cloak covered his flesh.
"This village's devotion is admirable, however futile." The God Realm murmured as his eyes noticed a massive mud wall, having withstood the blast and still empowered. He knew a powerful shinobi was behind it as he looked to motion to the massive Drake to take of it, he noticed the ruined body of Dimiter, dragged by the giant. "Let us see who remains, then move onto the Kyuubi's location."
Drake smiled as he looked towards the mud wall and released the fallen warrior. Several other shinobi of Konoha began to stir from the rubble. Pein growled in pure annoyance and then looked to Drake and the nodded "I am giving you one order Drake…Kill them all." Drake's smile grew to a violent degree and then crouched down as he scanned the area. His hulking form locking onto a good target, a hyuga if his memory served him correctly. With a single massive leap, he was soaring towards the girl, hoping for a good challenge.
Pein frowned and then blinked as he deflected a single kunai, and looked towards the source and narrowed his eyes. The shinobi had covered himself in dark robes, only his pale chin and lips were showing, smiling. Almost teasing him as all six paths moved closer the shinobi. The God Realm merely sighed "You are obviously not from Konoha, so who are you?" his voice was perfectly calm.
"I have had a few names…but you…you may call me Lord Black." The shinobi stated calmly as the other five paths moved against him in a single moment. God Realm merely watched as the cloaked foe seemed to dance through the attack, minor movements, and slight dodges. The in a sudden moment of lax attention God Realm was forced to enforce his power deflecting another kunai, one he had only barely noticed, even then the power behind it even with such small motions, it made God Realm even more wary.
The Shinobi smiled and in a wave of motion swirled his cloak and instantly smashed the five realms back as if they were sparing, the force of the move kicked up a cloud of dust and rubble. When the dust cleared, Lord Black was gone. God Realm snarled and moved towards the place where he had stood until a massive surge of chakra caught his attention, the entire area was flowing with it as he moved back, staying away from the flow's nexus.
God Realm stared at where the flow of chakra was centered, but his gaze was interrupted, by a massive summoning cloud covered the area, as dozens and dozens of Toads appeared, along with three massive ones. On top the largest one's head, was his target. Naruto Uzimaki.
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Root Headquarters
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Danzo's eyes narrowed and stepped back as he shuddered and quickly surrounded by a few Root ANBU bodyguards. "Who are you?" he snarled looking to the shadow and the cross masked shinobi. The cross masked shinobi merely stepped a single step forward and tilted his head. Silence shrouding the room for a moment.
Then in an almost jovial, teasing voice said "Oh! My. Name. Is. Cross!" Danzo scowled and shook his head as the two forms completely formed from the seal and stepped out into the room, Cross turned away and looked at them and calmly stepped back as the red-jacketed man joined him.
Danzo smirked "Cross…and the Toad Sannin…how appropriate…I'd like you to meet my associates…"
A calm blonde haired man tilted his head, his shinning blue eyes and pale skin made him almost resemble the fourth hokage, except for the fact he has no pupils, his face also was a bit off, almost iridescent looking. He wore tight fitting ninja clothes and no vest, almost like a latex suit except for the obvious armor plates all over and he tilted his head. "I am Faros…" he stated and slipped down into a combat position, a blade of pure lightning extending from each of his hands.
The other was a beautiful woman with long flowing blue hair and lightly tanned skin, her eyes were a deep crimson. Her clothes were rather skimpy and revealing dealing in blues and greens, shorts that were bare even clothing and a top that covered less than even Anko would consider decent. She smiled and several orbs of water began to float around her "I am Codenamed Mira." Danzo frowned suddenly, never knowing that they were codenamed, he always used his real identity.
Cross merely shrugged before looking back at the shadows and chuckling pointing at the one known as leader "We'll find you soon enough."
The being known only as leader merely began to chuckle, so vile and ominous a sound that weaker men would have grown ill to just from hearing it. The Sannin and Cross shook it off and slipped into a combat stance against the growing enemy force as Jiraiya smirked "This should be cake."
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Residential District: Ruins
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Drake smiled darkly as he spit out a chunky blot of red, a smile crawling across his face. His entire body was covered in hard scuffs, and bloody scraps, healing quick and pulling the flesh back together. His shadowy gaze looked over to the armored, hooded figure, and his conjured mud wall behind him, his staff spinning with an efficient powerful arc. "W-Who are you? To be able to strike me so?"
The Hooded figure remained silent sliding forward, attempting to smash his nose into oblivion. Drake's eyes widened and gasped, lowering his head taking it straight to the skull and being thrown back into a ruined wall, which crumbled on top of him. "I see…" his voice grumbled from below the rubble, and a fist smashing out of the plaster and wood. "…you are obviously Kage level."
The Hooded figure seemed to chuckle redirecting the staff back towards the hulking warlord. "I suppose. You could put it that way." The voice seemed a bit, teasing. This caused the massive warrior with gritted teeth, to turn a deep red, and then growl.
"That's it…insult me! I'll destroy you!" and then once again his chakra poured from his flesh as he gathered it all into himself, like his very aura was pure chakra that he held at bay. His form grew and rippled, power, pure power. "I'll Show you the Grave!"
The Hooded Shinobi dispelled the wall, and revealed several-wounded shinobi, an almost dead girl, being kept alive by a skilled medical shinobi, a Hyuuga. A scarred, tan skinned chunnin laid near to the pair, his eyes starring at Drake with a mystified anger, and fear.
Drake's eyes narrowed as he gathered his chakra into a pure ball of pure horror, it wasn't at all natural. It wasn't human. Then he pulled the ball into a horrible reality, the very existence of the orb making existence itself scream in pain. "Witness your DOOM!" then it exploded away from his open palm.
The Hooded Shinobi spun his staff and stabbed it into the ground as the orb smashed into a barrier sending chunks of rock through out the entire region. Drake growled watching, as his opponent was forced away, the majority of his power absorbed by a high level Mud Wall. "I see…you…it could only be you."
The hood tore away and revealed his face, young dark hair with matching marks by his eyes and a single cared for chin spike of hair. Drake growled "The God of all Ninja. The Professor. Sandaime Hokage. Young and strong. How!?" Drake shouted in rage and even a shred of fear.
Sarutobi smiled sideways and nodded "Sorry, if I tell you…it'll ruin the surprise." And then in a flash, the wisest shinobi to ever live in Konoha crashed into Drake, smashing him away back into the ruins.
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Hokage Monument: Yondaime Head
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Lord Black frowned down onto the massive arrayed army before him, it was all too predictable. A sigh escaped his lips and as he looked to his left moments before Cross appeared, and sighed "Sorry, my clone needed a bit more chakra." He didn't sound at all worn out.
"How goes the battle with Root?"
"As you thought. Poorly. They are attempting something…they may be able to complete the array sooner than expected." His voice seemed a bit worried "If this one is finished…then only the last pieces remain." Lord Black didn't respond as he waved his hand before him.
"This is the grand army that the Namikaze has roused. A force more than capable of crushing the opposition. If the enemy were normal shinobi." Cross looked to Lord Black but said nothing.
"Soon, it will all be revealed…and I will then be forced to show our hand…to prevent it…to cause it…and to begin it." Cross made a irritated sound before he looked back at Lord Black.
"So…Lord Black…Who should I reveal myself to first?" Cross still seemed to be playing, teasing even Lord Black, who tilted his cloaked head before sighing.
"That…is your choice Cross…" Cross's mask slowly slipped over as a pale skinned face was revealed and a single black eye. Then as he removed the mask completely he looked away and laughed.
"Lord Black…Time becomes short. Let us all go. Go forth. To war. Lets show the world. The Age of Utopia is dead." He whispered but with the removal of his mask, his voice had a more calm quality to it, even as his laughter filled the air. "However for now, Sarutobi-kun is dealing with Drake…but I don't know if he can finish him." He shook his head and smiled before replacing his mask.
"The Toad Sage is doing his part and will retreated back to the starting point soon, as will I. you'll have to do your part. Naruto's part must be played out." Then in a poof of smoke Cross was gone.
Lord Black looked down at the face of the young genin and sighed "Why…did it have to be you…Naruto." Before disappearing from the top of the monument.
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Ruined Konoha: Crater
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Naruto frowned as he looked at the ruins of his home, the desolation. He saw the cloak from a mile away and frowned as he leapt down to meet the enemy. The infamous leader, Pein of the Akatsuki. Jiraiya's killer. His eyes and face were marked in the way of a sage as he touched down, faced by all Six Paths of Pein.
"Finally we meet, Naruto." Pein's voice was entertained as much as it was cold, a frightening tone as he smirked. Looking as if he and his other paths were constantly prepared to attack. "You understand why I am here, if you resist it will be harsh."
Naruto's face broken into a smile of obvious confidence. "You say that when you are so outnumbered…and even then…I don't think that we're on the same level anymore."
Pein's eyes stared into his eyes and smirked before the God realm raised his hands to the massive toads but in another moment the toads were smashed into by dozens of shinobi, even Pein was taken aback as the battle began to grow into a massive array of Toad vs Ninja. Pein frowned as Drake moved next to him. Drake hacked some blood onto his shirt and sighed "Leader, its not going well. The dead seem to be rising to push us back. Not only that but this army…I believe they serve the Utopian God." The man looked over to where he had retreated from the once dead Kage.
Pein frowned and then shook his head "Then our plan must succeed." Then in flash Asura charged Naruto with his blade arms readied, moving like a blur as Naruto's attention returned to Pein only to feel the harsh blades slam into him. Asura's eyes widened as the blades caught a chunk of the ruined wall on the crater floor. Asura moved to smash into the leaf ninja who had only moved a few steps away.
Naruto smirked "World Manipulation: Spike" The Asura blinked as it charged and was stabbed through the body by spikes of earth and brokenly looked up to Naruto. "H-H-How?" before it went limp and God realm raised an eyebrow as three of the four other paths began to charge him. Naruto didn't even look at them as the very ground seemed to attack at them, spikes and blade of hardened dirt slashing and stabbing into them. It was horrible and it was wondrous.
"You killed him…for that…I will destroy you Pein and everything you stand for." It was the most terrifying words that had ever come from the young blonde's mouth, even as the God realm looked into the young shinobi's eyes and saw something. Something horrible. The Path standing behind him began to open the gate of death before being crushed by a flying toad. Leaving only Naruto and the God realm so quickly. "And now…it just us…Leader."
Pein smiled and shook his head before smiling "It's only begun Naruto-kun." He calmly drew one of the black chakra blades and moved towards the blonde shinobi at a pace that was incredible even compared to his other parts. Then as a spike of raw earth came up at him, he looked up at his opponent and smiled "Fool me once Naruto-kun…" then in a flash of light and blast of sound the entire area was thrown back in a huge shockwave leave flat ground and two men. Naruto and Pein.
Naruto frowned as he looked over seeing the toads desperates fighting their attackers. He passively noticed the torso of Dimiter not to far off and looked to Pein "another victim…" then in a whirl of motion the pair of shinobi charged forward and clash for a second. It was nothing more than a flash, but Naruto hand a shallow cut on his cheek and growled in pain as he felt weaker and his eyes widened. The sword had stolen his Natural Chakra. Pein dropped the stone blade and produced another.
"What's wrong Naruto-kun? Surprised?" Naruto's eyes widened as Pein now was moving to fast, cut after cut slammed into his skin. Before his felt the burn and was thrown to the ground, impaled by the dark blade. The force of it slamming deep into the ground left him in a small crater, just from the impact. Instantly, even before he could cough the air in his lungs out from the force, he screamed out in pain. Three more of the chakra disrupting blades had been forced into his flesh. One in his other shoulder and one in each of his hands. Only moments afterwards Naruto looked up squinting slightly trying to figure out how it had all gone wrong. There he could see before him the outline of Pein, blocking the sun behind him life a shadowy monolith.
Then in a cold, powerful voice Pein snarled pointing two more blades at him at the same moment "Now, you will come with me! Naruto-kun."
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A/N
Sorry to be so slow! hope you enjoyed the first part of the fight, there is more to come I assure you, twists I don't think you could even have thought of yet. now I got a PM about my lack of detailing battles to the end or to the fullest. It's most obvious in this chapter. some of it will be shown later and other parts just results. I may go back if demand increases for them in chapter. oh, and prepare for even more surprises!
Killercloud Out.
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