Promise 12

"Kakashi!" a man with spiky black hair ran towards the silver haired man who was on the ground.

"I'm fine." The man said but started coughing harshly. Blood streaked down both sides of his mouth.

The man in a black coat glared at Kuryo with anger. His hands glowed with black flames.

"What are you going to do? Protect your friend or stop me?" Kuryo snickered evilly.

Hikuryo charged at him in demonic speed. But the man just dodged it easily.

"Hikuryo behind you!"

Hikuryo's eyes widened. The man was behind him and blasted a beam of black chakra. Dust flew everywhere.

"Hikuryo!"

The dust cleared slowly, revealing the man with black hair that now waved with his chakra. A dragon made purely of black flames swirled around the man who appeared to be surrounded by black flames.

Kokuryu no kansei! Black dragon roar!

Giant black flames were spewed towards Kuryo. He hissed as his leg seemed to be melting into a dark liquid.

Without time to recover, he used both arms to block an attack from Kakashi.

Seibaha no Saisu! Saberfang Scythe!

A giant white and red wolf leapt at Kuryo when Kakashi used his scythe. The wolf bit off Kuryo's arms. The ghostly figure gritted his teeth and shouted:

"Don't get cocky! Kurai karyu! Dark vortex!" a giant black hole appeared in the sky and was sucking everything around it into its pit. The wind picked up trees, dirt and dust, a giant swirling terror. It was destroying everything.

"What're you going to do now? You can't kill me and save your village at the same time! This vortex cannot be destroyed!"

"Hikuryo!"

The two demons, stood side by side.

"No matter what you do you can't defeat me. So long as there are humans who hate, I will be forever powerful!"

"What're we going to do?" Kakashi asked.

"We'll need to use the Seishin seal to seal away Kuryo, there's no way we can kill him!"

"But that means…"

"One of us will die…"

Kakashi stirred from unconsciousness. He looked up, a small crack in the wall allowed the moon light to pierce through.

Naruto, Sakura, Sasuke, Gai, Asuma, Kurenai, Obito, Rin, Sensei, Jiraiya…

"You'll deal with the vortex! I'll deal with Kuryo!" Hikuryo shouted and charged at the dark figure before Kakashi could stop him.

"HIKURYO!"

Hikuryo smirked at the thought of his friend being extremely angry at him.

Seishin fu kuchi! Spirit sealing!

A bright light burst and on the ground was a black crystal that glistened.

A thump was heard as Hikuryo collapsed to the ground. Kakashi raced towards his friend. "Hikuryo!"

Tears streaked both sides of Kakashi's face. He kneeled beside his dying friend.

"Kakashi…"

"It's my fault! Arggghh!" Kakashi hit the ground in frustration, anger and sorrow.

"Kakashi it's alright…"

"Hikuryo…" Kakashi stared at the man, his eyes shiny from tears.

"I want you to promise me…"

"…"

"to protect the people…"

"the people? Everyone's already DEAD!" Kakashi screamed in anger.

Hikuryo smirked at his friend.

"You can't show your weakness to me… idiot… I meant the humans…"

"What!" Kakashi couldn't believe it, the humans were the reasons all the other demons were dead, the reason his friend was lying on the ground dying.

"I wish I could see the sun again but the moon is the only one here… it's being covered by that giant vortex…get rid of it…" he laughed.

"Hikuryo…" Kakashi stood up slowly, his body glowed with white and red chakra. He leapt towards the heart of the vortex. This jutsu is risky, I won't have much chakra left, maybe not enough to survive…but I'll do it to keep my promise.

Byakurō dokuga! White wolf fang!

White chakra spread throughout the sky and the dark vortex was gone. Kakashi limped towards his friend, he was exhausted.

"Kakashi…you can't just kill yourself too…"

Kakashi kneeled next to his friend who gripped his hand tightly. Kakashi was shocked; he could feel himself slipping away as well. But just then…

"I don't have much left, but I'll give you enough to survive…" Hikuryo coughed as he gave the remainder of his chakra to Kakashi.

"Thank you Kakashi…" with that the soul of his friend departed.

Kakashi covered the eyes of his friend, he wanted to cry but no tears would come. He had no more tears and was too tired.

He collapsed next to his friend's dead body amidst the destruction around them.

"I'm sorry Hikuryo…"