Chapter 37: Two Beasts, One Stone
"This fight's gonna be a breeze, watch me skewer you like swiss cheese! Ow!" Odd rapping aside, Naruto was even more baffled when Bee drew seven swords off of his back and wielded them in all kinds of awkward ways. One was between his toes, one was in his mouth, another was tucked between his bicep and his chest; Naruto wasn't entirely sure what was about to happen next. Then suddenly Bee was hopping around like a frog on crack, his swift strikes coming from every angle all at once. He resembled a swarm of bees, one that had been charged with Lightning Style chakra too. "You may be a prodigy, but you weak compared to me! Yo!"
"Can't you keep quiet for five seconds?"
"No can do little boy, it's my passion to annoy!" Naruto growled as he continued to attempt to dodge the onslaught that was Killer Bee. The only reasons he hadn't been skewered yet were the nine tails floating behind him, which would swoop in and bash away any strike Naruto could not dodge. The blonde was suddenly surprised when Bee backed off, until he felt the roaring heat at his back.
"Fire Style: Eternal Inferno!" A ball of fire the size only a Jinchuriki could conjure surged towards the blonde, courtesy of Yugito.
"Enormous Rasegan!" Naruto's shot toward the ball of fire, and between them the largest Rasengan Naruto had ever created swirled to life. It clashed with the ball of flame, causing the flames to erupt into a cacophony of explosions that tore through the earth. Naruto was blown skyward where Killer Bee was waiting.
"You gon' be wonderin' where you at after you taste my Lariat! Yey!" The dark-skinned Jinchuriki reached the apex of his jump before he started to fall blisteringly fast at Naruto. He was within centimeters of the Naruto when the blonde suddenly shot away with a blast of wind. Bee crashed into the ground, sending chunks of earth flying into the air. Naruto continued to hover in the air a moment as he collected himself. That was a little close.
"Is he flying?" Yugito asked in shock as she gazed at his floating form.
"...Yey." Was Bee's response. Suddenly the blonde dashed towards them and flourished his tails in front of him.
"Nine-Tailed Rasengan Barrage!" On the tip of each tail a Rasengan formed, and they all shot forward, twisting and whirling around each other like snakes. Bee and Yugitu barely had time to clear the attack radius, but they were sent flying from the impact. Naruto touched the ground and then appeared behind Yugito, smashing her down with his fists like a hammer. Next he flashed behind Bee and drove his knee into his back. Blood spurted out of Bee's mouth as he fell to the ground in a heap. "I feel like you guys aren't taking this seriously." He stated as he stared down at Bee. He was shocked as in a second Bee was covered in burning, red chakra with four tails lying beneath him. Naruto arched his back as Bee's fist came roaring for his chin, missing by a hair. As he leaned back he saw Yugito charging in at him from behind, so he used his tails as a spring board and shot up into the air. He didn't expect two claws of burning blue chakra to grow from Yugito's shoulders and swipe him out of the sky.
"Lightning Style: Hammer of Enlightenment!" Bee came crashing down on Naruto like a lightning meteor, a sonic boom echoing through the town a second later. Naruto barely had time to activate his Gale Armor and put his tails up in a vain attempt to deflect some of the damage. It felt as if the Hokage mountain had crashed down on him, plus the still painful electricot coursing through his body. He quickly substituted himself with a log and jumped into the air where he stayed a moment. One f his tails flickered.
"Earth Style: Swamp of the Underworld!" He didn't make it too big, for the sake of the already half-destroyed town, but they were both easily trapped and sinking fast. Naruto cursed as their bodies erupted into electricity, dispelling the swamp. Kakashi had used the same tactitc on him many times. Naruto felt a burst of chakra behind him and whipped around to meet Yugito's fiery claw.
"Fire Style: Searing Nails!" A trail of fire followed him as he used a burst of wind chakra to escape, distracting him for a moment, allowing Bee to jump up behind him. Bee grabbed him and flipped over before diving towards the ground. They both crashed in the earth, causing further harm to the unlucky village. There was an explosion from their crash site, and a moment later Bee's body was shot into the sky like a bullet. Naruto appreared above him with his fist cocked back and loaded full of WInd Style chakra.
"Wind Style: Pressure Fist!" A blast of compact air as large as Naruto crashed into Bee, causing him to meet the earth once more. Then the blonde sage charged at Yugito when he stopped. Because it wasn't Yugito. "Wh...what?" He floated to a stop in front of her and reached his hand out slowly, caressing her face. "Ryuuzetsu..." Her silver hair shone brightly in the sunlight, and he was about to lean in when he felt a faint echo of chakra.
"LIghtning Bomber!" Reality snapped back into place as Naruto saw Killer Bee charging up a small ball of dark chakra. However, he could feel the enormous mass that it held. It started to spark blue and yellow as Bee added Lightning Style chakra to it, and Naruto tensed.
"Shit." He jumped back to give himself some more space as two of his tails extended out wide. Orbs of white spinning chakra started to form and suddenly they exploded into screeching chakra shurikens of immense power. "Rasenshuriken Barrage!" As Bee launched the combination attack from his mouth Naruto flung both Rasenshurikens and they clashed in a glorious explosion of brilliant blue and yellow electricity. Dust blaketed the village, making it impossible to see when suddenly it was all blown away by a powerful burst of wind from Naruto. Bee and Naruto were untouched, but the crater created by the attack reached the tips of their toes. Suddenly Naruto was behind Yugito, a Rasengan swirling in his hand right behind her head. "What was that? Genjutsu?" He asked, referring to his vision from before. She tensed.
"Eternal Grief Hallucination. A power of the Two-Tails." He tails shot up and wrapped around his arm, holding it in place long enough for Yugito to launch her heel at his head. He ducked and dispelled the Rasengan before grabbing her ankle and throwing her to the side. She flipped in the air and easily recovered as she finished a string of hand signs. "Fire Style: Dance of the Wicked!" She began to twirl around and fire swirled up around her until she was entirely cloaked by white fire. Like a small tornado she tore a path straight for Naruto, who slammed his tails on the ground.
"Earth Style: Earth Wall Barricade!" A wall as thick as his house rose up in front of the blond, shuddering as Yugito barreled into it. Naruto flashed away when Bee crashed into the wall from behind him, but when he found the man, there were two of them. One was murky black with blank white eyes. Naruto dashed at both of them, and they jumped in opposite directions before jumping back towards each other twice as fast.
"Ink Lariat!" As they honed in on Naruto he blasted himself into the air, his tails fluttering as he ascended.
"Earth Style: Mountain Trap Smash!" Two enormous chunks of land rose from the earth behind each Bee and smashed them together, splattering ink in all directions. Naruto landed on top of the mountain and smashed his tails down on it, causing it to crumble. He dashed from rock to rock until he finally reached the ground, where dust eclipsed his view of everything. Suddenly a large, fiery blue claw swiped at him through the dust, almost taking his head off. He blew away the dust to reveal the almost smiling face of the Two-Tailed Demon Cat.
"Okay, I was wrong before. You guys are taking this way too seriously."
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Sasuke stopped at the bank of a river as he felt a powerful wave of chakra wash over him. It felt like a Tailed Beast's chakra.
"Dammit Naruto..." He sighed as he quickly gulped down the rest of his canteen before dashing towards Loki Gai. He could feel multiple Tailed Beast chakra signatures now, and he just shook his head. "Should have figured..."
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"Ink Napalm!" Naruto leapt high into the air as he attempted to dodge the projectile attack. He quickly threw a kunai on the ground and flashed to it to avoid the Two Tails' leaping slash. Bee was instantly on him and Naruto had to weave through the vicious blows that seemed to leave trails of fire behind them, He winced as he used his tails to block a hammer strike that forced him to sink into the ground.
"WInd Style: Great Breakthrough!" Bee was sent flying as Naruto blasted him through a pile of rubble. He then rolled under a claw slash from the Two Tails and jumped back to gain some distance. He was surprised and interested to watch as specters of flame slowly coalesced in front of him. One by one they shot towards him, and soon the Sage was engaged with ten fiery phantoms. Even with his speed, he was having a hard time adjusting to the fact that their bodies were made of fire and so they could morph any which way they wanted. He punched through one's head only for it to open up like a donut. He growled.
"Lariat!" Naruto flashed away instantly as he heard Bee's cry, who crashed into where the blonde had stood before, destroying the flame specters. Bee launched himself at Naruto through the cloud of dust as his arm shifted into a giant tentacle. Bee flung the transformed appendage at the blonde, who flipped over it it and wrapped his tails around it. Naruto spun around and whipped Bee high into the air before appearing behind him, a Rasengan churning in his hand.
"Planetary Rasengan!" Three smaller Rasengan formed around the larger one like satellites, and they spun around in perfect orbit. Naruto slammed his technique into Bee, causing a giant vortex of chakra to blast Bee to the ground. Naruto then appeared behind the Two-Tails as he finished some hand seals. "Summoning Technique!" A screech of pain echoed through the air as the Two-Tails was sent flying from the cloud of smoke created from the sumoning. When the smoke cleared, Gamakichi was looking up at Naruto, who was on his head, in curiosity.
"You do something to your hair bro?"
"Shut up Gamakichi." The toad snickered.
"The tails are cute too." Naruto sighed and smacked the top of Gamakichi's head with one of said tails, causing the toad to wince. "Ow! Seriously my head is not a place for you to play whack-a-mole asshole!"
"Yo bro that's a sick rhyme, you should team up with Killer Bee sometime! Yey!" Gamakichi turned his head to see Bee in his second form...posing.
"Who the fuck is that guy?"
"I'll explain later but right now I need you to focus! Like on that giant fucking fireball!" Naruto shouted frantically as an enormous tower of flames surged toward them.
"I got the oil!"
"What th fuck do you-" Naruto's voice was drowned out as the oil impacted with the tower of flames, causing a massive explosion to rock the decaying town. Everything within the radius of the explosion had been scorched into nothing more than a pile of ash. "Are you crazy?" Naruto shouted as smoke rolled across the town.
"What do you mean? That's always our go to strategy against really big fire attacks." Gamakichi stated carelessly. Naruto shook his head and sighed.
"No it's not that, I was just trying really hard to not destroy the entire village, but I guess it was inevitable. We are fighting two Jinchurikis anyway." Gamakichi's eyes bulged at that.
"You didn't mention that before."
"Well we are. One of them is already in Tailed Beast stare; the Two-Tails."
"Water Style: Crushing Charge!" Two large waves of water crashed through the cloud of smoke, surprising the bickering duo and threatening to overtake them. Suddenly, instead of crashing down on them, at their apex the waves swirled up into the shape of two horns before diving back down like lightning. But it was a split-second longer, and that was what Naruto needed. A kunai could be seen flying over the village when suddenly a giant toad appeared, blocking out the sun. Gamakichi crashed to the ground, causing the cloud of dust to blow away, revealing he Two-Tails and the Eight-Tails side-by-side.
"I lied before. They're both in Tailed Beast state."
"Dammit I'm way too drunk for this." Naruto quirked a brow at that.
"Why are you drunk Gamakichi?" The toad snorted.
"It's dad's birthday today, and he's pretty pissed you're not there y'know. Now he's probably pissed at me too." Naruto rolled his eyes.
"I'm a little busy. Speaking of which are you gonna be of any use to me right now because I'm kinda fighting for my life at this point." Naruto got no time to hear his answer as he saw the Eight-Tails begin to collect a mass of dark chakra over his mouth. It was much larger than before, and it was missing the Lightning Style chakra as well.
"Oh shit Tailed Beast Bomb. Warp us somewhere far Naruto!" Naruto had every intention of doing just that when what looked like a giant arrow made of black flame crashed into the dark mass of chakra, causing it to explode and blast the Eight-Tails backwards. Naruto smiled as he felt someone land next to him on Gamakichi's head.
"Long time no see princess."
"Apparently not long enough." Naruto chuckled as he turned to face his best friend. Sasuke smirked back.
"Oh Sasuke! Long time no see!" Gamakichi greeted, holding his flipped up. "So since you're here that means I'm good to go right? Awesome. Later! Oh and I better see you at dad's birthday Naruto!" WIth that the summon disappeared back to his own realm, leaving Naruto and Sasuke to fall to the ground. Naruto sighed as they landed.
"No respect..." He muttered, earning a chuckle from Sasuke. The blonde glared at him.
"So what did you get yourself into this time?" Sasuke asked as he had a thousand times before.
"Two-Tails and Eight-Tails. No biggie. And you can control Amaterasu now?" The blonde replied like he had a thousand times before. WIthout a car in the world.
"You can control the fox now?" Naruto chuckled and scratched his head.
"We got a lot of catching up to do I guess. After this of course. You want the Two-Tails or the Eight-Tails."
"Two-Tails."
"Pussy."
"Cheater." Naruto smirked.
"Whatever. Let's go." He flashed away leaving Sasuke to shake his head. The Uchiha jumped away and dashed at the Eight Tails, brandishing his swords. They erupted with electricity as they clashed with the beast's fiery claws, sending a shower of sparks through the air. The Two-Tails jumped back to avoid the weapons and fired off three successive fireballs at Sasuke.
"Amaterasu Shield!" Black flames poured out of his eye and formed into the shape of a knight's shield, eclipsing him from view. The fireballs impacted one after another, the excess flames pouring out around the edges of the shield, leaving Sasuke unharmed. He pulled the flames back into his eye and dashed forward, his swords carving through the ground behind him. He hacked and slashed at the Demon Cat, but it was easily able to weave through his attacks even with her size. Sasuke sheathed his swords and jumped back as he started a string of hand signs.
"Water Style: Water Dragon Missile!" The Uchiha spat out a ferocious Water Dragon that smashed into the cat, causing it to tumble backwards. He followed up with a barrage of Lightning Senbon that elicited a cry of pain from the feline. The Two-Tails sprang up in a fury and leapt away from Sasuke over to the Eight-Tails, who had started to gather yet another dark mass of chakra. Then, the Two-Tails started to form its own.
"Sasuke! Get behind me!"
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Naruto apprared on the bridge of the Eight-Tails' nose, causing him to snarl. In a split second the Eight-Tails' hands smashed together right over his nose, aiming to squish Naruto like a fly. But Naruto easily warped abck to the ground, tapping his tails on the ground as he landed.
"Earth Style: Boulder Scatter Shot!" About a dozen or so extremely heavy boulders rose from the ground around Naruto, and with a simple wave of his tail he sent them rocketing at Bee. As they approached he smashed each one with his trin sized fists, his arms a blur as they moved. As the last one soared toward him he snatched it out of the air with a tentacle and flung it back at the Toad Sage. Naruto easily batted it aside with one of his tails.
"You should stop actin' like this is a piece of cake, or they gon' find yo' body at the bottom of a lake! Yo!" It was odd to hear that come from the Eight-Tails' mouth, but Naruto had no time to be amused as a flurry of tentacles rushed at him. He hopped and dove through the slimy, twisting extremities as they aimed to ensnare him, using one as a springboard to reacht he bridge of the beast's nose once more. He quickly bounded higher into the sky where he began to charge of chakra in his hand.
"Wind Style: Eye of the Almighty!" He froze in mid-air and floated there as a Rasengan roared to life in his palm. It slowly started to turn brown as chunks fo earth rose from the ground far below, compacting into sharp stones and orbiting the swirling orb. The front of the Rasengan extended outward and compacted with tone, turning it into a drill of sorts. He shot off towards the Eight-Tails at full speed. "Rasenwaremiyari!" A ferocious wall of water shot up between Naruto and his target. and he crashed into it with the force of a meteor. Water splashed in every direction, flooding the town as Naruto fell back to the ground. "Not enough...alright let's try this." He took a running start as a Rasengan formed in his hand. Meanwhile, the Eight-Tails clenched his fist and started to charge it with lightning chakra, causing it to crackle with electricity. Naruto held the Rasnegan out in front of him and launched himself at Bee, the Rasengan flickering gold as he did. He flourished each of his nine tails in front of him around the Rasengan and he started to swirl maddeningly fast until he looked like a spear of swirling golden chakra. "Rasenbiransu!" Bee's hand exploded with an unsafe amount of electricity as he charged at Naruto.
"Tailed Beast Lariat!" The ground caved in on itself as the attacks collided, and streaks of lightning carved through the earth. As the sinkhole slowed to a halt, Naruto landed on one of the few buildings left standing, putting him on eye level with the Eight-Tails. Slowly, he once again tried to amass the ball of dark destructive chakra. Then suddenly the Two-Tails was at Bee's side charging up the same technique.
"Sasuke! Get behind me!" He felt his teammate land behind him. "I suggest you get a lot farther away than that. There's a slight possibility that I'm about to kill myself." Sasuke rolled his eyes but made no attempt to move. "Whatever. Don't blame me in hell." The Uchiha smirked and Naruto brought all of his tails out in front of them. Slowly, between all nine points of them the same orb of dark chakra started to form, and Naruto was surprised at how heavy it was. He then formed a Rasengan in his hand and lined up the orb of dark chakra with the two beasts. Simultaneously the two beasts chomped down on their masses of chakra, and Naruto shoved his Rasengan into the mass of chakra.
"Human Beast Cannon!" A beam of golden chakra that swirled like a vortex collided head on with the two Tailed Beast Bombs. Sasuke had to deactivate his Sharingan out of fear of going blind. The explosion was deafening, and to Naruto it was a little eerie to feel the wind rush past him and see the dust blow by him silently. Eerie, but it also meant that he was alive, which meant that this fight was over. That was undoubtedly his most powerful attack, even if he had just made that up on the fly.
His tails fluttered, and a powerful gust of wind cleared the town of smoke and dust. Where the two Tailed Beasts had once stood were now two very exhausted Jinchuriki. Yugito was out cold, while Bee was down on one knee, panting and bleeding. Naruto appeared in front of himand his cloak of chakra melted away.
"You can tell Ei that I'll be waiting for him in Girumatsu Port." With that, he flashed away, leaving the two Jinchuriki in a position they had never imagined.
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"A prophecy? That seems a little far fetched."
"You of all people should understand how little that means." The blonde replied with a snort. "I believe it though. I mean I don't really have a choice do I?"
"I guess not." The Uchiha replied. "But I have news for you that's more important." Naruto's brow rose.
"Oh? Go on."
"During our last confrontation with Hanzo, I saw the man responsible for the Nine-Tails attack on the Leaf village, theman who killed your father." Naruto's eyes widened.
"What the fuck do you mean?" He asked, a quiet fury rushing through his veins.
"I saw him. Sharingan to Sharingan. It had to have been him. And he was fighting on Hanzo's side." Sasuke explained, making Naruto clench his fists.
"Then he dies at the end of this war. Oh and speaking of assassins, apparently the guy who assassinated Jiraiya kidnapped the Raikage's secretary-slash-lover and is holder her hostage, which is the only reason we're fighting Cloud. He's on Hanzo's side as well." Sasuke blinked."
"You're gonna have to write up a detailed report for Kakashi..." Naruto waved him off.
"I will later, but for now fuck that." He pulled a joint out of his cloak. "It's been awhile my friend."
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Extra Content: The Downfall of the Raikage
Late nights in the Raikage's office were Ei's favorite part of the day. Contrary to the image he put out, he was quite fond of peace, and nowadays it seemed like his office was the only place he could find it. Sure the bureaucratic work was utter bullshit,, but someone had to do it. Every once in awhile at least.
"Mabui, please bring me the list of graduating Academy students." He said aloud to no one. But he knew she could hear him. It was one of the reasons why she was his secretary. She appeared in front of his desk suddenly with her arm outstretched, document in hand.
"Here you are sir." Ei stood and circled his desk and approached Mabui, brushing her hair aside. She smiled.
"You're wearing the earrings I bought you." He murmured, eyeing the golden orbs. She giggled.
"Of course. They're beautiful." He hand came up to his face, stroking his cheek gently.
"I'm glad you like them."
"I hope I'm not interrupting." The Raikage turned his head in shock to see a cloaked man sitting in his chair. He grabbed Mabui and held her close.
"I don't know who you are, but you have three seconds to leave before I break every bone in your body." Ei threatened, eliciting a chuckle from the trespasser.
"Go right ahead." There was a burst of electricity, and Ei was suddenly in front of the man, Lighting Armor crackling angrily. His fist smashed his chair into particles, but the man was nowhere to be seen. "Wow, you are fast. Almost as fast as I am." The Raikage growled and spun around, covering the span of the room in the blink of an eye and lunging for the assailants neck. He grasped air as the man appeared behind him, a ball of swirling green flame in his hand. "But now I got you." The man smashed the ball of fire into the side of Ei's face, causing it to explode and send Ei crashing into a bookcase. The bookcase toppled over and broke over Ei's body, sliding off slowly. Ei tried to push himself up, but his head was swimming, and he could barely see the man as he took hold of Mabui. He held a short blade to her throat. "Now that you're more likely to listen...well listen up. As of right now you are allies with Hanzo the Salamander." The Raikage growled.
"I beg your pardon?" He asked as he stood on one knee.
"War is brewing, between Hidden Rain and Hanzo's rebel faction. Unfortunately, Hidden Rain has acquired the help of Hidden Sand and Hidden Leaf. We need you to level the playing field." The cloaked man explained.
"So I'm cannon fodder for the tree huggers, is that it?" Ei asked angrily.
"I suppose you could put it that way. Whatever way you put it doesn't matter. Just distract the Leaf. Or I'll kill her." He shrugged. "You're choice."
"Lord Raikage-"
"Shut up Mabui!" She seemed taken aback but she stayed quiet. "Fine, we'll fight your war. But if I ever see you again..." The man chuckled airily.
"FIne by me. Good doin' business with you Raikage." With that, he crashed through the stained glass window behind Ei's desk with Mabui in tow, Ei didn't even bother going to look after him; he'd be gone before he hit the ground.
"Mabui..."
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A/N: Holt tits I'm done. That took awhile.
Hope you liked it, dont feel like typing anymore so I'll be quick. Rasenbiransu is Spiraling Tail Spear by the way. I hope you guys can picture this stuff in your head like I can, cuz if you cant it probably just sounds stupid...anyway thanks for reading and I hope you liked it. Any questions or whatever you know what to do.
OH! Right i wanted to ask. Does anyone wanna Beta this story? I had one before and he was pretty good but then I think he got married or something and I never spoke to him again. Anyway if you would like to beta it, and you are actually good with grammar and shit, seriously dont say you will if you suck at writing because that defeats the purpose, the please message me cuz i know I could use one. Anyway that's it so peace!