Chapter Thirty-three: The Bonds we lose, the Alliances we make.
Kabuto glared through the mist angrily, "Dammit! I'll kill you now!" Kabuto shouted as he begun to form hand seals.
Kuro leapt up high into the air, landing on the rock face and leading Kabuto to look in the one place he wasn't; the mist. The water ninja panted heavily as his ice mirrors completely lost form, causing ridiculous amounts of water to cover the ground, though he soon realised, that wouldn't help.
"SAGE ART: INORGANIC ANIMATION!"
Kuro's eyes widened as the mountain itself began to shake, "What the hell is going on?!" he said to himself before tendrils of rock and water began to flail all around the fighting area.
Kuro was forced to leap off the wall as he began to form hand seals, ending in a Dog seal, "WATER STYLE: GIANT VORTEX JUTSU!" he shouted, bursting his chakra into the water all around him and on the ground.
Kabuto's smirk fell as he shouted in shock. He was pulled off the ground due to the giant whirlpool that formed, turning it into Kuro's battlefield.
Kuro landed in the center of the whirlpool, easily managing to avoid all damage since this was his key to his fighting style. He took a hunched stance before falling forward a step, "BLACK CAT ART: WHIRLPOOL RUSH!" Kuro shouted, using the last of his chakra as he suddenly disappeared.
Kabuto managed to come up for air, only to feel a sudden pain in his side, and the other side, and legs, and back, and face, and chest.
Kuro was using the immense speed of the Whirlpool along with opening the first Two Chakra Gates and his Instant Claw techniques, basically a black line blurring around the whirlpool at impossible speeds for ten seconds straight.
Kuro appeared outside of the waterfall, adjusting his glasses with his palm, "Well, I hope that's it." he muttered before hundreds of slashes cut through the waterfall, throwing Kabuto down in a bloody mess.
Kabuto gasped for air as he put his hands on the ground, trying to push himself up onto his knees as the gashes all over his body slowly began to heal, 'He could've cut through me at least twenty times just then, lucky I heal quickly.' Kabuto thought as he looked up.
*BAM*
Kuro's foot slammed right into Kabuto's face, throwing the ex medic ninja back and slamming his head against the wall of the cave.
Kuro looked at Kabuto, panting heavily as he smirked, "You're done snake!" he said as he stood taller, ready to attack once more.
Kabuto just smirked, "Done, am I?" he asked as Kuro blurred at Kabuto.
Kuro slashed at Kabuto's ribcage as he moved to run right past him.
*CLANG*
Kuro was thrown off balance by the manoeuvre, as it was deflected, he turned to Kabuto just as he heard the man shout the name of his jutsu.
"DRILLING FINGER BULLET!"
"Gah!" Kuro shouted in pain as four bullets of bone drilled into his left arm, stopping against his bone and rendering the now limp arm useless.
Kuro glared at Kabuto as the snake man began to laugh, "Did you really think you could stop me? You're just another ANBU that I will kill!" Kabuto shouted before he laughed again.
Kuro's teeth grinded in rage at the statement. Unlike what many people thought, he didn't leave his village by choice as many believed, he was forced away and even though he was hunted by the village he loved and cared for, he always followed along on the their top secret S-rank ANBU missions, helping out when he could and bringing back those that were left for dead. He hated it when the people that used to be his men were left for dead or killed, and Kabuto was unknowingly fuelling that hatred, "You… I probably can't get past you…" Kuro began before looking towards the cave entrance, "But once again, I'll ruin your plans anyway." He said, pointing towards the cave.
Kabuto's eyes widened, 'No! Did he send a water clone behind me or something?' Kabuto thought as he turned to look at the cave entrance.
There… was no clone, anything really.
Kabuto raised a brow, "Huh?" he muttered before turning back to face Kuro.
*CRUNCH*
Kuro's knee crunched into Kabuto's face, throwing the already healing ninja away again before he began sprinting towards the cave entrance, 'Heh! Can't believe he fell for that!' he thought as he sprinted at full speed.
Kabuto growled as he held a hand seal, "ACTIVATE!" Kabuto shouted.
A set of explosive seals went off just inside the cave, causing the roof to fall down before the other explosions threw the resulting boulders and rocks at Kuro.
The water ninja's eyes widened before he crossed his claws in front of his face in a defensive manoeuvre since he had minimal chakra left, 'Oh shit.' He thought as the first boulder was about to impact him.
"FIRE STYLE: FLAME CONTROL SWORD!"
A massive sized sword of flames swung past, destroying the first large boulder before embedding itself in the ground, guarding Kuro who watched on in shock.
"YACHIRU SPECIAL: ELEMENTAL TRADE-OFF!"
Kabuto looked away from the massive fire sword in shock as he saw another sword of fire swinging at him before gravity seemed to suddenly shift, getting stronger around Kabuto.
Kabuto formed a single hand seal as his stomach snake changed shape, "EARTH STYLE: EARTH SHORE RETURN!" Kabuto shouted, pulling up a wall to protect him.
The wall was hacked in half as Kabuto used the extra time to duck down under the flaming sword, but then the sword moved away and Kabuto had a chance to look around him.
He was still facing the stunned Kuro's back as he saw Kenpachi standing in his left peripherals while Yachiru was standing in his right, he scowled as he looked over to the largest flaming sword that was stabbed into the ground in front of Kuro.
A hand came from behind the sword and wrapped around it's handle, lifting the sword up into the air before shaking the fire off in a simple flick of the wrist.
Kuro and Kabuto looked up in shock at Naruto as he sat Samehada on his shoulder, "Kabuto… we will end you now." Naruto said seriously as his eyes glared into Kabuto's.
Kabuto stared with wide eyes at Naruto, "Those eyes?! How?!" he asked.
Naruto smirked as he chuckled.
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Flashback
From a distance, one would see the fabled Itachi Uchiha tell something that seemed to anger the blonde teen in front of him. But after a moment, the blonde nodded and began to form hand seals…
Naruto raised his hand slowly, locking eyes with this Mangekyou Sharingan for the last time, "Are you sure?" Naruto asked.
Itachi lifted up the discarded Mangekyou eye that had used the Kotoamatsukami inside the Tsukuyomi, "Yes Naruto, look out for Sasuke will you? And tell him something for me." Itachi said as he raised his empty hand.
In a swift movement, Itachi ripped out his left eyeball, breathing in deeply with a shudder, suppressing his pain as he placed Shisui Uchiha's eyeball into his empty eye socket.
After a few seconds, Itachi looked up at Naruto as the blonde held a hand over Itachi's new eye, "Tell him, that no matter what he chooses to do in life, I'll always care about him. And tell him that I'm sorry for all the pain." Itachi said, his new Mangekyou beginning to sync.
Naruto's medical chakra wrapped around Itachi's face, healing the eye to one hundred percent in just under a minute before he pulled his hands away, "You can tell him yourself soon, trust me." Naruto said as he begun to form more hand seals.
Itachi widened his eyes as he felt an extra amount of chakra be suddenly dragged up into his new eye, 'Ugh! This is!' he thought as he felt his pupil morph.
Naruto placed a palm on Itachi's forehead, "Catch ya later Itachi. Thanks again, seriously." Naruto said as his chakra sparked to life, "NINJA ART: SOUL DRAIN!" Naruto shouted.
A flash of light occurred before Itachi's clothes fell to the ground. Naruto stood tall for a moment before looking towards the mountain, "Wow… so this is how Sasuke sees?" Naruto muttered as he saw Kenpachi and Yachiru's chakra signatures sprinting up the mountain.
Naruto smirked as he felt Kurama mend his mind so that he wouldn't pass out while assimilating Itachi's soul, although on the downside, he couldn't sync with the fox during the process.
Naruto flashed three times around the area to grab most of his kunai before he appeared on top of a tree, "Don't need this anymore." He said as he reached up to his face.
Naruto ripped Sasuke's zoom lens tag from his eye, instead letting the chakra that he usually channelled into the tag get absorbed into the new eye structure that had just finished morphing in his eyes.
Crimson eyes looked up at the mountain as Naruto pitched one of his tri-pronged kunai as fast as he could up towards the mountain.
*FLASH*
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Naruto kept his left eye shut as his right Mangekyou Sharingan eye span at high speed, "Itachi Uchiha gave this to me, and I will make sure his dream comes true!" Naruto shouted as he formed a tiger hand seal, "This will be the end of you! AMATERASU!"
Kabuto scowled again as he sent more chakra into his earth walls, setting them upright as he leapt back to dodge the eternal burning flames.
Kenpachi swung his blade of fire at Kabuto, throwing flame arc after flame arc towards the snake man.
Kabuto flipped backwards again, coming to stand upright just as a kunai began to fly next to his head.
*FLASH*
"HELL STAB: FOUR FINGER NUKITE TECHNIQUE!"
Kabuto ducked as Naruto's electrified fingers shot by, barely missing Kabuto's head but still electrocuting the snake man for a moment, though to Kabuto's shock, Naruto revealed that he hadn't grabbed the kunai as he disappeared in a flash, appearing behind Kabuto and this time catching the kunai with one hand as his other aimed a palm at Kabuto.
"EXTERMINATING AIRWAVES!"
Kabuto was collected from behind by the wind attack, thrown forward towards Kuro, who had pulled out a basic explosive seal and tossed it up into the air.
*BOOM*
As Kabuto flew overhead, the explosion threw him right back and off to the side, allowing Kenpachi to come down from above with his blade in one hand while Yachiru's blade sat in his other hand, "DUEL SLASH!" Kenpachi shouted.
Kabuto threw his bone blades out to protect him, but Kenpachi's attack still threw the snake man away again.
Kabuto landed painfully on his back, the bones getting him lodged and stuck in the ground, 'Dammit!' he thought as he began to retract the bones so he could get free.
"FIRE STYLE: RASEN-SHURIKEN!" Naruto shouted as he held two hands above his head, one hand sending fire up into the massive Rasen-Shuriken that Naruto was holding with his other hand.
Kabuto looked up and his eyes widened as he saw Naruto falling towards him, 'Oh.' Kabuto muttered.
The Rasen-Shuriken began to burn a bright blue from the superheated flames, making the shuriken larger as he threw it down at his opponent, "Burn in hell Kabuto!" Naruto shouted angrily.
The jutsu impacted Kabuto's body, cutting at a molecular level all the way through Kabuto's body, creating a massive sphere of wind chakra with Kabuto floating in the center, enveloped in the blue flame.
*BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM*
The massive implosion was followed by a strong breeze that ruffled the team's clothes as they watched the charred corpse of Kabuto fall to the ground limply at the base of a burnt out crater.
Kuro instantly fell to a knee as Naruto turned to Yachiru, one eye still closed as Itachi's Mangekyou watched her, "I'll make two clones. Yachiru, you take Kuro to the other Alliance ninjas and get them all together in a group and continue to help healing them." Naruto said before looking to Kenpachi, "Kenpachi, I'll need you to be at full power. Can you still do that thing we've all read about in the bingo book?" Naruto asked.
Kenpachi nodded, "Yeah, but I have to get close to them." he said.
Naruto nodded, "Follow me then. Yachiru, I leave them up to you." he said before lightning seemed to kick in around his body.
Kenpachi looked at Yachiru, "One more time." He said.
She nodded and formed hand seals, "YACHIRU SPECIAL: ELEMENTAL TRADE-OFF!" she shouted as she sparked three elemental chakra appearances.
She poured exactly even amounts of wind and lightning chakra into each of the swords Kenpachi was wielding, and Kenpachi let the lightning chakra surge through his system just like Naruto's was doing.
The two ninja blurred into the cave, disappearing in seconds and leaving Yachiru to watch as Kuro fell unconscious, "Kitty!" she shouted in shock as she ran to help the ex Captain of the Black Cats.
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Naruto looked up in realisation, "Jump!" Naruto ordered.
Kenpachi jumped alongside Naruto to land upside down on the ceiling, continuing to run over an underground ravine as Naruto turned his neck so that he was looking down the ravine, "There!" Naruto shouted.
Naruto's mouth was beginning to turn upwards in a smile as he saw that the process was still going, he threw one of his kunai down towards the left hand of the statue as he formed hand seals.
*FLASH*
The Akatsuki members looked over as Naruto appeared, one hand aimed at Tobi while the other was aimed at Orochimaru, "WIND STYLE: DRILLING WIND BULLETS!" Naruto shouted.
Two Sound ninjas that were hiding under the fingers of each person leapt while holding a seal Orochimaru had made for them, ""SEALING ART: SIX POINT BARRIER SEAL!"" they shouted, hoping to guard Orochimaru from the attack as the attack moved through Tobi.
*BOOM*
They succeeded, but Kenpachi landed between them less than a second later, "DUAL SLASH!" Kenpachi shouted as he decapitated them.
"Too late Nine Tails!" Tobi shouted as his hands formed the Dragon hand seal.
Naruto turned towards the masked man before he felt another chakra fluctuation happen behind him, he turned and his eye widened in disbelief, "NO!" Naruto shouted.
The chakra shell surrounding Fuu suddenly collapsed, letting her fall to the ground limply and land heavily as the chakra dragons returned to their hosts.
The room was quiet as Naruto stared at Fuu's corpse, "No… Fuu-chan…" Naruto muttered before his lightning armour kicked in and he blurred to Fuu's side.
Naruto kneeled over Fuu's body as he cradled her face, "Fuu-chan, can you hear me? Fuu-chan!" Naruto shouted as he began to shake in sadness, tears welling in his eyes.
Fuu slowly opened her eyes, "N-N-Naru…to…love…you…" she said weakly as she raised hand to rest on Naruto's face.
Naruto's open eye flashed as his Sharingan instantly replayed a memory of a time when an eyeless man went to jump off a cliff, the pain of losing someone and the technique that was instantly available the moment he fell.
The Sharingan morphed into the Mangekyou as he looked into her eye, "TSUKUYOMI." Naruto said softly.
Tobi chuckled, "He's given us a chance to capture him, move!" he said to the person closest to him; Orochimaru, who leapt toward Naruto while forming a quick series of hand seals.
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Fuu gasped as she opened her eyes, she looked around the red skyed world she now stood in, "What happened?" she asked before seeing the glowing Mangekyou on the moon, "What is this place?" she asked thin air.
"We are in Heaven."
The moment the words registered in her mind, the world around her changed, the red sky becoming a bright blue and the bare world around her taking an image similar to Konoha before Pein had attacked it.
Fuu turned with wide eyes, looking at the beautiful bushes and flowers, the strong looking buildings and trees, the handsome Naruto standing in front of her, the-
"Naruto-kun!" she exclaimed as she realised Naruto was ahead, she ran too him and leapt into his arms, getting a massive hug as she laughed, too relieved to care what was going on as she saw him.
Naruto smiled sadly as he hugged her, "Fuu-chan, if I were to tell that you only had three days to do whatever you wanted, even if it was impossible, what would you want to do? Ignoring anything that may interfere with it, pretend it could happen." Naruto said as he placed her back on her feet.
Fuu went to ask him what happened again, but she suddenly remembered everything up until she was knocked out and taken away, waking up to the feeling of having a piece of her very being ripped from her, then Naruto's new pretty eye as he watched her die.
Fuu hugged him tighter as she suddenly realised that Naruto had done something so that they were alone together…but why only three days?
Fuu pulled away to look up at Naruto, "If I had three days left and could do anything I wanted… I'd firstly want to have a whole day with our complete family Naruto-kun, somewhere relaxing and peaceful." She said with a smile.
Naruto nodded and the eyeball that was the moon began to spin, causing the world to blur around them before it came to a careening stop on the top of a breezy cliff overlooking the forest along the beaches of the Land of Water, "How's this Fuu-chan?" Naruto asked.
Fuu nodded and smiled up at Naruto before grabbing his head and pulling him down into a kiss, it was hard, it was fast, it was filled with desperation and love, but most of all, it held regret for the future that would never come.
Pulling away, Fuu opened her eyes to see a completely new world and a far older then her Naruto, "Naruto-kun?" she asked before realising that her voice now sounded older.
""Kaa-san!""
Fuu turned with wide eyes to see two young children, a boy and a girl. The boy had bright blue eyes like his father's, but had green hair like his mother's. He wore a simple pair of pants and a t-shirt with a cartoon on it, pulling his sister along behind him with his left hand as he waved with his right. The girl had orange eyes and blonde hair that went down to her lower back even though she was young. Her yellow dress flowing behind her as her brother dragged her by the arm so that she could keep up with his running. The two of them came to a stop in front of Fuu as she knelt down to them.
The slightly older Fuu knelt and opened her arms, "My children…" she thought lovingly as she hugged the two of them to her chest.
Her son looked up at her with a very Naruto-esque grin, letting Fuu see that his pupils were slitted, though there was no malice in his smile, "Kaa-san, Tou-san, wanna go play?" he asked.
Fuu nodded immediately, "Yes, of course, anything you want." She said as tears began to well in her eyes.
The son nodded and grinned as he swapped from holding his sister's hand to grabbing his mother's, "Swings!" he shouted as he began to pull Fuu around a small group of trees.
She looked over her shoulder to see Naruto had just sat their daughter on his hip, smiling over at Fuu happily as he carried the girl along.
"Fuu-chan!"
As they came around the small group of trees, Fuu turned forward to see a whole playground with children and their mothers looking after them, it took her a moment to realise who had called her name, "Tayu-chan?" she asked as she looked over at the redhead waving to her.
The two people who were facing Tayuya turned, showing Fuu that they were Hinata and Tenten, who she smiled at and quickly waved back to before her son got her attention, "Kaa-san, look!" he said, pointing to an empty swing set.
Fuu helped her son onto the swing as a young blue haired girl approached her, "Auntie Fuu!" the toddler said as she hugged Fuu's leg.
Fuu smiled and picked the girl up, seeing the obvious Byakugan eyes even though they were tinged red, "Hey you, having fun?" Fuu asked happily as she walked around to push her now laughing son on the swing with one hand while she held up the toddler.
The little girl nodded before she began to play with the ring sitting on Fuu's left ring finger, forgetting about the world around her as she focussed entirely on the ring.
Hearing a sound just to her side, she turned to see Tenten placing a young boy on the other swing, the boy was dressed in a Halloween ninja costume, black covering everything but his eyes, toes and fingers as he stood on the swing, swinging himself as he seemed to be the oldest, maybe six or seven years old, "Where were you guys? We haven't seen you in a while." Tenten asked with a smile.
Fuu nodded and went to explain before she felt Hinata take her daughter from Fuu's arms, letting Fuu begin to push her son on the swing again as Hinata spoke with a wink and a smile, "It was her turn with Naruto-kun last night remember? She probably only just got up." Hinata said with a giggle.
Fuu blushed at the implications of Hinata's words, but Naruto came up behind her and kissed Fuu on the top of the head, "How's this?" Naruto asked.
Fuu closed her eyes as she smiled, "Perfect…" she said softly with a sigh.
Naruto chuckled, 'Seventy-one hours, fifty-nine minutes and fifty-nine seconds to go.' Naruto found himself thinking, bringing back the reality of the inevitable death before he was once more enveloped in Fuu's ideal dream future that Naruto had taken from her slowly collapsing mind.
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*CLANG*
Naruto's tear filled eyes – this time both of them, glowing with the crimson of two different Mangekyou Sharingan eyes – lifted up to see Kenpachi clash Yachiru's blade with the fang-like attack that Orochimaru's left arm had formed into.
In a split second, Naruto's eyes had memorised the faces of each Akatsuki member standing in the room, 'Tobi, Orochimaru, Danzo, Mei and Zetsu.' Naruto thought as each person was dedicated to a piece of his memory, 'You will all end.' He promised himself before looking down at Fuu.
Fuu's eyes drifted closed for the last time as Naruto placed a hand on her chest, feeling her heart beat one more time before it stopped forever.
Naruto blinked, ignoring the tears that were flowing from his eyes as he looked up at the lava that was flying at him and his wife's corpse, his Mangekyou swirling as his chakra sparked.
"SUSANO'O!" Naruto shouted angrily.
A large orange ribcage materialised around him and Fuu as an orange arm reached out, letting the lava hit it and splash away before it retracted it's arm.
Orochimaru nearly growled before catching Kenpachi by surprise by having his neck elongate so that he could head butt Kenpachi's nose, letting him slip by as he moved at Naruto at high speed.
Naruto turned and his Sharingan seemed to slow down time as he was given a slowed down visual of what was coming, 'I can see it!' Naruto thought as he stood tall, Fuu in his arms as his orange chakra construct held in place.
Orochimaru seemed crazed as he reached for Naruto's eyes, "Give me those eyes!" Orochimaru said with a malicious grin.
Naruto merely raised a brow as Orochimaru's hand was stopped by the orange hand of Naruto's Susano'o, "Really? A frontal assault? So much for the genius of the Snake Sannin." Naruto said mockingly.
Orochimaru scowled as he went to pull his hand away, but to his surprise the orange chakra construct fell, causing him to move off-balance as he noticed Naruto's left palm was aiming at him.
Tobi clapped his hand the moment Naruto's Susano'o faded, causing the statue to disappear in a burst of smoke to leave all of the ninjas falling through the air for a few metres.
Naruto smirked as the mouth on his hand opened, fire formed in it's maw as explosive chakra was sent into it, "DESTRUCTIVE WAVE!" Naruto shouted.
*BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM*
Orochimaru managed to escape with a substitution as Naruto's attack dug down into the rock floor of the cave, the massive amount of dust that was kicked up being used for a moment of stillness as Kenpachi moved through the cloud defensively.
Feeling someone behind him, Kenpachi turned while swinging his sword.
*CLANG*
Naruto dropped the tri-pronged kunai that he used to block the attack the moment Kenpachi recognised him, "Quickly, let's move." Naruto said as he placed a hand on Kenpachi's shoulder.
*FLASH*
In the millisecond that Naruto escaped with Kenpachi, a battle shuriken tore through the air before imbedding itself into the wall.
Tobi landed next to his weapon and analysed the area as the dust cloud died down, his eye narrowing as he spotted the tri-pronged kunai, "We have two options, set a trap or run. We have seconds so decide now." Tobi said as he began to disappear in a swirl.
Zetsu immediately began to follow Tobi's lead, sinking down into the ground in seconds and disappearing from site.
Danzo looked at Mei and Orochimaru, the two of them being the ones he was allied with, "I recommend we leave, the fact that Naruto left his kunai means he plans on coming back and for all we know he could bring a whole village worth of ninjas with him." Danzo said as three of his ROOT members formed a triangle around him, forming a few hand seals before they joined hands, "See you at the rendezvous point." He said in dismissal.
The three ninjas chakra sparked, """FLYING THUNDER GOD JUTSU!""" they shouted in unison before a bright white light slowly enveloped them.
*FLASH*
And then, they were gone.
Mei looked at Orochimaru with a pout, "Where are we going?" she asked, assuming that they'd leave as well.
Orochimaru was scowling as he turned away from Mei, seeing a piece of paper pinned to the ground under the kunai. Orochimaru raised a brow as he walked over to the kunai, kicking it away by the handle and flicking the paper up into the air so that he could catch it, he smirked as he read the note.
'Hello again, I hate to leave a score unsettled, and the last game was a draw, if you win this time you get a Mangekyou Sharingan. What do you say? The final round?'
Orochimaru began to chuckle as he crunched the paper in his hand, "We're going nowhere Mei-chan, send the rest of the troops to war, we'll be along shortly." He said with a chuckle as he dropped the paper to the ground.
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*FLASH*
Yachiru looked next to her as Naruto and Kenpachi arrived in a yellow flash, "Kenny! We got them too… oh." Yachiru said as she spotted Fuu's corpse resting in Naruto's grip.
Naruto turned and began to bark orders, "Who's able bodied?" Naruto asked.
Yachiru felt the seriousness of the situation and turned to point at Kuro, "Just Kuro-san and Dolphin-san." she said.
Naruto looked over and saw Iruka holding Pikkon's head on his lap while the unconscious swordsman rested, "Iruka-sensei…" Naruto said softly, causing his old sensei to look up at him and smile.
"Hey Naruto, how's…" Iruka began before seeing who was laying dead in his arms, "Oh…" Iruka said.
Naruto nodded and looked down at the girl in his arms, smiling sadly at her corpse with his once more blue eyes, "It's okay, she was truly happy for the last of it, I think in the end… she actually forgot about death and embraced the happiness she was feeling." Naruto said softly as tears began to form in his eyes again.
Iruka's eyes fell sadly to the ground, "Well, at least she was happy in the end, what now though Naruto? As far as I can tell you're the highest ranking ninja that's conscious." Iruka said, seeing if Naruto was able to control his emotions in the current situation.
Naruto nodded and formed a hand seal, using a jutsu he had learned from Itachi's soul, "SHADOW CLONE JUTSU!" Naruto announced.
*POOF*
A clone appeared in a sudden burst of smoke, lifting Fuu from Naruto's arms and carrying her in a classic bridal style hold as the real Naruto forced himself to move forward.
Naruto pointed at Kuro, "You're the fastest of us, so I need you to rush to the five Kage, tell them that Fuu was… she was caught, they have the Seven-Tails and… I have drained the revived soul of a high level Uchiha with two different Mangekyou Sharingan. I will kill the rest of the Akatsuki." Naruto ordered.
Kuro got to his feet shakily and smirked, "One condition Flash, after this I'm done. I don't want anything to do with this war or anything. Let me go free." Kuro said.
Naruto scoffed, "Nope, you do that then join their fight. If I hear from anyone that you've left after all this then I will find you myself," Naruto promised as his Sharingan flickered into existence, "And I will slowly burn the heart out of you." Naruto promised as Itachi's Mangekyou activated.
Kuro scowled as he looked into Naruto's eyes, 'He's not kidding, he'll do anything to get the people who hurt that Fuu girl now.' Kuro thought before sighing, "Yeah, I get it, geez why do you have be such a hard ass about it?" Kuro rhetorically asked as he turned towards the east, "Consider it done." He said as he readjusted his glasses.
Naruto turned away and Kuro was suddenly gone, "Yachiru-chan, can you give Iruka-sensei a boost?" Naruto asked.
Yachiru nodded, forming hand seals with a smile, "Got it! YACHIRU SPECIAL: NATURE CHAKRA INJECTION!" she shouted.
Iruka gasped as nature chakra was forced into his system, being held in perfect balance by Yachiru as Naruto spoke to Iruka, "Sensei, you quickest travelling mole." Naruto ordered.
Iruka formed a quick succession of seals before placing his hand on the ground next to him, "SUMMONING JUTSU!" he gasped.
*POOF*
Iruka summoned large mole with a single long row of transport bubbles on it's back as Naruto continued to speak orders, "Sensei, take everyone here to the closest field medical office, I want all of you checked over and then back out there fighting the enemy with the First Division." Naruto ordered, earning a nod from Iruka.
As Iruka lifted Pikkon up limply, the Naruto clone moved Fuu so that she was sitting in the second last seat, the clone sitting in the very last chair on the mole's lower back.
Naruto's eyes trailed on the movement before he turned to Kenpachi, "And you Kenpachi, I want to follow me into the cave, if you get the chance then search everywhere you can as fast as you can and find me everything that they have," Naruto said as he tossed a scroll to Kenpachi, "Seal it all in that and then come back to the main cavern and if you get the chance try to land one hit kills to the enemy, there should only be one, so I'll have his complete focus." Naruto said before clearing his throat, "Everyone ready to go?" Naruto asked.
Every conscious person nodded and Naruto took a deep breath, activating his Wood Style: Sage Mode, and he gasped as he felt one of his eyes morphed. Kenpachi raised a brow, "You okay Flash?" he asked.
Naruto put a hand over Shisui's eye, 'This eye wasn't originally Itachi's, maybe because it was bonding to him still when I absorbed him it could just use a little extra then I thought.' Naruto thought to himself before looking up and nodding, "Yeah, all is good." Naruto said as red markings began to grow across his face.
Everyone looked at him for a moment as he pulled his hand away, most of them raising their brows as Naruto kept one eye closed, but Naruto didn't let anyone waste time, "Move out!" Naruto ordered.
As Naruto blurred away at high speed, Kenpachi quickly taking chase to keep up as Iruka and Yachiru watched the two of them leave the area.
*FLASH*
Yachiru pouted as she saw a golden flash occur somewhere amongst the bushes and trees, 'Bye Kenny…' she thought with a sigh.
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*FLASH*
Naruto lifted his hand from Kenpachi's shoulder, letting the man see that they were standing at the cave entrance, "Get to it." Naruto said.
Kenpachi nodded and dashed into the cave entrance, taking the first left and darting into the darkness as quickly as he could.
Naruto took a deep breath and opened his Mangekyou Sharingan eyes, 'Damn, why does Shisui's eye feel…empty?' he thought with a shake of his head before sending a large amount of healing chakra to his eyes.
Naruto frowned and shook his head, closing Shisui's eye as he moulded his chakra, 'Can't risk using it if it's acting up like this all the time… It feels like it's drawing on something from somewhere else inside me.' Naruto thought as he looked up at the cave entrance once more, Itachi's Mangekyou glowing as he focussed, "I'll work this out later, for now, I need to finish this!" Naruto said, pumping himself up as he felt the corresponding spark of chakra from the seal on the kunai that was left in the cave.
*FLASH*
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*FLASH*
Tobi turned calmly as the white light slowly faded, "Danzo, are we ready?" he asked.
Danzo smirked and nodded to his three ROOT ninja, "Get the message to Ao, we move out at dawn. He's on lead with the rest of the Mist Ninjas." Danzo ordered one of them before turning to one of the others, "Tell Hitoshi to begin heading out north and turn back down to take their army from the side once the sun peaks the mountains of the Land of Lightning." Danzo ordered followed by a wave of his arm, "Move into positions!"
As the ninjas disappeared in a shunshin, Danzo turned to Tobi, "Yes, I'd say we are now." He said with a smirk.
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*FLASH*
Naruto looked up, his expression turning to one of seriousness as he noticed that he had more than one enemy, "Orochimaru… it seems you have a friend." Naruto said.
Orochimaru chuckled creepily as he calmly palmed his sword, "Yes, Mei-chan seems to have interests much like my own, but where did your little girl friend go? Oh wait," he said, his tauntingly calm expression turning into a malicious grin, "We ripped out her soul!" Orochimaru exclaimed with a laugh.
Naruto's open eye turned hard as Itachi's Mangekyou came into being, thought Naruto twitched at the pain, losing all calmness as his anger over losing Fuu took hold, "You fucking monster." Naruto growled under his breath before he crossed his arms in front of him, "IT'S TIME FOR ROUND THREE!" Naruto shouted with a deadly scowl on his face, "LIGHTNING ARMOUR!"
The lightning armour kicked into place and he blurred at his opponent, but he hadn't noticed the Mizukage's hand seals, "Don't forget about me! LAVA STYLE: LAVA MONSTER JUTSU!"
Naruto jumped up into the air over the attack, moving so that he could punch at the Mizukage. But she flipped backwards, kicking up at him as she did so. But to her surprise, he burst into crows upon impact, swarming around her and cutting up her arms before she managed to use the substitution jutsu.
The crows flew up to midair in the cave, forming Naruto's face and arms, "EXPLOSIVE WATER SHOCKWAVE!" Naruto shouted as he spat forth the massive amounts of water.
The Mizukage formed her own seals urgently as Orochimaru calmly knelt, "SUMMONING: RASHOMON!" Orochimaru exclaimed.
The two of them were lifted up into the air, letting the water hit the gate below them and letting Mei change her target from the attack itself to Naruto, "LAVA BLOB!" she shouted as she spat a ball of lava that flew at Naruto.
The crows dispersed before diving at the water, disappearing under the surface as the lava ball flew overhead, Orochimaru frowned as he stepped forward, "Mei, get back and support me from a distance, I've got this." Orochimaru said calmly.
There was barely a half-second's silence before a water shark leapt out from the water at Orochimaru, who used his sword to slash it in half before leaping away.
*BOOM*
Orochimaru smirked as the shark exploded, 'Kisame's Techniques.' Orochimaru thought to himself carefully as he felt a chakra spike.
"WATER DRAGON JUTSU!"
Orochimaru contorted his body as the water dragon flew up at him, dodging so that he landed standing on the dragon's side, "Mei! Get rid of this water!" Orochimaru ordered.
Mei seemed to have already thought of the idea as she finished her hand seals, "WATER STYLE: PRESSURIZATION!" she shouted.
Naruto stayed underwater as he begun to form more seals, breathing through his gills until the water suddenly felt like it was getting thicker, 'they're maximising the water pressure!' Naruto thought with a frown before placing a hand on the handle of Samehada.
The sword flooded Naruto with a large amount of chakra as Naruto formed a quick series of seals to form his strongest water technique, "WATER STYLE: SUPER WATER SHARK BOMB JUTSU!" Naruto exclaimed.
All of the water in the cave swelled to one side, causing Orochimaru and the Mizukage to pause as they saw Naruto floating in it's center, the water forming a giant shark that shot at the snake man.
Orochimaru landed on the ground behind his Rashomon while clapping his hands together, 'The moment it enveloped the gates they'll dispel, so I will open them instead!' Orochimaru thought as the gate began to grow.
Just as the gate began to hit the top of the cave, the doors opened and let Naruto's water shark go inside, taking it to the nether realm before slamming shut and beginning to sink into the ground.
Orochimaru smirked as the gate sunk below his vision, ready to make a comment to Naruto.
*Thunk*
Orochimaru looked down at the kunai that landed to his side, "Ah." Orochimaru barely managed to say in time.
*FLASH*
"FIVE PRONGED SEAL!" Naruto shouted as he thrust his fingers at Orochimaru's chest.
The snake man's eyes widened as his cheeks bulged, letting him spit out a handful of snake between the two of them.
But his wide eyes narrowed as Orochimaru noticed Naruto's smirk.
*FLASH*
Naruto appeared back next to his original kunai, which was a small ways from the Mizukage, "SEAL!" Naruto shouted as he slammed his palm into her stomach.
Mei gasped as she felt the connection to her main chakra pools cut off, but she had little time to think as Naruto's other hand thrust forward, this one holding something more physically damaging, "GRAND RASENGAN!"
Mei coughed up blood as the chakra ball slammed into her chest before expanding, throwing her away before she disappeared in a cloud of smoke, appearing next to Orochimaru as he used the substitution with her as the target, showing his immense amount of control.
Naruto let his Rasengan dissipate as he turned to Orochimaru, "Your turn snake." Naruto exclaimed.
Orochimaru scowled as he looked at Mei, "Step out of the way Mei. You're useless now." Orochimaru said angrily.
Mei looked up in shock before Orochimaru shoved her aside, "This will be the last time brat, though I have to thank you for bringing me those lovely eyes somehow," he began with a smirk, "As a reward, I think I'll let you see some of my alterations to this body!" Orochimaru said before ripping off both of his sleeves.
Naruto's eyes narrowed at what he saw, 'That's new.' Naruto thought before deciding to charge forward.
On Orochimaru's left arm was his original snake summoning tattoo, but now it also had a small metallic hole in the center of the palm. His right arm had a large metal gauntlet with holes along it, reminding Naruto of the sound manipulator he saw once a long time ago in the Chunnin exams. On the right palm was a specific summoning seal.
Orochimaru aimed his hand at Naruto, showing the hole in his palm, "DECAPITATING AIRWAVES!" Orochimaru shouted, launching a handful of wind blades at Naruto.
The blonde used his Sharingan masterfully, weaving between the blades before leaping up over the last, which was a wide low sweep. Naruto formed hand seals as Orochimaru threw his other arm forward, "STRIKING SHADOW SNAKES!" Orochimaru shouted, reaching for Naruto with the live pythons from his sleeve.
Naruto used a single air push from one arm as he span quickly in mid-air, "ROTATION!" Naruto shouted, throwing the snakes away with the chakra shell.
Orochimaru brought up his first hand again, this time holding a half Tiger seal, "DRAGON FLAME JUTSU!" Orochimaru shouted, spitting the fire at Naruto.
Using the speed of his rotation, Naruto channelled wind chakra throughout his body in a spiralling motion, "WIND STYLE: TSUUGA!" Naruto exclaimed, throwing himself up and over the fire jutsu at just the right time as Naruto pointed at Orochimaru, "BONE BULLET!"
Orochimaru dodged with a substitution before charging Naruto from behind, just as the massive amount of snakes he spewed forth earlier had organised themselves around the two forming a perimeter. Naruto turned while swinging his fist, hoping to hit the snake man in the stomach.
But Orochimaru twisted around the attack in the Black Mamba fighting style and snap-kicked Naruto in the chin.
*BOOOOM*
Naruto smirked as the clone he had substituted with exploded, throwing the mud that was Orochimaru's mud clone across the field as the real Naruto leapt at the snake perimeter with his Bone Spear slipping out of his right wrist.
A tiny white snake's eyes widened before it opened it's mouth, causing Orochimaru to spring free while holding his right arm up and channelling chakra into the gauntlet.
*DONG*
Naruto froze as the sound hit his ears, 'I… I can't move!' Naruto thought in sudden shock and fear.
Orochimaru stared at Naruto for a moment before a grin stretched across his face, "So, no counter for sound style?" Orochimaru asked with a chuckle.
Naruto's eyes hardened as they slitted, though Naruto's ears began to bleed before he suddenly begun to fall to his hands and knees.
*BAM*
Naruto went sprawling from Orochimaru's kick, but he managed to roll to his feet with a large amount of shock on his face, 'That thing hurts,' Naruto thought as he saw Orochimaru charging at him again, 'Guess I need to get rid of it.' Naruto thought to himself before forming hand seals.
"WOOD STYLE: FOREST GENESIS!" Naruto shouted as he pushed large quantities of chakra into the earth around his barely-functioning form.
Orochimaru scowled as trees begun to grow and wrap around Naruto, lifting him up into the air and towards the roof of the cave, "No escaping!" Orochimaru shouted as he held his right palm out.
*POOF*
From the summoning seal on his palm, Orochimaru instantly brought his sword into his grip as he continued his charge, cutting the tree down in a single strike.
As Naruto's tree fell, Orochimaru had to retreat as hundreds of trees began to grow, causing Orochimaru's eyes to narrow as he saw the cave around them beginning to crumble, 'What's he thinking?!' Orochimaru thought as he looked to see where Naruto had gone.
The blonde leapt free from his tree and landed shakily his ears finally stopped bleeding as his medical chakra finished it's job, "So, this is what it's like to fight a Sannin that's going all out." Naruto muttered to himself, surprised that Orochimaru was not only keeping up with him, but was managing to overpower him with that sound gauntlet.
But that's why he brought out the trees.
Naruto looked up as a shadow came over him, seeing Orochimaru falling towards him with his sword in hand… 'You wanna use weapons? Fine! I'll show you that you need more than an unstoppable sword, you need guts and creativity!' Naruto thought cockily as he reached up at Orochimaru.
To the snake's shock, he felt something grab him from the side and throw him off course, causing him to realise that Naruto used chakra strings to drag his attack out of the way, "Sasori-sama too…" Orochimaru muttered as he calmly stood tall again, brandishing his sword at the ready.
Naruto unwrapped his amalgamated sword from around his waist, making it mould back into it's basic form as he placed it longways down his back. He swung his hands past his thighs as he disappeared in a puff of smoke.
Orochimaru waited calmly as he took a deep breath, 'Hmm… he seems to be getting serious.' Orochimaru thought before taking a slightly wider stance, 'I guess it's time for me to do the first field test for my latest experiment.' Orochimaru thought before tossing his sword to the side.
Naruto's eyes narrowed as the smoke blew away to reveal him standing tall with his sword in his right hand, a battle shuriken in his left and one of his tri-pronged kunai in his mouth, 'No more holding back, I'll get in close and rip him to shreds.' Naruto thought as he moved to charge his enemy.
Orochimaru formed a simple Hare hand seal and calmly watched as Naruto charged ahead, causing the blonde's eyes to narrow at the calm and collected persona Orochimaru was showing, so Naruto changed tactics. He used the speed from his sprinting to spin and launch his battle shuriken straight at the snake.
Orochimaru just stood calmly as the shuriken stopped against his skin, "Kukukuku, seems it's working perfectly." Orochimaru said with a chuckle.
Naruto's run came to a dead halt as he watched shuriken move up above the snake's head, "What the hell?" Naruto muttered to himself as his mind raced with any and all possibilities.
Orochimaru pulled his hands apart with a laugh as the shuriken began to spin slowly, "I guess you're a little confused aren't you?" Orochimaru started with a slight chuckle, "Well if you really want to know, you'll have to beat it out of me!" Orochimaru shouted before holding a cross hand seal, "SHURIKEN SHADOW CLONES!" Orochimaru shouted as the single shuriken shot forward.
The shuriken became ten as they flew through the air towards Naruto, causing the blonde to frown before simply pulling his sword in the way to act like a shield.
It was ripped from his hands.
Naruto looked up in shock as his sword was pulled off to the side by some unseeable force, giving the shuriken direct access to him, but luckily he was fast enough to react before they hacked him to pieces, "MUD WALL!" Naruto yelled out at the last second as he spat a glob of mud at the first shuriken.
The mud ball hit it before expanding, forming a wide wall that blocked all of the shuriken as Naruto begun to form more hand seals, 'Okay, my ninja tools are being affected by him somehow, what is it that they both have in common…is it metal?' Naruto thought before nodding to himself and spitting his kunai into his hand, 'Only one way to check.' Naruto thought as he held the last seal with his kunai in his grasp, "HIRASHIN: PORTAL!" Naruto exclaimed.
Orochimaru raised a brow as he felt a shift in the air behind him. He turned while aiming his left palm at the portal, "DECAPITATING AIRWAVES!" Orochimaru shouted.
Naruto's only movement was to let go of his kunai as his own wind chakra surged through the tube in his left arm, "DECAPITATING AIRWAVES!" Naruto shouted not a quarter-second later.
Naruto's wind waves launched his kunai through the portal as it begun to collapse, the two wind funnels clashed, flinging the kunai downwards as Orochimaru's attack lost it's resistance, ploughing through the now empty area where the portal was before.
Orochimaru turned back to the mud wall as he begun to form more hand seals while leaping up towards the roof of the cave to try an aerial attack.
*FLASH*
Orochimaru looked down and behind him as Naruto appeared next to his kunai underneath the airborne snake. Naruto moved to attack, but Orochimaru realised just a second too late what the attack.
Naruto thrust his hand forward as the green orb in his two handed grasp expanded to show it's true form, "TRUE WIND STYLE: RASEN-SHURIKEN!" Naruto shouted as he threw the attack up at Orochimaru.
Orochimaru scowled angrily, though he was ready to use the shunshin to escape when a blur in the corner of his vision made itself known.
"LAVA STYLE: LAVA MONSTER JUTSU!"
Naruto's eyes widened as a monster made of lava appeared and devoured his attack, though the Rasenshuriken expanded once it was chomped down on, causing a massive burst of hot wind to form a crater in the center of the massive cave.
Naruto scowled as Mei once more came to Orochimaru's aide, "Orochi-kun! Are you okay?" she asked.
Orochimaru pushed past her, "Either fight alongside me or get out of the way Mei!" Orochimaru ordered angrily.
The Mizukage looked as if his words had slapped her across the face, but she turned to Naruto with a renewed look of determination on her face, causing Naruto to frown, 'Why is she so obedient for him? I thought the Mizukage would be more self-confident then that.' Naruto thought as he began to charge his chakra.
Orochimaru held his hand up to the roof of the cave as his sword appeared in his grip from a puff of smoke, "POISONOUS SNAKE PIT!" Orochimaru shouted.
Naruto paused for a moment as all of the snakes from around the cave began to move towards him quickly, but Naruto simply picked up his kunai and threw it towards the ceiling so that he could teleport to it, but suddenly it was yanked down amongst the snakes, causing Naruto to scowl at Orochimaru as the man once more formed a Hare seal, "Crap, no ninja tools, can't get close cause of that sound thing on his arm…" Naruto muttered with a sigh, "This is gonna be harder than I thought!" Naruto exclaimed as he begun to form hand seals, the snakes moving closer and closer at a high speed, his two enemies armed and charging along behind them.
Naruto slowly began to rise into the air as he finished his hand seals, a pulse of chakra made all of the snakes pause for a moment as Naruto's chakra surged powerfully.
Orochimaru dropped his hand seal in favour of covering his eyes from the large amount of dust flying outwards, 'Kukuku, so now it's time for the Shodaime.' Orochimaru thought with a smirk.
"WOOD STYLE: GENESIS CALL!"
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Chapter End.
Sorry for lateness ppl. I'll try to be quicker next time. Hopefully out sometime ACTUALLY in the next two weeks.
Catch ya later, alky out ya'll.