What's up my fans, this is the next chapter in the final section of Playing the Four Devils. This is another short one of sorts but its only purpose is to set up the fights scenes next chapter and to introduce some new fight scenes that can only come from my idiotic/smart mind. I want to make two announcements with one of them I am still completely unsure on.
The first one is that this won't be the only Naruto/DMC crossover that you will see me write as I plan to write about two more Naruto/DMC cross's. The second one is going to be done a little differently from what other people would normally see from a Naruto/DMC cross and another that is possibly going to be my all time favorite story when I post it. The second one will probably come about a month after I finish this one and the third one will probably come out in November, so be sure to await those new ones.
The second announcement is towards those that are fans to my Death Before Dishonor story, which is that I could very well be dropping and rewriting it from the ground up. I found myself thinking up of a second Naruto/Bleach crossover that I consider my 'Secondary Universe' of Death Before Dishonor and another one that is my 'Revision' of the story. I'm continuing to ball the idea around and thinking of different scenarios for that story, so the possibility of it being rewritten will more then likely happen.
Anyway, that stories not important right now so just read enjoy this chapter.
CH.35 – The Devil Eclipse
Sasuke dodged a heavy downward slash before sending out a slash of his own with Alastor, which was grabbed by Sotachi before being tossed aside by the Kazama clansmen. Sasuke flipped himself in the air and landed square on his feet before he extended his palm and sent out a small fireball with Exia that bounced off the elder devil before the man extended his palm and sent out a wave of darkness that resembled a sword. Sasuke quickly jumped to the side to dodge and brought up his sword to block a high strike from his former master, whose strength behind the sword caused him to fracture the ground below him.
Sotachi gritted his teeth as he began to push Sasuke a little before he was stuck in a stalemate with the Uchiha clan member, who currently had his eyes. Sotachi continued to push until his eyes widened upon seeing a trail of blood leak from the boys left eye socket before watching the teen open his eye to see the Mangekyou Sharingan.
"Amaterasu" Sasuke said sending out a blast of black fire in point blank range of his former master.
Sotachi reacted as fast as he could and summoned a shield of darkness in front of him that blocked the black flame from reaching him. When the technique clashed on the shield, a large explosion ringed in the area, causing Sotachi to hop back from the shockwave of the explosion. As soon as his feet touched the ground, he was greeted with a blade going through his stomach, courtesy of Sasuke appearing behind him with his hand firmly gripping on the Alastor sword.
"You should never turn your back on an Uchiha, master." Sasuke said before unleashing massive torrents of lightning through Sotachi's once for Sotachi to turn into a mass of black goo.
He then looked behind him and saw the body of Sotachi with the force edge in hand holding the sword above head before bringing it down on the teens head, removing it cleanly off the shoulders.
"You should follow your own advice and mind yourself around me. After all, I am a master of darkness." Sotachi said before seeing the remains of Sasuke's body turn into a mass of snakes. Sotachi then looked to the side and caught the sight of Sasuke charging at him while he dragging his patented Chidori technique along the ground, as he neared Sotachi.
"Chidori" He called out sending the lightning blade towards the man, only for it to be quickly grabbed by his extended arm and tossed into the air again. Sasuke quickly increased the frequency of the lightning before he extended his arm towards his former master and called out "Chidori Ryuudan", sending out a lightning dragon from the Chidori that was aimed straight for Sotachi.
The man scoffed to himself before he slashed through the lightning dragon with force edge before he was greeted with the sight of Sasuke sending out a stinger technique. Sotachi quickly brought back the force edge and blocked the strike but to his surprise, Sasuke stabbed the ground with the sword before beginning to attack with Exia. Sasuke sent out a several punches and blast of fire from Exia, which Sotachi dodged by bobbing and weaving before sending an upward slash from force edge that Sasuke dodged by hopping into the air and landed on the ceiling.
"Are you planning to fight me or all you're going to do is dodge my attacks like a little bitch?" He asked with Sasuke smirking before he brought up his arms to reveal eight strings of what appeared to be thunder with the main portion of the thunder connected to his thumbs. Sotachi saw this and to his surprise, he saw the lightning connecting with a set of eight kunais stabbed into the ground with lightning trailing towards Alastor, which was covered in lightning with two more strings of lightning traveling up to the teen's thumbs.
'What the hell is he planning?' He thought to himself as he tried to move his arms but himself unable to do so while Sasuke performed several set of seals
"It looks like this is where you and I part ways." He said before he clapped his hands together and caused lightning to surround his hands before a large spike traveled towards the kunais, causing them to glow brightly before traveling towards Alastor and surrounded the blade. Sotachi looked on in surprise as he saw the floor get surrounded in a circle of lightning before hearing Sasuke call out his move "Thunder Dome". Sotachi then watched on in amazement as the lightning built up before it shot upward in a tower like appearance, with Sotachi being consumed in the lightning.
Sasuke quickly hopped to the side, as the lightning shot through the area he stood on and obliterated the part he stood on and caused the portion of the ceiling to fall and bury Sotachi under the rubble. Sasuke panted to himself as he got up from the ground with pain in his ribcage but could not help but smirk at the results of an impromptu technique that took him so long to set up and perfect.
"Looks like you lose you bastard." Sasuke said before he heard the dark chuckle of one Kazama Sotachi as the smoke cleared and revealed the Kazama clansmen standing without a scratch adjourning his body.
"I'm sorry my student, but may I ask what the hell was that move you attempted in slaying me with? It was far too weak to even scratch a part of my body." Sotachi said as he hefted the force edge and darkness began to build around him "You are still the same weak little boy that I met all those years ago; however you have earned the right to see my true form in all its glory." Sotachi said as the darkness formed a cocoon around him causing Sasuke to look at the man that was once his teacher. The cocoon then began to crack and expose a bright purple light before it exploded, revealing the new form of Kazama Sotachi to the Uchiha clan member, who looked frightened at the appearance.
"What the hell are you?" He asked before Sotachi vanished and reappeared in front of Sasuke with his hand digging into Sasuke's stomach, with blood leaking through his mouth before his body went limp. Sotachi then glowed a bright purple color again before he became his original form once more. He then tossed Sasuke's body onto the ground with a dark smirk on his face.
"I'm the Devil." Sotachi said before grabbed Sasuke and prepared to activate the jutsu that would change the entire world.
(With Naruto)
The white haired Hokage could currently be found flying atop of his dragon's head, with his mind focusing on what was to transpire with Sotachi awakening the power of the Temin-Ni-Gru. He could see the outline of the great demonic tower in the small distance and knew that it would only be a matter of minutes before he made it to the Temin-Ni-Gru. He was currently going over the would-be fight with his distant ancestor with his eyes reading multiple thoughts going across his mind at seven thoughts per second.
"Naruto-sama, we are approaching the Temin-Ni-Gru and will be there within the next minute." Seiun said with Naruto nodding his head.
'I'm coming you smug bastard, so be ready for one hell of a fight.' Naruto thought before he felt Seiun suddenly stop and high heat going past them. Naruto then saw that the hot thing that flew past him was a molten magma ball surrounded by fire causing him to look down to find that the source was from a giant red dragon that appeared in front of them with a cloaked figure standing on the head of the dragon with a big smirk on his face.
"It looks like you never cease to amaze me, my descendant." The familiar voice of Kazama Sotachi rang out with Naruto's eyes narrowing towards the man
"I guess you don't wait anymore then I do huh?" Naruto said with Sotachi only smirking to himself while wagging his finger
"No, this place is far too small for the battle that we are supposed. No, the battlefield we are to have is past that." He said pointing towards the eclipse that was merely centimeters away from being completely set in the earth's atmosphere "When that eclipse is completed, the real fun is going to begin and the fate of this world will be in our grasp." He said before he looked towards the Devil Eclipse and saw that it was now fully within the atmosphere of the earth, causing his smile to threaten to break skin if it grew any further.
Naruto looked towards the Devil eclipse and saw what appeared to be another world behind it, like a mirror opening a portal between two worlds thus allowing anyone to enter and leave at a moments notice. Naruto then turned back to his ancestor and locked eyes with the man who appeared to be ready to do what he has desired to do for so long.
"I'm afraid that we must part ways Naruto, for I must set the bridge that will link this world with our battlefield. I would allow you to follow me but I need you to be distracted long enough for me to set up the playing field. Meet you there." Sotachi said before he was covered in a veil of shadows before vanishing in thin air, leaving behind Naruto and Seiun with Sotachi's dragon.
"Naruto-sama, it appears that this may take awhile before you have the chance to find your ancestor again." He said with Naruto nodding his head
"It appears so my friend." Naruto said with the dragon nodding before the young Hokage summoned Yamato to his hand, with Seiun holding up his arms and soon blades of wind began to whip around his arms like a drill. Sotachi's dragon soon let out a loud roar with flame erupting from his mouth, only letting Naruto laugh at the statement the dragon was making "It appears that our challenge is accepted." He said with Seiun letting out a small laugh as well.
"Then let's slay this bitch." Seiun said before he charged at the red dragon with said dragon doing the same with his arms erupting with fire.
Upon contact with each other's arms it resulted in a massive explosion that echoed throughout the field and began the fight between dragons
(Meanwhile - Frontline)
Gaara, Tsunade, Jiraiya, and Hiruzen watched as the three coffins that rose from the ground before them and stood on the ground for a few moments. The doors then lowered towards the ground and revealed the three figures within the coffins were three of the fallen members of Akatsuki: Hoshigaki Kisame, Uchiha Madara, and Nagato. Everyone was surprised upon seeing the snake like man resurrect them with this powerful Ninjutsu and was starting to wonder if he has tried to resurrect Orochimaru yet.
"In case you all are wondering why I haven't brought back Orochimaru, I'm afraid that I can't. His soul has been obliterated from our world and all that remains of him are the remains of his body that I have infused on my own. However, Orochimaru doesn't matter anymore for all that does matter is what happens now and that being these three pawns." Kabuto said with Gaara and the three Konoha elders looking at the pale snake like man. Kabuto then smirked to himself as the coffins sunk back into the ground while the bodies of the newly resurrected shinobi walked forward a couple of steps. While they took their newly resurrected steps into the world, Kabuto performed a set of seals before he extended his palms towards the three bodies.
"Prepare yourself to see a technique that only a true medical master can learn, Forbidden Medical Ninja Art: Heavenly Palm Resurrection." Kabuto called out with the eyes of the Kage level
He called out as his palms glowed white before three beams of light shot out of his hands and entered into the bodies of the recently deceased. The four Kage level shinobi watched on in amazement as the bodies of the deceased shinobi began to reanimate themselves back to life until they looked the same as they did when they were once alive.
"What in the world is this?" Tsunade asked herself with Kabuto letting out a small laugh as he spoke
"This is the results of something that neither the Nidaime Hokage nor even Orochimaru could do. I have fully resurrected them back to their lives the day they were killed four years ago, but the difference is that I don't have to use kunais to fully reanimate them as I just demonstrated the power of my Ninjutsu." He said while holding up his hands and showed the same white glow over take them again, while Tsunade looked on in shock.
"You've truly mastered the forbidden jutsu's Orochimaru has left behind and have improved them." She said with Kabuto laughing manically
"Yes, I have been able to achieve a level in the Medical field that not even you Tsunade could reach. I have the power to both rise and resurrect the dead with but a simply use of my power. I am now in a class of my own, as I now hold the power over both life and death. I have achieved the power that many medical ninja have selfishly searched and strived to gain." He said with Tsunade shaking her head.
"There is a reason why such techniques as those are forbidden, and it's not because of the taxing chakra that is required to use them but the very toll they take on you using them. The Edo Tensei does give you the ability to summon those that have departed from this world, but the tax to summon the dead is far more taxing them chakra. A piece of your soul is removed and sacrificed as a way to have the soul of the summoned mortal planted in the body to use as his or her own. That technique will cause your body to experience a pain the likes of which would make gods cringe, and that medical technique has the taxing on your on lifespan. When you use a resurrection Ninjutsu, your own life force is used instead of your chakra so that the user's body can work as it did before death. You're basically killing yourself using those two techniques, just like Orochimaru would have eventually done to himself had he lived." Tsunade said, knowing that was indeed one of the reasons why so many people were banned from using the technique and could have possibly been the reason why the Nidaime died.
"Shut up you blonde bitch for it matters not what you have to say, as today you all shall die." He said as he commanded his new pawns to begin attacking the four Kage level shinobi.
"It looks like we got a fight on our hands huh?" Hiruzen said as Tsunade and Jiraiya stepped up to the plate
"It got Nagato; after all he was my student." Jiraiya thought as he prepared to take on his deceased student
"I got Madara since its time that we settle this rivalry of bad blood between us." Tsunade said while cracking her knuckles
"It looks like I got Kisame, although it's not quite something I would choose at first glance. But what the hell, I could use a challenge." Hiruzen stated as he quickly bit his thumb and prepared to summon his trusty battle partner.
"It looks like I get the ring master in all this, perfect if you ask me." Gaara said as he summoned more sand to the field and sent it towards Kabuto, who jump back to dodge the sand blast sent and began to travel through the forest with Gaara hot on his heels by way of sand platform. The three resurrected Akatsuki members then charged at their opponents with Jiraiya not wasting a moment and engaged with Nagato, while Tsunade and Hiruzen began to engage their opponents.
(With Gaara)
Kabuto continued to run through the forest area with a devious smirk on his face as he saw from the corner of his eye Gaara chasing after him with a sand made platform under his feet. Gaara quickly raised both palms in the air and sent two blast of sand at Kabuto, who dodged them by hopping into the air and sailed above the trees with a snakehead trailing behind him. He soon landed within on a tree branch with a set of kunai in hand before he quickly jumped to the side when a sand blast destroyed the tree he stood on. He landed on another one and quickly hopped back when another sand blast destroyed a tree. He was soon greeted with the sight of Gaara appearing below him with his hands blazing through a set of seals before calling out "Sand Release: Sand Missiles", sending out multiple blast of sand from his sand platform that tore through many of the trees and branches surrounding the forest.
Kabuto continued to dodge more shots from Gaara, until the red head surprised when he raised both hands and sent two large sand blasts at Kabuto, who unknowingly found himself in mid air and was forced to block with his arms in front of him. The sand blast nailed Kabuto head on, which threw him off his rocker for a moment, due to the force behind it. His moment of surprise would soon cost him as Gaara landed his second sand blast on Kabuto's unguarded body and was grasped by the sand blast. Gaara then raised his arm and brought Kabuto upward into the sky before Gaara brought his hand down, causing Kabuto to be slammed into the ground.
The red haired Kazekage soon appeared in front of the downed medical ninja, who coughed loudly as he got up from his downed position with an arrogant smirk plastered on his face.
"My, my Kazekage-sama you sure are quite in a hurry to die today." He said with Gaara showing no reaction only holding up his hand and soon the sand followed and incased Kabuto in a cocoon of sand, setting him up for Gaara's signature technique.
"Sand Coffin." He called out before he clenched his hand that seemingly crushed the snake like man in a pressure-induced technique. Kabuto's eyes widened when he saw Gaara use his famous technique on him before smirk came across his face before the technique crushed his body, or so the red haired Kazekage thought.
Gaara snarled upon seeing Kabuto's smirk plastered face as the man turned into a mesh of dead snakes before the true Kabuto came out in the open with his hands clapping.
"Very well done Kazekage-sama, I say that you could pose a threat in killing me but let's see what you can do when facing those that came before you." He said as he blurred through a set of seals and slammed his palms together. Gaara's eyes widened before he brought his arms back up and summoned sand shuriken's and quickly sent them towards the still snake like man, only to be surprised when four coffins appeared in front of Kabuto and shielded him from the on coming projectiles "Now lets see how strong you are against your predecessors." He stated with the coffins falling forward and landed on the ground with Gaara's eyes narrowing on the four men that stood in the coffins each wearing a black cloak with no print on it.
Before him were four men that he held something in common with.
The first man was a tall slender man that looked to be around the age of fifty-two with short white hair and a white goatee under his lips.
The Shodaime Kazekage: The first Jinchuriki of the Ichibi no Tanuki and the founder of the Suna village
The second man was a tall bald man that looked to be in his early forties with a heavy muscular build that looked as if he worked extremely hard to keep it.
The Nidaime Kazekage: The founder to Sunagakure's puppet Ninjutsu program and his great grandfather
The third man was a possibly the shortest of the four with long black hair and jet black eyes.
The Sandaime Kazekage: The strongest Kazekage in history and his grandfather
The last man was someone that he could absolutely hated with all his being and felt inward happiness that he got the chance to kill him to get the revenge he desired to get
The Yondaime Kazekage: Close relative to two of his predecessors and his father
"Prepare yourself Kazekage-sama, as you now have the opportunity to face all four of those that have gained the rank that you currently hold." Kabuto said with a low chuckle as a low stir over came the four kages before they looked towards the red haired Kazekage with the fourth gazing into the emotionless expression of his youngest son.
"Gaara, you have grown since my death, what have you been doing?" The Yondaime said with Gaara responding
"Doing your job bastard." Gaara said with anger hinted in his tone with the other Kazekage's looking towards the fourth one with confusion evident across their faces.
"Yondaime Kazekage-sama, what is your relationship to this boy?" The Sandaime Kazekage asked with the Yondaime Kazekage only keeping his eyes bored onto his son.
"He is my son and the current Jinchuriki to the Ichibi no Tanuki. Plus by the looks of things, he is now the current Kazekage." The Yondaime said with the other three looking at the red head with astonishment only to find him shaking his head on something.
"I'm afraid that I no longer carry the Shukaku anymore, he was killed a long time ago during the chunin exam." Gaara said with the others looking curious about that but before they could ask about it, Kabuto intervened by using his resurrection Ninjutsu on the bodies. Gaara watched Kabuto worked in bringing them back to life, while slowly showing signs of able body fatigue and for a brief moment; he flashed signs of his body aging. Gaara could have sworn that he saw Kabuto turn into a fifty-year old man for just a quick second before returning his normal look.
"Enough of this nonsense, its time for you to experience fighting those that precede you." He said with the Kazekage's process ending and allowed all four to step out of the coffins that housed them and back into the radiant light that they haven't seen for years. Gaara only held up his hands and began to summon his sand towards him while his gaze returned solely on that of Kabuto, who was trying to regain his composure after doing two very powerful Ninjutsu consecutively again.
"Tsunade-sama was right in her assumption; you are dying." Gaara said with Kabuto only coughing loudly before he got up and glared at the red haired boy in disgust.
"Shut up, you shouldn't worry about me and worry more about your currently position." He said before commanding the bodies of the Kazekage's to attack Gaara, who only sighed before bringing up his arms to summon his sand around him.
"I just had to tell Naruto to leave you to me; I should have gone with that white haired idiot." He said before going on the offensive while Kabuto only coughed up blood before he spoke through a deep grin plastered on his face.
"It matters not what the white haired gaki tries to do for he will die at the hands of Sotachi-sama, and this village will fall at the hands of my subordinates." He said as he snapped his fingers and soon three cloaked figures appeared behind him in bowing positions.
"What are your orders Kabuto-sama?" asked the biggest one of the three with Kabuto coughing again before he spoke.
"Take out the frontline in Konoha and destroy the village." He said with the three figures nodding their heads before they disappeared from view while Kabuto only smirked at the events that were soon to play out.
'Soon the dream that Orochimaru-sama desired for so long will be accomplished and his death can finally be avenged with his soul being put to rest.' Kabuto said as he stood with his arms crossed.
(With Sakura)
Sakura slammed her fist into the face of another sound shinobi and quickly pulled out a kunai to block a stab attempt made by another shinobi beside her before being hit with a hard knee to the gut by Sakura. Sakura then raised her kunai and stabbed the man in the back of his neck before forcefully pulling it out, causing him to cough up blood before he fell to the ground where death was emanate for him. Sakura then charged at more shinobi but before she could do anything to she dodged a flare of magma that hit the ground in front of her feet.
Sakura looked confused until the sky suddenly got a little brighter; causing her to look up and watch as large fist made of magma sailing through the air before falling towards her area. The pink haired teen wasted not a single second, as she ran from the falling pieces of magma and soon felt the vibrations of the impact the magma made on the ground. She then gazed behind her back to see what could cause that much damage, before she heard the sound of large trees breaking to her right.
She then turned her head to find a large fist made of magma appear and would have taken her out had she not made a sudden move to drop onto the ground and watch as the fist flew into the nearest tree beside her. Sakura watched in amazement as the fist destroyed the tree upon contact and was even further surprised when she saw that the one that sent the attack.
The girl then removed her arm from the brunt tree and turned her arm back to normal before gazing at Sakura with her soulless red/orange fused eyes, while Sakura marveled at how the girls orange colored hair appeared to be on fire but yet she acted as if she doesn't feel it.
"I suppose that you would have to do in terms of prey." she said bringing up her right arm and turned it back into a magma induced arm before she sent a punch at Sakura. The pink haired teen quickly rolled onto her shoulders and pushed herself away from the fiery girl as she landed her punch onto the ground that caused a large crater to form in the ground. The girl then removed her arm and sent a forward punch at Sakura that formed a fist heading for the pink haired medic, who was still in the air. Sakura quickly concentrated chakra into her fist and sent a forward punch at the magma fist, causing it to burst on contact and lose form around her.
Sakura soon grimaced when a piece of the magma grazed her right arm, allowing her to feel a tiny fraction of the massive heat the molten rock held. As Sakura landed on the ground, she quickly brought her hand up to her brunt arm and quickly healed the wound before she got off the ground and stood ready to fight as her wound was all healed up. The fiery girl looked surprised that the girl was a medic and deduced that this would probably be a hard fight.
"Tell me something girl, what is your name?" She asked with her arm returning to normal like the previous.
"My name is Haruno Sakura, what is yours?" Sakura asked while trying to gather an analysis on the girl before her.
"My name is Karin, your executor." Karin said as she brought up both arms that turned into her signature magma arms before she hopped towards the pink haired medic, ready to kill her while Sakura awaited the fight to come.
(With Neji)
Neji stood with a circle of sound jounin surrounding him with dark smiles on their faces and kunai's in hand, believing that they had this in the bag since he was surrounded on all sides. That is until Neji smirked an all-knowing smirk before he began to spin and execute his uncle's famous Kaiten technique and sent all that opposed him into the air. Neji then stood back in his Taijutsu stance with his Byakugan fully active with the Yin-Yang symbol appearing below his feet with his focus remaining his technique.
With a quick opening of his eyes, he began to call out his newest technique "Eight Palm Divination: Wolf Scar Palm."
His palms were quickly covered in chakra before taking the shape of wolf heads with massive fangs surrounding the mouths. He then let out a loose battle cry before rushing forward as the bodies fell towards the ground. Neji hopped into the air and sent out double palms into the chest of one shinobi causing body to explode from it before jumping off his body and sending another palm to another shinobi that coughed up blood from the sudden hit.
Neji then let out another roar as he vanished away from the dead shinobi and continued to pummel each of the falling shinobi that opposed him and each one bleed from a certain location after he was finished. When Neji landed on the ground, he remained in his stance while the bodies of those he hit with his technique landed on the ground and didn't get up from it. Neji only had a smirk on his face as he deactivated his eyes and looked at the deceased bodies of the shinobi he fought, only to see one of them peak his head up and look at him.
"What was…(cough)…T-Th-that….jutsu?" He asked with Neji walking over to him and bent down on one knee
"That technique was a personal jutsu of mine called Eight Palm Divination: Wolf Scar Palm. It allows me to surround my hands with chakra and allows more power to be added into my strikes. It also uses the impact to rupture the internal organ of whatever target I hit and causes quick death or if I hit the exterior of the enemy then they won't die but they won't leave unscarred, as I may break a bone or hit an important artery in the arms, legs, chest, or neck area. Irregardless of how hard you fight, when I use this technique only death will become of you." He said before lifting his hand and prepared to strike the man in the back of his head.
"Wait (cough)….what is…(pant) your name?" He asked with Neji answering quickly
"Hyuuga Neji." He said strike the back of the man's head, causing death in an instant. Before he could bask at the chance of celebrating, he heard the sound of clapping in the distance and looked in that location. He soon caught the sight of a white haired boy sitting on a branch with a wide smirk on his face.
"That was indeed impressive, perhaps you are a worthy opponent indeed." He said before jumping off the branch and landed firmly on the ground with a strange looking weapon resting on top of his shoulders.
"Who are you?" He asked with the boy chuckling to himself before he gave a mock bow.
"I am Hozuki Suigetsu, your soon to be opponent and killer Hyuuga Neji." Suigetsu said as he looked up at the surprised expression on Neji's face before he replaced the expression with a serious face and Byakugan already active.
"Just who are you exactly?" He asked with the boy once again laughing to himself.
"It's as I told you previously, I'm your soon to be killer. After all you can't expect to beat me without a weapon where as I…." He said showing off his trident blade to the white eyed boy and twirling it in his hand "…contain something that will guarantee my victory." He said before twirling it once more before placing it on the ground. Neji only narrowed his eyes before he rushed forward and aimed a palm strike towards Suigetsu, only to be surprised when a barrier of water appeared in front of him and slowed Neji's strike before he could reach Suigetsu, who held up his right hand before pushing it in Neji's direction causing a sudden reaction. Neji felt the wind get pushed out of him as he was launched backwards and skidded on the ground before coming back to his feet.
He was confused as to what happened until he felt a sudden wetness on his clothes, causing him to look down and gaze at the huge wet spot in the middle of his kimono shirt. He then looked up to find Suigetsu picking up the trident from the ground and causing the water that floated around him to float still in the air before Suigetsu started to twirl the staff around his body, causing the water to follow his movements and surround him as well. Suigetsu then slowed down his twirling before he grasped hard on the staff and sent a forward stab at Neji, causing the water to launch at Neji.
The Hyuuga branch member immediately hopped to the side and watched the water hit the ground while tearing up a long trench once it landed on ground, making Neji look on in wonder. Before he had a chance to ponder more on this he heard Suigetus's voice call out "Water Release: Water Dragon Bullet." Causing him to look at Suigetsu and see a floating water dragon in the air with Suigetsu's trident below it. He then saw Suigetsu send his trident downward, causing the dragon to fly towards Neji at high speed and looked as if it could kill someone if by impact alone. Neji however wasn't willing to allow that, as he backed up a few steps with his arm behind his back calling out.
"Eight Palm Divination: Empty Palm" he called out sending his palm forward and sent an invisible force of air towards the dragon, tearing through it and causing the water to explode around him. He then watched as the water hit the ground and caused craters to form on the ground, thus making him raise an eyebrow.
'The water pressure must have been extremely high for it to cause that kind of damage to the area, but how could he be able to do that? The density in the area is to low for that to happen.' He thought before he charged at Suigetsu and sent out multiple strikes towards the white haired teen, who dodged by either moving around the strikes or blocking the faster ones with his trident staff. He prepared to send another one at the teen, only to be shocked when a water barrier appeared again and blocked his attack. Suigetsu then raised his right hand and called out "Water Style: Water Torrent" and sent a small blast of water at Neji head on, seeing as how he didn't expect it to come.
Neji then landed on the ground but as he fell, he activated his Byakugan and examined the water as he watched it hit the ground but unlike that last two water attacks, nothing happened. It just landed on the ground like and was absorbed into the dirt like it does when it rains, thus confusing Neji again since the last two times water caused craters. He then looked up to see Suigetsu twirling the trident in his hand and caused water to build up around before he brought his arm up and caused the water to raise into the air. Suigetsu then called out "Water Style: Twin Wolf Strike", allowing the water to split in half and formed the head of two wolfs before heading for Neji when Suigetsu brought down his trident again.
Instead of dodging both of them like one would originally think, Neji choose to continue examining the water that Suigetsu was using without so much as a water source. When the first water wolf neared him, he hopped into the air at the last moment and watched the water wolf create a huge crater in the ground, just as he thought. He then saw the second wolfs head approaching him, but after a quick use of the Kaiten, he tore through the wolves head before stopping for a moment and sent out an empty palm at Suigetsu. Suigetsu's eyes widened suddenly before he quickly twirled his staff in front of him and blocked the strike before stopping and slammed the staff on the ground with a dark smile on his face.
"Oh yes I chose right when I found you, you will be my ultimate challenge." He said with Neji panting loudly while thinking back on all that Suigetsu has done
"How is it that you hold the ability to control the water like that without so much as a water source to help you?" Neji asked with Suigetsu letting out a small laugh before spinning the trident in his hand.
"This trident helps me summon and control the power of the water as well as determining the densities and pressure of the water. Those craters that were made by the water hitting the ground were due to the high amounts of pressure I placed within those water attacks." He said before a small quantity of water appeared around him before taking the shape of a giant being with a copy of his trident in hand. Neji looked at this in amazement before feeling the appropriate saying coming to mind in a situation like this.
"What the fuck is this?" He asked before preparing to take on his enemy
(With Lee)
Lee was currently taking on a small fleet of shinobi that were based around high chunin to mid jounin level, something that wouldn't even be considered competition in his eyes. One was proclaiming that he would be an easy target for them all and was even going as far as saying that he wants first crack at the white haired boy, only to die by a crushing right fist to the face that crushed his skull on impact. When the mans body fell on the ground, his comrades all looked at Lee with fear while the boy simply cracked his neck before bringing up his right arm.
"You know what? I was going to try and drag this out but you guys bore me, so let's just end this quickly." He said summoning Honesupea to the field before he vanished from sight. The others all searched for his whereabouts on to here the sound of a blade moving fast through the air and tearing threw flesh, with the scream of one man going threw the area. Soon more sounds went through the air and more screams were heard throughout the area with more screams joining later on until almost everyone was dead except for one man, who looked on in fear.
"Who-who are you?" He asked shaking in fear with a kunai in hand only to cough up blood when a giant fist went through his stomach before coming out just as quickly, expect this time something was taken with it; his backbone. Lee looked down when he saw the body of the man he just killed lying on the ground with blood soaking the ground around him.
"I guess its time for me to find Naruto." He said before hearing the sounds of laughing coming off to the side
"You truly think that I would allow you to leave without fighting a true opponent?" A voice rang out with Lee looking towards the location of the voice and saw a brown haired teen preached on a branch beside him with a dark smirk on his face and steam currents coming out of his back.
"And just who are you?" He asked with the brown haired teen hopping off the branch and landed on the ground with back still preached and the steam coming out of a vent in his back, that caught Lee's curiosity since he has never seen anything like this.
"You may call me Juugo, your opponent and soon to be killer." He said with Lee smirking at that statement before he flexed his weapon covered arm and stood in a different stance then usual with his arm held in the air while he remained crouched down.
"My name is Lee, but as for being my executioner I'm afraid that you're wrong. The only way I plan to die is by the hands of someone in battle, the best way to die for a true warrior." Lee said before he charged at Juugo with his arm in air and sent an upper cut with his clawed hands, only to look on in surprise when Juugo blocked it with his right arm that was covered with steam. Juugo then sent his right fist and buried it in Lee's stomach only to be on the receiving end of a hard kick to the head from the white haired teen. Lee then back flipped a few feet before landed on the soles of his feet and launched himself at Juugo again.
"Leaf Hurricane." Lee called out sending a hard right kick to Juugo's head only to see it get caught in the teen right had that appeared to now be made of steam.
"Let's see you get out of this." He called out by twisting Lee through the air before releasing him into the air. Juugo then got into a crouch position with his left hand on his left leg and his right fist punching the ground "Steam Release: Jet Rocket." He called out as steam built around his body before he was propelled into the air and flew at Lee like a rocket why both arms behind his back and turning into steam covered fist. When he neared Lee, he brought both fist forward and called out "Steam Release: Twin Barrel Gun", sending out too shots of steam at Lee that made a direct hit.
Lee felt his body beginning to fall towards the ground but due to the trajectory of fall, he was able to flip his body over and land on top of a tree branch before jumping off the tree again. Lee neared the still airborne Juugo and in response to his attack sent a heavy right to the brown haired teens with Honesupea that caused the steam user to fall towards the ground but stopped with the use of his steam and slow his decent to the ground with Lee waiting for him.
"That was a cheap shot jackass." Juugo said rubbing his cheek while Lee only smirked at him
"So what? All's fair in a real fight right?" Lee asked while gripping his clawed right hand while Juugo simply laughed at him before he bent down in the same position
"I guess so, now the time for talk is over, its time to battle." He said before he was covered in steam once more before speeding towards Lee like a rocket, with Lee charging head on.
(Back to the Temin-Ni-Gru)
Sotachi now stood back in the area that he defeated Sasuke and already sacrificed his student's blood to the pedestal, thus completing the ritual needed to activate the power of the Temin-Ni-Gru. Sotachi then saw the floor light up for a brief moment before it began to rise off from the bottom of the tower and began the slow ascent towards the very top of the tower.
The ascent took no less then six long minutes to fully travel up the entire length of the demonic edifice and as the ascent continued it ran into a few of the statues held on the sides of the towers upper level. Once Sotachi reached the top of the tower and took a glance at the sky, he marveled at the red hue the clouds surrounding the eclipse took and at the beauty it held in his age-old mind.
"The time has come for judgment to reign upon this world and burn all of its inhabitants in smoldering flames so that a new empire may rise from the ashes." He said taking the force edge off his back and walked towards the pedestal that held both his and Sasuke's blood within it. He then raised the sword and stabbed it into the pedestal, causing an instant reaction as red lightning built around sword and began to infuse itself in the force edge around the eye, causing it to take on a dark blood red color and the blade itself also changing into a pitch black color.
Sotachi then grasped the sword and immediately felt the power course through his veins. A beautiful dark malevolent power that will be the reason this world will die. He then placed the sword on his back and began to absorb the power that came off the force edge and started a chain of what appeared to be a hundred seals in ten seconds before stopping on the last seal with his palms slammed together. Upon the sound of his hands coming together, a chakra flux to erupt around his body and even picked up a few pieces of rubble off the ground.
"Now force edge, its time for this world to fall." He said before he separated his hands and directed them towards the eclipse before calling out one of his most powerful jutsu.
"Demon Art: Bridge of the wicked."
AN: Done and done. There you go the new one is done and scenes are now set for the final portion of this story. I hope you weren't too disappointed with the Sotachi/Sasuke fight since I couldn't truly think of anything to help make the fight legitimate without revealing anything major about Sotachi's power. There are probably some of you that are asking yourselves if Sasuke is dead and while I know the answer to the question I'm not in the mood to answer it or any questions that I deem relating to it. If you want to comment about it then go ahead and knock yourself off but before I do that I would ask myself this question "Where did I see something like this before? It's very familiar and I know that I seen it relating to a game I love to play."
You Vergil fans (And I am talking to you dude) should know exactly where that scene is from.
Also if some of you are too stupid to know where I got those powers for Team Taka, they were from One Piece since I finally got caught up in something that I should done three years ago when CN cancelled One Piece. By the way shouldn't that channel be dead by now? I mean the only shows that I even considered watching are Total Drama Island/Action/World Tour and Ben 10/Alien Force/Ultimate Alien. I like to go back on my life and remember when I was young and know that my only job back then was to go to school, be a moron, get in detention again (That was the best time in my life), go home and watch Toonami, and listen to good rap music.
Now that I got nothing to take me except Power Rangers and I quit that shit two years ago (Don't any of you judge me since some of you still watch Nick Jr and Dora the Explorer)
Anyway enough of that crap since I got to move on before I bore you with BS.
Its manga review time and honestly I wanted to wait until I read enough chapters of the manga to give a good enough review but I'm afraid that the desire for me to finish this story is coming along faster and faster, so I may not be writing one until the last three chapter. I must say that the one chapter that held the most information had to be the latest chapter that marks the manga's 500th, so allot of the points will be made from the last one.
F: I didn't see anything worth the grade of F, since the last three were fairly strong chapters with a major plot twist that nobody saw coming in a million years except for DKW, since he probably hacked the damn thing years ago. So applause for Kishimato in doing something that he hasn't done in a long time; do something good for three weeks straight.
D: Revealing the names of Hiruzen's wife, Hashirama's wife, and the true source of Naruto's whisker marks – I placed it in the D spot because they weren't as important to the story as some would like to believe. It does help in revealing that Senju-Uzumaki Mito is Tsunade's grandmother and was probably her teacher in medical arts if more were to be revealed later on about her. Also, the anime has caught it to the near end of the invasion of pain arc and has caught up to the 'Confessions', where Hinata tells Naruto she loves him and gets stabbed. It revealed what her mother looks like and has also revealed that the woman has survived childbirth unlike what most of you thought, so from now on Hitomi can be featured in your stories if you plan to go that far back. However, it doesn't reveal what happened to her so the only the I can hope for is that she is hopefully alive and is just not featured like Kiba's dad and sister is on the manga.
C: Kushina revealing that she was the previous Kyuubi jinchuriki – Okay, I'm sure that you guys are all thinking 'What the hell? That was a huge moment in the story that changed everything for Naruto fanfiction again', actually its not: Its an idea that appeared as something that Kishimato more then likely pulled out of his ass at the last minute. Now granted I was surprised by the reveal and kinda liked the idea for a minute but after a while of thinking I decided that it wasn't as great as it should be. In fact, it ruins the stories that authors wish to write that involves Kushina as a main participant of the story be it a villain or just someone to be there for Naruto. It does help in revealing that Kushina is infact dead unlike what many believed that she was in hiding after Naruto's birth. Please do not think for a moment that I will follow this path in the story, as all it does is create another hurtle for me to jump over, since after all I don't believe in following BS.
B: Naruto vs. Kyuubi – I liked this fight scene and how well drawn out it was by Kishimato, although I do wish that he gave it another chapter extension to show off some more of Kyuubi's powers and not the ones that we already know about. Anyway, it ended with Naruto taking control of the Kyuubi's chakra and resembled the sage of the six paths with his new seal intact. After that he resealed the fox, meaning that we will more then likely see more Kyuubi appearance's in the future so keep your fingers crossed.
A: Revealing Kushina's past – I liked seeing Kushina's past a little bit since it revealed allot of things that has changed the fanfiction once again (The last one was when they revealed their true names about two to three years ago). It also revealed that Naruto got his whisker marks from childbirth and not from the Kyuubi's sealing like many people have thought since the day the manga and the anime premiered. It also revealed that the Uzumaki clan is related to the Senju clan through a common ancestor, so that means that Naruto and Tsunade are now distant cousin's which now means that he has family (Sort of). Lets just hope that Kishimato goes a little further in this idea.
Okay so as a final analysis of the state of the manga currently, its appears to be in good standing but is unknown as to how much we have left in the story. So far all the things that have been left unknown in part one has just been reveal in part two, possibly ending a chance of their ever being a part three in the making (Although I'm hoping that they do it like the Dragon Ball series did with Dragon Ball GT and make an all anime-only series out of it to continue with Naruto's adventure through adult hood and meeting new enemies). The manga has revealed the cause of Kyuubi's attack, Naruto's parents name, The reason behind the Uchiha clan massacre, and why Naruto was given the Kyuubi no Kitsune. Plus at this point it was even revealed how the Bijuu came to pass in the manga, standpoint but to me I would prefer to be more creative then that since I refuse to do a Naruto only story that doesn't have an OC villain.
I would like Kishimato not to be so quick to reveal the important facts of part one, because I'm sure that we would all like to keep something from the manga that we still have control over like Kushia's fate for example.
I would have liked the idea of keeping Kushina's fate a secret, as its more fun being creative and thinking of your own original input on Kushina after Naruto's birth. Thanks to this reveal, people are now more then likely to go with the flow instead of thinking of something original like me with my natural defiance and negativity (That's right, you know a Christian that can get negative about shit). Infact, I want to change the rating I gave the reveal as I want to give Kishimato an A for making the story harder for me to get originality from. I can't wait to write some of the new ideas I write while under the pressure since I have an addiction to pressure inducing situations.
The next chapter will hopefully be ready by the end of this week, so unlike last time I better get a higher review count then the last time I did two updates in one week. Please try to get me at least fifteen reviews as you can see uptop that I am very close to getting 700 reviews for this story so please help me out in getting past that goal
Until Next Time
Peace