Author's Notes:
This is the last installment of Twenty Tails. I thank you all for those who have read and enjoyed it. Comments are always welcome as I probably will be continuing this story. Comments are always nice regardless. If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, please do not hesitate to message me or email me. No lemon, sorry. Please enjoy.
I FINALLY DECIDED TO START UP WITH THIS STORY AGAIN! It's named Poison in Perfect Waters. Find in on my profile page. It'll be good; I promise!
Amida ate a light breakfast in anticipation for today's events. All of the plans were set. Tsunade had most of the village in attendance, Naruto knew how to perform the 'sealing' jutsu, Kyuubi knew to return in full demon form and angry, and Amida had all of the groundwork laid. All that was left was to follow through. He expected some trouble from the civilians and ninja that came to watch, but the loyal ANBU should be able to handle them. If not, Amida had pre-set plans.
He packed up all of his belongings and returned them to his storage dimension, bringing the old furniture back as well. He put on the loaned ANBU robes and a black mask. The black mask symbolizes a team of sealers as Konoha didn't want to associate any ANBU with a certain skill. (I know it's not true, but it makes my life easier) Amida walked out of the door, locked it, and set out for the hokage tower.
Using his speed, Amida arrived nearly instantly. Tsunade, Jiraiya, Naruto, Kakashi, Yamato, and Guy were waiting for him. "Morning everyone," Amida said as he climbed through the open window. "Here's your key back Tsunade-sama," Amida said as he put the keys on the hokage's desk.
"Ah, thank you," Tsunade said, putting the keys back in her desk. "Everything's set for the unsealing. Kakashi, Yamato, and Guy are overseeing security in the stadium. Jiraiya is going to be with me, keeping the village elders, mostly Danzo, from going nuts."
Amida pulled out five medium sized clear crystals from his robes. "These are special crystals I designed a long time ago. They can detect negative intent in the immediate area. They used to be popular with rich aristocrats who were deathly afraid of assassination. Human versions were deemed far too unreliable because of their delicate nature picked up all instances of negative intent in the area. It drove those people nuts. I refined them to only activate with serious intent aimed at Naruto. The darker the color, the more the threat," Amida said as he handed them out to everyone except Naruto. "Here's a blank one for you to study. To activate it to a person, just rub a drop of blood of the person in question. Otherwise it'll be a universal detector," Amida said as he gave the blank to Tsunade, who began to examine it.
"Neat trick. One of my distant cousins had one. He became so paranoid about everything," Kakashi said.
Guy burst into new tears, "If only I could spar you in my youth, Amida-san! Your talent is so incredible!" Everyone took a step away from Guy.
"So you really took out that group of ROOT?" Yamato said. Amida nodded. "Good, they were snobs. Although Guy probably would wet himself if you did spar him."
"Really? Then I might have to consider it," Amida said humorously.
Guy stopped crying. "Really? You would spar me? YOSH!" Surely enough, a wet spot started growing from Guy's pants. "I'll...ummmm... See you at the stadium," Guy said as he rushed home to change.
"Well then," Tsunade said, putting down the crystal for later examination, "Naruto, are you absolutely sure you want to go through with this?"
"Hai, Tsunade-sama," Naruto said. A hit of fear was just visible in his eyes.
"If you're not comfortable with it, we can reschedule," Tsunade continued.
"No, I want this to be done now," Naruto looked at his feet, "I'm tired of being called a demon."
"And you know how to do whatever Amida taught you to do," Tsunade pressed. Naruto nodded. "Ok then. The ceremony shall begin in one hour exactly. The doors will open in thirty. Kakashi, Yamato, go find Guy and your teams and start making plans for subduing the audience. Naruto, go with Amida and start getting. Amida, you better not screw up. Jiraiya, we have to go meet the elders. Dismissed."
"Amida, I was wondering. How large are your chakra reserves?" Naruto asked as they walked along the streets. People were clearly excited about the event that day.
"Well, as you probably know, all of the Bijuu were created from a single demon: the ten-tailed wolf. He wasn't actually ten tailed though. None of the Bijuu are what they claim to be except for Shukaku and Nibi," Amida said.
"I know that, but what does that have to do with you?" Naruto asked looking at the taller demon.
"Well, a demon's strength is determind of how many tails of energy are in the demon before it. The three-tailed demon has the total number of tails as all of the demons below it. So it can match the power of Shukaku and Nibi. The four-tailed demon has the power to match one through three. The ten-tailed wolf had all of the powers of demons one through nine. That's how his powers were able to be separated into separate entities," Amida stated.
"So how does that affect you?" Naruto continued to inquire.
"Ok. Say we take Shukaku as the standard for a tail of energy. Nibi has two. The three-tails has three. The four tails has six, five has twelve, six has twenty four, and so on. Kyuubi has 384 tails of chakra, even though the chakra manifests itself into nine. Kyuubi could be separated into eight other, lower demons if he had to be, but he wouldn't," Amida lectured.
Naruto was quiet for a few moments. "So where does that leave you?"
"I have 1,572,480 tails of chakra, if I counted correctly," Amida said nonchalantlly.
Naruto stopped. That was a LOT of energy. Amida chuckled at Naruto's reaction. "Who was the strongest person you ever fought? How many physical tails would that equate too?"
"I strongest person I ever fought would have to have been Madara. He had about 14 physical tails of chakra. It's probably a record breaker for humans. Although the Sage of Six Paths I hear had 15. Come on, we're going to be late for your own party," Amida said as he coaxed Naruto to a brisk walk to the stadium.
Amida and Naruto stood in the brightly lit changing rooms off of the main field. Amida had already quadurple checked the jutsu written on the main feild. Tsunade and Jiraiya had stopped by to wish the pair luck before departing to the elder's chambers. There were five minutes to go before they were expected on the field. Kakashi, Yamato, and Guy were ushing in villagers and shinobi into the stands, which were already full. Amida had written the seals onto Naruto's body.
Amida summoned twenty clones. Ten were sent to reinforce the physical and chakra barriers and guard the ring from anyone who managed to break through. The other ten were needed for the safe extraction. A loud gong sounded. Amida and Naruto looked at one another.
"You ready?" Amida asked. Naruto gulped and nodded. "You know what to do."
Amida lead Naruto onto the field. Cheers and jeers erupted from all sides. Naruto set his face and walked where Amida guided him. The field was set up as a large system of overlapping circles. A large main circle was surrounded by eight smaller circles and one medium sized one. The medium sized one was surrounded by three smaller ones. Writting turned most of the field black. Amida lead Naruto to the center of the medium sized circle. The ten sealing clones positioned themselves in the smaller circles, leaving one at Naruto open for Amida himself. Naruto took off the jacket he was wearing and laid down in the center of the circle.
Somebody wolf whistled in the crowd. Amida chuckled when he saw it was Kiba. Naruto's cheeks turned a very light shade of red. Amida positioned himself in the head circle. All of the sealing clones sat down at the same time. Amida whispered, "Demon Art: Unseal." The cones began making the first of thousands of hand signs. Normally this many would only take several seconds. Since he was protecting his identity as well, he knew the process would take several minutes, and once started, the jutsu could not be stopped, no matter what.
Naruto started to glow with blue chakra. The writing in the medium circle started creeping it's way to Naruto's body, directly to the Kyuubi's seal. Within a minute, chakra started to corrode the fourth's seal. Naruto began to feel the pain. It was only a small nuisance at first, but the pain grew.
After the second minute had elapsed, red chakra began to froth from Naruto's bellybutton. That was when the first incident happened. A Chunin had attempted to throw a kunai at Naruto from the high bleachers when the first bubble of red chakra emmerged. The knife was intercepted by Kakashi and the man was escorted out. Nothing major.
The third minute elapsed. More red chakra began pouring from the seal. As if drawn to the center of the larger circle, the chakra began churning and bubbling to the larger circle. Naruto was starting to feel very uncomfortable at the pain in his stomach. A man screamed from the stands, "You really ARE a monster. I'll kill you like you killed my parents!" A jounin launched himself at the ring, but was rocketed out of the stadium by a kick from Guy.
Minute four trickled by. The jutsu was over half done. Naruto was now in pain, but it was bearable. Half of Kyuubi's chakra had been extracted and started forming itself into a fox-like shape in the center of the larger circle. Once a fox with nine tails was distinguishable, a team of three Jounin were preparing to strike down the demon. The were stopped, however, by wooden posts wrapping around them and dragging them out of the stadium. Yamato stood watch as the Jounin were escorted out.
Minute five crawled by. Naruto was definitely in pain now. It was almost unbearable, but his intense training had made him strong enough to resist. Three fourths of Kyuubi's chakra had now esacped, bubbling and frothing, to the center circle. The fox had grown significantly and could be seen 'struggling' against the seals that held it inside the circle. The writing in the larger circle started to raise off of the ground and form several rings floating around the rematerializing fox. Everyone was holding their breaths as the mass of chakra started becoming solid.
Meanwhile in the hokage's booth, Danzo was putting up a hissy fit.
"You must stop this immediately! You are putting everyone's life in grave danger!" Danzo shouted at Tsunade.
"Shut up you old hag," Jiraiya said as he gave Danzo a knock-out blow to the back of the head.
Minute six met Naruto with agony. Naruto thrashed as the last of Kyuubi's chakra was torn from his stomach. He soul being torn from Kyuubi's in the process. That agony was unbearable to him. Kyuubi, who was mostly solid now, showed similar signs of pain. The crowd began to laugh at the pain of the demon fox. Naruto's friends were frightened for Naruto's life. Kiba had already bitten off most of his nails.
Danzo's select team of eight ANBU had amassed themselves and lept toward the barrier. Three were stopped by Yamato, Kakashi, and Guy, but five managed to get past them. Four more died at the hands of Amida's clones, but one managed to reach the barrier. He pulled out a scroll and summoned three ink lions. The lions faded once they crossed the chakra barrier. Before the ANBU could do anything else, two raven headed teenagers had floored the ANBU. Sasuke ripped off the man's monkey mask, and Sai removed the ANBU's weapons.
"YOU! My own son!" The man shouted at Sai. Sai looked away and into the field at his first friend, who had been more of a friend to him than his father had been a father.
"Shut up," Sasuke said as he activated his Sharingan. "Tsukuyomi." He then treated the man to three years worth of Naruto's pain in five seconds. The former ANBU collapsed from shock.
"Almost done Naruto!" Amida cried out as Naruto shrieked in angony. Only thirty more second until he was finished. Kyuubi had started convulsing in his prison in the center circle. Ten more seconds, five, four, three, two, one, "Release." The remaining ink on the field absorbed into the closest Naruto and Kyuubi. The two other Amida clones with Naruto rushed forward and used intense healing chakra on Naruto, also topping off Naruto's chakra reserves.
Kyuubi's and Naruto's souls were aready healed before the jutsu ended, but their bodies needed healing too. Kyuubi had fallen on his side as a full demon. The crowd cheered as the fox demon swayed and fell on his side as scripted. The ten protector clones released the chakra shield so the crowd could feel Kyuubi's power.
Kyuubi's chakra spiked. The crowd became silent. Kyuubi opened his eye and lifted his head, smelling the villagers. He growled menacingly. The fox demon stood up far to lithely for something of his size. He growled at the freightened villagers. He spoke, "You ignorant bastards. You cruel, vile, people. How dare you force my jinchuriki through that torment! You're all lucky he resisted me and feared me enough to want this to happen. But no, you couldn't leave it at that. You had to force him to go through with this in public! In front of the village he is so determinded to defend, he would not let me kill you. He knew that you would never accept that I was gone unless you saw it yourself. But now it's different. He no longer restrains me. DIE!" Kyuubi lunged through the center circle, 'breaking' the seals holding him in place. The eight sealing clones in the larger circle got in front of Kyuubi, but the fox threw them out of the stadium with a single flick of his tail. The protector clones met similar fates. The clones healing Naruto charged at Kyuubi from behind, but Kyuubi killed them with a burst of chakra.
Amida himself charged at the large beast, but was hooked on Kyuubi's claws and thrown into the side wall of the stadium. "STOP!" a voice commanded. Naruto stood up shakily and looked to the fox demon.
"What are you doing, brat? I'm finally going to kill them. You can't stop me. What have they ever done for you?" Kyuubi asked vehemently looking back at Naruto. Everyone in the stadium were frozen in fear to their seats.
"You don't understand!" Naruto shouted exasperated, "They are my people. I am a ninja sworn to protect them at any means necessary."
"The I'm making your life easier by making fewer of them for you to protect," Kyuubi growled. Everyone was amazed that the fox demon listend to Naruto.
"You don't get it. They might have made my life hell, but they are all I have. Either accept that, or I will have to kill you," Naruto growled menacingly.
Kyuubi laughed histerically at that. "YOU? KILL ME? That's rich, Naruto. That really is. Now, if you don't mind, I have a bloodfest to attend. You probably do mind, but this is for your own good." Kyuubi turned back towards the crowd.
"You leave me no choice then. Ninja Art: Wormhole," Naruto shouted as he made four handsigns. Kyuubi turned towards him, lept at Naruto. Before he could make contact, Kyuubi disappeared. Amida discretly disabled the physical shield. The stadium was silent for a moment. Five seconds trickled by before Naruto swayed and fell on the ground. All of Naruto's friends converged upon Naruto.
Kiba picked Naruto up, crying tears of joy, "You idiot. Don't you ever do something that stupid again." Kiba kissed Naruto on the lips right then and there. In front of the entire stadium. Everyone stopped again, but soon erupted into cheers and woops. People desended to the field to congradulate and thank Naruto for saving the village from the Kyuubi.
Amida teleported from the field to Tsunade's box. The elders and Jiraiya had left to see Naruto, leaving Tsuande behind. She was watching the masses hug and touch Naruto with a smile on her face. A single tear slid down her face as she spoke, "Thank you Amida, for everything you have done."
"I'd say it wasn't any trouble, but it kind of was," Amida said. Tsunade chuckled. "With your permission, I'd like to go home now. The boy is no longer a threat, and the villagers don't have any more negative feelings towards the boy."
"Yes, you may leave. You are welcome back anytime. If you ever need anything, come see me," Tsunade said another tear slidding down her cheek. "I think I'm going to make him hokage. What's your opinion?"
"He is a very fine choice, but he is still young. He will leave a very positive mark on this world. Trust me, I know," Amida said. Tsunade turned to him and crushed his ribs with a hug.
"Thank you Amida. You have no idea how much this means to him," Tsunade cried.
"Your welcome," Amida said through gasped breaths.
Tsunade let go. "If you'll excuse me, I have a new hokage to train," she said, exiting the room.
Amida looked once more over the mob of people surrounding a blob of blonde hair. He looked over Konoha again, and disappeared into the void.
Amida reappeared at his mountain home. He was hugged fiercely from behind.
"Thank you, Amida-sama," Kyuubi said in Amida's ear. Amida turned around and kissed his mate on the lips. It was a slow, meaningful kiss. They would take things slow now. Afterall, they had all eternity.
So, what did you guys and gals think? I'm happy with my first completed story. If you are too, you should tell me in a review.
Until we met again.
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