UnsanMusho: I just didn't really feel the need to put Kurenai's perspective seeing as she saw her former pupil's abilities in the prelims and Yakumo has moved on from her. Thanks for the review.
Gammagyro: Even though Naruto, Sasuke, and Yakumo have completed all of the chakra exercises, they still tend to overuse their chakra on jutsu which I will go into after the invasion. Yakumo is going to learn sealing from Kushina later on while at the same time learning to use a scythe with occasional help from Naruto on how to wield a large weapon. Naruto will be learning multiple styles that the previous swordsmen including Sera used. Minato will be training him in the planning and strategy and such. Sasuke will get a weapon as well but I don't think that it'll be an axe because I'm going to be building him up as more of a speed type. Sasuke will also begin to make some of his own jutsu more as he learns from Itachi and xxSPOILER ALERTxx good Orochimaru. Yakumo is also going to become a little more "territorial" of Naruto but not in a clingy way. Eventually the two will have a conversation about their future together beyond ninja life. Appreciate the ideas always.
PinkiePieParty122894: Yeah Jiraiya's realizing what he did now. Thanks for the review I appreciate it a lot.
Jasmine: I'll be honest, the twins are pretty far gone but later in the story the possibility for redemption will arise for them. Appreciate the review.
Guest: Yeah there are a lot of barriers between Naruto and Jiraiya. Jiraiya isn't up to date with who Naruto is as a person so there will definitely be conflict in the future. Yakumo will be getting a scythe as her weapon and I'm still deciding on what weapon Sasuke will use. Naruto is still learning all he can about swordsmanship and his abilities but I don't think that I'll bring Bleach or Vampire Hunter D into it because I don't really know much about those two. Thanks for reviewing.
Animaman: Minato and Kushina will reflect on what they did wrong in terms of Menma and Narumi which will open the door for them thinking back to how they neglected Naruto. They will also start looking around for any kind of answer as to why the twins left. Jiraiya's attitude towards Naruto is still up in the air especially after the twins leave. Thanks for the review I appreciate them a lot.
Yugito Nii stood across from her opponent, Gaara of the Sand. She already knew that she was facing another jinchuriki, Nibi had told her that much. On the outside she may be facing the son of the Kazekage, but in reality she was facing the one tailed tanuki, Shukaku. When the proctor announced for the match to begin, she immediately had to dodge the waves of sand that were sent at her by Gaara. "Yugito, you have to use my power. I've seen jinchuriki like him before. They are unstable and when one of my siblings are released from an unstable jinchuriki, people die. You have to finish him before he releases Shukaku" Nibi said from inside Yugito's mindscape. 'Damn, I really wanted to do this on my own, but I'll just have to wait until next round' Yugito thought as she continued to dodge. When the blasts of sand stopped, Yugito immediately focused all of her chakra just like Bee had taught her.
The kages watched as Yugito's chakra output began to increase rapidly. A's eyes widened when he realized what was happening. Turning to his brother, he was surprised to see the look of seriousness that marred Bee's face. "Kazekage don't feel down, but Yugito's gonna make your son look like a clown" Bee said smiling as everyone in the kage box sweatdropped. The kages were brought out of their musings however when a large burst of chakra was felt. Turning back to the battle, everyone but A and Bee had looks of surprise.
Yugito stood breathing harder than usual from focusing so much chakra, but it had the desired effect. Now protruding from her fingers were long and sharp nails while behind her waved a long blue and black tail of chakra. Smirking, she rushed at Gaara on all fours before jumping to strike. When Gaara's sand shield arose, she slashed through it with her right hand. She hadn't hit Gaara, but she was on the right track. Before she could think up a strategy of how to reach the red head, she was forced to dodge as more sand was sent at her. She successfully dodged the blast of sand however she had forgotten that Gaara had pretty much complete control over the element. The sand blast that she had dodged simply returned and hit her in the back sending her to the ground. Before she could get up another blast of sand hit her, then another, and then another. As she lie on the ground, the sand that had hit her slowly formed around her body and lifted her up to meet Gaara's eyes.
The blonde kunoitchi was struggling to get out of the sand while cursing herself. 'How could I have been so careless? Damn it I have to get out of this quick' she thought before looking at her smiling opponent. "Today, you will prove my existence" the one tailed jinchuriki said before closing his hand with an insane smile. "Sand Coffin" he said causing the pile of sand surrounding Yugito to completely implode crushing the girl. As parts of sand began to drop from the blob of sand that had encased and killed his opponent, Gaara began to laugh loudly. His laughter was the only sound that was made in the entire arena. The audience was so shocked and horrified that they couldn't make a sound. The ninja looked silently on at the risk of being a shinobi. Everyone in the kage box was wide eyed and shocked at how quickly the match had turned. Everyone except A, Bee, and Rasa.
The proctor came out to announce Gaara as the winner when the blob of sand that had crushed Yugito began to shake. At first it was a slow rumble, but it quickly evolved into a rigorous shaking. Before either Gaara or the proctor could react, the sand exploded outwards revealing a chakra covered Yugito in its place. Slightly panting, the Kumo nin stood tall and wiped her mouth of a small amount of blood. Turning her eyes to her opponent, she smirked. "Got another one in ya?" she asked which caused an unusual and somewhat frightening reaction to those who knew Gaara. His face now showed his anger. Normally his face remained blank while sometimes letting out an insane smile when he got the chance to "prove his existence". He never showed his anger, not until now. Gaara yelled out in anger before releasing all of the sand in his gourd to go after Yugito. The blonde smiled. "All according to plan" she said to herself. As the large wave of sand began to chase after her, she once again began to run on all fours. When she got into position to run, she took off backwards as the sand continued to chase her.
Eventually she reached the wall and used chakra to stick to it. The sand's speed increased as it closed in on as the sand reached her location, Yugito smiled. "This should be far enough" she said with a smile and vanished. Only the shinobi could see her as she ran quickly along the wall before using it as a launching point to her opponent. Pushing as hard as she could with her legs, she flew at Gaara with her nails extended. Usually it wouldn't be a problem due to Gaara's sand shield, but in his anger he had sent all of his sand leaving him defenseless. "Cat Claw" Yugito shouted as blue chakra began to cover her hands again. With a single swipe, Yugito landed behind Gaara whose eyes were wide with shock. The boy slowly looked down to see five long cuts to his chest and blood pouring out.
"My blood" he said quietly at first. "MY BLOOD" Gaara finally screamed as his sand returned to him. Turning around to meet his opponent, his sand began to cover half of his body while one of his eyes was now black and yellow with a black star in the center. That's when the feathers began to drop and the kage box exploded.
(Top of Kage Box)
On top of the kage box stood Minato Namikaze Hokage of the Leaf, A Raikage of Kumo, Onoki Tsuchikage of Iwa, Kushina Uzumaki, Bee of Kumo, and Rasa Kazekage of Suna.
"What the hell just happened?" yelled out A but was interrupted from saying anything else by the chuckling of Rasa. The kages and their guests faced the Kazekage. "Rasa what have you done?" shouted Minato. The response he received was that the chuckling turned into laughter. Looking up at the kage Rasa quickly removed his robe and hat. "I apologize for the misconception but I am not Rasa. You may call me Iliel if you like" the now revealed man said with a smile. The man reached down to his side where a katana now rested and removed it from its sheath.
"Yo bro I'll take down this foe" Bee said reaching for his sword. Faster than any of the group could see, Bee was sent flying back with a large gash across his chest. "Pathetic" Iliel said resting his sword on his shoulder. The kages and Kushina looked at the Kumo jinchuriki in shock. His wound was healing but very slowly.
Turning in rage, A immediately activated his lightning armor and attacked Iliel. Just as the Raikage was about to land a hit on the swordsman, he vanished only to appear right behind A. Stopping in his tracks, A fell to a knee with a gash on his shoulder. Minato, Kushina, and Onoki looked on in disbelief at the speed of Iliel. When the white haired swordsman turned back around to face the uninjured members of the group, his eyes widened before raising his arm to block a punch from behind that came from A. The force of the punch pushed Iliel back a few feet but the man soon righted himself. "I see that I misjudged your endurance, it won't happen again" Iliel said to the panting Raikage.
"You won't live to regret the mistake" said A who gritted his teeth. Minato and Onoki stepped forward to enter the battle. Turning to his wife, Minato spoke. "Kushina, get Bee to the hospital. We'll take it from here" he said making the red head look at him in disbelief. "I'm not leaving Minato, we are gonna do this toget-" "No Kushina! Get Bee to the hospital. This isn't your fight" Minato interrupted with the same seriousness that made him feared throughout the elemental nations. Kushina wanted to ignore her husband and join the fight, but his tone changed her mind as she rushed to pick up Bee and leave. Minato turned his attention back to the enemy. "I'm gonna be sleeping on the couch for a few nights I guess" Minato said with a smirk. Iliel tilted his head. "You're wrong Minato Namikaze. After today, your body will rest in the ground" Iliel said smiling.
Onoki crossed his arms. "Why are you doing this?" the old kage asked. Iliel raised an eyebrow. "Simple. Without a kage, the villages will panic. Trust me it falls into a plan greater than you could ever imagine, but you don't need to concern yourself with that. After all, this will be your last day alive" Iliel said. Onoki snorted. "I am the oldest kage in the elemental nations. Thousands have claimed to be the one to kill me and thousands have died by my hand. I have faced many powerful opponents, but I doubt that you will be one that I separate from the rest" Onoki said as dust began to quickly form around his hands. Minato nodded and pulled out his three pronged kunai. A activated his lightning armor. Iliel simply rolled his neck. "A futile effort but I will entertain it anyway" the man said raising his sword.
(Naruto and Sasuke)
Naruto looked up at the kage box and saw the only person since Sera to beat him in a duel. Clenching his teeth, he stretched out his arm calling his sword which instantly appeared in his grasp. He was about to go off and fight the man known as Iliel in the rematch that he had wanted since his loss but was brought out of it when he was shaken by Sasuke. "Naruto, look" Sasuke said pointing at the arena where Yugito was now faced with Temari, Kankuro, and Gaara whose body was now becoming more sand than human. Biting his lip, Naruto nodded his head and the two took off to help out the Kumo kunoitchi.
(Yakumo)
Yakumo was rushing as fast as her tired body could take her. She had awoken in the infirmary to the sound of battle. After she had left her room to investigate the disturbance, a purple haired ANBU who had just finished killing a sand nin told her to head to the academy and help with evacuation procedures. From what she had seen, the ANBU were doing all that they could to keep back sound and sand ninja. There were a few buildings on fire but Yakumo didn't take time to notice them.
Finally arriving at the academy, she saw a group of sound nin surrounding around twenty academy students and a knocked out Iruka. Immediately recognizing the situation Yakumo did a series of quick handsigns and whispered "Blinding Darkness". She knew that her genjutsu had taken effect when each of the group began to look around frantically, not yet understanding that they were trapped in a genjutsu. Not wasting any time Yakumo quickly sped over to meet the scared children. Looking into their eyes, Yakumo could see the children's fear. Knowing that they were scared, the genjutsu prodigy stood tall and spoke calmly to the kids. "Listen up kids, I need each of you to follow me" Yakumo said trying to reassure the students. "Follow you where?" a brown haired academy student asked worriedly. Yakumo began thinking about where they could go when the voice of a newly recovered chunin spoke.
"The shelters" Iruka Umino said before coughing. "The shelters behind the Hokage Monument. Take the kids there Yakumo" Iruka ordered before coughing some more. "What about you sensei?" Yakumo asked to which Iruka shakily stood up. "I'll buy you some time just get up there before your jutsu ends" the chunin said. Yakumo shook her head rapidly. "No sensei, you're coming with us" she stated. Iruka turned to look at his former student. "It wasn't a suggestion Yakumo. As your superior I am ordering you to complete the evacuation. Go now!" he shouted. But before Yakumo could respond, small pulses of chakra were felt from each of the sound shinobi. They had disrupted the genjutsu.
"So you got the drop on us. You should have killed us little girl" said a sound ninja who stepped forward. Yakumo tightened her fists. Taking a deep breath she stepped forward as well. "Iruka sensei, I want you to wait for an opening. When it happens, take the kids and leave" Yakumo said in a serious tone. Iruka looked at his former student as if she were crazy. "Yakumo, I told you that I will hold them off now g-" "Iruka you can't even gain their attention in your condition so shut up and wait!" Yakumo shouted shutting up her former instructor. Stepping forward once again, Yakumo removed a kunai and held it tightly. She had been outnumbered before and lived to see another day. There was a major difference between bandits and ninja however. Shaking her head, Yakumo prepared herself. 'I will protect them even if it cost me my life' Yakumo resolved inside herself before dashing towards her opponents.
(Jiraiya and Tsunade)
The two Sannin were together fighting off sand ninja and sound ninja alike. Things weren't going great for a number of reasons. Jiraiya was still flushing the alcohol from his system, Tsunade was covering Jiraiya's occasional slip ups, and the enemies just kept on coming. The skill of the sound and sand ninja weren't the challenging part of their battle, it was the number of people that the two had to continuously fight. It seemed as if every time they killed a ninja, five more appeared. It was beginning to wear a little on them. Normally the two could just summon Katsuyu and Gamabunta and end the battle but Jiraiya at the moment was hard pressed to do high level ninjutsu much less a summoning jutsu, and Tsunade was to busy fighting off the enemies with her fists to perform her summoning jutsu. But even though the ninja kept coming at them, Jiraiya and Tsunade stood strong defeating all those who came their way in an effort to protect their home.
(Naruto and Sasuke)
When Naruto and Sasuke reached Gaara and Yugito, the red headed jinchuriki turned around and took off towards the forest. Just as Yugito prepared to take off after Gaara, Naruto stopped her. "Wait, we'll go after him. You need to find a way to help your Raikage" Naruto said. Yugito looked at the fellow blond as if he were crazy. "Are you kidding me? I don't know if you know this but he is a jinchuriki not just another genin" she said loudly. At first Naruto said nothing. Closing his eyes he took a deep breath and raised his sword onto his shoulder. "I know what he is. It's your duty to protect your leader isn't it? Our duty is to protect our village so leave this to us" Naruto said calmly. Yugito looked like she wanted to argue more but with everything that was going on around them she put her trust in the Konoha genin and left in the direction of her teammates Karui and Omoi who were fighting Temari and Kankuro of the Sand.
Once Yugito left Naruto looked at Sasuke and nodded. The two started to run after Gaara.
(Itachi)
Itachi stood with his father and mother fighting off sand and sound ninja but having to be careful due to unconscious civilians around them. Killing multitudes of ninja while simultaneously keeping the sleeping citizens safe from harm wasn't easy but it was the duty of a Konoha ninja. As he finished off another sound ninja, he looked down at the arena to see the Suna jinchuriki take off towards the forest. When Gaara left, his nerves calmed down now that the unstable jinchuriki was away from his little brother only for them to return as he watched his brother and Naruto take off after Gaara. Cursing to himself, he prepared to run after the two only for more hordes of ninja to swarm in. Continuously cursing in his head, the Uchiha stayed behind with his mother and father to fulfill the duty of protecting the village. He trusted his students. They would be okay.
(Yakumo)
Yakumo was more tired than she had ever been in her entire life. She was covered in cuts and bruises and was having trouble breathing, but she stood tall in defense of the academy students behind her. Seven of the enemy ninja were dead leaving only three. Not giving her opponents time to strategize, she ran at one of the ninja and started to land quick strikes to his body. When the other two joined in to stop her, she simply dodged their attacks and launched a few of her own. Engaging them in a taijutsu battle was a double edged sword in this case. On one hand they couldn't use any jutsu against her and were frankly pitiful in terms of taijutsu. On the other hand however, she was becoming more and more exhausted by each passing second. It hurt to move but she knew that any hesitation on her part would result in not only her death, but the deaths of the academy students and Iruka. Pushing beyond her normal limits, she used everything she had to hit harder and faster. It wasn't long until the three ninja were knocked out.
Staggering towards the three unconscious sound nin, she took her kunai and stabbed all three in the side of their heads to prevent further problems. After the deed was done, Yakumo fell to a knee, her vision becoming blurry. She couldn't help but let a small smile reveal itself on her face. She had done it. She had won.
Her satisfied expression quickly turned into one of pure horror when ten more sand and sound ninja showed up.
"Look guys, the little girl thought she won" said one of the sound ninja which elicited a few chuckles from their group. "I'm guessing that you didn't sense us while we watched your last stand. I will admit, you've got guts but this is the end. Don't worry though, we won't kill all your little academy students, after all I'm sure that we can find a few people in the market for some kids" the sound ninja said with a disgusting grin. The students behind Yakumo began to cry and Iruka began to cough again as he tried to get up and protect his students. He had failed so far but it would be over his dead body that his students were sold for whatever sick purposes these monsters had in mind.
Yakumo's eyes began to water yet she didn't feel sad. She was furious. If she had only sensed the reinforcements then she could have preserved her energy better. If Iruka had done his job and gotten the students out of there then the stakes wouldn't be so high. If only an ANBU or ninja higher than genin was in her position. Clenching her fists and closing her eyes, she screamed.
When her eyes opened, she was in a dimly lit wooden room. Looking around, she saw no doors or windows. Before Yakumo could get too far in her thoughts of where she was, a voice sounded throughout the room. A voice that she had prayed that she would never hear again.
"Hello my dear Yakumo" said the cold voice as a creature rose from the floor, not able to be seen completely due to the lack of light. Yakumo gritted her teeth and responded. "Hello Ido" she said clenching her fists which elicited a chuckle from the demon across from her. "What can I do for you?" asked Yakumo sarcastically which gained another chuckle from the demon. "Oh no Yakumo, it isn't what you can do for me. It's what I can do for you" the demon said. Yakumo rolled her eyes. "And what is that?" she asked. Ido wasted no time responding. "It seems that you are in a bit of a mess. Whether or not you want to admit it, you need me. That is unless you want those poor children that you're fighting so hard to protect to be sent Kami knows where for purposes even I would consider unsavory" Ido said with a smirk. "You know that you have no choice. Release me" the demon said now grinning widely. Yakumo quickly shook her head. "No. Last time you ran free, you tried to burn down the clan compound. I won't risk letting you out" she said with a fierce glare.
It was then that different scenes began to pop into her head. Scenes of the different possibilities of her battle. Scenes of her dying, scenes of her being tortures and raped, scenes of the students being sold into slavery or being killed on sight. It was unbearable and the most frightening aspect was that it was easily possible. She couldn't protect the kids as she was now. Looking at the ground, she let tears fall. Looking at the demon, she subtly nodded her head. 'If Ido goes too crazy, Kami please let me die before I can hurt anyone' was her final prayer before Ido took over.
The sound and sand nin looked on as dark chakra began to envelop the girl who had just a moment ago screamed in despair of her situation. When the chakra dissipated, the new sight caused each of the ninja to take a few steps backwards. In place of the weakened brunette was a monster. It's fangs stretched past it's jaw, it's eyes were red and demonic, and it had what seemed like horns protruding from both sides of it's head. It struck fear into the ninja who were now beginning to rethink getting into this fight. That was as far as their thoughts got before each of their bodies went rigid. Unable to move, they enemy nin watched in terror as the demon approached.
"It's been so long since I've been out. I must remember to thank the girl for giving me a few playthings in celebration of my release" Ido said with a twisted grin. Raising it's arms the demon's smile widened. "Your deaths will not be quick nor will they be painless. Suffer at the hands of Ido" it said.
There were a few moments of silence and it started to seem like nothing had happened. That's when the screaming began. For some, cuts and scratches began to form. For others, dark purple veins began to stretch out all along their bodies. Each of them were suffering from a genjutsu that made you suffer through intense physical torture. It was simple but effective. A couple of the ninja affected had realized that it was a genjutsu but found out the hard way that for Yakumo, genjutsu isn't just an illusion. As their screams continued, some began to claw their eyes out. Others were rolling on the ground in pain unable to come up with anything else to do. Their cries were disturbing but to Ido, it was a symphony that put a smile on it's face. Eventually the cries stopped as the enemy ninja now lie dead with looks of pain forever etched on their faces.
Ido began to chuckle which quickly turned into a loud laugh. Turning around to face the academy students and Iruka, the demon smiled again. "That stupid girl released me in hopes that I would protect you but unfortunately for you, I have a lot of fun to catch up on" Ido said. Iruka stood in front of the scared children with his kunai out ready to defend his students. As the demon approached, a stumble in it's walk confused the onlookers. "No you stupid girl. You need me. I won't let you banish me, I won't!" the demon shouted while grasping it's head before screaming at the sky. The dark chakra that had once enveloped Yakumo began to slowly fade causing the monstrous features of Ido to fade as well. It wasn't long until Yakumo was revealed. Immediately after the dark chakra had left, she fell forward in exhaustion.
Iruka was about to go tend to his former student when a swirl of what seemed to be paper arrived near the girl. The paper revealed a blue haired woman in a black coat with red clouds. The woman lifted Yakumo and looked at Iruka. "Where do you need to go?" she asked. Iruka too bewildered at the turn of events said nothing, only motioned for her to follow him and the students.
(Naruto and Sasuke)
Naruto and Sasuke eventually caught up to Gaara whose body was covered halfway in sand. The jinchuriki was muttering something to himself that the Konoha genin couldn't understand. "Gaara it's over" shouted Naruto to which Sasuke rolled his eyes. "It's over? Really? How about this. Gaara, either surrender or die" the Uchiha said with a smirk. Naruto's eyebrow ticked. "Sasuke maybe try not to piss off the unstable jinchuriki" Naruto said turning to Sasuke. Sasuke turned his attention to his teammate before responding. "Well I'm sorry that I didn't use your stupid overused one liner" Sasuke retorted which led to the two starting a meaningless argument taking their attention off of Gaara. The red head used this opportunity to put his hands in the ram sign and whisper "Play Possum Jutsu".
It was surprising how committed the Konoha genin were to their discussion as they were able to completely ignore the one tailed tanuki Shukaku being released. The two would have continued arguing if it wasn't for the tanuki revealing itself to the world.
"YEAH BABY I'M BACK AND BETTER THAN EVER" the tailed beast shouted causing both genin to slowly look up and realize how monumental of a mistake they had just made. "Well fuck, we screwed up" said Naruto before raising his sword in a stance. Sasuke looked at his teammate with his eyes widened. "No shit Naruto. How the hell are we gonna beat that thing" Sasuke said angrily. Naruto shook his head. Going through the options, he was pushing his mind to come up with something. Anything. He quickly came to a decision before turning to Sasuke. "Sasuke I need you to buy me some time. Hopefully he won't notice us but we have to keep him away from the village so distract him if you have to" Naruto said calmly. Sasuke on the other hand looked at his leader as if he were crazy. "Are you insane? How in the hell am I supposed to distract THAT" Sasuke shouted while pointing at the sand demon. Naruto took a deep breath. "I know that I'm asking a lot, just trust me" Naruto said with a serious tone that got Sasuke's nod of acceptance before he jumped off to prepare a distraction. Naruto stayed where he was and began to channel all the chakra that he could.
When Naruto began to channel his chakra, it unfortunately made a large chakra pulse that got the attention of Shukaku. Knowing what he had to do, Sasuke ran up a nearby tree all the way to the top silently praying that he wouldn't die. Reaching the top, Sasuke did the only thing he could think of at the moment. Quickly doing the handsigns, Sasuke shouted "Great Fireball Jutsu" launching a large fireball at the giant tanuki's chest. The fireball did virtually no damage but did gain the tailed beast's attention.
Slowly turning to face the person who had the audacity to challenge him, Shukaku looked at the Uchiha. "YOU THINK THAT'S GONNA WORK? I'M OUT AND I'M NEVER GOING BACK BABY. TIME FOR YOU TO DIE" the tanuki shouted before launching a giant air bullet at the genin. Cursing, Sasuke jumped trees as quickly as he could trying to avoid the bullet. Running and jumping as fast as he could, he barely avoided the air blast. Sasuke went to a knee panting when Shukaku launched another air bullet. Groaning, Sasuke began to try and avoid that as well but wasn't fast enough as it hit him and sent him flying into another tree where he remained still. "HA HA YOU THOUGHT YOU COULD MESS WITH THE BEST" Shukaku yelled out while laughing wildly. That was when the tanuki felt another large pulse of chakra. Looking down at the source, it's eyes focused on a little blonde boy who was smothered in blue chakra. Deciding to have some more fun, the beast began to take steps towards the boy.
Sasuke sat on one of the top branches of the tree he was knocked into. Leaning against the tree, he put effort into breathing. His chest hurt like crazy and he knew that something was probably broken. 'I wonder if this is how Naruto felt when that snake hit him. Not a great feeling' he thought as he looked up to see the beast starting to go in his teammate's direction. Ignoring the pain he felt throughout his body, he shakily stood up. 'I am an Uchiha. I won't be disgraced by the likes of a pathetic sand demon' Sasuke thought gritting his teeth. Putting his hands together, he pulled out every bit of chakra he could find. 'Even if I die, I'll take this demon with me' Sasuke resolved before shouting "Solar Destruction". Launching a massive burning golden sphere at the tanuki, Sasuke fell but held on for hi life on the tree branch. 'It's up to you now Naruto' he thought.
Shukaku was so focused on the blonde who had gathered an insane amount of chakra that it didn't notice a giant flaming ball coming towards him until it was too late. The ball hit the side of it's head and actually caused it to stumble. When the tanuki looked up, the entire right side surface of it's face was glass. Looking at where the attack came from, it growled at the boy that had dared to survive his previous attack. Before he could take any action towards the boy, chakra pulsed one last time much more powerful than the previous pulses.
Naruto focused all of his chakra and had finally summoned up enough. It would take everything in him but if he could pull it off, the battle would end. Biting his left thumb and rubbing the blood on the tattoo he had received from his master, he shouted "SUMMONING JUTSU LEVIATHAN". After shouting those words, the sky darkened as storm clouds quickly formed over the area. Bolts of lightning continuously struck as the greatest of all the serpents was summoned to the mortal world. Mist began to spread throughout the entire forest. Once the mist dissipated, in it's place was a serpent far bigger than the demon Shukaku. When the creature was revealed, it roared louder than the mightiest of thunder. Leviathan the leader of the serpents had been summoned.
Shukaku started to take a few steps back. It had heard of these creatures but had thought that they like the dragons were long gone. Now it was facing one of the most powerful creatures in existence and was not feeling good about it's own odds.
Leviathan looked down at the one who had summoned him. "Hello Naruto, I see that you have given me a worthy opponent though I am curious as to why you didn't summon Levios for this" the serpent said. Naruto simply smirked. "Levios and I will have many more opportunities to fight greater battles than this but I want this over quickly because I'm kind of running on fumes and the village is being invaded" he yelled out so that the serpent could hear him. Leviathan did a small nod. "Very well I will end this quickly" he said before he was stopped by Naruto. "Leviathan there is a boy within the beast. Try not to kill him" Naruto yelled once more. Leviathan once again nodded before facing his opponent.
Shukaku was to afraid to deal with this challenge so when the serpent launched itself at it, it couldn't do anything in response. The serpent coiled around it to hold it in place before rising up. Shukaku looked up into the serpent's eyes only to see it's end. Leviathan let loose an incredibly powerful stream of water at the tanuki quickly turning it's body into nothing more than a giant mud puddle. Shukaku's last thought before it's physical body was destroyed was 'How?'. After Leviathan's attack, Gaara was revealed in the middle of the mud pile seemingly unharmed. Looking at Naruto Leviathan said "The opponent is defeated and I must return home" he said before disappearing into mist. Naruto chuckled. "Thank Leviathan" he said quietly before slowly walking to the Suna jinchuriki who was now stirring from his sleep.
Upon reaching the Suna ninja, he was met with the surprising sight of Sasuke standing over Gaara. "Sasuke what are you doing?" Naruto asked. Sasuke didn't turn to answer his teammate but simply said "Protecting the village". The tone of it made Naruto flinch. "Sasuke it's over okay. He was under control of Shukaku" he said calmly. Sasuke with a little resistance inside of his head stepped away from the Suna ninja.
"Why" said a voice almost too quiet to be heard. Naruto looked at the red headed speaker. "Because I know what it's like to feel like you have no one. I also know that one person is all it takes to make you feel like you have everything" Naruto responded before looking at his teammate. "Sasuke, he can't use his sand jutsu and is almost completely out of chakra. Take him to the hospital" Naruto ordered. Sasuke nodded and picked up Gaara. Before he left, he asked Naruto without turning around "What will you do?". Naruto simply replied "There's one last battle I must fight" before the two separated.
As Naruto jumped through the trees towards Konoha, he stopped quickly when a kunai landed in front of him. Looking at the kunai he noticed something attached to it. When he looked closer, his eyes widened as he realized it was an explosive note. Jumping back as quickly as he could, he narrowly avoided the explosion.
"I told you that he would dodge it Menma" said a voice from the trees. "I know sis but wouldn't you rather he suffer before his death rather than get a quick and easy one" said another voice. As Naruto looked around trying to locate the direction of the voices, he quickly raised his sword when two figures walked out of the trees directly in front of him. "You have a point there Menma" said the now revealed Narumi who stood next to her brother Menma. With a smile she addressed the person she hated more than anyone. "Hello Naruto" she said as Menma smiled as well.
Naruto tightened his grip on his sword.
"Well fuck."
Author's Note: Hope everyone liked the chapter. Up next is the fight between Naruto and his siblings along with the ending of the Iliel Kages battle. Who will die, who will live who knows? I know that I kinda rushed through a lot but I hope you liked it anyway. Thanks for all of the support and keep up those reviews.