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Chapter Cover: Jack standing in a stance with his Dragon sword on his back with his Spiral Sharingans blazing.

CHAPTER SIXTY SEVEN

Warning of the Armageddon

Tsunade simply stood there as she watched the man continued to smile as if everything was alright with the world. Tsunade scanned him with her eyes and could see that, with the two hands he had raised in a sign of surrender, he wasn't posing any kind of threat.

Yet, she thought to herself.

"Tsunade-sama," Shizune asked.

"This won't take long," Trent said with a soft smile as he looked around, "Can you hear anything in this forest?"

Tsunade listened and as earlier, they were no noise to be heard from and considering it was the middle of the day, it was surprising to say at least. At those times, they were always a noise in the forest, whether it is the singing of birds or the small croaking of frogs and other animals that leave in this forest.

"Not a single noise," Trent continued as he simply starred at the trees, "It's been going on for three days now and why did that have to happen then? What are all of those animals hiding from and like you had guessed Tsunade-sama, the creature that was summoned in the Land of Iron is partly responsible for the state this land is."

"Partly responsible?" Shizune repeated slowly, remembering the terrible feeling that she had felt that particular day.

"Yes, most of you could feel the despair and the cold fingers of death clutching at your heart when Colossus was out," Trent continued with both of his arms now across his chest, "In most legends, Colossus is described as the Guardian of the Gates of Hell itself, and some say that it is the King of Summons, but none had ever get closer to the truth. The only things that the people had created are more myth than legends, from a time before the birth of the Ninja Villages."

Trent was now caressing his mysterious gloves and the gem that was on the back of them.

"Then, what does it have to do with what that have happened to the forest?" Gai asked.

Trent let out another smile, "A monstrous creature such as Colossus brings fear to an entirely new level dear ninja. Ninjas thought they could control the strongest creatures in the world by sealing them into living human beings similar to that boy Naruto Uzumaki, and the many others that had joined the ranks of Jinchurikin. Colossus can't be sealed in any kind of body than the one it already have something that could cause quite a lot of troubles for the DC warriors and the ones that carries humanity's salvation."

"What?"

"Your apprentice Sakura Haruno is one of the puzzle pieces that is required for such salvation," Trent said sighing, "She was marked by Fate from the soul of the Youkai Prince Angelus."

Tsunade pointed her finger straight at the man, "You can't honestly think I'm going to believe that Youkai actually exist?"

In all of the legends she had heard as a child of creatures that were powerful beyond measure, Tsunade never could actually believe them unlike her father did, for some odd reason

Trent let out a small laughter, and it echoed all around the trees.

"The Youkai are a dying breed Tsunade-sama," he said, "only a handful of them remains. They are no record history of this but I can tell you they exist as well as I and you do. They have stayed hidden in the shadows, biding their times. Not so long ago, long before the Ninja Villages were established, a world of horror had befallen this land.

The Youkai had almost wiped out the human species, if it wasn't for the originals Youkai or Old Ones as they are known worldwide," Trent said, "Forest were as quiet as the night, not a sound could be heard and a week later they had come, killing everything in sight and the battle had taken place where the Village called Konoha is now seating. Remember the large chuck of the mountain that stood there as if someone had ripped the rest of. That's were Colossus was last summoned almost two thousand years before the Village."

Silence met this declaration. It was impossible not to be speechless from something like that. Sure it was interesting, but they were some very accurate similarities to what Trent was saying to what was happening right now. Tsunade was doing some deep thinking about this and they hadn't heard a sound from the forest in three days…

"Are you saying this is happening again?" she asked.

Trent smiled knowingly, "The Summoning of Colossus was just a warning, a signal of some sort to rallied all of the Youkai to their appointed leader and as you may have guessed, leaving you and the rest of the world four days until they arrived."

"F…Four days?" Gai asked, shocked, "Four days for what?"

"Four days till the end of the era that the Sage of Six Paths has established," Trent said, "till the end of the world as you know it."

What? Was all that was running through most of the ninjas heads.

The Hidden Rain.

The never ending rain was irritating to say the least as Raphael walked into the Village know as Hidden Rain. It had been a few hours at most when the team had split up, acting on something he actually come up with. Raphael was never one to brag in his life but, considering what they were facing against, they were acting on desperation. He had put his hood up but it didn't do much against the unforgiving rain as he simply continued to look at the surroundings.

Time to do a little reconnaissance work, he thought as he noticed a bar and he walked toward it drawing on his aura from within.

It was the aura that most of the DC warrior used otherwise commonly known as ki. He couldn't use chakra and the ki was excellent for him considering his swordplay skills, then he stopped, looking upward frowning.

A small paper butterfly had flew overhead him and Raphael knew at once that it was a ninja technique, considering the number of strange things that the ninjas are known to do. Ignoring it, Raphael continued his trek toward the bar, unaware of the number of papers that were forming into a shape and features of a blue-haired woman appeared on them.

She was gazing at the intruder with a cold look on her face. The only reason she had sensed him was because of how familiar his chakra was to Jack. She had thought that it was the boy that she had given the leadership of Rain with, but the figure was much bulkier and the figure below them was standing out from the metallic boots he was wearing.

Konan of the Akatsuki decided to keep a tap on the strange intruder taking the henging herself as a mere civilian and followed.

Raphael was drinking his drink as he simply carried out his reconnaissance plan in gathering information from peoples but all he could get was that some man named Pein had being leading the village and that his Angel was the messenger. Suddenly he felt as if he was being watched and sure enough they was a woman seating in a different booth who was looking at him with a look akin to curiosity and question and he can tell that she was a shinobi despite the civilian clothes from the way she seat as if she was expecting him to suddenly attack her.

They are always on edge, he thought.

He didn't know much about ninjas except what he knew of Jack and Soya.

"You are drawing attention to yourself," a feminine voice said.

Raphael smirked, "I was wondering if you were going to stare at me all night."

The woman simply seated by him and said, "It was just a precaution."

"As I can see," Raphael said, "so why don't you drop the henge while you're at it?"

A look of shock crossed the woman' face.

"How did…?"

"I knew?" he finished taking a sip of his sake, "I noticed the Origami technique outside and the chakra feel I've got from it its similar to yours and your entire body is radiating it, overshadowing you and from what I've know from Jack, you must be Konan."

The woman narrowed the green eyes of her henge, "You know Jack?"

"Yes," Raphael said, "he was the one who send me here after all, something about Nagato's dream hanging in the balance or something."

"Is it Madara?" Konan asked, her voice turning cold.

"No," Raphael said, having no clue at who Madara was, "It's something else entirely and could probably take out the entire shinobi Villages with it."

"What could be that strong?"

Raphael looked at her, "Armageddon Konan-san, the end of the world."

The shock from the woman's face made Raphael sure he had a lot of explaining to do.

Taiyoukagure Village-Taiyoukage's Office

"An Armageddon?" Claire said, shock in her voice.

"Yep," Soya said, "The Youkai Elder Han is the one suspected of leading the army. He almost destroyed the world once, now look like he is trying to go for second chance."

"And this woman…Loredia was the only stone guarding the floodgates of this Armageddon?" Claire asked.

Soya looked down at her old leader's name.

"She was probably the only one that could match him in a battle thought I have never seeing her fight, she was stronger than most by miles," she said, "she probably knew that this was going to happen sooner or later and decided to act sooner rather than later."

Claire didn't say anything as she contemplated what she had just learn. She was speechless and scared for the village and also couldn't believe that all of those problems were happening while she was Taiyoukage. She knew that Jack's plan was the best they're going to get right now.

"Guess the Summit's idea of forming a Six-Village Alliance is about to come in handy right now," she said pulling out a scroll.

Soya looked at the woman curiously, "What are you doing?"

"I'm going to warn the Raikage," Claire said, "If one of your friends is heading there right now, this letter might help move thing along and also adjust to a new meeting of the Six Kages in the Land of Iron, but this time, we are gearing for a war of the world."

"I'm probably going to stay here in the village for now," Soya said, "You've probably the most honest Kage we've got since the Nidaime died."

Claire gave a small smirk and said, "I wonder how grandfather will act if he saw me right now."

Soya didn't say anything as Claire rolled up the scroll and flared her chakra.

A figure appeared right in the room in a kneeling position.

"Taiyoukage-sama,"

"Get this to the Messaging department and tell them to send our fastest carrier toward Hidden Cloud," she said.

"At once," the man answered, taking the scroll from her, before disappearing in a flash of light.

Claire turned toward the woman in her presence and said, "If you're going to stay in the village, I'm reliving all missing-nin statues from you Soya-san, and I reappoint you to a post of Special Jonin. Do you accept?"

Soya looked at the woman in shock but she knew why Claire had to do this anyway. They needed all the help they can get. But she schooled her features and stood in attention, "Hai."

Claire pulled a headband from the closet in the room, one with black bandana and the Sun village symbol shining bright new on the metallic rectangle.

"I won't need it Claire-san,"

"Why not?"

Soya touched pushed her hair out of her headband, showing an old but somewhat rusty looking headband of the village.

"This one isn't your is it?"

"No," Soya said, "it was Saki's, and I'll be fighting with her in this battle."

Claire understood where the woman was coming from as her hand fingered the Bo Staff called the Staff of Liberty.

Guess some bonds last through lifetimes, she thought.

Konoha Forest

Tsunade simply starred at the man in front of her.

"You are saying that we're facing an Apocalypse?"

Trent said, "No, just the extinction of your race, this earth will still be alive after all just without the interference of man."

"Then if what you are saying is true Trent-san," Yugao said, "then shouldn't we be getting into the Village by now Tsunade-sama to prepare?"

"Yes we should," Tsunade said, "But what I'm wondering is what is your part in all of this Trent?"

Trent smiled as he looked toward the sky, seemingly lost in thought for a moment before answering, "Call it hobby."

"I'm serious," Tsunade snapped, angry at the vague answer.

"So am I Tsunade," Trent answered, "well, I shouldn't keep you any longer from your village thought if I were you, I'll try not to trip over roots."

The gem in the back of his glove glowed as he made his hand into a ram seal.

"Ja ne."

With that he disappeared.

The ninjas stared at the spot he was as if to wonder if the man had been real at all, but Tsunade wasn't. she was in her thought at to what the man told her about tripping over roots.

It's not like were walking to konoha to be tripping over root… she started.

And then, the realization struck her. It had been a warning about Roots. Tsunade looked at her companion and said, "Yugao can you sense any other presence in the area."

The said ninja get into a seal and closed her eyes and said, "Not in the forest, thought they seemed to have a large amount of unusual chakra coming from the village, and considering the spike in the chakra levels, I could say that they are in a battle."

Guess I was right, Tsunade thought.

"Tsunade-sama," Gai asked, "what is it?"

"It seems that Danzo is getting cocky," Tsunade said, putting the Hokage hat on her head, "but let's remind him who is called Hokage of the Leaf."

With that she launched forward, at full speed, leaving the rest of the ninjas to eat her dust.

Sharing a look, the two followed.

Suna

Gaara simply stared at the figure in front of him. Nearly three hours ago, the woman in front of him had told him of the tale about the end of the world and he still couldn't believe it, even after he had made sure from the sensor ninjas that she wasn't lying but who could blame him?

Learning something of that magnitude was about to befall you and the rest of the world can do that to some people and it was that he was used to have no expression on his face that he wasn't in shock right now.

"You're completely sure about this?"

"Hai, Kage-san," Rei said, her head in a small bow "We believe that they will attack at the end of the week."

"The end of the week?" Gaara exclaimed, shock was now evident on his face, "but that will live us only four days to prepare everything."

"Don't worry," Rei said, "me and my teammates can travel faster than light with a technique only available to us, which is why I've got to your village so fast, merely hours after the Summit meeting."

Four days till the Armageddon begans… he thought and he frowned as something had just occurred to him.

"But how will we know when they are attacking?"

"I will be able to sense them," Rei answered, "I've been trained to track them down so is the rest of my team."

"Well then," Gaara said as he looked out of the window, "We best get started. I'll have a meeting with the advisors about this and we prepare for war."

Rei nodded gravely.

Gaara then turned his head toward the Kage's hat that was on the table reminiscing on something Naruto thought to him a while ago.

When you are protecting something precious to you, you can be as strong as you need.

Gaara loved the village he was leading, and he was going to do everything in his power to protect it, or die trying as a respectful Kazekage of the Sand.

Han was pissed.

No, he was beyond pissed.

He was downright in a rage right now.

His plan had being so simple and also he was waiting for the right moment to start his plan of overthrowing the humans known as shinobi but he had being foiled by none other than Mirror himself. He knew he shouldn't have trusted the smart mouth, smooth talking Youkai but he was too angry to care right now.

When two of his subordinates had arrived with the body of the puppet known as Madara, he knew that he was already lost a good portion of his army. It had been long since he had felt a terrible cold power from the man known as Madara and he had seeing an opportunity that was waiting to be had and he had planned with the man of making his plan of taking over the world and recapturing the Nine Bijuu, to summon the ultimate being.

The Jubi.

It hadn't happened since he was still missing both of the Hachibi and Kyubi and since Madara had failed him he was just downright pissed at the man forever saving his life after that terrible battle many years ago.

Not only that he had lost the Bijuus, he had also lost the Rosario, the only weapon that could probably end all of this before it even begins…

Goddamn Loredia,

He looked toward the body of the fallen Youkai princess and saw that she had a small smile in her face as her eyes watched without seeing in the glass like coffin that had being build in her honor of being the Leader of the organization.

Han may be still an evil bastard, but the custom of his people still live through him, which his father had beaten into him at a young age.

Why does it feel like even in death, I can still feel that the smirk on your face is directed at me.

Han shook his head and looked toward the immobile figure that was standing beside him with the hood still hiding its identity. He ignored his silent companion, thinking about the war that is to come and suddenly a thought entered his head…

Maybe I can…

He smirked slightly as he thought about it and knew that he would be a perfect replacement for the fallen ninja. He turned toward the hooded figure behind him and said, "Fine me Madara's apprentice."

The figure nodded before disappearing in a flash of golden light.

He smirked knowing that he was going to find a good replacement for Madara, and then again Madara was easily seduced with power, this one would be the same.

Wow, anyone can tell me where i've gotten the moment with the smirk on Loredia's lips? Thanks for anyone who ever reviewed this fic. and to anyone it interest, i've got an idea for a prequel of Taiyougakure ninjas in mind, mostly about the things that had happened in the village from the start of Madara's experiment and many other things.

Tell me if you're interested in reading it since i haven't written it yet, just speculating at the moment about the fic.

Jacques0 out.

R&R.