AN: Welcome, again, to my last chapter that I will post for a little while. The next two of this story and the first of my next story will be posted at the same time. As soon as they are written they will be out. So, now it is time for a fight. Ready?

Chapter 9: End of All Things Part II

Naruto couldn't remember the last time he felt this way. It was anger, hate, sadness, despair, and every negative emotion he had ever felt all in one. He had never felt this way before. Ever. Or… at least that as far as he could remember. Only one memory ran through his head when he least expected or wanted it. Her charred body. Naruto faltered, fist in the air, seconds ago he had been ready to rip the heart out of the man in front of him. Now, part of him just wanted to die now and not wait until his opponent was dead. After all, it was I who… He froze up, and Pein used this to his advantage.

"If you won't fight me… then you will surely die!" Pein jumped from the statue's great hand and onto the hand Naruto stood on. Pein though it incredibly easy when he struck Naruto across his face with his kunai, slicing into the flesh and carving an arc from his forehead above his left eye, across his nose and down the right side of his chin. Pein then backhanded him off of the hand and into the wall behind him. It was a distance of almost a half of a kilometer. Naruto smashed into the wall and slid down, perfectly fine in body but still unmoving. I swore to win. But in killing her… I have already lost. There is no "winning" today. Pein appeared in front of him as he leaned against the wall. Pein drew back a sizable katana to stab through Naruto's heart. The blade came rushing forward, still with Naruto not making a move.

"Where is the power I felt moments ago?" Pein's blade came within centimeters of Naruto's chest, ready to pierce his heart. Suddenly, Naruto's hand shot up and pierced itself on the blade, directing it into a less fatal area of his shoulder. Now his right hand was pinned against his left shoulder. Pein was slightly surprised at the speed it traveled, though he knew it was only about as fast as his own speed. He was the fastest ninja to ever live, most likely. Naruto's left hand came up to the blade of the sword. He gripped it slightly, not even looking up from the ground, which he had been staring at since landing.

"No winning today. No. Not without her." His voice had calmed down a slight bit, which pleased Pein a little. But what came next was as frightening as… he couldn't even remember something as frightening. It was a killer intent, but not just any killer intent. Pein was probably the most powerful ninja in the world and his hands and knees were shaking, it wasn't human. It was demonic. Naruto's head slowly came up from its place on his chest. His facial expression contained what could only be described as blood lust. It had been a lesser ninja, Naruto's opponent would have likely passed out or died of heart failure. The idea was that death, as undesirerable as it may be, would have been seemed like the better of two choices. Either stay, with death staring you in the face, or go out the only way possible.

"But even if winning is out of the question… you will die." A chakra surge from Naruto threw Pein back towards the statue, leaving the sword pinning Naruto to the wall.

"I will kill you with only this one hand." Naruto stood up, ripping the katana from the wall in the process, leaving it in his shoulder next to the kunai he had put there himself. Naruto's body was covered once again in the chakra that reminded Pein of blood. It oozed off of his body like a thick liquid, disappearing as it fell. Pein was already on his feet.

"Hmm, so now you decide to fight. Fine." A large pillar of earth came from the ground in front of Naruto, slamming him against the wall again, this time burying him three meters into the rock. "Too bad you can't even be called a fight." The pillar exploded. From the smoke Pein sensed, less then saw, a figure emerge and head towards him. He raised a kunai just in time to block a strike to his neck from a claw. Naruto still stood.

"No, this is no fight. It will be a slaughter." Naruto pushed on Pein suddenly, throwing him into the air and the rest of the way back to the statue. This time, Naruto followed.

Pein recovered, seeing Naruto charging him. He only had seconds, even thought Naruto was almost half a kilometer away. Suddenly, massive geysers of boiling water exploded in Naruto's way. He wasn't even fazed as he ran in between the gushing water that would have burned even a demon badly. A wall of intense flames rose in his way, only to have Naruto run through it. Pein summoned another katana, giving him better reach then the demon's claws. He froze for a second before pushing his chakra into every muscle in his body. The leader of the Akatsuki was ready to play. They met in a clashing of blades and claws. Naruto tried to push Pein back again, but this time it was an even match of strength. Subconsciously, Naruto knew what Pein was doing, but he didn't care. His attacks were wild and unpredictable, Pein was barely able to block, let alone attack. Naruto smiled a smile that chilled Pein to his core.

Pein sensed what Naruto was about to do and summoned another katana in his free hand. Naruto was bringing his tails into play. Now that he had slipped into the mindset of the demon he had become, he knew how to use his tails to the fullest. Tail after tail, surrounded by chakra, sharp as any sword, longer then any spear, and as flexible as whips, flew at Pein even as he blocked Naruto's claw. But the leader of the most powerful group in the world was not about to be outclassed. He poured even more chakra into his body, glowing from the overflowing energy, and sped up to the point where his arms were a blur, blocking every attack Naruto threw at him. His eyes grew wide when he saw that one tail was not attacking but instead was charging up a large blue ball of chakra. Rasengan! Pein jumped out of the way as the tail struck down towards him. The explosion knocked him into the statue's main body, though he immediately was ready to continue the fight.

"You… aren't fighting at all…"

"What?"

"You are just randomly swinging around in a rage… There is no way you can beat me like that… I will show you what power really is."

Pein charged Naruto, this time even faster. His two katana seemed to disappear as his arms moved with enough speed to blur in even Naruto's vision. Two tails managed to block each katana, but his attack was not just a simple one hit wonder of speed. They kept coming. Pein was forcing Naruto back, his swords moving so fast every tail on Naruto was busy blocking because the power of the strikes would take two tails to block and even his tails couldn't move fast enough to block every hit. Naruto had his left hand free, so he began to do one handed seals in an attempt to use his time jutsu.

"No, you don't get to use jutsu." A pillar of earth in the shape of a fist rose to punch Naruto in the gut, sending him flying. "That would be cheating." Pein was flying next to him, still attacking. Naruto began to regain some sense of mentality in his rage filled mind. Pein had no idea that his attacks were forcing Naruto to think once again. Naruto remembered his training. He began to channel the chakra flowing around his body into a more useful area then around him. His muscles grew from the energy given. He landed and used two tails to wrap around the katana. Pein went wide-eyed as he saw an intelligence in Naruto's eyes that hadn't been there a moment ago. Naruto had two tails behind him with rasengan on them. He did a quick hand seal, one he hadn't had to use in a long time. "Shadow Clone Jutsu." Suddenly five more demons appeared along side Naruto, each with two rasengans on there tails. The shadow clones all pulled the katana out of their shoulders and smirked at Pein.

"I don't think you have any choice in the matter of what I do, bastard." Naruto threw his rasengan at Pein, forcing him to release his katana and jump. Two more Narutos came at him, each with a rasengan aimed at him. Earthen walls rose up to either side of him, blocking the clones for a moment before the walls exploded into fragments of rock and dirt. They burst from the flying rubble with the second rasengan aimed at him, only to be shocked when the two rasengans caused Pein to disappear into smoke. The real Pein was running back towards the real Naruto, who was merely staring in awe at his two clones. When the two rasengans collided the entire area filled with winds strong enough to tear up earth and rock. The winds didn't die down for what seemed like minutes.

Pein, Naruto, and all of Naruto's clones were blown back into the walls with enough force to cause both ninjas to cough up blood and disperse the clones. Pein was now on the opposite side of the area from Naruto. He managed to heal his broken ribs with a quick jutsu, but he knew that the pain wouldn't go away until he had time to pay more attention to it. Naruto felt his demon blood setting the bones back into place. His eyes were still red, but the battle had forced his rational self into existence again.

I can't let that happen. I used to be smarter then this. I was a battle expert. I was going to be Hokage. I was going to… damn. Naruto stood up, this time with his brain turned on. For her sake I will not let him get away.

"So, it looks like you have finally decided to give up."

"No… I gave up when I saw my wife's dead body."

"So… you are accepting defeat…"

"No. I am going to kill you. Why do you make me repeat myself over and over? I have told you so many times already. You are going to die."

"Well, over course I am going to die. Everyone dies, Naruto. Even people you love die, they just die faster when you fail to protect them."

"Bastard!"

"I didn't kill your wife, Naruto. You did."

"I know that! I know I killed her! I have no reason or will to live anymore! But I swear that you, the one who was the cause behind her death, will perish before I do."

"I… do not see that happening."

"How are you going to stop me?"

"Oh, the same way that you stopped Gaara of the desert from killing you back in the day. The same way you were able to defeat Zabuza, the demon of the mist, all those years ago. The same thing that you used when you attempted to recapture your deceased friend at the valley of the end." Pein began to glow more, this time with a sickly green glow instead of the regular blue. He stared across the distance at Naruto, a tiny speck in the distance, directly into his eyes. "You weren't the only one… with a demon inside of you… Naruto."

Hinata and the rest of the group had been about to enter a massive chamber from what they could see when they had all been blown back up the passageway by tremendous winds. Tsunade had been knocked unconscious with most everyone in the group. Hinata had been thrown directly into the Hokage's stomach, which was probably the reason the Hokage was not conscious and Hinata was. She managed to get up from the disorienting fall and lean against the wall, using chakra on her hands and feet to hold her if another wind like it came up. That must be Naruto! The wind was so strong. If he is already fighting then we need to help him. She looked back at her unconscious friends. I could leave them here and get to Naruto myself…

"Those who abandon their comrades are less then trash!"

Hinata shook her head at the memory of her husband's phrase. No, I need to help them first, or I might be not enough to stop him and help him. Hinata rushed to the Hokage's side and began doing first aid jutsus.

Naruto was hanging on, but just barely. Pein had unleashed some sort of monster. The charka around him was almost disgusting in color and presence, but frightening at the same time. Four large tails of chakra had sprouted from his back. That explains why he seems to be adept at most elements. He is a demon container. The four tailed demon. Naruto was ready.

"Foolish Boy! You fought on even terms with us before, and now we have more then ten times the power we had then. You still think you can defeat me?"

"I don't need to defeat you, demon. I just need to defeat Pein." Naruto was attacking. He charged across the open field of battle towards Pein. "Once your container is dead then you have no chance. I might have only become Kyuubi a short time ago, but nine is greater then four any day!" Naruto hid his one arm behind his back. Pein smiled. He must be charging up a rasengan. We are faster then that! Pein charged also, but much faster then Naruto. They met in the middle. Naruto pulled his arm out from behind his back to show… nothing. It was just a hand sign…

"No you die!" Naruto pulled the katana from his shoulder as time slowed to a stop. Pein had a look in his eyes that showed incomprehension. He must have not heard of me learning this technique. Naruto cut off one of Pein's arms. Then he cut the throat of the ninja. He then drew the sword across Pein's chest. Finally, he removed the ninja's other arm. Time began to speed up once again. Pein stopped where he was, with Naruto now behind him, both arms free and Pein's katana in his left hand. In his right hand was a wind style rasengan. Naruto knew that using the wind style rasengan at this power would probably break every bone in his arm, and maybe deplete every cell of chakra, but he could probably recover. Pein would die, most likely, and then he wouldn't even need to recover from it.

Naruto suddenly felt a massive chakra surge from behind him, where Pein should have been wallowing in his own blood. He turned to see the arms of the ninja rise up from the ground and reattach themselves to his shoulders. The cuts on his body healed, the blood all that remained of his wounds. Pein turned to face Naruto. Naruto wasn't surprised. He wasn't startled. Naruto was angry. He was angry that he hadn't finished him off when he had had the chance.

"So, you still survive." Naruto started the hand signs again. "I guess I will need to completely destroy your body, then." Pein didn't talk any more. Naruto could sense something different about him. "You… aren't Pein… are you?"

"No, I am not. Pein is out right now. I am in control." The thing that had once been Pein charged Naruto with such speed Naruto couldn't even finish the last sign he needed before he was forced to block four chakra tails and two fists. Naruto had never fought another person with tails, so it was perfectly understandable when one slipped under his defense and slammed him into the base of the statue's hand. Naruto was immediately on all fours, ready to fight beast to beast. Pein charged at the same time Naruto did. Naruto jumped over him and blocked the four tails of chakra with his tails. When he landed, he didn't face his enemy. He merely used his senses to use all nine of his tails to his own advantage. All of them flailed around, blocking and attempting to hit the four tailed demon. Naruto felt him jump. He smiled. "Hell's Wind." Pein's eyes opened up as he flew over Naruto. Naruto was holding a large orb of fire and wind. He aimed it at Pein.

"You die now, bastard." The orb seemed to collapse in on itself before sending a stream of super heated air and fire directly into Pein.

Hinata had managed to wake the Hokage and then Sakura. The rest had all come around quickly after that. They were now at the door way that they had been blown back from. Hinata ran forward into the massive chamber. Naruto stood with his back to her and the rest of the group, firing a stream of intense flames directly into and through some… thing's body. Hinata stared as the body turned to dust as it fell towards the ground, leaving a weird chakra seemingly standing on its own. Everyone was able to here the voice that came from it.

"Free. Finally I have been freed. I would thank you, Kyuubi, but it would be pointless when I kill you."

"No… I don't care about you. I only needed to kill him. So now… die." Naruto rushed the chakra and… grabbed it. Everyone behind Hinata gasped as Naruto lifted the chakra above his head and threw it into the statue using his tails. The chakra was about to touch the statue when it was suddenly absorbed. A fourth eye opened on the statue. Naruto sunk to his knees.

"Finally… now I can die…" Naruto removed the kunai from his shoulder. "It almost feels like she is right here…" Naruto smiled his first real smile in days. "I guess I will finally be able to go see her…" He placed the kunai over his heart.

"NARUTO!"

What? Is that… it can't… Naruto was suddenly wrapped up from behind in an embrace he would know forever. His eyes instantly became blue again. His body returned to its normal color and shape. He used a tail to pick up the person behind him and bring her around to his front. He lowered her to the ground. He just stared.

"Naruto… are you ok?"

"Hi…nata… how… what…" Naruto was suddenly being kissed by his wife. The rest of the ninjas stayed back at the entrance, most stunned by Naruto's appearance, the rest just not wanting to interrupt his reunion with his wife. Naruto's lips were busy for minutes before he finally was able to speak again. "Hinata… I… though you were…"

"We hid under the rocks, those bodies weren't ours."

"Then... those bodies... the people in sound..."

"Naruto... I still love you."

Naruto embraced his wife even more. The rest of the ninja waiting at the entry all sighed, expecting more of a fight. It was Gaara, just walking into the cavern, who saw it.

"Watch out!" Gaara had never raised his voice. Ever. Naruto managed to look over his shoulder towards his friend. Instantly, he felt a blade pass through his body, piercing a lung and going completely through his body. He turned to find Hinata's eyes glazed over and the hilt of a katana sticking out of her back.

"W…what? Hinata?" He pulled the blade out of her back and laid her on the ground. "Hinata?" Hinata's eyes were unseeing as blood dripped from the wound in her heart and from her mouth. "Hinata! HINATA!" Naruto clutched the lifeless body of his wife to his own. Tears streamed down his face as he held the unresponsive body of his loved one. He heard laughter in the distance. It was coming from the top of the statue. It was coming from a man with a mask over half of his head. As he removed it everyone except Naruto gasped. It looked exactly like Itachi and Sasuke.

"I am glad you killed Pein for me, Naruto. He was getting… out of hand… recently."

"..."

"Nothing to say? I just killed the woman you loved and you can't even speak?"

"..."

"You are pathetic. You probably want to curl up and die, don't you? You thought she was dead, even though she wasn't, and then when she comes back she dies again, for real! Isn't it laughable, your pathetic human emotions. The only ones of any worth are anger and hate. They are what have let me live all these years. For hundreds of years I have strived to gain complete immortality. I knew only one race of creatures that could live forever. Demons. I knew that it was possible to create something capable of capturing demons and then eventually transfering them to myself. I created the Akatsuki for this purpose. I now have the one-tail, the two-tail, the three-tail, and the four-tail. Do you understand what that means? If I absorb the chakra of these four demons then I will have ten tails. More than any other demon in the universe. More then you. Once you are out of my way, there will be nothing to stop me from destroying the earth or conquering it and subjecting all life unto myself. I will be immortal in my hatred and anger..."

"No you won't." Naruto stood up. His body had once again become that of a demon. His tails and eyes were once again the color of blood. "You will die, and that is all." A tear dropped from his eye onto Hinata's face. "Immortality? That is what you want? Well… I have it. But there is no life at all without Hinata. So now I am going to kill you, in my own hatred, in my own anger, and in revenge for Hinata. I will kill you…" Naruto's wounds had all healed. He was facing the man on the statue. "Madara Uchiha."

AN: Hate me all you want. I deserve it. Next chapter, I have decided, will end the story. The epilogue will also be posted at the same time. I expect it to be longer then a regular chapter, but maybe not. Next update will be sometime within a week. Stay tuned. The story doesn't die with Hinata.