The Eyes Of The Kyuubi
Chapter 3
Minato lay still on the ground inside what remained of the cave. His head was spinning and he was bleeding all over his body from the explosion; but there was a smile on his face because he managed to teleport Kushina to Naruto. Before he left his house, he placed one of his three-pronged kunai in Naruto's crib. He was thankful that he had placed one of the marks on Kushina so that he could teleport her to any of his kunais in the village. His smile did not last too long however as he knew he still had two major problems to deal with. The first being the dark figure, Minato still had not come up with the best plan of action against this unknown opponent. He would just have to improvise to the best of his abilities. The second task was dealing with the kyuubi, which he had seen running off in the direction of the village. This worried Minato but he knew that the third was there and would be able to fill in until Minato could arrive.
Minato slowly rose to his feet. It took him a minute because of the gruesome gashes in his legs and arms. Thankfully he had brought with him a medical ket that his late student Rin had given him. He opened it up and took out the bandages and cleaning supplies; he began cleaning the blood away from the wounds and wrapped them in the bandages. 'That will have to hold for now until I can get someone to look at them' he thought. After Minato had attended to his major wounds, he stood up and took in his surroundings. The top part of the cave had been blown wide open from the kyuubi; the table where Kushina had been was smashed to pieces. Rocks and rubble were everywhere and he was thankful none of the bigger pieces had landed on him.
Minato tried to search for the chakra signature of the dark figure, but there was nothing to find. Minato stayed on high alert knowing that the enemy could strike from anywhere at any moment. That was when he felt it, the massive and dark killing intent coming from behind him. Minato spun around with a kunai in his hand and slashed the enemy, but the dark figure was quicker and caught Minato's wrist. From the moon light Minato was able to see the dark figure better. He saw that the figure was wearing a big cloak with a hood. In his hood was the mask he saw earlier. All over the mask was kanji. Minato did not have the time to read it because he felt himself being pulled into a vortex that appeared to be coming from the dark figure's right eye hole. At the last second Minato teleported to the other side of the cave, thankful that he had put some more marks around the cave.
"You are rather troublesome Fourth Hokage. I should have killed you first instead of threating the newborn child. No matter, your life will end here"
"Just who are you and what do you want with the Kyuubi?" asked Minato
"I am going to change the world" the dark figure replied obscurely
"You will have to go through me first" Minato replied heroically
They then sprinted towards each other, both with a massive desire to kill the other. Minato started off with a slash of his kunai, which phased right through the dark figure. He used the momentum of the slash to twist himself and brought his right leg down on the dark figure. Again it phased right through his opponent. The dark figure reached out to try and grab Minato again but Minato teleported away at the last second.
"It seems we are running around in circles." said the dark figure. It was true, Minato had no idea how to get past the fast that he could not touch the dark figure. 'It seems I will have to use some jutsus' thought Minato; he then created a clone and together the formed hand signs
"Fire style: Roaring Flame"
"Wind style: Thrashing Wings"
The flames of the hot fire flew out of Minato's mouth while the clone gathered the wind in his hands and pushed it mightily towards the dark figure. When the wind and fire came into contact with each other, the flame grew 4x its original size. The fire hit where the dark figure was standing and a massive explosion followed the impact. When the smoke and rocks cleared there was nothing left of the dark figure. A small smile lifted itself onto Minato's lips, but it did not last long; beside him his clone was destroyed from multiple hits to its back. When Minato turned around he saw the dark figure's hand reach for his face. "You are mine now!" screamed the dark figure. In a split second, Minato had grabbed a kunai from his holster. He brought it right into the hands pathway, and again it phased through. Minato's eyes widened with panic, there was no way out of this for him.
All of a sudden, a kunai came raining down on the dark figure and pierced him in the arm that was reaching out for Minato. The dark figure screamed in pain and teleported himself away. Minato dropped to his knees as the shock of being saved began to leave him.
"You should be more careful next time Hokage-sama" said the new arrival. Minato looked up and saw one of his most trusted ANBU guards; Snake. "When I saw that you had not returned, I feared the worst and came running to find you. Made it just in time too." Said Snake. Snake wore the traditional ANBU vest, but instead of a mask he wore a tight fabric that wrapped his entire head except his eyes. There he had a thin glass plate over his eyes but it was blackened so that no one could see his face. His pants were more track pant like and instead of tradition ninja sandals, he wore combat boots. He also had a black Katana that was strapped to his back.
"You should be in the village dealing with the Kyuubi, that is a much more pressing matter than my well-being" replied Minato. Even though he was angry at Snake for leaving the village, he was relieved that he had shown up when he did. On the other side of the cave, the dark figure reappeared but with the kunai still in his arm.
"Curse you, I will show you both no mercy." Raged the dark figure as he pulled out the kunai. Minato could feel the rage rolling off the dark figure, it was truly terrifying but he steeled himself for the ensuing battle. The dark figure ran towards Minato and Snake, Snake ran towards the dark figure and unsheathed his sword and began slashing at his opponent. To Snake's great surpise, his sword went right through his enemy. Which left him to his enemy's mercy. The dark figure laughed maniacally and began attacking snake. The attacks that the dark figure was conducting was exactly the same fighting style as the Hyuga clan, but 10x faster than any Hyuga Snake had fought against. In a matter of seconds all of Snake's chakra points had been closed and his Nervous System had been taken out leaving him to fall over.
Minato witnessed this all and was greatly disturbed, only the Hyugas could master their fighting style of the gentle fist; but he had just witnessed someone who no doubt was not Hyuga destroy his best guard in a matter of seconds. Minato would have to look into it later, but right now he needed to take the guy down. The dark figure stared down Minato, daring him to try anything. Minato threw one of his three pronged kunai at the head of the dark figure. As Minato threw the kunai, the dark figure rushed forward and reached out to grab Minato. The kunai phased right through the head of the dark figure. 'I have you now' thought the dark figure. Just has the kunai had finished phasing through the dark figure, Minato teleported to it and brought down a Rasengan onto the dark figure, crushing him into the ground.
The dark figure screamed in great pain. Minato proceeded to flip over to where Snake was laying down. Minato checked his pulse and was relieved to find him still breathing. When Minato looked backed to where the dark figure was, he was shocked to see it getting up from that last attack. He could clearly see the rotational markings on the back of the dark figure that were burned into the skin and bleeding greatly. The dark figure was breathing heavily and turned around to face the shocked Fourth Hokage. The dark figure removed his cloak and revealed that he was a man underneath the cloak. In the moon light, Minato was able to see the mask more clearly, the kanji that was written all over the mask was the kanji for "death" and it was written in blood. What terrified Minato even more was when he saw the eyes of the enemy; in the right eye was a sharingan with three tomoe, and in the left eye was a byakugan which was glowing blue instead of the natural white colour. Minato was speechless and could not understand how someone was able to get their hands on both of the Leaf's greatest abilities. This also explained how the man knew the gentle fist and why he was so effective with that fighting style.
"You may have won this round Fourth Hokage" said the man in the mask with great difficulty. "But the war is far from over. I will have my revenge on you, on the Village Hidden in the Leaves, and I will get my hands on that demon. No matter who you seal it into, it WILL be mine". With that the man in the mask teleported into a vortex and left the Fourth Hokage alone with his trusted bodyguard. In the distance Minato could hear the roar of the Kyuubi as well as the destruction of the Village Hidden in the Leaves.