Chapter 29 The final Battle Part 1
Smoke filled the air turning the once bright sunny day into darkness as black ash began to fall from the sky. The smoke was so thick it was if they were standing in the middle of a fog justu. On the hillside outside of the fire nation Capital, Naruto was the first to stand back up. Like everyone else he had hit the ground when he the impact happened. He had thrown himself over Sakura to protect her from the attack.
"Are you alright Sakura-chan?" coughed Naruto as he pulled Sakura to her feet, her cloths like his where now totally covered with ash.
"I am fine." answered Sakura as she brushed some ash from Naruto's face. "What happened?"
"I think that comet it the ground." said Naruto
"I remember seeing someone flying over the city." said Sakura as she looked toward the direction of the fire nation capital, only to see a wall of earth.
Yards away Suki and Sokka where getting up from the ground they had hit the ground together holding hands. Toph hadn't seen the impact but the moment her friends hit the ground she earth bent a shield around them all. Beside them lying in the ash was Katara and Zuko, they had both hit the ground side by side. Katara was the first to open her eyes, it felt as death was everywhere as she turned her head slightly. When she looked across the now black ash ground she saw Zuko's face.
"Zuko…" coughed Katara as Zuko opened his golden eyes and looked into her blue ones. For a moment neither one of them said anything.
"Is everyone ok!" yelled Toph as Katara slowly got up only to see that Zuko had placed his arm around her as they hit the ground.
"We are fine, what happened?" asked Zuko as Toph bent the wall of earth down only to show a total destruction. A huge creator now covered the entire capital city; the creator was so deep that ocean water was now flooding the deeper part of the creator. The side of the dominate volcano in which the royal palace and the higher class citizens lived was totally gone. The meteor had made a scar so deep into the earth that lava was once again flowing out of the volcano.
"No." said Zuko as he simply looked at his destroyed home. The gardens where he had shared show many happy moments with his mother was now all gone consumed by fire and destruction.
"By the spirits." said Suki as one of the few buildings which survived the destruction on the edge of the creator finally gave in and fell down.
"How many people live in the capital?" asked Sakura
"Over five hundred thousand." answered Zuko as he looked down at the ground.
"It was the largest city outside of Ba Sing Sa." explained Toph
"It's all gone." said Katara
"Whoever did this will pay." growled Zuko as his fist tightened and flames gathered around his fist.
Out on the lion turtle Aang was just as stun at the scope of destruction which was now before him. He wasn't the only one who was stunned the fire nation soldiers along with Phoenix King on the airships. The high winds had sent the airships flying backwards but they remained intact.
"What just happened?" yelled Ozai to the captain of the airship.
"I don't know but we have to get you out of here, turn to the north take us to Mai Tu." stated the captain "We can't put the royals at risk especially since you're the only one who's left."
The airship started to turn to the North, unaware that standing on top of the airships was five of the six paths of Pain, Konan and Madara.
"Looks like Pain had his fun." stated Madara as he looked out over the destroyed land.
"He did what was needed." explained Konan as she noticed the airship turning. "Excuses me I have to take care of this."
Konan's body began to break apart into thousands of small pieces of paper. Madara just stood there for a moment before he started counting to himself. Within moments the airship was rocked as the engines where destroyed by Konan.
"I guess they want to toy with the soldiers since she isn't just destroy the ships?" asked Madara to himself as the airships started to go down. Suddenly Madara spotted a shimmer of light
In the remains of the fire nation capital a giant human like figure stood holding a purple shield in his hand. It was made totally out purple energy with deep yellow eyes. Standing in center of the flames without being burned was Sasuke Uchiha with Azula at his side.
"How?" asked Azula as she remembered being surrounded by a purple fire as the entire world around her was consumed by fire and destruction.
"Susanoo, it's the ultimate defense." Explained Sasuke as the Susanoo disappeared allowing them to get a uninterrupted view of the area. Everything was gone; Azula bent down and picked up a small broken knife which used to belong to Mai besides some dirty half burnet shards of pink fabric which matched Ty Lee cloths.
"They are gone." stated Sasuke "If I had tried to extend the Susanoo any wider then what was needed to protect the two of us, we would likely have been killed."
"Those Akatsuki members will pay." growled Azula as suddenly a figured appeared on top of a nearby mound of rubble.
"You are the ones paying." stated the Deva path of Pain as he looked straight into Azula's eyes as first Madara, then Konan and the other paths of pain appeared around Sasuke and Azula "You have caused so much death and pain to this world and now you must be made to understand pain."
"I am impressed Sasuke, not only where you able to defend yourself against the comet strike but also able to protect the young princess." Stated Madara
"Maybe you should offer to take the princess with us back to the ninja world." observed Konan "It may allow Sasuke to come more peacefully."
"You destroyed my city honor demands that you die for that." stated Azula
"I already wanted to kill you Madara even before you tried to kill her." stated Sasuke
"Well looks like I will have to take you the hard way." stated Madara "At least we don't have to go find the nine tailed."
Konan looked to her left to see a group of figures though the heavy ash, standing in the middle of the group was a blonde haired young man standing beside a pink haired young woman both of them had leaf headbands on. The other members of the group clearly belonged to the fire, earth and water nations of this world.
"Akatsuki." stated Sakura as her heart started rising a bit.
"Who are they?" asked Katara
"A group of criminal ninjas who's goal is to capture all the tailed beasts." explained Naruto as he looked straight into Pain's eyes.
"How did they get here?" asked Katara
"Doesn't matter now, what matters is the fact that these guys are far beyond your skills." explained Naruto as he looked at the Avatar gang "You have to get out of here."
"They destroyed my home." stated Zuko
"And there may be some survivors out there, help them." ordered Naruto "There is nothing you can do here."
"Zuko lets help the people." said Katara as she started to pull the fire prince back. Suddenly Sasuke appeared beside them hold Azula in his arms.
"Take her with you." ordered Sasuke
"I am not leaving you." growled Azula
"Yes, you are." ordered Sasuke as the two of them glared into each other eyes for a moment, before suddenly Sasuke hit Azula in the back of the neck knocking her out. "Take her to safety."
"I still say we leave her." stated Suki "She tortured me for hours."
"There has been so many deaths already no reason to add to the list." explained Katara as the avatar gang turned to leave as Sasuke walked up to Naruto for a moment the two old friends looked into each other's eyes.
"We will deal with them first then I will deal with you." stated Sasuke
"Agreed." answered Naruto as Sasuke moved to stand beside him. Sakura couldn't help but think about the hundreds of times the three of them used to stand side by side like this.
"I guess team seven is back together." observed Sakura
"For the moment." added Sasuke as he glared at Madara.
"You know I never expected you to actually care about someone other than yourself." Stated Sakura
"Things changed." Explained Sasuke "Just like things have changed for you two."
"I guess things have changed for all three of us while we where here." Admitted Naruto
"Just don't let it affect you." Stated Sasuke as his Sharingan activated as he locked eyes on Madara's own sharingan. "No matter what happens, I get to kill him."
"Alright, Sakura-chan can you handle the blue haired woman?" asked Naruto as Sakura simply glared at him for a moment. "I'll take that as a yes."
"We already have whipped." Thought Sakura with a grin
"Speaking of whips, I wonder where we can get one of those and we will need handcuffs for sure." added Inner Sakura with a perverted grin.
"Not now." yelled Sakura back at her inner self.
"Alright I'll remind you later." stated Inner Sakura
"So I'll take the six other, they did kill Jiriaya." stated Naruto as he looked at the six paths of pain
"As much as I would love to see you die, I don't want it to be at someone else hands." stated Sasuke "We will have to work together on this."
Elsewhere in the remains of the Fire Nation Capital the five airships which had their engines destroyed had come in for a soft crash landing near the edge of the creator.
"I want every soldier ready to move into the city!" yelled Ozai as he looked up only to see the familiar glider of the Avatar. Quickly he punched the air sending a wave of flames straight toward the Avatar. Aang never saw it coming as the fireball hit the right wing of his glider sending him crashing into a nearby pile of ash. Ozai and a group of fire nation soldiers moved toward the pile of ash just as Avatar Aang came out of the ash.
"Avatar Aang you will pay for doing this to my city." stated Ozai as he glared at the avatar.
"I didn't do this; I don't know what happened here." explained Aang
"Someone was flying over the city when this happened how many people have the ability to fly." Observed a fire nation soldier "It had to be you."
"Even if it wasn't you have to die anyhow." stated Ozai as he sent waves of fire at the Avatar which Aang quickly dodged.
"Please stop this we need to help people." stated Aang "Don't you want to help them?"
"I will help them by killing you." answered Ozai as he sent another wave of fire toward Aang who broke the flames apart.
"You will not listen will you?" asked Aang more to himself than anyone else.
Meanwhile the old team seven was straightening straight into the eyes of eight of the strongest ninjas in the world.
"So any ideas?" asked Naruto as they looked across the small plot of land which separated them from the Akatsuki.
"If you had any traps for us I would use them now." offered up Sakura as she looked at Sasuke.
"My seals where destroyed, I hadn't planned for a meteor strike." admitted Sasuke as his hands tightened around his sword.
"I don't think anyone could have planned for that." added Sakura as she looked at Naruto "I think you have to bring out your big surprise Naruto-kun."
"Alright then." stated Naruto as he channeled red chakra into his hand causing the Akatsuki members to look at him slightly confused. Naruto slammed his hand against the ground as a giant seal larger than any of the normal summoning seals crossed the ground. A giant cloud of smoke filled the already cloudy sky, out of the cloud appeared nine large tails followed by the deep orange furred body. The Kyuubi gave out a massive howl which could be heard for miles around before looking straight down at the Akatsuki with its deep red eyes. Standing on top of the Kyuubi's head no different than the 4th Hokage had done with the great toad however Naruto wasn't alone standing there with him was Sasuke and Sakura.
"Never thought I would be standing on top of the Kyuubi." answered Sakura as she looked down at the massive distance between the ground and where she was now.
"The plan was to surprise you with the Kyuubi." stated Naruto as he glared at Sasuke for a moment "But surprising the Akatsuki is just as good."
"Well this is unexpected." stated Madara as he looked up at giant nine tailed demon
"The nine tailed seemed to have found a way to free him of the demon without dying." stated Konan
"So it would seem." stated Madara "Not that it matters."
Well I hope you liked this chapter. I was doing all the set up before the main battle begins. I hope that you keep reading, thanks Wilkins75.