Chapter 36
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Naruto felt a bruise form on his face where Kushina had just punched him. He fell to the ground. His body didn't seem to allow him to stand back up. Hinata rushed to his side as the leader stood there taunting him.
"Come on nine tails! Show me what you can do!" Kushina urged him.
Tears began to form in Naruto's eyes as he gritted his teeth.
"Come on Naruto-kun! Please don't give up!" Hinata pleaded, throwing herself onto him. "You never back down! Naruto!"
Her voice seemed to fade away, until it became a distant whisper. He closed his eyes. 'What's the point? Why should I even try and stop her? The yondaime...my mother...? Now I understand why nobody told me, like they thought it would be too much for me to handle. I always admired the fourth hokage, he was such a hero to the village and everyone thought he was a hero...and what am I? the vessel of my father's jutsu. That's all...' Memories flashed into his mind.
"Naruto, if you want your chance to save the world, I'm giving it to you, but you have to wake up first, or you'll never be a hero," Sasuke told him. "So wake up, or I'll just have to be the hero..."
"A ninja must see through deception Naruto..." Sasuke said, before disappearing into smoke.
Sasuke lowered his eyes. He stared at the ground. "I asked you to be a hero...remember?"
"I can't say much considering of the situation but...you were put on this earth to be a hero..." Sasuke thought of how the fourth was Naruto's father.
"Naruto don't let your dream die..."
'Yeah...Sasuke is right...I can't lose to him, he would never give up so why should I? I got to...be the hero...I got to show her I'm not just powerful because of this damn kyuubi...I don't care if she is my mother, she isn't anymore! I'm not going to give up, because that's the way of the ninja! Believe it! Let's do this!'
Naruto struggled to stand. "Heh...thanks Hinata...you really...brought some stuff to my attention." He grinned as Hinata stared at him in surprise.
"N..Naruto-kun?"
"Let's do this Hinata, you ready?" He drew a kunai.
"Um...yes." She activated her byukugan.
"Let's kick some Akatsuki ass! Belive it!" Naruto went straight for Kushina, ignoring the pain and sorrow he felt deep within him. Sure, he knew who his parents were now, but that didn't change his lifetime of lonliness therefore, what was he losing if he knew his mother was the leader? It didn't change his stubborness. Hell no.
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Sakura skidded to a halt, allowing Sasuke to take on ahead and straight for Tobi. Flipping himself on the roof, he swiped Tobi from under his feet.
"So you knew we were coming to Konoha?" Tobi asked him, blocking one of his attacks.
"Someone told me that, yeah," Sasuke said, referring to what his mother had told him in his dream. Another punch sent Tobi to the floor, but he got back up.
"I see you have merged your sharingan with your cursed mark, a risky decision considering you cannot control its power."
Sasuke used a pheonix flower jutsu, except the flames were blue. His strength was increasing and Tobi could barely dodge the seething flames. "I can control it, clearly you have been underestimating me."
Tobi grabbed a hold of his throat and threw him across the roof. He smirked under his mask. "Clearly not Sasuke." He punched the roof so that the building soon became a pile of dust. Sasuke went down with it and Sakura was forced to shield herself from falling rubble.
"Sasuke!" She called out in desperation. 'Damnit, this guy is too strong...and that beast-'
"Sakura!" Tsunade called suddenly from behind her. "Get out of there, you're in between a battle and the bijuu, the worst place to be."
Sakura flipped backwards, landing next to Tsunade and Shizune. "What'll we do?" Sakura asked breathlessly.
"I'm getting chuunin to escort the villagers to safer grounds and as for our jonin, they are currently fighting the Akatsuki members scattered around Konoha. They have a strange battle formation, one I have not seen before," Tsunade explained. "Wait, is that-"
"Tell me what you mean," Sakura said quickly before Tsunade could finish her sentence.
"They've unleashed their weapon so it comes straight through Konoha, but it would make sense to go straight for the main buildings such as the police department and the hokage's mansion. Also, Tobi there is with the beast though from what I have gathered, he is perhaps the most threatening, why would he need to be close to the beast if he was at risk of being attacked?"
"Tobi is controlling it," Sakura answered as she watched Sasuke and Tobi continue their fight. "And Sasuke is going to stop him."
Tsunade glared at the young Uchiha. "So, that really is Sasuke, huh?"
Sakura nodded slowly.
"Where's Naruto?" Tsunade asked quickly, realising he was nowhere to be seen.
"He's fighting the leader-"
"What? And you didn't even think about helping him? We can't afford to lose Naruto, not again!" Tsunade was about to jump off in search of him when Sakura grabbed her by the arm.
"There is one thing you need to know first..." Sakura began, swallowing the lump in her throat. "The leader is...Kushina Uzamaki."
Tsunade's eyes widened slowly. Her heart began to beat faster. 'I remember...she tried to stop Minato from completing the jutsu but the third held her back. She has always hated the kyuubi ever since it killed her parents sometime when she was younger and then she grew to hate her son and fled the country...so this is where it has brought us? Sarutobi, what would you do?' Tsunade lowered her head. "I feared this day would come...Shizune! We're helping Naruto, Sakura, find a way to stop that bijuu, ANBU will be coming to assist you as soon as possible. And good luck." She leapt off the ground and headed straight for the apartments in the distance.
Sakura nodded as she desperately thought of a plan. 'His chakra is so powerful it burns, so any frontal attack would only injure me. I would have to confine it somehow, to stop it from doing more damage, that way Sasuke and Tobi can have their fight without the bijuu interfering. I got it!' Sakura closed her eyes and began gathering her chakra to her left fist. If she could break through stone then this would be no problem. It would take up some chakra but it would keep the bijuu confined. Hopefully Tsunade wouldn't mind the damage she was about to do...
Sakura opened her eyes and with a green infused fist, punched the ground harder than she had done before. It split like ice upon a lake and the entire ground began to fall in a whirlpool of mud. Sakura flipped up to safety as trees and debri were thrown into the ditch she had created. And without warning, the ground gave way and the bijuu fell, into the ditch. It's blood thirsty cries were enough to deafen, but Sakura had kept it contained until the ANBU showed up.
Sasuke was impressed by Sakura's immense strength. As the bijuu attempted to claw its way out, Tobi could only ignore it and continue his battle with Sasuke. "Just what do you think you will achieve Sasuke? The bijuu cannot be stopped and already Konoha is breaking apart, its a waste of your strenth."
"Someone told me never to back down, so I'm gonna kick your ass cause I damn well feel like it!" He kicked Tobi in the ribs several times, before punching him once again. "Besides, it'll be the perfect time to try out mangekyou shuudan, wouldn't you agree?"
Tobi stared at the young Uchiha in surprise. 'Shuudan? He can't be capable of pulling that off...can he? Shuudan, the translation, group mangekyou where you can place several opponents, no matter how strong or how large in a mind and keep them imprisoned there for as long as you wish, of course the one who made the jutsu would be there with them...but they would be in complete control...'
Tobi refused to believe it for a second. Sasuke could not pull something like that off. Not when he had barely scraped the surface of the sharingan.
"You seem quite distressed Tobi," Sasuke taunted, punching him again.
Tobi only brough back worse, as he did several jutsus. Already Sasuke was heavily injured but he would not back down. "You'll be on death's doorstep sooner than you think...and everyone here will die with you. However, I'll give Sakura the honor of watching you die if you so wish."
Sasuke glared at him as he punched him in the face once again. Anger, sorrow and pure rage was infused with that one movement and he could feel the sound of his knuckles breaking and something else as Tobi went spinning backwards like a human vortex. He fell heavily to the ground.
Sasuke staggered to his feet. He widened his eyes at what he saw. The punch had broken Tobi's mask...and he could now see his true face...
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