Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or Rurouni Kenshin. I have accepted this and will no longer fight it...yea fucking right! I will never stop fighting, I may never be the most popular author, but who gives a damn!? I sure as hell don't, I will take ownership of both even if it will be the end of me! *A tranquilizing dart strikes my neck* Ha! Nice try assassin it's take more than that to take me down...on an unrelated note I need to take a nap.
"Talk" Character talking.
'Think' Character thinking.
Saito Hajime was annoyed. Now it wasn't too hard to annoy him especially when it came to incompetence and jackassery. This was not the usual incompetence or jackassery from Jinn or the other officers, this was for himself. Currently he was staring at a cluster of grisly photos he pinned to the wall of his office, they were the ones of the Ronin who were butchered some odd weeks ago near the place where he took down the Hishimanji Guren Gang. And then there was the arrest of Lieutenant Ujiki a week prior.
Chief Uramura brought this evidence to light out of the blue. The story was he had been compiling a case against Ujiki and several other police officers for years and finally decided to spring the trap. Ujiki and ten others were rounded up after a brief scuffle and their collective asses were hauled off to prison. It did not sit well with him, everyone knew Ujiki was dirty, and so were the men under him, but they had no proof, at least until a large folder with bank transactions and photographic evidence was presented. How did the chief dig all that up? Who did it? And most importantly why did he wait so long to use it?
"Officer Fujita, you know that you're not allowed to smoke in here!"
Turning his head to the voice, Saito looked at Chief Uramura, and then the lit cigarette in his hand. When did he light it up? "Sorry Chief." He apologized before stamping it out in his ashtray. "I did not even know that I lit it up."
"That is the fourth time this week I had to scold you." Chief Uramura said before walking into the office. The smaller man looked at the photographs and winced a bit. "Fujita-san, you're still looking into that case?"
"It's my job isn't it?" Saito smartly replied.
"It is, but this was weeks ago. It was from a gang skirmish."
"Th evidence suggests otherwise. Some of these attacks came from a shinobi, if it was a gang skirmish there would have been a lot more blood." Saito said pointing at the picture he dubbed as 'sausage man'. His arms, legs and upper part of his head was cleanly cut away and the appendages were close together, along with the cuts on the walls and ground. "A wind jutsu was used on him, if I were to guess it was that Wind Sword jutsu those from Sunagakure use."
"But we have no Sunagakure shinobi in the village, and I would be hard pressed to know any of ours who would know it." Chief Uramura protested.
"That is where one of my issues is coming up, the other thing is the footprints." He gestured to the next picture. "Male and female. Both are walking side by side and I lost them in the market place. The female is younger than the male, she was alone and surrounded before her rescuer came to her aid. No one was willing to tell me who they could be because it was too early in the morning."
"I can see how annoying that can be Fujita-san. But you must not let it eat up your time, we still have two gangs left and we are severely understaffed."
"Understood boss, but I will find out who did this, what will happen next is anyone's guess." Placing his cap on his head, and securing his katana to his side, Saito left the office. "I'll report in anything suspicious." He said before leaving.
Watching his number one officer depart, Chief Uramura let out a sigh and looked at the photographs. "I honestly hope it will be nothing, I don't want to be responsible for the havoc he'll stir up."
(Snow Country)
Naruto honestly couldn't believe his luck, after exiting the sewers he ran into that crazy director, his first cameraman along with two other cameramen. They offered him a ride on their snowmobile, an offer he accepted without much thought. This would save him some energy for his confrontation with Doto.
"Hey kid, you really gonna confront that Doto guy!?" The director shouted over the wind.
"I am, I'm going to kill him too!" The blonde replied.
"I don't suppose you mind we film it? This will make a killer blockbuster!"
"Knock yourself out, I don't really give a damn!" What did Naruto have to fear if it got out? Most of his enemies were dead, the only big guy he had to worry about was the Tsuchikage himself, but Naruto doubted he even went to the movies. "I can't guarantee your safety though!"
"Kid, I've been with the director for a long time!" The second cameraman shouted over the roaring wind. "If things get too dicey we will hightail it out of here. But until then we want footage of you kicking Doto's butt all over the country!"
"Glad we're on the same page." Naruto said in response, he meant that too, because with his track record things were going to escalate really fast. "So you know where the Rainbow Glacier is, right?"
"I know where it is, don't worry kid I've been doing more than just sitting on my ass and watching from the sidelines. I've been researching this country and everything it has to offer, trust me it's my job as a director!"
That was also good, because he didn't know where the hell it was. It seemed like the Gods were smiling down on him for once. "Hang on Koyuki, I'm coming for you."
(Rainbow Glacier)
"As last it's mine...all mine." After flying for five minutes with a struggling Princess in his arms Doto flew into one of his remaining nineteen war blimps, from there he had the rest of his men; after sacrificing one-hundred in the capital, all thirty-six hundred to meet up at the Rainbow Glacier with each ship ready to haul the vast amount of treasure.
Landing the ship he had Nadare haul a thoroughly chained Koyuki out of the blimp. His shinobi stood at attention, standing side by side with fierce, fanatical looks in their eyes. Doto smiled seeing such devotion in his soldiers, the perfect tools for his conquest of the Elemental Nations.
"My soldiers of ice, today is a day of glory!" Doto announced to his soldiers. Raising his arms he gestured towards the small shrine situated directed in the middle of the towering pillars making up Snow Country's famous landmarks. When his right-hand man tossed Koyuki next to him, the much larger man reached down and yanked the Hex Crystal off her neck.
"Doto don't you dare!" The Princess tried to protest, but her uncle kicked her in the side, sending her tumbling away.
"I do dare, everything in this country belongs to me! The people, the technology, and its riches! I am the King of Ice! And soon King of the World!" Raising the crystal above his head, the sunlight dramatically shining off of it, he inserted the key into the center console and turned it to the right. "Now behold the treasure of the Kazahana Family!"
Standing back he watched as the key revealed the dirty little secret it had been hiding for over thirteen years. The glacier began to hum...wait hum? Nothing happened for several long minutes. Nothing revealed itself, no secret passage like he was expecting, nor was there some golden light shining either. Instead white steam poured forth after ten long minutes passed.
Koyuki looked on in awe, she watched as the ice and snow evaporated to reveal solid ground underneath them. For the first time she could remember living in Snow Country it was warm outside, no biting cold, no fringed wind. "It's so warm."
"This...this is it!?" Doto yelled in fury. His lone eye was wide, and nearly bulging from his skull. "A heat generator? This is what I've been searching thirteen years for...Sosetsu you...you fool!"
Nadare could only gape at the heat generator, this was not the vision he envisioned. The King of Ice was supposed to be absolute, his rule was supposed to last a thousand years. How could this come to pass if they didn't have the funds for an invasion of the Elemental Nations? "Doto-sama...what are we going to do?"
"This changes nothing. A minor setback!" Doto shouted. His mind however was racing, this was not a minor setback. He was broke, the country was massively in debt, all his preparations were falling apart at the seams. He had to put on a strong face otherwise his soldiers would rebel. "Even if there is no money here, we got allies who would buy something like this in a heartbeat, the plan has not changed!"
"Open your eyes!" Koyuki forcefully stood to her feet, even though she was chained she was defiant. She turned towards the soldiers under her uncles command. She spoke loudly, and proudly. "Soldiers of Snow Country you have been deceived! There is no more money, we cannot start a war with the Elemental Nations, we can barely keep our own people from starving. Please, I am begging you, for the love of your people, for the love of your country...please put your weapons down. Surrender and I promise to show mercy. Our country cannot survive it we stand divided."
"Do not listen to her lies!" Doto bellowed. Spittle flew from his mouth as his rage began to erupt from the core of his very being. "I am the true ruler of Snow Country. My vision has made us strong, my vision has made us a country envied by the rest of the Elemental Nations! We are the at the pinnacle of of a new era. Follow me and you will live forever as Gods!"
"Gods? You really are out of your mind."
Turning towards the sound of the voice, Doto's single eye widened seeing Naruto standing atop one of the war blimps. He only looked impassively at the army, they were numerous, he knew that he wouldn't be able to fight thirty-six hundred men and women by himself. Not on his own at least.
"Naruto!" Koyuki happily exclaimed.
"Uzumaki..." Doto's grin turned malicious. He then began to laugh, it was cruel, wicked laugh. "You stupid fool! You doomed yourself and the entire capital by rushing to meet me!" He pulled a small device from his armor, and placed a thumb on the button. "Now watch boy, watch as I end the lives of the non-believers!"
When he pressed the button he expected to see a ferocious fireball engulfing the sky from the capital. He expected to see his niece drop to her knees in despair, he expected Uzumaki to yell at him in hatred, and he expected his soldiers to cheer his name.
Instead Koyuki didn't fall to her knees, Naruto didn't charge at him, and his soldiers didn't cheer. In fact nothing happened, there was no explosion. Naruto smirked at the tyrant and laughed uproariously. "Doto you're such an idiot! Did you really think I would come here after your warning without doing something about it!? Shino and I found your weapon in the sewers, and guess what it was disarmed!"
"No that's impossible!"
Naruto's grin became even wider, Shishio would have been proud. "For me, yes. I couldn't do shit, but my teammate used his insects to fry the circuits, it won't work anytime soon. But you guys..." his sharp eyes cut towards the soldiers under Doto's command. "Your so-called King sacrificed your comrades like flies, your families would have been annihilated with a push of a button. Tell me something, is this really someone you want to follow?"
No one said anything, many of the soldiers were now looking at their leader, and for the first time they saw him for what he truly was. The broken and burned face was snarling like a mad dog, his single eye showed no hint of sanity, this was not the man they chose to follow, this was nothing more than a madman, a tyrant.
"I have a sister in the capital." Said one of the soldiers.
"A mother."
"My baby girl."
"My grandfather."
"My wife..."
Their will to fight was lost in a matter of seconds. Hundreds of men and women looked towards Doto, others towards Koyuki. The choice was obvious now. In a sudden blur of movements hundreds of those who decided to join the rightful ruler were on her side, the remainder, at least half the men sided with Doto, the remainder sided with Koyuki. Naruto couldn't help but feel relieved, Saizuchi always told him that is he ever found himself overwhelmed it would be best to divide and conquer, pit enemy against enemy, and fight smarter, not harder if you could help it.
"Traitors! Filthy, ungrateful traitors!" His fury reaching his peak, Doto's chakra began to seep out of his body, it took on a sick purple color, and black ice-like cracks spread across his ruined face and arms. "Die traitors to the crown! Die non-believers! Ice Style: Black Dragon Blizzard!" After forming the needed hand seal Doto thrust his arm to send out a black ether-like dragon with crimson red eyes to strike his enemies.
That...was one hell of a jutsu. It wasn't exactly his cup of saki but to not understanding how ice ninjutsu worked, but he knew a certain someone who would benefit from these techniques. He just needed to make sure Koyuki survived so she would owe him more than one. So against his better judgment Naruto disappeared from his position and appeared in front of Koyuki and her newly created small army.
"Suck on this Doto!" Throwing his hands into the tiger seal, the blonde focused his fire nature chakra into his chest, and forced it through his lungs and out his throat. He may have hated Izaya, but the Daimyo of Hot Springs Country came through for him, and truthfully he had been wanting to learn, and use this jutsu for a very long time. "Fire Style: Great Dragon Flame Jutsu!" Expelling the chakra from his lungs, and forming it into a dragon head-shaped fireball, the two ninjutsu struck each other, they struggled for dominance before detonating in a violent cloud of mist.
"Koyuki, I suggest you take cover. Things are about to get real ugly around here. And loyalists of the true Daimyo, keep her safe and kill all who oppose you." Unsheathing the Mugenjin, the blonde nicked the tip on the scabbard's end, and caught it alight. "One last piece of advice, do not get in my way, I have a lot of aggression issues to unleash on this so-called king."
Without another word Naruto bolted where he last saw Doto, the only thoughts on his mind were the same thoughts that had been tumbling in his head for six years. Answers and vengeance. Doto had answers he wanted, and he also had a life to pay for his treachery. By the end of the day one of them would be dead, it was as simple as that.
The first person to get in his was was a Snow shinobi, Naruto cut along his neck area, watched as blood flew from the wound and moved onward. Another shinobi blocked his way, and the blonde took his legs out from under him. Another lost an arm at the elbow, they weren't as strong as he thought they would be. That meant Kiba was right, their armor may have been able to drain chakra from ninjutsu and genjutsu, but it sucked against taijutsu and kenjutsu.
And his newly gained allies knew this too. Many, who were armed with kunai or swords attacked their former comrades with abandon. No ninjutsu was used, it would only end in a stalemate until the suits were overloaded. He cut down another snow shinobi, taking his legs from under him before he felt a terrible pressure in his side and was sent flying to the left. He tumbled out of the steam and crashed through one of the war blimps.
As his body tore through the canvas, he felt his spine impact a solid beam fifty feet in the air before he fell face first to the unforgiving floor, Mugenjin's flames snuffing out. "Ow..." he dully moaned out before hacking out a mouthful of blood.
"You're still alive brat?" Doto arrogantly asked, his footsteps were heady as he strolled across the floor. "That punch should have broken your ribs."
"That sissy punch? No way." The blonde gritted out before getting to his feet. He had three broken ribs, there was no ifs ans or buts about it. Doto was stronger than he looked, and those markings, he had never seen them in his life. "Hey Doto, for curiosity's sake how did you survive that blimp crash?"
"Trying to stall for time? How pathetic Uzumaki." The tyrant disappeared in a burst of speed, Naruto barely managed to duck under the swing of his arm. His large fist impacted a steel beam and dented it. "Stay still!"
"Only an idiot stays still in a fight! First Secret Sword: Himura Dama (Blazing Soul)!" Naruto scratched the Mugenjin's blade on the tip of his scabbard again to ignite it. He then swung it at Doto's armored chest, he had done this technique thousands of times, it cut through a lot of people. So when it bounced off of the armor, the blonde couldn't block out his look of surprise on his face.
That had never happened before. The Mugenjin was a blade that cut through numerous human beings regardless if they wore flack vests or not. What exactly was that armor made of?
Smirking at his shocked expression, Doto grabbed Naruto by the front of his jacket and threw him away. "Nice try boy, but the Mark IV chakra armor is the pinnacle of Snow Country's creations! The steel has been made to withstand ten tons of pressure, the core is said to be able to endure even the most powerful ninjutsu's ever created! I am a God in this armor, you cannot win!"
"You don't know who you're talking to Doto. You say I can't break it? That sounds like a challenge to me!" Gripping the Mugenjin in both hands, the blonde spat to the side before sheathing the blade. He then, to Doto's curiosity moved onto all fours. "And when I am done, when your body lies broken and shattered on the ground...I will get my answers out of you, and then...and only then..." Naruto's body began to leak orange chakra, his canines sharpening, fingernails turning into claws, his whiskers darkening, and his eyes turning blood red with animal slits. "Will I allow you to die!"
"I look forward to stepping on your neck and watch the life drain from your eyes! Ice Style: Dragon vs. Tiger!" Doto formed a giant tiger out of the pre-existing ice from outside the war blimp, it tore through the steel beams and canvas like wet paper, and roared at Naruto.
"Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu!" The largest fireball Naruto had created to date roared from his mouth. The heat immediately melted through steel beams and caught the canvas of fire. When the two techniques collided, it sent a shockwave of force throughout the blimp, tearing it asunder and throwing both combatants backwards as the blimp erupted in a fireball.
Naruto was shot out from his side of the blimp and impacted a boulder, his bones broke and mended themselves in an instant. The blonde then fell on all fours, the chakra boiled over into red and a single tail of chakra erupted from his backside before he burst towards where Doto went flying.
He met the tyrant in the middle of the battlefield, his armor was unmarred, he was undamaged. That honestly pissed him the hell off, he was used to seeing his enemies bleeding and dead by now, and Doto defying death and looking at him with such a smug expression that he nearly saw red. Naruto opened his mouth and roared, a primal roar that tore up the ground and sent men and women flying away on both sides.
But Doto remained standing, that damn armor of his absorbed the roar without even a scratch marring it. "Interesting power you have there boy. But to call it extraordinary is like complimenting a cockroach. Let me show you real power! Ice Style: Black Dragon Blizzard!" Impossibly the technique seemed to have gotten much bigger, it tore through enemy and ally alike, leaving great scars on the land.
It hit Naruto dead on. It was simply far too big to dodge. And that was the coldest Naruto had ever felt in his life. Black ice coated his body, it bit into his bones, it froze the blood in his veins. If he were a normal person he could have froze to death, it was thanks to Kyuubi's chakra that he wasn't completely frozen solid.
Doto however did not allow him time to break free of the ice that coated his body. The large man sprinted across the battlefield and delivered a wicked right hook to his face. Naruto was used to pain, he had been stabbed, cut, burned, electrocuted, had bones broken, and beat up more times than he could count. But this pain was something different, something...broke in him, it was a hot-white blinding pain that caused his mind to black out. He did not feel his body fly through the air or blast through the hull of another war blimp, nor did he feel the harsh impact of the ground.
He was numb all over, Naruto could move all his fingers and toes so he knew that he wasn't paralyzed. But he still couldn't properly move his body, it was wrecked, he knew that much. "Kyuubi...more."
"Hmph, one-tail not good enough for you whelp?"
"Kyuubi are we really going to do this right now?" Naruto growled in anger. "Gimme more chakra!"
"Fine, just kill the maniac, he chakra is offending me."
A dense, translucent shroud of chakra resembling boiling liquid formed around Naruto's body. One tail split into three, fox-like ears made of the same chakra formed on his head, and he fell onto all fours again. His body was boiling hot, whatever went wrong in him seemed to have been purged from his system for now. "All right Doto...round two."
(Nadare)
Fresh blood splashed onto what used to be white chakra armor. Blood of another traitor was spilled because they chose the wrong side, they chose to follow a pretender to the throne, that was what Nadare kept telling himself as he killed his own countrymen. Doto was in the right, they were in the wrong, it was just that simple.
Be even as he slit the throat of another former comrade Nadare found that it wasn't so simple. Doto's plans for dominating the world involved a lot of money, money that they were short on, they couldn't feed soldiers nothing while they campaigned. Soldiers were being cut down by the dozens, the ground of the rainbow glacier was being stained red with blood, with each death he was the dream of conquest dying little by little.
This was not a minor setback, this was not a hiccup or a small bump in the road. This was the end of them, even if they won the country was doomed, their plans were foiled all because Koyuki brought shinobi from Konohagakure.
Nadare's teal blue eyes observed the carnage around him, the smell of blood was sickening, he could taste the copper in the air. But among all that chaos he saw the person who cause all of this, Koyuki was far away from the battlefield, escaping up one of the slopes with several traitors protecting her. His mouth curling into a snarl, Nadare gripped his bloody kunai knife in his right hand and bolted towards her.
He had no illusions that his country was going to survive the days to come, if it was to fall then so be it. But he was not going to allow the little bitch who ruined everything to get away. He would purge the Kazahana bloodline from the face of the earth if it was the last thing he did! He closed the distance and was only two-hundred yards away, he would kill the traitors and kill Koyuki before going to Doto to kill the Uzumaki brat! It would be his last act even if he had to give up his life for it!
But Nadare was stopped with a clang as kunai met kunai, he was then face to face with a familiar silver-haired, Sharingan-eyed Jonin. "Hatake?"
"You're not going anywhere Nadare." Kakashi coldly said to his current nemesis. The grinding metal screeched against his ears, but he did not care. "Your road ends today."
The two of them jumped back from each other and Nadare glared as the Copycat Ninja. "How did you find this place?"
"I followed my trouble making student barely fifteen minutes after he completed his mission. It wasn't hard to do." With the aid of tracking hounds it wasn't, but no one other than him needed to know that. "I have no idea what he did to cause this, but right now this fight is between you and me."
"Oh really now, you're not just going to run away like last time?" The Snow shinobi mockingly said. "Because as I recall, I won our brief scuffle."
"If an opponent survives, that means you didn't win. That is the number one rule in the shinobi world." Twirling his kunai by the ring and grabbing it into a backhanded grip Kakashi launched himself at Nadare. Both enemies met with a clash of steel, the Snow shinobi threw a punch, but Kakashi blocked it and kneed his opponent in the belly before backhanding him across the face.
Nadare snarled when he felt his nose break, he threw his weapon. A futile effort, but it gave him the chance he needed to run his hands through the hand seals he needed. "Ice Style: Dragon vs Tiger!" Manipulating the pre-existing ice around him and forming it into a giant tiger, he launched it at Kakashi.
The giant ice tiger struck him head on, but instead of seeing a frozen shinobi there was only a log in his place. The screeching of a thousand birds was the only thing that prevented him from being impaled from behind, Nadare barely managed to back away before a lightning covered hand scraped against the front of his armor. Black smoke immediately erupted from the yin-yang symbol as they chased each other up a steep cliff.
When Kakashi ran out of steam, Nadare arrogantly laughed in delight. "Is that the best you can do Hatake!? I survived your greatest technique."
"Did you really think that was my intention?" Kakashi dropped into the Strong Fist stance. "Here is one thing you don't seem to realize Nadare." He disappeared before his eyes and unleashed several barrages of fast, but devastating punches to his face and body. "Your chakra armor may be effective against ninjutsu and genjutsu, but we figured out that it's weak against taijutsu. You allowed your skills to become rusty, you allowed yourself to become arrogant. And that is why you will lose." Kakashi kicked his opponent from the top of the cliff, he jumped after him, grabbing his falling opponent by the ankles, wrapped his legs around Nadare's waist, and began the long head first drive to the ground. "It's over!"
"It's not over Hatake!" To Kakashi's disbelief Nadare's purple chakra exploded outwards, it was strong enough to actually make him lose his grip and slam back first into the mountain. He tumbled out of the newly formed crater and barely managed to land on his two feet on the bottom. Then a blizzard came out of nowhere, assaulting him with the cold.
"It's not over...it is not over until one of us is dead." In the distance Kakashi saw red-orange markings resembling snowflakes covering Nadare's burned face. But then it completely enveloped him and his body began to physically change. His bones snapped and reshaped themselves until he was hunched over, his fingernails turned into claws, his skin took on a greyish tone, his face became completely wolf-like with sharp teeth, amber eyes, and a snout. Even his purple hair became an ash-grey color and grew to his waist.
Before he could even begin to process the transformation, Nadare disappeared from sight and Kakashi barely managed to duck to the right as the claws tore through his vest, he felt the pain then. It was a deep wound, it didn't hit anything major, but he wasn't going to be sleeping on that side anytime soon. Kakashi watched as Nadare crashed into the side of the cliff, but rebounded swiping his claws.
His amber eyes were wide with manic delight. Nadare never felt so powerful in his entire life, he was Doto's right-hand man, there was no mistaken that. But this power Orochimaru granted him was intoxicating. His senses were a thousand times sharper, he smelled the blood in the air, he felt the hot liquid under his claws, he sensed the fear and confusion on his opponents body. It was completely intoxicating. Another slash tore through Kakashi's right arm, another slash missed entirely and blasted through stone like it was wet tissue paper.
"Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu!" Ignoring the pain flaring through his body, Kakashi focused his chakra in his lungs after completing the required hand seals. A roaring fireball blasted from his mask, scorching a hole in it before flying towards Nadare.
For the transformed Snow shinobi the fireball was moving at a snails pace. Baring his sharp teeth he reared his head back and let out a mighty howl that blasted the technique away. The sound of a thousand screeching birds followed seconds later as he saw Kakashi running towards him with his right hand covered in blue-white electricity. Nadare easily dodged it, grabbed the Copycat Ninja by his face, and cruelly began to drag him on the ground and up the side of the mountain.
When they got to the top he threw his opponent away like trash, he watched as his bloody back struck the ground, leaving beautiful blood spatters in the snow and rocks as he came to a stop several hundred yards away. "So this is supposed to be the great Sharingan warrior. Pathetic." Nadare spat to the side.
"I got you where I want you Nadare." Kakashi panted out. He was battered and bloody, but he was not beaten yet. Slowly he moved his shaking right hand to a scroll pouch on the left side of his chest. He pulled out a scroll and unraveled it. "Be honored, I don't use this very often."
His interest peaked, Nadare held off on attacking his wounded opponent. If he was going to kill one of the most noteworthy shinobi of his time, he was going to kill him at his best. His amber eyes widened in disbelief after slapping his blood on the scroll, and a cloud of smoke later, Kakashi was holding a straight-bladed tanto with a small, circular hand-guard in his right hand. "It can't be, that blade was destroyed in the last war."
"Did you honestly think I would allow the last thing my father left me to stay broken?" Kakashi seriously asked.
"Is suppose not, the Hakko Chakura To (White Light Chakra Sabre) is a unique blade. I wouldn't compare it to the Raijin no Ken, or a blade from one of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist, but I know that many would pay a fortune to have it." A predatory smirk came to his face before he began to go through three hand seals. "I will gladly take it from your corpse my my very own technique! Ice Style: Wolf Fang Avalanche!"
Causing an avalanche from his area from a burst of chakra, Nadare transformed the falling snow into a pack of wolves to attack his opponent. This was his ultimate jutsu, wolves were formed by the hundreds, the snarling beasts raced down to tear apart their prey. No one survived this jutsu and lived to tell about it.
"Kamui!" His left eye morphing into the Mangekyo Sharingan a rippling barrier opened up ten feet in front of him, the rampaging wolves that came to tear him shreds was engulfed by it, disappearing in the blink of an eye. Kakashi only needed thirty seconds and when that time came he struck like an attack dog.
He forced his lightning nature chakra into he Hakko Chakura To, with a swing the blade of the tanto extended in a wide electrical arc with a white streak of chakra following close behind it. He struck the wolves, and they completely dissolved like they were made out of nothing. He struck Nadare too, the black smoke that was already leaking from the cracked yin-yang symbol erupted in a small fireball. His opponent looked down as his supposedly invincible armor was cut in half at the stomach area, his right arm also fell away from his elbow, he lost all feeling in his legs and collapsed onto his back.
Slowly Kakashi trudged up the slope where his downed opponent was. He had no need to hurry, besides losing an arm Nadare took a terrible blow to his stomach. He saw that his guts were threatening to escape from the terrible wound, blood was escaping from the stump of his arm. But mostly he looked up at him in disbelief with his monstrous face.
"I...I can't feel my legs." Nadare wheezed out.
"Lightning chakra not only has the capacity to pierce through almost anything, but it has paralyzing and numbing properties. I also think I managed to cut your spine in half." Kakashi tiredly said before he sheathed his blade in his belt. "Tell me Nadare...why did you throw your hand in with Doto?"
"I saw a great vision for my country in him. Sosetsu Kazahana was a great Daimyo, but his vision was too small. We are the most advanced country, we should have been calling the shots...it was such a good dream...we were so close...so close Hatake." Nadare hacked up a mouthful of blood, and his transformation began to recede until he looked human again.
"You were more far away that you realized, against Gai Maito, the Aburame Clan, not to mention the Kage's themselves you wouldn't of stood a ghost of a chance." Raising his right hand Kakashi focused his lightning chakra into it to create his signature techniques. "Last question. What did you do to yourself?"
"Heh, you can thank Orochimaru for that...that's all I can say." Smirking at his opponent, Nadare closed his eyes. "Finish me Hatake."
Kakashi rammed his Lightning Blade through Nadare's armored chest. Whatever was powering the armor to repel jutsu was already destroyed, he tore through the armor like it was powdered snow and ended the Snow shinobi's life.
At the same time twin black dragons struck the opposite mountainside several miles away, it became colder than Kakashi ever thought it would. A new blizzard began to form, his blood ran cold as he saw the sight forever etched into his mind. "Naruto..."
(Naruto versus Doto)
"I...Hate...chakra...armor." Naruto growled out in anger. Ever since going into his three-tailed form he managed to at least equal Doto's freaky power after some strange black crack-like markings resembling broken ice spread on his face and body, then things got freaky.
Doto got much stronger, faster and much more deranged. Not only that but his chakra got fouler, his ninjutsu attacks also became more potent, it took all he had to not get struck by them. Despite it being cold, he was sweating buckets, he had never felt so exhausted in his life. Worst of all nothing he did made a dent in Doto's armor, the core wasn't bursting, there wasn't even a single scratch on it yet.
And that son of a bitch was lording it over him. "Is that all you got Uzumaki?" Doto demanded, vanishing from sight he dealt a terribly haymaker to the blondes face that sent him flying hundreds of yards away and crashed his body into a mountain. "Haha! Pathetic weakling, you're no match for my power!"
"Shut up! I haven't even begun to fight!" Like a mindless berserker, Naruto pushed onward and attacked Doto with slashing attacks. Doto blocked each strike with a wide smile, his bracers absorbed each blow, at least until he got three chakra-sized tails to both arms and abdomen. The strike was powerful enough to send the tyrant flying.
Doto smacked through several boulders before coming to a stop. He felt that, bringing his right hand to his mouth he felt the blood running from it. Such insolence! How dare he spill royal blood again! "That's it...that was your last shot."
The curse seal began to spread on his body, his body twisted and cracked, morphing into something hideous. His muscles became thicker, his hair became snow-white, his single eye became icy-blue and his skin became a dark blue color. His fingers became claws, his teeth turned into fangs, and what looked like scales formed on his skin. "This power...Orochimaru you were foolish to give this to me. I will use it to conquer the world after I make him submit, just think how powerful my army will be." Seeing the red outline of chakra barreling towards him, Doto prepared himself for the clash. "But first I have an annoying cockroach to deal with."
When Naruto approached, his eyes blazing in fury Doto laughed at him. "You cannot beat me as you are boy! Ice Style: Black Dragon Blizzard!" Forming a black ether-like dragon from the already existing ice, Doto launched it at his opponent.
"Wind Style: Dust Storm Jutsu!" After performing the necessary hand seals, and vertically overlapped hands that are placed in front his mouth, Naruto expelled a stream of high-velocity wind containing dust particles from his mouth.
The two jutsu impacted, each struggled for dominance until they finally detonated. The blast created a crater that was fifty feet wide and thirty feet deep, and a blizzard came to life after the giant ice dragon died away. You couldn't see five feet in front of your face, but that didn't stop Naruto from charging at Doto anyways.
The King of Ice met him head on, grabbing both hands in an iron clad grip, the Kyuubi's chakra did not touch him thanks to his armor, but he felt the core becoming hotter. Even the greatest technology his country could produce was unable to keep up with whatever the boy was throwing out. It angered Doto, no...it infuriated him! "Ice Needles!" Opening his mouth Doto unleashed a barrage of senbon sized ice needles from it, they didn't penetrate the thick chakra cloak, not by a long shot.
"Is that all?" Naruto growled in response. A feral smirk forming on his face he headbutted the tyrant in the face, his chakra may not have touched the man, but that certainly did when he heard the delicious sound of his nose breaking.
"Insolent whelp!" Foul purple chakra began to leak from Doto's body, stinking like miasma and coating his body. Ignoring the blood running down his face, he returned the headbutt with double the force and snapped the blonde's head backwards. "I will scramble your brains into mush!"
"Fuck off!" After the third headbutt Naruto unleashed a primal roar of anger that caused blood to leak from his nemesis' eyes and ears. Doto lost his grip just enough for Naruto's right hand to break free and slash down his opponent's face and actually managed to scratch the armor. Then to Doto's increasing surprise the blonde unsheathed the sword on his back, the blade itself ignited into magnificent fire before he ran it along the back of his torn glove. "Second Secret Sword: Guren Kaina (Crimson Lotus Arm)!" Igniting the glove filled with gunpowder, and igniting it with the sparks caused by the Mugenjin an explosion rippled along the surface of the armor, propelling Doto backwards.
Smelling the fresh blood Naruto bounded after the tyrant, he raised his left fist and impacted the armor once again. "Blazing Glory!" Igniting his remaining glove with his fire chakra, he ignited it and watched as it scorched the black armor. The yin-yang symbol began to glow an orange-red and white smoke began to pour out of the cracks. "Fire Style:-"
"Raagh!" Covering his right fist in blue-white ice, Doto interrupted whatever attack Naruto was going to throw at him. His wicked right hook knocked the blonde for a loop, bone shattered under his right fist as Naruto was sent skidding away. "You will not get another attack on me. Never again! Ice Style: Twin Dragon Blizzard!"
After going through the required hand seals Doto released two dragons of black snow that merged into a massive tornado. Rocks, snow, and Naruto himself were pulled into the black tornado, everything in it was frozen solid. Thanks to Orochimaru's curse seal it was amplified by ten times that amount, thanks to it he created a whiteout blizzard.
When it ended, Doto held his arms out and shuddered in ecstasy. This...this is what he deserved, such power belonged only to him, everything was his to control now and forever! He heard several crashing noises as thick chunks of ice landed all around him, but even in such white out conditions he still saw the red chakra shroud crash a hundred feet away from him. "Such impudence. Why won't you die?"
Doto walked over to Naruto's downed position and snarled. His opponent's jacket was in tatters, the lower sleeves literally burned away, the sweater underneath it was torn and bloodied, he was missing his right pant leg from the knee downward, and his blonde hair was a mess with his hair band holding on by a literal thread. But in that left hand of his he was still holding that accursed sword.
Doto reached for it, Shishio's sword would fetch a grand price, or look good hanging on his wall in a trophy room next to the hat of the Sandaime Hokage. He noticed a slight movement with his one eye and quickly grabbed Naruto's strange device on his right forearm. Dragging the blonde up he squeezed the device until he heard a wonderful metallic snap as he shattered it. He watched as a sharp wooden spike snapped in half, and a spring loaded kunai knife tumbled onto the ground.
"Aww did I break your little toy?" The tyrant mockingly asked. He squeezed harder and swore he heard bone snap, but if his opponent felt it, he refused to show it. He tried to stab at him with the Mugenjin, but Doto grabbed that arm as well. "You've lost boy. Whatever Shishio and his group have taught you have been for naught, your little journey of revenge ends today. But don't worry, when I become king of the world, you will have a small footnote in the history books."
"Ha...ha...ha...are you still blathering on about that? Your fleet is decimated, whatever loyal followers you have left will be hunted down. You have lost, but you're too delusional to realize it." Naruto panted out, everything hurt even with Kyuubi's healing factor kicking in. He was then punched right in the solar plexus and sent skidding on the ground. It was worth it getting out of his hold.
"You underestimate my destiny Uzumaki, I did not choose to walk this path, but a higher power chose me to be born in a royal family and see the future that belonged to me!" Doto's lone eye was bulging with such intensity it looked like it was going to pop from his skull. The iris and pupil were so retracted that it showed no hint of sanity left in the King of Ice. "I am the King of Ice! The Gods saw fit to bring me into this world and lead it to a glorious one-thousand year utopia. And my descendants will inherit an empire long after I shed this mortal coil and join the Gods as my divine right!"
He was fucking loony, delusional, and in complete denial. Those were some of the most dangerous people in the world. But Naruto couldn't help but give his two cents. "With that face? You couldn't even pay a woman to fuck you."
"I don't need to pay a woman to sire my offspring, when the world is mine I will take whatever woman I please." His crooked grin became more malicious, it formed a terrible pit on the blonde's stomach. "When I am through with you, I will kill every friend you have, and every woman you ever loved I will take to my bed!"
Naruto felt his blood run cold, that was not a threat, it was a promise. It would be just like his tenth birthday all over again, he would lose Zabuza, Gozu, Meizu, Senkaku, he would even lose the members of Team Ten and Team Eight; that would be a damn shame, they showed such promise and he tolerated them more than most people. He then thought of Haku, she would rather die before that happened. He then thought of Hinata, his newest follower, and then Koyuki...he saw how Doto looked at her on the blimp. He then thought of the other people in his life, old man Gen and the staff in Hot Springs Country, Shura, and all the other people he found himself giving a damn about.
"And you would be unable to do anything about it! Fighting the way you are now, you will be unable to defeat me!" Doto kicked the blonde right in the abdomen, and sent him flying through the air and sent him crashing through the ground. "You fight more like a beast than a man! Today victory shall be mine!"
"Four tails. Boy you need to annihilate this insect, I will grant you one more tail so you can do this." Kyuubi said, the prattling of this human was beginning to irritate him to no end.
"No...you've done enough." Naruto panted out, his chakra cloak dying away he slowly stood to his feet. "You helped put a dent in his armor. It's time I finished the job." He said before the chakra cloak completely evaporated, leaving him in only tattered garments.
"You fool! Now is not the time to give into foolish pride! He must be eliminated! Destroyed! Do not think of the ice woman, do not think of your allies, thing of only yourself and-" Naruto cut the connection between them.
"What a pest, you still don't understand a damn thing about me." Naruto hissed out in anger. Fog escaped from his mouth with every word, his jacket in tatters the blonde slowly tore it away and took the scabbard from the back and slipped it between his pants and belt on the left side and sheathed the Mugenjin. He saw Doto walking towards him, foul purple chakra escaping from his body. "Hey Doto, is it true that Orochimaru was part of Shishio's downfall!?"
"Heh, even though you're going to die you're still seeking answers. You killed Gato, and he told you of me and Kanryu and of course the man behind it all." Doto smirked before he began running through several hand seals. "I don't know who the Man in Black is kid, he never showed his face. All I can say that he served his purpose in helping me wipe my hands of Shishio."
"Who else was there? Joseki, Hanzo the Salamander, Akahoshi, Orochimaru, Gato, Kanryu Takeda...you. Who else? Tell me!"
"I'm not going to spill my secrets for a dead man! Die and become a stepping stone for my empire!" Completing his hand seals, Doto once again unleashed his mightiest technique. "Ice Style: Twin Dragon Blizzard!" Releasing the two ether-like dragons of black snow and demonic red eyes, the tyrant sent them towards the blonde, fully intending on watching him shatter into oblivion.
Panting in exhaustion Naruto placed his right hand on the hilt of the Mugenjin. Before he died Shishio taught him everything about The Three Secret Swords. They were sword techniques created and mastered by Shishio himself, and as far as Naruto knew he was the only inheritor. He used what he learned to his full advantage, he killed many people with the first two. But the last one, it was still from being perfect, but he needed to...no, he wanted to use it, to take down one of the men responsible for the Juppongatana's downfall.
Just the thought of this insane man made Naruto grind his teeth. The images of the Juppongatana, the members who trained him dying in such terrible ways, the image of Shishio, the only man to see him as Naruto Uzumaki and not the Kyuubi gone forever made his blood boil. Naruto's chakra skyrocketed, the snow around him completely melted, the nerves throughout his entire body grotesquely bulged and rose to the top of his skin. "Final Secret Sword: Kaguzuchi (Fire-Producing Spirit God)!"
When Naruto unsheathed the Mugenjin, the first thing that happened was the sword ignited into powerful flames. The second was that steam began to rise off his body, the hair band that barley was holding his hair together disintegrated, the scraps of his sweater turned to cinders, the tattoo's on his body evaporated. Fires hotter than hell formed around him, a miniature fire cyclone formed around the blade, and got bigger, and bigger by the second. With a yell of fury Naruto swung the sword with all his might.
The two ultimate techniques clashed, creating a sonic boom that blew apart the land. The ice and snow on the mountainside evaporated into nothing, and soon the rocks began to crack and break under the intense heat. The two black snow dragons began to lose power, each head roaring in defiance along with Doto who was desperately trying to pump more chakra into his jutsu.
But in the end fire beat ice, it was simple elemental advantage, and the fact Naruto was more pissed off than Doto. The black dragons were incinerated and Doto was hit full blast by the technique. The King of Ice never felt such heat before in his life, the core was beginning to overheat, sparks and flames erupted from his breastplate, pitch black smoke filled his vision, and then he felt it. The fires licking his exposed skin, whatever was left of his hair was turned to ash, the golden crown that was melted to his cranium once again became liquid and ran down his ruined face. Doto lost his footing and was blasted far, far away from their battlefield.
Somehow, Doto came crashing through one of his war blimps and into the Rainbow Glacier. The ground was torn asunder, creating great scars in the land from Doto's body hitting it with great force. The tyrant yelled in rage and pain with each time his body hit the ground. He then crashed into one of the pillars, between the extreme heat and the blunt force trauma the ice coating it cracked and broke apart. Doto fell to the ground in a crumbled heap in front of his forces, and the defectors.
Looking upon his form, everyone was confounded seeing their Daimyo looking more monster than man. His burned, scaled face resembled a demon, his hair was gone now exposing raw muscle and bone, his armor was smoking, the bat-like wings were exposed due to a malfunction and were warped into molten slag. Blood was pouring from his mouth, his nose, the holes that used to be his ears. The fingernails had long since popped off, but foul purple chakra continued rolling off his body.
"Is that is...is that it!?" Doto raged, whatever were left of his teeth were nothing but broken pieces. Blood and spittle flew from his mouth, his remaining eye was bulging wildly, and white-red froth was beginning to flow from his lips. "I am not done, not by a long shot! You cannot kill what refuses to die! I am perfection! My armor is perfect! Nothing can stop me!"
No more than three seconds later the body of Naruto appeared in front of him, and every fighting man and woman saw him. Koyuki only saw him from behind and was delighted to see him alive and well. But Doto, from his point of view he saw nothing more that the embodiment of fury. With his blonde hair wildly flying behind him, his tanned athletic body covered in multiple lacerations, gore, those bulging nerves, and emitting steam, his blue eyes flashing with anger, and in his left hand was that damnable sword. He had his right hand clenched into a fist.
"Futae no Kiwami (DoubleLayer Limit)!" Naruto roared at the top of his lungs. His right fist impacted the breastplate of the armor, and to the disbelief of everyone around him the armor Doto claimed to be perfect shattered like a ceramic plate, Doto screamed in denial as he watched the black armor shattered into pieces, he felt his ribs break, the breath left his lungs. He finally felt his strength leave his body and fall backwards.
"No way...Doto-sama." One of his loyal soldiers whispered in denial.
"That brat did it, he really did it!" A defector cheered.
"This can't be, our dream is no more."
"The King of Ice has been defeated!"
"All is lost!"
"The country is finally free!"
"Long live Koyuki-sama!"
"Long live Koyuki-sama!"
"Long live Koyuki-sama!"
The cheering of the victors destroyed whatever morale Doto's faction had. Many collapsed to their knees in despair, the most fanatical ones drew their own kunai's and took their own lives by driving them into their throats. Koyuki covered her mouth as tears began to flow out of her eyes when the holographic image of her and her father appeared before her.
Naruto did not hear any of it, the entire world was dead around him and all that he could see in front of him was Doto Kazahana. The blonde slowly made his way towards his downed opponent and looked down upon him. Whatever was going on with his body finally ended, his monsterous form regressed until he was back to his human form, or what remained of it. "Hey, you still alive?"
If Doto could have blinked her could have, but the man's eyelids were gone. He pathetically wheezed as if his lungs were dried out. "How...how did you destroy my armor?"
His nerves receding, and bringing up his trembling right hand Naruto showed the defeated man the charred black skin, then he showed him that it was completely jacked up. The bones were broken, and most of the skin was torn away to allow fresh blood to fall down his arm. "The Futae no Kiwami is my ultimate taijutsu technique. This technique allows me to strike an object quickly, with only milliseconds between each attack. I then completely destroy the object, letting the first strike dissipate the natural resistance of the object and the second strike destroying the object while it is weakened. That is how I destroyed your armor."
The blonde gave the man a malevolent smirk, his blue eyes flashing with hatred. "The only problem is the person who taught me it died before I could master it. All because of you and your Man in Black, so whenever I use it, I completely jack up my hand. Now tell me, who else is apart of your organization, who else caused their deaths!?"
"I'm not telling you...I only saw all those you mentioned earlier. If you want to know...go after Kanryu." Doto snarled, he tried to move his body to get up. But he couldn't, he couldn't move a single muscle anymore.
Naruto knelt beside his downed opponent, his blue eyes were dull, unforgiving. Even though his right hand was trembling, he managed to wrap both hands around his throat. "Fine. Kanryu is next...Doto before I send you to hell to meet Shishio in person let me impart you the philosophy of the man I admired most. In the end only the fittest survive in this world. If you're strong you live, if you're weak you die." He then squeezed his hands around the tyrant's throat. "So die...die...die!" He roared over the cheering.
Naruto watched as Doto struggled to remove his hands, he struggled and gasped for breath. His face turned red from the lack of oxygen, then purple, then finally blue. Doto's legs stopped kicking, his entire body stopped struggling before finally falling limp, the insane gleam in his remaining eye finally dulled when the life faded out of it.
Naruto would have continued strangling the tyrant if he didn't feel a firm hand fall upon his shoulder. Looking up he saw Kakashi with a lightly colored half mask, and what looked like a tanto in his remaining hand looking down at him. He looked...different, his lone eye was dull and tired. He honestly looked a lot like him, there was no judgement in what he did, to accusation, just cold acceptance. "Lets go Naruto, it's over."
Removing his hands from Doto's crushed throat, Naruto slowly straightened his back and swiped the Mugenjin on the scabbard, setting it alight and swept it across the deceased Daimyo's neck and watched as his head tumbled away several feet. After surviving a fifty clone explosion, a blimp crash, and everything else he threw at him, Naruto was not going to take anymore chances. The head and the body began to burn, it wouldn't take long for it to burn away into nothingness.
"Now we can go." Naruto coldly said.
At a safe distance the first camera man panted as he ran up one of the steep cliffs overlooking the battlefield. Cradling against his chest was a camera he was holding onto for dear life, his eyes were wide open with awe. He was then met by a second camera man, and a third that was standing next to their wide-eyed director.
"Did you get it? Did you get all of it?" The director demanded.
"I got all of Kakashi's fight, down to the finishing blow." The second camera man said.
"And I got the kids when he was fighting Doto miles away." The first replied.
"I got the rest, it's over director." The third said.
"Haha! Cut, that's a wrap people. The movie is over! We got a happy ending!" The director cheered. His men cheered with him, this was the movie of the century, and they filmed all of it. The good guys managed to come out ahead.
(Meanwhile in the Capital)
"It seems that Doto has fallen." Orochimaru announced.
"He did, how Orochimaru-sama?" Yoroi asked.
"Because he was weak. Due to his nature, I knew Doto was going to lose, he relied too much on his technology and had an ego the size of the Hokage Monument." The Snake Sannin lowly chuckled as he picked up several pieces of paper. "All that is left now is for the victors to take the spoils."
"So much technology, Orochimaru-sama what are you planning on doing with it all?"
"I'm going to take much of it to Otogakure, my soldiers could use these remarkable advancements to strengthen themselves. However there are a few others that my oh glorious leader would be interested in. Tell me Yoroi, did you get the device?"
"Of course Orochimaru-sama." Producing a scroll from his hip pouch, the younger man presented it to his leader. "I had to wait for that Aburame to leave, but I managed to pull the triggering mechanism, and the detonation until With maybe a few years we won't need to use a sewer system to use it."
"Kuku I honestly look forward to using it. Who needs a gigantic jutsu to level a village when all you need is a push of a button." Taking the scroll the Snake Sannin pocketed it and looked around the laboratory in the capital. Many people had fled, the rest were slaughtered by them and would be blamed on the attempted coup d'teat. "Yoroi, we took all that Snow Country was able to provide for us. It's time to return home."
"Home. I honestly cannot wait." Yoroi closed his eyes behind his dark glasses and felt his master's hand rest upon his shoulder. The both of them disappeared from Snow Country, never to return. In the end the true winner wasn't the shinobi of Konohagakure, but him.
Omake: Hidan's misfortune
"Hidan you stupid idiot, we're going to be late because of you and your stupid God again." Kakuzu cursed at his partner, it wasn't the first time, nor was it the last time he would do this. Their job was supposed to be simple, they had a target, they were supposed to infiltrate some underground base, kill the leader, bring back the body, and get paid. But his partner had to spend two hours praying to his stupid God, and then the maniac butchered everyone in the base before they got to the leader.
"Shut the hell up Kakuzu! Jashin-sama demands the blood of my enemies and to go against him is blasphemous!" Hidan angrily roared at his partner. Like Kakuzu he wore grey pants with matching sandals, a black cloak with red clouds one it, he kept it slightly open to reveal his crossed out Yugakure Hitai-ate around his neck and a black amulet that has an upside down triangle inside a circle attached to a thick chain. He had medium-length grey hair that was slicked back and distinctive purple eyes. He also wore dark green nail polish and his orange Akatsuki ring was on his left index finger, which bared the kanji symbol for "three" on it. Hidan swung his trademark weapon, a red triple-bladed scythe at the taller Akatsuki member.
Kakuzu sighed in annoyance, raising his right hand he grabbed the haft of the weapon, stopping it inches from his face. "Knock it off. You're going to damage the merchandise." The attempt on his life didn't even phase him, it happened three to four times a week. Lightly shifting the body on his shoulder, the Missing-nin pushed his partner away.
"Your greed will send you to the deepest pits of hell Kakuzu!"
"That will be the day I believe in Jashin."
"Oh yea, well when I send you to him, you will-" Hidan was interrupted when a portal opened on his right side, and dozens, upon dozens of snow wolves emerged from it. The Jashinist was then mauled and clawed by the beasts, his screams filling the forests before they disappeared. When they were gone, Hidan was a bloody, twitching mess. His throat was ripped open, his guts stretched several feet out of his stomach, his legs were torn off along with his right arm, his was covered in bite marks and frozen in several places.
"Huh, that's the second time that happened this week." Kakuzu remarked seeing his twitching partner. Almost a week prior another portal opened up and Hidan was drowned by a water dragon, crushing most of his internal organs, impaled to a tree by ice needles, and then frozen solid by a gigantic ice hawk. That was the most peaceful day he had in years since being partnered with the major thorn in his side. Lightly scratching his head Kakuzu debated on sewing his partner up.
He actually debated that for an hour before he finally did it. If he left Hidan on the side of the road the leader of the Akatsuki would just assign him another partner that would die because of him. At least with Hidan he could somewhat tolerate the fact he was somewhat professional and didn't die if he got caught in the crossfire.
That did not mean he wouldn't take his sweet time in putting his partner back together, the trip towards Zangei's bounty station was the most peaceful one he had in years.
Armageddon: Well hello everyone, I hope you're having a good day, and I hope this latest chapter makes it better. I also sincerely hope you enjoyed reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it. If you didn't...they why the hell are you here?
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Armageddon: ...That was meant to be rhetorical you jackasses.
All right, well I am happy with how this chapter went about, there was carnage, fighting, cursing, and death...oh so much death. I also thought the omake was well needed...because I forgot to do the other one two chapters back that was my bad. And now you know why I didn't have Naruto use the Futae no Kiwami off the bad. If you're calling bullshit, then recall in chapter seven when he destroyed that tree his hand was trembling afterwards. I don't do this bullcrap without reason.