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Last time on Uzumaki Chronicles:
Yamamoto eyed Naruto seriously, before speaking up.
"Naruto, when your sword tries speaking to you, listen to it. You won't regret it."
~Noodlelydoo~
'Indeed, Naruto-sama.' chimed a soft, melodious female voice 'My name is, as you might have surmised, Nàdar. I embody your adaptability and fortitude similar to that of the earth and it's elements: they will always exist, in one way or another, and will do as they wish to, not caring about the commands or delusions of others.'
'Pretty interesting, Nàdar. Is there anything special you can do?'
'There is much within my abilities, but please focus on your current battle, Naruto-sama. I'd prefer teaching a master that was actually alive.'
Refocusing on the fight, Naruto saw Han and Roshi jump back quite a few hundred feet, before they started concentrating their chakra.
~Noodlelydoo~
They summoned as much chakra from their partners as they could, once again covering themselves in a nimbus of red light, but this time, the glow kept getting brighter, and the chakra thicker...
After what were a few minutes of swirling, raging chakra, a pair of explosions flooded the surrounded area with a massive amount of killing intent, the slowly dispersing clouds of smoke and particles of chakra flowed away, revealing what lied underneath.
Son Goku, the 4 tailed ape, and Kokuo, the 5-tailed Dolphin-Horse, in their complete and total physical glory.
~Noodlelydoo~
"Kakashi-kun, I'm pregnant!"
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
~Back to your previously scheduled program~
-Naruto vs Roshi and Han-
Bijuu. Beings of great power, made of chakra and given sentience. A swing of their tail change the landscape, and a mere glare could stop a man's heart, as far as legend goes.
Most men would shudder at the thought of being in the presence of a bijuu. Many more would shit themselves in the actual presence of one. In the presence of two? They'd abandon all hope.
Naruto wasn't most men.
The blonde calmly eyed the full-powered form of the two bijuu as they roared, the shockwave released raising a cloud of dust, crushing trees, devastating the area around them, yet he stood unshaken.
Raising an eyebrow at the menacing looking giants in front of him, Naruto turned into a blur, right before a pillar of lava shot up from under his previous position.
Son Goku, the four-tailed ape, repeatedly smacked his knuckles onto the ground, causing the earth to heat up extremely, before the pillars of molten rock erupted, covering the area in molten slag as he attempted to eliminate the blonde menace, yet Naruto seemed to always be a step ahead, moving into a free zone.
Kokuo, the five-tailed dolphin-horse decided to enter the fray, to aid in the destruction of the child that so humiliated their jinchuuriki.
For what is the survival of a 14 year old against two veterans, but humiliation?
Opening it's mouth extremely wide, Kokuo breathed out a massive cloud of steam, completely obscuring the clearing around Naruto, the chakra-laced nature of the steam impairing any sensory abilities the boy could have.
'Blocking my chakra sensory abilities like this in order to impair my perception... Smart.' Naruto thought from his spot in the steam, before feeling the ground lightly vibrating under his feet, jumping backwards and out of the way of another pillar of fiery, molten death. He pulsed his chakra, creating a small area around him void of steam, before straining his ears to keep track of the enemy. His eyes widened as he hear a crackling, whistling sound.
The clearing was suddenly assaulted by a large explosion, a result of the tactics of the two Iwa Jinchuuriki.
Noticing that their target seemed to resist extermination with a dogged determination (He actually seemed to be taking it pretty easily, but their pride wouldn't accept that) , Han and Roshi decided to use a combination attacks of theirs. As soon as Han blocked their enemy's senses with his steam, Roshi spat a grouping of boiling balls of rock, lava falling from their center through the few cracks in them, upwards and at an angle. After that, he would return to his lava pillars, aiming them by sensing the vibrations of the enemy's feet landing on the ground, which Roshi presumed to also be how the Uzumaki was predicting the pillars of lava.
But that wasn't the important part, no! While it would be a very pleasant surprise for Roshi, the lava pillar's main task wasn't to finish off the enemy. It was to lead them around, forcing them to settle in a specific area...
"Lava Style: Falling Death!"
*BOOOOOOOOOM*
Before the previously spat-out flaming projectiles fell directly on said spot, obliterating their opposition.
Looking away from the cloud of dust and smoke, Han and Roshi, still at full power, traded nods, confirming the death of their target...
"Mhm, that was a good one."
...Until said target spoke up from inside the rapidly-dissipating, obstructive cloud, his tone as calm and even as always. As the two Jinchuuriki/Bijuu turned back towards the source of the voice, they saw the blonde dusting off his cloak, the outline of a black-gray, ethereal ribcage dissipating from around his torso.
The 4 individuals, Son Goku, Roshi, Han and Kokuo, could only watch flabbergasted as the blonde seemed to not care a whiff about the damage dealt. They should've been able to easily destroy a country with that combo!
Then, Naruto looked up.
'Roshi/Han, bijuudama at full power.' were the grave shared thoughts of the 4 and 5 tailed Bijuu. Why? Because they had just seen Naruto's Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan. They knew what those eyes were capable of, what the ribcage outline meant, what the boy meant when he didn't outright try to hypnotize or pacify them with those eyes from the start.
The boy was showing them how strong he was. How outmatched the two Iwa nin actually were.
Well, Song Goku wasn't going to take that lying down, and Kokuo, despite not being a hotheaded individual by nature, still had his own pride, and allowing that child to trample on it was not an option!
The two full-power jinchuuriki looked upwards once again, their tails curling around their faces as purple, black and clear particles coalesced on top of their faces at a rate previously unseen.
A pair of massive spheres of chakra were on top of the clearing, blocking the sun out for kilometers, the sheer amount of power exuding from them instantly scrorching grass, and melting rock.
-With Onoki-
'Mother of god... The boy was stong enough to force Han and Roshi to go this far! I need to get there soon!'
-With Anko and Hinata-
Anko stiffened at the feeling of malice and power exuding from where she believed Naruto had removed them from, worry flashing across her face as she understood what her blondie-kun had to fight agains.
Hinata, even while unconscious, could only let out a shudder at the feeling.
-Back at the fight-
'Kei, Kiyomi, Sync with me.'
There were no questions asked. The two vixens, trusting their Naruto, simply pushed their power through their connected seal, mixing the two halves into the more potent chakra of the original Kurama, covering Naruto in a nimbus of orange.
As the chakra cloud around Naruto dispersed, the only things indicating his use of the Bijuu chakra were the fact that his pupil had thinned and lengthened into a slit, fusing into the pattern of his Mangekyo, and that his whiskers had thickened tremendously.
The remaining amount of power seemed to be focusing around his swo- Nàdar's guard, causing each of the colored wings to light up even as he sheathed her.
As Han and Roshi kept building up power, Naruto shifted into a semi-crouched stance, his left foot forward and his right one back, his torso lightly leaning forward. He flipped his sheathed blade, putting the cutting edge upwards and forcing him to draw in a downwards motion, instead of the common upwards one.
Chakra started pulsating from the sheathed blade, with Naruto narrowing his focus as time passed.
The world around him dimmed, before disappearing into darkness altogether with the exception of the forming spheres across from him and the glow from Nàdar, all sounds vanished with the exception of his beating heart and the blood through his veins, and rushing in his ears.
Naruto allowed his focus to sharpen, and be reflected by the edge of his sword. He felt Nàdar speaking to him, her previously soft, melodic tone now backed by an undertone of overwhelming strength.
'Sharpen your focus further, Naruto-sama. The sharper your focus, the sharper your cut.'
The blonde didn't respond to the blade, not out of disrespect or disregard, but for the sheer fact that he couldn't focus on anything other than this one cut.
"BIJUUDAMA!" Came the simultaneous cry from the two fully-transformed Jinchuuriki, right before the two dark spheres streaked towards their target, disintegrating the ground under them and warping the air rushing around them out of sheer heat.
The they watched as the spheres crossed the distance towards their opponent, until their view of said enemy was obscured by the spheres.
'It's too close, now. He won't have the time to counter them!' were Roshi's thoughts, mimicked by Han. The two braced themselves, preparing for the expected shockwave and discharge from the chakra explosion...
-With Onoki-
Onoki could only watch in a combination of terror and awe as the flying orbs of death streaked towards the legacy of the yellow flash, the undisputed 'prince of Konoha'. His death would plunge the world into war once again, and with Kiri and Suna backing Konoha, alongside a few other countries like Spring, Waterfall and such, Onoki was certain that Iwa would not survive this one, if not by battle, then by economic sanctions and embargos.
Even knowing all of this, the old man could hold nothing less than respect for the blonde child. He pushed his two Jinchuuriki, the two strongest fighters in his village other than himself and Kitsuchi, to fight at full power, and use the trump card of the bijuu, and instead of crying or cowering in the face of death, the child stared it in the eye, his body still conveying the message of his willingness to fight it.
'The undisputed best in his generation, being felled only by the combined might of two bijuu at full-power... What a kid- no, Man.'
-With Naruto-
Naruto watched the spheres flying towards him, and the world started darkening further. The flying death slowed as his perception sped up, the entirety of his being, conscious and subconscious, focusing only on one thing.
'Not yet...'
The spheres grew closer, seeming even larger than before.
'Almost there...'
Naruto could feel the heat coming off of the condensed masses of chakra, blisters manifesting themselves on his skin, the shockwave ruffling his clothes and hair, the earth behind him glassing...
"NOW! ELEMENTAL ROAR!"
Until he found the right moment to draw. Like a master of the sword, Naruto's wrist flickered for an instant, the only evidence of his draw being the sound of his sword's guard clicking on the sheath...
And the massived arc of colored energy that flew towards the two Bijuudama.
Multicolored chakra bathed the clearing in a strobe of color and light, the relatively thin arc of visible energy increasing in size and speed as it went. The wind picked up around it, and soon it was roaring and howling loud, as loud as the trargets that the arc pursued. Soon enough, the attacks of either side intercepted eachother.
And it was Awe-inspiring.
The two spheres of condensed chakra from the Yonbi and the Gobi did their best to push against the attack, trying to bully their way past the blonde's attack. They tried their best to push simultaneously, to the point of creating rings of burning air abehind them, and to travel the last remaining meters to hit their intended target.
They failed.
Onoki, Roshi, Han, Son Goku and Kokuo could only watch in disbelief as the two spheres of condensed destruction were slowly pushed back, the arc of rainbow-like, strobing light managing to force them to reverse their paths slowly, growing in size and width.
And then it succeeded.
In an instant, though it felt more like an eternity to the observers, the arc of multicolored light and energy broke through the two Bijuudama, forcing them to expend so much power and energy fighting against it's own that they didn't have enough to even detonate, simply dispersing into nothing.
After that, there was only one thing left to do.
The arc leapt towards the two stunned bijuu/jinchuuriki combo, before a bight light engulfed the entirety of the clearing.
Flames raged, the wind howled, water rushed, earth roared and lightning crackled as the power of the cut was discharged.
Onoki was forced to clap his hands together, creating as many layers of rock between him and the explosion as he possibly could, and yet he still felt the sweltering heat trying to cook his skin.
Son Goku/Roshi and Kokuo/Han had it worse.
In an instant, their world turned first into light, before turning into pain.
Mind-numbing, all-encompassing pain the types of which none of them, bijuu and human alike, had previously felt.
Soon enough the explosion of light subsided, leaving behind a massive crater in what was once a mountain, scarring the environment for centuries to come. Inside the crater lied the battered and broken forms of the Yonbi and the Gobi, incapable of doing more than look up towards the one that had beaten them.
They could only watch as the blonde, his clothes torn and burnt in more than a few spots, his blistered skin bubbling and steaming as he regenerated, slid down the edge of the crater, slowly and calmly making his way towards them.
They saw him grip the handle of his blade, and they prepared to meet their afterlife as the warriors they were, looking him in the eye as he did the deed.
They saw the blonde turn into a blur, the sound of sharp metal sliding out of it's housing filling their ears...
Before a swordtip was pressed against the throat of Onoki, the Tsuchikage, who floated protectively in front of the two of them.
"We had an agreement, Onoki, and you broke it by sending them after me. I may have promised not to kill them, but I made no such promises regarding you, so you better have a very good explanation if you enjoy having your head attached to your neck."
The emotionless tone that the blonde spoke in had Onoki inwardly gulping, while his outward appearance remained unaffected. The old man looked Naruto in the eyes, surprising the blonde by knowingly exposing himself to his Sharingan, before speaking.
"It was not my order that caused this."
Roshi and Han were taken aback by this, asking themselves what play their leader was trying to make. Onoki, ignorant to their thoughts, continued.
"A, let us say traditionalist, member of my council went behind my back and organized this clusterfuck. I had explicitly ordered my shinobi to avoid conflict with you as much as possible."
Naruto tilted his head lightly, before responding.
"So your two jinchuuriki, your grandchild and a squad of jounin approach me, display a missive bearing the stamp of the Tsuchikage on it saying that I'm to be slain and attempt to kill me. After continuous attempts on the lives of my companions and my own, when I decide to fight seriously and manage to force your strongest people into submission, you just so happen to be around to keep me from killing your jinchuuriki. Then, you come to me with some story about a rogue agent orchestrating this attempt on my life, conveniently washing your hands of the issue. How... Convenient."
Onoki inwardly swore. He didn't even think about how all of this would sound out loud. The kid had all the right to be suspicious, and were it him, he'd probably think the same thing. The old man could do nothing more than meet the Uzumaki heir's gaze as the boy thought things through, no emotions even attempting to leak into his body language, or scratch his blank mask.
A few seconds later, Naruto pulled his sword away from Onoki's throat, a glow passing through it as it reverted to it's previous appearance before being sheathed by Naruto.
"I believe you. Make sure nothing like this happens again, or else."
Onoki could only nod stiffly, before calling out "I understand."
The blonde turned his back on Onoki, blatantly disregarding him as a threat, causing the old Kage to seethe, and walked a few paces, before stopping at the edge of the crater.
"By the way..."
The blonde's deadly tone froze Onoki's blood, reminding him of the fact that he beat two full-powered jinchuuriki, and that the boy actually could afford to turn his back like that, not as a show of disrespect, but out of the knowledge of his own skills, causing his anger to die out as the blonde continued.
"I want the bastard that caused all of this. I want him sent to me alive."
"His actions were treasonous, and cannot be left unpunished."
Naruto looked back at Onoki over his shoulder, a placid smile appearing on his face that caused the man to shudder in sheer, abject terror, before speaking up in a friendly tone.
"Oh, don't worry about that. I will make sure to punish him properly. After all, his actions almost lead to the death of one of my queens. I will make sure to convey to him just how... displeased... That made me."
Onoki cringed alongside Roshi, Han, Son Goku and Kokuo, before giving another stiff nod.
"He shall be delivered to you."
Naruto nodded at that, his pleasant smile not leaving his face as he turned back to the edge of the crater and jumped out, taking a few steps before vanishing in a flash of orange light.
As soon as Naruto was gone, Onoki let out a breath he hadn't noticed he'd been holding, before turning to face the broken and battered forms of his two Jinchuuriki, now returned to their human appearance.
Feeling completely sapped of his strength due to his conversation with the blonde Uzumaki, Onoki couldn't do much more than touch Roshi and Han, tagging them with his flight jutsu before floating out of the crater with the two of them towards the remaining members of the hit squad set on the blonde.
-Elsewhere-
Anko, still cradling the head of the unconscious Hyuga girl, let out a breath of relief as soon as she saw a flash of orange in the edge of her vision. Said relief evaporated as she watched her blonde lover fall to his knees, his chest heaving and his entire form covered in sweat.
Before she could say a thing, Naruto raised one of his hands, before speaking between gasps.
"I'm okay... Just tired... Give me... a sec..."
5 minutes later, Naruto finally managed to get back to his feet, his chakra recovering gradually. He walked towards Anko and Hinata, each of his hands finding the cheek of either girl. He gave the unconscious Hinata a long look, before turning the same look to her, meeting her gaze.
Seemingly finding what he was searching for, Naruto pulled the purplette into a tight hug, before mumbling into her neck.
"Thank Kami the two of you are okay."
Despite anything else that happened on that shitty, shitty day, Anko couldn't really hold back the massive, heartfelt grin that blossomed on her face at hearing the sheer relief in the blonde's words.
And, just like that, the trio disappeared in a flash orange light.
~CHAPTER END~
Author Notes:
I finally, finally got around to updating. I managed to get the chance for the first time in a while, as I just had my final test today and entered my vacation, so I'll probably be capable of updating more often.
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