The Rise Of A Legend

Chapter 48: The Rise Of A Legend

Author's Notes:
The long-awaited chapter is here!

Previously:
Uzumaki Yugito was dead along with her unborn twins, multiple stab wounds to her stomach and neck.

The first feeling Naruto felt was numbness, as he dropped to the floor on his knees. "No... No... No!" the Hokage screamed, tears falling to the cold hard floor.

Next he felt extreme sorrow. His wife... was about to give birth... to his lovely twins! And next that bastard... sneaked in and killed her as well as them!

Naruto clasped the hands of his dead lover with his own, feeling the coldness of death. Only a slight warmth - Matatabi's chakra - was present. It started flowing into him.

"How?!" Naruto wailed. "I'm very sorry Naruto-kun, we went out of the room for two minutes just to get a bit of equipment but when we came back we found... this," Tsunade explained.

Naruto felt his blood boil. That bastard! His clenched his fist, blood dripping from them. His head started flooding with the memories of Matatabi's life. Apparently, he had been unknowingly absorbing her chakra.

Suddenly, a bright light enveloped him.

Mindscape, Time Freeze

"Hello, my incarnate," an old man wearing robes spoke.

"... who are you?" Naruto asked.

"Hagoromo Otsutsuki, but most people know me as the Rikudo Sennin. Anyways to inform you, you have gained the trust and power of all the bijuu, and have also experienced the pain of a loss. Similar to my son's Sharingan, this will awaken the final stage of your eyes: the nine tomoe Rinne Sharingan," the Sage Of Six Paths said.

"Oh? I always had the impression that it was called the Sharinnegan," Naruto said.

"Well anyways you have inherited my power... every single elemental kekkei genkai, kekkei tota and every single ninjutsu out there... also you now possess perfect chakra control, over your near infinite chakra reserves. You now have the ability to see through anything, from things very far away to things that are very small. Did I mention that you can fly, negate all ninjutsu and disintegrate anything that your kekkei mora, the Gudo Dama (Truth-Seeking Ball) comes in contact with?" the Rikudo Sennin said while chuckling at his reaction.

"The Gudo Dama will be your most powerful weapon. It is a black orb made out of the basic five elemental natures (hence the term kekkei mora), Yin and Yang style, and Rikudo Senjutsu. It is extremely flexible and can be shaped into anything you want it to be, though I personally prefer a shakujo (ringed staff) or the legendary Nunoboko no Ken. Only senjutsu can't be disintegrated by it, so only sages have even a chance of beating you, which by the way, is impossible considering your increased speed, strength, reflexes and ninjutsu," the Rikudo Sennin continued, "I will pass my knowledge to you."

Then he tapped Naruto on the forehead. Thousands of jutsus flooded into his mind, causing a slight headache.

"Ja ne," Hagoromo stated, disappearing.

Real World, Time Continue

Once the bright light dissipated, Naruto appeared with his bijuu cloak activated - or at least, it looked like it.

His cloak was a bright yellowish-orange. However instead of the usual markings, there were nine black magatama aligned in a three by three pattern, with five concentric circles surrounding a black dot (like a Rinnegan) above them.

There were seven black spheres floating above him in an arc. Then he turned around. The most noticeable difference were his eyes - the eyes had, like the back of his cloak, concentric rings. In the iris, there was a single bar denoting his status as a sage (along with the orange pigment surrounding his eyes), crossed vertically by a slit showing that he was channelling the Kyuubi's chakra.

Apart from that, the iris was red. On the ring around the iris, there were three tomoe. Then the next ring had another three, followed by the next ring. In total, nine tomoe. The space between the outer rings were coloured orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, then violet; the colours of the rainbow.

The next difference was that there was a nine tomoe necklace around his neck. His whole body screamed power.

Massive amounts of killing intent surged through everyone present in the room, making them choke and collapse to the floor.

In fact, Naruto wasn't even consciously channelling it, he was just so angry.

"I will show that fucker... Not to mess with me! But first... Gedo: Rinne Tensei no Jutsu!" Naruto shouted. The King Of Hell's head rose from the floor. With its mouth opening, three green lights shot out and merged with Yugito's body, which regained a healthy complexion and the wounds healed. Then thousands of green lights streamed out of its mouth and flew out of the room. Every shinobi that had died in the war was reviving.

He had not been able to do this jutsu in the past, but now it appeared his Rinne Sharingan did the job just fine.

"Tsunade-baachan, please continue with the procedure," Naruto said in a surprisingly calm voice.

The legendary medic and her apprentice got up as Naruto released the killing intent.

"Rikudo Hisho no Jutsu (Six Paths Flight Jutsu)!" Naruto shouted. He began levitating off the floor, before he shot off like a rocket through the ceiling, leaving behind a large hole.

"Was that really... Naruto?" Tsunade asked. "Yes..." Shizune answered in a daze, picking up her syringe.

Battlefield

"Where's Naruto-kun?" Fu asked. She was answered immediately by a beam of light that was tearing a path through the forest, which then stopped in front of them.

Obito was once again on top of the Jubi's head. "So... Do you know pain now?" Obito said, though he was worried by the immense power he had felt radiating from the blond.

Naruto didn't answer, instead he formed hand seals. "Jinton: Genkai Hakuri no Jutsu!" A white structure shot off towards the Jubi, which avoided it by manoeuvring away.

"You can't get away with this one... Mokuton Hijutsu: Shinra Bansho (Wood Style Secret Jutsu: Universe)!" Naruto yelled.

The whole area in a hundred kilometre radius sprouted trees, some piercing the Jubi.

"Rinbo: Jigoku (Limbo: Hell)," Naruto uttered, projecting Obito's shadow into the Limbo world.

"Now, let's see you block this!" Naruto shouted, "Jinton: Shunpo (Swift Style: Flash Step)!"

Naruto took a step forward and shot forward by twenty metres, after which he repeated the process till he reached Obito.

Infusing his fist with Rikudo Senjutsu chakra, Naruto punched him in the face. As expected, Obito used Kamui.

However, his shadow was a whole different story. It took the blow in Limbo, making the actual body get hit as well.

"Jinton: Mueisho (Swift Style: Shadowless Flight)!" Naruto repeatedly punched and kicked Obito, much to his surprise.

Then he whacked Obito with his shakujo that he morphed from one of his Truth-Seeking Balls.

It sent the Uchiha flying back, clutching his stomach. "Katon: Gokakyu no Jutsu!" Obito fired.

Naruto simply spun his staff, using it as a shield. The fireball was quickly absorbed.

"... but how?!" Obito asked incredulously. Then he threw a kunai at Naruto.

"Hyoton: Hyotoiki (Ice Style: Icy Breath)!" Naruto exhaled, releasing a wave of hyoton chakra.

It froze the kunai in mid-air, then the blond destroyed it with a flick of his finger.

"Yoton: Yokai no Jutsu!" Naruto shouted, spurting a stream of lava from his mouth. Obito avoided it by jumping to the side.

"Senpo: Ranton Koga (Sage Art: Gale Style Light Fang)!" the Rokudaime Hokage followed, shooting a stream of lightning at him.

Obito ducked just narrowly, watching as it sheared off part of one of the Jubi's tails. It roared, however it was regenerating.

"Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" Obito shouted. Naruto jumped back as they attacked him.

Then he noticed the Jubi charging a Bijuu Dama at his fellow jinchuuriki.

He flew back and stood in front of them protectively while charging his own attack.

"Gudo Dama!" Naruto shouted, omyoton chakra moulding a giant Truth-Seeking Ball to match the Jubi's Bijuu Dama.

"What is that?" Fu asked.

"Watch," Naruto said as he fired it off to meet the other sphere. When they collided, the Gudo Dama ate away at the Bijuu Dama until it disappeared.

The black orb split itself into smaller orbs, returning to Naruto.

The Obito clones reached them, attacking them with katon jutsu that Naruto easily repelled.

The seven Truth-Seeking Balls around him merged to form a long sword with a double-helix blade. "The legendary Nunoboko no Ken, said to be the sword used to create the world," Naruto introduced.

He slashed at two of the clones and dispelled them quickly. The next target sneaked up from behind without knowing of the 360 degree vision that Naruto possessed.

The blond turned around, looking at him right in the eye. "Tsukuyomi," Naruto whispered. Three seconds later, the clone dispelled.

"Amenominaka!" Naruto shouted, transporting the clones engaging him into another dimension. He was standing on a platform, watching as the clones were in a pit of lava. They dispelled as well.

When Naruto returned, there were still five clones left, fighting Fu and Bee. Naruto grabbed two of them by their collars and flew high into the clouds.

Then he let go. Even skilled shinobi could not survive from this height without any help.

The other three were spitting fire jutsu, which were quickly absorbed by Naruto's Gudo Dama.

The blond Hokage rammed his shakujo through another clone, then made spikes on the other end to pierce the second last clone.

He turned to the last clone, looking at him straight in the eyes. The clone jumped forward with a weapon, trying to pierce Naruto.

"Rinbo: Tengoku (Limbo: Paradise)!" He basically did a kawarimi with one of his shadows, avoiding the damage.

Meanwhile, the weapon wasn't charged with Rikudo Senjutsu so it couldn't affect the shadow. Naruto stabbed the clone with his new chakra receivers that were made from the materials of the Gudo Dama.

"Kuchiyose no Jutsu!" Naruto shouted. The clouds in the sky opened to form a sort of portal, light shining down from the heavens.

A heavily armoured dragon-like beast flew down and landed in front of Naruto. "Junkin, you've changed quite a bit since the last battle," Naruto commented.

The mighty steed responded, "Not as much as you have, Naruto-sama." She had the body of a horse, the head of a lion and the tail of a dragon. She was armoured from head to toe in adamantine, an unbreakable substance.

"Now on with the battle..." Naruto turned to watch the Jubi maturing once again, its body becoming even more muscular. It limbs were well defined compared to its earlier stages. The spikes on its back turned out to be leaves which blossomed with a red flower.

Its mouth opened and unfurled inside out in a disgusting manner to reveal a giant rafflesia flower.

In the centre of the flower, chakra was amassing at a high rate with a loud sound. Naruto flew up to the Bijuu Dama and sliced it in half with a single swipe of the Nunoboko no Ken, detonating it prematurely.

Obito used Kamui to avoid getting hurt by the gigantic explosion which destroyed part of the immense forest.

Naruto swerved to the side mid-flight to dodge the swipe of one of its giant ass tails, feeling the rush of air.

The blond took the chance to mould the sword into his shakujo and planted it into the tail.

The Jubi screamed. In retaliation, a weird assortment of human-sized creatures grew out from its side and charged at Naruto.

His Rinne Sharingan detected that there were at least a thousand of these. Naruto regarded them coldly with his divine dojutsu. "Futile attempts. Amaterasu!"

His eyes actually locked onto a hundred of them at once and took them out with the black flames of heaven.
"Futon: Cho Odama Rasenshuriken!" Naruto shouted, his projectile whizzing towards the creature army and took out thirty of them.

"This is going to take forever... I'll have to charge and annihilate at the same time," Naruto thought. "Got it! Senpo: Mokuton: Shinsu Senju!"

A titanic statue that matched the Jubi in size erupted from the floor, Kurama in her normal form crouching on its lap and the wood golem on its head with the wood dragon wrapped around its neck.

"Chojo Kebutsu!" Thousands of giant wooden fists rammed into the terrain and at the same time neutralised the Jubi's creatures.

Naruto glanced at Obito who was forming hand seals. Suddenly the Jubi began getting sucked into his body, the whole thing ending in a ball.

The orb burst open to reveal a changed Obito, his whole skin was green, his hair white. Six Gudo Dama circled his back which was marked with the same markings as Naruto's cloak - the Rinnegan and the nine magatama - except that it was marked on his skin, unlike Naruto's which were on a cloak.

His chakra levels had rose tremendously to the point that it matched Shukaku, though that was no match for Naruto's infinite chakra pool.

Forming a shakujo, Obito swung it at Naruto's head. It was met with equal force by Naruto's shakujo.

"So by becoming the Jubi's jinchuuriki, he has gained part of the Rikudo's power, though it is still no match for mine," Naruto analysed, "It is best to face him myself, no other shinobi except me can match his power."

"Fu, Bee! Stay out of this!" Naruto yelled in warning as he flew back while forming the hand seals Snake and Ram.

The two jinchuuriki nodded and retreated, giving the taiken as much space as possible.

Naruto fired six chakra receivers in multiple directions. Forming another hand seal before the reverse Ram locked into place as the last of the hand seal sequence, Naruto yelled, "Musekiyojin (Six Crimson Ray Formation)!"

Red auras emitted from the chakra receivers shot off vertically into the sky like beacons, then wrapped around to form six walls in a hexagonal formation surrounding Obito and Naruto.

The two flew towards each other with their shakujos in hand and clashed once again. Naruto with all his natural strength overpowered the Uchiha and sent him back a few metres.

Both met again with their ringed staffs knocking against each other, creating a jingling noise due to the rings.

Naruto grinned as the wrist-sized rings flew off from the giant main ring at the tip of the staff and attacked Obito.

The Uchiha attempted to deflect them with his own staff, however it proved useless due to the rings repeatedly finding their way back to him.

Just as he was distracted, Naruto planted his foot into the Jubi jinchuuriki's gut and launched him crashing into the floor.

"Feel despair, Uchiha Obito, murderer of my family... Yugito, Hikari and Taihei, all dead because of your stupid plan. And now, I'll show you how stupid you really are," Naruto said.

"So basically, the Daiyonji Ninkai Taisen was started, all because you were friendzoned," Naruto put in plain terms, to which Obito sweatdropped as he realised how stupid that was.

"Omyoton: Bunbutsu Sozo!" Naruto shouted while creating a body. "Gedo: Rinne Tensei no Jutsu!"

A green light shot out of the King Of Hell's mouth and entered the body, fusing with it.

"No way... this is just a genjutsu so you can convince me to your side!" Obito accused Naruto, pointing at the revived Rin.

"Obito...?" Rin asked cutely as she cocked her head to the side. Obito shook his head, yelling "Kai!" many times before he came to a conclusion: Naruto was using a genjutsu that was too powerful for him to break.

But it didn't matter, as he knew it was just a genjutsu. "Stop trying to inhibit my plans! This Rin here is a fake and I know it!" Obito yelled.

Naruto sighed, running a hand through his spiky golden hair. "Your eyes have clouded over, even now you can't differentiate between reality and illusion."

Rin burst out crying. "I'm Rin! Obito why don't you recognise me?!"

Obito closed his eyes. "Stop trying to fool me. Rin is dead and will stay dead. Only in my world will she exist."

Then forming a shakujo with one hand, he rammed it through Rin who was shocked.

Blood dripped onto the floor as Rin stared, wide-eyed at her former teammate. "How could you... Obito? I loved you... after all we've been through..." Then she hacked and coughed some more before the Gudo Dama's power took effect and killed her again.

Obito merely smirked, though there was a small part of him fearing that it was real. The logical part screamed that it was a genjutsu, and the realism was just to convince Obito otherwise.

Naruto shook her head. "Poor girl. It turns out, she loved you after all instead of Kakashi-sensei, yet you thought she loved sensei and subsequently you started a war over an assumption. What a pity, that wasn't a genjutsu at all. You killed the only one who loved you, once again with an assumption."

Obito's eyes widened like saucers. "The powers of the Rikudo Sennin transcend even life and death," Naruto stated.

"I shall pass judgment on you," Naruto spoke darkly.

Obito screamed out in frustration. "I hate you, Uzumaki Naruto!" he cried, slamming his hands into the ground.

"The feelings are mutual," Naruto responded, watching a giant tree grow from the floor. It grew to a height that was even taller than the Hokage Monument.

At the top was a flowering bud. "My dream will come true, Rin will live again!" Obito yelled, "Mugen Tsukuyomi!"

The flower bloomed, with the moon reflecting its surface - a nine tomoe Rinne Sharingan.

Instead of what was supposed to happen, something else did - the moon seemed to shatter into a million pieces with a being descending down to greet the two.

She was wearing a high-collared kimono and had long light-coloured hair. She also had two horn-like protrusions on her forehead, short eyebrows, a dark shade of lipstick and nail polish. Most noticeably, were her two Byakugan and third eyes, a Rinne Sharingan which eyelids parted vertically.

"Otsutsuki Kaguya-hime," Naruto greeted grimly.

Author's Notes:
Disclaimer: I don't own Bleach, or in particular, the Shunpo. Yes! I found free Wi-Fi at the airport, pulled an all-nighter to complete the chapter. Posting 4 in the morning! Now review!

Until tomorrow,
Ja Ne

P.S. I know Naruto is too OP, but that's how it is.