Declaimer: I own nothing in this fanfic, but my created characters they abilities and Jutsu and that is about all I own "Goes to corner and starts crying" Writing: Italic: thought, Bold: Bijuu or summoning speaking.
"Sometimes, I used to dream of a wide opening in the forest... devoid of life, noise, or pain. The sun always stood adamant in the skies, shining its bright light upon this dreamland. However... every attempt I made to take a step forward, I tripped and fell on my face. Time and time again, until I could no longer get up. That's when I heard his voice... my father's voice, in a land of dreary silence, cheering me on. It made me realize something very important. Life will knock us down... but with the help of those who truly care for us, we can get back to our feet... and move forward once again." - Unknown
"Loyalty...? Do not hinder my time with such foolish sentiments. I told you all once before, didn't I? I am a lone Fox; trusting nobody, following nobody, caring for nobody, listening to nobody, and loving nobody. I chase those I deem as my prey, and silence all those that are competition. I wag my tail at the sight of blood, fixing my eyes on the next of my prey, always staying the course. There are no rules I follow. Anybody who crosses me... is prey." - Unknown
Naruto was waiting with his bodyguards Haku and Kabuto as they waved goodbye to Uzushiogakure. The three left the village in a swirl of water as they reappeared on the opposite side of the lake. "So you ready for the plan?" Haku looked at Kabuto who nodded his head.
"Yeah, but just remember your part of this entire thing." Kabuto placed his hand on Naruto's shoulder. "You just got to keep this little guy in this form until Naruto and Yuukaiken get back from whatever it is they are doing." Kabuto looked towards the forest as he saw the fading images of Naruto and Yuukaiken. "Come on let's get going before we're late." Haku nodded his head and the three of them walked towards the Kage meeting.
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Madara watched as Tsunade left the village with her bodyguards leaving Kakashi in charge until she returned. "You couldn't have made this more easier." Underneath his mask Madara smiled. "Soon I will have all the power needed to rule the world." With that Madara disappeared in a vortex.
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"Why are we doing this?" Yuukaiken asked.
"Because we need to stop them from getting the Hachibi." Naruto stated simply while he ducked underneath a tree branch.
"But there's something more to this isn't there." Yuukaiken looked at Naruto with suspicion.
"Kirabi pushed me off the cliff." Naruto stated as he began to pick up speed. "I won't let him die because of me." Yuukaiken still wore a look of concern as he followed Naruto.
"That wasn't what I was talking about Naruto." Yuukaiken looked at Naruto with a sad look in his eyes. "The man we are going after killed Jiraiya. What I asked was if you are doing this for Kirabi's sake or to get revenge for your sensei."
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Pein watched as the Hachibi was slowly removed from it's host with some difficulty. "It would appear that these two refuse to give up." Pein looked at Sasuke only to see him walk away with a bored expression on his face. "Where do you think your going Uchiha." Sasuke turned and smirked at Pein.
"This is the work of weaklings." Sasuke smiled even bigger as Konan glared at him. "I'm an Uchiha the best in this entire world. I don't do grunt work." With that Sasuke turned and walked away without another word.
"Do you wish me to go and retrieve him?" Konan asked as she watched the Uchiha vanish.
Pein simply shook his head as he kept his concentration on the sealing. "We need to keep our focus on the sealing." Pein looked at Konan and saw her nod. "But after that we will deal with Sasuke." Zetsu looked at Pein and Konan with a mysterious glint in his eyes, but kept his attention on the sealing.
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Day later
Naruto and Yuukaiken looked out into the village of Amegakure with vague expressions. "Not what I imagined it to be." Yuukaiken stated as he watched Naruto climb down the mountain they were on. "Wait do you even know where your going?" Naruto didn't stop his decent, but turned his head until one eye looked at Yuukaiken.
"Yeah I do." Naruto said simply as his blue eye turned orange before looking back at Ame. Naruto landed on the outskirts of Ame and looked around until he felt precise emotion he was looking for. "His this way." Naruto walked with Yuukaiken until they found a small cave with a boulder in front of it. "They're in here." Naruto stated as he grabbed the boulder and threw it without any care of stealth.
"Naruto!" Yuukaiken reached forward to grab Naruto only for him to go into the cave.
"They already know we're here." Naruto said as he went into the darkness making Yuukaiken follow him. "Besides we can't be quiet in this situation."
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Kirabi's body gave one final jerk as his Bijuu was ripped out of him. He fell to the ground as Pein walked towards him with his hand reaching down to pick up his corpse, but was forced to dodge a lightning bolt. "You came faster then anticipated Jinchuriki." Pein stated as Naruto appeared between him and Kirabi's body. "You can't help him anymore." Naruto just cast a sideways glance at Kirabi as he covered himself in Kyuubi's chakra.
"You see that is where you are wrong." Pein watched as Kyuubi's cloak seemed to snake it's way towards Kirabi's body until it covered it. Pein held up his hand to stop Konan and Zetsu from attacking Naruto as Naruto walked backwards towards Kirabi keeping his eyes on the Akatsuki members.
"Come on you big idiot you can't sleep now." Naruto glanced down at Kirabi and just as Pein was about to speak he saw Kirabi's chest rise up and fall down.
"Impossible!" Pein thought as he looked at Konan out of the corner of his eye. "Only someone who has complete control over Yōton (Yang Release) can bring someone back to life unless." Pein narrowed his eyes at Naruto. "His just pumping the Kyuubi's yang chakra into the body. It's not controlled enough to bring a fully dead person back, but if he died recently then it is would be possible."
Kirabi groaned as he stared up at Naruto. "Hey, what took you so long." Naruto smiled down at the man as Yuukaiken appeared behind him.
"Yuukaiken you know what to do." Naruto stood up as he stepped over Kirabi and faced Pein.
"I'm not leaving-." Naruto turned to Yuukaiken and released Kyuubi's chakra stopping him in mid-sentence.
"You will take Kirabi and get to Tetsu no Kuni (Land of Iron)." Naruto looked directly into his eyes. "I will be fine just go." Yuukaiken opened his mouth to argue more, but knew nothing would change Naruto's mind anymore.
Yuukaiken picked Kirabi up and turned only to be confronted by Konan. "Get out of the way." Yuuakaiken growled out as Konan began to peel like paper. Yuukaiken reached for his sword as Konan spread her paper wings. "I won't ask again."
"Konan leave him be." Pein spoke with his voice echoing off the walls. "We already have all we need from him and even if he brings reinforcements it will already be too late." Konan nodded her head as and stepped out of Yuukaiken's path.
Yuukaiken smiled at Naruto as he walked past. "You better come back I don't want to face a certain someone if you don't." Naruto nodded his head Yuukaiken began to leave, but Zetsu appeared in front of him with his vines around Yuukaiken.
"Zetsu leave him be." Pein narrowed his eyes at Zetsu who only smirked at Pein.
"I don't think Madara would like that." Zetsu had his vines enclose Yuukaiken, but suddenly his vines were shredded by a blur of motion.
"I hate talking plants." Yuukaiken said as he stared at Zetsu. "It's so… unnatural." With that that Yuukaiken vanished and reappeared behind Zetsu and kept walking. Zetsu turned to attack with his vines, but fell to the ground. He looked and saw that he was cut in half by Yuukaiken. "Good luck Naruto." Yuukaiken disappeared in a swirl of water leaving behind a smiling Naruto.
"Fuck that was fast." Zetsu announced as he grabbed his legs and put his two halves together. Naruto watched as Zetsu began to stand up while the cut on his waist began to heal. "I need to go tell Madara of this."
"Well go Aloe Vera man." Naruto commented making Zetsu stop in his tracks. "I will be sure to deal with Madara once I finish up here." Naruto kept his eyes locked on Pein's has Zetsu sunk into the ground.
"Overconfident little brat." Zetsu thought with a scowl as he left to find Madara.
"Now that he is gone how about we take this somewhere else." Naruto stated with a gesture at the cave door. "If we fight here we might end up destroying Amegakure and I don't know about you, but I don't take pleasure in hurting others." Before Pein could speak Naruto vanished in a flash of light leaving Pein and Konan to follow.
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Pein arrived on the location to find Naruto sitting on a rock looking up at the sky holding Jiraiya's headband. "This should be far enough." Naruto stated as he stood up trying Jiraiya's headband to his belt. "Now about Konan." Naruto bit his thumb as he went through a series of handsigns. "Kuchiyose no Jutsu!" Naruto was concealed in a thick coat of smoke, but a suddenly blast of chakra sent the smoke away. Naruto was standing on the head of Gamabunta as Gamaken and Gamahiro were on either side. "I think this should only be between you and me Pein." Gamabunta looked at Naruto and saw Jiraiya's headband on his waist.
"Sorry about Jiraiya kid." Naruto nodded his head as he stepped off Gamabunta's head.
"Konan stay out of this go and guard me." Naruto was confused at this, but smiled as he realized what happened. "What is so funny?"
"I knew there was something off about you six." Naruto chuckled at that was he shook his head. "It just hit me you six aren't alive." Pein's eyes widened at that as Naruto continued. "Those black rods are most likely used to control the bodies almost like puppets."
"Very good Kyuubi you are certainly very clever." Pein watched as the three toads took off their weapons. "I guess we should begin the battle between god and a mere demon." Naruto only stepped into a fighting stance as the Animal path slammed her hands onto the ground. Naruto watched as a giant dog, bull, and rhino appeared in front of Naruto.
"Will handle the summons." Gamabunta announced as he pulled out his dagger. "You handle Pein." Naruto nodded his head and pulled off his shirt to reveal a completely covered body of seals.
"I'm about to bring this "god" to his knees!" Naruto roared as he charged while his seals began to glow. Naruto charged straight at Pein with deadly intentions reflected in his blue eyes. Naruto kept charging even when the Preta jumped in front of him. Naruto lunged and grabbed the path around the waist tackling it to the ground with a smile on his face. Deva continued to look on with confusing until he heard the ground begin to crack underneath him. He looked down just as Naruto erupted out of the ground with a Rasengan in hand thrusting the spiraling ball into his face, but before it connected Naruto was blasted away by Deva's Shinra Tensei. Naruto was sent backwards just as the Preta path destroyed the Kage Bunshin and grabbed Naruto by the leg.
"It's hopeless you cannot win." Deva watched as Naruto smiled once more at him.
"It's never hopeless." Naruto announced as he vanished in a poof of smoke.
"Another Kage Bunshin!" Deva glanced around just as Naruto appeared behind the Animal path. The path turned around to defend, but Naruto simply nicked it's arm with a kunai to draw blood. "What is he up too?" Pein decided not to wait and find out as he had the Asura path grab Naruto and throw him to a nearby rock formantion, but not before Naruto touched the Animal path on the chest.
Blood trickled down Naruto's mouth as he continued to smile. "Keiyaku Fūin (Contract Seal)." Naruto stated simply as a seal appeared on the Animal path. The three animal summons suddenly stopped dead in their tracks as they vanished in smoke. Naruto watched as the Preta path jumped at him with it's arm stretched forward. "Naruto held out his right arm as he began to form his Rasengan. "Futon: Rasengan!" Naruto swung his arm forward at the Preta path.
"He learned nothing from our-." Pein stopped as he realized the spinning orb wasn't getting absorbed. "Damn!" Deva path held out it's palm and pulled the Preta out of harms way making Naruto smile. "What did you do?" Naruto smiled even bigger while gesturing to his seal covered body.
"The moment that body touched my clone a seal was transferred to it's body." Naruto held up a tiger seal and a seal appeared on the Preta path's face and arms. "It is designed to negate any sort of seal so long as I have the chakra to keep it in check. Now has for your Animal path I placed a seal to stop her annoying summoning. In short I have disabled two of you puppets they can only serve as little more then shields now." Deva just looked at the two paths in question as they suddenly went limp and fell to the ground.
"If that is the case then I don't need to waste chakra keeping them moving." The Deva path looked at the Human path who quickly sealed the bodies into a scroll as he too went limp. Naraku path walked over and sealed the Human path into the scroll as well. "The more chakra I concentrate on the needed bodies the more damage I can do." Naruto simply stood up and took up a fighting stance. "Like so." Deva flicked his finger at Naruto who dodged just in the nick of time as the boulder behind him was obliterated. "But don't worry it will only break your bones."
"I thought if I got rid of the bodies it will decrease his power." Naruto thought as sweat trickled down his head. "But I was wrong." Naruto looked at Gamabunta and the others just as they jumped into the air and until they were right above the Deva path. "Get out of there!" Gamabunta looked at Naruto just as the Deva path raised his hand skyward.
"Shinra Tensei." Gamabunta, Gamahiro, and Gamaken were blasted away from the Deva path and were sent into the sky. Naruto quickly clapped his hands together and saw three distinct explosions of smoke. "It won't matter if you save them you will all bow before god." Naruto narrowed his eyes as he charged at the Deva with a Rasengan in hand.
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Kabuto, Haku, and "Naruto" were all sitting in the Kage summit listening to the plans being passed around. "We need to take care of Akatsuki here and now!" E growled out as he looked around. "We need to work together or they will take us out one by one."
"This coming from the one who always tried to get his hands on the Hyuuga's Byakugan twice." Tsunade glared at E who only looked back. "So why should Konoha or Uzushio follow you." Tsunade turned to look at Naruto, but he appeared to be sleeping with his head hung back.
"Gufuukage are you even worried about the threat of Akatsuki?" Mifune glared at Naruto who ignored the Samurai general. E stood up to confront Naruto, but a sudden blast of smoke appeared next to him.
"I have him." Came the voice of Yuukaiken who gently laid Kirabi on the wall. "But Naruto decided to stay behind and handle that Pein fellow." The "Naruto" on the chair glanced up at Yuukaiken.
"So I can stop pretending to be him." Kabuto nodded his head and the form of Naruto began to change and shift like water until a boy with white hair that had a blue tint in it along with purple eyes. "I did exactly what you wanted Kabuto now has for my reward."
"Of course Suigetsu." Kabuto pulled a scroll out of his cloak. "The swords of the Kiri no Shinobigatana Shichinin Shū (Seven Ninja Swordsman of the Hidden Mist)." Suigetsu grabbed the scroll and promptly stood up and approached Mei with a sly smile.
"Mizukage." Suigetsu gave a slight bow of his head.
"Suigetsu Hozuki." Mei looked intently at Suigetsu who gently handed the scroll to her.
"I have retrieved our sacred swords." Suigetsu announced as Mei gently took the scroll away from him, but noticed the small grimace in Suigetsu's features. "I'm sorry I meant to return earlier, but I was held up." Mei opened the scroll and smiled at the familiar names.
"Your brother would be proud of you Suigetsu." Mei looked at Suigetsu who nodded his head with a rare sadness in his eyes. "Mangetsu was a excellent swordsman, but perhaps you could be better then him." Suigetsu looked up as Mei handed the scroll back to him. "Can I trust you to watch over these swords Suigetsu?"
"Yes Mizukage." Suigetsu smiled as he took the scroll back and held it like it was a precious gem.
Onoki watched the scene with a grumpy scowl. "You impersonated a Kage."
"It was Naruto's idea." Yuukaiken looked at the Kages in question. "He went to retrieve Kirabi, but was to late to stop the sealing." Yuukaiken watched as E approached his brother. "But don't worry thanks to Naruto he will live." Yuukaiken turned just as Tsunade approached him.
"Where is Naruto now?" Yuukaiken could hear the worry and anger in her voice, but kept his smile in place.
"Right now he is fighting Pein." Tsunade's eyes widened as she turned on heel and began to leave, but a wall of blades appeared in front of her.
"He gave me instruction to make sure that the meeting went on as planned." Yuukaiken yanked his sword out of the ground. "I'll make sure the result reach Naruto, but this meeting must go on." Tsunade glared at Yuukaiken who simply twirled his dagger in his fingers. "Now let's get down to business."
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Naruto stood on top of the destroyed body of the Asura path with a still spinning Rasengan in hand. "Next." Naruto said as the Deva path lifted it's hand towards him.
"Banshō Ten'in (Heavenly Attraction of All Creation)." Naruto suddenly lurched forward as a black blade appeared out of the Deva's sleeve. Naruto release his Rasengan and brought his hands forward into a tiger seal. The blade collided with a spinning barrier allowing Naruto to drop to the ground.
"I learned some new tricks." Naruto smiled at the Deva. "Fuinjutsu: Kamikaze (Divine Wind)." The Deva looked down at his blade just as the barrier began to spin faster making an ear splitting grinding sound. The Deva jumped backwards just as the barrier ripped his blade to pieces until nothing was left. "And now it's time for the finishing move." Naruto crossed his fingers and created three clones. Naruto and the clones held out their hands as a spinning mass began to form. "Futon: Rasenshuriken." The three Naruto's held out their respective Rasenshurikens as they rushed in different directions.
"It's already to late." Deva lifted it's right arm preparing to deflect Naruto's Jutsu. "I can still win." A clone jumped into the air and threw it's Rasenshuriken at the Deva path who ducked underneath the buzz saw, but thanks to the link it shared it saw the disk heading straight for the Naraku path. Pein had the Naraku path to jump to the side to avoid the disk, but that was when the jutsu expanded and caught the Naraku path. The Deva path narrowed it's eyes as it looked at the last remaining Jutsu's.
"Take this!" Naruto and the clone threw their Rasenshuriken's at the same time, but the Deva path simply deflected the two jutsu's.
"That was point-." That was when he heard the familiar buzz of a Rasengan being formed. He looked up and saw the clone holding the jutsu at him, but before it got within an inch it was blown apart by the Asura.
"I thought I got rid of that thing." "Naruto narrowed his eyes at the Asura, but it gave one finally jerk and fell to the ground once more. "I guess it survived long enough to save the last Pein." Naruto turned his attention back to the Deva path as it stood up fully.
"I never thought you would be this much trouble." Naruto could hear the slight tone of anger in his voice. "But I guess I should've expected that I would lose some of my bodies today, but I never thought you would do it in this way. First you develop a Keiyaku Fūin to stop my Animal path, then you negate my Preta path's seal, and then you destroyed my Asura and Naraku path."
"Yeah the only one I didn't get on purpose was that path you sealed into the scroll along with the Animal and Preta." Naruto smiled, but stopped when the Deva looked at him.
"This ends here." The Deva slapped it's hands together and once it pulled them apart in between his palms was a small black orb. "Chibaku Tensei (Heavenly Body Bursting from the Earth)!" Naruto pulled at Kyuubi's chakra as he got ready for Pein's jutsu.
"This is it." Naruto concentrated his chakra into spinning into the palm of his hand. "Whoever's jutsu works will decide the victor." Pein watched as a Naruto's chakra began to form, but it was wasn't a blue spinning ball. This time it was black and it wasn't moving, but Nagato could feel the power coming off of it through the Deva path. "Bijū Rasengan (Tailed Beast Spiraling Sphere)!" Naruto glared at the Deva path as a gust of wind blew dust past the two.
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Madara stepped through the doorway that lead into a crypt as he walked down the stairs into the darkness until he entered the inner sanctum of the crypt. He looked at the caskets around him until he found the one he was after. He grabbed the handles and pulled it out onto the ground with the symbol for Hokage on it's surface. Madara blasted the lid off the casket and looked down to see the body of Minato Namikaze. "Hello Minato I think you have something that belongs to me." Madara's lone Sharingan shone in the dime light.
Bijuu Rasengan vs. Chibaku Tensei the final clash of Naruto and Nagato. Madara has Minato's corpse, but what is he after. Find out next: Read, Enjoy, and Review.