Naruto Shippuden XT Storm

by Kyzer Azure

An alternate storyline set to the second generation after the events of Boruto. Narashi Uzumaki, Shinrin Haruno, Uraika Uchiha and new team member Devika Shukumei embark on a grand adventure of missions and wars characterized by enemies of present and even the distant future (Former Naruto Shippuden Forum roleplay story)

8. Arc 8 - Uchiha Turmoil

Arc 8 – The final conequest – The battle to release the Uchiha!

Chapter 1 – The final preperations take place!

A week had passed, and the information pertaining the Four nations of Stone, Water, Lightning and Wind being destroyed had been spread out through the Hidden Leaf and it was bringing intense tension with the villagers, Shinobi and especially the Hokage. "We have no idea when Takashi is planning his move against us, the Four nations of Wind, Lightning, Water and Stone couldn't topple his power, what chance do we have!?" One of the councilmen shouted, glancing to another.

"Takashi Uchiha, the byproduct of that Orochimaru's god damn experimentation… we should have had Takashi destroyed the moment he was born!" another councilman shouted. "Orochimaru had convinced us this Uchiha would have no baring or desire to destroy, only to protect the leaf! What bullpuckey that turned out to be, he's become the Shinobi worlds all-time greatest threat! He's close to the point of wiping out the entire shinobi name all for his ambitions!" the councilwomen exclaimed.

"Would you lot shut up! I am aware of his intentions and what he is doing! I'm not blind!" Shirahoshi snapped at the council, earning glares from them. "Well I don't see you coming up with any bright ideas to stopping this!" The councilwomen snapped back. "I would if I had any bright ideas that COULD stop him! He possess the Five Elemental Forbidden Jutsu, he possess some of the Shinobi worlds most feared rogue ninja! On top of that he possesses nearly every single Uchiha Clan forbidden jutsu that Orochimaru would have fed him from his genetic structures! We're talking about someone who basically possess the power of a god!"

"This matter is getting us nowhere! We have to establish our highest code of the village and get them out of here at once!" The councilman shouted. "Agreed." The others motioned. "Then get off your old asses and DO IT!" Shirahoshi shouted, the council lot glaring at the female before getting up and making the preperations. "Where the heck are Narashi and Uraika!? I don't even know where the hell Uraika has gone all of a sudden, but we need them as well as the others if we hope to pull this crap off!" Shirahoshi thought to herself, grabbing her stashed bottle of Sake and tipped the bottle back.

"Code Diamond huh…" Marakai muttered to Joushiro while reading his book. "It's never before seen in Shinobi history, they made it up just for this one occasion." Joushiro explained sighing. "Here I thought the Fourth Great Ninja war and the Battle with the Otsutsuki's would have ended this nightmare completely, but one after another we continue to be hogwashed by battles… the One Nation war… the one Man war…. The Bandit war… The War of Darkness… and now a War on the Uchiha." Joushiro explained again.

"It just seems to be the pattern the Shinobi world lives in at this point of time… What with Narashi training at Mt Myobokuzan and what not…we just have to make do with what we have." Marakai explained, looking over to see the villagers being evacuated from their homes and out of the village walls. "Speaking of that… any sign of Uraika?" Joushiro asked. "No… not even a trace, it's like he's just upped and vanished without a reason why…" Marakai sighed, glancing around. "I just hope Takashi hasn't already got to him first." Marakai thought to himself.

"The village is slowly but surely being evacuated Marakai, we're just now pretty much anticipating his attack." Gaito told the two approaching with a calm look to his face. "You're awfully relaxed Gaito." Marakai responded, closing his book to address the man. "It's a war time situation… again, it's kind of hard to get the blood pumping with youth when you're constantly on the battleground." Gaito explained. "Yeah…. No kidding…" Marakai sighed, rubbing his left eye.

"Something wrong Marakai?" Gaito asked. "Just… can't shake the feeling that something big is coming its way… and it's coming straight from Takashi himself… it's been like this for a while… since he engaged us in the Forest of Death…" Marakai reopened his eyes and glanced upwards seeing the sky darkening over with black clouds, followed by rain and thunder. "Time is running out…" Marakai muttered, glancing to the other two. "Let's aid the evacuation and get our forces ready." He told them, both nodding before departing to do as said.

"Lord Takashi… everything and everyone is ready for our invasion…. But if I may… do we really need to send the entire organization in…?" Kaiba asked, the masked male standing from his seat cracking the bones in his neck. "Do not underestimate the power of the Hidden Leaf… they have been the driving forces of the shinobi world since Haashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha first established it… and do no forget they also harbour the power of the Uchiha… and the Nine-Tails… both of which are our primary targets of destruction…Once those lot are out of the way… no one will be able to stop us." Takashi explained, Sharingan blaring in both eyes.

"Now go… I will go straight into the core of the village… and confront the Hokage… personally." Takashi explained, his form spiraling into a vortex and vanished. "Alright you lot, you heard our leader, onward to the Hidden Leaf!" Kaiba exclaimed, the organization chanting before vanishing. "Kepi, you are to remain here." Kaiba explained, glancing to the female who hadn't left. "Takashi's orders ya? Alright!" She exclaimed, sitting down and waiting.

"Why I wonder…" Kaiba thought to himself before vanishing himself.

Chapter 2 – Takashi's invasion begins! The fall of Shirahoshi!

An hour had passed and the village had finally been evacuated, a cold chill stifled the air, silence spread throughout, the only thing hearable was the rain and thunder crashing around the village, Shirahoshi watching from the top of the Hokage's manner with a deep frown on her face. "The Villagers got out in time… that's good… now we just have to wait for Takashi and his goons to arrive." Shirahoshi muttered to herself, closing her eyes slowly.

"Did I hear you right? You evacuated the village already?" A voice from behind the female Hokage expressed, making her eyes open slightly. "And here I was hoping to have a little fun killing them off after I ended your miserable life…. Oh well…" the male spoke again, before appearing through a vortex, revealing it to be Takashi. "I was told that you like to always make a dramatic entrance… Takashi Uchiha." Shirahoshi muttered, turning to face the male standing tall and proud.

"Shirahoshi Kashin, Daughter of the Legendary Sannin Tsunade… and you could say Legendary Sannin Jiraiya… at least from a biological stand point." Takashi explained examining the women over. "Age has not served you well at all… Hokage." Takashi added, the female smirking. "As if I'd let the insults of a backstabbing monster like yourself get me down… but before I pummel that mask off your face… tell me one thing." Shirahoshi muttered. "You have my undivided attention… speak." Takashi responded. "Why?" She asked.

"Why…?" Takashi responded back, tilting his head some. "Why are you so bent on destroying the Uchiha and the Five Great Nations… what twisted scheme would have you do all of this? Destroy Four Great Nations and come to us to deliver your justice… what drives you." Shirahoshi muttered again. "I suppose if that's your final request before you die… I will gladly accept your dying request." Takashi explained, taking his mask and half removing it to show his face a little.

"You could say… I'm doing this as a sense of Justice for both the Hidden Leaf and the Uchiha itself." Takashi explained, "Justice for the Uchiha and Hidden Leaf? What do you mean?" Shirahoshi demanded. "Surely one of the Kage ranked would have access to those personal files contained in the grand vault." Takashi replied, placing his mask back on properly. "The ones that explain the attempted eradication of the Uchiha Clan nearly a century ago." Takashi responded, Shirahoshi stepping back in shock.

"Those files were supposed to be of the highest grade security… how did you find out about that!?" Shirahoshi explained. "You should know that assumptions are the mother of all mess ups." Takashi explained, chuckling a little. "But you're right to have assumed that of me, because I found out the day Sasuke Uchiha ended his life." Takashi explained. "Sasuke Uchiha ended his life when he knew his time was up, taking himself to a hidden room near the valley of the end where he casted Amaterasu upon himself and the documents he contained… luckily for him I was there to snatch them… and I ended the fool myself." Takashi explained.

"You killed Sasuke Uchiha!? That's how you…"

"Got the Mangekyou at such a young age? That's correct… sadly his eyes were already gouged out before he died therefore I could not achieve my eternal there and then either, but I got the information that I desired and when I found out the truth… that is when I made my resolve to purge the Uchiha and the Hidden Leaf… then the world will truly know peace…" Takashi explained. "For you see… the real reason the world will never know peace is because of the Hidden Leaf Village! Time and time again this village has seen war and death… destruction and chaos, and this village sits at the root of it all, right down to the point when it all began… when Kaguya Otsutsuki birthed her two sons and Ninshuu became law." Takashi added.

"For that reason alone… I will exact my master plan…" Takashi told her, making her eyes narrow. "And what is that master plan?" Shirahoshi asked. "Why… to go back to the time when Kaguya Otsutsuki arrived on Earth…and eradicate her." Takashi explained, Shirahoshi's eyes widening. "How do you plan to do that!?" She demanded. "If I must… see there is a forbidden jutsu that was long since forgotten in time… or better yet… an artifact hidden here in the Hidden Leaf… used a long time ago when Boruto Uzumaki was still a little child." Takashi told her.

"The artifact of the Otsutsuki… the time travelling turtle…" Shirahoshi muttered. "You should know about this because the secrets to its location would have been sealed inside your brain like all the Kage's before you… a safeguard made by Naruto Uzumaki in order for it to never be misused again." Takashi explained. "How do you know about this? Just how much information did you acquire!?" Shirahoshi shouted. "This was actually the information I dug up when I found Xin Shoyo's base of operations and ramsacked it for my own gains." Takashi explained.

"Xin…" Shirahoshi seethed. "Is that how you acquired the Five Forbidden Elemental Jutsu!?" Shirahoshi shouted. "Very observant… yes, Xin Shoyo possessed that information as well, for someone who claimed to have the best intentions for his daughter, he was very good at plotting the possible end of Shinobi kind." Takashi told her, forming a handseal. "Now… the discussion is over… hand over the information to the artifact and I may consider sparing you and the Hidden Leaf." Takashi muttered.

"Before you even try! I want to know, what would killing Kaguya accomplish!?" Shirahoshi explained. "It's quite simple actually." Takashi explained, chakra beginning to surface around his body. "For you see, if I destroy Kaguya… then she will never give birth to the Black Zetsu… nor will she give birth to Hagaromo and Hamura… therefore the Sharingan, Byakugan and Rinnegan would never come to power." Takashi explained. "From that, no more Uchiha, no more Hyuuga…. And no more Senju… the Senju and the Uchiha are warmakers that intentionalize peace, but use blood shed to make it happen… I will become the Shinobi worlds true leader and from that! I will erase the terms Shinobi! And I will create a new world devoid of war and chaos!" Takashi exclaimed, starting to form handseals.

"Now enough talking, hand over the seal! Fire Style – Fireball Jutsu!" Takashi shouted, launching a massive ball of fire from his masked mouth of which shot towards the female Hokage. The Hokage snarled as she drew chakra into her fist and used it to punch the fireball back at Takashi. "Rather impressive chakra manifestation." Takashi mused, the fire phasing through his being, as he charged towards her. "But nothing I can't handle with the Kamui!" Takashi shouted, entering her range and looked ready to strike her with his fist. The female snarled and quickly retaliated with a roundhouse kick towards his head. The male grinned as her foot phased through his head, but in the process he ended up phasing through her as well.

As the male turned to launch a counter assault, he found her fist right towards his face. "Clever girl" Takashi thought to himself as he was struck in the face and was hurled several yards away, crashing through building tops before hitting the ground hard. "You don't really think I would have not anticipated the Kamui!? Don't forget we have as much information on you as you have on us! We know your moves inside and out, there's nothing you can really throw that we won't have knowledge on!" Shirahoshi shouted, cracking the knuckles in her fist.

"Is that right? Well I guess that's poor thinking on my part then." Takashi muttered from behind the female, who gasped and spun around in time to be impaled by a black rod. The female snarled, gripping the rod and shattered it before stepping back to attempt her mitonic regeneration but gasped when she found the seal was gone. "A little lost for words are we? That rod was imbued with my chakra of which I launched inside you the second the rod impaled your body… doing that I was able to remove your seal of mitonic regeneration… so you can throw that aspect out the window and you can consider your trump card, dismissed." Takashi explained.

"How did you even evade my attack, I hit you dead on…" Shirahoshi shouted, glancing back towards the battlefield and then gasp when she saw one of her own ANBU members in Takashi's place. "Just a little Genjutsu I applied when I got here… the same Genjutsu in fact that allowed the Raikage to kill the Tsuchikage thinking it was one of my men." Takashi explained, Shirahoshi snarling. "Which could mean you're of the same aspect…Release!" Shirahoshi shouted, taking the hand sign and like that the world fizzled back to somewhat reality revealing Takashi to be who he was.

"In this instance, not really… however allowing me to strike you with that rod will also serve to be your downfall." Takashi explained forming a handseal, then several before ending on the serpant seal. (hands clasped together) "Wood style! Cutting Sprigs Jutsu!" Takashi shouted, Shirahoshi's eyes widening in horror as suddenly branches of tree's ripped through her entire body, her arms, legs, thighs, elbows, upper arm, torso and almost her head were impaled by tree branches, blood splattering everywhere.

"How did you… wood style…?" Shirahoshi snarled, spewing up blood before dropping to the ground. "The details aren't important… let's just say Xin Shoyo's genius mind has given me the perfect body… one that harnesses all the elements, all the Mangekyou Sharingan jutsu and of course all of the youth I need to retain my place as the worlds true leader!" Takashi exclaimed, the female Kage glaring at the male weakly.

"Now then… let's find out what you know." Takashi muttered, reaching down to grab her head, but leapt back when a lightning bolt crashed down between them, making him flinch rather than use Kamui to evade. "You won't lay a hand on her Takashi!" Marakai shouted, slipping between them, forming handseals. "Lightning Style – Rampant Lightning hound!" Marakai shouted, a series of lightning bolt made dogs rushing towards Takashi of whom allowed each one to phase through. Marakai's Mangekyou activated and pulsations rippled across Takashi, making the other gasp for a moment, Marakai suddenly within the Kamui dimension with a lightning blade in hand.

"Clever man." Takashi mused, as he quickly returned to the real dimension, Marakai managing to tag along with the attack, ripping part of Takashi's robe off around the arm. Takashi leapt back for a moment and ripped the remaining cloth off before grinning behind his mask. "Well played… so your eyes share the same teleportation as my Kamui… very interesting… but I see now I am wasting my time trying to get the information from the Hokage… she's on the verge of death anyway…" Takashi explained, leaping away from the lot of them and appeared atop the Hokage stone statues.

"It matters not, I have a plan B for that moment… but because of that I have no more use for this village." Takashi explained, forming a series of handseals that seemed to go for a while before he finished them up and launched five fireballs into the sky. "Fire Style – Planetary Meteor Destruction!" Takashi shouted, Marakai and Shirahoshi's eyes widening in horror. Within moments five gigantic meteors began their descent towards the village, Marakai glaring deeply at them. "I don't think there's anything in our arsenal capable of handling this, not even my Mangekyou… we have to brace for impact!" Marakai shouted, Shirahoshi closing her eyes, tears running down her face.

"I have failed my duties as Kage…" she thought to herself, feeling her life ebb away.

"SAGE ART – MASSIVE RASEN-RAITEN BARRAGE!" a voice screamed from a distance, earning the shock of Marakai and Shirahoshi, as five gigantic balls of wind and lightning spiraling chakra shot up towards the five meteors, hitting them and instantly setting them off in a huge explosion that sent shockwaves crashing all around. Takashi even found himself shielding himself from the explosion. "What the hell happened!?" Takashi shouted angrily, before gasping and glancing behind, being suddenly smashed hard in the face by a foot and was hurled to the ground with tremendous force.

"What just happened!?" Marakai thought to himself. "Sorry I'm late Sensei… I wasn't sure when the right time would come for this… but I am here now and everything will be alright!" said a voice from behind the Jounin, who turned around to see none other than Narashi Uzumaki standing before him, wearing an orange robe around his being, but more importantly his eyes being red around the edges with toad like amber eyes in place of his normal dark eyes.

"N-….Narashi?" Marakai muttered.

Chapter 3 – Narashi Uzumaki returns to the battlefield! Takashi reveals himself!?

Takashi slowly brought himself to his feet, adjusting his mask to sit on his face proper before looking up at the Kage rock formations seeing a shadow clone of Narashi standing there with his arms folded, glaring down at the male. "Narashi Uzumaki of the Nine-Tails… it figures it would be you to interfere with my jutsu… and cleverly done as well." Takashi muttered, glancing at the clone and saw his eyes.

"Had it not been for Sage Mode that is… so that's where you've been hiding… you combated the loss of the Nine-Tails chakra by learning Sage chakra manifestation… very cunning of you, that's why I couldn't sense your chakra till the very last second." Takashi added.

"Narashi… I can't honestly believe how relieved I am to see you here…" Marakai sighed, glaring ahead. "We're going to need your Sage power to handle Takashi." Marakai muttered, Narashi walking past the male and crouched down to Shirahoshi. "I'm… sorry for being late…" Narashi muttered to her, the female smiling weakly. "Forget it… you're here now… but please listen… I'm done for… so listen carefully…" Shirahoshi muttered, spitting up some blood before speaking. "You… are our last hope… you will become a great Hokage…. But don't… underestimate Takashi… it will be your downfall… good luck…" Shirahoshi muttered, before her form went limp and her last breaths were made.

"Shirahoshi…" Marakai and Narashi both thought in unison, before Narashi got to his feet and glared deeply at Takashi. "I will NEVER FORGIVE you for this!" Narashi scowled, the Uchiha turning around to face the boy. "I never wanted your forgiveness in the first place Uzumaki, I am here for my ambitions not to play house… now how bout we take this somewhere else and finish this." Takashi explained, looking ahead and seeing his Organization finally making it to the battlefield. "Lord Takashi!" Kaiba shouted.

"Entertain the other shinobi… I'll deal with these maggots." Takashi explained, vanishing into a vortex. "You heard our lord! Spread out and take on anyone around you!" Kaiba shouted, the organization nodding before rushing away individually. Kaiba was about to move himself, before he found himself inside a toads mouth. "Sorry there pal, but I know you well enough to know you're not someone to take on unless you're of Sage class… it's a good thing I am here then." A voice told Kaiba through the toads mouth.

"Joushiro Kashin of the Toad art… an honour to do battle with you… I will enjoy this." Kaiba mused, removing his mask to showcase his face, his visual prowess activating.

"Takashi's moved… let's go Narashi!" Marakai shouted, the Uzumaki nodded looking around for Takashi's chakra and then pointed off to the south. "He's that way." Narashi shouted, the Jounin nodding before they rushed off to the designated location.

Takashi arrived at his designated battlefield, looking around for a moment before watching Narashi and Marakai arrive on the battlefield themselves. "What do you think? A perfect backdrop for your demise." Takashi explained, Narashi scowling. "You mean for your demise you twisted freak!" Narashi roared. "Why do you hate me so much? I'm doing this for the sake of the Ninja world… and for true peace." Takashi explained. "By destroying villages and killing innocent people!? ARE YOU THAT BRAINDEAD!?" Narashi howled.

"That is a rather simple minded and simplistic way of making it sound boy." Takashi muttered, forming handseals. "But we are not here to talk, we are here to do battle." Takashi explained, his Mangekyou activating. "Fire Style – Great Fire Vortex!" Spiralling his body around, Takashi released a fireball of which began to spiral around itself and grow bigger in size. "Water style! Water Wall!" Marakai shouted, spewing water from his masked mouth, before slamming down on it with his hands, the wall rising up and taking the fire attack and consumed the area in steam.

"Narashi, nows your chance!" Marakai shouted, the Uzumaki nodding before creating two Rasen-Shuriken's in his palms before launching them towards Takashi's general location. "Using the steam to block out the Sharingan's copying and prediction, very clever Marakai Hatake of the Sharingan." Takashi mused, as he leapt over the attacks easily, forming his own handseals once again. "Wind Style – Uchiha reflection!" Takashi shouted, arching back and then released a huge gale of wind that removed the mist rather easily, as well as send dust flying towards Marakai and Narashi, who shielded it off.

Takashi rushed through the dust and entered Narashi's range, looking to deal a strike with his rod. Narashi quickly reacted to this and deflected the rod away, as well as the offensive strikes Takashi was throwing at him. "Using Sage mode to detect my movements and counter! Very well observant Uzumaki, you are indeed a genius of your generation!" Takashi shouted, Narashi throwing a dummy punch towards Takashi of which the male phased through, but as he launched his counter assault, he was struck in the face by an unknown source and was flung back.

"Frog Kumite… using your attacks to generate shockwaves of which the eyes cannot detect… you are indeed a worthy opponent to the Uchiha!" Takashi mused, using the rod to cancel his sliding, and rushed towards Narashi with handseals formed. Narashi used this time to grab a demon windmill shuriken and launched it towards Takashi. "Simple weapons like that won't have any effect on me!" Takashi shouted, phasing through it and carried on his assault. Narashi grinned as he suddenly grabbed what looked to be ninja wire and yanked back on it, making Takashi's eyes widen.

Before he could look back and see what had come about that, a shard of the now broken Shuriken lodged itself into the males back, forcing him face first to the floor. "A rigged Shuriken… he's taking advantage of my constant need to use Kamui and Kouesyoumi… I guess I have to play things differently…" Takashi scowled, as he reached around and pulled the shard out of his back and got to his feet.

"You can't even fight without your beloved visual prowess! How bout you stop hiding behind them like a coward and fight like a man!" Narashi shouted, Marakai glancing to the boy. "Be careful, your Sage chakra won't last forever… keep that in mind." Marakai muttered. "He's right you know… and with that at mind… I will show you something that I haven't demonstrated to you as of yet… one of more more… favourite jutsu." Takashi explained, forming a seal and created four clones of himself, the clones moving to be on four points surrounding Narashi and Marakai.

The clones then created another set of seals and created clones off them, those ones forming handseals and then slammed their palms to the floor. "Uchiha Style Crimson seal barrier!" They shouted, earning a horrified look from Marakai. "NO!" The Jounin shouted, before they were then concealed in a red barrier while the other clones and the real Takashi all began handseals in long successions. "What is this!?" Narashi asked, glaring around. "It's a sealing barrier of the Uchiha clan, one of the most powerful in it's time, it only comes second to the Kage formation barrier… once inside you cannot escape! It's generally used to contain tailed beasts… or in this case… pin us inside where they can launch a powerful jutsu and we can't get out of it!"

The clones and the real finished their handseals and leapt into the air suddenly. "Fire Style – Great Fire Annihilation!" the real shouted, firing a huge stream of fire from his mouth. "Water Style – Great Typhoon destruction!" A clone shouted, releasing a torrid stream of water from his mouth of which took the form of a water twister. "Wind Style – Devestating break!" the third form shouted, releasing a huge gale of wind from his frame. "Earth Style – Muddy River destruction!" The fourth shouted, releasing a stream of muddy water down towards them, then finally. "Lightning style – Kirin!" the final shouted, firing a fireball into the sky, of which contracted thunder and lightning to which he then released down towards the two.

"There's no way out of this!" Marakai shouted, gritting his teeth through his mask. "I can't believe this!" Narashi shouted, readying up a Rasen-Shuriken.

Meanwhile inside Narashi's subconscious a single figure was seen appearing inside the form, and walked over towards the unconscious Kurama. The form being female smiled at the fox form before placing her hands on the Foxes tail and began to imbue him with chakra. The fox grumbled for a moment as he felt chakra seeping into his body and of a huge scale, he then suddenly snapped awake and glared around. "Who is there!?" Kurama scowled, before looking down and seeing the women feeding him chakra. "You're…." Kurama muttered in surprise. "I poured a bit of my chakra into Narashi when he was born so I could see him one day when he was older… but it appears time is running short for him… so I am giving you my chakra so you can help him Kurama… save my baby boy… please." The female told the fox. "Ren…. Yes… I will do so… thank you." Kurama muttered, the female smiling lovingly at the fox.

"Naruto made a great choice… you truly are one of my sons greatest friends… please do what you can." She told Kurama before she vanished into particles of chakra. "I will… thank you." Kurama muttered, quickly assessing the situation, before slamming his palms together and drew out as much chakra as he could. "NARASHI!" Kurama roared within his subconscious. Narashi's eyes snapped open suddenly in shock his Sage mode eyes taking on a fox like appearance as well, his form being shrouded in orange chakra and then the attacks made contact.

Takashi in this time had used his Kamui to escape the now exploding barrier, the energy of the explosion shooting up into the roof of the barrier and exploded outwardly sending the smoke spilling out of the barrier like a jet. "Well… that takes care of that little issue… now to find Uraika Uchiha and then…"

"TAKASHI!" roared a voice from behind Takashi, making the male gasp in horror, he spun around in time to see a Rasengan right in his face and an orange blur behind it. "H-HOW DID YOU!?" Takashi roared, before being smashed in the face with the Rasengan, the attack breaking a chunk of his mask off as he was flung back into the barrier, the two attacks merging, before erupting in a near nuclear explosion, sending shockwaves crashing around the area. "What the hell was that!?" Kaiba shouted, glaring around before suddenly having to evade spikes of hair from Joushiro. "Don't you mind that! That's just my student making a mockery of your leader! But I am your opponent, don't underestimate me!" Joushiro shouted, forming a Rasengan and slamming it into Kaiba's form and sent him spiraling back into the wall of a nearby building.

"That was unbelievable Narashi… but how… how did you do all of this… your chakra mode is back… I thought Kurama was…" Marakai muttered, gasping for air a little, having nearly resorted to using his Mangekyou before Narashi intervened. "I thought so too… Kurama what's going on?" Narashi asked, gasping for air himself a little. "You can thank your mother for awakening me." Kurama replied, Narashi and Marakai's eyes widening a little. "So she did apply her chakra inside him when he was born… Ren… you just saved our hides big time…" Marakai muttered to himself while Narashi wiped his eyes free of his tears.

"Thank you Mom… I won't let this go to waste…" Narashi sobbed, before gathering himself watching the explosion die down. "Do you think he's dead?" Narashi asked, Marakai glaring ahead. "I highly doubt it…" Marakai grunted, watching the smoke starting to die away, and there Takashi was on his back, the eye exposed from the broken mask was closed and his form looked motionless.

"I might be wrong… you may have pulled this one off Narashi!" Marakai exclaimed a little too surprised for the matter of hand. "No… you were right sensei…" Narashi muttered, gritting his teeth. "Stop playing dead! I know that didn't kill you!" Narashi shouted, Takashi's eye opening suddenly, as he slowly brought himself to his feet and dusted himself off.

"I must admit… you have far exceeded my expectations… Nine-Tails… playing possum all this time to draw me into a false sense of opportunity… you truly are a wiley old fox…" Takashi muttered, glaring at the boy who's face became a little feral like as he smirked. "You believe what you want to believe… Takashi Uchiha." Narashi muttered, though his voice being clearly Kurama's. "Just remember this one thing however… Naruto Uzumaki entrusted me to this boy and I will do whatever it takes to make sure he becomes the best Hokage there is… so you bet your bottom dollar I will protect him with my life." Kurama explained, earning surprise from Marakai.

Narashi then regained composure, looking at Takashi and the damage sustained. "There's something I've been meaning to say to you actually Takashi… Why do you hide behind your mask like a coward!" Narashi asked the male. "Every time we fight, you hide behind that mask as though you're too scared to fight us head on! How are we even suppose to know you are truly Takashi Uchiha anyway!? What if you're some imposter pretending to be him!? How bout you remove your mask and fight us like a real man! Not a scared little child!" Narashi demanded.

That one rubbed Takashi the wrong way a little and it showed by the man instantly activating his Mangekyou while his eyes narrowed. "So you think I am a coward because I hide behind this mask?" Takashi asked, slowly reaching up to grab the edge of it, clutching it. "Make no mistake boy… this mask is not for my bravery… I wouldn't need it if it's real purpose wasn't a factor…" Takashi explained.

"What do you mean by that?" Marakai asked. "I mean, this mask is a conduit that keeps my chakra from overflowing in huge masses… it contains my chakra and keeps it surpressed… but if you want me to remove it and fight at my complete full power… then so be it. I will happily respect your final request!" Takashi roared, ripping the mask off his face at that moment and crushed it in his palm. Before Narashi and Marakai could get a glimps of Takashi's face a huge explosion of chakra radiated from his body creating a dust cloud that surrounded them all that very moment.

"That level of chakra that came out from his body was insane! I could barely comprehend it!" Narashi shouted, Marakai glaring ahead. "Wind Style – Great Break!" Marakai shouted, thrusting his arms out and created a barrier of wind of which repelled out and casted the dust aside, all apart from the dust surrounding Takashi's being. "Be ready Narashi…" Marakai muttered, the Uzumaki nodding reverting back to normal Sage mode, while watching the smoke slowly clear from Takashi's feet, up past his legs, to his torso, to his neck and finally his face, and upon his face being exposed. Marakai stumbled back in absolute horror.

"N-No….No…no this can't be right… y-you're…!" Marakai muttered in horror, earning a look from Narashi in surprise, before glancing at the male again. Takashi's form was a young male about the same age as Marakai, spiky outwardly hair, but more notably was the facial structure of the male that caught Marakai's horror.

"O-Otokashi!?" Marakai shouted out in questionable shock.

Chapter 4: The story of the Uchiha and Otokashi! Uraika enters the fray!

Takashi stood firm towards the two forms that were in surprise to the situation, Marakai most notably horrified at what he saw. "O-Otokashi… is that you…?" Marakai asked, thinking back to when Otokashi threw his life away to save his comrades. "But… how did you survive…? And why…?" Marakai asked, Takashi beginning to laugh cynically before pointing to Marakai.

"Don't get the wrong impression Marakai of the Sharingan. This body may be the one known as Otokashi Uchiha, but my soul and desires are still the very being seeking true peace to this world. Takashi Uchiha!" Takashi announced. "So that means…" Marakai muttered, thinking back to when Xin infiltrated the leaf to steal Naruto's body, an Uchiha's grave had been dug up at the time as well. "Back then… when Xin infiltrated the leaf and took Naruto's body… that dug up grave was…" Marakai started to explain.

"Was likely the body that I now use as my vessel… yes one of the agreements that Xin and I had made for me to complete my end of the deal to give Xin the means of reviving Kayori Otsutsuki…" Takashi explained, grinning sadistically. "What the hell is going on Marakai-Sensei!?" Narashi asked angrilly. "Is this guy Takashi Uchiha or what!?" Narashi shouted again. "Yes, it appears that it is Takashi Uchiha in spiritual aspect… but his body is that of my former comrade and team member back when I was a Chuunin… Otokashi Uchiha." Marakai explained.

"Takashi! You cold hearted bastard! Do you have any respect for the dead at all!?" Narashi shouted, Takashi laughing aloud before closing his eyes. "Call me what you want Nine-Tails, it makes no difference to me what you think or feel, personally when this world comes crashing down at my feet and I find the sacrad treasure of the Otsutsuki. I will be able to re-write the shinobi world in the image that embodies true peace and then the Uchiha name will be gone forever." Takashi explained.

"The sacrad treasure of the Otsutsuki… you plan to go back in time and erase Kaguya from existance don't you?" Marakai asked. "Correct, if she isn't in the picture then her sons won't exist, and that means the Byakugan and Sharingan will cease to exist… and no more Uchiha!" Takashi explained. "But you are Uchiha you idiot!" Narashi shouted, if you change the aspects of the past you will cease to exist!" He shouted again. "Clearly the case if it were not for the fact that I have special documents pertaining to a few… Kekkei Genkai changes…" Takashi mused. "Xin…" Marakai muttered.

"Precisely… the man was the smartest in the era… he truly was one after my heart when it came to experimentations… I will use his research and change my bloodline so that when I made the transition and destroy Kaguya, I will no longer bare Uchiha blood and therefore I will remain to take the world for myself!" Takashi shouted. "I don't understand you at all Takashi…" Marakai muttered, the Uchiha glancing at the other. "Why are you doing all this? What made your desire to end the Uchiha so much, you are one… it really doesn't stack up…" Marakai muttered.

"If you want to know that truth, you should have asked your beloved Hokage about the Uchiha Clan massacre decades ago." Takashi explained, Narashi narrowing his eyes. "The one about Itachi Uchiha killing his clan by the villages orders?" Narashi asked, Marakai looking in horror at Narashi's words while Takashi himself seemed rather surprised by this. "Top grade Kage level information you just spouted on there Nine-Tails… how did you find this out?" Takashi asked. "I was told by the Grand Elder Toad Fukasaku when I was in Mt Myobokuzan." Narashi muttered. "But that much shouldn't mean the difference in your ambitions! The Village made a mistake! Itachi did wrong but he thought he was doing right!" Narashi shouted.

"Tch, you think it's just on that alone? Think about what you're implying boy! The Uchiha Clan have been there since the Leaf's inception! Madara Uchiha, Haashirama Senju the biggest warmakers themselves, both had foolish ambitions that were catered by the Black Zetsu that was created by Kaguya! The root of it all!" Takashi explained. "The Uchiha are diseased, they are tainted by darkness… you can't expect me to want to be part of a clan that desires nothing but vengence and darkness! I don't even want to be associated with the name Uchiha! But I bare the Sharingan, I bare their blood! I am a byproduct of the Uchiha's darkness a byproduct that will end the Uchiha!" Takashi shouted.

"That is why when I learnt the news of all this from Sasuke's corpse… I faked my death during the One Nation War and took salvation in the Hidden Mist Village, where I eventually became their Mizukage." Takashi explained. "No way that makes no sense! The Mizukage at that time was Misashi Koushimito… a male in his 30's! But that point of your life and his inauguaration as Mizukage, you'd have been well into your 40's if not 50's! There's no way you could have been him!" Marakai shouted.

"Ah… that is correct on some grounds Marakai… but there was a little secret I had… something long since forgotten deep in the Uchiha Clan's most well hidden vaults… a Mangekyou Sharingan technique that emplores eternal youth…" Takashi began to speak out, Narashi gasping in horror.

"Kokorogatasumi!?" Narashi shouted, earning a very shocked and angered look on Takashi's face. "You are on a roll with all this forbidden knowledge Nine-Tails… now I'd really like to know how on earth you found that one out!" Takashi demanded. "Back in my training days after the Chuunin exams, I came across the Temple of Gaburia… inside was the messenger… he was an Uchiha like you, his name was Itami Uchiha, but he had explained that he had been Gaburia's messenger for well over two hundred years… he added that his key to his youth and sustainability in the world was a forbidden Uchiha Jutsu called Kokorogatasumi… a Genjutsu casted on ones self to confuse your organs and mind to staying the age you casted it upon." Narashi explained, sharpening his eyes.

"But when he overused his Mangekyou it deactivated and he turned to dust…" Narashi explained, Takashi grinning. "Why do you think I ended up in this body Nine-Tails?" Takashi asked, Narashi raising a brow. "The night that I killed Uraika Uchiha's father, Sharazanku Uchiha… I had already abused my Mangekyou Sharingan and therefore the Kokorogatasumi I had activated in my younger days deactivated and you can only ever use the Genjutsu once in a lifetime… I was hoping to have had his eyes before it deactivated but alas I was too slow in my plans." Takashi explained.

"So I needed a new vessel, one that upon entering I could use his eyes and my own to create the eternal Mangekyou and create a Kokorogatasumi that never ended no matter how much Mangekyou I used." Takashi told them. "Now I have a young body! Fully brime with chakra and then some! I have become a truly powerful Shinobi and on top of all the Jutsu that Orochimaru implanted into me, as well as the Five Forbidden Elemental Jutsu! I am a force that cannot be stopped by anyone in the world!" Takashi shouted, laughing hysterically as he did.

"I don't really think you get it Takashi! Your five elemental ninjutsu are useless against us!" Narashi explained with a cocky grin on his face. "See… one of the many things I learnt in the Sage world… was how to counter them… I have the five countering jutsu… so there's no way you can use those techniques on us!" Narashi exclaimed, Takashi grinning sadistically. "IS that right? Well then… how bout I just use one of my personal favourites then?" Takashi mused, forming a set of strange handseals, before arching his palms out.

Marakai and Narashi raised their eyebrows for a moment, before suddenly finding themselves caught inside a ball of purple chakra that transported them to another plain. "Oh no…" Marakai muttered, grabbing his head suddenly in agony. "W-What's going on! My head… it hurts so much!" Narashi shouted, grabbing his and writhed. "This is… Shikigami Tensei….!" Marakai shouted, Narashi gasping a little. "I've heard about this…. S-shit! What do we do!? One of us is likely going to have to kill ourselves to get out or we'll both die!" Narashi shouted.

"I-I really don't know who has been feeding you all this knowledge… but you are right…. This is a real tough bind…" Marakai shouted, writhing some more.

"You should know something before you die… Marakai Hatake of the Sharingan…" Takashi mused, a shadow covering his eyes as he smirked maliciously. "Back during the time of the One Nation war… when you and that girl was caught in the Shikigami Tensei… I was the one who casted it upon you." Takashi mused, Marakai's eyes widening in shock.

"It was a measure to end the Sharingan at least with you! But that foolish girl took her life… well she aint here now and I am sure Narashi won't give his life up for yours! So you can perish and that will be at least one more Sharingan user out of the way!" Takashi mused.

"I-I can't… let that happen… N-Narashi! Forgive me…" Marakai shouted, grabbing a Kunai and presenting it to this throat. "SENSEI! NOOOOOO!" Narashi screamed out, a white light suddenly stopping them both as it consumed Marakai at that moment, Narashi shielding himself from the light.

Marakai looked around, then noting the Kunai was gone from his hand, his head clear of pain. "What's going on…?" Marakai asked, glancing about till he saw a female figure standing before him, holding his Kunai in his hand. "It is not your time to go yet Marakai… you have much to do… and much more to teach to your students…" the female told the male, who struggled to grasp who she was at first, but then his eyes widened in shock. "S-Sari!?" Marakai asked, the female nodding with a smile.

"You took the kunai I used to kill myself with when we were caught in Shikigami Tensei… before that had happened I implanted a piece of my soul inside that Kunai, and when you took it, my soul entered yours and I triggered it to activate if you were ever caught in the Shikigami Tensei again, and you resorted to taking your life to end it." Sari explained. "Sari… I'm sorry… I was a bad friend… I never understood your feelings and I…" Marakai sighed.

"It's alright… I know what was going on… Otokashi and Sensei as well… but this isn't the time and place to be worrying about that, when you join us in the afterlife we can talk about it… but for now… I will give you the means to break out of Shikigami Tensei…something you didn't have then, but you do now." Sari explained, walking over to Marakai and hugged him, her form slipping inside him, Marakai's eyes began to burn for a moment, but then he opened his eyes, his Mangekyou changing from their normal red to blue.

Takashi smirked as he watched the ball begin to constrict. "It looks like one of them commited the ultimate sacrifice… good… when they are back to the world I will kill the other then I will hunt down the remaining Uchiha." Takashi thought to himself, as the barrier shattered and when it did Takashi looked mortified. "H-How!?" Takashi asked, seeing both Narashi and Marakai alive, Marakai surrounded by blue chakra. "THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE! YOU CAN'T BREAK OUT OF THE SHIKIGAMI TENSEI! HOW DID YOU DO IT!? ANSWER ME!" Takashi demanded. He then noticed Marakai's Mangekyou colour change.

"So that's it then… your fathers Kekkei Genkai in contrast with your Sharingan… the Tenshagan… the ability to break down Jutsu to the core and negate them… a mimicry of the Shadow style… clever little bastard…!" Takashi snarled. "Give it up Takashi there is no way you can win!" Narashi shouted, Kurama smirking. "Narashi, I'm going to give you a little edge for this battle… especially given he's now here." Kurama mused. "What do you mean by that?" Narashi asked, watching Kurama extend his fist to the boy.

"Just take my chakra and you will understand soon." Kurama explained, Narashi nodding before fist bumping Kurama and then found himself transforming once again, his form took on the chakra mode nature but only applied to his clothing and hair, his skin remained it's normal tone but black markings etched onto his face like Naruto's and black spheres began to surface around his back, the boy taking one and creating a staff with it.

"What is this?" Narashi asked, Kurama smirking. "A little trump card that Naruto developed in case the Heavingly Rasengan backfired… it's the power of the Sage of the Six Paths… on top on what he's achieved… it will aide you both very well." Kurama mused. "I don't get what you mean? Who is he?" Narashi asked. "You're about to find out!" Kurama mused.

"So you think harnessing the Sage of the Six paths is going to help you? Then think again." Takashi snarled, forming handseals. "Fire Style – Catastrophic Fire Stream!" He roared, arching back till his stomach bloated up a fair bit, then released a huge stream of intense heated flames of which surrounded the two males. "This could get intense!" Marakai shouted, forming handseals about ready to make an escape. But before anything transpired black flames shoot around the fire Takashi created and began to slowly snuff it out. "What is this!?" Takashi shouted, leaping back as the black flames shot towards him suddenly.

"Is this the Amaterasu… that would mean…" Takashi scowled, glaring around. "About time you got here… Uraika." Narashi mused, the Uchiha stepping alongside him, grinning himself. "Couldn't let you hog all the glory in this instance Narashi, especially given I have a score to settle with him as well as a resolve…" Uraika told him, Narashi grinned more and looked to Uraika and then blinked. "What's with your eyes?" Narashi asked. "Oh this…? A little something blessed to me by somehow who shared the same resolve to free the Uchiha from the darkness." Uraika mused, Narashi blinking in surprise but smirked.

"So I finally knocked some sense into you then huh!?" Narashi shouted, punching his palm with a cocky smirk. "Don't get ahead of yourself loser… let's take his freak down!" Uraika shouted.

Chapter 5 – The end of the Realm of Forgotten Shadows

Kaiba was nestled into a building having taken the full brunt of one of Joushiro's Sage moves, the Sage proceeding towards the male. "I just don't get it… why is my visual prowess not working on you!?" Kaiba seethed through gritted teeth. "You didn't think that we wouldn't have gone into this battle knowing what kind of tricks your organization has? Yeah we might not know as much as we'd like… but what we gathered came mostly courtesy of Xin Shoyo… Takashi wasn't the only one snooping around the man's base when Xin perished." Joushiro explained, moving some of his hair to show a seal on it.

"We planned for your prowess by creating special seals that cancel out anything that attacks our brainwaves in any shape or form… you could even say this even can negate the effects of Genjutsu too… and given that you seem to excel in both you're pretty much left a sitting duck in this little fight of ours… so give up." Joushiro muttered, preparing seals. At this point Kaiba began to laugh lightly. "Now what is so funny?" Joushiro asked raising an eyebrow.

"To think… you'd have me so misunderstood as such… it will be your downfall." Kaiba mused, red bubbles of chakra beginning to surface around his being and soon too control of his form in what looked to be 8-tails. "You're a…!" Joushiro leapt back as he evaded a chakra tail coming at him and made some distance. "Jinchuuriki? Correct… I'm not the only one though!" Kaiba mused as he form began to transform, taking on the form of a gigantic octopus ox form. "He's the 8-Tails Jinchuuriki… but I thought the 8-tails was a safeguard of the Raikage's… unless." Joushiro muttered.

"Unless we targeted all the Jinchuuriki's in the Great Nations and extracted their tail beasts! Then we had them sealed into our own bodies! Then by using my visual prowess! We erased their memories of being allies to the Fire Nation and made them believe they were your enemies!" Kaiba explained, Joushiro grunting, but then gasping when he saw the Two Tails, Three Tails, Five Tails and Seven Tails x2 appear around the vercinity of the village.

"Unfortunate to say that we weren't able to find the Four or Six Tails… likely destroyed along with the One-Tail when Takashi eradicated the other four nations… and of course the Nine-Tails being in hiding, our ambition was never really to claim all the tailed beasts, but at least enough to give every member of ours a tailed beast! Well everyone asides Kassandria… the little wench has been playing a strange game with us… and I am sure she is about to meet her fate soon enough!" Kaiba explained smirking through the tailed beast stage and began to draw chakra into his mouth.

"Oh boy…" Joushiro snarled as he formed handseals and slammed his hands to the floor. "Five Layer Rashoumon!" He roared, five gigantic gates appearing in front of his frame. "Tailed beast bomb!" Kaiba shouted, launching the massive ball of chakra at the gates of which were destroyed by the impact, sending Joushiro flying back while shielding himself in the process. "This will be a pain, but I need to try and free the 8-Tails from Kaiba's control! That's the only way I'll be able to win this! I just hope the others are on the same page here!"

Rock Li and Might Gaito had been engaged with a member of the Realm of Forgotten Shadows by the name of Momoshiki Taiga a specialist himself of the Taijutsu art from the Hidden Grass, he had been outmatched by Li and Gaito the entire time and just when he thought his back was against the wall, he was able to see Kaiba initiate his tailed beast transformation and having found himself in a position to require it, Momoshiki himself initiated his Tailed beast transformation into the Two Tails. "To think we'd be up against a Tailed Beast in our time Sensei!" Li shouted, gasping for air lightly while holding his stance.

"I know, I would have thought the Tailed Beasts were our allies but it seems like they're under some kind of hypnosis… or something that has altered their memories or something… I wonder if that Kaiba person that Lady Hokage informed us about is responsible for this." Gaito grunted himself, holding stance. "Stop your whispering down there you idiots!" Momoshiki shouted, a growl emitting from the Two tailed form as it used it's tails to strike down at the two beings.

Li and Gaito quickly evaded the first tail, but were blindsighted by the second tail and was struck into a nearby set of buildings, going up in a ball of smoke. "Looks like the others have resorted to Tailed beast transformations as well!" Momoshiki mused, seeing a huge explosion off to the west. "And a Tailed Beast bomb to boot… well then I guess I'll have some fun with that one as well!" He added, as the Tailed beast rose its head up and began to gather chakra and blood together to create it's infamous technique. "Li… take this…" Gaito grunted, handing Li a pill, having been trapped under some rubble. "SENSEI!" Li exclaimed, taking the pill and opting to try and help his father free.

"Li forget it… it's fine… my leg's broken anyway… listen… when you take that pill… you need to use the 8th gate of death." Gaito explained, Li's eyes widening in horror. "But if I do that… I will die won't I? You told me to never resort t-!"

"I know what I said Li! And under normal circumstances I would continue to tell you that!" Gaito snapped, making Li step back a bit. "I wouldn't have asked you to do it, if I wasn't prepared for it… that pill was specially created with ingredients discovered a long time ago when our predecessor Might Gai was in travels with the 6th Hokage Kakashi Hatake… the properties of it healed him during a battle that was beyond his control… and from it he found a way to utilize this ingredient with other things to create a pill that could halt the death aspect of the 8th gate…" Gaito explained, coughing up a bit of blood.

"But the limitation on this pill is five minutes…" Gaito muttered, glaring ahead at the Tailed Beast bomb nearing it's completion. "So once you eat that pill, you need to initiate the 8th gate and get a move on with beating that beast… but remember Li the Tailed Beast is not likely in it's own control, so attack with the ambition to severe the connection with the host then the beast can take complete control and reject the host." Gaito explained, glaring at the bomb.

"Go now!" Gaito shouted, Li quickly swallowing the pill and placing a thumb to his heart.

"8th gate of death! OPEN!" he screamed as the Tailed Beast bomb was released towards the two and a huge explosion of chakra ensued as they were consumed by the explosion. "That takes care of that…" Momoshiki mused, but then gasped when red vapour exploded out from the exploding bomb and with it the explosion catered up into the sky where it exploded further and vanished without a trace. "The heck was that!?" Momoshiki snarled, as he glared down at the vapour pouring through the smoke of the attack.

When the smoke cleared Li stood there, body flared up in red vapour, his hair rose up on end and fire like in movement and his eyebrows also took on a fiery nature. "Is that the… so the kids opted to throw his life away and use the 8th gate… how noble… but it's going to be a failed cause!" Momoshiki mused, as the Tailed beast rose its head and gathered chakra before releasing a huge fireball from it's mouth towards the Taijutsu user.

Li stood there calmly, as the fire consumed him and began to burn his skin and clothes away. "He's so driven with fear with the technique he can barely move! How sad!" Momoshiki shouted in hysterics, before suddenly lurching in pain, the demon cat spewing up saliva as Li was suddenly seen underneath it, his foot driven into the beasts gut. The Tailed beast flew into the air, as Li flipped back onto his feet and launched up, head butting the cat in the gut again. "What the hell is going on!?" Momoshiki snarled, glaring at the fire, still seeing the burning figure now starting to fall into ash. The ash then withered away into nothing revealing it being a near solid image of the boy. "He moved so fast it was as though his form wasn't moving… that's insane." Momoshiki thought to himself, as Li began to bounce across building to building striking the cat demon each and every time.

"Rising Lotus!" Li shouted, throwing his leg down from above the Tailed Beast and crashed it into the cats skull, sending it hard to the floor with a heavy kick. "Three minutes left…" Li thought to himself, as he grabbed his weights from his leggings and threw them aside, increasing his speed even more, as he launched down and began to throw a flurry of attacks into the cat, before a hard punch to the cats gut created a huge explosion/crater to follow.

"Two minutes." Li snarled in his mind as he back flipped several times. "I'm managing good hits but I don't feel any disparity between the Beast and the Host… I'm gonna need something stronger to hit him with… but I don't really think I have anything in my arsenal that would… I would need something like a Rasengan or softs… but of course…" Li trailed off, his eyes narrowing.

"One minute… dammit…" Li snarled, looking to be set to revert out of the form. "DARN YOU PEST!" Momoshiki shouted, scampering back to his feet and began to charge chakra again for a much bigger tailed beast bomb. "Thirty seconds… wait that's it!" Li thought to himself, as he flared up his vapour and took a stance similar to what Might Gai had used for his final move against Madara Uchiha. "DIE YOU BRAT!" Momoshiki shouted, launching the Tailed Beast bomb of bigger scale towards Li.

"In your dreams! Set that beast free! NIGHT LOTUS!" Li roared, throwing his fist back while in stance, a dragon head emerging around his fist before he launched it into the Tailed Beast bomb and literally threw it back towards the Two-Tailed form, while the Dragon aura around Li's fist transferred into the Beast bomb and increased it's power and speed, Li quickly reverting out of the 8th gate with literally two seconds to spare and dropped onto his back losing consiciousness.

"WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO!?" Momoshiki shouted, horrified at the attack and by that was frozen in fear to it, as it consumed him and the Tailed beast, going up in a huge ball of fire and debris. "A brilliant strategy Li… a Tailed Beast bomb is the Tailed Beasts most powerful move… to redirect it back at him with a follow up move like the Night Lotus… it would have doubled if not tripled the attacking force and speed of the bomb… there was no way he would have gotten out of that." Gaito thought to himself with a grin, pulling the rock off his leg finally and hopped over to Li, checking on him.

"YOU BRAT!" Momoshiki howled, shocking Gaito as the Tailed beast emerged from the smoke, battered and brusied and looking rather stumbly as it did. "You will pay for your insolence! WITH YOUR LIFE!" Momoshiki roared, as the Tailed beast prepared another Tailed beast bomb. "Dammit… not enough… I guess it's my time to sacrifice everything for the leaf!" Gaito exclaimed, about ready to initiate the 8th gate himself when the beast stopped it's attack, the attack shattering into pieces. "W-What the!?" Momoshiki shouted, Gaito just as surprised, as the Tailed Beast began to writhe about a little. "E-Enough…. Get out…" a voice shouted from the beast, Gaito surprised even more. "Did it actually work?" Gaito thought to himself. "How did you… get your memories back beast!?" Momoshiki shouted internally, being grabbed by the demon within his subconscious.

"It doesn't matter how! I will no longer be your pawn in your ambitions! NOW GET Out!" Matatabi shouted, releasing a fireball onto the males subconscious and killed the being from that point. It was there that the Two-Tails began dry wretching earning a raised eyebrow from Gaito. "Is she about to hurl a Tailed Beast hairball!?" Gaito shouted, grabbing Li and launched back, as the Two-Tails finally spat the dead host out of it's mouth, gasping for air afterwards.

"She rejected the host… incredible." Gaito thought to himself, the Two-Tails shaking it's head a few times before looking to the two males. "Leaf Shinobi… I am terribly sorry that we are caught in this battle to determine the Shinobi world once again… Thank you for helping me reclaim my memories and help me reject this wretched host." Matatabi told them, Gaito nodding. "Thank Li, he was the one who did all the work." Gaito explained, looking down at his son. "Thank you Li… now I must go and save my brothers from those freaks… farewell." Matatabi shouted, before turning and heading into the direction of the 8-Tails and Joushiro.

"Gaito-Sensei….did… we do it…?" Li asked slowly waking up and glancing at his father/teacher. "Yes son… yes we did… now rest my boy… I'm so proud of you." Gaito replied with a warm smile.

Arisanra, Axia and Saya had been caught in conflict with a female shinobi of the Realm of Forgotten Shadows by the name of Sia Kounashi, she had been quite a thorn in their side as it was having the elements needed to be able to fend off Arisanra's wood style and seemed to have the measure of being able to avoid having her chakra disconnected by Saya's Byakugan. Having backed the girls into a corner as it was the female had noticed her comrades all resorting to Tailed Beast stages.

"A fitting end one would think." Sia mused as she began her transformation and within time had transformed herself into the Five-Tails taking on the form of the dophin headed horse beast. "A-As if… w-we weren't a-already at our w-wits ends with this… p-person she goes a-and does t-this…" Axia muttered, dropping to her knees with tears threatening her face. "We can't just dig our feet into the ground Axia! Get up we have to find a way around this!" Arisanra shouted, slamming her palms together.

"Wood style – Wodden frame Jutsu!" She shouted, huge planks of wood sprouting from the ground underneath the five tails, holding it in place as much as she could try. "I don't even need the fire or lightning element to get past this! This petty amount of wood is childsplay!" Sia shouted, as the demon horse broke free from the wodden confines and opened it's mouth. "Coral Style – Coral Shuriken!" Sia shouted, shuriken shaped pieces of coral being flung out of it's mouth towards the three girls.

"8 Trigrams Rotation!" Saya shouted, spiraling around quickly and forming a barrier of chakra that was initially set to repel the attacks, but she suddenly stopped when the coral shuriken broke through the chakra effortlessly and found itself embedded in the ground inches from her feet. "BRACE YOURSELVES"! Saya shouted, shielding herself, Arisanra protecting Axia as the girl had gone cold in fear.

"Nightmare of ten thousand sparks! Shockwave slicer!" shouted a female voice from behind the three girls, as a formation of chakra blades shot out from behind them, hitting the coral shurikens and destroyed them on the spot. "Whose there!?" Sia shouted angrily, glaring around as the female in question landed in front of the girls, already in her angelic form. "D-Devika!" Axia exclaimed, the female in question glancing back at the three.

"Are you three alright?" Devika asked, they all nodding. "Good, stand back… I'll handle this one… Axia I have an idea that you could implement… but you will need some time, time I will afford you." Devika told the girl who gasped. "M-Me?" Axia muttered. "Your mind transfer technique…when I weaken this beast you will use it to enter it's mind and try to sever the connection between the beast and the host… it might be able to remind itself who it is and reject her." Devika explained. "R-Right… I'll d-do my b-best…" Axia muttered, taking a stance and began to gather her chakra.

"You're going to take me on by yourself!? I know who you are… Devika Shoyo of the Obliviac's clan… daughter of Xin Shoyo…" Sia snarled with a grin to the demons features. "I know all about your clans abilities and that little trick of yours… so if you think I am going to be dumbfounded by your speed you better keep dreaming." Sia explained, the beasts form taking on coral like properties of which covered it's entire body. "Coral barrier… this jutsu allows my form to be protected by titanium strenghted coral… not only that if you get struck with it, it will hit you with a lethal poison that no one will be able to cure! You're going to need Kage strength Jutsu to break this barrier! And I can assure you! Your Kage is dead! So you are screwed!" Sia shouted, the beast laughing in hysterics.

"So…. Lady Hokage is dead…" Devika sighed, glancing at the ground, before glancing back at the Tailed beast and smirked. "But to go as far as underrate me to a Kage is a little insulting…" Devika mused, as she raised both of her swords above her head. "Especially given that I have a jutsu that far outranks any jutsu on the planet, even Narashi's Heavingly Rasengan." Devika explained, chakra circulating around her frame, her form even being looked to be sucked into her blades as the blades then combined into one of half dark and half light nature.

"Bah! Try it then! See how worthless you really are on it!" Sia shouted, taking a defensive stance with the beast at the ready. "Heavingly Slash." Devika muttered, before dropping her blade to the ground, the world looking to slow down in time as a white stream of chakra shot towards the Tailed beasts form. Moments seemed like an eternity as the blade finally hit the nose of the tailed beast and almost instantly an explosion occurred that destroyed the coral armour in mere seconds. "W-WHAT!?" Sia roared, before howling out in agony as the explosion spanned out in a fanning motion past the village and split the Hokage rocks on each end not damaging the faces but the rock face itself had two big gashes along it's beginnings.

The explosion settled in and the dust began to move away from the battlefield. "What a scary move…" Saya muttered with wide eyes, Axia having to concentrate but could feel the surge of chakra going through the village. "No kidding… Devika could really well be stronger than a Kage right now… I'm surprised she isn't gunning for the spot against Narashi." Arisnara mused, chuckling. "She'd probably kick his ass." She added. Devika remained composed as she sheathed her swords, the dust completely blasting away as she did.

The Five Tails was downed, injured intensely from the attack, but slowly started to drag itself to it's feet. "Axia…" Devika muttered. "Right! Mind Transfer Jutsu!" Axia shouted, forming the hand seal and transferred her soul right into the Tailed Beasts. Within the subconscious of the Tailed Beast and Sia, the host was on the watery floor looking to have either lost consciousness or her life, it wasn't quite established which was which, but the tailed beast was standing there shaking it's head a few times as though starting to remember stuff from the past.

"Are you okay?" Axia asked the Tailed Beast of which quickly composed itself and glared at the female. "Are you… my enemy?" Kokuo asked warily. "No… I'm not, I am from the Hidden Leaf Village." Axia responded, trying to be as brave as possible, even though she knew that one false slip could mean her end. "Hidden… Leaf…?" Kokuo asked for a moment, before it was able to remember that and snapped awake a bit. "So you are allies of that of Naruto Uzumaki the hero of the Fourth Great Ninja war!?" Kokuo asked, Axia smiling.

"Well… I haven't met the guy… well… properly at least…" Axia remembered back to engaging with Kayori who was in Naruto's body at the time, but shook it off. "But I know his Great-Grandson Narashi Uzumaki! Who is fighting a big battle to save the world from darkness again!" She exclaimed. "Narashi Uzumaki… yes… I think I remember that much from when I was in…. no… I don't remember that person…" Kokuo muttered frowning. "I'm sorry… there's so much I don't remember right now… but… I do know… that I feel like I am doing wrong here." Kokuo muttered sadly.

"Not by your own will…" Axia explained to the Demon Horse. "We think that your memories have been altered by a member of the Realm of Forgotten Shadows… and all other Tailed Beasts as well… But we've only seen Two Tails, Seven Tails and Eight Tails, including yourself." Axia explained. "Yes… I remember somewhat… Shukaku… was within the previous Kazekage who fell not that long ago… and Son Goku and Saiken were lost well before the One Nation war took place…" Kokuo explained frowning. "What of Kurama?" it added. "Kurama…? You mean the Nine-Tails?" Axia asked, the demon nodding. "He's in a deep sleep inside Narashi Uzumaki having used his chakra to help save the world from Naruto." Axia explained. "What? Naruto betrayed us!?" Kokua shouted in shock. "No! He was being used by Kayori Otsutsuki who was revived through Fuuinjakku!" Axia responded quickly. "That's a name I haven't heard in a long time… he got revived after all… I'm very sorry for Naruto… he was a good person and didn't deserve that." Kokua muttered before looking to Sia.

"I guess this person is my new host and is responsible for my rampages… Well… to hell with that!" the beast shouted, raising up it's hoof before slamming it down on the females form, crushing her instantly. "I… I don't think that was necessary…" Axia muttered sadly. "Maybe not… but… I have to atone for my sins, and that's a start… thank you young lady for helping me see my mistakes.." Kokuo muttered with a grin, Axia smiling before releasing the Jutsu.

Axia slowly awoke to the three girls looking over her. The Five Tailed Beast lurching down a bit and spat the deceased host out of it's mouth and spat some saliva out too. "So… the Beast is back in control then?" Devika asked Axia of whom nodded. "Thank you… Leaf ninja… but my work is not done… I can see that my brothers and sisters are still in need of rescuing… I will be in your debt for eternity… farewell." Kokuo muttered, before galloping off towards the twin Seven Tails being engaged by Shinrin Haruno and some Jounin around her.

The twins of Kaito and Mishi Momoki had engaged in combat with Shinrin Haruno and a select group of Jounin who were aware of their Tailed beast transformations and the split one at that, having been somewhat pinned into a corner and also being in their version 2 states, when they had noticed that the others had resorted to their Tailed beast forms, they elected to do the same. "I never thought I'd be going face to face against a Tailed Beast… much less two." Shinrin thought to herself, feeling herself trembling in the process of it.

She then blinked a little as the ground began to tremour and before she knew it a Tailed Beast was alongside her and the Jounin. "Another one!?" One Jounin shouted. "Relax Leaf Ninja! I am on your side, I have been released from the Realms control and I wish to aide you in freeing my brother from their possession!" Kokuo shouted, Shinrin looking rather surprised to see a Tailed Beast working with them rather than against them.

"Pink haired girl… you remind me of a Kunoichi a long time ago that fought alongside Naruto Uzumaki… are you by chance of her relation?" Kokuo asked, the female nodding. "She's my Great-Grandmother…" Shinrin responded. "I see, you share her same resolve and passion… I can sense it in your chakra, but I also sense a burning desire to show your might… I guess something from one of your parents?" Kokuo asked, Shinrin smiling. "My father! He was a proud man and someone I strived to be like! But as well as a great medical ninja like my Great-Grandmother!" Shinrin exclaimed.

"I also sense a burning desire to protect a certain individual…" the beast continued. "Yeah… my fiancé… Narashi Uzumaki." Shinrin explained, the Jounin's looking rather surprised at her words as well as the beast. "Fiance you say… well that's more than enough devotion for me… hop on my back!" Kokuo exclaimed, Shinrin blinking before nodding and leaping onto the Beast's back feeling chakra surge around her.

"I am going to tie my soul to yours… don't fret, this isn't a sealing of my soul into yours, you're not going to become a Jinchuuriki, but I am basically enhancing your current Ninjutsu arsenal, and going to embed you with my own… I will grant you the boil element and the coral element… so enjoy." Kokuo mused, the female looking rather surprised but then generated coral into her fist and grinned. "Oh I could have some fun with this." She said in a rather cocking manner. "I'm getting excited ya know!" She exclaimed, gasping and covering her mouth after expressing a Narashi trait.

"God I love that man…" She mused, as she generated chakra into her feet and launched herself towards the twin Seven Tailed Rhino Beetle. "It seems this girl has a death wish twin brother." Mishi mused, the other chuckling. "Very much so… let's end her miserable life so we can help Lord Kaiba out." Kaito responded, arching back a little. "Lava Style – Magma Shuriken!" Kaito shouted, launching a series of lava shaped shuriken towards the female. Shinrin scowled as she generated chakra around her coral infused fist and punched the attacks away from her frame, the Jounin frantically avoiding them as they came down.

"Confident wee lass…" Mishi muttered, about ready to do her own jutsu. "Almighty Five Tailed Stomp!" Kokuo shouted from above the second Tailed Beast, stomping down on it's back and sent it flying to the ground with an almighty thud and explosion of chakra to follow. "Mishi!" Kaito shouted in shock, gasping when Shinrin was right in his face. "Don't forget about me! CHA!" Shinrin roared, throwing her coral covered fist straight into the beasts face, the female forming handseals at the same time.

"Coral Style – Coral rampant stone!" She shouted, breaking the coral off her fists and stored more and more until a large coral stone formed from it, of which she lugged above her head with her super strength and then threw it into the tailed beast, throwing it down to the ground atop of Mishi, the coral stone sitting itself atop of them holding them in place. Shinrin would then launch herself down towards the coral stone with rock embedded around her fist a shot of her father being portrayed behind her, as she threw herself down to the rock smashing her fist into it and destroyed it into small bits.

"This brat is getting on my nerves sister…" Kaito scowled, preparing a tailed beast bomb. "Let's put her down for good." Mishi muttered doing the same, at this point Shinrin grinned. "Oh you'll be wishing you didn't do that." She muttered, launching off a shard of coral and gained her distance. "Kokuo, others! Get back!" She screamed, the group in question questioning it, but then saw her point and leapt back. "What does she mean by tha" before Kaito could finish he gasped, all the coral pieces falling around them were all embedded with paper tags.

"Clever little bi-!" before both of them could finish that sentence their forms erupted in a huge blast of fire and debris, smoke and shockwaves crashing through the village as the fireball consumed a great chunk of the area the group was in. "That was one of my fathers trump card techniques… I can't believe how well it actually worked…" Shinrin thought to herself, being suddenly blown back in mid air from the shockwave, being caught by Kokuo with his horns.

"Well done girl… that will be all we need." The beast told her, as without a doubt in her mind the two beasts were lying on the ground struggling to bring themselves up. "Coral Style! Coral Embodiment!" Kokuo shouted, slamming it's hoofs to the floor and within seconds the group were entangled in coral that held them in place. "Do you have something that could wake Chomei up and regain control?" Kokuo asked, Shinrin nodding. "It was something we had in place to stop our memories being targeted by that Kaiba fella… but it works to helping restore lost memories on others if they somehow got effected." Shinrin explained, as she formed the needed handseals, the seal on the side of her forehead moving down to her palm as she launched herself towards the two of them.

"Secret sealing art! Memory replacement recovery!" Shinrin shouted, slamming her palm on top of Kaito's head, of which when she removed the seal would appear on the Seven Tails forehead, she quickly launched over to Mishi's and did the same, the Beast would writhe about in it's coral cacoon as the seal began to overcome it's form and within moments the thrashing stopped and then moments later the two forms spat out the twins who were still surprisingly in the version two forms of the beast.

"They were able to pluck out parts of Chomei's chakra upon release… they were still alive…" Kokuo muttered, Shinrin gasping for air. "That's no good… I'm out of chakra…" she muttered, the Jounin surrounding her and the Five tails. "Looks like we got lucky… twin brother." Mishi grunted, getting to her feet, the brother doing the same. "Now we have them right where we want them…" Kaito muttered, the two forms preparing Tailed beast bombs, but before they could initiate both forms withered into their regular forms and they both dropped dead in that instant, a huge slice mark along their backs.

"What the… who did that?" Shinrin asked surprised as there was a masked person behind the two kids, female of sorts, familiar to us but not to Shinrin or the others. "Wait a minute, did you do that?" Shinrin asked, frowning. "They were your own teammates and they were just kids! Why would you do that!?" Shinrin asked, the female masked figure glancing at the other. "That's none of your business girl… I did you a favour… I have my own vendetta to carry out… I'm going now to complete that… stay out of my way and go help your Old Sage friend… his fight is not one he is winning." The female muttered, before vanishing.

At this point Kokuo released the coral confinments on the twin Tailed Beats and galloped over to them. "Chomei, are you okay?" Kokuo asked, the Twin tailed beasts nodding a little, before their forms began to glow white and within seconds merged back together into one beast alone. "Having been used by them was one thing… but dividing my soul into two kids… that's just barbaric of those lot." Chomei scoffed, before glancing around. "So we were fighting the Hidden Leaf… how disgraceful of that organization." Chomei added. "We can talk about this later… I can sense Gyuki's chakra and Matatabi's as well, they look to be fighting each other along with another. We best go lend a hand!" Kokuo shouted, glancing to Shinrin. "You are indeed a great Kunoichi, protect that fiancé of yours with your life." The beast told her, before the two of them marched off to find the 8-Tails in Kaiba's possession.

"Thank you… I will." Shinrin said with a smile, before glancing around. "But I best heal the wounded first." She muttered, closing her eyes. "I for some reason can't feel Lady Shirahoshi's chakra… I fear the worst… I'm sorry I wasn't there for you… but I will do right by your teachings." Shinrin muttered, before dashing off herself.

Much to what Kokuo had said, Matatabi and Gyuki were in combat with one another, with Joushiro lending as much help as he could. "You two are a real thorn in my side! But you're also no match for the chakra and power I possess in this tailed beast form! You know good and well that it will take an army of beasts or the Nine-Tails alone to take me down!" Kaiba mused about to charge up another tailed beast bomb, but was then suddenly struck in the back by a brucking horse being, and was hurled across the village.

"Is that…" Matatabi growled, Joushiro watching on seeing Kokuo and Chomei arrive at the scene. "Kokuo! Chomei! Have you regained your senses!?" Matatabi asked, the two beasts nodding. "Yes! The Leaf Ninja were able to allow us to see reason and now we have come to lend a hand and free Gyuki from his confines! Though I imagine this one will be harder, since the root of our memory losses is the one in control of Gyuki!" Chomei exclaimed, Kokuo grunting. "We have to figure something out to do this… but I'm not entirely convinced on how." The Five Tails explained.

"There is a way, a jutsu that my predecessor Naruto created… one that was eventually perfected and completed by my student Narashi Uzumaki." Joushiro explained, Kokuo glancing at the male. "That Shinrin Haruno's fiancé?" Kokuo asked, Joushiro's eyes bugging out of his face. "HE PROPOSED!?" He shouted, regaining his composure with a light grin. "Ahem… yeah, that one… anyway… he was able to perfect this Rasengan called the Heavingly Rasengan using Kurama's chakra… I know your chakras don't exactly match up individually… but together…" Joushiro began to say.

"We could at least create a mimicry of this jutsu you speak of that might be able to weak Gyuki enough to break free." Matatabi added, hissing a moment. "But don't compare us to Kurama! He may have more chakra, but he's barely a team player!" Matatabi added. "Still sour on that one…" Chomei sighed, before agreeing to Joushiro's plan. "We're gonna need some backup because I doubt we're going to be able to get time in to make this work." Chomei added. "Then it's a good thing we are here…" Devika muttered, appearing before the group as well as Axia, Arisanra, Li and Gaito.

"More corpses for the pile? Well then I'll be happy to accommodate that!" Kaiba shouted, preparing another Tailed Beast bomb while Axia formed handseals. "Mind Transfer Jutsu!" She shouted, throwing her soul into Kaiba's of which made the attack fly into the air. "You little wench! I own these types of mental Ninjutsu!" Kaiba scowled, immediately overpowering her and regaining composure. "Wood Style! Great Forest Jutsu!" Arisanra shouted, slaming her palms to the floor, massive tree branches emerging from the ground and grabbed the 8-tails frame.

"God damn you! Why are you so insistant on dying so badly!?" Kaiba shouted, thrashing about, starting to break the tree branches holding him. "LI! NOW!" Shinrin shouted, throwing a massive coral sized rock into the air. "Severe Leaf Hurricane!" Li shouted, spiraling around before unleashing a devastating roundhouse kick that launched the coral ball towards Kaiba who was just able to break free in time to be struck by the ball and was lurched back.

At this point in time the Tailed Beasts had surrended 95% of their chakra, allowing themselves enough chakra to not fall into slumber like Kurama had, and backed away as Joushiro had managed to create a Rasengan similar to Narashi's Heavingly, but had more of a tailed beast attribute to it similar to what Naruto had accomplished in his Sage Chakra mode. "You're making me real mad here!" Kaiba shouted, seeing Joushiro with his Rasengan and smirked. "You wanna battle with bombs huh? Then I'll gladly do as much!" Kaiba mused, charging up the biggest tailed beast bomb he could muster and launched it as Joushiro launched in with his.

"TAILED BEAST RASENGAN!" Joushiro roared, thrusting the attack into the tailed beast bomb and began the struggle to determine the fate of the village. Joushiro gritted his teeth as he elected to push as much chakra into his frame but was seemingly unable to push the other back. "This will be the end of you! Prepare yourself for the E-!" Before Kaiba could finish his sentence he found himself heavily electrocuted by something that made his entire body flare up in electrical chakra. "W-What's happening…!?" Kaiba roared, as the force of the electrocution began to numb his entire body, the chakra of the beast bomb starting to diminish.

"I hate being ignored…" Devika grunted, holding herself in a crouch with chidori like chakra in her palm of which was present on the floor. "Of course, Gyuki is pretty much a water creature therefore lightning chakra would be his biggest weakness!" Chomei exclaimed, as Joushiro finally broke through the Tailed Beast bomb and struck the Tailed Beast in the chest with the attack, it was at that point the tailed beast chakra from the Rasengan fused itself inside of Gyuki and began to flood his mind with previous memories about the war, the battle of the beasts against Madara and Naruto's courage to release them and live a better life.

The Rasengan made it's mark as it eventually phased through the beast and from the backside of the beast Kaiba flew out with the Rasengan poised in his gut. "T-This is impossible! Lord Takashi! FORGIVE ME!" Kaiba shouted, his form slumping into deaths door from having the tailed beast extracted from his frame, the Rasengan flying him into a nearby building and going up in a huge ball of fire.

It was at this point that Gyuki managed to regain consciousness and then groaned. "MAN! Whoever did that lightning jutsu is a real pain in my tuckus!" Gyuki shouted, looking around. "This is the Hidden Leaf… why am I here?" Gyuki asked looking at the other tailed beasts. "It's a long story, bottom line is you are free from the Realm of Forgotten Shadows and it appears that all of them have been vanquished which means we are going to be at peace once again." Chomei explained.

"Not quite… one survived remember?" Shinrin mentioned. "Ah yes the one that betrayed her kind… and of course their ring leader." Kokuo muttered. "Should we lend them aid?" Gyuki asked. "No… Narashi and Kurama are handling Takashi along with Marakai-Sensei and someone else that's just turned up…" Shinrin explained. "Kurama? That wiley old Fox…" Gyuki mused, glancing at the female. "Who is that other one then?" He asked. "Uraika…" Devika muttered with a smile. "Something feels different, but a good different." She added

Chapter 6 – The end of Kassandria! Takashi defeated!?

Takashi stood firm and proud before the three Shinobi before him, glancing at Narashi, then at Uraika. "It's almost like a feeling of nostalgia… at least from the DNA coursing through my being.." Takashi thought to himself, looking to Narashi. "The boy has harnessed the chakra of the Sage of the Six paths… something that was likely given to him by Kurama… and Uraika… looks like he found Sasuke Uchiha's missing Rinnegan… but…" Takashi's eyes narrowed glaring at the Uchiha who seemed to have two Rinnegan.

"Why are there two… I remember there only being one Rinnegan in Sasuke's possession… how did he end up with two… how infuriating." Takashi muttered in his mind. "However, I know what Sasuke's Rinnegan was capable of doing… so this will not detur me… I can beat this no problem." Takashi muttered lowly, forming handseals while his Mangekyou activated at that point of time. He then blinked for a moment when a huge fireball came screaming down from the heavens down towards all four of the shinobi.

"Scatter!" Marakai shouted, as he, Narashi and Uraika flashed away from the fireball, while Takashi stood there and took it, phasing out of it from behind and watched as a figure landed in front of the three males glaring at the other. "Wait a second, I remember you!" Narashi exclaimed, pointing at the red-haired female, who glared at the boy. "And I can't forget you… you demon." She scowled, before glaring at Takashi. "But I have more important things to concern myself with!" She shouted, pointing at the Uchiha male. "Such as getting my vengeance against the REAL reason my village was destroyed!" She shouted, Takashi merely keeping composed before grinning.

"So you figured it out after all." Was all he said, making the female's eyes widen in rage. "WHY!? WHY DID YOU KILL THEM!?" She screamed, the Uchiha glaring at the female. "Because you are of the Uzumaki Clan." Takashi told her, Narashi blinking in surprise. "So wait, we're related!?" Narashi shouted at the female. "Hardly… we just share the clan name… we are of no relation… my Great-Grandmother was Karin Uzumaki! A former member of Team Taka!" She shouted, Uraika looking surprised himself.

"That was Sasuke's group back in his rouge days." Uraika explained. Takashi grinned a little as he continued to speak. "Back to my point, you were of the Uzumaki Clan, a clan that had amazing chakra control and chakra levels to boot. I was going to use you as potential vessel for the Nine-Tails when I was able to cease control of it." Takashi explained. "So you were after the tailed beasts…" Marakai muttered. "Not to the extent of that pathetic Infinite Tsukuyomi… but moreso for the ability to revive the Ten-Tails and become it's Jinchuuriki so that when I used the Time Travelling tool of the Otsutsuki… I could defeat Kaguya without any worries." Takashi explained.

"So… you killed all my family… all my friends… the entire village… and blamed it on the Hidden Leaf for the agenda to persuade me to join your little rag-tag bandit group… and be used as a Jinchuuriki to be later killed for your sick and twisted ambitions!?" Kassandria roared. "That is the rather simple minded and childish way of thinking about it… but bottom line, yes… yes that was my intentions." Takashi snickered lightly. The female gritted her teeth intently, as she formed a series of handseals and began to bubble in red chakra.

"Well jokes on you anyway! I'M ALREADY A JINCHUURIKI!" She screamed, taking on four chakra tails and formed a series of handseals. "What's this!?" Takashi shouted in surprise, the others being the same, other than Narashi of whom held a blank face on his face. "And yet she calls me a demon?" Narashi asked, Kurama laughing his butt off inside Narashi's subconscious. "Lave Style! Lava Shuriken!" Kassandria roared throwing several shuriken towards the Uchiha while spewing lava onto each one.

"So that's where the Four Tails ended up… I wonder how I missed this." Takashi mused to himself, using his Kamui to phase through each Shuriken approaching the female with his arm extended. The female gritted her teeth once again as she deployed her magma armour of which made the Uchiha retract his hand back, long enough for the female to strike him across the face with one of her tails and sent him flying back. The Uchiha glanced down towards the female, then quickly glanced up in surprise as Narashi appeared above him with a spiraling formation of chakra that seemed to be coated in lightning and wind chakra.

"Sage Art – Rasen-Raiten Rasengan!" Narashi shouted, slamming the attack into Takashi's being, the being that was hit phased into nothingness as the Uchiha had used his Kouesyoumi to evade the attack, and was about to strike the Uzumaki with a Kunai when suddenly Marakai took his place with a golden lightning formation in his palm. "Lightning Style – Golden Lightning!" Marakai shouted, slamming the attack into Takashi's frame making him howl out in pain as the lightning coursed through his body, making him drop the Kunai and stagger back. Takashi glared at the person responsible for this, seeing Uraika holding his right eye with a calm expression on his face. "So he replaced the Nine-Tails with Marakai who was initiating an attack to draw me off guard… this is a bothersome situation…" Takashi thought to himself, leaping into the air, but then quickly turned his head to see Kassandria above him, forming handseals. "Lava Style – Lava Boulder!" She shouted, creating mud balls that then were coated in Lava that she would then launch at Takashi whose eyes widened slowing down the attacks long enough to evade them but then spun around to fend off an attacking Narashi who was using one of his shadow spheres as a pole to strike him.

"It seems you leaf ninja are quite proficient on ganging up on one person! Can't you fight your own battles! STAY OUT OF THIS!" Takashi shouted, swinging around and kicked Narashi to the floor with a round house, while drawing his attention back to Kassandria who was coating her palm in magma and was looking to end it. The Uchiha snarled, as he glared down at Uraika and saw him coming towards him with a Chidori in palm. "This is getting annoying… I guess I have to make an example of them…!" Takashi shouted, both his Mangekyou eyes flashing open, as the two others drew closer towards him, then.

Blood splattered along with electrical pulsations rippling across and the sound of piercing flesh. Both Uraika and Kassandria were shocked in the process of this, as were Narashi and Marakai in fact they were horrified. Takashi seemed to be surprised as well but it was more about how successful his move was. The motion panned off revealing that somehow through it all Uraika had somehow pierced through Kassandria's chest, the male quickly retracting it and grabbing his arm in pain as Kassandria's magma armour had burnt the amount of his arm embedded inside her.

"That's impossible… the interval of Kouesyoumi was 3 minutes… I know this…" Marakai thought to himself, looking to Uraika of which suggested that Uraika at one stage had told him about the technique. "There was no evidence of Kamui either… how did he dodge that without moving…" Marakai thought to himself, Kassandria coughing up blood before dropping to the floor back first. Uraika landing on the ground, glaring at his arm.

"That was Kouesyoumi… but how…" Uraika growled, glaring at Takashi who had viens extended around both his eyes. "That… was too ballsey of me to do… but… it looked like it worked…" Takashi muttered, laughing silently as he did. "What the hell did you do!?" Narashi shouted, glaring at the male, before glancing to Kassandria who seemed to be slowly dying from her injuries. "Uraika hit the nail on the coffin… I did use Kouesyoumi… but I used both eyes to initiate it, not just one side." Takashi explained, smirking darkly.

When using both eyes of the Mangekyou to initiate Kouesyoumi I was able to trick your minds senses… speed and depth perception… your mind basically couldn't tell if you were going too slow or I was going too fast… in real time speed I was able to simply evade your attack because you both hesitated long enough for me to do it." Takashi told them, Narashi gasping.

"Of course… he basically tricked their minds into not being able to perceive people in front of them in speed or aspect… it's like a Genjutsu except in real time." Narashi explained, Marakai looking at Narashi in shock. "You mean to say that because of that Uraika basically attacked Kassandria willingly?" Marakai asked. "Not willingly by Uraika's account… but because Takashi was never 'there' he wasn't able to slow down and back off the attack, he struck Takashi thinking he was there the entire time." Narashi told them.

"What a horrible technique…" Marakai muttered, Kassandria coughing up blood. "Son Goku… Finish this!" Kassandria shouted, bubbling over with lava like chakra that soon took on the form of a large sphere of lava based chakra. "What on earth is that?" Narashi asked, Uraika looking rather surprised by this himself. "A detonation… she plans to destroy herself and take us all with her…" Takashi mused, his form starting to vortex. "Wait!" Marakai shouted, being quickly grabbed by green/grey chakra the same with Narashi, at this point the chakra ball exploded violently and destroyed everything in it's wake. Narashi and Marakai were surprised to be now in the air, glancing up at Uraika who had his perfected Susano'o in effect, the Susano'o gliding on a bolt of lightning.

"Too close… I can't believe she was willing to take her life just to try and end all of us." Uraika grunted, glaring at Takashi who vortexed back into the centre of the crater and smirked. "Stupid girl… what a waste of talent." Takashi mused, watching Uraika and those return to the ground the Susano'o clearing from Uraika's frame. "I have grown tired of this game… you three are really becoming a major nuisance to my ambitions of peace… why can you not understand that what I am doing is necessary for this world to be at true peace!?" Takashi growled.

"Because you're basically re-writing history by doing it! You can't guarantee peace like this! You could erase the Uchiha and Senju! But another clan could take it's place and the cycle could continue!" Narashi shouted, Takashi grunting. "That's something only a loser would say… why don't you give up your stupid ambitions of being Hokage! The Hokage is nothing more than a war-maker! Time and time again the Hokage has done nothing for the village other than put it under threat for generations! Your family generation above all else who claim a hollow peace! Why don't you help me! I can spare you and you can join my new world order as my new right hand men!" Takashi explained.

"Fat chance! We're not gonna join your twisted schemes!" Narashi roared. "Then you leave me no choice. I was hoping to avoid doing this… as I may risk even my own life…" Takashi muttered, beginning to form handseals. "Don't even think about trying to use any of the Five Forbidden Elemental Jutsu! I told you already I know how to counter these!" Narashi shouted, forming handseals to counter. "Oh you probably do! I don't question that for a minute you brat." Takashi mused, a twisted smirk forming onto his face.

"But do you have a counter for when all five forbidden elementals combine into one!?" Takashi shouted, earning horrified looks on their faces. "You forgot one thing about these jutsu! They once were in the vessel of one shinobi! That shinobi just about used this jutsu before he was split across five seals! There's no stopping me on this one! This Jutsu will wipe out the entire battle plain and even your precious little village! IT'S GAME OVER FOR YOU ALL!" Takashi shouted in hysterics.

"ARE YOU CRAZY!? YOU'LL KILL YOURSELF IN THE PROCESS!" Marakai shouted in horror. "A small price to pay! IF IT MEANS ENDING THIS MISERABLE WORLD OF SHINOBI ONCE AND FOR ALL!" Takashi roared, slamming his palms to the floor after finishing the seals. "Forbidden art! ULTIMATE ARMAGEDDON!" Takashi roared, the ground trembling violently underneath them and the village itself. "What the hell is going on!?" Gyuki shouted, Chomei and the other beasts gasping. "EVERYONE! GATHER AROUND US AT ONCE!" Chomei shouted, Gyuki looking at his fellow beast. "What is it!?" Gyuki asked quickly.

"The Five Forbidden Elements are being used together in one Jutsu! This village isn't safe right now but we don't have time to get everyone out! SO QUICKLY GATHER ROUND, BEASTS DEFEND YOU KNOW WHAT YOU NEED TO DO!" Chomei roared.

"Right! TAILED BEAST JUTSU!" The Four beasts shouted, forming seals with their available appendages. "Scarlet Barrier formation!" At that point the Four beasts moved to whatever side of the village they could get to with the shinobi in it and then placed their appendages on the ground, creating a dome of scarlet chakra that surrounded the area and enclosed at the top. "SO LONG LEAF NINJA! I HOPE YOUR DEMISE IS A PAINFUL ONE!" Takashi laughed horrifically, as the ground started to explode in chakra that rose from holes in the ground as it burst apart.

"URAIKA! MARAKAI USE YOUR SUSANO'O AND STAND AT MY SIDE!" Narashi roared, the two males growling as they did as told and awakened their perfect Susano'os and rushed to Narashi who slammed his palms together and erupted into his tailed beast transformation in time for a huge white shimmering light to consume them all. Takashi smirked darkly as he merely held his ground while the light consumed him also. The ground tore apart more with chakra until it grew to a point where it erupted in a massive explosion similar to what Deidara pulled when self destructing against Sasuke decades ago.

The explosion spanned out a fair way across the battle ground, eventually hitting the village and destroyed what wasn't being protected by the barrier set by the tailed beasts, however the explosions rippling effect was still enough to penetrate the barrier and sent all the shinobi inside it flying towards certain areas of the barrier along with the buildings inside it.

The explosion was so vast it could be seen from the earths atmosphere as it began to spread out then suddenly withered away leaving a huge smoke formation along a giant crater than spanned for kilometers. The scarlet barrier dropped from the village and with it the beasts dropped to the floor losing consciousness at the point. "Is everyone alright!?" Joushiro shouted, the group getting to their feets and glanced around. "Yeah… though… at what cost… the village is in shambles…" Devika muttered, Shinrin holding her face. "Please Narashi… please be alright… you too Sensei and Uraika… please… I don't want to lose more of my friends…" Shinrin thought to herself.

Takashi had survived the ordeal, gasping for air tremendously as the amount of chakra being used was intense. "I survived…. Heh…. Heheh…." Takashi began to laugh as the smoke around him was thick and dense, but was starting to fade away slowly. "No one would have survived that… it could have nearly blown up the entire planet had I not held back chakra…" Takashi mused, laughing again, holding his face to contain his hysterics. "I've done it… I've finally rid the world of the Hidden Leaf and the Uchiha… I've achieved it… my lifes ambition is finally met!" At this point Takashi could no longer contain himself and began to laugh hysterically.

"What's so damn funny huh!?" shouted a voice from within the smoke, making Takashi's eyes widen in horror. "N-No….!" Takashi muttered, as the smoke started to fade away and revealed the three shinobi before him, but the form was that of the Nine-Tails surrounded by the Susano'o armours combined through Marakai and Uraika. "I-Impossible….IMPOSSIBLE, IMPOSSIBLE!" Takashi roared in pure irritation. "THIS ISN'T POSSIBLE!" he shouted again, as the Nine-Tailed chakra and Susano'o chakra faded and the three forms landed on the ground, all three dropping to their knee gasping for air.

It was at this point that Marakai's Mangekyou deactivated, Narashi's chakra form faded away back to base, and Uraika's Rinnegan reverted back to his regular Mangekyou. "Looks like we're at a stalemate…" Narashi mused, getting to his feet while gasping for air still. "You've wasted your chakra with that attack, and we've wasted ours… looks like we'll be ending this with the bare basics of Ninjahood!" Narashi exclaimed, Uraika and Marakai getting to their feet and nodded.

"Fine by me… I'll gladly kill you using only the basics." Takashi mused, getting to his feet as well forming handseals. "Fire style! Fireball Jutsu!" Takashi shouted, arching back and released a fireball towards the three ninja, who all leapt over the attack and opted to use close-range combat to conserve their chakra. Takashi smirked, activating his Sharingan and fended off their attacks, countering each one including the counters that Uraika or Marakai would use with their Sharingan countering his moves.

Narashi formed a seal and created three clones that included themselves in the offensive, while one held back forming a Rasengan. Uraika noted this and moved back forming a handseal, while his right eye began to bleed. "Amaterasu!" Uraika shouted, sending black flames screaming towards Takashi who gritted his teeth, activating the Mangekyou in his right eye of which pulsed. "Kamui!" Takashi shouted, sending the Amaterasu away in a vortex to the Kamui dimension where it hit a platform and erupted into a pile of flames that stood ablaze. Uraika grunted as he created a Chidori sword and threw himself towards Takashi of whom evaded the attacks, grabbing the blade and threw the Uchiha around throwing him to the sky.

Takashi then quickly glanced to Narashi who was about to strike him with the Rasengan in hand, but then the Uchiha smirked and used Kamui again this time to send himself into the dimension. "Once I get through him, he's finished." Takashi thought to himself, as he prepared himself to solidify and attack, but within the realm of Kamui as he was preparing to vortex in, the outside showed Marakai forming a seal and activating both his eyes. "I hope this works! Kamakatsukami!" Marakai shouted, both his eyes pulsing at that moment.

Back in the proceeds of seconds that Takashi planned to warp in, he suddenly found himself face to face with Narashi within the realm. "WHAT THE HELL!?" Takashi roared, Narashi using Uraika's Amaterasu to transform his Rasengan at that point to a black ball of rotating chakra with black flames extending around the edges. "SECRET ART! INFERNO RASENGAN!" Narashi screamed, throwing the Rasengan right into Takashi's face.

The Rasengan made contact with Takashi's face and the black flames of Amaterasu erupted across the right hand side of Takashi's skin. The Uchiha flew back from the move and rolled across the ground outside the Kamui dimension, rolling around grabbing his face and screamed out in pure agony. "MY FACE WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!?" Takashi screamed out, as he managed to use his left eye to transport the flames off his face, the Uchiha hunching himself into a fedal position as he writhed in agony.

"I think we just dealt a finishing blow! Well done you two!" Marakai shouted in surprise, the Uchiha of Uraika forming a Chidori in his palm. "It's not over yet!" Uraika shouted, rushing at the downed Uchiha and was about to strike him down, when Takashi quickly phased through the Uchiha and leapt back.

The Uchiha held his face, gasping for air while angrily muttering stuff. He removed his hand to reveal the massive burns across it, his right eye had even began to melt away, dropping to the floor in a puddle mess. "YOU BASTARDS!" Takashi howled, grabbing his right hand side of his face writhing in more agony. "I…. I will not forget this! I will come back…! And when I do…! YOU ARE DEAD YOU HEAR ME!? DEAD!" Takashi screamed, but then suddenly his form pulsed and his eye widened as he hunched over again, chakra escaping his body that shot straight towards Marakai, Uraika and Narashi concealing them and transported them into a white area.

Chapter 7 – Otokashi's final will in testimate, the end of the Uchiha turmoil

The three looked around the white area. "I feel like this is becoming too much of a common thing with us…" Narashi muttered, Marakai nodding, Uraika not saying anything since he hadn't experienced anything like this before in his life. They would scour the area before their eyes landed on Takashi's figure standing there calmly. "Dammit… I thought we were done with this!" Marakai shouted, activating his Mangekyou but then collapsed to a knee. "No more chakra… dammit…" He scowled, Narashi and Uraika taking a defensive stance.

"Don't panic… I am not Takashi Uchiha…" the form muttered, the others looking at him in surprise, Marakai's eyes widening. "O…Otokashi?" Marakai asked, the other nodding. "I've managed to reap control of my body long enough to give you a final message…though I believed when I gave you my chakra last time… that was the true final words." Otokashi explained frowning. "Once again… I have caused you to go through more grief than being a true friend Marakai… I am sorry this has happened." Otokashi explained.

"It's not like you had a choice this time around." Narashi told the male, who glanced to Narashi and grinned with a chuckle. "No… I guess not… so you two are Marakai's students are you? He raised some fine Shinobi… true talent… and Uraika." Otokashi explained, looking to the Uchiha. "You are truly a gifted and proficient Uchiha Clan member… you bare the crest of our people. Takashi wished to end that legacy, but you will carry it on in the light…" Otokashi explained, looking to Narashi. "I can see the real potential in you… much like your father and his father, and of course… Naruto himself." Otokashi explained. "You really could become Hokage with your talent… and I hope that goes well for you."

Finally Otokashi looked to Marakai and smiled. "Marakai… this is truly farewell this time my friend… my chakra is gone… but at the same time I can feel that Takashi's hold on my body is losing vigour… my body is going to fail him… and he too will perish…and then… the threat will finally be over." Otokashi explained. "Thank you… for liberating me… and ending my suffering once again… I will see you in the next life." Otokashi told the Jounin. "Otokashi… I'm…really sorry…" Marakai muttered, Otokashi's form starting to wither away, the male smiling.

"Forget it… it's what friends do right?" and with that the form of Otokashi was gone and the white light shattered, revealing Takashi on the ground writhing. "Not again… No…not again…! I can't…! NO…" Takashi shouted, seeing his vision fade, as he coughed up blood. "This isn't the end…. No… this will never be the end… you hear me…! Leaf scum…!" Takashi scowled, glaring at the three weakly. "As long… as the Leaf and the Uchiha exist… there is no light….! Only darkness…! And when it consumes you all and you all perish… I will be there…. Laughing! Always…..! LAUGHING!" Takashi muttered chuckling in a demented manner, before he just simply fell forward and dropped dead before them.

"His ambitions were pure and true…" Narashi muttered, earning surprised looks from Uraika and Marakai. "It's a shame that his execution… was completely and utterly wrong… He lived his life thinking that he was the embodiment of peace… he believed he was doing right for the world… but erasing the past to ensure a better future… is a hollow victory… and I hope he finds respite in his decisions in the afterlife…" Narashi continued, the other two looking at Takashi's dead corpse and bowed their heads. It was there that they decided to check on the village and see how it fared, leaving Takashi's body there. A few moments later a single female figure walked towards the body looking down at it as it began to rain heavily. "You gave me a home… you gave me a family… and they took it away… they took it all away…" the female muttered, turning the body over and looked at the calm look on the Uchiha's dead face.

"They…. Will pay…" the female muttered, the form revealing itself to being Kepi Cheyu who had been kept back for no explained reason. The normal happy-go-lucky girl with tendancies of ADHD was gone and was replaced with a bitter girl who reached for her left eye and suddenly gouged it out. The female took the eye and crushed it in her palm, before reaching down and plucked Takashi's left eye out, moving to place it against hers and transplanted it at that moment.

The female then formed a handseal and placed her hand on Takashi's corpse, within seconds the corpse exploded into a pool of blood that splattered over her frame and across the ground, the blood started to be washed off her form by the rain, her eyes closed as she reached for her mask and put it back on, opening her eyes of which now had a Sharingan in her left eye. "They will pay…. They will pay with their lives for this." She muttered, her masked voice now sounding like Takashi's masked voice, as her form vortexed away.

Narashi, Marakai and Uraika walked through the torn down gates of the village and looked around, seeing barely much about but rubble and the Hokage stone faces in the background. "I just hope everyone was okay…" Narashi muttered looking around, before seeing someone rushing at him in pure speed. "WHOA WHOA WHOA WAIT!" Narashi shouted in protest before being absolutely tackled to the floor and embraced in a tender warm hug. "O-OW! THAT HURTS!" Narashi exclaimed, hearing sobbing coming from the girl. "I was so worried! I was so worried I lost my husband to be!" Shinrin sobbed, Uraika and Marakai stepping back in horror.

"YOU TWO ARE ENGAGED!?" they both shouted in unison, Narashi rubbing the back of his head with a soft chuckle. "I was waiting for this to blow over before I made the announcement…" he muttered, the other two sighing, before looking behind them to see the other lot coming towards them including the remaining tailed beasts. "So… is that monster Takashi dead?" Gyuki asked, looking down at Narashi in particular. "Yeah… he's gone." Narashi replied, Kurama grunting. "So this explains where you lot were… you were made into Jinchuuriki for the Realm… Son Goku is gone… as is Shukaku." Kurama explained through telepathic communication to the beasts. "We haven't seen Saiken either… we can only assume he's gone as well." Gyuki responded sighing.

"We will mourn our fallen beasts… among the leafs mourning of their lost ones as well." Chomei told the group of whom nodded. "Old Man Jou… I'm…. really sorry… I couldn't save her in time…" Narashi muttered, glaring at the ground. "If I had been a few seconds faster I…"

"Not another word Narashi…" Joushiro muttered. "Shirahoshi died… protecting her village from certain death… if you go and say that… then her death… was for nothing." Joushiro explained, tears running down his face. "She will always be dear to my heart… and to the villages." Joushiro told them. "We should account for the losses… and tend to the hurt." Shinrin told the group of whom nodded and began the preperations to do as such.

It took some time, a few days in fact to account the losses and rebuild some parts of the village to be used as medical facilities to treat the injured and upon that time as well the funeral for Shirahoshi and the other fallen were made, after the funeral Marakai and Narashi were suddenly called into a council meeting with the Daimyu where certain actions were being taken place.

"We have no Hokage present to be able to take the positon now that we have lost Lady Shirahoshi… at our present point of time we can only look ahead and bring someone in with enough talent to keep this village in tact as we try to rebuild and reshape our Shinobi." The councilman explained, looking to the group. "You two are our strongest Shinobi that have been selected among the council to be appointed as the 11th Hokage. But only one of you can be it… so have a moment to discuss it and the-!"

"Marakai-Sensei should be the next Hokage." Narashi interrupted earning surprise from the group and Marakai in particular. "Are you sure about this? This is your big moment to finally rise up and be the Hokage you dreamed of…." The Daimyu explained waving his fan across his face. "It could very well be… but… I'm not ready for it yet… there is so much more that I want to achieve before I fully commit to the idea of being Hokage… so… I think Marakai is a better fit for the role for this… for the time being at least!" Narashi exclaimed, looking to Marakai with a broad grin.

"I'm not really sure I will be cut out for this…" Marakai explained to Narashi, earning a pat on the back from the boy. "Don't beat yourself up about it Marakai-Sensei! You're the greatest Ninja on this planet right now! Far better than me!" Narashi exclaimed, earning a surprised look from the male. "Surely you jest on that one Narashi… you far exceeded me a long time ago." Marakai explained. "No way! Maybe in stature of strength and jutsu! But hey! I wouldn't have got this far without your great guidance and love! I couldn't have wished for a better man to be my teacher… and well… a better man to be like a father to me." Narashi explained, Marakai's eyes welling with tears as well as widening with shock.

"I'm sure Devika, Shinrin and Uraika would agree! The entire village would too! So Old man leader! Make Marakai-Sensei the new Hokage! I'm off to see if Ichiraku's is still open!" Narashi exclaimed, suddenly embraced by Marakai. "Whoa hey! Don't get mushy with me!" Narashi exclaimed, smiling at the man. "Dad would have been proud to have you as his student, and I am sure Otokashi and Sari feel the same… congratulations." Narashi told his teacher who was full on sobbing at this point. "Now! I'm gonna go eat! See ya!" Narashi exclaimed, prying himself free before running out the room.

"That kid is really something else… he will become a fine Hokage one day… but I guess in that time being… Marakai Hatake… we of the council and myself of the Fire Nation announce you as being our 11th Hokage of the Hidden Leaf, wear this position with pride and do your part to ensure peace can come across the land as we try to rebuild." The Daimyu explained, Marakai wiping his tears away before turning to face the group and bowed.

"Thank you…. I graciously accept." Marakai muttered

Chapter 8 – Peace

"You turned it down?" Shinrin asked Narashi while he was eating his ramen with a surprised look on her face. "Yeah! I have too much I wanna do as a shinobi before I take on the role! Marakai was the better fit for the job! So he's going to be our new Hokage!" Narashi explained, Devika and Uraika sitting away from the two but in range to hear them. "A worthy person no doubt… Narashi would have run the village to the ground with his idiotic behaviour." Uraika mused, Narashi spitting his ramen out before glaring at Uraika.

"HEY! I wouldn't be that bad! I just wouldn't be that good at it right now either!" Narashi shouted, the Uchiha laughing for a moment, before receiving his ramen order and began to eat it. "Oh yeah… sorry about Akita too…" Narashi muttered, Uraika halting on his Ramen and frowned. "It happens I guess… it really means I am the last Uchiha alive now." Uraika explained, Devika patting the male on the back and gave him a light smile. "It will be fine… you still do technically have Shinrin who is your cousin." Devika explained.

"Yeah, I guess that's true…" Uraika sighed, before continuing to eat. It was there that Axia and Arisanra rushed in. "You guys! The greatest thing has happened!" Axia exclaimed more vibrant than usual. "What?" Narashi asked rather curious to know what had happened. "The Daimyu of the other nations were found alive and well! Along with that they found survivors of the villages too! Genin had been sent off to another area and were found safe and alive! They are going to convine and find Kage representatives!" Axia exclaimed.

"Whoah! That is great news! Takashi didn't succeed completely after all!" Narashi exclaimed with a big grin on his face, Shinrin hugging him softly. "Thanks to you, Uraika and Marakai-Sensei of course." She told him. "Hey no way! We stopped Takashi, it was you guys that helped save the Tailed Beasts and defeated the organization!" Narashi exclaimed, earning a blush from Shinrin. "Your father would have been so proud!" Narashi exclaimed, the female smiling while tears ran down her face. "Yeah… yours too." She muttered.

Weeks had passed and during those weeks Narashi and Shinrin had their wedding of which was greeted with the new Kages as well as the entire village. The village had been restored and was more vibrant than ever before. Narashi and Marakai were standing atop the Hokage faces looking over the village. "So, how does it feel to be an honest man?" Marakai asked, wearing his Kage robes while watching his face being carved into the rock below them.

"Can't say it feels any different to when we were dating really… It's just great now that we might actually be able to enjoy our married life in peace." Narashi explained, glacing to his teacher. "How does it feel being Hokage?" Narashi asked with a grin. "Well… I have to admit it's a lot more hardship than I thought initially… but I am getting by alright." Marakai explained looking to the boy. "Did you really mean everything you said that day?" Marakai asked the boy.

"Why wouldn't I have?" Narashi asked back, earning a bit of surprise from Marakai. "You have really been there for me since day one… I don't remember much of my childhood, but that day you came looking for me after my failed Genin exam and giving me that jutsu to pass it… it was really the first time I had felt appreciated in my life and I was glad to have you as my teacher as well." Narashi told him, looking ahead.

"Not that I don't think anyone else would have had that effect, everyone here has got great history and great power… but you above all else was the perfect figure for me to hone my skills and I couldn't think of anyone better to be Hokage… more so than anything, I am excited at the idea that I will be your likely successor one day, because it would be the greatest feeling to finally surpass you!" Narashi exclaimed.

"Narashi… you really have no idea how big of a heart you really have…" Marakai thought to himself, looking ahead. "The nature of being able to liberate people from the darkness… even those completely lost within… you made Uraika rethink his ways and turned to seeking light than swallowing himself in darkness… much like myself… you made a girl unsure of her feelings towards you finally confess her love… after you threw your heart at her in the heat of war…" He thought closing his eyes. "To even a point where you seemingly forgave Takashi, despite his actions being the wrong approach to maintaining a level of peace in the world."

"One day you will truly become a proud and noble Hokage… and I will graciously give you the position when the time calls for it." Marakai thought as they would watch on over the village for some time before they would make their way to Ichiraku for some ramen.

The village maintained a level of peace, the threats of Takashi Uchiha and Kayori Otsutsuki had come to a close and it looked like the Hidden Leaf and the Shinobi world as finally going to have a foundation of peace… or was it?