Chapter 62: The Sun Sets on Konoha (Part I)
"Get your hands off of her!" Naruto yelled as Mikhal started to tighten his grip on Sakura's neck. Mikhal smirked and dropped the medial ninja right on top of Tsunade's limp body. Naruto was standing at the door way of the healing building. Some of the Kyuubi's chakra was already starting to show a greater impact then earlier in the battle.
"I'm going to send you straight to hell!" Naruto yelled and quickly charged at Mikhal. Mikhal smirked and quickly pushed Sakura off of Tsunade, Mikhal then stuck the tip of his last blade against Tsunade's throat. Naruto stopped half way in his charge.
"Make one more step towards me, and the Hokage dies." Mikhal said. Naruto froze. Sakura started to stir. Mikhal didn't notice, he was smirking at Naruto, who didn't move an inch, just stood in his spot. "Good...at least you know the time to fight, and the time to surrender." Mikhal said, then his hand started to shake.
"Sakura, now!" Shikamaru yelled, Sakura jumped up and punched Mikhal right in the face, sending him flying off of Tsunade. Sakura and Shikamaru quickly recovered the Hokage, Naruto smirked. A scream was heard, and Naruto spun around to see Mikhal throwing Sakura and Shikamaru to the side, and send a blade straight through Tsunade's neck.
Naruto's eyes grew wide, a single tear quickly rolled down his cheek and hit the rubble with a gentle splash. Blood spewed onto Sakura and Shikamaru, who were also frozen. Naruto dropped to one knee, as a large amount of Kyuubi chakra started to come out of his body.
"I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!!" Naruto yelled. A large chakra claw went straight for Mikhal, who quickly re-acting by attempting to cut it in half, but the claw got a hold of the blade and threw it up into the air. Mikhal was out of weapons. He started making more hand signs. Naruto had one tail behind him.
"I know how to defeat you Nine Tails...I'll just use my chakra concealing white armor...that'll be the end of you." Mikhal said and finished making hand signs. "This will show you...nothing can stop me!" he continued and threw the white armor at Naruto. The Kyuubi's claws grabbed the armor and broke it in pieces.
"What the hell?" Mikhal said, emotions could be seen through the ripped up pieces of his mask. Naruto was charging a Red Rasengan in his hand. Naruto ran at full force at Mikhal. Mikhal tried to take a step back, but the Rasengan smashed into his chest. Mikhal spit out blood and went sailing up into the air.
In Another Area of the Village
"Come on, we're pushing them back!" Shizune yelled to the Konoha shinobi, who had killed most of the pirate forces. The ground shook for a moment, Shizune looked up in the sky, Mikhal was floating up in the air. The pirates quickly yelled in fear and ran back into the forest. "Naruto..." Shizune said under her breath.
With Naruto and Crew
"Is there anything you can do, Sakura-chan?" Naruto asked as he returned to his normal self and ran over to Sakura, Shikamaru, Hinata, Sasuke, and the heavily injured Tsunade. Naruto took a step back when he saw the expression on Sakura's face.
"Naruto...there was nothing I could so in the first place...S-She........d-d-died....the m-minute...the sword s-st-stabbed her...in the n-n-neck." Sakura was able to stutter. Naruto fell to his knees. An Eire wind blew through the village. A lot of cheers were heard after the wind went away. Shizune quickly turned the corner.
"TSUNADE-SAMA!" Shizune yelled and quickly took the dead woman from Sakura's arms. "How could this happen...WITH ALL OF YOU HERE?" Shizune yelled, the mixture of depression and anger coming out through tears.
"Shizune...that Mikhal, he was stronger then any member of the New Breed. He defeated all of us...it wasn't until the seal started to slip once more that Naruto was finally able to defeat him. All of us are out of chakra." Sasuke explained. Shizune didn't respond, but continued to look at the woman who had guided her for years.
Two Weeks Later
It had been raining for days. The rain was pouring, and the funeral for the former Fifth Hokage kept getting pushed back. The village elders finally said that rain or shine that the funeral would occur on the next planned date. Naruto and Hinata dressed up Hanabi nicely as well before they departed for the funeral area.
"Naruto-kun...it wasn't your fault." Hinata said while looking at the depression of her husband. Naruto held her hand.
"But at the same time, I've never felt so guilty."
Next Chapter: The Funeral for Tsunade, has the sun set on the glorious village of Konoha?
