This is a work of fan fiction using characters from the Naruto, which is trademarked by Masashi Kishimoto. Everything aside from the original characters are created from the wonderful mind of Kishimoto.
Most of the following unrecognizable are original characters of mine, please bear with me I am still in the process of making the character profiles for an even better visualization.
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Chapter 21:
Days later, Misaki had decided to travel back to Konohagakure by foot and recuperate on the road, it was great seeing both Itachi and Akihiko, but she couldn't shake off the feeling of dread that settled at the pit of her stomach, like some sort of parasite eating her from the inside.
Therefore after much debate and reassuring Mifune, Misaki set out by foot towards Konohagakure.
Or what was left of it…
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"EVERYONE PROCEED TO THE EVACIATION AT ONCE!" Kaede yelled, carrying a whole ceiling by pushing up a pillar, freeing the people trapped inside the place, children half pulled and half carried by their parents immediately exited the place, rushing to get as far away as possible from the battle.
"What about you Kaede-san?" several jonin approached Kaede as she threw away the pillar.
"Make sure the villages get to safety, I'll try to hold them off as much as possible" Kaede ordered stepping forward as two gigantic and fearsome looking creatures out of the fantasy book appeared before them.
"Kaede-san!" one of the other jonins yelled after her, but Kaede just ignored their insistence as she unbound the threads on her arms, letting chakra flow on it.
"I'll be just fine, you go on ahead" Kaede looked back at her comrades with a smile, a painful smile, a beautiful smile to try to cover up the lie. The jonins closed their eyes for a split second, to offer their respect and gratitude, a say a little prayer their comrade.
Once Kaede was sure that the people had gotten a good head start, she continued to step forward, staring at her monstrous opponents with a smirk.
"I've never dealt with opponents such as you, let's see how you dance wrapped around my threads" Kaede picked up from slow walking, until it accelerated to a fast sprint, dodging physical hits left and right.
"Measly attacks like that won't work on me! Fuin: Sutured binding Technique!" Kaede urging her tentacle like threads to wrap the chameleon in a mummy like fashion.
"Your next" Kaede landed before the giant panda and the opposing parties raced on each other at full speed, but at the very las moment, Kaede yielded and ran up the giant panda's arm, sending her threads everywhere.
"Ninpou: Thousand stiches, raze of death" Kaede jumped from the slowly toppling body parts to land on the floor.
But little did she know what await her on her landing.
An invisible force wrapped itself around her, but once she this force knew she won't be able to escape its hold, the force didn't remain invisible as color began to return to its surface, a snake whose body lead to the chameleon's tail end.
"You were able to escape the seal, doesn't make you anymore formidable" Kaede yelled with all her force trying to push the snake wrapped around her, but the snake only wrapped itself tighter and forced her on her knees as a man with straight long orange hair and multiple piercing on his face and body approached her.
'Pain' Kaede thought, recalling the information that had been shared in the hokage's office upon the report of Jiraiya's death. Kaede glared at the man leisurely walking towards her, trying to swallow the feeling of dread and fear, focusing on how she would be able to finish him, or if she had away of extracting something for him that would be purposeful.
But when the man latched his hand on the top of her head, she felt her entire body turn ice cold, literally feeling her everything being tugged and held on.
"Uzumaki Naruto, what is his location?"
"What is the location of Uzumaki Naruto" the man asked in a deep voice and instantly Kaede's fears were turned into purpose, at the mention of his nephew's name.
"Like hell I'll tell you anything" Kaede growled at her captor and fought harder to break free from imprisonment. In reality, all she knew was Naruto left to train, but she didn't know his location. However, it wouldn't hurt to stall this guy into thinking that she knows and buy more time for her comrades to get away safely.
Upon Kaede's resistance, Pain's human path began to pull at her essence, but Kaede was a hardcore fighter, even at a spiritual level, she fought her captor, sort of like playing tug-of-war against the death reaper.
"You ain't getting rid of me that fast" Kaede pulled as hard as she could, but Pain was running out of patience and pulled back, ultimately tugging Kaede's soul from her body.
It was an inexplicable feeling, as a medic and as a shinobi, she wasn't new to death and most especially dying, but the feeling of actually being separated from your body was not something she would want to experience again, not that she would, of course it meant that she died.
'Misaki, thank you, even though I was the one supposed to be looking after you, you ended up looking after me.' Kaede's eyes began to close, but she fought harder to stay up, with only the memories she shared with Misaki flashing before her eyes keeping her up.
'Kakashi, I'm sorry, I have to cut our life together short, but my love what a marriage it was" Kaede smiled one last time as the last thing she saw was Kakashi and her memories of him.
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"This is nice and all Kakashi, but won't we get in trouble with Tsunade-sensei?" Kaede asked tying the obi of her yukata as she opened the door of the adjoining room where Kakashi awaited downing his own version of a dress down.
"I'm sure she'll understand" especially since I did ask for her permission before deciding on it, but then again, the message didn't really have much room for being denied Kakashi thought as Kaede sat beside him.
"So now what? What do we do?" Kaede asked, Kakashi raised an eyebrow, Kaede is an in denial workaholic, who gets fidgety whenever she has time on her hands filled with doing absolutely nothing.
"You do know that the first part of relaxing is not having to do anything right?" Kakashi jested earning him an elbow in the guts.
"Shut up, no one is as good at taking your time as you" Kaede popped a forehead. Kakashi chuckled lightly and wrapped his arms around Kaede to ease her down.
"Yeah yeah, no need to get yourself worked up, miss workaholic" Kakashi gently cooed, massaging Kaede's shoulders.
"I'm not a workaholic-ohhh that feels nice Kakashi" Kaede's temper soon dispersed as Kakashi placed pressure on a knotted muscle.
"See, now you're relaxing, why don't we have a massage then hit the onsen" Kakashi pulled Kaede up leading her out of the room without getting any permission from her.
Unbeknownst to them once the couple was gone, an army of people entered their room carrying sweets and roses and candles. By the time they returned from their pampering, their once plain room became a honeymoon suite that would bring any young bridezilla in a jealous fit.
"Kakashi what the hell is this?!" Kaede exclaimed, her first instinct was to ransack the sweets, but her shinobi instincts are instructing her to take a step back and asses the situation because this things can prove to be quite dangerous, especially when they were both taking a detour just right after a mission outside the village.
"I have no idea, but I think this may answer your question" Kakashi held up two pieces of paper that he was reading.
One said:
Compliments from one of out finest patron.
The Second one said:
Enjoy my gifts hihihihi
Followed by a sorry drawing of his Jiraiya's face making a thumbs up.
"Seriously that old pervert" Kaede sighed and began to eat and enjoy the feast and the sweets, taking the recent turn of events surprisingly calm.
Meanwhile during their dinner feast, Kaede couldn't help but notice how fidgety and highly anxious Kakashi seemed, through out the meal, he loaded his plate with a lot of things even with things he usually hated and barely touched his food.
"Is everything alright Kakashi, you seem so tense, considering you were the one to drag us down here to relax, is something bothering you?" Kaede asked, Kakashi looked here in the eyes for quite a long moment before simply standing up and offering a hand to Kaede. Kaede looked at him and his hand incuriously then finally sighed, and humored Kakashi, by doing as he was suggesting, through gesture.
Kakashi opened the door of their room and lead her outside, dragging her through trees and grass wordlessly.
"Where are you taking me Kakashi?" Kaede asked and all she got from him was a simple shh. There was no moon that night, it was dark, and if wasn't for their kick ass ninja sense it would probably be impossible to maneuver through the forest.
Until finally Kakashi stopped and faced Kaede, holding both of her hands in his.
"What are we doing here Kakashi?" Kaede asked.
"Shh, just stay silent for a little while" Kakashi replied.
"You know, you've never shhhed me before and got away with it, you've done it twice tonight so this better be good" Kaede warned, Kakashi chuckled and kissed her forehead, the touch of his warm lips on her skin made Kaede realize that during their walk in the dark Kakashi had pulled down his mask.
'This is rare, he pulled down his mask outside' Kaede thought as she waited patiently for Kakashi to say or do anything, literally anything that isn't just standing still and staying quite.
Slowly, one by one, little lights began to flicker all around them, until they were surrounded by thousands of little flickering lights floating all around them. Their lights were small, but together, the lights of the fireflies illuminated the field of flowers around them,
Kaede's mouth gaped in awe, she had travelled far, had seen far more beautiful things, but nothing had put her in awe more than this had, maybe because she didn't care for it at that time, didn't appreciate it enough, or maybe it felt more special because she had Kakashi here with her.
"It's beautiful" Kaede looked back to Kakashi whose mask-less face was staring right into her.
"Kaede, there is something you have to hear" Kakashi began and pulled her closer in his arms, taking a deep inhale, savoring Kaede's scent.
"Whenever the sun goes down, and everything goes, dark, but still there is the moon to give us light, and even when the moon is covered and hiding away behind the clouds, light always finds its way no matter how small. I promise to be there for you, no matter how dark it gets, as long as there's light, I will love you, and this is a promise I like to make. In the life we chose, mortality is expected to be low, but I choose to spend the rest of my life, my days, no matter how short it may be with you." Kakashi vowed, leaving Kaede teary eyed.
"Oh Kakashi" Kaede, raised both of her hands and reached for Kakashi's face…
Only to slap them on both sides.
"Do it properly you cool slick talking white haired old man" Kaede said and Kakashi laughed, he pulled away from Kaede and knelt on one knee, taking out a box that he had been carrying since they left the village for their mission.
"Namikaze Kaede, would you do me the honor of spending the rest of our lives, as my wife?" Kakashi proposed, and Kaede nodded, tears in her eyes, she tried to say yes, but the eruption of emotion in the base of her throat left her speechless, so as soon as Kakashi had slipped the ring on her finger, she made sure to show him how she felt and tackled him into a hug, sending them both on the ground.
"I love you, you cool slick talking white haired old man" Kaede pressed her lips against his, his skin warm against hers as they shared this moment, with a thousand fireflies to witness it.
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Meanwhile, stuck in the rubble, Kakashi used up the last of his strength, the last of his life to use Kamui in order for Chouji to deliver the information they recovered from battling the enemy. Exhausted and in pain, he didn't realize this is how he'd meet his end, his body began to grow numbs as he looked up into the skies.
'It was a pretty good life, sorry to cut it short Kaede' Kakashi thought one last time until his world finally turned black.
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Misaki's face contorted in pain as she clenched her chest, something bad was happening to Konohagakure and her sensors are reacting, sending her into fits of actual physical pain, but it was nothing compared to the blistering dread, her whole being felt like it was being pulled apart and torn in so many pieces, too much that it sent her to her knees.
"What is going on?!" Misaki panted as she struggled to get up, she needed to get to the village and she needed to get there fast.
"I need your help" Misaki pushed herself up and made a series of hand signs.
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Pain hovered above the village, if Naruto isn't in the village, he'll make him come to the village, so raising his hands, he directed his energy towards the village.
"Almighty Push" he said and in that instant an invisible yet powerful force began pushing everything away beginning from the center pushing far to the edges of the village, destroying everything in its wake, turning everything the people of Konoha cherished and treasured into rubble.
Amongst the rubble, a smaller versions of the great slug, Lady Katsuyu ejected the villagers from her body that served as their protection from the brunt of Pain's almighty push. One of which was Haruno Sakura, who is seeing the impact of Pain's wrath for the very first time.
"Wha-What the heck is this?!" Sakura was lost for words, not knowing what to say or even how to react on what just happened, Konoha, beautiful Konoha, along everything she had known was just gone…
"Naruto…Misaki….Please, just.. NARUTO!" Sakura yelled at the top of her lungs, wishing, hoping that by some miracle they would hear their plea and rescue them from the darkness of Pain.
Almost as if some deity heard her pleas, a humongous puff of smoke materialized in the middle of the now valley, subsiding and revealing three gigantic frogs, on big one standing on top of the middle frog and a man that looked to be…
"Naruto!" Sakura gasped, a mixture of joy and relief and hope overfilling her.
"What the, where the heck are we?" Naruto asked as he looked around his surroundings, they were supposed to be summoned to Konoha, but looking around, they were probably no where around Konoha, they were most likely standing in the middle of…
…nowhere.
"Ma, I though you were going to summon us to Konoha, where the hell are we?" Fukasaku asked as his toad wife Shima jumped up to join them.
"Take a good look around you, we ARE in Konoha" Shima replied with a serious face, everybody did as she told and took one good look at where they were standing, the sight of the Hokage Rock, a vision of the first hokage as a symbol for the hokage's duty.
"What the? Who would do this?" Naruto asked, eyes furrowing into a confused frown.
"I think you already know the answer, who would do such a thing? I sensed his chakra he's here" Shima answered. Naruto's frown slowly turned from dumbfounded one into a frown of loathing, pure and unadulterated loathing.
"You saved me the trouble of having to look for you" Deva Pain landed before Naruto and his team, his own party following not long after, but before they can even clash, a blonde figure emerged standing in between the opposing parties.
"I am the fifth hokage, how dare you trample on the jewel, the dreams of my predecessors! I will settle this now, once and for all, as the hokage!" Tsunade declared, her eyes filled with angst.
"It appears you know about pain, however, my business is not with you, my business is-" Deva said, sending Asura Pain to take care of Tsunade in one fell swoop.
If it weren't for Naruto's interference.
"-with me" Naruto finished Deva Pain's sentence just as he finished with Asura Pain, plunging his senin chakra infused rasengan, destroying it at contact.
"The hokage shouldn't bother themselves with the likes of a guy like him why don't you just sit back, relax and have some tea Ba-chan" Naruto said.
In that instance several puffs of smoke surrounded the whole valley, one landing next to Naruto, as it settled the cloud revealing the arrival of a comrade.
"Sorry to keep you waiting" Misaki greeted in her arrival, along with twelve, other worldly looking people, dressed in a manner of clothing as ethereal as their looks.
"You're late Misaki, I though you were never going to show up" Naruto welcomed Misaki with a determined nod.
"My bad, I think living under the same roof as Kakashi for so long will have adverse effects." Misaki sweat dropped, scratching the back of her head.
"On a serious note, everyone, please spread out, assist the villagers who are yet to evacuate out of the rubble, and if necessary heal them, please lend me your strength" Misaki humbly instructed her twelve companions who all turned to light and apparated out of vicinity.
"Namikaze Misaki, you have proven yourself to be quite a thorn on our plans" Deva Pain said at the sight of red headed kunoichi who had more than enough encounter with the organization.
Misaki didn't miss Pain's verbatim, the way he used the word our plans, considering he is the leader of the Akatsuki and its other members are his soldiers, following his cause for the benefit of accomplishing their own causes. It seems that there is a much more sinister puppeteer behind the puppet that is the Akatsuki.
"I do my best to please" Misaki smiled purposely irritating him, as she knelt next to a Tsunade, who was barely standing her ground.
"You did amazing Tsunade-sensei, if it wasn't for you, none of the villagers would have survive, why don't you get some rest sensei, Naruto and I will take if from here" Misaki helped Tsunaed up, placing her arm on her shoulders.
"If that is the case, take Katsuyuu with you, she'll be useful since she has intel on the enemy" Misaki gently helped Tsunade up Gamakichi's arms and took Katsuyu who divided herself into two on her arms. Fukasaku took one as he jumped up, intending to stand by Naruto.
"Uzumaki Naruto" Deva Pain called his attention.
"Pain, let's settle this" Naruto announced, the remaining paths of pain forming into a well-coordinated formation. Strategically, formations were created taking each individuals' strengths and weaknesses and placing them where it would most benefit them, so Misaki paid great attention to it as she unsheathed her sword. Because of her injury, she couldn't use flying god of thunder without collapsing, so she would solely have to rely on her speed today.
"Gamakichi! Take Tsunade-nobachan to someplace safe!" Naruto instructed the youngest toad.
"Gotcha!" Gamakichi received his orders, tucking the hokage more securely in his arms, knowing the gravity of importance of the package he carries.
"Granny, leave it to us, tell everyone in the village to stay put and not help, it'll be difficult to fight while trying to cover for them" Naruto strongly instructed.
"Understood," Tsunade nodded at the two children, thinking very deeply when exactly did they surpass their predecessors.
Once the hokage and her guards have left, Naruto turned to his sister.
"Misaki, I know this isn't the right time to ask, but ever since I gained the ability of the sage, I could feel everyone's chakra, Kakashi-sensei, Kaede-baa, are they out on a mission" Naruto asked, Misaki stared intently at Naruto before lowering her head and closing her eyes, she didn't want to lie, but she also couldn't bring herself to voice out the words, because coming from her own voice is always the beginning of realization and the painful acceptance, but she couldn't accept, truthfully, she didn't know if she will ever learn to accept.
"Mom, Kakashi, Kazuhiko, Shizune, and countless others, we have to honor their names as soon as we get done here, so let's not keep them waiting" Misaki answered opening her eyes her eyes to look back at her brother, determined eyes, that reflected identically on Naruto.
"Yeah, let's do this!" Naruto agreed tightening his hitae-ate, whilst Misaki swung her katana to warm up. Pain was first to attack, having been bored of waiting, Animal Pain ran to them, summoning his beasts towards them.
"Misaki" Naruto called out to her and Misaki nodded. Misaki pressed her feet on the ground and launched herself as fast as she can, surpassing the summoned beasts whilst Naruto and the giant toads took care of them.
"Misaki, be careful, their eyes are linked, so it might be difficult to look for a blind spot" Katsuyu advised emerging from Misaki's garments.
"Sounds like a piece of cake, we'll just have to show them something they won't be able to see" Misaki said and shifter her whole body into a higher gear of speed, swinging down her sword to the closest Pain, Preta Pain.
"Misaki, be careful to use, ninjutsu against him, he has the ability to absorb ninjitsu" Katsuyu informed Misaki mid battle.
"Got it" Misaki acknowledged and focused on using her katana against Preta Pain, swinging her sword in a pace the naked eye would not be able to keep up. Meanwhile, the three toads have taken the battle against the summoned beasts leaving Naruto time to face the vacant Pains.
"I'll finish you off with my new jutsu" Naruto created two shadow clones, each one amassing chakra in his single hand.
"I see you have acquired sage mode, mastering the same jutsu as Jiraiya-sensei" Deva pain commented lightly.
Misaki, who finished Preta Path, imbedding her sword in his heart after raining down on him like a rainfall of blade summersaulted her way back to Naruto's side.
"Jiraiya-sensei" Naruto repeated, skeptical about what Pain had just called his master, the master he killed.
"What do you mean by that?" Misaki voiced out the turmoil within them.
"Yes, I also learned the art of jutsu from him, he was once my master, making us sibling disciples. The three of us should be able to understand one another, we all share the same master, and should be able to understand each other, focusing on the goal our master so desired; peace" Deva Pain revealed to the twins.
"Shut the hell up!" Naruto raised his newly perfected Futon: Rasen Shurinken with the help of sage mode.
"Look around you, look at what you've done! There is no peace that would thrive from this, no kind of peace will ever spring from a sowed hatred." Misaki answered.
"You're only looking at a tree and not the whole forest, you don't know the true meaning of peace, so surrender now and let yourself be captured Uzumaki Naruto, your death will result to peace" Deva Pain urged, pushing Naruto's buttons even further, making him yell with a newly refreshed anger, throwing the incredible mass of chakra towards the group of pains.
As expected, all have seen it coming, so all five of them were able to get out of the way of the astounding justu, however none of them could have foreseen the jutsu expanding at one point, resulting to the demise of Human Pain.
The collision was just as impressive, as the incomplete Rasen-Shurinken, monopolizing everyone's attention, so Misaki took this opportunity to slip into the debris of smoke and dust.
"Deidara was right, he doesn't listen" Deva Pain pondered out loud.
"You're wrong you're the one who doesn't listen, you're the one who doesn't understand peace, you're the one not seeing the bigger picture, you're the one who is putting Jiraiya sensei's dream to the gutter" Misaki appeared from the wreckage enumerating her qualms with every swing of her sword, both quick and heavy, Deva Pain was barely able to defend against her attacks with a metal rod from his body.
Meanwhile, Naruto fought with Animal Pain who lunged at him as soon as everything had settled calling upon more beasts to deal with. The giant toad begin to have a problem with their battles as one of their opponents the dog from the other world, kept multiplying every single time it is hit.
"Chief Toad" Naruto exclaimed as their battled turned tides against them when the mutts have finally outnumbered them. Misaki pushed away from her current opponent, stabbing her katana on the ground to give her hands room to make signs.
"Summoning Jutsu" Misaki slammed her hands on the ground, making smoke give way to two dragons who sprung out of nowhere, one of which is Wani the water dragon and Ryouto a hot-headed dragon whose body is covered in flames.
"You called Misaki" Ryouto groaned, dancing around Misaki.
"I need to borrow your strength, my friends need your help, think you can handle it?" Misaki asked.
"Tche, your uncertainty is an insult to our prowess" Ryouto flashed off, quick on his feet, or rather his tail to get into battle.
"Wait Ryouto, geez" Misaki face palmed at the haughty dragon.
"Be careful those creatures, they-" Msiaki didn't get to finish her sentence when Ryouto cried
"Whoah, there is more of them!" Misaki sweat dropped, and Wani just sighed shaking his head at his counterpart.
"Fear not Misaki, I will keep him in line" Wani assured, before going off to battle himself.
"Naruto, they'll only be able to hold the enemy's summonings down, you have to finish that Pain to finish them off indefinitely" Misaki instructed before pulling her katana from the ground, swinging a few times then attacking Deva Pain, Katsuyu had informed her during the ruckus that it was that pain that caused that much devastation, but for some reason he was utilizing taijutsu, something is holding him back, all the more reason to finish him
Out of nowhere, a phenomenon that caused the ground to shake and rubble to rise from the ground separated Misaki from her foe.
Next thing they knew, Gamabunta sat idly still in its place and they were people less in the battlefield. After a short moment of confusion on where the two had gone, and explosion occurred inside Gamabunta's mouth.
After that, it wasn't a big surprised when he excreted two people from his mouth, one already disposed of.
Animal Pain has finally fallen, but it wasn't without price, Naruto panted as he stood, already rid of his sage mode.
"Naruto!" Misaki called to her brother in worry, without the sage mode, there was a huge handicap, at the sight of an advantage, Deva Pain abandoned his fight with Misaki and quickly went after Naruto.
"Oh no you don't" Misaki was quick on her feet, kicking Deva Pain a few paces back from getting to Naruto.
"I'm drawing the line here" Misaki cut the ground with her sword, literally drawing a line making it clear to Deva Pain the she will spoil his every plan to get close to Naruto, just as she had done for the past few years.
That didn't stop Deva Pain as she met Misaki blow for blow in an attempt to get to Naruto.
"Misaki! Get back, I'm going to release my Rasen Shurinken" Naruto warned his sister and Misaki did as he asked, jumping back a few paces to stand next to him.
Once Misaki was at a safe range, Naruto threw his technique without hesitation. This was it, this was the shot that would finish their battle.
Imagine their shock when Preta Pain, unscathed and kicking jumped infront of Deva Pain to absorb Naruto's Futon: Rasen Shurinken.
"What the heck, I though we'd finish that guy off?" Naruto grunted.
"I though so too" Misaki whispered more to herself, turning her attention to the specific Pain that was always behind the lines, out of imminent danger, standing beside a giant weird looking head with mouth wide open.
"It seems that the is the key player Pain," Katsuyu exclaimed emerging from their clothing.
"You mean the one who can resurrect the dead?" Naruto asked and mini Katsuyu nodded.
"Well that would explain why he's the highly protected Pain, despite the fact that he isn't the Pain that could bring the most devastation" Misaki wondered, picking up her sword swinging it and placing it on her shoulders.
"But that's just it, the Pain who can cause most devastation is the Pain who is pulling everyone's legs. Maybe be he won't, maybe he can't, either way he isn't the time of person to let a fight drag on for his amazement, we must finish this as soon as we can" Misaki concluded.
"But if we're going to go anywhere, we have to finish that Pain" Naruto referred to Naraka Pain.
"Misaki, are you thinking what I am thinking?" Naruto asked after their silence, and Misaki nodded and threw a couple of smoke bomb causing the area to be covered in, well colored smoke.
The three remaining Pains waited for what the twins had in store.
The smoke was forcibly steered out of the way as a Rasen Shurinken , hurdling through moving towards its intended target. Naturally, Pain activated his ability and absorbed the justu,, the transformation jutsu, revealing the real Naruto who was able to tackle Preta Pain to the ground.
If that is the real Naruto, where is the red head? Pain thought, but his linked eyes didn't have time to act on his question as a Rasen Shurinken, a real one this time made its way to him, leaving him with only one option.
He activated his magnetism justu and just like that, he extinguished Naruto's specialty attack like he was blowing out a candle.
Naruto should have been nervous, this should have been the time he can gloat, but instead Naruto simply covered Preta Pain's eyes with his arm and smirked at him.
"We're not yet done" Naruto and Misaki yelled in unison as Misaki descended from the air, a mass of her own special chakra leading to a type of rasengan she can only muster.
"Relentless Rasengan" Misaki landed her jutsu on the back of Naraka Pain, pinning him down with her rasengan, 'killing'him instantly.
"Alright! Two more to go!" Naruto cheered, raising his fist against Preta Pain whilst Misaki lunged her sword, intending to take down Deva Pain.
They were going to make it…
They were supposed to make it…
They could have made it…
If it wasn't for the split-second difference, in an instant the siblings were pushed back by some incredible, invincible force, sending Naruto skidding to the ground and slamming Misaki against the far wall.
Deva Pain's eyes focused on the red head, the famous red flash of Konoha, inheriting the title from the fourth hokage, whose speed resembled hers so closely, so fast that you can only see flashes of their bright hair behind. If there was anyone who would be able to evade his technique, it would be her, but she didn't, or maybe she couldn't. He slid out a couple of metal rods as materials to test his theory.
Misaki coughed and panted as she tried to separate herself from the wall she was pushed in. Her body ached allover, she probably broke more than a few bones, something internal was probably bleeding, her wound felt like it was being pulled apart into a fresh wound and her head is spinning, probably a concussion. Misaki hasn't even began to pull herself from the rubble when Pain, who was staring intently at her raised several of his metal rods aiming them towards her. Misaki's eyes widened, she can't even move let along dodge those rods.
Naruto's eyes widened, everything was moving in slow motion, like the scene before him was imprinting itself into his memory.
"MISAKI!" Naruto screamed for his sister as the rods inevitably buried itself in her body, pinning her to the wall, staining it with her blood.
Misaki let out something that resembled half yell half scream as she felt the rods burying inside her, through her to the wall behind her. It was painful, but if he really was aiming to kill her, he'd go for something more vital, like her internal organs, her heart, even her head, but instead he made a show of hitting her in her limbs, if anything, she'd be able to die out of blood loss, but she really wouldn't really be in any imminent danger unless Pain pulls out the rods, then she'll probably bleed out to death.
"Misaki!" Naruto stood up, intending to run to her aid, but the look Misaki gave him when she raised her head, made him stop in his tracks.
"I'm fine, Naruto, he didn't hit anything important, listen to me, you need to focus on the battle he regained his power now, so focus" Misaki encouraged, he won't let Pain have the leverage of using her to get to Naruto.
She needed to get out of this, but getting out will just be the beginning, she wouldn't be able to help at her current state of health. She has no choice but to utilize her chakra, with her pinned on the wall it was the perfect opportunity to meditate.
"I'm sorry Naruto, but can you hold the fort for a little longer" Misaki closed her eyes entering a tantric
Misaki's eyes snapped open when she felt a force tugging at her chest, breaking her concentration. She saw Naruto give into the Kyuubi's hateful chakra faster than he ever has before.
"NARUTO!" Misaki screamed, trying with all her might to break free from her imprisonment, ignoring her body literally be torn apart. She didn't care how much pain it would cause, compared to Naruto being enveloped in the burning malicious chakra it was nothing.
Misaki struggled and watched as Naruto surrendered his body to the Kyuubi's powerful hatred.
"Naruto stop, listen to me, it's Misaki snap out of its Naruto please" Misaki begged helplessly. As Naruto's in his nine tailed mode began to go on a rampage.
Misaki caught sight of Misaki's unmoving form on the ground, she was breathing, even though it was faint, she was still alive, so that's why Naruto was so distraught that he went on a rampage.
"Idiot doesn't even know how much he feels about her. Calm down Misaki, calm down, nothing will come out of it when you panic" Misaki calmed herself, resuming her meditation.
Naruto and Pain had taken their battle someplace else, so Hinata was safe for a little while, but who knows for how long. Silence enveloped the area, and after a while, the rods imbedded on Misaki one by one began to fall from her body on its own.
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"What was that?" Sakura gasped as she along with her companions experienced the earth shaking brunt of the explosion in the distance.
"How is Naruto doing?" Sakura asked the byakugan use Ko, who was keeping track of the battle using his visual prowess. Ko in turn tried to find the right words to describe what he is seeing.
"Naruto, no, the kyuubi is having a rampage, he's currently battling Pain at six tails." Everybody turned to see Misaki appear behind the rubbles, carrying an unconscious Hinata in her arms.
Everyone gasped in surprise, because Ko who was tuned into the battle had entailed Misaki being stabbed and pinned to the wall by multiple rods after being slammed with the same strong force that destroyed the village of Konoha.
But that was the thing, Misaki stood before them completely unscathed and besides from that Misaki's face was covered with some sort of markings, and those eyes, Sakura had never seen Misaki's eyes like that, like and eagle's eyes that could spear you with one look.
"Naruto went berserk when Pain he thought Pain had killed Hinata, " Misakis explained laying the girl down in Ko's arms.
"Hinata-sama"
"Don't worry she's asleep now, I've healed most of the damage Pain didn't really do much damage, my best guess is that he was trying to pull Naruto's leg, but that's the least of our problems, right now it may prove to be beneficial, but it would stay that way for long, I must go back and try to snap him out of it. Suzaku" Misaki called out and instantly and ethereal looking man with red hair.
"What is it Misaki?" Suzaku asked as he materialized next to Misaki as she looked to the horizon from the cliff.
"Are the villagers safely evacuated?" Misaki asked.
"We're almost there, the others are tending to them as we speak" Suzaku answered.
"That's great to know, if it is alright, I would like to borrow your strength for another reason, you're the only one I know who would be able to withstand the heat of the kyuubi's chakra" Misaki humbly asked.
"Understood" Suzaku then disappeared into the air once more.
"Sakura, you and the others reach the evacuation too, it won't be safe if the battle finds it way here" Misaki instructed.
"What about you, We have to wait for Yamato-taichou, it's dangerous" Sakura warned her friend. Misaki stopped in her tracks and looked back to her friend, smiling.
"Don't worry Sakura, I'll be alright, Kyuubi or not, this is Naruto we're talking about. See you later" Misaki smiled before jumping down the cliff, but resurfaced standing on top of a majestic, gigantic bird.
"Let's go Suzaku" Misaki and Suzaki together charged towards where Naruto and Pain were.
Suzaku hovered over the aftermath the battle between Pain and the Kyuubi dominated Naruto. The damage was outstanding and both can only imagine the devastating battle that took place.
"They totally changed the landscape" observed looking far and wide, but there was no sign of the two. If there were any villagers to return, they wouldn't even recognize the face of their homeland.
"You'd think that someone who can cause this much devastation would be easy to find" Misaki who was standing on Suzaku's back was pulled by a tugging in her heart, stronger than it was earlier, making her fall on her knee.
"Misaki, what's wrong?" Suzaku asked in worry.
"It's Naruto, I think he went into eight tails mode, we have to hurry" Misaki urged and Suzaku flapped his wings moving along the wind as fast as he can. Suddenly the sunlight was blocked by something big and continuously growing, almost like its trying to form another planet in itself, causing and eclipse like effect.
"There!" Misaki pinpointed, feeling it before she even saw it, a cloaked Naruto rampaging his way out of the planetoid.
"Hold on tight Misaki, I'm going to go at my full speed" Suzaku warned and flew faster towards the growing rock.
"Capture the Nine tails: Complete" the last Pain standing said, but it was to a prize, using planetary devastation took a lot of strength, so he was incapacitated for a while, not that it matters, it would near be impossible to escape his planetary devastation.
Until rods of golden chakra sprung from the ground just as an incredible shadow of a bird passed him.
"I'm not going to let you interfere" Misaki announced as they flew higher towards his jutsu.
"Naruto!" Misaki called out as she rode on Suzaku's back, Naruto, in his tailed beast form had been trapped in a prison like technique. Misaki, together with the beast of exerted all means possible to get him out, blasting rocks with fire, digging holes with water and air, and moving earth itself but to no avail, Naruto's prison going bigger and bigger, blocking the sun.
"No, no NO!" Misaki said running on Suzaku's back then simply jumping off, landing on a rock that would soon take part in Naruto's imprisonment. Misaki formed chakra in her hands and punched the planetoid, using her bare hands to dig for her brother herself. Suddenly,nine chakra tails emerged from the rocky prison, revealing Naruto, no the kyubi so close to his emergence, finally starting to take flesh.
"NARUTO!" Misaki screamed out with tears in her eyes, golden chakra chains emerged from her body shooting towards Naruto, the chains going through anything and straight towards Naruto's insides, then wrapping around his whole body, restricting him from doing any more damage, to himself and to everyone else.
As soon as the chains made contact, Misaki forced her way inside Naruto's conscious. It was her first time entering Naruto's psyche, usually, they would meet halfway, but the case was different this time, because this time she needed to invade his mind, something she too is uncomfortable doing regardless of who the person is.
"Suzaku can you get closer?" Misaki asked of her comrade, she needed to be as close as possible if she was going to go anywhere with her intentions. Compared to her, kyuubi lived within Naruto, so he already has a home base advantage.
AS if that wasn't hard enough, the planetary devastation jutsu kept repairing itself, so she too was digging through rocks herself.
"I thought I already made it clear, I won't let you hurt my BROTHER!" Misaki yelled, finally reaching Naruto's mind, but that was only half the battle. Once she got inside she was met with a cold dark labyrinth of a prison.
"Naruto, all this time, you wouldn't let me in, because you didn't want me to see this" Misaki whispered feeling her way through the darkness, feeling her way to her brother, which wasn't difficult, even in the dark labyrinth like this, and it wasn't because of the marker she had on Naruto. Ever since they were children, before they even knew they were related, they were always able to find each other.
Misaki felt him before she heard him, and without a moment's hesitation, she ran towards him, ignoring the overbearing cesspool of emotions that chocked down her throat, the closer she got to Naruto.
When she got there, a pool of black surrounded the waters around Naruto, Misaki tried to reach for him, but was pulled back, causing her to slam face first into the watery floor. Misaki pushed herself up, but the pulling didn't stop, which can only mean that the kyuubi from the surface is fighting against her seal.
She pulled harder on her chains, tightening her grip around the physical kyuubi as she struggled to stand up.
"Naruto don't do this, this isn't who you are NARUTO" Misaki literally begged and crawled her way towards Naruto screaming her heart out, but her voice was lost against the taunting and coercing who already dominated most of him.
It was already a losing battle, but if there is something they had in common is that they don't give up. Though her whole strength was focused on keeping the kyuubi at the surface still, exerting extra effort she reached for the last of her strength, she stretched an arm towards Naruto, a yarn like chakra emitted from her arms, reaching out and wrapping itself on Naruto's arm, the arm that was about to destroy the seal.
"Naruto, remember who you are! Aren't you supposed to be the number one prankster of Konoha, Ichiraku Ramen's biggest fan, rival of Uchiha Sasuke, the child of the prophecy of Jiraiya-sensei, the future hokage who is going to surpass all of his predecessor, remember you are Uzumaki Naruto!" with great effort Misaki violently pulled Naruto's arm away from the seal, her words reaching his heart, as his eyes were no longer the angry red eyes of a fox, but the blue eyes he shared with his sister.
"Misaki!" Naruto turned to find Misaki was being pulled down by the dark waters as soon as she finished her monologue, the same black matter wrapped around him waist down, keeping him from going anywhere.
"Misaki!" Naruto yelled in dread panicking as the las of Misaki's luscious red locks disappeared under the opaque waters.
Suddenly something, or rather a someone grabbed him like a sack of potatoes and freed him from his restraints, landing them both down to where Misaki was last seen.
Reaching down, the stranger grabbed a hold of Misaki like she was just beneath the surface. Worried, Naruto rushed to his coughing sister's side but only one thing ran in their mind
Who was the stranger that rescued them?
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Ladies and gentleman, boy and girl alike, may I present Chapter 21!
I've been watching Naruto over and over again whilst writing so I can sequence the events and actions as close as possible, and I think Kishimoto-sama is beginning to rub on me, having flashbacks in the middle of fights, familiar anyone?
Anyways hope you enjoyed it so far, I know I have been having the time of my life writing this for you guys,I cannot believe that is has already been a year since I posted the very first chapter of the first book, how time flies!
So I wanted to take this time to thank you guys, to those who have been with me since the very beginning, to those who take their time reading this fanfiction, to those who message and review their thoughts about the stories and to those who believe in this fanfiction, by favoriting and following it, thank you guys, you bring so much joy to my life, thank you guys love lots!
Also, I'm planning on taking on a fanfic with a lighter load, more on rom com, and I have narrowed down the choices to two, between Gakuen Babysitters: Kashima Hayato because they have cute babies and Hayato has this cold hot vibe going on and Ore Monogatari: Sunakawa Makoto, because of his good looks and the sincerity of his friendship, but I'm leaning towards the latter because it's seems very exciting and fun to work around a character like Takeo, so to anyone interested, which one should I pick,? What are your thoughts, message or review, me of your thoughts, thanks love you.