(With Naruto and Fu)
Naruto lunged at Pein and removed a sword from the depths of his cloak, it was the one his sister had gifted him. This was the first time he would use it in battle, he had used other swords before and had made sure to take care of this sword but he had never used it in a fight before. He unsheathed it and it glinted in the moonlight, it blended in with the snow and made it hard to see the blade. The sword's blade was silver, the same colour as his fur in fox form, he didn't know how his sister had got it but it fit him perfectly. It was a katana and was about ninety centimetres long, there was no tsuba and the handle was wrapped in a black cloth. Naruto had inscribed many tiny seals all over the sword to keep it in perfect conditions, it was, at this point, virtually indestructible after the amount of strengthening seals on it.
Naruto rushed at the closest path of Pein, which he recognised as the human path and quickly swung at it, he decapitated it in one move. The other Pein's couldn't react in time, they all jumped back when they saw the speed he could go at and were more prepared for the Sionnach when he rushed at them again and attacked the Deva path. He used Shinra Tensei to blast him away and he went flying back, the path was then destroyed be a flying Fu, who tore through his defences while his paths concentrated on the Sionnach. Pein left the bodies to be revived by the Naraka path while he sent the Asura path to take on the Sionnach while the Animal path summoned a bird for the others to fly on. The Naruka path revived the Deva and Human paths while the Jinchuuriki were distracted. The Deva path used a Shinra Tensai to blast Fu from attacking the bird and then flew after her. The bird along with the Animal and Human paths quickly following her on the bird.
Naruto sliced at the Asura path but found that he couldn't break through the skin, he decided to put his sword away and began making hand seals. He then breathed out a large burst of wind which flew quickly at the path, it was intercepted by the Preta path which began to absorb the chakra from his technique. Unfortunately for this path Naruto quickly ran at it and before the Asura path could help it he removed both its arms and its head. He then re engaged the Asura path but left a clone to make sure that the Naraka path couldn't get anywhere near the body of the Preta path. Naruto quickly ran at the Asura path and began a quick punch to its face, it wasn't damaged much but it flew back, Naruto then focused on the Naraka path which tried to stay away from him. He smirked beneath his mask and lunged at it, he quickly decapitated it and it fell to the ground, the Asura path then came after him. It now had all six arms, three faces and strange saw-like tail, the path fired off rocket hands at him and he was forced to dodge. He rushed at it, still dodging the projectiles, and came close to the path. He dodged the tail which tried to hit him during his approach and managed to avoid all his strikes, he then took out his sword and struck the path. This time he removed an arm, the path looked surprised and Naruto smirked, he channelled more wind chakra through the blade and jabbed at the rinnegan user's puppet.
The path dodged the attack but then found a sword sticking out of his chest, he turned and saw the clone that was taking care of the Preta paths body sticking its sword through his chest. The body then fell and crumpled, Naruto made sure it wouldn't move again by decapitating it. He then looked to the sky where he could see his sister fighting the airborne Pein's. He put as much chakra into his feet and jumped at the floating bird.
(With Fu while Naruto fought)
Fu found herself flying before the righted herself with her wings, she saw a large bird with two Pein's on its back. Another Pein was beside them, hovering menacingly. She quickly fired off some of Chomei's scale dust to blind her opponents but the Deva path blasted them away, she flew at the opponents on the bird too quickly for them to follow and managed to strike the Human path, knocking him off the bird. The path was falling but Fu was once again blasted away by the Deva path, she was sent flying far away but soon righted herself in time to see the Human path be saved by the bird.
She spun around in the air and yelled 'winged beheading', she fired two blades of chakra at her opponents, one hit the bird but the other was dodged, she quickly flew around them firing off blades of chakra. A few of them hit but most were either dodged or blocked by the Deva path, she was thinking of unleashing her bijuu's cloak, she finally managed to get the bird to dispel. The Animal path unfortunately summoned a large rhino to break their fall, they stayed on the ground for now and didn't do much but allowed the Deva path to watch her every move. She flew at him quickly but feinted to the side when he raised his hands to block her, she swerved to the side and fired another blade at him. He managed to dodge the blade but had already fired a Shinra Tensei at her. In the five seconds, she flew at him and was about to strike him in the stomach with a kunai, unfortunately he predicted this and had a chakra rod aimed at her stomach.
She was forced to swerve and he had time to use Shinra Tensai to fire her towards the Animal and Human paths. The rhino was about to spear her with its horn but she managed to avoid it and spun around, she re-gained her balance and turned in time to dodge a large two headed dog. She fired a blade at it with as much chakra as she could and was rewarded with the dog splitting in two, she then remembered this dog's ability and swore lightly. Now the two dogs ran at her, she flew into the air to dodge the dogs but found that the bird had been re-summoned, she was forced to dodge several chakra rods that were thrown at her.
She then flew straight at the bird too quickly for its occupants to react and stabbed the Human path in the chest with a kunai, she then threw the body to the ground and looked at the Animal path. She was thrown of the bird by the Deva path and quickly caught herself in mid-air, she turned back to the paths and saw they looked worried. She found out why when Naruto appeared on the bird, he slashed at the Animal path and cut her right arm off, he then slashed a diagonal strike at her chest. Unfortunately, he was thrown off before he could fully kill the path, though for the moment she was out of commission, she would be able to fight and possibly summon one handed so they would have to keep her permanently down.
For now, though Naruto was falling, way too high for him to land without breaking several bones, during the fight, that would equal death. He was aware of Fu scrambling to save him but the bird blocked her path, he was falling to the ground now and could do nothing to stop it. Unless, he tried what he had recently been experimenting with, at this point there was no choice. He quickly gathered some sage chakra while he fell and managed to get enough, now or never.
What he was doing would be considered impossible even by the wind masters in Suna, at least without a medium to channel chakra. Unfortunately, the masters in Suna never had access to sage mode, Naruto had made this theory but never succeeded when he began to test it, but now it was his only option. He slowly realised that the sound of the wind had stopped going past his head, he opened his eyes and looked around him. He was flying! It worked, unfortunately he could feel a considerable drain on his sage chakra, he figured that if he could actively change sage chakra into wind sage chakra he would be able to make a consistent flow of chakra to surround him constantly pushing him up. It also had the effect of acting like an armour, unfortunately it took an awful lot of chakra to keep it surrounding him, a normal person, even a sage would only last a minute at most before death. Since he needed sage chakra it made the task much harder, it also made it impossible to enter sage mode while flying.
He figured he had about two minutes before he ran out of sage chakra so he had to work quickly, he flew quickly and killed the Animal path and its bird by cutting her in half. The Deva path looked shocked at his re-appearance, he then decided to try a new attack, he put his hands together and opened them to reveal a black orb. He threw it at Naruto and Fu's direction, they dodged and were slightly confused.
"Kit, get away from that!" The Kyuubi yelled at him from his mind.
It was too late though, he felt the pull of gravity acting on him and realised that the orb must attract other objects to it. He saw the ground being pulled up and flying towards the orb, it resembled a boulder at this point but it was rapidly growing. It was huge, both he and Fu tried to fly away from the young moon but found it was getting increasingly difficult. He absentmindedly noticed that Pein was still in the same position and realised that he was when he began the technique, it didn't seem to affect him at all. Naruto guessed that maybe he could destroy the orb in the centre, he did something that caused Fu and Pein to gasp in surprise. He removed his bow, Fu realised that it was time for him to be known to the world and Pein realised that Sionnach was Naruto. Naruto aimed his bow at the very centre of the, now, moon and fired an arrow, they arrow was shaped like his Musei hiko arrow but he did a different jutsu.
"Arashinome!" (Eye of the storm) He yelled and the arrow flew into the centre of the dense mass of rock, it went straight through the rock, Naruto then smirked and made bird hand seal and whispered, "disappear silently." Then the large jutsu seemed to expand slightly for a minute before it fell apart, the rocks crumbled and fell back to the ground, Pein looked shocked.
He then started to slowly fall to the ground, exhaustion clear on his face, Naruto and Fu quickly flew down, Naruto ripped one of the chakra receivers from Pein's face and stabbed his arm with it.
"We'll be there soon." He promised before tearing it out and crushing it in his hands, he then gathered sage chakra for his flight and brought Fu with him to meet the real Nagato. The arrived and found a tree made of paper, they tore through it and saw Konan get ready to fight them but Nagato looked exhausted. "How's it going?" Naruto asked.
"You? How are you… you fooled everyone." Nagato said, confusing Konan.
"Yes, and do you know what, it worked." Naruto said before blurring out of existence and appearing behind Nagato.
"Nagato!" Konan yelled in fear, then Nagato coughed up blood and a wound appeared on his chest, a diagonal slice going from his left shoulder to his right hip. He then fell forward and died. "No!" Konan yelled sadly.
"I'm sorry, but you brought this on yourself." Fu said, she then stabbed the woman in the chest before she could react, "I hope you find happiness in the next life." She said sadly, Konan and Nagato weren't evil like much of the other Akatsuki members, they were just misguided, they felt like what they were doing was right. They would die without seeing the peace they dreamed of. Naruto quickly removed Nagato's eyes and put them in a container like the one Itachi's eyes were in.
"Now it's time to say goodbye." Naruto said, he then knocked Fu unconscious, he would have to act as he was aware that Zetsu was watching, "you were fun to fight with, and for that I won't go after your bounty, but I'm afraid that you can't follow me." Naruto said and then left. He flew off using his newly acquired skill, he felt like he was betraying his sister even though this was part of her plan.
Zetsu appeared out of the ground and smirked, "that was easy." His light side said, "yes, now we have seven of the bijuu and now know where the last two are." He said, never suspecting that the whole scenario could be a trap. "It is a shame that we lost the eyes though." White Zetsu said, "yes, but in the end, we can take them back."
(Weeks later)
Now, all the bijuu had been taken, and sealed except for Naruto, B had been taken by Obito and had been extracted a few days ago, the Raikage was angered and had declared a five kage summit. It would be held in the land of iron; the samurai would be hosting it. It was to happen tomorrow and all the kage were on their way, Naruto had decided to meet up with Tsunade on her way to the summit. Right now, he was standing on the path that she would take, he was waiting for her to show up, he finally sensed her, she was about a half mile away.
When she reached his location, he looked at her and smirked behind his mask, "hello, baa-chan." Naruto said.
"Don't you dare." She said, she had gone to the kage summit with Yugao, and Kurenai as her guards, she wanted Anko too but they were only allowed two guards, the two of them were very tense and stood beside her clenching their fists.
"Aww, what's wrong Baa-chan? Too much sake?" Naruto asked with false humour.
"Free him." Tsunade said angrily.
"Who's to say I haven't?" Naruto asked, "maybe he hates you for abandoning him, he might be plotting his revenge right now." At this they all tensed.
"Stop playing with us!" Kurenai yelled, "he would never do that!"
"Oh, but it's so fun, and you don't know him as well as I do." Naruto said.
"You're lying!" Yugao yelled in anger.
"Oh, so did he tell you his biggest secret?" Naruto asked, "no, he was too scared you'd judge him. Even now he has told no one, not even his 'mother'." In his head Naruto felt fresh fear and mentally yelled at Sionnach causing him to wince slightly, it was a good thing Kurama wasn't listening in.
"Then you don't know?" Tsunade said thinking she had won.
"Oh no, I found out after his mind broke the first time." Sionnach said dismissively. 'Shut the fuck up and change the subject.' Naruto said in the mindscape.
"Why are you here?" Tsunade asked, trying to contain her anger.
"Just wanted to say that you can tell the other kages who I am, hell, tell everyone. The Akatsuki know now, though their leader is now dead." Naruto said.
"You killed him?" Yugao asked.
"I killed the leader, there is another leader though he hides in shadows." Naruto said, "I just wanted you to know. Oh, I also love the sword you gave me."
He then puffed into smoke, proving him to be a clone leaving a very pissed off trio of women. They quickly made it to the building where the summit was being held and entered to find the other kage were already there. The summit began and was going as well as could be expected, it was interrupted however when Zetsu and 'Madara' appeared, they spoke for a while and declared the forth ninja world war, as they were about to leave Naruto appeared.
"Well, well, well. Just who I wanted to see." 'Madara' said.
"Oh, hello, why are you looking for me?" Naruto asked with false ignorance.
"Because you are the nine tails Jinchuuriki, Naruto Uzumaki." 'Madara' said.
"And you are Obito Uchiha." Naruto said shocking everyone, Obito the most, "I guess we have some things in common then, we both betrayed the village, both got brainwashed by some weirdo, both of us have stolen some eyes and both of us know exactly what you are trying to do. The difference is that you are an idiot who follows the orders of a bigger idiot." Naruto said. "Now leave." He said, Obito left, shocked that someone had found out his identity, Zetsu along with him.
"Why are you here?" the Mizukage, Mei, asked sweetly.
"For fun, why else?" Naruto replied.
"Release Naruto now." Tsunade said.
"You still think that Kyuubi's in control, you are so wrong." Naruto said and pulled off his mask. "Every word I said was true but never once did I say that I was the kyuubi, no. I am Naruto Uzumaki, son of the Yondaime Hokage of Konoha, Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki. Now I am also the last Jinchuuriki." His mask was off now showing all the scars covering his face, this shocked all of the people present.
"Your lying." Tsunade said, "Naruto would never wilfully leave the village!"
"And yet here I am, a traitor. I used the kyuubi as a cover story when I knew you would find out. I had everyone think I was dead so that I could live, free and without having to look over my shoulder to make sure that I wasn't going to be stabbed or beaten." Naruto said with venom.
"You're lying!" Kurenai shouted.
"How do you want me to prove it to you? I could let Kaa-chan take over and see what it is like when she's actually here." Naruto then turned more feral and his eyes changed to red with slits, "the kit speaks the truth." He then returned to normal.
"B-b-but-t wh-wh-what about us?" Yugao asked fearfully, she believed he was her brother.
"What about you?" Naruto asked.
"We're your sisters." Kurenai said, "why did you leave us, why did you let us think you were dead?"
"It… it was easier that way." Naruto said, regretfully, his eyes flashed blue momentarily, "that place is your home, I had no right to take that away from you."
"You're our brother! We would have stayed with you!" Yugao said.
"And that's why I didn't say." Naruto said, "it kept you safe, if the Akatsuki found out they would have come after you. I had to stay dead to make sure they wouldn't find you."
"We would have been fine, we were safe in the village." Kurenai said.
"You were safe, it was my prison. If I'd have stayed I would have just been sent on suicide missions by the council. If they found out I was alive they would have put a bounty on my head." Naruto said.
"What about your eyes? Why did they go red?" Kurenai asked.
"Maybe I just wanted to match yours." Sionnach said with a grin, his eyes flashed blue again and he looked at her sadly, "sorry, but that would take a while to explain, the short version is I-"
"Excuse me, sorry to interrupt, but we are at war right now with the god damned Akatsuki." Ay interrupted.
"Good point, now as far as I know there are only Kisame, Obito and Zetsu's army." Naruto said, his eyes going crimson again, "so unless they have any other hidden members, we'll be fine."
"I'm sorry, who's army?" Onoki asked.
"Oh, you see the white plant thing, there's an army of those. Chanel some chakra throughout your body two minutes." Naruto said, they all did so and suddenly Zetsu's sprouted off them. "Yeah, they are little parasites, but they're easy to kill." He then sliced all the Zetsu's off the kages and they fell to the ground all but one died. "They can also mimic people's chakra and change into them, the perfect spy."
"How do you know this?" Zetsu asked weakly.
"I'm just a better spy." Naruto said before slicing his head off, "so, that's all, get ready for the war, um, bye." Naruto then puffed into smoke.
"Damn it," Tsunade swore, "where did he go?"
"So, it was him the whole time huh." Yugao said sadly.
"I guess so, what do we tell Anko?" Kurenai replied.
"I don't know." Yugao replied.
(Weeks later)
The war had begun, all the nations fighting the Akatsuki, it was found out that Kabuto was working with them and had perfected the Edo Tensai. He summoned an army of ninjas from the past to fight against the armies and the, along with the armies of Zetsu had been fighting against the allied shinobi forces.
Naruto had stayed on the side-lines, he decided to watch how it all played out, he kept an eye on his sisters and Garra, he had a clone enter fox mode and watch them, if they ever needed his help they would have it. Now though he decided it was time for him to enter the war, he decided after seeing some of the shinobi summoned that this would be the time to enter the battle. He had decimated armies of Zetsu and had sealed away many of the shinobi summoned by Kabuto. He would end this war in one day, by October tenth this war would be over.
(Artemis camp)
Artemis had been preparing for this day for years, now it was only two days away, she would miss her baby's birthday, but she knew that she would be there for him. She would arrive on October eleventh, she would meet her baby and see how the other Jinchuuriki grew up. She would then take them home. For now, though there was a meeting, probably regarding this very issue. She was heading there now, she had noticed that Zoe had looked different, like she was determined to do something. She had been acting strange ever since she had asked about the quest she would leave on, she was right when she pointed out that she was acting weird. She hadn't been fair to her hunters, she had been too distracted, once her son was ok she would stop acting like the way she did. She needed to tell her hunters the true nature of her question, she hadn't got around to doing so.
She just got nervous, they hated men so how would they take the news that they would have a brother. She would tell them after the meeting, she would do it properly, and make sure they knew the situation. For now, she had a meeting to go to, she made it to Olympus and went to the council chambers.
She sat on her throne and the meeting began.
"We are here to discuss the fates of the Jinchuuriki when they come here." Ares said.
"What do you mean?" Artemis asked.
"Well, it's not like we can send them to the camp, you told us what they were, they may kill the other campers." Demeter said.
"They are as human as their siblings, they've had enough abuse because of it." Artemis growled out.
"That doesn't change things, most of them will be adults anyway. They will be unable to go to the camp." Dionysus said.
"We can sort this out when they get here." Zeus said.
"Also, what of those that were born of broken oaths?" Ares asked.
"They were born from different bodies of ours." Hera said, "besides we both used illusions, we never actually had sex with our partners. Right?" She asked Artemis who nodded in agreement.
"Fine, so it's decided, we will be able to bring all nine of them-" Hestia began.
"Eleven." Hera whispered, the others who didn't know how many kids she had looked at her incredulously, Zeus especially, he gaped at her and she blushed slightly.
"Fine, we bring them all here then what, we can't just leave them in Manhattan." Demeter said.
"That is unimportant, for now, they may stay with my hunters." Artemis said.
"That won't be possible." Zeus said, "the best option is to send them to the camp."
"Fine," Artemis said irritably, "where will my hunters stay while I'm going there?" Artemis asked.
"At the camp." Zeus replied.
"Ok, for now though get ready, their arrival will bring the new prophecy forth." Poseidon said.
"Are we still sure this is a good idea?" Demeter asked, "I mean, that prophecy is as big as the great prophecy the oracle told years ago, it may even involve it."
"We must, you know what happens when we try to stop prophecies." Hades said irritably.
"I must go now, I have to explain to my hunters where I will be going." Artemis said.
"You mean you haven't told them?" Ares said with a grin, "this is going to be fun to watch."
"You will not watch, this is a delicate affair that I will talk with my hunters privately about." Artemis said as she left.
(At Artemis camp)
The hunters had all been told by their mistress to gather around the fire in the centre of their camp, their lady had to tell them something. They waited for her to return from Olympus anxiously, Zoe assumed that this was about the quest she would go on. Finally, their mistress appeared and stood next to them, they lined up in front of her and waited for her to begin.
"My hunters, I have a mission to undertake, it is difficult to explain but…" She went on to explain the concept of the other universe she then went on to say that there were children of the gods there. "and so, my father Zeus has deigned me the task of recovering the children of Olympus from that world, before they are stuck there forever." Artemis finished.
"My lady, why has lord Zeus decided to send you there?" Phoebe asked.
"I, was one of the gods who went to that world, I knew some of the demi-gods the gods created. They were nice people and I raised some of them when they were younger, but you see they aren't exactly normal demi-gods. They are what that world calls Jinchuuriki, they have beast sealed inside them, when I selected my body I became one myself. These Jinchuuriki are treated less than human as the beasts are forces of mass destruction, they have enough power to rival us gods." The hunters were shocked at this. "I also left… something in that world that I need to recover." Artemis cursed herself for her fear of them finding out.
"Milady why don't we accompany you?" One of the younger hunters asked.
"The door between the worlds will only hold for so long, I won't be able to safely bring any of you to that realm." Artemis replied with a sad smile.
"Where shalt we stay then, whilst thou complete thine quest?" Zoe asked.
"At the camp." Artemis said, the hunters all groaned slightly at that.
The hunters then went to their tents and went to sleep, Zoe had the same dream again, but just as the arrow was about to hit, the scene changed. She was now in a void, she could hear voices whispering, coming from around her, she could see nothing. She turned trying to find the voices but could not locate them, then she heard a dark laugh, a mask appeared out of nowhere and faced her. It looked menacing in the dark void, she reached out to touch it, it reminded her of the fox it was the same colours and had the same designs, she reached for her knife but found herself unarmed. The mask continued its approach and she tried to back away, the mask turned to face her and she could see the inside of it, she couldn't move, it suddenly latched onto her face.
She woke with a start, she was fine, it was a dream. She looked around her tent and found her bow, she reached for it and brought it close, the dream meant something, she didn't know what but she did know that mask was bad. She stood up and found her mirror, she looked at it and for a flash it showed the mask, she looked again but found her face was the way it normally looked. She sighed in relief, that mask, what was it? She didn't know, it scared her though. She did know that the fox and mask were connected more than the similar appearance. She would find out though, she would then kill the fox, if necessary the owner of the mask too.