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Kushina vs Tsubasa
Back at Shinja Orphanage
Kushina took a stance, her katana poised to strike the Root ninja. Tsubasa in reply slipped a Wakizashi from his right sleeve and took a defensive stance. The more Kushina stared at her adversary the more her goosebumps rose and for good reasons.
'His Chakra is Kage level. Moreover, I see two auras in this boy, one cold as ice and the other outright evil... yet both seem familiar somehow. Just who are you?'
Another question snapped her out of her goosebumps, "What's going on here?" Conan asked from the back-door as a few more children cowered behind him.
"Conan, get out of here!" Kushina warned. Seeing Kushina distracted, Tsubasa performed wind blade technique and multiple wind blades rushed towards Kushina but Kushina charged her katana with fire chakra and deflected all the blades. Kushina adjusted her Fox mask and glared at Tsubasa, mentally swearing to punch through his fox mask, before she turned back to see Conan and the children still standing at the door.
"Conan! Get the nuns and all the children away from here! NOW!" Kushina ordered before she dashed at Tsubasa and swung her blade but Tsubasa parried and tried to stab Kushina but she ducked and tried stabbing Tsubasa but he blocked and soon they were caught in an intense swordplay.
By this time Conan had dragged the nuns out of the battlefield with help of his reluctant friends while Kushina and Tsubasa fought.
Tired of the stalemate Kushina performed a downward slash as Tsubasa prepared to block. Kushina cleverly charged her katana with lightning chakra at the very last moment hoping to cut through the wakizashi and injure Tsubasa but Tsubasa reacted swiftly by charging his own blade with wind chakra as soon as they connected blocking the katana.
Kushina didn't let her surprise show as she summoned a kunai in her left hand and slashed sideways but Tsubasa ducked under and slashed at her legs forcing Kushina to front flip over Tsubasa and create some distance between them but then her senses kicked in and she did a 360o slash slicing Tsubasa's shadow clones that emerged from the ground.
Kushina turned left to see another clone of Tsubasa throwing multiple shurikens and kunais at her, she reacted immediately lifting a bench nearby, strengthened it with chakra and blocked them all but a hissing sound made her aware of the explosive tags tagged to them so she swung the explosive embedded bench back at the clone, so fast that the clone was unable to dodge and exploded with the bench. The explosion caused benches nearby to catch fire quickly slowly fogging the entire room with smoke and ash as the fire spread to other furnitures. Both Tsubasa and Kushina leapt through the ceiling not willing to breathe smoke.
'This mission was only supposed to be about finding some kidnappers, reporting to the old Hokage and returning to finding and killing Orochimaru, yet I'm here fighting some fucking super ninja,' Kushina fumed as she burst through the ceiling
'She is an excellent sensor,' Tsubasa analysed as he burst through the ceiling, 'no matter how fast I move Kushina is always be able to sense my chakra at the last moment.'
"How amusing," Kyuubi mused from confines of Tsubasa's mind as Tsubasa created a shadow clone mid-air.
'What's so amusing?' Tsubasa asked as he focused his chakra to attack.
"You'll find out soon enough," Kyuubi assured.
Tsubasa ignored Kyuubi and performed a Fire Dragon Bullet jutsu, powered by his clone's Wind Style: Great Breakthrough just as they were about to land. The combo rushed at Kushina in full speed but when it reached her, she smirked and raised a hand and the combo just dissolved in thin air.
"What you thought Uzumakis can only create chains? Then look down," Kushina pointed downwards and Tsubasa felt the gravity increase forcing him to kneel as a sealing pattern glowed bright blue, he looked up to see Kushina rushing at him.
'She must have placed the seal at the same time as she was absorbing my attack,' Tsubasa realized as he focused his chakra.
Kushina raised her sword ready to strike when Tsubasa looked up and she noticed his eyes blazing blue and just then Tsubasa's chakra burst like hot blue flames that burnt the seal on the floor and pushed Kushina back into a wall hurting her back.
"Impossible! That chakra feels Uzumaki!" Kushina exclaimed but had to raise her hands and form a chakra vortex to absorb a swift rain of lightning shots.
"Who are you? Are you an Uzumaki?" Kushina asked but Tsubasa didn't reply instead firing a barrage of lightning shots which Kushina absorbed.
'She is good. Every time I attack her when she's distracted she reacts quickly. Moreover, she may have rigged this place with seals,' Tsubasa analysed.
"JUST WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING BRAT?" Kyuubi reprimanded, "DON'T YOU KNOW WHAT KUSHINA CAN DO?"
'She can absorb chakra and heal,' Tsubasa replied.
"And you are feeding the Matriarch all your chakra, moreover whatever damage you may have caused will be healed thanks to your kind donations," Kyuubi rebuffed.
'It'd be more helpful if you advised me on how to kill her,' Tsubasa countered.
"Whatever," Kyuubi grunted.
Kushina had had enough of blocking the lightning shots. Though the pain on her back was gone, the force behind the lightning shots kept her down, 'Uzumaki or not this boy is out to kill me! I may have to kill him after all,' Kushina sighed as she summoned a three pronged kunai and threw it to left and disappeared in a red flash. Before Tsubasa could comprehend the room was littered with hundreds of three pronged kunais. Tsubasa ducked in time to dodge a Rasengan. Then he rolled over to dodge another that hit the ground. When he stood up he felt his cloak heat up and he removed it in time as his cloak burst in flames. Just then he saw a red flash and jumped to dodge a swipe but a flash behind him slashed his back. Soon he saw multiple flashes followed by cuts forming all over his body despite his best attempts at dodging them.
Ready to knock him out, Kushina flashed behind Tsubasa and thrust the katana's hilt at his head but instead hit a half burnt bench which replaced Tsubasa and before she could comprehend a dragon made of lightning chakra shot through the roof and hit her like a bullet train and propelled her very high.
"That fucking hurt!" Kushina cursed as her abdomen was burnt by the impact and shot pain all over her body. Still ascending, she weakly glared into the glowing blue eyes of the lightning dragon which was catching up to her. The dragon opened its jaws when it got close ready to devour her but Kushina flashed into red light as soon as it snapped its jaws close.
Kushina landed at the ledge of the church's roof, she removed her mask and coughed some blood. She tried sitting up but before she could she found herself floating in a sphere of water. She turned around to see Tsubasa holding his left hand towards her at a distance as the wind brushed his shoulder length blonde hair, all his wounds healed and his clones were destroying all the three pronged kunais with lightning charged wakizashi. Kushina tried absorbing chakra from the Water Prison technique but instead felt her own being absorbed swiftly as she was losing her breathe and blood to the water prison.
'He is an Uzumaki after all,' Kushina concluded as she felt her strength leaving her.
"Well done brat!" Kyuubi complimented "You caught her off guard and attacked faster than she could react, now all that's left is to finish her."
'She's almost dead,' Tsubasa replied as he maintained the water prison and absorbed Kushina's chakra.
"Brat, when fighting Kushina almost isn't enough," Kyuubi remarked as if expecting the half dead Uzumaki to snap and burn the place down any time around.
'I must say, I had an easier time fighting the jinchuuriki of Hachibi,' Kushina sighed. 'looks like I have to use that technique.'
'What's happening?' Tsubasa wondered as Kushina floated up straight and her chakra surged.
'Gate of Opening: Open!' Kushina opened the first gate as her wounds healed faster.
'Gate of Healing: Open!' All her wounds were healed.
'She's opening the Eight Gates of chakra, every Gate she releases will increase her chakra, strength, speed and stamina!' Tsubasa realised.
'Gate of Life: Open' The water prison started boiling due to excess of chakra released by Kushina, Tsubasa raised his right hand which sparked with electricity, 'Lightning style: Lightning strike' Tsubasa released a streak of lightning at the prison hoping to electrocute Kushina. The attack hit but didn't affect Kushina.
'Gate of Pain: Open' the prison glowed blue before blasting. Tsubasa barely had enough time to block before he was sent flying off the roof and into the wilderness close by. He managed to right himself mid air and bounced off a tree trunk when the trunk shattered. He crossed his arms in time to be hit by Kushina as he was sent into a clearing bouncing several times. He got up and leapt to right to dodge another punch that made a crater on the ground he was standing on but not the kick which sent him crashing into a tree. He flt bruises all over his body and his mask was on the brink of shattering.
"My my, having a hard time I see..." Kyuubi taunted from his confines.
'This is the first time I've seen you take interest in any of my battles,' Tsubasa noted as he ducked in time to let the tree take the brunt of Kushina's punch.
"Let's just say," Tsubasa's blue eyes bled crimson causing Kushina to flinch, "I want to say hi," crimson chakra burst from Tsubasa like fire literally heating the atmosphere while a silhouette of a fox grinning formed over Tsubasa glaring at a shivering Kushina with heavy blood lust. Then the head crashed into Kushina pushing her through a few trees and into a clearing.
'Impossible! He has Kyuubi's chakra,' Kushina grunted while she maintained her Fourth Gate state, 'but Kyuubi was 'killed' along with Naruto,' Kushina got on her feet as she stared at Tsubasa, ' Unless... Naruto never died!' Kushina's eyes widened in realization.
Tsubasa turned to her engulfed in crimson chakra shaped like a fox with three tails as his eyes blazed crimson and pupils turned into slits. His fox mask crumbled away in air revealing his face.
Kushina had no doubt Tsubasa was Naruto despite his whisker birthmarks being thickened giving him a ferocious look.
"Naruto?" Kushina gasped, which Tsubasa heard despite the distance thanks to his heightened senses, but didn't react. The only emotions Kushina felt from him were Kyuubi's blood lust from Tsubasa's crimson eyes.
"Naruto!" Kushina cried out but her joy was cut short when Tsubasa blurred right in her face forcing her to sushin away in time to dodge a vicious swipe.
"Naruto, why are you attacking me? Don't you know me?" Kushina asked. Tsubasa turned to her with a stoic curiosity.
"Who is this Naruto that you keep calling?" Tsubasa asked. Kushina's eyes widened for a second before she realized that Naruto couldn't possibly remember.
"Of course you wouldn't remember, you've been in Root for so long. Naruto is your real name and you are my son,"Kushina replied with a smile. Tsubasa stood still processing the new information.
"I guess it makes sense, there aren't too many Uzumakis in Konoha and who else would the Fourth Hokage chose other than his son who was said to be dead," Tsubasa reasoned, "Moreover, I look nothing like the typical Uzumaki but I resemble the Fourth Hokage more than anyone else does and have abilities of an Uzumaki. There is little room for doubt that I am your son."
Kushina smiled having convinced her son of his real identity, "I knew you would understand-"Kushina was interrupted by a powerful punch which sent her flying.
Her son dashed close to her hopping over the tree line to keep up with a shocked Kushina.
"However, as of now, I am Tsubasa and you are a threat to Root," Tsubasa concluded as he jumped above Kushina and pummelled her into the ground.
Kushina stood up from the newly formed crater and tried to reason with Tsubasa, "Naruto, we don't have to fight!" But Tsubasa replied with a large Kyuubi chakra fist into Kushina which crushed her and dug deeper into the crater. Tsubasa's chakra tail held onto treetops keeping him airborne as he kept pounding Kushina with large chakra fists.
Under Kyuubi's chakra fist, for the first time in twelve years Kushina felt like crying, 'This can't be happening,' But she managed to keep herself together, 'No it's Danzo, he brainwashed Naruto into becoming a killing machine,' Kushina grit her teeth and just as Tsubasa sent another punch, Kushina rolled over and released Golden Chakra Chains from her back and wrist. The Chakra Chains rushed at Tsubasa about to wrap him when the chains were intercepted by Tsubasa's own version.
Tsubasa's Chakra Chains were made from Kyuubi's Chakra making them thicker, red in colour, they had fox for spearheads, Kyuubi's Chakra Chains bit into Kushina's Chakra Chains stopping them in their tracks.
Before Kushina could react another Kyuubified Chakra Chain burst from Tsubasa's abdomen and bound Kushina instantly. Kushina's Chakra Chains dispersed allowing Tsubasa's to wrap around her. Kushina struggled against the chains but to no avail, the chains had blocked her chakra which meant she couldn't use any jutsu and the chains were too strong to be broken by brute strength. Tsubasa pulled out his katana and dropped down at Kushina ready to slice her head off.
This was all just too much for Kushina, the son she had mourned for twelve years was alive, but didn't recognize her and was about to slay her.
"STOP!" Kusina shrieked with closed eyes as Tsubasa swung his blade, but the blade never reached her neck. Kushina opened her eyes to find the Chakra Chains holding her gone and so was Tsubasa.
"Did someone call for help?" a voice croaked Kushina turned left to see Tsubasa pinned down by someone in red overcoat and long white hair, "Fear not, the defender of the maidens in distress, hearing whose name the ladies swoon and the villains flee in fear, I, Jiraya the Toad Sage, am here."
"Jiraya-sensei?" Kushina whispered.
"How did you get here?" Tsubasa groaned, "How did you sneak up on me?"
Jiraya pulled out a scroll and rolled it open letting two Root agents outs, revealing them as the same ones who attacked the orphanage earlier, "I suppose you were expecting them to take care of the others, I was just passing through the town when I see these guys stalking some kids, the kids told there was a fight going on here so I came to check it out. As for how I snuck up on you, I'll tell you some other time," Jiraya replied with a wink and a shit eating grin.
Kushina rushed to Tsubasa, "Jiraya-sensei, he is-"
"I know," Jiraya's expression became softer, "To think I would see Naruto again, well and all grown up."
"I don't know you," Tsubasa replied, as he struggled against Jiraya's hold.
"It's useless," Jiraya sighed and lifted Tsubasa's shirt to reveal a seal around Kyuubi's seal, "To be able to fight Kushina, you were indeed taught well but you weren't taught everything." Jiraya told Tsubasa, then Jiraya applied more pressure to the seal and made Tsubasa faint.
Kushina knelt near Tsubasa making sure he was fine as Jiraya got up and resealed the other Root nins. Then he turned to Kushina and asked, "You okay? You were taking some heavy hits when I came."
"Yeah, I still have my fourth gate activated."
"Let's go then. We have lots to do, and one crippled old man to murder," Jiraya ordered.
Kushina nodded, taking Tsubasa over her shoulder, then they left the place.