Tags: Domination, Sensory Deprivation


On the outside, half a foot of water was submerging Naruto's crossed legs.

On the inside, shit was going fucking insane.

"DIE!" Screamed the Kyuubi, and it's claw slammed down where Naruto had just been, then swept sideways and slammed into him as he jumped away.

Careening into the endless black expanse of this part of his mindscape, Naruto briefly reminded himself that this was the monster that had singlehandedly sacked the entirety of Konoha (twice). It was obvious why.

He landed, stuck himself to the not-floor, and punched as hard as he could, but the Kyuubi just punched right back and again it was either go flying through the emptiness or get detached from his legs.

How to make the Kyuubi? A dash of huge, a dollop of ginormous, a cup of fast and a few tablespoons of raw physical power.

Add in a sprinkle of almost indestructible and mix well.

Thank Kami it doesn't really have a way to let out all its chakra, or else I'd be massively fucked.

"Multi shadow clone jutsu!" He shouted, and then there were four hundred of him all charging back at the monster, crying things like "Rasengan!" and "Buffeting wind!" and "Multi Shadow Shuriken!"

The attacks crashed into the bijuu's fur, and seemed to just piss it off more than anything. Naruto noticed that the Rasengan were making dents (unlike everything else) but the dents were so damn tiny that they weren't doing anything. The Fox roared, and swept its tails around in a twirl that vaporised clones in the hundreds. "Stop your hiding and face me!" It roared.

"Kami, you're dramatic! Fine!" The real Naruto shouted, summoning another hundred or so in a gaggle around him.

The Kyuubi's eyes turned towards them, as they all shouted at once "Big Ball Rasengan!"

The gigantic wave of blue slammed into the Kyuubi, combined momentum more than enough to bowl it over onto its back and send it skidding backwards across the emptiness.

"Hah!" Naruto taunted. "Take that you overgrown-oh, you're not even hurt are you."

The Fox looked up, eyes red with rage. The numerous pockmarked holes across its skin were hissing, but quickly began to disappear as smokey chakra wisped away into the dark. Okay, need more penetrating power.

"Oh, how quaint. You and your special jutsu that you spent so long training for." The Nine-tails opened its mouth. "Here's a glance at what real power looks like." Red and blue spheres began to coalesce.

Oh shit.

The bijuu bomb charged far faster than Shukaku's had, coming rocketing almost immediately towards Naruto. Sure, it wasn't quite as big, but here 'not as big' meant 'only the size of the heads on the Hokage monument'.

He could have dodged...but that wasn't what this was about.

"Help me out guys!" Naruto shouted, reaching above his head and building up a Rasengan. He charged it to the size of the big-ball, then even larger, and as his clones joined forces it grew until it was almost the size of a small house. Then Naruto flexed his fingers, and adamantine chains wrapped around the whole thing.

"Wrecking Rasengan!" He shouted, taking hold of the chains and spinning the whole thing in a circle around him. "BAAAAAATTEEEEERRR UP!"

He slammed it into the oncoming Bijuu-bomb, and was able to knock it off its predetermined path, launching it upwards and sideways and away.

It exploded in the air, sending a shockwave that staggered both combatants.

The shadow clones clapped and whooped, one shouting "Home run!"

The Kyuubi just looked surprised.

"My turn again." Naruto grinned, holding out his hand. "Hey asshole, guess what! My body's out there sat perfectly still! What do you think it's doing with that time?"

"Oh, not more of your damn senjutsu bullshit-" the Fox charged up another attack.

A razor whirring sound emerged as Naruto built up his own technique.

Both fired.

Between them, the bijuu bomb collided with the Rasenshuriken.

...Neither technique technically won over the other. The Rasenshuriken punched straight through the Bijuu-bomb like it wasn't even there, continuing straight out the other side unhindered. The giant black-purple ball was similarly unaffected; powering onwards like it hadn't hit anything at all.

The main difference was, Naruto jumped out of the way. The Fox didn't.

It howled, as the jutsu punched straight through its lower jaw. Naruto winced at the sound; there was no rage there any more, just pain. And the Rasenshuriken just kept going, Naruto could see it emerge from the other side of the bijuu's body.

The Kyuubi shuddered, and then collapsed, heaving breaths as it's paws splayed out on the not-floor.

"Uh...buddy?" Naruto called out to it. "You, uh...you still..."

It's eyes snapped open. Using its tails to help prop itself up, it slowly brought itself back to it's feet. "Pain." It growled. "You think I'm afraid of pain? Because that's all you're causing me. I am a being of pure chakra, fool. You could shred me to nothing and I could merely rebuild myself! There is nothing you could possibly do to cow me!"

Naruto shrugged. "Well, alright then. Shadow clone jutsu. Rasenshuriken barrage."

The Kyuubi's eyes widened.

Naruto, and twenty more of him besides, all began walking slowly forwards. A Rasenshuriken was in each of their hands. Not all senjutsu enhanced, of course, he'd split all his sage chakra between himself and five or so clones, but all the rest were perfectly normal, still perfectly murderous jutsu.

Naruto's eyes were hard.

The Fox's were dilated wide, and shivering.

Slowly, it took a hesitant, involuntary step backwards.

When Naruto saw that he sighed again, and dropped his technique. "Alright, boys, that's enough. We're a bigger monster than the monster now."

The clones popped, and Naruto shook off his hand in mild pain.

"Wait, you're just-"

"We're done here." Naruto replied. "Unless you wanted me to continue?" He left the statement hanging, walking back towards the cage.

"F...Fine." The Kyuubi called out after him, trying to regain some composure. "You can clearly take the chakra anyway. You'll be able to-"

"Oh, I'm not in here to take your chakra." Naruto called back over his shoulder.

"You...what?"

"You said you wanted out, right?" Naruto looked up to the pillars. "How do I open these things, is it like a keyword, or-"

The Kyuubi shook its head. "Hold on, what are you doing? Why did you just..."

Naruto looked back and smiled, sadly. "I...look. You're a prisoner. A prisoner in my body. You've been trapped in me for sixteen years for a crime you commit while you were literally being mind controlled, and you've spent whole lifetimes stuck with other people before that. People who hated you for no good reason. That's...that's not okay." He scratched the back of his head. "I've wanted to release you ever since we first got talking, I was just worried what you'd do if you got out. That's what the fight was for. Now I know that if you try and hurt the people I care about, I can beat you. So I can trust you to leave."

"You have the strangest definition of trust I've ever known." The Fox shook its head. "So that's it? I can...I'm free?"

"Well..." Naruto grimaced. "Look. If you tell me right here that you want out, then I'll let you out."

"Yes."

"I'm not finished." He held up a hand. "But...I do have a request. I'd like for you to stick with me. For at least the next few days, or maybe weeks."

"Well why would I ever choose that option." The bijuu deadpanned.

"Oh, I just figured you'd maybe wanna save your little brothers and sisters."

...The casual remark shut the Fox right up.

"Sasuke and Hinata are amazing at so many things." Naruto chuckled. "But they are terrible at lying to me. Something's got them and everyone else spooked, something they're trying to keep from me. Added to that; Pain's dead but we still don't have the seven other beasts back? And they suddenly ship us off to a boxed canyon in an island in the middle of nowhere to do our Jinchurikki training? Bull. Someone other than Nagato wanted the bijuu, still has them, and is looking to finish the collection."

"Huh." The Kyuubi tilted it's head. "I thought you were a dumbass but that that was pretty sound logic."

"Oh, ha, ha." Naruto rolled his eyes. "Point is, if I ditch you into the wilds now, odds are you're just going to get hunted down like your family were, and all this guy needs is a Sharingan..."

"You think I'm safer staying in you."

"Oh, hell no. I'm immediately going to go pick a fight with whoever's doing this, so not safe at all. But we're way stronger if we work together. And I can't honestly say we're really teamworking unless you at least have the option to say no. So?"

The Fox came up to the bars, and looked at him. "I can leave any time I want?"

"Just say the word. You've told me you can do it without killing me."

"Even now?"

"Right this moment, if you say so."

"..." The Kyuubi looked down at him for a long time. Then it started chuckling. "You are by far the stupidest, kindest, craziest human I've ever met." It held out a clawed fist. "Partners?"

Naruto bumped his fist against it, grinning. "Partners."

"Alright then. Drop me some chakra, I'll give you KCM, and we'll go get this son of a bitch."


"Behold!" Kisame shouted. "My merging with Samehada! My ultimate form!"

"I kinda can't observe much, but I'm sure it's very impressive-" and Sasuke was defending again, and now it seemed that Kisame was coming at him with some combination of blistering Taijutsu and arm-spikes. Their speeds were comparable again (how fucking convenient) and Sasuke took a few punches to his lightning cloak trying to adapt to the unorthodox new style. Not to mention, his chakra was painfully low; the cloak was absolutely exhausting and the other techniques he'd thrown out all meant that he was teetering around fifteen percent and would drop to nothing in one or two more seconds.

At this rate he would-

Waaaait a minute.

Sasuke frowned, and thought things through.

His chakra reserves were conveniently just now getting really low (check), his opponent had entered a dangerous final stage (check), at the current status quo he was about to die (check)...that thing was happening. That thing that always happened when he got right to the end of a fight with someone important, the 'darkest hour' bit.

Okay, so let's skip to the end of that, how do I get to the part where I win?

Based on previous conflicts, the obvious solution was to do the most reckless, stupidly genius, Naruto thing he could think of.

So he cut his lightning cloak.

Kisame's next attack shook his sword and sent him careening backwards across the canyon. The much needed breathing space also meant that Kisame had all the time he needed; "Ultimate Exploding Chakra-Draining Shark-Bomb Water Bullet!" He roared.

"Oh come on, that can't be a real jutsu!"

"Probably is in the manga!"

Sasuke was vaguely aware of a giant mass of water moving towards him at blisteringly high speeds, but didn't particularly mind. Higher stakes were good. They made the coup-de-grace that much sweeter.

"Shadow clone jutsu." Sasuke stated, barely remaining conscious as he dropped to almost a hundredth of his chakra. Five more of him appeared in a line beside him. He activated his bracer, and one by one, threw out each of the five swords he had to his clones.

As one, with barely enough chakra to toast a slice of bread between them, they charged.

Hiramekarei, the twinsword, and Shibuki, the blastsword, were both swung together at the oncoming wave, the former releasing all the chakra that had been stored within it over the years, while the latter consumed every explosive tag on it's reel.

The resulting explosion was deafening, lit up the entire valley, and Kisame's technique crashed into it and was forced outwards. The rest of the Sasuke continued through, and Raito, the thunderswords, were both swung at Kisame's neck. He caught them both, but that meant his hands were occupied.

Further back, Nuibari, the sewing needle, was thrown into the air. Jumping up behind it, Kabutowari, the helm-splitter, was swung. It hit the back of Nuibari with a perfect ring, and the needle was projected at a significant fraction of the speed of light down towards it's target. It pierced through Kisame's breastbone and went right out the other side without slowing down.

Finally, the real Sasuke charged up, jumping and bringing round his sword with a yell of defiance. Kisame had already popped the clone who'd swung Raito, and moved to defend himself, but found that he couldn't bring up his arms. The clone who had been holding Nuibari grinned, as he tugged on the wire stretching through the shark-man and to the sword. Sasuke had found, experimenting after events in Suna, that it could manipulate more than just puppets.

Kisame looked at his opponent, and grinned. "Heh. Well played."

Sasuke brought around Kubikiribochō, and severed Kisame's head cleanly at the neck.


Naruto opened his eyes.

Then shot up out of the water, shouting "EEEW! Ewewewew, Kami, that's freezing, what in the, fucking, dammit wet trousers-"


There was nothing. No light, no sound, no feeling. Just...nothing.

Many would say that such absence of input would be the only way to achieve true enlightenment, true inner peace.

As far as Hinata Hyuuga was concerned, it was incredibly boring. Alright, enough buildup of dramatic tension. Lemme back out there.

But you can have peace, the emptiness said. You've finally given up on your revenge. You can rest.

Fuck peace. She told it. I wanna kick ass and kiss my boyfriend.

There was a pause. Well technically he's not your boyfriend, but go off, I guess. Said the emptiness. Alexa; play Strong and Strike.

And Hinata could feel again.

She gasped aloud as every sense came flooding back to her all at once, after days of being unable to feel anything at all, and the chill of the air was on her skin and sound of flames was in her ears and Toneri was stood in front of her looking shocked and hello you~

Her fist flashed out, and that black stuff slid across in front of him to catch the punch. She stuck herself to the floor, shifted her weight forwards, and pushed, and a shockwave blasted outwards as he was pushed back through the air, stopping to float almost a hundred metres from her. "You were dead." He said, more confused than anything else. "Medically. How did you..."

There was a crackling sound. Hinata looked down to see more opal spreading over the hole in her stomach, and in fact her right fist (which, through contact with the black shield, had been practically disintegrated down to the knuckle) was growing a shell back too. She stood back up, and smirked.

"Because I'm Hinata Hyuuga." She told him. "Fuck you, I can do whatever I want."

He scowled, and charged more energy blasts.

She jumped upwards, and the green laser tore through the ground beneath her, and he readied another blast, but there was a flash and a feeling of release from between her shoulder blades-

The next blast was fired, and again she rose above it. And the next, and the next, and then she was at a higher elevation than him.

"Huh." She muttered, looking at the great white wings that had sprouted from her back and were beating steadily behind her. "You know I forgot how much I missed having these."

She swept her wings back and dove, then levelled out into a charge, beelining for Toneri. She was so fast now, the energy beams were simplicity itself to dodge, and hey, since these wings are detatched, I can use my arms for hand seals now!

"Chidori Sharp Spear!" She made a flyby, and he swerved left to avoid her, but the lightning blade was long enough to bisect him either way.

Again, however, the black shield got in the way. He threw out another one of the orbs after her and she beat her wings as hard as possible get away from it, retreating to a safe range and eyeing him annoyedly. Three orbs, they can move independently, they can change shape, and I should probably assume they just destroy anything that touches them. Alright, how do I bypass that?

"Surrender!" He shouted at her. "Nothing can bypass the truth seeking orbs!"

"Oh? Am I being underestimated?" She crossed two of her arms (recall there were currently four there). "I just did character development, sister-thief. This isn't a fight anymore: this is my victory lap."

He glared, and shot his beams out again.

Getting predictable, are we? Do you only have the beams, the gravity and the balls?

She prepped a substitution jutsu with her two real arms while shoving her fake ones out in front of herself and building up a pair of "Crystal Release-Lionfists!", and then charged straight into the energy as it hurtled towards her.

To her great surprise, it...worked. She wasn't absorbing anything, but the chakra-nullifying properties of the beam wasn't getting through her glowing opal shield. Perfect. She flew straight forwards through the beam, cancelling the substitution jutsu and making some different seals.

He saw her coming, of course, and cut off the attack. He prepared a shield from one of the orbs as she charged straight for him, her clones flying out to either side, and "Hiragekoma!" she thrust her palm out towards the black surface. Her vision cranked up into an even higher register, and she finally understood what was going on in those balls, and oh. It was everything. Yin, Yang, all five elements and every combination thereof. She'd hoped to be able to disrupt it, but that wasn't even on the table; it was too pure, too condensed, she was barely able to stop the hand that touched it from disintegrating on contact.

And then the other two orbs swept round in an arc and crashed through her body.

There was a poof of substitution beforehand and that clone popped, and the real Hinata blasted up a storm of lightning techniques below that didn't even break through his adamantine energy cloak (Taijutsu it is, then). He completely ignored her, paying far more attention to the other clone that was dropping towards him from above, carrying a boulder about five times as tall as she was. "NULLIFY THIS!" It shouted, shoving the mass downwards.

So he did. One of the orbs transformed into what might have been a mace, and he swung it upwards and shattered the moonrock with contemptuous ease, going through to obliterate the clone immediately. That wasn't an issue though, Hinata had created more, and now there were four of her flying towards him from four different directions.

The 'one more than the number of orbs' plan didn't work, Toneri spread his arms wide and the three balls merged together, sweeping round him into a spherical shield that encompassed a ten metre radius around him.

Hinata's three clones crashed into it and instantly dispelled, but the real her was already making the substitution seals with her second pair of hands.

As far as she was concerned, the substitution jutsu was massively underrated. Especially with her eyes that let her 'see' things that were basically anywhere. It's main drawback was that it took two hands and a lot of focus to cast, and that any ninja worth their salt knew immediately what you were trying to do while you used it.

She was beginning to get the feeling, however, that Toneri wasn't really a ninja worth his salt at all.

She finished the technique, and substituted with one of the shards of leftover boulder that had fallen when he'd destroyed it. Fallen within the shield.

He barely had any time to look up at her in surprise before she swung down a lionfist and punched him right in his stupid face.


Sasuke landed in a crouch, Kubikiribocho held over his shoulders, and strained his ears as hard as he could.

There was a thud from behind him, as Kisame's body hit the floor, but nothing to suggest that his opponent had another bossfight stage.

He exhaled, loudly, and stood up-

Then leapt as far away as he could as there was a horrible rending sound from the position of Kisame's corpse.

"Uh, can someone explain to me what's happening?" He shouted.

"What in all the sweet swirling sands of Suna..." was all Kankuro said.

Gai filled in, all the usual bravado in his voice missing. "It's...eating him."

The noise stopped, with one last rustle. Sasuke was, for once, very glad he couldn't see what had just happened.

"Samehada's just lying there innocuously isn't it." He deadpanned.

"Yyyyup." Kankuro said, popping the P. Then, after a long few seconds, "What, I'm not touching it. Go pick it up!"

"What? Why do I have to pick it up!"

"One of us has to, we can't exactly leave it here. Besides, I thought you said you wanted all seven swords!"

"It just ate the last-" Sasuke scowled. "Fuckin..fine." He walked to where he remembered it dropping. A quick stomp on the ground nearby told him where it's main body was, and where the hilt stuck out. He reached out, gingerly...and touched the shaft.

Hehe, touched the shaft-

Greetings, swordsman.

Sasuke screeched with all the masculinity of a six year old soprano and jumped back another ten metres. "What the fuck-"

"What, what happened?" Kankuro called out.

"You didn't hear that?"

"Hear what?"

"The-" Sasuke stopped, and decided to get more information before convincing everyone nearby that the sensory deprivation had made him go crazy.

He walked back over to touch the sword, and carefully thought:

...hello?

Ah, you return. And in only a few seconds...impressive. Many take days to return and speak to me again. Of course, all do eventually. Nobody can resist my power for long.

The voice reverberated between Sasuke's ears like it was coming from everywhere and nowhere at once. It was scratchy, almost whispered, and distinctly feminine, even if it was lower pitched than his ordinary tone.

Uh, yes, hi. He continued. I assume that this is Samehada speaking?

Indeed. I am the ultimate weapon, the greatest of all ninja tools.

The first of the seven swords of the mist...can talk.

Laughter echoed in his head. That pathetic order may have laid claim to me, but they are the latest in a long line. I am firstborn of the Creation of All Things; other weapons are forged and rusted in an eyeblink compared to I.

The Creation of all...Naruto said that was the Sage's jutsu.

Indeed. First he used his power to create the tools he would need, then he used us as catalysts to channel that power further. I am the sword with which he carved up the Ten-Tails.

Oh. Well Okay. Sasuke shifted uneasily. So...what happens now?

You slew my previous swordsman. Kisame was a fun partner, but you have proven yourself to be greater than even he. Thus, I am yours to wield against all your enemies.

Oh, dope. Hold on, let me be dramatic about it.

Sasuke grasped the shaft (hehe, grasped the shaft) and yanked it up from the floor in a wide arc around himself, ending with it held in a guard position in front of him. It was heavy, but he was a goddamn ninja; carrying things weighing more than he did was basic work. "Ladies and Gentlemen." He declared, out loud. "My collection...is complete!"

Quaint.

Can it, can opener.

Oh? Should I consume all of your chakra as I did to your victim?

No, no, you're fine. Uh...how do you work?

I drain and cut chakra and can store it for use later.

Okay, awesome. Sasuke rested the blade on his shoulder...and frowned. Wait, am I forgetting something?

"SASUKEEEEEEEEE!" Shouted Naruto from across the valley. "What the FUCK did you do?"

Shit.


Hinata watched in genuine surprise as Toneri's chakra cloak shattered like glass around him.

The truth seeking orbs fizzled out, which was good because he almost crashed into them as he began falling rapidly downwards with his capacity for flight suddenly gone, and oh, okay, I thought that would take more, but I guess we're done now.

She charged down after him, grabbing him by the throat. The proceeding event was just, well, really gross, but suffice to say that by the end of it Toneri didn't have any eyes anymore.

Hinata stabilised herself in the air, holding Neji's second eye out in front of herself, and watched as the blue energy of the 'Tenseigan' faded from it. It was left as she remembered; a pure white orb, just like her own eyes. She briefly zapped it with some lightning chakra to get the blood off.

Her next move was to toss Toneri dismissively to the side and let him fall, which was about when she became aware of all the pain she was in.

Oh hi, sense of touch, been a while, how are you OWW-

Similarly to Toneri, it seemed Hinata was really not meant to be doing this with only one extra eye. Bottoms up, I suppose.

She brought up Neji's second eye and touched it to her Vishnu, this time the centre of her forehead. Again, it vanished seamlessly into the surface like a marble dropping into water, and after a moment, the suffering eased.

She felt...stabilised. Like the strain from her powers was finally being handled by a power source capable of running it.

It was a relief, to put it mildly. Which was about when she became aware of the screaming.

She looked down to see Toneri still falling towards the moon's surface, and...he looked absolutely terrified. "SAVEMESAVEMESAVEME!" He screeched up at her, like he hadn't just blown her stomach open half a minute earlier.

She rolled her eyes and dove, with every intention of finishing him off...which was about when she became aware of her sister.

"Toneri!" Shouted Hanabi, stumbling across the moon's surface. She was completely blind, falling over every bump and hole in the rock, but was still desperately running towards her captor's screaming voice. "Stop! Big brother, what's wrong!"

Big. Brother. Hinata's eyes widened for a brief second, then she scowled. Oh, for fucks sake, fine.

Rather than punching a hole in his stomach, she grabbed the lapel of Toneri's robe, using her wings to slow their descent and glide down towards her sister. While she was at it, she pulled up a lionfist and started draining as much as she could from his (admittedly impressive) reserves of chakra.

"You...saved me." He managed, panting in either fear or exhaustion.

"Would you really have died from falling at terminal velocity? In this low gravity?" She snapped.

"Um...probably not?"

"Then don't read too much into it."

She dropped him from about a foot above the surface and then let herself touch down, dropping the Vishnu and exhaling. Her hairs pricked up at the chill.

"Hanabi." She said grabbing her sister by the shoulders. "Are you okay?"

"I'm fine." The girl pouted adorably. "Why were you two fighting!?"

"Great question." Hinata turned on Toneri. "Seriously, what on Earth is going on here? Who are you, why do you live on the moon, why did Neji bring Hanabi here, what were those eyes, why are you both blind?"

There was a cough from beside them, which was about when Hinata became aware of the old man stood right next to them. And as far as her Byakugan could see, he didn't even exist.

"I think I might be able to explain some of that." He said, smiling kindly. He had while hair, skin just as pale as Toneri's, and two eyes that were just as aquamarine blue as the Tenseigan had been.

"Who in the..." Toneri looked just as confused as Hinata felt.

"My name is Hamura Otsutsuki." He explained, with a smile. "I'm here to stop my grandkids fighting."


Welcome back to headcanon city where the grass is green and the Tenseigan is adamantine and the sword can talk (and is one of the Sage of Six Paths' ninja tools).

I'm making a lot of this up as I go guys, bear with me.

Naruto is making a surprising amount of progress with the 9 tails. Don't have to be worried about it attacking the village if you can just kill it, right? Sasuke is getting a little too meta for his own good, and Hinata finally has her EMS equivalent. EGB? Whatever, she has angel wings now, fight me.

Next chapter...the beginning of the end.

Literally, that might be the chapter title.