Alright I present to you the official chapter 1 of The Price to be Paid, please give me a honest opinion of how this goes.

Now I will admit that there will be excerpts and cuts as well as entire chapters of the original A Price for Peace used to help keep the story in line and keep it going, but for the most part this is going to be all original. I will put out that there are going to be far more lemons, much more drama, and many more descriptive battles like you are about to read below.


Summary: At the end of the 4th Shinobi War, things don't go quite as planned for Naruto forcing him to make a sacrifice in order to bring the peace that he had been destined for.

Powerful Naruto/Naruto x Multi, Naruto x Fem Sasuke x Karin


"Well, this is a rare sight." a young man, who couldn't be no older than twenty, stated, slowly walking up to the one man who had caused him nothing but trouble the last two years, who was sitting above the entrance of a large cave. The Ghost of the Uchiha was simply sitting in a lotus position as if meditating, a calm look on his face opposed to the usual fanatical or disturbed one he was used to when they fought against each other time and again. Then again, he usually spoke to the man when he was trying to kill him.

This man who was meditating, was Madara Uchiha.

Madara had white hair and pale skin, and he was enveloped by a cloak of chakra that had turned into physical clothing: a full-bodied black garment with black pants, gloves, and boots, over which he wore a flowing white robe with six black magatama markings across his chest and the familiar pattern of a black Rinnegan and nine black magatama markings in rows of three on his back. A grey horn-like protrusions grew out of his left temple and overlapped his forehead akin to a protector with an upward-curve on the right temple. After absorbing the recreated Ten-Tails produced by Obito, Madara obtained additional black magatama markings around his sleeve cuffs and the rim of his robe.

"You have finally decided to amuse me." the Uchiha said calmly, "Alone with no help or backup to see or smell for the next hundred miles." he remarked as he opened his eyes revealing a pair of purple eyes with a rippling pattern to look at the one person who had been nothing but trouble since he had returned, Naruto Uzumaki.

Naruto is a tall and muscular man of nineteen years of age with spiky golden blond hair, with some of it being styled into a ponytail in the back. He has a distinct lightning bolt-shaped scar on his right eye, a wound from a fight in his youth. Naruto's outfit consists of a black jacket, which he wears over his shoulders, a red shirt, dark-colored trousers and boots and a light-colored belt. His jacket is covered with hundreds of thousands of small symbols, runic in design, that encircle the wrist cuffs and work their way to the shoulders and intersect in the middle of the back and then work their way down til they reach the bottom stitching of the coat to form a cross, and just above this cross was a red spiral that symbolized he was from the Uzumaki Clan. These seals provided a myriad of things for Naruto, but right now what they can do is not important.

On his hands are a pair of finger-less black gloves with a metal plate on the back of the hand and a similar seal matrix design drawn across the fingers, palm, and wrist that take the shape of cross-like symbols. Under his shirt, there is a tattoo of his village, the Hidden Leaf that is located on his left rib cage, and is surrounded by a large tribal tattoo, which extends up to his left shoulder and covers part of the corresponding upper back while his left shoulder bears a symbol for his village's Black Ops Anbu which takes the shape of a spiral and a curved lined coming up underneath to form the shape of a flame. On his right shoulder is a different tattoo that denotes the use of an element, Lightning. Specifically Black Lightning of the Third Raikage taught to him by the student of the man himself, Darui the right hand man of the Yondaime Raikage who was the son of the Fourth. The right side of his rib-cage has the symbol of the remaining elements of Wind, Water, Earth, Fire in a similar pattern of his left tribal tattoo.

Naruto waved his right hand in a dismissive manner. "I don't know about amusing. But ultimately, one of us will die at the end the day." he said calmly to the Uchiha

Madara chuckled in a cold tone. His sharp eyes staring at him unblinking. "You truly are an enemy I must destroy. Even more so than that despondent clansmen of mine, Kiyomi I believe her name was." he told the blonde

"Kiyomi isn't the most powerful person in the world right now. I would think even she could wrestle against one of us or maybe even hold her own if anything. Or maybe not." Naruto replied with indifference. "There is so mu-"

Boom!

The cave crumbled. And Naruto found himself flying backwards like a bullet. It had occurred in an instant, far faster than even the experienced eye could track. But the again Madara had flashed in front of Naruto, slammed his open palm on Naruto's chest. The blond hadn't had the time to dodge or block. He received the full brunt of the attack, being sent rocketing backwards. The Six Paths Jinchuuriki didn't attempt to follow up, but just stood there, staring at the palm of his right hand with an expressionless mask.

A long distance away, far away that Madara looked like an insect, Naruto finally crash landed on both feet.

Naruto looked around. The area was just dead. He doubted a sage would be able to gather natural energy in this place. But what did one expect in the den of the Ten Tails Husk?

Still, that blow was ridiculous. Madara had come at him with every intention to kill him. A normal person. No, even a Kage, one considered to be the most powerful in the standards of the young ones would have been crushed. Left dead or sinking towards the dead.

He smiled and spat out blood.

Madara's physical strength surpassed his. But not surprising. The Uchiha did house the full might of the ten tails after all, and add onto his years of experience and has been fighting powerful opponents for years. He had served as the Captain of Team Rou, the Hokage's personal bodyguard, and never before had he been given the experience of nearly being killed in one blow like Madara had done to him just now. The prospect did make him feel a little excited but not so much that he would start grinning like a mad man.

This was the first time Madara had ever landed a hit on Naruto, when they were alone of course, and to say he was surprised by how little his enemy was holding back. The blond has always used his sword to defend when in confrontation against Madara. Sometimes he appeared to get hit by his attacks but he'd always escaped those unscathed. A normal person didn't get to escape like that. He knew he landed a clean hit, and yet, the blond didn't even fall before getting up. He hadn't held back. Not even a little.

This was going to be worth it after all.

Madara grinned. He could enjoy himself. When last did he ever feel excited about fighting anyone besides Hashirama?

Without looking for a response, he vanished, leaving only chunks of earth flying in his wake.

The battle of gods was officially underway, and this would be the start of a fight that would shake the continent and world in a way that hadn't been seen since the era of the Six Paths Sage himself fought the might of the Ten Tails alongside his brother. But this fight wasn't between two men and a monster, it was just two men and a lot of open space to let loose and see who would fall the other.

XxX Elsewhere XxX

The five Kage had assembled. The message they had received barely minutes before had forced them to gather in such a swift manner that they hadn't even been able to change their attires. The five Kage in order were Gaara the Kazekage, Mei the Mizukage, A the Raikage, Kitsutchi the Tsuchikage (Son of the deceased Sandaime), and Kakashi the Hokage and each of them were more than worried with what was about to go down. The Raikage looked to his fellow Kage with a grim expression that wasn't normally seen on his face, "I'll be frank with all of you, I don't like where this final battle is heading. The fact he sent a clone to us speaks volumes of his actions." he stated seriously, ignoring the thunderstorm raging on outside, lightning flashing across the heavens with a mighty crash

Gaara nodded his head, "I am in agreement with you Lord Raikage, but there was no other way. He has been the only one to keep up with Madara when he was both a Reanimation, as well as the new Ten Tails Jinchuuriki when he sealed the beast into himself. I would assume he was tired of letting everyone fight his battles for him and decided to put a end to the war once and for all." he said with a sigh.

Kakashi shook his head, "I agree, but there is one key piece of information we lack, just why would he do something like this on his own when he knows that each time he fights Madara they alter the-Kakashi was brought out of his musings when a beautiful woman with dark skin and silver/white hair came running in with a look of fear on her face, "Gokage-sama, Gokage-sama urgent news!" she exclaimed.

The Raikage looked to his assistant Mabui in concern, "Mabui, what's the matter?" he asked her.

"There's no time to explain, come with me and you'll see, please there is no time to waste!" she said with a pleading tone of urgency in her voice.

"Lead the way miss Mabui." Mei said as the five Kage rose and swiftly followed the woman til they reached the roof.

The words they wanted to say were stuck in their throats as they watched as fire streaked across the sky, thunder crashed with flashes of lightning raining down from the heavens. The very earth itself was ripping itself apart as mountains crumbled and water rushed in from the sea, creating new bays and coves. Storms raged unhindered and allowed powerful cyclones to rip the trees up by their roots, only to fling them away with such force that they were turned to toothpicks. Mother Nature had turned on herself as mighty explosions detonated both in the heavens and on earth at such speeds none of the ninja could keep up with them.

These powerful natural phenomena would continue for a solid week as earthquakes ripped the earth open, meteors of flame fell from the heavens, hurricanes raged unimpeded and other forces of nature ripped the earth apart in their battle, but in the end, only one would stand in victory over his enemy.


Madara grinned as he appeared right behind Naruto in mid-air, his body twisting along the wind. His right foot was aimed at the back of Naruto's head, with the intention of either bursting it open or severing it from the head. Naruto reacted swiftly by falling forward, while flipping to be able to face the nigh immortal jinchuuriki. However, while his was upside down, his body tensed as his opponent released a roar of flame at him. When the powerful fire blast came, it hit him head on. Naruto quickly folded his hands across his face while bringing his knees across chest. Before he could even blink, the flames hit him.

Boom!

A massive explosion ruptured, completely enveloping his body while destroying everything around him.

Madara didn't wait for the explosion to clear, he dived in to attack Naruto, unbothered by the destructive force of his chakra. Since he couldn't see the blond, he couldn't just attack. Naruto was still upside down when Madara dived into the explosion. His hands and knee positioning helped him avoid a fatal blow as the Uchiha punched toward his gut. The punch slammed into his knees, sending him flying backward, out of the explosion with Madara quickly following.

While in mid-air, Naruto narrowed his eyes behind for a second before flipping. He crash landed on the ground, while still folding his hands across his chest. Within seconds, his enemy was front of him. The former mortal breathed out another powerful roar at point blank range.

The Roar seemingly hit Naruto head on, erupting into a huge explosion that even forced the Uchiha to leap into the air to avoid getting caught within his own explosion. While he was still in retreat, his eyes narrowed to his right hand: Naruto flashed into existence. His shirt and jacket seemingly burnt off, but there was no single bruise, burn or cut on his body. The blond held his hands together, fingers folded into a triangle, a black runic sealing circle appearing in the air in front of him.

Ebony electricity sparked into existence as Naruto gave a growl that turned into a roar as a black beam rushed through the seal. Its speed was far faster than anything Madara could even hope to avoid. To his relief, the beam zipped just past him, on the right side of his chest. He felt an intense heat off it. In fact, even though it went past him in the blink of an eye, the blast burnt his clothing and left burn marks on his chest. But what caught his attention the most was the explosion on the other side. He hadn't even finished trying to figure out what had happened when a huge explosion occurred a distance away. The mountain that had once sat there was gone within seconds.

"Ah, I missed." Naruto said with a grin on his lips.

Madara was still rooted in mid-air, not even moving an inch. If that had hit him dead on, he would have been severely wounded, even in his current form. Slowly, he turned to Naruto and then matched the blonde's grin – his was a little sinister.

"I will take the pleasure in ripping you apart. And I will do it slowly."

Naruto smirked as he responded with, "I just felt a chill down my spine." He said that, yet with a degree of indifference.

"Why don't you use your full power? I can't afford to hold back now that I have seen that you're capable of not only dealing with my attacks but also damaging me."

Naruto snorted, "I am using my full power."

What he hadn't finished with was at base transformation, meaning no Sage Mode, Tailed Beast Mode or Tailed Beast Transformation, Tailed Beast Sage Mode, Six Paths Sage Mode, or even Kurama's unspoken ace in the hole. (something the fox had not once even mentioned to the Uzumaki, opting to keep it to himself until he knew that Naruto needed to call upon it. As far as the fox knew, Naruto knew nothing of it.)

Madara frowned with disappointment. He knew the blonde was not being fully honest with him, "And the power you have stolen from me?" he inquired.

"Well, I'm not at full power when in that form. It limits my other abilities. My Six Paths form gives me more in terms of defense. It is preferable when facing multiple opponents. But right now in this form, I can use my regular Sage Mode and other abilities without any restrictions." Naruto held out his right hand, and then continued. "In this form, I can do things li-"

He could see what had happened. Madara had displayed an even greater speed to attack him. He had seen the man cut off the outstretched hand around the elbow. But he had been a little surprised by the speed that he couldn't move to avoid the attack.

Madara quickly followed this by driving his left hand straight into his gut. Naruto didn't even flinch when the hand pierced through, leaving a gaping hole, blood gushing out. He quickly jumped away, all battered and landed on the ground with a deep frown on his chest.

Inwardly, Kurama was laughing at him

'You may as well tuck your tail between your legs and run.'

'I was just a little surprised. I did not imagine he would be this fast.'

'A little? I thought you froze.' Kurama replied in a mocking tone.

Naruto stared at his hand and watched it reform. He healed himself completely and then responded to Kurama, 'It would be embarrassing to make such an admission. But,' He stared up into the sky. 'This is really a battle that can go either way. But at the very least, I'm make sure Madara becomes a cripple. That'll make him kill himself than live with the shame.'

'If you don't stop holding back, you're not going to achieve that.'

'Have I been holding back?'

'You haven't used my power.'

Naruto snorted. 'Of course you'd say that. But there is a little problem. Fighting with your power limits the range of all my attacks o full on long range, I can't do that while Madara is still at full power. At the most I'll stick to close quarters combat for the time being. We'll see about upping the ante as the fight goes on.'

'Well, that makes this fight all the more important. Each time you have engaged Madara in battles the loss of life has been staggering, the fact that you can openly challenge him as a jinchuuriki to the Ten Tails of all beings shows just how powerful you truly are and how much of a threat you are to Madara's plans to take over the world and put us in a genjutsu to do who knows what to us, to you and me, to that Uchiha girl you are so infatuated with.'

'I am not infatuated with Kiyomi, yes she is beautiful, but her outlook on life needs to change before I even remotely consider trying to think of wanting to date her. Now, back on tack. Fire power that can change this landscape will be needed. I don't have any intentions of dragging this fight out any longer than I need to, so that means I will have to enter Sage Mode and attack with raw power.' Naruto responded while holding up his right hand, seals lighting up along the glove.

The space just above Madara seemed to rip apart, revealing a black hole that gave off a creepy feeling.

Within seconds, a monstrous black ball shot out of the hole. Madara dared to say it was just as big as the Nine Tails was. He had no time to consider it as it slammed into his back. It was heavy. So heavy that even he couldn't carry it. This was condensed energy. Even if it was this big – it was condensed. The force of the attack sent him racing to the ground. He crashed with his hands spread out, the ball squashing him under its weight.

And then, it exploded.

Knowing that an explosion was going to occur, Naruto had already flown into the air to avoid getting caught within it as his enemy had been above him.

The explosion caused a large mushroom to debris to rise. The explosion reached up into the air. There was no sign of the Ten Tails host. Not until the explosion started to clear. There was a massive crater where Madara laid. It was so big, Madara appeared small within it. But the Uchiha raised his body, and then let out an ear shattering roar of rage that sent chills down Naruto's spine.

Madara seemingly didn't appear to have suffered any damage. That had to be strange. No one was supposed to escape from that without damage. They were at the top of a mountain and it had now vanished, replaced by a crater.

If not for the fact that them both being sages meant they could easily absorb Senjutsu Chakra, Naruto would have stood there, baffled and unable to explain what just happened. And then would have decided to take Kurama's advice and tuck all nine of his tails and then flee.

Instead, he smiled, raised his right hand.

Madara got to a knee, and he stared at Naruto.

If he hadn't absorbed the energy of that blast, it would have been disastrous for him. He would have been hurt more than he was at the moment. But the little hurt had earned him all that raw chakra to act as a power boost. He could not underestimate the threat Naruto posed to his very life. But to feel threatened made his heart race with excitement. He felt a wave of emotion rushing through his nerves. He wanted nothing more than to take into the air and then rip the blond apart. He just thought of doing it slowly, pulling the hand until it broke off and then moving to the other one.

It didn't matter that Naruto had now activated his normal sage mode. His appearance just as imposing as his. Madara was going to enjoy ending this boys life, and then taking his lover in front of his dead corpse and watch as she broke both mentally and emotionally.

Sadly many knew it was going to take a miracle if Naruto and Kiyomi were going to ever think about becoming lovers, their relationship was more akin to a old married couple who couldn't stand each other and wanted to do nothing more than to rip the other apart.

Before he could take off into the air, Naruto charged down. Their fists clashed, resulting in the ground exploding under the force created by the collision.

Arrogance!

Madara thought. Naruto was looking down on him. His response to this perceived arrogance was brutally landing a left hook on the chest. The punch caused them to be separated and he didn't waste time before opening his other fist while gathering up an incredible amount of chakra. He didn't gather much as Naruto was right in front of him and he didn't want to give him a chance to escape. He was still able to release a powerful blast that collided with Naruto head on, sending him flying backwards.

Naruto recovered from the blow without any injuries that Madara could see as he suddenly vanished. He didn't have to look far as Naruto appeared above him. But before he could turn around, the blond then landed on his back. The blonde clasped both his hands together and smashed them down into Madara's face, sending him crashing into the ground. He hadn't even crashed to the ground when the blonde releases a blast of energy from its mouth. The second the powerful energy hit his back, he crashed into the ground before being enveloped by a column of pale energy.

Knowing that it would not be enough, Naruto held out his right hand to prepare for another attack, but he then blinked with surprise as he felt a sudden flash of movement. Madara was in front of him, bleeding through the mouth, and crucially, Naruto's outstretched hand was had been severed from the shoulder. In response, he jumped away to create some distance, but before he could go far, Madara was in his face. The Ten Tails Jinchuuriki hit him on his gut, his hand pierced through before he released a blast of chakra. He felt as if his entire body wanted to explode.

The important question was how Madara had been able to get away from that explosion, but he couldn't ask it. Not while he was trying to keep his mouth closed that he doesn't spill out his guts. Naruto crashed through several boulders before skidding through the ground and then came to a halt. He was fully aware that Madara was charging at him at full speed. And as a result, he raised his left hand, not minding the gaping hole on his stomach or the blood gushing out. Madara found his movements slowing before completely freezing.

His eyes narrowed down, a large sealing formula was on the ground. The time wasn't moving. His eyes stared back at Naruto. Was it time manipulation? It was so powerful that he couldn't do anything. Had time stopped? No, it hadn't, it was just moving so slowly. And even as he tried to muster the power to free himself, everything physical was moving slowly aside from his thoughts.

"To think I would have to rely on such tactics." Naruto spoke with indifference. "I'd wanted to just crush you on just purely power alone. But you've exposed my mortality. While I can regenerate from the wounds you just inflicted, recovering from a lost hand is another factor that requires a deal of chakra. In any case, I have delayed time for a bit. It would be impossible to hit you while time is moving as it is. Thus, you'll have less than a second between the time I undo that seal and the time the attack I'm going to release hits you."

After saying that, a clone appeared in a puff of smoke. It was holding its hands together while Naruto summoned a sword out of a storage seal.

Looking at the sword, Madara noticed that that it was a large broadsword with a strengthened, ridged and lightened blade. It was broader by the tip and narrowed down all the way to its broad steel hand-guard, which arcs over to the pommel, and the handle grip was covered in black leather. The sword would've been a cutting weapon because of its thick width, and was embedded with two of the three Sapphires of the most amazing shade of blue. Unique among other swords, this weapon possesses a strengthened, ridged and lightened blade that narrowed down all the way to its broad steel hand-guard, a jeweled hilt. (1)

This was a sword made by Naruto's own hand, and it had one purpose and one purpose only, to destroy anything it was challenged by and kill any who fought against it.

He settled on one knee and pointed it at Madara.

"Turn everything to ashes."

The command Naruto gave his sword allowed for the blade to release its power in the blink of an eye. The moment it was released, it had already hit Madara. But there was no explosion around the man. The blast hit the Uchiha across the upper side of his body, turning his left arm and hand into ashes. The blast only stopped upon colliding into the mountain behind.

Naruto fell down to one knee, his injuries and the release of the power he had been using was starting to take a toll on him. It was beyond human to be alive with such a hole through his gut. But there has been no time to focus on trying to heal himself when he had to focus on releasing that attack. Well, at least he'd managed to handle th-

His thoughts came to a halt, when he sensed movement in front of him, Madara's foot hit him square across his face. The surprise attack sent him flying backwards. While still airborne, Madara crashed onto his body, sending him plummeting into the ground in a loud boom. Worse, the Ten Tails jinchuuriki had fucking landed atop of him. Naruto coughed up more blood. When was the last time he'd ever found himself in this position? He'd never thought it be possible for anyone to even bring him to this position. But it could not be helped if the opponent was Madara.

"This has been fun, but we must end this. There are entire countries that I must go slaughter after this." Said the Uchiha with a left shoulder that was cleaned off his body. It wasn't just his arm, but part of his shoulder was missing, yet he wasn't bleeding.

Naruto didn't respond as he was counting the seconds. He clapped his hands together in front of him, the seals lining both gloves glowing a bright blue as they were activated.

Before Madara could contemplate what was happening, the Uchiha was greeted by a incredibly powerful shockwave that had blasted him clear across the sky for a couple miles. The Uchiha had tried to release a cry of pain, which he did, but he couldn't freaking hear it for some reason. It took him a couple seconds to realize why he hadn't been able to hear it.

The concussive force of that clap had actually made him go deaf to the point that he couldn't hear anything. Sending the powerful chakra of the Ten Tails through his body, it immediately healed the damage to his ears and he leveled a glare at the Uzumaki. Seems his prowess in fuinjutsu was as powerful, if not more so, than his own ancestors was. The seals he had seen had been a combination of elemental fuinjutsu as well as sound amplification and expulsion fuinjutsu. Incredible. The seals had unleashed a powerful blast of Wind Style Chakra while amplifying the sound of his clap and expelling a even greater force of power at the same time.

Standing up both warriors could see that their opponent was injured and bleeding, but they were whole. Growling in annoyance at himself for being so stupid to let Madara hold him off for so long, Naruto leapt off the ground and up into the air as he raced towards Madara, unsealing a strange new weapon to clash against the mighty Uchiha warrior. The weapon in question resembles a nagitana, but this was different as what he had noticed of it didn't make sense to the Uchiha. The blade had been red hot, and had grown razor blade ends on a shorter length on either side of the blade. (2)

The Uchiha in question grunted in annoyance as he commanded one of his Truth Seeker Orbs to his hand, caught it, and turned it into a long katana. Surging his incredible might through the blade, his Six Paths Senjutsu caused the blade to glow a eerie purple, almost a neon colored magenta, and red lightning seemed to arc off the sword as he charged it up with undisputed power.

As he fell towards Earth, Naruto coursed his own chakra through his blade, the sword turning a deep ebony as red lightning arced off his own weapon. Madara could feel the amount of power coursing through his veins, his eyes turning a deep crimson as he begun to unleash his chakra. Gripping the katana in both hands the Uchiha slammed his foot down on the ground, the earth underneath his foot seemingly crushed to dust, and then he swung with every ounce of strength he could muster, "HRGH!" he growled out as Naruto swung his weapon down with a resounding, "GROOAAARGGHH!" and the two blades came into contact with their opposition.

Or in this case they tried to.

The ground shook and cracked before chunks of rock were ripped up around them and tossed into the air where it momentarily remained. A ball of chakra was formed from the collision of energy causing a crimson electricity to spark off their colliding weapons while incredible amounts of dirt begun to roll away only to be dispersed as a shockwave ripped through the air. An explosion of unknown power ripped through the land forcing trees that surrounded them to try and escape the blast, bending back so far they seemed ready to snap up from the ground and turn to kindling.

The surrounding area after was ripped up into the heavens as the shockwave tore across the landscape. An incredibly bright light was shining as the two men attempted to cut the other in two.

A few miles away, a young woman had stabbed her sword in the ground and held on for dear life while she tried to shield her face with the other and used chakra to stay planted to the ground. Her deep ebony tresses blown back by the gale force winds that tore the countryside to shreds. Holding onto her was another young woman with long red hair and crimson eyes squeezed tightly shut to try and overcome the fierce winds bellowing past her and her accomplice. She could sense the chakra in the air, feel the amount of power that the two men were putting into their swings as they tried to overpower their opponent and force them to submit to their might and strength.

As their swords battled for domination, the bubble of energy between their blades grew smaller and smaller before the two weapons finally made contact and a surge of chakra exploded outwardly and shoved the two men apart where they crashed landed on their backs. Upon getting to their feet, the two narrowed their eyes at one another, seeing what their opponent would try to do next.

Naruto growled as he looked to Madara. A thick wave of chakra erupted from the blonde and surged forth with great power. Naruto didn't hold back, locking onto his enemy and releasing his chakra at full strength. The blonde man's surroundings rippled as powerful shockwave's tore towards Madara, causing the Uchiha to grin like a mad man, "So you have decided to no longer hold back, very well then, as a favor for giving me such a challenge, I Madara Uchiha, shall indulge you." he said in response before he released a wall of chakra from his body in a way similar to that of Naruto, his very presence alone destroying the ground around him as he unleashed raw chakra from each of his pores to combat the wave of chakra Naruto was releasing.

This was what true power looked like. Nothing would stand in the way of two powerful wills that sought to do what they desired with every fiber of their being. The Chakra clashed violently against one another in a battle of dominance. As the blue and purple colored chakra clashed, it began to dissolve, dissipating as beneath a layer of gold was revealed. The blue chakra melted away as a thick pillar of golden colored chakra erupted from every pore on Naruto's body. The golden chakra collided with Madara's own chakra, overpowering it and headed towards the last Uchiha. This golden chakra was Naruto's and the deep magenta was Madara's true chakra; true chakra was the expression of one's true desire.

For one to achieve the ability to use their true chakra they had to accept each and every flaw about their being, as well as the entire world. In all of history roughly ten people had managed to obtain this power-those being Naruto Uzumaki, Kiyomi Uchiha, Madara Uchiha, Hagoromo Otsutsuki the Sage of Six Paths, Indra Otsutsuki, Asura Otsutsuki, and Kaguya Otsutsuki. As this happened, Madara summoned his own sword into his hand and held it in a reverse grip and suddenly a black aura slowly enveloped the blade once more.

Naruto however created a aura as he used the same chakra technique. And suddenly with no warning or even a signal from either of them, their swords clashed in a shockwave so powerful that the tree's of the valley were blown away, a crack in the air in the center between the two warriors as they held their weapons in a clashing position, never touching the other's weapon once again.

Naruto growled as he unleashed enough raw chakra that the energy quickly tore the ground apart as it clashed with a similar wave of chakra from Madara, the air around them cracking and exploding as they brought the full might of their power to the playing field as the land tilted due to the clash as Naruto quickly released some of the power he held from his almighty fuinjutsu runes and kicked the Uchiha away.

Madara slid back and grinned a sinister smirk at his greatest rival, "The strength you have, it's so much better than I could have possibly imagined. It almost makes me want to smile!" the Uchiha said grinning.

"If that's the case, then why are you grinning?" Naruto said with a grin of his own.

"It's because I'm having just so much fun!" the Uchiha roared with a sinister laugh of glee as he lunged forward to impale the blond on his blade, ut not before releasing a tidal wave of Amaterasu at Naruto.

Naruto growled and swung the massive sword down into a incoming blast of black flames, daring to meet it head-on. The blade collided and a powerful shockwave erupted as fissures appeared in the very air itself. The entire landscape shook as the two attacks collided. Shockwaves erupted on impact scattering out, causing cracks to appear around the two of the warriors. The air itself along with the remains of the lake water quivered, rocking back and forth as it rippled outwards to form tidal waves.

"Hahahaha! Now that is strength!" Madara cried, his tone of voice betraying the excitement he was feeling, he was so looking forward to this fight. Would Naruto truly be the first in this world to force him to the next level?

Naruto slammed a foot down to the ground as he cratered the earth and looked at his rival, a smile of excitement forming on the blonde's lips, "It's been a long time since someone has given me a challenge! Come on Madara, let the fun begin!" Naruto roared, unleashing a powerful laugh that shook the land.

Madara gave a grin and swung his arms out to the side, golden chakra bursting forth "I want a real fight! I want to experience the true thrill of battle! It has been far too long!" the Uchiha said before he reached out with his right arm as he lifted and bit his left thumb before wiping the blood down his arm which gave off a puff of smoke to reveal a katana that was black in color, and had a purple hilt to it.

With his sword in hand, the Uchiha released the hold on his own chakra reserves. Purple chakra spiked shooting high up into the air, cratering the earth as it was freed from its confines. The immense Chakra became a giant pillar whipping up a strong gust of wind. Waves crashed against the sides of the cliff as the energy started to expand, encompassing the entire plateau in its glow. The elements became wild as lightning flashed across clear skies. Nearby islands over thousands of kilometres away began to shake violently as earthquakes shook the land. Crevices were formed in the deep oceans as the earth was pulled apart.

Wind wrapped violently around the duo, wile at sea the winds begun pulling the ocean upwards as a maelstrom was formed, reaching up to the skies. The ocean raged becoming so violent, whirlpools had formed. The air became saturated with the thick presence of both Madara and Naruto's chakra. The pressure exerted caused marine life to float to the surface, knocked unconscious from both ninja's powers, their bodies floating atop the water, creating tidal waves.

The enormous pressure exerted from Naruto's reserves caused the nearby trees to bend away while they begun to groan in protest, cracks forming along the length of the trunks. Both Naruto and Madara could feel their legs shaking, beginning to buckle under the godly pressure that pressed against either of them. The two of them felt like their knees could give out at any minute, and one would fall beneath the ever-growing pressure. Naruto however showed no fear. Instead, the excitement began to boil inside, "He sure isn't holding back like I am, guess he truly is enjoying this if his chakra is getting as riled up as it is. Show me what you can do!" Naruto roared loudly, swinging the massive sword down towards Madara, the world seemed to shatter behind the weapon as it came downwards. Naruto quickly channeled the force of his chakra behind the swing, using it to empower the weapon.

Madara released a laugh, swinging his katana up into the path of the incoming weapon. The sword seemed to hum as the weapons clashed their powerful energies once more threatening to destroy the world around them, which was very possible for the two of them to do. The two clashed, a shockwave exploded out on impact, appearing to seemingly break the space around it, bending reality. Chakra and swords clashed against one another, fighting for dominance.

The shockwave echoed out into the world, nearby islands of Mizu no Kuni shook violently, splits beginning to form along shores. Deep beneath the oceans where the two fought, deep sea crevices over hundreds of meters long were split open. The Plateau they both stood on began to crack, pieces breaking off, sections of the cliff near the two broke off and were obliterated turning into dust. Naruto and Madara stepped back; their weapons lowered beside them. "Not bad, Uchiha" The Sage said as he looked at the cackling Uchiha.

"Not bad either, Uzumaki." he replied with a grin.

Madara and Naruto stood opposite one another and begun to measure each other up, clashing in a battle of pure will.

Madara was the one who broke the silence, charging forward, appearing in front of the blonde, swinging from the right, making its way towards Naruto in a effort to cleave him in half. The blonde Uzumaki threw out his left sword up, bringing it into the swords path, seeming to carry the power to destroy the world. Steel and titanium tungsten alloy met as a shockwave erupted on impact destroying the surroundings, earth was sent flying into the air as the ground shook as the world around them shattered, debris flying into the air. The shockwave from the impact carried on destroying the surrounding forest making the tree's collapse.

Suddenly, Naruto watched as Madara's sword grew in size, and suddenly extended out which left Naruto no choice but to jump back as the sword cut through Naruto's hand with the intent to cut it off. An aura of chakra extended out of the blonde's bloody right glove as he reached out into the air around, appearing to grab onto air itself as powerful tremors erupted, striking against the sword knocking it and Madara backwards. Naruto in turn gripped the bisento in his hand and charged towards the Uchiha quickly closing the distance. Vibrations shook the air, causing the ground to quake as the giant fist headed towards the blonde's enemy. The entire continent seemed to shake under Naruto's power.

A crazed laugh escaped Madara's lips as he leapt forward into the fray of battle to meet the fist head on. Orochimaru's stolen Kusanagi was gripped in the silver haired man's right hand as he punched out with the left to meet the fist as he utilized Shinra Tensei to combat the power of Naruto's strange sealing ability. Raw purple chakra erupted from the limb as it transformed ethereal, no longer appearing to be made of flesh as Madara called upon the Susanoo to enhance the power of his already powerful Almighty Push. The limb forged of chakra collided with the blonde's fist, powerful energy quickly traveled through Naruto's arm as another shockwave erupted on contact.

A clash of pure unadulterated power erupted and formed a visible clash of energy of both gold and purple as their power's clashed with everything they had and rose into the air and was seen from every direction due to the sheer height of its reach. As this happened several explosions erupted from the ongoing clash of energy causing the world around to shake for miles. The ground was broken as a crater formed at the feet of the warriors. The bodies of both warriors went sliding backwards as the force of their collision generated a shockwave so powerful it could knock them back.

Madara gave a growl before he reached out with his left hand and bit a thumb once more and slid it over another seal on the right bicep which caused another cloud of smoke to appear as he unsealed a second sword, a sword only Naruto was truly familiar with. The sword was as big as Samehada (which Naruto was lucky to have procured in the war from Bee) and took the shape of a giant cleaver with two cut-outs in the blade, one at the top and a semi-circular one near the handle. Lifting the giant blade, Madara pointed it at Naruto, holding Kusanagi in the right as power seemed to be resonating with the new sword he brought out as Naruto glared at the Uchiha in anger.

Madara had pulled out the Kubikiribocho, one of the seven swords of the mist, a legendary sword just like Kusanagi. This sword was used by a man that had put Naruto on his path as a Ninja, and he did not want it to be used as a weapon of mass slaughter, anymore that is.

Naruto growled in anger and quickly grabbed hold of his weapons, slamming the end of his bisento into the ground. As for his sword, Madara watched as it whirled around in the air before Naruto quickly grabbed hold of his weapon, and swirled it around in his grasp. a powerful aura began to release from the man's body as he looked to Madara. Holding the two great swords in hand, Madara launched into action, running towards Naruto with great speed. With just a few steps, the Rinnegan wielding ninja appeared in front of Naruto, jumping up into the air swinging Kubikiribocho downwards with an overhead swing.

Naruto's sword came upwards meeting the blade of the oversized butcher knife, another shockwave erupting on impact. Swinging upwards from beneath was Kusanagi coming to join its fellow sword. The snake sword was blocked as a giant polearm came down to intercept it. A powerful earthquake shook the air as the sky began to break; a long crack had been created in the sky as the clouds parted from the clash of power. Madara may not have been as strong as Naruto was physically due to the Uzumaki's size advantage and physical power, but his eyes certainly made up for it.

Naruto on the other hand could withstand practically anything thrown at him, as shown when Madara had encased him in a prison of ice last time they fought which he simply allowed his sealing techniques to break him out. With the power to create powerful seals that allowed him to cause powerful vibrations and quakes with but a punch, Naruto was said to possess the ability to destroy anything and everything he desired. The power at Naruto's fingertips went to demonstrate just how strong not only the man was but also the strength of his fuinjutsu.

Madara was pushed back as a powerful quake struck him, launching the Uchiha backwards. With a flip, he landed on his feet, both great swords carving a fissure in the earth as the blades dug into ground below. Raising the two swords up he rested them on her shoulders, smiling from ear to ear. It was clear as day from the smile that the man was having the time of his life. It was not every day the man could find someone to give him at least some kind of a challenge. The ground underneath shook as Naruto made his move, taking the chance to go on the offensive. A fist punched out, the force of an disaster behind it as everything around the fist was destroyed; mountains toppled over and fell, earth crumbled, and everything seemed to break as the vibrations affected everything.

Kubikiribocho was swung into the path of the approaching fist, sharpened blade meeting flesh. The power of vibrations hit the blade with enough force cracks appeared along its edge. A crater formed again, expanding rapidly from the strength placed behind the punch. Madara grit his teeth as he even felt vibrations travelling into his body, carrying enough force to push both of them backwards, forcing the Uchiha to dig both feet into the ground as Kusanagi was plunged into the ground, bringing the two ninja to a halt.

With a yell, the power containing the strength to destroy the world descended as Naruto leapt at Madara and swung the massive bisento from the left and his Sword from the right in a pincer movement. The air rippled and was pulled behind, becoming distorted as the giant blades continued their intended path. Steel met steel as the Kubikiribocho intercepted the pole-arm and Kusanagi clashed against the broadsword, the butcher knife shattered on impact unable to withstand the force a second time after being damaged. All that remained was the handle and the lower half of the sword.

Which had been ripped out of Madara's hand.

As the sword flipped through the air, a golden flash summoned it to Naruto's side as he dropped the bisento and grabbed the hilt of the sword before he sliced his hand across the remainder of the blade and then smeared his blood across the blade several times to repair it before it vanished in a puff of smoke, signalling that Naruto, had sealed it away on his own person. Relieving Madara of a potential weapon to use against him and any others.

Which concluded Naruto's missing sword of the Seven Mist collection.

He... may have... gathered up the remaining others... while fighting reanimation ninja.

At the same time, the force behind the pole-arm strike had sent Madara flying out of the area, smashing him through large rock formations and trees causing them to topple over on top of him. A purple pillar of chakra broke through the debris, turning it into nothingness. Pure untamed chakra surged out violently, washing over the entire space making it shake. The sound of the ground cracking sounded out as fissures appeared in the earth around the two combatants as a testament of how powerful they were. Madara calmly stepped forward carrying Kusanagi, cracked and near broken. Flicking a hand the sword was tossed back into the Uchiha's seal once again.

However Naruto simply dusted his hands off, looking up towards the Uchiha as he stood still waiting patiently.

"You're just as eager for this aren't you?" Naruto grinned from ear to ear, taking a few steps forward while picking up the pace which began turning into a full-blown run as Naruto charged towards Madara who mimicked him. White chakra gathered in the palm of Madara's hand, taking the shape of an electric spear which tore the ground apart from all directions. "Lightning Spear" Madara called out. The powerful electric chakra was thrust forward towards Naruto's as he crossed the distance closing in on Naruto at high speeds.

Naruto couldn't help himself and released a bellowing laugh and swung the bisento into the path of the lightning with one hand. Chakra surged out of the lightning spear as it met the polearm head-on. The bisento's blade vibrated coming into contact with the glowing lightning, making the ground quake beneath the impact. Powerful Chakra exploded out from the impact crashing against the bisento, creating a tiny crack at the tip. Chakra surged down the polearm into Naruto's arms, sending a shock of pain through them.

Naruto's free hand glowed with sealing jutsu as he reached out grabbing onto the air itself with his right hand and pulled down. The world fluctuated as the mountains, lakes, and even the forest's were seemingly pulled towards Naruto, the world becoming distorted. Everything in a seven mile vicinity was pulled from their foundations as the world swayed back and forth as if wanting to collapse on top of its foundations. This power demonstrated, was the power that had the ability to destroy the world over. Fuinjutsu truly was a dangerous power in the hands of a master of the ancient art.

Purple chakra erupted from Madara's palm, to meet the incoming collapse of space, in the form of a giant lightning spear ten times the size of the average lightning spear. Once more, chakra and metal met as the spear expanded rapidly in size and detonated, tearing the spear from Naruto's hand as hurricane force winds came into existence on the impact between the two forces as chakra decimated everything it touched ground itself down into dust. Cracks emerged across the earth on collision, rapidly spreading out from the point of impact between the two attacks as small fragments of the mountains around them quickly broke off.

Madara charged forward, leaping high up over the conflict, falling towards Naruto. Chakra circulated around the Uchiha's right arm as it was raised into the air, chakra coming together to form a purple Chidori three times the size of a normal one. The blade of lightning was pushed down towards the blonde sage, "Wakusei Rakiri (Planetary Lightning Blade)" he called out.

Naruto punched out into the air with his free hand, powerful vibrations echoed off the fist. Cracks formed around the fist as the world became distorted under the powerful quake contained inside. The quake cracked the void of space as it traveled towards the Planetary Blade of Lightning meeting it head-on. Vibrations and quake energy collided head-on with the overpowering Six Paths Sage Chakra, causing the spear of lightning to detonate in mid-air. The blade of lightning chakra expanded exponentially in size with such force both Madara and Naruto were blown backwards. Chakra consumed the surroundings tearing the earth and the surrounding mountains apart until all that remained was a giant crater over fifty meters in diameter.

Madara landed on the broken ground, sliding backwards before coming to a halt fifteen meters from the edge of the crater. Across the other side was Naruto who had been pushed back a similar distance. "You sure aren't holding back are you. I like it!" Roared Naruto as he crouched down before launching forward, jumping up into the air, crossing over the giant crater with ease, showcasing his physical abilities. The spot where he previously stood had been shattered beneath his feet as Naruto sailed over the crater falling towards Madara swinging the massive blade downwards while he put the power to destroy the world into his swing.

The sword came down quickly, cracks forming in the air as the world began to shatter beneath its power. Metallic silver transformed into black as he once more covered every bit of his entire arm from bones to skin with his powerful Chakra while he covered the tip of the blade increasing its attack power significantly. The air became distorted as chakra circulated into Madara's right and left palm, ready to face the incoming attack head-on. A burning spear of lightning formed in his left hand as he coupled it with the power of his Amaterasu. His right hand held a combination of wind and fire chakra inside spun wildly growing in force as elemental chakra poured into both spheres.

In the right sphere fire, elemental chakra poured in transforming it as he quickly added his lightning chakra to the already deadly chakra. The two elemental techniques were pushed up towards the incoming sword, as they were pushed up the two spheres connected. Chakra moved between the two spheres of elemental chakra fusing them together, bringing fire and lightning together into one giant sphere that was raging internally with a violent lightning storm and wild inferno. "Raienton: Arashi Daifunka (Lightning Flame Release: Storm Great Eruption)"

Lightning and Fire clashed against vibrations in a battle of endurance. The two forces pushed back and forth, Madara forcing the energy upwards, as Naruto put his weight and strength behind the polearm. Splits began to appear in the world around them, as pieces began to shatter beneath the weight of the four types of power. The Lightning blade began to break away as the elements stored inside were unleashed, a great heat exploded outwards as bright red flames came into existence, yellow lightning crackling amongst the fire as the elements worked in harmony.

The ground became scorched as a tidal wave of fire poured forth, heading upwards towards Naruto with the intent to engulf the sage. Naruto however, removed a hand from his sword while reaching out to grab at the air as the raging storm of lightning and fire ascended upwards. Fingers wrapped around the sky, clenching and pulled downwards with a roar, bringing the world down upon the incoming elemental attack. The world collapsed on top of the raging fire lightning storm, detonating on impact. A giant dome of elemental chakra erupted expanding outwards.

Madara vanished backwards in a flash, as the dome expanded towards Naruto with the intent to swallow him up. The dome was a giant swirling tempest of flames as lightning surging violently within it. Everything was swallowed up by the elements as they clashed against Naruto. The blonde sage gripped the broadsword and slashed downwards creating a deep cracking fissure in the air. The powerful quake traveled onward coming into contact with the raging elemental storm. The quake impacted and the two techniques detonated, exploding violently, destroying their surroundings, washing over Naruto engulfing him in a torrent of fire empowered lightning combined with the power of vibration escaped these cracks destroying the land around.

The world around them had started to become affected by their battle as the vibrations shook the ocean's floor creating earthquakes and tsunamis. Chakra raced to the sky summoning up terrible lightning storms across the entire continent; red flames tore across the sky as balls of fire descended like meteorites falling from the stars. The land quickly began to shake, large cracks forming in the earth that rapidly spread out, destroying everything. If this continued, it was entirely possible the world would surely be destroyed. Naruto stepped forward, scorch markings running up his arms, the tips of his hair had been signed, but the man looked no worse for wear.

Naruto had survived the rush of elements that exploded from the collision of techniques. The blade he carried had taken incredible battle damage, cracks running down the metal with a chip or two in the blade showing just how much of his power he had channeled through it to combat against Madara. Madara grinned from ear to ear and shot forward like a missile. Speeding towards Naruto, intending to fight the man in hand to hand combat, to test the Uzumaki's physical attributes. The Uchiha warrior was a blur, moving at speeds almost impossible for any ordinary person to track, but Naruto wasn't ordinary by any means as he easily intercepted his foe.

Madara quickly appeared in front of Naruto hovering in mid-air, his right fist striking forward. Naruto quickly reacted, his left palm intercepting the punch. On impact, a shockwave detonated outwards destroying the ground beneath their feet. Madara however was far from done, using the arm as a springboard to jump up into the air above Naruto, extending his left leg and bringing it down in a falling kick aimed at the blonde's head. The heel came downwards with the intent to smash Naruto's head into a paste. The air shattered as a giant arm was swung upwards; the Uzumaki's left forearm met the strike head-on, hardening with chakra and contained the force of an earthquake.

The ground shook, crumbling inwards from the impact as the land began to break again, large splits spreading out from the point of impact. Naruto roared, swinging the giant limb, releasing the power of the Sound of Shaking unleashing a massive quake in mid-air. With that the remaining mountains twenty miles around crumbled as the earth collapsed away. The force sent Madara flying backwards, where he crashed into a group of trees. Looking up, the Uchiha watched as Naruto rubbed his forearm, a bruise had already begun to form, before he simply tossed his nearly shattered sword onto the ground next to him. Charging back in, Madara confronted Naruto once more.

With every strike, Naruto would block. The two of them flashed around the battlefield engaging with their fists, each impact creating shockwaves that destroyed the terrain. The sage met each strike without hesitation, blocking with a hand or swinging his bisento meeting it head-on. The world shook violently with each confrontation, fractures appearing around them causing more disaster to follow. Neither one let up, as even Naruto went on the offensive, cracks forming with each punch or swing of the nearly broken polearm. Shortly both opponents had given up on defense, trading blow for blow.

The ground shook, as shockwaves exploded out on flesh, blood spilling onto the ground, accompanied by wisps of golden chakra. Madara and Naruto's body were both engulfed in chakra as strands fused together constantly fighting for dominance; entire pieces of Madara's techniques had been blown apart under the force of Naruto's powerful vibrations. Naruto stumbled back using chakra arms to steady himself. The sage was covered in fist-sized bruises, blood trickling down his torso and lips before he spat out a tooth, accompanied by a large ball of blood. Naruto's face had swollen up, but the man wasn't bothered by the pain at all, instead reveling in it. How long had it been since he had been injured in battle?

He couldn't truly recall as he never could bleed by normal means.

"Enton: Gouka Mekkyaku (Blaze Release: Great Fire Annihilation)!" Madara called out as he breathed in, kneading his chakra in his body before expelling a virtual sea of black flames. A tsunami of intense flames came into existence spanning a wide range, bearing towards Naruto, to engulf him in its sea. Naruto only laughed at the incoming sea of fire before a fist smashed against the air in front of the oncoming attack. Fissures appeared in the earth swarming towards the wall of flames. Powerful tremors smashed against the fire tsunami splitting it in two was a sea of fire poured around the sage leaving him unharmed. Soon the fight between Madara and Naruto used no tactics, both of them attacked directly with no plan, simply fighting through the use of overwhelming strength.

Madara's hand lit up with electricity as he summoned a lightning storm around his hand. Naruto simply inhaled before giving a call of "Futon: Renkuudan (Wind Release: Drilling Air Projectile)!" Five compressed balls of air shot forward; each fired from Naruto's mouth as the sage hadn't moved from his spot. Each of the spheres was at least one-third of Madara's size. The Uchiha showed no fear and leapt over the strike and dived at Naruto. The blonde sage simply smirked before he punched the air, releasing another overbearing quake that collided with the strike making them detonate. Gale force winds shot out on impact blowing debris away and knocking over more tree's and collapsing more land.

If these two had fought on a popular island or even hidden village, the loss of life would be astronomical, as would the damage. Naruto brought a hand down, settling into a lunging stance. Feet dug into the ground, muscles condensed as the blonde shot forward, vibrations erupting from his feet destroying the ground and launched the sage forward with great speed. "HRA!" The blonde's hand was thrust forward, aimed towards Madara's chest, the world around it shattering carving a deep fissure in the air and earth. Madara merely kicked off, charging directly into the path of the oncoming blonde, thrusting his right arm outwards, chakra coming to life in the open palm.

A purple spear formed as he lunged forward towards his foe. The empowered lightning collided with the tip of the bisento, the electricity ground quickly into the blade, quickly dulling it's edge. At the same time white Chakra ground against the edge of the electricity as a powerful quake collided into the lighting. The clashing energy surged through the two, destroying the vibrations and smashed into the blonde. Naruto gave a growl before he gripped his fists tightly and punched out with both hands, covering them in his powerful chakra. The two fists collided with the incoming lightning attack and a tremendous earthquake erupted.

The world shook violently as the cracks that had already been created split open further than ever before, deep fissures formed in the earth as mountains and forests sunk deep into the ground. An explosion reacted as the two forces collided, the natural Six Paths energy coursing through the Chidori traveled onto Naruto and coursed violently through his body. The powerful vibrations released by Naruto flowed through the air into Madara's right arm breaking it as the residual quake energy created a deep fissure in the surrounding land. The entire continent began to shake from the force; pieces of earth fell from the mountains as energy began to escape.

The world shook violently, as the world was cracked from top to bottom. The world around seemed to darken, losing its shine as clouds once more gathered in the sky from the clash of chakra. As for Naruto, the energy had flowed through his arms, tearing the muscles and bones from the inside, before hitting him in the chest. The Sage's lips parted, vomiting up a large amount of blood as he was sent sailing backwards, crashing into the ground with a loud thud creating a human-sized crater. Naruto climbed to his feet, strands of golden chakra shooting out from his wounds regenerating the broken limb. The Uzumaki flexed his arm and examined the area around him.

The land around him and Madara had taken quite a bit of damage from the strike and from those that came before it. If the fight continued, it was very likely the world around them would be destroyed. A groan escaped Madara's lips as he began to stand, arms aching as blood dripped from them like a waterfall creating a virtual river of blood at his feet. The Uchiha growled as he gripped his broken arm, only to snap it into place quickly resetting the bone before he flexed it to see if his Six Paths Power had healed it fully, which it did.

XxX-Unknown Location-XxX

Several miles away, two young women sat next to a nearly destroyed wooded area, their backs leaned up on a large boulder that had quite literally landed nearby when the clash of chakra between the two quarreling men had smashed their power into the other to try and force them to submit. The first is a redhead, the other is a dark haired lass with black eyes. This, was Karin Uzumaki and Kiyomi Uchiha respectively, the last two survivors of their clans (well last known survivors as the world knew, but Kiyomi didn't care about that shit.) with the exception that Naruto was a male clan heir of the Namikaze Clan as well as the Uzumaki Clan.

Karin is a young woman that has crimson eyes, fair skin, and the characteristic red hair of the Uzumaki clan which she wears in an unusual hairstyle: her hair is short and spiky on the right side, while longer and straight on the left side. She wears brown narrow glasses, which have a serrated blade hidden in them, and she wore a mesh shirt and stockings, a purple skirt, a light brown short sleeved jacket with an orange stripe going across the chest, and black sandals.

Kiyomi is a fair-skinned young woman with long that has black eyes and spiky black hair with a blue tint. Kiyomi's hair is long enough to reach her lower back and as such has to be tied into a ponytail while she has long spiked bangs that frame her cheeks. After acquiring her Rinnegan, Kiyomi grew her hair to cover the left side of her face, notably the eye. Kiyomi dons a black cloak with purple lining, and a grey, long-sleeved, collared shirt, over which she wears a periwinkle vest. She also wears black pants, a purple belt, as well as a pair of dark grey fingerless gloves on her hand hands that have a metallic plate on the back of the palms.

It must be noted that she is an intelligent, cultured, capable and skilled girl, and a very resourceful person, interested in her own goals. She can show herself with a charming and pleasant personality, who knows what to say and what to do to gain the trust of those around her. Though she only ever really does this when it comes to a certain dumb blond she knows and likes messing with from time to time.

Karin ran a hand through her hair as she pulled out a band to tie up the mess she called hair into a ponytail, "So, who do you think is gonna win?" she asked her... comrade, though she was still trying to determine if the Uchiha could be called that seeing as she nearly killed her almost three years ago in her quest for vengeance against the Elders of the Leaf, mainly Danzo Shimura, Koharu Utahane, and Homura whom were all now deceased due to the young woman killing all three in a rampage.

Kiyomi shrugged, "It's hard to tell with all the chakra they seem to be throwing around, but if I had to guess, I'd say Naruto would come out on top. He hasn't even entered Sage Mode or his Tailed Beast Mode. The simple fact of him keeping up with a man that can be called a God is mind boggling, but then again, I wouldn't put it past that idiot to pull a wild card out his ass and surpass a god." she said as she brushed her hair back to reveal her left eye, a eye that was purple and held a rippling pattern inside while there were six tomoe inside the two innermost ripples. A more powerful Dojutsu than even her coveted Sharingan or even her Mangekyo Sharingan.

A Rinnegan.

Something she managed to obtain when Naruto saved her by infusing some of his own blood into her when she was bleeding out on some distant battlefield when Madara had nearly killed her, she had the scar to prove it. The one gift that she had no control over, and no matter what she did, it wouldn't turn off. She didn't mind having such a power now, but if it was up to her, she would have simply laid there and died, allowing Naruto to fight at his fullest and beat Madara into the ground. It would have been nice to see her family again, even if she thought it was a bit early to die, but it didn't matter to her anymore, the past was the past and she couldn't go back and change it.

Now, she had to find a way to reach the idiot before he really killed himself in a fight he couldn't possibly win on his own. Standing up she motioned for Karin to follow her, they needed to be quick.

XxX-Battlefield-XxX

Loud bangs rang out as he and his opponent fought each other. Each time their fists met they created a shockwave that caused the air around them to burst. Their fists were mere blurs as the two wove their way around each other, constantly moving and seeking that opening that would allow them to win. A fist came screaming in at him as his opponent launched a straight jab at his face. Naruto's hair whipped about him with reckless abandon as he dodged the attack by stepping to the side. As the first flew past his face, Naruto reached out with a hand and attempted to grab it. If he could just yank Madara towards his...

Unfortunately it was not to be. Madara was far too experienced to be caught off guard with such a simple tactic. When Naruto's hand came up to grab his forearm, the silver-haired Jinchuuriki's other hand rose up to meet it. Madara smacked the arm away, then with the same arm, launched a blindingly fast punch towards Naruto's face. The attack missed, but only because Naruto had stumbled backwards when his own arm was knocked off course, "Did you really think such a simple grapple would work on me?" Madara asked with a glare on his visage, as if he were insulted by the mere fact that Naruto would attempt such a pathetic technique against him. "Such a simple trick won't work on me."

"Wow...you're so arrogant. I can't wait to see the look on your face when I kick your ass. And to think you haven't even pushed me to use Sage Mode yet, I must be better than I thought, cuz you suck!" Naruto was wearing one of the biggest, brightest smiles anyone would ever see. Unlike Madara, who was scowling and looked like he had swallowed something vile, the blonde-haired sage appeared to be having the time of his life. Bending his knees, Madara blasted off the ground with an earth shattering bang. He put so much force into his kick-start that the earth he had been standing on cratered to form two small, perfectly shaped indents of his shoes.

His form moved in a blur, his body traveling so fast that no human would have any hope of seeing him. Naruto, as a man, was more than capable of seeing him, even if his body was nothing but a blurry outline on account of how quick he was. Madara was on Naruto within seconds. Before the blond could even think of launching his own attack, Madara struck out at him with a right hook. The fist connected with Naruto's face before just as quickly retracting. The kinetic build up of energy caused the teens head to snap back. With a jerk, Naruto stumbled backwards, dazed and frazzled by the powerful punch.

There was a slight ringing in his ears and he could swear stars had exploded in his vision for a second. He might have bit off more than he could chew if that had just happened. Not wanting to give Naruto any time to recover, Madara began launching a dozen combination attacks in just as many seconds. A jab to the stomach had the young man nearly doubling over. He didn't, but only because of the cross he received to his face, which caused his entire torso to nearly bend backwards as his head snapped up. Over and over again Naruto found himself on the receiving end of a number of powerful attacks that connected with his body at blinding speeds.

He tried to guard against the other man's vicious assault, and even managed to succeed on occasion, but it was becoming increasingly clear who the better fighter was. Despite the training he had received at the hands of the toads he still wasn't at the level of this monster. Not that this meant anything to Naruto. There was no way he would let himself lose to some wannabe Jinchuuriki. Especially not since so many people was counting on him.

For everyone back home, he had to win this.

Doing his best to keep the silver-haired man in his vision―which was much harder than it looked because everything was beginning to look like one big blur―Naruto did everything he could to keep from getting his face pounded in. He received a swift jab to the shoulder, but managed to avoid the punch to his face that would have more than likely knocked him out cold. A cross nearly did him in, and it probably would have had he not seen it coming and brought his left arm to bare in order to block the punch. Despite managing to get his arm up in time, he was still sent skidding several feet backwards simply due to the amount of power his adversary put into the blow.

"You're pretty sturdy, I'll give you that," Madara said, his eyes narrowing into a glare as he stared the teen down, shaking out his now sore arm. He was sure the brat would be feeling that in the morning. At least he would if Madara had any intention of letting the teen go, "Of all the ninja I've dealt with, most of them would have been killed a long time by now."

"I told you before, I won't let myself lose to a fake!" Naruto declared as he got into his own fighting stance: a sloppy approximation of an orthodox stance, with his left foot further in front of his right foot, thus presenting his weaker side to Madara. "I'm going to win!"

Madara snorted as he took in the fighting stance. "Not with that crappy brawler style you won't." The man smoothly slid into his own combat stance. It was a Southpaw stance, which was a mirror image to the orthodox stance with the exception that southpaw led with the right hand and right foot as opposed to the left. "You're nowhere near strong enough to beat me."

Naruto puffed up his cheeks and glared at the other host, "I will beat you! Just watch me!"

"Keep dreaming, Kyuubi Jinchuuriki!" With a burst of incredible speed, Madara launched himself at Naruto, he was next to the teen in a split second, so fast that Naruto had to blink before he realized his opponent was stepping into his guard, his eyes widening in shock, the young Jinchuuriki tried to backpedal to put some distance between them. Too bad Madara wouldn't let him get too far. Sticking to the blonde like glue, the Juubi Jinchuuriki quickly launched a straight jab with his right hand, or so it seemed. Naruto didn't even realize his mistake when he raised his arm to block until all the air was knocked from his lungs as something plowed into his stomach with enough force to launch him away from his opponent.

Gasping in asphyxiating pain, Naruto stumbled backwards, his hands automatically going to his stomach.

Doing that proved to be a rookie mistake, one he would soon regret.

With his guard no longer up, Madara managed to land several powerful blows to his opponent's face. Two right-handed jabs followed by a powerful cross had the girl seeing stars. Naruto tried to gather his wits about him, but the other girl didn't appear to have any intention of letting him recover. Several more powerful blows impacted against various locations of Naruto's body. Each one was powerful enough to rattle his bones and force him to stumble back.

Shaking his head, his breathing heavy, Naruto blinked as sweat began stinging his eyes. Madara was coming in again, and fast. Two steps brought the man into his guard. He raised his arm as his opponent sent another jab at him. The loud thudding of flesh meeting flesh was drowned out by the powerful shockwave the block generated. Naruto's hair was uplifted and whipped about his face, waving about in front of his eyes.

Perhaps that was why he didn't see Madara's fist come screaming at him. Regardless, he certainly felt it when that same fist dug fiercely into his stomach.

Pain flaring like he'd been struck by a bolt of lightning in the stomach, Naruto doubled over with the fist embedded in his gut. Sweat flew off his hair as it made a forward whipping motion, and bile and a bit of blood was coughed up as a result of the attack causing blood to well up in his throat.

"Do you get it now?" asked Madara, his fist still implanted into Naruto's gut. He glared down at the pathetic excuse of a ninja, "You're no match for me, and you never were. You are, and will always be, a ant beneath my boot, trash."

"You're the one who doesn't get it," Naruto coughed. Madara's eyes widened. He tried to pull his fist out of Naruto's stomach, but the kid had grabbed onto his arm with both hands and was holding onto it in a vice grip. Despite it being clear that Madara was a much better fighter, it was equally clear that Naruto was physically stronger. And while Madara was glaring at the blond with wide eyes, Naruto looked up from where he was doubled over, blood trickling down his lips and a surprisingly bright grin on his face, "I refuse to lose to some fake!"

Naruto's left foot slid back so as to give him better traction, his right foot bent and his torso began to twist as he liberally lifted Madara off his feet. Unable to do anything in time, the ten tails host not only found himself being hauled off the ground, but also spinning in a dizzying circle as Naruto began to spin around and around like some kind of out of control carousel.

"HYA!"

Exactly three full rotations and a loud shout later, Naruto let go of Madara's arm. With a surprised cry his opponent was sent flying high into the air. With the amount of strength he had put into his swing, the apex of Madara's ascent was far above even some of the taller trees that towered above the ground. Not wanting to lose his advantage, Naruto's legs bunched underneath him as he crouched down. His muscles tensed before, with a loud shout, he launched himself into the air like some kind of human rocket. As gravity began to take effect and Madara started falling back to earth, Naruto continued climbing towards the girl, his left fist extended.

Despite being in the air, Madara was not defenseless. Using his incredibly strong arms and liberal use of his abdominal muscles, he twisted his body around so that he was facing Naruto, who was coming at him like superman. The two soon crashed into each other. Naruto's fist still hyper-extended in a punch. It was only after several seconds in which time seemed to stand still that he realized Madara was not even injured by his attack. In fact, the man had managed to catch it in the palm of his hand, though the wince he was giving at least indicated that catching the attack hurt.

"Didn't I tell you..." Madara grit his teeth as he struggled to keep a firm grip on Naruto's fist. How strong was this kid? "There's no way you can beat me!" With a loud roar, he launched a fist at his opponent's face. However, because he was in the air, the attack was not as effective as it would be otherwise. Naruto was able to dodge the blow by tilting his head.

"And I told you, I'm not losing to you!" Using his own powerful stomach muscles, Naruto began to twist his body around. "HAAA!" With an exertion of effort, the young man threw his opponent back towards the ground. As Madara soared through the air, his body coming closer and closer to the earth, he managed to twist and reposition himself so that when he hit the ground, he landed on his feet.

The earth cracked underneath his feet as he struck the ground as his knees bent to absorb the shock of the impact. Several spider web-like cracks spread out from where he landed.

"Hyyaaaa!"

A battle cry alerted him to the fact that he was still in battle. Looking up, Madara caught sight of Naruto descending towards him, his right fist pulled back into his torso. His actions made it clear what he was hoping to accomplish with this. Well, Madara had no intention of letting the other man hit him with an attack, especially one so obvious and easy to dodge. Three hops backwards took Madara nearly two meters from where he had been previously standing. He looked up a second later to see Naruto descend on the spot he had been standing. The large explosion of earth, pavement and debris flew out from the center of impact, clogging up the area in dust and making it impossible for Madara to see anything.

Large cracks spread along the street, outpacing the expanding cloud of dust. Madara glared into the makeshift smokescreen. It only lasted for a second, however. When the dust cleared and revealed the large crater Naruto's attack had created, his eyes widened in surprise. That crater had to be at least four meters wide! And he couldn't even see the top of his opponent's head, which meant it wasn't just wide, but also deep.

What the hell!?

He hadn't even used a special attack of any kind to create that crater! Granted, he had been falling from the sky at near terminal velocity, but Madara knew that even with that there was no way he himself could have created such a large crater without using one of his own earth attacks. Just how strong was this stupid brat?

A hand reached out from within the crater and grabbed a hold of the ledge. A second hand soon appeared, followed by a head, and then a body, as Naruto slowly proceeded to pull himself out of the large hole in the ground his attack had made.

"Ok, next time, refrain from trying Baa-chan's super strength and let the seals do the work."

Upon finally exiting the giant meteor crater, Naruto sat down on his backside and began rubbing his sore hand, which had swelled up enough to almost look like a balloon. That really hurt. Maybe he wasn't ready to start making craters like his godmother...or maybe he should just not pound his fist into the ground after falling from a height of several dozen meters.

He was so intent on soothing his poor hand that he didn't even notice the way Madara was glaring at him. The elder of the two stared at the other ninja for several seconds, and then straightened out again, Madara fixed a narrow eyed glare on the kid, "This battle has gone on long enough! I'm ending this right here and now!"

Naruto stood to his feet. When he stood, he gingerly flexed his hand and, upon determining that he could still fight with it, focused a look of determination on his opponent. "Good! In that case I'm going to finish this in one move! I won't lose to you!"

Madara's right eyebrow began twitching and a vein pulsed on his forehead as he stared daggers at Naruto. He didn't say anything though, he was using words. It was time to end this!

Raising his clenched right hand, power began crackling from his core and up his arm. A deep earthen glow covered his fist.

"HAKAISHIN (Extreme Quake!")

Calling out his technique with a loud shout, the Uchiha smashed his fist against the earth.

At first, nothing seemed to happen. A second past, then another. It was only after the third second that something happened. The world exploded violently. From the point where his fist impacted against the ground, a massive and violent outpouring of energy caused the ground to literally burst outwards like someone had planted several hundred explosives underneath the ground and detonated them.

The large blast of energy tore up the ground around it as it traversed the space between Madara and Naruto at speed. The young man was unable to do anything as the destructive power smashed into him with all the force of a level five hurricane.

It hurt everywhere. Every single muscle fiber, bone, bit of flesh and organ was screaming at him. his flesh felt like it had been flayed alive. Hundreds of cuts littered his body, small enough that on their own they would not be too detrimental, but the sheer amount littering his flesh was more than just a few. His bones felt like they had all been broken at the exact same time, healed, and then broken again. His organs, particularly the one that pumped blood through his body, felt like they had been compressed by several tons of concrete closing in on all sides, or if he had something extremely heavy sat down on his chest. And his muscles, his muscles were crying out in agony, like someone had taken a hot knife and used it to slowly carve through his muscles with torturous slowness.

His ears were ringing loudly. The noise bounced around his head, giving him a headache unlike anything he had experienced before. It was a wonder he could even hear the sound of footsteps over the din of that loud ringing.

Wait. Footsteps?

Blinking several times, Naruto's unfocused eyes cleared enough that he could see more than just a bunch of vague blurs and outlines. And what he could see was figure, a familiar looking figure with silver hair and rippling purple eyes. This guy...Naruto knew this guy, even if the name escaped him at the moment.

"Not so tough now, are you?" Madara asked as he stared down at the man laying limply in the large crater his last attack had caused. The crater was at least four meters across and two meters deep. He crossed his arms and gave the blond at his feet a superior smirk, "I can't believe a kid like you actually thought they could beat me."

"Not a...kid..."

"What was that?" When Naruto didn't say anything, or maybe couldn't say anything, Madara glared at him. "Hey! I'm talking to you!" Growling in anger when the boy's mumbled reply didn't reach his ears, the man swore before sliding down the crater. He skidded to a stop right next to the Uzumaki and leaned his torso over so that he was directly in front of Naruto's eyes. "What was that you said just now?" he sneered.

"I said...I'm not...not a kid..."

"Tch!" Madara scowled. "Still think you're hot shit, huh? Well, I know just how to change that!" Without warning, Madara kicked Naruto in the stomach, not just eliciting a cry of pain from the blond ninja, but also forcing him onto his stomach. He then jumped into the air, his fist raised near his head. "This is the end for you!"

BOOM!

The incredible pain caused by having a fist smashed directly into his chest was intense but short-lived. Not even a moment after the unfathomable pain struck did it begin to disappear. In fact, now that he thought about it, everything else was disappearing too, not just his sense of touch, but also his sense of smell and vision. He couldn't...he had to...

"...Fuinjutsu...Kai..."

His last thoughts were of his friends. And then everything went dark.

And then, it begun.

An incredible pressure exploded into existence, the sheer intensity of it shaking the entire continent to its core. Suddenly, the amount of pressure of raw chakra spiked. Those who were on their feet went to their knees, unable to stand the powerful presence around them. Again, it spiked, even more so than the first. It became hard to breathe, and somehow, it wasn't done yet.

The citizens of the Five Great Nations, ninja and civilian alike dropped to their knees, the brightest, warmest, and largest presence bringing them down, like it was demanding the mere mortals to obey. And they did, they obeyed, kneeling. It was frightening, reassuring, and beautiful all at the same time. The weaker civilians weren't sure how they hadn't lost consciousness yet. It was like the presence, the godly entity, wouldn't let them pass out. It was commanding them to witness its awesome power, commanding them to recognize it.

The presence had a will of its own, and that will wanted to be heard!

They listened, truly listened.

They obeyed.

XxX

Sakura Haruno felt herself hit the ground, meeting the rocky earth. Her entire body screamed at her, begging to turn around, to go home.

She didn't know what the hell this was. It was like something not human was screaming, screaming to be heard, screaming to protect, to save. W-What was this power?

She looked over her shoulder, her eyes widening when she saw it.

The entire battalion of ninja were in the same position as her. They were brought to their knees.

They obeyed.

XxX

Kiyomi looked on in fear, something even she hadn't truly felt in all her life, as she and her redheaded accomplice were brought to their knees, unable to breathe, to move, to think. All they could do was shake in fear and obey. They obeyed the screaming chakra, because that's all that they could do.

The presence commanded obedience, and that's exactly what it got.

They obeyed.

XxX

Not many people, if any, can claim to have heard the voice of a God. Even fewer, however, could claim to have heard the will of a God demand their immediate obedience. Whatever it was they were feeling surely must have been important, because the power that Naruto was was unleashing was tearing the continent apart.

Miles away in the large villages, entire buildings were lifted into the sky, along with trees and rocks, all gravitating towards the sky because of the power one blond was using. Thunderclouds were birthed into existence, the cry of the heavens exploding as lightning surged across the sky in a multitude of colors ranging from red to green, blue to purple, yellow to orange, white to silver. The heavens, were rejoicing in the might of their savior.

And just as suddenly as it came, it vanished.

As Naruto looked at Madara, he grinned as the green Senjutsu Chakra refilled his empty reserves, his Sage Chakra stored inside his body to keep his next transformation active, his wounds vanishing as the Senjutsu chakra reversed the effects that the battle had done to his body.

Sage Mode had been revealed.

Naruto now has yellow irides, with black pigmentation around his eyes that extends to his ears, as well as an additional round marking on his forehead with a dot in its center. Cracking his neck, Naruto asked Madara a question he hadn't expected to ever hear, "Tell me something Madara, Do you fear death?" he demanded as he settled the power of Natural Energy coursing through his veins.

"You talk too much." Madara said austerely as he folded his hands into seals and compressed large amounts of chakra inside his body. "Katon: Gōryūka no Jutsu (Fire Style: Great Dragon Fire)" Madara exclaimed, unleashing a torrent of intense flames which he skillfully molded into a dragon head shaped fireball and directed towards Naruto.

With a single hand seal Naruto conjured up a dragon made of water. "Suiton: Suiryūdan no Jutsu (Water Style: Water Dragon Bullet)" he called out drawing massive amounts of water from the moisture around the air and from the snow nearby then shaped it into a gigantic powerful dragon moving at very high speeds, clashing with Madara's fire jutsu. Large amounts of steam were unleashed as the two powerful technique's connected, creating an upward movement of air that subsequently caused the already dim skies to erupt into a wild tempest of lightning storms.

What water that didn't turn to steam filled the hole that Madara stood in, waiting for any sign that his rival was about to attack him.

"Senpō: Sansango Kyūryūdageki (Sage Art: Acid Coral Torrent Shock)!" and as Naruto ducked his hands into the water, infusing acid bubbles made up of medical chakra taught to him by his Godmother together with coral composed of Bijuu chakra gifted by the Sanbi with a water shell surrounding it did he hurl large torrents of water with the acidic coral towards Madara who began dodging the blasts of corrosive water and coral, he knew that if he tried to absorb the technique he would be left wide open for Naruto to attack him with taijutsu, so his best option was to dodge the Uzumaki's attacks.

However, even Madara had a limit as Naruto kept hurling the waves of acidic water and coral, he soon was hit in the leg by a blast where the coral started growing on his leg, restricting his movement and because of the acid burning his leg. Naruto seeing his chance began boiling his very own chakra to inhuman levels where copious amounts of steam was simmering off his form, launching himself forward Naruto attempted to punch Madara to which the Uchiha knew if he was struck by the punch, he just might end up dead. As he was falling Madara held out his hand gritting his teeth from the burning coral and just as Naruto was about to strike Madara used the powers of his Rinnegan.

"Shinra Tensei (Almighty Push)" cried Madara just in time to repel Naruto's attack, but the Jinchūriki had enough experience with the technique and knew that if struck with equal or opposing force then the technique can be countered and so Naruto boiled even more of his chakra gifted from the Gobi, increasing the temperature and forcing his way through Madara's attack where he struck the Uchiha in the chest, and the land they were standing on was completely shattered from Naruto's punch as the Uchiha was pulverized through the wall of the deep crater from Naruto's steam-enhanced taijutsu. In fact, the punch was so strong that Madara was smashed all the way through the forest and into a mountain and ended up on the other side of the forest with Naruto flying after him.

When Madara finally came to a halt from the punch, he coughed up blood at the feeling of his ribs being shattered from the punch, he could feel his body lying upon what felt like grain, he opened his eyes to see the sun shining in his red eyes, did the sun have a shadow? he widened his eyes seeing Naruto ready to punch him again with his steam enhanced strength which would kill Madara if he was struck by the punch, as his body couldn't withstand such tremendous force again. Quickly sending chakra into his Rinnegan eye Madara used his transportation technique just as Naruto was about to shatter his entire body. Instead Naruto smashed his fist against empty space and the ground was transformed into sand from the sheer force of raw power with Madara appearing some distance away.

However, he also saw that the amount of steam radiating off Naruto began to decrease as Naruto could only boil his chakra at that level for a short amount of time. Quickly breaking the burning coral off his leg with his fist, Madara frowned at seeing that half of his left leg was covered in burns that were still hot to the touch. The coral had grown at a faster rate than he expected but the acid burned slower, fortunately for him.

"Senpō: Juinjutsu Sunamuna Noroihaji (Sage art: Cursed Seal; Sand Witch Curse Hold)!" spoke Naruto as he slammed his hands on the ground where dark blue cursed seal patterns appeared and were rushing towards Madara at such a extreme speed that the Uchiha had little time to counter before the cursed seal covered half of his body, binding his movements. Madara knowing that he couldn't remove the seal from his body knew that he would have to fight in such a state. However he would have to leave the area quickly as it was the worst place to be if he was fighting the blonde Uzumaki. His fears came true as soil was turned to sand which began swirling around him, sinking him into the ground.

He looked up just as half of his legs were swallowed by the sand to see the blonde's hand outstretched towards him and he was slowly clenching his hand slowly, Madara knew that if he didn't think of something soon, he would be crushed to death by the Senju leader. He couldn't use couldn't use Tsukuyomi in his left eye since it was still recharging and he couldn't use the Amaterasu in his right eye since the sand obeyed Naruto's will and he wouldn't kill himself. Madara, thinking of such an idea, raised his right hand towards his rival.

Madara would use the basics of his abilities.

"Banshō Ten'in (Universal Pull)!" yelled Madara as Naruto was soon swept off his feet though with some resistance. Even though Madara knew it might be a deadly move, if it meant victory over his opponent and his superior power, then Madara was all for it, it was only because of his mastery of the Rinnegan that Madara was even able to hold his own against Naruto. With Naruto swept off his feet the sand stopped spiraling in on Madara as he reached to his waist, then Madara charged Lightning chakra into his left hand with great effort because of the cursed seal binding his body, as Naruto came flying towards him.

"DIE" yelled Madara as he rammed his left hand into Naruto as the Lightning surged around. Soon he pierced Naruto in the chest. However instead of being met with blood, he was instead met with sand, as Madara had pierced a sand clone of his opponent. He then looked back at the sand clone who latched onto his arm and began covering Madara's entire body. Soon Madara was being covered by the sand, and the sinkhole was swallowing him up again. However, before Naruto could lower his guard, sand was up-heaved and flew everywhere. However, sensing Something was wrong, Naruto saw a shadow fly out of the sand and flames.

And he beheld Madara as he stood upon a a platform made of his Truthseeker orbs, and had six revolving around him like the moon spun around the earth. Naruto could also see Madara's right arm was bleeding heavily, showing the skin practically peeled off the muscle, it had several burns across it and some of his hair was singed and his face was burnt but other than that his wounds would be superficial. However He had a massive disadvantage because Naruto's cursed seal was still clinging to half of Madara's body, almost binding his movements completely.

"To think, you would actually push me this far. I never would have thought it possible." Madara noted as his wounds healed themselves with hisses of steam, "How were you able to access those Kekkei Genkai, not even I can use them and I control the Ten Tails." Madara said calmly.

"I didn't know that, but thanks for the info. As for how I can use them, I was taught how to use them. My friend Gaara used the Magnet Style which allowed him to control the element of sand. My friend Mei has the Lava Style Bloodline as well as the Vapor Style bloodline and when I asked for some basic lessons, she was all to happy to teach me. I was born with the Gale Style as well as the Ice Style. Not to mention I haven't even revealed my final trump, but that's another story. Now, she me what you can do." Naruto grinned.

The thunderstorm suddenly decided that it didn't like being forgotten, and gave a mighty boom as lightning arched across the sky. The wind picked up suddenly as a strong breeze blew through before it suddenly went dead as Madara spoke, "Very well then, as you wish." as he raised his hand up and surged his chakra, "Raiton: Kaminari Kami No Kooru (Lightning Release: Call of the Thunder God)!" Madara called as he punched fist into the air before bringing it down with all the power could amass. His fist impacted the ground with strength that outstripped many, cracking the earth beneath it, the sky began to rumble violently as the man's jutsu ran its course.

Naruto gave a yell as he jumped up into the air, daring to meet the Jutsu head on.

As all the thunder seemed to converge on one point over the blonde Uzumaki, a deadly white bolt ripped through the air, crackling with energy and seeking to strike the ground that the blond walked on. But before it could, there was an explosion of light as the natural electricity made contact with human flesh, blinding the Uchiha from getting a proper view of what was happening. Of course this was what made the Uchiha angry that he missed the Uzumaki as he didn't expect him to be this good. However, almost immediately Madara noticed something wrong, there were no screams, there were no groans of pain nor did the blonde's body hit the ground.

Just like a century ago when he fought Hashirama, Madara fed more chakra into the technique, hoping to suck out all the natural lightning that the heavens had to offer. As Madara was forced to stop powering the technique, the bright light that was given off by the lightning slowly dimmed enough for him to be able to see the condition of the Uzumaki. When the light finally became dim enough for him to see, Madara immediately wished that he hadn't looked while he took a step back from shock and, though he would never admit it, slight fear.

Still floating in the air, his face still as blank as he had arrived, was the blonde Uzumaki, unhurt in any way, but that's not what made Madara take a step back in fear. It was the lightning bolt, held in his hand above his head and still connected to the sky that awed him.

Naruto turned to look at the Uchiha who stood on the ground before him with an impassive stare. He only spoke three words before he unleashed a cataclysm that would be told about for generations to come, "Feel my wrath." The words were not yelled or shouted, they were spoken as if they were everyday words, and yet, they weren't. There was a mighty boom from above and Madara looked up, expecting some kind of attack, instead, he was greeted to a sight that was almost just as bad. The lightning bolt, which had been still connected to the sky it was summoned from, broke off with an explosive boom, and like a giant cable, the lightning began to fall, shrinking as it did so.

It was movement from Naruto that made him turn away, coming to the sight of the hovering man rearing his arm back, before he launched it forward, like one would do to flail a whip. Instantly, Madara realized what was going to happen, being able to easily infer what Naruto was planning to do. As Naruto threw his arm forward, the lightning followed, the whip shot forwards towards the hostile shinobi. As it came in contact with the earth, there was a mighty boom as the whip landed, gouging out a great trench into the ground, scarring the earth. Now the Uchiha still managed to dodge the massive whip, but even so, it was far too close to be comfortable.

Naruto let go of the whip when it hit the ground, allowing the electricity to be absorbed back into the earth before Naruto launched himself forward with tremendous speed, crossing the space within seconds.

Appearing before the stunned Madara, he appeared to take a deep breath through his nose, rearing back slightly as he did so, before he opened his mouth and exhaled, unleashing a torrent of flames from his mouth. The fire roared forward, consuming everything in its path, leaving no room to escape or possibly survive. Madara however simply raised his hands and called up his Rinnegan's power to absorb Chakra. His original attack may have been reflected back at him, and it may have been created by Natural Lightning, but the fact still mattered that he had actually needed chakra to create the attack for it to be used. But this left the blond a opening to exploit, one he did with deadly proficiency and precision.

Naruto then closed his mouth and stood up straight, holding out his hand as he did so. The plume of fire that he had released on to the world still kept roaring forward even without his help. He then scrunched his fist up, as if grabbing something that no one could see, before he pulled his hand back. The result was visible immediately. The fire that had been continuing seemed to stop and reverse its course, retracing its path and now aimed at Naruto. Just as it looked like it was about to incinerate him, the flames split into two before they swerved around him, and met again behind him. As the two flames did so, they rose as a pillar of fire that quickly gained an immense height.

The pillar then began to slowly twist and shape itself, before the features became definable and revealed itself as a great fire fiery apparition let out a roar before it then launched itself forward, swerving slightly to the left as it did. It impacted the ground with a great explosion and shockwave, leaving nothing but a large smoking crater as a remainder. From his position, Naruto turned around with his arm and hand splayed out, and a wall of water materialized in time to catch several balls of immense heat that impacted against it. The balls were quickly dispersed by the wall, the water evaporating against the balls of heat but taking the balls of heat with it.

Naruto turned to face the Juubi Jinchuuriki, multiple balls of his Shakuton (Scorch Release) technique taught to him by Pakura-chan, a good lover til she died sadly, hovering around him, while nearby hovering in the air was Madara, trying to understand how this blond had managed to gain such power. Naruto wasted no words on the Uchiha, there was no reason to, this was a fight to the death. Turning his gaze to the man, Naruto molded his chakra without a single movement. Two patches of earth on either side of Naruto rumbled and moved before a pair of jaws rose from the earth on either side of the blonde, sharp teeth occupied them.

The blonde's eyes widened as he realized what was happening, and had no choice but to let the spheres of heat proceeded to race towards the earthen jaws as the blonde moved to get out from in between them, but found his feet had been sucked into the ground preventing him from moving from his position. His Shakuton spheres impacted the earthen construct and quickly evaporated the moisture from them, causing them to crumble into dust. He barely managed to doge the attempt of beheading as Madara quickly retracted the blade made from his black orbs and leapt back to avoid a bolt of lightning that hit the earth where he had once been standing.

As Naruto's feet hit the ground, with his back to the thrice damned Uchiha, he twisted around an fired off a torrent of wind that sent a charging man flying while he easily managed to fight against the wild wind thanks to his flight technique, while simultaneously littering the both of them with a numerous amount of cuts, the Uzumaki more so than the Uchiha as he had called upon his own wind chakra to expel itself around him. Feeling a pulse of chakra behind him, Naruto turned around in order to see Madara charging at him. Naruto's face displays no emotion as he moves to kill the Ten Tails host, ready to run it through with one of the blades on his bracer, but is forced to move again as he senses and hears a familiar sound that only one person alive could use where Madara fires a jutsu at his back.

He had created a clone to ambush him.

"Jinton: Genkai Hakuri no Jutsu (Dust Release: Detachment of the Primitive World Technique)!" Leaping to the right, Naruto feels the Jinton technique impact the spot he was just standing in, creating a crater and small shock wave as it hits the ground, causing the jinchuuriki to get launched back. Out of the corner of his eye, Naruto could notice the real Madara sneering at him as he missed such a opportunity. He thought that he would be able to overpower him, or swarm him with so many techniques that he wouldn't be able to defend against them.

How cute.

"You seem to like stealing Kekkei Tōta," Naruto remarked as he turned to Madara, the smirk on his face never wavered, "Well then, let's see how yours does against mine." (3) he revealed to the stunned Uchiha. With that said, Naruto bent at the knees, before he pushed off, flying into the sky. Naruto soared into the air until he reached the height he required for his technique where he stopped.

Placing his arms out, Naruto turned to look down on those below him. "I believe it would be best to brace yourself Madara, I call this, Kūton: Chikyuu no Kouhai (Sky Release: Desolation of Earth)!" and with that, he began to spin, faster and faster until he was a blur. That was when the wind began to pick up, swirling around the form that was Naruto, Madara grunted as he began to feel the intensity of the wind as dirt and small rocks began to slowly lift off the ground. The Uchiha immediately began to move out of range of the winds that he was conjuring up. Above Naruto, a hole in the dark storm clouds began to appear, small at first but slowly grew until it was plainly visible, thunder then began to arch across the sky once more.

The wind began to increase in ferocity again, and slowly, a funnel of wind slowly descended from the sky, dropping slowly, enveloping Naruto's rapidly spinning form, and continued to the ground where it met the earth with a crash. Immediately, the wind began to pick up again as earth and sky met, the now fully formed tornado began to twist and move as it then began to gain direction, travelling straight towards Madara with unprecedented rage. Lightning then began to strike at the ground, bolts of electricity hit trees, setting them alight. A larger than normal, pure white, streak of thunder struck the tornado, roughly the area where Naruto would be if he hadn't moved from his position.

Madara first thought that perhaps Naruto had lost control of the jutsu or whatever it was he was doing, but was quickly proved wrong when, instead of the lightning bolt dissipating or the tornado slowing down, the force of nature then began to crackle with lightning as it arched all over the tornado's form. Lightning surged around the gigantic wind funnel, sometimes striking outside of the most destructive form of wind, but it was mostly kept contained, striking any object unlucky enough to be sucked into the wind's grasp. As the Juubi Jinchuuriki looked at the massive technique, he felt that, in his heart, that he had angered some sort of god today.

One with the power to level all of the Hidden Villages if so chose.

"DAMMIT!" He tried to shout over the wind. "I need to get out of here!" The man made a attempt to fly away, but as he did so, the immense force of the winds the tornado was giving off washed over him, pulling Madara backwards and dragging him into the heart of the electrified cylinder of wind. The lightning struck without mercy, the winds tore and cut as Madara was dragged to the epicenter of the insurmountable destructive power the technique held. Still, Madara fought against the winds that were keeping him within their grasp, trying to pull free using his flight but to no avail. The Uchiha pushed against the gale force winds, trying desperately to find some way out, but to no avail.

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For those well out of its range, none could take their eyes off the monolithic tornado. They could only watch as it utterly decimated the world around it without mercy, sucking anything and everything into its grip before it struck whatever it gathered with the lightning that inhabited it. The earth wasn't spared either, rocks and trees were ripped from the ground as absorbed into the tornado, a victim of its wild winds.

This, was Naruto's own Kekkei Tota, one he discovered on his training trip with Jiraiya. A power he had kept secret from all who knew him. This was a power he had felt no need to use as it was simply to powerful. In terms of power it was weaker than the Particle Style, but in terms of destruction, the Particle Style stood no chance against the sheer might of the Heaven Style, or Sky Release as he called it. He could definitely tell his attack had hurt the man, half his body was missing and it looked like he had been set ablaze and left to burn. Madara could only groan as he pushed his healing abilities to their absolute limit, his missing half quickly regenerating as he stood up on a set of shaky legs while glaring at the Uzumaki.

Naruto merely gazed down at Madara and in a puff of smoke, both were obscured from the others' sights. In a quick burst, two clones of Naruto charged at Madara. While Madara showed surprise at this attack and was almost caught off-guard before having one of his Truthseeker orbs kill the clone. That was when the smoke obscuring Naruto cleared with a smiling Naruto feeling more confident about the fight. Kurama huffed in annoyance at Naruto smiling with some curiosity, "Why are you smiling? This doesn't seem like things are going well for us." Kurama asked.

"It's because I now know something about Madara." Naruto replied as he held one of his hands in front of himself, "Madara was curious as to how I could use multiple Kekkei Genkai in this fight when I never shown them in the others we had." Naruto told the fox

"And what does that have to do with right now?"

"It means, the Ten Tails is resisting Madara's control. Madara may hold sway over the Juubi, but he can't call upon other Kekkei Genkai like me. Unfortunately it won't take him long to realize I can only use them during Sage Mode and the higher stages. unless I want the technique to fall apart.(4)" Naruto told his partner. After finishing, Naruto took off in a burst of speed and tackled Madara through walls of solid stone where the two began punching one another. Madara tried to launch a few of his truth seeking orbs at Naruto in retaliation but Naruto simply vanished in a flash of yellow while the Truthseeker orbs hit the ground where he had once stood. The thudding of Madara's orbs against the earth alerted him that Naruto had escaped his clutches.

Within a split second, Naruto formed two Rasengan in each of his hands and jumped over the smokescreen created by the explosion of the Truthseeker orbs. As he did this, he felt his eyes widening as he saw Madara aiming his hand at him while seeing the chakra build up in Madara's hand.

Quickly, Naruto drew his hands behind him, surging chakra through the gloves and with a yell, slammed them together and formed a shield with pure concussive force as a tornado spun out of Madara's hand and smashed into the shockwave unleashed by the Uzumaki's fuinjutsu, but still it wasn't enough to stop the attack as the energy blasted him out through the tree's into the sky. When the tornado finally subsided, Naruto let his Sage Mode fade as he looked to Madara, "Okay, this guy really does have some serious firepower. To overpower my Sage mode enhanced sealing techniques is no small feat. I need to step up my game a bit here." Naruto stated as he looked at the spot of forestry he was blasted through.

And with a surge of chakra, he seemingly became engulfed in golden flames, Tailed Beast Mode was activated.

Naruto could see Madara calmly striding out of the opening before taking off in the air after him. In return, Naruto formed a seal and a large burst of smoke appeared around him. When it dispersed, twenty clones floated in the air around him. Ten of the clones flew down towards Madara while Naruto and the rest of the clones watched. The first two clones that attacked were blasted into smoke by a sphere of gravity that launched them away. 'I don't think that was the power of Deva path.' Naruto thought to himself. What did he do, he didn't see anything, and the memories certainly didn't reveal anything to him.

Four of the clones formed Rasengans in their hands and flew at Madara while four of the remaining clones formed elemental Rasenshuriken and launched them after the four other clones. Naruto watched all of this in patience as Madara used his orbs to form a barrier around himself. When all of the techniques collided against the barrier, a massive white sphere burst around the barrier. The massive explosion died down to reveal the barrier had some cracks in it. The barrier morphed back into orbs which orbited an angry-looking Madara. "Not bad. To be able to damage my barrier with mediocre attacks is no easy feat. Surely that's not the best you can do!" Madara demanded. Naruto looked unimpressed.

"You clearly haven't fought me when I was serious before, have you? If you did, then you would know that jutsu enhanced by natural energy can affect Truthseeker orbs." Naruto replied.

"If that's true, then I guess I can't hold back against you for a single MOMENT!" As Madara shouted this his chakra spiked causing Naruto to grunt in annoyance. The Uchiha was always holding back, he held the Ten Tails, but he didn't think that focusing that kind of power could be so terrifying.

But, he couldn't afford to be afraid. He was not just a Jinchuuriki. He was a Seal Master. A Sage. He was a Captain to the best ANBU team in the entirety of the Leaf Village. He loved his rival, Kiyomi Uchiha, with the entirety of his being, and this bastard nearly killing her had ignited a fire the likes of which could never be extinguished. It was time to take the kid gloves off. He, was Naruto-Fucking-Uzumaki, and he was going to prove to Madara, that Fate didn't exist, that even God's could be killed. It was time, to slay this self-proclaimed God, and save the world.

"I really hate it when the people I fight start escalating." Naruto sighed. Madara was more like a petulant child than a man who commanded the nigh infinite power of a Tailed Beast. Looking to his adversary Naruto grinned, "How about we throw the kid gloves down and fight seriously?" Naruto yelled as he and Madara flew through the sky punching and kicking one another. Both were quite evenly matched, even if Naruto's skill were out shined by Madara's by a big margin. The main issue was that every time Naruto tried to land a decisive blow against the man, his Truthseeker orbs would get in the way, much to Naruto's frustration.

'Kurama, I've got an idea.' Naruto mentally spoke to Kurama as he dodged one of Madara's punches.

'What is your plan?' Kurama asked in interest.

'I need you to take over one of my clones and transform. I'll keep Madara occupied while you do, then just blast a Tailed Beast Bomb our way.'

'What about you? You'll be caught in the blast.' Kurama remarked.

'I'll just move out of the way at the last minute using Hiraishin.' Naruto punched Madara in the jaw as he said this which launched the man back fifty feet in the air. Naruto was about to charge after Madara but was stopped by more of the Uchiha's Truthseeker orbs that began firing small beams of chakra at him. Dodging out the way of Madara's attack, Naruto landed on the ground and slid a dozen feet and looked up to Madara. When he did so, he found Madara holding a glowing Truthseeker orb that turned in golden color as Naruto watched. A lot of chakra was being pumped from Madara's body into the technique. "Screw it! Change of plans, I need you to form over me!" Naruto shouted.

Kurama quickly formed a golden chakra avatar over Naruto just as Madara shouted, "Golden Wheel Rebirth Explosion!" before a massive golden pillar burst from the Truthseeker orb and into the sky before Madara swung it down at both Naruto and Kurama.

Much to the shock of both Naruto and Kurama, the pillar began chopping through the sky and earth itself to reveal the molten lava of the earths core. Kurama quickly wrapped both himself and Naruto in a ball made up of his tails as the laser impacted them both in a massive golden light. As the light enveloped them, Naruto thought about trying the very same technique with his orbs in amazement.

He had never thought of putting chakra in them like that before.

He decided that he'd look into the idea later when he didn't have a genocidal maniac bringing down a massive pillar of chakra on him. Naruto looked back towards the golden light to find that it was dying down. When it finally dispersed, Kurama uncurled his tails around the both of them. Six of his tails had been destroyed by the blast while three of them barely remained attached to Kurama by a few strands of chakra.

"Holy shit/Holy shit." Both Naruto and Kurama said as they looked to see that a line through a quarter of the valley they fought at had been cut into a deep gorge where spews of lava could be seen erupting from the ground.

Naruto then looked down at his opponent and could see that Madara's chakra had been reduced by half of what he originally had. "Careful there, wouldn't want to run out of chakra now, would we?" Naruto taunted Madara. Madara just screamed at Naruto before something massive uppercut Kurama in the jaw and sent the two flying at extreme speeds through the sky and across the land.

Crashing down on a mountain, both Kurama and Naruto looked at what had hit them and they saw a giant samurai composed of chakra. It was blue in color, and it held a katana in it's grip. Madara had summoned his Susanoo. "Tailed Beast Bomb!" Kurama shouted as he charged up a ball of chakra which he launched at the Susanoo. When the ball of chakra hit the samurai, it was quickly enveloped in a massive blast which left nothing in its wake. "That was easy." Kurama stated.

"Agreed." Naruto replied. It was then that the two were hit from behind and skidded across the valley until they regained their footing. When they looked at what attacked them, they saw another Susanoo standing behind them, glaring at them. Calmly floating up above them, a smirk on his face, was Madara. "Dammit! I thought we took care of that guy already."

"Doesn't seem like it. It's possible that the prick will just keep remaking these things until we're too tired to fight back. I'm going to take this thing on my own. You'll have to hop out of me and take that prick on your own for a while." Kurama announced.

Naruto nodded at this advice. "Fastball special?" Naruto asked. Kurama chuckled before pulling Naruto out of his head and aiming at Madara who was now flying quite high above his Susanoo. With a great throw, Naruto was launched out of Kurama's hands at mach speeds towards Madara. He formed a Rasengan in one hand, and a shield of chakra composed of Senjutsu Chakra stored in his gloves in the other before colliding with Madara who formed a shield with his own orb which launched the two higher into orbit together.

"Why do you keep trying to oppose me?! Don't you see how futile this is? You're fighting against a god! Nothing you can do will ever come close to stopping my plan from coming to fruition!" Madara screamed at Naruto.

"I fought a man who claimed to be god before. You know what happened? I-" Naruto formed his hand sign which caused three clones to burst into life around him, "defeated him!" One of the clones began forming a gravitational seal in his hands while another rushed at Madara with a readily made Rasengan. The third used a Tailed Beast Bomb in its hands, which it quickly started firing at Madara.

Madara growled as he quickly formed another shield that surrounded his entire body. The chakra blasts made by the clone did nothing except form a few small cracks in the Truthseeker shield. This was quickly followed up by the second clone slamming a Rasengan into the spot where the first clone shot which created a slightly bigger crack. The third clone launched the gravity seal at the crack while the original Naruto flew as far as he could from Madara.

When the seal made contact with the shield, a massive force of gravity slammed the clones into Madara's shield before they all quickly dispersed. The surface of the earth below where Madara's shield was hit was now rising from the ground before it began filling every inch of Madara's shield with a great sphere of rock that kept growing. As this happened, Naruto landed on the ground and made another hand sign which caused a burst of smoke which faded away to reveal twenty clones on the ground. Naruto smirked as a plan formed into his mind. As the 'moon' grew in size, a massive explosion occurred within it which stopped any chucks of the moon from floating in the air.

Instead, the chunks dropped back into the ground while the artificial moon slowly began dropping out of the sky and back towards the ground. Before it could do so, another explosion occurred and chunks of the sphere flew into the sky along with an extremely livid Madara.

"You are a fool, Naruto Uzumaki! You are just as that wench described, and it makes me hate you even more!" Madara announced.

"What have I ever done to piss you off so much? And who the fuck are you talking about?" Naruto asked warily. His opponent seemed to be losing it, which usually meant to Naruto at least, that Madara was about to do something risky that could get them both killed.

"She talked about you so much, the great Naruto Uzumaki, 'the hero of the world'. That you were so strong, that you'd never give up. I've hated you ever since she spoke your name!" Madara spouted out.

"I don't get it. She talked about me, so what? What does it matter to you?" Naruto demanded as Madara's eyes squinted in pure rage at this response.

"Your lover Pakura, loved you so much that she sacrificed her life for you, and yet you did nothing, to save her from demiseas you instead chose to save that weak clansmen of mine instead. That, is why I despise you Uzumaki!" Madara held another one of his orbs in his hand and began channeling chakra into it. Naruto watched all of this occur, the transfer of chakra into the orb, the way the orb compressed the attack into a single point, and the way the chakra grew at the tip of the orb.

With a split second's hesitation over if this was a truly wise course, Naruto allowed his tailed Beast Chakra to merge with his Sage Jutsu Chakra and created his own orb and let it hover into his hand before aiming it at Madara. He also began to form chakra into his orb just like how Madara had done. When he felt satisfied that he had copied the way that Madara had done this correctly, he launched a beam of golden chakra at Madara, just as Madara did the same.

"Golden Wheel Rebirth Explosion!" Madara and Naruto shouted as the two beams collided with one another, neither giving the other an inch before they quickly died down. When the techniques had faded away, Naruto felt tired from using up that much chakra in one blow. In consolation, he felt happy that Madara was feeling even worse than he was at the moment. Using up one of those blasts was enough to drain half of Madara's chakra, two of those would be even worse.

"How did you even copy my attack?" Madara asked, completely dumbfounded.

"I'm a Sage. I can use the Six Paths Chakra given to me by the Tailed Beasts. I know what the Truthseeker Orb is made of, did you really think that I couldn't mimic such a power when I see a golden opportunity? Besides, any chakra related jutsu can be copied as long as it isn't related to a Kekkei Genkai. Luckily for me, using that jutsu was something that I could do as well." Watching the anger go through Madara's face was oddly funny considering the circumstances.

As this thought went through Naruto's mind, he felt as Kurama destroyed the Uchiha's Susanoo before he returned to the seal, the fox's laughter ringing through his head, "Thanks Kurama. You really came through for me."

"What did you do!?" Madara shouted, "How did you defeat my Six Paths Susanoo?"

"Oh, that would be due to Kurama stabbing Hinata with one of my chakra rods. When it connects to a target I can basically shut a person down if I pump enough chakra through it. This must be your first time having to deal with a Rinnegan user, isn't it?" Naruto taunted.

"When I'm through with you, I'm going to rip your skull right out of your head." Madara threatened, "And then, I'll be taking back what's mine!"

"I'd like to see you try." Naruto retorted. In response, Madara quickly dashed at Naruto in a burst of speed that made him look like a line of light. Naruto did the same and both met in the center with fists raised in a punching motion.

Naruto glared at Madara as Madara did the same. "Madara, I have only one question to ask you in all of this chaos: why?" Naruto asked. Madara looked at Naruto in confusion.

"What do you mean?"

"Why are you trying to destroy the world? What possible reason could you have for doing that?"

"You just don't understand. The people of that world have abused the gift of chakra. They used it for war, to kill others, to harm when chakra was made to connect everyone together. I plan to destroy all of them for their grievous misuse of the gift they were given. I plan to take it back through force." Madara replied proudly. Naruto was calm for a moment before he began chuckling. "What's so funny?" Naruto let out a full-on laugh before he managed to calm himself down.

"You're so damn funny. That's why I'm laughing. You say that people have abused the gift of chakra. I can understand where you are coming from. I mean for god's sake we're fighting a war to stop you of all people. But you want to know something, people are not perfect. They can be clumsy, stupid, and violent. But they also have a huge amount of potential if you give them the chance." Naruto's eyes narrowed as he began glaring at Madara, "I'm laughing because you are a massive hypocrite who plans to kill untold millions due to their abuse of chakra, when you yourself are trying to do the exact same damn thing. What's your next step after you destroy the world? Kill yourself, and we both know that's not gonna happen. You're precious pride won't allow you to die."

"Shut up, you don't understand anything of what I'm trying to achieve! You are one of the people who abuses chakra as well! You must be destroyed so that the gift of chakra can no longer belong to anyone." Madara shouted back in defiance.

"You're just a child. A petulant child who never grew up and lived a completely sheltered existence away from what life is really like. In your fantasy, no one does anything bad, and if they do, you destroy them, don't you? Then I'm sorry that I'm having to ruin your fantasy, but you're about to hurt a whole lot of people who I care about. And one of them, I couldn't help but fall in love with, and that, Madara, makes you my enemy." Naruto stated.

"My will is absolute, I was raised to appreciate the gift that the sages gave to us. I have lived my life knowing that the world is one that contains a huge amount of atrocities which no one does anything to fix. And I will not stand for it any longer! You are just as much one of the monsters that you are trying to protect!" Madara spouted.

"Nothing's going to change you from this ridiculous dogma, is it?" Naruto asked.

"Never! As long as I draw breath, I'll keep trying to destroy the ants and peasants living below me. There is nothing that will stop me from accomplishing the plan that I have created. The Moons Eye Plan will be fulfilled, and you will be the first to die when I activate it." Naruto sighed as he held his hand in the air. In his palm, a black ball of gravity appeared above the glove, the seals on his palm glowing bright purple in color. It began to be covered in spirally chakra that grew until it was the size of a basketball and quickly grew multiple spinning blades of chakra.

"Please, just give up this plan of yours and surrender." Naruto begged at this point.

"You will not stop what must be done. Nothing you can will end what will come to pass! I will destroy the world!" Madara shouted back.

"Then you give me no choice. I'll end this now." Naruto stated sadly.

Madara laughed at the threat to his life.

"You think that you can destroy me? I'll just stop your attack like all the others." Madara retorted.

"No, you won't." As Naruto said this, the ball in his hands quickly swelled up in size until it was as large as a small house. From behind Naruto, the multiple clones he had made had all finished making their Rasenshuriken and now jumped over to him. "I'd like to see you try and survive this. From what I've seen, your truth seekers start breaking down after I hit them with enough of my attacks."

With this said, Naruto threw the massive Rasenshuriken at Madara. He quickly covered himself in a sphere of his truth seekers in a desperate bid to protect himself. When the Rasenshuriken collided with the sphere and gained an immense gravitational pull which tore up the ground beneath it and towards the sphere. None of the rock could make it to the sphere however, due to the fact that it was turned into dust the minute it came near. This was when the rest of Naruto's clones also threw their attacks at the sphere.

In but an instant, the whole area before Naruto was just a massive flash of bright while light.

Surprisingly, Madara survived by using his Limbo clone as a sacrifice and managed to dodge the nigh unstoppable attack aimed at him. However, Naruto was expecting this from the Uchiha, having seen this happen several times in the past. Madara stood up and looked around for any signs of his enemy, but he soon noticed that there was no sign of Naruto anywhere. Suddenly, a strange brilliance emanated from the skies then as the raven haired shinobi raised his head up he saw thousands upon thousands of Naruto's shadow clones, each wielding a Giant Rasengan. "Madara!" Naruto and the rest of his clones howled intensely as large orbs of compressed chakra spun fiercely from their hands.

Evasion was not an option for Naruto's wide range attack was all but impossible to avoid. Seeing all of the duplicates of the blonde suddenly appear in the air holding giant orbs of energy surprised the Uchiha as he had never seen such an enormous amount of clones created by one person before. There is only one recourse available to Madara. Subsequently, dark blue flames emanated around his body and gigantic skeletal ribs and arms attached to a great skull began to materialize, forming a full bodied Susanoo faster than a blink of an eye. The army of clones struck the Susanoo and the ground started to shake from the energy output as the unmovable shield met the unstoppable force. The devastation ensued by the countless exploding Odama Rasengan was beyond belief for the plateau they were standing on just moments ago was almost hollowed out at its culmination.

Madara remained unharmed by virtue of his Susanoo's nigh indomitable defenses but was in awe as he beheld how powerful his opponent was. Stranger still, the lurid flashes purveyed by the waves of exploding chakra stirred something deep inside of him. Shadowy visions of dubious memories flashed before his eyes like the phantasmagorical rapture of a prolonged nightmarish dream. An uncanny feeling crept inside him as the detonating Rasengans' beat upon his senses like waves of unrelenting force that lacerated the inmost fibers of his body.

This fight...this was what a true battle was meant to be like... it was perfect...

However, Naruto wasn't done yet.

"Kūton: Tengoku no Kinko (Sky Release: Vault of Heaven)" Naruto cries out as he calls on the might of his Kekkei Tota. Naruto then begins extending his arms outwards with his palms open and having currents of air spiral around them. Naruto then lifts his hands in the sky, gathering more, thinner streams of air around him. Black air is then generated from his very arms, appearing in the form of stylized feathers, which rapidly grow in numbers until he condenses them into an elongated mass before his with his hands. As such, the air current grows larger and larger as one of its ending parts wraps around his body and the other is fired towards the stunned Uchiha.

While the entire structure is surrounded by thin, spiraling currents of the very same wind, scattering some of the feathers around as the dark, serpentine mass approaches its target at high speed. The explosion rocks the earth as Madara is enveloped by the dark aerial power of the Kekkei Tota, but still, Madara wasn't one that could be bested that easilyas Naruto watched his attack get dispersed by a yell of "Shinra Tensei (Almighty Push)" and the ground was blasted away along with his attack. Naruto covered his face to block some of the wind, but this didn't stop Madara from launching himself at the blond Uzumaki.

Naruto smirked as he appeared before Madara who blocked his punch but he quickly moved to sweep under him, causing Madara to trip. Naruto used this shot to punch Madara in the gut sending him back. He didn't relent as he continued to rush at Madara who fought back with a smirk of his own. Naruto lunged, striking him down with a clothesline, he then grabbed Madara by the shoulders and vertical kicked him higher into the air. He then disappeared, warping beside the flying Madara and delivering a series of passionate godly kicks that racked Madara's body. Madara sent his own attacks at Naruto that the blond sometimes managed to block but other times, got hit hard in the face then kneed in the gut before backhanded down.

Naruto came to a stop as he avoided Madara' dynamic kick, and countered with his own kick to Madara' neck. Naruto didn't stop as he continued on, sending Madara through out the forest with a sound that that resembled thunder. The two clashed and traded high speed blows but Naruto managed to fired a elbow him higher into the air, then he warped and hooked kick Madara in his stomach. His next attack was a punch then a barrage of kicks before roundhouse kicking him away. Madara smirked as he came at Naruto hard, throwing punches and kicks that made it hard for the Uzumaki to even deflect or avoid.

His rapid punches came to a cease as he knocked Naruto to the ground, who was falling rather quickly. Madara then was going to deliver a diving kick, but Naruto quickly avoided it, appearing high in the sky again. Madara hummed before he gained a grin appeared before Naruto, elbowing him in the chin and punching him in the stomach making the blond cough out blood. He then hooked kicked Naruto then followed with a kick up into the air. Flying to him, he punches Naruto in the face followed by another gut punch and a roundhouse kick to his jaw.

Madara was about to backhand punch Naruto but the blond caught it with a grimace and raised his body to kick Madara in the face sending him flying. The Uzumaki followed with a clenched jaw and punches and kicks Madara in the face, before punching him in the stomach and firing an energy wave. "This is so irritating!" Naruto snarled while Madara raised a brow as he dusted himself off.

"Explain, what exactly is so irritating?" he asked amsued.

"It's none of your business, but if you must know, the fact that each blow we trade, I still can't kill you."

"And yet, you haven't even activated your Six Paths power. You are practically a god as you are now, but I assure you, you would have won the second you laid eyes on me and used it from the start. Instead I find you lacking. You start actually fighting seriously whenever you increase your power output. Sage Mode, Tailed Beast Mode, a brief glimpse of a Tailed Beast Transformation.I have yet to see you use the combined strength of both Sage Made and a Tailed Beast Transformation. And let's not even get started on your Six Paths Senjutsu. You haven't even scratched the surface of what you can truly do Uzumaki. It actually makes me want to puke with how strong you are compared to me. I have landed so many fatal wounds on you you should have died when the first was landed, and yet through a combination of seals, Senjutsu Chakra, your own Uzumaki Vitality as well as your Tailed Beast Chakra, you have managed to avoid certain death more times than I can count. It's almost as if you were blessed with a form of immortality."

"There is no such thing as fate, I've told you that already. As for this so called 'God power' you speak of, the only God I know of doesn't dress like me, and he sure as hell doesn't dress like you. So why don't you try something else!" Naruto roared as he surprised Madara by appearing before him with a knee to the gut then backhanded handing him sending him flying into the forest. He rolled his neck and increased his power and gave chase, firing several blasts of lightning as he did so, which was all knocked away by the irate Uchiha.

The two were easily ramping it up, but as they were it was being discovered they were equal in strength, causing many trees to be destroyed and many craters to be formed due to their clashes. Naruto growled as he pushed himself further, adding a bit more edge to his attacks against Madara who was skillfully avoiding and deflecting as well as countering.

The two didn't even realize they were traveling as they fought and Naruto found himself falling into the water which was split in half. "You hate your power because it's not yours? Ha! That's that Uzumaki Pride, which will be your downfall!"

"Whatever!" Naruto scoffed as the two met fists then knees before Naruto tried to kick but Madara ducked and punched him in the gut. "Shit," the Uzumaki grimaced as he was then uppercut and kicked to the side.

"It's rare to see a Uzumaki consumed by such foolish pride," Madara scoffed as warped above Naruto and slammed an axe kick on his head, sending him crashing down into a large towering rock. Following he saw that the Uzumaki was taking a short breath rolling his neck. "You should know, I'm not satisfied very much,"

"Seriously?"

"Yes seriously, I still haven't come close to using my full power in this fight as you well know. Though you are quite the fighter," Madara admitted while Naruto hummed.

"I guess, I've been holding back a bit too," Naruto shrugged causing Madara to rush at him, and Naruto narrowed his eyes before he blocked Madara punch followed by his knee and responded with his own punch to the face. However he did notice Madara's intensity was much more than before, his blows were stronger and his speed was way faster.

Naruto avoided as much as he could, but Madara was coming at him hard which was throwing him off a bit. He needed a few moments to bring up his own power to match the god as best he could. This couldn't happen when Madara was throwing fire and lighting attacks at him with rapid speed, destroying the land around them. Naruto however used Hiraishin to appear a distance away from the god who continued to fire. "Now it's on bitch…" Naruto grinned as he closed his eyes and Madara stopped as he sensed something, something dangerous and ancient.

"GRRRRRYYYAAAAAAAHHHH!"

Madara' eyes widened as once again the entire world began to shake and the land was crumbling upon them. This power…he knew it! This power…

"Eat this! Tailed Beast Bomb Destructive Wave!"

Madara looked down to see a pure black sphere of energy sitting between the palms of Naruto's hands and then he was engulfed. A white beam of pure energy fired from the earth into space, creating a pillar for the entire world to see as the Earth itself shook. When the beam had finally dissipated, Madara found himself in the air huffing painfully. His body looked as if he had taken a beating and he snarled, this wasn't supposed to happen! This was not supposed to happen! NO!

"TAKE THIS!" Madara screamed as he glared at the blonde down below him and created a gigantic Truthseeker Orb and hurled it towards the blonde. As it flew, it grew bigger and bigger which brought shocked eyes from the Uzumaki.

"NOT ON YOUR LIFE!" Naruto roared as he was engulfed in ferocious gold energy and for the briefest of moments, his hair flashed white as if he was entering Six Paths Sage Mode (5) and, his eyes turned a pupil-less red. Madara watched in absolute confusion and shock as his attack was being…absorbed? Moments had passed and the energy was gone.

"Wah?" Madara blinked as Naruto suddenly expelled the energy he absorbed and his final form appeared.

Six Paths Sage Mode.

Landing on the ground to stand on his two feet, he looked at the Uzumaki. He hadn't used a seal to absorb the chakra from the orb. He hadn't used a seal to turn the orb to dust, and yet, he couldn't understand how his attack had been nullified by the blonde before him.

Naruto was huffing, his exhaustion was clear as day now, "Tell me Madara, what is that all about, be honest. It can't be because you simply lost your brother and don't want anymore fighting. If that was the case then you would have been the First Hokage and could have placed all kinds of acts in place to protect your clan, hell you could have subjugated the entire village and nobody could have stopped you. And yet, you are here, fighting over petty reasons like the abuse of chakra." Naruto huffed out.

Madara snorted at the blond, "I exist, only to protect the Uchiha Clan." he told him calmly, "That is the sole purpose for which I was born. And every action I take, no matter how violent or cruel, was for the greater good of my clan." he said to him, "But thanks to your village, I have no clan." he said as his face changed from a calm demeanor into a very pissed off look, "My family... That is what your VILLAGE HAS TAKEN FROM ME!~" Madara snarled in rage before he vanished in a blur of speed and slammed into Naruto and sent him crashing and rolling away.

Naruto came to a stop in the shopping district as he crashed into a large section of carts carrying supplies to be rebuilt from Nagato's attack. Madara-he didn't know what else to call him as that was all he knew his as- walked forward with a purpose, "I'm going to enjoy killing you Uzumaki. Then when I finish, I will fulfill my promise. I will rape her. Break her before your cold corpse, and then only when she has my bastard, will she be able to join you in death" he stated seriously as Naruto allowed his body to float off the ground and turn towards Madara.

"Madara, you won't get the chance to get within a foot of her, and that's cuz I'm going to stop you." he said.

"Then why don't you fucking try it." Madara said as he bound forward, craters were formed with each bound he made towards him as Naruto launched himself at full speed towards his rival. The two crashed into each other with the force of a meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs on earth, the world breaking and buckling under the force of them smashing into one another. The two monsters crashed through the nearby mountain and onto a large plateau where Naruto came rolling to a stop by the cliff behind him as Madara landed on the opposing side while growling as he saw Naruto was unharmed by their clash.

However, before he could go onto the offensive like he wanted, Naruto had appeared before him using the Hiraishin that his father had perfected back in the Third Shinobi World War. In his hand he had his sword which he had originally engaged Madara with in Kenjutsu.

Quickly moving he grabbed Madara's wrists and with ease and precision tossed his opponent head over-heals to his right which made the Uchiha lose his balance and roll across the ground. Quickly regained his footing with enough time to dodge Naruto's who was right in his face, Madara dodged Naruto and slashed him across the back with a hidden kunai, only to realize that the one in front of him was fake as the clone poofed way in a puff of smoke. Madara felt his eyes widen and looked back to see his rival about to punch him in the face to which the Uchiha head didn't have enough time to dodge and took the full brunt of the attack, which was a fist impacting against his face making his whole skull shake before he disappeared from sight.

Like a blur, Naruto appeared behind Madara wielding a Rasengan in one hand.

Naruto then slammed his jutsu into the Uchiha, trying his best to rip Madara to shreds and kill him. To his surprise however, Madara used his Truthseeker Orb to block the attack. Naruto growled to himself as he saw how the Uchiha's power disrupted the spinning chakra of the Rasengan until the jutsu started to flicker and destabilize then inexorably extinguish. Streams of crackling lightning abruptly emanated from Madara's hand which he then channeled to his black orb causing it to glow even fiercer as if the entire blade is now a construct of pure effulgent energy.

With blinding speeds Madara then proceeded to execute a forward slash, intending to try to cut Naruto's body in half. The blade effortlessly glided through the shinobi's body like a searing hot knife through butter. Madara however knew that victory wouldn't be that simple against such a formidable opponent. His analysis was proven right when the bisected Naruto suddenly disappeared in a puff of smoke. "A clone..." Madara muttered while his scarlet gaze calculatingly scanned every direction, trying to anticipate who Naruto's next attack would come.

Sensing a burst of chakra behind him, Madara spun around and threw a fist out and felt as it clashed against Naruto's fist in a blast of power that shook the land under their feet. Already their fight had carried itself further into the destroyed forest, a clear trail of destruction was clear for all to see as both Uzumaki and Uchiha did battle with one another. Madara spun into a backhanded punch while Naruto ducked under the swing and sent an uppercut to Uchiha's arm. Madara saw that hit coming and twisted his extended arm and caught Naruto's uppercut between his forearm and bicep.

Madara then pulled the caught arm and jumped at the same time, mid-air Madara then put Naruto's neck in a leg lock trying to choke him out. Seeing what his opponent was trying to do Naruto then flexed his muscles and used his powerful strength to throw Madara off of him and with his caught arm slammed the Uchiha into the solid earth which caused the ground to shatter from the strength from the powerful body slam. Dust shot up from the impacted area and quickly cleared from the shockwave. Madara grunted at the near back breaking slam, he spun and twisted himself to his feet while glaring at his opponent.

Naruto huffed slightly, Madara had put him in that hold in an instant and he was nearly out of the fight right then and there. He would have to play it carefully in close quarters. Naruto reached into his shinobi pouch and slid several smaller shuriken between his fingers before launching all of them towards his eagle eyed opponent. However, Madara shook his head and merely used a weak burst of gravity. However, this was what Naruto wanted and he suddenly appeared in front of the Uchiha with a fist drawn back. With a yell Naruto surged an incredible amount of chakra into his arm, "Fuuton: Kairiki Musō (Vapor Style: Unrivaled Strength)" Naruto bellowed as he hurled his fist at Madara.

Madara seeing this, called upon his Susanoo as fast as he could, but even the mediocre amount of the construct was no match for the incredible power surging through Naruto as the blonde struck him, shattering the rib-cage summoned by Madara and even a couple of the Uchiha's ribs. As he crashed into the ground, Madara growled as he clapped his hands together, "Chibaku Tensei (Planetary Devastation)" he growled as he hurled a large black orb into the heavens above. The orb split itself apart before the earth shook and trembled before it burst apart and rose into the sky above and began to gather around the black orbs.

"I'm going to end it all here Naruto, you will die a weak pitiful human, and have nobody to share your pathetic philosophy with." he told the blonde as he reached up and clenched his fist as if to show he was crushing a fly and then yanked his arm down where each ball of rock began to fall towards the earth below.

Naruto snorted as he gathered his chakra and created a series of clones whose each clone held up his hands and created a series of Rasenshuriken in front of them. Each one was composed of a different element and composition, but each could be said to be as strong as a Sage Art Tailed Beast Bomb. With yells of exertion, the clones and Naruto hurled their attack at the orbs of stone whose upon impact, the world was rocked from the incredible impacts from the Rasenshuriken explosions that detonated against the large earthen spices that Madara had been trying to drop on top of Naruto to try and kill him.

Madara's Rinnegan glowed again and he grabbed his wrist, "Shuradō (Asura Path)" the Uchiha intoned as he pulled his hand away to reveal that not only was the Uchiha's arm detachable, but a cluster of segmented missiles produced from within it. The missiles were sent off with screams as they raced towards Naruto. However, Naruto was already used to fighting such techniques thanks to his battle against Nagato, and while Madara never used any path besides the Tendō (Deva Path) to create his meteorites, Naruto still had the upper hand due to such experience.

Conjuring up a horde of clones, Naruto sent them ahead as they charged Madara, each exploding as the missiles hit them. And while the clones were dying, as Madara knew they would, he drew a deep breath, "Katon: Gōkakyū no jutsu (Fire release: Great Fireball technique)" Said Madara as he molded chakra within his stomach and spewed out a massive ball of flames towards the golden man who merely stood his ground against the oncoming fireball, his eyes focused and ready to attack his opponent. Just as the Fireball was about to hit him Naruto quickly disappeared within a flash of yellow, making the attack strafe past him.

Madara, seeing something in the corner of his eyes, brought up his arm to protect himself from the punch the blonde man dealt him. He saw Naruto staring at him with his yellow eyes, unwavering, did the Uzumaki use his space-time ninjutsu to evade Madara's attack. Madara, sending chakra into his own eye, retreated from the blonde by suddenly disappearing without any form of indication; the Uchiha retreated from the Jinchūriki to a place that would better serve his needs. Sensing Madara's location, Naruto leapt up into the air back towards the spot they had first started their battle, flying high into the air to the point he was as high as one of the surrounding mountains, those that remained at least.

As this happened, Naruto growled as he brought a fist back and began to send an incredible amount of Fuuton Chakra (Vapor Style Chakra) into his body, steam rising out of his pores. As he soared towards the ground he watched as the Uchiha appeared before him and threw his fist at the Uchiha, only to clash with a shockwave of power as Madara called out, "Shinra Tensei (Almighty Push)" who's the visible clash could be seen as powerful gusts of wind blasted out from whose they clashed, and still their observers did no dare to move, to caught up in observing the battle between two mortal gods.

To Madara's shock, his push held out for roughly ten seconds against Naruto's bare fist before it literally seemed to crack before his very eyes as Naruto forced his way through with raw power where Naruto then proceeded to tackle his enemy to the ground in an explosion of rocks and dust. Crashing into the ground along the other Naruto growled as he and Madara began to roughly try to pin the other to try and stop or in Madara's case kill their opponent. Finally Naruto managed to place Madara underneath him and Madara thrashed wildly to try and free himself from the pin, but unfortunately Naruto was just that much larger than him.

Madara and Naruto were panting heavily as Madara stopped thrashing underneath Naruto due to him pinning him down. Naruto had placed his knees on Madara's arms in a pin whose Uchiha couldn't move. However, the Uchiha didn't wield the Rinnegan for nothing and he unleashed a pulse of gravity, "Shinra Tensei (Almighty Push)" the Uchiha yelled out as he hurled Naruto away from him.

In hindsight, Naruto really should have expected Madara to do something like that.

Once more landing in a crash, Naruto stood up and gave roar of frustration and surged his chakra into his right fist, "Senpō; Doton: Sentō no Mori (Sage Art; Earth Style: Forest of Spire's)" yelled the blonde as a incredible amount of earth chakra was released causing gigantic spires of rock to birth themselves from the ground, each as tall as Madara's Imperfect Susanoo (you know, the one whose it is skin and bone, second stage before he goes to Perfect Susanoo and then True Perfect Susanoo) Madara felt his eyes widen as the large earthen pillars rose at incredible rates and he used his Rinnegan to get him to safety once again.

Growling once again, Naruto wrapped his arms around the nearest spire and physically ripped it up out of the ground, a spire of stone that easily weighed as much as a small ship. Let us put into perspective just how large these are to understand why it would weigh so much. The spires are roughly ninety feet tall and approximately nineteen feet wide at the base. With a yell, he hurled the spire away to where he sensed the Uchiha's chakra reappearing. Jumping across the mountains and using his Asura Path to his advantage, did Madara barely escape the falling spire that was plummeting towards him, courtesy of his enemy who was intent on crushing him.

The resulting crash did nothing to sooth the feeling of utter joy of not being crushed, the spire shattered to small pebbles while a chunk of the surrounding forest was torn apart from Naruto's attack. Seeing a shadow above him the Uchiha cursed as he saw several more spires raining down on him and charged a large amount of raw Raiton Chakra into his hand and combined it with Enton Chakra and leapt at the closest spire that threatened to crush him under foot. The sound of what seemed to be compressed thunder filled the air before the spire exploded to tiny pebbles showed that Madara had used incredible brute force to cut through the rock with only the use of a single hand.

Madara then landed on one of the remaining rock spires just as two large rocks were about to smash against him, using his great strength he was able to redirect the rocks with some effort away from him whose they smashed into these rock spires.

However the Uchiha then felt his body being grappled suddenly, pounding against him while he looked down to see Naruto holding him, intending to pummel him against one of the spires. However Madara also grabbed his opponent's body and threw him over his body where Naruto lost control of his movements and then smashed into a different rock spire making the ground shake a little as Madara then landed on an opposing spire staring into the spire Naruto had crashed into. He then saw Naruto scraping down the side of the spire unharmed only with a bit of dust on him.

Naruto then jumped out of the hole he had made when he crashed into the spire before he jumped down from his hole, spun around the spire and using his immense strength lifted the top part of the spire and threw it at Madara he channeled some of his chakra to defend himself from the house sized piece of rock that he was unable to defend against properly. "Shuradō (Asura Path)" the Uchiha called out as he literally grew a third arm which shot its first off at the wrist and watched as it exploded against the large rock, but only managed to take out about half of it and with a flex of his real arm he called out, "Shinra Tensei (Almighty Push)" and watched as it burst apart from the powerful opposing force of gravity.

However Madara fell into Naruto's trap as the blonde created two enormous chakra arms that gripped two of the spires together and and attempted to slam the two of them in-between Madara, however the Uchiha channeled chakra into his Rinnegan and used his Deva Path to hurl himself atop another rock spire higher than the last one escaping the two pillar that otherwise would have crushed him otherwise.

But Naruto wasn't done, turning his two larger chakra arms into five smaller ones. He grabbed several pieces of falling rock out of the air and then made a single hand seal, which gradually changed the rock into molten boulders of lava. "Senpō: Yoton: Shakugaryūgan no jutsu (Sage Art: Lava Style: Scorching Stream Rock technique)!" and with that Naruto hurled the massive molten boulders towards Madara whose Rinnegan was still recharging and so was forced to evade the rocks as he jumped around the pillars trying not to be melted the the pillars fell to the ground because their structure was quite literally melted.

Madara managed to evade the Jutsu before he quickly raced forward, crying out in rage as he did so. Naruto's grin widened and he mimicked the Uchiha's action, only blurring forward in a giant flash of yellow. Madara brought his Truthseeker Orb back and shifted into a large spear before swinging it forward. Naruto's body became visible once more as he brought both his arms up to his right side, causing the spearhead to snap off as he blocked the strike. Madara roared in anger, tossing his useless staff to the side. Naruto took the opportunity to feint a backhanded left punch, following through with a right fist to the Uchiha's gut.

Madara doubled over at the strike, slightly winded. Naruto retracted his right hand and brought down his left elbow to the middle of Madara' back. The Uchiha took one step forward at the strike and tried to counter with a blind left backhand of his own. Naruto ducked under the attack and brought his left leg up to strike Madara in the chest. Madara got back to his feet and spat to the side, the blood landing in a small splotch. He growled in annoyance, he shouldn't be feeling this much pain from this brat! The annoyance fueled his second wind and he once more ran forward, more of his Six Paths Chakra pouring out his body as he did.

Two secondary arms from from his body as he called upon the Asura Path, each an equally statue-like color burst from his massive back and clenched into fists. Naruto, however, narrowed his eyes as he fell back into one of his Gama-Ken stances. Madara's upper right fist flew forward, making Naruto push it down and to his right with his left hand. The Uchiha followed through with his opposite upper arm making a similar attempt, only to result in the same, yet reversed, outcome. The deranged Uchiha's teeth were bared and his other two fists tried a similar tactic, only for them to be blocked by the teen's hands.

Naruto found himself primarily on the defensive as the four fists of the Uchiha kept swinging at him. Naruto countered every few blows, striking out with his hands and delivering bone cracking blows of his own. Naruto caught an extended arm by the wrist and jumped off the ground to deliver a side double kick to the Uchiha's face. Madara stumbled back and growled in annoyance before rushing forward again, faking a right hook and instead delivering a left gut punch that knocked the wind out of his opponent. Madara, taking advantage of the glowing demigod's moment of recovery, drew all of his fists back, throwing them forward in a united effort to punch the teen.

Naruto's arms crossed over his face taking the brunt of the strikes and skidding backwards to the end of the cave.

"FIGHT ME!" Madara demanded from his place glaring at the teen, "You claim to have a unending amount of power compared to me, prove it! Show me this never-ending energy you are so famous for!" Naruto lowered his arms, the bruises fading away as he glared at Madara before his face was covered in a, not arrogant, but an excited grin. Opening his left hand, a ball of light started to grow in his hand. As it started to grow, a secondary orange sphere within it started to spin. It literally looked like a miniature sun was growing in his palm, growing to the size of a basketball before it grew to the size of a grown man, which made his grin grow. He ran forward with his hand behind him.

"All right! Here I come!" Naruto's tandem voice said along with that of Helios', "Feel the burn; Senpō: Yoton Rasenshuriken (Sage Art: Lava Style Rasenshuriken)" By the time he had reached Madara, the technique had quadrupled in size, becoming a literal miniature sun. Madara roared in defiance, his hands reaching out and grabbing the orb as it was held towards him. The Uchiha and the Uzumaki struggled over the technique, Naruto going as far to put his other hand on the miniature sun and push it towards Madara. Madara growled as he struggled against the energy, his hands burning as he held it away from him.

Naruto wasn't having any of it. His sage markings started to shine brightly and he released another cry that was followed by a pulse of energy. Madara grunted as Naruto started to take some steps forward, successfully pushing the Uchiha back. "This! Is! IMPOSSIBLE!" Madara roared out, digging his feet into the ground.

"An unstoppable force meets the immovable object!" Naruto said with a laugh, "Let's see which of us gives out first, Madara!"

"I am the Sage of Six Paths boy!" Madara sneered as he stopped the teen's advance by adjusting his footing, "You are just another brat that I will crush beneath my foot!"

"Wrong!" refuted the teen immediately with a grin as he looked Madara in the eyes, "I'm a person with something that someone as paranoid as you will never have!"

Madara sneered, "And what would that be exactly, a weak constitution?!" Madara roared.

Naruto merely smirked as he responded, "The real answer you search for. A reason to never give up. Possessing the will to fight even with the odds stacked against me. And that is the ideal reason to fight on!" Naruto announced before the attack in his hand expanded, encasing Madara' body as the Rasenshuriken finally detonated with enough force that it could compare to a normal Tailed Beast Bomb from Kurama. Once the brightness had faded away, it showed Madara in a crated, quickly regenerating from his grievous wounds given by the powerful technique. Madara spun to face the teen and a delirious grin spread across his face.

"EXCELLENT!" laughed out the Uchiha before he brought his two fists up, "NOW WE FIGHT UNTIL ONLY ONE STANDS!"

Naruto shifted so that his right leg was set a foot behind his left, his right hand loosely making a fist before his chest while the left hand extended out and remained open. Naruto's knees bent and his aura swayed to and fro like an ever-burning flame. The two opponents stayed opposite one another for what felt like and eon, before Naruto turned his left hand and gestured for the Uchiha to come at him. Madara' manic grin widened and he pushed off the ground, making a large indent as he did so. Naruto's golden sun-like irises shone brightly before he also shot forward, a trail of golden flames behind him. The two powerful forces brought their right hands back and punched, their fists colliding and sending a shockwave through the mountain that was felt all the way in Konoha.

As the two traded blows, Naruto found himself getting excited. Neither him or Madara were speaking nor taunting the other, but creating shockwaves on their impacts. The two fighting beings traded blow after blow, neither giving the other an opportunity to take a small breather. While stuck in a head clinch, Naruto had driven his elbow sharply into the Uchiha's gut. After Madara released him, Naruto grabbed the Uchiha's head and jumped up, driving his knee into the Uchiha's nose and shattering it. Madara stumbled for a moment, but quickly recovered and drove his right fist into Naruto's stomach, making the teen double over and allowing him to grab hold of the golden fighter's shoulder and leg, lifting him up before dropping him down onto a knee, breaking a few ribs.

Naruto had needed a second to come back from that, catching Madara' foot when the Uchiha tried to kick him in the already broken ribs. Pulling Madara off his feet, Naruto gained a few seconds to breathe easy before he began a long combo filled with a brawler's favorite attack, mean punches. To top it off, Naruto brought his left fist back and delivered a nasty left hook that dislocated the Uchiha's jaw. Madara stumbled back a few feet with a muffled cry as he coughed up blood, before a sickening crack filled the area as he fixed his jaw. Madara snapped a grin on Naruto before rushing him with his fists back and ready to strike.

Naruto managed to block a few, but another left punch to his gut -should really work on watching that left side, Naruto absently thought- had knocked him off guard. Naruto's head snapped up as Madara delivered a powerful right uppercut, causing him to stumble back. "HAAAAH!" Naruto roared as he poured out as much of his Six Paths chakra from his body. In the seal, Kurama felt his eyes widen at the sheer amount his host was releasing, "NARUTO!" the fox cried out in shock, only to be ignored by the blond. Madara covered his face as fierce winds billowed past him and he narrowed his eyes, "He expels his chakra so blatantly to try and outmatch my own? He insults me!" the Uchiha stated.

Naruto flashed forward, appearing before a stunned Madara and launched a right hook at Madara, barely missing. As he watched Madara weave around his hit, Naruto launched a left hook, and growled as that hit too missed its mark. Performing a roundhouse, Madara barely evades as Naruto picks up his speed, each step he takes on solid ground cratering the earth underfoot. Sweeping low, he attempts to rip Madara's feet out from underneath him before he swipes a roundhouse at Madara's gut, only to once more miss his mark as he rises to his feet. Naruto launches forward in an attempt to elbow Madara in the face, but glances off the Uchiha by mere millimetres of space.

Who would have imagined, that a mere human could become so powerful as to challenge a Juubi Jinchuuriki on his own? The movements that the Uzumaki made...

They weren't human movements.

Madara looked up to see Naruto appearing in front of him. the remainder of his shirt ripped off to reveal his upper body. Because of this, his upper body was completely visible, along with some long, jagged scars and tattoos along his arms and chest. The scars on his side ran in the same direction as his left ribs, starting from his spine and going to the center of his chest. He also has two scars located on the left side of his chest and looped to just above his heart before curving up to a stop. Finally, four straight scars curved around his left bicep before dropping straight down while two on his shoulder curled over and connected to two of the scars on his bicep. Meanwhile, on the left side of his chest was a tribal tattoo that spread up to his shoulder and went over to cover part of his upper back where in the center of this tribal tattoo was a tattoo of a dragon that was flying in a circle while devouring its own tail.

Madara caught each of of Naruto's punches with his hands. Although the blonde's strike was able to move the ground with crushing force, ruining the landscape even more than it was before, Naruto still struggled against Madara until Naruto ducked and hit him with a strong reverse roundhouse kick. Naruto was quick to rush his enemy again and engaged in a taijutsu battle. Naruto slid under Madara's sword swing and kicked him in the chin sending him into air. The Uzumaki appeared nearby and met Madara in the air and punched him through a mountain.

Once more Naruto appeared and met Madara at the other end, and kicked him back towards the spot he had been originally. At this point they were playing tennis with Madara's body. Naruto grabbed him by the legs and flipped several times in the air flinging him to the ground in the crevice of the mountain. Naruto dove towards him preparing to end it with a single strike. However Madara didn't plan on going quietly into the night as he created a chain and wrapped it around the blond, using it to throw him out of the picture, but the chain missed the blond and instead smashed him in the stomach.

Madara quickly rolled out of the way of Naruto's hit and hopped on the ruined earth. Naruto's momentum carried him into the crevice and he crashed into the ground and trapped himself in the process. Madara clapped his hands together and the sides of the mountain came together entrapping Naruto. However, Naruto hadn't been known as unpredictable as a clone tried rush Madara alone but had to dodge and block several projectiles on his way. At least until his feet got stuck in the liquefied ground. Madara rushed the clone with a giant mallet molded from the Truthseeker Orbs. Being unable to move, the most he could do was stab his sword into the ground and release lightning chakra from it in order to help block the attack.

However, Madara's brute strength knocked him high in the air and the clone recovered in the air. However the onslaught of attacks only continued when it was being bombarded by several boulders. Using his Kurama's chakra to block them, it only made matters worse because the rocks didn't fly off like they were supposed to, they instead clung to his chakra and began to glow a red color. "He's using me as an epicenter!" the clone thought to himself as he groaned in pain as the radiant heat coming from the stones burned him, so much so they actually combusted and destroyed the clone.

Suddenly the ground shook as Kurama in his full might leaped from the structure that Naruto was trapped in while Kurama roared as his friend was angry at the damned Uchiha, "RRRRRAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHH" before several snakes made of the earth hooked themselves on Kurama's shoulders and thighs with their fangs as the fox finally landed on the ground with a crash that shook the earth. Kurama grabbed and ripped apart the snakes gripping his shoulders. Then a giant Phoenix like bird made entirely of flames sprang into life. Kurama grabbed hold of its wings, struggling against it. Naruto growled as he struggled against all of the monsters he had to fight.

However that soon as Kurama overcame the jutsu. He grinned as Kurama ripped apart the Phoenix. A gigantic blue Susanoo quickly started to come to life as soon as the Phoenix was defeated. However all of the snakes that were grappling on to the nine tails were obliterated by the building up of the Bijuu chakra exploded out from Kurama conjured up two extra arms on both his shoulders. Madara was controlling the Susanoo from the top of its head and used it to swing a giant sword at Kurama. Although due to its size and body structure, the attack was slow, giving Kurama and Naruto enough time to materialize a Truthseeker Orb sword for their combo.

Kurama swiftly ducked under the punch and swung the sword like a baseball bat, slicing the monster in half and causing it to implode on itself. The swing of the massive sword cause a huge shockwave across the land blowing away incredible amounts of debris. Kurama and the Susanoo both dissipated as Naruto landed on the ground.

"We certainly did a lot of damage, but I highly doubt it was enough to kill him." Kurama said.

"If we could use our ninjutsu on him like we wished, we would have beat him already." Naruto said as he saw Madara struggle to rise up out of the dirt, completely battered. He was breathing heavily and had a huge scowl on his face.

"You dare ruin my garments!? I'll kill you!" Madara said as he leveled Naruto with a glare.

Naruto got down from where he stood and walked towards the demented Uchiha, "Before you get upset over some clothes, you still have to worry about me," he declared with a challenging look.

The Uchiha found that to be little more than amusing and he wasn't above showing it with a chuckle, "No mortal can stand against me." he told Naruto.

Cracking his neck, Naruto readied himself. Madara could put up one hell of a fight, but Naruto wasn't going to back down. He hadn't before now and he wasn't going to stop. He had made a promise and he was going to keep it. "Didn't you say it yourself?" he asked Madara, "I'm not a regular human anymore." he said with a grin lining his cheeks. And with that, he attacked. He threw fist forward and unleashed a barrage of fire at the Uchiha, who only flew into the air to avoid them. He kept up the barrage, trying to hit Madara. But he managed to avoid or absorb them all with a grace that was enviable. He landed next to Naruto and swatted the human away from where he stood with a backhand.

While he was airborne, the Uchiha followed him and loomed over him when he landed, "I lived in a era, before the first of the Hidden Villages was even conceived as a thought!" he shouted. His chakra cloak started glowing with a purple energy. He pulled his arm back and struck forward, firing a beam of raw chakra. The beam carved through the ground as it reached Naruto. But due to it being so bit, Madara did not have a good aim or he wanted to draw out the fight because only the edge of the bean hit the blond before disappearing. But even the edge of the beam was enough to send him flying again, "It was I who gave Hashirama the idea of a village system!" Madara declared as he flew lazily around him and then fired the beam again.

He followed Naruto, clearly enjoying what he was doing, "To hate me is to give me power. To fight me is to give me strength. Now prepare to face your oblivion!"

Naruto got up just in time to see another beam coming towards him. He used jets of fire to push him into the air and away. The beam tried to follow but he was able to avoid it. He couldn't stay in the air for long, landing in a roll and trying to come back up to his feet. But the pain his body had sent him back down to his knees. It had been only a couple of minutes since the new fight had started and he was already this beaten. He knew why. He was going up against Madara with the minimal amount of power he could pull from his transformation. He thought he could do it by himself but he had been wrong, so wrong.

This was only one way to make this fight at least somewhat even. "Kurama!" he called out to his friend. "The only way to win is together," he told him.

The fox heard his plea and surged his chakra through his allies body. The power he had gained from the initial awakening of Six Paths chakra came back and that same energy surrounded his body. Madara flew at him, trying to crush him with a swipe of a Truthseeker Orb, but Naruto leapt up into the air and flew away. The Uchiha gave chase, smashing his Truthseeker orbs down on the ground trying to hit him. But he had learned enough from the fight to know how to move away quickly. His opponent kept missing him and he kept putting ground between them. One of the orbs did hit his cloud and he flew into the air as it dissipated.

Naruto twisted in midair and bent a strong blast of fire at Madara, pushing him back. Naruto tried to land on his feet but the momentum knocked him down and sent him rolling. His world became a blurry mess for a moment, but then it cleared and he found his feet beneath him again. He pushed deep and used the earth to send him flying right at Madara. Naruto started twisting himself to put some spin into his next attack. He tried to kick out a stream of fire but got a kick in his chest before he could get it fully out. He fell back to the ground, forming a cloud of air underneath his feet to keep himself going. He reached out to grab the air and called upon the water in the air and threw it at Madara. He hit the Uchiha a couple of times but it didn't seem to do anything.

"I need something with power to it." Naruto thought to himself. He looked down briefly at the ground and knew where to find it. He bent out three giant boulders and carried them into the air. He passed Madara and swung around, throwing the boulders at him. But the Uchiha glided past them like they didn't matter. Naruto realized his mistake. The earth might've been strong but it was slow. He would need something else to work. He tried thinking up a new tactic as Madara came at him, his Truthseeker orbs swinging. He flew past but got hit by one of them. His cloud fell apart and he fell to the ground. But he quickly bent a new one and flew away from the Uchiha, bending fire at him all the way.

But it was only a few seconds before the pain hit him hard again. He lost control of the cloud and fell to his hands and knees. His body was telling him that he couldn't keep doing this, that the power was too much. It wasn't the only one, "I have to recall my power from you. If it were to stay any longer, you will die!" Kurama insisted.

He knew that. His body was only alive through the pain. All he wanted was for it to end. But he couldn't let it be like that, "It doesn't matter. If you stop me now, Madara will destroy everything. We have to finish this together!" he said, wiping a trickle of blood from his chin. He hopped back up onto his feet, bending a cloud under him to carry him. He charged straight at Madara, who did the same. When the Uchiha fired another beam of chakra, he bent the air beneath him to send him flying high in the sky. He flew over the Uchiha and bent a stream of fire at its back. He landed but the pain drove him to his hands and knees again, "I have to move!" he said, forcing himself to stand up again.

As he did, Madara struck, grabbing hold of him with a Truthseeker Orb with a grin. First Madra allowed himself to play with Naruto as he was dragged across the ground, feeling it scrape hard against his back. Then Naruto was flung into the air and felt the chakra beam slam into him. It felt like getting hit with a hammer, pierced by a sword and a spear, electrocuted, buried alive, drowned, set aflame, and losing his air all in one great anguishing moment. When the moment ended, he fell to the ground. He tried to get up but Madara flew over to him and shot a dark orb at him, holding him down, "The Infinite Tsukuyomi is about to begin. The era of Chakra is over!" the Uchiha boasted. Naruto tried to get up, to fight back, but the pain made him too weak against the tentacle.

All he could do was lay there.

Above them, the moon appeared glowing red, the eye of the Ten Tails carving itself into its surface. Lightning and thunder boomed from the heavens making a unstoppable storm. But it wasn't just that. The very air thrummed with energy from the entirety of the universe. Naruto could feel it pressing down on him like a wet sponge trying to cool him off. As Madara turned to look at the moon with a victorious grin, he glowed purple. His chakra grew to immeasurable levels unlike anything Naruto had sensed before their fight. The Uchiha was taking in the energy around them and making himself stronger. But as his power grew, so did Naruto's own.

Naruto's body glowed white with his sage markings on his chest turning blue, lifting the pain away, "Naruto, do you trust me?" Kurama calmly asked him.

"You know I do," he replied. After the amount of time they had spent together, how could he not trust him?

"Surge my chakra through your body again." he urged him.

"What will happen if I do?"

"Something new, something…different, will arise." he answered, sounding unsure, "Even I do not know what will happen. But it will give you the power to defeat Madara." the fox said confident in his knowledge.

"How do you know that?" he asked.

"I just know." the fox said as Naruto's glow left, giving him back to the pain.

It sounded strange, but what could he do? Madara had him. It would take a moment for the Uchiha to crush him now, if he felt like it. But all it would take for him to simply surge his friends power in a moment too. Fighting the pain, he lifted his right hand, clenched a fist, and allowed the chakra to flow through his flesh. For a moment, it felt like he was swimming in water. But then the world hummed to his power and the glow came back, washing over him like water, relieving his pain as it moved. When it reached Madara's r Orb, it Truthseeker Orb begun to dissolve, Madara turned and pulled it away with a grunt of surprise, trying to understand exactly what was happening.

But it was too late; Naruto was completely engulfed in the mesmerizing glow.

The energy he had taken traveled down deep into his soul, he could feel it. His body started telling him that something else was happening to him.

"Kurama..." he tried to ask, unsure of what was happening. It felt like the power he had when they merged, but too much of it. It felt like he was full to burst and he just might do that.

"Do not fight it Naruto!" he told him as he let the flow of the energy bring forth the true might of his friends power.

He did as he was told. He did not fight it. He let it happen. The energy carried the chakra into his core. When that happened, when he became a part of him, his eyes glowed white.

In that one moment, something changed in him.

In that one moment, he saw farther than he could've ever seen before.

In that one moment, he could see the universe.

And he saw that it was beautifully glorious.

But to look at the whole of the universe was too much for one person. He forced himself to look away from it all, falling down to his hands and knees. The work was not done. The energy was building inside of him, changing everything that he was and had been before. It became overwhelming, coming to a boiling. He couldn't hold it in. So he lurched upwards, threw his head back, and screamed as the energy came out in a great explosion of light.

At the sight of the light, Madara was forced to look away lest he get blinded by the lights intensity. It was only when it began to fade that he dared to look back. He saw Naruto standing back on his feet, his body now glowing gold and crimson, and his eyes a bright furious red. But he looked past that. He looked deeper and he saw the truth. "No! This cannot be!" he cried out in horror of what stood before him as he looked upon Naruto's new transformation that had given him a level of power he could never hope to achieve using the power of the ten tails he had sealed inside of him.

In this state, Naruto's hair becomes spikier, standing up on its ends with tufts on each side of his head appearing as fox ears. His whisker markings become thick with the upper ones on each side curving up below his eyes. The pigments around his eyes become black and stretch up towards his makeshift fox ears and he takes on Kurama's red-slit eyes. The coloring of his clothes turn a slightly dark orange that resembles red and the front of his cape over his chest gains a black swirl surrounded by six lines. Flowing from the back of his cape is four slightly dark orange that resembles red chakra tails and five more at the end of the cape; each tail has a black line down the center that connects in the middle of the cape as a swirl.

Naruto did not say anything back. He was feeling everything with new eyes and new knowledge. He had reached a pinnacle Madara could only dream of reaching. He had surpassed the Sage of Six Paths might and knew in his heart what that meant, and he could only grin inside his seal, "This fight, ends now!" Kurama proudly declared. And Naruto could feel what they had to do.

And with that, Naruto attacked Madara with renewed strength. But he did not strike with just one element. How could he? What he knew now by instinct eclipsed what he had learned for three years and even before that, making it all seem laughable. No, this was a better way to fight and he knew how to do it. Better yet, he knew how to end it. He struck with a barrage of water, fire, and earth, using them with better ease than he ever would have thought he had. Madara tried to dodge like he had before but these attacks came in faster and stronger than anything Naruto had previously thrown at him, catching him every single time. As the last giant boulder got him in the middle of the body, it stunned him for a second.

And this, was Madara's greatest mistake, as it allowed Naruto to go on a full offensive.

"U-ZU-MA-KI!" Three clones appeared in the air and landed several punches and kicks, sending him upwards when he caught sight of another one who came down at him with a somersaulting heel drop, which he blocked with his hands, force still sending him downwards where landed on his feet. With a shake of his head to clear his thoughts, he used another Shinra Tensei to dispel another bunch of clones. Smoke that they produced after their defeat cleared away, showing a bright whirling chakra shuriken that was heading straight towards him. A golden barrier formed around his figure as it got absorbed into his body. He disliked this ability. It showed how desperate he had to be just to avoid certain death from a mere brat.

Immense pain was all that he felt following that annoying sound. His hand was blown away, blood flowing out freely as he hissed, what would seem a permanent scowl made its way on his face ever since he had displeasure of meeting such impudent brat. The clone that transformed from the weapon and destroyed his hand rolled on the ground behind him and immediately went into action, but was quickly dealt with when he punctured him with a sharp stake, courtesy of his Truthseeker Orbs.

"Rasengan!"

He turned his gaze upwards and saw another one, presumably the original in the air, with a gargantuan rotating sphere of blue chakra in his left hand that was brought down towards him. Wincing, he didn't have enough concentration or time for that matter to use Preta Path to absorb it, he didn't even think that he could at this point. Instead he extended his arm, red rotating Chakra of same shape and size came out of his hand. Their clash resulted into an earth-shattering shock wave that devastated the land on which they fought and tore through what was left of the Shinju. Naruto pressed on, pushing harded than ever before, thinking about everything he's fighting to protect and everyone that helped him make a man he is today.

Images of all his important people flashed through his mind; Haku, Zabuza Team 7, Konoha 12, Iruka-sensei, Ero-Sennin, Tsunade Baa-chan, Shizune, Gaara and his siblings, Nagato, Konan, Yahiko, Mom, Dad, Pakura... and more importantly his soulmate... Kiyomi.

However, Madara still had his other hand, and called upon the Preta Path and begun to absorb the Jutsu once again, Madara smirked as he felt the chakra enter his body, "Little tricks like that aren't like you... Someone else has been influencing you! It's still weak though!" he yelled out as his other arm bulged out as it regenerated and returned to normal.

Naruto growled as the arm he had switched his hands, this time a new form of Rasen Shuriken filling his palm causing Madara to widen his eyes in momentary shock, "That's because, I didn't put my back into it that time!" he yelled out as his other arm rose up into the air with a screech from the Rasenshuriken.

A bright light showed itself in Naruto's mind as it began to zip and flow around and changed colors erratically. From a bright white to a stunning blue that flowed to a deep crimson as it zipped into a dazzling green and quickly shifted to a burnt orange that changed into a deep magenta. All of this happened just as a figure appeared in his mind with his back turned to Naruto, his white haori over the flak jacket flowing in an unseen breeze as he looked forward.

And with that, his father's message to him when he was losing hope as he fought Madara the first time, the very message that had allowed him to feel pride in both himself and his ability, the one he hated so much he wished he had never been born, flashed through his mind, 'You were born to light the path covered in darkness so that others don't stumble and fall. You will be the light that shines through the night so that others do not feel fear, but rather hope. Some powers are passed down generation to generation, but yours will bring a sense of joy and peace to the world, to give the people a sense of hope like none other. I have done my part of spreading some of that hope to the people, and now it is your turn. Do your best, Naruto.' his father Minato said with a proud smile on his face as he turned to face his son before he held up a ball of chakra that Naruto didn't hesitate to reach out and grab hold of.

Madara seeing this felt his eyes widen in shock as fear began to set itself in his heart. He had lost...to a child?! He gasped in terror as Naruto crouched down beneath his enemies arm and drew his own arm back, "GAH!~" Madara cried out and his eyes settled into an unforeseen setting of terror as he watched as Naruto's face settled into a snarl that utterly terrified him, more than Hashirama had ever done to him.

As Naruto clenched his fist, this Rasenshuriken screaming so loudly that no other noise could be heard over the violent storm held in the blondes hand. Drawing his fist back with a snarl, a wave of fire exploded into existence behind him. And with a roar, he struck, "YEEEARRRGHH!~" as he began to swing his fist at Madara.

'You're finished, Madara!' Naruto thought to himself as he planted his foot, his hips swinging with the motion as his hand was brought back before it raced forward into the perfect hit; as Naruto began to literally put the entirety of his back into his final hit before and smashed his attack into Madara's face. The sound of bones and teeth breaking clearly heard as Naruto gave a shout of, "KUTON!" with the former sparks of energy turned into a raging inferno just before his body suddenly wrapped itself up with an ethereal golden glow as he began to push his fist to the ground, carrying Madara along for the ride, "RASENSHURIKEN!" he finished as he then smashes his attack into his enemy and watches as the Uchiha flies off onto the heavens.

The power held inside of his attack is so strong that, upon striking Madara, the wind pressure created from its delivery left a massive crater in the ground and spawned a twister strong enough to carry nearby tree's up into the air due to shear force.

The darkness surrounding the sky is blown away due to the sheer force of pressure that the tornado generated as well as the nearby spectators. Kiyomi had grabbed a hold of a rock to try and stay planted, only to gasp in shock, "Gah-ha, whah~" before she cried out as she was blown away by the fierce winds. Karin had called on her Chakra chains to try and hold herself in the ground, but the sheer gale-force winds just wouldn't allow her to stay put, and she too was soon blown away. And as the power of his attack fades away and the wind calms down, a pillar of sunlight shines down on Naruto once again where his power fades and he sighs as he looks at the deep hole his enemy was buried in.

And then, the rain begun to fall once again.

Rain battered the ground in torrents creating small rivers on the muddy ground. The sky looked as though it would rain for an eternity attracted by the fires that set the surrounding trees ablaze. It looked like the world was in mourning and it wept for the lives of those that had recently been taken.

The Fourth Great Shinobi War had been the most costly of any conflict fought in the Elemental Nations. Two enemies had fought and one had lost, and in this fight losing meant only one thing, death, "I-it's over... Finally! Naruto cried ashe fell to his knees. His deep and grievous wounds were scattered all over his body, although they were healing rather quickly. Huffing, Naruto fell to his knees, "B-But, yet it wasn't supposed to end like this." he sighed out.

"And how was it supposed to end Uzumaki?" Madara asked weakly. A small trickle of blood was escaping from the corner of his mouth and his dark raven hair was dirty with mud from where he lay. The brat… had killed the ten tails. He had felt it. That final attack had been filled to the brim with a strange form of chakra,and it had literally reached into his seal in such a way that it ripped the beast apart and killed the Ten Tails by splitting it apart and shredding the tailed beasts apart as it ripped them out of his seal.

Naruto clenched his fists. He looked into the air not wanting to show weakness even now to Madara and silently thanking the rain for allowing his grief to remain hidden. "There was a prophecy, and it said that we were supposed to die together. That's what I saw the last time we fought, and that's what the grand geezer toad saw, we are both supposed to die."

"Is that it? Some prophecy is going to make you react like this." Madara coughed spitting out some more blood, he could feel that he didn't have much time left but he would be damned if things ended this way, "Since when have you ever let fate boss you around? If you did then a brat like you would never have made it this far." he smirked.

"But this was my answer." Naruto said weakly.

The fact Madara was actually joking with him just made things that much worse.

Madara raised an eyebrow in confusion. "Answer to what?"

"Ero-Sennin and Nagato's quest, this was how I was going to bring peace." Naruto said falling to his knees beside the fallen Uchiha. Naruto turned his cerulean eyes back down to his friend and saw that Madara had no idea what Naruto was talking about. "Ero-Sennin once told me that the world was cursed by hatred and he believed that if people truly understood each other. Then I met Nagato and he believed that only through pain could peace be accomplished." Naruto explained while thinking back fondly on his master and fellow student of Jiraiya.

"Is this going somewhere? Because I don't exactly have all day." Madara said with a weak smirk before wincing in pain.

"Yes it does, the answer to end the circle of hatred is for everyone to lose. A joint loss that will unite everyone. Kakashi-sensei told me before I left that they are calling me the Hero of the Elemental Nations. I die and everyone loses the person they consider a hero, then everyone would understand each other's pain." the blond spoke trying to make Madara understand.

Madara couldn't help but laugh. "Always the loyal ninja huh? Well I guess things can't be helped anymore. But were you really willing to throw away your dream of peace for this?" he asked. The Uchiha's voice was cracking and he had to spit out a hefty amount of blood as his internal organs began to shut down.

"I am the legacy of my master and Ero-sennin believed in me so it is my duty to carry on his will. As for my vision of peace. How could I protect a village when I couldn't even save a friend? This was my answer but now I don't know what to do." the blond admitted, sounding like he had suffered a soul crushing defeat.

Madara sighed and gazed up into the sky. 'It's typical, I don't deserve to see the sun nor the stars when I die. Just the darkness and rain clouds that have filled my heart with the need for power.' he thought before making up his mind to do the only thing he could for the only person he had a true battle against, "Half a mile away there is a cave, inside you will find the last of the Zetsu clones, without me they have no real purpose, I was going to use them to destroy Konoha, but that doesn't seem likely now." he tried to laugh again but the action proved too painful.

"Why are you telling me this?" Naruto asked.

"Wow, and here I thought you would understand what I was getting at. Use one of the Zetsu clones, make it transform into you then stab it with your sword. When they find the body everyone will assume we died together." Madara explained. It was now becoming quite difficult for him to remain conscious almost to the point where he was having small moments that his eyes blurred out of focus.

"Do you think that would work Kurama?" Naruto asked.

'It's a sound plan for you Naruto. If you decide that we should do this we will have to leave the Elemental Nations, and we may never be able to return.' the fox said with a hint of empathy for his partner.

Naruto knew that already, but with everyone thinking he was dead would be just as effective. Although for him it would be so much more difficult and painful than dying. Not knowing when, or if he would ever be able to see his friends again, or see the sun rise over the Hokage monument. "Ero-sennin once told me that a shinobi's life is sacrifice. I think I finally know what he was talking about, Itachi sacrificed his life for a village he loved, and I will do the same." he paused for a moment before continuing. "I guess I will have to become Hokage in my next life instead."

Madara scoffed before looking up at the blond. "This is the second time I have died helping you." he said, "Now, before I well and truly die for good, I must understand something." Madara demanded.

"And what would a psychopathic maniac like you want to know?"

"It's more a curiosity t-than anything." Madara said, struggling to remain alive, his chakra now fading fast from his body as he perished.

"Well, what do you, not like I have all day to be standing here." Naruto stated seriously.

"How did you become so strong, why did I lose to a mere brat when I held the might of a god under my thumb? How did you do it?" he questioned weakly in confusion.

"I didn't fight for my own selfish dreams or desires. I fought to protect those I loved and held close to my heart. Unlike you Madara, power isn't everything to me. In fact I could care less about having the power to wipe out entire countries, I just wanna live in peace." the blonde admitted.

"I see, so that is your reason." the Uchiha stated calmly.

"What does that mean?"

Rather than answer him immediately, Madara simply chuckled before weakly looking up at the Uzumaki, "Any man that's got the guts to sell his soul for love, has got the power to change the world. You didn't do it for greed, you did it for the right reason. And that puts God on your side. To your enemies that makes you dangerous, makes you unpredictable. That's the best thing you can be right now. I find it remarkable. Naruto Uzumaki, you truly do have the power to defy fate. But remember this, those who defeat Gods cannot remain ordinary individuals." Madara suddenly delved into a hysterical coughing fit, his eyes widened and the last word he was going to speak failed to escape his lips.

"What? What are you going to say, please finish!" Naruto yelled quickly moving to check his vitals but found no signs of life.

'I'm sorry Naruto, but he's gone, one of the last of a cursed people. And one of the strongest there had ever been.' Kurama said calmly.

"Another thing we had in common, both the last of our clan. Uzumaki and Uchiha." Naruto sighed, annoyed that he couldn't hear what the Uchiha had wanted to say.

'You are not the last Uzumaki, your clan may be scattered but it still lives on.' the fox assured the blond.

"Really, I would have liked to meet them, I guess that's not going to happen now, our chakra signature is too unique to survive in this world without anyone discovering who I am. Maybe one day if I return I will look for one of them. I would like to meet one at least once. Well, other than Kaa-san" Naruto replied.

'Again you already have, Nagato. He was an Uzumaki, that is why he was able to withstand the overwhelming power of the Rinnegan. The will power of the Uzumaki clan is not something to be laughed at, I have seen that first hand for well over one hundred years.' Kurama spoke with a smirk, thinking about Mito and Kushina, then all the times that Naruto had stood up to him in the recent past. He despised the boy for such a long time but during the war they had become friends. Now the fox looked back at Naruto's past in an almost endearing manner.

"I guess my clan was really something huh." Naruto huffed and slowly stood up. "You think you can find the cave Madara was talking about?"

'I am sure that I could, but it would be best not to use my chakra around them.' Kurama answered by recalling how the versions of Zetsu were affected by Naruto's fox mode cloak.

"Yeah you're right, they all turned into those giant tree things." Naruto replied with a laugh. It may have been a weird transformation as the excess of life affirming energy had caused the white Zetsu to destabilize due to their connection with Hashirama Senju, the Shodai Hokage. With that said, the transformation made the Hashirama clones far easier to kill.

'Use the Sage Mode taught to you by the toads, that should be enough to locate the cave.' Kurama suggested.

Naruto nodded in agreement, the ability to draw nature chakra from the world around him gave Naruto sharp sensory capabilities, he could sense those around him for miles and the more he used this skill the stronger it became. The blond teen stood perfectly still while the freezing rain battered against his back, for several moments nothing happened, almost like he was a statue until the pigment around his eyes began to darken to a deep orange color. As Naruto opened his eyes the vibrant cerulean blue was gone, in it's place were brilliant golden orbs with a large jet black bar pupils.

"I found it." he spoke calmly. It was a side effect of the use of Senjutsu, you need to relax to the point that you become one with the world around you, making it rather difficult to not feel relaxed. Instantly Naruto's wounds began to heal several times faster than the accelerated healing capabilities awarded to him from his clan and enhanced by his partner.

'Then what are we waiting for, this needs to be done before the rain stops and you can be tracked by your scent.' Kyuubi warned.

"Right, it wouldn't do any good if we left a Zetsu clone here only for Kiba and Akamaru to find our trail." Naruto agreed and in the blink of an eye he was gone jumping through trees in the direction that Madara had indicated before he died.

It was only a short trip less than five minutes at the speed that Naruto was traveling. When he landed he found an undisturbed cliff face "This is it, they are inside. I just need to find an entrance." Naruto sighed as he began searching the area for a hole into the cave.

'You know this isn't like you, why not just blast your way inside. It's not like killing a few would be a bad thing, they are just mindless husks now that their master is gone along with the original two halves.' the fox reasoned.

"I guess you're right, it might be better for them if they were killed anyway, the last thing this world needs is more reminders of the Akatsuki." Naruto sighed before slamming his fist into the hard rocky surface of the cliff with the aid of a Senjutsu enhanced punch. Naruto tumbled through the wall as it cracked open with ease and found himself inside a immense underground hall, the floors were flat and so smooth that the blond was sure that this was no naturally occurring landmark. "Wow this place is huge!" Naruto said in awe. His voice echoed back at him from all directions as he marveled at the vast emptiness that stood before him.

'That is relative, to you I am huge. This place was made large for a purpose, to store those Hashirama clones, if it was full you would say it was cramped.' Kurama chuckled, glad that something was taking Naruto's mind off of the dead Uchiha.

"You are huge, you can't say that everyone else is small just because you are so big, face it you are the minority in this instance." Naruto retorted.

Kurama scoffed but knew Naruto was just trying to irritate him for a laugh, 'As much as I would like to continue this ever so pointless discussion, I would like to point out that we have a job to do and time spent enjoying the sights is time wasted.'

"Alright geez, for a guy who spends most of his time sleeping you sure are impatient." Naruto replied before starting to walk towards the location he felt Zetsu's chakra signature. At the very back of the hall Naruto found a spiraling staircase made of stone. "They are down here, but I can't sense any movement." he said as he began descending the staircase.

The room below was far smaller, Naruto could see all the way to the other side thanks to his enhanced vision while in Sage Mode. 'Well here they are. Looks like its well over one hundred, good thing we only need one.' Kurama spoke in Naruto's mind.

Naruto nodded, the floor of the room was indeed filled with close to one hundred white Zetsu who all turned to face Naruto as he walked down the stairs yet remained impassive. "Um I'm no expert but shouldn't they be attacking me or something?" the blond asked.

'It seems without their master they no longer have a purpose. Perhaps that is why Madara thought he could use them as his own.' the fox suggested upon landing at the base of the stairs.

Naruto shrugged agreeing that it was as good a theory as any he could come up with as he approached the closest Zetsu. "Hey you. Can you understand me?" he asked cautiously not willing to drop his guard for an instant with a room full of potentially deadly ninja. To answer his question the clone nodded slowly. "You will follow me and do as I say." this time it was a command, Naruto wanted to see how the soldiers of the former Akatsuki army would respond to such a statement.

For a few moments nothing happened. Several Zetsu clones shuffled around uncomfortably as if trying to find a little extra room in the crowded basement. But eventually the clone Naruto had ordered nodded in agreement. 'Well what do you know. These things were just waiting for someone to come along and control them. You could have a nice little personal army if you wanted.' Kurama teased knowing that Naruto would never do something like that. Despite Naruto's wish to become Hokage he never desired power for the sake of being stronger than everyone or being feared. He simply wished to protect those precious to him. That had been his ideology ever since his first real mission as a Genin.

"No thanks Kurama, this must be a pitiful existence, just standing around waiting to be of some use to someone. At least while Zetsu's original body was alive they had some free will." Naruto answered. Turning back to the Zetsu clone Naruto quickly made his mind up on what he would do with the rest. "Wait for me upstairs." he ordered. The clone nodded and slowly ascended the spiraling staircase. Once he was gone Naruto created three clones of his own. "After I leave destroy this place so it is never found by anyone." Naruto exited the room heading back up stairs and collected his new follower before exiting through the same entrance Naruto had made earlier.

They wasted little time in heading back to where the blond knew Madara's dead body lay. He made it around half way before the memory of his clones bringing the cave down upon themselves and the Zetsu army hit him. The rain was still beating down as hard as ever by the time Naruto arrived in the clearing. All the blood had been washed away from Madara's body giving the final Uchiha the appearance that he was merely sleeping and would awaken at any moment. Naruto quickly shook those thoughts off as they only proved to make the fact that Naruto had killed his best friend all the more painful. 'It's time Naruto, now or never.' Kurama spoke, his powerful voice holding a hint of sympathy for the boy.

"Right." Naruto agreed nodding his head. He approached Madara, bending down to pick up his Katana, the Zetsu clone following closely behind. "You can transform into anyone you have touched right?" he queried. The clone nodded in affirmation before Naruto spoke again. "Transform into me."

Instantly the white plantlike shinobi began to mutate, he became shorter and his skin began to tan. The last thing to change was his eyes and then Naruto was looking at a carbon copy of himself, even their chakra signatures matched perfectly. 'Do it Naruto, the longer you wait the harder it will be.' Kurama urged the blond on. Naruto hesitated for one last second knowing everything he was giving up before plunging his blade into the clones stomach.

Naruto did the deed as quickly and painlessly as he could manage, the blade going up under the ribcage and piercing the heart. He watched slightly sickened as blood poured out from his own mouth and the perfect copy of himself hit the floor landing perfectly beside Madara. Despite Naruto's declaration not to shed anymore tears he couldn't help the one that escaped his eye as he looked down upon the scene. "Goodbye Madara, I am sorry that nobody will ever know the role that you played. In the end you were the one that will bring peace to this ninja world." he said, closing his eyes and taking a deep breath in to help control his emotions before turning to leave, running at full speed from the field of devastation that was once the sight of Naruto and Madara's final confrontation.

'So where are we going?' Kurama asked after a few moments.

'I don't know.' Naruto admitted talking inside his head for once. "I think I will head north, I heard there was a mountain range at the top most border of the Land of Earth, I guess I will head there." he decided after a few moments.

'Yes I know the ones you are talking about, they are supposed to be insurmountable, rocks are constantly falling from their peaks causing small pebbles to fall all throughout the country. I believe they call it stone rain.' the fox mused.

"Wow how do you know so much?" Naruto asked in awe.

'I have been alive for a very long time Naruto, it is only in my recent history that I have been sealed. If this is your choice of destination then I agree you will never be found if you make it past the great Iwa mountains. However, that is because nobody has ever survived climbing them, if they were not killed by a landslide or falling rocks, then the freezing cold and thin air near the peaks would finish them off.' Kurama warned.

"Well then I guess it's a good thing that I have you to watch my back then." Naruto said believing now more than ever that this was the right decision.

The fox chuckled deeply. 'I guess you are right, I can't have my first friend in well over two hundred years dying on the side of a mountain. With that said it will take several days even at this speed just to reach the base of the mountain and our chakra signature sticks out more than I do when we transform.'

"Um what are you saying?" Naruto asked not liking where this was going.

'I'm saying that before we get to the next village you are going to need to start actively suppressing your chakra and presence. We will have to act and travel like civilians until we are far enough north that our presence will go unnoticed.' the large fox explained.

Naruto groaned, that would turn a week long trip into a month, but he could not deny Kurama's logic. "Alright, at least I have Gama-chan full with money so I can pay for transportation and buy supplies." the blond sighed in reluctant acceptance.

XxX-(Several Hour's Later)-XxX

"This must have been quite some fight." a heavily tanned teen sucking on a lollipop said as he looked around at the scene before him. Large craters scattered the landscape and all the trees had been burnt away to ash that was now soaked into the ground from the falling torrential rain.

"This wasn't just a fight, this is what it looks like when God's clash." a short young woman with pink eyes stated.

"Heh of course it was, this is Naruto were talking about, that idiot can never do anything without destroying something." a Konoha shinobi riding a large white dog laughed.

"Kiba this is hardly the time for jokes, we need to find Naruto and Madara." A teen with dark red hair and sea green eyes ordered.

Kiba knew better than to argue with the red head. "Sorry Kazekage-sama." he apologized.

"Kiba you may call me Gaara, a friend of Naruto's is a friend of mine." the Kazekage assured the shinobi riding the hound.

"But Naruto-sama is a hero, everyone considers him a friend, does that mean that nobody will call you Kazekage-sama again? What if one day you become offended by such an action and it sparks a war, all of the work done with village relations would be ruined." Omoi sighed.

The rest of the group looked at the Kumo shinobi as though he had an extra head. "Is he being serious?" the kunoichi with short dark brown hair and pink eyes without discernible pupils queried. She wore a tight red top with the right arm missing and a miniskirt with a lapel over her right leg. She also wore a standard Iwa flak jacket.

"I don't know. I would ask him, but if Mei-sama were here I am sure she would scold me for being rude." the final member of the group asked. He was by far the oldest of the group. He had gravity defying grayish blue hair an eye patch covering his right eye. A talisman hung from each ear that had the kanji for 'To Hear' inscribed on each. His outfit consisted of a dark green Kimono that he wore over striped green shirt and pants.

"This is no time for joking around, we need to find where Naruto is! That bastard who does he think he is coming out here alone!?" Kiba asked as he shouted out in frustration.

"It wouldn't have been Naruto if he didn't. He was determined to end things with Madara on his own terms." Gaara replied.

"That doesn't mean it wasn't a stupid thing to do. We saw that Uchiha go up against all of the Kage!" the Iwa kunoichi retorted.

Gaara nodded his head in agreement. "Naruto is far to stubborn not to do something because others consider it stupid, Kurotsuchi. To him Madara was a goal."

The older ninja began to grow impatient from the delay in their mission. 'In my day ninja would complete their mission before arguing about something so trivial.' "We don't have time for this, you Inuzuka can you find the boys scent?"

Kiba shook his head in frustration. "With all this rain any trail will be washed away." he admitted, with Akamaru barking in agreement.

"That makes things slightly harder, didn't you say you were the best tracker in your age group?" Kurotsuchi asked skeptically.

"I am! But what do trails do you expect me to find in this rain!?" Kiba snapped in reply.

"We should have brought Kakashi instead, he would be able to find his pupil. Every village opted to send one shinobi to join the team to bring Naruto back and Konoha sends you, the one Inuzuka that can't find someone in a desolate area." Kurotsuchi scoffed.

"Enough!" Gaara ordered sternly. Kiba's caught his tongue as he gulped back his retort. "Ao can you locate Naruto and Madara with your Byakugan?"

Ao nodded once slowly a thick veins bulged out from under his eye patch. The others waited a few moments while Ao searched the area. "I found them." he said then deactivated his stolen eye. "About a mile to the north... their uh, not moving." he finished solemnly.

Gaara's eyes widened and widened and turned to suggest the head there as a group but Kiba was already gone, Akamaru bounding across the ashen, crater filled field that stood before them.

XxX-(Several moremiles away)-XxX

Karin shook her head, "I can't sense either of them. Too much chakra in the air,and I can't sense past a mile when I should be able to see past ten easily." she stated.

Kiyomi shook her head in annoyance, "Hn, then we need to look at the battlefield and see what happened when the fighting died down. Knowing the dobe, he might have actually beaten Madara, but then again he might have also died." she stated seriously.

"Alright, let's go."


And this is the wrap up of the official chapter 1 of my version of A Price for Peace please leave me a LIKE/FAVORITE/FOLLOW to show me some support and do not forget to type up a nice long COMMENT/REVIEW to show me you were here. Next update should be in a couple weeks so keep a eye open for when it appears. It won't be as long as this one, but I will be using edited versions of the original story by Freowin to write up the next upcoming chapters that'll be posted after. The only difference is I'll be posting multiple chapters as one (like combine chapters up to a point) when I update.

BUT HOLY SHIT 41K WORDS YOU BETTER BE HAPPY I TOOK MY TIME ON THIS, DO YOU UNDERSTAND HOW ANNOYING IT WAS TO GET THIS FIGHT DOWN! AND IT'S ONLY A QUARTER OF IT'S TRUE LENGTH, MAYBE EVEN HALF OR A THIRD! THERE IS SO MUCH I HAVE TO ADD AND CHANGE FOR WHEN I REVEAL THE REAL FIGHT IT'S NOT EVEN FUNNY GOOD GAWD.

Alright rant over, please go about your lives.

(1): This is a Pirate of the Caribbean Sword used by the infamous Blackbeard in the movie On Stranger Tides.

(2): Whitebeards Bisento combined with Odin's Gungnir, none of their abilities.

(3): So yes, I gave Naruto a Kekkei Tota, Sky Release. I did some digging and saw that Minato had 3 elements (Wind, Lightning, Water though it both Anime/Manga ever showed him using Hiraishin which is a Lightning based technique composed of seals oddly enough) and Kushina had 2 (Water and Wind though she only ever produced chains in both Anime/Manga) so I figured that as a child of Minato & Kushina I should give a nod to them and allow Naruto to naturally be born with a power worthy of his best friend Kurama and bestow him a Kekkei Tota that suits him, thus I present to you the Sky Release Kekkei Tota. It is composed of three primary elements; Wind, Water, Lightning much like Oonoki's Particle Style being composed of Wind Fire and Earth chakra. To be honest I couldn't make a decent comparison involving the two Kekkei Tota, but in terms of destruction Sky Release is stronger when it comes to wide spread while Particle Style is more precise. Both have cons and pros, this just happens to be one of them.

(4): I am greatly limiting Naruto's ability to call upon certain abilities. Now, while he can still use the Kekkei Genkai he has learned to use, Naruto knows that without Sage More or his higher transformations, His jutsu is practically useless against someone like Madara and anyone of equal caliber. Now, he won't simply one shot Madara with a Kekkei Genkai, he's just trying to fight smart right now. If one doesn't work, he'll try and see if another will do something.

(A/N 1): Now, this was nowhere near the full fight that I have planned out and seemingly designed for Naruto & Madara, not by a long shot. The true complete and full fight was over 650 pages at full length when I looked at it. The references, the movies/books/anime/manga I looked into for the full fight would stagger you if you knew the truth. And no, I shall not, and will not reveal all the references used in the full unedited fight written out. The crumbs you have here should sate your desire for a good long time until such time I unveil my ultimate masterpiece to you.

(A/N 2): So I am going to go ahead and simply assume that you seen a lot of sections in the fight where Naruto & Madara didn't use/call out/shout a Jutsu name when they attacked/defended one another. I wrote it this was (and used a large portion of edited fights i came up with) to show that Naruto/Madara have obtained the ability to use Ninshu (Hagoromo teachings)/Enlightenment (to a degree) and as such they are far more powerful due to this knowledge. That isn't to say they just dropped everything just to use Ninshu (they're ninja) and as such some Ninjutsu techniques tend to outshine Ninshu in some aspects.

(A/N 3): Ok, I'm sure most, if not all of you noticed how I depicted Madara's personality throughout this entire battle. Pretty sure all of you noticed, but I'm going to put it out there for you. Madara suffers from a Multiple Persoanlity Disorder. Not the kind that makes it sound like you're talking to a hundred different people at the same time, this is like a extremely bad case of Bipolar with no way to fix i. We all know that Madara practically lost his mind when his baby brother Izuna perished against Tobirama, but I wanted to show you just how bad it truly was in this fight.

As for a total word count for this version (the edited/cut down version) of the fight, this was well over 35k words, the full length fight that will be revealed in the far future will probably be double, maybe even close to triple that number in words, yeah, I know that's a lot of bullshit writing for one fight, but remember... Naruto is fighting 6 Paths Madara advancing from base human/chakra levels to sage, to Tailed Beast Mode, to Tailed Beast Transformation, to Sage Tailed Beast Transformation, to Asura Nine Tails mode, to Baryon Mode. That is why this fight is written the way it is without any of the other revelations/transformations of the fight.

Anyways that is all, later