Hi everyone ... I know ... the last chapter stank ... it was super short and it made like almost no sense whatsoever ... and I just realized how bad of a name Kaito was ... its ok ... but its not as great a name as I thought it would be ... well ... anyways ... this chapter will finish the fight between Zatek and Kaito ... from there we will catch the fight between Sakura and the shadow ... the shadow will reveal himself to all of Konoha ... and next chapter ... the Jounin exams move to the final four ... Naruto and others ... the begining of the end of the Arc is a chapter away ... our longest arc starts it's descent ... I'd give it another six or seven chapter after this one ...
Shadow vs. Fire
Last time on : The Path to Hokage
Zatek growled, "DIE!" He jumped forward and punched the great beast. The beast let our a ferocious yell as it exploded. Kaito landed heavily into the dirt, and he got up brushing himself off.
"Looks like your one of the jinchuuriki, right?" Kaito said as he continued to brush himself off. Zatek just growled evilly.
"No. My power is far beyond anything like the biju of this world," Zatek's grin shifted to a feral roar. "My power is that of the Fire Seal, one of the four legendary elemental seals of hell and heaven."
"WHAT!" everyone in the stadium yelled. Zatek just ignored them.
"My power is the power that provides the power to the biju." Zatek growled. "My power is strong enough to destroy everything your shadows can muster."
Kaito just grinned and said, "We'll see about that." He formed his own seal and yelled," SHADOW SEAL!" And Kaito's own red chakra zoomed upwards.
"Hmph," Zatek growled. "Another elemental seal ..."
Danzou muttered, "Show-off."
Kaito yelled, "NOW THIS FIGHT REALLY BEGINS!"
Kaito jumped at Zatek, dark black (not purple) chakra soaring from him.Kaito yelled, "Your element won't help you against mine. The shadows will destroy you all." Kaito was going hysterical.
Zatek chuckled evilly, and jumped back, yelling, "DIE!"
Danzou stuttered in the crowd and fell. "Shit... forgot about my offer..." He took one last look at Kaito.
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"Kaito," Danzou spoke to his son. "I want you to destroy Konoha for me. Destroy everything of old and start a new village. A new village with you as their leader."
Kaito bowed down low and said, "Yes, Father. But what happens when Zatek uses the seal?"
Danzou looked at his son and smiled. "So you figured it out too?"
"Yes," Sai said. "My seal turned bright red earlier tonight. Someone in this village has just been granted permission to use the fire seal."
"Well," Danzou returned back to the original question. "Use your seal. My time on this earth is short, and I'd rather my soul be the sacrifice for the seal, since the shadow seal requires a sacrifice when called upon.""Father," Kaito spoke up, calmly, "it is unnecessary."
Danzou walked away, "Obey me." Kaito just stood there and quietly jumped out of the open window.
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"Win this my son ... do not make my death be in vain..." Danzou stared at Kaito. "Or else, I will torture you in hell like the scum you are." As he lost consciousness, a voice yelled out in his head, "You were as much a tool to me as he was to you." Danzou gasped in fear, but he couldn't do anything.
Danzou fell down, his soul sacrficed for the hell shadow element.
"Not good," Naruto yelled. "The seal corroding his mind. He's going insane. That power ... its like the cursed seal," He turned to Sasuke. "that you had, except its so much more powerful. It's changing how he thinks immediately."
"What if its just Kaito being himself?" Sasuke said, hoping for the best.
Sakura put on a sad smile. "You don't know Sai as well as we do, Sasuke. Sai is usually damn calm and annoying. This is beyond anything Sa ... I mean ... Kaito would do."
Naruto agreed with Sakura. "That seals really powerful. Zatek's mind has changed as well. Kyubi says that the Shadow Seal's power is currently releasing as much chakra as I do when I'm in my second tail. The Fire Seal is releasing almost as much, but slightly less."
Iruka joined in, "WHAT!" Naruto turned to face him. "How can a seal like that produce as much chakra as the biju? There is no way!"
"There is," a voice sadly said. Everyone turned around to see the Fifth Hokage walking up to them.
"What do you mean oba-chan?" Naruto bursted out. "Do you know about these "all powerful super" seals, or whatever he called it?"
Tsunade looked at him and replied, "They are called the Elemental Seals. And unlike what he said, there are eight Elemental Seals. Four of Hell, and Four of heaven."
"What seals are of Hell?" Sasuke asked.
"Fire, Shadow, Thunder, and Hell itself," Tsunade said. "These seals are legendary. These seals were the ones that harness the very powers of hell itself. It is said that the biju were created from nine foolish shinobi who used these seals without being approved."
"What do you mean by approved?" Iruka asked.
"These seals have so much power, that if everyone could use these, ninja would be way too powerful," Tsunade answered. "The Rulers of Hell decided to limit who could use these seals to those who had proven themselves in battle."
Sakura asked, 'What are the seals of Heaven, sensei?"
Tsunade looked at them and answered, "I'm not sure, but I think they are the Seals of Fire, Light, Thunder, and ... no one knows what the fourth seal is."
Naruto turned back to the stadium, and "hmmmed."
Zatek and Kaito continued to exchange blow after blow. After a rather powerful blow, Zatek was pushed back. Zatek jumped at Kaito, chakra soaring and landing behind him, did a drop kick spinning backwards.
Kaito jumped up, and by that time, Zatek was already up again, and they were trading blows again.
They broke apart again, breathing slightly deeper. They were both covered in nasty bruises and cuts, but neither of them paid attention to them.
Zatek growled, "We're even. It's up to each of our jutsu's now." His teeth had grown even more feral, and the chakra aura around him was nothing like the regular biju aura.
This aura seemed to take the form of fire itself, with cruel and vicious horns spreading from the tip. The fire had a face, but it was far scarier then any of the biju.
Kaito raged back, "Yes. Our jutus will decide this battle." His teeth had grown just as feral as Zatek, and the chakra aura around him was different as well.. His aura seemed to resemble a shadow demon, a demon that was mostly black with vicious horns spreading from the tip of its head. There wasn't even a face.
Just ... nothing ... complete darkness.
Each of them started going throw a rapid series of seals, and they suddenly stopped at the exact same time, staring at each other. Zatek looked into Kaito's eyes, and Kaito looked into Zatek's eyes. Something snapped. (The line went through ... the frequency kind of sound)
Zatek started to growl loudly, and his eyes changed from it's dark brown color to a blazing red in a second. His chakra soared even higher, and he finished the final seal yelling, "HEBI!"
Kaito started to chuckle without any control. He was hysterical. His eyes shiftetd from their usually light grey eyes to completely black eyes, darker then any usual human. His chakra aura soared upwards, and he yelled out his final seal, "RYU!"
Zatek continued to yell, "KATON: TAJU KUCHIYOSE NO JUTSU!"
Kaito yelled out at the same time, "KAGE: TAJU KUCHIYOSE NO JUSTU!"
"What the heck!" Iruka yelled. "MULITPLE SUMMONINGS?"
"How the heck can he do that, oba-chan?" Naruto yelled at Tsunade.
Tsunade shook her head. "I don't know." She looked on at the the two ninja fighting in front of her in the stadium. She had a bad feeling that these two ninja at this level were at least as strong as Naruto was at this state ... probably stronger. Naruto was in some serious trouble if he was too face these either of them.
Naruto stared at the two ninja. Kyubi spoke up. KID! What? Those two are each probably as strong as Gobi! Naruto sarcastically asked, Who the heck is this Gobi, you speak of? Brat ... you are hopeless ...
Tell me something I don't know ... Gobi is one of the Biju ... He's the five-tailed biju ... he's a Hoko ... or a dog whose tails control the elements ...
Snap ... so your saying that at your prime ... these two ... together ... are as strong as you were at your prime...
Kyubi laughed ... Kid ... be reasonable ... nothing on this world can equal me when I'm at my prime ... Whatever ... so how strong are they together compared to you? I'd say at my prime of six tails ... SIX TAILS! What the HELL AM I SUPPOSED TO DO!
Relax kid ... I said both of them together ... individually ... I'd say they are each about three tails ...
That's a relief ... but all the same ... they're pretty strong ... You can say that again ...
Naruto turned to look at Tsunade, and she smiled. Naruto understood that to be "don't worry." Naruto smiled back, and he continued to watch the battle.
Even as Naruto turned his head to continue watching the battle, the ground began to shake violently, and steam started to spout from cracks formign in the arena.
Hundreds of humanoid shadows and fire impachis began to emerge from the cracks and take their sides among the elemental users ... and the war began ...
Ten minutes later, both ninja stared at each other blankly ... their armies completely depleted ... Zatek had taken a lot of damage but it looked as if he could still go ... Kaito was in just as bad condition ...
Naruto noticed that their chakra aura had almost completely diminished ...
They both jumped at each other at the same time. Everyone gasped ... this would decide the battle.
Feet away from each other, they both stopped moving and before they knew it ... Zatek and Kaito lay face down in the dirt ... almost unconscious and completely diminished of chakra. The aura vanished and Zatek's body began to glow.
Zatek screamed, "NOOO!" and a huge Fire impachi stemmed from his body and grabbed his soul. The impachi began to eat the soul and Zatek slowly began to lose vision.
The last thing he saw was his master. "I failed you..."
Kaito's sacrifice already given ... the judge was forced to call Kaito the winner. A group of medical nins tended to him and took him out of the arena.
The whole crowd burst into murmering, and Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura, and Tsunade had a talk about what they had seen. Half an hour later, the judge made a call out ...
"SAKURA HARUNO!" the judge yelled. "Umm... SHADOW!" He paused. "PLEASE STEP UP FOR YOUR FIGHT AGAINST EACH OTHER!"
Naruto was pissed. He urgently whispered, "Sakura! Be careful. He's a lot stronger then he showed himself to be when he took my punch."
"Don't worry Naruto," Sakura smiled. Turning around she jumped into the arena. As the shadow jumped in, Sakura thought, I wish I was as confident as I sounded ... Sakura shook away her fears ...No worries ... I will not fall here ... this fight's for you Naruto ... The shadow landed.
The judge gulped and raised his hands. As he dropped them he yelled, "START!"
Instantly, the shadow disappeared. Sakura gazed around. Up ... left ... right ... behind ... Where is he?
"Over here, girl" the shadow said as he appeared at her feet and kicked her to the ground.
Sakura lost balance but she quickly recovered and regained her position. How could he do that ... It was as if he was moving from one place to the next as soon as I looked there ... but how?
The fight continued as such. The shadow continued to disappear and nail Sakura, while she couldn't do anything but try to brace herself. Naruto was growing more and more angry as the fight continued.
"God damn him!" Naruto yelled. "HE'S PLAYING WITH HER!"
Sakura had realized this a while ago ... but she couldn't do anything now ... she had already used up a lot of chakra ... damn it! She bit her thumb. She formed a series of seals and yelled, "KUCHIYOSE NO JUTSU!"
A huge slug appeared with Sakura standing on top. Sakura smiled, and the shadow was pushed away and landed into the wall as the creatue appeared. The cloak blew off, and everyone gasped as Kabuto lay in the dirt getting up.
"KABUTO!" Tsunade yelled.
"He he he," Kabuto chuckled as he slowly got up. "So it looks like my facade fell." He smiled evilly at her. "I have to say I'm disappointed. It took you guys this long to figure it out."
"KABUTO!" Naruto yelled. He jumped into the arena, and he was about to attack Kabuto when Sakura yelled at him to stop. Naruto stopped and looked at Sakura. "What?"
"Don't fight him," Sakura said, "This is still the Jounin Exam. Let me beat him soundly. Me and Kitsuii can handle this." Naruto was not convinced. Sakura saw this and prodded him, "Don't worry." Naruto attempted to put on a smile.
Naruto turned back and retreated to the corner of the arena. I don't like this one bit ... I have a really bad feeling that Sakura's going to get really hurt ... Sakura smiled and turned to face Kabuto. "This fight will be over soon."
Kabuto sneered, "O yeah! Your almost out of chakra."
Sakura put on a sly smile. "Are you sure?" Tsunade gaped at her apprentice.(She wouldn't dare?)
There ... finally ... that chapter took a while ... I hope you guys liked the chapter ... I spent like ten minutes everynight writing this ... anyways ... i hope you liked this chapter ... you know the drill ... review ... and I'll thank you personally