AN: Greetings everyone, time for the 35thchapter in the series. I am sorry for the long wait, I had a ton of things to do for college. But do not worry, I'm still continuing the story to the end As I'm nearing the end of the story im not sure if I am excited or saddened to be finishing my first story. Anyway, I am thinking of deleting my other stories besides this one. I simply do not have time to update more than one story.
As for more information on my next story, it will definitely either be Harry Potter or Percy Jackson based. I may even do an xover. I am tired of writing about Naruto (especially having gone through the series many times to make sure my facts are right.) I am still going to use the demon summoner theme (it will be cooler with wizard skill sets I think). Remember, I am still considering suggestions until the end of this fanfiction so feel free to PM me or review with any suggestions or comments.
But since you probably don't care about my other stories I will get to answering some of the reviews I saw.
: Look everyone, a classic example of someone who simply doesn't read. I already explained in the chapter after his question how Tobi retrieved the ring.
Lex: I love it when fanfictions go to the Canon universe to compare how the author changed the plot or characters. However, I don't think more than one in a story is necessary.
Not that many reviews last chapter. I am not sure if that is due to their not being much to comment or that it was a bad chapter. Not sure. Anyway I will get to the story.
Chapter 35:
Teamwork
(Land of Lightning)
The strongest members of the Shinobi alliance stood together against the strongest opponentns they had ever faced. The Juubi was resurrected before them with the two strongest Uchiha's in a thousand years on its head.
The battle was silent for a few tense seconds as they waited for each side to make the first move. Soon the silence was shattered by the Juubi roaring loud enough to shatter any fragile object miles away. The demon lifted an enormous claw, preparing to smash the alliance into paste.
The Tsuchikage took command of defense and shouted to the group "Every defense specialist block the beast's attacks! The rest of us will try and figure out how to destroy it and the uchihas!"
The group nodded and soon green panels, large rock formations, sand, and even cement was forming a wall to defend against the completed bijuu's relentless attacks.
The Raikage turned to the rest of the group and spoke "We need to defeat Madara and Obito and release their control of the Juubi. Minato, you take a small taskforce to the top of the Juubi while the rest of us focus on the body itself!"
Minato nodded in acceptance of the plan and quickly chose Kakashi, Shio, and Menma to head to the top of the Juubi.
Kushina rounded on her husband angrily "I have to go with you!"
Minato shook his head "Your adamantine chains are better for defense against the Juubi, don't worry. I will defeat them. Our children will be with me after all."
Kushina noticed how he included Kakashi in that group but nodded, tearing slightly as she saw the determination in his eyes "Good luck, you better return to me or you will be sleeping on the couch in the afterlife!"
The fourth hokage smiled sadly at his wife and threw a Hirashin kunai to the top of the juubi and called to his team "Grab on to me and I will take us up there." The four shinobi held onto his coat as they disappeared in a yellow flash.
(Juubi's Head)
The team appeared on the head and saw the two Uchiha directing the Juubi. Minato glared at his former student and his new master "It is time to end this Obito, I never thought the cheerful boy I knew could be reduced to this. But it all ends here!"
Obito gripped his warfan tightly as he shouted back at his sensei "Everything I have done. Everything I am planning to do. Is to bring peace to the world! You had your chance to bring peace! But you failed, and now I will send the world into an eternal sleep as they forget their hatred and finally accept one another!"
Kakashi's Sharingan swirled into its mangekyou form "There is no more reconciliation for you Obito. I will gladly reduce myself to lower than scum to kill you here today. The team seven of the previous generation ends here today!"
Menma looked at the duo and spoke "Shio and I will take on Madara, you two face Obito."
The two older shinobi nodded and they separated.
(Kakashi & Minato vs Obito)
Minato made the first move and dashed forward at Obito who responded by dashing forward at the same time. Minato had a mental flash back as he threw his kunai at his students head. He remembered all the good times he spent with team 7. Obito had definitely been his favorite student despite his failings. And now they are forced to fight to the death on top of a primordial god.
He shook himself out of his thoughts and threw his Hirashin kunai at Obito's head. The kunai sailed past Obito's head as they nearly reach each other. Time seemed to slow down as Minato teleported himself above Obito, the Rasengan already spiraling into existence in his hand.
Obito recognized the move from their last battle and spoke as the ball approached his back "Do you think I would fall for the same trick twice?" He stayed ethereal and allowed Minato to pass by him once more. He smirked as he saw the Rasengan drill harmlessly against the Juubi and began to absorb Minato into his kamui.
Minato threw a kunai away to avoid the suction before replying "Maybe not, but you seemed to forget I am not alone this time!"
Obito only had time to widen his eyes before Kakashi dove straight into his Kamui portal. The Uchiha stumbled back in surprise at the action before turning his body intangible to dodge another Rasengan from Minato. Obito glared as his father passed through him and spoke "Can't you see it's useless. With the mangekyou Sharingan I'm invinc- urk!" Obito paused abruptly in his monologing when he hunched over, as if being punched from a fist to the gut.
(Alternate Dimension)
Kakashi smiled beneath his mask as he buried his fist into the chest of his former teammate. He remembered how they came up with this strategy to defeat Obito.
(Flashback)
Minato and his most trusted ninja stood in a sealed off room. They could not risk anyone overhearing there conversation. As everyone arrived he spoke to the room "I have a plan to counter the masked man's intangibility."
The assembled ninja focused on the Hokage as he described his theories on the space/time technique that Madara uses "I have researched his ability from the descriptions of everyone who has fought him and I discovered something very interesting. Madara does not simply turn intangible, he removes himself from this plane of existence."
Menma frowned as he tried to comprehend what his father was saying "Are you suggesting that his ability sends him to another dimension?"
The Fourth Hokage nodded "Ever since our journey to the alternate dimension, I have been studying dimensional travel. Through this research I have been able to figure out how his technique works. Madara sends pieces of himself to another dimension while using genjutsu to hide his missing body parts to make it seem as if he is intangible. What we need to do is send someone to this dimension to fight Madara with someone else fighting him on the outside. This would effectively negate his intangibility."
Shio looked contemplative as she questioned the plan "Who would go into the Kamui? If Madara dies the person would be stuck on the other side."
Minato smirked a little "Yes, but we can summon him from this side as long as we have an imprint of his chakra."
Kakashi spoke up next "Or I could go in, my own Kamui can send objects to an alternate dimension. Perhaps I could send myself to the dimension and back."
Minato nodded "Yes, just remember, when we fight them, jump into his Kamui to negate his intangibility."
(End Flashback)
Before Kakashi could hit him again the chest piece disappeared and he looked around the dimension. It seemed strangely familiar to him but he could not figure out why.
(Real World)
Minato attacked Obito viciously now that his intangibility was negated. They jumped over the back of the Juubi, seeing flashes of the other battles out of the corner of their eyes as they fought each other. Memories of the past continued to haunt them as they aimed to kill each other. They clashed once more with Obito's kunai struggling against a tri-pronged knife. Obito widened his eyes as Minato disappeared behind him and he was forced to enter his Kamui.
(Kamui World)
Obito was forced to dodge a Rakiri when he emerged into the Kamui and soon the two teammates were engaged in the battle of their lives. Obito growled as he jumped back and flashed through some handsigns "Fire Style, Fire Cyclone!" the Uchiha spat out a massive firestorm that circled like a twister at the grey haired jonin.
Kakashi activated one of his newer techniques he had perfected over the years "Lightning style, Raikiri Drill!" In a spirling motion all down his arm lightning emerged forming a perfect drill around his arm. With a burst of speed Kakashi tore through the fire technique and was about to pierce Obito when he disappeared into the real world.
Kakashi was forced to send the energy of his attack outward and created a large explosion in the empty space.
Unknown to the jonin the black sky of the dimension started to crack at the amount of chakra being released inside of it.
(Real World)
Minato was ready as Obito appeared with a Hirashin Kunai and managed to cut Obito's cheek. The Uchiha was starting to look worse for wear after constantly fighting two separate fronts in his Kamui and this dimension. Minato knew it was time to finish this. Summoning two shadow clones next to him he formed a Rasengan in each hand while the clones added wind chakra. He felt an echo of his alternate son nod to him as he used the signature technique he learned over these past few weeks "Rasenshuriken barrage!" Minato gathered all of the chakra he could spare and burst it from his palms propelling the two spheres forward at fast speeds towards the Uchiha.
Obito could barely enter his Kamui as he was dangerously low on chakra. As he entered the bleak dimension he winced as his arm was heavily cut as he was a bit late on entering this dimension. He looked up to see Kakashi with a sword of lightning extending from his hand. He felt that his chakra was too dangerously low for him to fight so he began to drain chakra from the dimension he was in, desperate to survive and realize his dream.
However the two stopped as they heard a large crack from above them. They looked up and widened their eyes as the ceiling of the dimension began to rain down on them and an ethereal green light was seen behind the cracks.
Kakashi looked at Obito and noticed he was just as surprised as he was at this development. He wondered what could be causing this before his eyes widened as he recognized that light. It was the same light he saw in Limbo. He frantically looked around the dimensions and saw the similarities to the plane of existence he was when he died in the battle against Pain.
Without knowing it they had been fighting in the realm between life and death.
And they had just broken the gates to Hell.
(Naruto & Shio vs Madara)
The Uchiha Patriarch stood on the Head of the Juubi looking down upon his two opponents. He was silently glad for this development. The strongest of the next generation against the strongest Shinobi of history. It was fitting he supposed.
They were about to begin before a green light emerged besides the two Uzumaki and Sasuke emerged, glaring at Madara.
Shio looked at her former teammate in surprise "Sasuke?"
Sasuke didn't spare her a glance as he looked up at the source of all his pain "I will fight alongside you in this battle."
Narto smirked likely as he prepared himself for the fight of their lives "This will be the hardest fight of our lives."
Shio gripped her Katana as Sasuke readied his ethereal spears. Sasuke smiled as he remembered something Kakashi once said "Then there is only one way to win this."
Shio smiled happily as she too recalled the memory "That's right, the only way is-"
Despite not being at the team gathering Menma understood what they are talking about and spoke at the same time
"Teamwork!"
Madara drew his war fan and spoke to the three below him "Together or alone. It makes little difference. You shall all fall as so many before you. Now come forward, let us dance to decide the fate of this ruined world!"
(Naruto, Shio, and Sasuke* vs Madara)
Shio dashed forward as soon as Madara was on the move and Katana and War fan clashed in a blur to the untrained. Sasuke too dashed forward and was throwing spears rapidly at his ancestor. Naruto knew he could trust Sasuke and Shio on the offensive as he helped to support them. He spread out his chakra strings and attached them to the two and sent healing chakra, energizing poisons, and nature chakra to the two to help them fight the immortal Uchiha.
Shio roared as she swung her glowing sword down upon the Uchiha. Her eyes were already glowing with yellow energy as she used the Kyuubi's and sage chakra together. Despite the ferocity of the attack Madara managed to deflect it with his reinforced fan and batted her away with a compressed wind blast.
As Sasuke felt the sage chakra enter his system his glowing green body turned an ethereal blue as the nature chakra mixed with his Kagatsuchi. He began to rain spears down upon Madara, smirking as many of them seemed to injure the Uchiha before he regenerated.
Menma channeled healing chakra to Shio as she got blasted away and dashed forward to engage the Uchiha while Shio gathered herself for another attack. With a roar he slammed his palm into Madara's war fan, causing a large explosion of air pressure to be released behind Madara. With his palms glowing with the amount of chakra he was charging into his hands he began to batter the Uchiha with swift but devastating punches and palm thrusts, trying to break his guard.
As they fought Naruto noticed a small crack on the handle of the war fan and felt a series of tugs on the chakra string that was attached to Sasuke and did one last palm thrust before jumping out of the way of a massive spear that drilled into the almost impenetrable war fan that Madara wielded.
The older Uchiha struggled to keep his fan intact by channeling mokuton chakra into it but it was no match for the nature chakra enhanced Kagutsuchi spear. In a large crash the spear broke through the fan and bore a hole into the undead Madara.
Shio dashed forward with a seal and got close to the Uchiha.
Madara saw the girl nearing him with a seal and shouted "I cannot be ended here! Susano'o!" The menacing chakra construct rose above Madara and he smirked, knowing he was safe from any attack.
Naruto stretched out his hand while shouting "That won't work this time!" Thousands of chakra strings emerged from his hand and attached themselves to the Susano'o "Spider Style, Life Drain!" Chakra from the construct began seeping into all of the strings back to Menma and everyone he attached his chakra strings too, refilling all of their chakra pools from the endless supply of Madara's Edo Tensei shell.
Madara grunted as he felt more and more of his chakra began to leave him, his Susanno'o was showing signs of severe cracks as he struggled to keep his chakra under control to sustain the technique "Something like this will not defeat me!" He forced the construct to cut the chakra strings.
Naruto winced as the chakra backlash of having so many chakra strings cut reflected onto him "Do it now! I can't keep him bound for much longer!"
Shio and Sasuke dashed together, the former avenger had a hand on Shio's guard, sending his ethereal power into the weapon. Soon her blade was shining as powerfully as Sasuke's spears.
Shio gripped her blade tightly as she decided to use her strongest sword technique. Sending a large amount of wind chakra to her feet she seemingly disappeared and four bright flashes of green light emerged around Madara.
Shio knelt on the ground behind the nihilist and sheathed her blade "Swallow's Final Dance."
The Susanno'o seemed to cry out as it was sliced to pieces. Madara struggle to regenerate himself since his chakra was still fluxuating from Naruto's chakra drain attack. Before he could fully regenerate a glowing green spear pierced his heart. He was surprised when he suddenly felt pain in his chest. He can't feel pain in an Edo Tensei body. He looked down at the spear and was surprise to see the face of someone he long thought he had dealt with. Kalista was grinning at him victoriously from the spear as she clutched at his soul bound within the dead body he possessed. Kalista began to tear his soul from the carcass "Finally Madara…I will have my revenge!"
Sasuke stared in shock as the spear he had used transformed into his mentor and widened his eyes as she dragged the soul of Madara, screaming and begging for release, back into Yami.
Shio, Naruto, and Sasuke stared at the spot that Madara once stood, slightly stunned.
Shio asked hesitantly "Is it…over?"
Naruto shook his head as he stared at the Juubi below them, still struggling to breach the defenses of the shinobi alliance "No, we need to deal with this beast."
However before they could react they heard a large crack as the very walls of existence seemed to break apart. In a swirl of darkness Kakashi appeared with Minato, each looking very scared.
Naruto looked at the jonin seriously "Kakashi, what is happening?"
Kakashi looked hauntingly at his sensei's son "The end of everything."
Before they could ask him what they meant they realized that even the Juubi halted its actions as the cracks spread over the sky.
Soon the entire sky shattered as green mist seeped into their world. The only thing remained was the green tinted Moon and Obito staring down at them with black eyes.
AN2: And done for this chapter, finally. I had a lot of trouble thinking how to combine my plot with Izanagi and Izanami instead of the Canon Naruto. I, along with many naruto fans I suspect, disliked the instant inclusion of Kaguya, but liked how it was revealed she manipulated the entire naruto world. I am doing something similar with Izanami but you will have to find out next chapter. Also to every LoL fan out there. How the fuck do you get out of bronze. I made it to the promotion series for silver and lost every match due to Yasuo. Each time xD. I will update in a week prob. Peace :D.
