Don't forget that this is fan fiction, hopefully giving justice to the characters from the Naruto series, which is given to us by the masterful Masashi Kishimoto-sensei. Everything aside from the original characters are created from the wonderful mind of Kishimoto-sensei.
Most of the following unrecognizable are original characters of mine.
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Thanks for reading!
Chapter 40:
Misaki arrived at the site of Madara and Hashirama's battle, mere seconds before Naruto's technique hit.
"That. does not count" Misaki dusted herself in the aftermath of the impact.
"That red hair, yondaime's kid you're a descendant of the Uzumaki right, help me seal Madara" Hashirama asked.
"I'll try my best" Misaki who nodded, accessing her sixth reserve as the previous one was exhausted from their altercation with Obito. She never sealed anything or anyone as powerful as Madara, so for him she will used the very technique Minato used to seal Kurama inside Naruto.
"Time to switch places, it's my turn to attack" Madara smirked from beneath Hashirama's binding, watching Misaki prepare his supposed seal.
"Stop acting tough, this war is over!" Hashirama countered, and Naruto finally arrived on Sai's technique.
"Misaki" Naruto ran next to his twin.
"I'm grateful, you even extracted the bijuu from Obito, saving me the trouble of weakening him," Misaki felt uncomfortable with Madara's speech, another thing she felt was something on the mark she left on Madara, a stirring, a beat.
Finally ready to seal Madara, she was ready to perform the seal when Madara burst free from Hashirama's bindings.
"He,-he's has been rebirthed" Misaki gasped.
Madara burst into black flames, prompting everyone to look back, and up towards Sasuke arriving on Sai's bird.
"Ancient relics, should just butt out" from where she stood Misaki could see Sasuke bleed tears of blood, pushing his eyes past its limits.
"A brat who doesn't even come close to my level, you stole my line!" Madara yelled back, eyes closed, sending a chill down Misaki's spine, prompting her to grab hold of her katana, ready for anything, or at least she hoped so.
Why would an Uchiha, especially Madara, close his eyes in the middle of a war, let alone a battle.
"Sasuke, it's pointless to throw attacks at him, this guy can absorb ninjutsu!" Naruto yelled, and true to his words, the only thing Amaterasu burned away was Madara's armor, revealing yet another surprise at them.
"No" Misaki frowned, tightening her grip on the hilt of her katana and unconsciously biting her lip. On Madara's chest, engraved was Hashirama's face a manifestation of the cells implanted in him, equipping him with the very bodily prowess Hashira used against him many years over.
"However, me coming back to life was exactly as planned!," Madara declared, biting his arm to injure and bleed out to prove his point.
As fast as he was in the legends about him, Madara advanced towards them, giving only Misaki the time to react and push Naruto out of the way.
"NARUTO"
But not fast enough for her to get out of the way. Leaving her with bracing herself from impact and using her forearms to block and protect herself from as much damage as she can.
The impact sent Misaki hurtling back, slamming her small body against scattered debris of boulders. Blinding her in a haze of her own pain, she can't even remember when exactly she passed out.
Next thing she knew she was awakened by an explosion, and a blanket of hot ash surrounded her. Pushing herself up, using her katana to hold her up, she closed her eyes and felt her way through her chakra channels and towards Madara, who was on his way to making a practice target out of the alliance.
Pushing herself faster than she ever has, Misaki launched herself against Madara's trajectory, grazing his cheeks, as he barely had time to evade her.
Misaki skid to a sudden full stop using her katana to create more friction against the ground. She looked up, as Madara relished the sight of the battlefield like a new man, like a man reborn. Without taking her eyes off of her opponent Misaki zoned within her thoughts, of Naruto, of Kaede, of everyone she holds dear, to the people behind her and the bijuu.
Misaki uprooted her sword and slashed the ground before her.
"Not one step past this line" Misaki pointed her katana towards Madara who bellowed at the little red head's gesture.
"Brats today, have some nerve talking up to their betters"
"We forged and era where a man is not defined by the number of lives he has ended in battle, but rather the lives he has protected and saved"
"You Madara are no better than us!" Misaki declared, Gaara hovered next to her, the bijuu rallying the bijuu behind him.
"Gaara" Gaara merely nodded at her in recognition. Madara, was first to move, but a combination between Shukaku and Gaara was quick to stop him, followed by the bijuu each taking a hit at him, passing him around like a ball of yan in a field of playful kittens.
Finally Madara was trapped on Saiken's technique, Gaara and Shukaku buried him in their grand sand mausoleum.
Both doubtful and hopeful Misaki approached the grand structure, intending to reinforce the seal with the eight trigrams seal.
However their moment of silence was short lived, Madara was quick to escape using his susanoo.
"I will be putting a collar on you momentarily, not one of you will escape" Madara said upon his escape, but Naruto and Kurama buried him and his attitude upon their arrival, and once again in a impressive and gigantic feat, the bijuu gathered in a combination, gathering their tails to push Madara further into the dirt.
Yet once again, Madara escaped, this time, without an arm.
"Damn, how many times do you have to bury this guy" Misaki cursed. Even worse was a white zetsu appeared, proving him with an arm, a rinnegan and the ability to summon the gedo statue.
Using his reinforcements, Madara immediately used it to his advantage and took down the bijju in one fell swoop.
Binding them in chains as soon as they were knocked down.
"NO!" Something inside Misaki snapped and she yelled at the sight of Kurama and Naruto binded in purple chains.
From behind everyone, Misaki's chains burst forth from the ground, wrapping around the purple chains.
"You're a persistent one, I'll deal with you later" Madara thought, as he prioritized the first bijuu in the order, and in doing so Gaara.
But that didn't take much time, as soon Madara was dragging the bijuu across the ground.
Behind them, Misaki struggled to pull them back, to make them stay, for something to happen.
"No!" On her knees, feet planted on the ground as she too was dragged behind the bijuu, fingers bleeding as she desperately clung to anything she could hold on.
With one effortless yank, the bijuu were swallowed whole by the Gedo, at the sides Gaara watched as Naruto fell when Kurama was yanked from within him, and Misaki landed…
Before Madara, like a madman, blinded with tears and numb from reality, Misaki aimlessly and relentlessly attacked Madara, her body vibrating with the current of electricity as she pushed faster and faster. Madara was barely able to catch up to her movements, gaining several wounds and slashes, narrowly avoiding Misaki's blade.
"Bansho Tensei" Madara laid out his arm, using the technique to forcibly pool Misaki's neck into his reach.
"Descendant of the Uzumaki, you have interrupted me for too long" Madara held Misaki by the neck, absorbing her essence and chakra just as he did with Hashirama. Instantly, his wounds began to heal and his strength rejuvenized.
"So this is the vitality that the Uzumaki are known for" Misaki struggled and squirmed in silent tears, not for her life both for her brother.
She knows what happens to jinchurikis when their bijuus are extracted from them. It happened to her mom, to Gaara, to Natsume's sensei Yugito Nii, Kazumi's uncle Han, and to Utakata, Yoko's brother.
Is he gone?! I need to find him… Was the last thing Misaki thought before darkness swallowed her whole.
Madara produced a dark rod using his rinnegan and stabbed Misaki's form by the shoulder against the gedo statue. The rod continuously transfers Misaki's chakra towards the technique caster, like a chakra food source.
Not long after that Lord second arrived to attack Madara, but he was quickly repelled just as fast as he arrived. From where he was pinned he looked up to see Misaki's unconscious bleeding from being hoisted up by the shoulder like livestock.
Carrying the first hokage's words with him, Sasuke flew across the battlefield towards Madara, and what he saw hurtled him towards the memory of his tsukiyomi.
Even after he was stabbed by Madara, and even as clung to the brink of death, he looked to Misaki's unmoving form, willing her to move to fight for life, more so than he willed himself.
Open your eyes….Misaki…
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Meanwhile, the alliance was barricaded by white zetsu on a mokton statue, and one by one, they were made known about the tragedy that happened on the other end of the battlefield, one by one their loved ones were noticing the signs.
"Kazumi!" Yoko called out to the medical nin,
"Misaki's mark, it's –"
"Fading" Itachi finished for them, showing them Misaki's mark on him, also fading.
"That means" Ayako covered her gasp, joining everyone as they tried to look past their opponent towards the battlefield where Madara is.
And when Gaara arrived with a barely breathing Naruto, their greatest fears were realized.
"Misaki, where is my daughter?!" Kaede demanded of the Kazekage, but there was no such time to address her question as he sped away with Naruto and Sakura in his sand.
"MISAKI?!" Kaede yelled after Gaara.
"Kaede, hold yourself together!" Tsunade tried to grab a hold of her, but the blonde collapsed in her arms.
"Kaede?! What's wrong?" Tsunade looked at the exhausted, otherwise perfectly healthy Kaede… except maybe.
"Shizune!" Tsunade exclaimed as she confirmed her suspicions through Kaede's pulse.
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Madara absorbed the Juubi as soon as it formed, making him a jinchuriki, and as he moved forward, he used one of his black matter to wrap around Misaki's neck like a collar and carry her behind him.
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Obito struggled with all that he had from Black Zetsu taking the rinnegan from him, he was at wit's end, standing before his former sensei and squadmate, when he heard a voice, distance yet familiar.
And it wasn't Rin.
Gaara arrived with Naruto and Sakura, wasting no time to explain the current predicament Naruto is in and In a confusing succession of events, Black Zetsu was able to snatch Kurama's other half from Minato.
All this happened seconds before Madara arrived, making himself a small crater and a puff of dirt and smoke.
"Black Zetsu, you're late, so I came to you, how long are you going to cling to Obito?" Madara admonished.
"Sorry, but that allowed me to steal the other half of the kyuubi from these guys" Black Zetsu explained.
"Good now bring it and my left eye to me" Madara ordered, and while this exchange was not lost on everyone, the center of their attention all directed behind Madara when the effects of his landing subsided.
"Is that!" Sakura gasped.
Behind Madara, a limp Misaki hovered around, like a trophy livestock.
"You?!" Minato was shaking, how could he ever show his face to Kushina..their children.
Meanwhile in the recess of Obito's mind, he opened his eyes, strands of red veiled his view, blue eyes waiting for him.
"You" Obito stared back at Misaki waiting impatiently for him, in his own mind.
"Took you long enough," Misaki pinched and pulled at his cheeks.
"I don't have much to give, but please do this for me, you owe me" Misaki said before placing her index finger on his forehead, energy and strength returned to Obito and in return, Misaki began to fade from his mind.
Black Zetsu forced Obito forward, and whilst the others tried their best to obstruct him, he merely maneuvered each other's attacks against one of their own.
"Now" Madara laid out his hand to Obito who walked closer to him, reaching out to his…
Chest.
Eyes widened as Obito buried his hand inside Madara's chest.
"One who leads others, is one who never steps over his friends' corpses even if his own ends up being stepped on" Obito took a page out of Madara's book and began absorbing through their physical connection, making the most advantage out of their surprise.
"Then in order to confirm that you'll have become a corpse," Madara replied quick to recover from the surprise.
"You won't be stepping on me anymore. I realize now that letting someone handle everything in your name, isn't the same as truly entrusting them with the task..I am not you" Obito announced as his very act of defiance against his ancestor. He garnered the chakra he has been absorbing to form Rikodo senin's staff.
"The me right now, is the one who wanted to be the hokage, Uchiha Obito" He affirmed no longer bound by Madara's name, nor his orders or wishes.
Madara tried to attack Obito, but Obito used his Kamui, nullifying his attempts. Connected via chakra, Obito dragged Madara to the depths of their minds, so he could grab hold of the tailed beasts from within.
"Is that all you can do? You merely took a sliver of the Ichibi and Hachibi, so weak" Madara remarked, but just as Obito took out the chakra he turned to his former teammate.
"Kakashi! Take Naruto to the timespace," Kakashi was able to quickly rush Naruto and Sakura, however he himself failed at the attempt of Madara.
Kakashi stood next to Obito ready to take on Madara, his eyes lingering on the form hoisted behind him.
"This time, I'll take point and you'll be my backup, Kakashi" Obito too was looking at Misaki, the very girl who gave everything she had and gave him this opportunity to take back his name and fight back against Madara.
"It's been a while since we were a two man team, don't stumble, Obito"
"Are you prepare for this" for death, Obito asked.
"Yeah, I'm glad my final op will have been with you," Kakashi lowered his eyes for a moment, sending a silent love note into the chill air of the night, hoping it will reach Kaede, or at least he can return Misaki to her.
"Obito, I'm taking back everything I loaned you, especially that left eye.." Madara informed them of his plan. How very courteous of him.
"Are you worried Madara, you told me once that only with both together, could the sharingan's true power be unleashed, and so-
you're wrong. Those are rinnegan not just sharingan"
"You're wrong, I was talking about these eyes" Obito emphasized, not on the rinnegan they both shared, but the sharingan he and Kakashi shared.
So when Madara attacked them simultaneously, they both activated the Kamui, doubling the speed of the technique with both eyes used as one.
Obito finally arrived at the timespace where Sakura continued to perform life preservation maneuvers on Naruto.
"Obito!" Sakura noticed.
"Don't worry. I'm here to help Naruto"
"Can I trust you?"
"Ever since I was a kid I never could walk a straight path, but I've finally gotten to where I needed to go," Obito said, pressing his hand on Naruto's torso.
"Besides, I promised to repay a depth with someone"
"Wait, by debt you mean?"
"Misaki gave me whatever what was left of her chakra, she wanted me to get to Naruto"
"You mean?!" Sakura didn't even have the strength to voice this reality, neither did Obito as he only remained silent, willing Naruto to wake up. Obito's hand began to flare as he transferred the other half of Kurama to Naruto.
And with that the last memory of Misaki's visit to Obito.
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"Hey, how long are you going to sleep?" a voice asked him, Misaki? Where is Misaki? Naruto opened his eyes, and found himself back in his mind, once again, this time Kurama wasn't there, yet everything else remained the same, it looked familiar yet felt entirely different.
"Wait Misaki!" Naruto looked around, but found he was all alone.
"Misaki was just here, I know I felt her," Naruto muttered.
""Did I die?" Naruto wondered out loud.
"What makes you think that thou art dead, thine ethical viewpoint on death differs much, from that which prevailed in my time, to easily replace oneself with the term death, thou must gain mettle of fledgling.
"Who are you, where is Misaki?" Naruto asked the floating stranger in his mind, speaking to him in a manner difficult for him to process.
"Thy person you seek, was once here, but now has gone, tis quite a precise query for this place, but I am quite uneasy over whether thou shalt be able to connect my name with my actions as a herald. I am he who shall achieve peace and order, my name is Hagoromo" the floating figure introduced himself, which left more questions than answers.
"In other words, I had foreseen that thou wouldst end up in such a state as that." the more Hagormo said the more confused Naruto was, and it was beginning to annoy him. So he sat properly facing Hagoromo this time, prepared for some answers.
"Gramps, sorry but I-"
"Now" finally facing him, Naruto was finally able to notice his eyes, rinnegan.
"Thou dost appear to possess observant eyes. All that remains for thee to pragmatically comprehend thy circumstance. Thou has not died yet, this place is thine inner mind, I understand thine haste, but at this moment…."
This geezer;s not an enemy? That was all that ran inside Naruto's mind as Hagoromo's speech began to draw out.
"CAN'T YOU SPEAK A LITTLE MORE SMOOTHLY, you know using NORMAL words?" Naruto yelled in annoyance, he wasn't made for this kind of conversation.
"I am an anachronism. Over the passage of much time, cultural tradition, notions and ethics, have brought about significant change. Each occurrence where I cross time and meet a reincarnate. I have come to sense greatly the differences between the other and myself. I was also able to formalistically regulate and learn new mores and words, however-" Hagoromo continued longer, and still not a single word was processed by Naruto.
"Shut up already, I don't have time to be sitting around and listening to some weird geezer."
"Naruto, what he means is that he is from the past." A voice echoed around, though soft and almost translucent was familiar.
"Misaki?!" Naruto turned, but she wasn't there..again.
"Not just searching for words, but there is ambiguity in scholarship, if communication of will cannot be achieved, in addition to difficulty of definition, I see that I must speak simple, taking into account current idealistic and materialistic thinking."
"Are you an alien or something? I mean you seam dignified, but-"
"Uh, that's a bit much, doncha think? Alien seriously?" Hagoromo chuckled mysteriously, finally using the same jargon Naruto can understand easily. Yet this left him more so confused than he already is.
"Well, maybe that ain't too far off. So anyway,"
"Do you still fail to understand me?" Hagoromo asked when Naruto's face of confusion remained unchanged.
"No! Keep talking like just now! I finally got you! I was just shocked because your speaking suddenly changed drastically, ya know?"
Their exchange continued until Naruto was confident they could exchange words properly.
"So gramps, who are you? If you know about this place, tell me how to find my sister and get out of here!" Naruto asked\
"Don't ask so many questions all at once! I am a person of the past, someone long dead. A monk who wanders through this world as chakra, crossing generations, ascertaining the course of ninshu, the ninja creed. My name is Hagoromo, the founder of the ninja creed. I am also known as the Rikodo-sennin"
"What?! The Sage of Six Paths, the sage from the legends Ero-sennin and Nagato talked about?" Naruto exclaimed.
"Oh, so you know about me?"
"Of course I do! You're the one who created ninjutsu, right?" Naruto rushed.
"Not just ninjutsu, but ninshu-the ninja creed! My ninshu was something meant to birth hope, do not confuse it with ninjutsu which breeds conflict!" Hagoromo clarified.
"In any case, if you're the sage, I've got tons of things I wanna ask you, but first right now, my sister-" Hagoromo did not wait for Naruto to finish when he slammed his staff on the water surface, giving Naruto the reflection of his past incarnate.
"You are my son Ashura's. Anyway, the conditions are all in place now, there are things I must entrust with you." Hagoromo's form glided across the area and towards Naruto.
"Ashura? Entrust? Quit talking gibberish and let me out of here! I still need to find Misaki!" Naruto argued.
"Your sister is not here, she was once, but not anymore. Forgive me, but that is not something I have influence over. That depends on the actions of those outside. I can only relay things to you."
"I am not getting what you are saying"
"It means right now, trying to rush won't make any difference, so you must listen for a while…First about my mother and my sons….."
Meanwhile, inside the conscious mind of his other son's reincarnation, Hagoromo's exchange with Sasuke went differently yet in a weird way quite similar.
"A Lot of things happened, now you have the chakra of all the nine bijuu within you Naruto!" The other half of Kurama that resided within Minato, along with Shukaku and Gyuki entered the place where Naruto and Hagoromo conversed.
"Even you? The other half of Kurama. The Misaki where is Misaki how did she get here"
"Misaki gave her chakra to Obito so he could resist Black Zetsu and steal the chakra from Madara." Kurama explained.
"Then is she alright?" Kurama thought back to how Minato felt when he saw Naruto manually being kept alive by his pink haired teammate, no doubt he was just as heartbroken when he saw his daughter at the hands of Madara, it was a feeling that Minato couldn't possibly put into words.
And neither can he.
Naruto looked down, his fist clenched. The last he remembers of Misaki was of her struggling to resist the capture of the bijuu from Madara. Of all the times she protected him, and for those times she had to sacrifice herself for him. This time it was his turn to save her.
"The promised time! Rikodo-no-jiji" Kurama began and with that, Hagoromo summoned all the bijuu inside Naruto and thus began entrusting his will to Naruto and Sasuke, just as he had before, with his sons Indra and Ashura.
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Team Orochimuru waited withheld breaths, after pushing past the mokton statue to get to Sasuke and provide aid. They find that an evolved Kabuto has beaten them to him. Kabuto, released from Itachi's technique, was trying his best to resuscitate him.
Sasuke's eyes opened and in an instant, he was standing before them, like he wasn't just dead a couple of seconds ago. His eyes scanned the battlefield, his mind to the last things he saw before he succumbed to darkness. A vision of red being taken away. The hand where Hagoromo left tingled.
"It's time to go"
First they were going to save Misaki, then they were going to take Madara down.
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Putting his life on the line, Guy accessed his last and final gate, of taijutsu. Battling Madara under immense pressure and pain, almost as if his body was burning against him. And even then, Madara continued to rise against their wishes, leaving Guy with the last thing in his arsenal. Guy crouched down taking the form of Night Guy, channeling the chakra even in his heart.
With one swift and powerful attack, Guy unleashed himself unto Madara sending him and everybody hurtling back.
And what a powerful move it was, Night Guy broke Madara into a state they never thought they would see, the sheer number of limbs, or the lack there off showcase just how devastating Guy's attack was.
Unfortunately, the image of Guy almost burnt beyond recognition showed just as equally devastating the attack was on its user.
"You almost killed me, you bastard, if it wasn't for this brat I wouldn't be able to recover in time" Madara hovered Misaki's body near him, wrapping his remaining hand around her neck to hasten transfer of her chakra to him.
"Your flame is about to go out, but thanks for such a great time, I'll finish you off before you turn to ash on your own!" Madara screamed, prepared to attack as soon as he was able to reform his blasted limbs.
Madara hurtled a truthseeker orb to finish off Guy, but to everyone's surprise, a spark of bright orange kicked it hurtling back at him.
Everybody watched as Naruto crouched before Guy, placing his palm on his chest in reverence, leaving a seal like mark on his chest around his heart.
"Naruto?" You seem a little different from before, what did Obito do? Madara pondered,
"I'm still trying to figure it out myself, but I think I can change everything now!" Naruto faced him.
For the very first time, he was able to see what became of his sister after he lost consciousness. Dangling behind Madara with a collar out of the truth seeker orb, Misaki was hanging on to life out of sheer will. Fading yet fighting still, just as she always has.
"How dare you!" In an instant Naruto was before him, fist clashing against Madara's staff, with his freehand he borrowed Son Goku's chakra and made an entirely different version of his original technique.
"Senpou: Lava Style Rasen Shurinken" Naruto chased after Madara as he tried to scramble further away.
"Limbo" Madara tried to counter, but was surprised that Naruto was able to dodge Limbo as if he had seen the attack. Without resistance, Naruto threw the attack at him.
"Burst!" Naruto willed his technique upon crashing into Madara. Not only did this attack severely injure Madara, but also severed the divine tree in half.
In the midst of the crash, Naruto took Guy to safety with Gaara and Kakashi.
Without a moment's reprise, Naruto turned to follow Madara's heels once more, he still needed to take Misaki from Madara.
When he got to Madara, at the foot of the now severed tree, Madara had fully recovered, and that the part of the tree he had severed was nowhere to be seen, having been absorbed by Madara.
"You can't take me down! Essentially I am completely immortal now. I have obtained eternity,"
Naruto, picked up one of his father's kunai biting on to it as he tightened his forehead protector.
"Idiot, I am not taking you down, WE are going to take you down!" in an instant, by the effort of the second hokage, Sasuke was next to Naruto who has now not only activated his bijuu chakra, but also his very own truth seeking orb.
"Your time has come Madara," Sasuke, glared at Madara, fists clenched. Even now, even as he has declared himself invincible, he dangled Misaki before them. He decided that right there and there, he will do anything to bring Madara down, if it means for Misaki's safety.
This time Madara was able to take in the visions before him , one has awakened the rikodo-senin's senjutsu, the other awakened the rinnegan. However I possess both of those powers!
"This is the final battle, my power against yours, let's settle who is supperios once and for all" In a showdown of who can harness the rikodo sennin's power Madara found himself cornered and a bit desperate even after he has consumed the divine tree.
After narrowly escaping with his shadow, Madara sped towards the only person who can take him to his other eye,
Naruto was left to hold down the shadow of Madara, while Sasuke chased after the real one.
Reaching Kakashi in no time, Madara was able to grab hold of his sharingan and implant it on himself, simultaneously healing it. He had only just successfully healed his eyes when Sasuke arrived, with an activated chidori.
He sure is fast, but not fast enough, this one on the other hand.
Sasuke sliced Madara in half successfully, but Madara's priority was getting to Obito as he disappeared to go to the time space. In a split second, before it was all too late once again, Sasuke was able to grab hold of Misaki and whisk her away before she got taken into the time space with Madara.
In the midst, they were left with only the lower part of Madara, but they were able to recover Misaki. Sasuke knelt as he held her in her arms, skin ghostly pale and cold, barely breathing but alive. Madara had almost ran her dry, but she held on to life stubbornly.
Never again, I will bring in an era, where you will never end up like this again. Sasuke thought, pulling Misaki tighter to him, pressing his forehead against hers.
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Hi, if you noticed that everything felt rushed, I have several reasons for that, one being because it really is a fast sequence of events, two I'm trying to write it not as we can watch Naruto, but as a point of view that has limited access per line break, line breaks divide a different limited point of view I guess, or that's what I like to think. Three, this is the part of war that has so many filler episodes and I was half bored, half irritated going through episodes, because the playlist I made disappeared, and fourth is an excuse more than a reason I just want to skip to that good part.
AAAHHH
Writing this with Minato in mind was pretty heartbreaking, I can't imagine how he felt seeing his children this way.
That being said this is the ONLY part of the draft that I completely scrapped, the original idea though good felt too Misaki-centric and this though a fanfiction is still a story of Naruto,so I kinda went with my instinct and just let my fingers take control of the story.