'Thoughts' "Speaking" Author's Notes "Bijuu Speaking" "Telepathic Talking"
=Chapter 28: Long time no see...=
"What's going on... Naruto?"
"Danzo, what is going on!?" shouted Hiruzen, looking around at the destruction. "Minato?"
"Hello, Sandaime-sama, long time no see!"
"If it isn't little Hiruzen, Tobirama as well? And I've never seen you before..." said Hashirama, looking at Minato. "Who are you?"
"Oh me?" said Minato, before turning around and pointing to the cape on his back. "I'm Yondaime Hokage!"
"So I assume the village was doing well, uh, before this catastrophe?"
"Actually, I died before Sandaime-sama so I don't know what's going on."
"So, who ended up being the Godaime?" said Hashirama, not looking at the Hokage Mountain.
"Your granddaughter, Senju Tsunade," replied Naruto, holding his hands together in the seal.
"Tsuna, huh?" whined Hashirama.
"Why, is something wrong?" questioned Minato.
"Tsunade was always the odd one who copied everything I did and in the end even picked up my gambling habit! Now who would you be, young... rogue shinobi?"
"He would be my son, Uzumaki-Namikaze Naruto. I don't know why he would be a missing ninja but..." Minato chuckled awkwardly at this, before looking around. "...where are we?"
"You'll be surprised, but we're in Konoha," said Naruto, still shocked.
"No way..." said Tobirama and Hiruzen simultaneously, looking around them.
"Tobirama, you should have sealed this cursed jutsu away, now look at this," scolded Hashirama.
"I tried, but this shouldn't be a problem right? We're revived near our optimal strength," pointed out Tobirama, planting his hands on the ground. "We can release ourselves from this cursed jutsu-" The second Hokage froze, but managed to turn his head around to see Danzo holding his hands in the 'Snake' seal.
"I know you. Shimura Danzo, how much you've grown. You have Sharingan in your arm?" questioned Tobirama, looking at the sickly arm.
"And if I'm not mistaken... my cells?" Hashirama realised, before suddenly piecing it together. He shook free of his thoughts and ran towards Danzo, his hands flaring with chakra. He jumped up, and pierced forward, only dropping to the ground and finding his body not in his control.
"You're just like Orochimaru..." said Hiruzen. "Danzo. I knew I should've killed you back then. You desecrated the tombs of the Uchiha and stole Shisui's Mangekyo?!" he roared, looking at the red eye.
"You were always the weak one, Hiruzen," said Danzo offhandedly before pointing at Naruto. "Now that I have reanimated you, you are under my control. You will now do my bidding."
A yellow flash later and Naruto barely dodged a punch from Minato, and doing the hand seals for Earth Style: Mud Wall before a large wave of water almost ran him over.
"Wood Style: Wood Dragon Jutsu!" Out of the ground, the wooden head emerged with a trailing body behind before attacking the wall with no one behind.
"Dammit." Naruto's focused himself making his chakra denser. A sphere forming in his hands and growing larger. Multiple Rasengans filled the inside, each one different either igniting with fire, turning into sharp blades, crackling with lightning, forming a small planetary dome and the other a raging sea. "Amenomihashira!"
The sphere containing spheres flew towards the wood dragon, Hiruzen firing a fireball at it to destroy. The outer sphere melted away into the air but the five Rasengans continued their travel and hit the dragon, causing damage to the whole being.
"Earth Style: Earth Dragon Bullet!" Naruto ran on top of the houses, using an arm of chakra to swipe away the pellets and boost himself up to avoid the water flowing beneath him.
'Where is everyone?' thought Naruto, levitating up. Black orbs appeared behind him with a slight yellow aura around them. 'No, I know they're fine. Just somewhere...'
"Don't stay still, Naruto!" called Minato, appearing behind Naruto with a Rasengan in hand. On impulse of the sound, the Truth-Seeker Orbs moved to form a shield, absorbing the impact of the Rasengan.
Minato jumped back down, looked up to the Truth-Seeker Orbs and smiled. Some strong defence that was.
"So it's like Ohnoki's Particle Style, just a more fluid version?" said Tobirama, walking up.
"I guess you could say that. Oi Jiji, I guess we can finally see who the stronger one is?"
"Naruto, tell us, what's going on?"
"Two things: one, my group have infiltrated the village to free me from being captured by Danzo; two, we're going to free this village from his clutches. I'm going to assume that you can't break out of his control, so he's using you to attack me, but I should be fine." He motioned to the Truth-Seeker Orbs.
"It's definitely strong but everything has its limits-" 'Water Style: Severing Wave!' Kneading chakra in his stomach, Tobirama shot out a high-pressured jet of water, easily being blocked by the black wall. "Danzo, unhand me!"
The old war hawk said nothing, holding the hand seal strong and commanding Hashirama to attack from beneath.
"Wood Style: Laughing Buddha Jutsu!" called out Hashirama, barely holding a hand seal and by will alone, making two massive hands crush the black defence, but with no luck. "It's strong."
"Sorry, but I'll have to pin you down and find some way to release you," said Naruto, raising his hand. His serious side took over, commanding a Truth-Seeker Orb to crash into Hashirama and sent the previous Hokage into Tobirama. He jumped down from the sky and brought out a sword from inside the cloak and slashed it down, hitting nothing instead of Hiruzen.
He replaced himself with a log just as Minato slammed behind him with a full-force Rasengan, completely obliterating it. Naruto sighed only losing his balance seconds later as water erupted out of the ground, being charged with electricity and fire roaring above him.
With a quick move of his hand, the black shield surrounded himself again and absorbed all of the damage, Naruto grunting. He looked forward, seeing Hashirama once again except this time he had something Naruto knew was dangerous. Black markings surrounded the eye and spread across the top half of the face with a marked eye on the forehead.
"Run!"
Naruto somersaulted backwards and disappeared under the ground seconds before branches reached out to grab him, quickly blooming into a dense forest which entangled everything inside its grasp. He jumped up again elsewhere, deflecting roof tiles being flung at him from Hiruzen.
He reached into his pocket and threw a three-pronged kunai at the Sandaime before heading back to Danzo who was still holding his hands in the seal. The red eye seemed to glow brighter, the ones stuck in his arm continually disgusting. His chakra grew dense once more, golden-orange chakra surrounding his sword, making it flare larger and the source being known.
Danzo moved his hands in another formation and Naruto threw his sword forward, cutting clean through Danzo's heart. He smirked, only remembering something was going on when Danzo faded away and revealed himself unharmed elsewhere.
"What trick are you playing old man?" shouted Naruto, picking up his weapon.
"Nothing," responded Danzo without a care. Naruto tensed up, knowing something was coming. He quickly looked to his right seeing more trees flying out of the ground and summoned his defence, but instead of being destroyed, the trees merely surrounded the black shield.
Each former Hokage saw this, hoping Danzo wouldn't notice. Hiruzen felt his body move against his command again, him going back underground. Minato threw his special kunai forward, cutting through the tree branches and reaching behind Naruto. He teleported behind with a Rasengan in hand.
Naruto barely managed to look back before being blasted forward with the attack, his right eye activating. He forced himself up, only being dragged underground by Hiruzen then watching the trees crowd over his head and barely seeing water come at him once more.
Being held still, Naruto took the time to concentrate and absorb nature energy.
An orange hue surrounded his eyelids.
Ancient power surged.
"It's about time. You know they're reanimated so you can go all out."
"I knew that, it's just that I'm testing them."
"Brat, you still want to keep this village alive don't you?"
"Not everyone here's bad."
A sharp whirling sound grew larger, the water starting to fade away and the trees shaking, being loosened at their roots.
The whirling sound grew stronger and stronger, before a yellow flash shot straight up, revealing Naruto floating once more. He quickly scanned his location for Danzo, and held his attack up high with the familiar white light. All previous four Hokage looked up, seeing orange markings around the eye, but just barely.
"Wind Style: Rasen-Shuriken!"
=Elsewhere in Konoha: Minutes ago=
"Who the hell are you?" questioned Bird to the red-head lady in front of him.
They said nothing, except fly towards him with a chakra-enhanced punch and hitting a collection of stones welded together by lava immediately alerting his teammates standing a couple of rooftops away.
"I've never seen them before," said Dragon to himself, jumping up into the sky and sending a blast of mint green chakra forwards. The girl turned turned around and looked at the attack, jumping up and sending a blast of wind forward. "Definitely an enemy alright. You two, take them out!"
"I've been waiting for someone to fight!" said Hare, casting their hands out, water seeping out of the ground and forming three dragon heads which crashed into the red-headed girl. They saw her fall down to the streets where Bird commanded lava to start to flow out of the ground and surround the target.
The molten rock formed rock around her hair, latching on as she stood up and weighing her down as she stood up. She cast her hands in multiple hand seals and slammed onto the ground, water rising up into the sky. "Water Style: Water Hail!" she said, holding her hand together in a cusp shape, water spewing out of there and pounding against the rising ice wall.
It cracked and the wall crumbled down, fizzing into the sky just as torrential rain struck left right and centre from the moisture already existing. Bird flipped back out of range and Hare summoned wind all around her, dragging the water to her command.
"Ice Style: Black Dragon Blizzard!" She watched as her enemy was flung into the sky out of balance, them crashing into the ground but quickly propping themselves up without a scratch.
"So you can take a hit? That's fun," commented Bird running forward before engaging in Taijutsu. Lava surrounded his hands and arms, forming three blades on each arm with him swiping all around to strike his opponent. He swirled around and kicked the girl back into some rubble, his jaw slightly dropping when she stood up unharmed.
His jaw dropped further under the hood when he saw chains run out of her back and pole straight into the ground, quickly surrounding him like snakes.
"I see. I see what's going on here. Your just an experiment."
The chains tended ever so slightly at this before settling their mind. They at struck forward at once and pierced through a layer of rock, wrapping around Bird and squeezing tighter until they burst apart... a log they had substituted with.
"Bring it!" shouted Hare, leaping down from a roof and slicing downwards with their weapons, lines of blue cutting through her target. As she suspected, it disappeared into the ground as water, flowing all around.
Hare relaxed slightly, letting their guard down a bit and getting grabbed by their leg and being pulled down where their enemy was. A small cavern just under the surface awaited her arrival, sharp winds cutting through her skin and cloak with the temperature rising.
'Good try, but not good enough!' she thought, closing her eyes and meditating. The wind moved around her instead of through the cloak, cutting away at the rock and letting the light shine into the hole. She snapped her eyes open and ducked, a chain cutting above her and cutting strands of hair loose.
She jumped out of the hole, dodging the bright red chains striking around her and leading her back to her enemy. She grabbed one, ignoring the pain and held it strong to the ground, pulling and stopping her enemy from making any strikes.
"I got this!" said Bird, jumping out from behind rocks and shooting up blasts of molten rock from his mouth, only having them cut up into pieces by more chains. Unsealing a sword, fire surrounded it as he swiped downwards, smoke billowing into the sky.
The red hair girl raised her hand and grabbed the flaming weapon, throwing the sword to the side with Bird attached and making spikes run out of her chain. Hare grit her teeth, having been impaled by the hand with the spikes and letting the chain retreat into the back.
"You two okay?" asked Dragon from above.
"I'm fine," murmured Hare, clenching her hand. "It doesn't hurt."
"If that's true..." said the experiment. "...then you should be able to take this!"
Hare tensed up, getting into a fighting pose and standing strong against the ground starting to rumble. Blood dripped onto the wrecked floor as she moved back slightly. She looked at her hand seeing a slight hint of purple spread out.
'Poison?!'
She ducked under a swipe from above and swung her elbow backwards, hitting a clone in the stomach and making them dispel. It only served as a distraction because moments later the ground burst open into a pit filled with a fire, her being flung into the sky.
She reached to the roof and a hand grabbed out to meet her, saving her a fall into fire. She sat on the rooftop and could only watch the purple slowly spread out.
"I guess its my turn," said Dragon. "Don't die on my watch, please."
Bird ran towards the experimented girl, holding out their molten rock hand and slammed down into the ground. He saw her eyes flash a bright red for a second before being kicked into a building and it crumbling on top of him.
The experiment cracked its knuckles and looked at its new prey, jumping down in front of the raging pit.
"Well look at you all high and mighty, managing to take out two of my teammates. Isn't something some normie can achieve."
"They were merely starters, what makes you think you're going to be different, Ryutsuki?" said the girl.
"Well look at you. To answer your question..." A minty green glow surrounded Dragon, his eyes lit up with a shade of blue. "...I think I may have a chance."
=Centre of Konoha: Current time=
"Wind Style: Rasen-Shuriken!"
The shuriken of white and pale blue slammed into the ground, tearing it up and sending waves of wind all across the village. Any loose bits of rubble were thrown where the wind took them, streams of chakra soon following.
"Water Style: Rasen-Whirlpool!" shouted out Naruto, this time the orb circling more with sheer force, dragging the water vapour in the sky with it, such was the power. Coalescing in the centre, Naruto threw the orb and the ground moved all around it while releasing the water it contained and bursting after seconds of spinning.
'I'm going to tear this place apart.'
"About time you did, I've been sitting here bored, brat."
"Yang Style: Whip of Judgement!" called Naruto, a beam of light appearing between his two hands. He clasped and it extended out, crashing into buildings and cutting them apart, along with the ground. He held the rod still and looked around at the destruction that he had caused.
"Sage Art: Gracious Deity Gates!"
"Naruto, above you!" shouted Kurama, starting to switch out with one of his siblings. Sand rose up, creating a barrier between him and the restraining gates with multiple sandy pillars.
'Close one-'
"Water Style: Severing Wave!" said Tobirama, spitting out his attack towards the column of sand and tearing it apart, soaking the grains and causing it to tumble down. Naruto jumped on top of the newly formed pile and shot forward with a yellow arm of chakra, swiping away and clearing the proximity around himself.
"Come out and fight Danzo!"
As if on command, he appeared in front of the previous Hokage, staring Naruto into the eye.
"You can make this easier for yourself, boy. Hand yourself and your gang over."
"Like hell I would do that," Naruto said with utter venom. "Fight with your own powers. How strong are you really? You just have influence, using powers that aren't even yours."
"The Kyuubi was never yours. Hand it over and maybe we can release you from your troubles-"
"And who are you to decide that having a bijuu inside made me unhappy?!" roared Naruto, having enough. Sheer waves of power washed over the village, filled with killer intent and spiking the temperature up. His right eye glowed its colour, deepening purple and rotating until it stopped.
Multiple rings.
An orange hue around the eyelid.
Six tomoe, divided equally between the innermost rings.
"Rinnegan?" questioned Hashirama.
"That's only a legend..." trailed off Hiruzen, feeling his body start to move again.
'Naruto, what's really happened in these couple of years? Where is this hatred coming from? It's not potent enough to be the Kyuu-'
"You've forgotten my name already, Minato?" said a booming voice inside of his mind. "You may have split us up but we still share the same name."
'Sorry, it's not potent enough to be Kurama's.'
"Tch. Can't you tell? This man called Danzo is obviously the reason for his suffering. You don't trust me, I can break out of this pathetic control you call strong. My old man rigged it so that we can only be controlled by pure-blooded descendants of his."
'Old man?'
"The one of the legends that you speak about. The Sage of Six Paths."
'That's a myth!'
"Us Bijuu have lived on this planet far longer than you have. He was our creator. That boy... Naruto, was it? He's not just your descendant, he's-"
The other Kurama was cut off with Minato throwing a kunai and teleporting to Naruto, and trying to bring his hand forward with a Rasengan, only being knocked back with a wave of gravity.
'That eye,' pondered Minato, admiring the small glow. 'It holds power.'
"It belongs to my father."
Naruto surrounded himself with chakra, and flung himself towards Danzo with a Rasengan in hand and aiming it forward into the heart. He knew he would miss and waited for Danzo to reform at his new location.
"Naruto, their arm."
'What about it? It's ugly as ever.'
"Pay attention. You've tried to kill him twice, correct?"
'Y-yeah?'
"He has ten of those cursed eyes in his arm. Two- no three now will have closed."
'What are you going at?'
"I'm saying that if you kill him enough that those eyes close, you might be able to actually land a blow."
'I see. In that case...' thought Naruto as Danzo appeared behind him, launching multiple slices of wind. The black shield rose once again, taking no damage.
"Wind Style: Rasen-Shuriken!" shouted Naruto, lobbing his attack which has appeared in his hands towards Danzo. Trees rose up out of the ground and grabbed the attack, making it explode and leave Naruto suddenly disappearing.
"Wind Style: Vacuum Blast!" declared Danzo, firing at a source of chakra he had found behind a rock. The rock shattered into pieces and disappeared into smoke, just as a whirling sound appeared right above him.
"Rasengan!"
In a split second, Minato quickly appeared between the two and placed a hand on Naruto. He teleported him away and the Rasengan crashed into the ground.
Minato took advantage of his situation and jumped behind Danzo with his kunai, throwing it into the man's back.
Danzo fell forward limp, fading away and a new copy of him standing up like nothing happened. He stared at Minato, his stolen eye glaring before turning away.
"Fire Style: Phoenix Flower Jutsu!" Hiruzen turned to Naruto who has appeared in front of him, holding his sword out with a yellow glow. Naruto held it up and slashed each flame harmlessly, the glow around his own sword igniting.
Black markings spread across the surface as he held it sturdier, before raising it and cutting down. He smiled a sad one, with it quickly disappearing into smoke.
"You think I'd let you cut me down that easily, Naruto?"
"Just testing. I have to say, this is one interesting spar. Nidaime Hokage-sama, you invented this jutsu, right?"
"I know where you're heading with this. I won't tell you, you'll never learn anything without trying yourself."
"If you say so. Fire Style: Rasen-Blaze!" Naruto said, flickering behind Hiruzen and slamming into the old Hokage's back. He sent Hiruzen forward into the ground and watched the flames engulf him and the Hokage that strayed a bit too close.
He watched in puzzled confusion as seconds later, they reform from paper and the Sandaime form from the ground up, albeit slowly.
He shook the shock off and sighed. This would be long.
"Oi brat. What happened to blowing this place up?"
Naruto said nothing before making the yellow glow from his sword and defence spread across his body, the black markings following suit. He summoned one massive yellow arm and positioned it over his right, a purple sphere as dense as anything starting to appear.
Minato looked in fear and awe at the sphere, smiling inside. 'So he managed to control the chakra. He's better than me,' he thought with a chuckle.
"Your kid is better than you'll ever be. I can sense it."
'You're right. The new generation will surpass the old... eventually,' he added on sneakily. He then teleported away as Naruto lobbed the bomb the Bijuu bomb towards him where Hashirama stood.
On an instant, his arm turned into wood and wrapped all around the bomb before sending out splinters being destroyed. Hashirama quickly made a clone of himself out of his back and the two split up around Danzo out in the open.
'Why is his influence on us reincarnations so strong?' Hashirama looked at the decrepit arm with Sharingan bulging in it. 'Is it because of my cells?'
A yellow flash circled around him emanating a soft, yet evil but controlled aura.
'Kyuubi. Definitely. How did I not sense this before? How strong is the control?'
The flash headed towards the clone and elbowed the wooden arm, cutting up through the face. They stumbled back and was dragged to the ground by clones popping up from random stones lying around.
"Rasengan!" called out the real Naruto, slamming the clone in the face with a full force attack. The clone disappeared, along with Naruto's own. He jumped backwards and spun his sword in the air before throwing it forward towards Danzo.
A wall of water rose up, knocking the sword into the air. Naruto teleported to it and threw it down while enhanced with yellow and wind chakra. It cut through Danzo's heart and as expected, he reformed with no injuries on their body.
Naruto grabbed his sword and jumped backwards seeing Hashirama and Tobirama run towards him from opposite directions. He heard footsteps behind him, and knew it was Minato. Hiruzen was still reforming out of the corner of his eye.
He heard the Rasengan fire up, water start to move and lastly, something he dreaded.
The ground erupted open with trees rising up and cutting through anything and everything and completely overrunning Naruto but out of control. They moved aside the black orb defence and trapping him inside.
'Well, this sure sucks.'
So... How'd I do? Good? Bad? Awful? Trash? Amazing? Tell me!
Man, I suck at keeping promises. Nothing much to say this chapter.
If you have any suggestions, let me know and I'll incorporate them if I like them!
And that's all for now!
See you later: Ja ne!
