Chapter Thirty Six: A Massive Battle With Massive Implications.
"HOLY MOTHER OF LOG!"
**BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM**
The Raikage covered his mouth from his sudden girly scream, but his eyes widened before he had to use his lightning armour to run again.
**BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM**
Raikage appeared in front of a downed Chunnin, taking the few pieces of stone to his back to protect her, "You okay?" he asked.
The Chunnin rolled onto her back and pointed over the Raikage's shoulder, "Look out!"
A appeared above a tall tree with the Chunnin in his arms as the Gedo Statue's foot destroyed the place he was just standing, 'Geez, I know I'm Raikage, but those three are insane when they're a unit.' A thought as he looked over the battlefield once more.
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"EARTH STYLE: SWAMP OF THE UNDERWORLD!"
Jiraiya's jutsu trapped the foot of the Gedo Statue causing it to begin falling again, though Madara's Rinnegan eyes flashed as he forced a gravitational pocket to form behind his statue, pulling it so that it stood taller and begin to pull it's foot free.
""COMBINATION: BALLISTIC HAMMER!""
Madara looked up and barely had time for his eyes to widen.
Using Orochimaru's body while it was in it's Human Bullet Tank mode, Tsunade slammed the boulder-like man into the side of the statue's head.
Orochimaru rolled out of the ball form and leapt up into the air while forming hand seals, "Tidal formation!" Orochimaru shouted as he reached out his hand.
Grabbing hands with Tsunade, he spun and threw her at the ground as his lungs began to heat up due to the sheer amount of chakra Orochimaru was compressing into them.
Madara shouted in anger as he channelled his chakra into the statue, causing it to roar loudly as lightning chakra began to crack through the air around it.
As pure lightning chakra was beginning to form between it's hand, Jiraiya yelled out, "Ready!"
Orochimaru finished his hand seals as he began to spin while holding out his palm, "WIND STYLE: FULL SUCTION TORNADO!" he shouted as the sucking power of his jutsu forming the beginnings of a tornado around the statue, lifting the toad oil from the Swamp up through the air.
Jiraiya finished his second jutsu, "FIRE STYLE: FIREBALL JUTSU!"
And with that, the oil tornado ignited.
Madara looked around with wide eyes as the statue began to scream, losing the focus to form the last of it's lightning technique as Madara was distracted by the flames, 'This...is beautiful, a truly hot display of pure destruction at it's peak.' Madara thought as he smiled, truly admiring the flames as they danced through the air.
But now that the fire had the statue, it was time to get it's controller.
Tsunade flew through the fire, her Seal released to keep her unharmed as her uppercut slammed into the massive statue's chin, throwing it's head back and flinging Madara loose.
Madara gritted his teeth in annoyance as he saw the statue begin to fall again, 'Hold on, where did their summoned beasts go?'
"THREE BEAST DEADLOCK: ACIDIC PURIFICATION!"
Madara looked up in shock just as the three Summon bosses landed, the reincarnated Manda's venom spraying on the left side of the statue and Katsuyu's slug acid hitting the right, causing the Statue to scream again until Gamabunta moved to slam into it's head from above.
"SHINRA TENSEI!"
Madara's Rinnegan flashed as he threw the three away from the area, grinding his teeth in anger as Manda escaped with a Snake skin clone and Katsuyu split into thousands of mini-versions to land safely on top of eachother, making Gamabunta the only one that was really hit back.
""COMBINATION: DEATH BALL!""
Madara raised a brow at that proclamation as he looked down, seeing Jiraiya's Earth Bullet had been electrified beyond measure thanks to Orochimaru before picking up some of the leftover flames, but Madara let the statue move it's arms into a guard to defend against the blast.
**BOOOOOOM**
The explosion upon compact was way larger then he estimated, causing the statue to begin to tumble when he realised he was suddenly under in the shade.
"HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
**BOOOOOOOOOOOOM**
The smoke began to clear as Tsunade landed in Jiraiya's arms, her own left arm broken from the sheer force she had slammed Gamabunta's sword into the statue's head, "Did it work?" Jiraiya asked from his place atop Manda.
Orochimaru landed next to Jiraiya as three Katsuyu clones began to climb onto each of the three of them, healing Orochimaru and Jiraiya while giving Tsunade a chakra re-charge for her to heal herself even quicker, "I'm afraid not." Orochimaru said calmly as he clicked the clips on his sound gauntlet, causing it to detach from his arm since it was now a useless and broken hunk of metal that was slowing him down.
The Statue slowly began to climb to it's feet again before roaring, causing the three sannin to sigh in unison as Madara's voice rang out, "You cannot kill the Gedo statue!" Madara exclaimed as the statue's roar began to form lightning chakra, "CATASTROPHE!"
The statue roared and everyone felt the build up of lightning chakra in the vicinity before looking up, seeing pure lightning chakra forcefully forming storm clouds.
The three blinked again in unison before Jiraiya sighed, "Is it too much to ask for an enemy that's all talk for once? I haven't seen one of them in a long time."
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"BLACK RAI-SENGAN!"
**BOOOOOOOOOM**
Naruto shock his hand as the destroyed the boulder that Tobi was standing in front of, 'Dammit! This guy is getting really annoying!' Naruto thought as he turned, dodging Tobi's grab and sparking his lightning chakra to throw the Akatsuki member off, only for the masked man to stay intangible and float harmlessly through it, aiming to grab at Naruto again, 'Just stay solid!' Naruto thought as he dodged once more.
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"BUBBLE JUTSU!"
"ROTATION!"
Hinata's chakra shell destroyed the bubbles Utakata launched, causing Hinata to smirk as her ace-in-the-hole moved into position, 'Go!' she thought, tapping her wrist with her forearm.
Seeing the original Hinata's gesture, the Hinata shadow clone got into a low stance, causing Utakata to freeze as the Eight trigrams seal formed around the three of them.
Hinata stopped her rotation and leapt forward at the same time her clone did from behind.
"EIGHT TRIGRAMS: SIXTY FOUR PALMS!" her clone shouted as the original swung the Hyuuga Staff, "EIGHT TRIGRAMS: EIGHT GATES ASSAULT!"
Utakata was frozen still as Hinata's clone shut down his chakra network systematically, lining up it's last hit with the man's head to shut down that Rinnegan eye as the original thrust forward with her pole.
*SHLINK!*
Hinata sighed as her pole had ripped straight through Utakata's chest, her chakra taking a 'grip' of the physical location of the eight gates and forcefully tearing it from his body.
Hinata paused for a moment as Utakata went limp, 'Just like with Pein's eyes, once I disconnect it he has to consciously reconnect his chakra before I can seal him.' Hinata thought as she dropped low, using the Leaf Rising Wind to kick Utakata up into the air.
Hinata pulled her Hyuuga staff, causing it to detach into two pieces, one of which she threw to her clone as they both leapt up into the air, "HYUUGA SEALING ART: TRUE CAGED BIRD PRISON!" she shouted.
The two Hinatas slammed the broadside of their pole arms into Utakata, the pole lighting up with chakra before Utakata's own chakra network warped, causing the chakra to flow backwards and forcing his entire body to comprehend nothing but blinding pain.
The six tails was out of commission as Utakata lay on the ground having a seizure, the new seal on his forehead glowing blood red as it burned.
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"DEMONIC PULSE!" Yugito exclaimed as a single blue tail of demonic chakra formed behind her and she shot off a speeds that would make Rock Lee begin to drool.
"RADICAL GOOD SPEED!" Sakura shouted as the chest and back piece of her armour activated, letting her keep up with Yugito.
**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**
In less then a second the two of them had experienced three power clashes before Yugito leapt up into the air while forming hand seals.
The exact moment Sakura was waiting for.
"HELLFIRE STYLE: BLAZE BALL!" Yugito shouted as she launched a blue version of the Fireball Jutsu.
Sakura shouted as she leapt up at Yugito's attack, flipping as her feet were ignited in white phoenix fire, "ULTIMA PHOENIX STYLE: SHOCKING BURST BULLET!"
**BOOOOOOOOM**
Yugito was thrown way higher into the air as was Sakura, but unlike the Jinchuuriki, Sakura had wings.
Righting herself in mid-air, Sakura's wings shot her forward in a blur through the air as her right arm began to glow rainbow again.
Yugito shouted in effort as pure demonic chakra began to take form around her, showing that she was beginning to enter the first stage cloak of her demon mode. Yugito's mouth opened in a roar, using a chakra pulse to blast back everything around her.
But even though Sakura's attack had nowhere near as much power behind it, there was little left in the world that would be able to out match the weapon's sharpness.
"PHOENIX STYLE: EXECUTING STREAK!"
And she was gone.
Nearly a second later, Sakura slammed into the ground behind Yugito before turning back, letting her higher level upgrades fade with a rainbow glow as she smirked back up at Yugito, "And last but not least." she said as her chakra began to take form again, the pinkette weaving hand seals in concentration.
**BOOOOOOOM**
Because her attack was so sharp, it had actually cut the air and left a vacuum space that as it clapped together, pulled Yugito's upper body from her lower body, causing the two parts to fall through the air limply for a moment. A moment in which Sakura finished her Ninjutsu, "ULTIMA PHOENIX ART: ETERNAL FLAMES OF THE HEAVENS!"
Sakura's wings opened up as she blew the white fire forward, the Ultima flames burning continuously so that the two halves couldn't join together again let alone heal the damage quick enough.
Sakura took a deep breath and sighed, 'Teach you to challenge me in speed.' Sakura thought to herself with a nod before falling to a knee, 'Damn, nearly out of chakra.' she thought as her armour faded except for the gauntlets and boots, causing Sakura to begin to relax as she realised just how much she had pushed her limits this time.
But either way, the two tails was stopped.
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Sasuke looked up with a sigh as his Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan sprang to life, 'Time to get serious.' Sasuke thought as his curse mark pushed him straight to his stage two form.
The Sanbi appeared from the massive plume of demonic chakra, roaring in anger as it looked down at Sasuke.
Sasuke took a deep breath before he began forming hand seals as fast as he could, just in time for chakra to stop gathering at the three-tails' mouth, "TAILED BEAST BOMB!"
Sasuke finished his seals as the last moment as golden flames began to reach down his arms, slamming his hands on the ground, "DRAGON FIST FLAME WALL!" Sasuke shouted.
The power of the nature chakra turned into pure power through flames actually managed to push the tailed beast ball upwards as it shot up from underground, launching the ball into the sky where it exploded harmlessly, but Sasuke didn't stop as he formed more hand seals while charging at the beast.
The Sanbi roared as it's first tail lashed out, but Sasuke let himself get hit, breaking his forearm in an extremely painful move, but letting Sasuke place his other glowing hand on the appendage, "SEALING ART: GRAVITY BIND REVERSAL!"
As the usual Gravity Bind Seal acted as cuffs to hold an enemy down, the reversal made the Sanbi suddenly weightless as Sasuke held his hand seal to keep the technique activated. Sasuke leapt back as he shouted, "DO IT NOW!"
The Sanbi began to wail and flail as a second Sasuke fell from the sky, swinging his Earth Club at the ground, "EARTH STYLE: SUMMONING: TOAD STATUE FORMATION!"
In a puff of smoke, eight of the Toad Statue's from Myobokuzen appeared and slowly moved thanks to Sasuke's channelling of earth chakra, pushing the Sanbi high into the air thanks to the gravity seal still on it's tail before they moved to be standing underneath it, linking hands with each other so that each set of hands formed the Boar hand seal.
The Sanbi shouted as it began to gather more chakra for a Tailed Beast Bomb, but Sasuke already had a plan for that as he looked up to see another of his clones, but he saw something else as well.
It seemed that the dark clouds the Gedo statue had started to gather was causing lots of lightning and electrical chakra to spark around, and instead of his secondary airborne clone throwing down another attack, he was getting fried by the electricity.
Sasuke scowled as his plan began to fall to pieces, 'Shit! Now I can't weaken it enough for the sealing!' Sasuke thought initially, but it seemed his third Fission Clone had come up with a plan as it ripped off it's chest seal, pulling the first two clones into it's body.
Sasuke looked over in worry as his gravity seal started to fall, but the now only Other Sasuke was blurring through hand seals before leaping back up into the lightning, 'Lightning...Yes!' the original thought as he realised the plan.
"KIRIN: SECOND STRIKE!"
The Sanbi screamed as the lightning in the clouds was sapped completely, forming not one, but TWO of Sasuke's Kirin Ninjutsu.
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Madara's grin stretched his face as the Gedo statue finally built up enough lightning for a chakra surge, "Now you so called Sannin! You will understand the power of-"
"KIRIN: SECOND STRIKE!"
The battlefield went quiet as the electricity in the air that was about to be an ultimate attack was taken from the air and channelled through Sasuke, slamming into the Sanbi's back and causing the Gedo Statue to pause in uncomprehending silence.
Madara blinked with wide eyes at the lightning dragons that had shut up a tailed beast, "Okay... that was actually really hot." Madara said with appreciation of how 'hot' the Ninjutsu seemed to be.
"""TURBULENT CATASTROPHE!"""
Madara turned back to the Sannin with a sigh as he saw a plume of whirlwind, water and lightning flying once more at the statue, 'Well...I guess this is the only option.' Madara thought before diving off the left side of the head.
**BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM**
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Sasuke smirked as the fission clone in the air ripped off the seal on it's chest, causing Sasuke to be pulled up towards it before the two rejoined, causing all of Sasuke's injuries to heal upon uniting with his healthier self and letting him form more hand seals as the statues of the toads opened their mouths up towards the Sanbi.
Sasuke EMS flashed brightly as he formed hand seals at a lightning quick place, "SEALING ART: SACRED TOAD STATUE MOUNTAIN SEAL!" Sasuke shouted before slamming his glowing hands into the center of the back of the massive Sanbi.
The toads sung loudly and ear piercingly, their song causing vibrations around the Sanbi that blurred faster and faster for nearly a minute straight before the Nature chakra channelled from Myoboku Mountain to finally out-do the demonic chakra, forcing it to recede into Yagura before Yagura himself was sealed in the form of a stone statue, just like the Toads around him.
Sasuke landed heavily and rolled to his feet, the Curse Mark receding completely as he stumbled, 'Down to only a third of my own reserves now, shit.' Sasuke thought before standing tall again and turning back to face his enemy, seeing he was sealed successfully.
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Tobi laughed as Naruto once more moved straight through him, "You can't even touch me Nine-tails, how do you expect to stop me?"
Naruto rolled to his feet with a frown as his golden chakra cloak shimmered around him, 'He's right, by only attacking on one front he can keep dodging because of that weird Ninjutsu... think...think...' Naruto thought as he charged forward, once more attacking with Taijutsu due to his confidence that he was fast enough to dodge Tobi.
"FIRE STYLE: EXPLOSIVE STORM!"
Naruto's eyes widened before he had to blur away in a golden streak, 'Ninjutsu?! That's the first time I've seen him do something different!' Naruto thought before the explosive whirlwind of flames exploded outwards.
Naruto paused for a moment as he pulled out his sword, deflecting the debris and quivering in excitement at all the strong chakra systems around it, causing Naruto to pause as he stared at Samehada Bochowari in realisation, 'Could it be that easy?' Naruto thought as he turned to Tobi with a smirk renewed on his face, 'Kurama?' Naruto asked.
"You've got more then enough to last this fool, but with someone like Madara on the other side of him, my doubts do rise."
Naruto smirked, 'Just you wait and see.' Naruto thought as he stood tall and ran his spare hand past the seal at his hip.
Tobi's eyes narrowed as he looked at the new sword before smirking, 'Hmm, I don't know when he got Hiramakarei, but it makes no difference.' He thought as Naruto sent his chakra into the two blades in his hands.
Samehada Bochowari came to life as it stretched out into the sharper form of Kubikiri Bocho, but the handle expanded to make the hilt guard the hammer while at the same time, Hiramakarei lit up with golden chakra that matched Naruto's cloak, forming what looked like a large drill, knowing how to thanks to the EMS in his eye.
Tobi's eyes narrowed as he focussed his Mangekyou, "KAMUI!" Tobi shouted, summoning an onslaught of large battle shuriken from a spiral in the air.
Naruto flashed forward, thrusting his drill forward as the chakra expanded, knocking all of the shuriken out of the air before he span, his golden chakra swirling.
Tobi watched as the sword came towards him, 'Once I shift through this attack I'll be able to get Hiramakarei for myself, make this fight a little more even.' Tobi thought calmly as his intangibility began to take effect.
Naruto's sword hit Tobi in the stomach, causing Tobi's eyes to widen as Naruto smirked, "SHRED SAMEHADA!" Naruto shouted, tearing upwards with his sword.
Samehada's teeth sprung up as it ate Tobi's chakra for the technique, nullifying the ability to use the Kamui Dimension as it tore the front of his chest up, shredding the skin before it hit the mask, shattering it and throwing Tobi back.
Tobi shouted in pain as he landed on his front, covering his face with his hand as he stared at the floor and the blood dripping from his discoloured chest, "Wh-what?" he asked in shock.
Tobi looked up at his enemy, seeing Naruto's grinning face as Tobi held a hand over the Rinnegan half of his face. Tobi's breath began to quicken as a snarl sat just under the surface.
Naruto's grin fell, "You know now. I'm going to kill you Tobi Uchiha, if that even is your real name." Naruto said as he began to circle Tobi.
Tobi's snarl began to shrink as Samehada snapped it's teeth towards him, only being stopped by Naruto pulling his sword back since Tobi was to stunned to move.
Naruto came to a stop after circling completely, coming face-to-face with his opponent once more as his golden chakra cloak shimmered, "Your intangability was the only thing keeping you ahead of me, but now it's useless, so why don't you give up?" Naruto asked before taking an attacking stance as his face became still, "Cause there's no stopping me now." Naruto said as his chakra drill began to spin as high speed.
Tobi blinked.
**BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM**
Naruto held his multi-sword to his side to help absorb the shockwave's impact as he readied his drill, 'One more slice to ruin his technique, then he's dead.' Naruto thought confidently.
That's when everything changed.
Seeing a shadow over his enemy, Naruto looked up to see Madara slam into Tobi from the side, making Naruto pause in his movements as he watched them roll into a position so that they were side by side on their knees while facing Naruto, causing the blonde to frown while Tobi turned to his master, "Madara-Sensei?"
Madara grinned as he turned to his student, "Good work Obito, now, there's one more thing I need." Madara said as he raised his only arm.
Naruto's eyes widened as Madara ripped the Rinnegan eye from 'Obito's' eye socket, causing the Uchiha to shout in pain for a moment as Madara ripped out his own false eye before placing the Rinnegan eye in the empty socket, 'What's the point of swapping one Rinnegan for another..?' Naruto thought curiously as Madara formed a hand seal.
Madara's chakra sparked as the Rinnegan eye glowed brighter then Naruto had ever seen it before, making Naruto's EMS eye pulse painfully.
Obito stood to his feet as he glared at his Sensei, "Some warning would've been good." Obito said with a scowl, his empty socket closed as his Mangekyou Sharingan took form.
Naruto blinked in recognition, 'But that's the same as Sensei's...no way...' Naruto thought as his eyes widened in shock, "Obito Uchiha... the one who was Kakashi-sensei's teammate?" Naruto asked the two of them.
Obito turned to Naruto, fight back in his eyes as his chakra began to take form, "Sensei, his sword takes chakra just like Samehada of the old Bloody Mist Village. His other-"
"Don't take me a fool." Madara cut off forcefully as the cracks on his skin began to close, "I know Hiramakarei when I see it, we're lucky you're lucky he has yet to find the time to morph it into the other swords he's collected." Madara said.
Naruto stared as Madara came back to life, 'Oh shit!' he thought before flashing forward in a streak of gold, his swords held out to his sides as he moved.
Madara's eyes had stayed on Naruto, so he managed to barely dive away in time thanks to his enhanced sight, but Obito – who had been staring at Madara since his Sensei cut him off – just went intangible as per his honed instincts over the past few years.
Naruto's chakra fluctuated through the swords, causing Hiramakarei to lengthen and make Madara jump even further back from the slash.
Naruto's multi-sword hit Obito in the stomach, cleaving him in half at the waist as Naruto span quickly, 'Now I'll know the whole plan so I can stop it!' Naruto thought in the milliseconds it took to reach up and grab his enemy's head.
There was a moment of silence as Obito's pained Sharingan eye stared into Naruto's slitted EMS eye, "I told you I'd get you! NINJA ART: SOUL DRAIN!" Naruto shouted with a grin as he watched Obito's expression.
As he began to feel his chakra be compressed, Obito flinched in pain, but there was the smallest smile on his face as he relaxed the part of his body he had left, 'Is this it then...? Is this all my hatred could muster?'
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The Gedo statue roared as it clapped it's massive hands, causing a chakra shock wave to blow Manda back as Orochimaru leapt up off the head of his summon animal, "DUST STYLE: ATOMIC DISMEMBERMENT!" Orochimaru shouted, aiming to take the arm completely off the Gedo statue.
The statue yelled again as it's arm began to be dismembered, but to fell back out of the way of Orochimaru's attack while flailing, knocking back Gamabunta as the toad boss was landing behind him while kicking out with it's leg.
Orochimaru's eyes widened before the leg hit the ground just under his landing point, throwing debris up at him, causing him to yell out in pain. But after rolling for a few seconds, Orochimaru managed to stop about a meter above the ground as he reduced the weight of his body to zero, watching as Jiraiya managed to avoid getting crushed thanks to Tsunade's intervention, 'Dammit, we've hit this thing with everything we've got and it just keeps getting back up!' Orochimaru thought angrily before he looked back for his summons, seeing the reincarnated Manda get up with no damage to his being, 'But that won't stop us!' Orochimaru thought with a grin before turning and moving towards Manda through the air.
"MASSIVE RASENOVAAAAAAA!"
Orochimaru landed on Manda's head as he looked over to his teamates, seeing Jiraiya's jutsu drilling into The Gedo Statue's hand as it had reached for him and Tsunade, but to the shock of everyone, Jiraiya's attack actually burnt the it's palm so much that the fingers fell off as it fell back again with a scream, lifting it's massive foot to crush Jiraiya and Tsunade.
**BOOOOOM**
The impact shook the air itself as the foot paused merely a meter from the ground, a crater forming under Tsunade as she gritted her teeth, holding the foot above her head as she fell to a knee, "I can't hold it!" she barely managed to say as her entire body shook.
And then she picked it up.
Tsunade and Jiraiya looked up in shock at the statue as it roared, slowly moving higher and higher into the air thanks to the snake tail that had wrapped around it's neck, lifting the statue up as if it weighed nothing, which thanks to Orochimaru, it actually was weightless.
Orochimaru focussed on breathing calmly as he sat on the statue's head, his Byakugan showing him the safe forms of Jiraiya and Tsunade, 'Thank the Log,' he thought as blood began to drip from his nose, 'I was fast enough,' Orochimaru thought as he felt all of the Nature chakra as well as his normal chakra was nearly done, he looked up at the clouds as he took one last breath, "MANDA! DO IT!" Orochimaru shouted before he coughed up a glob of blood.
Manda shouted in effort as it threw the Gedo Statue upwards and since Orochimaru made it weightless, it kept going up with the Snake Sannin riding it into the clouds.
Tsunade and Jiraiya looked up in stunned silence as the Statue kept going higher and higher, "What is he doing?" Jiraiya asked.
**POOF**
The two looked over as Manda was dispelled back to the summon plains so his body could lay at rest, causing Tsunade's eyes to widen in realisation as she looked up, the statue almost completely gone from sight, "Is he...no..." Tsunade mumbled, her eyes widening as she figured it out.
Jiraiya turned to her and raised a brow, "Well? What's the next plan for when they come back done?" Jiraiya asked worriedly, realising how large an impact it would be if the statue fell.
Not hearing an answer, Jiraiya looked over to Tsunade to see tears in the woman's eyes. He was about to ask her what was wrong when she began talking, "Orochimaru... he's not stopping, he's taking it all the way up..." she said.
Jiraiya's eyes widened as he looked up, turning to Gamabunta urgently, "Bunta! Jump! We need to catch up!" Jiraiya demanded.
Gamabunta looked down at Jiraiya, seeing the man's desperate look, "You know I can't get anywhere near that high Jiraiya... this battle's over, but I'm sorry about your snake friend."
**POOF**
As the smoke from Bunta's expulsion drifted, Katsuya nodded in agreement, "I know he was a bad man for many years, but the fact is he just took away the weapon that was going to be used to destroy or enslave the world. Orochimaru... in the end he was a hero."
**POOF**
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Madara's Rinnegan eye glowed out through the shadows of the trees, watching Naruto convulse on the ground as if having a seizure, 'That Ninjutsu he used... I can't feel Obito at all anymore...' Madara pondered as he marched over to stand above Naruto, looking down at the boy's eyes as they returned to the original blue Naruto was born with and the cloak of gold flickered into non-existence, 'It seems whatever that technique was, this boy's mind can't handle the strain of it,' Madara thought with a smirk as he knelt, "And thus ends this game Nine-tails, I own you and you will come back to me." Madara said with his smirk growing to a grin, reaching towards Naruto's stomach.
"STREAK!"
Madara leapt back as Sakura blurred past, causing the man to scowl as his false Sharingan fell into dust, showing that the man was back at one hundred percent as he frowned at the pinkette crouching over Naruto protectively, "What the..." Madara mumbled as he blinked at Sakura and her partially formed armour, "I'm not sure what's more shocking, the fact that you have my mother's old armour, or the serious look you have on your face. How can you be that serious with pink hair?" Madara said calmly as he began to calmly walk forward again.
"RAI-SENGAN!"
Madara turned and ducked under Kakashi's attack, throwing a kick punch that hit the Jonin with an uppercut, only for Kakashi to disappear in a plume of smoke.
"DYNAMIC ENTRY!"
From the smoke came Gai's foot, flying at Madara with more force then a charging rhino, only to stop a few millimetres from his chest as Madara's eyes flashed, "SHINRA TENSEI!"
Madara smirked at the dust cloud around him, seeing no movement in it as his powerful eye saw Kakashi helping Gai to his feet, 'Some more ninja come to die.' Madara thought before feeling a familiar chakra pulse to his right.
Turning back to Naruto, Madara raised a brow at the purple Susano'o standing protectively in front of the still seizing blonde and Sakura, Sasuke standing at it's core as he held a Bird Seal, "Madara Uchiha! We are the only two living Uchiha member left! Don't let this war be the thing our clan is known for!" Sasuke preached as the Susano'o finished forming completely.
Madara chuckled as he pointed at Naruto, "I care not who is left of our clan, I just need my pet back." Madara said.
"Ha!"
Madara easily stepped out of the way of Hinata's Gentle Fist strike, backhanding her across the face and sending her flying towards Kakashi and Gai, the copy ninja being the one to catch her unconscious body as Madara glared, "Useless Hyuuga scum." Madara scoffed before turning back to Sasuke, Sakura and Naruto.
Sasuke's EMS swirled calmly as the Curse Mark began to cover his face, "Madara... I don't care if you are the strongest ninja in existence and I don't care if my Sharingan can't match your Rinnegan," Sasuke said as the curse mark enveloped him completely, the chakra streaming the Bird Seal he held as he spoke, "But I won't let you harm my family!" Sasuke roared before charging forward, a fission clone standing in his place to hold the Susano'o protectively over Sakura and Naruto.
Madara smirked, "Finally, a real challenge!" Madara shouted as he ran forward to meet Sasuke, grabbing his Gunbai as in the process as Sasuke's scythe-form kusarigama appeared in his hands.
Sakura looked up from surveying Naruto's body, her Phoenix tears taking half of her remaining chakra before she stopped and turned to the Other Sasuke, "I don't know what the problem is, he has no ailments at all!" Sakura said.
Other Sasuke glanced over his shoulder at Naruto and looked into his eyes, his Sharingan swirling before he scowled and turned back to watch Sasuke slowly but surely getting his ass handed to him, "It's his mindscape, he once told me that too many souls and he'll overload, but it's not just that... he's battling someone." Other Sasuke said seriously.
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Mindscape, a few minutes earlier
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Naruto opened his eyes with a smirk as he looked at Obito from behind, "I've won now Obito, time to give up." Naruto said calmly as he marched forward, preparing to absorb the final remnants of Obito.
But Naruto paused when he heard the man chuckle.
"You...are a fool Uzumaki." Obito said with a glance over his shoulder before suddenly sprinting forward.
Naruto smirked, "Me a fool? There's nowhere you can run Obito!" Naruto said with a slight chuckle as he calmly watched Obito run...towards the cage-seal...
Where the Kyuubi was...
Naruto's eyes widened in recognition before going to sprint forward, "NO! Kurama!" Naruto shoutedin warning.
The massive fox opened it's eyes from it's concentration, making eye contact with the one thing he had hoped to never see again, a Mastered Sharingan Eye.
"SHARINGAN: DEMONIC ENSLAVEMENT!" Obito shouted.
Kurama roared as the intelligence left it's mind, making it a pawn under Obito's influence as the Sharingan user leapt up to the cage, "Nine-tails! Break your chains and fight! Break free from this and kill-"
"RIGHT STRAIGHT!"
Obito was thrown across the room thanks to the Third Raikage's appeareance, punching Obito square in the face with his super-punch.
"UNIVERSE!"
Hashirama flew from his room thanks to the branch that grew from underneath him, throwing him forward and upwards so that his attack hit Obito's back.
Obito shouted in pain as he flailed through the air, opening his eyes just in time as he looked up, seeing Minato falling towards him from above, "RASENGAN!"
**DRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRROOOM**
Obito shouted in pain as the Rasengan drilled into his stomach before he was shot back towards the ground at high speed, barely recognising what he was seeing as he fell towards three people.
"EARTH STYLE: EARTH WALL!"
"WATER STYLE: PROJECTILE WATER PRISON!"
Hiruzen's earth technique flipped upwards as Kisame's water ball gripped Obito and slammed him against the wall.
"ICE STYLE: FROSTBITE!"
Dotou's fists slammed into the water prison from below, freezing it into ice and trapping three of Obito's limbs.
Obito lifted his right arm, ready to smash the ice before a few bone bullets ripped through his arm thanks to Naomi before Mizuki's shuriken caught up and stabbed into the Earth Wall around the arm and trapping it.
Obito looked up, his Sharingan his last hope as he tried to find eye contact with Naruto.
Only to see Itachi glaring at him with Shisui's eye, "TSUKUYOMI!"
There was nothing but silence for a few moments as Naruto stepped out from behind Itachi, nodding towards Obito's left as Juugo walked over, placing his hand on the ice ball that had Obito trapped and surging his nature chakra through it, forcing Obito out of the Master-level Genjutsu after he experienced almost seventy-two hours of torture.
Obito looked at at Naruto with a pained expression as the other souls lined up behind him, "H-How? I h-had the fox." Obito stuttered out as he tried to focus his Sharingan again.
Naruto flew up with his air funnels, placing his hand over Obito's eye as he spoke, "You have no power here idiot. This is my mind and the home of those who reside here." Naruto said before sighing and pausing for a moment as the other souls in his mind faded, their doors closing behind them as they went back to an inactive state so that Naruto could finish this absorption.
Obito tried to thrash his head to get Naruto off of him, but Naruto pressed harder as he formed a half ram seal with his other hand, "SOUL DRAIN COMPLETE!"
Naruto grinned as Obito shouted, his soul being crushed down to nothing before Naruto extracted it and sucked it in through his palm.
Naruto lowered to the ground as the soul assimilated into his mind, 'Slowly but surely...' Naruto thought as he opened his eyes.
Naruto looked up at Obito's body as it hung limply in the Ice-Prison, his left eye glowing in it's combination of Shisui's and Itachi's Mangekyou Sharingan while the right glowed in a darker combination of Itachi and Obito's Mangekyou Sharingan, perfectly forming two separate Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan eyes under Naruto's control.
Naruto began to chuckle as he felt the power of the two eyes pulling on something else inside him, "This..." Naruto said as his chuckled fell and he began to pick up on the last few memories of Obito Uchiha, causing Naruto's eyes to widen as he leapt up onto the Earth Wall.
"ROAAAAAAAAAAAAAR!"
Naruto was blasted back by the power of Kyuubi's powerful roar, blasting the gates of it's cage open as it's chakra system and physical restrictions were nullified thanks to Obito's final technique, causing Naruto to swallow nervously, 'And his last order... was to break free and kill.' Naruto thought before looking up, sending chakra to his new eye to try and control the fox.
Naruto's hand came down over his eye in pain before he could use any techniques, 'Shit! Still need more time!' Naruto thought before his other eye widened in shock.
Kyuubi slammed it's hand down on-top of the earth wall before crunching on Obito's body, eating the feast before refocussing on Naruto with a grin, causing Naruto to scowl as his peripherals picked up the fact that not a single door was open in his mindscape, 'It's... up to me now.' Naruto thought nervously as Kyuubi began to reach for him.
Naruto!
Naruto snapped to attention, "Sasuke?" Naruto asked as he heard his brother's voice.
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Other Sasuke stared into Naruto's new EMS eyes with his own as he tried to pry into his mind, though he was having little success other then the basic thought suggestion abilities of the Sharingan, 'That's it! Since he's inside his mind he should be able to pick up on it way better.' Other Sasuke thought silently as Kakashi clashed his Raikiri with Madara's wood clone's chest before the real Madara slammed Sakura into the Raikiri arm first, heavily damaging the armour of Radical Good Speed and causing the two of them to almost hit the original Sasuke as the Sharingan user launched a stream of fire.
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Naruto leapt up in a flip, landing on the wall of his mindscape as he heard Sasuke's voice echo around the room.
Only Madara Uchiha can control and manipulate the Kyuubi at will unlike the Tobi character. He could only give basic orders but be careful anyway, he might try to get the fox loose.
Naruto rolled his eyes at that as he ran his hands past the seals on his legs, 'Nah, really?' Naruto thought while taking out some of his tri-pronged kunai before throwing them around the mindscape to dodge the Kyuubi's attacks.
Somehow you have to seal it deeper or something, make the fox disappear and it won't matter if Madara gets through us, he's already demolishing the group but Gai-sensei is going all out with the Eight Gates! Get rid of the Fox NOW!
And like a slap to the face, Naruto came to a full realisation on the situation outside, 'Group? Sasuke had Sakura and Hinata with him and if Gai-sensei is here then so is Sensei...' Naruto thought.
**FLASH**
Appearing behind the fox, Naruto took a shaky breath before lifting his hands, running through his memories for a jutsu that he thought might work the best in this situation as the fox began to turn for him again.
**FLASH**
Naruto appeared on the ceiling of his mindscape, looking down at the fox as he held a single hand seal that though he had gotten it from Itachi's memories, it clicked in his mind immediately, "MULTI-SHADOW CLONE JUTSU!"
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Other Sasuke pulled the seal from his chest, pulling the original back towards him and putting them back together so that their wounds were gone. Sasuke joined with himself before turning to Naruto, his curse mark flowing down his arm as he placed a hand on Naruto's chest, pumping nature chakra into his system and hoping beyond hope that Naruto's healing abilities would use it to save him.
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Naruto opened his slitted eyes as his skin appeared to crack all over, turning white and scaly as he grinned alongside his hundred or so clones.
As the Kyuubi began to look up at Naruto, it stood on it's hind legs as it began to reach up at him.
A group of the Shadow Clones leapt free from the roof as they span as fast as they could, """"BOMBARDING ROTATION!""""
The spiralling balls of chakra hit the fox's hand, knocking it off balance as the chakra inside expanded.
Naruto had a few clones leapt around him as the others began to leap at the fox as well, throwing the few jutsu Naruto honestly had mastered without the use of the Soul Drain, """"SAGE ART: MASSIVE RASENGAN!""""
Kyuubi roared as it leant further back with it's stumble, falling onto it's back but avoiding half the group of clones that had attacked as Kyuubi opened it's mouth wide, the Sharingan illusion in it's eyes pulsing as chakra began to form in it's mouth.
Naruto leapt downwards confidently as he lifted the jutsu above his head, "SNAKE SAGE ART: TRUE WIND STYLE: POISONOUS RASEN-SHURIKEN!" Naruto shouted as the green glowing Rasengan flew at the fox, it's purple shuriken-like ring spinning at high speeds.
Naruto couldn't help the smirk of confidence as he trusted the power of his jutsu, only for the chakra in it to be sucked into Kyuubi's mouth and subsequently added to the Tailed Beast Bomb it was forming at the time, causing Naruto's expression to fall he he did too.
The Tailed Beast bomb was charged, so Kyuubi opened it's mouth wide to attack.
"NOT TODAY FURBALL!"
Red chains shot out of the ground, wrapping around the Fox's head and forcing it to turn away from Naruto, launching the ball of demonic chakra past Naruto and into the ceiling, destroying many of the clones and throwing Naruto across the room and into the arms of the person who saved him.
After a few moments of silence between the two of them while Kyuubi fought for it's freedom, then Naruto looked up at the redhead in his mind, "Mom?" he asked hopefully.
Kushina smiled down at her son, "It's okay, I'm here." she said softly as she kissed Naruto on the forehead.
Naruto closed his eyes for a moment of peaceful serenity as he lay in his mother's arms for the first and potentially last time, committing the feeling to his memory before he pushed himself up onto his feet by her side, "Thanks Kaa-san!" Naruto said confidently as his smile stretched across his face with his creepy snake-like features, "Now let's get take him down!" Naruto shouted.
The fox roared again with a chakra pulse, shattering the chains and throwing what remained of the Earth wall at the two of them.
**FLASH**
Naruto and Kushina looked into a pair of Blue eyes as a hand landed on their shoulders.
**FLASH**
"Naruto! Kushina!" Minato Namikaze said as the three of them appeared against the now open cage, "We've got two options here, seal him again or Naruto, you can absorb him." Minato said confidently.
Naruto's confused gaze moved over to the open doorway that showed Minato's room on the inside, "But... how did you get out?" Naruto asked in confusion as he thought the others couldn't come out while another's physical abilities was still being absorbed.
Minato smirked, "We're of the same blood Naruto, I used that as a medium to come out while I had the time to make the right seals." Minato said.
Kushina lost her composure for a moment before leaping at Minato in a hug. But the Kyuubi had finally noticed that they dodged it and attacked wildly once more, forcing Naruto to be the one to take action as he leapt up at the Kyuubi's claw while holding a Kunai infront of him, "HIRASHIN: PORTAL!" Naruto shouted.
A small rift opened up just infront of his kunai, letting the Kyuubi's foot pass through and come out from a second rift, stomping his own head into the wall next to him before Naruto closed his portal, making the leg be cut off before it turned to pure red chakra again.
Minato smirked as he moved forward, "Kushina, grab it's other front leg and pull, hurry!" Minato ordered before turning to Naruto, "Ready your Soul Drain and be prepared to get in close!" Minato ordered as he took off his Kage cloak and threw it up above his head, leaving him in his Jonin gear.
Kushina nodded immediately as she knelt to the ground, her chakra chains burrowing from her back down into the rock below as they snaked towards the Kyuubi as it looked at it's detached limb and roared as it tried to make the chakra form another for it.
Naruto formed a set of hand seals as did Minato, though the Yellow Flash did so while charging at Kyuubi as Naruto channelled his chakra to one of his seals.
**FLASH**
Naruto looked craned his neck to look down at Minato as Kushina's chains tripped the Kyuubi onto it's side, giving Minato access to it's bare stomach as he appeared in another flash from a kunai, "SEALING JUTSU: EIGHT TETRAGRAM SEAL: FORCED CONVERGENCE!" Minato yelled out as his blue glowing hands slammed into the fox.
The Kyuubi let out a messy wail as Minato's seal began to reinforce the seal in Naruto's mindscape, sucking more and more of the fox's chakra from it and directly into Naruto.
Naruto's now red slitted eyes flashed as he leapt from the ceiling, "Sorry bout this Kurama! NINJA ART: SOUL DRAIN!" Naruto shouted as he landed to the side of the Fox's forehead, slamming his hands onto the Kyuubi as they both began to glow red with demonic chakra.
The Kyuubi roared once more, trying to dislodge them all from it as it grew weaker, it's own power being the only thing that could stand a chance against it in this power struggle, so that's what Naruto was using.
A red and white flash occurred around Naruto before Kushina felt the chains go slack and Minato's seal became void. They covered their eyes from the flash as they looked over to Naruto, seeing his new appearance in full as Kushina grinned, "You did it!" She shouted excitedly as she got up to run over to her son.
Minato flashed to Naruto's side and looked into his eyes, seeing them being held closed as Naruto breathed heavily, "Naruto...? Are you alright?" Minato asked.
Naruto opened his eyes, making Minato gasp as the other doors to his mind slammed open and everything got sucked into the open cage-seal, realigning between the bars as Naruto's now naturally red chakra swirled around him, "Oh yeah Dad, I've got this." he said confidently before Kushina landed on the two of them, hugging them tightly as she sighed in relief.
Minato smirked at Naruto, "I can sustain her here for a while Naruto, I think you need to wake up and fight back now." Minato said with a nod of confidence.
Kushina looked up in confusion as Naruto stepped out of the hug, "Naruto-chan?" She asked.
Naruto lifted a hand up to the back of his head, reminiscent of his childhood self as he grinned, "No worries Mom, I'll see you again soon." he said before he closed his eyes.
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Madara grunted in exertion as he slammed a knee into the base of Gai's spine, causing the Taijutsu master to fall down and leaving Sasuke as the only one there that was able to fight, "So little Uchiha," Madara started, "Come and join me with this. The Uchiha will bring peace to this realm." he said with a smile as he held his hand out to Sasuke, walking toward him and Naruto.
Sasuke looked up at Madara and stood tall as he formed a quick series of hand seals, "SAGE MODE!" he exclaimed, using the perfectly balanced nature chakra from his Curse Seal to slip straight into sage mode, moving into the frog-fu stance as he swapped his Kusarigama for his Ocean Naginata.
Madara chuckled as he let his eye change once more to the Rinnegan, "Your eyes are useless against me Sasuke," Madara started, causing Sasuke to pause as the man somehow knew his name, "My Rinnegan is the fourth stage of our Uchiha bloodline, only capable when an Eternal Mangekyou user has both Senju genetics and some Demonic Chakra pass through his system." Madara said with a menacing grin, blurring to strike at Sasuke only for the Uchiha to parry and try to counter, receiving a back-hand to the face as his reward, "You can't stop me!" Madara shouted with a laugh as he moved to take a step closer to Naruto.
Madara paused for a moment before coughing up a glob of blood, he turned angrily as he saw Hinata moving to through a second hit, "Hyuuga!" Madara shouted as he turned, about to kick Hinata square in the face.
"UZUMAKI SEAL: GRAVITY BIND!"
Madara shouted in shock and pain as his raised foot was suddenly pulled downwards, just as his whole body was pulled by the gravity as it magnified thanks to Tayuya as she landed between Naruto and Madara.
"GIGANTIC IRON BALL!"
Madara fell to his knees as he struggled to look up against the gravity as Tenten's attack began to fall towards him, the gravity seal making it fall even faster as Madara gritted his teeth, once more focussing his chakra into the Rinnegan technique he knew best, "SHINRA TENSEI!"
The ball, seal and Hinata were thrown back, barely recovering as Madara got to his feet and brushed some dirt from his knees, "Hm, you three actually did pretty well, even with the hindrance of a Hyuuga." Madara said.
Hinata couldn't hold in the whimper as she stood again to her shaky feet, blood flowing from her head as she held a broken rib.
It was like a slap to the face for Naruto.
A massive burst of red chakra flew from Naruto's body, sending out a power surge the strength of a demon as Naruto slowly began to lift up onto his feet, defying gravity with the simple movement before he faced Madara, though he kept his gaze on the ground as his blonde hair shimmered before fading to a crimson red just like Kurama's fur had been, very much like the red hair of a full blood Uzumaki.
The girls looked over at Naruto with wide eyes as Sasuke moved in close to attack Madara from the side, "CHIDORI WAVE!" he shouted as he swung his Naginata.
The highly electrified water flew at Madara, causing him to be distracted so that the three girls could surround Naruto, "Naru-kun?" Tayuya asked first as she placed a hand on his cheek.
Naruto looked up, causing his three wives to gasp at the look in his eyes, "Get back." Naruto said calmly, though in a much deeper voice then before.
"Gah!"
Seeing Sasuke be stabbed through the leg with his own Naginata, Naruto suddenly streaked forward thanks to the red chakra surrounding him, supercharging his entire body with chakra as his fist slammed into Madara's face.
Madara barely began to duck before the hit landed, throwing him back and making him stand defensively as he glared at Naruto with his single Rinnegan eye.
Naruto took a deep breath and his now limitless chakra reserves seemed to breath with him as he glared at Madara with his own glowing Rinnegan eyes, "Hashirama, Itachi and Kurama have made the sacrifice for this power," Naruto said as he pointed at Madara, "And I won't let it go to waste!"
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Chapter End.
Obito's simple death and Kurama's forced absorption. Did any of you see that coming?
Next chapter will be Rinnegan vs Rinnegan, the power of a legend against the power of the Will of Fire.
And Orochimaru's self sacrifice, taking the statue up into the atmosphere to hopefully release it into space... is that redeeming
Anyways, please R&R and tell me what you think of the fights so far.
Alky out.