The scene starts with an average looking Konoha nin looking up. He appears to be wearing a slightly different headband though. 'Huh? What is this?' He looks up. The rocky terrain around him becomes obvious.
'Who's that?' Naruto asks. In all of the fragments they've seen before he hadn't noticed that man yet.
Sasuke agrees with him. 'He looks really generic.' And he does. Standard brown hair, standard face, standard everything. There are like fifty other people that look the exact same.
Shikamaru shrugs. 'He probably isn't that important then.' So far only the people that are important look unique. If he doesn't then he's probably cannon fodder.
Another section of the group turns to look at him. The people part of this group are the Tsuchikage, that Sand girl they saw previously and Naruto. 'What are you sensing? The Tsuchikage asks.
'What are they all doing together?' Sakura shakes her head. She knows the uniforms of the other countries, they are required to learn it, but why would they all stand together. That hasn't happened before according to her recollections.
'Even those headbands. They're strange.' Ino agrees with her friend. She's never seen that headband symbol either. But she must admit, it looks pretty awesome.
Shino pushes up his glasses. 'Maybe we'll get some context.' But no one responds to him.
The ninja points up to one of the rock formations. 'Over there.'
Everyone turns to look at the stone the man is pointing at. At first glance there appears to be nothing amiss. But then as they look closer a man appears. He looks kind of like a mummy with the way he's wrapped up in bandages.
'The second Tsuchikage.' The Hokage is kind enough to fill in for the group. He might have only seen the man in passing. But his appearance is distinct enough to remember.
'He's also revived?' Chouza munches on a slice of cake next.
'It does seem that way.'
'What is it?' Gaara asks. As he's there as well. 'That's the second Tsuchikage!'
Naruto looks at Gaara. 'I thought Gaara sealed him away!'
'So, the reanimations are not on their side.' Shisui notes that down quick enough. It's not something he'll like to think about. The previous Kage, no matter how short their reign, are all powerful people. They should never be underestimated.
'Maybe. The Hokage seemed to be on their side.' Itachi adds. It really didn't seem like the Hokage are going to fight against them.
The hokage nods. 'Sealing them away… I suppose that's the only solution.'
The Tsuchikage is shocked. 'He used Fragmentation in that state?'
'Fragmentation?' Gaara asks.
'Mu-sama was able to spit his body and create clones. No. Not clones. It's loser to say he can split his body into two.' The Tsuchikage explains. 'Although his strength would be cut in half too.'
'I heard rumors of it before. But to think they were real.' Shikaku is a little surprised. A power like that is something most people would kill to have. Good thing they don't. Hidan was scary enough already.
'That seems scarily overpowered.' Sasuke shivers. Another person that's super scary. How many are there going to be.
Naruto slaps his hands on the desk. 'Does that mean he's the badass they're talking about?'
Most of the group shrugs. 'Probably.'
The plain ninja from before speaks up. 'It's not him!' He opens his eyes. 'There's someone else.'
'Or not.'
The camera changes few to on top of the rock formation. There we first see the previous Tsuchikage and then another figure appears. This figure wears the old school armor and has long black spiky hair.
'Who's that?' Naruto squints his eyes. He does look a little familiar. He can't exactly point out where he's seen the guy before.
'It could be Madara from before.' Sasuke explains. They do have the same hairstyle.
Sakura nods. 'That's not good news either.' Madara is supposed to be super strong. Which also means he's super powerful and scary.
'What?' Naruto looks up. 'There's one more.'
The Tsuchikage's eyes widen. 'H-He is…'
'Who is it?' Naruto asks. The man in question walks forward.
Sweat drips down the Tsuchikage's face. 'You've come at last!' The camera goes from the man's feet to his head. 'Uchiha Madara.'
'So, it is Madara.' That confirms it. Shisui writes down the new information with an ear open for new information.
'That's what he looked like.' The Hokage agrees. His memories of the guy are still fuzzy but that doesn't mean he's forgotten that face.
Shisui taps his pen on the desk. 'I knew that. There are plenty of portraits laying around back home.' Most of the Uchiha nod along. It used to be customary to have a portrait made every single year. They stopped doing it when photos became a thing.
'How does he deal with that hair.' Ino puts her fingers through her hair. It looks like it'll get in the way.
Sasuke agrees with her. Which is surprising since he rarely does. 'It does look like it's a pain to fight in.'
'If it's that long that means he's got to be powerful.' Neji explains. The longer the hair the more powerful the man or woman. It's the truth.
Madara looks down on the crowd, his sharingan obvious in his eyes.
That's him? Naruto doesn't quite believe it. Then a quick shot of the man in the mask appears. 'So that's what he looked like beneath the mask.' He states.
'Wait what?' the group is shocked. This wasn't the revelation they expected. Not so soon at least.
'The masked man is Madara?' Inoichi narrows his eyes. 'Sorry but I can't see him acting like a fool.' Madara seems way to poised.
'You're not the only one.' Shikaku had to agree with his friend. Something doesn't sit quite right here.
Lee nods along as well. 'He seems far too dignified.' He knows these kinds of people. They wouldn't know what fun was even if it stared them in the face. Stuck up pieces of shit.
'He looks exactly the same!' The Tsuchikage sputters out.
'What's going on?' Gaara asks.
'Gaara is still awesome…' Ino has stars in her eyes. Gaara has been growing on her. Sure, he kind of ruined Lee for a bit but he's really put himself back together.
Naruto stares at the girl. 'We haven't even seen him fight.'
'What do you mean?' Naruto turns to his friend.
'Look closely at his eyes. That's a reanimation!' Naruto turns to look at the man and he can see it too. 'The Edo Tensei jutsu brings the dead back to this realm… Which means he had been dead!'
'And he doesn't have the rinnegan we saw him with before.' Itachi points out. The rest of the group agrees. This must have been before that incident. But that still leaves one question.
'Where did he get it?' Sasuke tilts his head to the side. Is there some sort of store where you can buy them?
'How am I supposed to know?' Itachi stares at his little brother. He loves him to bits but sometimes he asks the stupidest of questions.
Shisui had put a halt to his writing. 'But then who's the masked man? If it's not Madara.' No one had an answer for him.
'Wait a second. I thought HQ reported Madara elsewhere,' The Sand girl speaks up. 'approaching in the other direction with a bunch of jinchuuriki, right?'
'Why would they follow him?' Something doesn't quite seem right to Iruka. If these people hunted the jinchuuriki it wouldn't make sense for them to follow him.
Kakashi blinks. 'Naruto and Gaara don't.'
'But there's no mistake… He's Uchiha Madara! The one I fought when I was young.' The Tsuchikage responds. 'Then who's the man… behind the mask.'
'So, the guy in front of us is the real Madara?' Naruto asks one more time to be sure. 'Then the guy we thought was Madara… isn't Madara?'
'Damn. Who could it be then?' Naruto slams his hands on the desk once again. A part of him wants revenge on the man for indirectly killing his parents. The other part just wants an explanation.
Shikamaru puts his hand on his chin. 'It's probably someone that does know Madara. And judging by the way they believed the masked man's lies probably an Uchiha as well.'
Hiashi turns to Fugaku. 'Any people that come to mind.'
'Most people that are old enough to know Madara are either female or demented.' There is old man Jiro as well, but he can't even walk anymore. 'There is no one that comes to mind.'
'That does make things more difficult.' It's likely than this man defected years ago to go undetected. Probably faked his death as well.
'So, it seems.' Gaara is just as taken aback as the rest.
'As Tsuchikage, you've utilized the Akatsuki in the past. Can you speculate who that masked man might be?' The sand girl asks.
'There's that girl again.' Chouji points out. They've seen her quite a couple times already.
'I wonder if we'll ever get to learn her name.' Ino laughs. There is something about the girl that she likes. She looks strong.
Itachi's mind is somewhere else however. 'The Tsuchikage used the Akatsuki?'
'I wonder what that means? I mean Deidara was from the Stone.' Kakashi explains. Maybe Deidara wasn't send on those mission? He doubts Deidara would willingly work for his village again if he defected.
'There's no one I can think of.' The Tsuchikage says. 'But it doesn't matter who he is! We still need to stop him!'
'Yes!' Naruto and Lee cheer.
The camera changes perspective as they are now moved on top of the rock. 'Their headbands say Shinobi, but I see them wearing shinobi gear distinctly from each of the Five Great Nations…' Madara starts speaking. 'Is this a new allied army?'
'Yep definitively not someone to act like a fool.' This reaffirms their assumption.
'It does appear that we're at war.' The second Tsuchikage responds.
Madara looks down on the crowd. 'Coming from him. He must have something in mind. But things don't seem like they're going as planned.' Madara scoffs. 'Why else would he revive me in this state?'
'Madara does know about it.' Jiraiya takes note. This must have been planned ages ago if that's the case. But then why wait so long. Why not earlier? Like after the second or third great wars when the villages were still recovering.
'That's a clue. But like old man Fugaku says. There aren't Uchiha capable enough in their old age.' Shisui tells them.
Then Kakashi suggests something crazy. 'Maybe he's like Orochimaru and manages to make himself younger all the time.'
It's silent for a couple seconds before Jiraiya speaks again. 'I'd rather not think like that.'
Time seems to have been skipped as next up a giant cloud of sand reaches the top of the rock. Next in view is Gaara who has his hands positioned for his jutsu. 'I guess they won't be easy to capture.'
Madara lands on the ground in front of the army, ready for attack. 'Very well…'
The clouds slowly drift over the ground the people are standing on. It gives the scene a rather grim setting. Within the army tensions rise. People are getting nervous.
'What's he going to do?' Kiba gazes at the screen. Something is about to happen, and it's going to be epic.
'He's about to attack.' Shino points out. He too stares at the screen, the bugs inside him are buzzing pleasantly.
Madara isn't too bothered however. He slowly starts speeding up to the large army in front of him, not even hesitant about the sheer amount of people.
'Here he comes!' Naruto shouts but he readies himself for the attack.
'Do not look directly into his eyes!' The Tsuchikage warns the people. And not a second later the army starts making their way over to Madara as well. The distance between them is soon nothing. And as soon as they connect Madara rips through them like a lawnmower does to grass. People fly into the sky where he passes.
'Holy sh—' Before Shisui could finish that sentence he gets hit on the head by Mikoto.
But the doesn't mean the statement didn't describe the overall reaction perfectly. 'Not going to lie. As powerful as I am, I doubt I would be able to do that.' Jiraiya's eyes are wide. To think there used to be someone that could do such a thing with ease. Sure, Minato came close, but he did it slightly differently.
'Scary.' Naruto shudders in his seat. How in the world are they going to be able to handle that?
It doesn't take any effort on Madara's part. He hits them and kicks them wherever and whenever he can. Entire groups of elite ninjas are nothing but flies to him. His sharingan track every movement of everyone on the field.
'He's leagues above everyone.' Tenten is shocked. Never in her life would she have been able to imagine someone like that. There has to be something they would be able to do against him, right?
The Hokage nods. Madara truly is something else. 'There's a reason both he and Hashirama were dubbed gods among men.'
Neji glares at the screen. What business does this man have being so strong? It must be fate or something. 'How in the world are they going to fight someone like that.'
'I'm sure we can do something.' Naruto nods. They can't lose. Not now or any time. Even if they are as scary as Madara.
The second Tsuchikage flies in the sky above ready to use his own attack. The third Tsuchikage is the only one that notices but he isn't too worried. You can't use the particle style in your divided state right now… And as he says the attack fails. For the dead Tsuchikage that's only a minor setback. As he disappears using some sort of invisibility technique. 'Sensory types! Watch Mu-sama.' The Tsuchikage tells them.
'At least he's not a threat for the time being.' Sasuke points out. He laughs at the man's failure to form a technique. Little does he know that someday he'll experience the same frustrations.
Shikamaru agrees with Sasuke. 'It gives them the opportunity to focus on Madara.'
'Seeing how that's going… I doubt they'll be able to win.' Chouji gazes at the food in his hands. The future isn't looking that good. He can only hope he makes it out alive.
'With Edo Tensei he's even stronger than when he was alive.' Shikaku read what the technique can do. It's scary. Automatic regeneration, not able to experience pain. They're just not human anymore.
'Now that's scary.' Sakura says. She can't quite believe there are people with powers like that. In her mind such things should be impossible. It's better for them all.
Gaara as well is ready to attack but before he can do so the sand girl stops him. 'Gaara, you and the Tsuchikage must recover first.' Then she turns to Naruto. 'Naruto! Instead of your clones, go into that mode!'
'The truth is I can't anymore. I used up my chakra in the earlier fight.' Naruto explains to the girl.
'What are they talking about?' Naruto doesn't get it. What mode? Regeneration?
Shikamaru turns to the boy. 'Probably some ability you have.'
'Do we know what?' Hinata presses her fingers together. She would love to know what Naruto could do. He is her crush.
Shikamaru shrugs. 'Could be something to do with the Kyuubi.'
Kiba raises his finger. 'That's a good point.'
Madara continues to comb his way through the crowd. And it does stress them out. The people can't do anything against him. Without effort Madara is able to use their own weapons against them. It's a plain slaughter. Eventually his attacks get so powerful that the ground shatters beneath his feet. At one point he even holds a person in the air by the neck. 'Do you want to dance too?' But then he gets hit by a force of wind.
It's the sand girl. 'Don't underestimate me!' She shouts at him.
'You go girl!' Ino cheers.
Sasuke is laughing as well. 'Even if we don't know your name.'
Madara stands up and carefully dusts of the sand, not even bothered. He makes a hand sign and not much later flames burst from his mouth. They encompass the entire field. Almost nothing stays alive within the flames. The people don't stand a chance.
'That's one large fireball.' Sasuke stutters out after he calmed down. His fireballs are way smaller. Most of the other had to agree with him.
Ino can already see herself burning. Stupid pale skin. 'I hope I'll never have to encounter something like that.'
'And to think we thought Kakuzu's fire was powerful.' Tenten stares. If only she could do amazing things like that. Then she could kick ass!
Several mist nin do their best to counter the jutsu but even when they all give it their all they can just barely stop the jutsu from ripping the army apart. This does create a lot of evaporates water which cover the entire battlefield in a layer of mist. Madara uses this mist to his advantage and goes for the attack once more, sending several fire balls their way. Again, the battlefield witnesses the power of Madara.
'At least they were able to stop it.' Iruka wipes his forehead. Tension like this isn't good for his mental health. It's the reason he doesn't go out on the field that often. Inside the village is a lot safer.
Kakashi taps his side with the book. 'The mist isn't helping though.'
But that's when he notices someone is preventing some of his attacks. Every now and then his attacks get stopped by a layer of sand. It's Gaara again.
'Yay! Gaara!' Naruto cheers once more. Gaara rocks!
'Gaara here to save the day. He's awesome!' Ino cheers as well. But who should she ship him with. Her gut instinct is telling her to go with Lee, since they got that chemistry and all. Maybe there'll be someone else?
'This is as far as you'll go!' Gaara spreads out his arms. A force of sand rushes at Madara, again and again. It tries to capture him but Madara is able to dodge it every time. Even in the air it's not too much of a problem for him.
'I want to be able to do that.' Naruto states. Several of the other children agree with him.
Iruka smiles. It's harder than it looks. 'Then you'll have to kick up your training a notch or three.'
Naruto still enamored with the screen responds. 'I don't care.'
Then as soon as he lands on the ground a shadow flies over him. Madara looks up and sees Naruto with a giant freaking rasengan launching at him.
'Naruto!' Kiba yells. It scares the group a little.
Naruto tilts his head to the side. 'What's that?'
'The rasengan. One of the signature jutsu of the fourth.' Jiraiya explains. 'Only way larger.'
Naruto grins as wide as he can. 'Awesome!'
The Tsuchikage uses this to his advantage and raises the ground beneath Madara. This puts him right at the center of the attack. But Madara has something that can protect him against such attacks. Susanoo.
'His is blue.' Shisui points out. It might be a good starting point. If they could figure out the color of the masked man's Susanoo maybe they'll be able to figure out who he is.
'What do you mean?' Sakura asks.
'Everyone's Susanoo is a different color. Mine is green.'
A formed Susanoo is formed around him and protects him from Naruto's attack. Not only that put it also punches Naruto away. Luckily Gaara is there to use his sand to catch him and his clone.
'He's already activated the mangekyo sharingan.' The Tsuchikage mumbles.
'Now he's starting to get really serious.' Itachi says. Staring at the screen he can only see how much he still has to learn. Sure, he might be a prodigy, but he doubts he'll be able to stand against Madara.
'As if he wasn't frightening enough yet.' Sasuke pouts. If only he could be that strong. Then finally he won't be compared to Itachi anymore.
Madara forms two swords, one in each of Susanoo's hands. People grip their weapons.
Gaara turns to Naruto. 'How much longer Naruto?' There is a Naruto sitting, meditating next to him.
'What's he doing?' Tenten asks. She hasn't seen Naruto do this before.
Chouza shrugs. 'Guess we'll see.'
'Just hold on.' It seems that whatever he's trying to do will happen soon. As he focusses orange circles start to appear around his eyes. Meanwhile several people try to defend themselves against Madara by trying to attack him. Madara uses one of the swords to wipe out a good portion of them. And then he does it again, and again. The area around him turns into a completely unfair fight.
'Orange eyeshadow? Why would he put that on?' Ino blinks to make sure she was seeing it alright.
'I don't think that's eyeshadow.' Shino responds as bluntly as ever.
Gaara's sand tries to hold the Susanoo down but it doesn't have much of an effect. Madara even snorts from within. Another two hands with swords appear and the assault continues.
'Because of the revival he has unlimited chakra.' The Hokage supplies to the group and not a second later their faces start to whiten.
'That's certainly not good.' Mikoto mumbles. A part of her is glad that her kids aren't there on the battlefield.
'Infinite Susanoo… nope.' Shisui writes the information down. But inside he's a little terrified. Who could stand against someone like that? Damn that Tobirama.
'Sorry.' Now Naruto is standing, with orange circles around his now yellow eyes. And a giant spinning rasengan thingy in one of his hands. 'I'm ready! Get back everyone!'
'Another rasengan?' Naruto turns to the back for an answer.
Sasuke has to agree with his rival. It does resemble the rasengan a little. 'It looks different.'
'It looks like a frisbee.' Kiba points out. Akamaru lets out a yip in agreement.
Sasuke blinks. 'You're right. It does.'
'Sage mode.' Jiraiya stares at the screen. It must be that. There is no other thing that comes to mind.
'What is it?' Iruka turns to the man. He would love an answer.
Jiraiya points at Naruto's eyes. 'Naruto uses sage mode. That's why his eyes are so strange.'
'That's awesome.' Naruto smiles. He doesn't know what it is but he has no doubt it makes him super powerful.
Then Jiraiya continues. 'But he doesn't look like a toad.'
'Maybe he has different summons?' Tsume suggests.
'Judging by the eyes I doubt that. Or it has to be something like goats.'
It doesn't take the group long to respond to that. 'That's not Naruto.'
The Tsuchikage puts his hands on Gaara's gourd. 'Go Kazekage. Earth style: lightened boulder jutsu.' And something within the gourd changes. 'I made the surrounding sand lighter too!' the man explains.
'Gaara is Kazekage confirmed.' Shisui writes down. To think someone that age can become a Kage, why couldn't he? He's awesome enough right?
'Yay!' The group cheers.
The sand flies out of Gaara's gourd with a softness never seen before. With sand this light, I could…
The people close to Madara run away as quick as possible. Gaara sends the sand in the direction of the man and Naruto makes his way over as well.
The sand engulfs the Susanoo almost completely. It limits Madara's movement a lot. Gaara does his best. If it's like Sasuke's, external attacks are ineffective. So, I should use the sand at Madara's feet! As soon as he finished that the sand rises up from beneath Madara's feet and drags him out of the Susanoo. 'Go! Naruto!'
'Sasuke?' Sakura blinks a couple times. 'What does he have to do with it.'
'They probably had to fight against his Susanoo at some point.' Shikamaru suggests.
'Why though? Aren't they on the same side?' Sakura looks for a response, but she only gets a shrug.
Madara flies in the air, possible a little shocked. And Naruto sends the thing in his hands flying. 'Rasenshuriken!' He shouts as that's apparently the name of the attack.
'That's a good name.' The Hokage nods. He's seen some terribly named jutsu over the years.
'Better than what the fourth would have come up with.' Jiraiya had to agree. If Kushina wasn't there… it would have been a nightmare.
'What are you talking about?' Naruto turns to the back. This is his father they're talking about.
'Minato could do many great things. Naming things is not one of them.' Jiraiya explains. He can only imagine the nightmare of a name Naruto would have gotten had he not written that book.
It goes for Madara at extreme speeds. Then the camera starts zooming in on Madara's eye. Something strange is happening to it. From within the center ripples start forming and eventually his eyes turn into the rinnegan. That's where the scene ends.
'Did he just get the rinnegan?' Sasuke stares. So, the shop doesn't exist. Then what's the secret. He would love to have such eyes. Purple matches his skin really well.
'He did. How?' The group turns to Shikaku for an explanation. He just stares at them.
'I don't think it's that simple.'
'But why does he have it. His past self didn't, right?' Sakura asks the Hokage.
The man shakes his head. 'He did not.' If he did everyone would've known.
Then Shikamaru suggest something. 'Maybe it's something to do with the revival.'
'That's the most logical assumption.' That they could make so far. They're missing some vital information after all.
'I have to admit Madara was a badass.' Lee points out.
'Too bad he's not on our side.' But that doesn't change the fact that he's awesome.
Tenten sighs. 'It would make things easier.'
Added notes:
- Madara is ultimate scary
- Madara is capable of rinnegan
- Madara has blue Susanoo
- Madara is not the man behind the mask
Naruto can use sage mode and frisbee rasengan. Also giant rasengan
'So, what's up next?' Naruto asks. This fragment had him being awesome but not for long. Next one better be longer.
The screen lights up. The blue letters appear once again. It reads. 'Troublesome woman.'
Tsume laughs out loud. 'This is either Shikaku or Shikamaru again.' Only they would say such things.
A smile is shared between all the people there. 'I agree.'
I wanted to add one more scene but I got sick. So I did my best to finish this one at least.
Special thanks to Pinkymissa123 for the suggestion of this scene. I might have cut it a little short but I wasn't feeling too well.
