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Story Start.
"Wazzup wazzup! How is your recovery going? You ready for a brand new mission?" Death asked in his usual cartoonish voice. Naruto rolled his eyes and sat down in the only chair in the room. Tsubaki sighed and stood next to him, but kept an eye on Naruto. There was no telling what he would do if Death started cracking jokes.
"Hit us up with a mission old man, and make it snappy. I am itching for some action right about now." Naruto said with a large grin. Death could not help but agree with Naruto, who had been trapped inside a nurses office all week, that he needed a mission.
"Before I give you the mission I was wondering something about your last mission." Death said to the two of them. Naruto rose an eyebrow, while Tsubaki sighed. She could guess what this was going to be about.
"Shoot old man." The Shinobi said to the incarnation of death as easily as breathing.
"Tokyo had been destroyed in your last mission, and replaced with a field of flowers. How did that happen from one attack?" Death asked his opposite. So far Naruto had proven to be everything Death was not. Where the Shinigami could only take the lives of others Naruto had been able to remake live itself. At this rate Naruto would become a God of Life, and that was both great and bad for Death.
"The Whirlpool Bouquet is actually a three part attack that starts by me and Tsubaki using Ninjato modes Executing Camellia and sending a large amount of power through the ground safely. Once the power leaves Tsubaki and fully goes into the ground it starts to spread out and absorb Nature Energy into the ground. The more energy I push through Tsubaki the farther the range goes." Naruto started with a smile. The first stage of their current most powerful attack was the most confusing, and most people did not understand it. "Anyway, once it has spread out to it's limit Stage Two must be done by Tsubaki and I using Speedy Rose and marking the ground. The area we mark will be uneffected by the final part of the attack." Naruto explained and he could see that Death was confused.
"How does all this create the flowers, and destroy the city at the same time?" Death asked, and the grin on Naruto's face was as bright as the sun.
"Normally the energy in the ground would just disipate after awhile, but that is where the final stage of the Whirlpool Bouquet comes in. Tsubaki turns into her Chain-Scythe mode and we start resonating with not only each other, but also the energy in the ground. I hold her to my sides and spin both blades at the same speed. The energy in the ground will start spinning as the restriction lines form on the ground. Once the energy all comes to the surface and the ground completely glows it will shot high up in the sky. Everything in between the ground and the sky will be destroyed by the combined energies of my Soul, my Chakra, and the Nature Energy that was absorbed. The fact that Sounga and Margaret were not completely evaporated by the attack means they must have had a trick to escape descruction." Naruto complimented the duo he they had fought, even though he would never tell them it when they met again.
"What about the souls being stolen from the Kishin-Egg, and the flowers?" Death asked, and Tsubaki looked at Naruto curiously as well.
"That is actually the side effect of my special power combining with my soul and being magnified by Tsubaki while touching Nature Energy. Now, normally each of my powers can only cause destruction, but when they all combine and touch the ground live will be born. There is also a very strong purifying power that purges Kishin-Eggs of all the souls they have eaten. Each soul will be then purified of their crimes and sent to the afterlife." Naruto explained with a scratch of his head. The fact the life born took the form of flowers was just a coincidence to Tsubaki's name. That and flowers were the purest form of plant life.
"What is you maximun range for this attack?" Death asked with some fear.
"I don't really know, but the smallest range I could make completely covered Tokyo. That, and the attack will continue to drain my power until it is finished or I hit a certain point." Naruto said and Death just had to shiver. That was not an attack that could be used when there were others around.
"Anyway, your mission concerns the Demon Blade Masamune. He is becoming very close to reaching Kishin status. He must be stopped soon, or he will reach that status in a month." Death stated without any emotions that normally were heard in his cartoonish voice. Tsubaki looked more serious than Naruto had ever seen her when Death mentioned the name Masamune.
"Lord Death. I, Demon Blade Masamune's younger sister, will stop him with my own hands!" Tsubaki said, a hard look in her eyes that stopped Naruto from even attempting to talk her out of this. Standing up Naruto put his hand on her shoulder, causing her to look at his smiling face.
"Not alone you aren't. I, Naruto Uzumaki, will help you put your brother to peace. I promise to you that as your Meister and... friend." Naruto said kindly, and she put her hand over his. She smiled brightly at him and nodded.
Nothing could stand in there way.
[Two Hours Later]
"THAT DOES IT!" Naruto yelled as he jumped up from his seat on the plane and turned around to look at the kid kicking his seat.
"Naruto, calm down this is just a kid!" Tsubaki said as she pulled on his arm in a panic.
"Hell no! I am not going to yell at him, his mother is the problem here! Listen here you stupid bitch! Don't think I did not see you ignoring whjat your child was doing! You need to teach this stupid brat not to annoy people that can throw him and you out of this plane without a care! If he kicks my seat one more time I am going to flip that dress of your, and bend YOU over MY knee and paddle your moronic ass into next year!" Naruto yelled. Anger burned in his eyes and the mother of the child was cowering under his gaze. Tsubaki was trying to pull him back into the seat, but he was to strong.
"I am so sorry, but he has really bad air sickness. He really is a nice person most of the time!" Tsubaki said as she restrained Naruto from kicking people out of the plane... literally.
Naruto really HATED planes.
[After the Plane Ride - East Asia, Shin Village]
Naruto and Tsubaki looked at the dump of a village with a critical eye. There was something very strange about the town, not only did it feel... sad, but they could not feel the presence of the Masamune just yet.
"Tsubaki, how does your brother fight?" Naruto asked, since it was obvious they did not have much to worry about yet. Without their enemy there they could do nothing but wait.
"Masamune likes to fight within his soul. I think that I-" Tsubaki started before she was punched in the ribs by Naruto. Not hard enough to break anything, but it sure as hell was going to leave a nasty bruise.
"You want to let him bring you inside his soul and fight him alone, don't you?" Naruto asked with a voice that dared her to correct him. She looked down in shame, but when Naruto gave her a firm pat on the back she looked up to see him smiling. "Well then, I believe in your stupid plan. If you think you can do it I will put my faith in you, but don't think I won't be helping you every step of the way... I am your Meister after all, and if you can't rely on me who else can you trust?" Naruto said with his signature grin. The very same one he got from his mother.
"Thank you Naruto." Tsubaki said, and Naruto nodded before his face lowered into a scowl. He just felt a dark soul enter his sensing range, just outside the village.
"He just entered the village, and he is head close by us at this rate. If we stay here he will do the work coming to us. He must feel out stronger souls, so we look like a better meal than these normal humans." Naruto whispered, and Tsubaki nodded. That seemed like something her brother would do, go after the strongest souls to devour first. Then he would eat all the weaker ones in the area.
"Naruto... If I don't win, cut my head off before my brother can take over my body." Tsubaki said with a sad voice, and she flinched when Naruto gripped her arm and pulled her in close to him.
"You better not ever ask me that again Tsubaki! You WILL win! You are TSUBAKI! You are a beautiful flower that smells like the ocean today! You will bloom with all the beauty of a rose, and you will not die quietly! If you hold back even a smidgen of power against your brother, and he takes your soul from it I will NEVER forgive you." Naruto said with a growl in his voice. Tsubaki gasped when Naruto's eyes flickered orangish red for a bried moment. Naruto let her go before he pulled a kunai from his pouch and slashed it across his palm. Then he held the kunai out for her to take. "Tsubaki! Right here and now swear on your blood that you will not die quietly today." Naruto demanded, and she hesitated a bit before cutting her own palm open.
"I swear an oath on my blood to you that I, Dark Arms Tsubaki, will not die here today." Tsubaki said when she finally understood why Naruto was angry. She had been thinking selfishly when she asked him to kill her, and had not remembered he promised to help her. She was asking him to spit on his promise to her by killing her if she failed.
"I swear an oath on my blood to you that I, Naruto Uzumaki, will confess how I feel about Tsubaki Nakatsukasa when she wins her fight today." Naruto said without thinking, and both their eyes widened. Tsubaki blushed and Naruto scratched his cheek, the serious moment was completely ruined by his statement.
"You have feelings for me?" Tsubaki asked with a blush, completely forgetting what they were suppose to be doing out here in the first place.
"I heard you in at the end of out last mission tell me you loved me after you kissed me. I felt that I should tell you if I love you or not after you come back alive though. What would be the point of saying how I feel to a dead woman." Naruto said seriously, and she looked at him with a sad smile for a moment. They heard a whirling sound before they saw a black blade pierce the ground in front of them
Fight me Rare Soul... Become My Next Meal.
"It looks like he was impatient to start. Tsubaki... you're up." Naruto stated as the walked to the black blade together. Tsubaki knelt down in front of the blade and used both her hands to grab the hilt. The white of her eyes turned black, and flame-like markings spread over her body. She simply then slumped forward with her hand still on the sword, and Naruto got behind her and sat down.
[Inside the Blade]
"I wanted a meal, not a snack. I guess the tragic story of blood siblings fighting will make this snack taste better though. You should not have shown up... Tsubaki." A man said as he removed the hat blocking his face to reveal that he looked like an older male Tsubaki.
"I will be the one to defeat you Masamune. There will be no snack for you. I promised my Meister that I would live through this, and that means beating you." Tsubaki said with fire in her eyes. The wasted no more words on each other and summoned forth their weapons. While orginally Tsubaki had planned on using only her Chain-Scythe, now she was NOT going to hold back any of her power against her brother.
She had promised to return alive.
In her hands was her Ninjato, and like her will the edge of the blade was sharper than ever.
Tsubaki made the first move as she crouched to the ground and ran straight at Masamune, holding her Ninjato in reverse grip she crossed her arms. Masamune swung his sword and shadows came out of the water they were standing on and tried to impale her. They never even got close as the nimble girl pivoted her body out of the way of the spikes.
Cursed blade and ninjato clashed and sparks were flying as their bodies came within inches of each other. They took a step back in sync for less than a second before clashing again. Grey eyes looked with blue/grey ones in a fierce glare. Tsubaki swung her short sword again, but it blocked by the sword. Both weapon rfecoiled away from each other, before Masamune swung around and forced Tsubaki to duck under his ponytail.
She leaned to the left to avoid a deadly slash, and sent one of her own at her brother. Her blade and his clashed as sparks continued to dance from their steel. Tsubaki send a low kick at his ankles, but he twisted his foot back so she missed. He gave a swipe at her neck with his sword, but she leaned forward and the blade sailed over her head. Swiping upwards she gave him a thin cut on the chest before he jumped back to avoid worse damage.
"You are a worthless flower Tsubaki, and you will lose!" Masamune yelled as dozens of shadows erupted from the water under him and raced at her. Sharpened spears of shadow ready to rip her to shreds.
Don't Call My Partner Worthless
'Naruto!' Tsubaki thought in shock as orange clawed hands came from the water and destroyed the shadows before they could reach her. Once the shadows had vanished completely the hands that had helped her sank back into the water. The ninjato in her hands faded away, before she spun around and once she completed her spin her giant shuriken appeared in her hands and sailed at her brother.
"Lets dance Elder Brother!" Tsubaki said in confidence, and ran at her own shuriken. Her smoke boomb in her hands. She threw it at the shuriken and both her and the shuriken were enveloped in smoke. The giant shuriken came out of the smoke first, while her brother narrowly dodged it. Only for another one to come out of the smoke after it.
"What!?" He yelled in confusion, and he looked behind him to see Tsubaki in mid jump with both her chain scythes in her hands. He jumped out of the way of her attack and the shuriken, but she landed quickly and caught the shuriken using her ankle bu the ring. Spinning her body the shuriken was redirect and flew faster than before at her brother.
"I have gotten strong brother! I am no worthless flower!" Tsubaki yelled as he dodged the shuriken again, only now he was forced to duck under the chain scythe she threw next. He as about to charge her before she yanked her arm back and the sound of cutting wind alerted him to the fact the shuriken and the chain scythe were mere inches from his face. Just enough time for him to dodge, but not before he recieved a deep cut on his cheek that gushed blood.
"You are scentless Tsubaki, and will die alone!" Masamune shouted in anger at her defiance of what he believed her to be. Shadows jumped from the water again, and Tsubaki jumped high in the air. As she fell she got a scrape of two from the shadows, but had managed to move her body to dodge most of them. Her chain scythe from her hands vanished as well as the shuriken. She reached under the water and ran at him with her hand under the tides.
He swung his sword when she was close to him, but she pulled her hand out of the water to block his sword with another smoke bomb for a split second before their vision was clouded by smoke. Masamune felt a blade pierce his side and he jumped out of the way as it nearly ripped open his stomach.
Tsubaki came out of the smoke after him with her ninjato in her hands, but it vanished and to replace it was a larger than average steel hammer. It was very much like the one Iwaken had used, but the handle was jet black with yellow markings. The hammer itself had the Kanji for Earth on both sides.
"What the hell!" Masamune yelled in shock at the new weapon he had never seen in their clan before. He saw his own blade chip after blocking a hit from the hammer, and he was about to swing at her again, but the hammer vanished from her hands and was replaced with a small Battle Fan. The whole fan was light green in color, exept for the center that had the Kanji for Wind in black.
She swung the fan upwards and a gust of wind blew Masamune into the red sky. The fan disappeared and was once replaced once more. This time boxing gloves appeared on Tsubaki's hands as she jumped up into the sky after him, they were pitch black with the Kanji for Fire in red on each one. The gloves caught fire and the flames themsleves were deep red in color. Once she was level with him she punched him in the jaw, and he was instantly burned by the flame to the point that he had semi-charded skin.
He soared down to the water, and Tsubaki switched weapons once more. Now in the hands was a long staff that was blue in color. At one in of the staff was small golden ball with the Kanji for Water on it in black, and at the other end was a metal stud to even the weight out. She swung the staff, and the water er brother was falling towards shot up and propelled him into the sky. Once he got near her again she switched weapons again back to the hammer, and when she swung it she knocked a few of his teeth out as sent him right back down to the water.
She herself started to fall down, and the second she landed on top of the water she changed weapons to her ninjato. The two sibling ran at each other and clashed blades once more. Sparks flew off their metal, and Tsubaki moved in his guard and elbowed him in the throat. Kicking him in the knee he was forced to kneel down some as she sucker punched him in the jaw. Spinning around she hopped in the air after him and kicked him in the ribs.
He skidded across the water, and when he stoped moving he tried to see where she was for a moment. A shadow descended from above, and he looked up in shock to see Tsubaki about to impale him withher chain scythes.
He quickly struck out and cut her across the chest, but she had twisted so that it went from fatal to non-fatal. She slammed the heel of her shoe into the side of his head, and he was skidding again.
"Don't try and change your destiny as a scentless flower Tsubaki, you are to die without anyone seeing who you are! Accept it!" Masamune yelled in slight fear at how much she was over powering him. Tsubaki ignored his words and ran at him again as her chain scythe turned into the fan again. She swung it at the ground and she herself was sent flying over her brother, and mid-air she summoned her chain-scythe. The chain of her weapon caught her brother by the neck as she flew over him, and he gagged as he was dragged into the air before being slammed into the ground when she landed.
He held his throat in pain, but flipped up to his feet to avoid getting his head smashed by Tsubaki holding a hammer. Shadows wrapped around Tsubaki's wrists, and as more shadows attempted to jump from the water the same golden orange hands from earlier stopped them and forced the ones holding Tsubaki to release her.
Tsubaki grew more confident and charged her brother again with her ninjato in hand, and just before their wepons clashed Tsubaki switched the ninjato out for her Gloves of Flame. Igniting her fists she punched him quickly in the gut, then chest, and finally in the shoulder as he was forced to drop his sword finally.
"I have a scent brother, and I am a beautiful flower!" Tsubaki yelled as she swung her fists down at him, but jumped to the right to get out of the way of the uppercut he tried to nail her with.
"No you are not! You have alway been worthless, and you always will be! I became what I am today because of you!" Masamune yelled, but he was lifted off his feet when she kicked him in the chest. He landed on his back a few feet away, and spun around on the ground into a crounhing position. Shooting off at a good speed he reached his blade in no time, and then brought it up to block a strike from Tsubaki with her Current Staff.
She jerked the staff up as water launched him up in the air, and Tsubaki started to twirl the staff between her hands and around her body as a dragon made of water formed next to her and shot at her brother. It tore threw his light armor, and a large bleeding gash appeared on ribs. Changing her weapons again Tsubaki jumped backwards with the hammer in her hand, and with a mighty swing she threw the hammer down into the water. Not a second later spike of earth shot up from the tides bellow them and flew at her brother.
He danced around the slower projectiles, and as he dodged the last one he saw Tsubaki had vanished again. He felt a hand grab his ankle from the water, and there was Tsubaki with her smoke bomb in her hand. It went off and the water got murky to the point he could no longer even see his own foot under the water.
She was fighting far above her usual level right now because one thing.
She had a promise to fufill.
She was stronger than she ever was because she had told Naruto she would not hold back.
She was powerful because Naruto had faith in her, and she could feel him giving her strength through his feelings.
Nobody had ever believed in her like Naruto did...
She would not let him down by losing today!
When she shot out of the water Tsubaki was holding her ninjato in her teeth, the new hammer in her left hand, new staff in her right, and on her fists were her new bozing gloves now lit on fire again. She charged at her brother, and she spun her body while running. Rocks, fire, and water jumped out from random placed as her brother was hurled around by rocks, ripped by by the water, and his wounds burned closed by fire.
Naruto believes in you Human... Don't lose!
Tsubaki had never heard this deep and menacing voice before, but at the mention of Naruto she charged at her brother one last time with only her ninjato in her hands. Her brother charged as well with his sword back in hand, and in a blur they had moved so fast that they crossed each other. Tsubaki and Masamune were facing back to back, but there was a major difference.
Tsubaki had Masamune's blade through her heart.
Blood leaked from Tsubaki's mouth and she smiled dimly.
'I tried my hardest... and I won.' Tsubaki said as her brothers body started to vanish. His soul stood in front of her as it was absorbed into her body along with the sword.
You Smell Beautiful... Little Sister.
Tsubaki smiled as she started to fall backwards, before she felt herself land on top of a giant orange furred hand. She glanced up and she saw something that shocked her.
Above her was a giant fox with nine tails.
That world around them started to shift into a pure white nothingness, and she marvelled at how the world changed. Before she could do anything or thank the fox she was forcefully ejected from the white space, and the next thing she knew she was being hugged by Naruto.
"You did amazing Tsubaki." Naruto said with a smile as he leaned into her ear, and as his lip gently came in contact with her skin she felt his hot breath whisper something.
"I Love You Too Tsubaki."
She passed out blushing with a smile on her face.
He returned her feelings!
Chapter End.
Now they only have one more Kishin Egg and a Witches soul. Tsubaki got a Hammer form from Iwaken, Battle Fan from Kazuken, Staff from Suiken, and Bozing Gloves from Hoken. The others were Meisters so she did not gain anything from them. Part of Tsubaki's clan abilities is the ability to adapt. They can gain new weapon forms.
I think this chapter turned out pretty well, and that the fight was as epic as I could make it.
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