A/N Welcome back to another installment of Red Dawn Rising - Revenge of a Demon. Just a reminder, those two outcomes do not lead to different endings. they were supposed to symbolize the choice Naruto had to make between his love (outcome 1) or his hate (outcome 2). I will continue those in this chapter as well, so prepare for another LOOONG ass chapter once again. Here it is folks, the final showdown. Enjoy
Jutsu Translations at bottom
Chapter 20 - Duel of Fate
Sicut frigus sunt strata ruinis et terram ut diabolus protrudit peragemus ad metam vigilemus,
Et illic iter, quo maior plaga Pervenerit etiam terra tenebrarum.
Ut sciamus perdere mundi plaga magna, et nudabit eam mittere in aevum omne chaos interitus et caligo.
Inde diabolus ad virum qui transfigurat pugnatura inprobus magna a plaga et salvificem mundum.
Lux et caligo circum aequales proelio maximis copiis in morte infernus inter bonos viros revelationem omine.
Vincere est malum hoc ... daret animam suam salvam facere, unum de aliis.
Sciendum est, morietur.
(As our cold and dead bodies are strewn across the ground, we watch as the Devil pushes onward towards his goal)
(And on his way there, a greater darkness then even He arrives to plague the earth.)
(This great plague will destroy the world as we know it, strip it of all life and send it into the age of chaos, destruction, and darkness)
(From this point on, the Devil himself transforms from the villain to the hero that will combat this great plague and save the world)
(Surrounded by his comrades of darkness and light, they fight to the death against the great plagues forces of the Underworld, an ominous revelation spurring among the heroes.)
(To defeat this plague...one of their own must give his life to save the rest.)
(One must die.)
-Sunagakure - Kazekage Tower-
Gaara was alone in his office, working yet again on paperwork until a large thunderclap echoed out over his village, Gaara looking up at the storm clouds forming.
"Gaara...It's time." said Shukaku, Gaara standing up from his chair and grabbing his gourd before jumping out the window onto a cloud of levitating sand.
"Let us make haste." he said as they zoomed off from the village in the direction of the source of the clouds.
-Iwagakure-
Kokuo and Son Goku were quietly meditating before Kokuo's ears perked and he opened his eyes, his face holding an expression of utmost seriousness. Son Goku opened his eyes as well and he nodded, both of them standing up and running out of the mountain under the dark shadow of the thunder clouds.
-Kumogakure-
Killer B was sleeping before he awoke with a jolt from the sudden boom of thunder over the village. He quickly slipped on his glasses and looked up into the dark sky, Gyuki sharing the same thought as him.
"Shit's about to hit the fan, ain't it?" asked B, Gyuki sighing deeply.
"We must see your brother and free Matatabi. It's time for us to go."
"Right." said B before he got dressed in a flash and was out the door of his room, racing up the stairs to his brother's office.
He burst in and saw his brother gazing at the storm brewing outside, deep in his thoughts.
"Bro, we got to free Matatabi. It's of the utmost importance." said B, A turning around and motioning to his assistant Mabui to come over to him.
"Mabui, I need you to unseal the Nibi from theKohaku no Jōhei."
"But sir." responded Mabui before A looked at her seriously, his expression telling her everything.
"Yes sir." she said with a bow before she walked over to the giant orange pot that held Matatabi and performed a series of hand signs.
"Release!" she yelled, the pots lid popping off, allowing a blue chakra to explode out of it and form into Matatabi within the large office.
She quickly transformed into her human form and joined B, sharing nods with each other as they ran out of the office.
-Border of Mountain's Graveyard - Five Hours Later-
Naruto was the first to step into the ominous place, dark clouds brewing overtop of them as they approached.
"This place gives even me the creeps, has such a bad aura." said Yahiko as he took of his mask to spit out some black goo then quickly put it back on.
"Tell me about it." said Kokuo as he and Son Goku dropped down from the trees next to him, Naruto, Kurama and Ketsueki.
"Are the others on the way?" he asked, Son Goku nodding.
"Alright, we all know what we're going to go up against. We have no idea how powerful Hagoromo's son is, but considering he is his son, we have to be very careful." said Kurama while waiting for the others to arrive.
"Yeah, this is going to be extremely dangerous." said Naruto as Matatabi and B dropped down beside them, Matatabi specifically walking over to stand close by Kurama.
Soon, Gaara arrived, followed by Saiken, who had left Amegakure after feeling the chakra in the air radiating from the clouds.
"Good, everyone is here. Now, I will say this again. This is going to be extremely dangerous, so we must be careful. This man is Hagoromo's son we're dealing with, so I cannot guarantee that we will all walk out of here...alive." cautioned Naruto ominously to everyone gathered there.
"Now, to increase our numbers, I am going to request that all Jinchuuriki unseal their Bijuu from them so we can have a little more manpower. Once this whole ordeal is over with, I can reseal them back into you all." said Naruto, Ketsueki being the first to step up.
Naruto placed his hand on Ketsueki's chest and mentally asked Chomei if she was ready.
"Do it."
Naruto closed his eyes and his hand turned into chakra before he plunged it deep into Ketsueki and drew out a blob of chakra from within him, Naruto letting it go and watching as it formed into Chomei, already in her human form.
Yahiko was next, Naruto taking out Isobu from within him and then following up with B and Gaara, Shukaku and Gyuki soon joining the group, bringing the total people count up to 14.
"Now that that's taken care of, lets get rid of this guy once and for all. Gotta get my shell shined." said Isobu with a smirk as Naruto turned and trekked into the tree infested hills of the Mountain's Graveyard, unaware of their presence had already been detected.
"So...They think that they can beat me with manpower hm…? I'm going to have to teach them a lesson for that assumption." spoke the red eyed man as he opened his eyes and stood up from the throne, looking up at the suspended bodies of White Zetsu clones hanging from its roots.
"Spiral Zetsu, come." ordered the man, a Zetsu clone with a spiral pattern stretching all over his body, except the lower parts of his arms and legs, ending in a single eyehole on his face.
"Yes Master?" he asked, the man looking down onto him as he clutched his sword Juubi in his hand.
"I still have yet to recover from revival, so I shall have need of your body so I can perform my jutsu." said the man, Spiral Zetsu nodding as his body opened, revealing he was hollow inside.
The man took off his cloak, showing he was in a black shirt and combat pants with black stockings and sandals and a necklace comprised of three red magatama around his neck.
He stepped into Spiral Zetsu's body and it completely encased him until his right eye glowed out from the single eyehole on the clone's face.
He walked over to his cloak and covered his body once again, drawing up the hood and sheathing Juubi into the built in sheath on the back of it.
He then took a seat on the ground and closed his eyes to meditate while waiting for the arrival of his guests.
-Outside entrance to Madara's Former Lair-
Naruto reached the edge of the crater, looking down onto the entrance to the lair of the once infamous Madara Uchiha, a rib cage and collar bone of a deceased gigantic animal covering it.
"There it is...Do you think he knows we're here?" asked Gaara, Naruto not answering as he slid down the slope, Kurama following behind him with the others. They walked up to the entrance, staring into the black hole of an entrance and stopping.
"Kaijoton - Kasei Furea." said Naruto, a small ball of fire igniting in his hand before floating into the air to give them light.
They walked down the tunnel and began to descend into the earth, walking down the huge flight of stairs until they reached a single pair of large, stone doors.
hey all could sense one chakra signature on the other side of the door, Ketsueki paling at it.
It was bigger than anything they could imagine.
Naruto raised his hand to the doors and let go of a breathe he didn't know he had, opening the door with a soft creak. They walked inside to see a gigantic tree stem spanning hundreds of feet into the air, seeing the pinkish petals of the flower atop it from the ground. Then they saw a figure in a black cloak sitting on the ground in the middle of the large room, unable to tell what he looked like.
The man opened his eyes and smirked behind the his spiral patterned face, slowly getting up off the ground.
"What a nice gift...You all have spared me the trouble of finding you all by coming here instead." he said as he turned around to face the group, Naruto's eyes narrowing at the sight of the red eye and spiral pattern.
"That looks like Obito." whispered Kurama, Naruto nodding in agreement as the man cocked his head to the left at them.
"You must be the new Bijuu my father entrusted his hopes of beating me into." said the man, Naruto growling at him.
"And you must be his Eldest Son, the guy I'm going to murder here pretty quickly." he growled, the man laughing at his threat.
"Boy, you have no idea who you are dealing with. I am the son of the Sage of Six Paths, inheritor of his great eyes, chakra and spiritual energy, Indra Otsutsuki." said the man as he held his right hand up to the group.
"And I shall be your end. Bansho Ten'in!" he said, Son Goku's body suddenly flung forward and was caught by the throat by Ankoku, Naruto and Kurama's eyes widening.
Son Goku struggled to get out of the man's grip before he opened his mouth and said, "En'en Hōka!"
Indra smirked as the green flames burst from his mouth but instantly died, surprising the Yonbi greatly as it felt like his chakra was being absorbed.
"Preta Path." said Indra, the group of former Jinchuuriki and Bijuu watching in horror as in a matter of seconds, Son Goku, being made of chakra, wrinkled up like a grape and turned to dust, Indra shaking a little of his hand.
"Oh my god...What the hell did he just do?!" stuttered Kokuo, in shock at the apparent death of Son Goku.
"And don't worry, he won't be coming back anytime soon. I've absorbed all his chakra so he can't be revived. Son Goku is truly dead." smirked Indra, Naruto's entire body shaking in fear.
"He...He used an ability granted through the Rinnegan called the Preta Path. It allows the user to absorb any jutsu thrown at it and can absorb chakra through contact with another person. The first thing he did was called Banso Ten'in, an ability similar to the laws of gravitational attraction and repulsion through the Deva Path. I don't know how he can use them though, since he doesn't possess the Rinnegan." stuttered Naruto before Indra laughed once again.
"You didn't listen. I inherited my Father's eyes, and you know that my blood splits into two well known clans, both of which possessing one of the Three Great Dojutsu." he said, Saiken snapping his fingers when he found the answer.
"You're the ancestor of the Hyuuga and Uchiha clans, their eyes having descended from yours."
"Correct, you see, my eyes are a hybrid of all three Great Dojutsu. I possess the abilities of the Byakugan, the Sharingan, and my father's Rinnegan up to a certain degree, meaning I can only use three of the six paths along with the Outer Path." said Indra while pointing at his spiral patterned eye before he drew his sword and aimed its tip at them.
"Now enough talk, I have need of your chakra." he said before Naruto snarled in anger.
"Kaijoton - Jigoku no eien no hono!" he yelled as he spit out a huge stream of red fire that raced towards the ancient Otsutsuki.
"Preta Path!" he yelled as he held up his open hand, a shield of white chakra forming and connecting with the fire, absorbing it quickly. Suddenly Isobu appeared behind him, his cheeks filled with water as he shot out one of his compressed water balls at him.
Indra swung Juubi backwards and sliced right through the water ball before he locked his eye with the Bijuu and yelled, "Amaterasu!"
Isobu leaped back as a burst of black fire nearly hit him as it struck a wall of the cave and began to eat away at the stone.
By that time Naruto's jutsu had been fully absorbed, Indra leaped into the air as he dodged a swipe from Kurama's claws before he smashed down onto the ground behind him and said, "Hakke Hasangeki!"
He threw his fist forward, sending a huge burst of chakra into Kurama's back that sent him crashing into one of the walls of the cavern leaving a gigantic crater.
"We can't fight someone that has the powers of all Three Great Dojutsu!" yelled Yahiko as he felt his Water Mask get killed by a blast of Amaterasu from Indra, cursing silently.
"I have an Idea. I know a blind spot for the Byakugan but its tough to reach unless he's distracted. I need you, Kokuo and B to distract him while I go in for the kill." said Naruto, Yahiko nodding as he joined up with B and Kokuo.
They attacked Indra simultaneously while Naruto entered his Two Tailed Version 1 state and raced behind Indra, leaping into the air before formed a chakra receiver in his left hand.
"Suck on this asshole!" he yelled as he threw the chakra receiver with precision and accuracy, straight down the blindspot of that it stabbed right through his neck, blood spilling out from the wound.
"Nice one!" yelled Kokuo before Indra coughed and he pulled out the rod from his neck, a stream of white chakra leaving his body and disintegrating into the air.
"What the hell?!" he gasped before Indra raised both arms and yelled, "Shinra Tensei!"
Everyone in the entire room was blasted back by the force of the repulsion, a small crater forming underneath Indra.
"Good job, you actually managed to score a hit on me. Though all it did was take away the powers of the Byakugan. You're going to have to do a lot more than that to kill me, if you can." sneered Indra before he formed a single seal and slapped it to the ground.
"Kuchiyose no Jutsu!"
A huge plume of smoke appeared around him and Naruto thought he saw something similar to a reptile appear in the smoke until it disappeared, Indra appearing once again when the smoke dissipated.
"Nice summon!" he laughed while Gaara sent a wave of sand behind the man to try and crush him with. Indra not only dodged the strike of sand but rolled away and sent another blast of Amaterasu at Gaara, forcing him to hide behind a wall of sand.
"What the…?" thought Matatabi before she spotted something move across the wall though barely, seeing how the wall shifted a little like camouflage.
"He did summon something but I'm not sure of what it is! It seems likes it invisible!" she yelled while she tried to keep track of the invisible creature.
"Wait a minute, if he possess the powers of the Rinnegan, than he must possess its shared field of vision...which means…."
"Matatabi, where is it?"
"To your left!"
Naruto spun to his left and threw his fist into the spine of the invisible creature, its camouflage disappearing to reveal it to be a giant chameleon with the Rinnegan before it poofed away, just like Naruto suspected.
"Damn it, they figured out that trick. That kid must've fought someone with the Rinnegan in the past." thought Indra before B appeared out of no where and smashed the crook of his arm into his throat, sending him flying back into the stem of the giant flower.
"Suck on my Lariat Mother Fucker!" he shouted, Indra falling to the ground with a grunt as Spiral Zetsu's throat was heavily bleeding green liquid.
Before he could recover, sand wrapped around him and Gaara closed his hand tightly, saying, "Sabaku Sōsō."
The sand around Indra imploded, a fountain of green liquid exploding outward from the sand and splattering everywhere, supposedly killing the man.
Gaara parted the sand to see the tattered cloak and crushed remains of Spiral Zetsu instead, his crushed body opened like a flower with nothing inside.
"Where'd he go?" asked Isobu before a dark figure dropped down behind him like a cat, black metal glistening in his hands.
The sound of metal piercing flesh made everyone snap their heads around to see Juubi's tip extending outward from Isobu's chest, trickling with blood.
"Y-Yahiko…" he uttered before his body shriveled up and turned to dust, just like Son Goku's body did.
"Isobu!" cried Yahiko before he snarled in anger at Indra formed a sign with his left hand.
"Raiton - Kaminari furasshu gyaku no furasshu!" he snarled, his Lightning Mask leaping down behind Indra and opening its mouth with a crack before shooting out a cyclone of lightning that struck him in the back and ripped apart his back, leaving a nasty burnt patch of skin that quickly healed itself after it released the Sharingan's chakra from his body.
"Dammit! There goes my Sharingan. They're more persistent than I thought. Very well, time to use that special jutsu father created." thought Indra before he looked at the group of people and clapped his hands together.
"Gedo - Henzai-shin no gōmon shōkō!" he said, Naruto's eyes widening as he began to see his red eyes begin to spin slowly, the same reaction happening with everyone else.
Suddenly Naruto found himself in a dark room, blackness everywhere.
His entire body shook as his chakra became disrupted, his vision blurry and hazy.
A single Rinnegan eye opened up in the dark, glaring down onto Naruto. He looked up at it before a black metal rod exploded from the ground and rammed through his wrist, making Naruto grunt as blood dripped down his wrist. Another eye opened up, this time on the opposite side of the room, another black chakra rod appearing from the ground and stabbing through his entire chest.
"Agh! I gotta...get out of this...Genjutsu…" he grunted as he spit out blood.
In the real world, blood started to trickle down everyones chins, their experiences inside the Genjutsu making their body think its actually real.
Naruto began to rack his mind for a solution out of the Genjutsu and he found it when he remembered something Shikamaru said during his fight with one of the Sound Four, Tayuya was her name.
"I was stuck in her Genjutsu and the only way I could get out of it was I had to break my own thumb and use the pain to snap me out of it."
"Perfect." he thought as he sent a trail of his chakra up to his wrist and wrapped around it tightly, preparing himself for the pain.
He jolted awake and held his broken wrist, seeing everyone else was still under the Genjutsu while Indra was facing the other direction, forming other hand signs.
Instantly Naruto went into his Four Tailed Version 2 mode and began to form a small dark sphere.
"Bijuu-Dama!"
"What?!" gasped Indra as he whirled around, just in time to see the Bijuu Dama slam into his gut and explode in a huge dome of fire and chakra, the other Bijuu and former Jinchuuriki snapping out of the Genjutsu.
"Nice save Naruto, now to finish off that guy." growled Shukaku as Indra appeared from a pile of rubble, his black shirt completely torn off, and his eyes boiling with rage.
"Shinra Tensei!" he bellowed, the cavern exploding as the blast, many times bigger than the one that Nagato used with his Deva Path to carve out the village into a massive crater, reducing the entire cavern and entrance to the hideout to nothing, a gigantic crater replacing the ground and surrounding forest.
Naruto got up dazed before he felt his body flung forward, his eyes widening as he slammed into Indra's fist, knocking the wind out of him before he was kneed in the face and slashed across the chest with Juubi.
He stumbled back and saw part of cloak through his demonic chakra where the sword had slashed him before it reformed back over it.
"That sword can absorb chakra too?" asked Naruto, Indra heaving the sword over his shoulder and smirking as Kurama, Matatabi, and the others began to slowly get up from the ground.
"It is crafted from the same material as those chakra receivers in your arm and function as the same thing, only this sword has a mind of its own. Within this sword is the last remaining fragment of the chakra from the legendary Juubi, the Ten Tails before it was split apart into the nine Bijuu by my father." revealed Indra, Naruto's eyes widening in shock.
"I plan to capture you all then use the chakra in this sword to remake the Juubi once again and transform it back into its original form, the Shinju tree, and use its power to cast the Unlimited Tsukuyomi onto this pathetic world!"
"Hagoromo said you used your chakra to return to this world and manifest yourself into the body of someone I once met or knew. Just who the hell are you?!" yelled Naruto, Indra smirking as he dug his fingers into his face's skin and began to pull it away, revealing an entirely new face behind it that shook Naruto down to the core of his very being.
"You recognize this man...don't you." said Indra while Naruto stepped away from him, Indra's voice exiting the man's lips, but his face was that of none other than the very person who had sent him on this quest to gain peace.
The face was that of Nagato Uzumaki.
"You...You bastard!" snarled Naruto as Indra shed his skin, revealing Nagato's now rejuvenated younger body and red hair, a feature distinct to the Uzumaki clan, while Indra's eyes and voice were the only differences.
"I found this body the most suitable to my needs since he once held the Rinnegan. What's wrong, you seem like you've seen a ghost!" laughed Indra as he kicked Naruto in the gut and sent him flying back to the others, Kurama catching him.
"What happened?"
"He manifested his chakra into Nagato's body...I-I can't fight him...It's Nagato…" stuttered Naruto before Kurama looked him in the eyes.
"That is not Nagato! That is Indra and we need to stop him before he unleashes the Unlimited Tsukuyomi! If you're going to act like some crybaby bitch then get the hell outta here!" yelled Kurama, Naruto looking up at him with shock in his eyes at the words his friend just uttered.
"Y-You're right. That's not Nagato. He may look like him, but it's not." said Naruto as he stood up shakily and looked at Indra as lightning flashed from the dark storm clouds above.
"Here's something that will even the odds. Kirigakure no Jutsu!" said Yahiko as he held his hand up into the air, a swirling spiral of mist snaking outwards from his fingers and beginning to blanket the crater, Indra growing a scowl on his face as the thick mist overtook him.
"They think they can hide inside this mist...They're wrong." said Juubi venomously, Indra smirking as he crouched down towards the ground and closed his eyes.
"Gedo - Tenjō saito." he said, his eyes opening, the chakra in the mist dulling to a low grey while the chakra of Naruto and the others became bright red.
He looked to his left and saw three figures around another, recognizing the chakra as the one who cast the Jutsu.
"Your own jutsu just became your downfall." he thought as he crept through the mist towards Yahiko, so silent that not even Yahiko, who was well adept with the Silent Killing Technique, didn't even hear him approach.
The mist started to dispel and Naruto turned, expecting to see Indra dead at Yahiko's feet but instead...he received the opposite. Indra had stabbed Juubi through Yahiko's heart and had let him drop to the ground, his other hearts instantly moving in quickly.
"What the?" he wondered before the Fire Heart launched a blast of fire at him that forced him to leap back while his Lightning and Earth hearts jumped into his body, followed by the Fire Mask. The Earth mask suddenly disintegrated while the tangle of tendrils continued to squigle around on his back before Yahiko's body jerked up and down.
Color returned to his skin as the Earth Mask replaced his other heart with its own, reviving Yahiko and allowing him to live once more.
Yahiko growled as the tendrils poured out of his mask and popped it off, his arms separating at the stitch marks at his wrist, his forearm and middle of his upper arm, becoming something similar to tentacles.
"What the hell are you?!" asked Indra while Yahiko's Fire and Lightning Hearts emerged from the tangle of tendrils still swarming out from his back.
"It's called the Earth Grudge Fear, and its only fitting I steal your heart to replace the one I lost!" snarled Yahiko as his Fire Mask's mouth snapped open, a fireball starting to form.
"Katon - Gōka Mekkyaku!" he yelled, the mask shooting a gigantic stream of fire at Indra, who simply raised his hand and allowed the Preta Path power to start to absorb the Jutsu.
Suddenly one of Yahiko's arms curled around to dome and raced towards him, punching him straight in the jaw, making him lose concentration and dispel the chakra dome and allowed Yahiko's jutsu to overwhelm him with the intense inferno.
"Hurry up and use your chakra to summon Hagoromo so we can seal this guy up permanently!" yelled Ketsueki as he formed three tentacles of blood in preparation when the man would emerge from the blazing fire.
"Right!" agreed Naruto as he close his eyes and tried to summon Hagoromo, feeling the man's chakra within him, yet he would not appear.
"Hahaha! You're trying to summon my own father to seal me away?! Tough luck pal, but he ain't coming." laughed Indra as he emerged from the fire and clasped his hands together, his eyes filled with insanity as a black figure made entirely out of the roaring flames of Amaterasu formed around him, a skeletal body taking shape.
It was Indra's own Susano'o, made entirely out of the black fires of Amaterasu.
"Tengei Shinsei!" he yelled as he formed the Ram, Snake and Bird hand signs simultaneously with his Susano'o, a dark shadow instantly blanketing the entire crater.
Naruto looked into the sky and soon everyone else grew a look of terror on their faces at the sight of the gigantic hunk of rock hurtling through the clouds down towards them.
"How the hell are we supposed to stop that?!" yelled Shukaku before Ketsueki looked over at Naruto with serious eyes.
"Naruto, get me angry."
"What? What are you talking about?"
"I said make me angry!"
"Why the hell would I do that for? You'd go on a rampage!"
"Just do it god dammit!" yelled Ketsueki, Naruto grumbling as he looked at Ketsueki and prepared some choice words.
Those words that came from Naruto's lips made Ketsueki's eye twitch and his veins bulge, his fists tightening to the point that he was drawing blood from his fingernails digging into his palm. He snarled like a wild animal as gigantic blood tentacles exploded out from his back and snaked into the air, smashing into the underside of the meteorite, the giant rock starting to slow down.
"It's...working! Keep...going!" said Ketsueki through grunts as his feet began to dig into the rock.
"The only reason why you're alive is because I granted you mercy, you lowlife piece of shit! I would've finished the job those ANBU started on you and made the world a better place without you stinking it up! You don't deserve to live right now and-" yelled Naruto before Ketsueki howled in rage as the tentacles grew bigger and his eyes filled with insane rage.
"He actually stopped the meteor? Well, let's see if he can handle two." thought Indra as above the first meteorite came another one, twice the size of the first.
It crashed down into the first and Ketsueki grunted as his feet sunk into the ground three feet and continued to sink as the meteorites fell towards the earth.
Naruto continued to swear at him in the most vulgar ways, making Ketsueki's rage increase to the point of explosion as he used all his brute strength to stop the two meteors, a feat that Indra was surprised by.
"That young man possesses a lot of brute strength." he said with respect, his sword Juubi however, had a different opinion.
"Kill him."
Indra grasped Juubi's hilt and rushed at the group, Naruto only having time to blink before he saw a flash of black and Ketsueki's eyes widened as blood exploded out from his midsection and poured down his cloak and onto the ground in a huge stream.
"Huh…?" he asked before his tentacles fell apart and he collapsed to the ground in two, his legs and waist being separated from his upper body.
"Ketsueki!" cried Chomei as she ran over to her Jinchuuriki and clutched his head in her arms, his eyes rapidly blinking as he began to slowly pass out.
"Chomei...It feels so cold…"
"Don't go, don't go please just hang on!" she cried with tears starting to fall down her cheeks while the color started to leave Ketsueki's eyes.
"Bijuu-Dama!" yelled Saiken, having transformed into his Bijuu form and launched a Bijuu-Dama at the meteors, effectively destroying them with the attack and raining debris and rubble down into the crater.
Naruto could only stare, petrified at the sight of Ketsueki, dying in Chomei's arms while Indra watched with a devious smirk a couple of yards away.
"Tsunoori!" bellowed Kokuo, also in his Bijuu form as he charged Indra like a bull and rammed his horns into the ground, ripping up the stone while ankoku effortlessly leaped back to avoid any serious damage.
"Naruto, what happened bro? Why didn't that foo Hagoromo show up?" questioned Killer B while Naruto shook himself of the image of Ketsueki, Chomei already having closed his eyes and continued to weep over his death.
"I don't know, I can feel his chakra but I can't draw it out." he said before Indra's laugh broke the silence afterwards.
"Wondering why you can't summon my father? Allow me to let you in on a little secret...You can't summon him unless you have all his chakra present. And If I can recall, I've already killed two Bijuu, so it's impossible to summon him! You all are going to die!" said Indra as he strung together more hand signs and suck in a huge gulp of air.
"Katon - Zukkoku!" he said as he spit out three basketball size fireballs from his mouth, Saiken leaping in front of Kokuo and the others and allowing the huge explosions resulting from the fireballs to harm him and not the others.
"We need to figure out a way to seal him, fast!" yelled Saiken as he healed himself with his chakra and distracted Indra with his acid spit.
"There is one way we can seal him…" said Kurama while glancing at the others, Naruto raising his eyebrow.
"It's similar to the Shiki Fūjin that Hiruzen used to seal the First and Second Hokage's soul along with his during Oto's invasion of Konoha, only you seal their soul into your own body and take your own life. The Shiki Gisei Inkan." he said, Shukaku instantly getting what he meant.
"One of us has to sacrifice themselves to seal Indra…" he said while he glanced at the others, Naruto's eyes falling as he got up.
"I'll do it. I've already gotten my revenge."
"No, I will." said Kurama, Naruto blown away by Kurama's proposition.
"Kurama, no! You...You can't!"
"I can and I will. You see, all this time I've been feeding you my chakra little by little, you growing in power while I shrunk. That time I transformed into my Bijuu form when we attacked Otogakure was my last. I can't transform anymore and can't use my Demonic Chakra much any more without becoming exhausted. Naruto, I've become human. Which means I can perform the Shiki Gisei Inkan."
"I don't care if you're a human or not, you can't die!" said Naruto before Kurama rested his hand on his shoulder, looking him straight in the eye.
"Naruto, I've trained you in everything I know and you yourself have become a Bijuu. It's time that I stepped down and let you take my spot as the Kyuubi." said Kurama, Naruto looking at him with sadness and a open mouth, wanting to say something but couldn't.
"Now go, get outta here! All of you! I'll hold him off long enough for you to get away from here! And whatever you do, once the sealing is complete...Don't release my jutsu!" yelled Kurama as he stood up from his kneeling position and stared at Indra.
"I wonder what you have up your sleeve this time?" he asked with a smirk before he felt something wrap around his wrists.
He looked down and saw golden chakra chains snake around his arms and legs, restraining him from movement.
Kurama landed on the last sign and shouted, "Fuuin no Jutsu - Shiki Gisei Inkan!"
As soon as he said it, a ghostly image of the Shinigami appeared behind him and spread apart its arms, one being wrapped in beads. Kurama's soul was drawn out from him and was held in place behind him by locks of the shinigami's white hair, Indra's eyes widening as he started to realize what he was performing.
"I'm going to take you with me bastard!" yelled Kurama as he grasped Indra by the shoulders and grunted as the Shinigami thrusted its arm through Kurama's soul, appearing out of his gut and latching onto Indra's stomach, slowly drawing out his soul.
Indra tried to free himself from his bonds but it proved futile as his power faded with the drawing out of his soul.
"Seal!" he yelled, Kurama's shirt ripping open as Indra's soul and chakra was sealed into his body, the seal's mark appearing on his skin while Kurama breathed in hard gasps of breath.
"And Naruto…" he said with a tired glance at Naruto, who was looking at him with fear.
"I'm glad that I was sealed inside of you, and that we became friends." said Kurama with a smile as blood accumulated from his lips and dripped down his chin as the Shinigami pulled the knife out from his teeth and stabbed it into Kurama's soul, the blue version of him being eaten by the Shinigami.
Kurama smiled again as he collapsed to his knees until falling flat onto the ground, Naruto and the others rushing over to him. Naruto turned him over and looked at the happy smile on Kurama's face, Naruto chuckling a little at how he was once bitter, hateful and angry all the time.
"Farewell...Kurama…" he thought as he formed a seal and watched as Kurama's body was engulfed in flames that hardened into a red crustal, encasing his body from the elements.
"Come on, we must return to Amegakure and meet with the others." he said as he picked up the crystal coffin while Ketsueki was retrieved by a still grieving Chomei.
Yahiko came across Indra's body, still clutching his sword Juubi and smirked before stepping on the blade forcefully, breaking it in two. He joined up with everyone else and left the crater and bad memories behind them, hoping to never return to the dreadful place ever again.
A/N Jutsu Translations
Kaijoton - Kasei Furea / Demonic Release - Fire Flare
Bansho Ten'in / (Universal Pull) Heavenly Attraction of All of Creation
Kaijoton - Jigoku no eien no hono / Demonic Release - Hell's Eternal flames
Hakke Hasangeki / Eight Trigrams Mountain Crusher
Shinra Tensei / (Almighty Push) Heavenly Subjugation of the Omnipresent God
Kuchiyose no Jutsu / Summoning Technique
Sabaku Sōsō / Imploding Sand Funeral/Sand Waterfall Funeral
Raiton - Kaminari furasshu gyaku no furasshu / Lightning Release - Lightning Flash Reverse Light
Gedo - Henzai-shin no gōmon shōkō / Outer Path - Torture Chamber of the Omnipresent God
Kirigakure no Jutsu / Hiding in the Mist technique
Gedo - Tenjō saito / Outer Path - Heavenly Sight
Katon - Gōka Mekkyaku / Fire Release - Great Fire Annihilation
Tengei Shinsei / (Shattered Heaven) Heavenly Obstacle Quaking Star
Tsunoori / Horn Breaking
Katon - Zukkoku / Fire Release - Intelligent Hard Work
Fuuin no Jutsu - Shiki Gisei Inkan / Sealing Technique - Dead Demon Sacrificial Seal