Naruto Fanfiction
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Author's Note: Ok, a lot will be happening in this chapter and I hope you'll be able to understand it all. If you don't understand, please state so or ask me about it!
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CurlsofSerenity: Actually they didn't mean Katsuyu when they were talking about powerful Chakra. They were sensing Naruto and Gaara from afar… And I think Katsuyu is female… isn't she? -Shrugs- Ja, thanks for reviewing!
Misu no Yami: Heh, that's good, thanks!! Here's the next chapter!!
Hattuteline: Hiya, Hattuteline! Yep, I've got a few days off, so I just decided to type away with no end in sight. There will be a few surprises in this one, heh. Yeah, perhaps I should change the rating… But I don't think many people really look at the rating these days… Thanks for the review!
Alden-san: Yeah, well I kinda had the same feeling about the earlier chaps of this fic, cause there were simply too many OCs at one time. Oh well. Yep, I didn't state anywhere in the previous chapter that Sakura and Ino got knocked out, just that they got knocked away. Everyone just forgot about them as there were still far more opponents left. And nope, Hanabi isn't dead. Of course not, I kinda like Hanabi too. During the Main House Massacre she was present at the Chuunin Exam Finals and all that. She's also a Genin now and Lee is her Jounin Instructor. BTW, for a good pairings story, have you read Emilio's A Flowing Stone? But then again, it doesn't have Ino in it… Anyways, Thanks for reviewing!
DocDragon: Ack, I apologize! Heh, I kinda mistyped about that Snow Village. Haku and Yukio were both born in the WATER Village, my bad, my bad! But I do think you can imagine how Hiraga was killed, seeing he got trapped in Shikamaru's Shadow Bind… He did almost manage to take out both Asuma and Kurenai… But thanks for the review!
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Maya Amano: Yep, Yukio is strong indeed, and even stronger in this chapter! Naruto and Gaara action in this one, by the way… I hope you enjoy the chapter, thanks for reviewing!
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The emotion he went through right now was unlike any ever before. He had gone through pleasure whenever he killed his opponents. He went through concern every time his… friends… had a difficult battle ahead. He always had his pride and annoyance was also often present. Even relief was familiar to him. But this emotion he had now went beyond relief. Finally he had gotten what he had always wanted.
He grinned as he tightened his own fists and looked at them. He breathed in, letting his chest rise and closed his eyes, enjoying the moment. He already noticed the difference. No longer were there the whispers in the back of his head. No longer could he feel the difference of Chakra types within himself. His own Chakra and his one, had become one and it was all for him to control
Gaara grinned as he felt the power he now possessed. He was more powerful than Shukaku, now even more since Shukaku's Chakra was his now, on top of his own.
Gaara's grin vanished as he looked sideways at the shaking Naruto…
There Where When is Now
Chapter 20
Itachi was calmly gazing at Yukio, waiting for her to make the first move. He had noticed there were three others left, but they would be of no use to him at all. One was a blonde haired girl who wasn't used to the heavy swords she was carrying. Itachi recognised them as Kusanagi swords. 'Odd… I thought there was only. Orochimaru must be here as well, then…' Ino was too tired to be able to continue and was already sitting on the ground.
The Hokage, Tsunade, was a basic liability. With her true, old appearance showing, she's a lot weaker and slower. The other girl, a pink-haired one, was on top of Katsuyu, the Slug. Itachi frowned as he noticed Sakura was panting on top of Katsuyu. 'Stupid… She has no Chakra left… This summon was her last resort. Even then, this situation is hopeless. Katsuyu is a weak summon after all…'
Instead of facing Itachi, Yukio was firing off a Dragon Blast towards Katsuyu, who was forced to catch the attack. Yukio watched as the impact of her attack created many smaller slugs fall from where her attack hit Katsuyu. Yukio easily dodged Katsuyu's spit of poison and somersaulted past Itachi as the smaller slugs were coming at her.
Yukio shook her head as she hit the ground with her fists, causing all the smaller slugs to fall in. Itachi jumped away avoiding falling into the holes Yukio had created. Yukio immediately sent a massive fire attack within the holes the slugs had fallen into, successfully melting all of them. Yukio looked up at Katsuyu. 'Stupid slug… What I'm more worried about is that huge Chakra I feel…'
Yukio performed a long set of seals and faced the huge Katsuyu. "Ryuusetsu!!" On both her hands, razor sharp discs of purple Chakra were rotating while the purple Chakra flashed in bolts around Yukio. "Heh, these disks will easily deal with the summon…"
Yukio threw both discs at Katsuyu and turned to face Itachi. "Uchiha Itachi… Let's see how strong you are…" Behind Yukio, the Dragon Discs began circling around Katsuyu, making it impossible for the summon to move away.
Itachi activated his Sharingan but found out Yukio knew how the fight Sharingan users as she focused on everything BUT his eyes. 'Perhaps it's best if I go all out. I'm strong enough to damage the woman and it might help for Naruto and Gaara…'
Itachi closed his eyes. "Mangekyo Sharingan…" And then he started performing seals. "Kuroi Katon, Karyu Endan!!"
Yukio's eyes widened greatly as she saw the version of the Katon, Karyu Endan performed Uchiha style, meaning black fire… Even Yukio would not be able to withstand that. So she jumped and watched how the stream of black fire bored through the Hokage Tower and continued on its way.
Yukio herself threw another Dragon Blast and watched Itachi dodge, so she moved in to intercept his movements, knowing it was a Shadow Clone which was also going to explode. Yukio was hit by the explosion as she fell through the Itachi Shadow Clone. Yukio landed and showed the real Itachi, who came from under the ground, that she was unharmed. Itachi's Shadow Clone Explosion had no effect.
Itachi performed skills again and surrounded himself with black fire. "This is my absolute defence…"
Yukio grinned. "You are indeed an impressive Shinobi, Itachi…"
Yukio rushed forward towards Itachi. Not a single physical attack would work against Itachi now, yet Yukio was running at him. Itachi knew enough as his Sharingan indicated it was not really Yukio rushing at him, but a Dragon Blast which Yukio had changed into a replicate of herself. It was really annoying to see the Dragon Blast, which was still a Yukio body, following Itachi as he jumped away. From a distance, Yukio grinned and let another Dragon Blast join the Itachi-hunting…
She turned her head to see Katsuyu helpless as she was slowly falling apart from all the slices the Dragon Discs were giving her. On top Katsuyu, Sakura was panting even more, after having tried to stop the discs by one of her own attacks. But she missed her target and found herself with even less Chakra. It didn't take long before Sakura didn't have enough Chakra left to remain standing on Katsuyu's head and she fell off.
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A chuckle filled the weird atmosphere they were both in. But this chuckle was different. Gaara could not know for sure what emotion was hidden behind the chuckle that came from Naruto's mouth. Instead, Gaara just observed Naruto, watching the red Chakra around him dance. Gaara narrowed his eyes as Naruto turned to look at him. Gaara's eyes turned from narrowed to widened as he noticed the red irises of the Kyuubi and he now saw them in Naruto's eyes…
'Naruto lost?'
Gaara jumped backwards as the Naruto before him started shaking uncontrollably and Chakra poured out. Naruto started transforming… Gaara's gaze went from below to very high as Naruto grew bigger and bigger. Ultimately, Gaara turned into the Nine-tailed demon himself… The Kyuubi was loose…
'This is not good…' Gaara thought. 'Even with the power I have now… The Kyuubi is probably still stronger than me… But he fought against Naruto, so he should have a lot less Chakra than normal, so I might stand a chance. What about Naruto? Did he die?'
Gaara braced himself as the Kyuubi stared down at him.
"You must be that whelp's little friend! I sense a huge Chakra in you!" The Kyuubi paused for a moment. "A demon's Chakra…" Gaara watched as the Kyuubi turned his head away from him. "Your power is very close to mine, I admit. But the Chakra I sense over there… is higher than mine… I'll deal with you after dealing with that one…"
Gaara turned to look at where the Akatsuki Leader was probably fighting. 'Naruto… what happened?' He thought, before the Kyuubi leaped towards where the Akatsuki Leader was.
Gaara hesitated for one small moment. 'Naruto must still be alive in there…' And then he leaped behind the giant Kyuubi, the most feared demon of all times…
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Yukio laughed like a maniac as Katsuyu disappeared with a puff of smoke. Now only Itachi was left. Yukio 's laughter died down and she swallowed nervously as she noticed a huge red… fox… approaching quickly. 'The Kyuubi!!'
Itachi's eyes narrowed at the Kyuubi, who jumped over him to stand in front of Yukio. His nine tails had already demolished every building in his way and the ground was crumbled almost everywhere around him. 'I no longer can take part in this battle. Even my own attacks were insufficient against the Akatsuki Leader.'
Itachi noticed the arrival of Gaara and sensed the enormous increase of Chakra within the boy. 'So, Naruto has been killed? But Gaara has succeeded and conquered his demon.' Itachi smiled as he saw Dareda slowly wake up again. 'It shouldn't take too long before the others gain consciousness as well.'
Yukio stared viciously at the demon before her. "Kyuubi…"
"Higaryou…" The Kyuubi replied back. "So you got revived? I didn't think I'd see your face again!" Kyuubi said to the demon within Yukio.
Inside Yukio, the demon spoke against Yukio. 'Against him you'll have to transform completely! We won't be able to beat the Kyuubi without doing so!'
Gaara approached as well, beside Kyuubi. 'It is odd that the Kyuubi wishes to fight her first…' Gaara looked at the purple-haired woman, who was taller than Itachi, but smaller than Kisame. Her hair reached far below her shoulders. Her skin was light blue, with spots of dark blue. And her eyes seemed to be yellow. Gaara gathered all of his newfound Chakra, showing a whole new side of him.
'That is Shukaku's old vessel! It seems the boy has overcome the demon, it is possible the boy is even more of a threat!' Higaryou, the dragon demon inside Yukio, warned.
Yukio snorted, ignoring her demon and gathered all of her Chakra as well. 'We'll just see who're more of a threat, them or me… I'll rip them apart!'
Gaara grinned. 'Hmm, my Chakra is higher than that… It seems she's not realizing that…' Gaara thought as Yukio came rushing at him. Gaara prepared himself, even though he knew the woman would probably not get past his newfound defence.
But before Gaara could retaliate, the Kyuubi intervened and surrounded Yukio with his Chakra, sending her flying. "Foolish human! With that you won't be able to win!" The Kyuubi growled as he jumped up and released a huge fire blast at Yukio from his mouth.
Yukio despaired, seeing that the fire blast was too big for her. The fire attack hit her head-on. As the Kyuubi landed again, Gaara narrowed his eyes to see what had happened. In the fire that was still present from where Kyuubi's attack landed, a shadow could be seen. Soon enough, purple Chakra was pushing the fire away and Gaara knew what was happening, recognising what Yukio was doing.
Yukio was transforming…
Not a moment later, A huge purple/blue Dragon Demon was facing a red Fox Demon. Gaara was still watching...
Red Chakra met Purple Chakra in a huge skirmish above and in the middle of Leaf Village. From everywhere in the Fire Country, the clash of the Dragon's and the Kyuubi's Chakra could be seen. The war had ended as all Akatsuki followers either watched in awe or were defeated. Many Genins were still alive as they stared at the awesome display of Chakra. Chuunins were frozen on the spot. And Jounins were either knocked out or they had just woken up and rushing towards the scene, praying that the Kyuubi was not loose again.
Itachi stared at Sasuke and noticed that he was slowly waking up. 'It is time for me to leave…' He jumped away, with Kisame carrying Mokito and Dareda carrying Neji, following. 'Things have turned out wrong… Perhaps the Kyuubi needs to be re-sealed.'
Ino and Sakura were staring wide-eyed at the two demons. 'Wha… What's going on?!' They both thought. Sakura stared at the huge fox and the huge dragon. "I… I think those are demons!! That's a fox!"
Ino nodded, being more as much afraid as amazed. "Kyuubi? I've heard of the demon…"
Tsunade had regained most of her 'normal' state and was trying to heal Jiraiya as she stared above her, where both demons struggled for control. 'Damn it… Naruto, what happened? Did you lose to the Kyuubi?' She stared at Jiraiya. "Wake up! You're the only one who can do the Fourth's Jutsu!"
Kakashi was leaning over Sasuke and had Asuma slung over his shoulder. 'Good, Sasuke is also still alive.' Kakashi had his Sharingan revealed and watched the demon battle above him. 'The Kyuubi… and that Dragon Demon… must be Higaryou… Two demons… this will mean the end of the Village if it continues like this… Naruto, what happened?'
Kurenai was also conscious again; she had woken up because of the enormous Chakra that she sensed. 'What is going on?' As she opened her eyes more clearly, she wished he had not woken up at all. The horrible face of the Fox Demon and the horrible face of a Dragon Demon were within her sight. Shaking her head to get back to her senses again, she looked all around her and noticed many dead people. She then stared straight at Kiba and Akamaru, both still unconscious.
Itachi was far away already when Dareda, Mokito, Neji and Kisame landed next to him on one of the roofs. Since most buildings were blown away around the battle field, they were quite far away from the battle. Itachi was mostly ok, but the others were truly exhausted.
Neji looked sadly at the Kyuubi. 'Naruto… How could this happen?'
Dareda put his hand on Neji's shoulder. "It's too bad we can't see through the Kyuubi and spot Naruto within him with our Byakugan, huh? It's too confusing at this point, but I didn't think anyone could beat Naruto… But then again, Kyuubi is the strongest demon there is…"
Kisame sighed. "Gaara succeeded, right? It's all up to him, now."
Back to the battlefield, Gai walked next to Kakashi with Lee over his shoulder and gazed upwards towards Kyuubi and Higaryou. "Naruto-kun… So the seal has been broken, Kakashi?"
Kakashi tilted his shoulders and his sad look danced over the scenery above him. "Yes, I think it has, Gai… I never knew the Jutsu of my sensei… But it's not sure if it will work this time… Perhaps the Kyuubi has already found a way to defend against it…"
Shikamaru was lying on his back, not bothering to move as he could see everything well enough this way as well. Besides, it would be bothersome to try and stand up again. And there was this thing about demons above him fighting an earth shattering battle. 'Demons… how troublesome… But this is too unreal… Their Chakra is just too much…'
Kiba and Akamaru were awoken by Kurenai and dragged away by her as well as they were too tired to move. Kiba was shocked as Akamaru was telling him about the Chakra amount that the demons and Gaara now held within them.
On a roof, Orochimaru was also eying the scene before him. 'Kyuubi!! So that little brat has fully lost control now?' Orochimaru looked at the demons for a short moment, before he left Leaf Village in a hurry.
Beside Kakashi, Sasuke was staring at the battle without his Sharingan activated. He was still low on Chakra, after all. 'That must be the Fox Demon, Kyuubi…' Sasuke's gaze descended a bit and landed on Gaara. 'Gaara is back again? Where's Naruto, then?' Sasuke thought as he looked around.
Gaara narrowed his eyes as he noticed the rate of Chakra reduce was bigger in Kyuubi and wasn't surprised to see Kyuubi slowly lose the power struggle. 'The Kyuubi is tired from the battle against Naruto… But that Dragon has far more Chakra than him… and even me… I didn't think there was anything as powerful as Shukaku's Chakra and my own Chakra in one…'
Gaara noticed three of Kyuubi's tails approaching and stepped one step backwards to see all three of them swing by. 'Kyuubi's power is also decreasing…'
Gaara performed a few hand seals and stopped Higaryou tackle. The Kyuubi took that moment jump on the dragon and started slicing him and even biting at him.
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Inside Kyuubi, Naruto woke up. He groaned as he shook his head and rubbed his head, feeling the dull ache… 'Ughh… I lost to him… But he didn't kill me…'
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"Now you'll live as I have lived for 19 years!!" The Kyuubi chuckled. "I'll finish you off later, whelp! Right now, I sense the Dragon Demon in the outside world and I am ashamed to admit, that that demon is possibly stronger than me…"
The Kyuubi used his Chakra to pick the paper with 'seal' on it and used to lock the gates that held Naruto now…
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Naruto sighed as he tried to wake up more fully. The Kyuubi had knocked him out quite good. He took a look at the seal that stopped him from escaping from the cage and chuckled.
The little paper suddenly changed into a Naruto Shadow Clone with some smoke. 'I'm surprised the Kyuubi didn't notice…'
When Naruto had created the thousand Shadow Clones, he let one of them destroy the seal and let the Shadow Clone transform in the paper seal himself, thus fooling even a demon.
Naruto chuckled as he walked out of the gates…
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Gaara frowned as Kyuubi was easily blown backwards by the Dragon's arms. 'I am Gaara, but I am also Shukaku now… I am everything that Shukaku once was…' Gaara quickly performed seals again. "Hangetsuzan!!"
Higaryou watched as the little red-haired man changed both his arms into huge claws. The Dragon jumped backwards to avoid the two claws coming from Gaara and flew a bit in the sky.
Gaara's eyes widened as he watched Chakra being formed inside the Dragon's mouth. And then, the Dragon released an enormous amount of destructive Chakra towards Gaara. Gaara immediately put all of his defences in front of him, including the ultimate defence he now has thanks to Shukaku.
But Gaara never felt the impact as the Kyuubi managed to jump onto the Dragon and began to use Chakra as a weapon, burning the Dragon's skin bit by bit.
The moment of dragon skin burning was short-lived however, as the Dragon grabbed the Kyuubi with both his arms and opened his mouth right in front of Kyuubi's face.
And then the strangest thing happened…
Gaara watched as Kyuubi grew smaller, a lot smaller…
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The Kyuubi was panting as he stood inside of himself, facing Naruto, who managed to get out of the Gates… which forced the Kyuubi to enter himself and deal with the 'intruder.'
"Whelp!! How dare you interrupt the battle like this!! And how did you get out of the Gates!?"
Naruto chuckled. "Ne, Kyuubi! You're out of Chakra from fighting me and that Akatsuki Leader… You won't defeat me again!"
The Kyuubi chuckled. "Fool! Don't underestimate a demon!!"
"And don't underestimate me either!! The last Rasengan Funka I gave you wounded you… it wounded you bad… if I did another you would surely lose…"
"That could be true… but you had no Chakra left anymore, which proved that you were not strong enough to beat me!" The Kyuubi snarled back.
"Heh, well, I could have performed another Rasengan Funka if I wanted, but that would mean both our deaths… And now that I have regained a bit of my Chakra and you lost a lot more against that Akatsuki Leader… you're history for sure!!"
The Kyuubi's eyes widened as Naruto prepared his ultimate attack again.
"Rasengan Funka!!"
"Whelp, no!!"
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A lot of gasps came from the watching Shinobis as they recognised the boy the Kyuubi turned into… Sasuke's, Sakura's, Ino's, Shikamaru's and Kiba's eyes were widened as they saw Naruto.
Tsunade and Gaara both grinned for the same reason. Naruto had won after all… Kakashi was relieved as well to see his ex-student held his demon back, perhaps even defeated it.
Far away, Neji, Dareda, Itachi, Kisame and Mokito all startled as they felt the Chakra increase. Neji and Dareda both activated their Byakugan and they smiled immediately. "Naruto has succeeded." Neji stated. "Now all we can do is hope."
Back to the battlefield, Higaryou looked down upon the human the Kyuubi had turned into and planned on stepping on it. As he did so, he was surprised to find him being blown back by a whole new Chakra coming from the boy's body.
Higaryou hissed as instead of falling on the ground, he flew. 'That boy managed to blow me away with his Chakra alone?!'
Naruto rose to his feet and wasn't surprised to see Gaara step up next to him. "It took you long enough… Naruto…"
Naruto scratched the back of his head in embarrassment. "Heh, yea, sorry I took so long… Still have to get a bit used to all this, man…"
Gaara was looking forward, at the Dragon that was flying before them, as his wings flapped about, the winds they created were enough to blow a Jounin away. Naruto and Gaara looked around to see if there was no one else around. "There's no time for that, Naruto."
Naruto nodded as he stared at the humongous Dragon. "Let's start this, Gaara!!"
Higaryou watched astounded as both men gathered Chakra… "How can this be?! They have an enormous amount of Chakra, both of them!! They possess the Kyuubi's and the Shukaku's Chakra… but not only that… they have even more!! Too think that could happen… I guess you leave me no choice…"
Higaryou also turned smaller all of a sudden and Naruto and Gaara found themselves staring at a purple-haired woman. Yukio was back and this time, she had all of Higaryou's Chakra and her own… "Interesting tactics you come up with… But I can do the same…" She whispered dangerously as purple Chakra was whirling around her.
Naruto and Gaara smiled as they found their true challenge in Yukio… She gathered all of her own Chakra and that of Higaryou… Three very strong Shinobis were about to face off… and all three were smirking… perhaps even in madness…
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Iruka was jumping from roof to roof with Ten-Ten, who he had picked up on the way. They were going to check and see how the other Leaf Shinobis were doing. On their way, they encountered Kankurou, Temari and Baki, who seemed to have been helping the Chuunins and Genins out. It was a gloom sight, really, as many Chuunins and Genins were also found dead. Amongst the shambles of the buildings a lot of dead bodies, even some Jounins, were found.
Iruka had been saddened as he saw the Kyuubi appear. Which probably meant it had broken loose and Naruto was most likely dead…
"So, what's the situation back there?" Baki asked Iruka as the five of them were standing on a roof.
"When we left, there were two demons fighting each other… two real demons… The Kyuubi and a Dragon Demon." Iruka answered.
Baki's eyes widened. "The Kyuubi?! But I though the demon was defeated about… twenty years ago?"
"Nineteen to be exact. But no, the Kyuubi was not defeated. It was sealed within a boy nineteen years ago and now the demon is free again. The situation is hopeless, because it's pretty sure that after one demon will be defeated, the other demon will begin attacking everything else around him…"
Baki swallowed nervously. "Gaara is here as well, he might make a difference…" Temari and Kankurou were both nervous as well as they stared at the medic nins running around healing those who still could be saved.
Iruka nodded his head. "He's the Sand Shinobi with the red hair, huh?" After receiving a nod from Baki, Iruka continued. "Yeah, he's also participating in the battle up ahead."
"Ten-Ten-sensei!!"
Ten-Ten released a sigh of relief as she watched her Genin students approach her.
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TBC
Author's Note: Heh, Naruto won against Kyuubi after all!! Now it's a full battle fest of reasonably full-powered Naruto and a reasonably full-powered Gaara(considering they fought against their own demons) versus a full-powered Yukio/Higaryou…
Next Chapter: Explanation to the ones who didn't know about Naruto being the vessel of the Nine-tailed Demon…
Oh, and about Yukio, this is her last transformation; this is her giving her all from now on…