Chapter 30 The Final Battle Part 2
The Akatsuki members looked up at the nine tailed demon fox which had been summoned by Naruto.
"The nine tailed seemed to have found a way to free himself of the demon without dyeing." stated Konan as she looked at the three figures standing on the forehead of the giant demon lord.
"So it would seem." stated Madara as he lowered his head activating his Eternal Sharingan "Not that it matters, because they have only given me a tool to defeat them with."
Madara looked up into the slighted red eyes of the Kyuubi expecting them to turn into Sharingan eyes as it fell under his control however to his amazement the Kyuubi's eyes remained the same.
"Move." ordered Madara as everyone jumped back as one of the Kyuubi's nine tails smashed the ground where the where standing on seconds ago.
"It seems that you can no longer control the Kyuubi just by looking at him." stated Konan as Madara looked toward Naruto who was standing on top of the Kyuubi, his eyes focused on Naruto's blue eyes however now instead of being their normal human eyes they where silted like the Kyuubi's red.
"The Kyuubi must be somehow linked with Naruto stopping me from taking control of the demon." stated Madara as he suddenly noticed that Sasuke and Sakura where gone.
"You have more to worry about then the Kyuubi." hissed Sasuke's voice as a sword passed right thought Madara. He spun around only to see the young Uchiha only feet away from him, his red Sharingan eyes burned with hate. "You have me to deal with."
Madara jumped back pulling a large war fan out from under his robes.
You know if you joined me now, I would be willing to allow you to bring that young woman with you back to the ninja world." offered Madara
"Why would I want to go back now, once I kill you for trying to kill Azula I will deal with Naruto." said Sasuke as he got into a stance pulling his sword back a bit as electricity danced around it "Once that is done there is only one job left to do and I certainly don't need you for that."
"Well I guess I will just to force you to come along." stated Madara as he moved forward only to have his war fan clash against Sasuke's snake sword, their two Sharingan eyes glaring at each other.
Meanwhile on the very edge of the creator which had once been the second largest city in the world behind only Ba Sing Se the flying Bison Appa landed beside the remains of a building. The building was in fact all that remained of a small military outpost which was only suppose to be a holding area for equipment with only a small group of soldiers. The moment they landed a group of fire nation soldiers ran out ready to attack.
"Stand down!" yelled Zuko as he jumped down from Appa
"Why should we listen to you?" yelled one of the soldiers who had been so busy to pull out his sword he failed to realize that the metal holder was still covering the blade.
"Do you know who I am?" asked Zuko in a firm voice "I am Prince Zuko."
"Which makes you a wanted criminal." added another solider
"And the only member of the royal family still able to command." explained Zuko "My father is probably dead and my sister is out, all the high level generals and most o the government has been killed by the comet strike. Which makes me the head of the government under the law."
"He is right." stated the most senior commander there who was only in really a junior officer
"I will not take orders from a criminal." stated another "We need to destroy the people who did this."
'You don't have take my orders just follow the oath you made when you became members of the military and protect the civilians and the honor of this nation." explained Zuko as he looked over his shoulder at the large group of dirty and bloody civilians which had come from the nearby neighbor for help. "The people who did this will pay but first we need to take care of the wounded and get the people to safety."
"We have to get those behind this attack first." stated a soldier
"Really we have maybe fifty soldiers total and you want to charge down the creator and take on that?" asked Zuko as he pointed out toward the center of the creator where the giant nine tailed demon fox could be seen sudden out a giant puff of smoke appeared a giant bird. Which slammed its body against the fox. The soldiers and citizens simply looked on as the fox jumped back, they watched as its tails moved in front of its mouth as a giant ball of energy formed in front of its mouth. Everyone watched as the ball of energy was swallowed by the fox before it sent it out in the form of a beam of energy which vaporized the bird before striking a nearby small rocky island. The island disappeared in a flash of light.
"By the spirits.' stated the soldier
'And that fox is on our side we would only get in the way." explained Zuko "So let's save the people."
"What are your orders?" asked the commander as Zuko looked around the area, he could see a that the main road leading out of the city was still intact, the only problem was the bridge leading across a small shipping channel was totally gone.
"Alright first we need to get the people out of harm's way." ordered Zuko before turning to his friends who had gotten down from Appa "Toph can you Earth bend a bridge for the people to cross."
"No problem." Stated Toph
"Just make sure you have an opening under it so that water can go under it, we don't want to deal with flooding." added Sokka
"Sokka, Suki I need you to go with the soldiers and any civilians who want to help rescue people who may be trapped." explained Zuko "Anyone who can walk out on their own power needs to head out of the city, send any heavily wounded back here."
"Understood." said Suki as Zuko turned toward the Fire Soldier commander
"Do you have any massager hawks?" asked Zuko
"Five maybe six that are still able to fly." Stated the commander
"Send a massager to the mayor and the commander of forces at Li Duma tell them about the situation and tell them that people are coming.' ordered Zuko "Then send hawks out to some of the outlier bases that may have made it though the strike, order them to do the same thing."
"yes, sir." Stated the commander
"What about me?" asked Katara as Zuko looked at her for a moment.
"I need you to treat the wounded." explained Zuko "Save as many lives as you can."
"Some may not like a water bender helping them." stated Katara
"When something like this happen you don't care who is helping you only that someone is helping you." Explained Zuko
"And what about you?" asked Zuko
"I need to going to remain here and help you with the wounded and handle any issues that come up." explained Zuko
Out on the battlefield the animal path of pain was falling though the air after the giant beaked bird was vaporized by the nine tailed however the female pain remained calm as she ran though hand signs.
"Summoning justu." stated the path as a giant puff of smoke filled the air followed by a roar as a ten headed dog appeared. Each of the dogs had a giant spike running though its mouth. Even though the multiple headed dog was giant it was nothing compared to the size of the nine tailed fox.
"The multiple headed dog will keep the demon fox busy while I take care of Naruto." stated the Deva Path of pain as he looked at Naruto who was standing on top of Kyuubi.
"I will deal with the other one." replied Konan as suddenly the Naraka path of pain moved behind Konan grabbing a flying fist. Konan turned to see that Naraka had grabbed onto Sakura's before it could strike the unaware Konan.
"Nice try." stated the Deva path of Pain as Sakura struggled against the grip of the Naraka path of pain.
"You should give up and give us the Kyuubi." offered Konan "If the Kyuubi is free of your love then we will let both of you live."
"Never." stated Sakura as suddenly a low spinning sound filled the air as Konan looked toward Sakura's hand just in time to see a red rasengan hitting the Path of pain in the chest. The blow blew a hole into the Naraka Path's chest before slamming his dead body into Konan.
The Deva path raised his hand sending Sakura flying backwards; she flipped over multiple times before landing on her feet.
"Impressive not even I noticed the switch." stated the Deva Path as he looked into Sakura's eyes, however her eyes where a deep blue and silted like the Kyuubi.
"When I summoned the Kyuubi the cloud of smoke blocked your view." answered Sakura as suddenly a cloud of smoke covered her body replacing her with Naruto.
"There has only been one person who has ever been able to defeat one of the paths, our master Jiriaya sensei." stated the Deva Path of Pain as three other paths of pain surrounded Naruto, only the animal path wasn't there. She was dealing with the Kyuubi "Yes we will be able to understand each other."
"I don't think so." answered Naruto
Up on top of the Kyuubi Sakura watched as Naruto turned back to himself the sign to her to drop the hedge.
"Well that was a little weird." stated Sakura to herself as she turned back to normal.
"Are you ready?" asked the Kyuubi
"I have no idea why I am trusting you but yes." admitted Sakura as the multiple head dog moved forward to bite the Kyuubi. The Kyuubi used his years of combat experience to his advantaged, his nine chakra covered tails shot forward straight through nine of the ten heads of the multiple headed dog. The Dog instantly jumped back as nine of its heads disappeared as another head grew out of the body beside the only living head.
The animal path remained calm knowing that as long as one head remained the summons would live, however the Kyuubi could strike nine targets at once and the dog was down to two heads. She bit her thumbs again as she prepared to summon up some backup. Her eyes widened as a shadow fell over her face, she looked up just in time to see Sakura's fist a moment before being hit by her super human strength. The blow sent the animal path crashing into the ground in a small creator, the other pains who had been focused on Naruto didn't have time to responded before the Kyuubi ran it's front claws though the body of animal path killing her.
"Two down, four to go." stated the Kyuubi as Sakura landed back on the ground she found herself surrounded by thousands of pieces of paper.
"There is no going back now." stated Konan's voice though the swarming storm of papers.
"There was no going back after you threaten my baka." stated Sakura as she got into her stance.
While the battle between ninjas was raging another battle was raging between the Avatar, the Phoenix king and a dozen of his royal guards.
"I didn't do this." repeated Aang as he used his staff to snuff out another fire attack.
"Who else could fly over a city?" asked a guard as he sent a wave of five toward Aang. The Avatar blocked the attack with a wall of Earth, before sending the rock toward the guard. The guard didn't have time to do anything more than scream as he was sent flying backwards.
"Get him!" yelled another Guard
"Enough!" yelled Aang as he whipped his staff around him sending a powerful jet of air which sent the guards flying backwards while but somehow Ozai was able to remain standing.
"I will end you." growled Ozai in a rage as he sent the most powerful stream of fire at the young avatar who defended himself by putting up a barrier of water from a nearby source. The water put out the fire but filled the air with steam.
"Your home is destroyed and instead of helping the people you are focused on me." stated Aang "Don't you are about them?"
"They are just means to an end." stated Ozai
"Then there is really no hope to change your mind." stated Aang as he lowered his head a bit "I was hoping that when you saw all this death and destruction on your own people that you would change."
"And you have no hope for you to live past today!" yelled Ozai back
I hope you liked this chapter, I am sorry to inform you that I am taking the next week off from writing. I have some very important things that need to be done and I want to take a break. Who knows if I finish what needs to be done early I may have a surprise for you all, with a new story. In the mean time you can go to my profile and see a new long clip of the next story. Now until next time which will likely be the 8th, please keep reading. Thanks Wilkins75