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Chapter 20 – Judgement Day
A solitary figure crotched in a tree a quarter of a mile outside of the Leaf Village, and watched calmly from behind his masking jutsu as a significant amount of ANBU, jounin and chuunin left the village making their way north.
"Perfect," he whispered. He jumped down onto the main road and calmly started walking towards Konoha.
Halfway to the gate he was stopped by two ANBU guards, "who goes there?" one of them yelled out. Both kept their distance from the blond-haired man who wore pants with a shuriken holder on each leg, a jacket with very loose sleeves, a facemask, and a half-cape half-robe that hung down to the man's knees, and a katana strapped to his back; all of his apparel was absolutely black. The man kept his head down so that the guards could not see his face. Another thing the guards didn't notice was the symbol of Sound, in red on the back of the cape.
In response to the question the man lifted up his head and smirked when the guards flinched at his red demon eyes, "y-y-you…" stuttered out the older ANBU, "the d-d-d-demon…" both quickly went into a fighting stance.
Naruto just smirked and pulled up his left sleeve, revealing the tattoo. The ANBU paused unsure what to make of this, and decided to just wait and see what happened; making their deadliest mistake.
Naruto bit his thumb and swiped the blood all the way along his forearm. A dozen hand seals later, he yelled "Youma Kuchiyose no Jutsu," and slammed his left hand on the ground.
The ground underneath Naruto and the ANBU was scorched black and in a cloud of black smoke a giant fox with eight tails appeared; one of its paws instantly killing both ANBU.
"Naruto-sama," said the fox, "you are in need to my help?"
"Yes, Hachbi," replied Naruto. "We are going to finish what your brother started."
The fox grinned a malicious smile and waved two of its tails in a special way. The ground under the main gate welled up and exploded taking out the entire gate and a portion of wall around it. Hachbi isolated every single chakra signature in the vicinity and focused his eyes on the strongest, which was in the Hokage Tower.
"Hachbi, I'm going to hide myself in your fur for a little while," said Naruto. "I need you to lead them away from the village, even if you have to pretend to be losing."
Hachbi grumbled, but agreed never the less and started to slowly make his way through the village destroying everything even slightly in his way.
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"Hokage-sama, what the hell are we going to against another demon fox?" asked several dozen shinobi that had accumulated in the Hokage's office.
Tsunade silently walked to the scroll room and brought back the Forbidden Scroll, "We are going to face it head on," she said gravely. "Go, gather all the ANBU, jounin and chuunin and hold off the fox until I get there!" she ordered.
Everyone left to fulfill the order except one, "Tsunade-sama, are you really going to use the same jutsu as Yondaime?" asked Shizune in a saddened voice.
"Maybe I won't have to, but I better learn it anyway," replied Tsunade as she searched for the jutsu within the scroll. 'This is probably the only way,' she thought sadly. 'Even if history has to repeat itself…'
Many explosion and screams were heard as the demon fox was slowly being pushed out of the village. Tsunade had taken about an hour to learn the jutsu and another half hour to write her will; Shizune had stayed with her the entire time.
"Shizune, it's time to go," Tsunade said slowly. Shizune nodded gravely and left to get all her battle gear. As soon as she left Tsunade fell into her seat, "God, please don't let this turn out like it did 26 years ago," the Godaime Hokage prayed.
Meanwhile on the outskirts of the village, Hachbi was slowly letting the Leaf shinobi push him back, just as Naruto had requested. He suddenly felt that powerful chakra from before approaching him, 'finally some one stronger than these bugs,' he thought.
Naruto smirked as he also felt Tsunade approaching, 'finally, time to get the show on the road.'
As soon as Tsunade arrived on the battlefield, she summoned her slug, Katsuyu.
"A demon fox?" asked Katsuyu.
"We have to fight him, and if worst comes to worst we'll seal him," answered Tsunade.
"Trying to be like the Yondaime?" asked Katsuyu jokingly.
"Hopefully not," replied Tsunade, thinking of how Naruto turned out.
"A slug?" scoffed Hachbi. "You're sending a slug after me?" he chuckled slightly.
Tsunade scowled and Katsuyu became slightly irritated at being underestimated, "Zesshi Nensan," she said (Sticky Mouth Acid). A stream of acid shot out of Katsuyu's mouth right at the fox.
Hachbi quickly sidestepped it and clawed at the slug, which dodged his attack by moving to the side. During this time, Katsuyu made a smaller replication of itself, which Tsunade threw onto the fox's side.
Out of the corner of his eye, Hachbi saw what the slug and its summoner had done and channeled chakra into the fur on its side.
"Kitsune Spiked Fur," calmly said the demon fox. The fur on the fox's side stood up in completely rigid and razor-sharp spikes. The thrown replication landed right in the spikes and died instantly.
"Shit!" cursed Tsunade.
The slug pulled its head back once more and shot out some more fluid, "Slime Covering." This time instead of the fluid being directed at the demon fox, it was shot right below him and spread out along the majority of the forest.
Hachbi leapt back a significant distance and watched cautiously as the slime spread out. 'From the looks of it, this substance must make the ground incredibly slippery,' he observed how the slug had no problem moving along its surface, 'but this is probably a natural thing for slugs, hence it has no problem with it.'
The demon fox's tails swung around violently and the ground shook, causing Katsuyu and the Konoha army to slow their approach. Suddenly a mist appeared and covered up the fox enough so that Tsunade and Katsuyu could not very well anticipate his next move.
"Damn it, I forgot that demon foxes have an affinity for Doton and Suiton," grumbled Tsunade.
Katsuyu, however, did not want to give the demon fox any kind of opportunity and rushed toward him. Once she was within the range of the fog, she was roughly flung to the side by a few of his tails.
Noticing that the demon fox had its back to them, the jounin decided that it was the opportune moment to blast it with fireballs. This however completely exposed their position to the demon fox and Naruto. So while Hachbi masterfully dodged the fireballs, Naruto carefully prepared a jutsu; by the time he was done Katsuyu had joined the ranks of jounin and chuunin that were hurling projectiles at the demon fox.
"Kinjutsu-Katon: Lake of Fire," rang out for everyone to hear. With only a slight delay, the ground beneath Katsuyu and several hundred meters around her was set aflame.
Dozens of shinobi perished in the initial flames, others jumped up on trees and were incinerated once the flames rose up to their proportional height (A/N: proportional to the radius of the lake), but many managed to escape from the flames and run to safety.
Katsuyu was having it a lot harder, since she was in the center of the fire. At first she tried to make her way out of the flames, but found that that would take too long. So instead she covered herself entirely in nonflammable slime. The only problem was that she had to constantly replace the layers, because the intense heat was melting them off.
After about two minutes the flames ceased, leaving behind scorched earth in the radius of the lake and small fires, still burning, on the outskirts.
Tsunade looked around to assess the damage and didn't like what she saw, 'Damn it! That killed several dozen shinobi and wasted half of Katsuyu's chakra,' she frowned, 'there is no way we can take another hit like that.' Suddenly she realized that the voice that had spoken the jutsu wasn't the same as that of the demon fox.
She looked up at the demon fox and found a person standing on top of its head. The blond-haired and black-clothed man stood out against the deep red of the fox.
"That couldn't be…" she mumbled.
"What, does the old hag not recognize me in her old age?" asked Naruto.
Tsunade scowled, "Naruto," she spat out, "you've released another demon fox onto the world."
"You don't have to make it sound so negative, you know," he replied calmly.
"So you plan to defeat us all with this demon?" she asked bitterly.
Naruto responded with laughter, "Just because you're on home territory doesn't mean you shouldn't be aware of your surroundings."
"I am quite aware that we managed to push you and this demon far from Konoha," replied Tsunade with confidence. "And we can continue pushing you away." As Tsunade said this, Katsuyu rushed at Hachbi.
Hachbi stood completely still, and right before Katsuyu made contact with him a giant pillar of flame shot out in between them and went upwards sky-high. Both parties appeared unscratched by the attack.
"You missed," taunted Tsunade. "Only wasting chakra again, just like when you were a little kid."
Naruto chuckled darkly, "I told you to be aware of your surroundings, but I guess that at that point it already didn't matter."
It suddenly clicked in Shikamaru's head, as he went completely pale, "the village," he softly mumbled.
"What was that, Shikamaru?" asked Sasuke, who was still wondering what the dobe meant by surroundings.
"Our surroundings…" Shikamaru trailed off.
"The dobe is just being stupid again, we managed to push the demon fox far from the village," said Sasuke arrogantly.
Shikamaru suddenly grabbed Sasuke by the collar and pulled his face close, "that's just it! Don't you get it? He wanted us to push him away," explained Shikamaru. "That last attack, wasn't actually an attack." He released Sasuke and teleported next to Tsunade.
"Hokage-sama, we must retreat back to the village!" yelled Shikamaru.
"What non-sense are you blabbering the demon is right in front of us," she said coldly.
"The pillar of flame wasn't an attack, it was a beacon," said Shikamaru desperately.
Tsunade whipped her head around to the sound of a distant explosion coming from Konoha.
"Not surprising that the genius Shikamaru has figured it out," Naruto nodded slowly in appreciation of Shikamaru's abilities.
"You planned to drive most of the shinobi out of the village by making yourself and the demon fox seem like the biggest threat," reasoned Shikamaru. Naruto motioned him to continue. "And now that we are all here, you have signaled your army to attack the village," concluded Shikamaru.
"Quite so," said Naruto. "Though I expected you to see through it. I mean, in a war, why would I simply attack you with just one summoning?"
"But the counter-argument is that the Kage of a village wouldn't want to put himself in such a vulnerable position unless it was absolutely necessary, in which case it would mean that the rest of your troops are out on the borders of the Fire Country," reasoned Shikamaru.
"But things aren't quite so, now are they?" asked Naruto slyly.
Tsunade turned to face her army, "everyone pull back and protect the village!" she ordered.
A shadow then passed over her and a few seconds later the ground rumbled to her side; the demon fox had leapt over Konoha's army and was now blocking their way back to the village.
"Did you really think I would let you go?" Naruto smirked darkly.
'Shit!' Tsunade scowled and mentally cursed.
"Hachbi, I'm going to need you to occupy these people while I prepare a jutsu," said Naruto.
Hachbi nodded in understanding as he saw Naruto close his eyes in concentration and hold his hands in the beginning hand seal. Hachbi jumped at Tsunade and Katsuyu, just as Naruto started off his long sequence of seals.
Hachbi poured chakra into his paws, increasing his speed, and attacked Katsuyu from all sides in several seconds. Dodging was out of the question for the slug, as it was definitely not on par with the Hachbi in speed, so it was forced to take all the slashings to its sides.
Katsuyu managed to heal herself, but found she was running very low on chakra. When Hachbi eased off his attacks, Katsuyu tried to use the time given to slow the fox down by spraying the Zesshi Nensan at it, but Hachbi dodged and diverted his attention to attacking other shinobi.
Just as Hachbi landed from dodging Katsuyu's Zesshi Nensan, Naruto clapped his hands together and the sky above them darkened. Thick black clouds stretched outwards from right above Naruto, and spread in a spiral motion covering Katsuyu and Hachbi.
'Not too bad on the timing, if I had waited I would have been rooted to the ground with the sticky stuff,' thought Hachbi. 'Now I just have to keep them away from Naruto without moving.'
A tendril of chakra went around Naruto while his hands were together and disappeared as he started doing more hand seals. 'I hope Hachbi can keep everyone away from me, this jutsu requires too much concentration and precision,' mused Naruto as he was picking his way through the necessary seals.
Sasuke had his sharingan activated and was looking at Naruto, "he's releasing an incredible amount of chakra," he said. "Enough for half a dozen Karyuu Endans." 'To spend this much on one jutsu, what kind of monstrosity is he planning?'
Tsunade has realized quickly enough that Naruto had to be interrupted before he was able to complete the jutsu, but despite her best efforts, Hachbi's defenses were not to be conquered. Between his tails and the constant shielding jutsus that he put around his head or just Naruto, neither she nor her troops were able to even scratch Naruto.
'The kid better be getting done with his preparations, I can't hold these chakra-burning defenses for much longer.'
Naruto had suddenly stopped making seals and held the last one for a little while before switching to the Ram-seal and holding it such that his middle and index fingers were touching the tip of his nose; his eyes still closed in concentration.
Naruto snapped open his eyes and locked them on Katsuyu, "Kinjutsu-Raiton: Lightning Storm no Jutsu!" he yelled.
A large bolt of lightning came out of the center of the storm clouds above them and hit Katsuyu dead on the head. As soon as that first bolt of lightning had come down, Hachbi jumped back, so as to clear the radius of the black clouds. In mid-air he watched as dozens of lightning bolts, thought each consecutively smaller than each previous one, rained down onto everything within the blast area.
The first lightning bolt that had hit Katsuyu split outwards from the slug to hit a dozen surrounding living targets; frying and killing them instantly. The same was true if the smaller bolts hit any animate objects on their way down.
The smarter shinobi had jumped down to ground level hoping not to be hit by lightning and had, for the most part, been successful in avoiding death. Katsuyu had disappeared from chakra exhaustion and being dealt a fatal blow. Tsunade managed to jump down and raise a Doton Keikkai to absorb the lighting. Many experienced shinobi used Doton: Shinjuu Zanshu to hide underground and wait out the attack; among them was Sasuke. Shikamaru was not fast enough in getting off of Katsuyu and was the first to have the lightning jump to and incinerate.
When it was all over the black storm clouds swirled inwards and disappeared. The stench of burned flesh and clothing hung in the air. The survivors were mostly digging themselves out of the ground; only several had gotten lucky enough and managed to not get hit while sitting in the trees. Those were ones that were the most disturbed by what had happened. Not surprising really, watching their friends and comrades get hit while they were being left alive by simple luck, is unnerving for anyone.
The Konoha army had been decimated; those who were left were all surrounding blond-haired Otokage. Hachbi had left, since he was unfortunate enough to be hit with a lighting bolt and not have enough chakra to safeguard himself from very much of the damage. The bolt had of course split and hit Naruto as well, completely destroying his cape and leaving his jacket all tattered.
Naruto looked around at all the shinobi that were left and noted that he only recognized Kakashi, Gai, Sasuke and of course Tsunade. The Hokage, however, was well worn from the battle with Hachbi, trying to penetrate his defenses. Kakashi and Sasuke had used about half of their chakra on ninjutsus, so that left Gai as the most dangerous opponent. The others, while Naruto was sure that they could pull their weight, did not seem to concern him.
"Shall we?" asked Naruto, and disappeared jumping back and sticking a claw straight through an unprepared shinobi's throat. Within a split second, he felt a presence on both is left and right.
Jumping up and twisting his body he said, "Konoha Gouriki Senpuu." Adding a bit of chakra to his counter-attack he was able to break the neck of the first attacker and blast back the second attacker.
Gai's eyes narrowed, "How do you know that move?" he asked, bitter that his opponent knew techniques from his style.
"Itachi was a good teacher," Naruto smirked at the angry scowl on Sasuke's face. 'I'll throw him off balance with emotions and that'll be one less jounin to deal with.' While Naruto was talking he sensed a team of Sound jounin closing in on his position, 'How nice to know that people worry about you,' he smiled internally.
Just when Kakashi and Gai were going to attack together, Naruto's reinforcements showed up temporarily halting their attack. Naruto recognized his reinforcements to be one of the Sound's advanced ANBU squads and nodded in acknowledgement and gratitude of presence.
Before the invasion all Sound shinobi were briefed on the different bloodlines of Konoha, the doujutsu bloodlines especially. So the ANBU team that had arrived to help Naruto knew that they would not be able to handle the two sharingan users and it was understood that Naruto would be the one to take them on. Thus making the reinforcements' job relatively simple: to keep all the other enemies away from Naruto until he managed to disable and/or kill Kakashi and Sasuke.
Once again Naruto made the first move by attacking Kakashi. The silver-haired jounin was able to predict Naruto's attack completely with his sharingan eye and so blocked it and was about to do a counter-attack when he suddenly felt a presence behind him. He realized that Naruto had used the Kage Bushin and was now attacking him from the back. 'How come I wasn't able to see when he used the Kage Bushin?' wondered Kakashi as he jumped out of the way of the attack.
The two Naruto's were standing in a battle stance facing Kakashi when suddenly one of them looked down and saw a hand grab his ankle and pull him underground. Kakashi instantly figured that if Naruto was allowing himself to be pulled underground then it must be a clone, so he instead attacked the other Naruto.
Kakashi reached Naruto at the same time that Naruto's clone had been pulled down to his neck, but even in that second and a half Naruto had not made any attempt to dodge or prepare a block and by the time Kakashi realized what was going on it was too late; both Naruto's exploded. Kakashi was thrown back quite harshly and into a far tree, while Sasuke was blown out of the ground and shot into mid-air.
It was in mid-air, that Sasuke saw chakra strings wrap themselves around him and tighten before he could respond. Sasuke was then roughly pulled down and thrown into a tree. On impact with the tree, the chakra strings seemed to merge with the tree and turn hard as rock. Needless to say they practically bound Sasuke to the tree.
With Sasuke disabled and being watched over by his clone, for the time being, Naruto now had a bit of time to fight with his genin sensei one-on-one. Not being one to underestimate the copy-ninja, Naruto didn't even give Kakashi enough time to straighten out before he delivered a savage kick to Kakashi's stomach, sending him back into the same tree. Kakashi coughed a bit as he angrily looked up at Naruto.
"Kakashi, you're slipping," said Naruto in a disappointed tone. "I was expecting a Kawarimi or a Kage Bushin."
"KibakuKage Bushin, eh?" asked Kakashi.
"It makes clones a bit more useful, especially against high-level opponents," reasoned Naruto as he made vines break out of the tree behind Kakashi and disable the copy-ninja. "A normal clone after it's hit just goes poof, but these explode and punish the opponent for destroying the clone at close range." Kakashi fought against the restraints, but found them to be chakra infused and he certainly did not have enough strength or chakra to get out of them.
Naruto turned around to see that one of his shinobi had been killed and the others were getting overpowered my Gai and Tsunade. 'Tsunade is being a pain, but I kind of want to talk to her… so I guess Gai will have to die,' thought Naruto as he unsheathed his katana.
Naruto used the opportunity, when Gai was attacking one of the Sound shinobi, to attack Gai from behind. Gai had not expected this, since he had kept track of the other two Sound shinobi and knew that they were fighting Tsunade.
'Who would that be, a clone?' wondered Gai as he blocked the kick to his head, only to catch the small glimmer of a katana. 'Oh no! I forgot about Naruto.'
Naruto had attacked Gai from the top and performed a downward kick, so that when he blocked his mid-section would be completely open. Naruto used this opening and slashed at Gai with his sword. He had opted for a deep cut expecting Gai to be wearing armor or weights, and was surprised when the katana easily slid through the Leaf shinobi's mid-section, spraying out blood all over the place.
Tsunade had just blasted away one of the Sound ANBU with a punch right to the jaw, when she heard Gai's scream. She looked in the aforementioned direction to see Naruto do a flip and land, with his katana unsheathed and blood dripping off the blade, with his back to Gai, whose stomach was spewing out blood like a geyser.
Naruto was about to perform another vine-entrapment jutsu, when suddenly he felt a little lightheaded, "Damn it! Those vines are chakra taxing," cursed Naruto under his breath.
"Sir, I trained under Miya-sama, I could do a vine jutsu to the Hokage," suggested the Sound ANBU by Naruto's side. "However, I don't know any that wouldn't inflict harm on the prisoner."
"That is quite alright, I don't care if you have to poison her," said Naruto, and then recalculated their position. "In fact, I leave you two to finish her off. She's low on chakra and as long as you don't get into close range you'll be fine. You're the team's long-range fighter anyway, right?" the ANBU nodded. "Good, so take care of her and I'm gonna have a talk with these two."
Naruto walked over to Sasuke, "well, you're up first," he said.
"What do you have to say to me, filthy traitor?" spat out Sasuke.
"Now, now Sasuke, don't want to be insulting yourself there," countered Naruto.
"I made up for my crimes against the village," responded the Uchiha.
"No, that pathetic village simply forgave their precious Uchiha. They had no idea, nor did they ever want to find out the truth about how great your brother was and what kind of noble service he did for them. No… those damned idiots always took things at face value, never bothering to dig below the surface," yelled Naruto. "And you're just like the rest of them, even if it's an issue that is so close to heart."
"What the hell would you know about that bastard?"
"And what about you Sasuke? You didn't even bother getting to know your brother. It was always about power and recognition for you. You know what, I'll tell you the truth about why Itachi killed your clan and afterwards you can truly judge if your brother was a good and bad person."
"Humph," was the sound heard out of Sasuke.
"You know that the Uchiha Clan isn't considered a noble clan, right?" Sasuke nodded. "You also know that the Uchiha were the police force for Konoha, right?" Sasuke nodded again.
"So, what does this have to do with anything?" he yelled.
"Shut up and listen!" Naruto punched the Uchiha in the face.
"Well at about the same time that Itachi was born the elders proposed a plan, which would give them enough leverage to force Konoha to give them the nobility title."
"What the hell do you mean by, force?" asked Sasuke.
"Their plan was to build strong connections with the village council and the majority of the village people, that were mostly based on money and dark favors, that would then allow them to ask for that large favor of being made into nobility," Sasuke raised his eyebrows in amazement and disbelief.
"By using their law enforcement powers and their honorable reputations, the Uchiha clan set out to corrupt Konoha's powerful and make them help the Uchiha in achieving their desires. Anyone that disagreed with what the Uchiha wanted were arrested and charged with crimes they didn't commit. To make sure that the village council did not find out what they were doing, the Uchiha did secret missions for the council; payment being favors that the council members would owe them. Thus it continued while Itachi was growing up."
"Surely you remember the night before it all happened, when Itachi was accused of killing his best friend, Shisui," Sasuke nodded dumbly not knowing what to expect next.
"Well, with the exception of the elders, your father and Shisui, were the ones who wanted this change the most and were willing to go to great lengths to accomplish it. Itachi did not want for this kind of change to occur, he knew what this title caused to happen within the Hyuga and he also knew about the Namouza Clan that had wiped themselves out after breaking apart. Itachi wanted the clan to continue living in honor as it had done till then, but knew that he would not be listened to; he knew that he had to find another way to make them change their minds.
However, any ideas he may have had were flushed down the drain when he found out, the council would give the Uchiha anything they wanted as soon as they did one last mission for them. The assignment was to rid Konoha of a certain demon," Sasuke's eyes widened at this. "Yes Sasuke, the village council hated me, but lets not stray from the story too much.
You may not realize or believe, but Itachi was a very loyal and honorable shinobi. He respected the Yondaime and what he had to sacrifice in order to save the village. So the night of the Kyuubi container's assassination Itachi intercepted the Uchiha assassin and fought him to the death. Thus killing his best friend, Shisui.
That night, the Uchiha had specifically arranged a secret meeting, to prove to anyone in doubt that Uchiha Itachi was a traitor to their cause. Only two people were missing from that meeting, Itachi and Shisui, and the latter was supposed to be missing. They knew that Shisui would not commit suicide on the night of such an important mission and they also knew that Itachi wouldn't just miss a clan meeting, so they automatically knew how Shisui died." Naruto paused to look at Sasuke and judge his reaction.
"Well, then what about the whole thing of measuring his strength?" asked Sasuke.
"It was a way to test his honor and loyalty to the village. You know he left you with the burden of reconstructing the clan. He also took on the image of the corrupted Uchiha and wanted you to hate him because of it, so that the rebuilt clan would never do that kind of thing. He even directed you to the room that had all the information about the whole operation."
"I was there, there was nothing there except a scroll about the Mangekyou," said Sasuke angrily.
"You idiot, of course they wouldn't have the documents lying around in plain view," yelled Naruto. "They were concealed by genjutsu, or did you not bother going there after you acquired the sharingan?" Sasuke narrowed his eyes in anger and shook his head.
"That's an elaborate story you got there," said the Uchiha heir coldly.
"Itachi wanted to tell you after you had gotten stronger, but you seemed too hell-bent on revenge."
"I needed power for revenge," yelled Sasuke.
"Haven't you ever heard that true strength comes from protecting your precious people?"
"So what?"
"So, that you're brother wanted you to have precious people to protect," Naruto said in exasperation.
"Then why leave me all alone?"
"He thought it would be better for you. He thought that with him around you would become too dependent."
Sasuke smirked darkly, "I'd like to believe you, but it's a little too late for that," he said as he broke free of the vines and rushed at a crouching Naruto with his Chidori blazing.
Naruto just shook his head; he had loosened the vines around Sasuke while he was telling him the truth.
"Plus what's wrong with the Uchiha clan becoming nobility?" asked Sasuke. "I deserve it, after all the shit I've been through."
"I thought you might say something like that," mumbled Naruto and easily sidestepped Sasuke's Chidori to appear behind him with a fully charged Rasengan. "Game over, Sasuke." Naruto plunged his attack straight into Sasuke's back, killing him as soon as his spine was ripped apart.
"And so the mighty Uchiha clan falls; the sharingan never to be seen again."
Naruto walked over to Kakashi, "You could have confirmed the story for him, you know," he told the silver-haired ninja that was still trying hard to break his restraints.
"I didn't know the truth," responded Kakashi.
"Sure you did, Obito was Shisui's brother. Surely you must have kept in touch, at least enough to learn how to use the sharingan."
"I suspected something wrong, but that's all. I could neither confirm nor contradict your story," Kakashi answered simply.
"You know, I could let you go," offered Naruto. "You'll just have to promise not to mess with the Sound."
"Go to hell!" spat out Kakashi. "I would die for my village, unlike some."
"I would die for my village too, but I'm not a Leaf supporter, so I'm terribly sorry if I choose not to die for them," Naruto ended sarcastically.
Realizing that Kakashi would not take his offer and would be a bother if left alive, Naruto sighed and held his katana over Kakashi's heart. "For old times sake," he quickly pushed the katana forward, instantly killed the copy-ninja.
Naruto turned around to see a very worn out Tsunade, whose genjutsu was even slipping, being overpowered by his soldiers. He sighed, wondering why it all had to end in death.
"Finish her off and scout out the area for anyone living," ordered Naruto as he jumped off in the direction of Konoha. 'A slow pace will do me just fine. After all I did use up a good eighty percent of my chakra and stamina.'
"I wonder how things are going with Miya's attack?" he wondered out loud with a slight hint of worry. 'Even if I did manage to split the forces in half, there weren't very many Hyuga on my battle field.'
Believe it or not, I didn't want to kill Shikamaru, I like him... he's a sloth, much like me... but it's a war and he's just not needed in the story anymore... and u can think of it as him finally being reunited w/ Ino... (aren't I nice? ... No... I'm horribly evil, that seems to be the general concensus.)
And before you start asking me anything about the Namouza Clan: I just made up a name ok.
Next chapter, iono when its gonna come out... I hope to have it out soon though. I feel like I owe you sumthin in the next chapter... oh yea, Yondaime's letter... you'll the contents...
kudos to Chirishman for correcting that minor yet deadly mistake.
spoiler: life goes a full circle
if u can figure what that means...