Amaterasu – Infernal Chronicles of Naruto

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Author's Note: Alright, I haven't continued this story in a very long time. Also I was very busy with college. Now I am finally in my spring breaks and have some time to write it. To be honest this is my second try at writing this chapter. Now at first I was not even going to write out the battles and skip them, but after reading some things and watching a fan made CGI-Action scene from Monty Oum I decided to actually write out each battle.

Scratch what I said above, it seems like I had planned releasing this chapters in the spring, but in the end it I didn't had any ideas how to write this chapter back then. I think I've got an idea now how to write this chapter.

As always this has not been betaed, yet. Enjoy with a grain of salt. If I get a betaed version, I shall update this chapter.

Chapter 10

As Shadow of the Wind, my Duties and Responsibility

Sand splashes. Blasts of chakra bundled energy melt the sand into charcoal black glass. And yet, the barrier the Kazekage has build up to protect himself as well as his fellow shinobi stands steadfast.

The beast known as four tailed demon monster is the Kazekage's enemy. It's mastery of the elements alone is astonishing, let alone that Pain of the Hungry Ghost Realm standing on top of it being its master.

Trying to use strong ninjutsu based attacks failed to reach the beast, since the Hungry-Ghost would devour the jutsu before it could harm the tailed beast while trying to attack using taijutsu against the beast proofs futile to begin with since none under the Kazekage's command has a mastery in taijutsu that is able to harm the beast, let alone reach its master on top of it.

The only option would have been to use genjutsu based attack, yet, once more did Gaara not have the men capable of using a jutsu on the scale of Tsukiyomi or the frog song. All that is left for Gaara to do currently is to hold out against the beasts continuous attack of elemental attacks.

While ducking under the current wave, a man shouts, "Kazekage-sama, the beast, it is spiting out magma. It is melting away the sand right under our feet."

The molten magma moves quickly to their current position when Gaara summons a large wave of sand, letting it crash against the lava like a title wave of water crashing against hot lava. The steam that is formed is not of water evaporating, but quartz and other minerals evaporating in seconds due to the heat the magma transferred to it.

The cloud of evaporating quartz and other sand elements clouds the vision for both parties but it doesn't completely stop the lava, it is only a momentary solution and Gaara let's another wave of sand clash against. With the sand covering the top of the lava soon Gaara notices that the magma is still continuing on, underneath its harden crust.

With their vision blocked and sure of their supremacy Pain waits for cloud to disperse before pushing on the attack. He wishes to make each of them to feel pain, a slow painful death, thus he waits.

Meanwhile Gaara tries creating a whirl of sand that continuously rotates melting sand with new fresh sand in an effort to halt the magma's advance. Shinobi under his command retreat and start building a new camp hoping for the Kazekage to be able to retreat and rest should his effort fail.

Gaara notices that as he continuously refresh the whirlwind with sand, that his whirlwind is picking up and allowing him to manipulate molten quartz, in a very limiting way, yet still he's able to manipulate it. He increases his output and doses of chakra as well as sand and soon the entire whirlwind is vacuuming the entire mass of magma into the sky.

To Gaara's surprise lifting the magma into the sky releases a tremendous amount of energy out of the magma. All of the magma halted and freezing into a solid glass like mixture, and the male storm of sand, too, dispersed the smoke of evaporating quartz.

Pain is furious, since his prey has escaped his wrath and escaped his judgment and surely painful punishment. The solid frozen glass male storm did bother Pain little, desperate as these mortals are they will grasp at any forms measure to try and fight a God. Pain orders once more the beast to assault them from a distance with his elemental attacks.

Without being able to take a breather Gaara sees the beast shooting a blast of slicing air at him, with his fellow shinobi as secondary targets. Gaara is still trying to recover from the heavy usage of chakra for the whirlwind he has used and is not ready to face another salvo. The air blade closes in faster and faster and Gaara can feel a vacuum in the air as the blasts continuous to shorten its distance with him.

And at the moment of impact, Gaara blinks for a second and his ears only hear the loudest of thunder right on impact. The thunder alone deafens the Kazekage, yet, to Gaara's surprise he feels no pain of impact, nor does his body ache of pain. It is like when the one tail beast Shukaku is still with him, protecting him of any harm, while constantly torturing his mind during the nights.

Then finally Gaara eye lids open from their blinking. However he does not find himself in darkness of his sand egg shell, nor does he feel the heavyweight of his sand armor on his shoulder. Neither defense mechanism are active, no to his surprise he finds a barrier of chakra stopping the immense power of the elemental attack.

The shinobi ins his command whom he bought time with his effort to halt the magma were able to use the time bought wisely and created a barrier position that is able to extend itself as far as the Kazekage stands for a short amount of time.

"Kazekage-sama are you alright?" One shinobi shouts from behind Gaara, and Gaara just nods in agreement.

A second salvo now already comes flying towards the barrier, this time of the fire element, strengthening the wind attack with its mixture.

"Kazekage-sama, please, you must retreat to our position, we cannot extend the barrier limitless," they shout.

Gaara quickly retreats to their established post. "Give me a soldier pill," Gaara orders his shinobi.

"But the after effects ..." one begins.

"Shall be discuss later," Gaara says in a tone that asserts his position as Kazekage.

"Yes, sir!" and a female shinobi hands over a soldier pill to Gaara.

Gaara quickly eats it, feeling the pills effect quickly replenishing his chakra.

"Kazekage-sama, what are you planning to do?" she continues to ask.

"There is something I'd like to try out, keep the barrier up," is all Gaara replies.

The feeling of being able to manipulate frozen quartz or sand is like that when Gaara uses high level shape manipulation, he targets the sand right underneath of the fire-wind assault, grasping it and lifting it up diagonally. The jet of fire and air now rises high up and away from Gaara as well as his shinobi.

"Kazekage-sama that is incredible!" one shouts. The female says, "Kazekage-sama maybe you can even return the jet-stream back at the source?"

"We shall see ..." Gaara has not thought of it, since he is too occupied trying to protect the group.

Pain seeing how these mortals continue to elude his judgment orders more fire power and wants the beast to also include lightning into the mix of element. The beast closes its mouth, whirls with its tail a little and then opens its mouth again and fires its lightning based attack.

The lightning finds an easy road to follow with the fire and wind paving its way, but since it follows exactly the same jet-stream like the fire and wind it too fires sky high passed the target due to the sloped glassed quartz diverting the jet-stream.

Then the stream slowly starts changing its course as more sand gather beneath it and in front of it. First it diverts horizontally towards the east until it is orthogonal to its previous target and then continuous to travel in an arc north and suddenly Pain finds the jet-stream of wind, fire and lightning directed at him and the beast.

The beast only seeing the flashing lightning in front of it, does not see out of its blind spot that it is shooting at itself. Pain orders it to stop firing, but the remaining power of its attack is still coming back at them and Pain open his arms readying to devour all of it.

The steam hits the beast and Pain in a thunder louder than the wind blade that should have hit Gaara. The enormous amount of energy quake through the ground even reaching as far as where Gaara and his shinobi stand.

In less than a minute the Hungry Ghost devoured all the blasts energy, and to all parties astonishing view they find all of them unharmed, but the landscape changed.

In front of Gaara and his sand shinobi find a glass structure similar to a huge snowboard or skateboard park, with the largest of arc directing its flow towards where Pain stands.

The time it took Pain to devour the blast the sand shinobi used to gather on top of the new glass structure and build a new forward post and barrier for them to fight from.

"Enough playtime! It is time for you mortals to feel pain. I, your god, shall deliver you into a world of pain before you leave into the river of souls!" Pain shouts.

The four tailed beast fires it signature element, magma at the sand shinobi.

Gaara closes his eye for a short moment gathering a huge amount of chakra into his body. The magma flows faster than the first wave, like a tsunami it crashes against the barrier, and it is quickly apparent, the shinobi do not have the chakra to uphold such a force. Soon first signs of the barrier collapsing are visible and yet Gaara still has his eyes closed.

"Kazekage-sama ..." a man shouts, "Silence!" the female who's been believing into her Kazekage-sama the whole time commands him.

And then, the barrier breaks.

The magma like a wave a hundred feet tall is imminently going to crash down onto the sand shinobi. They all blink while Gaara on the other hand opens his eye, lifting his hand high up.

The crashing wave stop suddenly, swirl in a male storm and rise into the sky. Gaara uses his new sand whirlwind attack once more and lifts all the magma around him into the sky. He feels more confident and comfortable with this whirlwind, having done it once, his manipulation is far better.

On Pain's face if Gaara could see his face through the sand male storm clearly shows his anger and hatred. Gaara however uses the opportunity he has gained with lifting up the magma to go onto the offensive. He moves forward his whirlwind while all of them stay in the protective eye.

Soon the magma that is supposed to hurt the sand shinobi is flying back at Pain's direction just like with the jet-steam. Pain stretches out his hand devouring chucks of molten magma as it flies out of the whirlwind.

He laughs at Gaara's attempt to hurt him with his own jutsu, when suddenly his left arm and shoulder is gone. Then his right leg is suddenly melted away. Soon his whole body disappears, being pierced.

Deva Pain is surprised as he loses his connection with his hungry ghost body.

Freed from its control the four beast only seeks destruction and Gaara has been its target for a while and as such it continues targeting them. It stops firing its magma and instead choses to build up a layer of earth armor and goes over into a melee styled attack instead, using its massive size to its advantage.

Gaara cannot keep up his whirlwind any longer, expending huge amount of chakra. The moment he drops his jutsu a giant claw lands right where they stood. Megumi pulls at her Kage's clothing throwing him out of harms way.

When Gaara manages to stand up again, only five shinobi stand with him. He finds a pool of splashed blood where Megumi had saved him from the crushing claws of the beast. Angered and saddened Gaara and his shinobi have to face the beast.

Sand splashes more often now, shinobi run and jump in the dunes, dodging the claws of a wild beast, Gaara without much chakra left, too, now has to move around a lot more.

In the years where Gaara had lost Shukaku he had tried to use his large chakra based attack, regaining his old style, but found it impossible to use, since it had entirely been based on the chakra regeneration of the tailed beast he had.

Thus he researched the past inhabitants of Shukaku and other with a similar style to his own and found out that two generation before him the third Kazekage had developed a style called Iron Sand based on what he had witness his friend the previous Shukaku owner had demonstrated.

Further research revealed how the Sandaime had been able to recover his chakra to use such heavy chakra dependent jutsu. It took Gaara a long time to develop a similar style to Sandaime's chakra regeneration jutsu and it requires Gaara to stand pretty much still.

Facing off against this beast without any chakra is insanity even the academy students knew that, Megumi had sacrificed herself for her Kazekage to save her village, yet, currently Gaara is unable to do such thing.

The decision and events lie heavy on Gaara. He has to recover his chakra to fight this battle and thus he stops evading and starts gathering his chakra.

His support see that as well as the beast. An easy target as Gaara, it thinks will not come more than in a thousand years and concentrates its effort to hurt him. The remaining five shinobi put an extra effort at stopping it in its track.

Soon a tail hits a shinobi sending it flying into a sand dune, crushing it on impact. Blood splatters and crushed intestine cover the sand. Gaara continue to concentrate on gathering his chakra and his shinobi try continue to hurting the beast with just from scale and power of a C or B rank.

It easily shrugs off these attacks and returns fire with a lightning blast. A shinobi, who just jumped into the air trying to avoid a tail, finds himself target of the lightning blast in midair. The blast runs right through his entire body evaporating each water molecule inside his body. Only a dry husk remains of him, falling to the ground.

Another shinobi just lands finding the beasts jaw right on top of it, closing in an instant. The beasts jaws and razor sharp teeth miss its target, yet blood drips through its teeth. The shinobi screams in pain some 60 feet away. He just wasn't fast enough, his right leg still was caught in its jaw.

The beasts wants to crush it injured victim, since Gaara's being protected so heavily, thus it lifts its left claw and swings down against the shinobi. Quickly the shinobi's vision darkens as the giant claws shadow spreads over his view.

Suddenly to the beast and injured shinobi's surprise the beasts claws stops right above him. A light structure made of sand in a from of a web hemisphere stretches over him. Gaara has finally gathered and replenished his chakra.

He lifts up the sand covered in red blood and manipulates it into web-like structures, both from Megumi, and the shinobi who have sacrificed themselves to protect him.

The beast tries hitting Gaara with its tail, yet the red-web-sand stops it dead in its track, such strength it has gained. Gaara quickly covers the tail with another layer of sand, making it difficult for the beast the draw it out of Gaara's clenches. It tries clawing or biting Gaara but still the web sand stops its efforts. Irritated it starts firing elemental based attacks. The sand changes form in an instant gathering into a solid hemisphere and then into a whirlwind.

Gaara returns the power and attacks of the beast tenfold with his whirlwind, and since the beast is still stuck at its tail it has no choice up to take up the beating. Stupid as it is, it fires even more powerful jutsu at Gaara's male-storm hoping to break it in its process. However it only hurts itself with it and Gaara starts mixing sand within his whirlwind, just like he did when fighting against the hungry ghost.

The sand masses melt into liquid quartz and even into steam like quartz within the energy inside the whirlwind, and as a mass Gaara unleashes it directed at the pinned down four tailed beast.

The mass of sand, neither ninjutsu based, but instead just a physical based attack with an enormous amount energy stored within it, impact upon the beast. Neither its size nor its armor withstand the energy build up in the whirlwind. It is cut in half with such ease it does not have even a moment to realize that it had been mortally wounded.

The jutsu that maintains the material form of the beast ends abruptly as the beast is defeated finally.

Gaara looks up and towards the other shinobi and then looks across the desert at the other fights against Pain. They, too, are successful in dealing fatal blows against the beast and the Pain bodies.

Finally at dawn the last of the beast is defeated and the shinobi of the Sand village and the Leaf village count their casualties. Many more shinobi died in the process of fighting both Pain and the beast, some bodies cannot be recovered, like Megumi's body, since it either was blasted into oblivion or crushed into a plumb. The desert has been shaped into a graveyard with marks of impact of many, many blasts and impacts craters that will not be covered or filled with the sand of the dunes. These deep craters will stay marking the battles themselves.

To sour their victory even further the Deva Realm Pain managed to escape their clutches. Knowing his power he surely would return to cause farm more death and destruction among the many people living not only in this country. He'd involve many more people in his madness.

But for now, the people of sand and leaf rejoice in their victory and seek to rest and rebuild the homes lost. They are going to mourn for the people lost and Naruto makes it his own personal quest to seek out Pain to make him take responsibility for his act of murder and terrorism.

For the pain and suffering his has brought to the many people Naruto and Hero start out on a journy in search of the remnant of the remaining "Rising Sun".

Author's Ending Notes:

Hmm, well somehow this feels not quiet finished, and I promise this isn't the end of this fan-fiction. Why have I waited so long for this chapter, you might ask? I had no plans nor did I have any inspiration on how to continue with this story. Neither did I ever plan on writing the face off between Pain, the beasts and the Kazekage or with Naruto. I think I also needed to wait for Kishimoto to show off a little bit more of Pain's power and scale of skill, since I had developed Naruto into much more of a beast than he currently is in the Naruto-verse. I still have no idea on how I shall develop the continuing story after this chapter, no do I know how I'll end it, but give me a little time and I might think of something rather satisfying.

Besides there is still Uchiha Madara out there for Naruto to hunt down. I need a little bit of time to think how to grow my villains into something really menacing and a fitting enemy for both the combined forth of Naruto and the Kyubi.