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The Savior That Can't Be Saved
Chapter 10:
The Better Future: The Ending of Madness
Uchiha Itachi stood hidden in the shadows outside the Hokage Tower, breathing a little heavily, carrying his passed-out, injured father, Uchiha Fugaku, on one of his barely stable shoulders. He cursed a little at how his clan was going against him, the fatigue setting in on his body after encountering a few Uchiha soldiers that wanted Konohagakure and all the people that they thought were all against them under their control. He looked around with his coal black eyes, feeling little pings of pain every so often from this new "gift" that he was given by his deceased friend.
Well, Shisui-kun..., Itachi bitterly chuckled at the pain, his thoughts, his situation, pretty much everything that had just happened in this brief amount of time, even though this was your parting gift to me... At that very moment, Itachi saw an Uchiha appear near him, sighting him from the shadows, making Itachi smile in the same bitter attitude that his thoughts sent out to his body, I still feel like it's a never-ending curse...
The Uchiha charged with swift precision, his Sharingan eyes blazing into a wheel of roaring, avenging fire, shuriken and kunai in both of his smooth hands as he threw them accurately at Itachi's location. Itachi was about to step into action when the sound of an approaching shinobi caught his ears and before he could even think of moving forward and dropping Fugaku, the approaching shinobi appeared in front of Itachi, using a black pole to deflect the projectiles, sending them to the ground, making the other Uchiha curse. The shinobi smirked and did a few hand signs before breathing a bunch of air into his mouth quickly and sending it out in a burst of fierce, orange-red flames that contacted the Uchiha, making him curse as he began to burn into ash.
The shinobi looked at Itachi with a wrinkled smile and chuckled, "Looks like you need more help than I thought, Itachi-kun."
Itachi smiled at the legend and had a little chuckle, "Indeed I do, Hokage-sama."
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Shimura Danzo looked down at his arm that was armed with many crimson red Sharingan eyes, seeing that there was still five eyes on the front of his arm and two on the back that were usable and open. He glared at the young boy that made him use one of his preciously acquired eyes for this technique, but he still had his own arsenal of jutsu and the genes of the famed Senju Hashirama on his side. He smirked at the situation.
I can easily take this brat and gain control of the Kyuubi, of the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox that will allow me to become strong enough to become Hokage and lead Konohagakure to greatness!
Naruto sneered at Danzo's smirk, the many Sharingan that ran across one of his arms, and the face of the Shodaime near and practically on his shoulder. I will never let you control Kurama, you sick, twisted bastard!
With that, Danzo began to go and pull out a blade as he breathed in air and shrouded the blade with Wind Release chakra. Naruto almost admired the task of this, knowing that Danzo is a master of Wind Release jutsu, but shook his head and charged forward, making a series of hand signs, feeling wind chakra surround his body. Danzo approached Naruto and was about to slice him when Naruto made a single hand seal and the wind chakra rushed off his body like ants fleeing from their collapsing ant hill, their home. The chakra seeked Danzo, surrounding him in a fury of wind blades, making Danzo curse, quickly go into seals, and one of his Sharingan went into action, closing as he appeared in front of the young blond. The old man felt the eyelids close underneath his arm, glaring at the calm, smiling Naruto before him.
"Looks like I'll just have to make all your Sharingan close, eh, Danzo." Naruto said, even though it could have been in the form of a question as he whispered something to something behind him, "Find Itachi or Ojii-san and tell them to come here as soon as they can." Naruto hear a soft "Alright" before focusing fully on Danzo once again.
"Let's see if you can do that, brat," Danzo sneered out of his rough mouth as he held his blade that was once again shrouded in wind chakra, pointing it at the Konohagakure genin, "or is everything out of your mouth just a hopeless dream?"
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"Alright, all I need to do is get inside here and..." The unknown Uchiha froze from trying to get inside the Hokage Tower and looked behind him to see an intimidating man with a mask on revealing only a single glimmering Sharingan eye, his long black hair of shadows swaying in the wind of nighttime. "Who the hell are you?!"
"Just nobody," said the man as he killed the other man with a kunai to the chest, the Uchiha coughing crimson blood at what happened to him, shaking at the sound of this man's dark voice and his cold expression that lightly shined through his lone visible eye as he repeated, "just nobody."
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Sarutobi Hiruzen sighed at the corpses of Uchiha that he was starting to tend to as Itachi had Fugaku bound and gagged to where he couldn't escape or run so he could help the elderly Hokage with burying the dead shinobi. The man wore a frown at all the forces that had to die. I mean, Konoha still had many wonderful, powerful shinobi forces at its disposal, but losing this many shinobi, let alone almost all of a once famous clan, would take a toil on any village, even one as prosperous as Konohagakure. Hiruzen had also put down the barrier, knowing that everything was taken care of except Fugaku's execution. As the Sarutobi was almost finished with most of the corpses of Uchiha, a Naruto clone got his attention.
"What's wrong, Naruto-kun?" the Kage asked the clone, knowing that something must be up.
"Boss needs help down in the tower. He is facing Danzo, who is covered in Sharingan and has that old man Hashirama's genes on him too."
This got Itachi's attention quick, "He must want the Kyuubi and he knows how to use that forbidden Uchiha technique, Izanagi."
"Explain it to me as we go to Naruto, Itachi-kun." Sarutobi said with a slight humorous smile. "Kinda sad when one of the Kages doesn't even know one of the techniques of one of his village's famed clans."
Itachi chuckled at this as he picked up his unconscious father, "Don't worry, Hokage-sama." Itachi smiled for a slight moment. "It's not something the clan really talks about..."
This slightly worried Hiruzen, but he went forward to the tower. "Let's just get to Naruto-kun on time."
And with that, they rushed into the tower, not liking the sound of the situation.
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Naruto dashed forward with a wind blade, slicing Danzo's arm of eyes off his body, only to see Danzo rushing at him, hand forward, trying to grasp Naruto's neck. Naruto let out a "shit" as he didn't have enough time to dodge the grip of Danzo's hand as the boy got loose when he stabbed the man with a kunai that was hidden in his sleeve. Danzo moved backward as he smirked lightly at what he was able to accomplish when he gripped Naruto. After all, the damned brat made him use all the eyes on the back on his arm! He looked to see that one on the front had closed, leaving him with four to use.
The blade he wield made a swinging motion to the blond, making the wind rush in toward him, making the boy dodge the attack, only for the old war hawk to make a hand sign, freezing the young shinobi as strange markings appeared on his body, making him stuck in place. While he was immobile, the man approached with his steel blade still in hand and he admired the twisted, angered expression on the boy. He smirked as he guided the blade to the thin neck of the Uzumaki.
"Your father was a complete fool for thinking that you would be capable of anything in your life." Danzo said as he looked sadly at the even more angry boy. "You can't even hope to control that gift that was given to you." Naruto bit back the retort that was forming in his head that he and Kurama were actually pals, not wanting to anger this man anymore than he already had. "I still admire your skills as a shinobi to lead me this far, even though I guess I'm getting older and I haven't even tested the effects of the Izanagi as I should have... But you were a great test subject while you lasted. Now, I can finally take what should be mine!"
And with that, Danzo sliced off one of Naruto's arms, hearing his tortured screams with a devilish smirk having been born onto his face as he edged his face into Naruto's. "Have anything to say to me now, demon brat?"
Naruto smirked as he used the rest of his strength to bypass the seals and grip Danzo, surprising him with how much strength this boy had. "Rasengan..." Danzo's eyes widened when he heard the sound of swirling chakra and felt the incoming attack as he had to resort to the Hashirama's Wood Release to get out of the way, making Danzo breath heavily until he saw the Naruto that he had the seal on was a clone and the Rasengan wielding Naruto moved through the clone and rushed to Danzo, surprising him at how well he could control the jutsu of his father, leading him to have no time to recover, activating Izanagi right before Naruto hit him with the jutsu.
Danzo appeared behind Naruto, breathing heavily, just as Naruto looked behind himself and revealed his frog-like eyes to Danzo, astonishing the man.
"HOW?!" Danzo roared with almost all of his breath at the boy, pointing at the genin's frog-like eyes. "How do you know Sennin Mode!? Did that Jiraiya teach you in secret?!"
Naruto glared at the weakened old man, reminding him of how weak he was feeling at the moment. That was why he went into Sennin Mode as quickly as he could, to regain some strength for the short amount of time he was able to stand in this mode. "I don't have to answer some rotten old fool like you that has to rely on the strength of ones other than himself." He looked down at the remaining eyes on the old man's arm. "You rely on Izanagi and those Sharingan too much." And with that, Naruto rushed forward at light speed with Danzo barely able to dodge, but Danzo felt an impact even though the boy missed him clearly.
Naruto darkly glared at the fallen man and rushed forward with an Odama Rasengan with a formed clone that he made quick as lightening. Plunging the sphere into Danzo's fallen body, he felt the man's presence behind him. Naruto dashed to the side, dodging the wind blade that Danzo made since his real blade was finally broken. Naruto quickly went through hand signs that he had seen from his teacher, Jiraiya, and set both of his hands down.
Summoning: Toad Mouth Bind!
Naruto breathed heavily after the technique, feeling the wear on his chakra, slipping out of Sennin Mode earlier then expected. Danzo felt the sinking and knew this must be another of Jiraiya's jutsu as he knew he had to use Izanagi at the right moment to get out of here and not get caught by this jutsu.
Naruto grinned at Danzo's predicament.
"You're in the belly of the beast now, old man!"
Danzo felt himself almost fully sunk and the jutsu starting to wane as he activated Izanagi and Naruto's jutsu fell apart, surprising Naruto even.
Damn it, Naruto cursed as he saw the approaching Danzo, I thought I would have more time on that jutsu! Curse this younger body of mine! I'll have to get even more used to it before trying more serious stuff!
"Time to end this, demon brat!"
"I believe you are right, you old bastard!" Naruto flashed through hand signs before blowing wind into his mouth and launching Danzo's technique from earlier right back at him, slicing through the old man right as Danzo vanished from his sight. "God damn that fucking Izanagi!"
Danzo spoke softly and darkly behind Naruto, his second to last Sharingan closing, "Like I said, it's time to end this, Kyuubi brat!" A kunai of wind chakra was about to strike Naruto when Danzo suddenly stopped when he felt the blow of a pole to his back, charging him off of Naruto. He quickly got up, breathing heavily as a tingle invaded his body. He felt the Hashirama DNA betray him, forcing him to lose his other Sharingan and the genes of the Shodaime Hokage, which became a tree in the middle of the basement of the tower. He glared up at the two that appeared before him before spitting out their names in remorse. "Itachi, Hiruzen..."
Danzo rose up as Hiruzen frowned at his former friend. "Why did it have to come to this, Danzo...?"
Danzo moved his clothes, showing the marks, the seals on his chest as he glared at the three before him. "You, out of everyone in the Shinobi World, should know why, Hiruzen! It was all for the betterment of the village! Now, I'll have to take Konohagakure along with me! After all, you no longer have the barrier up, do you, dear Hiruzen!?" The Third's eyes widened as the seals were about to expand and Itachi went in front of the Kage.
"Itachi, what-?!" Itachi stopped the old man and allowed his eye to form into his Mangekyo form and it spun, allowing the black flames of Amaterasu to burn Danzo before the seal could take them with the dying old man. Itachi went to the ground right after the technique, breathing heavily as he almost collapsed, feeling his eye grow weaker in its sight.
"Sorry, Hokage-sama," Itachi said to the elder, "but if I didn't do that, we wouldn't be standing here at all right now."
Hiruzen just patted Itachi's shoulder, and said, "It's alright, Itachi-kun." He, then, looked seriously at Naruto. "Naruto, you can come to me and explain everything that went down. Itachi, you can come, too. Come morning," The Sandaime paused, looking at the bound, passed-out Fugaku, knowing of what to come, "this will all be over."
The three walked on to the office of Konohagakure's leader, wanting to rest from the hell that they had faced.