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Chapter 25
Many thoughts filtered through my mind at this very moment.
How?
How did the 4-tails get into the village? I should have been able to sense its signature if it had been inside a host, so how was it able to evade my Energy Resonance and appear out of nowhere?
Who?
There was no way the 4-Tails could sneak into my village undetected. Therefore, someone must have facilitated its intrusion into Konoha's borders but then that brought the question back to how? How did they get into the village and how did hey get ahold of Son?
Why?
Why was Son even here? He had not wasted any time in trying to disappear off the grid after having fulfilled his end of the bargain with me. No one else knew of his involvement except Kakashi and I and even then, we had no idea where he had even disappeared off to. How did he get found? Who found him? Why did they bring the 4-tails here?
Iwa didn't have this skill and neither did Kumo, but there was no doubt that they were playing a part in this game.
I suddenly narrowed my eyes as I felt one of my Amenotokotachi markers move position. Earlier when I had made contact with the stalker Kumo Ninja, I had made sure to implant my Amenotokotachi seal on his person. I had been planning on either killing him when he left the village or torturing him for information on why he had been targeting Mito, but it now served a much more important function.
The Kumo shinobi were no doubt taking advantage of the chaos and were moving towards…
Rage bubbled up within me before it was replaced by a cold seething disdain.
They actually dared to go after Mito?
I would slowly inquire him for information, however, I wasn't too worried now.
Kakashi was still guarding the residence and I was confident enough that he would be able to escape with Mito and hold his own once he sensed them coming. If not, I already had contingencies in place.
This was no coincidence.
Someone had figured out that Kushina had gone into labor and that the Fourth Hokage wasn't around. They had perfectly timed the release of Son Goku within the village. The question was how did they find out about it? Kushina had gone to labor only 10 minutes or so ago. It was nearly impossible for anyone to figure out that the Hokage was occupied unless they had been right there when her water had broke which was equally as impossible because I would have been able to sense-
My body suddenly shuddered, abruptly ending my thoughts.
I looked all around me as I narrowed my eyes, yet I couldn't understand what had just sent my Instinct on high alert…aside from the rampaging ape of course.
"!"
I abruptly stood up and rapidly looked every which way as I tensed.
I didn't know what but…
Something was coming.
"Go help stabilize the situation there." I said to the Anbu, as I began to calm myself.
They paused at that before one of them spoke up, "But we were ordered to guard here."
I shook my head, "Trust me, your presence would be much more appreciated over there. I'll stay here and handle any situation that is to come."
They still seemed troubled "Even if you say that…"
A beastly roar reverberated throughout Konoha as Son began swinging his tails, destruction following in his wake.
I raised a brow, "Are you really not going to go? Besides, I'm technically in charge, so you have to go anyway."
They all looked at each other, deliberating on what to do at that moment.
Then, they nodded at me, having come to a decision. With that, they all vanished in a burst of speed, leaving me here to guard the area.
With that, I sat down and carefully paid attention to my surroundings with a serious gaze. I couldn't understand why my Instinct was acting up as I couldn't sense anything-
"!"
I didn't bother to understand who or what was about to attack me.
I simply moved.
I launched my body off of the Torii Gate I had been on and no sooner did something from the above crash into and destroy it with devastating force. As I traveled through the air, I turned my body to see what had tried to attack me.
And it was then I realized.
It wasn't 'what' had tried to attack me.
It was who.
I immediately flipped and landed on the ground before quickly observing the intruder. He was an individual with an average height who wore a purple lined black hooded cloak and a yellow mask with a black flame-like pattern, a single eye hole visible on it.
He looked at me.
And moved.
My eye sharpened as he suddenly appeared in front of me, his fist poised to strike. He was so fast that I was unable to react before I was struck in the face, my cheek rippling from the impact and my body sent flying away. I tumbled and bounced across the ground while my body demolished the trees in its path until all my kinetic energy was used up as I slid to a stop.
As the dust settled, I opened my eye and spit out the blood from my mouth before wiping my lips. I groggily stood up and couldn't help the chill that pervaded my spine.
I hadn't sensed that individual when he had first arrived.
That should have been impossible.
As long as you were alive and in front of me, I could sense you.
That's what had always happened.
Yet, not only had I not sensed him, I hadn't been able to sense his emotions.
It was like he was a ghost.
Like he didn't exist.
It was only when he had struck me for that brief moment that I had sensed his chakra.
And I recalled it.
I felt a familiar chakra signature.
It was the same bizarre signature I had felt over a year ago.
The same one that had been there when Rin had died.
My body tense and Instinct telling me to go the other way, my eyes glowed as I scanned his strength.
I tensed.
He was strong.
"!"
I ducked, my head narrowly avoiding the fist that suddenly passed over my head. I jumped forward with a quick tuck and roll before I slid to a stop and steadied my breath.
"And he is very fast." I thought, in trepidation.
This enemy was powerful.
He had unknown skills.
Unknown motives-
My pupils shrank and I hurriedly crossed my arms in front of my chest before a devastating kick shattered my arms. I coughed out blood as my body was sent rocketing backward before I felt my back brutally impact the face of the mountain, a crater forming and enlarging immensely in response.
Then, I felt a hand around my neck before it squeezed hard and while I didn't need air to breathe, the feeling of my neck getting crushed wasn't pleasant.
It was apparent to me that I couldn't win with my base strength.
In that case.
Sage Transformation {Mode}!
[3rd Person POV]
Yoru's body began to transform.
Pristine white reptilian scales appeared on portions of his body, covering the outer edges of his face and extending down from the side of his neck to the sides and back of his arms, upper body, and lower body. His eyes changed color, turning golden from their original silver coloring. His pupils transformed, becoming narrowed and slit…
Like a snake's
Two pristine horns grew from either side of his head.
His hair became fiery white as it radiated energy.
A brilliant cloak of pure white energy covered his body, the winds churning in response. The rocks behind Yoru cracked while portions of his white chakra shroud formed into ethereal snakes that moved and coiled around his body.
The entire transformation took mere moments.
Then…
He opened his eyes, his pupils constricting.
"Unhand me, scum."
The 9 white energy borne snakes all opened their mouths as energy coalesced within before they fired devastating beams of energy at the Masked Man. The entire process happened so quickly and at point blank range, the Masked Man was unable to react in time. He was blasted away into the distance and crashed into the forest and traveled to the distance, leaving a trail of dirt, debris, and splinters as his body leveled the obstacles in its path.
Yoru dusted himself off before he snapped his fingers. Numerous dense particles of magnetic metals emerged from the ground before they coalesced to form a large metallic throne. Yoru sat down and crossed his legs before he rested his arm on the armrest of the metal throne. He leaned his cheek onto the back of his palm and utilized his Magnet Release to levitate his throne in the air. He flew forward in a vertical motion, his gaze impassive, as he followed the path of bare dirt and destruction.
As he could not sense the intruder's chakra, Yoru used his other senses in order to pinpoint his enemy.
The enemy was-
"!"
It barely qualified as 'danger' to Yoru as he turned to face the sudden attack from above. Seeing the enemy using the same tactic twice, Yoru kept his expression stoic. He spun his throne of metal around towards the intruder and immediately expelled an immense amount of Majestic Destroyer Flames which engulfed the enemy…
"Hoh…?"
Yoru thought as an arm shot out from the blast of fire and reached towards his face. Just as Yoru thought it would touch him…
The arm phased through his face.
Yoru easily understood that the enemy was trying to ensnare him with the chain he held between his hands, yet his expression remained unchanged.
"Useless."
Magnet Release.
By his will, just as the chain was about to wrap around him, it stopped.
Yoru waved his hand.
The chain and its owner flew into the distance with immense speeds as Yoru brought them further away from the birth chamber. He continued his flight on his metallic throne and followed after the Masked Man.
Said individual, however, immediately righted himself in midair and flipped before dragging his feet on the ground and coming to a halt. The Masked Man then stood up and watched the approaching Yoru before dusting himself off. In a swirl of distorted space, the chain between the Masked Man's hands disappeared.
Yoru looked down at him from above and outstretched his free hand before manipulating the natural energy in the atmosphere and saturating the ground with it. In sage mode, he could instinctually infuse inanimate objects with natural energy and give them "life" making them much easier to manipulate.
"Let's see how well you can dance."
With those words, he spread his fingers.
Immediately after, the ground began to squiggle and squirm as if they were made of liquidated rubber. Numerous large snakelike forms began to materialize from the earth before launching themselves at the Masked Man.
The Masked Man crouched low before launching himself off the ground right before the wriggling snake-like pieces of earth impacted the area he had previously been in. He dodged and weaved through the serpentine appendages of the earth that continually sought to ensnare him while his feet rapidly traversed across the ground.
His eyes half-lidded in apathy, Yoru twitched his fingers.
Suddenly, the ground beneath the Masked Man caved in causing him to sink beneath as if he was standing on an elastic ball. Yoru then pinched all five of his fingers together, causing the ground to close up above the Masked Man in response-
A spike of wood erupted from beneath the ground where the Masked Man was buried.
Yoru's slitted pupils gleamed.
Then another spike of wood emerged from the earth.
And another-
Abruptly, gigantic squirming tree roots erupted from the ground all around the area the Masked Man had been sealed in. He then emerged from the dirt and slapped his hands on the ground.
The entire area, a kilometer around, trembled as large thick tree roots sprung up from the earth before launching themselves towards Yoru in the sky. His gaze indifferent, Yoru mentally commanded his throne of metal to zoom through the air in evasive maneuvers.
The tree roots pierced through the air as they inched closer towards Yoru who remained sitting cross-legged on his throne with an impassive gaze. With a thought, the metallic throne suddenly tilted to the left, narrowly dodging the tree root from behind that grazed it.
Feeling the numerous tree roots coming from below, Yoru tilted his throne backward 180 degrees. The tree roots skimmed past the back of his throne while Yoru remained sitting on it upside down. He then turned his gaze towards where the Masked Man was in the distance.
Suddenly, shadows covered his form as numerous tree roots appeared and moved to encapsulate him in mid-air. They blanketed and overarched him from above while his cardinal directions were sealed.
There was nowhere to run as more branches appeared from below in order to ensnare Yoru in a cocoon of wood.
Yet, he still remained phlegmatic.
Sage Art-
The roots had already almost completely surrounded him, the only part of his body still exposed to the moonlight being his gleaming golden eyes.
Storm Style-
Large amounts of energy began to gather in the mouths of the ethereal snakes born from Yoru's white chakra shroud.
Just as the last ray of moonlight was to be snatched away from his eyes…
His slit pupils constricted.
Light Fang!
Immensely powerful beams of light were launched from the snakes' mouths in every which direction, slicing through the tree branches and shearing a small mountain in the distance. The heat from the attack caused the sliced up portions of wood to glow red and smoke up while the mountain peak slowly slid off.
Yoru looked past the splintering debris and settled his gaze on the Masked Man in the distance who was rapidly going through handseals.
Snake → Ram → Hare → Dog → Snake
As soon as the last seal was complete, the Masked Man's chakra suddenly flared immensely as the ground began to tremble. A beastly roar was heard from beneath the surface of the earth before a serpentine dragon made of wood burst out from the ground and emitted a booming howl. Its eyes locked onto Yoru's before it exclaimed once more, the shockwaves from its effort tearing apart all the obstacles in front of it.
Yoru's lips downturned slightly. He pointed his free hand's index finger at the beast and gathered energy on its tip.
Sage Art: Scorch Style-
A miniature white sun began to form and enlarge on the tip of Yoru's finger. An immense amount of heat radiated from the white ball of energy, the air distorting and the moisture in the atmosphere evaporating near instantly.
Yoru looked at the aggressive approach of the wood dragon in displeasure. "The First Hokage's iteration of this technique would have been much more majestic than your imitation."
He continued in distaste.
"You faker."
Noble Sun!
The orb of energy was launched from Yoru's fingertip and brutally clashed with the charging wood dragon, instantly pushing it back. The wood construct roared in distress as it flew away, its body's moisture being sucked away while smoke emerged all over its form.
The Masked Man's eyes widened underneath his mask before he rapidly flipped through handseals and drained his chakra. In response to his efforts, two more wood dragon constructs erupted from the earth and assisted the first one in pushing back the twenty-five-meter diameter white sun. Roaring in defiance, they charged ahead and clashed against the ball while simultaneously making an effort to absorb its energy.
Their resulting efforts caused the large ball of energy to get pushed back towards Yoru while its energy was siphoned by the wood constructs.
Their howls reverberated throughout the battlefield.
Yoru looked on blandly.
He pinched all five of his free hand's fingers together.
Suddenly, the gigantic white ball of energy imploded.
Then, a pause.
Yoru's slitted pupils constricted. "Supernova."
It erupted.
Violently.
In a dreadful and powerful burst, the star exploded in a dome-shaped blast of heat and energy. The dragons were easily blasted away and vaporized as they gave unwilling roars in response. The earth and trees in the path of the blastwave vanished while the blast radius of the detonation spread for kilometers on end.
A shockwave from the discharge leveled small hills and trees further in the distance.
Yoru sat stably in the air while the wind from the explosion rustled his hair. He turned his half-lidded gaze down towards the destruction below and witnessed the gigantic five-kilometer wide crater his sun's detonation had hollowed. Whatever parts of the ground that hadn't been vaporized from the heat now glowed an unholy red as lava flowed across the land.
Yoru's gleaming golden eyes scanned the terrain before his slitted pupils contracted as they focused in on a specific domain. With a thought, his metallic throne bolted towards the ground below before it immediately halted right above the lava. With another mental command, the Yoru blitzed across the lake of lava at immense speeds while sitting crossed leg on his chair.
It then abruptly halted.
Looking down at the hunched over form of the Masked Man, Yoru dissipated his throne, the particles of metal that made it up vanishing to his inventory.
He would use it to make another throne next time.
With that, Yoru used his chakra to keep himself afloat on the lava and regarded the Masked Man with a tilt of his head. "You are truly impetuous…to come into my territory with such a paltry level of power."
The Masked Man looked up at Yoru.
And blurred.
Yoru promptly tilted his head to the side causing the slash attack from the Masked Man to miss its mark. The assailant then twirled his kunai and poised its blade to strike downward before jabbing it at Yoru.
The only result was the ding sound of metal clashing against metal as Yoru augmented his neck with Steel Release. At speeds the Masked Man was unable to react to, Yoru shot out his hand and grabbed the man's wrist.
Before crushing it.
The Masked Man grunted and quickly phased his arm through Yoru's own. In a rapid motion, he twisted his body and spun a kick towards Yoru's head.
Yoru remained impassive as the blow phased through his skull before he immediately outstretched his left hand and caught the Masked Man's leg. At that very instant, the Masked Man flipped through handseals in rapid succession and expelled a giant ball of fire at Yoru at point blank range.
Yoru merely outstretched his right hand before the attack impacted it. Utilizing his Dark Release, Yoru absorbed the energy from the fireball-
"!"
An attack brutally impacted Yoru's chin from below causing his body to launch upwards. It was only thanks to his instinctual use of Steel Release that the spike of wood that had tried to pierce through his skull failed to do so.
With a simply backflip, Yoru landed and splashed a bit of the lava flowing beneath the soles of his feet.
The Masked Man was suddenly upon him.
Yoru weaved left to dodge the punch that had been aimed at his face before he clenched his fist and rammed it into the Masked Man's abdomen causing it to sink deep within. The Masked Man coughed while his body was forced to slide backward across the lava.
In a mere moment he righted himself up and dashed towards Yoru before he struck out once more.
Using the back of his palm, Yoru deflected the attack.
The Masked Man immediately followed up with a spin kick towards Yoru's face.
Yoru tilted his head back, the wind from the attack causing his hair to flutter slightly. He then righted himself back up before pounding his fist on the Masked Man's exposed side causing a crack to sound.
The Masked Man groaned in protest, however, he pushed past the pain and ensnared Yoru's arm in his own before space began to spin and distort from his eye…
Yoru's eyes gleamed.
"ID Create: Empty."
He vanished.
The Masked Man looked every which way in trepidation before he felt a brutal impact on his back, his spine creaking in protest. His body skipped and bounced across the lava before he slid to a stop.
Just as he was able to get himself back up on his legs, his chin was brutally impacted by Yoru's knee causing his head to snap back harshly and his body to lift off the ground. Yoru didn't allow him to get far, however, as he grabbed the Masked Man's leg as he was in the air and slammed him down onto the lake of lava below. The vicious impact caused tidal waves of lava to ripple and spread to the distance.
"What's wrong?" Yoru asked uncaringly. "You're not using your phasing…it's almost as if you've given up." He said before his pupils abruptly constricted.
Yoru promptly leaped back as two miniature wood dragons erupted from the lava and chased after him.
The Masked Man utilized that instant to activate his space-time technique, space distorting in a spiral manner in response-
He was instantly forced to halt as a white sun appeared to the side of him and slammed into his body. He groaned in anguish from the heat and power of the attack before he was explosively launched into the distance.
He landed unceremoniously on the ground and looked up to see the ashy remains of his wood constructs dissipating in the wind.
Yoru then pointed his index finger in the air.
"Since you were so eager to intrude upon my domain…"
Sage Art: Scorch Style-
A gargantuan pure white ball in the shape and likeness of a sun formed on the tip of Yoru's finger and enlarged to immense proportions.
"You can rest here eternally."
Noble Sun!
Yoru launched the attack.
It was as if time had slowed as the Masked Man watched the huge white sun approach him.
Before he was engulfed.
Yoru pinched his fingers together, his gaze passionless.
Supernova!
The giant ball of white heat and energy shrank unto itself…
Then, it burst.
And then the world was filled with white.
…
…
…
Yoru emerged from the devastation unharmed before he looked around and noted that the surroundings were even more devastated than before. With that, he made his way towards where the corpse of his assailant was and in a few steps, he arrived in front of the body. He looked down at it with his gaze ever apathetic, recognizing that it was burnt beyond all recognition.
He stared at it for a few more moments and spread out his senses. After sensing no other chakra signatures or emotional signatures in the immediate surroundings, Yoru turned away. "My presence is no longer required."
With that, his transformation regressed as his scales and horns disappeared while his eyes returned to their normal silver hue. Yoru looked back down at the corpse, realizing that he would probably never know who he was or why the enemy had attacked.
He then turned his gaze to the distance and looked at the rampaging four-tailed gorilla before he narrowed his eyes. Son was still moving in a frenzy, indiscriminately attacking and destroying everything in sight. If Yoru was right and the person he had killed had been controlling the tailed beast somehow then Son should have at the very least calmed down by now. Taking a closer look, Yoru then noticed something that caused his heart to palpitate.
He hadn't noticed it earlier because he hadn't paid as close attention since the monkey's eyes had always been red. It was only now that he was carefully observing Son Goku that Yoru realized that Son's red eyes contained a pattern he was very familiar with.
Three Tomoe patterned around the pupil.
"An Uchiha is responsible? But where did they even find him and how can they control a tailed beast?"
Numerous questions and thoughts flitted through Yoru's mind as pieces of information began to interconnect like pieces of a puzzle.
The sharingan…
The Masked Man's despair…
Kakashi's chakra mutation…
Itachi's chakra mutation…
An evolved sharingan…
Yoru's eyes widened as a picture began to form from the information he went through in his mind, however, he immediately abandoned that thought. If the Masked Man was who Yoru thought he might have been and had somehow gotten control of Son, then the gorilla wouldn't still be ramping since the Masked Man was now dead. For now, he could sit down and recover his chakra before going out there to help with the situation-
"!"
It came much to suddenly and unexpectedly.
An arm tore through Yoru's chest, penetrating his heart and exiting his back. His eyes wide, Yoru watched as his heart was brutally torn out of his body.
"You cost me an eye." The Masked Man said from behind him.
Yoru coughed out blood and shakily turned his head to see the "corpse" of his enemy dissipate like smoke.
Just as he tried to gather natural energy, five miniature wood dragon constructs erupted from the ground around him and assaulted him ruthlessly. Two tore into his legs with their teeth, another two brutalized his arms, and the last one crushed his neck.
Yoru could neither move, speak, nor groan as his chakra was siphoned from the wood constructs. His low and draining chakra reserves prevented him from forming senjutsu chakra.
Then, a pause.
Like his chakra, the light in Yoru's eyes began to fade…
Until he was left with nothing.
The wood constructs soon stopped before regressing underground.
Yoru's body then dropped to the ground and remained motionless while his eyes became dull.
Blood pooled from the hole in his chest.
The Masked Man looked down at Yoru's body before he turned away and looked towards the distance at the place where Kushina should have been giving birth by now. His fight with Yoru had caused them to move far away from his target area so the Masked Man spared Yoru's corpse one more glance before quickly making his way towards the barrier. He immediately entered it and dashed deeper into the cave, his sharingan scanning the area for any chakra signatures.
Then he paused.
"Where are they?" He thought as he turned his head every which way, yet he could not find any trail of the Fourth Hokage and his wife.
How?
Forgetting the fact that he knew that Kushina should be giving birth by now, this room was not only the place where she should have been doing so, but it was small. That being the case, he should have easily come across them.
But they weren't here.
"Why?!"
The Masked Man continued to look around fruitlessly.
But it was no use.
"My intelligence from Zetsu can't be wrong. They should have come here after she went into labor…"
"I take it you haven't found what you were looking for."
The Masked Man widened his eyes and turned his head to see Yoru standing there with his hands clasped behind his back.
His expression was limpid.
The white aura circulating around him gave off a feeling of immense pressure.
His ethereal snakes hissed in displeasure towards the Masked Man.
"What is going on?" The Masked Man thought as he turned around to face his opposition. "I literally ripped his heart out…how can he still survive and still have so much power after that?" He thought as he saw the wound on Yoru's chest rapidly close.
This was some Grade A bullshit.
It was right up there with Hashirama's cells.
His mask hid his incredulity as he asked, "Where are they?"
Yoru disdained to answer.
He simply said. "Rejoice. You can again die by my hand."
It was a simple statement.
No, an Edict of truth.
Yoru took a simple step forward.
Mud Release: Landslide!
His chakra flowed through the ground and into the walls of earth surrounding them before it trembled.
The Masked Man's eye widened a minuscule amount as the entire room collapsed into mud and created a landslide that rushed towards him. At the moment the enemy was preoccupied, Yoru pulled out a kunai and tossed it high into the air.
The Masked Man hurriedly jumped back from the landslide, however, the moment his feet touched the ground, an iron spear penetrated his foot. He grunted in pain at the assault.
In that very instant, Yoru appeared right in front of the Masked Man, his sudden emergence allowing little time for the enemy to react. His Rasengan was launched forward at immense velocities, aimed straight at the man's face with no remorse.
It phased through.
"The outcome will always be the same." The Masked Man thought as Yoru's body fully passed through his own. He reached out his hand to grab ahold of Yoru, intent on simply banishing him to his Kamui Dimension for all the trouble he was worth.
However.
The Instant his fingertips so much as touched Yoru…
At that very moment, the kunai Yoru had launched earlier appeared right behind the Masked Man.
Amenotokotachi!
A high pitched sound of swirling energy was heard as a Rasengan launched itself into the man's unsuspecting back.
And hit.
Hard.
"Shit!" The Masked Man thought as his back was shredded apart from the sudden unforeseeable attack. Yoru's speed and reactivity were much greater than he had anticipated or ever experienced.
An explosion sounded out as the Masked Man's body cratered the ground beneath him, cracks spreading through and caving in the earth. His form sunk deeper within the earth as the residual energy from the Rasengan blew up the interior of the cave in its entirety causing the entire mountain to completely break down and crumble.
His hand still on his enemy's back, Yoru charged his next attack, sparks of lightning flying from his hand,
Lightning Style-
But just as he was about to release it, the Masked Man phased underground.
Yoru furrowed his brows and reabsorbed the energy from the attack before he stood up and turned around. There he saw the Masked Man from earlier was standing on the complete opposite end of the crater, his robe completely torn and his mask fractured.
Yoru looked at him in slight interest. "You shouldn't be alive."
Yoru meant that in more ways than one...
"Neither should you." He replied before grunting and grabbing his right arm in pain.
Yoru watched as the man's arm literally fell off and thumped on the ground.
"I'll admit my loss for today." The Masked Man stated before space distorted and spun around him. "Fighting you now is fruitless."
He disappeared.
Yoru observed where he had disappeared from for a moment longer. "It seems like he too has a limit as to how much he can cheat death."
With that, Yoru exited Sage Mode.
[Yoru: Gamer]
The tension never left me as I kept my body on guard while looking at the place the Masked Man had vanished from. "Could he truly be…?"
That level of skill and power and his strange space-time technique…how could he have that much strength?
Maybe I was mistaken?
Improving that much in such a short amount of time…unless he had gained my ability somehow, I found it unlikely.
"It might or might not be him…but there's no time to think about this now."
The battle between me and the Masked Man had lasted longer than I would have liked.
I had even lost a life for the day.
I shook my head and looked to the direction that I could sense Son-
My face turned unsightly.
Dense
Too dense
Son was gathering such a dense amount of chakra that it made me queasy just from sensing it. Large amounts of positive black chakra and small amounts of negative white chakra were being gathered in Son's mouth before being shaped into a dark ball of massive energy.
"This is bad…"
Just as I thought this…
Suddenly from above, a gigantic toad dropped from the sky and descended upon Son's face just before the Bijuu could complete his tailed beast ball. With the attack sealed within his own mouth, there was no room for Son to release it causing it to detonate within him, smoke leaking from his mouth.
I released a breath for a moment before my eyes sharpened.
This couldn't go on for long.
I sat down in Meditation for less than a minute before I regained all my chakra.
Next, in multiple puffs, 3 clones of myself appeared all around me.
Clone 1 quickly hurried to where Iwa was meeting with the Third.
Clone 2 dashed off towards the area Minato had told me Kumo was purportedly staying.
And Clone 3…
"I don't need to tell you this." I said to my final clone. "But if there is anyone with him, slaughter them but make sure you keep his life intact."
The clone looked back at me with an impassive gaze. "For anyone who dares to go after Mito…"
There is no mercy.
I nodded at the unspoken words before the clone vanished in a blur using Swift Release.
"Now then." I thought, gazing at the area the Masked Man had disappeared in. More specifically, the arm that had fallen off of the individual and was now laying on the ground. "What or who are you?"
-Yoru: Gamer-
Kakashi sat on the roof of the Hokage's home and looked up to the brilliant moon in the night sky. Many thoughts flitted through his mind in this moment of tranquility…
Until it was abruptly shattered.
The descent of an unholy pressure snapped Kakashi out of his reminiscence as he turned to the source only for his single visible eye to widen.
"Son Goku! How? Why?!"
He could hear the Bijuu roar and slam its fists into its chest, its howl sending shockwaves throughout the village, shattering windows along the way.
Screams of terror sounded out as the Village began to flee towards the bunkers located under the Hokage mountain.
"What is going on?" Kakashi asked himself while he saw numerous people below pass by the house and run to the distance.
Suddenly, his eyes widened. "Mito!"
He jumped down from the roof and pushed open the front door of the house before scanning the house. He couldn't see her form at first glance so he pulled up his headband and looked around with his activated sharingan. In but a moment, he found her chakra signature so he hurriedly moved to her spot.
"Mito!" He said, seeing her huddled against herself on the ground, her body trembling in shock and fear while Yoru's white snake was calmly coiled around her. As Kakashi was already aware of Levia, he didn't spare it a glance as he went to comfort the girl.
"What's wrong Mito!"
She sniffled and trembled as she looked at him with tears eyes. "T-The chakra…I-It's too…"
Kakashi immediately understood. He wasn't even a sensor and he could feel how stifling and dark the chakra emanating from Son Goku was. He could only imagine how much a young sensor such as Mito was suffering. It made him wonder how much Son had been holding himself back when they first met and what had caused him to go on a rampage now?
"It's alright." He said, hugging her to him as he kneeled down to her level and hugged her to his chest. As she cried and wrapped her arms around him, Kakashi patted her head and looked at her softly.
"Firstly, I have to get her to safety. At this time, there should be shinobi headed towards the safety bunkers."
With his course of action decided, he picked Mito up and left the house-
He paused.
With his sharingan, he could see that there were three chakra signatures making their way in his direction.
The bunkers were located in the opposite direction.
"Friendlies here to warn the Hokage? Or…"
"Mito." Kakashi began, looking at the girl in his arms with a grave expression, "Hide."
She looked at his serious expression and nodded before wiping her tears and running into the house.
Kakashi closed the door behind him and looked ahead waiting for a few moments before he spoke. "Come out."
"Interesting, it seems like the sharingan isn't as bad as the Byakugan." A slimy voice filled with disdain spoke before three figures appeared in front of Kakashi.
Each had a Kumo forehead protector which gleamed in the light of the full moon.
He narrowed his eyes. "Why are you here? If it's to talk to the Hokage, he isn't in right now."
"Hahaha. No." The lead Kumo shinobi looked at Kakashi with a sickening smile. "I'm simply here to complete a mission my predecessors failed to finish."
At that, the three of them got into a fighting stance.
At this moment, all the Konoha shinobi were focused on guiding civilians to safety or defending against the 4-tailed Monkey. There was a chance someone would come here to tell the Hokage, but any normal individual would already assume that he was aware of the problem currently plaguing the village.
It was pretty hard to miss a gigantic four-tailed monkey in the middle of the village.
That being said, some would probably still come over if not to ask for orders.
All he had to do was stall for time.
Kakashi bent his knees low and took out a kunai, understanding that there was no room for compromise.
"Kill him." The lead Kumo shinobi stated.
The other two dashed towards Kakashi with tanto in hand.
An overhead slash came down upon Kakashi who deftly switched his kunai into a reverse grip and deflected the attack, the blade gliding off his own. At the same instant, a horizontal slash came from his left side.
Kakashi's sharingan easily picked up the movement and at the last instant, he jumped up, allowing the tanto to pass fruitlessly below him. At that instant, Kakashi spun and dug his heels into the face of the owner of that sword.
The Kumo nin grunted and flew back while the first one to have attacked Kakashi shifted his blade and brought it up towards the sharingan owner from its previously down position.
Kakashi immediately backflipped to avoid the attack and landed softly on the ground before he went through handseals in quick succession.
Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu!
A great ball of fire was launched towards the First attacking Kumo nin. The individual charged his tanto with lightning in response and sliced the ball of fire that was covering his vision.
The Kumo shinobi then widened his eyes as he suddenly lost sight of his opponent and looked front, back, left, right, up-
Kakashi popped up from underground, his red eye gleaming before he dug his kunai into his opponent's calcaneal tendon.
Better known as his Achilles heel.
"ARGH!" The Kumo shinobi screamed as he dropped to one knee, his neck now eye level with Kakashi's face.
Hatake immediately capitalized on this opportunity and raised his blade to slice his opponent's jugular-
Kakashi immediately jumped to the side as a beam of electricity was shot at his face from the shinobi he had kicked away earlier. He did a few back handsprings to distance himself before sliding to a stop.
With one enemy more or less immobilized, Kakashi focused on the enemy that had attacked him before his eye widened.
There was still one more of them!
"Shit! Mito!" Kakashi thought as he turned to face the door of the Uzumaki-Namikaze household-
"ARGH! FUCK!" The lead Kumo shinobi stated as his body was shocked by the defensive seals in place and harshly flew back before brutally impacting the walls of a house across the street.
Kakashi breathed a sigh of relief. "I sometimes forget about those-"
Goosebumps appeared on Kakashi's skin as his body move on instinct and ducked right before a blade pierced the air where his head had been.
"Close." Kakashi thought as he placed his palms on the ground before sweeping the feet underneath his opponent.
The Kumo nin moved to right himself…
Kakashi flipped through a couple of hand seals and placed his palms on the ground.
Earth Release: Earth Flow Spears!
The earth beneath the falling Kumo nin was condensed and shaped into spikes that protruded from the ground…
And skewered him.
The Kumo shinobi screamed and gurgled blood before his body became limp.
At that moment, Kakashi heard the sound of explosions coming from beside him and he turned to see the lead Kumo shinobi was attacking the Uzumaki-Namikaze home relentlessly with his lightning techniques.
"That's bad…!" Kakashi thought.
The security seals placed on the house were mainly used to keep unwanted people out, but they weren't built to sustain large amounts of damage. After all, who would be stupid enough to so blatantly and flagrantly attack the Fourth Hokage's Residence in the middle of the village?
Right before he was about to go stop him, a blade of electricity came his way forcing him to retreat further away from his objective. Turning his gaze towards the perpetrator, Kakashi saw that it had been the Kumo nin he had slightly disabled earlier.
"I need to finish this quickly." Kakashi thought before flipping handseals and placing his palms on the ground.
Earth Release: Earth Flow Spears!
His chakra traveled through the ground and under his enemy before it began to mold the earth beneath, however, just as the spears of earth protruded from the ground…
The Kumo nin ran lightning chakra through his blade and stabbed it below, the lightning release chakra neutralizing Kakashi's earth technique.
"Of course it wouldn't be this easy…" Kakashi thought as he readied his kunai before sparing a quick glance at the Head Kumo shinobi who was still trying to break down the door.
The injured Kumo nin looked at his dead comrade before gazing at Kakashi with a grimace on his face.
He stood up on his one good leg.
Kakashi crouched low.
They moved.
Lightning caressing his blade, the Kumo ninja shot out blades of sharpened electric attacks at the incoming Kakashi.
The white-haired Hatake's sharingan rapidly processed the incoming attack as he rapidly dashed forward towards his enemy. The sharpened electric waves blanketed his vision, however, his eyeball swished back and forth as he located every possible avenue he could use to dodge.
And he did.
He dashed left and right, dodging each blade of lightning that came his way with the absolute minimum movement necessary in order to maintain his momentum. With his quickly moving feet, Kakashi inched closer and closer to his opponent who clenched his teeth tightly.
Seeing as Kakashi was too close, the Kumo nin stopped shooting out blades of lightning and prepared for close quarter combat.
They clashed.
Kunai met tanto in a clang while sparks discharged from the blades' point of contact. Kakashi narrowed his eyes as his body was pushed back by his opponent's superior strength. He backflipped and landed softly-
An explosion and the sound of breakage sounded out as dust and debris flew throughout the battlefield.
"HAHA! FINALLY!"
"Shit!" Kakashi thought as he turned towards the lead Kumo ninja and rushed to stop him-
"I can't let you do that." The voice of the injured Kumo shinobi sounded out accompanied by a bolt of lightning which slammed into Kakashi. He was thrown back and away from the Uzumaki-Namikaze household before he grit his teeth. With a flip, his feet dragged across the ground before friction allowed his body to halt to a stop.
Kakashi's eyes narrowed. "I have to finish this immediately."
The sound of a thousand birds chirping echoed throughout the area as a high concentration of electricity gathered in Kakashi's right hand.
The Kumo shinobi tensed and raised his blade in preparation for an attack.
Kakashi dashed.
In little time, the white-haired Konoha Jonin was upon his opponent.
At the same instant, the Kumo Jonin lowered his blade to bisect Kakashi.
He was aiming for mutually assured destruction.
"Unfortunately." Kakashi thought, twisting his body mid-motion. "My eye can see all your attacks."
The blade of the Kumo shinobi lightly grazed Kakashi's skin, however, the Konoha shinobi was relatively unharmed as he found himself inside his enemy's guard and thrust the ball of lightning through his chest. Kakashi's hand pierced through like a hot knife through butter and exited out of the Kumo ninja's back.
Time seemed to be frozen.
The light in the Kumogakure shinobi's eyes dimmed before his tanto helplessly clanged on the ground. With his body no longer able to support itself, the shinobi died, the weight of his body leaning fully against Kakashi.
The silver haired Jonin of the leaf pushed the enemy's body off him before he hurriedly rushed towards the house.
"Please let me make it…!" He thought as he made it to the door of the Uzumaki-Namikaze estate…
"AHHH!"
A scream erupted from inside the house, however…
It was not from Mito.
"Fuck! You stupid snake…!"
Kakashi immediately ran towards the sound of the scream and generated lighting in his hand.
And then…
"Noo! Levia!" Mito screamed.
"There!" Kakashi thought as he dashed into the room…
His eyes magnified in shock. "Oh no…"
It was there he saw Mito on the ground weeping as she held Levia in hand.
Both her halves.
Blood gushed from the snake and spilled onto the floor.
"Who the hell gives a kid a pet snake!" The Kumo Ninja snarled as he cradled his right arm, discolored veins protruding from them.
Kakashi narrowed his eyes as he noticed his enemy's moment of weakness and quickly dashed forward with his fully charged Chidori.
The Kumo Ninja paused his action and glared a Kakashi's direction before he made a split decision to dash away and jump out the room's window. Kakashi being here meant that he had killed the Kumo ninja's comrades.
The Kumo shinobi wasn't certain of his ability to fight the kid while he himself was injured.
Kakashi watched the man run away before deciding not to pursue as it might have been a setup. He sighed and looked down to Mito who was carefully holding onto the unmoving Levia with a forlorn gaze. "Let's go." He said as he placed a hand on her shoulder.
"But Levia…" Mito murmured.
Kakashi's gaze softened. "There's nothing we can-"
Without warning, the two halves of Levia wriggled before being drawn together.
Both Kakashi and Mito were shocked, the latter so much so that she dropped the white snake.
That watched as the top and bottom half of Levia joined back together before the snake opened its mouth in what seemed like…a yawn?
Kakashi stared incredulously.
"Levia!" Mito yelled as she grasped the snake and rubbed her cheek against it in joy.
The reception of such happiness stuck out its forked tongue, her close proximity with Mito causing it to stroke the red-haired girl's cheek.
The girl giggled.
Kakashi was just confused. "Did she lick Mito's cheek on purpose like a dog? Or did she just stick out her tongue habitually like a normal snake…Wait now's not the time!"
"Let's go Mito." Kakashi stated. "I'll take her to one of Minato-Sensei's safe houses…"
With Levia now back in one piece (literally), Mito joyfully nodded her head.
With that, Kakashi picked her up and quickly exited the house before making his way to the safe house.
[Yoru: Gamer]
The Kumo Ninja ran to the distance and traveled towards Konoha's Gates. With the mission a failure and with Konoha no doubt too busy trying to stop the rampaging gorilla, there was absolutely no need for him to remain here any longer.
"Besides, as long as the other group captures their target, this mission can be said to be considered a succe-ugh!" The Kumo Ninja groaned as his arm throbbed in pain.
"Fucking Snake." He thought with a grimace and he supported his arm.
Whatever type of snake it was, it's venom was extremely potent. It was quite thankful that the Snake seemed to be only a newborn and so it's venom wasn't quite as strong as it could have been.
The Kumo bin frowned as his feet carried him across the village house rooftops. "Seriously, what type of person gives a kid a venomous snake?"
"Me."
The Kumo Nin's heart lurched at the unexpected reply and he hurriedly stopped and turned around every which way to find the owner of the voice. "Who's there?" He snarled. Since he was running the opposite direction of everyone else, there shouldn't have been anyone here in the immediate vicinity-
He froze.
A presence was behind him.
He hurriedly jumped forward and turned around in mid-air to face his opponent before landing on the ground.
His eyes widened in recognition before he snarled. "You…!"
"So, you were aiming for my sister?" Yoru clone said as he stood calmly across his opponent.
The Kumo nin grimaced as he stared at the white haired boy across from him with a vicious expression. "I didn't expect I would get to see you alive any time soon…Now, I'm going to kill you." He said, disregarding the pain in his arm as he pulled out a tanto from his back.
Yoru smiled tauntingly, "Garbage like you?"
With a grim look, the Kumo shinobi dashed towards Yoru Clone with his tanto raised high.
And brought it down.
However…
"Pathetic." Yoru Clone stated as he raised his arm and utilized Steel Release to augment it to immense levels, his appendage turning a black luster in response.
The Kumo nin's eyes widened as his tanto made contact with Yoru's fortified skin.
And snapped.
"Impossi-!"
Before the Kumo shinobi could complete his mental sentence, he heard and felt something crack.
"ARGH!" He screamed as he dropped to the ground as his right leg bent in the wrong direction.
He was given no opportunity to recover as a knee slammed into his face, cracking and caving it in before his head slammed against the ground.
Suddenly, he felt a weight on his chest.
He shakily looked up to see Yoru look down at him with his gleaming silver eyes, Yoru's foot on his chest.
He shivered.
That gaze…
The Kumo shinobi felt as if his presence was so utterly insignificant in that gaze as if he was worth less than the dog turd that littered the ground.
Yoru grabbed both of the Kumo shinobi's arms and lifted them while his foot kept the Kumo shinobi grounded.
The Kumo nin's eyes magnified "What are you…!"
Yoru pulled.
Slowly.
"AARRHGHH!" The Kumo nin screamed as his shoulders were dislocated before his arms were slowly torn out of his body. Blood sprayed like a fountain from the now empty arm sockets as the Kumo nin flailed in agony.
Yoru simply tossed the arms aside like trash. He then kneeled down and placed his palms on the profusely bleeding empty sockets.
Lava Release
He cauterized the wound.
Screams of agony followed as the Kumo shinobi felt and smelt his flesh burn.
With that, Yoru looked back at his capture's eyes.
"W-Wait p-please…!" The Kumo Ninja stuttered in fear
"…Did you know that some of Konoha's medical ninjas have the ability to regenerate lost limbs?" Yoru asked, though he seemed uninterested in the answer.
The Kumo shinobi widened his eyes at the implication.
It was something now quite well known.
No one knew how, but every shinobi village knew this fact.
As for why Yoru asked him that question, the Kumo Ninja knew.
He wasn't stupid.
Well, that stupid.
He was going to be tortured horrifically.
Yoru looked at him with a calm smile but to the Kumo Ninja, it was the vilest expression he had ever seen.
"Now then, tell me why you thought it was a good idea to target my adorable Mito."
Author's Note: brownie points for anyone who can tell me what anime Yoru's Sage Art Scorch Style attack was influenced from.
The Masked Man died in order to have Yoru lower his guard so that he could get the drop on Yoru. That was why he didn't use his intangibility as much when fighting Sage Yoru and why he had tried to "escape".
The reason Yoru died so quickly wasn't just because he had his heart ripped out (though that helped immensely) but because his chakra was also drained. Using his Sage arts already took a decent amount of his reserves while the Wood Constructs finished off his chakra and then began to drain his life force till he died.
He also revived with [Second Wind] which grants him an extra life for the day.
Just wanted to explain some of these points before someone brought it up.
The Thinker: Who said Onoki had anything to do with the Four Tail's appearance? (Hint Hint).
PSplinter09: How did I forget about One Punch Man? That's a high possibility now that you reminded me. Speaking of things I forget, he might also visit the Seven Deadly Sins world. Now a lot of ideas are forming in my mind…
MANGOLYFE: Edo Roshi vs KCM Naruto in the anime. Roshi used his [Lava Release Chakra Mode] and kept up with KCM Naruto. That was the same thing he used in my story, so it wasn't that he only used one tail. [Lava Release Chakra Mode] drastically increased his abilities similar to Naruto's Kyuubi Chakra Mode. Also, Roshi did destroy Yoru. As a matter of fact, if Yoru didn't have his [Mystical Healing] ability and [Gamer's Body], he would have been killed in that single hit. Furthermore, it took a suicide attack for him to barely kill a heavily damaged Roshi. I don't feel like power levels are messed up in my story, but feel free to disagree with my reasoning.