Hello, everybody, and welcome to another chapter of The Trials of Destiny! Not much to say, so let's just get on with the chapter!
Chapter 18: Ice and Fire
Friday, June 19, CCY 3381
Sasuke slowly ran a grindstone from his sharpening kit across his chokuto, making sure the blade was as sharp as it needed to be. He ran through the information for the final siege in his head. Underground base, I'll need to borrow some abilities from Deva Path in order to unearth any entrances because my chakra can't penetrate the ground for some reason. Unknown target, but most likely suspect of this recent rebellion against Celestia and Luna is a unicorn by the name of Frosty Ice. Abandoned her post in the Royal Guard three years ago, disappeared off the face of the planet and hasn't been seen since. But rumors in the Horseton area say she's locked herself and a few like-minded associates under this very ground, right below the Mayor's nose. She's been trying to gather remnants of what used to be Nightmare Moon's magic, probably in a foolish attempt to resurrect her. Unfortunately, she somehow isn't aware that Nightmare Moon and Luna are already freed of the Moon.
Next to him, Son Goku practiced his taijutsu forms diligently, a clone of himself observing carefully nearby, that he might seek to improve his forms with his own knowledge of his mistakes. He turned to Sasuke while executing a diagonal high kick, returning his leg to its position in his original stance. "Are you sure our target is in this area, Sasuke? I may have only just arrived here, but the Mayor needs me to help him with a meeting later today, I can't afford to spend any more time out here than I absolutely have to, otherwise I risk being ousted from the position I've spent several months working toward."
"Don't worry about it, Son. I can tell this is where we need to strike. Though if mine, the Captain, and Jiraiya's intelligence is correct, then we're likely walking into an ambush. The suspect and his or her associates probably already know we're here."
"Then why have we been sitting around?"
"Because Universal Pull normally can't be used in more than one absolute vector. I have to gather inordinate amounts of chakra in order to use it in more than one vector, which is something I wasn't capable of until recently. I need you here to minimize the damage for what I'm doing after Universal Pull."
Son raised an eyebrow as he exited his final stance and went through his stretches. "And what would that be?"
"It'd be a waste to just let the jutsu take all that rock into low orbit or have it burn up in the atmosphere, so I'm going to use Planetary Devastation to do a little recycling, crack the ground so myself and the platoon can get in."
"And you need me for that part why, exactly?"
"Like I said, minimize the damage. Shit's going to go flying, and since we're so close to the rural part of Horseton, there's potential for a lot of collateral. You're the fastest and strongest of the Nine in terms of taijutsu ability, so you'll be making sure that collateral doesn't happen. Smash rocks, that sort of thing."
Son nodded. "Makes sense; Planetary Devastation is a very demanding and volatile jutsu. Alright, I'll do your rough cleanup, but I expect recompense."
"Already knew you'd say that, so here you go." Sasuke reached into the seal of a scroll and pulled out a set of metal knuckles with an intricate design of two fighting rams across the fittings. The whole set was made of an extremely durable titanium alloy. "Put a little more 'oomph' in your punches."
Son caught the knuckles, feeling their weight, then putting them on and testing their balance. He deemed them acceptable and put them in his own scroll. "Thank you, Sasuke. It seems you thought ahead when preparing for this."
"If I don't, then who will? Jiraiya, Minato and Tsunade weren't confident in their ability to fight this person because even the Captain says the intelligence isn't as high-quality as he wanted it to be, and the Captain himself couldn't come because he's got recruits to train. Celestia and Luna are big noes for obvious reasons, and Nightmare didn't want to come because she felt it'd make whoever's hiding down there do dumb things that'd risk the safety of Horseton. If Naruto weren't still in a coma, he'd probably be here in my place, and without his ridiculous strength, I needed someone else."
Son nodded. "Naruto's strength would have indeed been valuable in this situation, but we just have to make do until he comes back around."
Sasuke stood up, putting his chokuto in its sheath. "Alright, everyone, get away from the vicinity!"
The Guard platoon sent to assist Sasuke immediately saluted and moved back a respectable quarter-mile. Sasuke jumped into the air, manifesting the wings of his Susano'o, and flared both his Rinnegan. The outer layer of tomoe in his left Rinnegan disappeared as he gathered the inordinate chakra capacity required for the task at hand. "Universal Pull!"
Within seconds, a loud, grinding noise made itself known as the ground tried to resist the pull of gravity and inevitably failed. Sixteen thousand tons of dirt, uprooted trees, and all manner of other organisms found in the ground floated up and away past Sasuke, and he focused the powers of the Deva and Outer Paths, closing his fist, and gravity then did its job of crushing the dislodged organic matter into a giant ball three hundred feet wide. "Planetary Devastation!"
The ball of organic matter quickly fell back down to earth at ninety miles per hour, and Son immediately got to work, dashing around as best he could, pulverizing the flying matter dislodged from the giant ball of rock slamming into the ground at a significant percentage of terminal velocity.
Five minutes later, the process was complete, and Sasuke had made a large hole in what appeared to be a ceiling, though another reinforced wall was under it. That's fine; this wouldn't be fun if there wasn't resistance.
He turned around to the Guard behind him. "Alright, everyone, listen up! I don't doubt for a second that the people in this underground base know we're here, so when their commander sends them out to deal with us, I want all of you to prepare for battle! Twenty of you with me; we'll charge in and immobilize as many enemies as we can! Fifteen of you will come with us and break off. Your job is to look for any hostages and break them free if you find them. If you don't find any, feel free to join back up with the main force! The last fifteen, your job is to stay out here and catch any stragglers that try to escape the base!"
"Sir, yes, sir!" The Guard sounded off, in a saluting position. None of them wished to anger the man standing in front of them; none of them really wanted to, either. They could tell Sasuke had much more expertise in this area than they, so they obeyed without hesitation or delay.
Thirty-five of the fifty soldiers quickly stood around and behind him, ready to charge into the building and complete their tasks, while the remaining fifteen quickly discussed strategy. Five broke off to stand at the back of the main group, five stood in strategically sound places (mostly high ground), and the remaining five went into the trees nearby.
Sure enough, within a couple minutes, a group of eight ponies – three unicorns, two pegasi, and three earth ponies – came out to search for their assailant. Sasuke was ready for them, and as the first unicorn tried to lock him in a paralysis spell, he used a low-powered Almighty Push to push the spell off of him. The unicorn quickly fell to the ground in pain; having tried to overcome the force of gravity had drained all his magic in short order and caused severe burnout, rendering him useless. The two pegasi tried to help their fellow soldier out, but Sasuke didn't let them, and as a Guard threw a spear in the ground in front of one to halt his forward momentum – which coincidentally caused the pegasus to trip over the trip and eat a mouthful of stone – Sasuke pulled the other one toward him and slapped a temporary paralysis seal on him, tossing him back for the rear group to restrain.
The other two unicorns wasted no time in sounding a loud auditory spell which Sasuke had no doubt meant a call for reinforcements. "Guard, prepare for battle! Reinforcements are on the way!"
The Guard shouted out an immediate affirmative, and another ten unicorns tried to combine to make a more powerful paralysis spell, clearly recognizing Sasuke as the resident threat. They managed to succeed, but not before Sasuke activated the Preta Path and used an ability he'd been developing in his training with Žiara, called Total Reversal.
"Hmm, that is in fact an interesting skill you've developed. What did you make it for?" Žiara asked Sasuke as he demonstrated the jutsu.
Sasuke grunted. "Status effects. For example, if someone tries to paralyze me, I can use this to reverse the effects so that they end up paralyzing themselves instead."
Žiara hmm'ed in thought. "Any other aspects you've used for this?"
"Just one. The stronger the person who tries to inflict a status effect on me, the stronger the effect gets applied back to them. Hopefully, I shouldn't need anything else. Besides, because of its nature, it is extremely resource-intensive, the same as my Chidori used to be. I can only use it a few times before I start exhausting my chakra, so it's something I'm only going to pull out if I'm in a real pickle. I wouldn't be able to add anything else, otherwise I'd risk it becoming a one-and-done jutsu that nearly kills me in the process."
The unicorns grinned maliciously as they watched the spell take effect, only to be completely flummoxed when they were the ones feeling the effects. Sasuke grinned and walked up to them, slapping longer-term paralysis seals on all of them to make sure they didn't try the same stunts.
Of course, his precautions completely backfired when the unicorn from earlier, despite being paralyzed, manipulated the weather with his magic and caused a lightning bolt to strike Sasuke, whose only saving grace – his total mastery of its derivative Style – allowed him to absorb the energy beneficially instead of being shocked half to death by it. Hmm, that's a thought. Maybe I should add a little lightning transformation to the chakra in the seals as I apply them, until we can get some magic inhibitors. That bit, Sasuke still wasn't happy about. Celestia and Luna mistakenly believed he wouldn't need magic inhibitors for the unicorns, believing his own abilities would destroy all resistance, but he always came in over-prepared for this exact reason.
One: if possible, aim to capture, otherwise go for the kill. Sasuke, as a genin when they'd still lived on their own world, saw many people killed because they'd become complacent and believed they could do anything. And since they refused to not 'have fun', they got themselves killed.
Two: honesty is the best policy, regardless of the circumstance. Lying never got people of his caliber anywhere, especially since in most cases, those with the skill could easily read the lie, no matter how well it was concealed. You alienated the people whose support you needed the most that way.
Three: never believe you've won the fight until the opponent is dead or incapacitated. Back on their world, Naruto's naivete had nearly gotten him killed several times for this very reason, though to be fair, Sasuke had had his fair share of close calls as well, the Five Kage Summit being his own glaring example.
Four: always stay on your guard. A shinobi at rest, in relaxation, was a vulnerable shinobi, and any shinobi worth their salt knew of the outlandish adage that 'even a genin can kill a Kage'. And just because it was outlandish didn't mean it wasn't true.
Five: always keep your abilities, all of them, honed to the best they can be, and strive to make them even better. As a shinobi, one never knew when their specific skillset would be called into use, and shinobi needed to be ready for anything. Konoha's invasion at the hands of Orochimaru had taught him that important lesson. The village as a whole hadn't been ready, and had it not been for Hiruzen's sacrifice in stopping Orochimaru, Konoha would have been destroyed that day.
Six, and probably the most important: never explain how anything you do works to the enemy. Sasuke had seen people killed because they had given their opponent exactly what was needed to counter and kill them. To a shinobi, information is always half the battle. Hell, he'd heard from Naruto how Shikamaru beat one of the Akatsuki almost on his own. Thanks to Hidan being arrogant enough in his own immortality, he'd given Shikamaru enough information to turn that very blessing into a curse and trap Hidan, layering enough explosive tags to turn the man to atoms.
Sasuke dashed toward the offending unicorn and struck him harshly in the back of the head with the handle of his chokuto, knocking him out and ensuring he couldn't get off another spell. He quickly did this to the ten he'd just immobilized with their own spell.
As he fought, he heard Hamura's voice in his head. Hamura had been training with his Tenseigan, and had developed the ability to telepathically connect with anyone possessing a Rinnegan or Tenseigan. How goes the battle, Sasuke?
Fine, though you need to have Celestia send another platoon of the Guard, this time with the inhibitors. I'm lucky my affinity is Lightning Style, or I'd be half-dead right now. Lightning bolts don't care how strong the person they strike is.
Sasuke could hear Hamura chuckling, before the mental line was cut, and he returned to the battle. He saw one of the unicorns he hadn't knocked out try firing a spell at one of the Guard, who had had his back turned, and sped in front of the Guard. "Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu!"
Luckily, by the time the Guard turned around, the spell had been neutralized by Sasuke's potent fire, and Sasuke finished knocking out the unicorns. Analysis, I've still got around ninety percent of my chakra. Only significant drain was Total Reversal a couple minutes ago. Hopefully I don't have to use that again, though I'm not holding my breath.
Just as the current set of enemies went down, fifteen unicorns wielding magically-constructed blades came out of the hole in the base. Sasuke cursed and pulled out his chokuto, ready to do kenjutsu battle, and charged at the spellcasters, who all thrust their weapons at him, aiming to skewer him like a Thanksgiving turkey.
Sasuke put on a burst of blinding speed and deflected or outright shattered all but one of the blades, catching the other one and ripping it right out of the control of one of the unicorns, who promptly dropped to the ground, his horn sparking wildly from burnout.
After dealing with that batch of unicorns, no more came out, and Sasuke held his fist up in the universal stop signal. "Check all the bodies, make sure they're unconscious. I've contacted Hamura and told him to send a dispatch of reinforcements. In the meantime, change of plans. I need all but the ten strongest unicorns and the rest of the platoon to stay here. This is more resistance than I'd expected, and if we're not careful, they might be able to overwhelm you. The unicorns, you're coming in with me. I won't be able to handle their unicorns in CQC, so I'm trusting you to deal with them."
After the group rang out a resounding affirmative, Sasuke used his Rinnegan to cast a multi-layered genjutsu to make it look like everything was normal, and used Earth Style to fix the main issues caused by his initial attack. He then took the ten unicorns with him into the base proper.
"The hell do you mean the Guard broke through our front line? I employ some of the strongest unicorns this side of Equestria!" Ice inevitably began losing her temper upon finding out the entire front line had been stopped. "And who is this black-haired man with a straight sword you keep talking about?! I have literally NO intel on anyone who matches that description!"
"We're sorry, Lady Ice, but we've been completely surprised. The man seems to be able to reverse the effects of some attack and is able to manipulate gravity and fly. He can also manipulate fire and lightning in a way we're unfamiliar with."
"Dammit, why must my soldiers be so incompetent?! They could have at least stalled him for a few seconds!" Ice groaned and used her magic to freeze all the items on her desk, rendering them unusable. There. Seems this is where I go down, but damn if I give my intelligence away to the enemy! They'll never be able to undo my Permafreeze!
Ice reached under her desk and tapped a black button that opened a secret hallway to the massive training grounds under her office, and sprinted down it. "You know what to do if the intruders get to this point!"
"Affirmative, Lady Ice!" She pressed another button down the hallway to close the door behind her as she ran.
Sasuke grunted as he felt an earth pony attack his chokuto with all the subtlety of a sledgehammer, intent on knocking the deadly blade out of his hands. The man was then brutally kicked into the wall, knocked out as the unicorns of the platoon sent to assist Sasuke restrained and sent him back up to be held with the rest of the enemies they'd already captured.
Sasuke looked around at the three paths and laughed internally. He formed a ram seal, and six Shadow Clones appeared next to him, two running down each corridor. Before any of the Guard could follow, he held his hand up in the stop signal. "Wait, Major. I sent Shadow Clones ahead to scout for traps. I'll let you know when we can continue."
"Of course, sir." The Major made sure, in turn, that none of the other unicorns moved past Sasuke.
Two minutes later, five of the six clones dispelled. "One of my clones has met resistance. Major, I'll take you and three of the Guard with me. The other six, go through the hallway to the left. One of my clones found a stash of important information that the ponies here were trying to destroy. Make sure to handle it with care." At the sound of the affirmative, Sasuke and his four unicorns moved out.
A couple minutes later, he held up his hand and breathed a needle-thin gout of fire at the wall next to him. An earth pony fell out of what was now an alcove, the disguise he'd been using now his worst enemy. The unicorns restrained him and put out the fire, one of them teleporting out and then back in, prisoner delivered back above ground. I'll give these ponies credit for creativity. That might have worked on others, but not me.
A tick mark formed on Sasuke's brow, and he slammed his fist into the wall. Two pegasi fell out of the rafters and exposed lines that made up the ceiling, tangled in their own clothes. Really? How exactly did my clones miss all these hidden threats, weak though they may be?
Sasuke gestured. "Get them restrained and up to the surface, and this time, stay there. I get the feeling those were the last ones."
"Yes, sir!" The Guard wasted no time in getting to work, and soon, Sasuke was alone in the corridor. Before he moved out, he felt Hamura's telepathic link re-establish itself. Hamura-san.
Celestia has sent reinforcement, this time with the magic inhibitors. Hoes goes the battle?
In the lower levels, I believe. We've taken care of most of the stragglers, and I just sent the rest of the Guard back above ground. I'm certain the leader o this group isn't far off now.
Well, in that case, I'll leave you to it. Good hunting.
Thanks. The mental link cut off again, and this time, Sasuke ran forward toward the end of the hallway, his reservations dissipated.
He stopped in a small, abandoned room with a desk and several frozen items scattered along the floor. He examined the items and found them to be items that could have been useful for gathering intel. Damn. Well, guess not everything can be easy. The leader was probably expecting Naruto, Minato or Jiraiya to lead this assault, and had to go back to formula when they got me instead.
Sasuke felt around and found a button, which he summoned a Shadow Clone to press. The Shadow clone got a dose of lightning and immediately dissipated. Trap: check. Sasuke now pressed the button himself, and a door behind opened- to a hallway completely encased in ice. Sasuke chuckled. "Well, the leader is nothing if not innovative. Too bad they have to deal with me."
Sasuke slowly siphoned off his reserves of chakra, holding out his hand for a torrent of Inferno Style: Flame Control to rapidly eat away at the ice.
Within a few minutes, he stood within a large domed room carved straight out of the stone. Several magical matrices were scattered uniformly across the supports and domed roof of the structure for added support and magical resistance. Sasuke briefly marveled at the architecture before he returned his focus to the task at hand: the female unicorn standing at the very center that matched the description of the prime suspect of the rebellion, Frosty Ice.
"So, you're Frosty Ice. You've given me and my group, as well as the citizens and country of Equestria as a whole, quite a bit of trouble with your magical antics."
Ice turned her nose up at Sasuke briefly, before narrowing her eyes. "I see you've done your homework, and you know who I am, but I'm not privy as to who you are."
"Sasuke Otsutsuki, formerly Sasuke Uchiha, though I've come to dislike the name that's associated with my darker past."
Ice hmm'ed in thought. "And what of this darker past, hmm? Maybe I could help you."
"I've run through your lackeys like a knife through scrib jelly for the express purpose of facing you in combat and bringing you back to Celestia to face judgment. What makes you think I'll fall to simple verbal manipulation?"
Ice cursed at the directness of the man standing before her. He's right. I can tell just by looking at his posture and the way his hand is dancing around the handle of his sword that he's not here to talk. He has no intention of letting me leave here free.
Suddenly, Sasuke jumped in the air when another sword attempted to skewer him from behind. He landed gently on top of the offending party's head. "Clever; I wonder where you hid this one? If I were anyone other than someone in my group, that maneuver would surely have killed me." Sasuke lashed out with a stomp that sent the pony under him crashing to the ground, nursing a heavy concussion, and used Almighty Push to move him to the side so he wouldn't be in the way.
Ice started with a magical whip that Sasuke cut in half with his sword, but he was forced to dodge an attack from the severed part of the whip. From what I've learned, controlling severed magical constructs is very difficult. This unicorn has had extensive training.
Sasuke cut the construct to enough shreds that Ice was forced to abandon the notion of using it, then dashed forward. Right before he got inside Ice's guard, though, he jumped back. He soon found himself glad he did, as a giant ice construct sprouted out of the ground in front of him, which then tried to swing its club on an arm at him. Sasuke disconnected his sword sheath from his hip and let it fall to the ground, then removed the top part of the battle armor under his haori and discarded both. The torso of the armor, upon landing on the ground, made a deafeningly loud bang and almost caused a minor earthquake right then and there.
Sasuke had to use Amenotejikara to switch with the sheath he'd just put on the ground, and lost the shoes he was wearing, when the simple act of touching down on the ice almost froze his foot through. Damn, what is that ice made of? That's not how ice works!
Sasuke went into full investigation mode and threw several shuriken at the construct, activating his Rinnegan to observe the effects, and narrowed his eyes when he saw the energy manipulating the construct instantly flash-freeze the shuriken. I see. Her ability allows her to flash-freeze whatever her magic touches. That must have taken quite a bit of work to master, especially on such a scale. Now, let's see if Amaterasu can't melt it.
"Inferno Style: Flame Control!" Sasuke formed several handseals and spat out a gout of Amaterasu-infused fire that struck the golem. Unfortunately, it seemed the degree of flash-freeze the golem had been given was counteracting the effects of Amaterasu, resulting in the flames floating harmlessly on top of the ice.
Sasuke inwardly cursed. Damn, thought that would work. Then again, the thing is massive. Think of something, Sasuke… Wait! It might be resisting the heat of Amaterasu, but what if I force the heat within a confined space?
Sasuke tried something else entirely. Dashing toward the construct, he briefly stepped onto it, jumping off right before the flash-freeze would have taken effect. He threw more shuriken to probe the enchantment, and after a few seconds, he had the information he needed.
"Planetary Devastation." Sasuke raised his hands and manipulated a degree of gravity strong enough to rip the earth right off the roof and walls, overcoming the magical matrices and resulting in several magical explosions. "Amaterasu." Next, he coated the rocks in his Amaterasu flames as they came together, forming a large black-and-blue ball of flaming death.
Sasuke grinned. Time to test out a new jutsu. "Inferno Style: Flame Control." He formed a Chidori in his hand and infused it with the Amaterasu flames and shot toward the trapped golem, thrusting his hand into the earth as far as he could and letting the chakra explode out of his arm and into the giant rock. "Takemikazuchi-no-Kami!"
The rock and the golem within exploded outward. Between the pressure of gravity and the rocks surrounding the golem and the flames hotter than the surface of the Sun trapped within, the golem stood no chance, and finally caved out, collapsing in a black, white, blue and brown mass with the very jutsu that had taken it out. Sasuke grinned. I'm not usually one to toot my own horn, but that looked pretty damn good.
Ice looked on in shock as the golem she'd worked so hard to construct for the express purpose of stopping just about anything crumbled. Before she could do anything to oppose Sasuke, though, a monumental pressure suddenly struck the back of her neck, and she fell unconscious.
Honestly, that was pretty disappointing. She was so focused on keeping the golem active, she didn't even notice she was fighting a clone. Sasuke picked up the unconscious fugitive and teleported back above ground as the clone dispelled, leaving the remnants of a once impressive structure. Now the only thing to do was get the set of prisoners back to Canterlot to face trial.
Universal Pull: An ability granted to users of the Rinnegan and one of the Six Paths abilities. The user exerts control over a wave of gravity that pulls the subject of the force toward the user. This attack can only be directly countered by users of the Rinnegan or Tenseigan.
Planetary Devastation: An ability granted to users of the Rinnegan and one of the Six Paths abilities. The user creates a chakra-powered black hole in their hand and releases it into the air, where it creates a large mass of rock and organic matter that falls to the earth. Skilled enough users can create the large mass without creating a black hole. This attack is omnidirectional, and can only be avoided if the target is outside the black hole's influence. This attack can only be directly countered by Rinnegan and Tenseigan users.
Preta Path: One of the Six Paths, a set of abilities granted to users of the Rinnegan. Governs control over chakra, and allows the user to redirect or absorb energy-based attacks sent at them, incorporating the energy into their own reserve. This ability cannot be countered.
Total Reversal: Sasuke Otsutsuki's signature ability. He utilizes the Preta Path to absorb the energy of an attack that inflicts a status condition and uses massive amounts of chakra combined with Amenotejikara to apply the effects of the attack directly to the original user/users, while at the same time adding the energy of the attack to his own reserve. This ability cannot be dodged and has no known counters.
Inferno Style: Flame Control: The user activates Amaterasu and uses their Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan or Rinnegan to manipulate it directly through their chakra network. This can only be used by users who have previously awoken Mangekyo Sharingan with the Amaterasu ability.
Amenotejikara: Sasuke Otsutsuki's unique Rinnegan ability. He utilizes the Rinnegan and the Deva Path to force a switch in space between himself and his opponent or a nearby object. This ability cannot be dodged and has no known counters.
Amaterasu: An ability granted to users of Mangekyo Sharingan possessing this trait. The user summons black flames hotter than the surface of the Sun at the focal point of their choosing, at the cost of slight clarity of vision. Reduction of vision clarity is negated in users of Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan and Rinnegan.
Takemikazuchi-no-Kami: One of Sasuke Otsutsuki's unique attacks. He uses Inferno Style: Flame Control and Planetary Devastation to trap the target in a mass of molten rock, then combines Flame Control with his Chidori to break the construct and deal extreme damage to the target.
Naruto Otsutsuki
STR: 66 (-9) STA: 83 (-9) INT: 94 DUR: 67 (-9)CHA: 100
Score/Rank: 401 [-27] (B Rank)
Special Ability: Undiscovered
Sasuke Otsutsuki
STR: 93 (+2) STA: 97 (+9) INT: 88 (+4) DUR: 92 (-2) CHA: 67 (+24)
Score/Rank: 434 [+37] (High B Rank)
Special Ability: Total Reversal
Hamura Otsutsuki
STR: 89 (+2) STA: 93 (+3) INT: 100 DUR: 86 CHA: 100 (+5)
Score/Rank: 468 [+10] (High A Rank)
Special Ability: Optipathic Link
Žiara
STR: 91 (+2)STA: 92 (+1)INT: 100 DUR: 97 (+5)CHA: 100 (+7)
Score/Rank: 480 [+15] (Low S Rank)
Special Ability: Unrevealed
Jiraiya
STR: 47 (+8)STA: 57 (+3)INT: 70 (+2)DUR: 50 (+4)CHA: 78 (+11)
Score/Rank: 302 [+28] (Low C Rank)
Minato Namikaze
STR: 54 (+5)STA: 70 (+1)INT: 90 (+2)DUR: 55 (+3)CHA: 88 (+18)
Score/Rank: 379 [+29] (Low B Rank)
As always, thank you, everyone, for reading the chapter! Honestly, I didn't expect to be writing today at all, but I woke up and just knew what I wanted to do, and I immediately hopped on Word because I wasn't intent on letting that spark of creativity go to waste. Don't worry, you'll still be getting your normal chapter schedule as planned, this just sorta happened, and it is what it is.
Also, as you can see by the stats, Naruto has a lot of ground to make up when he wakes up. One more thing: Minato and Tsunade have already woken up from their respective comas, but this happened off-screen. It has been two months.
That said, good reading, and I'll catch you guys in the next one!