Rokudaime Naruto
Chapter Fourteen
An explosion of power rocked the village, the shinobi and the villagers all looked to the center of that burst.
All the villagers saw was the Hokage tower, specifically the office of the Rokudaime, smoldering and smoking.
The shinobi of the village were just able to make out two blurs, speeding away from the wreckage, a yellow one being chased by a white one. The power emanating from these two was almost mind-boggling. It seemed as though their Hokage was leading this other being away from the heart of the village, to the outlaying area.
Naruto landed in his old training grounds, turning as he touched down to face the person that landed right near him.
"Why did you run?" spat the latter as he glared at the leader of the village. "I never imagined that the great, Uzumaki Naruto, would be a coward."
Naruto looked calmly at his opponent, "I am no coward, and I am no longer running. I simply wanted to get you away from the village so that innocent villagers would not get drawn into this."
The figure, who so greatly resembled his late sensei nodded. "Fair enough, I am only here to dispose of you, I suppose it best to leave others out of it."
At that moment the two where surrounded by other shinobi, mostly anbu, but among them was also Sasuke, Kawazu, Shikamaru and Sakura.
One of the anbu stepped forward and yelled out to Naruto, "Boss, are you okay?" Then pointing to the other spat, "who are you to attack the Hokage?"
The spirit host was about to answer when Naruto yelled out for all of them to hear, "all of you stay out of this. This is my fight; none of you will be anything but a hindrance."
The anbu spoke up again, "but boss..."
Naruto interrupted him, "Konohamaru, this is a direct order. Stay out of it!"
Kawazu was staring at the enemy, his eyes and mouth opened wide, his stunned silence was quickly overcome and he asked a question to no one in particular, "i-is that..."
The host spoke then to Kawazu, "did this body mean anything to you? If he did, I am sorry. As far as I can gather this 'Jiriaya' was slain by the creator of this body, who used its DNA to created a vessel for me."
Shikamaru spoke then, "Vessel? Then that means..."
They where interrupted by the arrival of more Shinobi. Among them where Haishi, Kakashi and, to Naruto's great discomfort, Hinata. Naruto then decided it was time to end this, "Damn it, all of you fall back." When the others seemed hesitant of doing this, Naruto yelled out again, "this is an order! Everybody leave, NOW!"
The others nodded and started to retreat, Naruto caught the eye of Haishi, looked to Hinata, then back at His Father-in-law. Haishi nodded once, and taking his eldest by the arm, pulled her away.
The spirit, seeing this exchange said, "That was your mate, wasn't she? Shame that you wont see her again."
Naruto, letting his emotions get the better of him once again, shouted, "You stay the hell away from her!"
"Will you relax? I am here for nobody else but you," the other said. As soon as he said that he launched himself at Naruto.
Naruto quickly pulled out one of his seal marked kunai. He threw it at the spirit, who dodged it. The Kunai hit the ground behind Naruto's attacker.
Right as the eight-tails reached Naruto, the blonde Jinchuriki vanished.
The spirit felt the Hokage behind him. It quickly started to draw out its power. Naruto was forming a Rasengan in both hands. "Kugutsu-rasengan (puppet rasengan)," said Naruto as both of the blue orbs shot out in different directions. They changed trajectory in mid air, in order to converge on the spirit.
By the time that the twin attack hit the spirit it was covered in a dark purple chakra shield. The chakra cloak was taking the shape of the snake, to which it belonged. The energy was holding the Hokage's attack back and soon it dispelled it.
The host body was hovering in mid air now, the energy around him holding him up. It looked like a cobra standing strait up, ready to strike. It did not speak or make any sound at its energy started to spike. A second tail began forming.
Naruto pulled a half-dozen Tri-pronged kunai from his pouch, he fired them all at the host body and they where all deflected by the two tails hitting the ground, forming a circle around the snake. Naruto then started to form another Rasengan; this one was enhanced with a bit of his wind energy. It was spinning in his hand and then started to float above it, attached by a string of chakra. Naruto then disappeared, and reappearing behind the host body, thrust the wind-bladed orb into the demons back. It broke through the energy shell and sliced its way deep into the center of the host.
Naruto then jumped back at the spirit stood there, shaking. The chakra receded showing the gaping hole in the back of his opponent. The blonde then started to look around, mostly at the ground. "You can't fool me, Hachibi."
As he said this, the body of the spirit started melting away; soon it was little more than a pile of mud on the ground. Naruto suddenly jumped strait up, the ground that he was just standing on erupted and a huge purple set of fangs snapped shut where he was just standing. The rest of the body soon followed from the hole in the ground, Naruto could now see that the spirit had brought out two more tails.
'I can't win this fight like this,' Naruto thought to himself. The other was no longer goading Naruto; it launched himself at Naruto, its movement now no longer relying on his limbs to move. The movement was now completely snake-like. It was now truly a snake, the purple chakra completely obscuring the body it inhabited. And it was bent on devouring its prey.
They spirit was nearing Naruto, as Naruto was quickly running through different possible ways to defeat it. The best way seemed to be to draw on the fox's chakra, but Naruto had not used that energy in years. That and Kyuubi has not been talking, Naruto was not sure if he could communicate with it in time to request power.
Naruto then noticed something behind the attacking snake spirit. The first Kunai he had thrown, its seal still had enough Chakra infused in it for one more jump.
Naruto formed one last Rasengan; this one was an Odama Rasengan. The orb was two feet across, Naruto fired it at the host body still attached to the chakra string, he forced wind elemental energy down the string and the orb almost burst in power. The Rasengan formed spinning blades in the shape of a monumental shurikin of wind.
The snake, seeing this coming, thought it was easy enough to dodge. It was powerful enough to break through the shell of energy, but to him is was still far enough away to miss him completely if he borrowed into the ground.
Suddenly the speed of the bladed orb, Naruto activated the seal on the kunai, teleporting him self in a flash. Along with him the wind enhanced attack also jumped. The spirit barely had enough time to throw its tails up in a last moment defense.
It did not matter. The blades of wind sliced through the tails energy and then completely through the shell of chakra.
To those still watching from the tree-line it seemed to be over in a matter of moments. There where two among that group who saw what truly happened. Kakashi and Sasuke had their sharingan active. Kakashi was just able to keep up, but to Sasuke's advanced bloodline it was a different matter. He saw each individual slice caused by the wind. Even so it looked to him as though the host body disintegrated. He was completely destroyed from the inside out, as the attack broke him down on a cellular level.
The others watched as Naruto seemed to slightly stumble, as the fatigue hit him. Hinata started going for her husband when she felt someone grab onto her arm, holding her back. She looked back, confused, to see Sasuke had grabbed her.
He was not looking at her, but with his red eyes were staring at her husband. He had a look of concern on his face when he said simply, "something is wrong here."
She didn't know what he meant, she only wanted for him to let go so that she could check on her husband. Hinata was about to tell him so when a scream interrupted her.
They all looked over to see Naruto. He was on his knees, red, sinister Chakra was pouring off of him. It was flowing into the air forming a mass of energy what seemed to be solidifying into a form that the elder Shinobi there had not seen in over Twenty-five years.
The Kyuubi was freed from its prison, and it started to make its way over to the village. It was pandemonium in the village, the demons blood lust was sending the strongest of the ninja quivering to their knees.
In the forest outskirts the group of people where running to their Hokage, who was lying on the ground. Sakura got there first and was about to examine her friend, when Naruto's hand shot up and grabbed her wrist. His eyes opened to see his friends standing around him and he relaxed. Sakura's hands started to glow green as she examined him.
She said thickly, "you appear to be fine, Naruto."
He nodded his thanks and stood, turning to see the demon fox nearing the village. His eyes narrowed and he then called out to the toad sage, "Hey Kawazu, I need you to do something."
Kawazu made his way over. His eyes still had a hint of shock in them but there could mostly be seen the resolve of helping his friend. "Yes, Naruto-sempai?"
"I need you to check the seal for the fox's prison, this obviously was not meant to happen." Naruto said motioning to the fox that could still be seen over the trees.
Kawazu nodded and Naruto pulled up his shirt, Kawazu looked over the seal work for a moment before he spoke, his voice cracking slightly. "I-it is intact. You appear to still be a container, but at this point nothing it inside."
"Obviously," Naruto said still looking at the animal. "It lied to me, the Kyuubi lied. Somehow the other tailed spirits seemed to be limiting its power, and with them gone it had the power to simply 'walk out.'
Almost instantly his face was set in a firm grimace, "it's all my fault, I was used." Naruto turned to his friends, "I'm sorry. But this truly is something only I can correct." He walked over to his wife and pulled her into an embrace, the others wondering what he was talking about.
"Naruto-kun..." Hinata started but was interrupted when he kissed her. He held her for a moment longer, before leaning in and whispering something to her, something that caused her tears to start forming. He then let her go and vanished from the spot.
Hinata fell to her knees, she was sobbing and Sakura walked over to help her up. Hinata refused the help; instead she looked up at the pink-haired Sannin. Her tears where pouring down her face, "He S-said, t-to take c-c-care of our c-children, a-and that he'll a-always l-love me. T-that there is o-only one w-way to deal with i-it…" she broke down and was no longer able to speak.
Sakura now had tears in her eyes as she looked up, the others where looking down as the weeping woman.
Kakashi and Haishi where both thinking the same thing, 'he can't mean 'that' jutsu.'
All of them looked up at once, with the exception of Hinata, to see a gigantic toad suddenly appear in an explosion of smoke. The toad and the fox where glaring at each other, and they simultaneously charged.
The ground underfoot shook as the two massive beasts clashed; the sword of the Boss toad was driven into the shoulder of the fox. The fox had its tails wrapped around the boss summons, trying to crush the life from it.
There was soon a bright burst of light from the area, the fox had suddenly vanished. The toad remained for a moment after. Long enough for its tongue to reach up to the top of its head, wrap around something, before lowering that 'something' to the ground. The toad then disappeared in a burst of smoke.
The others all ran to the spot where the two massive beasts had just been. Hinata was supported by her father. When they got there she managed to get to her feet when she saw the still figure on the ground. Hinata ran over to her husband, Sakura did the same.
The medic immediately started checking her friend's vitals, she stopped after a few moments. She looked up at the dark haired woman, who was looking hopefully at her. Sakura slowly, disbelievingly, shook her head.
At this Hinata collapsed onto her husband's chest, her sobbing caused the most stoic in that group to shed tears.
Uzumaki Naruto, the Rokudaime Hokage, was dead.
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