The Gift of Mercy
Chapter 7: Blessed
hiruzen smiled as he coughed up blood he had been fighting toe to toe with his student and his mentors but his old age was getting the better of him. while the first and second hokage were summoned in their prime. he was able to see naruto come out victorious against his father now he needed to do his part and win his battle against two of the greatest ninja konoha had seen before minato namikaze. he had taken a beating and yet his mentors were still standing and his old student smiling that creepy smirk of his. he needed to end him no matter the cost he has caused too much grief to the families of those he slaughtered,enslaved and experimented on, today was the day orochimaru had to die.
hiruzen began the long chain of handseals for the jutsu he hoped to never use, the one jutsu that forced him to take up the hokage's mantle after his sucessor died. naruto jumped in and began throwing items at an insane speed keeping the deceased hokage's at bay preparing himself a rasengan naruto went after orochimaru himself and was able to plunge a rasengan into orochimaru who melted into mud. he attacked the once more this time adding ameratsu to his spinning sphere that was the rasengan and once more it was a clone. he had to dodge multiple attacks from the other hokages while naruto wondered where the real orochimaru was. suddenly the first and second hokage showed up and began an onslaught of water and wood based attacks keeping him oxxupied hiruzen began the jutsu at lightning speed and just as he finished orochimaru appeared in front of him but it was too late.
naruto was currently stuggling against a tree root holding him down as no matter how many times he destroyed it it came back along with copious amounts of water mentally slapped himself as he had the means to defeat the two hokages right in front of him. the first's hokages head imploded thanks to a kamui and naruto used that opportunity to instantly bisect the second hokage.
Orochimaru had never felt fear but he recognized that specific combination of handseals instantly. the old man was insane to summon it, he was the one who usually instilled fear he himself had never felt fear. now he struggled like a small doll against the shinigami's restraints and felt an immense sense of dread as he felt his soul be pulled out. both his physical body and soul struggled futility against the god of death he was unable to escape. the third hokage was stuggling as well as every moment passed years of his life were taken off his time left on earth, and he didnt have too many left in the first place he had to finish it. sensing the his final moments orochimaru opened his mouth and out shot his sword kusanagi.
"ill take you with me!"
Naruto noticed it, the desperation only a cornered animal would have. he watched in slow motion as the sword shot directly towards the third hokage and he wasnt going to allow it to kill him and he focoused all his mental power into his jump ready to leap to deflect it. once he jumped he didnt move in fact he felt a hand and several tendrils holding him down. the second hokage's torso was still alive for the moment as a split second afterwards he had made the second's head explode via telekinetic was too late naruto watched as the third hokage was skewered already in his gut but the eyes of the old man held a flame showing he was still trying to finish off his student. unfortunately hiruzen had to cut the jutsu short as the shinigami only managed to slice off the arms of orochimaru's soul. dropping the snake sannin he landed in a heap and instantly tried to preform a jutsu to finish off his sensei, only to find nothing happening.
"hehehe i took the thing you value more than anything your ability too use jutsu..."
the old man collapsed with a smile on his face, Dead. orochimaru screamed in anguish as he had lost his dream and his arms turned a stony grey and unable to move. naruto leaped in fully intent on avenging the third hokage's death, unfortunately orochimaru had other plans. one of his snake summons had slithered out of his mouth covered in the same kanji used for explosive tags. the explosion was about the same as a normal explosive tag but when the smoke cleared orochimaru was gone, the barrier was down and his 4 elite were gone as well. naruto walked over to the hokage's body checking for a pulse fully aware he would find none. already the corpse was becoming colder and naruto let a small tear escape. suddenly he was surrounded by a squad of anbu, preparing for a fight naruto readied into a battle stance. he was taken by surprise as the anbu kneeled before him and one of them spoke.
"the 3rd hokage has fallen in battle as such the strongest konoha ninja becomes hokage until one can be properly seated into office"
"im the strongest?" naruto was a little taken aback by the sudden promotion to hokage. "we saw you defeat the first second and fourth hokage you are the strongest available ninja" another anbu with a cat mask spoke. all of them in unison spoke "what are your orders"
"begin by killing off remaining sound ninja, arrest sasuke uchiha for multiple counts of murder against konoha citizens and keep him restrained, tell remaining suna ninja their hokage is dead by the hand of orochimaru they were pawns so you may let them surrender restrain and detain them as prisoners of war, have all genin help the injured find the direction orochimaru fled in and finally i want the village on lock down no one in or out unless i say so"
"Yes Sir!" the anbu all disappeared in a swirl of leaves naruto sighed a breath of relief he had never had to command an army that wasnt his clones.
"sir sasuke uchiha is missing" an anbu with an owl mask appeared reporting the missing uchiha."sir orochimaru and his elite guard were seen heading into the forest followed by an injured sasuke uchiha...he was not restrained" cat masked anbu reported her findings.
"remaining sound ninja have be eradicated,nearly 2000 suna ninja have peacfully surrendered and are headed to konoha prison,the genin have been informed of their mission to help the injured"
hearing the report naruto had a tough descision to make let the uchiha go and risk him returning and bringing destructon on the village or let orochimaru live and risk him taking sasuke's body and returning to bring destruction on the village. "Sauke Uchuha has defected the village ill need 4 chunnin volunteers for an emergency misson, we will bring sasuke uchiha back"
several minutes later he found kiba,rock lee and shikimaru along with shino to be his team all setting off without a word. several hours had passed only rock lee and naruto remained as kiba, shikimaru and shino had stayed to fight an opponent so they would not have to waste time.
a pale teenager was seen carrying a large barrel putting it down, it cracked open revealing a fully healed sasuke he looked at naruto and disappeared to the treeline. the pale teen was left and oddly enough he pulled out his bone and attacked "Leave this one to me!" rock lee slammed his foot into the pale teen letting naruto follow sasuke. naruto followed into the trees but soon came onto a large clearing a lake in the middle complete with two giant statues one of hashirama and the other madara uchiha and a water fall in between them. sasuke stood atop the madara uchiha statue waiting for naruto to step up.
both teenagers stared at each other "as current temporary hokage i am ordering you to return to the village or i will be forced to use...uh force". "you? hokage? now i know i wont be returning besides i have a mission of my own straight from god himself and thats killing you." sasukes eyes shined with a madman's glint. wether or not naruto believed him he knew sasuke was an incredibly unstable individual."theres nothing to get in the way here!" sasuke pulled out his sword and with a swing a massive wave of energy was coming towards him it completely obscured his view of sasuke and all he saw was a wall of red energy.
he needed have a weapon something to counter a sword all he had were lots and lots of weapons from his plundering of danzos armory. he unsealed every single weapon he had kunai,ninjato,a fuma shuriken and alot of others he had stashed away. sorta looking like a girl in the preliminaries who had a multitude of weapons naruto quickly moved everything together with his power. focusing incredibly hard naruto melded all the metal together into a mass of steel quickly imagining a sword it took the form of a sword. if it could be called that it was more like a giant lump of metal, it was a massive sword a bit bigger than naruto and about just as wide. it seemed a single bolt held the blade and hilt together no crossguard the blade being wide served as an improvised one(dragoonslayer from berserk). naruto took no time as he grabbed it and used his telekinesis to lift it and slam it in front of him into the ground to serve as a makeshift shield.
Lifting it one handed with ease thanks to telekinesis naruto was able to use the 400+ pound sword with the ease of a normal sword. Unfortunately this came at a cost he had to really focus else he would lose control of it and he himself did not have the strength to lift it unaided by telekinesis. he swung this bahemoth of a sword overhead onto sasuke who blocked it the ground underneath him cracking from the sheer force.
Sasuke was visible shaken his arm holding his sword shaking from the exertion just to block the damn thing."what the fuck is that!" sasuke jumped away from naruto making sure to put some distance between himself and that monstrosity naruto called a sword."like it? made it myself" naruto smirked it did its job the sword intimidated sasuke. losing focus for a moment the sword fell with a large thunk creating a small crater. taking this opportunity sasuke threw a another wave of energy. barely having enough time to dodge naruto's left arm was sheared off the heat from the energy wave cauterizing it leaving him with a slightly bloody stump. the smell of burnt flesh premeated the field naruto's pain tolerance kept him from passing out but he narrowed his eyes at sasuke who laughed "hahaha your ninja days are done some hokage you are i would be a better hokage than you".
using his sword as a makeshift crutch to hold himself up naruto let out a small chuckle confusing the uchiha "if you think you won because you cut off something as insignificant as a limb you got another thing coming." naruto disappeared only to reappear in front of sasuke his sword in full swing using the broad side to make contact. with an audable thunk followed by several cracking sounds sasuke was sent flying into a cliff side creating a crater in the side with the young uchiha embedded in the center. sasuke fell several feet hitting the ground hard he was in a world of pain naruto's attack broke several ribs the uchiha mentally made note of things he was fairly sure he had internal bleeding and his arm and leg were broken. sasuke was pissed a single attack and he was on death's door even after naruto lost an arm he had no other choice than to use the seal.
the area around sasuke vibrated from his power as a light blue aura of chakra poured out of his curse seal. in mere moments sasuke's wounds closed up, bones mended and stronger, all pain subsided as the chakra enveloped sasuke. with this he was sure to win he looked over to naruto and his smirk disappeared. naruto had turned the sword on himself and cut off the cauterized stump of flesh and currently his arm looked to be 50% done regenerating it was all muscle with no skin over it at the 's mind was enraged as he saw the same blue aura that regenerated his wounds regenerating nauto's arm in mere his new arm a stretch and experimental movements naruto's arm was good as new.
sasukes anger fueled the cursed seal soon markings started to crawl over his skin covering him before turning his skin a dull grey color before two large grotesque hand like wings ripped themselves out of his back. swinging his divine sword another energy wave shot at naruto this time he did not move instead he swung his own sword. the energy wave clashed into a wave of air pressure dissipating the energy wave this pissed off sasuke to no end. shooting more and more attacks at naruto adding more power to his attack naruto simply dodged or used his own sword's swing to dissipate the of this the enraged uchiha launched himself chidori already formed ready to embed it into the blondes chest. naruto stood still in fact his sword was next to him "are you stupid" naruto back handed sasuke his transformation instantly dissappated he was back to his normal form. inspecting himself he was back to normal the curse seal dormant "HOW!" he was supposed to have more power thanks to the curse seal orochimaru gave him.
"chakra is loyal like a hound it wont bite the hand of its owner" sasuke looked at naruto with wide eyes. this wasnt the deadlast this didnt even seem like the same person and he was temporary hokage that meant he had to have demonstrated himself to be strong. naruto walked closer to sasuke as he backed away from the blond unknowing what he might do."in fact its time i took it back" naruto grabbed sasuke by his shirt a searing pain shot from sasuke's shoulder he watched as wisps of blue chakra left the curse seal and the pain subsided the curse seal faded away. he was now powerless nothing he had,could defeat naruto not his holy sword that was said to be able to end the world,his curse seal,nor his sharingan in fact naruto had barely broken a sweat. he had only one other option sasuke got on his knees and prayed to HIM.
"call me if you ever need anything"
"Kami, please give me more power, enough to beat naruto" naruto was wierded out as sasuke suddenly got on his knees something incredibly unlike the uchiha. suddenly the sky grew darker and a bolt of lightning hit sasuke there was no way it was a coincidence this was intentional it seemed god really wanted him dead. sasuke came into view he no longer wore his clothes but instead was covered in a bright suit of armor a golden aura surrounded him, his sword now complimented the outfit. sasuke's sharingan shone brightly a new vigor in them no insanity in them instead an air of superiority was found in them.
sasuke swung his sword this time the energy wave was massive easily 10 times bigger than before, naruto shielded himself as best he could using his sword as a shield.
both he and the sword were unharmed but now he had to deal with a powered up sasuke somthing he was still trying to wrap his head around. sasuke appeared in front of him hitting him straight in the solar plexus knocking the wind of of naruto. losing focous and dropping his sword another punch and the blond was thrown into a cliffside. naruto's mind was in disarray not only had those hits made him lose focous sasuke was somehow blessed with gods power and his skin was intensely burning no doubt since he was kyubbis jailer he himself was saturated with demonic chakra. this made concentrating difficult, having no choice to rely on something other than his mental powers naruto split into several clones.
sasuke reveled at his newfound power not only that but he was beating the shit out of naruto something that made him positively giddy inside. he saw naruto's clones and thought to himself "this will be fun" sasuke was soon surrounded by leaves floating peacefully around him. what came next was a blur naruto appreared with inhuman speed everytime he tried hitting him he disappeared a leaf was left in his place. and then a momentary blackout sasuke was on the ground in a crater, a rasengan in his gut making a hairline crack in the armor.
naruto had no reason to hold back anymore he threw as much as he could into braking through that pesky armor. sasuke stood and laughed it off saying things like it was gods will for naruto to die. naruto tired of it his healing factor had neutralized sasuke's blessed attack and now he held his sword again. he smacked sasuke into the ground hoping to break the armor or knock sasuke out but the armor was insanely strong. sasuke threw more energy waves his way, naruto blocked them only to recieve a giant powered up fireball jutsu to his face. only didging it in the nick of time sasuke was becoming more powerful he had to end it.
both teenagers clashed in the middle of the lake onyx eyes looking into onyx one held arrogance while the other held determination. naruto was taking a risk and parried the sword attack and in that brief moment he pulled out a rasengan added ameratsu fire,protected himself and simply let it go. the result was instantaneous, intense heat vaporized everything in a couple meters radius sasuke was caught in it and steam obscured naruto's view.
hearing something slicing through the air naruto dodged what appeared to be pure white feathers. the steam disipated as sasuke reveealed himself to be unharmed 2 beautiful pure white wings had sprouted from his towards naruto sasuke sent out thousands of feathers each slicing through the air bent on skewering naruto.
"THAT WAS AMERATSU! HOW DO YOU HAVE IT!" sasukes anger was clearly evident across his no reason anymore naruto revealed them "fuck you this is how" naruto's eyes transformed into a reddish almost pink sharingan a shuriken form replaced the spinning tomoe. "no.." sasukes voice was almost a whisper "NOOOOO HOW HOW HOW!? THAT MANGEKYO SHARINGAN SHOULD BE MINE!" sasuke was going berserk.
several hundred feathers came raining down naruto created a perfect kamui leaving it open enough to suck in all of sasuke's attack feathers. an ameratsu and sasuke's wings were on fire and he was falling forcing him to dispel the wings before the flames reached him."HOW ARE THEY INVISIBLE!?" sasuke tried reforming the wings but only one appeared but was enough to keep his assault on naruto.
"theses eyes are useless to you since they are blind" naruto's sharingan bored into sasuke's, both staring each other in a stand off "my cousin saeko was the only uchiha born blind in the history of my clan her body never found what did you do to her if shes alive ill rebuild my clan with her" sasuke laughed perversely
"itachi murdered her" naruto's eyes narrowed at sasuke "psh she was a weak usless bi.." sasuke didnt finish that sentence as the entirety of his body exploded with pain as he was backhanded and flung into a wall."a useless demon loving whore" sasuke weak attempt to block naruto's punch was a spectacular failure as naruto's punch broke his arm before connecting to his face sending him into the air and colliding with a wall next to the valley of end's waterfall.
sasuke's arm hung at his side completely useless his anger reaching the melting point. his armor glowed a bit encasing his arm in a divine white light before it was god as new. this slightly irked naruto as if this continued the uchiha would simply heal himself, both teens threw jutsu at each other one imbued with divine power. anywhere naruto was grazed hurt like a motherfucker since sasuke's divine power lingered on him and burned since he was saturated in demonic chakra.
Naruto grew tired of this maybe he had to use...that. he hated the thought of it and frankly he didnt know its full power nor if he would even survive using it. his chakra control was nowhere near what was needed to instantly use it so he would have to use the work around. he created 3 seal less clones to distract sasuke, working quickly he levitated the largest boulder he could and began compressing it. it slowly got rounder and smaller but it had the same mass as before, he felt a flood of memories as one of his clones was dispelled. Sweat began to form on his brow as he concentrated soon it became smaller splitting it in two carefully he created two palm sized orbs both weighed over a hundred pounds and incredibly dense. Forcing it more and they became the size of marbles feeling the last of his clones dispel he faced sasuke.
"that your plan two marbles?" Naruto ignored sasuke's taunt taking the opportunity to grab his sword so it wouldn't be lost in the coming moments. levitating one marble in each hand naruto made them begin flying in circles until they were going to fast they began to blur. "pathetic that wont work" sasuke taunted again this time getting a slightly tight spincter as naruto said nothing. "if saeko was alive i would have fucked her until she couldn't walk and make her rebuild my clan" Sasuke was getting a feeling of dread as naruto said nothing and spun his two marbles. soon both marbles were spinning so fast it looked like naruto was holding two glowing rings a soft hum was emanating from them.
Something was definitely wrong last time sasuke said anything about his cousin he was thrown into a cliff opting to not find out sasuke attacked naruto intent in cleaving his sword through the blond head to nutsack. then naruto moved both rings together and as they barely touched everything went white.
Konoha
a flash of light was illuminated the entire village most covered their eyes a few went permanently blind as the light was brighter than the sun. a massive wave of air passed through the village, shattering glass in many buildings people ran to avoid the falling glass and some unfortunate konoha citizen's ears were was minimal but it scared the ever living hell out of everyone. once the the shock wave had passed many saw a giant mushroom like cloud rising miles into the atmosphere seemed like in the direction of the valley of end.
Suna
kankuro and his siblings had just gotten back and gaara had just been seated into the hokage's seat somthing that surprised him. he looked in the direction of konoha a flash of lightning had just passed with no cloud in sight. noticing a giant mushroom like cloud going up into the sky soon many suna citizens stood in awe as they witnessed it billow up miles into the sky. a strong gust of wind blew through suna and then nothing many thought it was wierd but the suna council was in an uproar that was an extremely destructive technique that was used and they had just attacked the village that used it.
location unknown
diedara had just finished working on his latest bomb prototype a combination of c4 and a stronger container for a larger explosion and was just about to test it out when in the distance he saw a bright light for an instant several moments later he was awe struck as he saw the mushroom like cloud rise into the sky. his new bomb prototype forgotten he thought it seemed like it was in the direction off konoha but it was hundreds of miles away. what ever explosive used it was...
"beautiful"
Ex Valley of end
naruo was blind at the moment he used his telekinesis to create a barrier but the light was so intense it rendered him blind hell he couldn't feel alot of things. focusing on his eyes his healing factor soon fixed his eyes to working condition. he was lying in a giant crater reaching for his pocket he found both of his arms completely gone looking down at himself his legs were missing and his skin was burnt black.
"ugh so that was the atomic explosion dad researched...fuck man " lying on the ground naruto felt his skin beginning to regain its color and his limbs regrowing draining alot of his chakra. soon his limbs had regrown and he was at 100% again besides maybe having to regain his bearings he surveyed the area it was a giant crater maybe a 2 miles across. his clothes were in tatters somehow his sword was fine. he heard movement and readied himself for an attack instead he would a sphere of blackened feathers embedded in the ground. the feathers dissolved revealing sasuke without armor his face bruised relatively unharmed but only barely concious "what the fuck happened" sasuke's bearings were off as well.
"come on asshole im taking you back to the village" sasuke suddenly perked up and backed up looking everywhere even though naruto was in front of him. "NARUTO! what did you do?! WHERE ARE YOU!" seemed like sasuke was blind. getting behind him naruto chopped him knocking him out sasuke landed in a heap "FUCK YOU SASUKE" naruto punched sasuke in the face no doubt for his earlier lewd comments and picked him up and slung him over his shoulder and started headed for the village
the crater itself was deep and getting out was a bit difficult considering naruto was exhausted mentally and physically and he had 130 pounds of asshole to carry called sasuke. once out of the crater he looked back on it already it was filling up with water and would soon become a lake, looking around there was nothing but dirt for a good stretch in fact there was silhouettes of trees on the ground. concluding they must have been vaporized in the explosion he kept walking towards the village finally entering the forest, the trees weren't vaporized but the giant redwood trees were tilted heavily away from ground zero most stripped of their bark it was an eerie sight walking through a tilted forest where the trees were completely barren of leaves and bark. occasionally finding a silhouettes of an animal naruto walked for a couple hours making sure sasuke was still knocked out. finally seeing some green trees tho albeit still heavily tilted most likely their massive root systems helping them anchor them into place.
they were still heavily damaged but managed to survive naruto hated the thought of seeing the village he was miles away from it and the devastation still reached this far. he heard light sobbing looking at sasuke who was out cold he thought maybe his ear drums were still damaged from the explosion.
"fuck that sand bitch for dropping a forest on me" was heard in between the crying.
"im so fucking pathetic im get a forest dropped on me and then some explosion nearly kills me my flute is broken my legs are broken and i never saw kin again" tayuya sniffled as she was pinned underneath several large trees only her left arm was free and she was currently using it to wipe her tears. sure she acted tough but it was a front if she had shown emotion she would have been put into the breeding program and raped everyday back in the sound village."im going to die here arent i kami? fuck that uchiha bitch ass motherfucking cocksucker sack of shit and fuck that pedophile looking pasty skinned snake fucking motherfucker...i dont want to die" tayuya was just ranting out loud knowing she was dead for sure."and fuck that strong ass blond motherfucker ...he was kinda cute ... no tayuya you cant fuck the enemy ninja ... still he was strong" a slight blush adorned her cheeks she didn't know whether it was from thinking about certain things or the trees on top crushing her and forcing blood into her head like a tube of toothpaste.
"awww you flatter me"
instantly tayuya perked up at the unknown voice and saw a blond haired ninja "naruto" was his name she recognized him from orochimaru's person of interest files he was squatting looking over to her,she suddenly realized she had been talking about him in front of him. "...ho...how long have you been there?" tayuya stuttered out "huh? from when "uchiha bitch ass motherfucking cocksucker sack of shit" which is pretty true" naruto laughed a bit as tayuya's face turned red.
"help me out" tayuya coughed up some blood "yeah i could help you" naruto put sasuke down and headed over to the redhead."or i can kill one of the people responsible for old man hokage's death" naruto gripped tayuya's throat her one free arm powerless against his strong vice like grip tears welled up in her eyes she saw the blonde's eyes they weren't playful like a minute ago instead she saw a ninja of the leaf village ready to kill an enemy.
"ill give you a choice serve me as a slave or die" naruto added emphasis by tightening his grip before letting her speak
"i choose to live... OW WHAT THE FUCK" tayuya tried to pull away but the blond had bitten her shoulder her curse seal fizzled away leaving behind a bite mark. the she felt the load on top of her lighten as trees levitated off of her and soon she was free tho she would be useless for a while since she was unable to walk
"what the fuck was that for you kinky motherfucker" tayuya yelled at the blond who simply stood over her "its a control seal and you will address me as master"
"fucking fine well as you can see im pretty fucked up my legs dont work and several of my organs have been crushed master" tayuya added emphasis at the end
"give it a moment itll kick in" tayuya was confused "What will kick in? ... OH HOLY FUUCK" tayuya felt several bones move int place quite painfully. she felt started feeling better as her erratic breathing was returning to normal.
"stand you should be able to" naruto held a hand out to help her up which she reluctantly took and to her amazement she was able to stand taking a few test steps she was able to walk."here you carry this asshole we are headed back to the village" handing her the so called asshole that was the uchiha. "do you have shit for brains? ill be executed on the spot" tayuya began following naruto who had started walking towards the village.
"no you are under my protection so dont worry also watch your tongue "
several hours later
"here give me that asshole youll be heading to my place make yourself at home" naruto made a clone to escort tayuya "dont you need to report to the hokage about me?"
"i am the hokage..."
"WHAT!" tayuya's voice disappeared as naruto's clone grabbed her and transported her to the namikaze mansion. five minutes of walking and konoha's gates were visible. the two guards opened the gate for to reveal sakura waiting.
she screamed once she saw the state sasuke was in.
AN: another chapter done longest to date.
