Chapter 38: The War Begins
Before Naruto could react to what was said Akutei was grabbed by the collar and pulled from Naruto. "Come on, we got a war to fight, you can catch up once we stop Chaos," Dragoon said as he pulled Akutei back to Elvo.
"I don't like the way ninjas battle, the fights continue on far longer than they need to. Lets get this over with," Chaos said, "Alliance wait here. Army, destroy them," he said pointing his left hand at Elvo and the others.
"Time to shine," Elvo said hefting his sword and charging towards the oncoming army, after a moment Akutei and Nomad joined in.
After a few moments Kakashi and the other sensei ran towards the battle, along with a several others. Naruto was among the few still not fighting and he made his way over to the eleven of the twelve who were not fighting.
"Was…is…he…" Naruto said, lost for words.
"No idea," Grim said.
"Emotions are too high here from the battle to know, but he did say it," Sage said.
Naruto didn't say anything, he just watched the fight before him, not quite realizing that he should join in. perhaps he was about to realize this when something else caught his attention. Several mirrors of ice flew over his head and enclosed a small amount of enemies. As Naruto was watching the mirrors Frost ran past him and up to the mirrors where he jumped into one of them.
"He, he can use that?" Naruto asked pointing at the mirrors.
"Of course, that's his ability, why do you think they called him Frost?" Grim asked.
Dragoon pulled a machete out form under his shirt and ran towards the enemy, "it's been far too long since I had a good fight," he said as he ran.
"What does he do?" Naruto asked.
"His skin becomes like armor. When you see it, it looks like scales, hence his name; a dragon knight," Grim said.
Edge and Strag ran forward, five swords surrounding Edge, a sixth in his hands. Naruto's mouth fell open at the sight of it, "yeah, he can control up to six objects in battle. They're used as if the wielded were invisible. And Strag can take on inanimate properties, he probably turned his hands into blades," Grim said.
Dea, Lax and Stone charged forward now. None looking any different, a dagger in each of their right hands, "What do they do?" Naruto asked.
"Lax's body is built differently, he can contort in ways impossible for other people, giving him insane agility. Stone can control aspects of nature, and Dea can turn his hair into small bombs, the effect depending on how much of his force he puts into it," Grim said.
"You mean chakra," Naruto said watching the fight.
"Whatever it's called," Grim said.
Now it was Sin who ran out as Wiseman walked up to Naruto, "watch him and you'll se why he got his name," Wiseman said.
Naruto nodded and watched, and as he did spikes grew from Sins arms back and legs, "oh, the bone manipulation," Naruto said watching.
"No, that's body manipulation, he can do stuff I can't," Grim said.
"You?" Naruto asked looking at Grim.
Grim smiled, and as he did the flesh of his face receded, or at least, it appeared that way, in reality bones protruded from his skin to cover his head while maintaining the skull look, and keeping his hair as it is, "they don't call me Grim for nothing," he said before charging into the battle.
"I just wish I didn't have to use these," Wiseman said as he pulled out two daggers.
"Why?" Naruto asked looking at them.
"I prefer the reach of my katana." Wiseman said shrugging.
"So what do you do?" Naruto asked.
"Kill people," Wiseman said before running into the battle.
"He can move his molecules at a speed fast enough to pas through solid objects," Sage said walking up behind Naruto.
"I guess you won't be fighting?" Naruto asked looking at Sage.
"I lost my eyes, not my sight," Sage said and he walked into the battle.
Naruto looked over at the others by the gate with him. Tsunade, Sakura, Shino, Hinata, Shikamaru, and himself were the only ones not fighting. He headed over to them when Sakura smiled at him strangely. He paused a moment looking at her, she waved at him and ran into the fight.
Sakura pulled out three needles as she ran and threw them at a man with his back to her. All three struck his back and the man winced from the attack and turned to see who had thrown the needles. As he turned to face her Sakura punched the man dead in the face. The bones crunched and shattered from the impact. Sakura ran further into the fight as the man's dead body fell to the ground.
Naruto watched her go after killing the first man, "she can take care of herself," a voice said behind him.
Naruto turned to see Tsunade standing there smiling, "Yeah, I know, it's just…she could get hurt," Naruto said turning back to the fight.
"Then go take them out before they can hurt her," Tsunade said with a smile.
"Yeah," Naruto said then he turned to the others, "come on, they need our help," he said before running into the battle. The others followed him, although hesitantly, Tsunade was now the only one not fighting.
x-X-x
"Vox, you and your men go in there and capture the one Elvo brought forth. I have a proposition for him, he may join us," Chaos said.
"Do we finally get to spill blood?" Mulow asked.
"You can kill the others, and once he is here you can, yes," Chaos said.
Mulow laughed giddily as the Alliance entered the fight.
x-X-x
A scream of pain called out in the fight. Tsunade's head snapped in the direction of its origin, "Jiraiya," she said before running towards it.
Jiraiya was faced off with a man holding a large sword. There was a deep gash in Jiraiya's chest, the cause of the scream. Tsunade came in time to see Jiraiya lean his back against a tree and slide down it. Tsunade ran up and hit the man in the side of the head, sending him to the ground and breaking his neck.
Tsunade kneeled down beside Jiraiya, "are you okay? You have to be more careful, you're not as young as you used to be," Tsunade said as she began to heal Jiraiya's wound.
"Yeah," Jiraiya said weakly. They were silent a moment then, "Tsunade!" Jiraiya said, his voice still weak, but the urgency was clear.
Tsunade jumped out of the way as a sword swung by where she was. Unfortunately she didn't manage to make a clean escape, her right arm was severed above the elbow. She landed on her feet and left hand, skidding to a halt.
Once she had stopped she looked up to see Mulow standing over Jiraiya, his sword in Jiraiya's neck, "he he… blood," Mulow said as he watched Jiraiya die.
Tsunade charged at Mulow who saw her coming. He cut her across the stomach as she charged, but she didn't stop, she belted him in the face, sending him into a tree. As she walked up to him Tsunade released her stored chakra, healing her stomach and stopping her right arm from bleeding. The arm didn't grow back, but it healed over.
Mulow didn't even get the chance to get to his feet before Tsunade punched him in the chest and shattered every bone in his upper body. Once he was dead she wandered back to Jiraiya's body and sat down next to it, leaning against the same tree and started crying.
x-X-x
Sakura ran threw the battle and found a target, he was facing her ready to cut her down as she ran by. She ran up to him and stopped suddenly right in front of him. before the man could react to this change Sakura brought her right leg up into his chin knocking his head back.
Then an instant later she brought her leg down planting her heel into his face and causing him to hunch over. Sakura then brought her right leg up, kicking the man in the face. This last kick had so much force it caused Sakura to back flip and the man to stumble backwards.
Sakura landed from the back flip and dove at the man, using both the built up momentum and added chakra in her arm to punch through the man's chest. Once her arm was through the man he fell backwards and Sakura was pulled with him and forced to flip over him.
She rolled on the ground a bit before stopping and getting to her knees, her right shoulder was dislocated. Sakura gritted her teeth, popped her shoulder back into place, and went back to the fight.
x-X-x
Sasuke was fighting several people around him, his katana drawn and occasionally cutting through other blades because of his chakra in it. His sharingan was activated, but thought it aided in dodging attacks, it did nothing to survey the field. And as he cut one man down, Sasuke was stabbed in the lower back by a katana.
As soon as the blade had entered him he spun around and killed the man that stabbed him. he grabbed the tip of the blade that was sticking out his abdomen and pushed it back into his body, reached behind him and pulled the katana out.
'This fight'll be hard and painful form now on,' Sasuke thought as he looked at the blade that was just in him.
x-X-x
Shino was in a bad condition. He was a long ranged fighter, and this was a close ranged situation. He shouldn'tve let Hinata pull him into the fight once Naruto spoke. He had a kunai in each hand, which were only for defense, he had the bugs to attach with, but unfortunately in the manner the battle was going, they weren't doing much.
An ax came whizzing towards his head and Shino blocked it with both kunai but the force behind the swing pushed him back. A stray sword swing cut into his heel severing his achilles tendon.
His left leg unable to support him any longer gave way and Shino fell to the ground. As he looked up at he battle above him a man stood over him, spear in hand. There was no blocking the spear as it plunged into Shino's heart. As the spear was being pulled out a kunai found its way into the neck of Shino's killer. The man turned his head slightly to see Hinata some distance away, her arm still extended from the throw.
As he fell dead a katana swung at Hinata's head, ready to sever it. She ducked below the blade and jabbed her right hand upwards, pointer and middle fingers extended, into the adams apple of the once who swung at her. Hinata was no longer afraid of fighting, or afraid of anything. Whether it was her time with Gaara or the death of a teammate, only she would know.
x-X-x
Black stepped before Chaos, trapped in his arms by a bear hug was Akutei.
"Good job Black," Chaos said.
"What the hell is this?" Akutei asked as he tried to get out of Black's grip.
"Calm down, I have a proposition for you," Chaos said.
Akutei stopped struggling and looked at Chaos, "What the hell is it?" he demanded.
"You're beloved wife is currently in my Void. If you switch sides and fight for me, I will allow you two to be together again. Whether both alive or dead, whatever you chose would be," Chaos said.
"And Naruto?" Akutei asked.
"I can not promise about him, though I may manage it," Chaos said.
Akutei was silent for a moment, then suddenly Black gasped and coughed up blood, his grip on Akutei releasing immediately. Once freed Akutei fell to his feet and turned to face Black.
There was a kunai in his gut and Akutei grabbed it and pulled it up cutting Black from navel to chin. The large man fell backwards and Akutei threw the kunai at Chaos who blocked it with his scythe.
Akutei ran back into the fight as the kunai bounced off the blade. "Foolish man, you'd die either way, why not get something out of it?" Chaos asked but no ear heard him.