Let's begin a new arc, shall we?
This chapter is slightly shorter, and I can already see the pitchforks flying at me after the end(Hiding in a corner).
Music Recommendation: Naruto OST- Rasen Shuriken Theme (Available on Youtube).
Chapter 6
Twin Flash
Mei finally managed to catch upto her current partner and Commander. She steeled herself when nearly 300-400 Anbu were already waiting for them with fiery hate burning in their eyes.
Naruto on the otherhand coldly removed his sword from the chest of an Anbu who looked barely older than 13 allowing the body to crumble to the ground. However, the corpse turned to ash much to everyone's horror.
"Bastard! You'll pay for this!" yelled a female Kumo Anbu violently,
"How dare you! We'll butcher you piece by piece" yelled another teenage Anbu furiously,
"Monster! You didn't even spare little children" accused another older Anbu,
"You slaughtered civilians who had nothing to do with this war!"
"We will never forgive you for this!"
"It is true, Kiri is made up of nothing but savages!"
Mei's jaw clenched at the insult thrown at her village and comrades. To her surprise, it only brought a smile to Naruto's lips.
"It would seem you now understand what pain is" said Naruto without any remorse over his actions,
A dark skinned man who was taller than the rest of his comrades stepped forward. His face was hidden behind a panther mask but it were his emerald eyes that glared at Naruto as he pointed his sword at the Kiri leader.
"Why did you do this?" asked the older man,
"For the sake of peace"
Mei bristled when the killing intent amongst the enemy force exploded. The sheer amount of hatred and anger that she felt in the hearts of these shinoibi was palpable after hearing Naruto's answer.
"After killing our friends, our family, destroying our home...you dare say such a thing?" asked the Anbu leader in disbelief and hate,
"Then what about the people whose lives you and your nation destroyed? Kumogakure started this war and the one before that!" said Mei furiously,
"The Land of Lightning is blessed by the gods and is destined to rule over this world. Those who stand in our way are nothing but heathens!" rebuffed a female Kumo Anbu,
Mei was appalled by the answer as well as the level of fanaticism she saw in that female Anbu's eyes. These people truly believed that they were better than others and had the right to do as they wished.
"Such arrogance..."
Mei felt the hair on the back of her neck stand up in alarm on hearing those words from Naruto in such a cold and furious manner. When his blood red eyes connected with her, she realized the decision he had made.
"Kill them all in the most brutal way possible!" commanded Naruto,
Mei could say nothing but give a silent nod as she summoned forth her Biju chakra allowing a tail to manifest from her waist. She smirked on seeing the fear that arrived in the previously confidant Kumo shinobi's eyes.
The Kumo shinobi instantly surrounded the twin Kiri warriors from all sides.
"Give up! You're surrounded now!" warned the dark skinned Panther masked Anbu leader,
To everyone's surprise, Naruto's pitch black sword started to heat up. Mei noticed that as the ash ridden chakra that had previously coated the sword vanished, the metal underneath had nearly melted. Even so, it was not falling apart and had given the sword a menacing look.
A weapon full of hatred that burned brightly in the dark night.
The sight only made quite a few Kumo shinobi take a step back with many even flinching when Naruto looked at them all with furious red eyes.
"All I'm surrounded by is fear...and dead men"
The Panther masked Anbu leader gave the signal making two dozen of his comrades leap towards Naruto and Mei. The female Jinchuuriki started creating her own set of hand seals when she saw Naruto grab the tanto version of his sword stationed on his back only to throw it straight towards the approaching Anbu force.
Naturally, the Anbu's managed to dodge the assailing weapon and focused back again on their targets.
To their surprise, when they looked back down towards the approaching ground only Mei was there waiting for them.
Where-
Three of the Kumogakure Anbu blanched when the blonde demon appeared right behind them as he grabbed the tanto they had dodged earlier.
No others thoughts ever crossed their minds again as Naruto severed their heads from their bodies in one brutal horizontal slash.
"Yoton: Yokai no Jutsu (Lava Release: Melting Apparition Technique)"
Mei unleashed a huge sum of acidic mud from her mouth allowing it to charge straight towards the Anbu's positioned on their western flank.
"Scatter!" commanded the Panther masked Anbu in panic,
"No, you don't!" thought Mei with a smirk, as she clasped her hands together.
To the horror of the Kumo Anbu, the glob of acid divided into nearly a hundred bullet like forms and attacked them mercilessly. Many screamed as their vital organs were pierced before succumbing to death while others were brutally injured.
"Formation U!" roared the Panther Anbu,
Mei flinched when the remaining Anbu force united all around her and performed a set of hand seals together in perfect unison.
This is bad!
To her surprise, Naruto instantly appeared by her side even as four more replica of him popped up around her forming a protective circle.
Shadow Clones, his chakra reserves are quite large.
"Fire Style: Raging Inferno!"
"Water Style: Water Bullets!"
"Wind Style: Slicing Blades!"
"Earth Style: Earth Bullets!"
"Lightning Style: Electromagnetic Murder!"
Mei's eyes widened when ninjutsu of all natures were unleashed by the Kumogakure Anbu towards her and her partner at frightening speed.
It was then she saw all five Naruto's performing their own different set of hand seals.
Impossible!
"Fire Style: Fire Wall!"
"Water Style: Twin Raging Dragons!"
"Wind Style: Gale Palm!"
"Earth Style: Mud Wall!"
"Lightning Style: Electromagnetic Murder!"
Each of the five Naruto's present around her unleashed a powerful jutsu from a different element. What was most important was the way he executed his move.
Pitting Water against Fire.
Clashing Fire against Wind.
Punching Wind against Lightning.
Using Lightning Against Earth.
Placing Earth Against Water.
Mei watched dozens of Kumogakure ninja be murdered instantly as Naruto used the more powerful nature element against their own jutsu to destroy them without any mercy. She could not help but be relieved on seeing the enemy had lost almost half of their numbers and the remaining looked extremely terrified even as Naruto's clones vanished.
"Using all five nature elements at the same time. He's no ordinary ninja, everyone fall back!" commanded the Panther Anbu,
Instantly, the remaining Kumo Anbu force leapt off backwards to create further distance between them and their enemies.
"You did well, Mei" said Naruto with a faint smile,
"You were not bad either, Lord Seventh" she complimented, and frowned when his smile faltered.
"What is it?" she asked,
"It would seem we don't have much time. The Kinkaku are coming!" he reported, with his eyes closed.
"We can't fight these Anbu and the Kinkaku at the same time!" she replied worriedly, a bead of sweat dropping down her forehead.
"Let me deal with the Anbu. Just watch my back for now" he requested, as he stepped forward towards the enemy forces that were nearly close to 150-160 warriors.
"Don't. No matter how strong you are, going up against those many will kill you" warned Mei in alarm,
She bit her lip when a storm of Ash was unleashed from his body that charged high upwards towards the sky before dispersing all across the city at an alarming speed.
The very air stilled and she felt an enormous build up of chakra within him. The stark white haori on his back stopped moving as he surprisingly placed his longsword back in his scabbard and instead switched to the tanto version of Muramasa.
"CHARGE!"
Naruto calmed his nerves allowing his stable senses to feel the chakra he had dispersed all over the city.
My son, this jutsu has been passed down in our family for generations. Only a few elite warriors could master this power, even I could only learn it to some extent. But I believe that you will one day truly be able to master it...it's in your blood.
The Panther masked Kumogakure Anbu clenched his grip on his sword when those cold blood red eyes opened.
Here he comes.
A forcefully dragged a heavily bound Tobirama towards the rooftop of the prison hoping to threaten the former Hokage's life which could maybe make the forces attempting to rescue him to retreat.
However, his plan failed miserably when he realized it was Kirigakure's shinobi who were attacking his city.
"You don't even know who your enemy is. Typical of a brute with no brain" taunted Tobirama, but frowned when he sensed a foul chakra spreading across the city.
Even A must have felt that power as he too focused on finding its source instead of punishing Tobirama for that remark.
The Raikage's son and the former Hokage became silent, even the battles across the city started to die down a little as many other shinobi also felt that power building up all around them.
"This chakra feels familiar..." thought Tobirama, but kept his thoughts hidden from his captor who kept him in an iron grip.
Tobirama finally managed to narrow down the source of this chakra to another destroyed section of Osaka where a shinobi with long blonde hair dressed in Kiri's traditional Jounin uniform with a stark white haori on his back was standing against a large Anbu force from Kumogakure.
"Who the hell is that moron? Does he want to die?" asked A with a growl, unable to believe the arrogance of that blonde shinobi to consider himself strong enough to face so many Anbu alone.
Tobirama narrowed his eyes when he saw the same blonde warrior remain still even as his enemies charged towards him.
Something does not feel right. This chakra...
The Panther masked Anbu leader unleashed his own longsword as he and his entire force charged towards their lone enemy with bloodthirsty cries. Having already seen his powers, they knew they had to take him down and the only way to do that was through overwhelming force.
The Anbu leader winced when a burning sensation spread across his arm.
Beside him, he saw all of his men scratching various parts of their exposed body.
Curious, the panther masked Anbu looked at his own right arm where that sensation was dying down. He frowned when a part of his skin had turned black and moments later that black skin started to transform into something.
What is this?
He received his answer three seconds later when that blackened skin transformed into the sign of Thunder.
The symbol of an extinct clan.
No, this is bad!
"Everyone-"
His eyes widened when the same blonde warrior from Kiri appeared before him in a dark flash and it was in this moment, the Panther masked Anbu understood the reality.
He was dead.
A gawked openly as several dark flashes started happening all across the battlefield and with each flash more and more of his Anbu comrades were murdered.
The attacks were so fast, almost impossible for the human eye to witness. Even a Sharingan and Byakugan user may face difficulty in countering this jutsu, people with no Kekkai Genkai had slim to no chance against this move.
"Who knew that an heir from the Namikaze Clan still lived? I thought we had wiped them out in the last war" growled A,
Beside him, Tobirama had froze.
His eyes fixated solely on the blonde warrior who was jumping across the battlefield at speed that was lower than that of the Raikage's but faster than that of most shinobi.
Most of all, he keenly observed those blonde hair and that fair skin, the way he moved, his fighting style...
Just for a moment, in the boy's place Tobirama saw a tall blonde haired woman with sharp blue eyes fight against her enemies.
"Inoue...all...these...years...you.." thought Tobirama sadly,
The former Hokage's eyes widened when he saw two entire platoons of Kinkaku forces rush towards the lone Namikaze fighter at alarming speed.
For the very first time in his life, Tobirama felt fear.
A feeling which was soon replaced by anger as he knew the Kinkaku would wait for the boy to exhaust himself fully against the Anbu before surrounding him and eliminating the threat. It was the exact same strategy they had used against Tobirama himself by making him defend himself against countless Anbu forces and attacking him at once when he was exhausted.
He grit his teeth when the Namikaze warrior flashed behind a female Anbu and stabbed his tanto clean through her neck. Just as he was vanishing to his next target, a Kumogakure Anbu jumped towards him and detonated himself.
The Namikaze warrior crashed several feet away with blood leaking from his head.
Whatever doubts, Tobirama had in his heart vanished when he sensed a familiar chakra rushing across the boy's body and slowly his wounds started to heal stopping the flow of blood.
The Kinkaku platoons had unleashed their own foul chakra and were now charging towards their target aiming to strike him from behind. To their surprise, an auburn haired female warrior from Kirigakure with chakra as foul as their own leaped in the way. A flinched when he saw three chakra tails swirling behind her waist.
To think that a damn Jinchuuriki is protecting the blonde menace!
The Kinkaku forces in turn surrounded her from all sides.
Tobirama clenched his fist and cursed his own frail body for being so weak at the moment. If he managed to break the seals binding him down, he barely had enough chakra stored in his hidden seal to launch his escape. The situation was perfect given the Kumo forces were completely disarrayed.
A gasped when a monstrous punch connecting against his chest.
CRACK
The Raikage's son was sent flying away with several of his lungs crushed as Tobirama roared out his loudest battlecry unleashing every ounce of stored chakra in his body which resulted in the destruction of the seals binding him down.
He saw the Namikaze boy had gotten back on his feet and had started to battle against the remaining Anbu, however he was slowly getting tired as the jutsu of his consumed enormous chakra. Tobirama knew it better than anyone else, after all he had mastered a version of this power from the same clan.
"Inoue...even...in...death...your...legacy...still...lives...inside...this...boy" thought Tobirama with a bittersweet smile, as the face of the woman he had once cared for flashed before his hazy vision.
Grabbing a kunai which A had left behind, Tobirama glanced at the now unconscious son of the Raikage.
To simply put it, A was not going to wake up anytime soon...if at all.
Allowing his chakra to fully flow across his entire body, Tobirama's gaze turned cold and merciless as he threw that lone kunai across the battlefield.
Naruto cursed as he tried his best to turn himself backwards in order to block the strike aimed at his neck from one of the few surviving Kumo Anbu. His entire body was screaming in protest and his chakra levels had dipped quite low.
Still, he was too slow in his movement and the sword had almost reached his neck.
I won't make it in time.
CLANG
He blinked when the Kumo Anbu screamed as not only was his weapon broken apart but his head was severed from his body as a spiky silver haired man appeared behind Naruto.
Their gaze met against each other only for Naruto to whisper his disbelief for the older man to hear.
"Senju Tobirama..."
