Chapter 9
The final battle
The door opened up as Naruto, Hinata, and the other cloud ninja walked into the room. In the middle was Shimon Kamizuki standing and staring at them as he held the scroll in his clutches when they walked in. Behind Shimon were a bunch of thugs with all of them carrying katanas, clubs, and/or knives.
"I'm glad you have made it all the way up here." said Shimon.
"So... why did you just let us in? You could have sent your goons after us or at least set up a trap." said Naruto seeming suspicious. Shimon let out a chuckle and took a step forward.
"Yes, I could have, but that wouldn't be any fun. You see..." said Shimon stepping forward. "I've become so powerful, that I wanted to test my new strength on some worthy opponents. Thank you so much for volunteering." he finished with a laugh.
"What the hell! Is this some kind of joke to you jack-ass!" yelled Naruto getting worked up. Hinata put a hand on his shoulder to try and keep him from charging in.
"Well it seems I struck a nerve. Let's just see how powerful you really are. Get them!" yelled Shimon pointing a finger at the four ninja. On his command, the thugs behind Shimon flew passed him with their weapons raised. Naruto started off with making ten shadow clones and charged into battle. With Hinata's Byankugan activated, Hinata followed right behind Naruto. Then, the two cloud ninja each brought out a couple of kunai and charged into battle. Naruto's shadow clones planted fists and kicks into all surrounding enemies, while some of his clones broke out into a furry of rasengan attacks. It wasn't long before Naruto had taken care of his share of enemies. Hinata was jabbing and dodging attacks like a true Hyuga would. Hinata whipped behind her and dodged a club attack from behind and jabbed the guy in the upper arm. With his arm feeling numb, he dropped his club, giving Hinata an opening to jump up and giving a roundhouse kick to the face. After that, four more enemies came up to Hinata two with katanas, one with a club and one with a knife in each hand. Hinata began to spin around as her chakra expanded out of her body, creating a rotation technique that sent the rest of her enemies flying. As this was happening, the two cloud ninja put their kunai in the ground and clapped their hands together.
"Lightning trap!" they both said at the same time. As soon as they finished, all the thugs inside the square of four kunai in the ground, were automatically incinerated by a light flash of blue lightning inside the square. After the enemies were defeated, Naruto Hinata and the other ninja gathered together and glared at Shimon. He was laughing and clapping his hands together.
"Wonderful! You really are stronger than I thought! I personally thought that all of you would die when I sent my men after you, but you survived. But now, you're going to die, because it's my turn!" he screamed. Chakra began to swirl through the air as Shimon's chakra escalated to amazing heights. So much in fact, his shirt began to rip off from the drastic change in his appearance. His skin turned dark purple and his muscles grew so huge, that his shirt exploded off his body. Dark black horns grew out of his back, chest, knees, elbows, knuckles, just about anywhere they could find purchase. His hair grew to a darker red and became more and more wild and his teeth sharpened and turned to an unhealthy yellow color. As far as anyone could see, this man was no longer human. If anything, a demon. He looked at his hands which were now replaced with claws instead.
"Hehehehe... this is even better than I imagined! This is what I've been seeking my entire life!" he said in a loud demonic roar. Naruto only stared at him in disgust while Hinata looked at him seeming terrified. She was so frightened at the sight of this man and what he had become. The chakra he was emitting had such a tremendous pressure, she could barely standup to it with her Byankugan.
"Hinata!" yelled Naruto. Hinata looked at him slowly and was surprised at the look on his face. "Don't let his chakra get to you!" he looked back at Kamizuki and growled in frustration. "As you can see, he's no longer human, which means we shouldn't hold back against him. If we don't fight to kill, we'll be the ones ending up dead. Give it your all Hinata! We could really use it right now!" said Naruto with the words giving her courage. Hinata swallowed her fear and began to make her flame of courage burn brightly. "As for you two." said Naruto. The other two cloud ninja looked to Naruto. "I think we can handle this. You go help out the others for right now. I have a feeling that they aren't doing to good." said Naruto. At his request, the other two ninja nodded, withdrew their weapons and headed out of a nearby window to assist the others. With them out of the way, Naruto didn't have to worry about anyone else except Hinata. But he needed her right now.
"I'm so tired of hearing you guys talk! Shut up and start fighting!" yelled Shimon. Naruto looked to where he was before, but then realized that he had appeared behind Naruto and Hinata with an outstretched arm covered in spikes. He swung behind him and hit Hinata and Naruto with a monstrous force against their backs, causing much pain. The flew so far, that they hit a wall that was thirty feet away from them and made cracks in it from the impact. They fell to the ground with both of them coughing up little blood. Naruto struggled to his hands and knees and desperately trying to recover his breath.
"If that's all you have for me, then I am thoroughly disappointed." said Shimon. He had appeared in front of Naruto looked down upon him. Naruto was halfway standing up, but Shimon picked him up by the neck, squeezing as he did. Shimon chuckled and threw Naruto up a short distance in the air and let him down a little ways before kicking Naruto in the stomach another thirty feet and hit the wall again. Shimon laughed madly at the power he displayed and began walking towards Naruto.
"Stupid boy. How in the world could you be so strong and be this weak?" asked Shimon. After taking five steps, Hands reached over Shimon's neck and pulled back in an attempt to strangle him. He looked behind him and found that the hands belonged to Hinata, who was trying desperately to hold her own around his massive neck.
"I won't let you hurt Naruto!" she yelled loudly. Shimon looked at the girl as he realized she wasn't just choking him, but also putting chakra in his body to help block his chakra flow.
"Let go!" he shouted. Hinata refused and just squeezed tighter as she held on for dear life. From the other side of the room, Naruto slowly rose and watched the whole scene occur. Shimon roared like a monster and scrunched his body together. Using a strong inner force, Shimon's horns on his back expanded, grew sharper, and longer as they stabbed threw Hinata in the stomach. Blood left her lips again as life inside her struggled to remain. Her arms grew limp and she fell off his back onto the ground. Her head was turned sideways and she looked at Naruto from the other side of the room.
"I'm sorry... Naruto." she thought to herself as she began to cry. "I'm so sorry..." Seeing Hinata fall to the ground, in a limp fashion, Naruto screamed.
"HINATAAAA!" he screamed. Shimon laughed at the girl's death and turned to the boy.
"Oh don't you worry, you'll soon join her." said Shimon speeding towards him. To second later, Shimon threw a punch at Naruto sure that it would send him flying. But regardless of the impact, the punch was lighter than air to Naruto now. One hand was enough to stop Shimon's punch in it's tracks. Shimon stopped smiling and suddenly became worried. Red eyes that practically had death written into them and had very thin black slits for pupils stared at him in an attempt to read his entire soul. Naruto's canines turned into fangs, nails turned into claws, and his hair became even spikier and more unruly. Last, but not least, Naruto's whiskermarks on his cheeks grew bigger, wider, darker and fiercer. After catching his punch, Naruto threw it back at him like it was nothing. From one little push, Shimon went tumbling on the ground backwards forty feet and even breaking through the wall into the neighboring room.
"RRAAAAAAAAAH!" screamed Naruto as the kyubi chakra began to cloak his entire body with an added tail. Naruto looked at Hinata on the ground with his sad kyubi eyes and cried a little. He got down on all fours, and using the kyubi chakra, he took the tail he had gained from the fox cloak and brushed the tail all over Hinata's body. Once he did, Hinata's entire body glowed a light red color as her wounds healed almost instantly. Seconds later, Hinata regained consciousness and sat up to be greeted by a smiling Naruto.
"N-Naruto! W-What happened to you!" asked Hinata as she reached a hand to try and touch him. Normally, the chakra around Naruto would have incinerated her, but instead of harming her, the chakra was warm and only tickled her hand a little. Naruto looked away from her face and took a step back and looked at Hinata, grateful that she was still alive.
"I'll explain later Hinata, but right now, I need a favor." said Naruto looking away. Hinata sat up and turned Naruto's face so that he and her were looking at eachother. Red eyes to pale lavender ones.
"What is it?" she asked. Naruto closed a hand around hers and spoke.
"I need you and all the others to get out of this place and get as far away as you can. I want to make sure that no one else gets hurt from my power." said Naruto. Hinata nodded and Naruto helped her up and stood looked towards the door. "I promise, once I'm done here and I have the scroll in my hands, I'll return to the village." said Naruto. Hinata nodded and quickly hugged him before running out of the door. As she escaped, Shimon came through the hole in the wall still covered in rubble.
"Y-You little brat! I'll kill you!" said Shimon. Naruto smirked and got on all fours and appeared in front of Shimon in half a second. Once there, Naruto threw a flurry of punches at Shimon's stomach, after Shimon was stunned from the impacts, Naruto hit him in the jaw with an uppercut and then jumped up to send Shimon soaring with a kick in the face. The cloak around Naruto bubbled more as he began to form a very large rasengan in his hand. Shimon rose from Naruto's kick and made two long black spikes came out of Shimon's arms with both of them on a black and purple flame surrounding them. When the time was right, both Naruto and Shimon sped forward, clashing their attacks. As they both struggled for dominance, Naruto's attack broke off Shimon's spikes and overwhelmingly destroyed him in a spectacular explosion of blue, red, white, and dark purple. After the attack, nothing remained but the ruins of Shimon's entire hideout. Everything was destroyed, including Shimon as he lay on the ground dead with his body nearly torn apart by the massive attack. A minute or two later of silence, the rubble began to shift as Naruto appeared victorious from beneath it. Naruto's shirt had been completely torn off, but in his hand, he held the scroll that Shimon had stolen, the Sacred Scroll of Dragons. Smiling greatly, Naruto moved out of the rubble and slowly made his way back to the cloud village.
