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"Hmm…"- Tailed Beasts, Summonings, and Black Zetsu
Chapter 51:
An Useless Tool
In the center of the once proud village of Konoha which was now a war zone for the moment, one brown skin tight outfit wearing mint haired girl could be see running down a street with many Konoha shinobi trying to fight back the horde of White Zetsus that had invaded just about over an hour ago or so.
It wasn't that that it was too hard to take the weird looking individuals. No, far from it. It had to do with the damn large numbers that they had invaded in. If you took one out, three more would pop out of nowhere! And not to mention the fact that they could show up randomly from the ground or from walls on buildings and such.
With stealth and numbers on their size, it wasn't much of a surprise to see many dead Konoha shinobi bodies on the ground.
A random chunnin, having brought down a White Zetsu, immediately caught sight of the running Fu. Not recognizing her and therefore labeling her as an enemy, he rushed at her with a simple kunai in hand.
Seeing this, Fu momentarily scowled before she inhaled deeply, exhaling a moment later and shooting her sparkly substance from her mouth and onto the chunnin which instantly blinded him. Using this opportunity, Fu rushed at him in his temporary blind state and quickly took the kunai from his hands. She then proceeded to immediately behead him like she had done with Yugao. After the now corpse of the Chunnin fell to the ground, Fu went on her way, throwing the kunai on the ground behind her.
'Moron,' thought Fu with another scowl. 'I don't freaking have time for this!'
Thankfully, all other Konoha shinobi in the area were too busy trying to fight off the White Zetsus in order to pay any attention to her. It looked as if the Hyuuga clan had not arrived here so far.
'Great,' thought Fu sarcastically. 'Without any stupid civilians to ask, how in the hell am I suppose to find my way to where the damn Hyuuga compound is! This just plainly sucks….why couldn't they have held off their attacks for just ten more minutes or so!'
"Calm down," advised Chomei from within her. "Getting frustrated will not help you at all."
'I know, I know….'
"You could always ask one of the Konoha shinobi," suggested Chomei.
'Yeah, like they're going to tell me anything,' replied Fu with a roll of her eyes at that thought.
Before Chomei could respond, another being made his newly subconsciously arrived presence.
"Fu, Chomei, are you there?" asked Kurama in a calm tone.
'Kyuubi?' said Fu in surprise. 'How are you in my head? You're not sealed in me…..'
Kurama chuckled. "It's the bond between jinchurikis and their bijuu, if you will. Both you and Chomei are close enough for me to communicate with you subconsciously. It would be possible for the rest if they were close enough as well…..'
'I see….'
"What is it that you want, Kyuubi?" asked Chomei.
"It's a message from Naruto," answered Kurama in a more serious tone. "There is a special task that he requires from the two of you…."
'And that is?' asked Fu but also wondering why Naruto hadn't just simply asked her himself.
"You should know that the Hyuuga clan is now on our side because of Hinata's becoming the new clan head through the help of Neji, correct?" questioned Kurama.
'Yeah, we know that already,' said Fu in response.
"Well, soon they will be of no use anymore….like in a couple of hours at best," continued Kurama.
"And why is that?" asked Chomei.
"That Uchiha woman should have arrived by then with the forces from Kumo," answered Kurama, referring to Mikoto. "When that happens, we will have no further use from the Hyuugas any longer, including Hinata…."
'Even Neji as well?' asked Fu with dread. Truth of the matter was that she sort of liked the stoic if not a bit innocent Hyuuga. He was cool as far as she was concerned, even if she didn't spend too much time in getting to know him save for the small period of time that she had spent in Konoha.
Kurama paused at this, as if thinking of what to say as an answer. "No, not Neji," he finally answered. "But everyone else….don't show any mercy."
'Is Naruto really okay with this?' asked Fu.
"Yes, he is," answered Kurama with no hesitation what so ever. "The only reason that he even agreed for that Hyuuga girl to be part of this is if a situation like this were to happen as well as for his private entertainment. That is all. Otherwise, he would have simply killed her. He doesn't care about her in the slightest…."
'I see….'
"Don't let us down, Fu…." said Kurama, cutting his link with the two afterwards.
"Are you sure that you want to do this?" asked Chomei quietly.
'Yes, I do,' was the immediate response from the mint hair colored jinchuriki. 'It's not like I care about Hinata either. She was just simply another person that was going to be killed eventually. But it seems that I might be the one to have to do it…..'
Chomei didn't respond. He was going to follow whatever Fu's decision would be. He only wanted to make sure that this is what she truly wanted. He didn't have any care for the rest of the human race, save for the perhaps the other jinchuriki and Naruto.
"Then let's go."
Fu smirked as she picked up her pace. 'Yeah. But I have to find them first though.'
With that, she continued on her way through the burning village.
Back on the other side of the village where the once proud Uchiha compound had once stood, things were starting to become even more and more extreme.
On one side on Tsunade's right stood her former and now revived teammate, Jiraiya. On her other side stood the person that was responsible for her even coming back to the village those three years ago, Naruto.
Naruto currently had the same twisted and exited grin that was becoming more and more frequent on his face ever since he had acquired the Seikatsugakari from the stone tablet and where all of this had begun.
Jiraiya's face was currently that of the one that he had wore during the two previous wars that he had fought. As much as it pained him, he recognized the fact that the Naruto that he had met and come to know was truly gone, his killing of Iruka having shown him that.
'The rinnegan….' thought Fukasaku from his spot on Jiraiya's left shoulder as he noticed the legendary ringed patterned eyes from within the wild spinning crimson energy. 'Could he be the Child of the Prophecy? In that case, it seems that instead of being brought up to save the world, he will now destroy it….'
A sad thought indeed.
Shima for her part merely gazed at Naruto with narrowed eyes. There in front of her was the person that had killed Jiraiya whom she cared deeply for despite what her everyday actions showed. As well as to what said silver haired rinnegan wielder had done to her homeland those three years ago.
"More toads, eh?" said Naruto while glancing on the two small toads on both of Jiraiya's shoulders. "I've already seen them enough for my tastes today, or well…forever really."
Shima growled slightly before pointing an accusing finger at the now amused Naruto. "You have no right to talk to us that way! Not after what you did to us!"
"Feel lucky that I only did so little," retorted Naruto with a roll of his eyes. "If I were the person that I am now those three years ago, I would have simply slaughtered you all!"
"What are you talking about?" asked Jiraiya with a confused look.
The other shinobi on the sidelines were also in a confused state save for Tsunade who immediately understood what was going on.
'This must be about how he broke the summoning contract with the toads,' thought Tsunade in realization. She didn't know how Naruto had done it either since the toads hadn't told her anything either.
Naruto smirked at Jiraiya. "So, they didn't tell you, did they? I'm not surprised really….I kind of expected that."
"Be quite you!" shouted Shima in outrage. Fukasaku for his part merely watched this in silence. There really was no point in hiding this. It was done. Nothing they could do about it now. If only he had realized that Naruto had left Jiraiya though, he never would have agreed with the termination of the contract! And maybe then, Jiraiya would have been able to find the now silver haired Naruto and prevent all of this from ever occurring.
'That was a big mistake on my part,' thought Fukasaku with a silent sigh.
"Haven't you ever wondered how I was able to terminate my contract with the toads?" questioned Naruto with a slight shake of his head.
Jiraiya's silence was the response that Naruto received.
"Assuming from your silence, I'm going to take that as a yes," said Naruto with a chuckle filled with humor in it. Then he shrugged. "It's all very simple, really. I wanted to end my contract with the toads. Now, all that I needed to do was to get them to want to end it with me as well. And thankfully since you hadn't contacted them immediately, they didn't know that I had already ditched you by then. You gave me about a week head start, after all," finished Naruto with another smirk.
Jiraiya flinched at the reminder. At first, he had only thought that Naruto was training overnights like he had always done in the past, but that had not been the case this time.
Naruto then sighed. "The easiest way would have been to just simply kill them, but like I have already said, I wasn't that kind of person at that time. So, I had to think of another way." 'Well, it was Kurama that thought of this, not me. But they don't have to know that,' finished Naruto within his mind.
"Your welcome," was the only response from said bijuu.
"Which was what?" asked Jiraiya, wanting to know this.
"He defiled our homeland," answered Fukasaku before Naruto could. "Every single sacred place including the great elder's home, he completely decimated them. He completely destroyed sacred writings as well from thousands of years ago, even going as far as to burn some of them…."
"My prankster side at work," commented Naruto.
"That's not a prank, you brat!" screamed Shima in outrage. "They were sacred items to us that meant a lot to every single toad that lives there!"
Naruto shrugged again, shouldering his sword in a bored manner. "And? I'm not a toad. I'm a human. I don't give a rat's ass about something like that, especially books."
"How did you even get there in the first place?" asked Jiraiya before Shima could burst out in rage once more.
"I simply tricked Gamakichi into letting me in," answered Naruto like it was nothing.
"He still hasn't gotten over that…." muttered Fukasaku.
"Like I've already told you, I don't care," replied Naruto before his face turned dark. "You toads should be grateful that I was still naive back then. That I was still ignorant as to how this rotten shinobi world really works. That I just didn't simply kill all of you and be done with it. But now, that's not the case." Naruto gripped his sword more tightly as the crimson energy around him began to pick up again. "You're all just an useless tool to me now. And just like I have already killed Gamabunta, I'm going to do the same with you…."
That shocked both Fukasaku and Shima to the core. That Gamabunta was dead now.
Jiraiya momentarily frowned before going on all fours, discarding his wooden sandals. Both of his hands and feet began to grow, taking the appearance of that of a toad as well as his face.
'Now this is interesting,' thought Naruto as he prepared to attack Jiraiya. But he wasn't prepared for Tsunade to suddenly appear in front of Jiraiya.
"Oh?" said Naruto with a raised eyebrow. "Are you going to join us, baa-chan?"
'Tsunade-sama….' thought Guy from the side. Tsume was simply looking at Naruto in anger while Ibiki had a calm look on his face.
Tsunade frowned slightly before reaching into her green green jacket-like clothing that she wore, taking out a small book a second later.
Naruto narrowed his eyes as soon as they landed on the book. 'Could that be…..?'
"This is the journal of the Sandaime," stated Tsunade, immediately confirming Naruto's thoughts. "In here, it lists everything that happened during his reign as Hokage as well as the attack on Uzu…."
But Naruto already knew this. That was the reason that he had been trying to acquire it in the first place. At first, he had decided to go after it first but then changed his mind, preferring to go after the Seikatsugakari first rather than the journal. But it seemed that Tsunade had saved him the trouble of looking for it in the first place.
"Is that so?" said Naruto with a fake curious look on his face, feigning to not know of the journal's existence until now. "And what of it?" asked Naruto.
Tsunade's frowned increased before she threw the journal on the ground, right in between where she and Naruto currently stood. "It says of how exactly the strike force from Kumo, Iwa, and Kiri managed to bypassed the defenses of Uzu that night."
Naruto was silent for once. This was the last thing that he wanted to know as of now. The scroll that the spy that he had planted in Danzo's Root had given him mentioned of the journal's existence. Naruto was confident that the Sandaime had known more about the attack than of what he had let on. And it seemed that he was right after all.
"It was a combined effort," continued Tsunade, "between Danzo and Orochimaru."
'Just like I thought,' thought Naruto but allowed for Tsunade to continue.
"Orochimaru was in Uzu for 'personal visit," began Tsunade while holding back a snort. But Naruto didn't. "And since he was from Konoha, no one suspected him. While there, he somehow gained access to the information of how to dispel the whirlpools around Uzu as well as the barrier," continued Tsunade with another frown. That was something that the journal had not specified which was how exactly Orochimaru got hold of that information. "Orochimaru then gave this to Danzo who in turn sold it to Kumo, Iwa, and Kiri while giving Orochimaru protection and help with his experiments," finished Tsunade with a scowl on her face. That was the whole reason that Orochimaru had even taken part in that. Simply for the funding and protection that Danzo could provide him with the experiments that he was beginning to conduct at that time. And Danzo? He had just wanted Uzu out of the picture, period. They were already going to obtain Kushina which was all that Danzo truly wanted.
"So you see, it was all Danzo and Orochimaru that are responsible, not the village!" stated Tsunade, hoping that this gamble would pay off.
Naruto for his part had been silent the whole time until Tsunade had finished talking. Once she did, however, he bursted in laughter. "Hahaha! That's rich, Tsunade! Thinking that with just this, I would call all of this off! Oh, that's just too much," said Naruto, bringing his laughter under control.
Once he did, he looked at Tsunade with unmasked amusement. "Let me fill you in on something, Senju. I already knew of the journal's existence before this. I also had already suspected that our friend Danzo was somehow involved in this. I'll admit, though, that I didn't think that Orochimaru had also played his hands in this. But that's simply irrelevant at this point. But to think that you would think that I'm stupid enough to fall for something like that…." Naruto shook his head in mock shame. "I'm disappointed in you, Tsunade."
Tsunade's hopes had just died off right then and there.
Not paying attention to this, Naruto continued, "The very fact that the old man wrote that in his journal proves that he knew of everything but didn't even lift a damn finger to stop any of it! Besides, even if that wasn't the case, the attack will go on. Nothing can stop it now."
"You," said Tsunade while grinding her teeth together in anger. She had just made her last bet in trying to stop Naruto quietly without a confrontation, but she had just lost it in the manner of seconds.
"The betrayal of Uzu which resulted in the destruction of my clan is just half of the reason that I'm doing all of this," explained Naruto. "The other half is for my own benefit!"
'I suspected as much,' thought Jiraiya in remorse from behind Tsunade.
"This village casted me out without a good reason, so now I'm just simply going to return the favor. That's all there is to it," stated Naruto. "No other hidden motive than that. And you can call me an immature brat for doing all of this for a reason like that as well, but I just don't give a damn anymore. Not with all of this power that I now posses!" And as if to agree with him, the sword on Naruto's shoulder began to glow even more strongly, as well as the crimson energy surrounding him.
Tsunade could only take a step back. There was nothing else for her to say about this.
"If that's all, shall we get on with this?" said Naruto, his grin from before starting to return.
He then rushed at the unsuspecting Tsunade only for his path to be blocked off by none other than Jiraiya.
'He's gotten faster,' observed Naruto before his smirk got even larger. 'Perfect!'
"Choodama Rasengan!"
"You're gonna have to do better than that, sensei!" screamed Naruto as the crimson energy surrounding him successfully blocked off Jiraiya's attack.
"I'm just getting started!" retorted Jiraiya, trying to penetrate Naruto's shield with his attack.
Tsunade could only shield her eyes as a big explosion resulted from the collision as well as with the others present.
In another part of the village, another confrontation was currently taking place. And that was between two Hyuugas and two medical shinobi.
'I need to inform Tsunade-sama of this,' thought Shizune while preparing herself in case Neji attacked.
"Shizune-san, go," said Sakura with determination. "I can take care of things here. But Tsunade-sama needs to know what's taking place here."
Neji snorted at that. Did the pink hair medic really think that she could handle him? He didn't even think if she could take Hinata let alone with him in the mix.
"Sakura…." muttered Shizune, clearly surprised.
"And here they call Hyuugas arrogant," muttered Hinata with a roll of her eyes.
"Just go!" replied Sakura.
Standing there for just a moment longer, Shizune jumped towards a nearby rooftop, taking off towards Tsunade's position.
Seeing this, Neji was immediately right behind her.
Sakura was about to stop him when she suddenly jumped back from her position thanks to Hinata appearing in it a moment later, right arm extended.
Neji didn't even glance back as he followed behind Shizune, intent on stopping her.
"You don't have time to worry about someone else right now, Sakura," said Hinata while taking her gentle fist stance. "Because you should be worry about your own safety right now."
Sakura gritted her teeth in frustration at this. 'We're both at a disadvantage here,' thought Sakura, quickly assessing the situation. 'We're both deadly at close combat, meaning that we can't get too close to each other. Otherwise, it could end bad for either of us….'
Hinata was also thinking of this at the moment. Her only chance would be too somehow incapacitate Sakura's arms as quickly as possible in order to stop her monstrous strength, the same being said about Sakura. Hinata's arms and hands were her best weapon after all.
'Whoever accomplishes this first will be the winner of this battle,' thought Hinata.
Thinking the same thing as Hinata, Sakura decided to rush at the said female Hyuuga in order to catch her off guard. But Hinata was prepared for this.
"Shugohakke Rokujuyon Sho!"
'Dammit!' screamed Sakura as she stopped herself from hitting the newly formed barrier around Hinata that was made entirely of chakra based blades.
'What is this jutsu?' wondered Sakura, having never seen it before.
"This is both my ultimate defense as well as my offense," stated Hinata from within the chakra barrier.
"Offense?" repeated Sakura, obviously confused.
Hinata smirked. "That's right….now, die!"
Before her very eyes, Sakura saw the chakra based barrier turn into extremely thin and sharp blades, all that were pointed straight at her. Seeing what Hinata was trying to do, Sakura punched the ground beneath her feet with all her might, causing for a crater to occur beneath her as well as for it to spread towards Hinata. It was like an earthquake really.
'No!' screamed Hinata in her mind, frustrated as she lost her balance, making her lose control of her chakra momentarily which caused for her barrier to be dispelled. The jutsu required for extreme concentration and chakra control.
Hinata then jumped backwards in order to dodge the incoming Sakura that appeared from the sky. Said pink haired kunoichi delivered another strong punch to the ground, causing it to shake for a moment as if there were a second earthquake occurring.
'Damn that strength of hers,' thought Hinata as she landed a safe distance from where Sakura now stood.
"I'm going to beat the life out of you!" exclaimed Sakura, fixing her gloves for a moment.
Hinata smirked at her. "What is this? Would you possibly be jealous that Naruto-kun chose me, but not you? Well, you are useless after all. Just like you were back in the academy."
Sakura was quite at this. Was she jealous? But she couldn't be! She loved Sasuke!….Right?
"It doesn't matter what you think of me," replied Sakura after a moment of silence. "I'm still bringing you in for betraying us as well as for what you did to your father. That's a promise. You can count on that!" It was pretty much clear to Sakura now that Hinata had something to do with the death of Hiashi so that she could become the clan head. Neji was probably involved in that as well.
Hinata ran a hand through her hair that was currently still tied in a ponytail. "We'll see about that, Sakura. And you're also right. I was the one that killed my father," said Hinata like it was nothing, completely shocking Sakura. "But I really don't feel like wasting any more time on you. After all, I want to see Naruto-kun again."
Sakura didn't respond to that. But she didn't have to.
Not waiting for a response, Hinata brought both of her hands forward in front of her.
Sakura took a step back as she felt the air around the girl Hyuuga began to change. 'What is she up to now?' thought Sakura.
"Juho Soshiken!"
Two lion-shaped shrouds of chakra formed around both of Hinata's hands. Seeing this, Sakura readied herself. She didn't know exactly what this attack could do, but she knew that it would be bad if she were to be hit by them.
'She thinks that I'm coming to her,' thought Hinata in amusement. 'Well, you're mistaken!'
Sakura's eyes widened as Hinata extended her right hand forward which caused for a third lion-shaped shroud of chakra to appear from the right hand which was shot straight at her.
'It's a long rage attack too!' thought Sakura, clearly surprised at this revelation.
A second before the attack impacted with her, Sakura brought her left fist forward, smashing it with the chakra attack and succeeding in repelling it.
Hinata narrowed her eyes as she saw this. 'So, she used her own chakra to dissipate my own when she hit it with her fist, eh? Clever. But let's see how you handle multiple of them!'
Sakura frowned as she saw more of the incoming attacks coming at her. 'Not good!' she screamed in her mind. She brought both of her fists forward this time and started to smash all of the attacks that were coming her way. But there were simply too many of them. Eventually, she was starting to become overwhelmed.
So busy in trying to repel all the attacks as well as to not get hit by them, Sakura wasn't ready to defend herself as Hinata suddenly appeared behind her.
'No!' thought Sakura as Hinata brought both of her still lion-shaped shrouds of chakra covered hands forward, aiming for Sakura's shoulders.
"This is it for you!" stated Hinata as she hit both of Sakura's shoulders, pushing said medic shinobi a few feet away.
Sakura screamed in pain as she felt all sensation on her shoulders disappear as she was pushed forward from behind. She slowly turned around which proved to be a mistake as Hinata was in front of her the very next moment, bringing both of her hands forward again and attacking her stomach area this time.
Sakura screamed for a second time as she flew back, creating a new small crater with her body as she landed on the ground on her back.
"That's it for you, Sakura," said Hinata with another smirk as she walked towards the downed Sakura, intent on finishing the job. Here was the girl that had had the very thing that Hinata had always wanted which had been for Naruto's love. And she hated Sakura for it. After all, she loved Naruto so why should he fall for another girl with said girl not having the slightest bit of feelings for him?
"It's just not fair," muttered Hinata as she stood over the body of Sakura. "But now, I get to pay you back," she finished with a dark smirk as she brought her left hand upward.
The next moment though was one of the most surprising for Hinata. Before she knew it, Sakura was up from the ground and in front of her with her right arm around her neck, ready to slam her into the ground.
"What!" screamed Hinata in outrage.
"OKASHO!"
The next moment, Hinata felt the greatest pain that she had ever felt course through her entire body as Sakura slammed her into the ground, creating a bigger crater than any of the other ones before.
"You…." was the only thing that Hinata could say before blood started to come out of her mouth.
A moment afterwards, Sakura fell to the ground on her back with her feet touching Hinata's as a result of this.
"You shouldn't even be able to use chakra anymore," said Hinata as more pain began to spread through her body as she laid in another makeshift crater.
"You aimed for my shoulders, so I merely pushed all of my chakra to my hands as much as I could," explained Sakura, no longer being able to feel her upper body other than her head.
'But her arms should have been useless!' screamed Hinata in her mind before it clicked. "You…"
Sakura chuckled. "Yeah, I broke my bones in my arms as a result of my forcing my last attack," she stated, already guessing what Hinata was going to say.
"Why would you go that far?" asked Hinata, clearly surprised that Sakura would actually go that far in order to defeat her.
"Because I don't want to be a nuisance anymore," answered Sakura. "I also didn't want to lose to you either. I'm going to make you pay for everything that you have done. I promised you that after all."
Before Hinata could respond, both kunoichi heard clapping. Turning their heads left, well for Hinata it was to the right, they both saw Fu sitting on the edge of a nearby building who was also the one currently clapping.
"Well done, you two!" said Fu with a small grin. "I must say that that fight really surprised me! Maybe you two aren't so useless after all!"
"Fu…" said Hinata with a small growl.
Fu smirked at the downed Hyuuga. "Well, nice seeing you again! I must say that you have changed from the last time that I saw you…."
"What are you doing here?" asked Hinata, interrupting Fu.
Fu shrugged as she stood up before jumping off from the edge of the rooftop and landing in between both Hinata and Sakura. "Well, I was here to rendezvous with both you and Neji, but it seems that that will no longer be necessary."
"What is that suppose to mean?" asked Hinata with a scowl.
Sakura for her part merely watched all of this in silence.
"It means that you are now an useless tool for Naruto," answered Fu with a dark undertone in her voice. "An useless tool that I'm here now to discard for him."
"That's not true!" denied Hinata with wide eyes and a frightened expression on her face. "H-he said that-"
"He lied," interrupted Fu as her green armor came to life. "You were nothing more than a nuisance for him. He never cared for you from the beginning. That is all there is to it."
"NO!" screamed Hinata. "That can't be true!"
"But it is," replied Fu as the scales on her right arm began to grow. "You're through, Hinata. Goodbye."
Hinata screamed one more time before Fu silenced her by shooting her scales from her armor right at Hinata's head, effectively killing her in an instant.
Sakura could only watch this with wide eyes. "How…how could you-"
"That is of no importance to you, monkey," interrupted Fu, calling Sakura by the nickname that she had given her. "After all, you're next."
Fu then turned to the downed and now frightened Sakura, intent on doing the same thing to her before she found herself unable to use or to mover her body.
"What?" said Fu in surprise.
"Shadow possession, a success."
Hearing this, Fu moved her eyes to the side only to see a kneeling male Konoha shinobi with a female one next to him.
"Shikamaru, Ino!" said Sakura in obvious happiness at seeing the two familiar faces.
Fu was beginning to see that this was going to be an annoying day for her.
"Gatsuga!"
Naruto growled in frustration as he saw the fast approaching attack from the Inuzuka clan.
"Out of my way!" he shouted, completely annoyed as he repelled the attack with his rinnegan.
Tsume and her partner dog were sent flying back.
'She's letting her anger get the best of her,' thought Ibiki with a shake of his head as he stood next to Tsunade in front of a kneeling and panting Jiraiya that currently had no left arm and was in the process of regenerating it.
"He's strong," stated Fukasaku.
"We know that much," retorted Tsunade with a slight roll of her eyes.
Guy was currently in the process of attacking Naruto, trying to get around the crimson energy but not getting much of luck of succeeding.
"Your taijutsu will not work on me," said Naruto as he extended his left arm forward. The next moment, Guy felt himself being pulled forward.
'Not good!' screamed the green jumpsuit wearing shinobi within his mind.
But before he be pulled entirely towards the blade of Naruto's sword, Guy fell on the ground.
"What?" said Guy, clearly confused. He then gazed at the unmoving Naruto in front of him in confusion.
"He's under my genjutsu," answered Ibiki from his spot next to Tsunade. "It seems that he's still weak against that."
'I wonder about that,' thought Tsunade with narrowed eyes before they all heard the sudden laughter that emanated from Naruto.
"Hahaha! You actually think that simple genjutsu will stop me!" screamed Naruto before gripping his sword and rushing at Guy.
"He broke free!" exclaimed Ibiki in surprise.
"I can see that!" retorted Tsunade as she rushed at Naruto as well, intent on stopping him.
Guy was on the defensive, dodging all the strikes from Naruto's sword.
'He's fast,' thought Naruto before turning his attention up to the air to see an incoming Tsunade with her left leg raised up.
"Tsutenkyaku!"
'Fuck!' thought Naruto before using his rinnegan.
"Shinra Tensei!"
Both Tsunade and Guy were sent flying back just like Tsume had been,
'Too many damn nuisances,' thought Naruto in complete frustration. "Oi, Jiraiya! How long do you plan to hide behind these idiots!?"
Jiraiya frowned before standing up, his left arm having been regenerated. "I'm not hiding," he retorted. "I simply still have comrades unlike you."
Naruto chuckled. "That's where you're wrong. I also have comrades. The difference, though, is that I don't need my comrades to fight my battles for me. I'm more than capable of handling things on my own."
"We'll see about that," said Tsunade as she immediately took her place back on Jiraiya's side with Guy standing next to Ibiki and Tsume next to Guy. "We will stop you."
Naruto was silent for a few moments before he broke down in laughter yet again. "Have you forgotten that it was me that took on all of the Hokages as well as Madara with his brother and still won!?" said Naruto.
Jiraiya's eyes widened at this as well as all of the others' present except for Tsunade's as she had been there to see that happen after all.
"I was just simply toying with you, seeing as I want to enjoy this as long as possible," continued Naruto, his crazed look returning. "But if you want for me to show you just how helpless your situation exactly is, then allow me."
As soon as he finished, Naruto's Susanoo appeared around him in its complete form with both swords in hand. The crimson energy gave the already red existing shroud of the Susanoo an even more sinister look to it.
'The Susanoo….' thought Fukasaku, completely in shock. The same could be said about the others.
"Hehehehe…."
Naruto paused as he heard laughter coming from somewhere from his head, but it didn't come from Kurama.
"You want to use my real power, don't you?"
'What the hell is this?'
All others present watched as the crimson energy began to grow even more powerful, completely surrounding both Naruto and his Susanoo in a giant tornado-like form.
"What the hell is going on!?" screamed Tsume in complete frustration.
"Something tells me that we're not going to like the answer to that," muttered Tsunade as the wind began to pick up again. They shielded their eyes again as they could only stand there, awaiting to see what would happen.
Naruto soon found himself floating in empty dark space of nothingness. It reminded him of where the Juubi currently was.
"This is…."
"Uzumaki Naruto…..I've been expecting you."
Naruto looked around as the voice seemed to be coming from every direction. "Who is this?" he calmly asked. It wouldn't do him any good if he were to suddenly have a panic attack.
"That is an interesting question. I suppose you may call me by what you named me as….the Seikatsugakari."
Outside of the village on a nearby cliff overlooking the village, five individuals wearing the Akatsuki uniform could be seen standing next to each other.
"Bastards…..they've already started without us!"
"Shut up, Suigetsu! You should be grateful that you're even here at all!"
Suigetsu turned his head away from the angry looking redhead. "Whatever, Karin…."
"Konoha, eh?" said Yugito in a soft tone as she looked at the said village that was currently being attacked.
"Don't worry, kitten! Somewhere down there, your mate is currently causing havoc!"
Yugito didn't even bother to correct her bijuu by this point.
Bee merely watched the village in silence from behind his shades.
"So this is Konoha…." commented the Hachibi from within Bee's mind. 'Kyuubi….'
Sasuke gazed at the village for a moment before his eternal mangekyo subconsciously activated.
"Let's go," said Sasuke as he jumped off the cliff and down towards the forest below, intent on arriving as soon as possible to his target.
The others simply followed behind him.
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Oh man, another chapter again. You know what, I'm not even going to say anything anymore. I'll simply just keep doing my job that I'm not even getting paid at doing….that sucks.
But some of the remaining questions were finally answered in this chapter. Speaking of which, yes that was the only way that I could see for Naruto to get rid of the Toad Summoning contract other than him killing any of them. His character at the time wouldn't have done something like killing the toads. So he just simply destroyed a lot of things until the toads got tired of him. Don't like it? Too bad. That's that.
And if you're worried that not enough characters are getting killed, then don't worry. More character deaths will occur. Just be patient.
Well, that's it for me this time. Don't be shy and review!
Till next time.
