The Rise Of A Legend
Chapter 36: The Leaf's Destruction
Previously:
Killing Konoha-nin, were Uchiha Sasuke and Madara.
Naruto gritted his teeth. "Uchiha Sasuke! You're under arrest!" he yelled, sprinting straight for the traitor.
Madara gave an amused smirk. "Looks like your old friend is here... I'll leave you to deal with him. For now, I'll destroy Konoha!"
Then he disappeared. Yugito whispered, "I'll go with Kakashi-senpai to track him down.", before body flickering away.
Sasuke said, "I look forward to testing my skills against you, dobe!" Withdrawing his chokuto, he dashed and slashed Naruto when they met.
The blow was parried by a flash of white, before Naruto jumped away. "Katon: Gokakyu no Jutsu!" A giant fireball shot from Sasuke's mouth, heading towards Naruto.
Naruto responded with "Suiton: Suijinheki!" Water formed a shield around Naruto, giving him time to yell to the civilians, "Get away!"
They nodded dumbly and ran away. When he turned back, Sasuke was charging towards him, Sharingan blazing. He engaged Naruto in taijutsu and kenjutsu, which was quite frustrating as Naruto didn't even activate his dojutsu yet and still could deflect the Uchiha's Interceptor Style with ease.
At that moment, Sasuke noticed an opening, and went for it with his chokuto. It seemed to have hit Naruto, until grey flames blasted the sword away. "What the...?" Sasuke asked before he was flung back violently by Naruto's Shinra Tensei.
"Now... let the real match begin!" Naruto shouted, eyes glowing with divine power. Sasuke got up, then morphed his eyes into Mangekyo Sharingans.
His left eye began bleeding. Naruto remembered that fateful day during the retrieval mission at the Valley Of The End, and knew what was coming. "Amaterasu!" both shouted, though Sasuke didn't hear Naruto over the sound of his shouting.
Black flames rolled towards each other, surprising the Uchiha. Naruto however, knew that Sasuke must have used Amaterasu much more times than him, so he knew that Sasuke's flames would definitely beat his.
Sasuke laughed when he saw the black flames mixing, then heading towards Naruto. Naruto didn't break a sweat as he withdrew a scroll. Opening it, he shouted, "Fuinjutsu: Fuka Hoin (Fuinjutsu: Fire Suppressor)!" A chakra vapour shot out the scroll and engulfed the black flames.
Then the vapour, along with the flames, entered the centre of the scroll, showing the Kanji for the word "Seal". Sasuke growled.
Naruto grinned. Any fire technique was useless against this fuinjutsu. "Chidori!" Sasuke screamed, charging towards Naruto with a lightning-covered fist.
Grey flames once again, rose up around Naruto protectively. Sasuke's eyes widened, finally recognising what that was. Bones grew like a ribcage around the blond, followed by arms and hands.
"Kore wa... Susano'o?" Sasuke asked incredulously as he was backhanded by said ethereal being. He forgot to activate his own, resulting in a triple facepalm - one from Sasuke, and another from Naruto which was then mirrored by his black Susano'o.
Purple flames burst out from the ground below Sasuke, forming a similar shape as Naruto's. "Die!" Sasuke yelled, forming a bow. The arrow shot off towards Naruto, who calmly said, "No."
Thrusting his hands out, Naruto responded, "Shinra Tensei!" The purple arrow flew back, skewering Sasuke's Susano'o right in the chest. Then running towards him, Naruto followed up with, "Fujutsu Kyuin!" The chakra from the purple Susano'o was sucked into Naruto's chakra system, causing it to disappear.
"Owarida Sasuke... any last words?" Naruto looked at the downed form of Sasuke, who was exhausted from extensive usage of the Mangekyo Sharingan. "Yeah... how are you that strong, dobe?" Sasuke demanded.
Naruto chuckled. "Touche... because I fight to protect my precious people. You fight to avenge something long dead. That is why, teme, I always win."
Sasuke nodded grimly, accepting his fate of imminent death. Naruto then said, "Sayonara... Uchiha Sasuke. Totsuka no Tsurugi (Totsuka Blade)!" A giant sake gourd manifested itself. Susano'o's left hand pulled out the top, causing sake to spill out in the form of a blade.
Naruto then pierced Sasuke with the blade, making the traitorous Uchiha scream. Then, his soul and body was sucked back into the bottle along with the blade. After capping it, Sasuke was officially stuck in a genjutsu world for all of eternity, never to exist in the world again.
The sake gourd dissipated with the Susano'o, and Naruto sighed. It was time to face Uchiha Madara. Suddenly, his eyes felt painful. Very painful.
Clutching them, he thought, "What the hell is happening? Some dirt?" He scrambled to the nearest pond of water, intent on washing his eyes. Then he noticed.
In his Sharinnegan, there were six tomoe, instead of three. The pain subsided, and memories came to him. Memories of new jutsus, and having done them already.
He would have to inform them later. For now, he had a battle to fight.
Somewhere Else In The Village
Multiple ANBU agents were fighting off Madara, though many were killed. Only Yugito and Kakashi were holding their own, despite them never being able to hit him.
Desperately, Yugito flared her chakra. The jutsu-shiki in her ring flared to life, and in the next moment, Naruto teleported to the scene.
Kakashi said, "We can't seem to hit him, not even land a single blow." Naruto raised an eyebrow. Seeing the Sharingan in the right eye hole the mask, the blond snapped his fingers. "Aha! It's Kamui that he's using," Naruto explained, before elaborating its uses for the right eye.
"So how do we get him?" Kakashi asked. There didn't seem to be a way to hit him. "Well, when I do it, I know I have to be conscious that I'm doing it. It's not sentient, it doesn't automatically activate Kamui when something tries to hit him. For example, if I want to walk through a door, I can't just walk through it and expect the Kamui to work by itself. I have to think 'Kamui', then I walk through it without opening it," Naruto explained.
"Ok, I get it, but how does that help?" Kakashi asked frantically as another ANBU was dispatched. "Well... your hands can't hit what your eyes can't see," Naruto said, smiling to himself as he planned to use his new jutsu.
"Same theory: if he doesn't know he's being attacked, he can't know when to use Kamui. Also, the intangibility only lasts five minutes at one go, before requiring a significant rest period. So, all you two have to do is to engage him and distract him. When he tries to hit you, he'll have to deactivate Kamui. That's when my new justu comes into play," Naruto finished.
"Ok, let's go Kakashi-senpai!" Yugito said, dashing off towards Madara. Immediately, they engaged him for five minutes, not allowing him to deactivate Kamui without hurting himself.
"You little..." Madara grunted as his five minutes were up. Kamui was deactivated, and he was struck by Yugito's katana.
However, five minutes of relentless non-stop attacking did leave the jinchuuriki and the copy-nin exhausted. "Naruto-kun, now's your chance!" Yugito said, collapsing to a knee for support.
He nodded, and took off like a speeding bullet towards Madara. "Eat this!" Naruto yelled, assaulting Madara with a barrage of blows with Susano'o's fists activated.
The Uchiha however, could block as necessary. He was not at all winded, considering all he did was use Kamui for the past five minutes.
Naruto sprang back, his eyes glowing both purple and red. "Rinbo: Hengoku (Limbo: Border Jail)!" Naruto whispered. Suddenly, Madara doubled over.
He was then caught by an invisible fist to the face, sending him flying back. Yugito, who had her Sharinnegan activated, could see what was happening, unlike Kakashi who had a puzzled look on his face.
Basically, Naruto sent "shadows" or clones into a dimension called "Limbo". These shadows were invisible, and could attack for or defend the user. They were only visible to sages and Rinnegan wielders.
"Take this, phony!" Naruto yelled. Madara was uppercut by another invisible fist, his mask crumbling to nothingness.
When "Madara" sat up, Kakashi's jaw dropped. It was not Madara, but Uchiha Obito, his old friend who was supposed to be dead.
"You know him, Kakashi-senpai?" Naruto asked. "Back when I was in Team 7 with your father as sensei, he was my teammate. During the battle at Kannabi Bridge, we were supposed to destroy it when our teammate Rin was captured by the enemy. When we rescued her in a cave, it started to collapse. To save me, Obito shoved me out of the way of a giant slab of rock, but was crushed by it as a result. As we weren't strong enough to lift the rock, Obito decided that he was going to die, so he gave me his Sharingan - the one I now possess in my left eye socket. When the whole cave finally collapsed, we thought that he was dead."
Obito began to laugh. "The real Uchiha Madara who was quite old at that time saved me. He told me the Eye Of The Moon Plan, and I was asked to execute it in his place. Also, he gave me the Rinnegan," Obito said, pointing to his left eye. The right side of his face was badly crushed, a testament to his ordeal at the cave.
"Friend-killer Kakashi, I'll never forgive you for killing Rin!" Obito yelled. Naruto gave the silver-haired nin a questioning look.
"He made me promise him on that day that I would protect Rin with my life. On another mission, Rin was ambushed by Kiri-nin, who captured her to make her the Sanbi jinchuuriki. When I rescued her, I realised they wanted us to return to Konoha so that they could somehow release the Sanbi, thereby causing destruction. The Kiri-nin chased us back towards Konoha so as not to raise suspicion about their actual objective. As I have already figured out their plan, I turned back to attack them. I was about to use Chidori on one of them when Rin jumped in front of him to kill herself so that Konoha wouldn't be destroyed," Kakashi explained.
Obito sneered. "The fastest way to a woman's heart... Chidori. Enough yakking, I'll show what real power is. Kuchiyose: Gedo Mazo (Summoning: Demonic Statue Of The Outer Path)!"
A creature of titanic size burst out from the ground. From the way its limbs were moving, it was anything but a statue. "That's the... Jubi!" Kurama spoke fearfully.
Naruto steeled himself as the creature roared. It had nine eyes, of which five were open. Kurama analysed and said, "Naruto-kun, I sense my brothers and sisters in there! I think... every time they seal one of my siblings inside the statue, an eye opens. So far, there have been five Bijuu that were sealed, which is the same number of eyes that are open."
Naruto nodded. "So when all eyes are open, the Jubi is awakened?" "Hai."
Obito, who was at the top of the statue's head, yelled, "Beware the Tenpenchii (Cataclysm)!" The air around was sucked into the gigantic creature's mouth, including nearby shophouses.
Suddenly, the earth began shaking and the lightning and thunder began striking the ground, ripping it apart. The air that was sucked in earlier was released as tornadoes which destroyed the landscape.
At that moment, blue and red orbs gathered at its mouth, forming a purple sphere. "Naruto-kun, get away!" Kurama yelled.
Naruto had an idea. "Shurado: Kaiwan no Hiya!" he yelled, launching a bazooka at the Bijuu Dama with his arm. That detonated the Bijuu Dama prematurely in its face, causing it to roar in pain. Obito was blasted off its head with full force, causing him to drop down with a loud impact.
A shape appeared; a new man had entered the ruins of Konoha. He had dark black hair, and was wearing red armour with a gunbai strapped to his back.
Though a lock of hair covered his right eye, his left eye was clearly visible - an Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan.
This man... was the real Uchiha Madara. "Obito, you've had your fun. Let me have my share," Madara spoke, indicating that fun was the last thing on his mind.
Tsunade appeared at the scene with a few ANBU, and when she saw Madara, she growled. "Uchiha Madara..."
"My, my, Tsunade-hime, how you've grown! Are you the current Hokage?" Madara asked casually, chuckling.
"Yes, and you are not under any circumstances, destroying the village," Tsunade snapped. "Well, well... Katon: Goka Mekkyaku (Fire Style: Majestic Destroyer Flame)!" Madara shouted, firing a blast of white-hot flames at the group.
"Katon: Goka Messhitsu (Fire Style: Majestic Demolisher Flame)!" Naruto countered immediately, much to Madara's surprise.
"Oh...? Who are you, young one, to know this jutsu's counterpart?" Madara asked curiously.
"My name is Uzumaki Naruto... and you are dead!" Naruto replied. "An Uzumaki, eh? Briefly remember a girl named Uzumaki Mito who married Hashirama..." Madara recalled.
Then, the statue began rampaging the rest of Konoha, destroying it by various means. Naruto, Tsunade and Madara began engaging in taijutsu, Madara being an equal - a first for Naruto.
Yugito, Kakashi and the other ANBU went to stop the beast.
"Shin Futon: Rasenshuriken (True Wind Style: Rasenshuriken)!" Naruto announced, throwing the jutsu straight at Madara. It caught him square in the chest, carrying him up into the sky.
The others present marvelled at the jutsu when it exploded into a giant ball of wind, with Madara in its centre cut by countless wind blades.
When the sphere of wind dispersed, Madara was no where to be found. Until ashes on the floor began reforming into him.
"Interesting, I look forward to fighting you in the war in a few months' time with jutsus like this," Madara said, strolling towards the unconscious body of Obito.
"What war?" Naruto asked suspiciously.
Madara chucked darkly. "You'll see... the Fourth Shinobi World War." Then, he disappeared with the other Uchiha, and the Gedo Mazo sank back into the ground a kilometre away where the ANBU were attacking it.
Tsunade shivered at Madara's words. No one wanted war... but it was happening. Naruto looked around. The whole village had been levelled, shops destroyed.
They had to rebuild it again. It was worse than the Oto-Suna Invasion. It was not just the business district, but the whole village.
It would take six months to rebuild the whole village at best. At worst, three years. Tsunade could only hope that other villages didn't attempt to loot the place. As of now, only Iwa was a threat as the rest had peace treaties and trade alliances with Konoha.
Naruto smiled. "Don't worry, Tsunade-baachan." Tsunade grew a huge tick mark on her forehead. "What the hell do you mean, don't worry? The whole village has been destroyed!"
He smirked. "The Shodaime had set up a seal barrier around the village during its creation. To prepare for an invasion, whenever a user of the barrier activates it, it saves the current design and placement of each and every single thing in the village. Then, a Mokuton user can then use four jutsus to put the village back in place after any form of destruction has occurred, negating it. Unfortunately, it was never put to use as no one until I came along could use Mokuton."
"How did you know about this?" Tsunade asked. A book shimmered into existence in Naruto's hand. "The History Of The Mokuton Kekkei Genkai" was its title.
Tsunade nodded in understanding. Cries of despair were heard on top of the Hokage Monument. The villagers were told that the threat was over, and had come out of the evacuation area to return to daily life when they noticed the damage.
"Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" Naruto announced, creating three clones. They jumped to each side of the ruins, visible to everyone.
The clones nodded, before yelling in unison after forming hand seals.
"Doton: Chiso (Earth Style: Stratum)/ Suiton: Bakusui Shoha/ Mokuton: Renchuka no Jutsu (Wood Style: Row Houses Jutsu)/ Mokuton Hijutsu: Jukai Kotan!"
Then, they proceeded to chorus with, "Hokage-shiki Renkei Hijutsu: Konohagakure (Hokage Style Collaboration Hidden Jutsu: Konohagakure)!"
A giant seal array in the shape of a dome surrounding Konoha lit up, protecting it as water and earth covered the land, restoring its flat shape. Next, trees and houses sprang out from the ground, restoring the village to its former glory.
After a few minutes, it barely looked like the Gedo Mazo had even came here to wreck havoc. The barrier then disappeared, leaving the villagers agape at the way the village was destroyed in an hour, then rebuilt within five minutes.
Then applause rippled through the crowd, the villagers cheering for their new hero.
At The Hokage's Office
"You, Yugito and Kakashi are getting S-rank mission pay for this," Tsunade said, handing over a suitcase of money.
"Thanks, Tsunade-sama!" Naruto said, surprising Tsunade at his formality. "So I finally gain your respect, huh? Well too bad, because I think you're ready..." Tsunade said.
"Ready?" Naruto asked, puzzled and unsure if he heard right.
Tsunade strode to a wall, and removed two articles of clothing hanging from it.
Draping the cloak and placing the hat on Naruto, she confirmed, "Hai, Hokage-sama. I said 'ready'."
Author's Notes:
Bam, a new chapter! Sasuke dies, Naruto unlocks another level to his eyes, the real Madara shows himself, and Naruto becomes Hokage! I still got English, History, Science, Geography and Maths, though I managed to squeeze in some writing between my breaks. The Deviant Art drawings are still open, please refer to the previous two chapters for the details.
Until tomorrow,
Ja Ne