Chapter 38: The Sacrifice of a Great Man!
"Videl?" Kai asked himself as he saw his friend fighting against someone as he was whisking villagers to the safety bunker through his shadows.
Videl was dodging attacks from whips made of water, each whip left a gash in the earth underneath.
"I've gotta help her." Kai said, bringing the two civilians he had to an area that was safer he left his shadow, "You two go on ahead, the bunker's close." He said. The two women nodded and scurried off. Kai turned back and ran forwards, intent on helping Videl.
As Kai arrived he saw Videl's arm wrapped by a whip and a woman holding her up. The woman had black hair cropped short with hazel eyes. She was wearing a white kimono not unlike those that priestesses wore. She held two whips in one hand while forming hand seals with the other.
"Reaper Ball!" Kai blasted a purple ball at the woman, sending her flying and causing her whips to break apart.
"Thanks Kai." Videl smiled as her friend walked to help her up.
"Anytime." He smiled, standing beside her, "Who is this chick anyways?"
"Her name is Kudo Mura, apparently she's an Oto jonin." Videl said, "She's pretty quick and if you manage to dodge her initial attack she uses Suiton to extend her reach."
"So why haven't you just kicked her ass already?"
"She's faster than me."
"Stand back." Kai said as a purple aura overtook him, "Thanatos!" He shouted, the purple aura changes his clothes to a black cloak, with a hood that covered his entire face. He had a sickle in either hand.
As Mura stood up, he appeared behind her and split her back open with an X-shaped slash using both blades, the Oto-nin only surviving due to her instinctual roll.
"Reaper Ball!" He crossed his sickles and fire a ball of condensed energy towards the woman as she stands up, she is blown away by the force and Videl appears in her path.
"Eagle FIST!" The martial artist shouted, her right hand covered in teal energy as she slammed it into Mura's face, continuing on to slam the girl into the dirt.
Videl jumped back as Kai appeared, throwing a sickle into the woman's chest.
"That's that." Kai dusted off his hands as he returned to normal.
"We should probably go see what that large ki is." Videl said.
"Yea." Kai nodded and the two took off towards the Hokage Monument.
"Let's go Trunks!" Goten said from the arena, flying out to see a platoon of chunin battling a single ninja wearing a white, skintight suit. The ninja was flying around, slamming powerful blows onto each chunin, dropping whoever he hit with a single blow, "We should help over there."
Trunks nodded and powered up to Super Saiyan, "Let's go." Goten powered up and they flew into battle.
Goten got there first, slamming his foot into the ninja's face, sending him flying.
"We've got this, go help the villagers!" The youngest Son brother said. One chunin nodded and together the platoon split up, each going a different direction.
"You need my help with this one?" Trunks asked, Goten was easily top caliber in this time so Trunks wasn't sure if he'd be helpful.
"You can fight this guy, it's probably been a bit since you've fought." Goten backed up, remaining in Super Saiyan just in case.
"Thanks." Trunks cracked his knuckles.
The white garbed ninja looked at Trunks, the Saiyan was bouncing up and down, his fists in front of his face like a boxer. Without warning the ninja leapt at the Saiyan, landing a jab into his stomach.
"Boxing?" The ninja asked, "I can do that." The ninja then switched his style, mimicking the Hyuga Jyuken stance and slamming a palm into Trunks' surprised chest, sending him flying, "I thought a Saiyan would be harder than this."
Goten then grabbed the ninja's wrist, just above Trunks' chest, "How do you know about the Saiyans?" He squeezed down hard.
"My master of course." The ninja smiled as he spun and kicked Goten in the face, dislocating his wrist in the process. He jumped back and clicked it into place, "Or, my master's master is a better term."
Goten turned his head back, "Trunks, finish him quick."
Trunk nodded, his golden aura erupting, "He won't get lucky like that again." Trunks materialised in front of the man and slammed a strong punch into his stomach, followed by a sweeping kick that knocked him off his feet. Trunks finished by punching the air, sending out invisible kiai waves that slammed the ninja into a building, sending him clean through and into another.
Moments later Trunks ducked as a kick tore through the air where his head had been. He rolled forwards as the ground under him shattered. He looked back and saw that the ninja he was fighting now had a green aura and red skin, he punched the air and sent a fireball sailing at Trunks, who smacked it away, detonating it against the same house he had sent his assailant flying through moments ago.
Trunks charged, ducking under a punch -and the subsequent fireball- and slamming an uppercut to the man's chin, then jumped up and kicked with both his legs, sending the man flying away as he flipped.
As the ninja stood up he laughed, "To think I'd have to use the seventh gate against a kid." He got into a horse mounting position and shouted, "Kyomon!" His aura changed to blue and his power erupted, he cocked one arm back and used his other to form a hand seal that Goten hadn't seen before, resembling a tiger, "DAYTIME…" He chanted.
"Trunks watch it!" Goten shouted.
"Buster Cannon!" Trunks brought both hands behind him and launched a blue burst of ki forwards.
"TIGER!" The white-garbed ninja shouted, punching forwards, the image of an ethereal tiger behind him as he punched, a large burst of air flew at Trunks, but the ki blast went right through it. The shockwave turned the surrounding half kilometer of the village into rubble but the ki burst incinerated the invader, leaving only his headband, sporting the kanji for order.
"Goten, you feel that?" Trunks asked, looking towards the Hokage monument.
"Yeah, it's strong." Goten nodded.
"Let's go." The two flew towards the large mountain.
On the Hokage mountain Shikamaru surveyed his surroundings. He had arrived here with Choji, Ino, Hinata, Tenten, and Neji.
The Nara heir was standing back, he wasn't fit for close up fighting like Choji and the Hyuga sisters.
Tenten was tending to a wounded Neji and Ino was trying to keep her breathing in check.
It was hopeless, unless someone strong came soon Shikamaru wouldn't live to see fourteen.
Choji had both arms enlarged while Hanabi and Hinata were striking the large man like mosquitos.
Their enemy was a giant, literally. His full height had to have been near thirteen feet and he was about eight feet wide. His right arm was made entirely of diamond and his left palm was smoking.
They were facing Zento Onage, one of the strongest ninja ever to live. And he was immortal.
Shikamaru had first discovered that their opponent couldn't die when he got a lucky throw with a kunai, lodging it in the back of their opponent's neck. To say that he was shocked when no blood came out and the man just plucked it out like a splinter would be an understatement.
'What can I do?" Shikamaru couldn't formulate a plot if he was this nervous, but he was facing an immortal enemy, sure he could bind him for maybe three seconds max, but what good would that do? None if the guy couldn't die.
"CHOJI!" Shikamaru was snapped out of his stupor when Hinata shouted his best friend's name and he saw the large boy slam head first into the Shodai's stone face, barreling in deep.
"BASTARD!" Shikamaru shouted, forcing himself not to run and check on Choji he stared down the man, "I'll kill you."
"Please do." Zento said, "I hate fighting kids, I'm even holding back."
'He's holding back?' Shikamaru gasped, "Then don't fight us, just go."
"I wish I could." Zento said, "See I'm supposed to be dead, but I was brought back by the Impure World Reincarnation jutsu, so now I've gotta do whatever that damned Orochimaru tells me to."
"How do we stop you?" Shikamaru asked.
"I wish I knew, this jutsu is beyond my time, I have basic knowledge of it just because it brought me back to life." The giant said, "I'll do my best to tell you all how to dodge my attacks."
Shikamaru nodded, he knew a little about the Impure World Reincarnation technique, but he never heard of any weakness, but then again he had only the slightest clue of what the jutsu could do.
Hanabi launched herself at Zento's head, slamming a palm into his head, but bouncing off. He raised his hand and shouted a warning before a large explosion came from his palm, sending Hanabi into the mountain.
Shikamaru placed an explosive tag on the giant's leg, bouncing away and triggering it, an explosion covering the man's lower half, when the smoke cleared Zento's leg was gone, but slowly reforming.
Shikamaru landed next to Hanabi and Hinata, "Any other ideas?"
"Maybe if I obliterate his body?" Hanabi asked, Naruto had taught her basic ki attacks a while ago, "If I have enough time I might be able to get him in a single blast."
"Alright, how long do you need?" Shikamaru asked, "If it's under five minutes we should be able to do it."
"Five should be good." Hanabi began to gather power in her outstretched palms, an indigo orb growing with her concentration.
Shikamaru and Hinata shot forwards, Hinata took the lead and bounced off Zento's knee, slamming both hands into the giant ninja's face and bouncing off with a small blast of ki that knocked him down. She landed in a roll as Shikamaru reached Zento's downed form, pulling out six explosive tags and quickly lacing them onto kunai, he threw three onto each leg. The explosives detonated just as the kunai pierced flesh, leaving Zento without a lower body.
"You guys are doing good, hurry up though." Zento yelled.
"GUYS!" Hanabi shouted, "There's something really powerful heading here right now!"
"Crap" Shikamaru cursed silently, they could barely deal with this guy now there was someone stronger heading here!
"Get out of here!" Zento shouted, "Leave me to some more experienced ninja and just go!" He slammed his hand onto the mountain, Choji dropped out and a passage opened, "GO!"
Shikamaru grabbed his large friend and helped him up, slowly making their way towards the cave entrance, Ino and Tenten carried Neji and Hinata was standing next to Hanabi, who was still charging her attack.
"We have to go!" Hinata shouted.
"I can't leave him here, he's dangerous." The girl's twin argued, "Plus he doesn't wanna be here and I have the power to help him." She steeled herself and shouted, "Enchanting Lance!" She shouted, the ball of indigo ki in her hands fired forwards, growing larger and taking off large chunks of the mountain as it travelled, it hit Zento and he screamed in agony as his body was disintegrated.
Hanabi panted, Hinata grabbed her and pulled her towards the cave opening. The Hyuga heiress shot a small ki blast, sealing the entrance behind them.
"Let's go!" Shikamaru shouted, holding a flare in his free hand, "There's a path we can follow."
Hanabi and Hinata followed Shikamaru as the large energy got closer, it was stronger than anything Hanabi had ever felt.
Suddenly she stopped, "Go on without me." She said, turning around, "I have to help."
"Help who?" Hinata shouted at her sister as she ran back to the -now closed- opening.
"Naruto!" She yelled back.
Hiruzen stood opposite Orochimaru, panting. The snake sannin was holding one arm as it flailed limply.
"Bastard old man." Orochimaru snarled, drawing his sword with one hand, he shot forwards, intent on running the old man through.
Hiruzen smirked as Jiraiya barreled into Orochimaru, slamming a Rasengan into his former ally's face and sending him flying through the air, landing hard against the barrier his ninja had put up to make sure no one interfered.
"How did you get in here?" Orochimaru yelled at the toad sage, "It's impossible unless you kill the four gate keepers!"
"I was here the whole time." Jiraiya then sailed through hand seals at an impressive speed, disappearing as he finished the last one, "It's my patented Invisibility Jutsu. Like it?"
"Why won't you just die." Orochimaru threw his sword towards Jiraiya's voice, only to have it batted down by a large bo staff, shattering it from the pressure.
Hiruzen walked slowly towards Orochimaru, "You have nowhere left to run, give up peacefully."
"NEVER!" Orochimaru shouted as ki rocketed off his body, Hiruzen also began to stir his ki, a white aura appearing around him.
Jiraiya walked beside his sensei, his own white aura dwarfing both his teacher's and his best friend's, "Give up."
Orochimaru stood up, grinning, "And if I refuse?"
"Then I'll do what I've been avoiding doing for years, I'll kill you." Jiraiya said, forming a Rasengan in hand.
"Then do it Jiraiya." Orochimaru taunted.
Jiraiya growled, "Don't test me."
Orochimaru grinned and slowly walked forwards, "Consider it your last test."
Hiruzen stepped in front of Orochimaru, "Just give up, I'm begging -" He was cut off when Orochimaru's tongue shot through his throat.
"Sensei!" Jiraiya shouted, his aura exploding in size, shattering the roof under him, he slammed the Rasengan into Orochimaru's face, the ball grinding into the flesh, sending bits of skin, teeth, and droplets of blood flying all over the ruined rooftop, "OROCHIMARU YOU BASTARD!" He roared as he drilled the sphere into his old best friend's face, an explosion of energy destroyed the rooftop as the sphere suddenly became a blast of green energy, obliterating Orochimaru completely and punching a large hole in the barrier, erupting far in the distance.
Jiraiya floated above the fallen roof, slowly hovering downwards as he fell to his knees, tears dripping down onto the ground below.
Naruto stopped running as he felt three large ki signatures in the opposite direction, two were familiar but he couldn't place a name, but the largest one was definitely Jiraiya. When Jiraiya's ki exploded and the two other kis disappeared Naruto turned to Arthur.
"Go on without me, I've gotta check on Ero-sennin." He said, taking off before Arthur could respond.
The knight just nodded and continued on, "Guess I'll have to tackle this big bad on my own." He smirked, on his next step he disappeared in a golden flash.
As Arthur arrived on the Hokage monument he saw Teren, Sasuke, Sakura, Tempest, Videl, Kai, Goten, and Trunks had all arrived at the same time as him. They were facing down a large, no a gigantic, man who was basically trembling.
"Idiots, you shouldn't have come." The giant's booming voice echoed across the mountain tops.
As the giant finished his sentence the side of the mountain blew open, revealing Hanabi standing there and Gohan arrived with Gaara and Temari.
Just as Arthur's allies arrived a beam pierced the giant's head, his body crumbling into dust, which then floated, spreading itself around the thirteen genin.
"EVERYONE, AROUND ME!" Gohan shouted, moving to the middle. Once everyone gathered around him he erected a barrier of ki, just in time for the dust to implode against the barrier, creating a large trench around them.
"Impressive." A new figure said. The man didn't appear strong, he was a lanky, skinny man with short cropped black hair and calm brown eyes. He wore a white garb that fit his rather pitiful form snugly. But his aura was one of pure malice, and his power nearly matched Nappa's.
Gohan dropped his barrier, "What's impressive is your stupidity." He taunted, "I could beat you with less than a fraction of my power." Gohan flared his energy, matching Frieza's full power easily.
The man just laughed, "You think power is everything?" He landed, "No, see fights are about technique." To prove his statement he outstretched his hand, Gohan felt something tighten around his neck, "Ryuton, Fluid Release. A rare Kekkei Tota that I inherited." He then whipped his hand to the side, intent on throwing Gohan but the demi-Saiyan dug his heels into the ground, causing the man's hand to get stuck half way through.
"And you think I can't back up my words?" Gohan smirked, cracking his knuckles and suddenly his arm was buried wrist deep in the man's face, though there was a strange lack of blood. Gohan pulled his arm back and the face reformed.
"I think even if you can you'd have to totally obliterate me to make a difference.
Sasuke stepped forwards, "I can take him out with a single hit." A Chidori flared to life on both of his hands, "Pinton: Shadowless Chidori." He whispered, slipping away from view, as he ran he began to activate his curse mark, the black tomoe quickly spreading across his skin, he buried one hand in the man's face and the other in his enemy's chest before deactivating his jutsu and jumping back.
The man's body crumpled to dust, "You haven't seen the last of Hiro Sato!" The man laughed, using his control over dust to disperse into the wind.
"How'd you do that?" Gohan asked Sasuke.
"Curse mark has Senjutsu properties, Senjutsu is the weakness of reanimation jutsu apparently." Sasuke said.
Gohan nodded in understanding.
Well that's that. I hope you guys liked the chapter. I hope no one is disappointed that I overhyped the fight and just ended it in like, one hit but there's a reason for it.
THANKS FOR READING :D