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Writing: Italic: thought, Bold: Bijuu or summoning speaking.
"In war, victory
In peace, vigilance
In death, sacrifice"
- Grey Wardens' motto
"I have a rendezvous with death, at some disputed barricade, but maybe you should take my hand and led me into his dark land and close my eyes and quench my breath. I have a rendezvous with death and I to my pledging word am true I shall not fail that rendezvous."-Gears of War 2 trailer
Kakashi looked around at Konoha with a puzzled expression until Tsunade appeared behind him. "What are you doing?" Kakashi turned towards her with a worried look in his eye.
"I just have this strange feeling." Kakashi turned back to the quite village. "Something isn't quite right." Tsunade looked around with narrowed eyes as she scanned the village as well.
"I know what you mean." She stated as she looked back at Kakashi. "I felt the same ever since we came back." Kakashi turned to look at Tsunade when he noticed a human form slowly disappearing into the ground.
"I knew it." Kakashi gritted his teeth. "There was something there a second ago it kind of looked liked that plant guy from Akatsuki." Tsunade turned and looked at the same spot as she slowly reached for the tag that was attached to her waist.
"This is bad." Tsunade murmured as she yanked the tag off causing it to ignite. She threw it into the air just as it blew up lighting up the dark skies above Konoha causing various Shinobi to wake up. "People of Konoha we are under attack!" This got everyone's attention as they rushed to get ready just as Zetsu appeared in front of Kakashi and Tsunade.
"You ruined all the fun I was going to have." Zetsu lowered his head with a disappointed sigh. "But I guess we can do this the hard way." With that Zetsu smiled up at Tsunade sending a chill down her spine. "Right Sasuke." Kakashi turned around just as Sasuke appeared in a swirl of black flames.
Sasuke looked at Kakashi with his Eternal Mangekyo as his hair covered the top of his eyes. "This is going to be fun." Sasuke replied as he licked his lips as Kakashi lifted his headband. "I told you Konoha was going to burn to the ground." Kakashi glared at Sasuke as the village began to stir just as the Zetsu army appeared out of the ground.
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Naruto was just about to head to sleep when a buzzing sound woke him up with a start. He ran to his desk and opened it up to reveal tags with different symbols on each. Naruto gritted his teeth as he saw that the one with the leaf catch fire. "Konoha." Naruto immediately went to work of waking the Shinobi of Uzushio. Yuukaiken appeared behind Naruto with a tired look in his eyes.
"What's wrong Naruto?" Yuukaiken mumbled out as he stifled a yawn.
"They are attacking Konoha." Naruto looked at Yuukaiken with seriousness as this knocked him out of his tired stupor.
"I'll get everyone organized." Yuukaiken gave a bow as he vanished leaving behind Naruto who only glared at the direction Konoha was.
"So it begins." Naruto thought as he turned and left to get the village ready.
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Kakashi dodged a Chidori aimed at his head by Sasuke and promptly kicked the Uchiha off the building. He jumped after him with his regular eye closed focusing his attention on his Sharingan. "This time there is no escape Sasuke!" Kakashi yelled out as Sasuke smirked up at his former mentor.
"Who says I want to escape?" Sasuke began to charge his hand up with lightning. "I'm perfectly happy right here. Chidori Eiso (One Thousand Birds Sharp Spear)!" Sasuke swung his arm at Kakashi just as the lightning fired in a straight line. Kakashi moved his head just as the lightning blade passed by his head. Kakashi turned his body around just in time to land on his feet and form a handsign.
"Katon: Gōkakyū no Jutsu." Kakashi fired the ball of flame only for it to smack into Sasuke's Amaterasu barrier.
"How sad?" Sasuke smirked from the black fire. "I guess it's my turn!" Kakashi's eyes widened as the fire came at him in the form of a giant wave.
"If I dodge Konoha will be burned to ash." Kakashi gritted his teeth as his Sharingan began to morph. "Kamui!" Sasuke watched as his fire was pulled into another dimension leaving behind a blackened earth. Kakashi looked around as various civilians were running towards the Hokage monument with various Shinobi for protection.
"Don't worry after I deal with you their next." Kakashi glared at Sasuke who smiled back. "Now where were we." Kakashi watched as the black fire erupted from beneath Sasuke and expanded around him. Kakashi charged up a Raikiri as it jumped out of his hand and began to spark hitting the ground.
"Raiton: Urufunida (Lightning Release: Wolf Pack)." Kakashi glared at Sasuke as five different lightning shaped wolves. "We were ending this." Sasuke sneered at Kakashi as Amaterasu danced around him.
"Then lets end this Kakashi-sensei!" The black fire swirled around Sasuke like a small twister as he jumped at Kakashi and his lightning pack.
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"It is a lot to ask." Naruto announced at the gathered Shinobi. "But I ask you to join me in what shall be a war." The Shinobi looked at one another with worried looks in their eyes. "We need to work with the other villages in order to defeat Akatsuki. So I ask you not as your leader, but as a friend will you help me." Tensa smiled from the crowd as he raised his arm.
"I shall join you in this cause!" Tensa shouted out to be heard.
"Me too!" Came Haku's reply
"You don't even have to ask!" Came Yuukaiken's cry of joy. Pretty soon the entire village was cheering to join Naruto's mission.
"Thank you all." Naruto smiled down at everyone. "But we can't leave our village undefended. I can only take at least five." This brought a mummer of confusion from the crowd. " We are still growing as a hidden village with very little ninja to make up our forces. I want to leave the rest of you here in case Madara tries anything against us." The group nodded with smiles on their faces.
"I can have specially made armor all ready to be giving to us." Tensa announced as he clapped his hands as a large amount of smoke appeared. The armor in question was pitch black with a blue swirl on each. "The seals on them allow you to create barriers and fire high pressurized water from each palm." Tensa smiled as the entire group began to grab at the armor and began to suit up for the war to come. Tensa walked up to Naruto who stood with Haku, Yuukaiken, and Enmatsuki. "So who is the fifth in this little group."
"You mean the fourth." Yuukaiken looked down at Enmatsuki who glared up at him. "You are staying here."
"The hell I am!" Enmatsuki yelled out as she punched Yuukaiken in the arm. "I'm not being left out again."
"This isn't up to discussion!" Yuukaiken yelled back with anger.
"Is there something I should know?" Naruto asked as he looked between the two.
"No Naruto." Enmatsuki looked at the ground with a slight blush as Naruto continued to look at up and down until he smiled.
"So how long." Yuukaiken cursed as he turned away from Naruto.
"I just found out two days ago." Enmatsuki tried to get some distance between her and Naruto, but he quickly gave her a deep hug.
"Congratulations you two!" Naruto smiled at both Yuukaiken and Enmatsuki who smiled down at Naruto. "You two always made a cute couple."
Yuukaiken looked back at Enmatsuki. "I can't let you or our child be hurt in the war." Yuukaiken grabbed Enmatsuki by the shoulders. "Please just stay here." Enmatsuki looked like she was about to argue, but smiled instead.
"I guess I can play babysitter one last time." Enmatsuki looked at Yuukaiken with some tears in her eyes. "But promise me you will return safely."
"I promise." Yuukaiken gave her a deep kiss as he hugged her closely. He separated as he turned away with a deep fire in his eyes. "Lets end this war." Naruto nodded his head as Tensa and Yuukaiken placed their hands on his shoulders.
"We will return." With that the three vanished in a giant swirl of water leaving behind a village preparing for battle.
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Kakashi dodged a giant skeletal hand encased in black fire as he looked down at his last two lightning dogs. "This is bad." Kakashi looked around to see the other Konoha Shinobi slowly falling beneath the waves of Zetsu. "At this rate we will fall from the sheer number of them." Kakashi ducked and then jumped back onto a nearby building and began to run across the rooftops as Sasuke began to laugh.
"This is amusing to me!" Sasuke's eyes were wild and glinted in the black fire. "The great Kakashi running away from me!" Kakashi smiled under his mask as he saw both his hounds jump out of the ground right behind Sasuke. Sasuke turned just in time to see the hounds descend upon him in an explosion of lightning. Kakashi skidded to a stop and activated his Mangekyo already knowing what Sasuke activated. "You can't get through the power of Susanoo-." Sasuke stopped as he saw the area in front of his head begin to swirl into a vortex.
"Kamui!" Kakashi's Mangekyo spun once before ripping the piece of armor away from the Susanoo. Kakashi then took a kunai with explosive tags and promptly threw it into the hole, but Susanoo quickly brought it's arm up to defend causing an explosion that pushed the giant back. Kakashi fell to one knee as his chakra took a big hit from using Kamui. He watched as the giant loaded an arrow into it's bow and aimed at Kakashi.
"Goodbye Kakashi." The giant fired as the arrow headed straight for Kakashi as he slowly closed his eyes knowing he couldn't dodge the projectile.
"Hakkeshō Kaiten (Eight Trigrams Palms Heavenly Spin)!" Kakashi's eyes widened as a dome of spinning chakra appeared in front of him allowing the arrow to collide sending it to the right destroying the building it smacked into. "It is time you were put into your place boy." Hiashi stopped spinning as Hinata, Shikamaru, Sakura, Neji, and Lee appeared in front of Kakashi.
Sakura looked at Sasuke as he frowned at the group in front of him. "Sasuke what are you doing?" Sasuke turned his emotionless gaze upon Sakura who flinched from the cold eyes.
"I'm destroying Konoha." Sasuke finally let his smile be seen. "That is my new dream!" Sasuke let out a laugh that made the entire group shudder as he kept chuckling at them. "And there is not a damn thing you can do to stop me." Shikamaru narrowed his eyes as everyone dropped into a different fighting position. "Now who dies first." Shikamaru's shadow began to slither towards Sasuke who kept his smiling going. Sasuke jumped with his Susanoo grabbing onto a building pulling him to it's rooftop. "You are all doomed!" Sasuke's Susanoo loaded another arrow into the crossbow and aimed it at the group. Susanoo fired the arrow, but just as the group jumped to avoid the arrow another was sent at them.
"That giant is constantly reloading the crossbow in a blink of an eye." Shikamaru thought as he took cover behind some rubble. "With that it could be stated that it consumes quite of bit of chakra to fire it this quickly." Shikamaru nodded towards Lee who nodded back and took off his training weights. Lee jumped from behind his hiding place and vanished in a burst of speed reappearing right behind Sasuke. Sasuke turned his head as a burst of green chakra erupted from Lee as he aimed a punch at the Susanoo.
"You fool!" Sasuke shouted as he had Susanoo swing it's arm around connecting with Lee sending him into a building at an angle into the ground. "Who's nex-?" Sasuke never finished his question as Hiashi, Hinata, and Neji jumped in front of him swinging their palms forward.
"Hakke Kūhekishō (Eight Trigrams Empty Wall Palm)!" Sasuke felt the wave of chakra smack into his Susanoo as he was shoved off the building. Hiashi landed on the ground only to disappear and appear above Sasuke.
"Hakke Hasangeki (Eight Trigrams Mountain Crusher)!" Hiashi swung both his palms forward sending a visible wave of chakra at Sasuke. Susanoo folded it's arms in front of Sasuke as it was blasted by the chakra wave forcing it into the ground causing a giant cloud of earth and dust to shoot upwards. Hiashi landed beside the crater glaring at the flare of chakra that spiked from the rubble as Sasuke slowly emerged. Hiashi's eyes widened slightly as Sasuke's chakra began to get more erratic by the second.
"Is that all you got?" The smoke cleared revealing Sasuke who had his head cocked to one side with blood dripping down his left eye. "Enton: Gojinka (Blaze Release: Volcanic Eruption)." Everyone began to look around as the ground began to shake as Sasuke began to chuckle. "This is the end." Hiashi looked down at the ground just in time to see the ground split beneath him. He jumped back just as a pillar of Amaterasu erupted out of the ground nearly incinerating Hiashi.
"Father!" Hinata began to run to her father only for a pillar of Amaterasu to erupt in front of her.
"Stay back Hinata!" Hiashi turned to his daughter with fire in his eyes as he slowly turned his attention on Sasuke. "You dare raise your hand against my daughter. I will make you pay for trying to destroy the very source of my pride!" Hiashi charged with his body glowing with chakra "Hakke Bishamon (Eight Trigrams Bishamon)!" The chakra began to form around Hiashi almost like a suit of armor as he continued towards Sasuke with deadly intent reflected in in his white eyes. "This is the blade that will end your existence!" Hiashi held out his palm as a beam of chakra extended into a thin blade. Sasuke jumped just in time to avoid the chakra blade, but the blade phased right through a piece of destroyed building without harming it. Sasuke pulled his own sword out and brought it down on Hiashi who spun around on his heel bringing the chakra blade into Sasuke stomach. Sasuke smiled down at Hiashi as he glared up at Sasuke.
"What is that suppose to-?" Sasuke suddenly began to shake as he felt his chakra points begin to close. "Damn!" Sasuke jumped back away from the chakra blade as Hiashi stood at the ready. "So that blade isn't meant to cause external damage, but instead internal."
"You are correct Uchiha." Hiashi growled out as he watched the black fire make a circle around them. "It closes off the chakra points until only a few remain. This attack is designed to close off the chakra points until the only ones left are the ones near your cold heart." Sasuke narrowed his eyes as Neji and Hinata looked on in shock. "You die from your own chakra crushing your heart into dust." With that Hiashi jumped towards Sasuke who only smiled up at him as more Amaterasu flames sprung up around him.
"Your power will never reach me." Sasuke smirked as he saw rage flash in Hiashi's eyes. "My hate and anger is stronger then yours!" Sasuke charged his sword with lightning as a dangerous glint flashed in his eyes. They two clashed in the middle of the blaze both glaring at the other as they sought to gain advantage over the other. Sasuke jumped over Hiashi as he swung his blade repeatedly, but Hiashi's chakra armor held firm causing Sauke to growl in frustration. Sasuke landed on his feet and threw his sword into the air as he charged up a Chidori. Sasuke charged towards the Hyuga leader as he held his palms out. Sasuke swung his Chidori just as Hiashi swung his right palm. The two attacks collided causing the ground underneath the impact to begin to crack. Hiashi narrowed his eyes as he began to focus more chakra into his palm forcing Sasuke back.
"You will die here." Hiashi growled out as he swung his left palm directly at Sasuke's chest.
Sasuke watched as the palm moved towards his chest and just as it was about to connect he spun on his heel. "I will not die by anyone's hands." Sasuke smirked as his Mangekyo spun making the black flames flicker. "But it doesn't look so good for your daughter." Sauske turned his head and fixed his eyes on Hinata causing the Amaterasu rush at her. Hinata went to move out of the line of fire, but found herself unable to move. Hinata looked down to see a white Zetsu holding her legs down keeping her perfectly still. Hinata looked back up just in time to see her father vanish in a blur of speed. Everyone covered their eyes as the flames exploded after colliding with Hinata causing a laugh to rip through the air. "It is done." Kakashi glared as his Mangekyo began to spin fixing itself upon Sasuke who only smiled back as the flames began to die. "I would look to where Hinata is standing." Kakashi didn't budge an inch until he heard a pained groan cry out. He looked towards the source only to find Hinata unharmed, but standing in front of her was Hiashi.
"Are you alright?" Hiashi asked turning his head until only one of his eyes were looking at Hinata.
"Father?" Hinata asked shaking as she saw blood begin to drip from Hiashi's mouth. Hiashi fell backwards at that precise moment only to be caught by Hinata. Hinata looked at Hiashi's burnt body with fist sized craters scattered around his chest. "Why did you jump in the way?" Hiashi smiled up at his daughter as his Byakugan deactivated.
"It is a father's duty to protect his family." Hiashi coughed as more blood began to pour out of his mouth. "I'm sorry Hinata."
Hinata stared down at her father as tears began to build. "For what?" Hinata asked, but already fearing the answer he might give.
"For not being able to see you grow up into the strong and courageous woman I know you will become." Hiashi gently lifted his hand and rubbed his daughter's cheek. "Promise me you will never change Hinata."
"I won't have to." Hiashi smiled a little bigger at those words. "Because I'm going to take you to a medic-."
"Hinata you and I both know it is to late." Hiashi felt his eyelids grow heavy, but kept them open. "I will always be there for you Hinata remember that." Hinata nodded her head as Hiashi finally closed his eyes and fell limp. Everyone looked at Sasuke who simply smirked at all the glares.
"What can I say?" Sasuke shrugged his shoulders and popped his neck as he looked at them with anger. "Love is point-." Suddenly the hilt of a staff smacked into Sasuke's face sending him spinning into a building. Everyone looked at the newcomers only to see Naruto holding his staff with a potent fire brewing deep within his blue eyes. Sasuke emerged from the rubble with a glare just as Yuukaiken, Tensa, and Konan appeared right beside Naruto. "So you finally came."
"What have you done?" Naruto growled out with barely self-contained anger.
Sasuke chuckled at Naruto's words as he looked towards the grieving Hinata. "I showed her what the pain of losing a family member is like." Sasuke stopped smiling as a blast of chakra created a two foot wide crater underneath Naruto. "So finally you get it. I am an avenger." Sasuke got down into a fighting position, but Naruto suddenly appeared right beside him in a burst of light. Sasuke turned his just as Naruto kicked him in the face sending him directly out of Konoha and towards their finally fight.
Naruto turned to Hinata who looked up at that exact moment. "Naruto." Naruto cringed at the pain in her voice as he look at Konan who nodded her head.
"Hinata I promise this will not happen again." Naruto announced as he turned his attention back to where Sasuke landed. "Hiashi-sama was a good man and a great father. I promise that his sacrifice will not be in vain." With that Naruto vanished in a burst of speed leaving behind two footprint shaped craters. Konan, Tensa, and Yuukaiken all walked towards the Konoha group.
"We also brought some help." Konan gestured up at the mountains behind Konoha just as a wave of Shinobi began to appear. "We went to every Hidden village and told them what was happening and they immediately began to send out their troops." Kakashi nodded at Konan as Tensa walked forward.
"Let's get this party over with." Tensa announced as he cracked his knuckles. "Koton: Honkyo (Steel Release: Stronghold)!" Tensa's body began to ripple as his skin turned black and blades began to sprout out of his wrists and back. Everyone watched with wide eyes as he popped his neck and wrist with a broad smile. "This is going to be fun." With that Tensa charged towards the oncoming Zetsu hoard.
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Sasuke held onto his left arm as he stumbled out of the forest with an angered expression as he came across an open valley with two statues. "It began here." Sasuke stated as Naruto appeared behind him. "And it will end here." Sasuke jumped just as Naruto's staff was swung at him.
"Why did you kill Hiashi?" Naruto yelled out with anger in his voice causing Sasuke to smirk.
"Why didn't you try and heal him?" Sasuke cocked his head to one side a with a sinister glint in his eyes. "Madara has told me everything about the properties of Kyuubi's Yang chakra. So again why not stay and heal him."
"Because I could only keep him alive and keep supplying life." Naruto narrowed his eyes at his former teammate. "But he would continue to die from his wounds no matter what I or anyone else did. I couldn't put Hinata through that again or Hiashi from feeling that pain over and over again."
Sasuke threw back his head and laughed. "That is pathetic Naruto!" Sasuke yelled out. "You didn't heal him, because you would've lost track of me. Your entire mission in your life was to bring me back to Konoha. Well, what do you think about my little reunion do you still want to take me back." Naruto just stared at the ground as his grip on his staff tightened. "Well, make your choice."
"I'm sorry." Naruto stated out loud with some sadness. "But I won't be able to keep my promise to you Itachi please forgive me." With that Naruto charged bringing his staff down just as it was swallowed by a small hurricane just as Sasuke brought his hands together in a tiger seal.
Sasuke and Zetsu head for Konoha while Kabuto is planning what is Naruto going to do. Find out next time.