Grim Reaper of Iwa

Chapter 22

Sorry for the last update, but shit happens.

Naruto and his group where met with an explosion of their own. It was loud and annoying too. This explosion was not one of Kurotsuchi's, it was all just noise from the room they entered and boy was it large.

It seemed that in the time of Orochimaru's death, the majority of the base they were in a hollowed out some more and turned into one giant arena. The crowd of oto ninja was everywhere and they cheering like one would at a wrestling tournament. Loud, drunk, and completely out of their mind with bloodlust.

In the arena itself, there stood a giant of a man. His hulking form took up most of the area is stood in. He was bald with only a pair of boots and some ripped up shorts. The rest of him was marred by scars. Be they from battle or experiments, who knows, but probably both.

Next to him stood two people. The first was a man he had heard about in passing. A man adopted by Konoha, only to leave them after he had gained all that he needed. This man was a dangerous medic that even Tsunade would be wary of considering he had the potential to be just as powerful as she. His name was Kabuto.

The other person was a woman with insanity laced across her features. Her lopsided smile sent shivers down the blond's spine. She was a green haired woman who didn't seem to care that hair looked to be damaged or just plain out there….something most would connect to her personality. She had on a pair of black biker shorts, knee high boots, a thin t shit that did little to hide her developed figure from the world.

And the scary part about them? That would be the piles of mutilated bodies all around them.

"I am the Strongest man a live!" The bald giant shouted to the arena of bloodthirsty spectators. "You have sent your strongest at me and my team. None are alive. If no one can beat up, we will be your leaders! With us at the reigns of Oto, who will destroy the other villages!"

"YEAH!" the crowds roared, thinking that had what it took.

"Now, I ask once more, do any of you wish to challenge me for the right to lead the Damned? Do any of you have what it takes to take on one that has the Herculean Release alongside the Regenerator Medic and the Insane Poison Bitch!?"

"I have a few." Kimimaru's voice rang out. Despite his injuries and his weakness at the moment, his voice still rang loud in the room.

"So you dare to return after I had Kairi poison your ass?" The bald giant roared in anger.

Kimimaru chuckled. "It seems that I have, but there is something that you should know, Knarl."

"And what is that?"

"Her poison had a different effect on me. It cured my illness."

"You must be joking? We tried a lot of things and that is what cured you!?" Kabuto roared in anger and for good reason too. He had spent a vast majority of his valuable time on that man's illness and a freaking poison cures it?! Just another reason to hate Orochimaru.

"If you're here to gloat, I will turn you into a fine blood paste myself so you may join your family." Knarl suggested.

"No, I would rather not. I was not ready then and I am not ready now." Kimimaru replied dryly. "I am here because of the people I brought with me. They have offered us a place in Iwa."

"HA! We don't need Iwa or the main villages! We will destroy them." Knarl shouted.

"I am sure some of you wish to join and be a part of society once more." Naruto said with his hood up.

"Oh?" Knarl said as he looked at the cloaked blond. "Well, The Grim Reaper of Iwa? What? You offer and if we refuse, we all die?"

"Nope, just offering." Naruto replied simply.

"Hmph, if that is the case, beat this team and lead us to Iwa then?"

"If that is what we must do then fine." Naruto replied as he walked down to the arena, the crowds roaring once more for blood to be spilled.

Somewhere in the back of his mind, Naruto knew that this had been a bad idea. These people were too far gone, but if that was the case, why wasn't Kimimaru like that. Where there others like him still in this base?

Oh well. One problem at a time.

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Hinata Hyuuga was having a good day until all hell broke loose. Her family was starting to warm up to her and her father didn't even scowl her way. Plus, she was finally a chunin, so that had to account for something.

But then she left the Hokage tower with Sasuke and things changed. They both saw how the Hokage was literally kicked out of his own office by a man that her father often warned her of and she could see why. Apparently, this Danzo only saw everyone else as tools to be used for his gain and that included Naruto. It made her blood boil, but she also knew that she couldn't and shouldn't stay there. Sasuke had already left her side when the Root Ninja came out of the wood work and started attacking everyone. Now she was running back home to warn them all of what was happening.

That's when things of her went even more south. Apparently, not only Root was attacking, but they had brought allies in the form of the dead. They were very few and brought in to play on one's emotion, but still it was horrible.

That was because when she got home, she found that her father was locked in combat with a man that looked just like him, but the eyes were a dead giveaway. The Byukugan on a black background.

"Father!" Hinata screamed for his safety, knowing who he was fighting. It was Hizashi, Hiashi's brother and far more skilled than the man.

"Hinata! Go! Get your sister and flee!" Hiashi roared as he dodged and weaved away from his brother's precise strikes that if landed would be lethal.

Hinata didn't want to leave her father like this. She knew and he knew that he would not win. He did not have what it take to do the deed. The part of him that resided in her.

"Hinata." The man said more softly this time despite his fierce battle. "Please go, I can handle this. Please go, I love you…you and Hanabi."

That statement brought tears to her eyes. Her father did love her. That was good.

Trying to ignore the pain this was causing her, she ripped her head away from the sight of her father fighting Neji's and ran to find her sister.

As she ran, she saw other battles, the battles of her family fighting off the root agents. She didn't see any other reanimated dead until she came upon where her sister was. That was the elder council chambers.

The floor was littered with the bodies of her elders and standing in the middle of the room was a woman with Hanabi held up by her neck in the air. Seeing this sight brought rage to Hinata's eyes. No more. No more of her family would die! With red in vision, Hinata screamed as she attacked the woman head on.

With a fierce kick to the woman's head, she heard a crack and the woman let go of Hanabi. Of course Hinata was able to catch her in time. Hanabi looked ashamed of herself for some reason, but when she looked at her sister, she hugged the girl, who hugged back.

"Hinata, we need to leave before she regains herself!" Hanabi said in a panic. She had fought this woman and lost. So there was fear in the girl's eyes but not the normal fear of death. This was the fear of dying by the hands of someone you know.

"Who is she anyway?" Hinata asked as she turned around to get a look at the woman, who by this point was already on her feet. One look was all she needed before he breath stopped and shook her head. "No…."

"I am sorry, but I am not in control of my own actions." The woman replied tearfully.

"Mother…" Hinata replied in fear, the same fear that Hanabi had.

Their own mother had come back to kill them.

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"Argh, this sucks." Kiba growled as he and his sister, along with their ninja dogs, fought a person that was their better in everything…and he wasn't even human! Ok well, he was but the man looked like he was part plant!

They were fighting this plant man to protect their family and Kiba's teammate, Shino, who was knocked out at the moment. Apparently, Shino had fought the man and had actually injured the plant man with his father before a bald man came and killed Shibi with ease with some sort of rockets. Rockets of all the damnable things!

Plus, there had been word that Danzo, The Hokage, and the Elder Ino-Shika-Cho team were killed by this bald man and various other orange haired men. To Kiba, this was situation out of a horror book!

Plus, he didn't even know if his other teammate, Hinata, was alright or not.

"Get over it pup, we need to kill this bastard." Hana stated.

"It is futile." The white half of the man shouted with glee before the dark half spoke in a deadly tone. "Give up and die!"

"Not going to happen." Two voice rang out and they were both female. The two women jumped in front of Kiba and Hana.

"Mom?" Hana asked.

"Sensei?" Kiba asked.

"Hana, take your brother and his teammate and get the hell out here. Kurenai, I assume you can protect my children?" Tsume stated.

"Huh, I thought I was fighting alongside you." Kurenai said, looking at her old friend in shock.

Tsume smiled sadly. "No. I need you to continue your job as a sensei. Me and ugly here have a history and I plan to repay old debts, whether I die or we both go out."

"MOM!" Hana and Kiba shouted.

"NO! GO!" Tsume roared with tears. "You are now the leaders of the Clan, so get your asses out here before worse things happen! That means you too Kurenai."

Kurenai cursed at the situation that befell them all and nodded before taking hold of Shino's body and telling the others to follow her to find Hinata.

Tsume looked back at the plant man, who seemed to be regarding her. "Time to pay."

"Ah, I see. So you're his wife." The multi-colored plant man stated as he readied himself.

"Yes…I am." Tsume replied with fire in her eyes.

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"Dynamic ENTRY!" Lee shouted as he and his team, excluding his sensei, entered the elder's hall in order to save Hinata from her mother, who was blown through the wall.

Neji leaned down on his knees to bow to Hinata and Hanabi, who he was on better terms with but still his misgivings. After the Chunin Exams, Hiashi came to him and told him what really happened, but still, the wounds were deep. "Hinata-sama, Hanabi-sama, we need to leave."

"Agreed." The two girls said as they got up. Retracing their steps, Hinata decided to tell Neji who that woman was and who her father was fighting. To say that Neji was shocked would be an understatement, but he knew that in the current situation, the only thing he would get from his father would be death.

"I see. Should we help Hiashi-sama?" Neji asked, unsure since he knew he would be no match.

"I don't think that is a good idea." Tenten stated. "Things are bad enough as it is and I would rather not any of you die."

Hanabi, who had been listen to all that was being said, heard something else. "Anyone else hear that?"

"Hmm?" Asked Lee before he noticed something white and swirling. " Hey, what is that."

Neji widened his eyes in fear. "The rotation…..two of them." He paused and then said, "I have heard stories that they tried to combine their rotations once and it ended with both of them in the hospital."

"That's bad then since it would seem they are using that technique at full power." Tenten said.

"We need to leave, now!" Neji shouted as he saw the two domes of swirling chakra grow larger and combine. "MOVE!"

The small group ran at top speed to get out of the Hyuuga Compound and then some. Thankfully, they got out the blast zone, but when they looked back, there was nothing left. The Hyuuga Estate was gone!

Hinata and Neji briefly activated their bloodline but shut it off after a few moments. The site was horrible, the only good thing about the whole thing was that they saw Hiashi, Hizashi, and Hiashi's wife next to each other…all with a sad smile on their faces as the undead faded away to ash.

"Come on, Kurenai-sensei is here, we need to go." Hinata said with a sad tone.

No, today wasn't just bad, it was hell.

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Sasuke roared in annoyance. Everything! He had tried everything he knew to try and kill his brother, but the elder Uchiha was just too powerful. All with illusions no less! It was infuriating!

Finally, he had enough and released a lightning bolt full of his chakra into the sky and now he was waiting.

"Are you done, little brother?" Itachi asked, his hair covering one of his eyes.

"Hell no!" Sasuke roared before smiling as the clouds above them parted. A giant creature made out of lightning roared at them before Sasuke held up a hand and said, "Come!" The beast roared again before doing just so. It crashed down on his hand, engulfing his whole arm in what looked to be a mini Kirin. The beast followed naturally, but one look from Sasuke's face showed that this attack had some adverse effects.

Itachi looked on sadly at what his brother was forced to do to kill him. So he merely took out a katana and held it at the ready. He knew that this battle would end them both, but he didn't have to enjoy it.

"So this is the end then." Itachi calmly stated.

"It is, now die for your crimes!" Sasuke roared.

"I plan to…" Itachi whispered as he rushed forward with his blade.

"DIE! Kirin's Final Blade!" Sasuke roared as he too rushed the elder Uchiha.

After a small flash of light, Itachi and Sasuke stood there, Sasuke with his arm in his brother's chest and Itachi's Katana in Sasuke's. Itachi coughed up blood with a sad smile. "So this is the end…fitting, but you knew that you wouldn't survive this battle."

"Of course not…this is why this was a suicide jutsu." Sasuke coughed out as he release the last of his chakra into the air.

Itachi weakly looked up to see a multitude of lightning bolt raining down on this. As quickly as he could, he place his hand on Sasuke's face, a seal lit up and the boy screamed about not being able to see. Not that it mattered because they were struck with Sasuke's Lightning Rain, but Itachi still spoke, "With this, The Uchiha's Curse shall never plague this world again…"

In the aftermath, Sasuke was dead, and Itachi was barely clinging to life. Itachi weaklu looked up at the sky as the cloud part to reveal something far worse than he imagined, but he wouldn't have to worry about it.

"So...you...resorted to….that." Itachi said before his the last of his life left him, leaving the Uchiha brothers on the ground.

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Kakashi and Guy were not having a good time. This Pein guy was a real pain in the ass and he was nearly untouchable with his other orange haired, and in one case bald, companions. Plus with that Blue Haired Paper User, it was pretty difficult.

"I gotta ask, why bother destroy Konoha?" Kakashi asked as he dodged a strange rod that the main leader of the Orange Haired men used to try and kill him.

The short orange haired man known as Pein rose an eyebrow at that. "You obviously don't know much of your own village's crimes or do not care. I will say this. War may never change, but it is those who cause it that bring pain upon themselves. Danzo was a fool to team up with Hanzo. Your village has caused great pain to ours. I am simply getting rid of a blight on this world. Something your fellow villagers were attempting to do anyway, I am quickening this process."

"Not everyone in Konoha is bad!" Kakashi roared.

"Indeed and those who survive will be to live, but Konoha itself must be destroyed." Pein replied, knowing that not all of Konoha's people were bad, namely the children.

"I won't let you destroy my home!" Kakashi roared as he stabbed at kunai at the man's face.

"I am with you!" Guy shouted as he prepare his foot to the back of Pein's head.

Pein himself resisted the urge to roll his eyes. He merely pointed the palm of his hands at the two men and said, "Shinra Tensei!" With that, the two men rocketed away from him. "Don't resist, you are only delaying the inevitable retribution from God."

"The hell was that? I have never seen a jutsu like that." Kakashi stated with a groan as he got back up. Taking out a kunai, he felt that he should keep his distance from this man. Throwing the kunai with his lightning chakra mixed in, he shouted, "Lightning Style: Lightning Shadow Kunai Jutsu!"

"Hmph." Pein grunted as he saw the multitude of electrified point objects coming towards him. "Shinra Tensei." The kunai then were repelled and dropped all around him, but they did not stop sparking with electricity, which confused the man.

"Lightning Style: Rajin's Strike!" Kakashi called out as the electricity jumped from the small blades into the still cloudy sky, lighting it up like a pair of eyes were looking down on them. When Pein looked up, he saw a fairly large bolt of lightning coming straight for him.

Pein knew he had no chance of moving himself with the speed of that bolt, but he had another plan as the bolt struck him, giving Kakashi a breather.

Kakashi chuckled a bit, but he also felt this victory was hollow, like the man let him….hit him. Wiping his head back to the place where Pein was, was now two people. The original Pein, unscathed, and a younger man with short shoulder length hair. What just happened? I swear I hit Pein with that attack!

While Kakashi thought about what happened, Guy decided to intervene. With Seven of the Eight Gates opened, the Greet Beast rushed his opponent….turned into two and then three with the appearance of a bald man that shot rockets from his skin!

Guy kicked off into the air and panicked just a bit as the rockets followed him. Quickly, he thought up a way to get rid of them. Just as the first rocket reached him, he kicked it into the others, causing an explosion in midair that drove him higher.

However, the rockets were not done with him yet as this time they came from all directions to trap him in an explosion of fiery death. Guy was not pushover and jonin for no reason. Using the energy from the gates, he pushed his body to rocket itself at the rockets. With the use of his Goken Style of fighting, he managed to kick them all into each other and as he landed on the ground, the air behind him exploded like fireworks.

Looking up, he looked back at Pein and his two bodies, who looked a little annoyed at him. However, the thing that confused him was that there were three people there before. Where was the third?

He got his answer with a hand on his neck that then threw him into the wall of a building. He trained to get off, but the new man just pinned him to the wall with black rods on his arms and legs. "You shall know pain." The man said as he took hold of Guy's neck. The next thing Guy felt was all his Gate chakra being drained from his body. Guy, in an attempt to stay alive, quickly shut off the gates, but the damage had already been done and Guy hung there, defeated.

No! Kakashi shouted in his mind as he power up a Raikari and charged at the main Pein, tired of this game. Pein reacted by thrusting a black rod into Kakashi's shoulder and Kakashi felt himself unconsciously redirecting the attack away from Pein's body. What the?

He didn't have time to think about it because two more rods were plunged into his body, one in his other shoulder and the other in his chest. "I can't let you live Kakashi of the Sharingan. You may pose a threat later on." With that, Pein used his Shinra Tensei to project him into the air while the bald man shot off larger rockets at him.

To others, it may have seemed like Kakashi was indeed struck hard and died in that explosion in the air, but Pein did notice that someone saved the silver haired man at the last second. Turning to said person behind him now, Pein saw someone he should have expected.

Jiriaya of the Sannin stood there in all his glory as he held a weak Kakashi in his arms. On the man's shoulders were Ma and Pa toad, the eldest toads. Along with them, his features where toad like right off the bat, signifying that in this battle, he was using his Sage Powers at the beginning of the battle. Jiriaya's home was burning and he would take this battle serious from the get go.

Taking the rods out of Kakashi's body, Jiriaya spoke, "Kakashi, get guy and leave. Get the others to safety. Now."

Kakashi nodded as he went to help Guy and get the hell out of dodge. Itachi said that Pein still had a jutsu that could take out the village and he didn't think he wanted to be in that. "Right, good luck."

"Yeah." Jiriaya said as he stared at the main body of Pein. "Yahiko…"

"Sorry Sensei, but no." the man said.

Jiriaya looked at the man's eyes along with the others and saw the same thing. The Rinnegan. "Nagato….so unlocked more powers from the Rinnegan then. What do hope to accomplish here?"

"To be rid of a blight on the world." Pein stated. "You being here will not change that…sensei."

"I guess not." Jiriaya growled. He then rushed the Paths of Pein, hoping to end this soon. However, from what had seen earlier, he was not sure he could win.

Before Jiriaya could get to the three men, three more men appeared on the scene, with the long haired man calling forth a summoning jutsu to bring about a three headed dog. A Cerberus. "Ah crap." He said as he himself summoned Gamaken. "Gamaken, will you help me?"

"Very well, but I am very ungraceful." The battle toad stated as he rushed the dog creature.

While that was going on, Jiriaya was doing his best fighting off all six of Pein Paths. But it was becoming increasingly difficult due to the summoner summoning a multitude of animals of many different types and to compensate, Jiriaya could only do so much as he summoned the other battle toads to help out. Still, it was very tiring.

He knew they were connected somehow through the eyes and that was why none of his attacks where coming through. They all saw for each other and with a mental link from Nagato they were able to dodge his attacks. But where was Nagato anyway?

He didn't get a chance to think much on that because one of the paths made a successful strike on him. The one that looked like an old man had sliced his arm off. Shima, also known as Ma Toad, left him to quickly retrieve it….like it mattered at this point.

"Jiriaya sensei…I wish we could have been on the same team." Yahiko's body stated and he really meant it.

"Circumstances…huh?" Jiriaya said as he winced at the pain of his missing arm.

"Jiriaya-boy, can you still fight?" Pa Toad asked in concern.

"Of course." Jiriaya stated.

"No you can't." Pein said from behind the Toad Sage, shocking him before a rod found its way in his back. "I am sorry, but I will have to kill you sensei…I shall sent Konan your regards."

"She is alive too?" Jiriaya weakly said. Inside he cursed his weakness, but he was just so tired.

"Yes." Pein said as two of his body impaled Jiriaya from the front. The Yahiko body merely shook his head and walked away. "I am ending this. You will see die from that instead of the rods."

"If I am to die…" Jiriaya stated tiredly, but something in his voice caught Pein attention. Jiriaya formed a rasengan in his hand. He stared at it for a second, wondering if he could add a lot more to it. He decided it would hurt. "I am taking one of you with me!" With that, he thrust the ball of swirling chakra into the nearest body of Pein, which happened to the be the summoner. When the ball struck, he add a massive amount of chakra to do the deed.

Yahiko's body widened his eyes in shock and bit of pain as he felt the Pein that Jiriaya struck was obliterated by the swirl sphere that continued to grow and grow, even catching his other bodies and sending them flying. Yes, he had enough.

Pein levitated high into the air, past the clouds and stood there in the air. "This world shall know pain! Chibaku Tensei!" He said as a small singularity form in his hands before it flew out and pulsed. The earth shook as massive amounts of it was thrown into the sky, including the Hokage Monument. Rock, people, and all. The large land masses clung themselves to the singularity and formed a giant ball of rock.

As it started to descend, the clouds parted to show the remnants of Konoha their death.

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On the outskirts of Konoha, Kakashi looked back with Guy in his arms, the sight of the giant rock sphere in the air was just too much for him. "Damnit…..I can't believe Itachi was right. I have got to find the others!"

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Oh you have got to be kidding me!" Kiba roared from their spot outside the village.

The reason for his outburst was the giant rock in the sky. Hana looked and sighed. "This is not how I wanted the day to end."

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Asuma looked on sadly as he, his team, other ninja, and a still unconscious Sakura watched the destruction of the Leaf.

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"SO UNYOUTHFUL!" Lee cried to the heavens. He looked visibly shaken up and for goo reason too. His companions put a hand on his shoulder to try to comfort him, but it was hard as they felt disbelief as well.

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Jiriaya weakly look up, mindful of the rods in him. He could not believe that Nagato's hatred extended this much. Looking back, he felt that he should have not left the Ame Trio back then. Maybe then this wouldn't have happened.

As he looked up sadly at the sphere of rock, Pa Toad shouted. "This is….impossible….but it is happening. Jiriaya, do you really wish to die today with the village?!"

Jiriaya smiled sadly. "It would be a fitting death, but no, I would rather not."

"Then I'll have Ma reverse summon us."

Jiriaya sighed. "If I am going to survive, then have her summon us to Iwa…I need to prepare Naruto for this…if he needs it."

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Pein saw that the sphere of rock was going too slowly for his tastes and even though the jutsu to create the rock sphere was taxing, something he was unprepared for, he decided to fire off one more jutsu.

"Shinra Tensei!" He stated simply as he overpowered the attack and sent the rock sphere rocketing down on the village of Konoha.

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Jiriaya, as he prepared to leave, noticed something horrible. In the sphere, at the bottom, were the faces of the Hokages, ominously looking down at the village they had lead and created. This caused a tear of sadness to form as he and the others accepted the fate of Konoha.

The ball of rock crashed down on the village, Jiriaya was already gone.

And so was Konoha. The place where Konoha was, was not nothing more that the biggest crater on the planet now.

Konoha, was no more.

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Jiriaya appeared in the office of the Tsuchikage, shocking the old man and then making him almost throw up at the state of the Sage.

"What the hell happened!?" Onoki shouted.

"Get…Tsunade." Jiriaya weakly said before he fell on his side and passed out, with Pa Toad looking on sadly.

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Ok, I could not think of a battle to surpass the one in the anime and I could not even do that one justice, so please no flames. I also decided not to kill off Kakashi, Guy, or Jiriaya.

Anyway, Konoha is now gone with the remnants of the Leaf heading to Iwa.

I also want to point out that not all of Oto will be joining Iwa.

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