Chapter 49:

The Strongest in the World

vs.

The Number One Hyperactive Ninja

"What an interesting idea... It's unfortunate that even both of you can't fight me together, so only one at a time would be idiotic suicide." Jastin spoke in a high manner, overconfident as always.

"Are you... underestimating me... Naruto?" Sasuke coughed out, blood dripped from countless wounds all over his upper body, some on his legs. "Chi-Chidori!" Lightning vaguely appeared in his hand and he limped forward before jumping into the air.

"Just get it through your head! You are too weak!" Jastin stopped Sasuke as he was about to hit then crushed some of his ribs, all with the Shīrudo. "Take him back." He threw Sasuke back into the ground.

"I...am... The strongest Uchiha..." He dropped to his knees. "Heh... But maybe...you should take...over...Naruto..." His face smashed against the rocks as he lost consciousness.

"Sasuke..." Naruto walked over to his fallen comrade. "I will make sure both of us.." He bent down and spread his fingers through the small puddle of blood forming under Sasuke. "..Get away, safe. We will escape. I promise as the next Hokage!"

"Touching." Jastin laughed. He held his arm stub out and grunted. "This... Won't be...easy...!" Wires and metal shot out of the opening and squeezed together, forming an artificial wrist and hand. "Are you sure that you want to?" His fingers moved around, testing the new arm.

"I can beat you in..." Naruto held his hand up and spread the blood stained hand. "Five minutes." A smile stretched across his face, his mood was surprisingly happy and confident.

"Then!" Jastin vanished, reappearing behind the unexpected blonde ninja, blasting him into the rocks. "Die."

Naruto landed on his palms, pushing himself back onto his feet."Not planning on it." His hands stung, when he put his hands onto the rocks, they drew blood."I have to thank you for attacking me!" Naruto formed five hand seals.

Jastin scoffed. "Thank me? Have you gone in-"

"Summoning jutsu!" Naruto dropped his hand to the ground. A giant cloud of smoke spread through the wasteland.

"That's it?" Jastin blew away the smoke around him.

An enormous faded red toad, wearing a short sleeved open robe with a blade on it's side held up Naruto. Most notably on the toad was a scar down it's left eye and a pipe in it's mouth. It's mouth began to open. "Why have you summoned me, Naruto?" His voice was deep and powerful, yet somewhat elderly.

"Cuz'." Naruto pointed down at Jastin. "Him." Sasuke laid on the back of the toad's head, knocked out. "Be careful, this guy is really strong. And don't jump on Sasuke..."

"I am Gamabunta, the strongest toad to ever live! Do not underestimate me." The toad roared. He pushed down off the ground, jumping high into the sky. "Better watch out." Gamabunta drew the shortsword from it's hilt and dropped onto Jastin, sweeping up a cloud of dust.

The blade could not pierce the spherical Shīrudo surrounding Jastin. He laughed. "This is it?" Gamabunta shot into the sky as an incredible force threw him up. "He is as light as a feather! Now Implode!" A sphere surrounded the airborne toad then crushed inwards, ripping him apart.

Jastin smiled then slowly started to laugh. "That was easy." In an instant a slash tore Jastin right in half from behind. Both pieces plopped onto the floor. The pile of Gamabunta poofed into rocks and stones.

Gamabunta sheathed the sword, proud of his accomplishment. "That was easier. Stuck-up punk, you can't match my power in a million years."

"Chief toad... Your really strong! Why didn't I call you in the first place?" Naruto praised the toad.

Gamabunta was suddenely thrown into the air, crashing into the ground. Naruto fell off midair, he quicky grabbed Sasuke before hitting the ground. Jastin's upper half hovered in the hair, his legs reattached themselves to him, clacking. "I am immortal.

"Ch-Chief!" Naruto shouted.

"I'll be fine!" Gamabunta flipped onto his feet. Blood dripped from a large shallow hole in his chest.

"No! I won't risk it!" Naruto continued shouting.

"Fool. Don't tell me when I can and can't fight!" He spit the pipe out at Jastin, smashing the ground next to him. The pipe shattered into pieces and a large puddle of oil spread from the wreckage. "Fire style: Spitfire!" Gamabunta shot a small flame from his mouth, it sped into the oil and instantly exploded into an enormous fire pit because of the extra flammable oil inside the pipe.

"Nothing to me." Jastin discharged a barrier, putting out the fire in a single second. "Just put your toad away, 'Future Hokage'."

"Chief..." Naruto begged with one word.

"Fine, boy..." Gamabunta huffed, then poofed away in a large white smoke cloud.

"Now, let's continue." Jastin blasted at Naruto, who grabbed Sasuke and quicky dodged it.

"Hold on!" He threw his hand out. "Let me move away from Sasuke." Naruto slowly let Sasuke down then hopped away from him. "Ok."

Naruto poofed away as Jastin blasted him with a force wave. "A clone?"

Naruto sliced a kunai at Jastin from behind. "A clone!" The kunai wielding clone exploded into smoke, Jastin crushed it. "Over here!" Naruto punched him across the face. He blew Naruto back with a force sphere.

"Dang it." He touched his back, the back of his shirt was cut all over because of landing on the rocks. "I need to be stronger!" Naruto held his blood stained hand out. The brown Sage staff appeared in his hand, the Sage cloak on his back. "Lemme try again!"

"Still got chakra? I thought ninja had limits to that." Jastin held his hand out to his side, opening his palm then closing it. Shīrudo circled around his right hand.

"Let's go! New strategy! Water!" The staff pointed to the sky. A wave of water exploded from the ground halfway between the two. It stood twenty meters in the sky, crashing down onto Jastin, who projected a shield in front of himself.

"Gotcha!" Naruto poofed away and the original appeared two meters behind Jastin. "Water!" The ground shattered under him, a vortex whirlpool took the place of the rocks, drowning Jastin.

"Water?" He asked through the rapids. "This is your 'new strategy'?"

"Er... Yeah! It's working isn't it?" Naruto reassured himself.

"No." Jastin zoomed into the sky. The vortex slowed down into a plain pool. "I am completely waterproof."

Naruto jumped back five meters. "Then, Lightning!" Light fell from the air unto Jastin in a zig zag shape.

"Still not good enough." Jastin shoved his right hand into Naruto's stomach. "You will die now!" Shīrudo spread through Naruto's body and shot him back into a large mountain, causing the surrounding mountain side to shatter around him. Dust exploded from the mountain side's destruction. "Payback... Hehehe..."

"Dammit! I will give it my all!" Naruto vaulted out of the dust, the Sage Fox Cloak covering him, the Sage staff absorbed into his body. "Shadow Clone!" He didn't create the hand sign. "Bullets!" From the dust, hundreds off Shadow Clones smashed into Jastin.

"The..." The first couple dozen hammered into him. "Fuck!" A force wall was generated, mid attack, stopping the other clones.

"Rahhh!" Naruto preformed a battle cry while running at the monster. The barrier let up as the clones vanished, Naruto slammed his right fist into his gut, then threw a left hook across his face. Heat released from the fists and burned into Jastin's face and stomach.

"How dare you harm my face!" Force blasted Naruto back. Jastin's left cheek was melted and a dark metal took it's place.

"Oh..." Naruto slowly pulled himself up. "Great. A nark... nars... narsisismist... I uh..."

"Narcissus. I am a narcissus." Jastin walked closer and closer to him.

"Rasengan!" Naruto charged at Jastin before he got to him, only to get blown sky high. "That's it! Summoning Jutsu!" A cloud of smoke caught him and flew down onto the ground. "Thanks..."

The brown dragon nodded. "It is no problem."

"This again?" Jastin snickered. "You have such a small skill set."

"Go... Uh Gogo!" Naruto aimed his finger at him.

"Yes." The dragon flapped it's wings and rammed into Jastin, sending him flying back. "Fire Rain Jutsu!" Gogo spit out a fireball that divided into ten others, each of the ten enlarged multiple times.

The flames smashed into the ground and all around Jastin. "Foolish dragon!" The flames dispersed instantly as a wave of force impelled into Gogo. Dropping him down onto the rocks.

"Maybe... Maybe you are the foolish one... Jastin!" Gogo vanished into smoke, reappearing behind Jastin, covered in a green aura, he tore right through him and landed next to Naruto. The torso and seperate limbs fell to the floor, rolling their own ways.

"That's what you get for underestimating me, Jastin!" Naruto lost his happiness, his mood changed to a much more serious one. "Please give up."

"Never. All ninjas must die." Jastin's head and limbs levitated into the air then reattached, clicking into place. "I cannot be destroyed unless my core is destroyed. Both my brain and heart."

"Oh real-"

"N-Naru...to..." Sasuke called to him.

"Sasuke? Crap I accidently ended up next to you..." Naruto jumped back and bent over Sasuke.

"His neck... Be-Behind it..." Sasuke coughed out.

"Yeah?"

"There...is some kind of...disturbance. M-My Sharingan...saw it..." The pain travelling through his body was excruciating. "Win...and get us...back..." Sasuke's consciouness left him and he blacked out.

"Yeah..." Naruto stood back up. "Gogo! This is it."

The dragon glared at Jastin. "Let's do it, Naruto. I hate this freak." Gogo growled.

"Oh? Now you've 'decided' your going to win?" Jastin laughed. "Please stop, you are making me laugh."

"No... Because of what you told me... and what Sasuke told me, your gonna lose." Naruto leaned forward. A bright yellow and dark red ball generated in his two hands.

"What did we say?" Jastin raised both arms in question.

"Just enough!" Naruto ripped apart the ground as he somehow levitated off the ground, flying at his enemy with a black orb, outlined with bright yellow. "Dimension Shattering RASENGAN!"

Jastin held his left arm out to his left, creating a Shīrudo force field in front of him. The ball struck into the barrier, creating a draw in power. "Impressive. I didn't realize you had such strength."

"This is all of it! Condition one is met!" Naruto yelled over the loud noise the collision caused.

"Condition one?"

"Enough power to blast every inch of you!" The ground quaked under them.

"Then condition two is?" He pondered. Then realization came all two soon. "It is my..."

The back of my neck is where the concenration of my power is, the connection between my heart and brain. It is sensitive.

Gogo chomped into the back of Jastin's neck. "Now! Do it Now!" He bit down as hard as he could manage to do.

Let us crush him together! Now! Use my power!

The Shīrudo vanished from the collision, Jastin was stunned completely. Gogo poofed away, back to the summoning world he came from. The Rasengan dug deep into Jastin's torso, it ripped through his chest and lower neck then spread through his body and destroyed his left arm.

"Y-You! Will n-never win!" Jastin squeezed his remaining right hand together. One final Shīrudo attack crushed Naruto's insides and broke each bone in every limb.

Naruto screamed in pain. Pushing on the Rasengan with whatever he could manage after his arms broke, attempting to ignore the pain. "I will protect...everyone!" Blood spilled from his mouth.

The entire world began to collapse on itself, the rocks and sky were replaced with blank white nothingness. Jastin was still fighting back with his last breaths. "I...am...I-Immortal!"

The universe shattered and ripped apart. Everything turned into nothing.