Naruto: The Fourth Ninja War
Hey, y'all. Jesse again. Here's chapter three, and thanks to everyone's support and reads. Hope you like it so far. Please give me reviews with ideas, cause I'd be glad to use them. Thanks a bunch, and oh, I think I have to say this everytime, but I don't own Naruto! Thanks.
Chapter III: Saratie
"All of you will die," said Rytou. "You will all die by Saratie's hands."
Naruto stared up at the massive dune dragon with awe. Its scales were made of hardened sand, glistening under the sun. Its eyes were rubies, shining with a blood red glint, and its horns looked harder than ivory. The massive wings were made of sand and feathers made of metal, and its tail had a long steel pike protruding from the tip. It reared up and roared, spouting a cloud of dust from its mouth.
We're supposed to take THIS down? gaped Naruto.
"Saratie is the legendary guardian of the Samala Desert in the South," said Rytou smugly. "His power has long been feared by many a Shinobi, and his chakra rivals those of the Tailed Beasts. It was the beast that defeated your precious Three-Tails."
"Naruto…" began Ino, but Tenten cut her off.
"Ino, we can't retreat," Tenten said reproachfully. "That thing could overtake us in an instant."
Naruto nodded. "The best thing we can do is call for backup. Ino, go get reinforcements from a nearby camp. Tenten and I will hold this one off."
"But – "
Naruto waved her away. "Go. We have no time to waste."
Tenten nodded. Ino hesitated, then disappeared.
"Reinforcements won't help," Rytou stated. "Saratie will kill you all."
"We don't need the reinforcements," said Tenten, opening a scroll.
"We'll take you both down right now," said Naruto as he made a sign.
"No wonder you two are some of Konoha's elite," continued Rytou. "Both of you have courage beyond belief. Most shinobi see Saratie and flee."
"We are no normal shinobi," yelled Naruto. "Art of the Shadow Doppelganger!"
Rytou was stunned. The young ninja had just produced 2000 shinobi clones that surrounded him and Saratie. No way, he thought. There's no way he could have enough chakra to produce this many!
"Art of the Armory!" exclaimed Tenten as she pulled open a scroll. Four thousand Konoha moon swords flew out and into each of the four thousand Naruto hands. Placing a kunai in their mouths, the clones charged at Saratie.
"Argh!!" yelled the mass of Naruto clones.
"It is useless!" exclaimed Rytou. Even a million shadow clones couldn't penetrate Saratie's body armor! Your attack is fruitless." As if on cue, a whirlpool of sand appeared under Saratie, who took flight. The sand shot up and enclosed all of the clones within the sand. The sand then fell back into the desert, and the whirlpool disappeared.
Naruto and Tenten stared in awe. Saratie had emerged from the onslaught completely unscathed, even by the blade of the legendary Konoha moon sword. "Naruto," whispered Tenten. "What do we do?"
"We have no choice," said Naruto. "We must summon beasts to defeat Saratie."
"But…Tsunade said not to do so unless we're in eminent mortal danger," said Tenten nervously.
"I'm pretty sure we are in that scenario right now, Tenten," said Naruto. "We can't defeat this thing alone."
Tenten was shaking. Naruto had never seen her this scared in his life. She's probably still recovering from Lee's death, he thought. She can't take much more.
"Tenten, you've got to pull yourself together and summon Ubaki," he said sternly. "Don't lose your life here. Lee wouldn't have wanted that."
Though tears rolled down her face, Tenten nodded. "All right," she said quietly. "I'll see what I can do."
Naruto looked back at Saratie. He saw all of his friends that had passed in the war: Choiji, Kiba, Lee, Shizune, Sai, Hinata. As he thought about them, fury overtook him and he focused his enormous chakra.
Hinata, he thought fiercely. This one's for you.
"Ready, Tenten?" he asked. She nodded.
"Then let's rumble."
"Your efforts are useless," Rytou exclaimed, grinning. "Saratie can't be beaten by anyone or anything! Nothing you summon will be of any use!"
Naruto glared. "Rytou, you will be the one who dies here, not us," he exclaimed. "Tenten, let's go!"
Both Konoha shinobi made the signs with the hands. "Art of Summoning!" they exclaimed, and slapped their right hands down of the ground.
The sound was earsplitting. The force blew all three of the shinobi back, and even Saratie reeled a bit. When the dust cleared, two enormous beasts stood facing Saratie.
The first was Ubaki, Tenten's summon. Ubaki was a giant vulture, with wings of fire and eyes made of emeralds. With a wingspan of over 200 feet, its massive size was equal to Saratie's, and it breathed a ball of orange flame into the sky.
The second was none other than Kyuubi, the nine-tailed beast. Its nine tails floated with the breeze in the sky, and its menacing eyes growled with an intensity matching Saratie's. Both beasts stared at Saratie, then over at the two young shinobi.
"You want us to take down this?" growled Kyuubi.
"Saratie, the dune guardian, if I'm not mistaken," cawed Ubaki.
"Yes," said Naruto. "My clones couldn't penetrate its scales, and its powers completely destroyed my entire onslaught."
"Of course you couldn't beat it," cawed Ubaki. "Saratie is one of the legendary Guardian Dragons, whose power far exceeds the Tailed Beasts."
"Even both of us cannot win against it," growled Kyuubi.
"Then…how…?" began Tenten, but her voice trailed off.
"We'll give it a try, I guess," growled Kyuubi. "But it's only cause I owe you one from the Battle of Pottsworth, when I forgot that you were in the middle of the goblin army."
"You're joking, Kyuubi," cawed Ubaki. "You forgot about him? If he dies, the Hokage would kill you!"
"Yeah, well, I was sort of preoccupied with the giant scorpio," said Kyuubi.
"How irresponsible of you," cawed Ubaki.
"How pathetic," exclaimed Rytou suddenly. "The nine-tailed demon and a giant bird. This is the best you can do, Naruto Uzumaki?"
Silence.
"Did you hear that, Kyuubi?" asked Ubaki quietly. "He called us pathetic."
"I most certainly did," growled Kyuubi. "Naruto Uzumaki, we will fight for you and our honor, so if you please, stand back. This could get ugly."
"Only for him," cawed Ubaki.
With that, both beasts charged at the dragon. Saratie reared up and roared, leaping into the air.
"A thousand wind needles of hell!" Saratie roared. It opened its mouth and its wings and thousands of forces of wind shot towards Ubaki and Kyuubi with lightning fast speeds. Both beasts shot in opposite directions, as the needles hit the sand, leaving numerous holes.
"Razor Fireball!" cawed Ubaki, shooting a giant spiked fireball at Saratie.
"Zephyr Blades!" roared Kyuubi, and with a flick of each of its nine tails, a blade of wind shot at Saratie.
"Sand Armor!" growled Saratie, and a ball of sand surrounded its body, absorbing both attacks, leaving the dragon still unscathed.
"Damn," growled Kyuubi as it landed. "Ubaki! We need to combine our attacks to penetrate that armor!"
"All right!" cawed Ubaki. It flew above Kyuubi. "Your move first."
"Nine Dragons!" growled Kyuubi, and it blew nine swirling pillars of chakra at Saratie.
"Sky Needle!" cawed Ubaki. It disappeared in a flash and entered the chakra attack, spinning around at supersonic speeds towards Saratie.
"Yes!" said Naruto. "An attack like that couldn't fail to break the armor!"
Saratie and Rytou seemed to be thinking along the same lines. Rytou looked at Saratie, and knew what it was about to do.
"Oh my God, Saratie," he exclaimed, and fled away from the battle.
"Naruto! Take Tenten, and run!" he yelled. Naruto hesitated, but saw a danger coming and grabbed Tenten.
"Let's go!" he yelled, and a shivering Tenten followed him away from the melee.
"Supernova!" roared Saratie. The armor suddenly shined bright blue, and back to its normal color. Just as the combined attack was about to strike, Saratie triggered the supernova.
The armor exploded in a brilliant flash of white light. The chakra attack was blown away, and the sand from the armor whipped away into the sky. The dust rolled up and almost covered Tenten and Naruto, but both managed to dodge the deluge. Kyuubi was blown back, and Ubaki fell from the sky, wounded by the force of the impact.
Saratie looked down upon his opponents and roared. Ubaki was unconscious, and Kyuubi was hurt pretty badly from the impact. As both Tenten and Naruto climbed back up the dune, they saw Kyuubi beat back by a sky attack from Saratie. Both beasts were down.
"Victory is mine!" Rytou exclaimed as he climbed to the top of the dune. "Your beasts were no match for the awesome force of Saratie! Saratie, finish those two off!" Saratie obeyed and dived towards Naruto and Tenten.
Tenten cried out in despair, and Naruto held her close, closing his eyes and bracing himself for the impact. But it never came.
"Zephyr Waterfall Bullets!" two voices exclaimed. A jet of wind and water bullets hit Saratie and he fell over next to Ubaki.
"Toad Slash!" exclaimed one deep voice as a giant beast leaped over to Saratie and slashed the dragon back down.
Naruto was stunned. He looked over and saw Ino there with about 10 other ninja, along with Gamabunta, the boss toad, and the One-Tail.
"Master Jiraiya!" he exclaimed. "Temari!"
"Oi, Naruto," said Temari, taking out her iron fan. "Sorry we're later than expected. This dragon's gonna be mince meat when I'm done with him."