Declaimer: I own nothing in this fanfic, but my created characters they abilities and Jutsu and that is about all I own "Goes to corner and starts crying" Writing: Italic: thought, Bold: Bijuu or summoning speaking.
"Time is a great teacher, unfortunately it kills all of its pupils." -Louis Hector Berlioz
"Is it possibly humans can exist without actually having to fight. But, many of your kind have chosen to fight. For what reason? To protect something? Protect what? Yourselves? Your future? If you kill people to protect yourselves and this future then what sort of future is it and what will you have become? There is no future for those who have died. And what of those who did the killing? Is happiness to be found in a future that is grasped with blood stained hands? Is that the truth?." - unknown
Kakuzu was forced to jump back as a giant wood beams with spiked tips were sent out of Yamato's arm. He turned just in time to see Hinata holding what appeared to be two heads of lions molded from chakra. She threw her arms forward and slammed the attack into Kakuzu's back sending him back into the woodened spikes. Kakuzu had his Katon mask fire a wave of flame that quickly engulfed the wood and turned it into ash. He landed on the ground and tried to blast Hinata with his Futon mask, but some ink wrapped around he and pulled her away. Kakuzu looked to see Sai with a giant snake made entirely out of ink. That was when Kakuzu saw what the octopus was doing. It was supplying Sai with great amount of ink which he used his chakra to increase his snake's size.
"So he can channel his chakra into ink and mold it into different animals." Kakuzu smiled at that and had both his masks open. "Then I'm just going to have to blast you to smithereens!" He fired both of his attacks, but Sai just smiled as his snake dropped down and ate him and his octopus. Everyone watched in shock as the giant snake was engulfed in the intense flames, but when the flames died down they all got a shock. The snake had some how managed to hardened itself and was standing as still as a statue. Suddenly it began to crack and ink slowly began to pour out of it until the snake began to move once more. It opened it's mouth and a flood of ink came out revealing Sai completely unharmed.
"Didn't you know that ink hardens in a fire?" Sai smiled even more as he jumped on to his snake as he placed his fingers together in the bird seal. Suddenly the ink on the ground wrapped around the snakes middle and quickly formed wings. The snake lurched forward and took to the sky surprising everyone as Sai went through a series of handsigns. The snake opened it's mouth once more and a giant glob of ink dropped out, but before it even hit the ground it was already taking form. It hit the ground with such force that a nearby boulder shook until it crumbled. The creature stood and took the form of some sort of golem except for the clawed hands and spikes shooting forward out of it's shoulders.
"What the hell?" Kakuzu narrowed his eyes as the creature stumbled forward, but on it's second step it was in a full run. Kakuzu jumped out of the way and watched as it barreled through another boulder with ease. The creature stopped and turned and faced Kakuzu who merely glared as the creature charged. Kakuzu quickly had his black thread wrap the creature up and keep it in the air as he blasted it with his Futon and Katon masks. As the fire died Kakuzu quickly snapped the creature in two and proceeded to blast it into many more pieces with his Futon mask. "I'm getting tired of you!" Sai's eyes widened as Kakuzu sent his black thread up into the sky. Sai jumped off his snake just as it was pulled down to Kakuzu.
"Gotcha!" Sai screamed out as he put his fingers into a tiger seal. Kakuzu watched as the ink creped up his thread, but that was when Kakuzu saw it. The snake began to glow and Kakuzu saw faint squares inside the snake.
"Fuck me explosive tags!" The snake exploded into a giant fire dome that made the other Shinobi jump back to avoid the bomb. Everyone looked at Sai who looked on the verge of collapse, but still managed to smile at his friends weakly. "That hurt you fucker!" Sai turned just in time to see a wave of black thread head towards him, but before it could reach him a woodened wall erupted between him and the thread. Kakashi quickly dropped next to Sai who quickly took him away from Kakuzu. When the smoke finally cleared they saw Kakuzu with one of his left arm missing along with his Katon mask. "I'm still impressed that you all managed to destroy all, but two of my hearts." Kakuzu turned his mouth upwards in a smile of sorts. "But if that was your best shoot then you are in trouble." Sai looked up from Kakashi's shoulder and pointed his finger behind Kakuzu with a smile. Kakuzu's eyes widened as he turned and saw Hinata with one of her hands glowing brightly with chakra. Before Kakuzu could fully turn around his shoulder that held his Futon mask was blasted.
Kakuzu spat out blood as his body was thrown forward as his mask shattered into pieces. The black thread fell limply to Kakuzu's sides as his breathing became heavy. Kakuzu looked up to see Kakashi standing above him with a sad look in his eyes. "I can't believe I let my guard down to a bunch of kids." Kakuzu struggled to his feet and Kakashi slowly backed away shocking everyone. "But I won't die on the ground like a common dog! If I'm going to die it is going to be on my own two feet!" Kakashi nodded his head and created his Raikiri as he got into a ready stance. Kakuzu willed his black thread onto his right arm into a lance. The two stood like this for a second before charging. Kakashi swung his Raikiri just as Kakuzu threw his lance forward. The result of the conflict was the two passing by each other visible unharmed, but blood quickly shoot out of Kakuzu's chest as blood gently dripped down Kakashi's face.
"You fought well Kakuzu." Kakashi gently released his justu as Kakuzu fell towards the ground.
"You wanna know something funny." Kakuzu smiled at the ground as he slowly fell face first. "The other members of Akatsuki always called us the Fushi Konbi (Immortal Combo), but the sad thing is nothing is truly immortal." With that Kakuzu landed on the ground dead. That was when a giant explosion followed by a strong shockwave caught everyone's attention towards the direction Naruto was fighting.
"Everyone let's move out!" Kakashi ordered just as Shikamaru appeared and proceeded to follow them.
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They all made it in time to see Naruto get blasted through a rock. When he emerged everyone saw the state he was in. His shirt was torn to shreds and was only hanging by one sleeve, he was bleeding from various places, but strange enough his staff was completely fine. Naruto turned and shook his head singling that this was his fight. Senji finally appeared looking slightly better then Naruto, but was still in rough shape. "Looks like your friends are finally here."
"Don't worry they won't interfere." Naruto grabbed his sleeve and ripped it off and pointed his staff at Senji as he slid his foot and turned his body to the right. Senji charged wearing a smile of nothing, but glee as he brought his axe down on Naruto's staff. Naruto deflected the blow and spun around catching Senji in his mid-section with a wind charka enhanced end. Senji jumped backwards to avoid the staff going further into his stomach.
"I can't use my Jikukan Ninjutsu I have to wait until the perfect moment." Senji chuckled at the thought as he threw his axe making Naruto dodge, but he brought his staff down with enough force and chakra to shatter it in two. Naruto then spun and slammed the butt of his staff on the ground glaring at Senji who only shrugged his shoulders at the defeat of his weapon. Naruto then shocked the group by throwing his staff towards Hinata who caught it.
"I have a feeling that you are a lot better in hand-to-hand combat." This brought a grin to Senji's face as Naruto continued. "So if I continued to fight you using my staff you might end up destroying it and I went threw hell trying to get that thing finished."
"Very good Uzumaki, but that won't save you not by a long shot." Senji reeled backwards and punched the ground shaking everything in a ten foot radius of him. Naruto closed his eyes and breathed as he knew what he needed to do. Naruto held his arm above him palm pointing to the sky as seals appeared on his arm leading all the way up to his palm. Suddenly Naruto's Futon Rasengan appeared, but it slowly got bigger and bigger until it was the size of Naruto from spinning blade to spinning blade.
"Futon: Rasenshuriken!" Naruto looked at Senji with glowing orange eyes as he threw his arm back and threw the spinning disk at Senji surprising everyone.
"Is this the technique Jiraiya told me to watch out for!" Kakashi watched the disk with his Sharingan eye and was amazed at how many blades were inside the disk, but they were moving so fast that Kakashi couldn't count them all. "That's the jutsu, but Jiraiya said he still couldn't throw it yet." Senji dodged the disk as it sailed by him, but had to activate his Jikukan Ninjutsu just to dodge the expansion.
"So he can slow down time to avoid certain attacks." Naruto narrowed his eyes as he created four Kage Bunshin. The five charged at Senji who stood his ground laughing, but not when he got grabbed from behind. He turned and saw another Naruto smiling at him as it secretly placed a seal on his back. Senji quickly got the clone off and punched it smashing it's head to bits before it could disappear. Senji looked up to see only one Naruto, but this was the one that got it's attention as Naruto was now using Kyuubi's chakra. Naruto threw a punch and was shocked to see that it began to slow down as well. Senji quickly grabbed his arm and threw him over his shoulder as Naruto spun in the air and landed on the ground disappearing in a flash of orange and yellow. Senji turned around just in time to get punched by Naruto sending him spiraling into a boulder making a small crater.
"So you can move just fast enough to slip through my time dilation." Senji spat out the blood that was coming into his mouth. "Kid you have just made my day." Senji watched as Naruto vanished again and by sheer luck Senji managed to duck just in time to miss the punch aimed for his skull. Senji looked up just in time to see Naruto try and deliver a punishing axe kick to his head. Senji glared at Naruto just as he moved his head out of the way, but couldn't move every part of his body out of the way. Naruto's kick smacked into his shoulder breaking the bone, but Senji quickly recovered by grabbing Naruto with his right arm and swinging him into the ground creating a crater. Senji then jumped backwards while grasping his useless arm glaring at Naruto as he quickly got to his feet. Senji then did something that both surprised and made Naruto sick to his stomach. He gripped his arm and with one yank ripped the limb off in one second. Senji took one glance at his limb as he dropped it to the ground. "Now I can show my true abilities." Senji grinned as black energy poured out of his wound and transformed into a black arm that sat there and waved in and out of view. "Now behold the true power of time!" Senji charged at Naruto with a great burst of speed as he swung his black arm at Naruto. Naruto jumped over Senji as his arm smacked into a tree making Senji smile.
"I don't see any real-." Naruto stopped as the black energy began to crawl up the tree long after Senji removed his arm from it. Naruto watched as the tree slowly began to bend and twist until it was gone. "What did you do?" Naruto continued to look at the spot the tree was, but could no longer anything from that tree.
Senji looked at his black arm as the black energy quivered. "I aged it into dust." Senji said simply. "I'm am the ruler of time. I can slow it down to a crawl or by ripping off a body part I can age it forward. This is my true power Naruto Uzumaki." Senji charged forward once again as Naruto vanished and reappeared behind him. Senji smiled as Naruto went to throw a punch, but before he could hit Senji the black energy lurched across Senji's back. Naruto's fist connected and he immediately pulled back feeling something wrong. When Naruto looked at his hand he saw that the energy had managed to age his Kyuubi cloak for fraction of a second. Senji looked at Naruto's stunned face and laughed. "What did you truly believe you would be safe in that cloak of chakra. Don't be naïve everything ages people, animals, nature, and even chakra ages nothing lasts forever." Naruto watched as the energy continued to spread across Senji's back like a virus. "Even I am not an exception." Senji smiled at Naruto's confusion as he brought his black arm up. Slowly the energy faded from his hand and revealed a skeleton hand. Everyone was shocked as Senji bent the fingers as the energy engulfed the hand once again.
"What the fuck are you doing to youself?" Naruto looked at Senji with a look of sadness as the man before him began to slowly die.
"I'm doing everything needed to exterminate the Uzumaki clan." Senji brought his hand down and clenched it into a fist making a black blade of wavy energy appear. "And this blade will be you executioner." Senji suddenly vanished surprising Naruto as the blade was thrust at his throat. Naruto barely managed to jump backwards as Senji continued his advance on Naruto swinging his sword whenever he saw an opening. After Naruto managed to get away from Senji his Kyuubi cloak only covered Naruto's left arm and his waist. Naruto turned his eyes towards a distant figure and saw the signal. Senji charged just as the Kyuubi cloak vanished, but Naruto quickly placed his fingers together and created a Kage Bunshin that threw him out of harms way. Naruto landed on the ground with a thud, but as he got up Senji stomped on his back. Blood dripped out of Naruto's mouth as he was rolled over to see the point of Senji's black blade.
"Any final requests?" Senji smiled as he brought the blade down, but this was when Naruto smiled.
"Yeah just one." Naruto placed his hands together in the tiger seal. "Die!" Senji's eyes widened as purplish tendrils wrapped around his body and pulled him away from Naruto and into the center of the area. Senji continued to struggle as he tried to age the tendrils that was slowly beginning to encase his body like a box leaving on his head and upper torso visible, but every time Senji felt one of the tendrils age away another quickly latched on. "You can't get away not from this."
Senji looked up with a look of pure hatred in his eyes as he was slowly being consumed. "What is this?" Naruto smiled pleasantly at the tendrils.
"This is one of my ultimate Fuinjutsu." Naruto said holding out his hand with seemed to spark with the purple energy. "Fuinjutsu: Kurohitsugi (Sealing art: Black Coffin). It is a Fuinjutsu that I made in secret during my training trip it is a Fuinjutsu that can distort space and time. Once that box completely covers you it will crush you into atoms by nothing, but gravity. There is only two drawbacks to this: one it takes a long time to set up and two if someone manages to destroy even one of the tags. If he so much as tears a slight piece off then the Fuinjutsu will be canceled."
"Why tell me all of this?" Senji struggled all the more as his upper torso began to disappear.
"Because I want to know why you destroyed Uzushiogakure." Naruto's eyes had lost the hate in them and now only showed pity for the man.
Senji gritted his teeth as he glared up at Naruto with hate. "You want to know why fine." Everyone listened as Senji began to tell his story. "I was born in conflict during a time where the hidden villages were not even started. I had to fight in order to stay alive and soon I joined a clan named the Uzumaki who wished to find a peaceful way to resolve the conflicts. Soon after I developed my jutsu that allowed me to slow down my aging that was when we joined with that mistake of a village." Naruto's eyes widened as he realized what he was talking about. "Yes that's right Naruto Konohagakure. At first I thought it was a grand idea to join forces with a village that wanted to achieve peace just like us, but soon I realized we were wrong. I watched as the centuries turned and fighting still continued. Then another war came about with Konoha at it's center thinks to the wise Shodai Hokage. I pleaded with Arashi not to go and draw attention to ourselves, but he didn't listen and instead went off to fight in the war. After that I began to see the pattern as we began to head to a knew war. This time with Uzushio as leader of us. I tried to convince him that what he was doing was a mistake, but just like Arashi he thought I was being unreasonable." Naruto listened intently as Senji went on. "Then by the near end of the war I went to Uzushio with one last plea. I told him that if he didn't break off ties with Konoha or his village would suffer because of it. Uzushio then tried to have me thrown in jail, but I already had a plan in motion."
"And what plan was that?" Naruto saw that the purple energy had reached Senji's neck.
"What causes war." Senji stated as if he was asking a question. "Differences. So my plan was simple destroy the five great elemental villages and then make an empire with everyone under one banner. That was my plan, but in order to achieve it I needed to build up strength. Something your arrival prevented me from doing. So that is why I did what I did Uzumaki and I would gladly do it all over again."
Naruto shook his head as he gazed at the man still with pity in his eyes. "I can't forgive what you did Senji-."
"I didn't come here to ask for your forgiveness!" Senji struggled a little more as the box grew spear like appendages on all sides.
"But I do feel sorry for you." Everyone looked at Naruto who put his hand into a tiger seal. "You lived during a time where fighting was continuous. You learned to live by killing others in order to survive and protect the ones closest to you." Senji's eyes narrowed as Naruto continued on. "But that doesn't give you the excuse of having an entire village wiped out. I will say this one thing: I also wish to have peace in this world of ours. I will find a way to make peace with all the villages without destroying them." Senji continued to glare at Naruto until a smile tugged at his lips though this one was filled with malice.
"Amegakure." Naruto looked at Senji in confusing as he looked at him with an evil light in his eyes. "You will find the Akatsuki hideout in Amegakure."
"Why tell me this?" Senji laughed a deep echoing laugh that made everyone cringe.
"Because I see nothing to gain by keeping it from you." Senji sneered at Naruto who smiled back. "Don't you dare show me pity boy! I do want one thing from this though. I want everyone to remember my name and tremble in fear of it. I want you to tell the story of Senji Heionbuji (Tranquility and Peace) who had the hand in destroying Uzushiogakure and had plans of destroying the other Great Nations. That is my last request Uzumaki." Naruto looked on as Senji smiled as Naruto nodded his head before saying one last word.
"Taorero (Collapse)." Naruto whispered and then in a single instant the box folded in on itself crushing everything inside before disappearing. Naruto didn't say a word as he turned around and collapsed on the spot making everyone else run to see if he was okay. Hinata smiled as Naruto was fine except for the cuts on his body and being exhausted. Kakashi picked Naruto up as they walk forward, but that was when they noticed Senji's arm. The arm was glowing with a black aura that made Kakashi go into survival mode.
"Run!" Kakashi screamed out and ran along with the others. Hinata turned back and saw the arm explode in a wave of black that began to age everything into dust. The group continued to run as Sai drew on a scroll and created a bird.
"Get on!" Sai and the group jumped on the bird and flew as high and as far as they could. The group turned around to see a large crater with what appeared a bottomless hole.
"He must have placed some of that aging power into that arm." Kakashi judged as he laid Naruto down. The group took to getting rested up before getting to Konoha something that everyone was looking forward too.
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E was setting out towards Konoha when a Kumo nin appeared in front of him. "Sir we not need to go after Konoha." This confused E as he looked at the man who smiled at him. "We have just had word from our spy that has been watching Konoha for the Uzumaki and he was sent on a mission not a day ago. If we hurry we can intercept him and kill him before he even as a chance of entering the gates." E's eyes hardened as he turned to his group.
"Double time it to Konoha now!" E quickly launched himself off the ground leaving behind a crater as Omoi, Samui, and Karui. "Soon Uzumaki you will feel the full power of the lightning."
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Sasuke was running after a fleeing figure as they both dodged tree limbs. Sasuke was currently throwing shuriken at the targets back. Sasuke smiled as three shuriken punctured his targets back making him stumble. "Why don't you give up?" Sasuke screamed after his target as they exited the trees and were in an open field.
The target suddenly turned on a dime with chakra laced in his hand as it extended into a blade. Sasuke dodged the slice to his head by mere inches and quickly jumped back. The man ripped his cloak and hood off to reveal the face of Kabuto, but he had some snake like features to him now "I will never give up to the likes of you." Kabuto growled out as he pulled the shuriken out of his back.
"You can't beat me." Sasuke smirked as a Kabuto bit his bottom lip in anger. "And you can't beat him." Kabuto turned around just in time to get punched by Madara sending him into a nearby tree making it fall over.
"You should've known that after we dealt with Orochimaru we would come after you." Madara announced in a calm tone as he approached the downed man. "You may have grafted Orochimaru's skin onto yours to gain power to better protect yourself, but it is all in vain." Kabuto stood up and was about to bite his thumb, but Sasuke quickly punched him in the gut forcing Kabuto to double over spitting out blood as Sasuke kicked him in the face sending him skidding across the ground. Kabuto gritted his teeth as he attempted to stand once more only to get kicked roughly in the side.
"Damn I really am going to die." Kabuto looked at Madara with hate in his eyes as he saw his Sharingan morph into his Eternal Mangekyo. "I can't die not yet. I still don't know who I truly am yet." Suddenly a barrage of Kunai interrupted Madara's concentration as a cloaked figure with red clouds appeared in front of Kabuto.
"That is quite enough Sasuke." Came the calm voice laced with anger as the wind swept his cloak away as he took it off. "I don't think you know what you are doing."
Madara's eye narrowed as Sasuke looked on with a mixture of fear and anger. "Itachi." Itachi looked at his brother with anger reflected in his Sharingan eyes.
"You didn't think I would notice Madara." Madara looked at Itachi and softened his stance as Kabuto stood up and gripped his rib cage.
"All we want it the traitor Itachi." Madara walked forward, but jumped backwards as a wall of flame came at him.
"I'm afraid I can't let that happen." Itachi announced startling his brother. "And I'm afraid I can't allow my brother to follow you Madara. Sasuke come with me or I will beat this nonsense of revenge out of you." Itachi's eyes hardened towards his brother as the wind continued to blow through the area.
Brother vs. Brother Itachi's rage! What does Itachi want from Kabuto? What is E planning to do with Naruto? Find out next time. Read. Enjoy, and Review.
