Chapter 13

Writer's Notes: Good news everyone! This fanfic is almost done. There is just one more chapter after this one. I hope to finish this story next week. Thank you to everyone who has continued to read my story. This was my favorite chapter to write so I really want to hear some feedback from you.

Naruto and his team made their way off the airship and into what was once GinChikara's palace. When they entered the throne room they found GinTaki sitting on GinChikara's throne alone. He raised his head and frowned.

"I told you to leave me alone. You cannot stop the six days of hell. So just leave me be and use this time to prepare for a new world."

Naruto shot a stare of cold iron at the old dog demon.

"I think after six days this world is going to be the same as today. The only difference will be…"

He then smiled.

"You won't be in it."

"You won't leave me alone then? Fine, you can die with everyone else."

GinTaki's eye's flashed with a dark energy and in a spilt second the palace exploded. When the smoke cleared everyone got up out of the debris and collected themselves. They saw GinTaki 200 meters away standing on the top of one of the tallest trees in the forest that surrounded the now ruined palace.

"I will kill any who come near me."

Naruto turned to his team.

"Hinata, you and Shino will go into the forest and stay low until your new jutsu is finished charging, then hit him with everything you got. After that I will finish him off. But before she can do that we need to keep him busy and do some damage to his shield so she has a better chance of breaking it, so I'm afraid everyone else has to come with me. Oh and one more thing. This guy is really tough so let's not hold back, shall we do this then?"

They all took off in a flash. Running up the trees and then dashing from one tree top to another toward GinTaki. GinTaki sent out chakra limbs that tried to punch or grab at them. A fist sent Kiba and Akamaru into the trees, and then a hand grabbed Ino and sent her flying into Chouji. TenTen threw out bombs to stop GinTaki's attack, but the Chakra hands sent the bombs into Temari and Shikamaru. The hands then back handed TenTen into a tree. Gaara went through the bottom of the forest so he was able to get at GinTaki from behind. Gaara used his sand to get a hold of GinTaki and with Sasuke and Lee's help GinTaki was finally restrained. Naruto, Neji, and Sakura then proceeded to punch GinTaki mercilessly. With another great flash of dark energy GinTaki shook the annoying ninja off him and then he sent out a large barrage of fists which pummeled each of them from head to toe all at once.

The young ninja fell like comets to the ground only to come back up within seconds. Ino had used the last of her chakra to perform an experimental medical jutsu that had healed the whole group. Unable to fight any longer she lay next to a tree and watched the struggle above her. Now wiser to GinTaki's power, the team tried a new approach. From a distance Temari, Shikamaru, Gaara, and TenTen combined their strongest jutsus to send powerful long ranged attacks at GinTaki. These attacks could not do any real damage to the old dog demon, but they were enough to provide cover to everyone else so they could perform hit and run attacks with their best jutsus. Finally Naruto charged up a Rasengan and Sasuke charged up a Chidori. They raced toward GinTaki at a sonic speed and when they collided the resulting explosion shook the ground and brought down many trees.

Everyone stood on a tree on the outside of what was now a clearing in the forest to see what had happened to GinTaki. What they saw was a very angry old dog demon flouting in mid air with a nice sized section of his shield missing. Hinata turned to Shino.

"Is it charged yet?"

"No, but that last attack almost got us there. They just need to keep it up a little bit longer."

GinTaki was pissed. The anger that seething through him was overwhelming.

"I WANT YOU DEAD!!!!!!!!!"

With a wave of his hand a shock wave burst forth from his body and struck the Guardians all at once. None of them could move as they lay suspended in mid air. Then GinTaki waved his hand again. The Guardians could do nothing as what looked like the heavens themselves shot through their bodies and then they fell lifelessly to the ground.

Everyone lay on the ground gasping for air.

"Do you think it's too late to tell him we're sorry for disturbing him?

Shikamaru said weakly. GinTaki flouted to the ground and started walking toward them.

"I have good news for you all. I have decided to kill you instead of prolonging your suffering. As angry as I am I must respect anyone who can survive an attack like that let alone stay in one piece when it is used on you. Goodbye Lord Naruto, you and your Guardians where well trained."

GinTaki rose into the air once more. When he was a great distance above them he channeled chakra into his palm for a final attack.

"Now die!"

Before he could fire Hinata appeared right in front of him. Her arms were moving so fast they could not be seen by the naked eye. A chakra seal formed on GinTaki's chest. His shield started to vibrate and break.

"You fucking bitch I won't let this happen!"

GinTaki managed to materialize a chakra spike that pierced through Hinata's body.

"It's too late for that."

Hinata then palm struck GinTaki in the chest and a great blast of chakra burst out. There was a huge explosion and both GinTaki and Hinata fell to the ground. GinTaki got up and realized his shield was gone. Sasuke screamed out.

"Naruto now!!!!!!"

Naruto mustered up the last of his strength and blasted GinTaki with a Rasengan. GinTaki's body blasted to bits like ground beef hitting a fan. Nobody could believe it. GinTaki was dead, but their victory was short lived when Naruto saw Hinata. She was in bad shape and Naruto quickly ran to her and held her in his arms. She turned to him and smiled weakly.

"We did it Naruto-kun."

"Yeah, Hinata-chan we did it."

"I want you to know something Naruto-kun, I'm going to be fine. I just need to…."

"I know you need to just hold on until we get you back to the village. Just take your mind off the pain. Just think about something happy. Like when we get back to Konoha and we can finally have ramen together. I always wanted to take a pretty girl to go get ramen. I never could before because none of the girls liked me. I wish I would have known you liked me sooner Hinata-chan. I don't know why you had to be so afraid to tell me you loved me. I would have fallen for you in no time if I had just known. You're the most beautiful, wonderful, most special girl in the world to me. And now you're dead!"

Naruto's mournful cry of sorrow could be heard echoing for miles. Tears rolled down everyone's checks as Naruto cried out and held Hinata's lifeless body, but then something interrupted their sorrow. GinTaki's body parts began to burst with chakra and then the chakra formed into a giant chakra dog with a hundred tails.

"Before my chakra is extinguished forever I'm going to destroy every Hidden Village on Earth!!!!"

"Sakura!"

"Yes Sasuke!"

"You need to get everyone who's badly injured out of here. The rest of us can try to slow it down."

"NO!"

"Naruto?"

"HE'S MINE!!!!!!!"

Red chakra sparked from Naruto's body. He handed Hinata to Sakura and started walking toward the chakra dog. Naruto did not care about anything anymore least of all himself. All he wanted right now was that bastard dead. The chakra around Naruto was getting bigger and bigger. Finally Naruto cried out two tears of crimson blood before letting out a roar and then in a spilt second Naruto turned into a giant Chakra fox with 70 beautiful tails. The fox snarled at the dog before lunging at it in a wild fury. The two great beasts fought like two wild animals biting and scratching until the dog sent out a burst of energy that sent the fox flying off of it. The fox quickly turned back into Naruto who flew backward into a tree and fell to the ground. The dog then proceeded to crush Naruto with its paw. The paw and half the dog's body were then blown away by a massive Rasengan. The dog then rematerialized just in time for Naruto to let loose one final Rasengan that evaporated the rest of the dog killing GinTaki for good.

Naruto stumbled over toward everyone else and with his hand reaching for Hinata he finally collapsed.

"I can't make the pain go away."

Everyone ran over to him. Sakura checked his pulse.

"Oh my God, he's dieing. Naruto please don't do this! NARUTO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Naruto felt death start to take over him and he did not care. There was only one thing that would bring him back and that one thing was gone forever. As death came closer and closer Naruto could hear everyone calling out to him. He chose not to listen to them. Darkness found its way into Naruto and he was seconds away from death and then…

"NARUTO-KUN PLEASE DON'T DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Naruto's eye's shot open. What was once an inch from death was now sitting up looking deep into the eyes of his beloved.

"I'm so sorry Naruto-kun I completely forgot to tell you guys and when it was over I tried to tell you, but I was too weak."

"Tell me what Hinata?"

"That the jutsu requires me to stop my heart for 3 minutes after using it."

Naruto laughed harder then he had ever laughed in his whole life.

"So you're fine then?"

"Well I'm not great. Are you ok?"

"Oh me? Yeah I'll be alright. Nothing a good night's sleep and some serious medical attention couldn't cure. Could one of you please help Hinata and me to the airship so we can get the hell out of here?"

Everyone smiled and laughed. Sasuke picked up Naruto.

"Sure thing buddy anything you say."

End of Chapter.