Chapter 60: Shinju

Naruto grows nervous from witnessing Obito's transformation into a jinchuriki. As Naruto and the others watch Obito slowly levitate to the ground they become concerned at the state of the battlefield that has slowed to nearly a stop to take in the enemies new appearance.

"It seems I've failed. Oh well." Madara says indifferently as the clones of Hashirama and Tobirama begin to head towards the new threat.

"I don't understand. What's happened?" Sasuke asks

"He never was performing the samsara of heavenly life technique, he has been concentrating on using a hand sign to perform the sealing of the jubi." Naruto says as he is focusing on Obito.

"How do you know that?" Minato asks

"Because, I've seen the hand sign for the samsara of heavenly life technique before the hand signs are completely different." Naruto says as Obito extends chakra arms from extensions on his shoulders that rip apart the four red yang formation barrier. Hashirama's clone and Tobirama appear beside Naruto and the others as the real Hashirama uses the sage art: gate of the great god to attempt to pin Obito that breaks them apart with ease and attacks the Hashirama clone and Tobirama slicing them both in half with black orbs that appear in Obito's hands. The Hashirama clone binds Obito in wood as Tobirama pulls out exploding tags from his body as it starts regenerating, warning the others to get away. Gamakichi hops away with the others on top of him as the exploding tags go off with multiple explosions as Tobirama generates more with his exploding body.

"This is bad, he is even stronger than me now." Hashirama says at a distance but, before he can do anything Madara appears with his complete body susanoo.

"I've waited long enough Hashirama!" Madara shouts as Hashirama forms a wood release: wood human to counter susanoo.

"Madara now is not the time for us to fight! Your accomplice has become a jinchuriki and is about to attack." Hashirama shouts at Madara who begins to draw a sword from susanoo and begins to attack.

"It doesn't matter as edo tensei we'll simply recover. Now is time to settle our differences once and for all." Madara says indifferently to Hashirama's plea.

With Naruto he grows nervous as the smoke clears from the explosions of the exploding tags. Obito appears from the smoke protected by a black sphere that has surrounded him. Hiruzen goes onto the offensive attacking Obito with a volley of large shuriken but Obito slices through them with his black orbs shaping into disks. He then impales Hiruzen through the head with the black orbs shaping into a spear that destroys the top half of Hiruzen's body.

"This isn't good! He is taking out the hokages effortlessly." Naruto says

"Stay calm Naruto we're edo tensei we'll simply regenerate after a while." Minato says as he goes into attack Obito but, Naruto grabs onto the others and Minato with chakra arms as Obito goes after them. Minato teleports them away with the hiraishin as Obito's body bloats up and launches a black orb at his other half of his body he sends underground to attack them. The black orb explodes, leveling the area and half of his body.

"It appears that he isn't in control of himself. This is a chance." Minato says as he heads toward Obito with a tri pronged kunai in hand and is about to attack Obito but Obito gains control of himself and transforms again then, rips off a arm off Minato as he teleports back to the others not realizing that he has an black orb attached to him about to go off. Fortunately a clone of Tobirama appears and teleports away with it to Obito's side and it goes off destroying the clone but Obito appears from the smoke protected by a sphere that is surrounding him.

"It appears those black orbs are able to go from offense to defense rather quickly." Tobirama states

"Yes it will be difficult to land a hit on him with a defense like that." Minato says as Sasuke charges ahead and uses amaterasu to attack Obito but, he deflects it by twirling his staff made of the black orbs.

"Sasuke you need to follow my lead on this ok. We need to attack together in order to injure him." Naruto says but Sasuke remains silent as he begins to charge forward as Naruto runs alongside him and forms a rasenshuriken beside him. Sasuke then uses his Takemikazuchi on the rasenshuriken, adding black lightning to it. As they're about to attack Obito, Minato steps in front of them to take the attack but, he switches himself with Tobirama who has a hand on Obito allowing Obito to take the blow without his black orbs circling him that were left behind he is sent flying by the thunder release: Nimbus gale technique as Tobirama teleports to Minato to watch as the black orbs that were left behind fly to Obito and negate the damage of the attack and the black lightning. As Obito recovers and takes to the air through levitation Minato asks him a pressing question.

"Obito, why did you give up on becoming Hokage?" Minato says

"It's simple sensei the hokage are fools incapable of bringing peace that they desire. When I discovered the futility of the endeavour it made it easy to give up on it." Obito says as Gamakichi fires a sage art: water release: starch syrup gun at Obito that blocks it.

"Your arm hasn't regenerated after all this time it's strange." Tobirama says noticing the damage to Minato

"You're right it should've regenerated sometime ago." Minato says

"It appears that those black orbs also consist of yin yang release allowing them to negate the effects of ninjutsu rendering our regeneration and ninjutsu useless against him." Tobirama says

"That means we can't take lethal blows or we'll be sent back to the afterlife." Minato says

"That's right." Tobirama says as he notices that the technique Gamakichi used wasn't negated. He also notices that Naruto has entered sage mode and is forming an ultra big ball rasengan. Tobirama jumps to Naruto's side and teleports him behind Obito and Naruto hits him with sage art: Ultra big ball rasengan sending Obito flying into the ground forming a huge crater.

"It appears that while ninjutsu won't work, Senjutsu does." Tobirama does as he and Naruto teleport back to the side of Minato.

"Don't look down on the title of Hokage Obito!" Naruto shouts as Obito slowly gets up as a black orb tries to heal the damage to his back.

"This has gone on long enough it's time to begin enacting the eye of the moon plan." Obito says as he places his hands on the ground and generates a huge tree with four flowers blooming on it that start to form each a tailed beast ball. He then launches six of his black orbs around the area and forms a barrier with six red yang formation trapping the remains of the alliance in it.

"This isn't good, he intends to set them off with us trapped inside the barrier." Tobirama says

"Even in my best condition I could only teleport away two of the tailed beast balls." Minato says

"While, I can teleport only one." Tobirama says

"The only other option is to teleport the tree away." Minato says

"You think I will allow such a thing sensei face it you're a failure. You couldn't protect anything not your team, not your wife, and certainly not your life." Obito says

"Dad I have a plan but I need you to bump fists with me." Naruto says as he channels chakra to Sasuke and Jugo.

"Naruto you shouldn't depend on that man. He failed to protect your mother. Do you know what tomorrow is? It's the anniversary of your parent's deaths." Obito says as he forms a black sphere around himself.

"Yeah I know tomorrow is my birthday after all and I plan on celebrating it with my comrades." Naruto says as he channels chakra from yin kurama in Minato as they both enter their nine tails chakra modes. The shrouds that once surrounded the allied shinobi return just as strong as before. Just as the tailed beast balls are launched and go off destroying everything within the barrier except for the black sphere containing Obito. As the blast ends and Obito reveals himself he finds nothing inside the barrier. Outside the barrier the allied shinobi are safe as Naruto used his connection to his father and the shroud to Hiraishin outside the barrier with everyone.

"That was clever of you Naruto using my connection with Kyuubi to connect to you and through the shrouds everyone in the alliance." Minato says

"Yes he successfully altered his chakra to match yours in order to pull it off. Quite impressive." Tobirama says

"I figured it would work when Dad mentioned that he was able to teleport anything he or his chakra was connected to." Naruto says

"You're very stubborn one aren't you Naruto." Obito says as he takes down the barrier with it no longer having a purpose.

"That's because I refuse to let the world end and will never give up on it." Naruto shouts as he enters Tailed beast mode along with sage mode as his father enters tailed beast mode as well both of them together form a parent and child rasengan that strikes at Obito that tries to block it with the black orbs shaping into a huge shield but, it shatters sending him flying away. As Obito gets up he decides to end the battle.

"Very well let's proceed with the eye of the moon plan." Obito says as he claps his hands and expels the jubi from his body that takes on the form of a giant tree that reaches the clouds. The tree's roots that ensnare many of the allied shinobi draining them of chakra. Naruto is captured by the roots and is nearly drained of chakra but is saved by Hiruzen and both of them are teleported away by Tobirama to a safe distance.

"What is this?!" Hashirama shouts as the tree begins to form

"This is the jubi true form that of the shinju the original owner of chakra." Madara says

"What!?" Hashirama says

"It's true long ago this tree bore a single fruit during a time of endless wars with the tree indifferent to humanities struggles. One day a princess from a far off land ate the fruit it bore and gained the power of chakra to end all conflicts. She later would give birth to the sage of six paths who was the first born with chakra. He distributed chakra among his followers to link themselves to one another as he intended to use understand each other without conversation but they used it to harness their inner energies to form jutsu and began to fight amongst each other once more. You see the jubi is simply taking back what is rightfully its." Madara says

"How do you know of this?!" Hashirama says

"It was written on the Uchiha stone tablet that carried the history of the sage of six paths. When I read it I fell into despair realizing that humanity chose to make chakra a weapon to only make wars worse in the end that's when I decided to follow the path of missing nin and begin to enact the eye of the moon plan." Madara says

"So, that's why you turned your back on the village we created!" Hashirama says

"That's right, in this reality war is an eventuality while, in the world of dreams we will find peace at long last when the flower on top of the tree blooms and casts its eye on the moon and reflects infinite tsukuyomi." Madara says

"How long until the tree blooms!" Hashirama asks

"Without the nanabi, hachibi, and kyuubi the jubi is incomplete, so it will take a little while, about 18 minutes for it to bloom." Madara says as Hashirama relays the information to its wood clone to spread it to the alliance.

"All your suffering will end once the tree blooms." Obito says to the alliance of remaining shinobi.

"I will spare anyone that stops resisting." Obito says toward the alliance that is spiralling into depression.

"Don't listen to him by giving up is no better than dying." Hashirama shouts but the alliance has no morale as they are informed via Ino's telepathy of the time limit of 18 minutes. While Sakura tries to treat the wounded shinobi remotely via Katsuyu but, she informs her that the slugs on the shinobi died when their chakra was sucked out. As a root of the tree dangles over the shinobi to drain them of chakra Sasuke uses his susanoo to slash it off.

"Is this your limit Naruto?" Sasuke asks disappointed

"No not even close for the sake of those I've lost, I refuse to carry anymore regrets and will not let those who died be in vain." Naruto says as his memories and feelings are conveyed to the alliance through Ino's telepathy. Yin kurama transfers its remaining chakra to Naruto who enters Tailed beast sage mode and charges toward Obito alongside Sasuke who has Jugo join inside his susanoo to channel natural energy into the susanoo. As Naruto and Sasuke enter battle with Obito, Hashirama conveys his memories of the first kage summit as the shared desire for all shinobi to be united to the alliance as the five kage that have recovered arrive to rally the troops to battle. The allied shinobi begin to attack the tree as they are supported by Katsuyu and Tobirama that teleports the shinobi that are in danger. Meanwhile, Sasuke and Naruto are knocked out of tailed beast mode and susanoo.

"Naruto why do you continue to fight for a world that will only hurt you in the end?" Obito asks

"Because it's worth saving and I never go back on my word that's my nindo." Naruto shouts

"It's time we end this." Sasuke says as he begins to reform susanoo

"Yeah Sasuke it's about time we end this, so we can get some sleep. I've a big day tomorrow after all." Naruto says as he enters tailed beast mode that the susanoo covers as armor. Obito forms a shield from the black orbs and the sword of nunoboko to attack them while, Naruto uses Ino's telepathy to call the konoha 11 minus sakura and sai. They enter the tails of the nine tails shroud and form a mantle around them with a rasengan in front of them. Naruto instructs them to shatter Obito's shield with them as the Nine tails attacks and the konoha 11 shatter the shield and with a susanoo sword cut through Obito causes the tailed beasts to appear connected to him. They latch onto each one of Kurama's tails and Naruto begins to pull the tailed beast's out of Obito that struggles as he loses control of the tree as it stops blooming. The allied shinobi are connected by chakra tethers from Minato's nine tailed chakra mode and begin to help pull the tailed beasts out of Obito with their combined might. As the struggle continues Obito finds himself in his subconscious facing the allied shinobi and Naruto.

"Obito despite everything you aren't a nobody, you're Obito uchiha." Naruto says

"That person is long gone Naruto." Obito says

"No he isn't. I sense your inner regrets for the choices you've made." Naruto says

"I have no regrets about my actions." Obito says as he attempts to strangle Naruto but, he is punched away.

"Look at you Rin wouldn't be able to recognize or acknowledge you as you're now." Naruto says

"Take my hand Obito and join us as a member of the alliance, as a fellow shinobi." Naruto says as he takes Obito's hand. On the outside the alliance manages to successfully pull out the tailed beasts freeing them as Obito plummets to the ground his transformation gone. As Obito stares up at the moon lamenting that couldn't fill the hole in his heart from the loss of Rin.