A/N Welcome back to another installment of Red Dawn Rising - Revenge of a Demon. So now Sunagakure has joined the alliance underneath the Yoakekage's shadow. Now here comes an event that will send Akayuri into the deepest depths of hell.(And yes, I did wait to put this into the story as Chapter 13 because of Unlucky Number 13) Jutsu translations at bottom. Leave a Fav and Review
Chapter 13 - Hell
-Three days later-
Tsunade was sitting at her desk when a knock came to her door.
"Come in." she said, expecting to see Yamato, only...she got the opposite.
The door opened and Danzo walked in, resting his hand on his cane and standing before Tsunade's desk.
"What do you want Danzo…?" questioned Tsunade with narrowed eyes.
"Just a simple matter really…" started Danzo before two men entered the room, wearing a unique flak jacket that had six buttons aligned in two columns on the chest, red and black shoulder guards with a hood, arm guards, leg guards, and their own specific animal mask. The only feature that made Tsunade's eyes narrow was the white arm band on their right shoulders, bearing the symbol for the disbanded ANBU faction ROOT. (Amon's outfit from the Legend of Korra).
"Tsunade Senju, you are hereby expunged from the position of Hokage." announced Danzo, the two ROOT members stepping towards her.
"What is the meaning of this?!" demanded Tsunade as she shot up from her chair.
"The village under leadership has grown weak. It needs a firmer hand to lead it back to its former glory. I shall be that firm hand." said Danzo as two more ROOT members appeared out of nowhere behind Tsunade, one of them quickly slapping a chakra absorbing seal onto her back, instantly sucking up ¾ of her chakra, leaving her with just enough to be able to stay awake and move, barely.
She collapsed to the ground at the sudden drain of chakra and attempted to get up before a pair of handcuffs were put on her. She would've broken them easily but the seal had taken away her monstrous strength.
"Damn it Danzo, you'll pay for this!" growled Tsunade when one of the ROOT members clamped his foot onto her back, pinning her to the ground.
Danzo smirked as he looked down onto her like he was the king of the world, and at the moment, he was.
"Oh really?" he asked as he stepped aside, two more ROOT members appearing with a bound Yamato, Homura and Koharu.
"Danzo, what the hell do you think you are doing?!" demanded Yamato as he was thrown to the floor, grunting as he hit the floor with the two elder council members.
"This is an outrage! Release us at once!" ordered Homura, Danzo chuckling before he became serious once again and looked at the ROOT members.
"Take them away and put them with the others." he ordered, the four of them being picked up roughly and dragged out of the room, leaving Danzo and the last ROOT member left in the barren office.
"Go with them to assure they will not escape."
"As you wish, Lord Danzo." said the man with the scarab mask followed by a bow before exiting the office.
Meanwhile Tsunade, Yamato, Homura and Koharu were led to a steel plated carriage with barred windows. The door opened and they had burlap sacks thrown over their heads to obscure their vision and were thrown into the carriage, joining a few people who were already there.
"Who's there?"
"Gai?! Is that you?! It's me, Tsunade. I'm with Yamato, Koharu and Homura." sputtered Tsunade, surprised and relieved at the sound of the Jonin's voice.
"Damn, they nabbed you too? Bastards really know how to kidnap…" muttered Gai.
"Yeah, that damn bastard Danzo was the one that got us. Who else is in here?" asked Tsunade whole trying to make a mental image of her surroundings.
"I think beside me is Inoichi, Ibiki, Kurenai and…"
"Genma." replied the easy going voice of the senbon chewing Jonin, once the former body guard of the Fourth Hokage.
"Right." replied Gai, having forgotten his name.
"Tsunade, are you there?" asked a newer voice, one farther away then the others.
"Shikamaru? Where are you?"
"We're in the carriage in front of yours. Im in here with Choji, Ino, and the other rookies.
"Ino!" said Inoichi, the head of the Yamanaka clan, to the other carriage.
"I'm alright dad." responded the voice of his daughter Ino.
"Can someone please tell me what the hell is going on?" asked Shikamaru, Koharu being the one that answered him.
"Danzo has pulled a silent coup d'etat and has removed us from our positions, Shikamaru Nara." she said, calmly yet somewhat pissed off.
"Then why did he lock us up specifically?" asked Choji, Ibiki grumbling as he clicked his teeth together and sighed.
"To get rid of his opposers. He's probably been planning this for a while now with that disbanded ROOT Faction of his." he said sourly.
"Then...Where are we going?" asked Homura before the sound of a door opening was heard, followed by multiple footsteps.
Suddenly the scarab mask ROOT member appeared at the barred window and looking into the carriage.
"Alright, we'll be leaving now. You're not going to be seen for quite some time."
"Shiizaki...So you were with ROOT the entire time? To think that I could trust you…" growled Tsunade, the ANBU Commander Shiizaki Oru (reference to Chapter 1!)chuckling softly.
"Khehe...Well, sorry Princess. Your little assistant will be fine without you though."
"What have you done to Shizune!" shouted Tsunade in anger at the ally turned foe.
"Kehehehe, that's classified," He signalled to the other ROOT members to get a move on. "Don't worry though, she'll disappear soon enough…" he said before he stepped off the carriage and walked back a couple of feet, watching as the carriages left the large dimly lit warehouse. He waited until they were out of sight before pressing his finger to the comm in his ear and said quietly, "You two ready? This might get extremely dangerous so I'm warning you now."
"We're fine. We're already at the gate waiting for you." said a feminine voice belonging to a certain pink haired kunoichi.
"Very well. I'll be there shortly."
"Don't keep us waiting or we might just leave without you." said another voice, belonging to the last Uchiha, Sasuke.
-Prison Carriage Number 2-
They travelled for hours on end, Inochi eventually speaking up and asking, "Does anyone know where we are going?"
Yamato looked his direction and said, "I know exactly where we are going. It's a small outpost facility on the border of Wind Country and Fire Country. ANBU have disguised it as a simple trade post, and actually merchants and traders do pass through it, but in fact it is one of the most vile and vicious of torture prisons in service of Konoha. It's codenamed the Shi facility, the Death Facility to be exact, for its infamous history. All the criminals and POW's who are never seen by anyone ever again are actually there. It was supposed to be shut down and the information classified...But it seems ROOT has taken control of it once again."
"So what do we do?" asked Inoichi, Yamato sighing.
"We just have to wait. Kakashi hasn't been seen for a while now and I believed he caught wind of what Danzo was planning and escaped early, so I hope he'll come and rescue us."
"So we must wait for Kakashi?" asked Tsunade before Ibiki chuckled.
"Or the Yoakekage…" he said with a smirk.
"Excuse me...I did not hear that right...Did you say wait for a myth?" asked Inoichi, baffled by Ibiki's proclamation.
"It's a longshot, but think about it. He may be a rumor, but if he's going around conquering the other villages, he's bound to go after Konoha. Listen, Danzo has just sent its Hokage and some of its most powerful and well recognized shinobi to a prison. He might try to kill us, and in the chaos and confusion that ensues, we slip away to try and topple Danzo off his little pillar." explained Ibiki.
"Well, we better figure out how to escape quickly because time is running out." said Yamato on the other hand still had a trick up his sleeve, literally. He slipped out a small chip into his hand from his sleeve and pressed the small black button, sending a signal to the one person he knew would receive it.
-Pain's Tower - Amegakure-
Kakashi was finishing his rounds patrolling the tower for any unwanted guests when he a felt a slight hum from his chest. He unbuttoned his cloak and slipped his right arm out, reaching for a pouch on his flak jacket.
He slipped out a small chip, his eyes hardening at the flashing red light. He crushed it and slipped his arm back into his cloak, buttoning it up as he ran up to the top floor. He entered the pod room after sending his chakra into the wall to open it up and sprinted towards the office.
Konan turned as he entered, the slight rise of her eyebrow asking Kakashi what was the matter.
"I've gotten a distress call from a former friend of mine from Konoha. I wish to go and help him."
"And why should I allow this?" asked Konan.
"Because of two reasons. One, if I show up as if I had never gone rogue and rescue him and however is with him, we can use their trust to our advantage and blindside them, and two...Any info I gather I will direct directly to Naruto." said Kakashi, Konan nodding in agreement.
"I'll tell Naruto." she said, Kakashi nodding before he ran out of the room while Konan turned around.
When Konan heard him leave, she formed a single sign and closed her eyes, sending her thought waves to one person in particular.
-Outside of Sunagakure-
Naruto, Ketsueki, Kurama, Suzaku and Sankak and Akayuri had bid farewell to Gaara that morning and had departed from the village for their journey to Iwagakure, the second to last destination on their journey. Naruto felt Konan's thought waves his him so he performed a set of seals and activated the Magic Lantern Body Technique, and soon enough, Konan's astral form appeared beside him, her form intangible and refracting multiple colors like a rainbow, her eyes the only part of her that looked solid.
"What's the news Konan?"
"Kakashi has received a distress signal from an old ally of his from Konoha. I allowed him to leave to search for it so he could gather info from him and whoever is with him and gain their trust, allowing them to stab them in the back when the time comes." said Konan, her voice sounding like it had come through a radio.
"Excellent. Any idea as to where he is going?" asked Naruto, pleased by her decision.
"He's heading towards your general area in between Wind and Fire Country. All I know is that there's an abandoned trading station there."
"Wait a minute, I remember a place there from back in the day. I think that trade station was actually a secret ANBU prison called Shi Facility." said Suzaku while simultaneously popping in a fresh cigar into his mouth and lighting it with a small flame he procured from his finger.
"An ANBU facility eh? Maybe we might find some interesting stuff there. Come, let us go there and maybe we can meet up with him after his mission is complete." said Naruto with a smirk as Konan's astral form buzzed away, leaving them alone in the desert once again.
"What are you thinking Naruto?" asked Akayuri, wondering about him.
"If Kakashi is heading to an abandoned ANBU facility, then maybe its not so abandoned after all. Especially with Danzo's ROOT Faction still running amuk in Konoha in the shadows. Who knows? The old bastard might be there and I can kill him." said Naruto with bloodlust rolling off his tongue, his eyes glowing from behind his mask.
-5 Hours later - Prison Carriage Number 2
Tsunade jolted awake when she felt the carriage come to a complete stop, looking around a little before remembering she had a sack over her head, she couldn't see a thing.
"I think we've arrived at the Shi Facility." said Yamato as the ROOT members got off the carriages and left, their footsteps growing fainter and fainter.
"Did...they just leave us?" asked Hinata from their carriage, unable to use her Byakugan due to the chakra absorbing seal.
"I believe so…" said Shino with a sigh as he leaned back against the side of the carriage behind him.
It was now night, the trade post seemingly dark and a wasteland...but that was only the image on the outside. On the inside, behind the Genjutsu dome, the ANBU prison had huge spot lights scanning the area around it, with veteran ANBU and ROOT members patrolling the walls and inside of the outpost. It consisted of the main gate entering into the courtyard, the courtyard branching off into the barracks and a smaller courtyard connecting to a larger building and guard tower.
The moon was almost at its zenith high in the sky, the only shadows on the ground of the ones belonging to the ANBU, until three appeared heading towards the outpost.
"Alright, on the other side of this wall is the roof to the storage part of the facility. Once we're over, we'll slip in through the roof access hatch. From my calculations, there will be two guards on top of the roof." said Shiizaki as he leaned up against the wall of the prison, Sakura and Sasuke on either side of him.
Sasuke activated his Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan and looked up, watching as three ANBU walked across the wall they were against, waiting until they passed until he flipped his hand up.
They quickly scaled the wall and leaped over the edge, silently taking down the two ANBU below them on the roof of the storage warehouse, with Sasuke stabbing the one on the left in the throat with his sword while Shiizaki dropped down silently behind the other and wrapped his arm around the man's neck, pulling back hardly and snapping his neck. They quickly ran to the access hatch and slipped down into the warehouse with the bodies of the two ROOT members, hiding the evidence just in time as a spotlight swept across the roof.
Just as they dropped down into the warehouse, more shadows were seen running towards the facility, as quick as lightning. Naruto hid up against the wall with Akayuri behind him, watching for the guards to pass. The two had come alone, Naruto ordering the others to stay behind and wait for them.
"You ready Akayuri?" asked Naruto with a glance back at his partner.
She grew a menacing smirk on her face and nodded, Naruto looking back up to the top of the wall.
He ran up the wall, with Akayuri close behind, and time it perfectly, having grabbed two guards by their throats and pulled them with him as he flew into the air.
Three ANBU were sitting on some spare crates around a makeshift table and playing cards when they froze as they felt someone unknown land behind them. They turned and saw Naruto snap the necks of the ANBU in his clutches with a simple flick of his wrists, take off his straw hat with Akayuri, and glare at them.
"Sound the alarm!" shouted one of the ANBU as he drew his sword while Conan brandished his claws.
"Let the bloodbath begin!" announced Naruto, acting as if this were a game as he leaped at the three ANBU and slit one's throat with his claws then slammed his foot and fist into the other two's throats, killing them instantly.
The sirens began to wail and the barracks unleashed a torrent of ROOT and ANBU members, ready to attack the intruders. Akayuri smirked as she flung off her cloak, revealing the black vest she wore, allowing her serrated tail blade to snake out and slice through two ANBU like they were butter while Conan ran gracefully through their ranks, cutting them down with only his claws, his rage and ferocity growing with each kill.
"Hahaha! Is this all Konoha has to offer?!" he laughed savagely as he ripped out the throat of one ROOT members before shoving his hand through the chest of another, an explosion of blood coating his cloak.
Akayuri dodged a kunai thrown at her and turned to see ten ANBU running towards her.
"Give up little girl!" yelled one as he flipped his sword in his hand.
"Little girl? Little girl?! Ha! That's funny!" she laughed before she brought around her serrated tail blade and impaled the one who spoke while using him to draw herself towards the other nine, growing multiple curved blades from her wrist and completely slaughtering the others.
"Real fucking funny." said Akayuri with a vicious grin as blood splattered on her vest and face a little. More of the ANBU emerged from the barracks, lucky enough to have a few moments to grasp the situation. They surrounded Akayuri and Naruto, forcing them towards each other till they stood back to back.
"Akayuri, on the count of three, duck."
"Got it."
"One," started Naruto as the ANBU brandished their swords and charged at them.
"Two," They were ten feet away from either of them, their blades shining under the moonlight.
"Three! Kaijoton - Akuma no itami gōmon tsūru!" yelled Naruto as Akayuri ducked, a spray of spiked, maroon chains emerged from his body (like Kushina's chakra chains) and impaled around twenty ANBU around them.
"Kaijoton - Faiyāsutātā!" said Naruto as red fire burst along the chains and ran to the impaled ANBU and ignited them in a glorious blaze of fire that burnt them to a crisp.
Akayuri raised her left arm and sprouted segmented missiles from her wrist and launched them into the crowd of ANBU, multiple explosions of fire and blood, followed by screams of agony and flying body parts emerging from the crowd.
"Bring it on!" roared Naruto as he lunged at the first ANBU nearest to him with his claws and fangs.
-Loading Area for Prison-
The sounds of slaughter and blades clashing woke up Tsunade and the others from an exhausted daze. They had been denied sleep ever since they were taken away from Konoha, never to be seen again.
The guards, they found out, had popped out for coffee, so the group decided to sleep whenever they could, it was impossible however to sleep through the blood curdling cries of a massacre occurring just above.
"Seems he's arrived…" said Ibiki with a slight chuckle.
"Who?" asked Gai.
"The Yoakekage." said Inoichi with utter seriousness in his voice.
"Hard to say, it could just be simple bandits." said Kiba from the other carriage, Ibiki scoffing.
"You listen to the shit that is going on out there and tell me it's simple bandits."
"Point taken…"
Suddenly the sound of a gut wrenching howl, one that could not possibly be human, echoed from the battle above, chilling Yamato and Tsunade to the bone.
The clash of kunai and shuriken became a metallic battle music that seemed to play on and on.
-Underground Prison complex-
Shiizaki led Sasuke and Sakura through the massive labyrinth of prison cells and torture chambers situated under the Shi Complex in their search for Tsunade and the others, all three being able to hear the sound of the battle up above as well.
"Seems something is going on up there between ROOT and...something. This may become a three way conflict." said Sasuke as they turned a corner, having been able to maneuver through the prison without any trouble, due to all the ROOT and ANBU members being called to fight up above.
"Not if we keep our heads low. We're here to rescue Tsunade and the others...we can't afford to take on the Akatsuki and ROOT." said Shiizaki.
"Agreed, what is our course of action?" asked Sakura with a glance to the veteran ANBU.
"We might just have to rescue them and have to sneak out of the compound without being sensed or noticed. We'll just have to avoid the main courtyard and the battle taking place." explained Shiizaki to Sakura's question, Sasuke shaking his head.
"Whoever's up there, they laying waste to ROOT. They will be finished with the ROOT members sooner than you think. We'll have to hurry before they are all dead and we're the last targets left."
"For now, we have the element of surprise...Let's not waste it." said Shiizaki as he ran faster, Tsunade's chakra signature growing stronger with each passing second. He rounded a corner and rushed up to a pair of heavy oak doors, the signature at its strongest.
"In here!"
-Main Courtyard-
The fighting was easy and entertaining the two. These ROOT members were either rookies with weak abilities or they were veterans that had grown too old for this kind of work; they fell like dominos against Naruto and Akayuri's savage attacks.
More and more ANBU arrived to their slaughtering with each passing moment. It was like one big giant Hydra almost. When one ANBU would get cut down, two would take his place.
Soon, there were only ten left in the courtyard, their spirit and some bones broken.
"I got this one." said Naruto as he smiled evilly, drawing down low with his arms straight and crossed like an x, the palms facing outward. Suddenly he disappeared, becoming a blur that ran across all ten ANBU, the men surprised at first before blood flew from their necks, all of them having been ripped to shreds by Naruto's claws.
He appeared beside Akayuri and he licked the blood of his fingers and fangs as he watched the ten ANBU fall, joining the rest. There had been at least 200 ROOT members and ANBU stationed at the Shi Facility. Naruto and Akayuri stood in the center of the courtyard surrounded by those 200, either slowly dying or already dead.
Their cloaks were soaked with blood, two mounds of corpses on either side of them forming a lake of blood upon which they stood.
"This was pleasant…Wait a minute…" said Naruto as he sniffed the air for a couple of seconds.
A savage fanged smile started to spread across his face as he recognized the chakra he smelled.
"Do you sense them Akayuri?" he asked, Akayuri focusing and sensing the ones Naruto was talking about.
She too, developed a smile.
"Yes...They are here...I can smell their fear...They are directly below us…" he said venomously as his mask began to reform
"What should we do?"
"We wait for them, then we kill them."
"All of them?" asked Akayuri as she looked up at him as his mask fully formed.
"All of them." said Naruto as he turned around and walked towards the shadows, Akayuri following him.
-Loading Area-
Tsunade rejoiced as Shiizaki bust open the door with a swift kick from his boot, freeing them.
"Took you long enough Shiizaki." said Tsunade as he removed the seal from her and broke off her cuffs, allowing her to remove the burlap sack over her head.
"Sorry ma'am. Had to stay back a couple hundred yards so they wouldn't sense us." apologized Shiizaki as he went around to the others, freeing them as well.
"We?" questioned Gai before he turned and saw Sasuke and Sakura helping out the other rookies and freeing them.
"I despise how they captured us like that." growled Kiba as he helped out his giant dog Akamaru, petting him softly.
"At least we were rescued." sighed Neji with a small nod to Sasuke as thanks.
"Alright, we have to go while the Yoakekage or whoever's up there is busy with ROOT." said Yamato before he froze.
"Listen." said Ibiki as it became silent, dead silent.
"Are...Are they all dead?" asked Ino in a whisper, even though she didn't have to.
"I don't know. We need to get outta here fast though before we find out who won." said Gai as they ran away from the prison carriages and out of the loading area. Soon they arrived at the warehouse above, Shiizaki and Yamato opening the doors and checking to make sure the coast was clear.
"Go, Go, Go!" he whispered as they moved out of the warehouse and across the smaller courtyard before coming to a complete halt.
Yamato walked forward and stood over a mangled corpse of a ROOT member, his lower half completely cut off and spilling blood and innards out onto the ground. A trail of blood was behind him, probably since he tried to drag himself away from the conflict before dying. Yamato inched towards the entrance to the main courtyard, bracing himself for whatever sight might be on the other side.
When he turned the corner, he almost vomited at the sight he witnessed in the courtyard. There was blood literally everywhere, pouring from the mounds of bodies scattered everywhere around the courtyard.
The place smelt of death.
Tsunade and the others followed Yamato and Sakura gasped and turned her head away at the ghastly sight. Even Ibiki was disturbed, which was rare for him.
"God have mercy on their souls…" uttered Kiba, disgusted by the sight.
"Who could've done something like this?" asked Hinata as they walked towards the main gate, inches away from freedom, before a cold, bone chilling voice struck their ears.
"That, my dear, would be me."
They all turned slowly towards the tallest tower on the main building, their eyes widening at the silhouetted form standing before the moon in the sky, looking down onto them with red eyes.
He casually walked off the edge of the tower and fell to the ground, landing silently like a cat.
Instantly Tsunade recognized the man from the white kitsune mask and flowing Akatsuki cloak.
"Akuma." she growled, the Akatsuki leader standing up and facing the group.
"Like what I've done with the place Tsunade?" asked Naruto, Akayuri landing down behind him and staring at them with her glowing Rinnegan.
"What are you doing here? I thought the Akatsuki was neutral?" questioned Tsunade, Naruto chuckling while Sasuke stared angrily at him, being the only one who knew the truth.
"Well, I just thought I might help you guys out, get rid of Danzo's lap dogs for you."
"How did you know they were from ROOT?" asked Gai suspiciously, Naruto fixating him with his cold stare.
"I know everything. Just like I know that Kakashi received that little distress single you sent him, Captain Yamato." said Naruto with a smirk, Yamato's eyes widening.
"How could you know?!"
"Let's find out hm? He should be arriving here in three, two, one…" counted down Naruto before he turned to the right, the others doing the same as a figure appeared at the top of the wall overlooking the courtyard.
"Kakashi-sensei!" said Sakura with a smile as he leapt down into the courtyard, standing a couple feet away from Naruto and Tsunade, yet in the middle of both.
"Welcome Kakashi. Care to explain how I knew you were coming?" asked Naruto, Kakashi glancing over at Yamato.
"Kakashi, what does he mean?" asked Yamato before his heart shattered along with the rest of the group as they watched Kakashi walk over to stand beside Naruto.
"Sorry guys, but Konoha has become corrupt. I couldn't serve a village that abused a child for such a long time." said Kakashi as he dispelled the henge he had put over himself, revealing his Akatsuki cloak and slashed Konoha headband pulled up, revealing his new red eyes.
Sasuke gasped at what Kakashi had gained.
"Kakashi...how?" he stuttered as Kakashi blinked.
No longer did he possess a single Sharingan, but two, thanks to Naruto transplanting Obito's other Sharingan into his right eye socket. Now he could use his Mangekyo Sharingan's powers more efficiently and not get drained as much.
"Had a little help from Akuma here." said Kakashi, Sasuke narrowing his eyes at his former sensei.
"Kakashi…" uttered Gai at his eternal rival, heartbroken at the sight of the dreaded red clouds of Akatsuki he now adorned.
"Well now that the reunion is over...I'm going to kill you." said Naruto as he stared at Tsunade once more.
"Damn Akatsuki, I knew you were still the same." growled Tsunade before Sasuke stepped forward, drawing his sword.
"Tsunade, you retreat with the others. I'll hold him off."
"Sasuke, you can't be serious! They just took out all these ROOT members and you think you can take him on?!" shouted Gai before Sakura joined him, standing by his side.
"Don't worry, I'll keep him safe. Get out while you still can." she said as she cracked her knuckles, Naruto smiling evilly behind his mask.
"Sakura…" said Tsunade before she glanced back at her and smiled.
"Don't worry, we'll be back before you know it!" smiled Sakura before she became serious once again and faced the threat before them.
"Alright...be safe." said Tsunade as she turned and followed the others out of the courtyard and away from the facility, leaving them alone with the Akatsuki members.
"Why are you hiding behind that mask?" asked Sasuke, Sakura looking at him with confusement.
"Do you know this guy?" she asked, Sasuke narrowing his eyes at Naruto.
"Oh, he certainly does." sniggered Naruto when he crossed his arms.
"I'd rather not." said Naruto with a sigh, Sakura still confused.
"Don't you want Sakura to know who the leader of Akatsuki is...Naruto?" asked Sasuke, Sakura turning her head to the Akatsuki leader, the man chuckling as he raised his hand to his mask.
It began to dissipate into his body as his chakra, slowly revealing his face to Sakura.
She gasped at the slashed Konoha headband, eventually realizing that Sasuke...was right.
"N-Naruto…?" she stuttered, Naruto smirking at her as he crossed his arms again, his red eyes, beastial whisker marks, and his glistening fangs.
"Now will you look at that...Team 7, back together again." said Kakashi as Naruto sneered.
"I'll take the pink haired girl. She'll be easy to take out." smirked Akayuri, receiving a scowl from Sakura.
"Oh, are you mad? Come on little girl, let's see what you got!" laughed Akayuri as her tail snaked back and forth and she ran towards the second courtyard, Sakura breaking after her.
"I won't hold back, and neither will Sakura." said Sasuke as he held his blade out to Naruto, who lowered his arms.
"I know, It will make it all the more pleasing...when I slit your throat." said Naruto as he held his arm out, a chakra receiver forming in his hand.
He channeled his chakra into it and he broke it off, the blade starting to elongate into a large staff, a circle forming at the end and forming six hoop rings that dangled from the ring. He swung Hagoromo's, or now his, shakujo around and pointed its sharpened end at him, daring him to attack.
"En garde!"
-Second Courtyard-
Sakura dove to the side as a flurry of missiles exploded where she last stood, engulfing the ground in a powerful explosion.
"What, scared? Come on, fight me!" laughed Akayuri as she swept at Sakura with her blade tail, narrowly missing her by an inch.
Sakura swung her fist back and threw it at Akayuri, expecting to hit her, only the opposite happen. Her fist became trapped in the iron grip of a second arm that sprouted from her shoulder.
"Bad move." smirked Akayuri as she swung around and grasped Sakura's throat with her other arm. A hand emerged from her forearm and opened up, revealing an arm cannon that started to spin rapidly and glow brighter.
"Khehehe! Goodbye, little girl!" smirked Akayuri as the arm cannon glowed brighter and brighter.
She grunted as she gripped Akayuri's wrist and squeezed tightly, crushing her wrist making metallic parts and wires explode out from behind the skin, Akayuri's smirk faltering as Sakura dropped down and swung her fist right into her gut.
She yelled as she rammed back Akayuri, making her fly back and slam into the opposite wall.
Blood flew out from her mouth as several of her ribs snapped instantly from the impact before she collapsed to her knees and spit out some blood.
Sakura coughed as she inhaled breaths of air and stood up to look at Akayuri. She saw her slowly get up and began to snicker, her arm returning to normal and the extra arm phasing back into her arm.
She looked up at Sakura with slightly insane eyes and said, "You're going to pay for that!" She threw her right arm towards her and she launched her fist at her like a rocket.
Sakura quickly dodged the attack by leaping to the side, only to see Akayuri right beside her, cocking her other fist back.
She slammed her fist into Sakura's side, a large crack echoing out from her as she flew away from her and into another wall, creating a huge crater in the wall.
She cried out in pain, Sasuke's eyes widening as she heard the cry. He dodged a swing from Naruto's shakujo and jumped back a couple of feet, a hand forming from his Susano'o's skeleton.
"Amaterasu!" yelled Sasuke, Naruto smirking as he dodged the attack and slid to the side on all four limbs, baring his fangs at him.
"Sakura! You alright?!" yelled Sasuke as blood dripped from his right eye and down his cheek.
Naruto glanced at the entrance to the courtyard from the secondary courtyard and smiled as Akayuri walked through the archway, dragging a beaten Sakura behind her. She threw her barely conscious form on the ground in front of her, blood dripping from her lip and onto the ground.
"The pink bitch is done for. With the injuries she sustained, she won't last until tomorrow." growled Akayuri as she walked over to where Kakashi stood, reading his Icha Icha book he had taken with him.
"Damn it! I have to end this fight quickly!" thought Sasuke as he lowered his arm and straightened out his fingers, lightning starting to crackle around the fingertips.
"Chidori!" he yelled as he broke into a sprint towards Naruto, the latter doing the same.
"Let's see who wins this time!" shouted Naruto as he reared his arm back, forming a crimson Rasengan in his hand.
They threw their arms out at each other, their jutsu colliding and creating a massive explosion,, sending both flying back. As quick as they struck opposite parts of the facilities walls, they charged at each other again, their weapons colliding in a screeching stalemate.
"Naruto! Why would you join the Akatsuki and do all of this?!" yelled Sasuke, Naruto grinning at him with his fangs.
"You don't know, but Konoha is corrupt! They hated me, punished me, hell, tortured me! Just because of what I had sealed inside of me! They hated me and despised me. The First Hokage's Will of Fire has left the village and has left it a shell of its former self! All I want to do is bring peace to the world, and to do so, some must die for the sake of others. Konoha shall burn!" roared Naruto as he kicked back Sasuke and swung out with his shakujo, cutting open his clothes and leaving a light cut across his stomach.
"Alright, I admit, the village does have that darker side. But why kill everyone? What about your friends! With them around, Konoha couldn't have possibly been hell!" yelled Sasuke before Naruto began to chuckle, eventually breaking out into a full blown laugh.
"Sasuke...I'm already in hell!" he yelled as they renegaged with their weapons, sparks flying from each strike of Sasuke's sword and Naruto's shakujo. It was almost like the fight between the Sage's son, the Eldest with his sword, and the Youngest with his shakujo, only the roles were flipped.
"Naruto, please! I can't fight you! Just get off this path of revenge and return with us to Konoha! I don't want you to end up like me!"
"Shove it! It's too late for me! Besides, I never want to return to that hellhole ever again! I hate you and everyone from that village" snarled Naruto as he swung his clawed hand around, striking Sasuke across the shoulder leaving deep gashes in his flesh.
"No, its not too late. If you truly do hate us, then you would've killed me by now with that swipe to the stomach. Yet you refrained. You still miss Konoha. You're hesitant." said Sasuke, Naruto's eyes narrowing as he stepped back and glared at Sasuke.
"What are you saying?" he asked warily as Sasuke began to walk towards him.
"Naruto, just come back to the village with us. We can get Sakura healed up and Team 7 can be reformed once again. Leave the Akatsuki behind and forget your rage. I can't bear to see you like this." said Sasuke before he placed his hand on Naruto's shoulder, his Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan fading away.
"I'm not going to lose another friend." said Sasuke, Naruto's face softening as his clenched fists loosened, his shakujo dropping to the ground with a clang.
"R-Really?" he asked shakily, Sasuke smiling as he placed his hand on Naruto's chest, feeling the steady beat of Naruto's heart.
"When I returned to the village, I vowed to protect it from anything that harmed it." said Sasuke, Naruto remembering that same vow he took when he graduated the academy.
Sasuke looked over and saw Sasuke stand up and weakly smile at him.
"Which means men like you must be killed to preserve its safety...I'm sorry." stuttered Sasuke as a single tear dropped from his eye, Naruto's eyes widened as he saw blue lightning appear on Sasuke's hand before he reared back.
"Chidori!"
It all happened so fast, like a blur.
Sasuke rammed his hand through Naruto's chest, straight through his heart, and out his back, blood pouring out from the wound and down his cloak on either side, Sasuke's hand covering in it.
"I'm so sorry…" choked Sasuke as he pulled his arm out from Naruto's body and stumbled back, his nerves numb and his entire body shaking.
Naruto collapsed to his knees and eventually to the ground, his body going cold and his eyes glazing over.
Akayuri was about to scream but Kakashi held her back, saying, "Don't worry. Just watch."
Sasuke ran over to Sakura and began to drag her towards the gate, despite her protests.
"No! We can still heal him! Let me go!"
"No, this is finally over. I've stopped him for good." said Sasuke as they were about to exit the courtyard before he heard a slight noise behind him.
He turned around and a horrified expression dawned on his face as he saw Naruto's body start to excrete his demonic chakra. His body jumped up and down, the sound of a steady heartbeat piercing the air.
HIs fingers twitched and he began to move.
He slowly pushed himself off the ground, a deep, guttural laugh beginning to rise from his throat, starting out small but gradually growing and growing with each passing second.
Akayuri's smirk returned once again as she saw Naruto rise from the clutches of death itself.
Suddenly his head snapped up with a chilling pop, his eyes and insane smile haunting Sasuke and Sakura.
"Where do you think you're going...Uchiha?" he asked as he started to walk slowly towards them, with Sasuke and Sakura backing away from whatever he had become.
Sasuke was terrified and scared, not being able to fight due to his chakra being depleted.
Sakura attempted to protect him but Naruto smirked before backhanding her and sending her flying to the right a couple of yards.
Sasuke's back hit the wall and he looked up into the rage filled eyes of his former friend turned enemy.
He noticed that they had changed. Instead of possessing yellow sclera, they had shifted to a pitch black color, his red eyes glaring at him, burning with the fires of hatred.
Eyes he had seen before...in himself.
Quick as lightning, Naruto grasped Sasuke's throat and held him up into the air with his inhuman strength, his grip growing tighter and tighter making Sasuke's breathes become ragged and quick as he was slowly choked.
"How...How are you still...alive?" coughed Sasuke, Naruto's insane smile never leaving his face.
"It's quite simple for you humans to understand…" said Naruto, Sasuke's eyebrow rising as he wondered what Naruto meant as to refer to them as "humans"
"I have ascended beyond you humans and have joined the ranks of the very demons you shunned. I have become a Bijuu, the second Kyuubi. When we Bijuu die, we don't stay dead. We get revived, as if nothing ever happened, since we are beings made out of chakra. The more tails you have, the faster the reviving is." smiled Naruto, Sasuke's eyes widening in fear of this...thing that was once Naruto.
"And this fight...This was too easy. I'm going to let you live...Knowing that your efforts were all in vain. You were right, I was doubtful about the burning of Konoha, but with you just trying to kill me for that shithole...It has changed my mind. I will not stop, I will not rest...until every last man, woman, and child has their throats ripped out and their blood poured into the streets of Konohagakure." said Naruto as his grip tightened, Sasuke's vision becoming blotted with lights.
"And now I'm going to let you experience a little of the hell I experienced while in Konoha." said Naruto as he forced Sasuke to look into his eyes, Sasuke being able to sense the chakra growing towards them.
"Hell - Level Four." said Naruto, Sasuke's eyes widening as the eyes glowed.
Sakura's ears ringed as a cry of pain emanated from Sasuke, making her whip around and stare in horror at what was happening to him.
Huge, bloody gashes started to appear all across his body, pouring blood that stained his clothes, leaving patches of red. Blood spurted out from his mouth as Naruto dropped Sasuke to the ground, watching him as he writhed in pain as the cuts continued to appear and let loose a torrent of blood, joining the lake from the killed ROOT members.
"Kakashi, Akayuri. Let us leave. Iwagakure is in need of its Yoakekage." said Naruto as he turned around, steam rising from the hole in its chest as it began to heal itself.
Sasuke barely saw Naruto leave with his entourage, reaching out with one hand towards Kakashi and uttering out, "K-Kakashi...help…"
Kakashi stopped and looked at Sasuke for a few seconds before walking away, as if he didn't see a thing.
As they walked away, Naruto reformed his mask and he said, "We go to Kirigakure. I don't care if they passed or not. We get Saiken, Isobu and Yahiko out of there then we kill everyone. I just want to kill, feel the taste of blood between my fangs."
A/N Jutsu translations
Kaijoton - Akuma no itami gōmon tsūru / Demonic Release - Devil's Pain Torture Tools
Kaijoton - Faiyāsutātā / Demonic Release - Fire Starter
Chidori / One Thousand Birds