-Flashback (A few months back.)
"Can't sleep?"
"Can't sleep."
Aiko was standing in the kitchen of the Uzumaki safe-house, pouring herself a glass of apple juice. She was dressed in plain white t-shirt and blue shorts. Her face clearly showed that she was tired."Want a glass?" She asked, turning around and facing Sasuke. He nodded and she poured him one.
"Hungry?" Sasuke asked walking towards the kitchen counter and picking up his glass. He was wearing an olive green shirt with the small Uchiha crest on the back along with black joggers. He had no expression on his face.
"Nah, just need to get my mind off of some things." She answered truthfully, sipping some apple juice. She just had a nightmare about her past.
"Oh." He said taking a sip. He could see that she had been sleeping, but had recently woken up from her tired expression. He also understood that the girl didn't want to talk about it so he didn't ask her. And Naruto had to go on an escort mission as the Mizukage had personally requested him, so he made it his job to cheer up the tomato-head. "I know a way to get rid of those thoughts. Follow me" He said finishing his glass of apple juice and leaving the kitchen. Aiko finished her own glass and followed him. Sasuke finally stopped as soon as he reached the training grounds in front of the house.
"So you want to train in the middle of the night?" Aiko asked, raising her eyebrow. Sasuke gave a small chuckle in response. Sasuke had started showing his emotions in front of the people he trusted instead of holding them in.
"No, you can't just train all the time. Your body also needs rest." He said sitting down. "This training ground is facing the sea so it receives cold breeze during the night and it's a nice place to talk. Whenever I want to get my minds off of things, I come here and talk to my cat, Kara because if I talk with Naruto, he won't even give me a chance to speak as soon as he opens his mouth." Aiko chuckled, as much as she loved her brother, she knew that once he starts talking, there's no stopping him. "Luckily, I happen to be a great listener and I want to know more about you. After all, you are our team member." He said gesturing for the redhead to sit down next to him.
"So we are going to tell each other things that we think the other doesn't know, right?" Aiko asked sitting down. She did not know a lot about Sasuke because unlike her brother who was an open book, Sasuke didn't talk that much about his likes and stuff. "You go first!" She said tilting her head a bit to look at the older male.
"Okay, black and blue were my favourite colours, but recently I've been attracted to olive green." He said, not wanting to start with anything that might remind her of her nightmare.
"My favourite one is probably sky blue."
"Before becoming a rouge ninja, I was a stuck-up brat." Sasuke admitted.
"I am not surprised." She said with a smile in a teasing tone. "Before you guys found me, I actually used to escort people that were transporting goods. They didn't pay that much, but it was enough for me."
"I used to have a dog named Shiro who hated me a lot and one day bit me. So I, being the stuck-up avenger, tried to drown him." He admitted. He did not know why but talking to Aiko felt so natural.
"No way! You killed a dog just because he bit you?" Her eyes widened slightly. "You're evil, Sasuke!" She said jokingly.
"Hey! I tried to kill him, but that dog knew how to swim. And in my defence he bit me first and a six year old Sasuke does not like being bitten." He said slightly pouting. He had rarely pouted before and had stopped pouting since the Uchiha massacre, but while talking to Aiko all of the walls that he had built were breaking one by one."Anyway, did you have a pet before?"
"Yeah, I did. I had a black horse named Ichika, who I had won in a fair in the land of Lightning once." She said remembering her first friend. "He was one fast horse. When we were not escorting anyone, we used to ride to our next destination at his top speed."
"Oh. What happened to him?" Sasuke asked before he could stop himself. He already knew the answer. Aiko talked about him in the past tense so that either meant that he was stolen or dead.
"He was killed by some ninjas while I was escorting some people to the land of Earth, a year ago." She said with a sad smile. "At first I didn't accept his death, but as time passed by I finally made peace with it."
"Aiko." Sasuke whispered. He now felt a bit bad for asking her that question. He took her hand in his and rubbed the back of her hand with his thumb."I'm sure he's in a better place now."
"Yeah." Aiko said remembering the memories of her late horse. "I learnt my first jutsu when I was seven." She said changing the topic.
"Guess I beat you to it." Sasuke said with a smirk."I learnt my first jutsu when I was five."
"It's not my fault orphanages don't teach jutsus until the kids are nine." She replied sassily.
"Wait, you said that you learnt your first jutsu when you were seven not nine." He asked, raising his eyebrow in confusion.
"I ran away from the orphanage when I was seven, I was always hated for my weird red hair and no one wanted to adopt me, so instead of sitting around waiting to turn thirteen, I decided to run away. I picked up some simple jutsus for self defence on my way."
"You were a badass. And to be honest, your hair looks good. I have seen people with worse hair colours." Sasuke whispered, he actually liked the colour of her hair a lot. It always reminded him of a ripe and sweet tomato. "My life was much simpler compared t o yours. I was the best student in the academy, I had a lot of fan girls and despite what people say, having fan girls is not easy at all and had dreams of owning a tomato farm and a restaurant that just serves the best tomato and rice dishes."
"You just had to mention the fan girls." Aiko said, slightly nudging his shoulder in a playful manner. She was getting so sleepy that she was barely able to keep her eyes open, but she didn't want this to end so she was trying her beast to stay awake.
"Of course." He said with one of his real smiles. He didn't know why but he was feeling a warm feeling in his chest. He just couldn't explain why."Do you have a goal for the future, Aiko?"
"I don't know. But right now I am going to focus on helping Anija achieve his dream..." She said in a soft voice. She leaned on Sasuke's shoulder and closed her eyes." Until I find my goal, till then I want to help the two of you achieve peace." She said with a yawn before falling asleep on his shoulder."Night, 'Suke." She murmured. Maybe it was the tiredness that made her do it as she wouldn't even dream of doing it in real life.
Sasuke waited for a few minutes before checking whether Aiko was asleep. When he was sure that the redhead had fallen asleep, he picked her up gently, handling her carefully as if she glass and carried her up to her bedroom. He struggled to open the door as he was carrying her with one of his hands under her legs and the other and the other supporting her back. Once he was inside her room, he gently laid her on her bed and tucked her in. He then turned around and left the room, but before closing the door he whispered, "Night, Aiko." With that he closed that door.
-Flashback end
- Near the bridge between the Land of Fire and the Land of Lightning.
"So what's our game plan, Anija?" Suzume asked. The three were currently hiding in a tree, waiting for Neko's cat, Kara's signal.
"I have a plan; we attack, kill Danzo and hopefully come back alive." As soon as Kitsune said this, the two face palmed.
"That is our mission, not the plan, dobe." Neko said rubbing the part of his mask where his forehead was. "Why of all times you're becoming a dumbass now?"
"Hey, it's not my fault. I haven't had decent ramen in a week, how do you expect me to come up with a plan? And we also don't even know the number of people Danzo is bringing." Kitsune complained. Then in a poof, a black cat appeared on Neko's shoulders.
"Neko-sama, Danzo has arrived. Along with him there are three additional ninjas." Kara said, to which she received a nod. "Do you want me to stay with you during the fight?"
"Thank you, Kara and there's no need for you to stay. Though if I need you, ill summon you." The cat nodded and disappeared back to Sora-ku.
"We may not have a plan, but we know a lot about Danzo. Just be careful not to kill the three other ninja, knock them out and either Neko or I will reverse summon them." Kitsune said in a serious voice. "Just remember, we have trained for years just to get here and no matter what we have to succeed today." He said, motivating the two a bit. With that the three left the tree and set out for the bridge. The three arrived and sat on one of the poles at the beginning of the bridge.
"Danzo, you and I both know that we aren't here to negotiate, you want to kill us and we want to kill you. So let's just get to it." Kitsune said from the top of the pillar. His blonde hair was flowing due to the wind and he had a serious expression on his face under the mask. His warm azure blue eyes had become icy cold just like Minato's.
"Fuu, Torune, Kairi." As soon as Danzo said this, three ninjas with anbu amour surrounded him in a triangular formation. Danzo threw his walking stick on the ground and began to remove his hand from the sling. "Cover me; I am releasing the seal from my right hand." He said revealing a bandaged up hand with three copper seals. The three nodded and rushed towards Team Uzu. The team split up taking one person each. Neko went after Fuu, Kitsune went after Torune and Suzume went after Kairi.
As soon as Kitsune and Torune came face to face, Torune threw a bunch of kunai at Kitsune which he dodged by doing a series of somersaults. Torune then threw a kunai at Kitsune's head which went through the after image left behind after Kitsune had shunshined. Seeing this, Torune used his teeth to take off the gloves on his hands before Kitsune could attack him. Three shuriken flew at Torune's head which he managed to doge, but one of them sliced through the side of the mask covering the upper half of his face. He ran towards Kitsune aiming a kick at his head which Kitsune dodged by ducking and sending Torune behind him. Torune smirked and punched Kitsune's back with his purple hands. The purple insects from his hands covered Kitsune's body and started to devour him. A second later Kitsune fell down, unconscious and his chakra was fully drained. Torune then walked over to him to cut off his head.
"Insects that corrode your cells from the moment you're touched. Danzo, you've got some good subordinates." Kitsune said loudly from behind Torune, Torune turned around in shock. He had just seen his insects devour Kitsune and he was sure that it was not a shadow clone. He turned back to where Kitsune's body was supposed to be only to find a wood statue of Kitsune. Kitsune had replaced himself with a wood clone when he shunshined away to test his theory. The clone deliberately let Torune touch him, hence confirming Kitsune's theory.
"I'll get you next time!" Torune said, removing his layer of clothing and as soon as he did that, the purple insects covered his whole body including his face. Suddenly, Kitsune appeared in front of him, placing a hand with Tailed beast chakra on Torune's shoulder. In an instant, Torune was absorbed into Kitsune's seal and his insects did not affect Kitsune because of the nine tails' chakra which burnt every one of them that jumped onto Kitsune's hand.
Neko and Fuu engaged in combat right away. Fuu's flat-tipped sword against Neko's single handed katana. Fuu was going on offence and was taking every opportunity he could get to land a critical hit on Neko. Neko however knew that he could not waste a lot of chakra here so he defended against Fuu's attacks flawlessly, not even leaving a scratch on his body. Fuu then threw some smoke bombs to create a diversion so he could use his mind transfer jutsu. He began making a circle with his finger but before he could use the jutsu, he saw a pair of Sharingan, the three tomeos spinning into life and he was effortlessly put under Neko's most powerful genjutsu. Before he could spike his chakra and cancel out the genjutsu, he was knocked out by the hilt of Neko's sword. "Summoning Jutsu!" Neko yelled, summoning a huge cat tail which wrapped around Fuu's unconscious body and reverse summoned him to Sora-Ku.
Kairi ran behind Suzume until they were far from the bridge. As soon as they were far enough, Suzume stopped and turned around. Suzume's hazel eyes glared into Kairi's grey that glared back. Both of them were ready for the battle. Kairi was the strongest of the three; the only reason that she was not acknowledged by Danzo was due to her inability of having a Kekkei Genkai. She wanted to defeat Suzume and wanted to show Danzo that she could defeat one of the most feared ninjas without a Kekkei Genkai .A kunai appeared in Kairi's hand while Suzume had a blade in hand. The both of them engaged in a series of blows but Suzume had a slight edge due to the length of her blade. After a couple of seconds, both of them began to get frustrated due to not landing a single hit on the other's body. Getting tired of not landing a hit on Kairi, Suzume did a somersault and threw her blade in the air. She flashed through a bunch of hand signs before taking in a deep breath. She then spat out a stream of chakra-infused gunpowder from her mouth, which surrounded the region around Kairi. Kairi's eyes widened, 'Fire Style: Burning Ash', She thought substituting herself with a rock nearby just in time. If she would have been even a second late, she would have blown up. The explosion blew the rock to pieces which flew around the two with a lot of smoke surrounding the area, making it harder for Kairi to see. As Kairi stayed on guard until the smoke had disappeared, Suzume flash-stepped away, formulating a plan.
'When against a fighting against a difficult opponent, before fighting against a formidable foe, create a distraction and formulate a plan to defeat the opponent using as little chakra as possible. You can even think of ramen as your treat if you win to provide some extra motivation while fighting.' Her Anija had told her during training. Even though, Kitsune had a careless and joking personality, he was really strict while training Suzume. He would go all out on her without using the Kyuubi's chakra and would never allow her to give up. As much as he wanted to go easy on her because she was his sister, he couldn't as it could land her in trouble with a tough opponent. He wanted to make her as strong as he was maybe even stronger and going easy on her wouldn't let that happen. Remembering Kitsune's words, she began formulating a plan. A few seconds later, a smirk appeared on her face. She had a plan.
As soon as the smoke cleared, Suzume charged at Kairi with her blade in hand. This time it was different. Suzume had removed some of her resistance seals, which Kitsune had placed on her, which made her much faster. Unlike last time, Kairi couldn't go on attack and had to defend against Suzume's attacks using two kunais. Suddenly, a kunai flew past Suzume with an explosive seal on. Suzume jumped backwards while Kairi jumped sideways, her eyes on Suzume. This was where Suzume made her move. She threw a poisoned Senbon at Kairi from where she was hiding before Kairi could notice it. The Senbon had a paralyzing poison which would also put the person into deep sleep for at least thirty- two hours. The last think that Kairi saw was the Suzume she had been fighting poof out of existence. 'Shadow clone.' She thought before falling into deep slumber. Suzume then came out of her hiding spot, tied Kairi using special chakra infused ropes to a nearby tree and then put a barrier around the tree just to be careful.
As soon as Kitsune had finished his fight against Torune, he shunshined in front of Danzo. He glanced sideways to see Suzume leading Kairi away and Neko draw out his blade against Fuu's flat tipped one. Danzo dropped his metal seals and began to remove the thin bandages covering his arm. Meanwhile, Kitsune was having a mental conversation with Kurama.
'Kurama, watch out for his genjutsus he has Shisui's eye and you know that I'm weak in them.'
'Okay, kit. Do you want my chakra?' The tailed beast asked getting up.
'No, I want to see how much damage I can do to him without your chakra.' Kitsune said before exiting his mindscape.
Once Danzo had fully removed all of the bandages, a white arm with multiple Sharingans was in place of his regular right arm. Kitsune immediately recognized the cells of that arm. He already knew about the Sharingans, but Orochimaru had not specified what cells he had used.
"How did you get my ancestors' cells?" Kitsune asked, his voice was laces with Kurama's malice. The thought that Danzo had disrespected his ancestors by robbing their grave made his blood boil.
"It's a long story." Danzo said making some hand signs and activating the Izanagi. He then ran forward at his maximum speed, swinging his hand to land a powerful hit on Kitsune. His blow landed, but Kitsune didn't even move. He looked down and saw that there was a shield of wood protecting the part of Kitsune's body where Danzo had landed a hit. Danzo's eyes widened in surprise and his mouth was hung open. The blow was powerful enough to break a whole wall, but it didn't even leave a crack on the wood.
'Natural wood style. Now I see how he knew that my arm had cells of the first Hokage.' Danzo thought jumping back in defence. To his surprise, Kitsune had already summoned a tree right behind him which started to wrap its branches around Danzo's body. Danzo tried to cut down as many branches as he could, but he couldn't stop the tree from wrapping itself around him. Kitsune had used the 'Wood Style: Tree Bind Eternal Burial.' It was a stronger version of Gaara's sand coffin, made using trees. Kitsune was excited to see what trick Danzo had to escape this. The tree fully covered Danzo and compressed him to death. Some blood splattered on the ground and Kitsune felt Danzo's chakra signature go out. There was a feeling in his gut that told him that there was something fishy. An opponent like Danzo, who is feared all over the shinobi nations, would not be this easy to kill.
A second later, he was proved right. He felt Danzo's chakra signature reappear, but this time it was behind him. He turned around to find the old war hawk smirking. A kunai slipped down Danzo's sleeve and into his palm. He ran forward with the intention of stabbing Kitsune, but once again, a piece of wood shielded him. Danzo's kunai broke as soon as it came in contact with the chakra-infused wood.
"Just as I thought wood style. The famous Kekkei Genkai of the First Hokage. That splendid chakra-infused wood to defend yourself. It's no doubt that you are a Sen-" Before Danzo could continue, he was hit by a gigantic wooden hand, created by Kitsune without using any hand signs. It was smaller version of Hashirama's Wood Style: Laughing Buddha Jutsu. Danzo was smashed into the bridge and Kitsune felt his chakra signature disappear. His chakra signature reappeared and he was standing on a column which was to Kitsune's right. Another giant wooden hand appeared and punched the spot of the column where Danzo was standing, blowing the whole column up. Danzo jumped just before the hand him and landed in front of Kitsune. Kitsune's first hand punched the part of the bridge where Danzo was standing, causing destruction, but missing Danzo. Danzo jumped up high using his chakra to send himself flying. What he didn't notice was one of Kitsune's clones was just behind him. Danzo turned around to see Kitsune's clone with a Rasenshuriken in hand. Before he could do anything, the Rasenshuriken ripped his body into two. Kitsune felt Danzo's chakra disappear again.
Danzo's chakra signature reappeared behind Kitsune. Kitsune turned around, but Danzo was prepared. As soon as Kitsune turned around, Danzo fired a bunch of 'Wind Style: Vacuum Bullets' at Kitsune which he barely managed to avoid by jumping up by pumping up his chakra in his feet. While he was in the air, two bullets managed to graze him. One grazed his neck while the other grazed his shoulder. Kitsune cursed under his breath. He knew that Kurama would heal him, but he didn't want Danzo to have the satisfaction of landing a hit on him. Before he landed, he saw one of the Sharingans in Danzo's arm close and realized that the Sharingans had something to do with him not dying.
"I knew that I couldn't capture you or the Uchiha, so I decided to capture your sister. She is the weakest in the group after all. But now once I kill you, I'll capture her and do unimaginable things to her until she tells me all of the information and gives me the location of all of your safe houses. After that I'll pass her along to my subordinates who will have fun with the girl." Danzo said smugly. He knew that Suzume was a sore spot for Kitsune, but he needed to get into Kitsune's head fast or else he wouldn't be able to come out of this alive. But he didn't know that he was unconsciously digging up his own grave.
"WHAT DID YOU SAY?" Kitsune snarled, his voice was low but deadly. His blue eyes turned into deep red with vertical slits and his whisker marks under the mask had become thicker."YOU KEEP MY SISTER'S NAME OUT OF YOUR FUCKING FILTHY MOUTH, YOU SICK SON OF A BITCH! "He was covered in one tail worth of Kurama's chakra. The chakra was so powerful that it broke the mask covering his face and now he only had the Kakashi style mask covering half of his face. Before Danzo could even react, he had a fist in his face that broke most of his teeth away. He tried to get up, but he never saw Kitsune's blow coming. The blond tackled him hard, breaking some of his ribs. For the next few seconds, Danzo couldn't do anything, his eye couldn't match Kitsune's speed and Kitsune didn't give him the time to remove the bandages covering Shisui's Sharingan... Danzo was seeing god at this point, he was literary seeing god. He was being beaten so hard that he was looking at the inside of his brain. After Kitsune was done with Danzo, he was dead with more that hundred broken bones in his body. His chakra signature disappeared again and Kitsune took this time to calm himself down and switch back to his chakra, returning what was left of the one tail back to Kurama. His eyes changed back to blue and his whiskers returned to normal.
"It's useless." Danzo said, from atop another column at the middle of the bridge. He decided not to say anything about Suzume as he still remembered the beating from last time. The thought of that sent shivers down his spine. Just as Kitsune was about to unsheathe his Katana, Neko arrived in front of him.
"I'll take care of him now." Neko said turning to Kitsune, his obsidian black eyes spinning into the three tomeoed Sharingan and then into the Mangekyo Sharingan. Kitsune nodded in agreement and shunshined away. As much as he wanted to beat Danzo up, he knew that Neko had a score to settle as well. Neko up at Danzo, activating his genjutsu. Black blobs of ink appeared to separate from his body, turning into cats. The black cats started running up the pillar and all Danzo could see was a red terrain which had a single moon and black cats surrounded him. Danzo was tied to a stump and all the cats started to eat him, tearing off his flesh. Then appeared the one of the men whose life Danzo had ruined, Itachi Uchiha. Danzo dispelled the genjutsu along with his Izanagi and jumped down from the pillar and in front of Neko. Before reaching down, he activated his Izanagi once again.
"So, you are related to Itachi. But you lack his skills in genjutsu. He is still the best genjutsu user." Danzo said, while Kitsune watched this from atop the pillar at the end of the bridge.
"I'll ask this once Danzo is it true that Itachi eliminated my clan following orders that were given to him by you and the leaf elders?" Neko said in a calm voice. He knew that it was true, but he still wanted to hear it from the person who had caused it all. After not getting an answer, he ran out of patience. "I asked you if it's true!" He shouted and a skeletal green hand made out of pure chakra appeared. The hand caught Danzo in his fist before he could react. The hand started to squeeze the life out of Danzo.
"I didn't think that he was that kind of man." Danzo said, spitting out blood. "Curse him, he told you everything. I didn't think that Itachi was the kind of man who would betray his village by spilling the secrets entrusted to him." Danzo said as he struggled against Neko's hold.
"That means its true then." Neko said his voice full of anger. His Susanoo's skeleton hand changed into a much humanoid form and the Susanoo's upper body began forming. The rest of his body was a skeleton except the hand that was holding Danzo. He formed a waist length Susanoo and then the hollow eyes in its skull lit up.
"It's not just Itachi, countless shinobi have died the same way. It's thanks to them that peace is still maintained." Danzo said, coughing up some more blood. "Still, Itachi revealed the secrets to you which means that he's a traitor." As soon as Neko heard those words, he tightened the hold around Danzo with the intension of killing him, but when he smashed Danzo, a boulder was snapped into rocks. 'Substitution.' Neko thought as his Susanoo disappeared.
Danzo appeared behind him, throwing a bunch of wind chakra enhanced shuriken at Neko. Neko managed to dodge the first one and then took out his Katana. He then put the blade of the sword through the hole of the second shuriken, changing its direction and deflecting Danzo's third shuriken with it which went flying. He then threw the shuriken back at Danzo which Danzo deflected using his fourth shuriken. Neko came running towards him with the intention of stabbing him with his sword. At the last moment, Danzo used his hand to grab Neko's neck choking him but he didn't see his third shuriken that Neko had sent flying to come at him. The shuriken cut off Danzo's right arm and then Neko slashed Danzo's chest with his Katana. Neko quickly removed the seal that Danzo had placed on him while Danzo had grabbed his neck. Kitsune had placed much more powerful seals on him so removing this seal was a child's play. Before Danzo could reappear, he shunshined to the column that Danzo was standing on before so that he could spot Danzo easily. He then begun forming his Susanoo again, but this time it was not just the skeleton of the upper body, but the muscles and fibres started to appear too. The Susanoo had arm fins and shoulder fins and his face was like that of a sea monster. The Susanoo had a crossbow in one hand and had knight armour on.
Danzo appeared again, this time on his knees. Even though, the Izanagi was keeping him alive, he could still feel the pain when he died. As soon as Danzo appeared, he loaded his crossbow with an arrow. 'His aiming right at me, can't weave the signs!' Danzo thought as he was halfway through weaving his hand signs. 'Seems I have no choice.' He said, extending his right shoulder. Just as Neko shot the arrow, a tree grew out of his shoulder and the arrow pierced right through it, missing Danzo. Danzo took this opportunity to run at Neko. Neko had already reloaded another arrow and shot it right through the running man's chest. Danzo coughed up some blood and then his just vanished. He reappeared seconds later running towards Neko again. That is when Neko finally realized Danzo's Jutsu. He had learnt about it in Sora-Ku, with Neko-Ba. The jutsu was a forbidden jutsu, even among the Uchiha, the Izanagi. Danzo then fired off a 'Wind Style: Vacuum Great Sphere.' at Neko and was able to knock the Susanoo back a few meters, but then a drill type of long sword began forming in the Susanoo's hand. Before Danzo could defend himself, he was pierced by the sword and killed instantly.
He reappeared where the tree that had grown out of his hand was standing. 'That Kitsune, there's very little chance that he'll join the battle.' Danzo thought, glancing at the blonde who was comfortably sitting on the pillar at the end of the bridge, enjoying a bowl of steaming ramen. Though it appeared that the blonde was ignorant, he was ready to jump into the battle any second that he was needed but for now he decided to enjoy the show. 'But I can't take any chances; I must keep enough power preserved to fight him. It'll be some time before my right eye recovers as I used it recently to erase the memory of a root anbu who had found about some of my secrets. However, fighting the Susanoo won't be easy either. Its attacks are very difficult to dodge.' Danzo thought looking at the green half sea-monster. 'I can't undo my Izanagi yet.' He then slipped his finger into one of his wounds. 'I have to finish things this minute.' He finally concluded. "Summoning Jutsu!" He said, summoning a large animal that was a mixture of an elephant and a tiger. The animal turned to Neko and started sucking everything into its mouth. Taking advantage of this Danzo appeared behind Neko and began pushing him along with his Susanoo' using the 'Wind Style: Great Breakthrough'. The summoning had started to tear off pieces of the Susanoo and sucking it into its mouth.
"The summoning, it's the Baku. A monster that feeds on nightmares. It's a lot larger than I imagined." Kitsune said before slurping some noodles. The force applied was not affecting him in any way so he decided not to move and spill some of the ramen accidentally.
Danzo had the advantage now. "Wind Style: Vacuum Blast Barrage!" He said running even closer to Neko. The attack tore away the layer of flesh of the Susanoo, leaving behind its skeleton. 'This is it. The weak part of the Susanoo.' He thought.
"Boil Style: Solid Fog Jutsu!" Suzume said, entering the battle. She fired off a cloud of highly acidic mist towards the unprepared Danzo, melting him immediately. She had learnt this from the Mizukage while she was in the Mist. She then turned to the monster. "Fire Style: Great Fire Annihilation!" She said, shooting out literal sea of flames from her mouth. The pinnacle of Uchiha Fire Release techniques. She had used the Baku's inhalation against itself. The Baku now had inhaled a huge amount of fire and his mouth and head were on fire. Unable to bear the pain, he returned back to where he was reverse summoned to with a satisfying 'poof'. Kitsune was looking calm on the outside, but from the inside he was cheering for his sister. Neko's Susanoo disappeared and some blood slipped through his lips. Using the Susanoo was a super-fast, super-strong jutsu but it took a great amount of chakra. Suzume headed over to him and they were standing with their backs touching and faces facing in the opposite direction, scanning the bridge for Danzo.
"Guess I saved your ass, Uchiha." She said, panting. Switching between two chakra natures that needed to exhale a large amount of air left very little air in her lungs.
"Don't get too arrogant, when you fight him for as long as I have been, you won't be smiling." He said, wiping the blood off his face using his sleeve.
Danzo reappeared but this time, he appeared closed to Kitsune and ran at him with his kunai in hand, taking advantage that the blonde was eating. He made a huge mistake by thinking that it would be easy to take down Kitsune just because he was busy. He jumped over the column and Kitsune merely glanced at him before summoning four shurikens from the seal on his hand and throwing it at Danzo, without even glancing at him and balancing the bowl of ramen and the chopsticks in one hand. The four shurikens hit four of Danzo's vital points. He grunted in pain before falling down. "Just because I'm eating does not mean that I'm not paying attention. You should have just been happy that I left you to fight with Neko alone after your last beating. Feel free to attack me again if you want a repeat." Kitsune said before Danzo's chakra signature disappeared and he died. Again.
This time Danzo appeared right in front of Suzume and Neko. The two ninjas split up and sprinted in opposite directions, not wanting to fall into any of Danzo's traps. Danzo went after the raven because his chakra reserves were the lowest among the two from using the Susanoo. As soon as he caught up with Neko, the raven faced him, his Katana in his hand covered in blue lightning chakra. Danzo took out a kunai and laced it with his wind chakra, creating a chakra blade. The two ran at each other with the intent of stabbing the other and their blades passed through each other. Danzo's blade passed through Neko's lower lung, puncturing and Neko's blade went through Danzo's heart, killing him. A few seconds later, Danzo vanished. As soon as he vanished, Neko started healing his wounds using his medical Ninjutsu.
Danzo appeared in front of Suzume this time. The girl was in shock so Danzo decided to use this opportunity. He took out his last kunai and rushed towards her. Stabbing her heart and killing her. A lot of blood poured out and there was a poof being heard. Danzo looked down to see that his own chest to a chakra blade sticking through it. Suzume had planned all of this and had counted on him stabbing her shadow clone, while she could stab him from behind. Ironically, the blade that she used was inspired by Danzo's wind chakra blade used earlier; she had just changed the element from Wind to Boil. "That's payback for what you did to my brother." Suzume said, removing the blade. He coughed up blood and decided to use his final Izanagi. To his surprise it didn't work. He glanced back at his hand to see the last open Sharingan turn into a closed one.
"My genjutsu may not be as strong as Itachi's is, but it sure does work." Neko said, appearing in a shunshin.
Danzo started running away from the two. Blood was pouring from his chest and his mouth. None of the two followed him because they knew that a certain blonde was already waiting to do that. Kitsune appeared in front of Danzo.
"Danzo. I will be taking Shisui's eye." Kitsune said, looking Danzo in the eye.
'Damn it. If only I could have dragged the battle long enough to use Shisui's eye I would have won.' He thought. "For the shinobi world and the leaf, I won't let you live!" He exclaimed, activating the reverse tetra gram seal on his chest. Kitsune quickly drew a seal to cancel out Danzo's seal and placed it on Danzo's chest. Danzo's eyes widened and before he could even say anything, Kitsune jabbed him in the neck killing him instantly once and for all. He then removed Shisui's eye and stored it in a scroll.
"Don't you die on me, damn it!" He exclaimed, shaking the dead Danzo with the collar of the shirt.
"Anija, he is already dead and he was our enemy." Suzume said, appearing with Neko next to Kitsune.
"I know Suzume, but I've always wanted to say that line one time to a dying person." He said getting up and dusting himself. "Let's go home."
The three nodded with a smile on their faces and left for their house in The Hidden Hot Water Village.
A/N
Another chapter down. This was honestly the hardest chapter to write because of all the research and plotting I had to do. I also decided to give Sasuke Shisui's Susanoo as it looks really cool and the version of Sasuke that I am making is going to be a bit different.
I had to pull two all-nighter to finish this chapter before Friday for y'all, so it would mean the world to me you left a review about the chapter.
Let me know if you liked this chapter and the SasuAiko scene.
That's it. I am not going to write a long A/N like always as I am really sleepy and I want to go to bed.
Important Questions:
1) Reactions of people when Team Uzu returns to Konoha.
2) Should NaruIno move in together?
3) How should the announcement of Naruto and Sasuke being alive be made?
Please let me know as your opinions help me write the next chapter even faster.
See y'all soon!
Peace!
