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Chapter 11
Fall Tears of the Heavens!
Madara dismissed the village war council and walked though his tower, guards the shinobi under his command melted out of his way. He was in a foul mood it was said. Rumors were about that a large force of around 100 Cloud shinobi never made it back from their excursion into the Fire country. Whispers had started that it was an Omen that the coming invasion was a bad idea. Madara was working endlessly to stifle those thoughts. He got to the roof of the tower stripping his Kage robes to reveal the red cloud Akatsuki uniform. With no seals or any seen movement he was suddenly a mile away at one of his personal hideouts in the woods. Walking out to the wooded area He reached down and touched the ring at his finger and channeled a small amount of Chakra into it. He didn't have to wait long.
"You called Madara-sama." Zetsu spoke melting out of a tree in front of the ancient Uchiha
"Report on the Karin situation." The founder spoke.
"She is still undergoing healing and therapy at out outpost in the rice country. Her injuries while, non existent physically, are extensive mentally. Some jutsu was performed on her via the eight-tails that resembles the Tsukiyomi in severity of trauma. She will be some time in recovering."
"And Kisame? Was his ring recovered?"
"No Madara-sama, what was left of the body had a ring. We have performed a trace and have located it in Konoha. We believe either the nine or eight tails is in possession of it."
Madara felt his rage grow, but carefully masked it. He was showing his emotions far too much lately with all the set-backs and that needed to change. The mask tilted slightly as he thought of the next move.
"And Konan?"
"She says due to Kisame and Karin's failures in capturing the nine tails her plans have fallen through and she can no longer monitor Naruto. It will take some time to safely reestablish communications. She dares not let herself be known with the presence of Namikaze Kushina in the city."
"That is wise. Her talents can not be found anywhere else and we dare not risk losing her. Where is Pain?"
"He is at the mountain performing some technique. I have not been able to penetrate for enough in to investigate what he is doing." Zetsu said.
"He is becoming problematic, he believes himself my equal. When the plans are finished we shall have to be rid of him, he is make a bid for power that I can not allow."
"Will that be possible Madara-sama? None of us has been able to figure out who he really or the secret behind the Rin'negan."
"Leave that to the Leaf. They are resourceful and will exhaust themselves against him. You will monitor as always and learn what you can."
"What about the ring?"
"Leave that to me, I will have to take a hand in things." Madara said.
"Madara-sama!" Zetsu protested. "Is that wise? It breaks the path of shadows you have taken since the start of the goal."
"It can not be avoided now. We must have that ring and currently I am the only one who can retrieve safely. If I have to play my hand early, then it is just another set-back."
"I still have the old hide-out from my time training under the Shodai Hokage. I could possibly infiltrate the village that way and recovered the ring instead of you." Zetsu begged.
"I said no Zetsu. There is a risk you would be caught and that can not be allowed. I will go that is my final decision." Madara said asserting his authority and power.
"As you wish Madara-sama." Zetsu backed off.
"Continue to watch the members and to get Karin back up to strength. We will need her powers to find the two containers should they flee the village. Dismissed." Madara watched Zetsu fade back into the tree trunk and then turned away. Jumping to the tree tops and headed towards his Target: Konoha.
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Naruto struggled up the steep slope, his legs were rubber, his mouth was parched, and his arms useless. His whole body shook as he lugged the bolder uphill. He fell to his knees and looked over at the man who was lounging in a chair under an umbrella. Iced wine at his side he presented a stern and implacable image of disapproval. Naruto's voice was a rasp of weariness.
"Hiashi-sama…How high is this hill again?"
"Six hundred feet to the top." The elder said in clipped tones.
"H-How far have we gotten so far?" his voice shook.
"Sixty feet." Hiashi replied. Naruto face faulted and turned and began to struggle against the overwhelming weight of the bolder behind him, tugging with all his might on the ropes. He looked over to the sweating half dead figure to his left.
"This…-pant-…is your…-pant-…fault." Naruto was not pleased with the girl. Hinata ground her teeth, but really wanted to weep she was so tired.
"I…ugh! Could hardly…ugh!..Do it by myself!" She dropped to her knees and glared at the blond next to her. "It takes two!" She snarled out. Naruto didn't reply, just faced forward and worked on his own boulder, ignoring her.
Oh yes things were fine that night. Their virginity lost to each other in blissful love. That was until Shizune and Tsunade walked into the office the next morning to see the two teens sleeping naked in each others arms. The gossips claimed it the biggest scandal the village had seen since the third had been caught peeping in the bathhouse with his student Jiriya. Tsunade was furious, not just playing mad, but really upset. The night Naruto and Hinata spent together was lost in hours of screaming and lectures' and beating. Naruto had lumps on his head that the Kyuubi was still healing hours later.
The Hyuuga clan it was safe to say had a collective conniption. Hinata's father tried to enact an ages old forgotten law for the execution of Naruto, but to the boys alarm and it seemed like he had persuaded most the council to go along with it, much to Tsunade's alarm. However Hinata declared that he would soon follow him and raised such a tantrum that her father stopped the issue, just to shut the girl up. So they came up with another solution. After ten feet of the boulders the couple tried to convince Hiashi to proceed with the execution. After twenty feet they begged. At thirty they tried to take matters into their own hands as Naruto went behind the boulder and let it roll back down over him. Unfortunately the earth was soft and he was a sturdy teen. It didn't do much except plant him in the soul mash his nose and sent both him and Hinata who were tied together back down to the bottom to start again.
His mother was to put it mildly a storm breaking over him. He was yelled at, demeaned, insulted, degraded, humiliated, beaten, and starved. Then she began again. He swore she used up all her good will points she had with him today. From now on she would have to work for the charity he gave her. He didn't tell her that of course. He did call Tsunade a wrinkled old has-been, which earned him no pay for the next ten missions and a three month ban from Ichariku's. The old bag was far too harsh over some little words.
"Maybe if the both of you should have thought more about continuing that appalling display this morning you would not be in this situation." Hiashi remarked with a smug little smirk on your face. Naruto opened his mouth to say something particularly nasty but was stopped by Hinata.
"Naruto-kun. You know I still love you. So don't take this badly when I say. Shut the hell up, you have caused enough damage." Naruto's eyes flared but then he backed down.
"As you say Hinata-chan." He replied submissively and focused on his boulder. He was still upset over his actions that had let the all the trouble yesterday, he couldn't really argue with his love, be upset with yes, but he couldn't argue.
"The good news 'children" Hiashi said sarcastically as he watched from under his shade. "Is that you both get to clean Godaime-Sama's home after this. Naruto's face with stark white and his eyes popped. Hinata say this out of the corner of her eye.
"Is that bad Naruto-kun?"
"Only as bad as cleaning a pig pen with a tooth-brush…" Hinata gulped at the description.
Naruto and Hinata had finally gotten through the, what they would forever come to term as, the 'Day of Woe'. The only good thing that resulted from all this was the fact since they had already consummated their relationship it seemed a pointless waste to the other adults to keep their eyes on the teens anymore, since they would just proceed in hiding and continuing their liaison. Hiashi however had already started to impress on Naruto the idea of marriage, even going so far as to present his mother with an arrangement contract. Hiashi was the next to feel his mother fury. Still the day was finally over and Naruto lay on a blanket with a pick net basket on the side. He was sitting behind Hinata with his arms wrapped around her as they watched the sun-set over their spot at the top of the water-fall. They giggled a lot like new lovers tend to do and in cheesy teen fashion they fed each other little morsels of food and kept repeating how much they loved each other. Naruto's hand kept wandering and her hand kept slapping him away. It was the picture perfect image of a young couple deliriously in love.
"Naruto…" Hinata spoke softly as they lay in each others arms after their second time of love-making.
"Yeah?"
"When you fought Kisame, were you scared?" She asked. She needed to know something, she just didn't know what, just that it was very important that she found out whatever that something was. Naruto didn't answer right away.
"Yeah…: he whispered.
"Do…Do you want to talk about it? She shifted her body to look at him, throwing her leg over his and running her hands up and down his back. Naruto bit his lip before telling the story.
"It was a crazy fight. I've always had so much Chakra over other people to make up for my lack of training. He had ten times the training I did and even more Chakra than me, so I was scared. It was strange fighting him. There were battles over the entire area. We each had legions of clones off fighting in other places. I have never faced a large amount of clones. I always just throw tons of shadow-clones at the enemy until they break. Kisame though stopped me from doing that with clones of his own…"
(flash-back)
Naruto felt a patrolling clone he had dissipate to let him know the approach of two strong Shinobi, but couldn't tell who they were. Quickly formulating a place, He made a mass of clones. Around 300 to be precise and sent them out in clumps of 20 to the surrounding areas setting up traps and getting into positions in case there where more from the Sound nin camp besides the two that were coming.
(Elsewhere after Naruto and Kisame had joined the battle.)
The platoons of Naruto converged en-mass to discuss the matter and how to aid the boss, too many clones however had too many ideas and they were getting no where when suddenly a multitude of water bullets pierced though about twenty of them and the rest scattered to the trees and air. The small army of Narutos looked over with wide eyes at a site they had never faced before. There across the line on the ground and in the tree tops were hundred of water clones of Kisame. They were stumped for the first time in Naruto's life. They had never faced someone who could make as many clones as the Boss could.
They didn't have much time to contemplate their actions as the horde of Kisame's charged the horde of Narutos Soon there were Jutsus flying all through the air changing the landscape. Water dragons were sliced in two, by the air slicing that Naruto learning in his training. Water bullets were countered by twice cored Rasengans and vice versa. Streams of fire were snuffed out by waves of water as the battle took to the land the trees and the air. Dozens of clones clustered up and cried "Futon: gale-storm Hurricane!" large stretches of trees were torn the shreds and hurled as rocketing speeds toward enemy clones. Those responded with a similar jutsu.
"Suiton: Devils Dance!" six small water sprouts erupted and literally danced in a weaving pattern that blocked the incoming foliage. It was a war that if any Shinobi could have witnessed would have fled.
To gain the upper hand, the hundred or so Naruto clones that were left split themselves into five each. They thought they had the battle one from the five to one odds. That illusion was soon dispelled as the water clones also split themselves evening out the numbers once again. The opposing forces roared and came together in a clash that shook the night sky. Furiously the Naruto force scattered trying to split up the water clones. As the pockets of clones battled throughout the area every now and then a thunderous explosion of wind would blast though the air as Rasen-Shurkin were quickly made and smashed into the ground before the technique itself dispelled the clone. It was last ditch efforts sued when a group of clone started to run low of chakra. Slowly somehow the Naruto clones started to gain the upper hand as when they were dispelled the other groups could tell what was going on in their surround areas and would head to where they were needed.
The coordinated efforts soon herded what was left of the Kisame clones into a central area. Some of them planned to use another Rasen-Shurkin to kill what was left. They were ready to do just that when several of the enemy clones got together and performed a multi technique. "Suiton: Dragon's Many Tears!" A huge water sprout shot into the air vanishing into the sky. Seconds before the Rasen-Shurkin slammed into the Kisame remnants. The Naruto clones thought they had won and prepared to go aid the boss in the main battle when it started to rain over them. The difference in this rain is that in was so sharp and fell so fast that when the fist sized droplets hit a clone it was dispelled. The mass quickly realized they had to get out from under the final attack, but it was too late. Where each drop hit the ground the splash shot back up and split into tiny saws of water that shot off in random directions. In seconds all the Naruto clones that were dispatched earlier in the night were destroyed. The move to gain dominance that Naruto counted on had failed.
(End flashback)
Hinata listened to his recalling of the titanic struggle. She thought something sounded wrong about the story.
"Naruto-kun…how did you catch him with your Futon-Rasen-Shurkin Jutsu if he saw your jutsu with his clones?" She asked. Naruto grinned a bit and reached up to tap her nose lightly.
"That is what I was so scared about. That was my ace in the hole and I thought the clones had used it too often and early and had ruined it for me. At least until I noticed something."
"What?" He used to crazy strong technique that caused twelve water dragons to come at me. During the clone battles I was able to counter that easily with a wind slice. So it didn't make sense that he would use something like that then. It was then that I understood."
"What did you understand?" She cuddled up to him more, enjoying the warmth of his skin against her own.
"Why the shadow-clone is a hidden and secret technique of the Fire country. The elemental clones of say fire earth and water don't give their knowledge to the original when they are dispelled. That is what makes Shadow-clones so strong." Hinata's eyes brightened in understanding.
"So you knew some of the things he would use and got hours of experience fighting him during your own fight!" Naruto nodded with affirmation.
"That's how I was able to beat him." He grinned, but it faded. "But it was still a close thing, Hinata. I got lucky, I should have died." He sighed. "I trained to hard. I put fit years of training into a few weeks and as it stands now the Akatsuki members that are left that we know of are stronger that Kisame. A lot stronger. Like that masked guy we fought in the forest. I think I know who he is, and if I'm right we are in trouble…I don't think I can beat him." Hinata frown and brushed away a strand of his hair.
"Who is he Naruto-kun?"
"Well that woman Karin mentioned a name…Madara. The kyuubi inside of me said that name once before to. That night as I slept I talked to it about the name. His full name is Uchiha Madara." Hinata gasped. "He was one of the founders of the leaf village very strong and somehow became immortal. Also …Hinata he SUMMONED the Nine-tails fox to destroy the village all those years ago. He can control the nine-tails completely and that means he might be able to control me. The nine tails is as much a part of my body now as my arm or leg. It can't be separated without killing me. There really is a good chance that if I see that guy again he could turn me against anyone close to if I used the red chakra or lose control of myself like I'm known to do and it comes out." Hinata frowned and shook her head.
"I don't believe that. Everything we have ever learned about mind control states that it is a battle of wills. No one can completely control something unless the said thing allows itself to be dominated." She quoted the text-book from her academy days. Naruto looked at her a moment"
"Thank you Hinata." He said simply and gave her a soft kiss. Hinata looked at him demurely.
"Let's forget about all of this. Focus on something else…" She blushed.
"What's that?" he grinned mischievously. She rolled onto her back, pulling him on top of her and nipped his neck before whispering huskily into his ear.
"Me…"he soon forgot about anything else but the woman under him.
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It was early the next day and Madara was minutes from the Leaf Village. All thoughts of subtlety flew out of his head as he got closer and closer. Age old feelings of revenge and hate boiled up in him and he felt that he had to show the pathetic peace loving fools that they weren't as strong as they thought they were. Using the tracing Jutsu he could tell that the ring was somewhere in the center of the village. He figured he would just plow through and snatch it from the eight or nine tails, whichever one had it.
He saw the gates in front of him. He slowed it run to a purposely march. His Sharingan activated and the world took on a different view, almost like slow motion. He saw the gate guard stand up and point. The alarm was raised and he let himself smile. His fists clenched tightly at seeing the hated city. The gates tried to close to bar his way, but with a burst of speed he darted through them as they boomed closed. The two pathetic guards jumped at him, pulling out kunai. 'Were they serious?' He thought. He stood there and used his secret techniques to let them pass through him. He whirled as they fell behind him, His hands lashed out and a crimson smear lanced across the pavement, their backs sliced through, their lungs punctured. They died quickly.
He continued his match.
Two more Leaf Shinobi jumped onto the roofs and started to form seals painfully slow to his eyes. He smirked; 'Phoenix Tears jutsu against me?' His hands formed faster and he raised his arm, his little finger and forefinger spread wide. Two thin lines of blazing fire struck out at blinding speeds and struck the two attackers in the face, bowling them over out of sight. Madara laughed and sighed at the sounds of the two men holding their burning heads. He breathed in and relished the smell of burning flesh.
He continued his march.
Next up was a squad of ANBU. 'A challenge?' He thought. He saw one of them form some earth seals and he jumped up avoiding the first of earth that tried to grab him. A trio of kunai tried to take him in the air when he couldn't dodged, he let them phase through him. Forming some seals hidden in his robes he took a deep breath and blew. The force of wind was devastating. The ANBU squad tried to counter in some way but were blown away along with the rooftop they stood on. 'Guess not.'
He continued his match.
He actually passed a second at the pair heading to him right then. It was the …dumbest sight he had encountered in many years. They had ridiculously thick eyes brows and tight green spandex. 'Gai and Lee' He recalled from his report. 'Lets see how good they are.' The pair came at him, one high one low. Just to spite the nine-tails he formed a Rasengan in his right hand and some spinning fiery sphere in his left. He hopped into the air and flattened out his body dodge between the united attacks. He slapped the Rasengan into the younger taijutsu used. The ground was under him so he absorbed the full damage of the attack as he had no place for the concussion to fling his body. He punched the Katon-rasengan into the back of Gai so hard he might have ruptured the man's kidney. Both of them went down. Lee just laid on the ground needing serious medical attention. Gai' was struggling to roll around in his pain trying to put out the fires on his back. 'Lame' Madara thought.
He continued his march.
He was almost there. The leaf started to form a united defense and he wasn't going through them like paper anymore. Twelve ANBU formed up in front of him while twelve more came up at the sides. He reached up and shifted his mask slightly to reveal his other Sharingan. Opening the eyes wide he cried out. "AMERETSU!" A surge of black flamed erupted in the street. On and on it went wider and wider. Six of the twelve in front of him foolishly stayed to try and counter the flame with water techniques. They perished in quick agonizing screams. Stone cracked, Houses exploded and people melted. Finally he ended the black flames and shifted his mask again. Patches of the dark fire continued to burn however slowly spreading out. No one was in the area to put them out however, as if they could. The twelve élites behind him sent a wave of various techniques against him. One almost caught him before he phase shifted and they went right though him, but he made the motions of dodging anyway. He formed some more seals and spat out a landside of mud towards that that they tried to jump over. He had immediately followed that with a Katon: Grand Fireball, which caught the flowing earth river on fire and blasted two of the elites away. The rest fell into the river of flame and screamed jumping away again patting their clothes furiously to avoid burning to death. Madara quickly ducked into a shadow and used a special technique that moved him to another shadow or his choosing. The jutsu used only a flicker of chakra, making it very potent. He arrived three blocks down and stepped out into the light. She was waiting for him.
"Na'omi…"
"It's been a long time…Madara."
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Naruto and Hinata were training at his private ground when the call came in for all hands on alert. Yamoto, Kakashi, Three ANBU and The Hokage charged down the patch to his field.
"Whats going on?" Hinata asked the blond next to get.
"I don't know. I think something is up, Baa-chan never runs." He replied. They walked toward the rushing group. Tsunade immediately took him by the arm and started to drag him away.
"Naruto, we have to put you into protective custody. We are moving you to a secret underground facility."
"Hey wait a moment! What's going on?" He asked snatching his arm away from the fifth.
"Akatsuki has broken through the gates and line of defense. The enemy is moving towards the center of the city, we have to assume he is going for you."
"What?! Then let me get over there and fight him!" Naruto didn't see Hinata shake her head slightly.
"No Naruto, whoever he is he is too much for you. It's the same enemy you faced in the forest looking for Sasuke. We are taking heavy casualties trying to stop him."
"Then that's why I have to go!" He exclaimed.
"No! We won't put you in such jeopardy. I will confront him; you will go with Kakashi and his team to guard you. Now come." She grabbed his arm and started to pull, but he wouldn't budge no matter the strength she applied. "Damnit Naruto!"
"Godaime-sama, do you remember my dream?" Tsunade hesitated.
"Of course, to be Hokage."
"Then do you think to be hokage that I can just stand by and use the village as a shield to keep me safe? I made a vow. No matter what, No matter whom, No matter when, and no matter why. My flesh before theirs, my blood to fall first, my life given freely. Every man, every woman, every child. Every rock, every tree, every leaf. I will stand before the village and lay it all bare. To protect them from pain, to spare them from blood, to keep them from harm." Naruto turned and started to walk towards the village turning back one last time to the stunned group. "And I NEVER go back on my word!" He went to meet Madara.
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"And Sasuke couldn't take you down? I find that amusing. You're pretty weak for the eight-tails" Madara cackled, his voice riding the edge of insanity. Jagged spears of earth kept jutting up from the ground trying to impale him. He just twisted between them as he walked slowly towards the eight tales. He could see that she had on those accursed chakra scales over her eyes that would reflect any Dojutsu or sight attacking genjutsu back towards the user. He would have to break her power over them first if he was to get the ring.
"Give me the ring Na'omi. It's all I am here for." He started to form the seals.
"Never!" She spat and formed some seals of her own. Her eight braids shot into the air to form an arched canopy behind her. Each of the seals on the cloth started to slow and she whispered something. A weird distortion started to appear in the air between her and Madara.
"Oh I can't allow that Na'omi." He his worked faster than Kakashi to complete the seals so quickly. "Katon: Child's Whisper!" Nothing seemed to happen for a moment. Then all of a sudden Na'omi and twenty Chunnin that were relentlessly trying to get to the fighting pair started to scream clutching at their Chests and throat. Madara's eye took on that swirling gleam of narrowed evil as he stepped past the fading distortion of the interrupted sealing technique and over to the container that was on the ground clutching and clawing at her body. "That's a nifty little Jutsu of my own creation. It super heats the air and particles floating through it. Not only does it blister the skin, but if someone takes even a single breath it will scorch their throat and lungs." He began to go through her robes, pausing when he parted them open. "Not bad!" but he then ignored her and dipped into an inside pocket and pulled the ring that he needed. He stood up. And looked around merrily at the slowly dying leaf nin all around him. "This has been a good day!" he chirped and started to walk back to the gates of the city.
"Well it's about to get a whole lot worse!" he heard a chorus of voices yell above him. He looked up and grinned as twenty clones of the ever amusing Naruto came over the rooftops. A united yell of "Futon: Gale-storm Hurricane" rapidly dispelled and cooled the hot air technique so that the leaf Nins wouldn't die. Then they all charged in holding a Rasengan. 'Hmmm, maybe I will take a page from Jiriya's arsenal. Madara held out his hand and pushed a great deal of chakra into a massive swirling sphere of power. The startled clones had no choice put to meet their twenty rasengans against his one. The air around the conflict seemed to distort and warp and violent energies were wrench in every direction. The stalemate broke and with a push of his arm Madara broke their united assault and the clones vanished with a series of 'pops'. She yawned a bit, but then smiled as another twenty clones came barging with more Rasengans. These he met with a series of swift kicks and punches, not allowing any of the spheres to hit him. He surveyed the empty cratered and smoke filled street.
"HO NARUTO! THAT WAS A GOOD WORKOUT!" Madara in his 'Tobi' voice called out, he couldn't see where the container was but knew he was somewhere close. Naruto replied by doubling the wave of clones and sending them in a four pronged attack. Madara rolled his eyes, seeing them each carrying Rasengans again. He had to admit however that the multiple of white glows weaving through the air would have been very hypnotic were it not for his Sharingan. He didn't expect however the spheres to come flying from the hands at him at breakneck speed. "FUCK!" he barely twisted and warped himself into the Shadows of his cape half phasing and vanishing from the plane, he came out of it right after the barrage ended. He looked around to see the clones started to create more of those accursed projectiles. He reached into his cape and with several flicks of his wrist he ducked and twisted to face all three clusters of clones. A storm of shurikin flew from his hands to batter and dispel the blonds. He stood up and felt a pain in his side. He looked down to see a wet spot in his robes. Reaching down he brought his hand back up and stared…Blood. His blood. The kid actually hurt him. He hadn't felt the blow of an enemy in over sixty years. The kid grew since he had seen him over a month ago. He grew a great deal. Impressive, but futile.
"Ok kid, you want me to take the gloves off! Fine, I guess I will stick around to teach you the basics of being a shinobi."
"Oh? What's that? To wear silly masks?" Naruto smirked from the end of the street. Madara tilted his head slightly. His eye grew hooded even in the depth of the spiraled mask.
"Alloy me to introduce myself. You can call me…Tobi."
"That's funny." Naruto said and moved into attack position. "I've heard it was Madara. Uchiha Madara."
"Tsk Tsk. Karin has been talking I see." Naruto shrugged.
"That and 'It' filled me in on some information." Naruto snarled.
"Oh…why don't you bring it out of play for old time's sake? Make me sweat a bit. As it stands now kid you couldn't even touch me!"
"I don't think so, and that's not what you side is telling me." Naruto let a slow venomous smile grace his face. Madara smirked and waited. Naruto came with a sudden burst of speed. In seconds he created two clones on either side of him. "Futon: Gale-storm Hurricane! Katon: Dragon's Tongue!" The two clones threw the jutsu. The fire races towards Madara, who ducked under it easily. The kid was innovative however with the wind jutsu he smashed it and another one he created into the surrounding buildings Next to Madara. Naruto and his clones then threw a storm of Shurkin as well as they closed in. Suddenly they all jumped away to surround him forming those same seals. "Futon: Gale-storm Hurricane!" The three small violent Tornados picked up the debris and shurikens spinning them around in a torrential storm of cutting wood and metal and air. Madara couldn't just let that many objects pass through him so he simply shadow walked down the street.
Naruto and his clones landed on the roof tops overlooking the scene they had just caused. 'That had to have gotten the bastard.' He thought. As the dust started to settle he heard Madara call out to him. "Damn you!" He yelled out. The black cloaked figure just laughed at him. That did it. Naruto reached out and pulled out his gloves. Tucking them on. He charged. He formed a double twice-cored rasengan. He shot one right away at the waiting Madara and held the other one back for a closer shot. Suddenly Madara was right in from of him. 'So fast!" he barely had time to think before the wind was knocked out of him with a mountainous punch. He saw a couple flashes of metal and he screamed out in pain. He dropped to the ground, his feet no longer able to support him. Madara hamstrung him. "You…" Naruto spat out in blood.
Madara stooped down and picked up Naruto's bloodied face bringing it close to that annoying mask. "Kid. You can train in any way you want. For however long you need, and in the end no matter how strong you before or how much you learn, you will never defeat me. In the end when we come for you and the eight-tails, you will be taken just like all the others. With a modicum of effort and before dinner time." Naruto shivered at the words spoken. The voice was so…so...sinister. A flash of blue and white sent Madara tumbling along the ground screaming. Hinata in her perfect glory suddenly stood protective over the blond.
"You will fall here Akatsuki!" Hinata cried out. Behind her was Kakashi and the three ANBU. Madara stood up and dusted himself off. The Three ANBU each shot a fire dragon at him which he just let go through him as he finished cleaning himself odd. He looked up at the silver haired girl.
"A Hyuuga. Oh this will be a pleasure. And look Naruto! It's the same girl from the forest the other month. You know something Hyuuga." Madara said as he began to remove his mask. "I always hated your clan. Stuck up thinking their blood-line was worth something. Well let me tell you something Hyuuga." His voice changed and Naruto stood up, his chakra had healed his hamstrings. Naruto grew scared at the change in Madara.
"Hinata! Get out of here run!" he cried out, but she wasn't given the change. Madara removed his mask to reveal an old and weather worn face. His hair was pitch black and as spiky as Naruto's. His smile was a thing of death into as he locked those evil eyes on Hinata.
"THE UCHIA CLAN ONCE BROUGHT YOURS TO THE BRINK OF EXSTINCTION!" He suddenly appeared before the startled Hyuuga and jumped into the air. Naruto could see the change in the eyes, the sharingan, no the Mangekyou Sharingan…'no...Not that' Naruto thought. Using some chakra he leapt after Madara as fast as he could. He wasn't fast enough.
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Hinata couldn't believe the Uchiha speed her yes told her that he didn't move he was just there. In front of her. He pinned her arms and jumped into the air. She was about to kick free when she met his eyes. The world as she knew it suddenly melted away. She found herself in pitch blackness. She couldn't even see her hand. Slowly it faded into a stone floor with a bed, then another then another and another. The beds multiplied beyond count and beyond the reach of her eyes.
"Where. Where am I?" She said looking around. A figure melted out of the darkness in front of her. It was the unmasked Akatsuki. She readied herself.
"You are in the world of Tsukiyomi. Here I control everything. Space, time, everything you will experience over the next 48 hours with will directed by me. Let us begin."
Hinata suddenly found herself chained to the bed. She could see every bed in the distance and beyond was occupied by…herself! She had been cloned! What was happening? She struggled to get free, but her arms and body refused to abbey her. She say the man comes towards her, his eyes glinting in the sudden red cast sky over them. Colors and space seemed to change and distort as he reached down and touched her. 'No!' She thought franticly.
"NOOOOOO!" She cried out. It was a cry she would repeat endlessly for a long time till her voice could no longer speak.
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Naruto watched in Horror as Hinata in the blink of the eye, in one second suddenly threw her head back and shuddered, articulating a horrified scream and fell from the sky like a fallen angel. Her hair flutters in endless patterns as she fell. Naruto pulled the air under his feet and jumped off it with an air walk catching her in mid fall. A sudden sense behind him caused him to look behind him. A fist of water denser than rock slammed him to him. He fell with Hinata in his arms impacting in the ground. Blackness overcame him.
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Sasuke walked through the halls of the Uchiha compound. Memories of his family hovering in front of his eyes. They had taken everything from him. His mother, his father...his brother. He looked up on the wall to see the primitive start of the hidden leaf village painted on one cracked crumbling wall. With a chocked cry of rage he slammed a chidori into the mural and rock exploded outward. He was breathing heavy and forced his emotions down as he had been taught. He felt another presence enter the spacious room.
"My, My Sasuke, aren't you in a temper?" Madara said stepping from the shadows. That was a useful trick that Sasuke wished he knew. Sasuke didn't say anything just looked at the man in the mask.
"Have you overcome Itachi's parting gift yet?"
"Yes." Was all he said.
"Good. I have just returned from a little excursion into Konoha. The eight-tails is there. Your friend Naruto has grown into quite a skilled shinobi, you could end up having trouble with him. Right now the village is on alert due to my little visit, so infiltration will be impossible. However in two weeks time it should be safe. I will have an agent named Konon contact you via your ring. She is a delightful woman, I'm sure the both of you will rarely even speak to one another. Similar social habits there. Be ready."
Sasuke nodded and turned back to his contemplation of the old Uchiha hideout. Madara studied him a moment before saying one last thing. "Sasuke…be patient the village will fall soon." He ignored the sharp glance of the kid. "Yes, yes you will be a part of it. If you want it can be you who kills those old decrepit advisors." Sasuke let a little smile quirk his slips.
'Indeed he thought." Sasuke looked the hole where the village used to be. 'The village will feel the pain they caused me.' He vanished in a swirl of leaves leaving Madara alone.
"Jeeze." Madara said to no one in particular. "So hasty." He laughed and started to whistle a tune as he used his powers to return to the Mizukage tower. "I love it!" He put on his robes and descended the steps thinking about his lovely time with the Hyuuga girl an hour earlier.
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Light slowly and painfully came to Naruto's caked eyes. His entire body hurt even his toenails. He tried to focus past the pain the see where he was, but there was something covering his eyes. He tried to move his arm up to remove whatever was blocking his vision but his arm was bound in some way. His entire body was it seemed. He strained with his ears as a solution. He could hear the beeping on a monitor and the soft whispers of several people close to him. He then felt some something warm and heavy on his lap. He tried to sit up, but the pain caused him to Groan. The whispering stopped abruptly and the weight lifted suddenly.
"Naruto!" He could tell it was his mother's voice. "Oh thank god you're awake! I was so worried!" He tried to move again, but the pain was too much.
"Don't try to move Naruto." He heard Sakura say. "You have extensive damage all over your body. Almost every major bone is broken. It is going to take some time to heal.
"My...eyes." he asked softly too weak to raise his voice.
"There were shards of rock embedded in them. Tsunade-sama spent days removing them and they are still healing. We had to cover them up so they could heal right." Sakura said compassionately. He felt her take his hand and his mother the other.
"Days. How…" he licked his lips. "How long have I been out?" There was a hesitant silence.
"A week Naruto." His mother said. 'A week?" he thought in amazement. 'I've never been out for a week before.'
"The village?" he asked. A new voice entered the room. His baa-chan.
"It is safe Naruto. You saved a great many ninja with your actions. When you arrived to fight the intruder many of them were dying from super-heated air. You saved their lives. You were a hero that day Naruto." Tsunade told him. He could sense her come up beside him.
"You're going to be alright Naruto." He mother said in the kind voice that always comforted him. "It's going to take a few more days at your current recovery rate, but you will be ok." He was afraid to ask, but he had to, he just had to know.
"Hinata?" He held his breath and wanted to cry at the sudden silence that descended on the room. "Hinata?" he asked once again, praying to hear her voice. "Tell me!" His voice rose despite the pain in his throat. It was Tsunade who finally answered.
"We don't know Naruto. She was hit with some kind of genjutsu, we think similar to what Kakashi experienced years ago, but on a larger scale. Kakashi had some protection due to his sharingan and he has much more training that Hinata. Hinata was hit with something stronger and was far more vulnerable." She finished her prognosis.
"Will she be alright?" He asked desperately.
"We don't know Naruto. She is in a coma and her signs haven't changed." Tsunade responded. He could hear the slight crack in her voice, but couldn't care due to his own feelings. He had never felt like this before. When Ero-sennin died, he felt so sad he didn't want to move. This was different. He felt lost, like a piece of his was torn out. He didn't just want to move, he wanted to die. Just a few moments of this pain made him want to leave everything behind to get rid of it. He started to cry and the bandages covering his eyes grew wet. He felt his mothers hand on his cheek.
"She will get better my son." Kushina spoke to reassure him. She looked up to the group in the room, but no one else could summon the heart to support her. Tsunade was use a chakra link with the girl to try and draw her out of whatever nightmare held her in place, but couldn't maintain it from the horror she was witnessing. They didn't dare tell Naruto, they had discussed it and decided that the rage and anger would either kill him in his current state, or release the full Kyuubi state, which couldn't be allowed to happen. The truth of the matter was that Hinata may never wake up, and if she did she might never be sane again.
Naruto in the night called on his Kyuubi chakra to speed up the healing dramatically. He was told that doing this should shorten his life span, but he didn't care, he had to get better. Hinata needed him. To everyone's amazement and concern in two days he was good enough to be released. They removed the bandages from his body and eyes and took him out of the body supports. The first thing he did was head to the private ward that Hinata was in.
When he walked in he saw Hiashi, Nejii and Hanabi by her bedside. They looked up at him with as much grief in their eyes as his own. They move aside to allow him room by her bedside. They sat silently together, only the soft sound on the monitor in it repetitive beeps could be heard.
Beep!
'It's my fault.'
Beep!
'I broke my nindo. I didn't protect her.'
Beep!
'Why did it have to be her? Why not me?'
Beep!
'Why does everything I love leave me?'
Beep!
A tear dropped.
Beep!
He reached out and took her hand.
Beep!
Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee……………………………
The monitor flat-lined.
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A/N
-I needed to use Madara as a measuring gadge so that Naruto could see just how strong he still was against Madara and Sasuke.
-The final fight against Madara will reveal some intense powers on all sides, this was just a little taste of the ancient power.
-Again please REVIEW!