Chapter 24:
Sasuke held his hand up in the air, and all of a sudden, it started glowing. Then, the light on his palm started pulsing, growing, expanding. Naruto uneasily stepped back. 'What is that?' he thought. Then, Sasuke pointed his palm at Naruto, and a wave of light shot at Naruto, who quickly made some seals. "Great Breakthrough!" he yelled, shooting a gale of wind at the light. But, the light still hit him, battering him and sending him flying.
"Imbicile. What made you think you could stop light with wind!" Sasuke yelled. Naruto shrugged.
"Not sure. So, Sasuke, how did you learn how to use light techniques?" Naruto asked. Sasuke sighed.
"Well, my affinities are fire and lightning. Both are a fourth form of matter, plasma. Light also happens to be a plasma. So, since I had the right elemental affinities, it was a relatively simple matter to learn how to channel Light chakra..." Sasuke droned. Naruto silently pulled out a kunai with a seal on it while Sasuke was speaking. "...the hardest part was creating jutsu and coming up with the proper names for them." Sasuke finished. Naruto then threw the kunai, and made some seals.
"Shuriken Shadow Clones!" he called out, making the kunai multiply. Sasuke leapt back, then his fingers were enveloped by a golden aura.
"Holy Lance!" he yelled.
"Holy shit!" Naruto yelled, dodging jagged bolts of light blasted towards him. He then vanished. Sasuke smiled, then made some seals.
"Chidori Current!" he called out, magnetically sending all of the Hirashin kunai away from him. Naruto appeared next to one of them when they were flying in the air, and hurriedly kicked it away before it could impale him.
'Damn! He knows the weakness of the Hirashin!' Naruto thought. He then leapt at Sasuke again, and threw another kunai, but this time added wind chakra to it, making it go faster, and stick into the stone he threw it at. He then Hirashined, hiding in the shadows. Sasuke looked warily around, then made a small light appear on his hand. He flicked his wrist, and the light soared around, searching for Naruto. Then, Naruto leapt out, his eyes having black circles on them. He ran at Sasuke, roaring. Sasuke cringed momentarilly, then composed himself, and made some seals.
"Great Fireball technique!" He yelled, shooting a blast of fire at Naruto. The fireball roared and covered Naruto. Sasuke grinned, thinking that Naruto had to have been burnt to a crisp.
Then a fist hit him in the gut, making him choke, and he was kicked in the side, throwing him into a wall. Naruto stood there, breathing heavily, with a few burn marks on him, and the edges of his clothes slightly charred. Sasuke snarled, peeling himself off of the wall he landed on. He then made some seals, while Naruto made a shadow clone. The two then rushed at each other.
"Chidori!"
"Rasengan!"
The two attacks collided, creating a net of blue energy that crackled around the two. Then, they were flung back by the sheer power. They landed hard on the ground, becoming bruised and battered. Naruto wiped some blood from his nose, and Sasuke some blood from his lip, then they each made either more seals, or a second shadow clone.
Then they ran at each other again, jutsus in hand.
"Chidori Inferno!"
"Rasenrengan!"
The attacks collided again, but this time, Naruto was shot back farther than Sasuke, and he skidded across the ground, pebbles sticking into his back. He got up slowly, picking out the pebbles, then noticed Sasuke was running towards him again. He struggled to his feet, then got his shadow clones to shape his chakra again.
"Shining Chidori!"
"Rasenshuriken!"
The two both threw their attacks, the Shining Chidori looking like a large spear of light, and the Rasenshuriken...well, looking like a Rasenshuriken. The attacks seemed to strike each other...
...but then, they both turned slightly, and aimed towards their targets. Sasuke leapt into the air, and so did Naruto, until their humoungous and powerful attacks turned into clouds of smoke, revealing they were actually disguised clones, each of which grabbed their enemy. Sasuke elbowed Naruto's clones, dispelling it, and Naruto smashed his skull into Sasuke's clone, turning it into a flock of crows. Sasuke then made a sequence of more than twenty seals, and held his palm up into the air. It seemed to be on fire, fire that was golden, and laced with lightning, and shining so brightly it momentarilly blinded both Sasuke and Naruto.
"Glorious Shining Chidori!" Sasuke cried out, and the golden flames started concentrating around his hand, and glowing pure white. Naruto grimaced. The chakra radiating from the attack was able to shatter the walls of the building around them. Naruto made his clones start making a Rasenshuriken again.
'Come on, Samehada, I need your water chakra!' he thought desperately. He looked down at his Rasenshuriken, and grinned. It was now white and blue, with eight points, that instead of constantly spinning around in the same direction, were moving all around the rasengan, and were constantly expanding and contracting. He then charged at Sasuke, raising his attack in the air.
"Arashi Rasen(Tempest/Storm Spiral)!" he yelled.
---In Suna---
"WHY ARE YOU CHASING ME YOU CRAZY WOMAN!" Shikamaru screamed, running away from Temari. Temari panted, and sat down. She breathed in deeply for a few moments, then beckoned Shikamaru to come over to her.
"I-I'm pregnant." she said. Shikamaru paled beyond comparison, and was about to start backing away from her when Temari hugged him. "Isn't that great!" she exclaimed joyfully. Shikamaru looked surprised for a moment, then smiled, and hugged her back.
"Yeah...thats wonderful..." he said, closing his eyes and imagining the two of them together, raising a child...
Shikamaru's eyes snapped open violently, and one started twitching. 'I'm going to have a child...with Temari.'
'Gaara is going to get so pissed...'
---Back at The Fight---
Sasuke and Naruto charged at each other, both tired and weary. Their attacks smashed into each other violently, and humid wind crackling with electricity started battering into them, along with heat. Their clothes started to tear apart, slowly but steadily, and scratches started appearing on them, that started bleeding, the blood being whipped around by the wind. Then, the energy suddenly ended, and the two fell, right next to each other.
The two just laid there, silent for what seemed to be an eternity. Then, Naruto turned to Sasuke wearily. "Just like old times, huh, Sasuke?" he asked.
Sasuke turned his head towards Naruto. "Yeah...us fighting..."
"Beating the shit out of each other..."
"Being rivals..."
"Trying to see who was better..."
"Always trying to prove we were superior..."
The two then just laid there, silent, facing each other. Then, Naruto smiled, and started quietly chuckling, then started laughing. Sasuke looked at him, confused, then smiled, and started laughing as well. They laughed for minutes, until Naruto wiped his eyes of tears of laughter.
"Good times..."
Sasuke smiled. "Friends like us, who needs enemies?" he whispered. Naruto's eyes widened.
"Enemies...oh crap! I need to get to Madara!" he said, panicking. He started to stand up, when Sasuke grabbed his arm.
"I'm coming with you." he said. Naruto hesitated, then nodded.
"Alright." he said. He then heaved Sasuke up. He grinned. Sasuke raised an eyebrow.
"Whats so funny?" he asked.
"Well, I think we're now exactly tied in battles!"
Sasuke grunted. "What do you mean?"
"Well, we tied today, and the first time we battled, I tied you up with Shadow Clones..."
"That wasn't fair! I wasn't ready!"
"And then, I won against Haku when you lost..."
"Only because of the Kyubi. And then I won on the hospital rooftop, and at the Valley of the End."
"What! My Rasengan would have done more damage than your stupid chidori! And I could have killed you, but I held back!"
"And then, when we met again, I easily defeated your whole team."
"And later, I kicked your ass!"
And the two continually bickered, until they both took a soldier pill and silently Shunshined to the other battle.
---In Konoha---
Konan was sitting at the Hokage desk, shuffling through some paperwork, when she heard something. Without looking up, she knew who it was. "Danzo-san. What brings you here?" she said quietly. Danzo grinned.
"I've come to replace you." he said maniacly. Konan didn't even blink.
"Sorry, but Naruto-sama chose me specifically to be his temporary replacement." Danzo's grin grew even wider.
"I think you misunderstood me." he said, making some seals. Konan gasped as she was suddenly drenched in water, rendering her ninjutsu useless. "I'm here to replace both you and Naruto-sama. Permenantly."
He then pulled out a katana, and stabbed it through Konan, right above the heart. Konan nearly screamed as the icy blade pierced her, and she fell, bleeding on the ground pitifully. Danzo smiled cruelly.
"Nagato...Yahiko...I'm coming...' She half said, half thought as she was dying. Danzo smiled evilly, then turned to a Foundation(Root) member behind him.
"I want Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze listed as an SS-class missing-nin who is to be killed on sight if possible! No...no, bring him to me. Alive." Then, he started laughing crazily, howling up at the ceiling. Sai sighed.
'Please, don't come to this village, Naruto...' he thought.
---At The Fight---
Kakashi screamed as he was flung back by Madara's jutsu, who then teleported to him and kicked him, rolling him over into the dust. "Pathetic slime..." he whispered. He then raised a kunai, but was tackled by Anko, who then tried to cut him, but missed. Madara looked around. Gai was up, though he looked weakened, and Shizune and Tsunade were ready to fight as well. Madara sighed. 'Looks like I'll have to unveil my other secret jutsu.' he thought.
Tsunade charged at him, and he leapt back, and then, Tsunade choked, like she had been punched really hard in the stomach. "You see, I lied. I had a third jutsu, which is kind of like Shinra Tensei, except it is more concentrated, and can be used from any angle, and direction, and anywhere, not just from your hand." Madara said. Kakashi swore.
'Those three jutsu alone make him an S-ranked! And he's an Uchiha, so he knows fire jutsu, and has the Sharingan, so he could easily be a genjutsu master!' he thought. 'We're toast.'
"Hey! Madara!"
Madara turned, only to be hit with a powerful punch, made especially powerful because of Frog Katas. 'Naruto?' Tsunade thought. Naruto was grinning, cracking his knuckles. He then made a rasengan, and ran at Madara.
"Stupid brat!" he yelled, making himself intangible. Naruto swung the rasengan at him...but purposefully missed. Madara turned in shock, then Naruto slammed the rasengan into him, sending him flying again. Madara groaned, then Naruto leapt at him again, but this time, Madara was ready. Naruto was slammed into the ground painfully, and he could have sworn he heard a bone crack. He quickly got up, however, and with great effort, activated Great Wind Armor, along with Sage Mode. Then, he started battering Madara rapidly, smashing his fists into him furiously.
He then concentrated his chakra into blades, and started cutting up Madara before he could react. Madara stumbled back, and Naruto leapt back. Madara spat up a ball of phlegm and blood. "Well? Aren't you going to attack again, coward!" he screamed. Naruto smiled, but didn't say anything. "Well!" Madara screamed. The air around Naruto started rippling as Madara snarled.
"Look out!" Anko screamed. But the attack already happened, tearing Naruto apart into...smoke?
"Chidori!"
Madara turned around just in time to get pierced by a chidori and have a rib crack. He stumbled back again, only to have a seal slapped onto him, and be kicked up into the air. He glanced around quickly. Many clones of Naruto were surrounding him. He gasped, only to be kicked up into the air, and be hit continuously. Then, while he was falling again, all of the clones, with Great Wind Armor on, grabbed him, and started cutting and shredding him apart with Great Wind Armor. Then, the whole group started falling. Madara looked down in horror.
Sasuke was holding a Chidori Inferno right where Madara should fall. Madara hurriedly kicked all of the clones off, and tore of the seal, then teleported away, right behind Sasuke. He stabbed Sasuke with a kunai...
Only for 'Sasuke' to explode, burning the skin off of his face, and badly injuring him. The real Sasuke then smashed a Chidori into Madara, who screamed in agony.
Shizune was watching with Tsunade in a fascinated horror. "Those three fighting...its unbelieveable!" she exclaimed. Tsunade nodded.
"Naruto has come a long way from being a tiny brat."
Naruto then threw some shuriken, and multiplied them. Madara blocked all of them, but then was kicked from behind by Sasuke. Madara snarled, then made some seals.
"Running Fire!" he exclaimed, making some seals. Unfortunately for him, Sasuke's Sharingan was active.
"Running Fire!" Sasuke yelled simultaniously.
The two attacks formed into two twin dragons, who clashed with each other, wrapping themselves around each other.
Kakashi and Gai were watching as well, hidden behind some rubble. "Amazing, huh? How Sasuke and Naruto fight so well. Its almost like its been planned by them, but the only person I could think of that could possible know how Madara would move would be Shikamaru." Kakashi said. Gai nodded.
Naruto was using his clones to try and hit Madara, and he landed one hit, but now, Madara was constantly using his intangiblity. Sasuke then leapt in front of Madara. "Tsuykomi!"
Madara blinked, then quickly shook his head, and laughed. "Like that would work on an Uchiha!" he boasted. Sasuke smiled.
"Well, that might not have worked on you, but this should." he said. Then, wires appeared on Madara. Madara looked down in shock, and saw there were chakra inhibiting seals all over them. "I made all of the seals, then when Naruto hit you, he left a Hirashin seal on you. Then, he just teleported to you and put the seals on you. Then, he dispelled into a murder of crows. Madara turned his head in horror and he heard an odd noise.
Naruto and Sasuke were running towards Madara, holding a gigantic attack. It was large, and glowing red, yellow, blue, and white. 'Fire, lighting, water, and wind.' Madara thought absentmindedly. It was a large sphere, larger than an Oodama Rasengan, but not much larger. It was radiating rings of sheer chakra, and had lightning streaking across it, water splashing from it, fire on the surface of the Rasengan, and wind blowing from the attack.
Madara looked at it for a while, but then realized they were going to obliterate him with it. He struggled to free himself of the wires, then turned to Naruto and Sasuke and spat out a white hot fireball. Naruto tried to leap over it, but it kept on following him. Sasuke then turned around and allowed himself to be hit. "Sasuke!" Naruto yelled worriedly. He then turned to Madara, growling. The large rasengan resting on his palm then shrunk down to the size of one of Konohamaru's Rasengans, but was glowing in all of the colors of the rainbow, with a hint of white. Madara continued to struggle to get free, but then Naruto lunged at him.
"KAMI RASEN!!!"
Madara choked, then, all hell broke loose. The rasengan went through him, then started spinning and expanding, while destroying his every cell. The different chakras meant different ways of his cells being mutilated. The fire chakra was agonizing, as it burnt his cells into ashes. The lightning was also painful, as it didn't destroy his cells, but made them numb and incredibly sensitive, making them sear with pain when they were hit with another element. Wind was awful to him. It was slicing and piercing his cells, making them be in pieces. And last, but not least, water. For some reason, it did two things-it either dehydrated his cells, or it filled a cell with too much water, making it explode.
Madara screamed with agony, then fell, a foot-diameter hole in his chest. Naruto panted, then fell to one knee. "Damn..." he muttered. He then wearily stood up. Sasuke walked up next to him, staring at Madara's corpse. He then spat on it.
"Come on dobe. Lets get back to Konoha."
Naruto nodded. "Yeah. Lets just get everyone else." he said. He waved towards everyone else. "Come on! Lets go!" he called out. The others came out from their hiding spaces, and started following Naruto as he walked away. Sasuke punched Naruto on the arm lightly.
"Hey dobe?"
"Yeah?"
"You are going to make me an ANBU captain, right?"
The team of S and A ranks kept on talking and laughing, walking away from the sight of the titanic battle. However, they missed seeing Madara's arm twitch, and his torso start to reform.
'That jutsu injured me to the point of which I barely even have chakra pathways. In fact, most of my organs are now in bad condition as well. I'm really starting to feel my age.' His eyes narrowed. 'I may not be able to fight him ever again myself, but I have a few subordinants I could call. People who owe me favors.' His mouth broke out into a grin.
'Naruto Namikaze, Sasuke Uchiha...you will pay!'
Yes, I realize I made Sasuke a bit too happy and brotherly to Naruto, and yes, I know you are probably going to say the ending sucked. DEAL WITH IT! And this isn't the end, or really that close to it. Madara may be taken care of, but there is still Danzo. And someone, or rather, somewhere else. Read and review!