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Chapter 21: Combined Willpower

Squaring off yet again wielders and shinobi began to fight. The Hokage's group was focusing on Sado, while the new group focused on Keigo. To say that they were making progress would be misinformed, as they weren't so much focusing on defeating Sado and Keigo, but rather distract them.

Kenji was letting his wounds heal while he waited for Naruto to wake up. Sitting on the sidelines while the senseis and Hokage fought their battle was leaving a bad taste in his mouth. 'If only we were stronger then they wouldn't be forced to fight them.' Kenji thought.

"Don't say that Kenji, we were doing our best, but your body was still tired from your match with Neji." Anguirus explained. "Having your tenketsu sealed off didn't really leave you in a perforable condition."

'You may be right, but I still don't like it!' Kenji stated.

"If anything we should be grateful that they even showed up, otherwise things could have gotten much worse."

'How much longer until my wounds are fully healed?' Kenji asked trying to change the subject.

"Give it a little bit longer and you should be good to go. Those pills though should be taken before you go back into the battle, otherwise you won't last that long out there."

'I guess I should try and wake up Naruto once you're done healing me. That way we can assist them, and allow Naruto to heal up a bit.'

"That won't be necessary."

'Why not?'

"Naruto is already beginning to subconsciously manipulate his chakra, which is allowing the Kyuubi to help heal his body on a much faster pace. Plus, considering that Godzilla also has a fast healing rate, Naruto should be good to go around that time."

'That sure is useful, it practically makes him unable to stay wounded for long, and I'm guessing there's no side effects to go with it, are there?'

"I wouldn't say that, there is always a risk when one is being healed by a Kaiju or a Biju. The body is healing yes but if the damage was severe or if the wounds were healed to fast, then there is the offset of the person having their life shortened."

'Oh, and I'm guessing in Naruto's case it's double the chance of that happening.'

"Naturally I would say yes, however, after learning about his clan's past from listening to what Zabuza was explaining across the last couple months, it appears as though Naruto is lucky."

'Lucky? Oh! The longlivity that all members of his clan has, as well as the large amount chakra!'

"Exactly, so in Naruto's current case he is looking at only losing a small part of his life that he could have lived to."

'But still the thought that Naruto will no longer live up to his natural lifespan isn't right.'

"The fact is that Naruto should be fine with only minimal lingering effects, if anything just be glad that he won't suffer from the effects of Godzilla's radiation."

'Radi-what?'

"Oh, that's right, I keep forgetting that people now a days aren't as aware of kaiju physiology. Then again people now a days are also much more durable than back then."

'How so?'

"Well to put it bluntly, humans aren't as squishy as they were back then."

'Did you say squishy?'

"Yep, it was one the best ways to explain it to you. Technically you're all still squishy, but not as bad as then."

'Ok, good to know…'

Grumbling could be heard coming from Kenji's side, and Kenji turned towards the source. Naruto was starting to come to, but Kenji knew the first thing that was going to happen and so he prepared himself.

Without warning Naruto jumped up and screamed at the top of his lungs, "MY BODY FEELS LIKE ITS ON FIRE!" It was quick and non-eventfully mainly because Naruto regained his senses and noticed that it wasn't so. "Oh, I'm not on fire. Thank goodness, I thought I was going to be cooked well-done."

"Well I guess you could say that you were fire, although I was knocked out for most of the duration." Kenji explained.

Looking over towards his left Naruto quickly realized that Kenji was alive sitting on the ground near where he was unconscious. "Kenji? I thought you died!" Naruto exclaimed.

"It seems not, but I guess you could say that I got lucky, although I don't know if you were though."

"What do you mean? I'm alive to right? Right?!" Naruto began to panic as he tried to see if he truly was dead or not.

"Yes you are, however, it seems as though you went on another rampage."

"Wait! I didn't hurt anybody did I?!"

"Nobody that didn't need to get their butt handed to them. You were mainly going after those two while I was unconscious, pushing them to the edge."

"So, did I beat either of them?"

"Look behind you."

Naruto turned and saw that both Keigo and Sado were still fighting, which made his curse their luck. At the same time, he took in the situation as he noticed that the senseis, the perverted sage, and the old man were all fighting them.

"Wait a minute, why are those two fighting them?" Naruto pointed towards Itachi and Kisame.

"From what I understand the blue skinned guy, Kisame, is an old 'acquaintance' of Zabuza's and Itachi, well, beats me."

"I wonder what even brought them here to Konoha, I guess it was because Itachi is Sasuke's older brother, and he wanted to visit his grave."

"Perhaps although I did overhear that they are a part of some organization, besides that your guess is as good as mine." Kenji added. It was then that Kenji remembered what he need to do. "Naruto come here real quick."

"Ok, what's up?" Naruto asked as walked over to Kenji who was now up on his feet again.

"Zabuza gave me this pouch with two pills in it for both of us to use." Kenji began.

"Pills? Why pills?"

"Think of them as soldier pills but for wielders like us."

"Wait, those pills can restore our kaiju energy?!"

"Yes, however, they are not going to be as affective due to them being a generic kind of pill."

"What do you mean by generic?"

"Basically they'll help us when we fight, however, they will not restore our energy by much nor for that long. They weren't made specifically for both of us, so the effects aren't as great as when those guys took theirs."

"Wait, they had pills to?!"

"Yeah, specifically made for them, and that's why they their pretty much back up to full strength again."

"Well then let's take them now and go and help out the others as fast as possible!"

"I'm afraid that we're going to have to wait Naruto."

"WHY!?" Naruto yelled.

"We need to heal a little bit longer and Anguirus said that if we take them now as we are it would be completely pointless unless we heal and allow our kaiju energy to recirculate again." Kenji explained making Naruto stand down as he realized the reasoning behind it. "I don't like it either Naruto, but the Hokage and the others are already aware of it and that is why they are fighting right now, so that they can buy us enough time."

Finally realizing that he still needed to heal after taking another look at himself, Naruto agreed that they should wait until they were back up to full strength. Looking back towards the others, Naruto couldn't help but worry for the everyone fighting for them. "But for how much longer?"

The area of fighting was intense with debris and jutsus being blown in every direction. The two groups, though separated, were managing to keep Keigo and Sado separated. Jiraiya, Zabuza, Kakashi, Itachi, and Kisame were managing to push Keigo away, but they were still not managing to land any major hits.

"It seems that you have managed to separate us from the others." Keigo stated nonchalantly. "Although you're still managing to pester me a lot longer for some reason. The old goat that joined you must really be good to be able to change the outcome so well."

"OLD GOAT?!" Jiraiya was furious as he wasn't nearly as old as his sensei, who to him was an old goat. "You got a lot of nerve kid talking to a sannin like that!"

"You mean one of those old prunes that managed to stay alive when fighting a guy on an overgrown salamander? Please as if that alone is praiseworthy enough for me to acknowledge your old ass!" Keigo stated.

"You know there's a saying called 'respecting your elders' that I think you should take to heart." Jiraiya warned.

"Oh, and why so?" Keigo asked not to worried of whatever would come next.

Suddenly Jiraiya shunshined in front of Keigo with a completed rasengan in hand. "Take this, Rasengan!" Jiraiya yelled as he connected the jutsu with Keigo setting it off into a large spherical explosion.

"Damn, so this is the power of a sannin, kind of glad we ain't fighting him, right Itachi?" Kisame asked.

"This isn't even his full power, so to put it in brief words, I agree, but also due to the fact that we are already outnumbered." Itachi stated as he referred to the fact that besides Jiraiya there was still Kakashi and Zabuza.

"Now you remember the plan right?" Zabuza asked them.

"Crystal clear, and might I add that this plan seems almost too crazy." Kisame stated.

"Trust me when I say that this plan should work, so long as you two go along with it." Kakashi explained.

"And if we don't?" Itachi asked.

"Well you really don't have room to question that, especially considering where you're at right now and that your 'objective' is no longer viable for you to obtain without dying." Kakashi stated.

"Is that a threat Kakashi?" Itachi questioned.

"Nope, it's the truth and besides I'm not going after the brat anymore anyway, not so long as he carries Nobu-sama's will." Kisame clarified receiving an almost surprised look from Itachi.

"If I didn't know any better Kisame, I'd say that you're getting soft." Zabuza chuckled.

"Eh, shut up you dumbass, you know full well that my loyalty was strictly towards Nobu-sama, and not even Kiri was held close to him." Kisame retorted.

"Just making sure is all." Zabuza chuckled as he hoisted his sword up and brought it down for a vertical slash.

Keigo deflected it and was still surprised that Kubikiribōchō had managed to stay together even though earlier it had cracks and dings littering all across the blade. "What an annoyance, first fishcake's sword steals energy, and yours can somehow restore itself, talk about annoying!" Keigo retorted.

"Don't feel so bad, it would have been a lot worse if the other five blades were here as well." Kisame chuckled as he stole some more of Keigo's energy.

"I don't even get why your stealing my energy, you can't use it, so why the hell are you even bothering to steal it?" Keigo questioned as he kicked Kisame away and dodge a giant fireball that was heading towards him.

"Heh, you wanna know, but you know what I'm not telling!" Kisame practically laughed causing Keigo to frown in annoyance.

"So how much longer do you think we got?" Kakashi asked the two swordsman.

"Give it about a few minutes and then they'll be good to go." Kisame answered.

"You better be right, because the last time we tried this in fight like this you messed up, and I nearly lost my arm!" Zabuza bluntly stated to the annoyance of Kisame.

"Well if you let me concentrate then there won't be a repeat!" Kisame shouted.

"You mind telling me what the plan is?" Jiraiya asked hoping to get a clue of what he should be doing.

"We just need to buy some more time for Naruto and Kenji." Kakashi answered.

"And what exactly are they talking about specifically?" Jiraiya indicated towards the yelling being exchanged between the two swordsman.

"It seems that they have experienced similar circumstances and that Kisame had done a technique of sorts incorrectly in the past." Itachi stated.

"Basically we just need you to help us by time for whatever they have planned and to be ready when Naruto and Kenji get back out here." Kakashi explained.

"Got it!" Jiraiya replied as he advanced towards Keigo, while at the same time forming a rasengan in his right hand.

Seeing the sannin charging, Keigo turned to face him but to his surprise he suddenly felt a great amount of pressure originating from his right cheek. The only thing that confirmed that he was hit was the sound of a loud and seemingly annoying voice. "Dynamic entry!" Guy yelled out sending Keigo into Jiraiya direction.

The sudden shock of surprise on Keigo's face was the moment Jiraiya needed as he landed the rasengan on the wielder sending him flying. "Good job guy, although I thought you were back at the stadium?" Kakashi wondered as his rival looked over to him and grinned.

"Why Kakashi, you didn't think that your eternal rival would sit this one out did you?" Guy started receiving a 'if you say so' look from Kakashi. "Besides there is no one there that requires my attention anymore."

"What about the sand shinobi there? Did you just let them go off and leave?" Zabuza asked him. Guys just smirked as he looked past them indicating there was someone behind them.

Turning around they were surprised to see the sand shinobi there. "Why haven't any of you left the village already, your free to go." Kakashi stated to which the sand shinobi acknowledged.

"That is true, however, due to being tricked by Orochimaru and the chaos that was unleashed because of him we feel that it is in our part to assist Konoha with this crisis." Baki explained. "Besides were not the only ones that have shown up either."

Looking around the group noticed that many Konoha shinobi have gathered as well as the other sand shinobi that were fighting around the village. Taking note of this they nearly missed Haku appearing besides Zabuza.

"Zabuza-sama, I have just finished assisting in the movement of the hospital patients and have decided to come and help." Haku stated to which Zabuza smirked.

"Well I'm glad you came but too bad you can't fight as great as you could with that broken arm." Zabuza pointed out. Haku didn't deter from the statement, but rather made some senbon appear and take a stance. "That's right Haku, even we are beaten and battered we're still going to kick some ass!"

With Sarutobi's group, all of them were quite surprised at the turnout of how many shinobi showed up to assist them. "Talk about a crowd, makes you wonder if both sides even fought each other if they're willing to fight together." Asuma pointed out.

Quickly noticing a certain pineapple head as well as the others, Asuma smirked seeing that his, Kurenai's, and the rest of the genin were also there amongst the crowd. "Why are they here?! Don't they know how dangerous this area is?!" Kurenai demanded as she began to worry about the genin.

"This is kind of like thirteen years ago, so I can imagine why they would want to be here." Asuma stated. Realizing what he was referring to Kurenai couldn't help but think back to that time. "Although I wouldn't mind getting some help you know."

"That's why we're here." A man replied as three men appeared right next to them.

"Inoichi, Shikaku, Choza! Glad you could make it!" Sarutobi thanked them as they got ready to go against their opponent.

"So this is one of the guys who both disrupted the exams and blew a hole in the middle of our village." Shikaku stated with a faint hint of resentment.

"On the contrary, I'm not the one who blew up a hole in the middle of your village. That would be the idiot over there who doesn't understand the words 'self-control'." Sado mentioned. "Although I will say that I was not expecting this."

Obviously indicating to the massive crowd of shinobi that surrounded them along the crater. Sado though didn't reveal any hint of being worried, as he remained calm, if not to calm. "You seem rather calm considering what is about to happen." Sarutobi mentioned.

"Considering I'm in the middle of a shinobi village with two distinct shinobi forces on all sides wanting to kill me and my partner I guess you could say that this isn't normal." Sado sighed as he began rolling his shoulders causing his carapace to tighten up. "It's been a while since I've fought a force of this magnitude, so please forgive me if I'm a little rusty."

The many shinobi were ready to pounce at that statement causing Sarutobi to go into Hokage mode. "All forces do not engage the targets, they are bijuu level threats and must only be dealt with from a far!" He yelled out causing the crowd to think twice about advancing. "Upon my signal you will unleash range attacks only!"

"If you think that some measly shinobi techniques could do me or the idiot in your obviously mistaken." Sado stated as he charged up his electricity.

Seeing this Sarutobi ordered everyone to scatter and watch out for the electricity bolts before they were fired. The bolts raced across the crater as they sought out and struck shinobi on both sides that were unfortunate enough to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Watching this Kenji was surprised when a bolt just barely missed him and Naruto causing the hairs on the back of their necks to stand up. "That almost hit us!" Naruto yelled out as he clutched his chest and began to steady his breathing.

Kenji looked at this and began to worry. "Naruto are you alright?!" Kenji asked as he saw a painful look on Naruto's face.

"Yeah, I guess whatever happened to me has really done some damage huh?" Naruto joked as he waited for the pain to pass.

"Kenji, there is something wrong with the pills that Zabuza and fish-face gave us." Anguirurs stated getting Kenji's attention.

'What's the problem?!" Kenji quickly asked to find out what it was.

"I'm not sensing any power coming from them, in fact they're empty!"

'Empty?! Then why did they give us these pills if they're empty?!'

"Either they didn't know because they can't sense Kaiju energy or they just thought that because that they've always just carried them in the past that they would already have energy in them!"

'You mean Naruto and I can't restore our energy? Then how are we suppose to fight without our powers?!' Kenji was practically yelling internally. The fact that the pills wouldn't be able to restore their energy meant that they couldn't assist in the fight. And if they couldn't help then all of these people who showed could quite possibly die because they weren't able to fight!

Seeing Kenji's change of expression Naruto took it as he was talking to Anguirus, and whatever it was about it wasn't pleasant. 'I guess you wouldn't know why he would be upset would you Godzilla?'

"Anguirus probably just realized that there's no energy in the pills to help you recover our powers faster." Godzilla stated nonchalantly.

'WHAT?!'

"Those pills are different than the normal pills wielders use, so obviously they wont contain any energy within them."

'Then how are they suppose to help?'

"Simple, you must wait for Kisame to supply the pills."

'Come again?!'

"His sword can steal an opponents chakra and give its wielder the chakra to make it their own, that is the regular circumstance. However, when Kaiju energy is stolen the wielder cannot absorb the energy, but rather that energy can be transferred into items such as those pills, which when taken by a Kaiju wielder, supplies them with the stolen energy converted into their own."

'Can you repeat please.'

"He can put energy in the pills for you to take!" Godzilla yelled at his wielder.

'You should have said that from the beginning! And why did you have to yell at me?!'

"I yelled at you because of that thick head of yours doesn't want to understand anything longer than a single sentence, and part of that I blame on lack of instruction from your teachers, and on you for not trying to understand more than just being a shinobi!"

'I wanted to be a shinobi not a stupid lawyer or something!'

"Ugh, just wait till the pills are ready and then take them."

'You seem to want to change the subject.'

"Partly because I have a headache right now, and your not the only one still trying to recover from that incident."

'Wait what?!'

"Don't worry just focus on the situation and I'll tell you later."

'Oh, ok.'

Looking over towards Kenji it was still clear that he thought that the pills were still useless. "Hey Kenji, don't worry about the pills right now, they'll be good to go soon." Naruto stated. Kenji was taken back as he was not expecting Naruto to know what he was talking about with Anguirus.

"How did-" Kenji started before another explosion picked up some debris causing them to block their heads from any flying rocks and possibly boulders.

"If your wondering how I knew it was because Godzilla told me that Anguirus would have noticed that the pills were missing something." Naruto clarified.

"So we're suppose to wait? Is that it?" Kenji asked.

"Well I'm not moving, but that's mainly because I still feel the pain from when my legs got blown up." Naruto stated causing Kenji to smirk.

"That's right you went and blew yourself up."

"Yeah, yeah whatever now if you excuse me I think its-" Naruto stopped as a bolt of electricity raced across the crater and towards them. Seeing the bolt but being unable to move the two couldn't help but realize the situation they were in.

Just as the bolt had reached them a wall of sand had intercepted the bolt and took the sheer force of the bolt before falling to the ground. "Wait a minute sand, but that would mean..." Kenji started before turning in the direction that he noticed the sand was flowing towards.

"Don't worry about the electricity, I will stop them from touching you." Garaa stated as he stood guard over them.

"Well, we don't mind you protecting us and all, but why are you protecting us?" Kenji asked.

"Naruto Uzumaki." Garaa started with addressing the white headed genin on the ground. "You taught me something from our match earlier, by protecting those close to me I am able to stand here right now and ensure that they are protected."

"Oh, so you did take my advice, cool! I bet you feel better now than you did earlier too." Naruto replied receiving a grin from Garaa.

"Your right, for the first time in a long time, I feel stronger than ever, while at the same time I feel as though I could do anything if those I care about are behind me." Garaa explained.

"Glad to hear!" Naruto stated. "Then allow me to hand you a hand of friendship then, of course after all of this is over with that is." Garaa was surprised at this at first, however, he did figure that it was in Naruto's character to do such a thing and graciously accepted it.

"So then if your here I wonder if everyone else is to?" Kenji wondered aloud getting the same questioning look from Naruto.

Elsewhere the remaining genin were trying to find Naruto and Kenji, but the crowd was making hard to tell where they were because of the constant bolts of electricity were keeping everyone on their toes. "Hey, can either of you see them?" Ino asked as she pushed through the crowd.

"Nope, but I can tell you that this is one big crater that's for sure." Shikamaru lazily replied as he looked onward at the battlefield.

"What about you Kiba, can you pick up their scent?" Sakura asked him.

"Not a chance their scent along with all these people's is everywhere, which makes it hard for me to pinpoint their exact location.

Looking over at the others who were just making their way out of the crowd Sakura was wondering where her other teammates were at. "Hinata can you see anything with your Byakugan?" She asked the girl next to her.

"I think I see them on the far left side of the crater from where we're at, but it's hard to say considering the chakra concentration is so low and the energy from those electricity bolts are making it hard as well." Hinata explained though stuttering at the same time.

"They are there, I can see them very easily." Neji stated. This broke some of Hinata's self-esteem, while also gaining the attention of all the other genin of his presence.

"Why are you even here, earlier you were acting all high and mighty." Ino started. "What did it take getting you ass kicked by Kenji to finally drive some sense into your head or something?"

"I will admit that my earlier behavior was not very presentable, but as to say that I've changed my perception of the world was partly due to Kenji beating me in that match." Neji explained.

"So what you want to kiss and make-up is all?!" Ino questioned him as to force an answer out of him.

Feeling the pressure emanating from Ino's questioning Neji decided it was best to answer truly. "From how I understand the situation, Kenji and Naruto went after the two shinobi down there and were in need of assistance. Now knowing that both of them have been injured and that they are targets I came to help them." Neji explained.

"So since you've had a change in heart, mind pointing us in the direction of both Naruto and Kenji?" Kiba asked, which Neji then directed them to follow him as they made their way towards their comrades.

Within the crater, events were transpiring out of control as Sado erupted it with electricity surprising everyone. The crackling and whipping of the bolts in the air screamed as though they were alive. Sado had turned the area into a light show as bolts went in all directions hitting many shinobi and even Sarutobi and the others who were fighting. This also included Keigo, who once shocked was annoyed.

"Hey quit zapping in my direction you over sized bug zapper, I'm killing here!" Keigo yelled.

"If your in the way then that's on you, I intend to deal with these shinobi now not later! If you have a problem with it then get out of the way!" Sado stated as he gave him the ultimatum.

"What an annoyance, it looks like I'm going airborne for awhile, if I see your charred corpses I'll make sure to use them for my next 'masterpiece'." Keigo sadistically smiled at them before soring high into the air away from everyone.

"Dammit! He's getting away and I was nearly done collecting energy!" Kisame cursed as he then rushed over towards Sado.

"Kisame you idiot what do you think your doing?!" Zabuza yelled.

"What do you think there is only one other wielder with most of their energy around here and he's shooting up the crater with electricity!" Kisame answered while rushing towards the other group.

"That crazy bastard is going to kill himself!"Zabuza swore as he followed suit.

"We should do the same, if Kisame is almost done then we should assist him!" Itachi stated. The group then headed towards Sarutobi's group which was trying their best to try and stop Sado.

"Inoichi! Take control already!" Choza yelled towards his childhood friend.

"I can't! There is something blocking me from interfacing with his subconciousness!" Inoichi stated.

"Shikaku!" Sarutobi ordered. The man then went through a hand sign and performed the shadow possession jutsu, which began making its way towards Sado. "Attention all shinobi prepare for the offensive! All Nara clansman assist with subduing the one in the crater. Inazuka and Aburame clans as well as those with ranged ninjutsu take care of the other one!" The Konoha shinobi quickly got ready as they took their positions and locked onto their targets.

"All wind jutsu users focus on the one in the crater, we need to get rid of those bolts!" Baki exclaimed. "All those who have ranged weapons or ninjutsu will assist with the one in the sky, those who have neither with focus assisting with those who are injured!" All of the Sand Shinobi quickly did the same as the Konoha shinobi and took positions and locked their eyes on their targets.

"Heh heh, looks like I'll get to use crow after all!" Kankuro chuckled as he took his puppet out and prepared to go after his target. Temari was with all of those who were going to assist in dealing with the lighting bolts and help with the counteroffensive.

"ALL KONOHA SHINOBI/ATTENTION ALL SUNA SHINOBI" Sarutobi and Baki both exclaimed. "COMENCE THE ATTACK/ATTACK WITH EVERYTHING!"

With the orders given the shinobi rallied and began the counteroffensive. The Nara clan had combined their shadow possession jutsus and successfully managed to hold Sado in place while the Suna shinobi began counteracting the bolts with wind ninjutsu. This had greatly surprised Sado as he had no idea of such techniques that could hold a wielder such as him or even stop his bolts.

"This is impossible! Mere shinobi cannot hope to defeat a wielder!" Sado exclaimed as he tried to break free of his restraints, although the Nara clan was persevering and held tight.

At the same time the Inazuka clan unleashed many 'Getsuga' and headed towards Keigo who was now trying to dodge getting hit. "Damn mutts! Get out of my air space!" Keigo yelled as he attempted to 'swat' them away only to find out that there were hundred of insects swarming his body. "What the hell?!"

With the Konoha shinobi distracting Keigo, the Suna Shinobi began unleashing a bombardment of explosive kunai and ranged ninjutsu just at the same time as the Konoha shinobi. The result was the lighting of the sky and an angry Keigo getting bombarded by explosives. Seeing the opportunity he was looking for as Kankuro sent crow flying towards Keigo.

The puppet grabbing hold of the unsuspecting wielder drove the teen down to earth where the impact created a small mushroom cloud. The bombardment soon changed course as it was now directed at the spot at which Keigo was driven towards.

Watching the events transpire Naruto and Kenji couldn't believe the amount of effort and sheer will that was being directed by all of these people. "Is this how you think the Shinobi World Wars were like?" Naruto asked to either of the two.

"If not, then it's probably not to far off." Kenji answered.

"This combined force, no, this combined willpower will be the foundation of future involvements between the Leaf and Sand." Garaa stated.

"What do you mean by that?" Naruto asked him.

"This event, where both Konoha and Suna fought a common enemy in order for the survival of one's ally shows the willingness and resolve both villages have when fighting for the other." Garaa explained.

"So your saying that because both Konoha and Suna are fighting together that means that they are building trust?" Naruto asked to make sure that he was understanding correctly.

"More or less. The fact that men are dying trying to take down a common enemy forms a bond if you will." A voice spoke up behind them revealing the other genin. The one who spoke was none other than Shikamaru as he took a seat on a rock nearby.

"Guys what are you doing here?" Naruto asked.

"Idiot! What do you mean by 'what are you doing here', where here to support you incase you need help!" Sakura yelled at her teammate. "Afterall we're all friends here!"

It was then that the genin quickly took notice of Garaa's presence who was mostly silent up until this point. "Wait, what is he doing here?!" Kiba spat, to which Naruto frowned and quickly took up a defensive stance for Garaa.

"He's had a change of heart. In fact he practically saved both mine and Kenji's lives!" Naruto attested.

"I can vouch for that since I'm still alive over here." Kenji stated appearing rather comically behind Naruto. Most of the genin, including Garaa, were quite surprised at this turn around, although Shikamaru just sighed.

"Well, it certainly isn't the first 'change of heart' that has happened today. In fact I kind of regret not skipping the exams right about now." Shikamaru sighed resulting with Ino exploding about representing Team 10 and all. "However, I would have been dragged in about this point anyway, so what's up with you two just sitting here?"

"Well Naruto, for one thing, blew himself up and still needs to heal after another...'incident'." Kenji tried to state for a lack for better terms. The group, knowing full well how the last one went, was hesitant to ask questions regarding said "incident".

"So, wait you blew yourself up?" Choji asked trying to change the subject.

"NO! One of the guys we were fighting caused an explosion that blew up most of my leg muscles and I was forced wait while they were being restored." Naruto clarified. Those who were listening or rather were able to hear him over the explosions in the background grimaced at the thought of that happening to him.

"How are you not in pain right now?!" Ino asked him.

"Who said I wasn't? I had most of my legs blown off and I'm not standing up because of it." Naruto answered rather annoyed at the fact that Ino asked him the question.

"Well hell if I know if you would feel pain or not! You have like two things inside of you that can heal you or something!" Ino responded. Garaa took note of that statement as he knew about Naruto having a bijuu because of Shukaku, but apparently Naruto had something else.

"Doesn't stop the pain actually, in fact it makes it worse!" Naruto stated.

"How could it make it worse?!" Ino asked out of spite and anger.

"The fact that wielders don't feel pain usually after a wound is healed while using their Kaiju's power has a rather nasty side-effect of causing the wielder extreme pain from all the collective wounds that were both healed and not healed after the power drops." Kenji explained.

"Well I didn't know that nor the extent of your condition from fighting this long!" Ino stated ending the argument then and there.

"You call yourselves wielders, but what are wielders?" Garaa asked both Naruto and Kenji in hopes of understanding the situation.

"Oh, yeah forgot that you didn't understand what were just talking about, sorry." Naruto apologized before letting Kenji go and explain what they are.

"Wielders, like Naruto and I as well as those down there in the crater, are people with Kaiju held within them." Kenji started. "Now a Kaiju is a being of catastrophe, benevolence, or misfortune depending on which one we are talking about."

"Are they like the biju then?" Garaa asked.

"No, in fact from what we know they are ancient from before there was chakra, supposedly many were spawns of ancient civilizations or guardians of the earth. Also they were and still are bigger than the biju." Kenji answered.

"How much bigger exactly?" Garaa questioned, and from the looks of it the others were interested to.

"They differ in size, how big are the biju again?" Kenji asked.

"The biggest one is only around 30-40m tall, the tails don't count obviously." Shikamaru answered.

"Naruto how big is Godzilla after all he is considered the strongest?" Kenji directed towards Naruto who then began to concentrate to find out the answer from the big guy himself.

"He said he's around 150m tall, also he was questioning why I would ask that question and thought I was making fun of his size or something." Naruto answered though still puzzled as to why his kaiju would think of something like that.

"There you have it." Kenji stated as he then noticed that the explosions were dying down. "Did they finally drive them off?"

"Hey Garaa can you lower the sand shield you put up." Naruto asked his new friend who did just that, and they saw why the explosions had stopped.

"Damn it! We're all out of explosive kunai!" a random shinobi yelled out, while other shinobi stated the same thing.

Looking down they notice that Sado was being restrained and Kisame was moving onto him rather quickly. "Hey what is that fish guy doing?" Naruto questioned as he watched Kisame dodge bolts of electricity. Following closely behind him was Zabuza and the others.

"Kisame what are you doing, I know the situation calls for you to try and steal as much energy as possible but are you nuts?!" Zabuza yelled out to his fellow swordsman. "Your practically throwing caution to the wind!"

"Shut up! I know what I'm doing and if I die in the process so be it, as if I care about my own well being!" Kisame yelled back as he jumped up into the air above Sado, who had quickly noticed him. "As far as I'm concerned caution can kiss my ass!" Sado was unable to do anything as Kisame brought down his sword stealing as much energy that he needed.

Kisame grinned as he sensed that the amount of energy he had just stolen was efficient enough to do what was needed. Sado, still bound by shadows, watched how Kisame seemingly grin at the realization of the quantity of energy he had just stolen. However, Sado saw something that Kisame didn't see. It was quick, seemingly unseen.

The first thing Kisame noticed after stealing the energy was a sensation coming from his left side. Looking at the side he noticed that it was practically cut open, and that's when he noticed Keigo seemingly floating behind him as time slowed down. Then the pain reached his brain as he succumbed the overwhelming feeling.

"KISAME!" Zabuza yelled out as he watched his former comrade fall. Feeling the unadulterated anger surfacing Zabuza charged Keigo with his blade held back for a horizontal slash. Keigo brought up one of his sickle arms to block the blade.

"No need to get angry about fishcake, he had it coming once he started stealing energy." Keigo stated as though making light of what had just happened.

"I'll kill you!" Zabuza threatened as he began to use all of his power and began to push him back. This surprised Keigo as he watched the blade that Zabuza was using glow a blood red color. Then Zabuza retracted his blade and brought it back as the same horizontal slash as before, although this time it carried far greater power. The force itself sent Keigo flying in another direction allowing Zabuza to reach Kisame. "Kisame! You bastard, you had better be alive!"

At first Kisame didn't responded, but then a groan was let out. "You idiot let me go before someone gets the wrong idea." Kisame groaned as he reached for his sword. Zabuza helped him grab it but noticed Sado was firing a bolt at them, so he held out his sword to try and block it. To his surprise a wall of sand sheided them.

Looking over towards the group of genin Zabuza noticed that garaa had retracted the sand that was used to shield the two swordsman. "Well it looks like your lucky day." Zabuza stated as he shunshined over towards the genin. "Alright hand over the pills!"

Doing as they were told Kenji handed over the pills to Zabuza, who handed them to Kisame. Taking his Samehada in hand Kisame flew through the hand signs and everyone watched as energy transferred from the sword to the pills. "Now listen good brats, the amount of energy I'm giving you will only last a few minutes, so best make it count!" Kisame explained as he finished the transfer.

The transfer, now complete, revealed two glowing pills. "Woah, their glowing!" Naruto stated.

"Take the pills, and give them hell!" Zabuza instructed as he took the pills and threw them at Naruto and Kenji.

Taking one pill each Naruto and Kenji looked at them before standing up. Both of them were battered, bloodied, and exhausted, however, both of them held the resolve that spoke enough on its own. Taking their pill, both of them swallowed them whole and instantly felt power wash over them. It was like an indescribable sensation, but both could agree that they felt their powers returning.

This power recharge wasn't unnoticeable as both shinobi and wielders took notice of the energy spike coming from the Naruto and Kenji. "Hey Kenji! Let's kick their asses!" Naruto suggested to which Kenji agreed to before both of them were surrounded by a large amount of energy.

"LET'S GO GODZILLA/ANGUIRUS!" They both yelled as they were surrounded by an energy veil each that sent forceful winds that caused many close by to shield their eyes. Keigo had reached Sado, who was now released due to the Nara losing their concentration.

Sarutobi taking notice of the energy charge quickly needed to inform the shinobi of what they needed to do. "All shinobi! Do not engage the two within those energy veils!" He announced. "They will take care of these two, just support them from a distance, and any shinobi inside the crater exit immediately!" As ordered those within the crater quickly got out, this included the other genin.

"What is this power?!" Neji questioned.

"Naruto and Kenji are using their kaiju powers! That means their going to go and fight those two again!" Sakura answered getting a surprised look from Neji.

'This power! No wonder Shukaku was terrified of it, this power alone is almost that of a biju in comparison!' Garaa thought to himself.

"Damn, now it looks like the situation is starting to get out of hand!" Sado stated.

Keigo had finally taken notice of Kisame practically giving him a shit eating grin, and that's when realization hit. "That cheeky bastard, he stole our energy to get them back up." Keigo stated rather slowly and ever so ever pissed.

With the energy veil dying down it was made clear who now stood on the opposing side for the two rogue wielders. Standing there staring down at the two foes, Naruto and Kenji, now in stage 2, stood there ready to fight one last time. "Hey, you dumbasses!" Naruto yelled. "I hope your ready for a kaiju style beat down, because its about to be like destroy all monsters!"

"Oh, and whose going to bring such a 'beat down', you?" Sado taunted knowing full well what was about to happen.

"Hey! Don't try and steal my kill 'Roach'! The lizard is mine, you can have the armadillo!" Keigo exclaimed as he pointed towards Kenji, who was still annoyed at the nickname that he had given Anguirus.

"Hmph, very well, but this time no fun and games until we have him!" Sado expressed, Keigo just grinned as he crouched and brought his arms up into an 'X'.

"Trust me, I'll make sure of it this time." Keigo replied.

"So same person we were fighting before, but with a bit of a twist?" Naruto asked Kenji.

"Yeah, a big twist." Kenji answered. "You ready?"

"Yeah!" Naruto replied quickly as Kenji and Naruto took a respective stance.

Within seconds Keigo was charging the two with full intent of finishing them both, but was surprised when Naruto intersected him. The two semi-collided and Keigo attempted to go airborne, however, right as he was going into the air Naruto used his enhanced speed to jump up and grab Keigo. With Keigo in his hands Naruto threw him into the ground.

Sado watching was about to blast Naruto with a bolt of electricity, but was met with Kenji's fist to his left cheek. The sudden contact stunned the wielder as he registered what happened. Following up his punch, Kenji brought his right leg up and kicked Sado in the side causing him to step back a few feet before attempting a heavy strike with his left drill arm.

Bringing his arm down to strike Kenji, Sado was instead met with a tackle from Naruto who shoved him to the ground before delivering a strong punch. "Don't you dare turn your back on me PUNY KING!" Keigo yelled as he raced towards Naruto only to be stopped by Kenji's right fist. Having swapped opponents Naruto took the advantage to lay into Sado, who by now was just trying to get back on his feet.

Naruto continued unleashing blow after blow on Sado, but eventually was forced to jump when Sado unleashed a torrent of electricity up at him, which went into the sky. The sudden burst of electricity along with massive amounts of power had generated a storm front as the weather conditions began shifting. Lightning crackled as the storm raged. "Making me waste so much energy, but considering you are the wielder of the 'King of the Monsters' gives me a reason to unleash everything I got!" Sado stated as lightning roared in the sky above.

Keigo looked and growled at the sight of Sado fighting Naruto, especially since he was his opponent before the two switched. "That bastard gets to fight the kid, while I'm stuck with this nobody wielder!" Keigo expressed his anger as he dodged Kenji. Bringing down a sickle arm he was taken back when instead Kenji twisted his body so his hard and spiked carapace took the blunt of the attack. Then using his tail he tripped Keigo and then turned to deliver a blow to Keigo's side. The hit forced Keigo on the ground where Kenji proceed to wail on him.

Anger was rising as Keigo bursted up and slashed Kenji's chest before grappling him and flying up into the air. Using the grapples that held Kenji, Keigo launched kenji into the air before charging his eye laser.

Seeing Kenji in a bind, any and all Shinobi that could fired ninjutsu at Keigo forcing him to loose his concentration. The Naras also attempted to recapture Sado, but everytime they were close Sado sent lightning towards them by directing the bolts over towards them.

Kisame and Zabuza were out of the crater now and watching the fight as a couple medical shinobi healed Kisame's wounds against his wishes. "Dammit I'm fine!" Kisame protested. Itachi and Kakashi were now arriving at their location with four large scrolls.

"Here we got the scrolls ready, all we need to do now is set up and perform the jutsu." Kakashi stated to which both Kisame and Zabuza grinned. Both of them grabbed one of the large scrolls and looked them over.

"I see the Uzumaki skills in Funijutsu is still in the bloodline." Kisame retorted.

"Yeah, we should be grateful of such a gift, especially in this situation." Zabuza replied back.

"We each need to take a position at different points around the crater in order for this to work though." Kakashi explained.

"There wont be anything to worry about so long as you and Uchiha over there can copy the hand signs." Zabuza stated.

"You wont have to worry about me Zabuza, so much as you should worry about whether or not you have the endurance to perform such a jutsu." Itachi replied to his statement.

"Well if we're all set then I guess let's do this!" Kisame announced as he pushed the medics aside and got back up. "You guys will have to help me when I perform the jutsu in case my side opens back up." The medics next to him understood as they helped him over to his designated spot, and while the others made way to their own.

Naruto dodged another bolt of electricity and charged his way towards Sado only to stop because of lightning striking in front of him. 'Damn, that was close!' Naruto thought.

"Naruto there is only one way your going to beat him and that's by utilizing my atomic breath!" Godzilla explained to him.

'How do I use it? Because the only time I've used it was whenever I was on a rampage!' Naruto asked.

"Concentrate the flow of energy in your body! Breath in and build up the power in one place, then release it like you release the air you breath out!" Godzilla explained.

Taking those instruction into consideration Naruto maneuvered around the battlefield and got a good amount of distance away to attempt his first breath. 'Breath in!' Naruto thought as he breathed in and began building up his power in one location with his body. The dorsal fins on his back began to glow as energy began to illuminate from the back of his throat.

Sado quickly reacted by sending lightning and electricity bolts alike flying towards him forcing Naruto to dodge. The fact that he had lost his concentration meant that his breath was canceled. Trying again, Naruto was forced to dodge, although this time he was forced to keep moving on his feet. "Dammit! I need an opening!" Naruto shouted.

"Then all you had to do was ask!" Naruto heard a voice yell as he turned and noticed Zabuza with one of his large scrolls.

"HEY WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH THAT?!" Naruto demanded.

"Giving you the opportunity to fight back on even footing!" Kisame yelled from the opposite side. It was then that Naruto noticed that Zabuza, Kakashi, Itachi, and Kisame were all set up at four symmetric locations along the crater, each one with one of his large scrolls. They soon began to race through the hand signs as they laid the scrolls open.

Once completed they all yelled, "Water Style: Grand Raging River Force!" On command large amounts of water spewed from the scrolls into the crater racing towards its center. Kenji quickly reacted by constructing a few skyward pillars for him to stand on. Keigo took the air while Sado leapt for the debris from earlier that was being carried by the great water surge heading his way. Naruto remained where he stood and took the surge full force as he began to swiftly move about through the water that now turned the crater into a small lake.

"To think they had this planned so far ahead?!" Sado blurted out as he tried to keep his footing on the rocking boulder. Kenji looking over seeing Sado across from him looked towards where Naruto and nodded towards him, signaling another swap.

"Zabuza-sensei, Naruto will need assistance in reaching the flying one!" Kenji yelled at his instructor who smirked.

"Tell him he better asking me directly for any kind of help in the future next time!" Zabuza replied. "Kakashi, we're going to repeat the training exercise!"

Understanding what he meant Kakashi then shifted into another pair of hand signs at the same time as Zabuza. Looking at the hand signs Itachi copied them, while Kisame laughed at knowing what they were about to do.

"Hey, shitty brat! Time to fight a flying dragon!" Kisame yelled as they completed the hand signs initiating the jutsu.

"Water Style: Water Hydra Jutsu!" All four yelled as dozens of water dragon heads erupted from the water encircling the air above the crater and attempted to hit Keigo. Noticing the darkened silhouette swimming up one of the middle heads, they knew that this was a perfect strategy for dealing with the flying one.

Sado also noticing was going to stop it, but was intercepted by Kenji who now stood in his way. "Your rather persistent to die so young." Sado mentioned as he fired a bolt that was blocked by a skyward pillar.

"Just trying to buy my partner enough time to beat yours!" Kenji stated as he engaged Sado.

Keigo was trying to figure out their endgame, but he soon found out when Naruto bursted out of one of the water dragons and punched him so hard that Keigo nearly had his neck snapped! Quickly disappearing and reappearing behind Naruto, Keigo charged up a beam and fired at Naruto, only that a water dragon head picked him up and moved him out of the way.

"Damn you!" Keigo yelled as he began to rapidly fire beams after beams at any and all water dragon heads he saw. The result was mostly the water dragons were replaced and for Keigo to loose track of Naruto after he would emerge and hit him before retreating.

Down below Kenji and Sado clashed as the two had collided and were trying to force the other back. The situation escalated when lightning was racing towards Kenji, but thankfully a random wind ninjutsu shinobi saved him from being struck. "Give up! You don't have that much longer left based on how fast your power is decreasing." Sado suggested as he pushed Kenji back further. "I will say that this last attempt though bold, hasn't been anymore successful than the last attempt, so what makes you think you can win?"

"Well you see everyone here is pretty much backing us up, so knowing that gives us the strength to keep on fighting!" Kenji stated.

"Just because those shinobi are standing there throwing exploding knives and firing fireballs at us hardly seems effective enough to take us down." Sado mentioned.

"That may be so but they did buy us some time so that we could finish this fight." Kenji added.

"Oh, and how so all you can do is roll around and make earth pillars, while your friend only has strength and endurance on his side." Sado pointed out. "He can't even perform an atomic breath as fast as his kaiju can! So how I look at it this fight has already been determined."

"You know, I think you'll be the second person today that I'll prove wrong about that." Kenji mentioned as he began to push back forcing Sado to try and get a cemented footing. "And as for Naruto not being able to do an atomic breath, well all I can say is that you'll never know with him afterall he is the number one most unpredictable shinobi for a reason."

Keigo had lost sight of Naruto again, but this time he was ready to end it. Charging as much energy into his eyes, he fired a quick 360 degree energy blast dispersing all the water dragons, and revealing Naruto. Without a second to lose Keigo charged forth and slashed through Naruto effectively wounding him. "Sorry kid, but I just want to kill everyone here and you were in the way." Keigo stated before he heard a 'pop'.

Turning around Keigo had just noticed that the Naruto that he had just cut poofed out of existence into a small smoke cloud causing great confusion. "Where the hell did he go?! And what just happened?!" Keigo demanded.

At first he thought that he was below him in the water, but then that changed when a bright blue illuminescent light casted down from above him. Looking up in the direction of the light there he saw Naruto with his dorsal fins glowing. Sado looking up also saw and quickly realized that Kenji had pushed him directly below the site of impact.

Keigo in response charged up as much energy as possible and fired up towards Naruto. Naruto, remembering the last thing he need to do, breathed out his atomic breath. The blast was powerful causing Naruto to stay airborne as the blast made contact with Keigo's blast. "You will not beat, ME!" Keigo yelled as he tried to fight the beam lock.

Down below Kenji looked over towards the Naras who had regathered and nodded to them, the result was Sado once again being caught in the shadow bindinds. This had allowed for Kenji to get out of the blast zone as Naruto quickly began overpowering Keigo to the point that Naruto's beam had almost broken through Keigo's while that happened.

Still fighting Keigo refused to lose, while Sado just kept looking up as he watched the giant blue blast descending upon him fast. Eventually though Keigo's beam failed, and both Keigo and Sado were hit by the sheer force of one of the strongest attacks that has ever been seen or used by a living creature on this planet. The final result was an explosion of debris, water, and fire as the beam hit the crater forcing all near it to take cover.

The blast lit up the entire village and even sent shockwaves that could be felt for miles. When the beam did end there was no debris or water left in the crater, just rocks and earth. Naruto though had wasted his remaining power and was quickly exiting stage 2 and stage 1. Seeing him falling Kenji used the last of his power to catch him and land without to much damage.

"Oof, that one will hurt in the morning." Kenji stated as he got up from the ground. He was now out of both stages and was attempting to sit up.

"Ugh, is this what it fells like to be completely drained?" Naruto asked Kenji who just chuckled.

"So you can run out of energy after all." Kenji joked.

"Yeah, I guess so..." Naruto started as he began to lose consciousness.

'It looks like he has a good Idea, but...' Kenji thought before taking a look around the crater.

"If your looking for those two they split." Anguirus stated.

'When?'

"Just before Naruto's final attack hit them. The flying one who had Gigan teleported them away, although I don't think they be coming back around here anytime soon."

'That's good, that means I can just go to sleep...'

"Trust me you'll need it, catch you later Kenji!"

Outside by the two boys Sarutobi, the sensies, and everyone else who knew them gathered. "Well they somehow pulled that little stunt off without so much as a formulated plan." Asuma stated.

"They're both exhausted, so let them rest, they've more than deserved it." Sarutobi suggested. "Have all the shinobi set up relief units and find any that were harmed or seriously wounded, their is still much to do before night comes!"

"Perhaps we can be of some assistance." Baki offered the old kage.

"Thank you, we'll need the help." Sarutobi thanked him as they began to get busy sorting through the men. There was still much to be done, but for now Naruto and Kenji rested, and tomorrow would bring new hope for the future.

-end-

Whew, all I got to say is that this has been the longest and hardest chapter for me so far. In fact it was because it was so difficult that I missed my intended deadline by a couple days, but I think you guys will be satisfied. Overall, this chapter marks the end of Arc 1's conflict, as the next chapter will be its resolution.

I must say that being able to post these a little bit more consistently has put me at ease. Knowing that I'm able to pump out chapters and try to make everything consistent. But that enough of that!

So far no one has figured out last chapter's hints, which personally makes me giggle a bit, as some people were close while others not so close. I guess that I'm pretty good at making some clever hints, or not :P

Anyways I know the last part seemed rushed and there is a good chance of me going back and adding to it when I go and rewrite all the previous chapters, but for now it'll stay as it is. It will still be a short fight because technically Naruto and Kenji were on a fixed time clock forcing them to try and finish the fight rather quickly.

Now then on to the next arc's hint:

Horologes

Yep that is all your getting this chapter. One word, nice short and simple.

Remember to throw a guess my way of what you think all the clues mean, as well as any constructive criticism, questions, or comments that you may have. This is 1Ring2ruleThemAll, catch you later!

Next Chapter: Separate Ways

With the fighting over and wounds heal, friends separate ways, and enemies continue to move. Is this goodbye?

The last chapter of Arc 1 coming April 9th.